aLoNG-tHE-hiGhWaY

On my way home, I drove along the expressway of 200+ kilometers, at an average speed of 110 km/h, which comes to 2 hours of super duper boring journey. To keep myself awake, I kept my mind busy with these:

aLoNG-tHE-hiGhWaY {Click to view larger image}

1. Imagining how nice it would be if one of the roadside is planted with sunflowers along the 200km stretch. Butterfies will be flying around and birds will come in flocks. The other side of the road should be planted with nice grass carpet, with occasional banyan trees every lamp post distance.

sunflowers!

2. Thinking about the ho po lui char recipe I just got from a master, and trying to recall on every step and recipe that he has taught me.

ho-po-lui-cha

3. Listening on the David Tao CD (original one) which seems like "zharr-ing" me on every line of its lyrics...cau cee bai!

katriNa

Everyone... happy Chinese New Year!
Today is already the 15th day, I guess is the last chance I have this year to wish you all. So, again..."gong hei fatt choy!"

shORT StORiES i reaD somE wHerE…

A GRAIN OF RICE

The daughter of the Chinese Emperor was ill, and he promised riches beyond compare to whoever could cure her. A young peasant named Pong Lo entered the palace. With his wit and bravery he restored the Princess's health, and won her heart. As his reward, Pong Lo asked for her hand in marriage. The Emperor refused and asked the peasant to think of anything else he would like.
After several moments of thought, Pong Lo said, "I would like a grain of rice".

"A grain of rice! That is nonsense! Ask me for fine silks, the grandest room in the palace, a stable full of wild stallions, they shall be yours!"

"A grain of rice will do," said Pong Lo. But if His Majesty insists, he may double the amount every day for a hundred days."

So on the first day a grain of rice was delivered to Pong Lo. On the second day, two grains of rice were delivered. On the third day Pong Lo received four grains, and on the fourth day, eight grains.

On the fifth day - 16 grains
On the sixth day - 32 grains
On the seventh day - 64 grains
On the eighth day - 128 grains

By the twelfth day the grains of rice numbered 2,048. By the twentieth day, 524,288 grains were delivered. And by the thirtieth day 536,870,912 grains requiring servants to carry them were brought to Pong Lo.

In desperation the Emperor did the only honourable thing he could do and consented to the marriage. Out of consideration for the
Emperor's feelings, no rice was served at the wedding banquet.

tHE lala cook in LALA LaND!

tHE lala cook in LALA LaND!
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Last week, i went together with a bunch of lala chai to the lala beach.

We had a lot of fun searching for lalas beneath the sandy beach.

We pick and pick and pick....and pick and pick and pick...

We also saw some lala girls around picking lalas next to us.

Every lala boys turned LALA-ed at that moment.

We then went home on the lala car

I opened my lala laptop

I searched for ways to cook lala on my lala net

Then i successfully found 4 lala recipe

We soak the lala

We clean the lala one by one (Yea, hear me say again...is ONE by ONE)

I am the lala cook. Yes, i am.

After spending hell of a lala time, i succeeded.

Everybody was having a lala wonderful time eating lala.

The table is full of lala.

One of the lala boy ate the most lala that day, his lala shell mountain was the highest.

Every lala boy was shitting lala for the next few days.

The lala stories continues as long as there is low tide...

I am lala-ed liao...

la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la

Here are the 4 lala recipes to share with anyone who likes to get lala-ed.

LaLa rEcIPE no 1
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LaLa rEcIPE no 2
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LaLa rEcIPE no 3
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LaLa rEcIPE no 4
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wHaT wouLD yOU dO, if you hAD all tHE tiME and mONEY in tHiS woRLD?

Ever asked yourself this question?
Try to do it. They say by doing so, you will find your joy, and your meaning of life.
This list is not complete yet...will continue to update...whenever the inspiration comes...

1. I will buy 10 nos of QC3 and put them all over the place. 1 in my bedroom, 2 in the living hall, 1 in the kitchen, 1 in the toilet, 1 on the sofa couch, and the remaining for display only. Buy another one for my dog and my cat too!
[2009.11.08 3.20 am MY time - unable to sleep, with lum sleeping at the next bed...]

