When we have our nimble steps into a new year, and jubilantly countdown its coming by congregating in few identified spots, let's have a sobering and pensively thought for a moment with all the happenings around us in the year of 2003.

The most delighting event will be a smooth transition of PM position in Malaysia, which symbolises an epitome of a "muhibah" society. There is no friction and no querrel among our Malaysians. We, who borned in this god-blessed land, are always grateful and complacent to live in this multi-racial society with cuddling mood and in harmony. In the sports field, the excellent performance of Wong Choon Hann to garner his second championship title in Copenhagen after his first at Taiwanese Open Badminton Match was exquisitely a pride of Malaysian. Nazmizan's prestigious title as South-East Asia top sprinter was also so memorable as this Terengganu "kampung" boy successfully ended the drought in 100m and 200m since 30 years ago. Our economy registered an upswing by the growth at 5.4% and recorded a dizzle of bullish stock market, giving a rosy and optimic outlook to local investors. Meanwhile, in the era of world insights, the capture of Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein pronounced a marvellous relief to all Iraqis which indicating the end of the dictator's kingdom.

But, we are also confronted with sorrows which were happened arround us, either locally or globally. The collision between two buses near Kuala Lipis-Merapoh which causing death to 14 passengers will never be forgotten by citizens. Likewise an errorant lorry driver rammed into 4 motorcyclists who hailed below flyover from the downpour of rain, and none of them was survived. In the global picture, the year started with SARS cases which sickening more than 8,000 people in Asia and Canada, and it was followed by the explosive Iraq war, making hundred of thousands Iraqis homeless, dead, and were enveloped with sorrows. The recent devastating earthquake which demolished Bam, Iran had killed 28,000 Iranians below the ruins of flatten building. In Hong Kong yesterday, again we were stunned with Anita Mui's death of cervical cancer at her 40 after Leslia Cheung's tragic suicide on April Fool Day this year.

The new year always spells fresh hopes and dreams. According to Chinese calendar, the year of 2004 will be the "Monkey Year", and it just gives an undescriptable mood to me to have my second cycle of Monkey Year. Thus, I resolve for a good health and happy family, well brought-up and decent, delivery of passionate love, smooth starting of career after graduation, healthy social lifestyle, wholesome and courteous, steady yet significiant personal improvement, prudent and sensible with any unwanted events.

With a rosy outlook, I optimisically expect a good year for all citizens. It is not necessary a prosperous year, but I pray for a peace, happiness and good health, free of natural and man-made disaster or serious diseases, balanced and criminal-free society for Malaysians and all people around the world.

3 days ago I received one email from one of the contestants of YITEA, saying that she missed the workshop because she was totally out of idea of being shorlisted into Round 2 until she received an email from HSBC recently, which was a notice of deadline submission reminder. She became dismay and appealed for kind assistance from other shortlisted teams regarding the business plan structure.

My first thought was - if they cannot accomplish their proposal on time, they will be facing forfeiture of RM800. Thus, I clinched to lend them my hand, sending a business plan template which I have learnt during previous workshop. I listed down all the 9 parts as well as their descriptions, and notified them with the correct formats and margins.

I might be too lunatic to do so, because my action will make the competition more intense, and my team will have higher possibility of elimination during this second round. But, after my sobering thought - if no one is willing to response to her email, I gauge her team will absolutely lose their high spirit to pursue, glaring the RM800 note flew off with disappointment, and squawking about this freaky incident.

That's why I made up my mind to help them, at least they can have a comprehensive guideline to write their business plan. Albeit I really have a rosy dream, hoping that our team can garner the prestigious award and fly to Seattle with tangible gaiety, but I won't be regret or enraged if our team is rounded off meanwhile her team can move into final round. I believe my crew will share a same view too. My team had shown a vigorous preseverance to prevail the pinnacle, and thus we are expecting or seeking for a intense yet rational and healthy rivalry.

She email me her acknowledgement and thankfulness yesterday, and she promised in about her submission before deadline, which is today. I sincerely hope that she can make it, and we can meet each other during presentation workshop on 17Feb..

While the citizens all around the world had passed their joyous Noel and are preparing for the New Year celebration, there was a stunning natural disaster which haunted the Iranians recently. The earthquake that reached 6.5 to the Richter Scale devastated almost the whole city of Bam, which is located in south-eastern Iran.

According to yesterday paper, the Iranian Officer said at least 20,000 people were dead in this greatest tragedy and 30,000 were seriously injured. Many countries like Swiss, Germany, China, Japanese, Australia and even United State which despite no diplomatic relations with Iran, had offered their condolence to the victims and scramble to help by sending their humanitarian aid and monetary assistance. Malaysian Government also expressed the greatest sympathy and provided monetary assistance to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Bam.

The foreign relief workers and sniffer dogs worked days and nights to excavate the ruins of the flattened building with the hope of discovering any possible survivor, but most of the time they could merely dig bunches of corpses, which later have to be abandoned on the street because the amount of dead bodies was too intense for quick funeral ceremory. With the gloomy evironment that enveloping the Iranians were the sorrows and cries. Everytime when the excavators and bulldozers dug the mass grave, there will be dozen corpses lying in it, and yet the huge number of corpses is still buried under the rubbles.

As what our PM said, we are the lucky group to be borned in this god-blessed land which is free of monstrous natural disaster like earthquake, typhoons, turnado, volcano and serious flood. Thus he urged for a long-life peace and harmony from Malaysian, and get rid of any man-made disaster.

As new year is coming, it is so blessed for those who can celebrate it with jubilation, with new hope and new resolution. But not to Iraqis and Iranians who are so vulnerable in facing various threats from internal and external of natural disasters as well as never-ending brutal wars.

Their dream is simple - live peacefully. Let's pray for them..

* Donation to the Mercy Humanitarian Fund can be sent to its Maybank account no: 562179504126.

Life become so relaxing and comfy for me after 3 days back to Ipoh. The air here is much fresher, rejuvenating and unpolluted. The rhythm of lifestyle here is gentle, thanks to the moderation of urban and rural area development here. My days back for vacation are seamless hectic with stuffs, yet they are all my favourites, giving me a feeling of complacency and serenity. There is no rush of reading newspaper or going lectures, and it is the time to sit down steadily, savouring or having culinary delights for a total relaxation.

After the first day back to Ipoh, I have committed myself to go hiking at Kledang Hill, which is situated near to my house. There is a small path along the middle way to the entrance of small hill called "4-2". It is named like this merely because of its situation as one of the milestone to the peak of hill. It is a good location to squawk about it, which frequently becomes my regularly-visited place when I'm back for vacation. Standing on the top of the hill and being blowed with the gentle breeze is really an invigorating experience. The previous gloomy days seem have been stayed behind, and replacing them is a splendid weather.

