方言

方言 a.k.a. local dialect. I still remember we used to have poster drawing competition with the topic "多讲华语，少讲方言” when we were in primary school.

(if in Malay, I think it would be "Berjinak-jinak dengan Bahasa Baku, Mengelakkan loghat masing-masing" I'm not sure the translation is correct or not) XD

But, after listening to a programme by a Mandarin radio station in Malaysia which discuss mainly about the essentiality of local dialects and their roles in present and future society,

MY PERCEPTION CHANGE COMPLETELY!!

The DJ asked a very impactive question :

"方言真的那么重要吗？怎么重要？是纯粹文化保留？

还是它实实在在的存有如现今英语与华语的经济价值？。”

"Does local dialect really posses the reason/s to be kept alive?

Or just plainly a way to preserve some particular cultural heritages?

Does it play any significant roles in the economical point of view,

like how English and Mandarin being encouraged nowadays?"

The answer is very simple : "There's no answer to this"

Even though people may say local dialects work really well in tying the local communities together, they might as well forgotten that dialects not only created a language barrier among that particular groups of people, but also those who don't understand it.

You might say : "We still have the main languages"

But, do you think a group of people will really be able to communicate freely and stress-less when there're groups who're whispering around in their own dialects while others are talking in the main languages?

Don't you feel kind of awkward when you're in a group of people who speak language that you barely understand?

I used to struggle in that situation when I first went to KL, when English is spoken throughout the place. From my comfort 100%-MANDARIN-based kindergarten, primary & secondary schools, I forced my self to converse more in English.

From never-more-than-5minutes to around-5minutes, 10 minutes, half and hour and so on... ... till today! =) and

I've met somebody who yelled

"BASTARD! Can't you just talk in English, which all of us could understand?!"

at me when I talked to my friend in Mandarin when we're in a group of "rojak" (black, brown, yellow, pink, blue, green.... you name it, you got it) haha... I felt really furious and embarrassed when he harassed me at that time. But, I'm really glad that he did that and I didn't reconcile and mess up the whole thing. XD

recently, I like to dig up some of the old songs which I used to like

but don't really understand in the past.

It's fun to view it from other perspectives XD

盧廣仲-繁華攏是夢

random.... random .... and more randomness coming up!

Why?

because it's HOLIDAY!!!

p/s: "Trick or treat? treat? Come'on! Trick laaa... haha"

J1

A bloke rings triple zero and says,

"Quick! Quick! Send an ambulance. My wife's having a baby! For God's sake, HURRYyyy!"

"Just calm down a moment," says the operator. "Is this her first baby?"

"YOU &##*&^*&%@*#&%@&^@*$&! ," says the bloke,

"THIS IS HER HUSBAND!!!"

XD

toot-toot-toot...

With the up coming history & theory in Design test, my first year as a Uni student is going to be called an end. fast... so fast.... DAMN DAMN FAST!

Still remember how we used to struggle during PTS, UPSR, PMR, SPM and the interview that change my life...... later, the matriculation studies.... till now.

Time's walking on a kitty's legs .... =l

I think I should identify the differences between the education in Malaysia and Aussie.

Or should I say 'before-Uni' versus 'during-Uni'

In Malaysia, the first thing that the teachers/lecturers will say during the first class is

-how much you need to cover

-how difficult it's going to be, to cover all of them

-how pathetic you will end up if you miss the class.

-how ridiculous you may get if you didn't keep a consistent work

-how horrible you'll end up if you fail this and that, that and that, and that and THAT!

TAKE THAT!

In Tassie/Uni, you'll hear lots of things except those mentioned above. It's simply more to the Happy-go-lucky and self-directed type.

In Malaysia, lecturer will warn you : "Happy? Lucky? GO DIE LAAAh!" XD (kidding...)

I've no idea why I wrote this post.... haha

~R~A~N~D~O~M~N~E~S~S

Oh ya! BTW, I just went to an Indian Restaurant for trial a.k.a probation, as a kitchen hand (that's what they call) I would call it dish washer and minor preparation work. It's better than facing the pan & wok, which is sizzling hot.

About the pay? $40 for one night (7pm-10pm~11pm)

Undecided......

I told the manager I will ring them up if I decided to stay ... who knows?

Done our final project, which requireS us to build something functional in reality.....