2. I will buy the Baskin Robbins franchise, and set up a very nice stall at Cameron Highlands. I will hire a bunch of leng luis to work in the stall. In the meantime, I will be dropping by once in a while to have a nice Jamaica Almond Choc flavour with 3 scoops on a large waffle cone for free, sitting among those leng luis and enjoying the custom made ice cream! And I will also work part time there whenever i am free, and also take all my family members and belanja them all! I wanna enjoy my time with all of them, enjoy savouring bit by bit of the BR ice cream, having laughter all day long.
[2009.11.08 3.25 am MY time - unable to sleep, with lum STILL sleeping at the next bed...]

*to be continued*...

3. I will buy a farmhouse in the middle of the hills, something like Kundasang or Cameron Highlands where the house will be surrounded by tea plantations, rice fields and strawberry fields. Every morning, I'll bring my wife, my mom, my dad, my son, my daughter, my nieces, my nephews, my dog and my pussy cat along to go photo-jogging. I will be equipped with Canon EOS-1 Mark III camera with 135mm f1.2L lens and take portrait photos like never before!
After the jog, we will all be having a breakfast picnic by the bench in front of the farm house, enjoying the superb scenery of the tea plantation while the sun is rising. Right after we have finished picnicking, we'll all go into the farm to pluck tea leaves and harvest some fresh strawberries! And we'll all sing "mountain-song" to each other! "Haaaeeeyyyy~~~~~~~~ !!!!!"
The children will be running around catching butterflies, chasing some small chickens and some little lambs.
After the harvesting, we'll bring back those harvests. My parents and some children will play with the dogs and the pussy cats in the living room happily, while me and my wife will make the Hainan chicken rice with the chicken we caught just now. The younger ones will make the sauce while I cook the chicken rice! Mmmmm.....sooo delicious!
And we'll all sit together at the wood bench under the tree in house front, having this super nice Hainan Chicken Rice while enjoying the scenery in front our eyes...so syiok...so delicious...so satisfying...
[2009.11.11 2.16 am MY time - sitting alone by the TV after watching KBS World Channel...]

*to be continued*...

10 PhRAsES i hEaR mOSt thESE fEW wEEks…

1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
[Basically now it has just been changed to : an orange a days keeps the doctor away]

2. Hello, lei hou mou? Hahahah...hihihi...huhuhu...ermm...ermm...errm...muack! muack! goodnite...bye bye.
[Ooi!!! I don't have a QC3, with the noise cancelling function you know? I just have a RM30 ciplak earphone...]

3. Sam! I have an issue with XXX, can we have a meeting to talk about this?
[Yea yea yea...there is always something you wanna talk...]

4. We want QUALITY!
[Yea yea yea...that is just another way of you saying..."I'm gonna bulldoze anyway, and don't you get in my way!"]

5. Sam! Can you please follow up on this?
[You fucker! This is supposed to be your shit!]

6. Insyaallah...
[Another word for "I won't give you"]

7. Carrefour, fish market, al jazera.
[When all you can ever go in the weekend is these so few places...BTW, weekend is only one day here, not two.]

8. Mama
[Love you]

9. Speedtouch
[Also love you. Sorry for having Mama as a backup, just in case. You'll always be my first love.]

10. It's Friday!
[Now I know where T.G.I. Friday got it's name.]

The MASTER OF ALL PHRASE....
Today want to cook what?
[Never ending question, or problem. Basically I have run out of answers liao]

sHiN ru DaO gE [ 心如刀割 ]

beacHboY walks slowly into the karaoke room no 9. He took the remote control and searched JAcky Cheung. He sighed. Then, he selected these two songs by pressing the remote...

1. Wo zhen de shou shang le [ 我真的受伤了 ]
2. Shin ru dao ge. [ 心如刀割 ]

Everyone in the room was silent. They understood immediately what happened to beachboy.

beacHboY reached for the microphone and started to sing. He closes his eyes. 3, 2, 1 ... s-i-n-g...

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The sadness in his voice could be felt. The emotion in his singing is nothing less than that of Jacky Cheung's.

