要一年了

如果照着农历计算，我离家的日子也快要一年了。快吧？

哈哈。。。读了以上的那一段，你们应该感觉到我又要开始写我的感触了吧？
Geli~ (> ...... <) !

还记得，去年。。。

接到大学通知书后，再经过政府的批准，
拖了再拖，又和老弟跑下吉隆坡，过后又自己跑下了一趟。
只有一个字----->>累 (=____ =  ) 哈哈~ 我房友Franky常说：“习惯就好”

离农历新年还有差不多一个星期，接到了政府的一通电话，
肯定了机票的日期和时间。咳~看来没得过完新年了 X(

当家里的老薯和老蟹获知我的飞机起飞日期时，老薯坚持要老蟹带我到处告知亲戚，
从槟城，到吉打。。。我觉得我的脸皮其实还蛮厚的...哈哈
为何？因为当亲戚们知道我将在新年之前离开槟城时，立刻把只有在新年期间才发的红包封塞了给我，而且大多数都是蓝绿色的。弄我paiseh到。。。。*顿时词穷*。。。总之Paiseh就对了啦! 真的，除了“感恩”这两个字，我想不到我能说些什么了。

hmm....除了尝试提早拿到红包的滋味，还尝到提早吃团年饭的滋味。XD 第一次在新家吃团圆饭，还不错，只是人数少了。如果能全家一齐挤在一个不够大的"大”桌，我想应该会更加不错吧。。。哈哈。以后我要买张不够大的“大”桌。

到了除夕夜的那天，心里其实还蛮ok的，想做的也许没全做到，但要做的大都做了，该做的应该也七七八八了呱~，能做的我想我都做了吧？只是心里有点点。。。我想我可以说‘奢望’吧？
我奢望能够全家齐齐全全地排在旧家面前拍张需要"super ultra wide lens" 才能拍到的全家福。现在回一回想，感觉有点措手不及。当时应该自食其力，找个专业摄影师，应该还不难的。需要的只是天时地利人和。。。难咩？哈哈。。。初生之犊不怕虎吧？

有个一样在外地求学的朋友说了这么一句话：
“以前总羡慕人家到国外深造，和老外交朋友
没想到现在自己有机会了，却感觉这一切
一点都不好”

对我来说，到外国深造就像在吃石榴一样。

石榴，石榴，虽然听起来好像很硬，其实它只有薄薄的一层皮。
只要你穿过了，你就能品尝到它的果子。
但，果子有甜也有酸，就看你挑到哪些了。
往往生活里要挑的果子太多了，我们能做的只有把一切，
一并吞下。甜酸掺半，还ok啦...
记得曾经在《星云》读过一句”有求，心才会苦”
不管果子是甜是酸，切记做人千万不可过于苛求。
不管是对自己，还是对他人也好，有望就好。
咬得太深是会咬到石榴那苦苦的种子的，要不然，
咬到的就是自己的舌头。 =P



如果要说去年新年最难忘的是什么，我觉得应该是经历很多人生的“第一次”吧!

*喂！那些头脑肮脏的都想到哪里去了？*

想在这里感谢那些在我飞离马来西亚前夕赶来与我会面的朋友们，
谢谢！谢谢童军兄弟们的礼物和卡片!你们送的礼物是我现在的心情记事簿 ;)
就在这里公布其中一几句罢！hehe....Paiseh~献丑咯！

"如果生命是滔浩瀚大海

那么。。。

家将为吾生命之舟

友乃吾行于海上之桨与帆” 

  

怎样？还ok吧？ 

还有一个难忘的经验就是第一次没在家里度过除夕夜。
在500米的高空里，膝盖放着刚叮好的飞机餐。。。
呵呵~还好啦。。。只是空调开得冷了些些。
坐在我旁边的是个和我一样，第一次“坐飞机”出国的同行。
印象最深刻的是一位老阿嫲问飞机上一位华裔空姐：“没回家过年吗？”
空姐笑了笑，答：“食佐，提早食佐团圆饭”
我想说：“我也食佐，也提早食佐”
XD

写着写着，想不到要写些什么了

没什么，

都快一年了，我想。。。

感谢所有待我好，待我差的人。

谢谢！谢谢！

听些新年歌吧！

Tore Tau Kueyh 花生饼

My friends always ask me : Do you really love to cook that much?

