EyE On MaLaYsiA

This is the second time i went to Eye on Malaysia, Titiwangsa Lake with Lena.

(Our last visit was on February this year)
There are no huge crowds in sight (That why we choose to come here on weekday)

We reach there by 6pm and there was only a handful of people (some tourists and students). Getting tickets was easy enough and cost us RM30 for two tickets.

(We were not ride on the wheel during our first visit due to over crowded but we do enjoy the water ski performances and fire works as well)

After waiting for a couple of minutes, we were seated in a booth with 4 unknowns.

Took this picture from the booth, nice view?

The view from up there was great and we can see the view of Kuala Lumpur skyline clearly.

The view of "Eye on Malaysia" during day and night
Took this picture before leaving (stand in front the sign board)

My BirThdaY PartY

The idea of held my 1st ever birthday party is from my dear....

As who i am.... i am not a big birthday person and i like to celebrate my birthday as 'simple' as possible....

but after a deep deep consideration... i decided to held my 1st ever birthday party (i rather called it as a gathering)......

Thank you to all of you who attending my birthday party (and also to those who can't make it)

and

Hope you enjoy yourself......

and

Thanks for your wishes as well (33SMS + 14emails + 3cards + 6calls) and your gifts....... (i like it very much......)

Delicious foods served---Sushi and local delicacies--- satay and curry chicken!!

Thanks to my dear for birthday cake ('Secret recipe' again!!) and everything you had done to me!!

My lovely Family

My colleague (from Serdang)

MUST + TARc fellows (from Kelana Jaya + Cheras + Puchong + KL)Secondary schoolmates
MUST Biotechnology survivals

小小的惊喜；大大的感动

星期三，21/11/2007，晚上九点

从她手中收到了这份东西---我今年的第一份生日礼物

“记得等到十二点才可拆开哦！但如果你要提早拆开也无所谓啦”她这么交待。。。
回到家里还真有一股冲动想看看我的礼物呢！！但最终我还是没那么做。

星期四，22/11/2007， 半夜十二点正

“生日快乐”她通过电话祝福我！！ 当时的心情虽不是十分兴奋（因为还蛮睏的）但觉得十分窝心。挂上电话后，我开始打开这份神秘礼物。（相信每个人都喜欢收礼物吧！）
礼物揭晓：一副大理石国际象棋（她十分细心，观察力强---知道我喜欢的东西）很多时候都发现我好像赤裸裸的站在她面前，什么事都被她拆穿或看透！！ 可恶！

和一本十分有心思的手册。 传了一封简讯给她
“Thanks for av things that u had done… I love d card.very.much n the chess set .. too… 十分感动。特别是充满爱心的卡，感觉比象棋还要贵重。我会好好保存。我也和你一样希望我们能长长久久。我会永远爱着你的。此话当真，绝无花假。”（嘻，是不是肉麻了点？）

最后她也回了简讯
“那哪是卡。。是本充满爱的生日册子啦。 好啦，亲爱的寿星仔，早点睡，发个美梦。。且会美梦成真噢。生日快乐！ ”

星期四，22/11/2007，晚上六时正

她为我安排了生日晚餐。
地点：吉隆玻塔旋转餐厅
（Sri Angkasa Revolving Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur Tower）
感想：特别+兴奋+感动
之前的我总喜欢和三五知己度过生日，但今年。。。我把这一天留给了她。
（爱情保温手册的其中一点：尽可能每个重要的日子都和她一起度过）

通往高塔的票根

小小的惊喜！大大的感动！甜甜的生日蛋糕；深深的美好回忆坐在高高的塔里，再加上每一个半小时旋转一周的餐厅，让我们把吉隆玻的夜景尽收眼帘。

A BirtHdaY CaKe FrOm My BoSs

As a tradition of my lab... (everyone will receive a 'secret receipe' birthday cake from my boss during their birthday)
I Received a birthday cake from my Boss...... Dr. Tan

Feelings: Happy+ joyance + a bit shy (since this is the first time i celebrate my birthday with my colleague... ...)

Thank you very much Dr. Tan and my colleague!!

InteRnaTioNaL ChiNesE BoOk FaiR

I am a regular customer of any book fair held around Klang Valley.....

As what i am.. I like books so i like to buy books.....

Just went to Chinese book fair at Mines International Convention Center yesterday with my dear and took about 2 hours to browse through.

There is a nominal entrance fee of RM2 that will be donated to about 10 schools in Malaysia. (It is ok for me since its for charity)

Face to the sea of books........ A lot of books i want to buy but i have to come to the realization that i already have a lot of books on my shelves which many of them are not read yet.......

Anyway, i end up buying two books...... (money gone again!!)

1. A book talks about drawing

2. A novel (The thirteenth tales, Chinese edition)

Hope to see more people cultivate the habit of reading!!

To Check out more.. Here is the link http://www.wcb.com.my/

Federer No1 again!!

