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I am back, with 2012 Resolutions.

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:52:04 PST

Can’t imagine, the previous post I wrote, is about 1 and 6 months ago. That period was my working life, a lot of up and down, was fucking busy, and glad I grown up a lot in this 16 months of working life. I mentioned ‘was’, as I am in a jobless position, yet it feels so great.

I don’t have a clear 2011 resolutions, which makes me slightly regretted, so I will have 2012 resolutions. hehe.

Been asking myself, what’s the purpose of life (yet, until now, I don’t quite able to answer that, by the fact that, everyone dies at the end, LOL), at least when achieved goals, make me feel life is meaningful. It’s a journey, a game, with strategy to win it. While it can be won, it can be lost too, that’s the fun part of it. It’s important to make sure the goal is clear and specific.

Here are the resolutions of 2012, in summary, start from most important.

Run my first startup.
Travel to Tibet, and hike to Himalaya base camp.
Being able to do Toe Fake 20 cones (inline slalom move).
Join a major freestyle slalom competition at overseas.
Gain weight to 55kg. (I find it the hardest challenge)
Skydiving. (See if Groupon provides cheap one or not)
Travel to East Coast Malaysia, include .
Get a MacBook Pro 15. (ouch!)
finish 3 books: In The Plex, Steve Jobs Biography, and one more still pending)
Sponsor a child with WorldVision.

That’s it. Check back 1 year later, and see what I done.

10 件毕业感言

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:36:11 PDT

4年的大学生活已经结束了。虽然有好多的不舍，但生活还是要往前走。

离开了大学生涯，虽然带有一点点伤感，但整体来说，还是蛮开心的~ 因为这段期间认识了好多人，大大小小，明明暗暗，好好坏坏，（大多数都是好人啦）。

4年里学了好多事情，这里不谈课业里学到的，想把自己在4年里学到的道理写出来，有10个，就让那些还在上着大学的朋友分享下：

钱不是最重要，开心才是关键。但不要搞到自己没钱吃饭。
对不起不要随便说，说了就要实践它。
这时间很大可能会遇见生命中的伴侣，请认真地考虑和珍惜她/他。
课可以旷，但请确定自己有本事旷。
除了学业外，最好有一项会让自己骄傲的运动。
不要凡事都怪老师不会教，只要是看你自己要不要学，Google已经很发达了。
很多时候都是朋友陪我们度过一切，所以要好好珍惜他们。珍惜，其实就是感激。别忘了自己也是好多人的朋友。
控制好自己的脾气，否则很容易犯下后悔一生的错误。
在这段时间跌倒，只需要站起来笑一下，然后继续走，没有人会笑你的；如果你坐在地上不肯爬起来，才会被笑。
不要装可怜来让别人注意，因为没人会每一次都同情你的，遇到问题就要自己去解决，写一大堆和说一大堆，要给谁知道？

每个人都有不同的体验吧，你们在4年里有体会到什么？

其实，我好幸运。

感谢我认识了你，珮如。

最后一个夏天

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:54:50 PDT

在你我他都没意识到的情况下，4年已经来到最后的两个礼拜。

现在已经是五月，考完试后，大学生活就结束了。

我不能说我开心，因为我很害怕失去；

但面对的还要面对，一些事情，是掌控之外的。

你相信距离吗？人和人的距离会因为实际上的距离而疏远吗？

那就要看你肯花多少心思去保持。

毕业后，一大堆的问题会跳出来：PTPTN怎么还？在哪里找工作？什么样的工作？hometown 还是 KL?

不想了，过后才想。

每个人，请加油，就请你去拼命，当最后一回的学生吧。

金莎，《最后一个夏天》，很有毕业难舍气氛的一首歌，请看好歌词，很感动~

Finally

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:55:16 PDT

Finally, I completed my FYP.

FYP is Final Year Project, a term that widely used in MMU, but most local university prefer the term, thesis.

And I believe, most people hate it. (right?)

This project had been started since last year November 2009, duration until April 2010, about 7 months of planning and implementation, which I learned A LOT A LOT A LOT A LOT A LOT x 10000.

Project successfully implemented on time, with most expected features. When I submitted it just now, a sudden feeling of emptiness in my mind. Not because I had nothing to do anymore, but this project already took about 85% of my brain capacity, and I need time to get balance.

Computer was my best friend, my primary language become C#, sometimes woke up at 8am with the whole brain full of codes and algorithm, ish.

I can’t remember the last time what movie I watched… I can’t remember when is the last time I walk in a mall… I can’t remember when I got haircut, I can’t remember when I back hometown…

(actually I do remember, just the time is too long~)

This project, makes me realized that everyone has weakness. I have my weakness, you have your weakness, and I shall not assume everyone has the skill that I have.

To my FYP partner leekian, sorry for some quarrel during this project, I learned my lessons, and thanks for your all kind of support, directly or indirectly, you do did a great job. I did promise will score A for this project, and I can see we really tried our best, thank you to make this project complete on time, the rest is up to the moderator and supervisor. Thanks again to be my partner.

So, FYP completion present came early. I bought a new Seba iGoR skates for myself, and train hard to get to Korea for my first big competition~ (hopefully)

Congratulation to everyone who completed the FYP on time (and myself). I need to slowly get back my life!