Conclusion:

beacHboY heart has been hurt deeply, and it has been bleeding profusely for the last few weeks. Thousands of arrows have pierced into his heart. Friends have been sad too, and is trying their best to help beacHboY to get back to the normal life. However, the illusion of the little lamb still manage to cloud his mind and heart sometimes...

sHiN ru DaO gE - [ 心如刀割 ] {Click to view larger image}

beacHboY, if there is this one thing that we could do for you to mend this, we wish that there is this "Handiplast for the broken heart", and we'll paste all of that around your broken heart, to stop all the leaking of tears. Also we would want to help you pull out all the arrows from your thousand arrows pierced heart! Nah! This is it! Take it!

beachBoY drinks to forget...but he just CAN'T

Description: beachBoY drinks to forget...but he just CAN'T

We'll build scaffold if had to!

Description: We'll build scaffold if had to!

Impossible is Nothing! Just Do It!

Description: This plaster is from mr sohai, mr QC3, and mr beachboY himself.

Qik! Qik! Qik! Qik! Qik!

Description: This plaster is from mr Qik, the one who loves to open his E71 and record and post to Qik.

the Baskin Robbins couple

Description: This one from the Baskin Robbins couple.

This is imported from MARS

Description: This is imported from MARS. Don't worry, it'll do the job as well.

beachboY says: fRieNd++, ok?

I hate to repeat this, since it is crucial to the continuous existence and survival of the author, at least until he sees the "HAPPILY EVER AFTER" ending for the beacHboY and the little LaMB.

"All the stories, names, characters and events depicted in this post are entirely fictional, which is coming out through the imagination of the author himself. Any resemblance to any person, alive or dead, or any events are purely unintentional, and the author are not to be held liable for any consequences resulting from reading of this post, in any way, either directly or indirectly."

Friend   |   Friend ++

See the above? A vertical line that separates the left and the right hand side of the two words. Both words have the same denominator, FRIEND. The other just had a pair of ++ to follow. In words, there isn't much difference. But in the real life, it differs so much. SO MUCH SO that there is this HUGE barrier, or BOUNDARY that can exist in so many different forms, yet invisible to the naked eye. And many have died crossing this boundary. Some died drunk, some died straight, some even died unnoticed. Nevertheless, there are still plentiful of successful stories.

beacHboY has failed more times than he could remembered, but the defeat never dampens his spirit. NEVER! And right NOW, beacHboY is gonna risk his everything to cross this, and will prove to those pessimist in the kraBi kingdom, that RULES are meant to be BROKEN, BOUNDARIES are meant to be CROSSED! beacHboY! Thousand miles is nothing compared to the FIRE in your heart. Just ADD OIL and it will continue to burN !!! We here will help you to ADD too!

Friend   |   Friend ++ {Click to view larger image}

p/s: This post is purposely created as a sign of unwavering support from all his friends towards beacHboY. Yea, support from colleagues are included also.

tHE sToRY of a LittLE LamB and tHE KrABi bEAcHBOY

"All the stories, names, characters and events depicted in this post are entirely fictional, which is coming out through the imagination of the author himself. Any resemblance to any person, alive or dead, or any events are purely unintentional, and the author are not to be held liable for any consequences resulting from reading of this post, in any way, either directly or indirectly."

OK. I am safe.

Once upon a time, in the long long lost kingdom of the KRaBi, there lives a beachboY. Though he came from a poor family, he has high aspiration. He aims to be the best electrician in town one day. (Yes, this olden kingdom of kRabI is very advanced one!). Being a Virgo, he seeks for perfection in everything he does. He eats only the best foods he can afford, wears a G2000 shirt even though it costs more than 200 Krabi dollars each, and only accepts nothing but perfection.

So one day, after a full day of hard labor at his workplace, he sense a moment of loneliness. He realize that all this while, he is missing something important in his life, companionship. Then later, he found that most of his friends and colleagues around him are all beginning to rear LAMB as a way to past time and to make them happier. So, one day a close friend of his suggests that he go shop for a LAMB somewhere at the marketplace. So he goes the next day, early in the morning before the sunrise.

