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WooOO HOoOOo..ain’t this DA BOMB?? This is Sandies Beach and it’s one of the best beaches in Honolulu, Hawai’i. I was thrown around like a ragged doll when the huge waves (almost 5ft!) came crashing down on me, picked me up and brought me further away from where I was standing. *help*
warning: People who are interested to learn surfing SHOULD NOT come here. Beginners should go to Waikiki Beach because the waves there are calmer and less threatening. However, if you wanna learn how to body surf (it’s like gliding through the waves- totally awesome), Sandies Beach is the best place to learn!
So..anybody interested? 😉

Love is in the air. It’s Valentine’s Day today. Today shall be the day to express your love to your love ones.

But to me, Valentine day is nothing but one of the 365 days of a year and the day where capitalist cheats people’s money. Roses are at exorbitant price, restaurants makes up lovely dovey menu names such as lover’s meal at an outrages price.

However, Valentine’s Day brought me many sweet memories. Well, I guess the most memorable V Day for me was in 1998. It wasn’t a memorable Valentine’s dinner but a Bachelor’s night out. Since we were all single, available but not desperate, my all male friends and I drowned ourselves with alcohol at a now defunct pub. As expected, by the end of the night, we vomited by the street while heading back.

And to those single guys out there who doesnt have a date tonight, you can try doing this

Got this from wolfx 😀

Anyway, HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY EVERYBODY!

Hey, guys check out this career inventory personality test. It is quite good. =) Shockingly, the test suggests that my possible profession should be a legal secretary but not a lawyer. Why ar? *scratch head* =P

Which inventory personality are you? 😀

Sui Lin’s departure pictures from Sim’s camera!

I hate that feeling. I hate it when I’m in KL International Airport. During that time, it’s either I’m leaving or someone close to me is leaving. Well, Sui Lin finally left for Melbourne today. There were only 6 people including me that sent her off namely Sow, Ben, Jin Wy, Cris and I. Zing came just 1 minute before she leaves. Her flight was at 950AM hence we had to be there by 8AM. That explains why there weren’t many people.

Actually we made a bet with her couple of days ago, we said, “If you didn’t cry, I’ll chop off my dick”. So during the 1 hour there, we tried numerous ways to make her cry. We reminded her of the things that she’ll miss namely Breakers, yamcha sessions and also lunch at Uncle Maverick’s place. Um, yeah, she ran to the toilet to cry anyway. However, she wasnt sobbing or wailing loudly. She didn’t manage to flood KLIA.

Sui Lin hugged everybody when she was about to leave. There goes our group’s event planner. I’m going to miss her.

Anyway, here are pictures of Sui Lin’s drunken farewell at Bar Amber. There are from Sui Lin and Lynnzter’s cam…

Pictures of Sui Lin’s departure will be published soon after I get it from Sim 😀

Gavin’s departure

Pictures from Sui Lin’s camera…

Yews said,

Every time someone leaves he cries, someone cries he cries, hammer his hand with a sharp object he cries, he’s gay la.

Gavin left for Melbourne today. After work, I headed down to KLIA to met up with the rest there. Many of us were still in working clothes. Our main mission of the night was “TO SEE GAVIN CRY”. Haha, nah just kidding, we were there to send him off.

Gavin’s eyes were puffy. We were in McD waiting for him to board his plane. Instead he was busy walking around with June. I think they went to a corner to cry. Hehe.

For once I’m glad that I wasn’t the one who is leaving. The feeling of leaving is damn shitty especially during the first time. When my then-girlfriend was leaving for Melbourne for the first time, I cried.

So at 9PM, we stood in front of the departure gate. Gavin was teary eyed but he didn’t cry. We wanted to make a video of him crying but unfortunately, he did not cry despite the fact we were shouting, “WOI CRY LA!”

We shook his hand and gave him a hug before he left. Take care in Melbourne dude!

Happy belated Chinese Year to everyone. =)

This was the first CNY I had celebrated since I came back from UK. However, the event that I looked forward to the most this year was my cousin brother, John Lim’s wedding reception in my hometown, Sibu on the third day of CNY. His actual wedding ceremony was held a week after that in KL. The wedding reception was not grand but it was good. We had the bridal car, a Lexus that Uncle Kay Kee (a family friend) lent to us.

Also for the first time in 4 years, we bought some firecrackers to celebrate this auspicious day. It is the Chinese tradition for the guy’s family to burn the firecrackers to welcome the bride. The more firecrackers the family burn, the richer the family will be. Although my family is Christian, we decided to perform all these traditional customs because we want to have a proper Chinese wedding party in Sibu.

I too played an important role on that day. I was the Master of the ceremony and back-up best man. John’s younger brother was suppose to be the Master of ceremony and the best man but due to problem with his flight back to Malaysia ( He was doing his Master in USA), he had no time to prepare the speech. He is still the best man though.

The preparation of the speech was not an easy task especially when it had to be in Chinese. It was very difficult for me because I had never writen a formal Chinese speech before this. Furthermore, I had forgotten how to write most of the Chinese words. Hence, my uncle ended up writing the speech for me. =P After that, we showed the drafted speech to the organising committee for comments and amendments. The speech was initially one page long but after the meeting it was reduced to only 10 lines and only 4 paragraphs. Remembering the speech was not a problem but I had to look up the dictionary for the correct pronunciation of some new words I had encountered. My parents promised to literally skin me alive if I embarrassed my cousin brother, his new wife, my uncles and aunties and the in-laws if I pronounced the words wrongly. Hence in order to be sure, I checked two dictionaries to make sure that I pronounced every damn words correctly.

the small paper was the final draft

Finally the big day came. My uncle went to fetch the bride from a hotel in the city centre while I waited at home. I had another task then. I was in charge of lighting the firecrackers when I saw the car fetching the bride and the groom approaching the house. I did not have the chance to take the picture of the firecrackers because everything happen so fast. =P

the bride and the bridesmaid

Then,

The bride and the groom had to bow to the sky before entering the house for tea offering ceremony. Tea will be offered to the respective grandparents, parents and other uncles and aunties.

After that, we proceed to the restaurant for the party.

This was me making the speech.=P

As the MC, it is also my job to lead the crowd to shout 3 times yamseng. The night before the party, I received instruction from John to shout, yaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (for 10 sec) sssssssssseng. I was almost out of my breath after the third yamseng. But everyone seems to enjoy it.

After the party, we had a photo session.

the Groom’s Family

the Bride’s Family

My Family
Back L-R my younger sister also the bridesmaid -Cindy, cousin sister in-law – May Leen, cousin brother – John, my baby sister – Angeline

Front L-R me, my mother, my grandmother and my father

That’s all folks! Stay tune for the Church wedding in KL!