"4-2" is not an easy hike to go for, especially for those who seldom go for hiking. For the last few days, I had to stop regularly to catch my breath and took about 30 minutes to reach the final rest station (because my rival Fooji is not by my side to propel me..). yet yesterday I was fully infused with stamina to reach the destination with non-stop and the whole hike was taking less than 20 minutes! Afterwards I walked downhill so that I could get another stroll to go uphill to another spot which is called "Garden". It is a place for relaxation and scenery view. The place is facilitated with various exercise equipments, a circle-shaped lane, and a newly renovated rest station. Normally the hill climbers and natural lovers prefer to have their exercises and "Qi Gong" there, especially early in the morning or before dusk.

The view by standing in this horizontal ground was really wonderful panoramic. The whole Menglembu's view is spectacularly beautiful, especially with the coming of dusk. Surrounding the windswept hill is the real grass and pebbles, forming a ground cover bordered by hedges of evergreen bushes and ferns for a tropical look. I'm so regret of my forgetfulness to borrow digital camera from my roommate and as the result I miss the chance to have these panoramic shot.

So, this will be one of my schedule during this one-week vacation, in order to have a slimmer body, besides for healthy purpose (at the same time I'm undergoing my diet plan too..hihi..). Likewise, I will allocate some sprees to write my thesis report, finish up the rest of my assignments, and learn the bunches of Ita+Fre+Deu+Jap words before I get prepped with my tedious CRM development after school break. The viva rehearsal will fall on 16Jan, and faculty night is on 11Jan. The HSBC finalists will be announced before CNY. Thus, I might slightly adjust my timetable, which at least accomplish my thesis development, which still leaves some parts of validation, session and other debugging.

Other than that, I also pay visits to my grandmum and aunt, as well as call my alumni out for yum cha. Besides equipping and refreshing myself for school start, vacation is also an opportune occasion to foster the bilateral relationships with relatives and friends, by paying them a visit. In my view, It might not be a good attitude to just stay at home and be isolated with the world, except you really need a temporary privacy and some space to rest.

I also helped my mum to tidy up my house because CNY is around the corner. Besides this, it is the responsibility of a son too to accompany her to go shopping and buy new festive apparels. Ha.. I had my good "harvest" of reaping chance to buy my CNY clothes, cyber night apparel and some long-sleeve shirts.

It is dawning of a new year soon. So what is your resolution? Have you planned for rosy anticipations in 2004? Be adhered to your belief so that your dreams come true.

Ganbatte kudasai!

Sitting three and a half hours in the TGV Ipoh, eventually I could catch up the last episode of LOTR, The Return of King. While stepping out of the cinema, my mind was still stirring with the casts like Gandalf, Frodo, Sam, Smeogol, Arogarn and Legolas. It was a happy ending where the Gordon city and Orcs were devastated following by the destruction of the ring. Last scene showed the building of happy family from Sam who taking his love down the aisle and the birth of two daughters, while Frodo continues his adventure with Gandalf. Arrogarn becomes Mitirithn King and marries with the Elf Awen.

Anyway, the crunch of the movie, in my view, is the moment when Frodo want to destroy the ring by throwing it into the fiery volcano. At that critical moment, despite continuously urging from Sam, Frodo is likely so doubtful to destroy it, albeit they have had a long venture to Gordon with sweat and blood. Frodo's greediness and cruelty in owning the ring, which later causing him the single-finger cut-off when Smeogol has a friction with him, has crippled the movie. I don't think it is a wise option of director to place this freaky behaviour to Itijah Wood who casted Frodo, with the reason that he was the main actor of the film. Likewise, his action to abandon Sam in the staircase followed by Smeogol's evasive words also showed how lunatic and irrational Frodo was.

If you are really have a thorough judgement of every character in the movie, you will see that the genuine "hero" is not those who fight in the battle like Arogarn or Legolas, but this title should fall to Mr. Samwise, Frodo's follower. I give my highest respectation and admiration with Sam's spirit. His never give-up spirit and loyalty must be praised. He is always vigil albeit absolutely exhausted in order to shield Frodo from the cunning Smeogol; he gives all his food and last drop of water to feed Frodo along the adventure journey; he cuddles Frodo to climb the stairs when Frodo is exhausted; and he is also the one who save Frodo from being the victim of the gigantic spider although he had been abondoned by Frodo in the mid way.

As overall by the way, I'm totally thrilled with the movie. Its mixture of secene and exhilarating scenes underpinning with the enthralled soundtrack, is enormously invirograting. The computer effects like the Orc modeling, flocking system, the rustic castle and semi-transparent ghost are abosuletely exquisite. It is an irresistible and "must-see" movie. Even if you pay RM10 to feel the excitement from audiences, I don't think it is a ludicrous experience! I give a thumb up for the movie. Sam should be nominated as the Oscar best supporting actor award.

Ha.. I had no special event during yesterday's Boxing Day. My friends were in elsewhere outside of Ipoh. Anyway, my mum called me to have a shopping spree with her in Ipoh city. With no intense aims yet I had spent RM150++ to buy some shirts and shoes.

This year Yuletide season in Ipoh was much disheartened. There were no special decoration in Ocean Supermarket, which finally be our adoption to go for. No breathtaking and majestic courtyard gardens here, demonstrating a vast different of scene and moderate feeling compared with the shopping mall in KL. The Christmas songs here were much bored and they were kept on replaying. Besides this, I can hardly find some showcased christmas items like christmas tree, baubles, christmas pudding, gingerbread, roasted turkey or chicken, etc. The even worse thing was no single santa claus or santarina was around to give free gifts to the shoppers, especially for our joyful children.

But, actually they should not be blamed. I can strongly feel the tremendous effect due to last few years economic recession, and it is seemed haven't leave the darkest days behind our citizens in Ipoh. Our citizens here still have the lower purchasing power, where they need to be cautious and double-thinking before spending even a single penny. Life is not easy to sustain for citizens in Ipoh. That's why the supermaket authorities need to cut down their cost even during this joyous occasion.

But, if I say that Malaysians are still stuggling for a better life after the economic downturn, this might be untrue if we see the scenario and environment in the big city like KL for the same occasion. Klang Valley citizens are much affluent and more keen in spending money during this festival season. Let's take Mid Valley Megamall as example. You can notice that the megamall is crowded with people either during weekday or weekend since long time ago before the Christmas celebration. Every shop lots, cafes, food and beverage restaurants, hypermarkets or supermarkets are full with people from all age range. The environment there is much much joyous and delighting, where we can "sense" the mood of excitement among the citizens in celebrating the birthday of Jesus Christ. They can spend the whole day strolling through enchanting courtyards and gardens laced with magical christmas song, having the sumptuous meal in a majestic restaurant with cool apparel and embroidered pant or skirt, as well as chatting or having happy hours with family and buddies, where the air is infused with the laughs and jests.