辛苦

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:44:14 PDT

一点都不简单

一点都不容易

我真得好辛苦。。。你看得到吗？

Finally, you are gone…

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:02:58 PST

Remember the first time I saw you, you seem special, and you were my only one. I spent quite some time with you, until she appeared.

She had a foxy tail, and, definitely, better than you, in everything. So, slowly, I gave up on you…

Ok, enough crap. It’s just about Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox.

Since Google remove the support for old browser like IE6, it forced organization to upgrade their browser to the supported version. This is Google’s initiative to push the Internet forward, and I totally support it~

Internet Explorer 6 died on 1st March, 2010.

Aten Design Group organized a funeral for IE6, which quite hilarious, but it’s a respect for a browser which been on the Internet for 8 years… RIP.

Visit the official website at www.ie6funeral.com

Photos of the funeral, from flickr.

Handwritten message from Team Microsoft. SAD.

R.I.P.

IE6 last look.

Don’t cry my friend, IE6 will be remembered.

Before closing the coffin.

We will miss you.

Wonder will they make a funeral for Windows 98 or 2000?

Hello~

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:26:13 PST

Been abandoned this site for some time.

Not because I lack of blogging idea, I have quite a lot to share, but workloads are pressing me so hard.

So, here is another blue moon EMO post~

Been trying to accept what I lost, forever. But things can never be so easy. Memories are something that can motivate and push me forward, so powerful; yet if not ‘think’ it correctly, memories can kill.

Currently, still continue developing system for my internship’s boss, and at the same time, FYP aka Final Year Project. Double workload, with same 24 hours, caused me have to sacrifice most of my time with my laptop.

Last few months ago when my internship program came to an end, I was asked by boss if I want to continue developing the project, I accepted so happily, hoping I can learn extra knowledge to work on my FYP team, yes, indeed, I reused a lot of the concept on my FYP, and also some small extra income to support me until graduate.

All the while, I strongly believe that hard work and time can solve ANY problem, even how IMPOSSIBLE it can be, as long as DON’T GIVE UP. It’s true, and it’s always true throughout my life. Things I want, targets to achieve, I set it, I can reach it.

Then I realized, all the targets are seldom come from myself: study hard is for my family, work hard is for people I care, all for the future of a better living for them. If I am alone, I guess I won’t be studying and working this hard. I took this responsible happily, and wish only they appreciate and don’t treat me as outsider. (hey, there is nothing wrong with my family)

At some point, because of my ego, I lost my temper, and I lost the most important one in my life. Words that said out, can’t be taken back; apologise never been accepted. Everything is gone.

For now, I can never wish to return to any previous stage, things that I promised, I can’t fulfil. Just wish that, you can forgive such a silly guy.

Erm, what I want to deliver in this post? Is up to people who read it. I just wanted to shout out the thought that buried in me for 4 months… Always, jia you. And, some times, hard work don’t return, but DON’T GIVE UP!

Day 6: Last Day in Sabah

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:36:47 PST

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Sorry for a long delay from Day 5 post. Life is getting very very hard and stress. But without writing day 6, things get incomplete :)

Day 6 is quite a resting day to all of us, after getting down from the mountain. Most of us have sore legs, that makes walking so pain!

The flight is at 7pm, so basically we had half day to walk around. We had a breakfast at Gaya Street, is Curry Mee. How to say? It’s different. The noodle is special, which looks like cintan mee, but it’s not.

The street of Gaya in the morning. Motocycle is rare thing at there.

The new mall, Suria Sabah. It’s still not yet fully open, with a lot empty shop lots. By that time has book fair with dirt cheap book, so I got 1 humour book, which until now I also not yet finish reading :(

X-Plorer Backpackers, our stay places. Got to check out by 1pm, haiz… Good bye! i will miss the people~

The transparent toilet, cool~

Lunch was Dumpling with Century Egg noodle. Not that impressive, and expensive… chop tourist one!

This is the central market. It’s full range of souvenirs, like pearls, handcrafts, batik, aiya, all sort of traditional toys and keychains. Do some head count, then bought some gifts to friends.

After some “long” and tired walk, is time to sit down and have some drink. Coconut drink is all time favourite. I still don’t know where they got that much of coconuts, and the whole street is selling the same drink, same price… Weird.

1 coconut is RM2.50, for cold one is RM3.00. Each of us ordered 1 coconut, drink till very full, a very satisfy one!

Some fruit I don’t know the name… With very weird taste, yuck.

People is playing chess under tree, so “happening”.

The guy at X-Plorer helped us hired a taxi to the Airport, RM25 just for a damn 10 minutes drive. If next time I am jobless, I will drive taxi in Penang.

At the airport, I saw clown fish, Nemo.

With his friend, Dolly. (ignore the uncle behind)

And another ugly friend.

See what Dolly is doing…? Ha.

The flight departed at 7pm, and reached KLIA at 9:30pm, roughly. Everyone was tired, but this trip is very significant to me.

This is the first destination that I been in my travel list, still have many more pending.
This is my 100% self sponsored trip, thanks to my boss who pay for my work~ Whole trip spent about RM1200 include 2 ways flight. And in the future, all will be self sponsored.
Whole trip was planned with Nana using Google, GPS, and read forums, and all bookings are done directly with the service, no agents involved. Cut cost~
First time encounter wild boars family, scare the shit out of us.
Thanks to mom who called me every night.
Thanks to Bobby, Nana, and Kelvin to be so sporting to say “YES! Let’s go!”
Thanks to my Sony Ericsson C905 phone camera.
Thanks to the weather to be so cooperative during our mountain hiking.
Thanks everyone who make my day so bright, in my worst ever mood of my life… Thanks.

