~# hope, peserverance, persistence #~

梦到妳了

2011-01-12T20:18:00.003+08:00

好久好久没梦到妳，昨晚不知道为什么，竟然梦见了和妳一起。

是妳来找我吗？想念我呀？我很想很想妳！妳已离开我快五年半了哦！2005年7月30日到现在。妳那里还好吗？我还很清楚记得和妳一起的快乐时光哦！每天早上妳都会在我房门口坐着叫我起床，妈每次都会开门给妳进，妳叫不醒我，就会陪我一起睡的！哈哈哈哈！我好想念，也很喜欢每早睡得冷冷时妳突然带给我的温暖哦！好想念妳的体温！我们一起从文莱搭巴士来古晋，为了妳，我也不用飞机，和妳一起从美里坐巴士回来噢！还有还有，在文莱时有一次妳跑去草地那里抓了条小蛇回来，那蛇缠着妳的身体，妳也这样大摇大摆地走回家，原来蛇早就被妳玩死了，吓的我和妈都快心脏病发作呀！

时间过得好快呀！我现在过得很好噢！家人也很好！有想念我们吗？^^
多点回来找我噢！

Happy New Year 2011!

2011-01-02T20:55:00.002+08:00

Wish to have a great year ahead! Wish all of you be blessed with great health, wealth and happiness! All the best in everything!!

~~~Happy 2011~~~

我记得。。。我，爱过。。。。。。

2010-11-01T19:10:00.003+08:00

电台有人点播，播我记得我爱过。。。

后视镜里的我，沉默话不多，目送你下，上楼。。。

紧握的蕾丝漂泊，你的脸一闪而过；

知道一些线索，在这个时刻，我忍住没有问出口~~~

我记得我爱过，要不回那些快乐。。。

怕情绪失控着，怕我泪流成河，怕你所有些事勉强不得。

我记得我爱过，也懂了，你感情上的转折，泪湿透了纸鹤，爱斑白了颜色；

而我的心被撕裂般拉扯，已经难以愈合。。。。。。

Just something to share...

2010-10-19T21:14:00.001+08:00

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle.

Life is a maze, and love is a riddle.

I don't know where to go.

Can't do it alone.

I've tried, but i don't know why.

Slow it down, make it stop,

Or else my heart is going to pop.

Cause its to much, yea its a lot,

To be something I'm not.

I'm a fool, out of love.

Cause I just can't get enough.

I've tried, but i don't know why.

I'm just a little boy lost in the moment.

I'm so scared but i don't show it.

I can't figure it out.

It's bringing me down.

I know, I've got to let it go.

该回来了咯！

2010-07-12T07:15:00.003+08:00

世界杯终于落幕了。恭喜西班牙队荣获了2010年度世界冠军的荣誉。

昨天和一群朋友出去吃喝玩乐。好久没这样玩了哦！闹了整天呀！好好玩哦！哈哈。有机会我们再玩过！

现在也该收回心情，把手头上的工作弄好！
要开始忙咯！
但也还没有精神的。
再熬吧！
大家一起加油噢！
努力！！

I'm back~

2010-06-15T07:51:00.003+08:00

After a whole week away for traveling fieldwork, here I am now sitting in the office again..

Last Monday headed for Miri for microbiology works in the lab in Miri office. Stayed overnight at Sarikei. The next day visited Sibu market and bought samples of cockles and whelks before rushed to Miri.

Bought more samples of cockles and tiger prawns at Miri. Did cultures of bacteria and viruses of the cockles and whelks samples. Identified the types and did streaking. As for the tiger prawns, did some measurements such as the weight and total length. Samples of gills, legs and flesh were preserved in ethanol and was brought back to the lab in Bintawa for further analysis.

All in all, quite a nice experience though. No strict supervision, no tight schedule. Just nice and linear. quite relaxing. The people are nice. Went shopping in malls during free time.

##Watched the opening match of World Cup 2010 with lake_maxz at Miri. ^^

Thanks for the trip~

离开一下

2010-06-04T07:58:00.002+08:00

今天开始将会是很忙碌的。。。过了两天的假期，又得回来原本的生活了。。。
我将会离开大约两个星期吧~
为了某些事，也只能这样了！
环境所逼呀！

我不在时大家加油往自己生活的路继续走吧！
一起努力哦！要好好保重~
加油！

懒散星期的开始

2010-05-31T07:36:00.002+08:00

星期一又到了。但这新的星期将会是假日连连，令人懒惰的一个星期呀！今天，有几个朋友都请了假。真是气死啦！为何我就不能在家里继续睡觉呢？好懒惰哦！明天后天是假日，周末有个生活营，好期待啊！懒懒的一天~ 别给我太多工啊！！

(Laziness is non other than taking your rest before you feel tired, no?)

~#找个女孩做老婆#~

2010-05-20T15:26:00.002+08:00

找个女孩做老婆，不需要太漂亮，可以有点小雀斑或小痘痘，对得起观众就行。

找个女孩做老婆，个子不用太高挑，可以有点小胖胖，健康就好。

找个女孩做老婆，不用太会家务，能洗衣叠被，会做西红柿炒鸡蛋就行，要是会做个鱼啊什么的就了不得了。

找个女孩做老婆，不用太小鸟依人，会善解人意，喜欢你对她的关心，时不时她也会关心你下。

找个女孩做老婆，不奢望太温柔，脾气不太大就行，不老把“气死我了，气死我了”挂嘴边，得饶人处且饶人。

找个女孩做老婆，不需要因为男人而把自己朋友圈子断绝，只要知道底线，不朝三暮四，对你感情专一些就行。

找个女孩做老婆，不需要多聪慧，可以有点小笨笨，有自己的判断能力，少干点缺心眼事就不错。

找个女孩做老婆，不用多有能力，对你一直有信心，会欣赏你的能力，哪怕她挣钱比你多也会给你足够的自尊。

找个女孩做老婆，不需要之前多纯净，非有第一次不可，可以有以前，有历史，但跟你后不会老惦记别人，不老拿你和别人比。

找个女孩做老婆，会接纳你的好，你的坏，你的家人，如此就此生足矣！

一场意外?

2010-05-17T21:45:00.003+08:00

我记得那时候你不让我牵你的手；
激动得我快疯;
象掉进一个无底的洞；
莫非我的举动成了你的苦衷?
才暗示我的所有你宁愿没有经过??
爱预付得太多;
不是没有想过;
最愚笨的会是;
我!!

不如人！

2010-05-12T14:19:00.002+08:00

睡不着，吃不下，没心情，什么都不想做，什么都不想理！
因为我不如人家, 没人家好，没人家厉害，就不如人啦！
都是自己没用，自己笨吧！
啦啦啦~~~

好久没写了！

2010-04-30T03:19:00.003+08:00

3.40am，头晕，肚子饿，眼睛累，没精神，很想睡！

最近都睡眠不足，忙这忙那的。今天星期五了，下个星期五我就要离开了。好快的，大学生活即将结束。三年就这样过去了。喜怒哀乐都哦尝过了。朋友们也交了不少。吃喝玩乐也玩尽了。再过不久就要踏入社会了。总是有种怪怪的感觉不懂怎么形容。边走边看吧！

昨晚踢了场应该是大学生涯的最后一场室内足球了。当然，也尽了力赢啦！这个学期总共进了六十一粒球。脚也伤的不会痊愈了。谢谢大家一起努力玩每一场球赛。

晚安咯~

Came across this just now: "I Love You In 100 Languages"

2010-03-24T09:32:00.003+08:00

"I Love You" in 100 Languages!!