I'm wondering if the new generations like us who have shifted to KL and plan to stay and work permanently there, who should be assigned the responsibilitis to develop our hometown? If this situation is ignored for another few decades, how much the gap of standard lifestyle level will be between other big cities and our small town? And at that time who will know what Ipoh Tauges is?

December 25th Joy To The World

This is a season of celebration.. the celebration of the birth of Christ, God's love upon mankind.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given... good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today, in the town of David, a Saviour has been born to you: He is Christ the Lord... the Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us... God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life... neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created things, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!
Isaiah 9:6, Luke 2:10-11, John 1:14, John 3:16, Romans 8:38-39

Merry Christmas to all of you.. and a blessed New Year ahead.. :)

Teong's blog recalled me of an article titled "Appreciation". It was printed in a chinese newspaper which I watched it long time ago, yet its content is still vividly entrenched in my mind. This is how it roughly sounds like:

"
Every morning, I am awaken by my annoying alarm clock. Yet, I feel thankful. There are many deaf people around.
I hate the morning sunshine, which beams into my messy room through semi-opened rustic windows. It acts like urging me to get out of my cosy slumberland. Yet, I'm obliged. There are many blind people around.
After brushing my teeth and washing face, I rushed downstairs to have my tasteless and never-changed breakfast. Yet, I feel grateful. There are many people who are starving all the time in many countries throughout the world.
After punching my card, I start my daily routine in the office. As usual, I am always reprimanded by my boss of being remiss and incapability in accomplishing even tiny stuff. Yet, I'm so grateful. There are many jobless people which greatly effected by the economic recession.
Sometimes, I might feel jealous on others who might be the good pianists, prestigious artists, young charismatic public speakers, culinary wizards, astute entrepreneurs et cetera. Yet, I feel appreciative. There are many people are still suffered of the violent and never-stop wars...
In a nutshell, I might not be the top leader who can administrate hundreds or thousands of people. I don't have the ancient-borned talent that naturally draw or play well, speak fluently and walk confidently, but at least I own a healthy body and live in a political-stable country. I have my happy family; I have a group of friendly and true buddies; and I have an understanding couple, who will be stay my side to share my splendid and sadness. I have nothing to complaint, and in fact I don't have the right to appeal - with the fact that they are so many people throughout the world who never own even single privilege that I mentioned. They were borned in such a circumstance that totally out of their control.
So, stop complaining and pointing our finger towards other people faults now. Instead, we should start admiring our lifestyle and feel grateful with every owning. Life is short and unpredictable. We can't estimate what will happen tomorrow, but at least we can control Eliminate your jealousy and live cruddly, as well as give our sincere heart and willingness to help the needy.
"

After reading this article, I admit that I partially agree with writer's heartfelt message. However, there are some questions stirring in storm in my mind. I would like to finalise that I'm very grateful with my current situation. I give my thumb up with all my privileges - healthy body, happy family, true friends and stable country etc. But I will be self-annoyed to some of my weak spots. Being in my situation currently, I can't be just staying grateful with my belongings and no enthusiasm to excel or propel. There are many outsiders who are never-ending observing on my continuum. My failure will be disappointing those who have a high expectation on me, or will be bring someone with sense of jubilations.

I'm trying to seek my balancing point to eliminate my pressures of staying at the top. The fight to stay at the top will be brutal, which is always my sobering thought. I found myself having the limited knowledge to face the world challenges. Darwinisme of "The fittist will be surviving" is realistically applied in our daily life. So as said, I will be always grateful, and treating the extra "gains" are used for self-strengthen and self-equipped. Living with moderation would be much easier than struggling for extavanganze.

Anyway, I'm really hoped that I can fly to Seattle. I might be the one who knows well that I'm impossible to have any subsiadies from anyone. I need to work hard by myself for my better life, as well as my family's. Winner tour to Seattle might be an essential turning point of my future. The reason behind is very simple - if we can fly to Seattle, indicating we also successfully garner vast opportunities for other purposes.

I wish I can work hard for my children life. I hope they can become good pianist, prestigious artist, charismatic public speaker or singer or astute entrepreneur...

A Can Of Vanilla Coke

After eating my 4 dishes economy rice at RM 2.30, I bought a packet of ice to be filled with vanilla coke. Thanks Adeline for buying me one can of it at Jusco One-U on Saturday. It tastes real different and special, a vanilla flavour without depreciating the cola aroma!

This can of vanilla coke reminds me of how fortunate I am. I simply paid 30 cents and there I got my packet of ice. Whenever I complain about the warm heat burning sunlight, I am able to cool my body down with 30 cents. 30 cents isnt much after all! That's how fortunate I am.

For someone in countries like Sri Lanka, Indonesia or maybe Nepal, that 30 cents is hell huge amount of money! This is a weird world. When you complain of having little compared to the millionaires around you, there are millions around the world who are just begging for the 30 cents you pay for a packet of ice here.

I am thinking, if I can't make it to Seattle, why not consider a mission trip huh?! Perhaps I should follow me senior pastor to Indonesia. Though I know I am not that mentally and spiritually strong to encounter all those warfares, I am seriously looking forward to be able to receive the green light from God and "Go to all around the world". That's God's commission.

Really thank God that I have abundant. I can smile. I can walk, I can yum cha, I can go online and even I can admire someone like Rachel. Many had laboured in prayers for me to come to know God. After knowing Him, I see beauty in life, I see love, and I see compassion. I have been prayed for, now it is my duty to pray for those who need Him.

This morning I was multi-tasking. They are not the very important stuffs, yet need to settle first before they accumulate and become burdening - gather the money from those who go for cybernite; submit my tutorial answer to lecturer's pigeon hole; submit lab answer to tutor; revise the topics before the test starts; email my half-finished assignment to lecturer for format checking; post my thesis and result slip to Petronas etc.. Life seems so hectic this few days, with lot of things are needed to accomplish before I go back to Ipoh before christmas on Wednesday night.

Early in the morning, I rode off to faculty. After working with a small part of my thesis, as usual, I posted my blog, and sent my self-make christmas e-greeting card to those who are in my contact list. Although I might not celebrate christmas as major occassion as Chinese New Year, but me also hope that all my friends can have a cosy and cruddly christmas. In my view, christmas is really a important festive season to foster or instil the multilateral ties among global citizens. I can feel the enchanting christmas song everywhere, even in my computer lab too. Haa.. my senior even hanged up her hand-make Christmas card on the wall, gaining the sense of festival glamour, although there are no dazzling gifts or christmas tree, and no santarinas also.