Sometimes not because you can sacrifice, you can work so hard, you can fall down and climb up again, will come with success. By the time you persuade for something or someone, must set a ‘give-up’ point, else, the one get hurt will be yourself, and no one will feel pity towards you.

So, Kinabalu Trip is done.

I can sense my next trip could be Singapore and Korea, wohoo!!!!!

5th Day: To the Peak!

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:40:39 PST

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Last night slept at about 8pm, even is very early, the tiredness just pawned us.

Our bed is double deck bed, I slept upper deck, while Bobby slept lower deck. Each person has a wool blanket, comfort. I thought it will be very cold at night, so I wore gloves and thick jacket that I will use to hike tomorrow. Very soon, I am in dream.

About 12am, I woke up, caused by nightmare. Actually the room quite warm, maybe is because the blanket is thick, so I removed my jacket and gloves, basically, top less. It’s getting so hard to fall asleep, because the air is quite thin and low oxygen. I notice my breathing rate getting so fast, even myself is not moving!

After rolled for 2 more hours, I get off the bed for early breakfast.

Our guide told us, if it rains, and too dangerous, we got to turn back… No~~ Please don’t rain~ But see the below clear sky, there is no cloud~ wahaha. We are lucky.

This is the star view in the morning, thanks to Nana’s super DSLR camera. I had never see this star cloud in my life before… so beautiful…

So we start the hike. Plants are getting short, like the one below.

In the first part of journey, the floor is quite slippery due to some stream water. My knee joints were pain, like the kind of rainy day pain, aka 风湿. Some terrain are manmade stair cases, thanks for making our life easier~

Until some point, there is no more stair case, and plants left grass only. The terrain is granite stone like you see above, with ropes to support us go up.

This is the way they locate the ropes into the stone, by screwing in.

The last part of the journey is not easy. I feel, the hardest part is not because your muscle pain, but is the thin air. I hardly walk more than 100 steps without taking a rest, and got to keep remind myself to breath faster and deeper.

The only motivation for me to keep going is to reach the peak on time, and see the clearest sunrise ever~ Was together with Bobby, but after hike for a while, Bobby is gone! Left me with some strangers…

Must keep moving.

At 5:56am, I reached Low’s Peak~ Sunlight has appear a little by that time.

Another side of the view.

Yea, finally~ While hiking, I not yet feel the coldness, maybe is the heat in my body; but when stop at the peak, I can feel the coldness on my lips and face, cold! My wool gloves are not working…

Around 6:10am, Bobby Reached. See his face, cold till numb.

Awesome view!

The sun rise is so beautiful. In our normal routine, we can never have chance to see sunrise at 10am (the time I wake up usually), that moment I feel a kind of “finally..!”. Maybe is after so much hard work, the beautifulness make me wanna cry~

Sooner, Nana and Kelvin arrived too. It’s time to go down, it’s cold!

Mini lake.

The famous peak of Mount Kinabalu.

Above the cloud~

This is the rope that guided us along the journey.

Nana hiking down slowly with his DSLR behind.

Coming down is making me dizzy. Maybe is because body lack of mineral, or water, or anything. While hiking in dark with only 1 head gear, we can’t see how steep the terrain is; when the sunrise, the terrain is scary… Going downward is quite dangerous. We saw Laban Rata from far, but no matter how long we hike, it’s still that far… And finally~

After breakfast, is time to check out from Laban Rata, there is still another 4 hours journey to the park entrance at Timpohon, damn.

Going downward is killing most of us, it hurts toes and knees.

Along the downward journey, we noticed porter carried supplies from bottom to above.

Check this, empty gas tank. Even the full one is also carry in the same way with legs! Bobby got stunned.

This 2 kakak is carrying food supply to Laban Rata. I asked them:

Me: Kak, ini berat tak?

Kakak: Berat.

Me: Berapa kilo ar?

Kakak: Saya punye 27kg, yang itu orang 30kg lebih.

Me: hebat…

Respect.

Squirrels are everywhere on the mountain. They appear at the places with human, like resting stop, hoping human give them some food. They are attracted by the left over food in rubbish bin too.

Forest~ This is so big different with the peak.

On our way down, it rained. Luckily we brought raincoat. The atmosphere is misty.

Carson Fall, a mini waterfall. This is near to the exit ~

Reached the exit at about 2:56pm. Finally, I had did something I feel satisfied in my life.

The food at Kinabalu Park is awesome. Maybe we are too hungry. Never feel so delicious before~

Certificate for reaching the peak.

Certificate for hiking from Mesilau Gate, wahaha.

This is one cool great experience for us. I not sure if this will be the last time I hike, or there will be another in the future.

For this journey, we used 7 hours from Mesilau Gate to Laban Rata; 3 hours to the peak; going down to Laban Rata for anothe 3 hours, and from Laban Rata to Timpohon Gate is another 3 and half hours.

Total up of 16 and half hours. Never exercise so long before! But everything is worth the price. I need to have something significant in my life, as proof that I live before~

**FYI, Mount Kinabalu still far away from Top 100 Tallest Peak in the world.

Day 4: To the Mountain!

