HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Her birthday is on 24 May and we ended up having a family dinner with my family. My birthday is on 26 May and we ended up having dinner with some close friends.

Coincidentally my lunar calendar birthdate is on the 24th of the fourth month and hers on 26th of the fouth month.

I was briefly in a same class with a guy and a girl when I was in lower secondary six who share the same day, month and year for birthday, and we found out we were even in the same hospital! Unique huh? But I have not heard of them for more than 10 years now, wonder how are they doing.

Then there is this close friend who is one day ahead of me and I just celebrated birthday with the MD of a contractor who is on my project, his birthday is just one day after me.

I have been lavishing myself with good food since 23 May 2008 in the name of birthday celebrations, its just gotta stop!

And a day before her birthday, we had our pictures taken.

512 除了捐钱和流泪，我还能做什么？

中國‧母跪死護嬰手機留言‧“寶貝， 記住我愛你！”

（中國‧四川）四川大地震再次顯現母親最偉大，母愛最感人。
搶救人員在瓦礫堆發現一名母親的時候，她已被垮塌下來的房子壓死了。她生前最後姿勢是雙膝跪著，整個上身向前匍匐著，雙手扶著地面支撐著身體，有如古人行跪拜禮，只是身體被壓得變形了，看上去有些詭異。
救援人員在廢墟中搜索沒有發現生還者，突然，在屍體下發現一名三四個月的小嬰兒。因為有母親身體庇護，嬰兒毫髮無傷。嬰兒包在一個紅色帶黃花的小被子裡，抱出來的時候還安靜的睡著。
隨行的醫生解開嬰兒棉被時發現一手機。手機屏幕開著，上面有留言，“親愛的寶貝，如果你能活著，一定要記住我愛你”。
看慣生離死別的醫生，也忍不住落淚，隨著手機傳遞，現場每個看到留言人也都落淚。但幸運存活的小嬰兒，要長大後才能明白母親的犧牲有多偉大。

这个新闻让我难过了很久很久，有一种冲动想马上买一张飞机票去成都做点事情。在这里除了捐钱和不停的为感人的报道流泪于事无补。

KUMANG GAWAI 2008 WHOAHA!

Told you I have to be in Sarawak this weekend, but what I did not realised was that I get a chance to sit in and witness a cultural show of my lifetime.

Kumang means "Queen" in Iban. Gawai of course, most people know it as the "harvest festival" for Iban folks. It is basically a Beauty contest to pick a beauty queen for Gawai 2008, but there is no skimpy dress or revealing 2 piece bikinis, what we have is a feast and drinks and a show of cultural uniqness! I will explain WHOAHA later...

It was Saturday after work, colleagues of mind called up andask me what I will be doing at night, well, to be frank, nothing much as this is a small town and I don't really know anyone here. Seems that there is this Kumang Gawai dinner at the grand ballroom of the same hotel I was staying in, and there is tickets available. Well, of course I will attend haha!

As it turns out the night was filled with juicy entertainment, apart from the 15 contestants parading in their cultural folk costumes, coupled with an 8 course chinese dinner, and OMG RM10 for 3 cans of beer! and RM12 for a bottle of TUAK! Everybody was happy with the price off course, half way through the event you can see beer cans piling up on every table, the Mat Salleh who just came back Qatar on the same table as us was drinking like a fish, hardly touching the food, I think he at least paid the waiter 6-7 times a RM10 note. (Imagine 7 x 3 cans =?)

I ordered 2 bottles of Tuak, to be shared with mates on the same table. TUAK is actually rice wine, in a certain way taste similar to the chinese Rice Wine or Japanese Sake, quite nice mah!

At 12am, there is this ceremonial toasting to greet arrival of Gawai (suppose to be done on Gawai eve) The MC got everyone to stand up for the toast and mumbled some lengthy toast in

Iban, the only part I understood was "NYIRUP! WHOAHA! WHOAHA! WHOAHA!" nyirup meant drink up! whoaha must meant something like our Yam Seng! excellent!

This guy is the best entertainer of the night, he is a sos chef in the hotel! haha! We have suggested that he should go join Akedami Fantasia or something!

And the one sitting is Kumang Gawai 2008! pretty girl!

My CAT is MAD!

I have a cat, her name is MEW, she is mad, and for obvious reasons...

I did not take care of her, did not follow her wishes...

I have pledged my humble service to pamper her and I did not uphold my promise...

NOW I have to make up to my CAT... seems the only way is to openly declare my pledges so that the inferno burning inside will be serened...

OK lah, I will bring you to good CAT massage, good CAT bath and excellent CAT facial lah!!!

And I am saying this with a smilling face and all my heart.. never FORCED!! haha!

picture of my CAT..

LABOUR DAY in SINGAPORE!

OK! Time REALLY flies! Another month is gone since my last posting and nothing much achieved.

Labour Day falls on a Thursday this year, original I planned to take Friday off and spend 3 nights in Singapore, in conjunction to attend a friend's church wedding on Labour Day itself.

Well, things don't go as planned, I had to fly to East Malaysia (Land under the wind?) for a week on 2 May itself, hence had to cancel everything.

Labour Day arrived and I was dragged out of bed by my boss and was forced to drive all the way down to Singapore, making a DAY TRIP just to attend the friend's church wedding!

I am too old for this shit I keep telling myslef! Day trip to Singapore?

We left KL 9am and was having nice Duck Rice in Skudai, not bad...

by 3pm we are in the middle of Paya Lebar looking for the "Paya Lebar Chinese Methodist Church". Wedding only start at 5pm hence decided to look for another friend and she brought us to a Food Court at Lavender Street, had the MOST FAMOUS Wantan Mee in Singapore! Not bad also...

Church wedding is always beautiful, I always say, this one is no execption, the unique architecture of the church building couple with the illuminated glass Chirstian Cross really painted a beautiful picture.

By 7pm we are actually at the Tuas custom on the way back. holy cow! and I did the driving most part of the journey, hurray for me! seems I am not too old afterall!

Now waiting for my boss to upload the photoas taken in the camera...