Tomorrow still have one more paper to go, yet I still not willingly to grab my book. The "lazy" virus is spreaded rampantly, ramming me from getting up from my bed. And my mind flied to unknown destination, thinking of irrelevant plus childish events.

Yes, I'm agree with what Fooji and Teong said this morning. Empowerment in certain language needs time, and it won't happen at a glance. To improve my communication skill, I will observe and learn the way people speak, as well as their body language. Besides this, I think I need to equip myself with vast knowledge to ease the communication and make conversation more "interactive" and interesting.

A mail from Li Yien
All I really want for christmas is more time, appetite to eat, freedom to go out without feeling that I have to go back to lab, my microbes to die fast, time to sleep n being able to sleep well, my phone will only display calls and sms from ppl I love n not from the ppl that are my lab mates, no eye bags�y smile.

My labs and lab mates are driving me crazy..to the point that I actually dun mind taking am shifts anymore?

Initially this mail is meant to be filled with much anger and resentment, but as I had the priviledge to sit down n ponder with time to myself today, I want to type a mail of gratitude and thankfullness instead.

I want to thank God for my frineds�sp my close lab mates ( not all are bad) who stays behind and help me when I am really stress out..who understands my desire n need to eat in the middle of the night. Who keeps me company� in the process..keepin me sane. Who covers up my mistakes.

I want to thank God for my friends. Who accompanys us during our am shifts�oin to toilets with us three girls�acrificing their sleep. For friends that buy supper for us. for friends that understand my tight schedule?n dun make a fuss when I fail to reply my sms n calls?.for friends that are concern abt my whreabouts..after being absent to many pkv meetings..etc. for friends that pray for me and with me. For friends who show their concern.

I want to thank God for my family members. Whose love makes me feel like I still have a life. A purpose.

I want to thank God for his help, his very mysterious help. Like when I broke a flask which cost us 4 hours to prepare. Jeopadising the whole experiment. Putting me on the verge of tears and hysteria. Because the flask broke, we were spared the agony of having electricity cut later on that night. For watching over me in the middle of the night, making me feel safe. Protecting me.

For small and little things which are able to life me up at the moment. A call from my parents. A small gesture from my friends. Sending me two rainbows, potraying the beauty of his creation. The thrill of drinking champagne ( sparkling juice) in the lab. Of seeing a baby smiling. Fro last minute plans to go meetings and christmas party. For my car. My ic. ( jus read that I girl I met before in shelter wanted a ic for her christmas present because her background prevented her from having one until she is adopted). For food. For shelter. For the weather whether good or bad. For keeping me healthy.For dying for me.

Truthfully, my calendar stop sumwhere a few weeks back. I am very out of touch of time. And very out of touch with God. But yet he continues to be faithful, reminding gently, rebuking me when I stress myself out unnecessarily. Of knowing where to put my priorities. By slowing me down. Putting obstacles in front of me.

By giving me time and chance to seek his help.

Lab will still go on. Microbes seem to thrive on.

As the saying goes, life goes on.

So I抣l concentrate more on counting my blessings. appreciating my family and friends. Enjoying my time, whereever and whatever I am doing. Pray more. Ask less. Celebrating Christmas and taking in the wonder of it all.

Merry Christmas,

From the one who is loved to those she loves. Recipients of this mail.

the pooh fan,

liyien


Fooji says: Amen to that !!!! Why must microbes die??? Am shift, wow!!!! I am so impressed !!!! Love ya, LI yien!!! Strive on !!!

Can someone gives me your piece of mind?

I had a joyous weekend with my alumni. We went for movie in GSC Mid Valley Megamall on saturday. LOTR was fully booked via iSMS and online reservation a few days ago, and the crowds were still can be seen as usual in front of GSC cinema. Actually I reserved the tickets for Internal Affairs 3 on last friday. It was a excellent movie also, albeit I was slightly out of movie in the beginning, due to its fast-interchange of story timeline. The involvement from Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Leon Lai, Kelly Chen, Eric Tseung, Anthony Wong and Chan Dao Meng were seamless co-operation. Tony Leung, especially showed his nature charisma, with admirable and majestic acting. It is an past-story description movie, underpinned by an fade-in and fade-out soundtrack.

When we strolled through central courtyard which laced with enchanting Christmas song, we were greeted by Mei Ann and Rachel, caming from the back and cuffing around my shoulder. Rachel was misunderstooding that Boon Teong = Poh Tiong, from her asking about "Tiong" who was from eighth college.

Sunday was not the day for hanging-out at complex mall anymore. I had to start my studies. My mid-term tests are held on Monday and Tuesday, so I had to pay double-effort to revise them. The person as lazy as me never touch the book until last minute when exams is around the corner. The fact is - final semester is the time to relax and have to standby emotionally and physcally for the coming "headache" graduation. We still have a long journey to venture, but future outlook is so miserable and beyond the prediction. My action of slowing down and spiral downwards is a real proof of my "pre-graduation dilution" sydrome.

Then, I was "locked" again by an unsolved problem that seems never meet its solution since long long time ago - english barrier. As what I had articulated with Fooji several times, english proficiency is still an unreachable dream for me. Sometimes I was quited annoyed with this weakness in speaking or communicating in English. I realise that write in english and communicate with english are distintive. The people who can write well is not necessarily good in communication, ans it is same to reserve circumstance. The obvious distintion will be - in essay writing, you can edit the sentence you wrote once, or twice, or ever more until you are 100% satisfy of it; meanwhile improvising in english with precise pronouncation, accute grammars, smooth sentence flow is absolutely not a easy job. Current marketability is poised by those who have a good communication skills, especially in English. They are always set higher priority, and become everyone's favours - the employers, buddies etc. People will respect people who can speak english fluently, undoubtedly.

Language barrier is an obstacle for idea/knowledge sharing. But just imagine, for my case, I might be so-called "knowledgable" enough to share my view and express my idea, but again it was normally ended with confusion, where people might can't catch my message due to incorrect pronouncation, misuse of word, and unsorted of sentence flow. What a huge nuisance for me! Moreover, the current environment worsen my case to communicate in english. Most of my uni-friends are chinese-educated and they speak Mandarin all the time. Yet I have no choice but follow the crowd to speak Mandarin as well. If you suggest to communicate in english with them, it might not a good way since they have spoken Mandarin since childhood and they prefer not to change the habit. That is why occasionally when I meet with english-educated friends who speak english all the time (like you all), I had my hardest time to share my view because I'm still less of confidence in speaking english.