My personal reflection on this project:

- Open your eyes when you're choosing a group (O_O)

- Just do whatever you think is necessary

- It's better to work like a horse and sweat like a pig,

rather than letting the whole boat sinks (but there'll be no next time)

- it may appear unimpressive to you, but when it actually functions, you will get something more than SATISFACTION XD

- eat less salt (to control your blood pressure when dealing with 'always-changing' situation )

- eat more banana and chocolate (they bring you happiness and supply you with energy when you're F-ucked up with all the F-ucking things XS

- Architecture doesn't mean insufficient sleep, it means very-effective time management.

- Don't think, just simply think will carry you NO WHERE!!

Lastly, put faith in yourself.

Lips on the tulips....( ^ )3

Life as a student can never just revolves around books and assignments,

and for students in UTAS, you have only 3 choices : Uni, Home or Nature. I would prefer Nature though.....if I have the monneyh!

It has been weeks since my last outdoor activities (the previous post).

This time, it's about a trip to the tulip festival 2010. Again~ it's an event organized by the Singapore Student Association (SSA). It's spring now and pretty girls flowers are everywhere, and it rains more frequent. About the trip.... ...

We departed from Lounnie at around 9am.

Along the journey, it's not hard to be amazed by all the flowers. Even bushes that seemed like "non-flowering" were busy blossoming besides the highway. Pity those flowering plants in Malaysia..... bukan saja badan kecik, malah bunga lagi kecik macam nak mampus XD

In Tasmania, it's hard to find normal bikes on the road. You can only see cars, huge trucks and super bikes, and the trucks are like those in Transformers (o__O)

The journey to the festival took us around 2 and a half hours. It's located at the North of Tassie, a place called Wynyard (first introduced by my uncle) and the tulip farm is located at a cape called 'Table Cape".

The journey was rather time consuming and butt-flattening.

However, when you see the water front, you are not far from the destination... ...

Walking to the festival... and it's already tulips everywhere!!!

(Adrenaline shoot up immediately!)

Minutes later, we reached the Farmers' Market, where the locals sold some local snacks and crafts, with some performances by the local artists.

"Why there're only knights walking around? Where's my princess?" l(>_<)/

erbs..... I'm not that desperate till getting one who is so tall.....

GOsh~ girls are hard to find nowadays, especially good one

(no offence girls, don't be so sensitive kay? Or I haven't met you?) XD

Mother & Daughter: Can you hold our hands?

Me : 对不起。。。我听不懂英文..但我看过"The Ring" XP

Since it's a sunny day (yes.... supper SUNNY!!I should have wore my shorts),

I bought myself a mixed berry ice-cream. Yum~Yum!

The German Shepherd is so NICE!!! I felt like riding on it!!!

Be careful....when I'm boring, I stalk on others... including you.

BTW, don't you feel like the couple somehow completed the whole picture?

Blue azure sky with the gentle breeze....

sea with moderate waves hitting against the barrier...

Sea gull skidding along the clouds... shoo-weet!

When people are in pairs....

Few Many unfortunate ones are still on the wait

(me too~sad...but LONG LIFE TO the SINGLEs! 单身万岁！haha... this is what you say when you're still single)

When the guys were busy throwing their attention on HOT CHICKs and girls drooling on the handsome+muscular hunks who walked pass hours ago, the kids were caught in the "Tulips throw-away" competition. Winner will get a tray of tulips XP

My friend: 吃饱没事做？haha...

Since I'm not good in girls-fishing nor tulips-throwing, better get my self some thing more realistic. FOOD!!! We live to eat, not eat to live!!

I found my self attracted to a stall selling scallop pies.

When I asked the scallop pie seller what's inside, he said "scallops!" (with a smile on her face)

Me :"... ...ABO?" (totally blank) (=___+)

The I asked again what ELSE is inside the pie besides the scallops, she replied "the filling"

Me: "... ..." (this time I'm TOTALLY JAMMED!!..haha)

But I still ended up buying it...haha

After spending another one and a half hour at the market, we headed towards the

TULIP FARM!!! It took us another 15 minutes to reach the farm.

From far.... it's like "Anneh nia?" ('just like' that in Hokkien)

Brother, don't judge a farm by it's gate size.

But when you get nearer, you'll absolutely loose your breath....... (suffocating....)

and when you figured out there's another piece in a walking distance..... (fainted)

Indulging myself in the sea of tulips.... I wish I could swim around the farm....

ahhhh~ breatstroke, freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, doggiestyle... X))

My companion of the day - Aqil a.k.a Ei-Kill.

Red arr!!! ONG arr!!! HUAT arr!!! haha....

However,I'm totally speechless when I'm found this...

Tulip MASSACRE !!!