I will always give them a few giggles and said : I live to eat.

haha... typical Penangite huh? XD

Ya, it's true, especially when you're overseas and you miss the food at your hometown *especially your mum's not-guarantee-tasty-but-always-hearty meal*

and the only solution is either you forget about them or

roll up your sleeves and move your hand in the kitchen!

Of course I took the second option. Remember? I'm born to eat. XP

As Chinese New Year is approaching, of course I miss all the kuih making session with my mum and my aunties. Even though I do get some nagging and instructions delivered in high pitching voice, I still love it! Especially the moment the cookies were sent into the oven and soon the aroma filled the air, and finally came out and awwh~.... I'm drooling..... XD

Last year I did blog about the lurve letters a.k.a kuih kapit making in my house.

But this time, I'm going to blog about peanut cookies, Penang Hokkien would call it 'Tore Tau Kueyh", and my Malay friends call them Kuih Mazola. What ever it is, the thing matters to me is the 'YumYum" factor. XP

Alright, let's move our hands!

First, roast some peanuts till they're fragrant and almost burnt.

Then remove the skin of the peanut and blend them till they're fine.

But in my case, I would prefer to have some texture in it, so I didn't really blend until the peanuts turn into powder.

To produce the dough as shown above, mix the peanuts with ......

some plain flour (of course coles smart saver, the cheapest brand!)

normally the proportion would be peanut:flour = >2:1

if you want your kuih to melt into your mouth at the moment you put them in.

*that's a tip from my aunt, thanks 芳姑！*

some peanut oil

some caster sugar

before sending them into the oven, I brushed them with some egg yolk and a little egg white

HERE YOU GO! Song's TORE TAU KUEYH!

食物总是

思乡游子解愁的

最佳良方

这是无可否认的

新年要到咯！

咚！咚咚！锵！

哈哈~

random stuffs

Thanks to the 'awesome' weather, with rain continuously for 4 days, my journey in the farm has come to an end. =(

Hmm... I think it's time to settle my enrolment for new semester and ready for my Gold Coast trip. And of course, this post will be a wrap up for my farming experience.

I would say that working in a farm is not hard, just tiring. Everyday, you have to reach the farm by 7.30am, and in my case, I would wake up around 5.30am, dilly-dally for a while, take some brekkie and cook my lunch. Normally, I would be out by 0700, because it takes at least 30 minutes to reach the farm by driving, and thank God, it's summer!!! If not, I think I would take 1 hour to toss and turn on my bed, another 1 hour to flip and flap on my bed, 1 hour to dilly-dally here and there..... and finally slack back to my comfy bed. XD

There's no photos of me working in the farm... *sob-sob* The rain came in too sudden, and it's already my last day in the farm before I knew it. =( However, one of the great advantage of working as cherries picker is you get to eat as much cherries as you want. Of course, there's no reason for me not to 'tapao' some back. haha.... shhh.....

It's heavenly great when you freeze up some cherries and eat them while you're watching movies or reading books, or even gossiping with your friends in the middle of the night. They tasted just like slushies in the shop!! Gosh~ I think I'm addicted to them, haha....

They contain heaps of:

-Vitamin C

-Vitamin A

-Bioflavonoids

-Ellagic acid (a kind of antioxidant)

-Perilly (alble to arrest tumour cells)

-Anthocyanins (another powerful antioxidants)

-Melatonin (another antioxidant) and many more good stuffs.

But, be careful with the sugar level.... You won't want to end up with too much glucose either. *All these are info from the web*

Steps to a successful cherry jam making:

(kononnya) =___=

First, smuggle some cherries from the farm buy some fresh cherries and wash them thoroughly.

