3 DUMBASSES DO MALACCA

You Don't Want To Know What Happened!!!

Paintball, karaoke and sushi all in one day

It seems that there are many birthday boys and girls around this week, so Happy Birthday to Irwin, Seen Yen and Mei Yoong.
We celebrated Irwin's birthday at TT sports park for paint ball, I must say it's really a fun and unique experience to celebrate a friend's birthday by playing paint ball and despite getting shot in the ass by my own teammate, thank goodness that I don't have any bad bruises like the one Timmy got, it's like he's got additional nipples now.

Timmy's hickey, given by Ping Ru's marker

After paint ball, it's Red Box at Pavilion for the 2 birthday girls (one belated and one coming soon actually).

Dragon fruit monster

Well, I don't want to describe the traumatic experience people had after they heard me trying to sing so...um... it's OK.

Had sushi and sake for dinner with the usual bunch, great company, excellent day.
A good preparation for the attack on Malacca tomorrow.

CHUAO!!!

Attended the Chocolate Appreciation Workshop by Amedei and as a self-proclaim chocolate lover I must admit that I had not tasted or appreciate chocolate as much as I did tonight. "Forgive me Willy Wonka for I have sinned."

The speaker for the workshop was Roberto Solanes, General Manager of Italpoint Sdn. Bhd. he's really a great speaker however I think some of the participants really cannot understand his slang and they were talking while he's presenting, it's sad because I really think it's very interesting to learn a little more about chocolates, how cocoa are grown, harvest and made in to chocolate, plus how the climate, soil and other factors of the cocoa plantation could make an impact on the taste and quality of the chocolate.

The most fun session was the chocolate tasting session, and I'm pretty damn sure that almost everyone would agree with me. We were given a few of Amedei Chocolate products to taste and feel the characteristic of each and every one of them, and my favorite that night has to be "Chuao", not only because it's such a fun word to say but it is really so good that I personally think that this has to be it! The meaning of my life, my existence on this planet wrapped inside an aluminum foil, and if I were to die at that time I'll say it's a beautiful death. In fact, Chuao has won the Gold award for the best bean to bar in the Academy of chocolate 3 times!

Yet after a whole night of fine chocolate and extremely good espresso, I still cannot forget the chocolate mousse topped with extremely rich chocolate syrup me and Aaron were drooling at at an event 2 days ago.
"Holy *^$%! That looks so sinful!" Aaron explains.
I must agree with him.

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