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:20:52 PST

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Finally is day 4, the scheduled climbing day~

Thanks to Mr. Weather, the sky is clear, no rains.

So here is the plan:

1. Get transport to Kinabalu Park,

2. Start hike.

Of course step one is quite troublesome: take taxi to Kinabalu Park is about 2 hours, cost about RM180; or take minivan, RM15 per person. We took mini van for sure. However, mini van will only start when the vehicle is full…

waiting. It’s 6am in the morning.

There will be daily mini van to Ranau from Kota Kinabalu, which will pass by Kinabalu Park.

Our talkative van driver who likes to share his experience with us. He shown us his saman, his rubic cube, his 8 times Mount Kinabalu hiking experience etc. (Locals always hike Mount Kinabalu, like pass time)

Finally the van is full, start driving. On the way saw this Mount Kinabalu from far. It looks small, I know, wait till you climb it.

This Mr Russian is teaching me how to solve Mr. Driver’s rubic rube. I am noob, I still can’t remember the steps.

Reached Kinabalu Park! Nana, Bobby, and Kelvin, and camera man Me. FYI, Kinabalu Park is located at roughly 1950m above sea level, higher than Genting Highland.

This is the closer look of Mount Kinabalu, marvellous.

What the process at Kinabalu Park?
This is the place we report our arrival, hire a mountain guide, get our packed lunch.

There are 2 trails for climbers to chose, 1 is from the Timpohon Gate (left side), and another is the much harder one from Mesilau Gate (right side).

Mesilau Trail is 2km longer, but with more beautiful scenery than Timpohon Gate.

Since this is not the always opportunity, let’s take the hard one up, and come back down from the easy one, hoho.

To start from Mesilau Gate, we need to take transport to there for 20 minutes, cost us total of RM85 per van, kena chopped…

Reached, Mesilau Resort signboard.

Hiking Starto~ It’s already 11am, quite late.

The trail consists of all sort of surface, like the above one.

Our mountain guide, Simpson. He is like a super human, won’t tired one.

Nana with his super camera. The scenery is very beautiful, and there his camera start working.

Look down at KM1. HAHA.

KM2, hoho, still can smile.

Some random waterfall in the forest.

Starting, the road is going upward, after 1km, it going down until starting altitude… then going up for about 1 hour, then going down again!!!! Shit, this is killing my knees!

KM4.5, out.

This is the packed lunch from Kinabalu Park, not something special, but in hungry time, anything taste nice, plain water can taste like 100 PLUS, tea can taste like beer.

Along the trail can easily spot this kind of toilet. I wonder where the waste flush to….

My hiking permit card.

With names one, precious~

Like Alice in Wonderland.

Can’t smile anymore…. tired.

Big flower!

The background is awesome, we are above the cloud finally~

This is the water tank that can be seen along the trail. It written: “Air tidak dirawat; Untreated Water”. but it is safe to drink.

Beautiful…

Turn left to Timpohon Gate, turn right to the peak? Turn Right!

One of the hell terrain. Our steps are getting heavier and heavier, slower and slower, and the terrain is getting harder and harder… where is the end point?

Kelvin with his “lunch”.

Another terrain. The trees are getting shorter and shorter..

This is the white tree.

The air is getting thiner, breathing is getting harder. I need to inhale and exhale faster, else the dizzy feeling strike on me. Finally, reached Laban Rata Resthouse! It is already 6:08pm, a 7 hours non stop climbing, just to get our dinner on time, because the dinner will close on 7pm.

My first proper meal of the day, not very special, but is super delicious when hungry!

People playing sepak takraw on the cloud.

Check in, get room key, put down stuff… huh, tired! I shall bath first before sleep, the water is… VERY FUC***G COLD! The feeling same exactly like soak your hand into ice water, 5 seconds can make your hand numb!

So… It’s the fastest bath I ever had in 21 years.

Slept at 7:30pm, got to wake up at 2am tomorrow morning to conquer the rest of the mountain.

Stay tune!

Day 3: Do nothing Day.

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:07 PST

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Damn the tent is so hard to sleep without a pillow, my bag is still too hard as a pillow… Kakak said the tent can sleep 6 people, but 4 people already damn cacat.

Small rains happened twice during the night, so got to wake up to close the tent, and reopen when rain is over.

Woke up by Bobby in the morning. When I opened my eyes, it’s already sunrise. WOW, Sabah sun raise at 6am, let’s breakfast~

breakfast is actually some leftover biscuit from yesterday: Chipsmore, Tiger cracker, etc, no shops on the island open yet. After that we visited another side of island. Sadly, my camera out of battery… but lucky is, Nana super DSLR still in business~

Till the next boat is 5 hours more, let’s get wet, hoho~

Again, damn my camera out of battery!

The sea water in the morning is quite calm than afternoon, so we can see clearly those creatures in the seabed. Fish started to appear, the further, the bigger and colourful.

I saw many kinds of fish: Retard-Fish, Zebra-Fish, Red-Fish, Long-Fish, White Fish, Blue-Fish, Oren-Fish, and many more~ (names come in my first impression, no offense to those fish).

Retard fish like to bite our legs; zebra fish is the super Tiger Cracker consumer; Red-Fish is red; Long fish is long; bla bla bla.

Again! Damn my camera with no battery! Else I can show you all how are those fishes look like.

