My official ritirement.

Finally the English 2 course evaluation for drama is over. Breathing a sigh of relieve, I leave behind what could and hopefully is the last drama i'll be in my life. So here it is. I resign from the drama industry. It's been fun to work with Eric, Jenny, Serena and Chin.

Though I always dreaded practises, it was fun in one way or another. Though I say it;s fun, I do not wish to have to do it again. :) Hopefully the evaluation of our drama is a good one as it carries 20% of our overall English marks for this semester. :)

So my role was as a ghost and more importantly as a father in a drama which was about a ...well too complicated. Tell you if you wanna know. Mail me and i'll tell you.

Gua Tempurung

Here in the areas near utp....I would say the attractions ae mostly food or actually maybe if we had more choices they might not be attractions at all. Just little little towns in between bigger towns. Haha. But we do have a few and one of it is Gua Tempurung. The first half of the semester, me, michael(roomy), jenny and Chua went.

We did no have much time so we went for the easy and exciting trail, the golden flowstone trail. It was somewhat not exciting and quite disappointing. Haha. This half of the sem we were determined to go to this Gua. We woke up early to reach the Gua as the trail was only open from 9am-12pm. Owh yeah, its the Grand Tour. 22 ringgit per person. There were eleven of us and the girls initially did not want to go for the Grand Tour as it was a wet trail but afte much persuasion, we did go. Haha. Half way through the Grand Tour we thought or at least I thought the girls were right. Haha. We had to crawl through tunnels filled with water, squad and walk. Slide down a rock which didn't seem safe at all. Go through a hole. The small of bat poop . The feeling of earth all around you. And not being able to see properly as eleven of us shared one tiny torchlight in a cave where you would not be able to see your own hands when the lights are all offed. Haha. We came out one end and thought it was done

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Then the guide told us we were just half way as we had to make it back to the other opening. Haha. The total trail was 3 and a half hours. It was tiring . Sort of a regret at some point in the cave but as I look at it now...it was fun. A lot of fun. Haha.

Had one of my worst photograph taken at the entrance to the Grand Tour.

(terrible pic)

My Indian Adventure

After so long I finally get stable internet connection to upload photos so I can post bout my Indian Night or rather UTP'S. So m y batch, the January 2008 batch is a small batch in terms of the Indian and Chinese population. There are only nine Indian guys and sadly for them, there's no Indian girls in our batch. The night was called Athiradee night. I kind of forgot what that means. Lost the flyer that explains everything.

Anyways I got myself a Jeepa for the night. Not sure how you spell it but I got the Jeepa from a street that reminds me a bit of India Street in Kuching except with more Indians. Haha.

(camera adds on 30 pounds. Haha)

So my Indian friends had this dance performance. A ten minute one. Guess what?? I joined in for like the last three minutes. dressing up as an Indian mafia walking from the door of the room to the stage, stopping somewhere in the middle to have a can of Red Bull and then accompanied to the stage by two Indian shemales. Haha. For there were no Indian girls in the batch, a few or most of my friends decided to dance in Saris. Haha.

After my walk I joined for the last song to dance. It was fun and exciting. A new experience. My first public dance and I was the only chinese guy performing. Sadly I don't have any photos of the performance to post up. If I do get my hand on some I'll be sure to post them up. Videos however I do have but I guess it would be just to hilarious to post them up. Haha.

Argh!! A holiday that really is too short!!

It was just last Friday when I arrived in Kuching and rushed to Open Air for a bowl of Kolo mee and sio bee. Today, a week has passed and I'm already supposed to start packing for my departure on Monday. It really is too short. My last holiday of seven weeks was too long. Haha. But maybe short holidays like these makes a person miss home more. :)

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I guess the event with the most significance was my Grandma's 81st birthday. The one I left one day earlier for. 27th September. Then the day after that was my Granduncle no.6 75th Birthday. Then came Hari Raya. Visited the old lady who used to take care of my late grandmother. The only person who goes around screaming Ah Hock when she sees me. haha

Of course in between or rather everyday Anggum would come to my house in his Silver Myvi to bring me out. Then going out with friends and such. Oh yea...don't forget the 7 kolo mee and 2 laksa up till today. Still got one more laksa to eat tomorrow morning. Haha

JELLY FISH!!!!

What a day of unexpected events. Firstly it was Anggum who usually come to my house gate in his silver MyVi unexpectedly asking me out . Anggum is full of spontaneity everyday and today was no let down. Here are the words of surprise form Anggum, ' Picnic in Damai'. Damn I was excited. Haha. Then we drove around wondering what to do till twelve plus plus as chester and Julian set that to be the time to go. So we ended up asking Alvin and Adrian to join us. That itself was also unexpected. In the end me Anggum Alvin and Adrian had a dip in the sea. It was however expected of Alvin to make jokes. Then came with the joke, a bitterly surprise. A sting from a jellyfish. I knew something bit me but didn't know what. Alvin went,' what a good actor. haha. holding up your arm to show your muscles??'. Haha it was so funny. Then Adrian got stung too. Haha. And again Alvin thought Adraian was Kidding until we got out of the water and he saw the sting marks. Mine had two lines and Adrian had three. It was a bad sting but it was great for experience sake. Haha

Two pictures of the sting. One with flash one without.Did my best as the sting was on the right arm so I had to take the picture using my left hand.

My new erhu!!!

Maybe the title for this post is not that accurate. I think it should be my very first own erhu. Since joining the UTPOCM( University Technology Petronas Orchestra Chinese Musical) in January or was it February, I've gained some interests in playing the erhu. This semester I actually went back a week earlier just to prepare for some functions. However, I was always playing the orchestras erhu. Well it's ok but having your own instrument is much nicer and here it is, my very first own erhu!!!

Got this erhu in Kuching. A shop called Shangyin near King Centre. The guy running the shop is pretty friendly. Of course they had this peculiar looking erhu with a pink to gold shading. The sound it made was beautiful but it cost 1.8 k . WOW. Haha. Putting that beauty aside, I got this one, for a very very much cheaper price

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Back in Kuching..Here's a recap

Hey hey back in Kuching now. Been enjoying my second semester of foundation studies in UTP. Been hectic there and with slow internet lines been finding it pretty hard to blog. And anyways, my physics lecturer says its wasting time to blog when you're in uni. So maybe i'll turn this into an only updated when I have holdiays blog. Hahaha. Here's a short recap on my second sem thus far.

CHINESE GATHERING

STEAMBOAT

Steamboat and chinese gathering, two activities of our own that are not recognized by UTP. By this I mean you get no certificate for participating. Haha.So here's some recognised ones

CONVOFAIR












Then there were trips to places other than UTP itself...

GENTING TRIP












PENANG TRIP



Eat all you can Japanese buffet



Fort Cornwallis




Horse with an erection outside fort Cornwallis




Kek Lok Si Temple


Then the anticipated event marking Chinese traditions...

MOONCAKE FEST


Not a good pic..but u can see me with the erhu :)





Must eb one of theBEST pics ever.Haha


Ban Hock Street Team winner of the MoonCake fest games



A pic before the great lantern parade

Then there's more

RACUTP INSTALLATION DINNER




Nearly forgot...me and three others joined a
TREASURE HUNT


First time in Gua Tempurung


Tuntong raring area..the last stop


Lucky number 27??
The car we thought we would win 1.3k. HAha.

It's been a fun first half of the sem so fa. Just hopes it gets better and end great with great fun and great results
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