English - I love you
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumen
Bambara - M'bi fe
Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan - T'estimo
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)
Creol - Mi aime jou
Croatian - Volim te
Czech - Miluji te
Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Estonian - Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian - Afgreki'
Faroese - Eg elski teg
Farsi - Doset daram
Filipino - Mahal kita
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore
Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
Georgian - Mikvarhar
German - Ich liebe dich
Greek - S'agapo
Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian - Aloha wau ia oi
Hebrew - Ani ohev otah (to female)
Hebrew - Ani ohev et otha (to male)
Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska tig
Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Inuit - Negligevapse
Irish - Taim i' ngra leat
Italian - Ti amo
Japanese - Aishiteru
Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili - Nakupenda
Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
Korean - Sarang Heyo
Latin - Te amo
Latvian - Es tevi miilu
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - Tave myliu
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni
Marathi - Me tula prem karto
Mohawk - Kanbhik
Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni
Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg
Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
Persian - Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish - Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese - Eu te amo
Romanian - Te ubesk
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian - Volim te
Setswana - Ke a go rata
Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing'I Love You')
Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux - Techihhila
Slovak - Lu`bim ta
Slovenian - Ljubim te
Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
Swedish - Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
Tagalog - Mahal kita
Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai - Chan rak khun (to male)
Thai - Phom rak khun (to female)
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em (to female)
Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh (to male)
Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe

是累了吗？

2010-03-06T15:20:00.002+08:00

昨晚踢了场室内足球，对垒第一年的学弟们。我们一组只有八个人，一次六个人踢；而学弟们的组却有十个。所以他们就先占优势了。再加上支持队（超过十五个人吧，喊来喊去的），所以是战气十足的！球赛还没开始就那么嚣张了？哈哈。。。这也是第一次看到有拉拉队的出现~

说回比赛，一开始是我们先进球，一比零！过后就乱了脚，居然被反超四比一！我们都呆了一阵子~ 踢着踢着，五比五！再踢下去，十比五！我们十！最后成绩是我们十六，他们八。。。

虽然是赢了，但昨晚我真的是状态欠佳呀！只进了两球而已！把我之前所定下的每场最少三球定律给破了~两球听起来蛮多的，但作为前锋，真的是不够~ 是右脚的伤还没好？还是最近的劳累身体也累了？踢到一半我就换了个队友。在旁边看了看，过后才进去再踢。。。如果没出去一下我想连一球也不会进吧。虽然踢的时间少了，但自己最清楚吧。。之前踢的每一场都是进三球后才休息一下再进去踢的，有几场是踢到球赛结束的~ 好在有队友们添了我的漏洞，不然就糟了。。。这是我这个学期的第七场球赛，有几场我不在这里所以没踢（里面输了一场）。七场里面全胜了。。进球也多达二十七球了。。。每场进球最少是两球，最多是七球。。真的不想破坏这个纪录。。。

下一场比赛是明晚对垒生物技术队。希望能踢出原来的状况就可以了。
队友们，加油了！我会尽力的！！

哈哈！今年怎么那么不顺呀？

2010-03-03T17:55:00.003+08:00

新年才过不久，但怎么所发生的事都那么的不顺利呢？真伤脑筋呀！新的一年才开始，就已近觉得好像会很不好走,很难度过的！不祥的感觉好浓噢！好久都没有现在这种低迷的感觉了~ 事事都不顺的！别理了~ 不顺就不顺吧！一定挡得住的！！

真的好想和朋友们深夜里在路中间停着车，有闪亮的星星们的陪同下，一起坐在路中间，说说笑笑吵吵闹闹的！好想要约一大群朋友一起去吃东西！好想和大家一起去外面玩！好想一起去游山玩水！好想和华跟才去吃三小时的午餐！好想进厨房帮忙！好想自己炒面炒饭吃！好想带狗狗去散步！好想去海边！好想好像好想做很多事！

写完出来，一定会有些办得到吧！哈哈！

大家加油噢！
再过不久这个爱欺负你们的我就要回了！
你们的好日子即将要完鲁！（先警告了哦）
呵呵呵~

没那么简单

2010-03-02T13:51:00.002+08:00

黄小琥-没那么简单
作词:姚若龙作曲:萧煌奇

没那么简单
就能找到聊得来的伴
尤其是在看过了那么多的背叛
总是不安只好强悍
谁谋杀了我的浪漫

没那么简单
就能去爱别的全不看
变得实际也许好也许坏各一半
不爱孤单一久也习惯
不用担心谁也不用被谁管

感觉快乐就忙东忙西
感觉累了就放空自己
别人说的话随便听一听
自己作决定
不想拥有太多情绪
一杯红酒配电影
在周末晚上关上了手机
舒服窝在沙发里

相爱没有那么容易
每个人有他的脾气
过了爱作梦的年纪
轰轰烈烈不如平静
幸福没有那么容易
才会特别让人着迷
什么都不懂的年纪
曾经最掏心
所以最开心
曾经

想念最伤心
但却最动心的记忆

##二月结束前！

2010-02-27T23:24:00.002+08:00

二月份结束前，终于了结了些烦恼经的事儿~ 十年前感情用事的做了个决定： 2000年开始从此都不吃鸭；十年后的现在，又得做个重要决定了断事情了~ 十年后，我还是没吃鸭。。但这次不只是吃那么简单了。。。

长大后事情也变复杂了吧~ 但还是得鼓起勇气，勇往直前，不再往后看地向着三月份走下去！做了这个决定，希望不是个模糊的判断；别问是什么决定；我只是想站的高点，望远点吧! 累了~

好啦，希望接下来的日子能顺顺利利的渡过着。。。
希望你们快乐幸福，也祝大家身体健康，万事如意！

二月份

2010-02-26T17:19:00.002+08:00

温馨的二月份，将要结束了。。

令我最开心的，还是华人新年！三年没回家过年的哥终于也回家了。。这也是大家在三年多里第一次见到他（变白了很多噢）！要谢谢爸妈一直的照顾，希望你们天天开心，身体安康噢！弟呀弟，要看好爸妈哦！

新年呀新年，从小我就已经爱上了你啦！

然后要谢谢一群好友陪我吃的生日大餐，还送了我一瓶“不能喝”的礼物！也要谢谢学弟妹们的一片蛋糕和超多的蜡烛，死都要提醒我又老了哦!谢谢所有的祝福，感谢大家！

二十二当天也终于得知了之前一直不了解的一些事情的答案，弄清楚了也算是个礼物吧~ 也证明了之前所猜测的都是对的。

再来，是为自己送份礼物！送给自己，算是鼓励自己吧~ 毕竟一生只能送自己几次嘛？

二月结束前，再次祝贺大家身体健康，天天愉快~

~Pulau Ular, Taman Pulau Tiga~

2010-02-07T01:26:00.005+08:00

Last Friday I joined a trip to Pulau Ular, Taman Pulau Tiga for a one-day sampling of sea snake @ sea krait, more highly-venomous creature than land snakes...