Looking at those fishes, I feel that all lives are so miracle… After billion years, whole world is full of life.

Back to KK
Sun is getting hot, and it’s time to back to Kota Kinabalu… Oh man, I love these islands! Still stay back in the same X-Plorer Backpacker Lodge, missed their service.

All the food above was introduced by the friendly guy at X-Plorer, yummy, but, expensive la… After is a straight 2 hours sleep, never sleep well last night, with rains, wild boar, and hard pillow.

Malaysia Monument. Seems like abandoned, poor place.

Milo Cincau.

Cooks in prison.

“Tolong display kalau da jual Kalau tak, potong gaji. – Arahan Anti Max” (Please display the unit after sold one, else, deduct salary – order from Aunty Max)

Pork soup.

Then shopped for a pair of shoe for tomorrow hiking, and a shirt printed with Orang Utan, satisfied~

Stay tune for tomorrow main event~

Day 2: To The Islands

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:29:08 PST

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When I woke up at 8am, Calvin was watching TV at outside. After woke everyone up, we went for breakfast. Luckily, we found 1 popular Pan Mee shop.

But I didn’t see where is 家嫂 … This shop has slightly expensive price, maybe to their reputation, or they chopping tourists.

But… it’s delicious~ With Aloe Vera drink.

The boss is a 70++ year old granny, who talked a lot of story to us.

Some things he told us:

Stephen Chou been to his shop.
香港无线电视 crews and actors eat at his shop while filming in Sabah.
And other actors etc.
He hiked Mountain Kinabalu twice in his life.
He has an illegal Philippine worker, who married at 12 year old, and has 18 children now… wow.
Sadly, they can’t afford to send them to school, and even worst, they don’t have birth certificates, makes them no proper identity.
bla bla bla.

Later on, is to shop for Nana’s contact lens. Because we are going to island hopping, spectacles are very troublesome. Lucky I already got my free contact lens sample.

After that, back to our room, checked out. X-Plorer backpacker also allow us to keep our luggage there after check out. So we can go for our activities without our heavy luggage~

Next planned destination is Island Hopping. We drove our rented car back to airport, and get a cab to Sutera Harbour Resort. Cost us RM30, if not mistaken.

Kota Kinabalu International Airport Terminal 1. High class.

Sutera Harbour Resort entrance.

Harbour at noon time. Undescribed beautiful.

I feel like want to jump into the sea right now.

Big big boat!

Price:
The price for island hopping is RM35 for 1 island, additional RM10 for each island. By the time we arrived at first island, we need to pay RM3 conservation fee to the park administrator. (all prices are for each person)

Boarding time. Everyone carrying few bottles of drink water and food, because we going to overnight on island, and the food there is crazily expensive.

Moving~ The boat driver is shy.

Call me dump, but I just never see sea water in blue colour. And when the sea water splash into my mouth, then only I remember: sea water is salty! It’s about 10 minutes boat ride, and we reached Pulau Manukan~

Pulau manukan

Bikini girl is having sunbath. The first thing in my mind when I step on the jetty, I want to jump in the sea right away!

FYI, Pulau Manukan is one of the 5 islands that formed Taman Tunku Abdul Rahman marine park. Another 4 are Sapi, Mamutik, Gaya, and Sulug, each with different properties.

I bought Dicapac, some plastic container that can put camera inside and use under water. But sad is, the performance suck, but still better than nothing~

Anyway, this is Mr. coral.

Wa, never play in sea water for years!!!

Little Coral on the shore.

Crystal clear water.

Bobby and Nana.

This is the only resort on the island, cost minimum RM700 per night. For non Malaysian, even more expensive.

Quite a lot of Koreans visit to Islands, one of it is in the above picture.

Nana feeding fish with himself.

Small fishes swim around me. Fish naturally afraid of anything, they tend to swim away when you approach them, but after you stay there for a while, they get familiar, and start to swim around you.

Fishieeeeeee!!!

Trying to catch them. But human reaction can never faster than fish… So far only Nana caught one, with a big plastic bag.

Bigger ikan bilis (is it ikan bilis?)

Retard Kelvin stared at the fish, and start to sing song: “I wanna eat you, and you, and you and you and you~” yer.

Collections of fish that appear in this park. See there is shark in the list.

It’s about 4pm, we waited at the Jetty to hop to another island – Pulau Sapi, and the time we spotted these fishes.

Fishes from the Jetty.

All sorts of fish.

Good bye Pulau manukan…

Pulau Sapi
This is one exciting island, with not much people, and we are gonna overnight here.

We rented a 6-person tent for RM30, saved a lot of money~

Done. Doh, where enough for 6 persons?

Water here is not as impressive as Manukan Island, but the sand is much finer and white.

Sunset.

Kinabalu City at night. Sun set 1 hour earlier than here, it’s only 6:40pm.

There is no food on the island, so we already prepared damn lot of biscuits as our lunch, dinner and tomorrow breakfast.

After dinner is some nonsense activity…

Clear water at night.

We tried to dig a deep hole, hopefully will reach water, but we never expect, at night sea level is reducing… so, no water.

There are a lot of activity happen on the island at night, crabs will only come out to play water and find food at night.

Mr Crab smile at my camera.

Some funny incident in the night:

This island has not much infrastructure compare to Gaya Island and Manukan Island, so at night, the total people on the island is less than 10 I guess.