Please advice. I'm looking serious on this nascent yet devastating weakness. The english communication problem that I confront since previous time still remained unsolved. My determination in powering well the language seems in vain. I hope you guys whose are mastery in English can give me a piece of advice. The chance to improvise in English confidently in the public will be my endless dream. If the dream comes true, there will be my greatest delight which is undescripable.

Lastly, I sincerely hope that we can communicate in english next time naturally and automatically when we meet. No mandarin and cantonis more. I will acknowledge your kindly advice and guidance in parallel to my determination to reduce or eliminate my language barrier. I foresee the important to be proficient in english.

What a week!

Been lepaking extremely a lot! On Monday, went to Berjaya Times Square and KLIA, became a chauffeur the whole day. On Tuesday, was in Midvalley. On Wednesday, went down to KL city, HSBC office to be exact, submitted our business plan proposal. On Thursday, got some rest. On Fri, went to PC Fair. Yesterday, Saturday, was in One-Utama. Gosh... how many kilometres I had walked for the past few days!!! I feel like I am no longer studying. I have been doing other stuffs rather than my thesis or tutorials. Even when I have free time in my room, I get killed by the Internet!!!

So it is indeed time for a change!!! Need to buck up man!!! 7 weeks gone, and I have not shown any progress in doing my thesis. I don't even know what I am studying this semester. Goodness!!! Got to really pray hard and rely on God... like usual ;-) not by my might but His...

Alright, I would like to take this opportunity and utilise Blogger to wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May God shower you with His love and presence and blessing. As for me, as said above, gonna buck up... time to pray hard!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha :-)

Yesterday afternoon UM main library was floored by people. When I walked to the newspaper section, I had predicted that there is never be my turn to grab the Star paper, and my prediction came true. It was really an inopportune time! Thus, I planned to be back after my dinner hour.

Anyway, I went for the magazine section, and turned my eyes on Fortune magazine showcased in the tray, which Teong blogged 2 days ago. It was so noticeable with a Toyota Camry car model covered by an American flag in its cover page, titled "The Americanization of Toyota". Hundred questions emerged in my mind with the terminology of "Americanization". After flipping to page 40, finally I got understand what it was writing about. The terminology symbolizes Toyota's aim to transform into revolutionary way of their vehicles' exterior and interior design to enhance their market value. Toyota vehicles are declared to be highly-engineered,stable-coditioning, and successfully meet the global citizens' satisfication. Nevertheless, they are also commented of their lack creativitiy of car's design. Thus, the Toyota president, Fujio Cho take the rigorous determination to refashion the design to stay ahead, excel his compentency and sustain the global growth in the long-run goals. The "Americanization", and neither "Deutschization" nor "Italization" is used because 70%-80% of whole Toyota car sales are contributed from North America. Toyota designers also revealed that they develop a more consistent look for the brand, intending to lower the car front grille to differentiate their brand with the other giant automakers, like Daimler Chrysler's Mercedes, BMW etc.Besides that, they plan to lengthen the passenger compartment and stretch the window areas. It is believed that life will become immeasurably more difficult for every other automakers.

After going through the article, I was enthralled with 2 advertisements of Mercedes. The first one errogantly said about Daimler Chrysler effort to deploy hydrogen power fuel cell technology, which their vehicles integrated with these technology will emit water, and not exhaust. Wow! What a best effort to make a free-polluted vehicle. Second advertisement strongly promoted their Sensotronic Brake Control (SBC), which is intelligently recognise the emergency braking situation and appy full electrohydraulic stopping power. Both advertisements also successfully brought a clear, and easy-understandably message in its high-resolution graphics. The prior one showed the a colourful bird is drinking the water which is emitted from the exhaust pipe when the car drove off, likewise second one showing the vehicle with the bend-in-front logo when it was driven so fast and furious and bend-behind logo when the vehicle deploy SBC.

I also get to know with the Google's top management in Fortune Magazine, who are Sergey Brin and Larry Page as the founder and Eric Schmidt as the CEO. The article wrote about Google's intense competition from global main player, Microsoft with its new developed search engine in online service MSN and Longhorn OS, as well as the other onshore players, like Yahoo!, AOL, eBay and Amazon. But Brin and Page are really the astute and discerning young adults, who emerged as the multi-billionaire at their age of 30 currently.

It was a good magazine. I was enjoyful reading it.

Dear friends that I love,

It is the Christmas time again. And the end of the year again. There are many reasons to rejoice and also lament for what have been going on and had happenned throughout this year.

Regrets, and triumphs here and there. In my personal life and around the world. Of some private disasters and love stories to the war and capture of Saddam, of impending doom to the world, and the bright hope beyond it....

Whatever it is, God has indeed given me yet another indescribable experience with Him and without Him in 2003. The fact that I am still cheerful, interested, confident to continue the walk and the work proves that God is blessing me richly.

In the season of Christmas, many would take the opportunity to celebrate and to 'sin' with style, while many of the faithful ones would remember and celebrate the birth of Christ into the world, marking the return of our souls back to God's bosom. For me, to thank God for Christ is a every-day thingy, and not just in the Christmas season. However, a festive season like this, is good to renew ourselves in God, and also for a good family and friends getting together kind of thing.

This year, it would not be really a time of relaxation and rest. I do have a day off on Christmas day, but then it would be work again till New Year. However, thankfully to the Chongs, I think I am going to have a great Christmas nevertheless.
To my friends, I want to wish you -

Merry Christmas, and may God give you a blessed new year !!!

Ikano Super Centre is coming soon. Yes, it is, and its outlet will be next to Ikea at Mutiara Damansara. So this will the shoppers' delight for another opt of shopping spree.

Klang Valley seems become the shopping heaven for the local citizens. Let me list out all these hypermarkets, or emporiums, or supermarkets, et cetera (I forget how to differentiate their word usage albeit I used to come across last time). If the focus is drawn in the KLCC, the outlets are Suria KLCC, Mid Valley Megamall, Time Squares, Sungai Wang Plaza, Lot 10, KL Plaza, BB PLaza etc, where else the others which located outside the KL are Sunway Pyramid, 1 U, Ikea, Tesco, The Mines, USJ Summit, Subang Parade and finally Ikano emerges as the new outlet after the recent market player Time Squares. The reason is yet very simple - the purchasing power is very high among the KL citizens where they have higher disposable incomes compared with other states' citizens.