Had to wake up early, and sat on the bumpiest trip ever in UMS Chelonia for a period of over two hours. The sea was rough, and our boat is small...

Arrived there at around 9.10am, unloaded equipments, then went to search for the snakes underneath rocks, with the help of a guy from Sabah Parks.. Had a good experience dealing with these deadly creatures. The island is small and with nice views around, just that there's lots of guano all over the island.

All in all we found 9 of them and took measurement such as total length and weight, while some escaped due to the rocky cracks that we could not reach~ And our hands were full of snakes' dung...

Around 11.10am we were ready to leave the island. Had lots of junkies in our backpacks, alongside with those big waves that made us wet~ Reached at around 1.30pm, took a shower then crashed to bed.. Exhausted, but enjoyed!

Nice trip~
Thanks to all those involved!

一月已到了尾声~

2010-01-31T23:40:00.002+08:00

不管好的不好的，都已成为过去了。一月份就这样的过了。把好的回忆都收藏起来；那些不好的不如意的当教训，从中学习~

希望来临的二月会是个美好的月份！华人新年，情人节，本人的生日等等~
好期待哦！

可恶的雨！

2010-01-27T19:41:00.002+08:00

真的气死我了~ 早不下晚不下，偏偏就在那个时候下！把我全部计划都搞得一团乱！！下了一阵就那一下子，把我整天好好的心情都弄碎了~ 气死人了！！现在要它下它偏不下，被你玩惨啦！！！

Towards the final week of January 2010

2010-01-25T14:59:00.002+08:00

Tick Tock, Tick Tock, and its the final week of the month! Assignments piling up, undone lab works, presentations, reports, this and that~~~~ (>.<'')

Anyway, we'll be nearer to Chinese New Year! Good and bad, in a way or two~ Longing for the celebration! Gather with Family and friends, visiting each others, hanging out, etc etc.... ^.^

Hopefully the coming February will be a real good time~
Looking forward for You to come~
^.^

A New Decade?? No??

2010-01-02T12:08:00.002+08:00

Entering the year 2010, people were greeting a happy new year, and also the start of a new decade??

So, is 2010 really the start of a new decade? Isn't our coming decade will be starting in 2011? The same thing happened way back in 2000. Y2k? Millennium? Millennial countdown? Wasn't it supposed to be on year 2001? Didn't we started our calender with year one? Or did we not? Started with year zero perhaps?

If it was year one, then a period of 10 years will bring us to year ten, and the next year, year eleven, will be the new decade. Not unless we started from year zero, then we will be celebrating a new decade recently! The same goes for the previous millennial countdown.. Please correct me if I'm wrong~

And so the question remains, did we started counting from 1 AD or 0 AD after Christ's dead?

Did I get my perceptions wrong?
what do you think?

Happy New Year!

2010-01-01T14:57:00.004+08:00

This was my first time to join a new year's eve countdown in Sabah~

Initially having no plans to execute for the eve, I joined a friend's BBQ party at his house in Kepayan, Kota Kinabalu. The five of us went to buy some "ingredients" for the night to top-up to his existing menu.

Alongside fries, pork, mutton, fish, chicken wings, chicken buttock, mushroom soup, all sorts of snacks and soft drinks, we had 2 bottles of 1L Label 5 Scotch Whisky and a box of 5L Peter Vella.

After eating, the main dishes that is, (we ate all the way til morning anyway),we started off with Peter Vella... Not much of an issue either.. This red wine I have it myself in my room all these times.. ^.^

Then my friend's relative started with card playing~ Play, play and play until midnight! (I just watched at the side)... Friends made a joint-venture for card gamble... -_-'

Soon we opened the mighty Label 5... It can kill you, I can tell you this~ By just smelling it you can know how strong it is. The smell beats that of Absolut Vodka! Horrible!! And who says we'll need to mix strong alcohol with soft drinks? We had it just with ice! You can feel the burning sensation down the throat the second you swallowed it...43% alcoholic-contained... Made my tummy went merry-go-round~

Cheers! Happy New Year!!

Then when the clock stroke 12, this friend of mine got himself a pail of water and started splashing towards everyone present~ Clean and wash away bad lucks for new year?? That's the motive.. Surely, I was wet too!

Fireworks were nice, from all over the housing area..

wet~

Then they went back for their card game, and I sat at the side watching, eating, and drinking... Played til 2am then we walked to a nearby mamak shop for roti canai and grab some drinks to chill off the alcohol..

All in all a great night, a wild one! Wetly-soaked til dry~ Everyone survived the "saint" water though! All still standing til the very end! Sorry "saint" water, you are no match at all!!

To those friends celebrating elsewhere, I bet you guys had a great night too~
Let's hope this coming new year brings in lots of good deeds..
All the best and be blessed with good health, good wealth and good results I supposed!!??

Happy new year everyone!!

寂寞，安静的夜晚~

2009-12-23T00:24:00.002+08:00

十间房间，一个人；我！
全都回家过圣诞节了，留下我一个人，在这鸦雀无声的房里，无所事事~
闷极了！！！闷闷闷~

没人能陪我吗？
T—T

Avatar!!!

2009-12-18T02:31:00.002+08:00

Just watched Avatar at MBO. 2 hrs 40 mins ++! But I can tell you this, IT IS REALLY A NICE MOVIE!!

It is just like human at war with night elves, technology vs nature. At the end of the movie there were loud applause from the floor! Really, it is worth a watch~

Got to pack things up now~
Night flight back to university... T.T

Take care~

见牙医记！

2009-12-15T19:48:00.002+08:00

今天下午去见牙医了！午餐过后，就和朋友去找牙医洗牙补牙去~

用了整个下午，忍了不可形容的痛，失了不少的血，花了超多的钱，终于弄好了。痛到没话讲呀！
补了两颗牙，包洗包检查，总共花了我两百四十块钱！朋友补三颗，但不够时间洗，一百八十五块！牙医蛮好赚的嘛！！

朋友们，好好照顾牙齿吧~
不然就得花钱还要忍痛的咯！

一次过买了好多的贺岁专辑呀！

2009-12-15T00:36:00.005+08:00

刚刚和一群老友出去了。庆祝朋友生日。

然后就和一位朋友去看贺岁专辑，一次就买了五片；我就四片，朋友一片，老板还叫我买完它!! 好搞笑噢~ 明早睡醒可以慢慢停了，看看哪些是好听的~ 好期待啊！希望会有不错的~

开心的一天！
##祝福大家##

Awakening from Dormancy!

2009-12-12T01:01:00.002+08:00

Yawn###

It has been so long since my last post eh? Kinda lazy with the freaking slow broadband. Unable to upload photos and stuffs properly. Slow streaming, and sometimes cant even load page~ Frustrating, really...

Anyway, its around the time of the year again; Christmas and New Year are just around the corner!! But this time I will not be celebrating in my hometown, away from my usual-every-year-celebrating-together-friends-of-mine.

Blame me not ya!Not that I want it that way~ Will be leaving town in less than a week from now.

This holiday seemed rather short~ I still wanna enjoy some more, before I get back to my busy life!