第一个步骤！帮蛇回来的樱桃洗白白！！

Second, de-stone and de-stem the cherries. Or should I say,

"buang batang dan bijik cherri"? a.k.a. castrate the cherries XP

第二个步骤！马上"阉割"洗干净的樱桃！

太监的都挂在墙上，樱桃的则留在盘中 。。。erbs~

Kitchen homicide? =O

*Back to the topic*

-Heat up the castrated processed cherries until it boils,

-Bring down the heat and let it simmer till they're soft and mushy.

-Cool them down and put them into a blender and blend till the flesh and skin of the cherries are squashed till unrecognisable *KEJAM nyer~*

-Pour them back into the pot and bring it to the same simmering as before.

-Put in as little or as much sugar as you like. In my case, I only put in 3 tablespoon of sugar.

"OMG!!! 3 tablespoon of sugar for 1.5kg of cherries?"

"What to do?... I've to jaga badan mah~" haha.... duh~ XP

- Actually I notice that you don't really need much sugar for this jam. The natural glucose content in the cherries is more than enough.

- Before switching off the stove, *optional*

-add in a few tablespoon of lemon juice (to add a zesty flavour to the jam)

-mix in a tablespoon of cornflour (to thicken up the jam)

Da-LANG!!

Song Song's homdemade cherry jam!!!

My housemate's homemade pancake with my jam... haha! YUM!

It tastes so good until you can dig out a full ladle of the jam

and eat it just like that!

老王卖瓜，越卖越夸

haha...whatever!

XD

Appiee's photo

It's really hard to find time to sit down and blog about your recently life when you are busy with work. However, the weather bureaucracy sent out a flood warning in the early morning. Therefore, it means no work today. Yay~! Gonna get some rest! But, sigh~ no work means no money, no money means no honey. =P

You all must be wondering what's appiee, I bet. haha... just my own term for apples. In the farm, I notice the supervisor always end the noun he use in "-ie"

for example, when he's suppose to say

"Go and have a check on the row you have done just now"

he would say: "Go and have a checkie on your previous row"

I also discover many Aussie terms they use in the farm (or should I say Tassie?).

'tea' = 'dinner'

'smoko' = 'small break between work' (perhaps for those who smoke, I think)

and of course many more XD

The farm I work in is called Carlthorpe a.k.a. Top Qual. The company is based in Hobart (capital city of Tasmania), just that its major apple farm is in Lonnie.

Alright, I'm too lazy to elaborate any further. Let the photos do the talking!

There're many species of apples in the farm, eg. Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Royal Gala, Pink Lady, Jazz, Granny Smith, Fuji .... etc.

Just to let you know the amount of crates used to shift the apples during the apple picking season. See the building behind the crates? It's almost 4 storey high.

Gosh~ who knows what'll happen when the crates fall? XD

The one in the picture above is Granny Smith, which we normally call "Granny's Apple"

Guys, meet Kris...... and his sexy jeans XP

I had a Korean working partner and this bloke is my current partner. His background is rather complicated or should I say "A fuzz of life"? He was a drug addict *OMG!* , and now he's major in Fine Arts *WHAT~!?", and specialised in oil painting. hmmm... what can I say about him?

hmm..... Quiet but definitely hard working (he's so far the best working partner I can find on the farm, because the pay you get is the speed of your work, and your partner's as well)

The supervisor always repeat their favourite quote:

"One big, one small.... Take big, leave small

Many big, many small.... Take small, leave Big

Many small, no BIG.... Take them all

All medium, take till there's 1/2 left"

Nik aka Nik Aziz (ya.... same as the one in PAS) XD

Another Malaysian in the farm, who's also an architecture student,

just that he's taking master. And we are the only Asians, but who cares?

That's all about it, hope you guys have a great early 2011 as well! CHEERs!!

“我爱我的家

在那山脚下

前面有颗苹果树

后面没有花。。。”

Is it money?

Finally, my apple thinning job is coming to an end in few days time, and I'm going into cheery picking after that.

"Money~ Money~"

That's really the sole motivation you can get when you feel tired from working. When you think of that, your will feel that your hands have been revived and start moving again. haha.... Money is not everything, but I'm sure there're a list of things you won't be able to do without money.