花开易见落难寻，阶前愁杀葬花人；

独把花锄偷洒泪，洒上空枝见血痕

Later, the whole troop went to a beach to have our BBQ dinner....
The cape can be viewed clearly from the beach and nothing can defeat the beauty of that. Agree?

While waiting for the BBQ to start, I explored the beach which was in the state of low tide.

FOSSILs???

ARRRRrrhhhh!!! The dinner still haven't started after we have strayed around the beach for more than half an hour.... That's when the devil came in X)

Aqil :"Song, jom naik helicopter!"

Song: "WHAT? "

Aqil :"I said H-E-L-I-C-O-P-T-E-R! Pandai!"

Song :" Crazy~ I dah pokai laah... But nevermind, I watch you when you naik"

Aqil :"OK!"
Without noticing (I'm innocent, okay?) , I paid the money and there we go.... haha

For your information, my wallet went totally flat after that.

直升机：万岁！

钱包：我呢？？

我：钱包~收声啦！

me and the pilot!

God~ it's worse than playing the flight simulation !!

When we were in the air, I didn't notice that the microphone is actually fucntioning.... and I keep

"Wahhh....... Wahh....Wow...Wow....Walau.....Walau... (trying to suck in more oxygen)..... Amboi..... Amboi....." *repeated at least 20 times*

Those are the only things I said throughout the whole 10 minute flight.... and my friend asked me "Do you know the microphone is switched on throughout the whole trip?"

ALAMAK... haha... paiseh~paiseh

After the helicopter ride, we went back to the beach and continue my

'Sea-RA the adventurer'

Hi Crabby Baby!

It looked like cockroach, don't you think so?

After the BBQ, we waited for the fire works before calling it a day.

Tonight Showing: "One night stand of TOMATO sauce and BBQ sauce" (18sx)

(sorry... too boring at that time)

Thanks to the fire works, I managed to crawl onto my bed around 12am.

I actually bought some souvenirs from the farmers' market.... just some stones XD

It's a wonderful trip after all....

1st time seeing such an enormous wave of tulips

1st time touching them

1st time on an actual helicopter

and

second time being wished "KONICHIWA!!"

(infront of me)

haha....傻笑

looked like I better learn some Harajuku girls' language.

Cheers everybody!

行！ki 'Pok Kan'!

不久前，听到了一首新歌。 曹格的《爷爷》

让我想起 蕭煌奇-阿嬤的話

继续之前，点上下其中一首吧！

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曲风并不是很特别，我个人也不是很疯曹格的歌。

但，有时，一首能够让一个人回味的歌，

不是曲风特别或由什么大牌巨星所唱的歌。

而是一首能

够让你内心泛起

圈圈，难以散去的涟漪。。。

还记得，我的阿公和阿嫲常会趁周末，把我和老弟带到'pok-kan' (在他们的口里指的是“菜市场”/pekan)但他们不曾一起带我们出去，因为一个耳朵硬，一个嘴巴硬。XP

每次都是：

“行喂！khih Pok-kan!" (khih means go in Hakka)

每次，我的阿公都会披起他那白衬衫，黑褐色帆布的长裤，手里再拿把“乌紮”a.k.a "黑伞"，我们仨就上路了。

可惜，路途上的事情我已经忘得七七八八了。。。

我也忘了我们曾点些什么来吃。

但，我记得，他总会点杯咖啡。当时还是小孩的我和老弟总是摸不着大人们为何总爱喝咖啡。。。。苦苦的。。。但，现在我们总懂了。=）

希望他现在一切都还好吧！(^~^)V

至于我的阿嫲，每逢出门，她必定会先在厕所花上一段时间。做么？

叮!对了！就是大便！！哈哈。。。beh tahan 嘛~

办完所有“离家手续”后，她就会系上她那“永远在身边”的‘万能’腰包。总而言之，去“pok-kan"对她来说是一件“大事”.

一路上，路过的车子还在“千里之外”之时，她就已经"SENSE"到了！

并且大喊吼：

"kia mak eh ngi zang hao!! Woh ngai hang pong pen tit!!!"

translation:"去他妈的！跟我闪去旁边！！”

问题是，她不是对那辆车吼，而是对我们吼。。。。哈哈。。。

到了pok-kan, 她开口第一句总是：“oi sit tok-tok 面麽？” （要吃云吞面吗？）

“。。。”（点头--点头）

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小学的时候还蛮粘他们的，但三年级过后，就被课外活动“骗”去了 X)