Well then, be good everyone~
Take good care##
(Hope can update blog more often)

和家人在沙巴玩的四天三夜！

2009-09-25T00:51:00.005+08:00

上山~

下海~

好好玩噢！！

After 9 months, we meet again~

2009-09-18T23:56:00.006+08:00

Last December, MV Doulos arrived at Pending's Port in Kuching. Me and my family, as well as my friends went on board several times. In 2007, she was here in KK, but I missed the trip to go on board. 2 years later, once again she came to KK, Sabah.

The MV Doulos is the world's oldest active passenger ship, just 2 years younger than Titanic~ She is currently doing her last world tour and was planned to be decommissioned in 2010 when the SOLAS regulations are due to be introduced.

Anyway, she will be here in KK until this Sunday. Few days ago I went there with some of my course mates.

On board MV Doulos

It was hot, as usual (referred as "human stove" by ameagor). Her crews, changed almost entirely as I cant noticed anyone familiar for their last visit. There are still crews from places all around the world.

That day I bought 3 books, as my usual trips on board I will stocked some reading materials. Then when I was paying I met this nice guy, Ryan, from New York. He was the cashier, and he spoke Malay to me. Quite accurately, even though its just "terima kasih", "jumpa lagi" these sorts of greetings. Anyway, we ended up having a long chat, in which my course mates later joined in~ We chatted until its time for the Muslims to break their fast. And we dragged him into few photos as well...

Me and Ryan

A nice guy he is, really. Made me think back that time at Permai Beach, Kuching, where our gang met with this England guy called Andy with his family. Had nice long conversation.... Wonder how are they doing now~

Back to this New York guy, he is a volunteer that joined in as crew for 3 months. He is a quarter Chinese mix with American. His first place to board the ship was at Cambodia. Also, the next destination, Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, will be his last stop. Hopefully he will have good stories to tell when he gets back home...

Good luck to you!
Cheers~
(^.^)

又要放假鲁~

2009-09-14T01:27:00.002+08:00

很快的，多一个星期又到假期时间了！
爽啊！
这个假期没回家，而是家人过来噢!
虽然只是四天，但也够了吧。能到处去玩鲁！
爽爽爽！

朋友们，你们要过来还来得及噢。哈哈。。。。

但功课也还在累积着。讨厌~ 做也做不完的！！
管它的，玩乐后再打算吧！

最近也累坏了。每天睡没超过五个小时的。
假期快点来呀！娃哈哈哈！！！
（##现在很想睡但就是睡不着）

（^.^)
cheers~

最近常听的一首歌~

2009-08-31T01:40:00.008+08:00

曾沛慈-泪了

天快亮了
能不能别离开呢
沉默像首悲伤的歌
无声视线却模糊了

你要走了
也带走所有快乐
甜蜜的片段散落了
你倦了心冷了我哭了

那流星闪过
我们许下一个愿望
要在一起绝不分离
你怎么放弃了

星空在闪烁
像你的眼泪
悄悄划过
当你放开了手
离开的时候
有没有一点舍不得我

泪光在闪烁
而我的眼泪忍住
不敢坠落
我还留在黑暗中守候
你却已经远远离开我

离开我了
梦醒了还剩什么
我要的幸福消失了
你的心曾经属于我的

那流星闪过
我们许下一个愿望
要在一起绝不分离
你怎么放弃了

星空在闪烁
像你的眼泪
悄悄划过
当你放开了手
离开的时候
有没有一点舍不得我

泪光在闪烁
而我的眼泪忍住
不敢坠落
我还留在黑暗中守候
你却已经远远离开我

有过的快乐
我都记得
回忆还旋转着
爱怎么停了
我们都累了

星空在闪烁
像你的眼泪
悄悄划过
当你放开了手
离开的时候
有没有一点舍不得我

泪光在闪烁
而我的眼泪忍住
不敢坠落
我还留在黑暗中守候
你却已经远远离开我
~~end~~

## 听了又听，都觉得这是首不错的歌曲。
《我们许下一个愿望，要在一起，绝不分离，你怎么放弃了》
希望所有的情侣们都能实现彼此所许下的承诺吧~
大家加油吧！
祝福大家 ##

全球公认最搞笑的11则冷笑话

2009-08-23T13:34:00.000+08:00

全球公认最搞笑的11则冷笑话

1. 蚯蚓一家这天很无聊，小蚯蚓就把自己切成两段打羽毛球去了；

蚯蚓妈妈觉得这方法不错，就把自己切成四段打麻将去了；

蚯蚓爸爸想了想，就把自己切成了肉末。蚯蚓妈妈哭着说："你怎么这么傻？切这么碎会死的！"

蚯蚓爸爸弱弱地说："……突然想踢足球。"

2、龟兔赛跑.....兔子很快跑到前面去了......

乌龟看到一只蜗牛爬得很慢很慢.....对他说:你上来，我背你吧.....然后......蜗牛就上来了........

过了一会....乌龟又看到一只蚂蚁....对他说:你也上来吧....于是蚂蚁也上来了。

蚂蚁上来以后......看到上面的蜗牛......对他说了句:你好！你们知道蜗牛说什么吗？

蜗牛说：你抓紧点，这乌龟好快.......

3、五元钱被犯罪团伙绑架了，打电话给百元钞："喂！你儿子在这里，不想我们撕票就用自己来换他！"

百元钞想了一下说："撕吧，撕了你们连5块钱都没有了！"

4、有一对男女正在吃晚餐，那个女生一直问那个男生：你爱不爱我？

男生看了女生一眼又继续吃晚餐。

女生很生气又再问了一次：你爱不爱我？

男生终于说：爱！

女生又问：那你要怎么证明？

忽然男生从口袋里拿了三十元出来，并问女生:你有没有十元？

女生拿了十元给了男生......

男生就把四十元放在桌上，过了一会儿........

女生很生气的问男生：你到底要不要证明你爱我啊！

男生说：我己经证明了啊！四十摆在眼前！

5、有一天，一家失火了，爸爸妈妈都逃出来了，只剩下一个儿子还在里面。妈妈很紧张的在屋外大喊：

"儿子.....你在干吗......都失火了还不出来......"

儿子回答："我在穿袜子阿....."

妈妈又说，"都失火了还穿什么袜子...."

过了五分钟，儿子还没出来......

妈妈又紧张的喊，"儿子，你到底在干什么？快出来~都失火了，还待在里面....."

儿子说，"我在脱袜子阿........."

6、有个人到河边钓鱼，先穿了个树叶～半天没鱼上钩，他又换了块面包～一样半天没鱼上钩～没办法他只好去换蚯蚓～一样还是半天没鱼上

钩～～

他气愤之下掏一张百元大炒扔入水中大骂：

"他*的，要吃什么！自己去买！"

7、"我看不清太远的东西，"病人对眼科医生说。

"请跟我来，"医生把病人带到外面，用手指着天上的太阳，问道，"你看那是什么？"

"太阳。"病人回答。

"那你还想看多远！"

8、有一天动物们在关公庙前面闻到很臭的味道。

蛇说：我这么小不会放这么臭的屁，一定是牛。

牛说：我是吃草的不会放这么臭的屁

猪说：放屁的人一定会脸红。
忽然关公冲了出来，把猪打飞说：说了多少次了，我脸红是天生的。

9、有个人一天碰到上帝，上帝突然大发善心打算给那人一个愿望......