Nothing much about this post... just that sometimes money does change a person and others around. *sigh~*

or did they...?

"the lights are shining on the sea

as the rolling waves crash along the beach

and our minds were meant to sail

take a rest from our thoughts

take a brake from this world

and we'll feel miles away

from the places that we used to be"

Thoughts of 2010

I know it's not 31st of December yet!!!

But I'm afraid I'll miss it

(maybe going somewhere else...just maybe...)

Therefore, I would like to record some useful thoughts I obtained this year.

1. Life is never hard till you said so

After departing to Australia, I start to REALLY feel the stuffs that need to be paid attention to in our daily lives. It's totally different from the time when I was still in KBU or anywhere else in Malaysia. It's really tiring and of course the reward is never disappointing (not to mention the disappointments we had before the reward XD ). Even for something like eventually found a place to really 'TUMPANG' , is very rewarding. (I know you all won't get it >_< ) Anyway..... I still remember the time we got a house, yes... a 'HOUSE'. At first, I don't really feel it. But when I heard my housemates' weeping in the silence, when they're praying during the first evening we got our house...... DAMN!! I just can't hold it........

haha..... nevermind, once in a while. (o_O) I just can't forget the process of getting the house.

感恩·惜福 (o^~^o)

2. Don't let your religion tie you

Please, I'm not trying to spread any propaganda or asking everybody to be free thinker. I have a religion as well, okay~ Just that, I've talked to many people and some are strong in their own religions and some are free thinkers. What I can conclude is, you can be a free thinker if you think that your life is complete without any guide. But that doesn't mean free thinker is no good. Both, being religious and free thinker has good and bad, just the way you see it and live it.

3. Never ever stereotype anything

Stereotyping is never a good thing, no matter you're thinking in a good way or the opposite. The moment you start stereotyping others, you'll either end up stereotyping even more and eventually feel disappointed with it, or you'll straight away eat the shit out of it. Staying neutral is never a bad thing to do if you're not sure.

4. Smile, no matter what happend

Smile is really a useful tool in life. I remember smiling to a local couple (I mean Tasmanian people) during a exhibition in the city which I was alone at that time. Surprisingly, we ended up chatting for the next 20 minutes..... haha..... not a bad day at all. =D I think I can say "You'll never know who's going to fall in love with your smiles"

5. Stock up more on banana and chocolate

You will never know when you will feel depressed or demotivated. So, it's best to have them on the shelf all the time. XD Even if you're not depressed you can always grab one and eat! Banana can make your shit slip out smoothly like it never does, and chocolate..... erm....erm......hmm....

it makes you FAT and HAPPY!!! =D

Happy New Year to all!

生命的过客

又是个暖风习习的下午

我坐在客厅

那庞大的窗户旁

望着草丛中的它

它

它是只鸟

一只小小鸟

一只在草丛中望着蓝天的小小鸟

（十五秒后。。。）

穿着手套的我

试法让它飞向空中

尝试 · 努力 · 挣扎 · 折翼 · 脱毛 · 放弃

（十分钟后）

我已经席地而坐

坐在那面向它背影的窗户旁

刚刚的习习暖风

已慢慢地

越刮越强

它的眼

已开始睁不开了

但

那被啄伤了的头儿

还是保留着45度

望着蓝天

顶着艳阳

它

那坚毅的眼神

告诉我

“我要飞。。。

我不能不飞。。。”

我坐在那儿

能够奢望的

已没什么

只有希望

一切安好

“未来会怎样。。。究竟

有谁会知道？”

First time ...