从此以后，

阿公没了伴，只好自己为自己作伴。。。唉~

阿嫲没了目的，也懒得出门了。。。

我和老弟 慢慢长大了。。。

他 不在了

她 也慢慢 老了

“你牵我走弯弯的小巷

风吹过落叶的地方

你说孩子勇敢的去闯

去看世界的模样”

我的老嫲曾经对我开玩笑：“wo ngai kiak tit chim 只 moi zai pen yew"

translation:跟我快点找个女朋友

我想跟她说：“如果你要看到我结婚的那一天，喝我敬的茶，

你最好不要跟我乱乱吃那些煎炸油腻的东西！

我不要看到三张都是空的椅子！”

Cradle Mt

Finally.... this post is up after some severe procrastination XD

This is a one-day trip organized by the SSA (Singapore Student Association). Maybe you'd be asking by now : "So, you're a Singaporean?"

Nope, I'm just attracted by their activities, especially this outing!

It's a great breakaway from the monotonous and sedentary academic life and

I WOULD DIE FOR OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES!!!

(except soccer....haha)

So! Let's move on !

Cradle Mountain is located some where at the middle of Tasmania, just a bit towards the west north. It's basically linked to other National Park, which is just like 'Bajaran Titiwangsa" in Malaysia.

We had a short break at a small town near Cradle Mountain, called Railton, a town filled with murals. At there, I managed to capture one of the many murals which was kind of contradicting with the weather on that day.

"DAMN~~" t(___ ____ )t

If not mistaken, this would the Mersey River (the river I went to during my rafting trip)

Man... I miss that trip! As we moved nearer to Cradle Mt, we were transferred from bus to a smaller van provided by the National Park.

*FYI, if you want to go to Cradle Mountain, it's the best to have a 4WD.

When the Tasmanian sky is overcast with dark clouds, your vehicles maybe stopped from travelling further to Cradle Mt.

While we were on the bus, some one shouted:

"SNOW!!! SNOW!!! AAAaahhhh!!!" (and eventually fainted) XD

At the same time, the whole crew in the bus just turned into a class of monkeys!!!

"CAMERA!!! CAMERA!!!"

"WHERE?? Where??"

"God damn IT!! I can't find my camera!!!"

Unfortunately~ I'm one of them...haha...memang sua pa kao habis!

(in Hokkien, it means monkey in the jungle)

It was my first time seeing snow too..... and the feeling was GREAT!!!

Finally, we reached the Dove Lake which is surrounded by the mountains.

While others were snapping photos, I snap their photo... It's good to be a part time stalker.

The journey begins! and I could see umbrellas and raincoat everywhere.....

To me, it's not really the snow I expected. Instead, it turned out to be 'ICE', like those we eat in Malaysia...oooo.... I miss my "Ang Tao Sxing aka ABC ice. =(

It's like those tropical rain forest in Malaysia... just that it's colder and windier.

Walk.... and walk

Watch out for the snow, they'll make you slip, fall and roll perfectly like a PIG. XO

Wey~! Don't leave me behind!!

According to local report: You can only see the Cradle Mountain clearly for 20 days in a year.

Should I be considered lucky to be able to view its shadow?

Half way through, I keep hearing sound of water gushing down from somewhere nearby. Searching...... scanning... FINALLY!

Sua Pa Kao aka me:"Woooooo-Woooooiiiii.....!!! WATERrrrrr~FAaaal......aal...aall...aaall...."

(echoing in the air)

Step in 'ICE'

Step on deck

Step on pebbles

On that day, I went out from my house at 8pm and reached home at 8pm..... tired but

SHIOK arr!!! It has been a while since I really go into the nature and wonder around.....miss my scouting journey!

Picture below: "Whenever there's a shadow, there's a ninja.....L-A-M-E

(poo-lease, don't laugh...hahahaha)

*Extras (Backstabbing lah......cough~cough~)

When we were circling the Dove Lake, the treacherous trail turned into small river with the water washing down all the time on our feet. Luckily, I was told about the weather before hand.

But, for others, especially those who are conscious about their hairstyle, sexy-ness, make up and fashion all the time..... TAKE THAT!

After this trip, I learnt that:

-It's not impossible to wear high heels for extreme sports...... SALUTE!

-Formal shirts, ties and hard leather/PVC shoes are perfect for mountain climbing and jungle trekking...... SALUTE AGAIN!!

Last but not least, to the Chinese girl in front of me, who swore for at least thousand times along the trip... Good on you!!

She wanted to say "God! Oh my God!", but ended up with "Good! Oh my good!!"

"小姐,may I know what's so GOOD?"

haha.... I like to observe people when I'm bored XD

Ta!