上帝问，你有什么愿望吗？那个人想了想，听说猫都有9条命，那请您赐给我9条命吧。

上帝说：好，你的愿望实现咯。

一天，那个人闲来无聊，如说去死一死算了，反正有9条命嘛，就躺在铁轨上......

结果一辆火车开过去.....那人还是死了，这是为什么呢？因为那列火车的车厢有10节。

10、一天，殡仪馆送来了三个人，说也奇怪，他们死后的笑容都是^_^.......殡仪馆管理员很纳闷的问警察：为什么他们死后的脸竟然会是^_^

呢？

警察说：这.....说来话长........你看左边那个人，他是跟她老婆在共度春宵时.....在最激情的那一刻，受不了，挂了。

管理员就回答说：唉.....人在花下死，做鬼也风流。那中间那一个是怎么死的？

警察：中间那一个喔，他呀，真是人间惨剧，他走在路上，忽然听见自己中了头彩，奖金7亿多......

他开心的哈哈大笑时，却被迎面而来的车给撞上了，结果，挂了。

管理员回答说：唉，他真的是没有福气享受这荣华富贵的后半辈子。那剩下的这一个呢？

警察：这一个死的就有点可怜了，他是爬上树的时候被雷给劈死的。

管理员回答说：这就有点不对了，被雷劈到为什么还会笑呢....

警察说：因为他爬上树后，突然一道闪电...... 他以为......有人给他拍照......

11、话说数千年以前，无论是公狗还是母狗，他们小便时都是蹲着的，直到唐朝，事情才有了转变……

唐太宗大家听过吧！他老人家养了一对北京狗，有一次唐太宗上华山祭天，带了这一对去……

祭到一半时，母狗突然内急，于是便跑到一棵树后解决，在祭天时这是非常不敬的行为，因此惹恼了玉帝，

玉帝命令雷公打了一个雷，正好打在树上，树倒了，压死了母狗，公狗看了以后非常害怕……

从此以后，公狗每次在树下小便时，都会伸出一只脚，用力顶着树，以免树倒下来压到自己。

=_=!

Back From Demersal Trawling~

2009-08-09T22:53:00.004+08:00

First thing first, demersal otter trawling in deep sea sure is hard work! You need to withstand the waves and seasickness apart from doing all those works!! Luckily I was okay for this fishing trip but some of my mates were not doing so well......

Well, our practical started on Saturday morning, 8 Aug with our group setting up the gillnet and pots at our selected sites. Then the pots was left for 24 hours while the gillnet was retrieved after 2 hours. Gillnet was set up twice, one in daytime and one in the evening to see the differences in catches! While waiting to retrieve the gillnet, we did fishing with rod and line. Apparently we did caught some fishes throughout the time~ And our gillnet was found empty for the daytime, while 2 fishes were caught during dusk. The pots was empty too. Sad~

The next morning at around 6am, our group followed the commercial trawler to bound for my first ever trawling experience.

The sea was rough, even early morning time but the weather was nice~ Cumulus clouds forming early in the morning..

The trawl was released into the seabed at locations more than 20 nautical miles away from land.

The trawl the lasted for 2 hours and in the mean time, I slept! Because the night before I totally stayed awake and was getting sleepy. It was a good nap though, windy and cool. Along the way at a point my mates noticed dolphins at a faraway distance. Then after 2 hours, the trawl net was retrieved back onto the boat. Sea birds were found circling in the air above the net, how smart of them~ But sorry, no food for y'all! Amazingly, a group of dolphins followed the net towards our boat!! There were quite a number of them, swam around and doing some jumps! so nice! They swam close to our boat and this is the first time I get this close with dolphins!! So gorgeous!

Soon after the net was fully retrieved, they dissapeared~ The harvest were unloaded on the deck, and our group together with the crews immediately sort out different kinds of fish, big and small, poisonous and non-venomous, according to species.. The smell stinks! We got some big flounders, squids, crabs, puffer fish, etc etc~

Soon UMS Stenella came to pick us up and another group take charge for second trawling.. Got back in UMS jetty at around 11.15am, and continued to sort the fishes for lab session next time.

Tired, exhausted and all beat down~
Overall it was a great experience though...
But I don't think I well go for another trawling in the near future, the stinky smell is still with me~
Ouch....

Help Out Friend With Hawksbill Turtles!

2009-08-07T18:27:00.005+08:00

This afternoon I went to my friend with his final year project on Hawksbill Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata). Today he was going to do a measurement for growth analysis of a total of 5 turtles. They are so naughty!! I helped by holding them one at a time while my friend take the measurements.They keep paddling in the air... I have to hold very carefully, and one of them cut my left palm with its paddle. Very sharp! 2 small portions of my skin came off and the cuts bleed immediately. It hurts! (~.~)

Anyway, after that we went for a short tour in our Museum & Aquarium. It has been so long since I last visited there. A nice place~

A hawksbill with a green turtle

It sure is heavy~

The one I'm holding scratched me~

Ponds for the turtles

Horseshoe crabs

Me with Giganto!

Compare my finger with its head!

Heads same size!

It knows where the camera is!

Tiring day~
Tomorrow will be going for a practical fieldwork. Gonna join a commercial trawling boat for trawling...
Hope its fun!
cheers~

Chocolate Fondue! Yummy~

2009-08-05T11:15:00.004+08:00

Yesterday afternoon, some of my coursemates and I went for a chocolate fondue buffet at 1Borneo. The place's name is Simply Chocolate Cafe. Quite a nice place to hangout~

We ate a lots. The are two toppings, dark and white chocolate. This was my first time to eat fruits with chocolate topping. Kinda weird right? But they taste nice, at least for me as a chocolate lover. Anyway, I don't think I'll touch another chocolate bar in a month~ Had too much for a day...

Here are some of the photos taken:

Good day~

Photos From The Family Day~

2009-08-02T10:23:00.006+08:00

Entrance to Mamutik Island

Third Year Seniors

Marine's Family!!

nice beach~

Below are some shots from the sea (Thanks Tor, Yu Lin & Anyee):

Once again, congratulation to the Second Year as organiser and Welcome to UMS to the First Year!

Cheers~

Marine Family Day, 01/08/2009, Mamutik Island!

2009-08-01T19:04:00.003+08:00

Today, we had our annual Marine Senior-Junior Family Day Gathering held at Pulau Mamutik of Tunku Abdul Rahman Park. Come to think of it, this will be the last that I'll be able to join. This was my third gathering already, firstly when I was still a freshie, then as a senior for freshies, and now as freshies' senior's senior~

Gathered at Jesselton Point, KK, then after the second years' as organiser settled the ticketing thing, we transferred to the island by boats. The waves were really, really strong. Windy! Apparently, the ride was terribly causing pain in the ass, real pain~ Anyway, we arrived there and soon the juniors were involved in a series of games.

The weather was hot and windy. I spent most of the time watching, chatting and playing football. I did went for a swim and got myself few cuts all over the hands and legs by the rocks and corals as water became shallow due to ebb tide. Ouchy~ Somehow I was lucky that I borrowed my camera for my friends that went for snorkelling and were able to take some shoots in the water. Nice ones~

And before I forget, I wanna congratulate the second year's juniors for doing a great job in organising this event!