First time celebrating Christmas overseas with a local family.... what can I say....

hmmm.... Nothing more but a decent

"THANK YOU"

It's not a Christmas dinner, but it's a lunch on Christmas day. There're nine of us, the father, mother, 2 sons, Gran (granny in short), the uncle, the aunt , little cousin and me. It's my first time ever being invited to a local's gathering, not to mention my first time experiencing X'mas in Aussie. The feeling was awesome! =D

The photo is blur..... haha

From left: the mother, Gran and me in the kitchen

Rudolf, the red nose raindeer by Robbie

The angel barbie and Christmas ghost (I think) haha...

all done by Alex

The 2 photos above are some of the interesting deco I found on the Christmas tree. They may looked silly to most people, but, they hold great sentimental values respectively. They're mostly done by the two sons- Alex and Robbie (who are already 18 and 16), according to their Mum. It reminded me of my Mum as well.... =') My brother and I used to attend drawing classes when we were very young, and my Mum keep all our drawings... yes.... all of them, including those which are fugly as well. =D Sometimes, things don't need to be beautiful to be beautiful, got me?

Oh ya! I even got a prezzie! XD

A BOX OF CHOCOLATE SHORT BREAD!!!

(T___T) *touched*

Even though it's just a simple gathering, but I do learn many things from it.

Love you all and may the Frost family will always be showered with joy and love.

Merry X'mas again everyone!

我还是我

忘了多少年前，

他因为改编国歌而上了各大报章的头条，

成为各大新闻媒体的炒作题材，

更避免不了成为kopitiam 里安娣安哥的饭后热门话题。

他就是黄明志。

其实，他所写的歌词都是有逻辑的。

但，有时人们往往只注意到那些CB,LC, KNB 等等。

我不是赞成他“善用”粗口的习惯，

更别奢望我会对他那些每隔几个字就来个粗口大联盟的歌词投以兴趣。

但，我是无法否认他所写的词。

因为这是事实。

我们可以接受，可以假装不知道，

但就是不可否认。

你写粗口的时候，也许你希望的是加强你语气上的power。

但，往往换来的是他人的另类眼光。

其实，你是否察觉到，

你不写粗口时，你的歌里头，

那些现实与激励的power并没有变弱，

反而让人更容易接受。

“我有我自己的梦

自己会走，

就算再寂寞”

Christmas looo!

It has been some time since I last updated about my recent life.

It's officially summer few days ago!

WEE!

Wee!

WEE!! WEE! WEEEEEeeee!

I'M SO SO SO HAPPY!!!

(I don't know why, I love only and only summer)

\(^____^ lll)/

the feeling of being able to sweat is so nice! haha... weird huh?

Life during holiday is much more compact, busier and more tiring. But it's a good thing to be continuously tiring =] Nothing much but the work at the farm, attended my seniors' graduation and fishing.

I'm sure those in Malaysia are wondering about Christmas in Tassie. Nothing really special, no white Christmas. XD But I do noticed something special about the 尾牙(in Mandarin) a.k.a lunch session held by companies to thank the employees, at the same time, kick off the Christmasy mood to the MAX! At the afternoon on Christmas eve, you will see all the restaurants in the cities crowded with employers and employees. Sure not a common sight in Malaysia.

On Christmas day, I'm going off to a local family for a lunch gathering. Hope everything is fine! First time Christmas in overseas!

Merry Christmas to all who celebrates it and HO HO HO!

Don't forget to hang up your socks beside the hearth! Who knows, right?

Sing along with me...

Life as a farm worker has already started 2 weeks ago and nothing special about the job, just some apple thinning (which means getting rid of the small apples on the tree and reduce the competition among apples, so that the average and big apples can grow bigger in a shorter period)

The farm is located around 25 minutes drive away from the place I currently staying. It's not really that far, especially when you use the highway.

Hmm.... lets talk about the workers in the farm then. There are around 40 workers in the farm and mostly are locals. We are generally paired up with some one else in the work, so that we can speed up the work progress. There're quite a number of trueblood Aussies, a French, a few Kenyans, some Africans, 2 Malaysians and a Korean.

For the first few days, I had no partner (due to the total odd number of people in our group). When people were moving a head, fast; I was left far far behind..... certainly don't like that kind of feeling, alone in a farm and left to work on your own. =<

Luckily, a few newbies came, and I was paired up with the Korean guy. His name is Seung Huan or normally known as Chuck. He looked like 21 the most, but is actually 26. And he said he thought that I'm at least 26, or more than that. haha.... I think I do need some extra dose of botox and 24/7 using SK II. XD

The funny thing is he learnt Mandarin in his Uni and had a Chinese girl friend. haha.... and he told me "Faster go and find yourself a sexy hot babe before they're all grabbed up!"