There is only 1 spot light on the island at night… Nothing much can do, Bobby and others wanted to sleep early at 7:30pm.

While my pants still not yet dry, so I decided to walk a while on the beach. Suddenly, I heard some noise in the dark trees, some rubbish bins being push down.

WTF? I looked in the shadow, and saw a big creature is searching for food, around it still have another 3 small creature… Damn, a family of wild boars.

I SMS Bobby not to come out or make noise, because they are just about 3 meters away from our tent. And also tie our biscuit tight, so they can’t smell it.

While I stay under spot light, holding my phones. When the wild boar leave, I quickly changed my wet pants, and sleep.

Wild boars came and leave, came and leave, the whole night is an excited one.

It rains lightly at night, twice, and the sandy tent is really not comfortable to sleep in, especially without a pillow… but is indeed an unforgettable experience~

Finding Electricity
I can’t sleep so early, and my phone out of battery, so I holding my charger walking around the pondok, hoping to find 1 electric port that can charge my phone, and I saw 1 only.

Damn, used by spot light, out only light source. If I pull it off, means if anything goes wrong, the wild boar came out again, or alien attack, we all mampui (in deep shit). So, after wandering until 11pm, I went to sleep.

Stay tune for day 3~

Day 1 at The Land Under the Wind

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:00:29 PST

I don’t know how to start, or where to start. This Sabah trip had been planned for more than 3 months, with a sudden crazy thought out of no where: “Let’s go climb Mount Kinabalu.” Hoho, I just wanted to do something crazy before I graduate!

Did quite a lot of serious research, accommodation, transport, place of interest, price, booking, Google Earth and Google Map, GPS coordinate, equipments bla bla bla, finally it’s 7th January 2010~ hoho~

FYI, Sabah, which most other country known as Borneo, has a fancy name, The Land Under The Wind.

4 of us: Me, Bobby, Kelvin, and Nana. Woke up at 6am, trying to wake up Eddy to fetch us to Putrajaya Central… In the end we took bus there (Eddy slept dead d)

So, skipped those parts from on train to LCCT and breakfast, and finally, we are on the plane!

Even this is not the first time I travel by plane, but the feeling of force changes when the plane took off still makes me feel excited. This time is a 2 hours journey, I already finished reading the magazine, and slept.

Finally landed. Oh? Even Malaysian visit to Sabah requires permit! We are allow to be in Sabah for 3 months only, just like travel to other country, except without passport.

First thing is to rent a cheap car. The price is quite expensive than Langkawi car rental, we rented a manual Kancil for RM90 a day, ouch. At least still cheaper than taking cab everywhere.

So now I know, SAA cars are from Sabah… Seen a lot in Cyberjaya, don’t know how they carry here.

To cut cost, we lodge in 1 of the backpackers lodge located at Gaya Street. Have to say, I love their services and their friendly people!!!

The resting area of X-Plorer.

Makan Makan Makan!
One of the purpose of travel is to eat. Was quite excited to check out the local food, wish it’s special to us.

A Malay stall, in a Chinese shop. This is really rare in Penisular. But at Sabah, this is very common. In fact, I can’t really differentiate Malay, local Bumiputra, and Illegal Philippines, yes, there have a lot of plilippinos, illegally.

Sabah Mee Rojak. Super nice, till I can remember the taste when I typing this.

Beautiful Mosque. Available a lot of mosques and church in Kota Kinabalu.

We visited Sabah Museum. The only thing that impressed me is the 16m huge whale skeleton. Sadly, no camera allowed. But overall, I feel their museum has more real things than here, which only keep replicas…

Next, we need to confirm about the boat to Island hopping on next day, so we went to Sutera harbour. Sutera Harbour Resort is the giant player in tourism, they have business at Kinabalu Park, Poring Hot Spring, and also Mount Kinabalu, damn, I hate monopolize.

But undeniable, this is the most beautiful port I ever seen in my life. (Maybe I never visit to other places, so for now, it’s the most beautiful~)

Wish I own 1 of the boat behind~

The sea water is so clear, with a lot of fishes in there.

Fishieeeee!!

Mr Kelvin wants to eat fish.

Awesome…

After checked out the price and timetable, and damn lots of photo, we leaved. To makan again~

Market
Market is the place where we can see a lot of local things: people, their pattern, their economy, their FOOD etc. It’s a market consisted of wet market, vegetable market, and delicacy market, sluppp~~

Selling food. This looks like the Putrajaya Stall during Fasting Month. Good thing is, most of their things are damn cheap.

While we walk around, suddenly I saw this super giant alien prawn! It’s big right? Later on still have bigger and scarier one! They purposely arrange the giant prawn at the corner, and can see every tourist who pass by will have the same WTF look. Funny~ Prawn is expensive, RM18 for 1.

Philippine kids playing at rubbish dumpsite. This scene is so normal there, and most probably, they are children without proper identity, means no birth certificate, because of their illegal immigrant parents.

Poor scene. But our parents time is also playing like this gua~

Beautiful sunset…

Our dinner are big fish, prawn, and sotong.

Nana with a RM3 coconut. 3 persons share.

Pasar Malam (aka Night market). Nothing special, with a lot of Gucci, Nike, Adidas, LV, you know la, all replicas….