Although i can't play tennis very well but i enjoy watching tennis match especially the match involve my favourite tennis player --- Roger Federer.

The world No. 1 Roger Federer capped another breathtaking season with his fourth Tennis Masters Cup title in five years after defeating Spaniard David Ferrer 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in Shanghai. The Spaniard was simply no match for Roger’s blend of spins, powerful stroke and volleying skills.

After watching the replay, what i can say is......

"he is the most dominant athlete in the tennis sport today."

and

I believe he will not only satisfy with his achievement so far, he will ready to beat more records.

我们都长大了

一个十分忙碌的周末令我感触良多......

我感觉到自己及身边的人都长大了（突然想起SHE的‘不想长大’）
看着自己儿时的玩伴一个一个的步入人生中的另一个阶段（结婚），不得不令我感觉到我们都长大了。这就是时间的力量。。。一秒一秒地夺走我们的青春。。。感觉好无奈哦！

其实我也没这么悲观啦！我也十分积极的望前看(钱看)，为未来作准备。

等着新郎的表姐！！

结婚晚宴

My two lovely sister

Life was LikE a RoLLeR CoaSteR

Life was full of ups and downs……

Everybody has ups and downs in life. Some have more downs than ups and some are lucky and get more ups than downs......
Two days ago, I feel very down for no mood to do my research…… I feel so depressed and emotional as I faced a lot of problems in my experiment and feel no motivation for me to continue it…

But after a few days, I am like recharged and full of energy to continue it……
Hehe!! You must be wonder how can I make it or what motivate me?
…… the support from the most important person in my life so far…… (although she always said she can’t help me on anything, but …… it already means a lot to me… thanks)
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the concern from my lovely family and friends who always ask about my progress on the project
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A letter

I have been waiting this letter for so long…..until yesterday......

When I reached home after watching “*Star Dust” with my dear

(*a very “Fairy tale” movie for adult……. “the prince and princess live happyly ever after……)
I found this letter on my table.

OMG!! I received the offer letter from University of Malaya for my phD study......

书：《裸奔》

我知道要介绍一本书应该趁刚刚读完该本书的时候，或者是对这本书还有非常深刻印象的时候。但我实在等不及让自己重读这本书了，我想尽快把它介绍给大家。

《裸奔》是我买的第一本旅游书，也是我的最爱。它记录了作者如何克服种种困难，利用自行车横跨全中国，及为中国的心脏病儿童患者筹款。作者司徒夫Christophe Peres，一个法国人（但有一颗非常中国的心），已婚（老婆中国人），两个孩子的爸。
十分佩服他的想法及他的所作所为，竟然放下一份高职，而牺牲自己救济别人。也许你会说：“哎呀！外国佬总喜欢这样到处闯荡，也许他只是想籍此机会完成自己的愿望罢了！”那你就大错特错了，司徒夫为了这个叫阳启的计划作了最艰难痛苦的决定。他提出辞呈及卖掉他的股份，然后到中国去冒险。 。。 他真的疯了！！ 然后你应该会问：“到底在他身上发生了什么事让他做出这么大的转变？”

以下就是他的解释：“。。。我父亲一直教导我努力工作赚大钱，我上的商学院和整个西方社会都这么教导我，他们用一个人的收入来衡量人。这样的教导的结果就是，我努力工作，我也知道怎么赚钱，因此得到了社会地位和认同。然而，这是我自己想要做的呢，还是别人要我做的？这是我的价值观，还是别人加在我头上的教条？我们总是扛着一大堆教条。。。。。。我认识到，我不仅仅是一个锐意进取的生意人，还是一个更有意思的人，开朗，友好，慷慨，愿与人分享。这些美德都掩藏在社会认同的，成功的总裁身份之下，而做总裁我已经够了。该是改变生活，开始新的探险的时候了。”
书里详细记录他所经过的地点及在当地所发生的事件，而且还描述得非常仔细呢！
还蛮想体验体验一下他的经历呢！（哎哟！只是想而已啦！）

LabWork PhobiA

I am reading a journal now... ...

I know i must stop to do my research now... ...
Since after so many attempts and still can't obtain a satisfactory results... ...

(i believe that a lot of scientists also face this situation before......)
My mind is so saturated and can't even think a solution or other ways to continue... ... So sad!!

I admit that i lost my patience and passion with doing my research recently... ...

How can this happen to me??? Help me!!

I face a series of bottlenecks in my research!! And sometime feel very boring to repeat the lab work... ....

However i believe everything will be fine after i take a big breath... ... i know i can't stop like that because many people have high expectation for me.

I will come back stronger!!

My Battle Field

My NeW ToY

I've been thinking about getting a new laptop, but not too seriously (since i have an 'old' desktop and still works ok).
However, I bought a new laptop (Toshiba) for just 1.5K recently. (Cheap right??) Thanks to my aunt for the offer......
Of course the laptop is come with Windows. Not just any Windows, but Windows Vista, the "Home Basic" version to be exact.
I never use Vista before and I was curious as to what this Vista stuff is all about?? I logged into the Vista desktop and played around it.

