Last Posting For 2009

Have you made your new year resolutions yet? If you have, good for you! You are one of those result-oriented and focused person. You set objectives clearly and you know what you want and when you want it.

I do not have the habit of making / setting objectives when the new year comes but I think it is important for me that the following objectives must be attained /completed: -

1. Get one M3/4 camera as I have been dreaming for the last few months.
2. Get married.
3. All renovation works of my condo properly done up. No sloppy works! Move in to my condo.
4. Stay healthy and a little extra savings in bank account would be nice! I know for the fact that this is going to be tough for me in 2010.
5. Good health to my family members and friends.

I wish that my beloved country and its people would enjoy a harmonious and peacful year of 2010 (and the coming years) despite irresponsible efforts to divide us, to fool us, and to mistreat us. I wish we all become wise and screw those self-interested and corrupted politicians who made this country a backward place in the eyes of the others and a laughing stock on the global scale. Fuck them all! Pardon me but I feel the urge to use the last F word for 2009 :)

This is my last posting for 2009 so Happy New Year 2010 everyone! May the new year brings you so much joy and happiness!

Sekinchan

There is something unique about Sekinchan. It's a small little town. It's one of the rice producing areas in Malaysia and it has a charming fishing village. No wonder photographers from far and near come in troops to capture its simplicity and beauty.

The best time to visit Sekinchan is June and December where the crops are golden and ready to be harvested. Me, Mona and Dylan were there on 18 December 2009 for a day trip. First time I ever come so close to paddy fields. It was raining before we reached Sekinchan and we were worried that we would not have the opportunity to snap photos. Fortunately, the rained stopped the minute we arrived. The weather was gloomy but with enough sunlight to make decent photos.

The paddy field is simply picturesque.

Tried an angle from the ground shooting upwards. Most of the paddy fields were harvested. We were luck to find one that hadn't been harvested. It would be nice to see farmers working the field but there wasn't any worker that day. We slowly explored the paddy fields.















Big hollow houses are erected in the vast paddy field for attracting swiftlet for edible bird nest.















Paddy field that has been harvested and tractor that is used for harvesting the crops.
































Bitter gourd entwines itself to the fence and keep growing each and every day.















After paddy field, we headed to the fishing village. We just drove and ended up in a temple and a village nearby.















Here's a panoramic photo of the village. Click to see bigger photo.















Low tide. Salty smell of the sea and unmistakable smell of dried / salted fish despite we did not see one nearby.















The workers were busy repairing propeller.















At the entrance of the village, we found three giant incenses partly burnt at the road side.















Before we headed on to the next destination, we stopped by this famous restaurant that is highly recommended by the bloggers to have a meal. The chopped prawns with chili paste is a must-try. The baby shark soup is so so in taste. The fried egg with bitter gourd is simply delicious.












We did not continue to the Bukit Melawati in Kuala Selangor for snapping photos of the naughty monkeys over there due to the heavy downpour.

Well, I guess I will be visiting Sekinchan again next year. I think there is more to be photographed there.

Catching Up With The News

Good thing about coming back from holiday is that you come back with your mind fully refreshed and relaxed. So after some rest for recovering the depleted energy, I was in good mood this morning and it was about time to do some reading and catch up with the news that I left off at the start of holiday.

Charging the small fishes of PKFZ in court. Well, good to know but I like to see more culprits being charged in court and eventually throw into jail. A scandal involving billions of RM through many years couldn't be the work of three scumbags. A logical person would agree with me more on this.

MCA? Oh fuck. Another news of MCA would really make me throw up and ruin my mood. So I skipped that knowing that there would be nothing good and valuable relating to that mental institution. I am curious as to how many people out there truly care much about that mental institution nowadays. Ha.

That racist UMNO fellow who was slapped with 3 years suspension of his membership but was recently restored of his membership after just 1 year into his punishment. What do you really expect from an institution that resembles KKK. They look after each other my friends whether you like it or not.

But my or my! What really surprised me was that bold guy who has the brain size of a peanut really come out strongly against I-won't-admit-for-ruin-the-country-for-a-good-22-year old coot and I-am-a-sleepyhead-PM on defending NCB that is used in propagating hatred on non-malays. Let's us be wise and see through lies of those who blatantly make irresponsible statements to gain political mileage in this case. The fact remains NCB is nothing but destructive to racial harmony and hindrance to the achievement of a healthy and progressive society and country.

What happened to Nazri? Has conscience found him? Was his brain suddenly evolved overnight? Did Jesus enlighten him? What his motives are? For once, I would like to propose a toast to Nazri for his sudden discover of human wisdom. Way to go Nazri and do continue behaving like a true Malaysian.

Anyway, the argument seems to be focused on the principle that it is important to instill patriotism in Malaysians. I would understand that small kids and school-going children need to be educated and guided on the value of patriotism in formal institutions. But it is pathetic to know that full-grown adults are forced and trained on the meaning and values of patriotism in a formal institution. Unless, of course, it wasn't patriotism that was the objective of NCB. How can you forced patriotism? It grows within oneself, isn't it? It has to be aroused rather than accepted. The question is how to effectively drive the spirit of patriotism in the citizen, right? Of course, I will be naive to conclude that old coot and its croonies were thinking patriotism through NCB.















"You see, a politician is very much like oscar-winning actor you know. Look at me."

In The Air

It's 2 weeks away from X'mas and I am just back from a holiday in Hong Kong. The X'mas is in the air so here is my favourite X'mas song to pep you up for the Yuletide!
I prefer Toni's Braxton's version better with the jazzy feel to the song but couldn't find it in you tube.



What's yours?

La La

好听.

Project AWARE Pulau Tioman 2009

On 24 and 25 October 2009, I joined Ah Hung and a group of divers to Pulau Tioman for, well, cleaning up human mess. This is the first time I participated in Project AWARE. You could call us 'cleaner' because the purpose of us being there was to clean up the beach and seabed. Pick up rubbishes that were conveniently throw away by careless human.

Here are some photos of the event.

Mersing Jetty. Waiting to be on board.















View from the resort's restaurant. What a lovely view eh!















Signing the Release Form. It means dive at your own risk. You die at nobody's responsibility.















Nice ar? Random shots around the beach.

After diving and showered, I took a walk on the beach that is right outside of my room. Cooling sandy beach massaging my foot. Little girl has so much fun at the beach.

The sun shying away from the beach. Have you ever seen an Astro tree before? Now you have!















Random shots.















Well, low tide and sunset.















When facing sun, you get sunset shot. When facing the same direction with the sun, you get the clear blue sky and beach shot. What a contrast.















It is a small village and very very very quiet at night.

So yes, we cleaned up a lot and all these bags of rubbish have to be categorized, (paper, plastic, bottle, etc), recorded, disposed and the information gathered send over to Project AWARE's HQ for analysis and compilation.

Group photo before we depart home.

Anyway, we stayed at Coral Reel Holiday's in Tekek Village. Nothing fancy there. The resort is not really well-maintained to my opinion but what the heck! We are not picky after all, this is not supposed to be a holiday trip.

The weird thing that I have encountered in the trip was a 'bat tree' in the village. Can you imagine a tree that is full of bats perching upside down making bird-like sound under the broad day light? Or it is just me who foolishly think that bats hide only in the dark cage? Sorry, no photo for that.