The competition seems become more intense. With the emerging of new player who has successfully identify their market niche, the existing competitors, like Mid Valley Megamall and 1 U also have orchestrated their marketing strategies in order to have a nimble feet in the midst of health competition. They start to expand the square feet of the area, enhance the parking service system, launch continuoes road shows etc.

I might be too "newbie" to give further analysis on what are these outlets doing currently in order to garner their market shares. Time went off for years and the old market players are still thriving, proving that their managerial team is formed of the group of astute and discerning people with vast experience in marketing, management, business, finance and they are ICT literate. The key success of every business always be so secretive and out of imagination.

From the Ikano's advertisement published in local dailies, as usual, it covers all the shoppers' favourable types, such as fashions, furnishing items, foods & beverages, home appliances, apparels, ICT gadgets, saloon, bookstores, music etc.

Ikano starts with a rosy and optimistic outlook, I will be very interested to know Ikano's sustaining factors that allowing it to thrive over the long term with intense rivalry from Swedish Ikea and Tesco...

Goodness! Boon Teong screwed up a heavenly great opportunity!

I am still regretting over what I did a couple of minutes ago before I reached here, my faculty's lab. I woke up a litter bit earlier than usual, around 9 to 9 something. Awaken by my sister's call from Ipoh. It seems that our PC back there in the quiet city is in crunch again! Sigh! It is old.

Never mind that. After all, I had already planned to wake up early to go the post office and send a Christmas card to my good friend in Australia. Hence, I was there in Perdanasiswa compound doing and finishing up all my formal tasks for the day. It was still early then. Therefore I decided to take a stroll at the Pekan Buku, where I came upon an article entitled "Americanization of Toyota".

It took me about half and hour before I made my move. As I was walking back to the car park at the library, I saw the back of a girl. Familiar. Yes but couldn't be her I told myself. At that moment, I kept on recalling the look of Rachel, whom I admire and had just seen once before this.

I was jokingly reminding myself "Nah! This aint Rachel! Can't be so coincident to be able to meet her here. If the girl in front of me is really Rachel, I have long invited her and fetch her back to faculty. Not purposely after all because I am going there also!". I continued my nonsense reasoning, this and that, and following at the back of the girl until I got into my car.

I left the parking slot. Looked back. Damm!!! It is really Rachel!!! I was like... gosh! fuming over my stupidity! There flies my "lifetime" opportunity! Arghhhh! I am pretty sure that she is not going to reject my offer if I were to ask... just ask alone will do the trick... and she was alone lah Boon Teong!!!

The moral of the story is don't try to make jokes or fun of something. The impossible that you always think can be possible. Recalling back what my housemate told me once "Chance knocks.... but once.... why wait!"... hahaha... shall I cry?! or shall I see from another different perspective... hey, I am finally able to confirm my first impression on Rachel... she is sweet... so much to ponder...

Today's blog title will be the most expensive and costly method of marketing - advertisement. I started to draw my attention to the advertisement published in the newspaper for the time being.

First advertisement which impress me is the Citibank FlexiHome Loans. Yes, the appearance is simple yet eloquent to express its purpose, where a hammel is used to symbolise the home loans flexibility. The advertisement deliver the message that now their customers have the unlimited power to pay for their home loan monthly. The uniqueness behind the scene will be - they have adoption of depositing excess monthly payment amount if they wish to do so, and banker will deduct the corresponde interests that should charge on the payment. Likewise, customers are also given priority to withdraw their excess-paid money for any reason, and whenever they wish to do so. In first thought after glimpsing this is: The flexibility is ample and opportune in timing for customers, with the fact of income uncertainties faced by majority of the home maker.

Second advertisement was printed in the page after the first advertisement. That was the Citibank advertisement also, which was called Citibank Investment Services. It opened its ice-breaking paragraph with the thoroughgoing analysis of majority citizens. It stated that saving the money in bank is safe and out of risk in accumulating one's money. But if the capitals are used for the purpose investment, it will like the snowball which grow ernomously if done in a proper way. But the risks will always be there. So Citibank is offering as the customers' key player in reaching the balanced point of capital investment, yet minimizing the risks to the lowest level. They act as the mentor in guiding their customers in building their wealthy and affluent properties.

"Customers come first". I believe that this phase is the philosophy which have a vigorous entrenchment in all local or foreign bankers. The competition is intense enough yet rational among the bankers. In order to adhere with the current economic vibrancy and to be the onshore player, we can notice that they are always rejuvenating the best marketing strategy or customer retention in order to capture new leads and gain customers loyalty. Customer nowadays are more sophisticated. So the strategies that are implemented or will be implemented cannot take for granted anymore. Any strategical remiss not only will result intense loss to the corporation, they will be abandoned or eliminated from the rivalry at the worst case.

Sometimes It's quite pleasure to take a glance on the advertisements. They can be entertaining, as well as broadening our insights of the world of business. Try to look at the advertisement about fragnance. See how they make the distintive method to segregate themselves from the other current market players.

"We got him! We got him!" Finally the tyrant was nabbed in his hometown of Tikrit.

Worldwide jubilation at the capture of fugitive dictactor Saddem Hussein has showed how he friendless he was. The jubilation not only covered the other countries' citizens, but only the Iraqi itself. What a relief from the local Iraqi and now they can start celebrating with champagne because they can live fearless following the capture of Saddem.

With the grubby looking and bearded face, he looked solemn. His arrest indicates that the chance to "re-build" his empire ends. Since his two sons were died in US army attack in last July, and no news from other family members, Saddem will definitely live with no hope.

In the midst of the worldwide delights, I came across an excerption in Sin Chew yesterday. It unveiled the Saddem's bibliography. According to the article, Saddem was borned in 28 April 1937, and he is from the poverty-broken family. His father and brother were killed since his born, and nevertheless he never get the cherish from his mother since childhood. His mother was re-married afterwards and thus his "father" treated him worst. This cause a bad entrenchment in his mind which according to his principal, the only way to protect himself is to conquer the others. Thus, he had involved himself in politics during his youth. Based on his excellent performances, he successfully gain the confident from the party's top leader, which he was assigned the second top position in his 30+.

After taking over the post of country first man, his administration was undergone based on his initial entrenched pincipal. He never trust anybody. This can be seen by his frequent visit and rigorous checking to the departments.

After reading this article, 1 question came to my mind... who should be blamed of the birth of a dictactor? The environmental influences since his childhood?

Kar Kin has started to show his zeal for the world of business and entrepeneurship yet again. He has been commenting a lot herein regarding the turn-and-twist of Malaysia's business scene. I wish him all the best in achieving his ambition.

Fooji, I had already completed the text-description part of out financial projection and analysis last night. At first, I thought it wont take such a long time, merely 30 to 45 minutes I would be able to wrap it up! In the end, it took me more than one and a half hours to get it done nicely.