Back to our room…

From second floor view. Bobby and naked Nana. The room structure is very special, has 2 storey, second floor need to climb a 75 degree stairs, geli.

My night is to swallow 2 cans of beer, watch a funny comedy, then slept nicely till the next morning. First day passed very fast, quite satisfy one.

Stay tune to Day 2.

Another Live Example: Ants can Teleport.

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:11:17 PST

While I work on my code on my desktop, suddenly, I notice an ant walk across my screen.

So I use finger to sweep it away.

Ei? It’s not on the screen..??

Damn, it’s in the screen! I got no idea how it dig into there.

Ant is on Firefox.

Ant is on IE.

On MSN chat.

On Desktop.

Ant on Facebook.

This little creature is walking inside the screen, somewhere between the light source and the crystal display, I don’t know.

Sadly, by the time I write this post, the ant is dead. Maybe too tired after crawling for 8 hours without food. So now it left a “dead pixel” that occupied 10 pixels on my screen… shit.

Another solid prove that ants can teleport, into your air tight jam container, your fridge, and now, your LCD screen.

2010

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:16:24 PST

This is the 3rd day of 2010.

While writing this post, I paused at the first line for a while, don’t know what to write actually.

Look back in 2009, is like roller coaster of my life. There are so many ups and downs, and same like roller coaster, I can’t control if I am going down, or going up. Just as relationship…

But 2009 is the year I tried out most things, visited most places, do most things.

I always have a stupid thought: I wish I can visit some new place with someone special. This really motivate me to work harder, so hard, and the end, I realized I still standing at the same spot. This thinking is just too naive.

For worst things that happened in 2009, I try to swim up the source to find out what is the cause; but what I realized, no one is wrong. If there is, it will be my personality, who only knows to keep going, without realize when to stop, sorry.

Obviously, my 2009 ~~resolution~~ wish is not achieve… Will bring forward to 2010: I wish I meet someone so special who will appreciate me.

Always be positive to future, and again, don’t easily give up, else will regret forever. Jia you~

New Year Countdown at Queensbay Mall, my first new year countdown in public.

Penang Youth Park (again)

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:58:24 PST

Had been to this place many times. Even I just sit at the corner looking at the trees, the children running, I will feel relax too.

Trees.

Water fountain.

Leaves, this one is the best wallpaper~

Err… Heaven Bird?? （天堂鸟）

Canopy.

The Malay father is teaching his small son to play skateboarding on the slopes. This seldom happen in Chinese family, who overly protect their children… Lucky my family gave me a lot freedom to do anything I like.

Purple flower~

I think is Chrysanthemum… Want try?

Orchid la!

I love this picture the most, * May Peace Prevail On Earth*

Mom and Dad.

Wish I have my skate that time, kaki gatal la (legs itchy, want skate).

No plastic bag, no no no.

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:42:04 PST

Went for a huge shopping with family at Jusco Seberang perai.

My family has a weird trend, we only shop once a month, or every 2 months. So for every “stock buying” day, the trolley will be filled until it is full.

Maybe was in Cyberjaya for too long, I don’t know that the whole Penang is having a very large scale anti plastic bag campaign, participated by all major hypermarkets. All the items in trolley being carry home without taking any plastic bag.

If want plastic bag, pay 20 cents lo~ Since 6th July 2009, every Monday is no plastic day, and saved more than 1,000,000 plastic bags. (The day we went is not Monday, maybe they expanded the days)

I love this new Penang government.

Pesta Penang 2009

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:33:24 PST

Everyone in their childhood should have been to pesta, at least once, not sure about other places, but Penang is the state with a lot of so-called mobile pesta, which myself feel very excited when I am still 5.

Been Pesta Penang few years ago. This large scale pesta has rides that can match with big amusement park like Genting and Sunway Lagoon, not all, but some rides.

Went with Lih Shian, Eric, Yao Hao, and Shi Ning, schoooool mate.

This reminded me of the Computer Graphic assignment: design a playground for alien.

This rides same with the one at Genting Highland. Been this place with friends do let me feel young again.

Random picture. Besides the rides and games are exhibition of plants, Malay business, boring.

Kesian costume guy, he should be there promoting ice cream, but after took photo with him, I didn’t buy from him. haha, bad me.

It’s Christmas Eve Night, not feel like going back soon, at least after 12am to check out the situation in Penang. So we spent some time at Station One.

Playing mastermind. Wrote this game in C++ in Beta year.

Remember in 2006 and 2007, I went countdown “celebration” in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur. The “celebration”end up with public property destroyed, and happened every year. Since last year, I am not going to that place anymore…

Now Penang is having the same trend. Snow spray cans become weapons, people gone crazy like high on drugs, ish. Although I didn’t see it live, but it’s on YouTube.

Peace. Merry Christmas.

Free Softlens, grab grab grab~

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:29:05 PST

Thanks Nana who gave me this link, http://www.myhdmoments.com/my/trial.asp.

Bausch & Lomb is doing a promotion, with the slogan My HD Moments. (Do we really will feel HD? Ha, try see.)

So I get my free trials of 3 pairs contact lens at Sunway Carnival.

How?
Just follow the link above, fill in your information, and print out the redemption slip. This is a nationwide promotion, check out your nearest location in their website.

This free trial promotion will ends on 31st December 2009, fast~!

p/s: I do not get paid from Bausch & Lomb!