He can't believe his eyes when he stepped into the market. It seems every stall in the market is putting up a LAMB for sale. There are many many types of LaMB available, from the black to white, fat to thin, short to tall, and anything that he could have thought of. So, the first thought that comes to his mind was "If I am gonna shop anyway, I might as well shop for the best LaMB!" So, he starts with stall no 1: "No! Too short". Then stall no. 2: "Nah! Too fat!". Then stall no 3: "Too old! Don't you wanna try to trick me with an old LaMB! I want a pure little snow white LaMB!" he shouted at the LAmB seller.

His search continues down. He noticed that the quality of the little LamBs tends to get better down the stalls. Wow de! That's nice de! But I think the next stall should have a better LamB de! So he went to the stall beside. He paused for a while. His heart skipped a beat when his eyes saw the LamB in front of him. The LaMB's face was so cheerful and loving, with the kind of smile that no man can tahan one de! Happy, optimistic and smart little lamb, she has all the traits of a superior LamB. And underneath the neck of the lamb was a tag engraved with the word "iX". Then he checked the price tag. "Hmm...this is too good to be true, there must be a catch!", he says to himself. He stood there for a few minutes, undecided, while looking at the LamB. Want or don't want leh? The LamB tries her every way to convince the beacHboY that she was a good buy. BeacHboY hesitates. "Never mind boss! I'll see around first!", the beacHboY says.

He continue for a few more stalls down the aisle. He felt awkward. This LamB in front of him has a very long tag.

Err, may I ask, what does this name means? The boss shook his head while looking at the beachBoY. He flipped the tag over. It reads "S-U-Z-H-O-U".

Then all of a sudden, the alarm rang. BeeeeeeBoooooohhhh...beeeebooohh... "Run!!! Run!!! M.P.S.J.!!!" In a blink of an eye, all the stall owners were busy pushing away their stalls haphazardly out of the market. beAcHboy panicked. "Wait! I still haven bought any LaMB!" Wait for me!!! His voice unheard. Then, two words crossed his mind. "iX!" He looked back at the stall. It's empty!!! How could this be???!!!", he exclaimed. He searched and searched in the commotion, hoping to find a glimpse of iX, but to no avail. He could see all kinds of name, MDY, ML, JSC, MW, etc etc...but there is just no iX there.

Feeling hopeless and dejected, he walked like a dead fish towards his home that day. He felt so depressed that he finished the 2 bottles of Chivas Regal and a Bombay Tequila in one hour. Then he fell onto his bed, and the view of his HP laptop become dimmer an dimmer, dimmer and dimmer....

Deeettt Diiitttt! Deeettt Diiitttt! Deeettt Diiitttt! The alarm rangs. BeachBoy reached for the clock and slam it shut. His eyes widened. Slowly he walked to his HP laptop. Shit! I forgot to turn off the computer, he says to himself. When he was about press the SHUT DOWN button, he sees some orange color tab blinkering at the bottom right corner of the taskbar. He clicked on it.

Tears of joy starts to accumulate in his red eyes. His smile widened. He rubbed of his tears and took one more close look at the msn live messenger program before him, in a state of disbelief. His name fanShue was there. What he couldn't figure yet is the other name...This is what he saw...

tHE sToRY of a LittLE LamB and tHE KrABi bEAcHBOY
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tHE sToRY of a LittLE LamB and tHE KrABi bEAcHBOY
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suDdeNLy, an advice from hEAVen or MayBE heLL..i don’t knoW…

Two unanswered calls. The timing of the ringing was so inappropriate. Why not later? Why not earlier? Why now? With my feet and hands still wet, i took the phone and looked. 2 missed calls. I called back. "Ei..sorry just now, can't hear the phone!". "Oh. I happen to be here in KL. Free boh? 2.30! I go find you", he says.

He, was a friend of mine from as long as a decade, or something close to it. I never would have thought of him arriving here, considering that he is working at some place far from here. Some few hundreds kilometers away. Anyway, it was his relatives function he was attending, and it happens to be nearby, and so, the visit.

Today I find him different from the friend I once known. Very different. Not his attire or his look, coz is still as shabby as always. But his thinking, and the way he looked at this world. In the short conversation that we had, I knew he is a changed man. You couldn't have imagined how a man he was 2 years back.