• Found a lot of new stuffs such as:
• Windows sidebar which can place desktop gadget such as clock, calender and slide show.
• Icon in Windows Vista are visually more realistic especially the document icon where it show the actually document content
• Windows contacts
• Windows meeting space
• Some new games
• some upgraded application

I’m happy to say that it worked well out of the box (until now) and I’m hoping that I could use that laptop for the next 3 to 5 years or more... ...

书：《我是丐帮旅行家》

星期六

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有点热烘烘的下午

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一个想睡午觉但又睡不着的人

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一本买了半年但还没看过的书

真不敢相信我竟然可以在一个下午把一本书啃完！！
《我是丐帮旅行家》 的作者邱一新是某杂志的总编辑，和一般的人一样都很喜欢旅行。但和一般人不同的是他十分懂得怎样利用少少的钱但又能在旅游上得到大大的享受。

他不仅是旅游达人，也是天才玩家。这本书讲的都是他怎样到处“行骗”。

以不用花钱的方式，就能拥抱顶级享受；靠陌生人，玩遍最道地的景致。

我看过很多旅游书，但这是一本不一样的旅游书。

它不像一般文学家所写的旅行书，充满着个人感想，再加上景点描述，历史背景，读完后常会问“干我屁事”。　

它也不像一般的旅行工具书，巨细靡遗的从交通，旅行方式，旅店，餐馆到旅游景点，一应俱全。

书里提到怎样让行李可以再瘦一点，怎样巴结别人以换来优质服务，怎样骗取免费飞机票，住宿（但我觉得我没有勇气欺骗人说：“我是某某旅游作家。。。想为贵公司免费做宣传！！”），当然还有怎样避免被当肥羊，任人鱼肉等等等等。其中还有好多爆笑的点子，蛮风趣幽默的。

看完这本书后，我就在想：“我下一趟旅行会在何时呢？我最想到那里旅行呢？”

The War beTweeN ShoPpinG MalL In MalAySia

Have you ever had the feeling of where to go during the weekend?

Try to do the shopping at the brand new shopping malls around KL area.... If you have nothing to buy.... window shopping also not bad....hehe!!... ...


There are three new shopping malls in Klang Valley open around this few months. All of them compete to offer a new trendy concepts of shopping environment and try to offer a lifestyle-themed one-stop centre for shoppers. (That means we can do what ever we want there!!)

Pavilion KL is the first to open to feature street-front retail shops followed by Sunway Pyramid II where offer a uniquely family leisure and entertainment experience within an integrated resort city. Last but not least, The Gardens-Mid Valley where it has a roof garden concept to cater to the changing lifestyle of people living in the city and aims to be one of the most exciting fine dining destinations in Kuala Lumpur.

I went to Mid Valley-The Gardens yesterday and since it was a public holiday, as expected........ very very crowed!! Very difficult to find a car park and finally (after 20 minutes), I parked my car at the basement of The Garden.


it also took me another few minutes to find an entrance from the Garden to Mid-Valley.
Finally i found this.......

The pedestrian cross connected the Garden and Mid-Valley (the bridge between them are still in construction)

Like most of the modern shopping mall, The gardan also has the fantastic interior design such as the cross bridge seen from the ground floor gave a very "class" look.

I was going back with nothing in my hand because i can't afford to buy the top branded goods. Thats All!!

Another new shopping mall is set to open next year... ... Jaya Jasco Bukit Tinggi... ...

DatinG WitH MusHrOoM

Taking a half-day break (curi tulang during working hour) to visit a mushroom cultivation farm near my kampung with my boss and colleagues.

As we reached there, we was attracted by rows of "attap"-roofed huts dotting both sides of the main road. The huts were builded to grow oyster mushrooms.

The owner, Susan said they are producing white and grey oyster mushrooms. The grey variety is the popular one, which has a better texture, rich in fibre and antioxidants as well. (A lot of advantages right??)We also went to the cultivation lab where the mushroom was cultivated by tissue culture.
Wheat grains are used as the tissue culture medium to produce the spawn which is essentially a mushroom "starter" culture used to inoculate the final mushroom-producing cultures. Look! the white color dots is the "little baby mushroom" which will then propagate and "infect" whole bag of wheat grains (brown color) and become white color.
The growing medium (sawdust+blended rice+lime) were mixed and packed into the "plastic beg bottle" manually by the workers. "so conventional"Next the spawn is inoculated into the sterile growing medium and the growing takes place in to "plastic beg bottle"

In two to three weeks, the bottle becomes filled with the root structure of the mushroom (So called mycelium). The temperature and the humidity of the room must be carefully controlled in order for the mycelium to develop fully and eventually little mushroom form on the mycelium and push up through the open of the bottle.

Grey oyster mushrooms

White oyster mushrooms