(-_____= llll) haha..... what can I say? "sure~" XP

We did something unusual in the farm today.... F*** those who have dirty minds. haha...

We actually sang in the farm.... Just imagine, a piece of land with two ends vanishing in distance that can't be seen... and two asians are singing. So what did we actually sing?

Due to language inefficiency, we had a pretty limited song list.

Song list:

-《对面的女孩看过来》 (he started it first.... haha...and the pronunciation is not bad though)

-《Gee》 he said no Korean guys are not crazy with Girl Generation... I agree...hahak!

-《Selamat Hari Jadi》and Korean version of 《Happy Birthday》

and the playlist just repeat for the whole day... haha

*I almost sang 《Negaraku》 and ask him to sing Korea's national anthem. XD

Cloudless sky

Scorching sun

Towering trees

Boring job

.......

another day!

Bargain Hunters

Shopping!

Shopping!!

SHOPPING!!!

The word 'shopping' is always said to be women's nature.

Sad?? SHOPPING!!

Happy?? SHOPPING (again?)

Frustrated? SHOPPING!!

Conclusion: SHOP Till You Drop XD

In Tassie, I found myself started to love that too.

"CHOT-TO-MA-TEH-kudasai!!!"

It totally different from the shopping that girls do, kay~

My territory only lies within GARAGE SALE.

It's a sale normally held at the garage or just outside of the house.

You can find a range of useful and dirt cheap stuffs, for example furniture, kitchen equipments, guitars, shoes, sandals, hats, computer, piano, sewing machines, machine used to cut tiles, goldfish bowl, table lamp, BBQ pit, futsal table, make up, bed, mattress, exercise machines, dictionaries, drawing paper, photo frames, clocks, lawn mower, wallets, TVs, microwave, toaster, wok, dictionaries, toys, X-box, PS, fishing rod, tents, trampoline, i-phone, fans, crayons, monster motorbike, cars, helicopters, jackets, speed boats, door knobs, clothes hanger, cutlery, camera, speakers, undies, boots, slippers, washing machines, fridge..... end less.... they're simply endless.

However, it all depends on luck. Sometimes, you will come across lots of bric-a-bracs, which is normally useless.. haha... I think antique collectors would find it interesting. XD

I somehow feel like playing amazing race. It's very common for the locals to go to garage sale during weekend. We normally start hunting at around 8 am, and there're normally 1 driver and 1 map reader.... haha... like in the car race. It's a good way to explore the surroundings as you might find yourself lost somewhere and some how manage to come out of it.

Definitely go again next week.... it's almost christmas and people are buying new stuffs while the old need to go .... and lucky to the hunters.

song song

这首歌，

不会说很好听，也称不上什么极品，

更别说是什么大牌，王牌，红得发红发紫的大歌星唱的

但

还蛮喜欢

这首歌的词

蛮贴切的

歌里头，歌词写道

“你只要give me five 就好，不要虚假的礼貌”

好久不见。。。

好久不见的朋友们。。。

希望你们一切还好

If you guys miss me，you guys are more than welcome to drop by and give me a

GIMMIE FAIVE!!

tired..... but okay laa

The fruit thinning job started from yesterday and goes on for around 4-5 weeks.

For my first day, the weather was fine, even though it drizzled, stopped, drizzled, stopped, drizzled again, stopped again.... and repeated like for more than 10 times. XD

Had a tired day.... but okay laaa =)

there're promotion air ticket to Gold Coast..

should I?

hmmm.... temptation lerr~

Goodye everybody!

Neighbours

It's been almost half a year since I moved into my current house. Fast huh?

This post, obviously, is going to be about my fellow neighbours.