Good bye, Wei Jun

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:16:56 PST

Since graduated from Secondary School, we had lost contact. We are in different class, and the chance that made me know him is through the weekly Karate-Do training.

He is not a tall guy, with quite heavy eyesight problem, I guess, because he needs to slim his eyes to see clearly during free sparring training.

Although he is short, he can defeat opponent which bigger and taller than him, even with higher rank than him. I can see that, not because he is skilful or fast, but he is very brave in going front and attack, Points! Even myself with higher ranking also will feel pressure to train with him.

Remember one time when we waiting for class to start, he and another friend want to borrow a textbook from another friend. But since textbook has only 1, so textbook owner challenge them to say “I love you” to a girl in front them.

Wei Jun is smart, he went front, and said to the girl: “Do you heard a song name I Love You?” He got the textbook. Funny.

Last 2 weeks, when I browsing my phone contact, I saw his name. Still wondering if he changed phone number. Never imagine, the next day I received SMS about his accident.

After coma for 7 days, God of Death took his life.

From someone’s blog, know that he is a full time vegetarian, with a good heart. See from Facebook, MSN PM, all friends are very upset and concern about this incident.

For people who already leave us, we can only accept. I can’t forget, because they are the characters who went into my life.

But for people who still around us, we tend to ignore and hurt them all the time… Human nature, we need to lost to learn appreciate, and hopefully, we learned.

May you rest in peace, Wei Jun.

Assignment on 1800m

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:01:26 PST

There is a concert (in fact I not sure who are the artists) on Genting Highland, friends are going to attend it, and over night here. I use here, is because I am on genting. He.He.

I am not attending the boring concert, nor the casino. Just want to spend my time here with cool weather~ And enjoying assignment at 1800m above sea level.

Seriously, the working mood is much better~

It’s already December, there should be a lot of Christmas decoration, even here. Maybe it’s too big, so the decoration is only concentrated on few places.

LED Santa.

First World at night. I just realized they actually play bird’s sound in there, to create a jungle environment~

Bubble Christmas tree.

Lighting Deer.

Santa Claus~

This one geng. Chinese New Year or Christmas? Choi San Yeh become Santa Claus..

OK, work work.

原因

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:42:43 PST

最近，周围好多事发生。。。

看到了好多争吵，

一些争吵只是为了一根香烟，

那两个人就翻脸了好几天。

一些争吵，

男女朋友就分手了。。。

一些争吵，

朋友也当不成了。。。

其实，

争吵和翻脸，

是代表在乎某件事；

而所有的争吵的开始，

往往都是一方的情绪失控而开始。

一段时间过了，才发现，

“他妈的，当初在吵什么？”

所有当初争吵的原因，原来只是导火线。

就现在，关掉所有音乐，

静静的想，是不是真的做错了，

是的话，别拖，马上道歉，SMS也好，打电话也好。

有些人尝试挽回，

却迟了，只好默默地接受这个遗憾，

但还是希望有被原谅的一天。

如果明天报纸上登着：2012是世界末日

我们还会恨别人吗？

对不起

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:49:09 PST

第一次，我感觉到，我真的后悔了。

一时的情绪冲动，导致今天的一切。

该放下的，我都已经放下了。

不知道你能不能原谅我，

可能需要一段时间，

但要说的，还是要说，

非常的对不起。

就只怪我的执著。

The Maze

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:27:12 PST

Maze game that we played since we small had been lost count, and In fact, all mazes are play on paper, or newspaper.

My ex-housemate, Carls’s Cyber-P project, call Labyrinth: The Dead End, is really a real size maze~ OK la, quality is not like those world class using brick one, but still playable la~

This is 1/3 of the maze only~

“I am lost… How?”

Went there with Calvin. Our sense of direction is just so dumb. At least used 15 minutes in the maze, visiting the same place again and again. Next time should use maze algorithm to exit~

Quite some surprise in there, try it out yourself.

Location: In-Door Badminton court, MMU. (beside stadium food court)

Time: 3pm to 10pm

Date: 24 – 25 Nov (means tomorrow is last day)

Entrance Fee: RM3

If want some excitement, try go there at night~

One more funny thing:

See rules number 7.

HAHA.

Tiger Woods says I suck

noreply@blogger.com (VHanded Cheepeng) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:36:54 PST

This is my first time try out golf.

The weather at 3pm is just nice, cloudy and windy. The place? Cyberpark.

The price is really cheap, RM4 for 50 balls, and RM5 to rent the golf stick. It’s ok, the golf stick are all in good quality, no bend.

Calvin’s pattern.

My pattern.

Wong Kok’s pattern.

Why this world is so not fair… They never provide golf stick for left-hander…

It’s a very nice game to release stress, while swing the stick, say the name of someone or something you hate. F**k exam!

Aiming. For a first timer, it’s quite hard to accurately hit the ball in right position, always swing the stick, but hit nothing, hahaha~ Purposely wear a white Polo Shirt like a golf player, but it didn’t add my skill points, haha.

Among all, I am the worst~

There are field for short distance goal too.

Almost!!!! (Fake one actually)

Almost!!!!! (This one is real..)

When get bored with normal golfing, try snooker style. Shit Wong Kok is behind me doing all those nasty postures…

Also found out they have all sorts of facility in the park, like cheaper pool table games~ HAHA.

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Hoo… hectic semester, need some rest once in a while. Jia you!