Phew! Hafiz! Yasnul! It has been a long long time since I last saw them. Everyone seems to be doing well in their careers huh?! Engineers here and there. IT consutants here and there. Boon Teong oi.. where are you going to stand?! Dream somemore... better kick your ahem ahem... and think of a way to excel...

Alright... stop here for now! Like Fooji, I do have a lot to blog also... but hmmm... just feel rigid to express... we shall fly to Seattle, shall we?! HAHHAHAHA... cheers!

Hello, this is my 2nd official post from Klang, and the first in Warung Ikan Bakar.

Now, my PCM stint continues with a 3 week posting in Klinik Kesihatan Bukit Kuda, Klang. Today, my job is really funny - I am in the registration/Triage counter, and most of the morning I was doing registering and looking for patients' records. The funny thing is that my fellow clerks there call me 'doktor', I said,'Panggil saya, Foo', but still they call me doktor,...but then again, why would some doktor want to do recording and registration ? Anyway, it is a good experience. Ben, not boring la, but relaxed la.....over here, we do not have a 4th year, it is now and final year next...somehow, we lost a good 6 month of clinical work. I wonder if this new breed of UM graduates would be a pale shadow of their predecessors.

I had a good weekend. Spent at least 7 hours reworking on the business plan with Kar Kin and Teong. Tiring !!! And you know what, later that night, I met Hafiz bin Tumiran !!! Somewhere at Damansara Uptown. He told me Yasnul is back from UK. Now an engineer.

Ben, a futsal match reunion among the Form 5 guys would be a good idea. I have proposed before that we do a football match in ACS field, but somehow this suggestion was shot down. In Taman Megah now there is this futsal centre, about Rm 5O an hour. Think about it.

I have so much to comment in IkanBakar like the capture of Saddam, the latest stupid decision by EPF, the stupid implementation of National Service by Musa and Najib ( I knew it!!!!) , the postponement of MMC-Gamuda project, the new pair of glasses of Badawi, and all that.....so much to say, but I think I'd better use the spare time I have to sleep and to write some love letters,...hahaa.....leave the comments to better ones like TV Smith, Jeff Ooi, etc.

Till I have another time again before the lunch time ends,...here's Fooji saying..."Enjoy Petaling Jaya..it is the best place in Malaysia,...Ipoh too...!!!!"

lo there ppl , how's life? met boon teong last week in pj, havin supper. just finished a futsal game. teong , the ppl in ur col can tahan lah. fooji, welcome to clinical years... there sismore to come. kar kin, glad to c ur active blogging. i'm doing my family med posting now. dats primary care in um. quite boring . can't wait to finish. for one thing , u won't be getting to c pateints during fly med in 3rd yr. only can meet fly med patients in 4th yr. i'm quite into futsal rite now. y duun somebody organize a futsal match among us? well dats all for now

Before Teong came to my house yesterday night, I picked up an article for killing time. One article caught my attention, which titled "Maxis urges business to leverage mobile solutions".

The article is written in a business-oriented terminology. I tried my hard to understand and digest the content. The CEO of Maxis Communication Berhad, Dato' Jamaluddin Ibrahim revealed that corporations in Malaysia hardly leverage on various opportunities offered by current communication industry player in increasing their productivity and simplifing the daily transaction.

Indeed, in my view the current economic mover in all the fields should have their initiatives to move forth to a paperless era in operating their business. The initial start might not result the thoroughgoing output, but it is foreseeable that the mobile solution will bring an quantum leap in terms of company revenue in the long run. Among the advantages of applying mobile solutions in business are:
- increase productivity
- enhance competitiveness
- enhance resource management

Maxis revealed that today's communication is not merely stricted to people-to-people communication, but mobile data has successfully gained its value as information sharing and data interchange. It was registered that about 3.7 million or 35% of mobile device users are active SMS users.

So, leveraging mobile solutions in "click-and-mortar" is indispensable, I guess...

It was an intermittent rain in the afternoon, around 5pm yesterday, which hailed me to ride back home after reading newspaper in main library. Thus, I entered library again, wishing I could gain something new and unexpected.

So, I made up my mind to surf Net. There was no new mail since I had checked it at noon. Being in the situation of no direction, accidentally I thought of 1 blogger's website which I heard of it before. I was told that this is a must-see website since it was created by an Ipoh guy. It is Jonathan Poh website, which give me an undescriptable feeling at first impression. I was charmed by its simple yet eloquent, minimalist yet stylish web design. Its main page is so blessing, with the totally snowy white interface, with tiny but tidy font written in a well-arranged order.

Without reading his blog, I straightly had a glance of his resume and portfolio. As I could see, he completed his secondary education in SMK Sam Tet and accomplished his BA (majoring Multimedia) in RMIT University, Australia. I guess he is 2 years older than me, but has emerged as a talented IT expert, especially in web & graphic design and dynamic coding. This can be proven from his profolio, where he was involved in many web site design project.

I was totally enthralled with his effort and talent. But surprisingly he is still unemployed for 2 1/2 months. But I think that he had been the Australia PR since he revealed he is seeking for permanent job in Melbourne.

“… when an Australian employer sees your resume next to someone else who has the same skills and qualifications, who do you think he will choose, the Caucasian or the Asian guy?” This was a short message quoted from his blog. What a sad and fuming statement, if put in his situation. Hopefully he can get his job soon.

1 thing that come to my mind: he might be qualified enough to build a sophisticated web portal...

I have read an article in December Massa magazine recently, writing that Tun Dr. Mahathir's popularity increased from 81% in June of last year (1 month before his announcement of PM resignation in UMNO assembly) to 84% in July this year. This is a jubilant scenario because this indicates that Dr.M's contributions to the nation is wholely recognised by our citizen, where we can observe that for most of the leaders in the west countries, they hardly get 100% support from their citizen.

Beign the country's ambassador for 22 years, his contributions in building in the nation in all perspective is undoubtedly excellent. After took over the position of the nation's no.1 servant from Tun Hussein Onn, he immediately launch lots of policies in order to transform to technology-based country and administrate efficient governmental machinery. His dedication to the country can be seen by his Dasar Pandang Timur, Besih, Cekap and Amanah, Penang Bridge construction, national car in the 80-an until the MSC mega project, Cyberjaya, Putrajaya, KLIA, Petronas Twin Tower, Sepang Circuit etc has unveally shown his capability as the foreseer of country development.

