For you... my head is singing

Soundtrack: We were soldiers
Title: For You (Johnny Cash & Dave Matthews)

I will drink the cup, the poison overflowing
I will lift you up, watch over where you're going
The first one in The last one gone
I'll be the rock to stand upon
For you
For you

My spirit aches and I can't stop this river flowing
In fear I take, each labored breath I draw in knowing
That this could be my last, my final hour
But faith and hope and love give me the power
For you
For you

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me"
You are with me
I'll be your salvation though the storm's surrounding
There on our own conditions, lay my body down
In the wake abandon willing sacrifice
I'll walk though the canyon, bring the shadows life
For you
For you

I will drink the cup, the poison overflowing
I will lift you up watch over where you're going
The first one in the last one gone
I'll be the rock to stand upon
The first one in the, last one gone
I'll be the rock to stand upon
For you
For you
For you

I got no idea why but this song has been on my head for quite sometime I've even shared it with a few friends and a frog told me that it's a Christian song, whatever it is I feel that this simple song is telling me something important.

Giving Vijay a tour at the zoo (LP114 WOW Day)

Climbing Bukit Tabur

Like the eagle, I want to fly

Thursday, 20th March 2008, a large group of 23 people decided to "torture" themselves by taking on Bukit Tabur, it's a first time climbing Bukit Tabur for most of the people in the group and that's including myself, so I didn't expect anything out from this trip.

8.00am
The whole group arrived at the starting point and there we started our climb, we took a "Before climb" group picture first so that we can compare how miserable we look after the climb.

First leg of the journey was excellent, the walk wasn't too difficult and the weather was fantastic, no rain, and a little cloudy.
It didn't take long for us to climb high enough to see the beautiful scenery, but then we are just only at the beginning of the track and someone suggested that we turn back since we already seen "what we came to see".
Good thing is that the more adventurous people that are in the group are also quite good at persuading the others to push on and finish the track, they say not finishing the track is like sex without orgasm. (Only one way to find out)

We pushed on and continue the track, which we soon found out that it is not as easy as it is said to be, before the trip I though we are just gonna walk in the park so my choice of footwear was my yellow and black slippers, it turns out that my assumptions was all wrong, at some parts of the track we had to climb up or down vertical walls, now this is a bit of a problem not because I had to climb with slippers which I rather go barefooted, but most of the the people in the group are beginners, they don't go trekking for hours as often as the more experienced people in the group, getting them to climb down a rope is not easy especially when a slip of a hand means possible fatal injury, even if there is a guide telling them what to do he won't be able to do much but only to boost the confidence of the climber.

It takes quite some time for the whole group to climb up the walls (there were many), which isn't much of an issue since it's a holiday and time is what we have at hand, however the concern is making sure everyone is able to make it pass the walls safely, plus I don't want to be the cause of any of my friend's death. (This one is to all smokers)


Overall it's was still a great experience for me, we were quite a crazy bunch singing and shouting along the way which made this the most musical jungle trek I've ever done.

I just hope that the group could understand that the disciplines of jungle trekking is not only confined to develop mental and physical endurance, improve self confidence and building character, it is also to develop leadership, teamwork, compassion and care, and most importantly is the determination to succeed as a group.

Have a Good Good Friday and Happy Easter

Pig Hunting @ Kek Lok Si Temple

Mom wanted to visit Kek Lok Si Temple before returning to KL, so we drove to the foot of the hill and walk our way up to the temple. Passing trough stalls selling all kind of things
During the Chinese New Year, mom suggested that we all should buy decoration of our own zodiac animal sign and so it became my mission to look for the fattest pig decoration in Kek Lok Si.
Here are some of the pigs I found:

Didn't but : Too common, many people have this

Didn't buy: For obvious reason

Didn't buy: Mom said the guni sack is not a good sign

Didn't buy: I don't like the design

Didn't buy: Looks more like a toy

Couldn't buy: It's not for sale and it weights a ton, took a picture with it instead

In the end, I picked up this golden pig (Picture Below) while on the way back to the car, too lazy to walk around looking for another pig so settle for anything, it's just gonna sit around at home and do nothing anyway.

Sister said something negative about pigs.
"But they make people around them happy." I said
"People eat pigs." she replied
"That's why the people are happy." I answered

My SUPER Grandma!

This is my grandma, she just turned 85 yesterday, strong, loving and happy as usual.
Grandma has been trough a lot, her stories and experiences in life are some of the things I like to listen.
When we arrived at her house in Penang, she said to us.
"If any of you see a cobra, please do not harm or capture it."

My mom look very worried over that and we learned later that the cobra has been into her house quite a number of times and my grandma will just let it come and go as it pleased.
THAT'S SO FRIGGIN' COOL!

There are a lot of things that I've learned from grandma, but the 2 things that I want to learn from grandma is to be able to speak in Hokkien and Japanese. YES! Grandma speaks fluent Japanese, which I always tell all the anime loving Jap-wannabe who try to talk to me in Japanese
"My grandma speaks better Japanese then you!"

Anyway, Happy 85th Birthday Grandma! You are truly an inspiration and most importantly you're my SUPER grandma!

Happy St. Paddy's Day

Heading down to Penang in a few hours time to celebrate grandma's birthday, anyway...


May the luck of the Irish be yours today, cause everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's day.