Great work guys~

To all the first year juniors, welcome and have lots of good times ahead~
Best wishes to all~

Done!!

2009-07-31T17:32:00.002+08:00

At last it ended. Everyone did well in presenting their proposals!
Great job guys!!!

Hope all can do well in the oncoming samplings and all sorts of analysis.

Good Luck to all~

Finally Its Over! ^.^

2009-07-31T12:58:00.002+08:00

It'd past 1 pm now. My proposal presentation was over. Glad that it went on well, even though got some uncertainties. Was nervous and felt unease since this morning. At last its over, for now. Hopefully can do better in the upcoming presentations.

Later at 1.30 pm the presentation will continues with my other course mates.

Best of wishes to all!
good Luck!!
^.^

I'm Pisces, That's me!! ^.^

2009-07-28T01:05:00.001+08:00

PISCES - The Partner for Life
Caring and kind. Smart.. Center of attention. Messy at times and irresponsible! Smart but lazy. High appeal. Has the last word. Good to find, hard to keep. Passionate, wonderful lovers. Fun to be around. Too trusting at times and gets hurt easily. Lover of animals. VERY caring, make wonderful nurses or doctors. They always try to do the right thing sometimes get the short end of the stick. They sometimes get used by others and hurt because of their trusting. Extremely weird but in a good way. Good Sense of Humor!!! Thoughtful. Always gets what he or she wants. Loves to joke. Very popular. Silly, fun and sweet. Good friend to other but need to be choosy on who they allow their friends to be.

8-2!!

2009-07-27T00:36:00.004+08:00

Michael Owen scored twice and Ryan Giggs slotted home a second-half hat-trick as Manchester United ended their Asian adventure by hammering Hangzhou Greentown.

FT		Hangzhou Greentown [2 - 8] Manchester U.

24'	[0 - 1]		M. Owen

31'	[0 - 2]		D. Berbatov

33'	[0 - 3]		Z. Tosic

40'	[0 - 4]		M. Owen

50'	[0 - 5]		Nani

63'	[0 - 6]		R. Giggs

70'	[0 - 7]		R. Giggs

78'	[1 - 7]	W. Hongyou

89'	[1 - 8]		R. Giggs

90'	[2 - 8]	E.A.S. Valdo

Great performance!!
Was having a goals-scoring night~ 10 goals from 1 match... Totally satisfied!

Cheers~

Third Match In Asia Tour 2009

2009-07-24T21:27:00.002+08:00

Here is the final score in Seoul, South Korea.

FT		FC Seoul [2 - 3] Manchester U.

24'	[1 - 0]	D. Damjanovic

32'	[1 - 1]		W. Rooney

45'	[2 - 1]	D. Damjanovic

58'	[2 - 2]		F. Macheda

65'	[2 - 3]		D. Berbatov

Another 3-2.
Anyway, United could have score more. Paul Scholes hit the crossbar, Dimitar Berbatov was strolling around, like usual and missed most of his chances. His goal was also from a good cross and with luck! Please~ Please put in more effort or else just sit and watch from the bench!! Don't be a jackass!!

Great work and congratulation to the others!
Keep up the good work!

Cheers~

First Blood!!

2009-07-18T22:03:00.002+08:00

Well well well, Malaysian team should be proud to scored 2 goals against Manchester United that found themselves hit the net three times! Michael Owen had a fantastic debut match when he was substituted from the bench after the hour mark.

In the 85th minutes he scored his first goal as a Red Devil in red shirt. Congratulation!!! Hopefully he can perform well in the coming season. Wayne Rooney and Nani scored the other 2 goals. Fantastic match!

Good job! Next match kick off next Monday, 20 July. Hope the Red Devils can do well~

Cheers~
^.^

New7Wonders Of Nature

2009-07-14T13:33:00.002+08:00

Nominee	Country
Below is the list of Top 77 nominees eligible for next round:
Al-hasa Oasis	SAUDI ARABIA
Amazon	BOLIVIA/ BRAZIL/ COLOMBIA/ ECUADOR/ FRENCH GUIANA/ GUYANA/ PERU/ SURINAME/ VENEZUELA
Angel Falls	VENEZUELA
Askania-Nova	UKRAINE
Atacama Desert	CHILE
Azure Window	MALTA
Bay of Fundy	CANADA
Belogradchik Rocks	BULGARIA
Bialowieza Forest	BELARUS/ POLAND
Black Forest	GERMANY
Bu Tinah Shoals	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Chicamocha Canyon	COLOMBIA
Christmas Island	CHRISTMAS ISLAND
Cliffs of Moher	IRELAND
Coatepeque Lake	EL SALVADOR
Cocos Island	COSTA RICA
Colca Canyon	PERU
Conchi	ARUBA
Cox's Bazar	BANGLADESH
Dead Sea	ISRAEL/ JORDAN/ PALESTINE
Dean's Blue Hole	BAHAMAS
Djavolja Varos	SERBIA
Douro River Valley	PORTUGAL
Eisriesenwelt	AUSTRIA
El Yunque	PUERTO RICO
Fernando de Noronha	BRAZIL
Galápagos Islands	ECUADOR
Grand Canyon	UNITED STATES
Great Barrier Reef	AUSTRALIA/ PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Ha Long Bay	VIET NAM
Han-Sur-Lesse Caves	BELGIUM
Iguazu Falls	ARGENTINA/ BRAZIL
Jeita Grotto	LEBANON
Jeju Island	KOREA (SOUTH)
Kaieteur Falls	GUYANA
Kaziranga National Park	INDIA
Komodo National Park	INDONESIA
Laguna Colorada	BOLIVIA
Lake Atitlan	GUATEMALA
Lake Bled	SLOVENIA
Lake Ohrid	ALBANIA/ MACEDONIA (FYROM)
Lake Saiful Maluk	PAKISTAN
Lake Saimaa	FINLAND
Lake Titicaca	BOLIVIA/ PERU
Maldives	MALDIVES
Masurian Lakes District	POLAND
Matterhorn/Cervino	ITALY/ SWITZERLAND
Milford Sound	NEW ZEALAND
Mount Kilimanjaro	TANZANIA
Mount Olympus	GREECE
Mud Volcanoes	AZERBAIJAN
Norfolk Island	NORFOLK ISLAND
Ometepe Island	NICARAGUA
Platano Forest	HONDURAS
Pravcice Gate	CZECH REPUBLIC
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River	PHILIPPINES
Retezat National Park	ROMANIA
Rock of Aphrodite	CYPRUS
Sinharaja Rainforest	SRI LANKA
Sipadan Island	MALAYSIA
Sossusvlei	NAMIBIA
Štrbské Pleso Lake	SLOVAKIA
Sumidero Canyon	MEXICO
Sundarbans Forest	BANGLADESH/ INDIA
Table Mountain	SOUTH AFRICA
Thy National Park	DENMARK
Uluru (Ayers Rock)	AUSTRALIA
Vesuvius	ITALY
Vrelo Caves	MACEDONIA (FYROM)
Wadi Rum	JORDAN
Yu Shan	CHINESE TAIPEI

Please note the following:

The actual specific ranking position in the top 77 is not considered by the Panel of Experts, only the important fact that a nominee has made it into the top 77 from the originally over 440 participants, and the Panel of Experts is presented with the same alphabetical list of the top 77 as seen below.