In the international perspective, his role as the 3-rd world speaker is admirable also by global players. People around the world will always like to listen to his corny yet amazing speech. His presentation on the global stage will normally be given the warmest cheers and thumbs-up from the audience due to his sharp and constructive insights of current global issues analysis. Sometimes, he is become the paradigm of other countries' leader in developing their nation.

Being the anak watan Malaysia since from past, now until forever, we pay tribute to his countribution towards Malaysia development. I'm proud to be Malaysian!

Was having a yum cha session with Kai just now when suddenly Ben came and sit at our table! Nice to meet you man, Ben, at Murni. Earlier, Kai joined me for a street soccer game at 7th College. This world is rather so small. Ben came all the way from Cheras to play football with my great 7th buddies. Haha. So, Ben, what do you think of our Chinese 7th College in playing soccer? Cekap isn't it? Haha. Jangan ingat Malaysian Chinese no good in soccer. We have great players like Lee Kuan man! ;-)

If there is one thing Pang and I can agree on, it would be that Klang is more overwhelming, and tougher than we expect.

Me, being in the Primary Care posting, which relatively the least stressful, should not complain, but add it to my night schedule of returning to Medic fac for Christmas night, and then business plan, and then this and that, can be really overwhelming. It is a good thing we done lots of last minute crisis, and multitasking back then in ACS, it really helps us not to panic.

Pang, on the other hand is showing his skills at multitasking. He is in one of the toughest posting - Paediatrics, with long ward work, and having to withstand standing like an idiot (most of us MS feel like that), he also have to come down for Christmas night, and also, he got the Walkaton to organise and all that....he memang gila...

Maybe Ben and Kok Ming, or Pam can say to us,... "Aiya,...wait till you reach..." or " Aiya, like you also want to complain....."...

BUt anyway, Klang GH is not what we envisioned it would be. Beds are everywhere, lodgings all the time, and worst of all, medical students cannot lend much help to the healthcare staff ( lack of skills, and also their lack of trust, and the lack of co-operation between UM and Klang GH), what we do just clerking patients and presenting them... which indirectly cause more work for the nurses, and kacau the patients. No wonder some of them hate us... we are in foreign land, man,...unlike UMMC where we are welcomed most of the time....

As for me, you know what.... in this first week itself, I have to drive in Klang town in Chee Hoong's car ( he's really nice to borrow me his) to search for a GP clinic. I am attached to GP in Klang for one week. God really bless me la, to be able to find the place easily, and drive smoothly, and the doctor without knowing before hand that I am coming, is welcoming to me.

There is heavy load of Hokkien-speaking among the Chinese. I am always instantly relieved when I hear Cantonese or even Mandarin !!! Anyway, the GP that I am attached to is really good, macam Dr Lee Tong Weng, I guess.... inspire me to become the best GP in Ipoh next time.

Anyway, enough of Klang gibberish from me.

KarKIn, i will try to meet up with you all this Saturday, but cannot whole day okay? maybe the whole afternoon. Let's aim for efficient usage of time...no more jokes, no more wasting time.

11 Decembre 2003, jeudi
Today's french lesson.. learnt about numbers, n daily conversation, such as where do u live, when did u born, what is ur telephone number? what is ur occupation bla bla.. Sigh! The numbers are quite difficult, if compare with Deutsch and Italiano... This is because: i) u need to know how to pronouce; ii) for the order of 20,30,40,50,60 and 80, every increment (+1, +2 et cetera) is added with 1 only, while increment in 70 and 90 have to be added with 11, 12, etc (See example below); and iii) for every increment in 80' and 90', the way of saying should be (4*20+n, where n=1, 2, etc).. Haha..all these numbers make my life miserable...
Les nombres

0: zéro; 1: un; 2:deux; 3:trois; 4:quatre; 5:cinq; 6:six; 7:sept; 8:huit; 9:neuf; 10:dix; 11:onze; 12:douze; 13:treize; 14:quatorze; 15:quinze; 16: seize; 17:dix-sept; 18: dix-huit; 19: dix-neuf;

20: vingt; 21:vingt et un; 22: vingt-deux; 23:vingt-trois; ...

30:trente; 40:quarante; 50: cinquante; 60: soixante;

70: soixante-dix (60+10); 71: soixante-et onze (60+11); ...

80: quatre-vingts (4*20); 81: quatre-vingt-un (4*20+1); 82: quatre-vingt-deux (4*20+2); 83: quatre-vingt-trois (4*20+3); ...

90: quatre-vingt-dix (4*20+10); 91: quatre-vingt-onze (4*20+11); ...

Then learn about self-introduction..

Je m'appelle Kar Kin. Je suis célibarataire (single). Je suis né le six Juillet (July) 1980 à Ipoh. J'habite à PJ, 6 rue. Je suis étudiont de l'université. Mon numéro de télefon zéro un deux cinquante-six quatre-vingt-quinze soixante-huit un.

TAKE NOTE:

FOOJI LOST HIS PHONE AGAIN, YES AGAIN....

NO more 0135843828

Beginning January 2004 - the new number 0165951742

i'm back in action. it's been a hectic three weeks posting. just finished paeds... and i'm definately not specializing in it. phew... relieved that its over. been losing sleep for a couple of days . maklumlah quite busy. doing family med next... heard its quite hectic also. fooji ... how's klang? welcome to the world of clinical medicine . btw... if any of u happen to be in ipoh on christmas day, drop by my hse at nite( I REPEAT.....ONLY AT NITE) . Gotta get some sleep.

Teong, how's the pui jek toong? Better after a good night's sleep? anyway, if you want to know more, here's it...Click here..

I slept at about 4:30 am, and woke up at 9:00, FRESH!!! wow, this must be God's blessings.... the bed is super nice...and I was actually all alone in the church building. Not scary la...and the sleep is really good.

I spent the whole morning finishing up 3, 4, 5, and retouching 2. Not easy leh....was daydreaming about lenglui some more. Anyway, I am taking a day off today...tomorrow we discuss again la. Kar Kin is the boss mar....

Pamela yesterday mentioned that we do not how to appreciate her type of kecantikan..and that we banyak hati sampai kena makan gingko? does that make sense to you???

Crazy...

Silence
where is ben? where is kok ming? where is everyone? it has been long... a long long time in fact to see entries from you people. anyway... i, myself, was missing in action too... nothing much to say lately... perhaps there are a lot of stories to tell, yet lack of inspiration to think and type! haha...
yo... my final year project is still hanging... accomplishment 0%. how? can someone tell me how? only God knows...
in exactly 3 months... life will definitely take a change... inevitable! either i like or dislike... i still have to WORK! i think i should rephrase... it should be "i still have to find a job!"... hahaha...
whatever... i am not so concerned about it... what is worrying the most now is my thesis a.k.a final year project...