On my left is a blonde woman (probably in her thirties). I've never really talk to her yet, the most is just "Hi! .... Bye!" (=_____= lll)

But, what I noticed is that she owns a female Golden retriever. The height of the fence between my house and her house is not really high. Whenever I'm free, I will go to the fence and call her golden retriever..... and it will come and lean against the fence. Then, I would spend my whole morning petting on its back. Even though my mum used to rear 16 cats, I still prefer dogs as company. They're loyal, loyal, and loyal, unlike cats who adapt to new owners in just seconds.

I miss my pets X(

On the right of my house live a lovely old couple - Mr and Mrs Duke. They lived by themselves and their daily routine is go to the market (supermarket) and gardening, an easy and slow pace life. By the way, Mr Duke owns a garage filled with all the basic gardening tools and some cutting machines. When the grass in my house touches my eyebrows, I always ask for the help of his grass trimming machines.

My housemate always jokes that he actually is a psychotic serial killer.... like what you saw in "The Saw" XD This is because he's always busy sawing something in his workshop and it sounds like somebody sawing human bones or something that is hard.

Across the road is a family migrated from Bhudan. I always see the grandparents walking around Launceston, and I think I've met them more than 10 times in a same supermarket. They obtained their Permanent Residence status 2 years ago, and now the whole family is here and they now owned two houses at the corner of the road.

hmmm..... just as a record.

潮

我喜欢

退潮的浪花

赤裸裸的沙滩

潮来。。。

潮往。。。

Random.... random...

Few days ago, I switched on the TV, and jumped from channel to channel.... suddenly, I heard somebody's talking in Mandarin and Malaysian HOKKIEN some more!!!

At that point, my instinct told me to stop and stare.....

ohhh.... it's the movie "20, 30, 40". For those don't know about this, it's actually a Mandarin movie which revolves around the life of three women, who are at the different stage of their life.

THREE MAIN CHARACTERs

李心洁, a 20 year old Malaysian Chinese girl who found herself caught between her dream and the reality. Her parents asked her to find a mundane, monotonous job which offers a stable income. However, she insisted to venture to Taiwan, a country which she believes she will find her stardom. That's the final straw of her dream

However, things are not that simple... (=_=)

My comment on this character : 梦想与现实是能共存的，你确定吗？

刘若英，an air-stewardess in her early thirties and still single. She has no confidence in men and relationship. However, she still try her best to find her Mr. Right... ... a middle-age doctor who is other's husband at the same time? or a young artist who has an unstable career, but still single?

My comment on this character : 如果你相信，你就得耐心等待

张艾嘉, with a '4' hanging infront of her age, she owned a happy family and her own flower shop. However, her marriage ended with a shocking discovery of a third party...... A woman with a heart broken.... what's the remedy?

My comment on this character : 天底下最可悲的人是抛弃自己的自己

Actually, I noticed this movie long time ago (it's produced in 2004, which means I'm already in secondary school), just that I thought it is another brainless movie, with tonnes of women flaunting their gigantic boobs and exaggerated body figures in front of innocent viewers. However, I found this movie rather tauntingly meaningful and made me think a lot.

Someone told me before :

"You'll have different opinions on your previous act, especially when you viewed it after some years, when you are more grown-up and tasted more of your LIFE"

currently enjoying 《把悲伤留给自己》

nitez

call me part time fisherman

My Uni holidays have commenced since last Friday and even though I got myself 2 casual work, life still seemed to be pretty empty and soul-less. hmm... perhaps going to find more jobs ($~$)

Besides eating, sleeping, breathing, shitting and working, life without Uni would be

FISHING!!! (you've no other choice in Tasmania)

and today, I went fishing again with some friends.

The special thing about this fishing trip is that an old 'pak cik' joint us this time. If not mistaken he's someone's father, and grandfather of 20+ grandchildren. bahagia nyer~~

nothing special actually, just that he reminded me of my grandfathers when I helped him to change his fishing line (because they get tangled up too often and I suggest him to change the whole line)

我就在淡水河的 旁边

我看着太阳 慢慢不见

每天一到了这个时候

我会在回家的公车上面

就快要爱上了淡水

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