On 21 July 2009, at seven minutes past midday GMT, the 28 Official Finalist Candidates will be revealed during an announcement at the New7Wonders headquarters in Switzerland.
Voting will resume on 21 July 2009 soon after the 28 finalists have been revealed.

李白们，一年过去了!

2009-07-09T19:42:00.003+08:00

很高兴知道去年《梦宝屋生活营》第五组，李白组大多数的成员们都各自上了大学或学院了。

回想起当时的那一群“猴子”们，和一年后的现在相比，作为“干爹”的我真的感到很骄傲。我们相处的日子不长，但感情都很好。记得我们那时赢了“水球赛”得了第一名时，大家是多么的开心。在场上男攻女守的，多巧妙的安排啊！虽然最后没得到最佳组，但我相信他们一群以后都是会有一番作为的~

以下都是李白组的哦：
C.Yu: Aquatic (Unimas)
B.Fat: Computer Science (Unimas)
B.Jee: Manufacturing Engineering (Unimap)
C.Yik: Finance (UUM)
M.Fang: Accounting (Sunway College, Kuching)
P.Chie: Hotel Management (UCSI)
Y.Lerk: Architecture in Building & Design (Taylor College, KL)
S.Jian: Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (Nilai, KL)
Z.Qi: Public Relation (KTAR, KL)

All the best to all~
Good Luck!!
Sincerely from daddy ^.^

Another Arrival~

2009-07-09T11:16:00.002+08:00

Welcome Gabriel Obertan from Bordeaux. Another young winger yet to be developed~

Hopefully we can see what this 20 years old can do soon~

All the best...

A Terrible Start I Assumed????????

2009-07-06T00:49:00.002+08:00

Back in University~

Everything turned out bad today.
Everything swayed from their paths.
Everything turned their backs on me.
Everything hit hard at my face.
Everything was in the opposition, trying to oppose me.
Everything did not go accordingly.
Everything!
My goodness......
What a bad day~

****SIGH****
Let's hope tomorrow will be a better day~
T.T

Its Time To Pack Things~

2009-07-05T01:10:00.002+08:00

Gotta start packing my stuffs now. Haven't start at all... Hopefully not much to bring~

United In Shock Owen Move!!

2009-07-04T15:15:00.002+08:00

Welome to OT! The second recruit of the season by SAF, Michael Owen, 29 from Newcastle as a free agent. Hopefully he can performs like back in his times~ Then Berbatov will be benched for sure. Gogogo!!

Hoping for more surprise moves!!

This Time Comes Around, Again~

2009-07-04T01:05:00.000+08:00

In less than 2 days, I will leave home again...

Just now I went to airport to meet up wit dc_curse. He was leaving for KL. The weather was bad, the rain was really, really heavily poured down. Ameagor, Potery, Shindow, Jelly, Susu, BongLi, HL and Kari were there as well. We gathered at McD and chit-chatted for awhile then he left. Good luck and take care~

Soon it will be my turn. Gonna start clearing up stuffs to take along soon. Kinda lazy...

Well then, hope for a peaceful night.
おやすまなさい～

After Few Seasons, At Last He Left~

2009-07-02T12:43:00.000+08:00

Cristiano Ronaldo finally earned his dream move to Real Madrid in the summer of 2009, 12 months after a saga which had seen Manchester United fight tooth and nail to keep hold of their star player.

On June 11, 2009, Manchester United confirmed they had accepted a world record £80m bid from Real for the player. While that is an enormous amount of money, the gap Ronaldo will leave in the United forward line will be just as big after he scored 117 goals in 290 games for United, 242 of them starts.

Being a Hero at OT, the fans surely will have a hard time for his exit. SAF has yet to let go another great player he developed over the six years time. Good job SAF. Numerous great development had been achieved all these times.

Anyway, let's welcome Antonio Valencia to OT. Valencia, 23, is the first of a handful of new arrivals at Old Trafford as Ferguson seeks to replace the attacking threats of Ronaldo and striker Carlos Tevez , who has opted not to join the Red Devils permanently.

Hopefully he can plays well alongside with other Red Devils. We shall see and hope for more signings before the start of the next season.

Glory Man Utd...

~Selected Photos From My Expedition~

2009-06-29T22:32:00.000+08:00

Here are some of the photos taken during my expedition:

These photos I took when we were heading to and from our field sites:

Such beauties~
Glad to be there ^.^

I’m Back!!

2009-06-25T23:06:00.000+08:00

Oh well, after 8 days at Pulau Mandi Darah, my group had finally done all the works of sampling and taking physical parameters of the study sites. At last I'm back to modern luxuries... hehe..

Hmm, actually I'm not sure where I should start off with~

How about a brief introduction to Pulau Mandi Darah?

Pulau Mandi Darah got her name from the princess of Brunei, Puteri Laila. She was on her way back from the Philippines to Brunei in 1885 when she had her menstruation. She stopped at the island to wash herself up in a nearby well near a cliff of the island. She was astonished by the beauty of the island that when she went back to her ship, she asked the captain of the fleet what is the name of that island. She was thrill when the captain told her that the island had no names yet, and since she is of the highest rank in the fleet, she can name the island. That’s how the island got her name, as told by the Haji. Judging by the name the first time I saw, "Mandi Darah", I thought it was an island that had bloodbath battles before. Boo my opinions? Go ahead~

The island itself is not so big, consist mainly of sandy areas and a part with rocks and cliffs. It takes about 1 hours 15 minutes to walk around the island during ebb tide. When tide comes in, it will be harder to walk through especially the rocky areas where water will reach up to waist level and sting rays are a threat. Yes, Sting rays! We were at the rocky part during a neap tide when we encountered a sting ray. Somehow it was dangerous but the Haji's son, who was also our "tour guide" asked us not to move til it went away. Useful~

FYI, the island currently has 5 families staying there. Our camp site is located near to the Haji’s house in front of a surau. The Haji allows us to pump fresh water for cleaning and daily use from his nearby well. How generous of him. However, the water itself is groundwater with soil particles suspended and a bit salty, surely with a distinct smell. We used it mainly to bath and to clean our equipments after sampling or diving. We have our consumable water from 40 boxes of 1.5L drinking water as well as bout 20 RO water tanks. Imagine we had to carry these heavy water from one end of the jetty to the another then to ur camp site. Phew~ We also have a kitchen set up with a cook to supply us with every meal. Also, we had a lot of seafood throughout these 8 days. We got our seafood supply from the local fishermen. Cheap and fresh.

There is also a platoon of army staying there on the island in a permanent base. They are responsible to maintain the national security for that part of Sulu Sea because that area has lots of pirates and many cases of kidnapping and abduction had been reported. Illegal ships are more likely to be spotted due to its nearness to the Philippines (Sulawesi). Dangerous eh?

Here’s some pictures of the island:

Yay, I had set foot on this island!