"The penny is even bigger than the wheels of the cart", a Chinese saying goes. THIS is the impression he gives before this. He values his money so much, that he eats he cheapest food he can get hold of during Uni time, he shops for the cheapest shampoo brand to use during sales season. And worst of all, he is still using the 14" CRT monitor from the 80's in his Uni time for his computer, and even back then, LCD is already considered to be normal. And we never succeeded in asking him to join us to wherever outing that we happen to organise, be it a short trip to the cinema, excursion to the Taman Negara, or even the countdown session on every christmas eve.

But right now, in front of me, he is saying that he has been to Taiwan recently, and is planning on going to Shanghai at the end of the year! "Don't you know? I put it up in my Facebook account!", he says. Then he ask me whether I played the "restaurant city" game. I said no. "What? What la...u so outdated one! Everybody has a FB account right now, and its fun!", he continues. It's kinda strange to have him say this to me. Among all my friends and colleagues, he is the one least qualified to say that I am so so outdated, at least it was true 2 years back. Coz old fashion was his theme. Conservative and conventional was his belief back then! TNS! And now I find myself lectured by this fucker friend of mine about me not being active in FB. Basically, I'm not that anti FB, but just that i still can't get accustomed to the idea of sharing all your photos for others to see. And the "what's on your mind" thing, sometimes i feel like is becoming of a gossip at the fish market, and it can be a great time waster sometimes. Of coz many times, it's great entertainment to see people whacking each other. But i have got to salute this creator of FB, for he has the power to convince even uncles and auntys and even grandpas and grandmas to use FB. E-circles failed to do it. Friendster fails to do it. Even Myspace failed to do it. For this I salute him. 100%.

So i asked him what made the change. He says it was the accident that made him change. He was hit by a car and he broke his leg, arm, and some other bones, and is still walking a bit awkwardly as of now. Very lucky for him. For him, every single day after the accident was a day earned. It's like to live after you have died. If we were to think this way, then there is really nothing that can make us fear or shy or whatsoever. There is nothing worse than death itself. I still remembered him saying last time that the first thought that came across his mind when he was lying on the road is "What is the purpose of me having so much money?"

I guess that is really true. To be truly engrossed in making money only and neglect the other important things is life is just something too stupid to do. At least true from this real life experience of my friend. I am happy that he has made this visit today. Coz i think this is an advise from heaven...i suppose. I hope my friend will continue to lead a happy life. BTW, he still not very successfull in detaching himself from the money thing, just much better than he was 2 years back. Coz 70% of the conversation with him this afternoon was about analyzing the ups and downs of the stock market. Well, at least not 100%. Is good enough already.

mY toP 5 woRsT ciNeMA ExPeriEnCe

mY toP 5 woRsT ciNeMA ExPeriEnCe
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Less of talking. Just let the sketch do the talking.

No.1
SOMEONE NEXT TO YOU FALL ASLEEP AND START SNORING ALL THE WAY TILL THE END. YOU WANNA KNOCK HIS HEAD WITH YOUR SHOE, BUT THE PENDIDIKAN MORAL SUBJECT YOU LEARNT IN SCHOOL SEEMS TO HAVE SOME EFFECT ON YOU...CAUSING YOU TO HOLD BACK AND CONTINUE ENDURE THIS PAINFUL MOVIE NIGHT TILL THE END...T.N.S....

You SLEEP at your home, please!

No.2
YOU FOUND SOME F*ckER WHO KEEPS REPEATING THE STORYLINE TO HIS FRIEND...

Tell ya...the HERO gonna DIE after this...

No.3
SEATED IN FRONT OF YOU IS A DISTANT RELATIVE OF YAO MING, HIS HEAD BLOCKING HALF OF YOUR VIEW ON THE SCREEN, AND YOU WISH YOU COULD TRIM IT USING A PAIR OF GRASS TRIMMER.

No.4
THOSE WHO TALKS ON HIS HANDPHONE LIKE HISGRANFATHER OWNS THE CINEMA...

YoU REaLLY NeeD TO be sO tALL mEh?

No.5
THE TICKET IS SELLING LIKE HOT CAKES, AND YOU ARE THE UNLUCKY ONE HAVING THE FIRST ROW OF SEAT. NICE VIEW, MAN! I MEAN...THE SUBTITLES PART ONLY...

AIYO! NeCk pAIN LaR!