The Girl's

The Boy's

Behind is our kitchen (Under roof)

The jetty that we used (Orange house is an observing and security post for a platoon of army)

A view on the jetty

Sunrise

Sunset

Before a thunderstorm

Beach nearby our camp site

An abandoned house on top of the sea

A short trail to the other side of the island

Beach at the other side of the island

Day 1, Stucked At Kudat ~.~

2009-06-15T14:18:00.000+08:00

Started our way to Kudat from Borneo Marine Research Institute (BMRI) at around 7.40am. A total of 22 people, including lecturers and reseach assistants joined this first batch to go. Another batch will go on 18 June. There are 7 of us from my batch of final year students in this expedition. The bus trip was rough, not a good one. It took us around 3 hours and another half to reach Kudat town.

After lunch, we were informed by the project manager that we have to postpone our trip til the next morning due to strong wind and incoming waves. We were placed into a hotel nearby the harbor. So here I am now, typing this blog. It's 2.30pm now, and we are free til 7pm for further briefing and for our dinner. So think I shall catch up some sleep for now. Didn't have enough sleep lately...

Well then, good day everyone~

Tomorrow Will Be The Day!!

2009-06-14T23:05:00.000+08:00

Finally, 7.30am tomorrow we will start our expedition. I don't think I can online throughout the expedition period, in addition to not being able to use handset due to the absence of provider's broadcast signal. Anyway, I shall update this blog as soon as possible upon my return.

Photos I searched online......

Today was another busy day. Went out to get a sunblock in case of severe sunlight (in which will surely happens), got some junkies for the trip and returned to hostel after dinner. These few days had spent a lot of money, so sad~

Well then, Pulau Mandidarah, here I come~

My Goodness!! Everything Changed At The Last Minutes!!

2009-06-13T20:32:00.000+08:00

Believe it or not, my proposed Sulu Sea Expedition onboard KD Perantau was canceled. Changed to be exact. Suppose the navy vessel will depart from Kota Kinabalu on 15 June but due to some reasons, whatever the reasons are I am not sure, they postponed the trip to 12 July.

Because we will have to attend lectures during that time, and obviously the trip needs weeks to be carry out, we are placed to a smaller group to join the Sulawesi Expedition instead. The site will be more or less the same as the Sulu Sea's, just that we will only cover a smaller area from the initial trip. Our base will be set up at an island called Pulau Mandidarah (amazing name?? blood bath..). From there we will go to different sites everyday and shall return to base for the night. Should be quite tiring...

I will leave Kota Kinabalu for Kudat on 15 June, then from Kudat will go to our base. The real expedition starts on 19 June.

Well then, let's hope everything will go according to plan~

Here I Am, Staying Temporarily At Hostel

2009-06-12T23:26:00.000+08:00

Whole morning was used to pack stuffs. Took quite a long time to gather stuffs that will be needed. Thought could travel lightly this time but, stuffs were bombarded inside my baggage in the end, with an extra backpack and a laptop bag.

After done with packing, kc came and we went out to have lunch at Pending area with ameagor. Speaking of ameagor, he was supposed to attend and hear a court around 9am today. Apparently he woke up at 8.45am, so.... sure will be late. Being late, plus the previous failed-to-appear for hearing, he missed it for the second time. The first one he misread the date, 20 May for 26 May. And so me, kc and him were at court on 26 May and eventually it turned out that ameagor has to renew his hearing time with JPJ.

So today was the second try for a single hearing. Yes, date was correct, was late but acceptable, but, ironically, JPJ did not hand up his case to court. Good job?? Looks like ameagor will has to go to JPJ again for a retime. Hopefully the third time can be a success...

Back to our lunch, it was at a place kc saw from Ah Ong's facebook if not wrong. Selera Corner. RM 4.80 for a plate of food where th quantity you can take as much as the plate can hold. Nice right?? But we were a bit late and so the food left was not that much to choose. Nevertheless, we sure stuffed lots of food inside and we were really full after that, too full..

After that kc took me home. I had a quick bath, final checked my stuffs, then dad took me to airport bout 2pm. Met up with Stanley and Ray, then the three of us departed for Kota Kinabalu at 3.35pm.

Flight was quite fast. Read newspaper, took a nap and then we were there already. Bout 4.45pm we landed safely at Malaysia Airlines Terminal. Then hired a cab and headed towards UMS. Rent a room then took a bath, went to 1Borneo to buy some water and here I am now writing this blog. Line sucks here in this room. My digi line is practically "dead" and Celcom broadband that I'm using only has 1 bar of signal, and it always get disconnected...

Tomorrow morning will have to meet up with Dr.Sujjat for a briefing about the expedition.. Feeling tired from the rush today..

All right then, it shall be good night first for now.. (not yet sleep, play game for awhile first)

~Finally~

2009-06-12T02:16:00.000+08:00

Its 3am now.
Got home quite some time ago from ameagor's place. Hang out with hh, kc and tw.

Was busy whole the day. Went downtown to get stuff for aunt (apparently it was out of stock), then went Greek's to buy my sleeping bag, had lunch at Bombay Masala then at night had dinner with family before heading to 10th miles' ameagor's place.

Milkshake was on the tonight's menu; i brought milk, kc got the ice cream. Surprisingly we (all boys) that gathered decided to prepare mee goreng. Not bad la. Apparently ameagor's share was "abducted" by his sis. You can imagine what it taste like already~ haha...

Hmm... haven't done with packing yet, or should I say haven't started packing yet~ Well, it can be done in a short while, can't it? Leave it til morning then. Just now i turned down some Ganera's buddies for a "impossible dungeon" mission of Twilight's Eve RPG whereby I was supposed to be in the game as tanker. I also missed out the night before. So it was 2 in a row that i missed, sorry guys. We'll play again when I have the time.

Kinda sleepy already. Well, gotta do some stuffs first and hopefully can get to bed in 20 minutes. good night y'all~ Sleep tight...

Last Day, Knock Knock knock...

2009-06-11T01:28:00.000+08:00

Just got back home a while ago. Went out for a small gathering to celebrate friends' birthday for the month. There were 4 of them in total (birthday boys & girls) that came and we bought a chocolate cake for them and had dinner at a cafe at Jalan Song. Happy Birthday Guys!! Wish you guys all the best! ^.^

Morning will need to do some final shopping to get things for the expedition. Packing shall be done soon after that, i suppose.

Well then, its the start of another day~ Cheers!!

Two More Days Left

2009-06-10T01:42:00.000+08:00

Its 10 June and I have 2 more days here to go. I don't know when will I be coming back, might be in weeks or maybe months depending on my schedule. 5 days to go for expedition.

I have not start packing my things yet. For the coming expedition I shall travel lightly, don't wanna bring too much stuffs. Hopefully everything will be provided inside KD Perantau. Been wondering what I can do at night inside the vessel for 2 weeks lately. 2 weeks on board a vessel not touching any land soil, hopefully boredom doesn't strike after sunset.

Well, til then I will know~

I Still Got A Lot To Catch'Up!!??

2009-06-09T00:19:00.000+08:00

I still can't fully "utilise" this blog, yet... Need time to discover all the gadgets, themes, settings, etc...

Anyway, It's 9 June (GMT +8) already, which means I will be leaving in another 3 days for Kota Kinabalu to embark on KD Perantau, a navy vessel for the upcoming Sulu/Sulawesi Expedition.

This holiday is rather short, duh~
Hopefully next time can get a longer holiday.. =.="
Cheers for that!!

Hope, Peserverance, Persistence

2009-06-08T02:50:00.000+08:00

~It shall be this then, the beginning of my blog. There's more to learn......