Shi kills the devil 3 times over

On the 9th evening of October, marks the 10 days period of a Hindu festival when the Goddess Shi killed the evil...

Being an independent person at 18 years of age, i didn't experience much of other cultures and religious believes and festive s....

Thanks again to Komathi for the invite to the temple near your place, lets share the experience...

The temple's priest proceding with the bathing of the goddess Shi..

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At the Start

We gathered at Komathi's house at about 7 plus, after chilling and knowing her family and all.. Yeah, we took off to the temple which was a stone throw away..

A nice picture to start the night..
(All Thanks to Komathi's neighbour Suruya)

Next, we walk around the temple ground.. Looking and praying to all the various goddess and deities which populate the area..
The priest and retinue were getting ready the various religious icons and relic's for the ceremonial procession...

The man with the Staff which killed evil..

Me and Eyka gave offerings and praying for luck, strength and fortitude for our future... Yea, and the temple did have a coin offering pond. In which you make a wish and flip the coin into the pond..

Making an offering of incense to the deities

Soon after, the crowd began to gather and the auspicious time came.. The priest began with a short speech welcoming the people and beginning the ceremony,

As the priest addresses the crowd before he begin..

The *drum rolls* and pipe music starts.... A good coordination between the priest during the procession and the musicians as they play and and chat in sync..

Yeah, the dude with the flute and the finger drums..

The priest made offerings to the goddess with various relics.. from candles, lamps and to a very dangerous looking saw.. This marks the preparation before the goddess heads to battle (with evil)

Offering of Light

Soon after the various offerings, the goddess decided to mobilize to fight evil.. Thus various hulks came to bring her to cleanse the place of evil..

Hulks doing their job

Carrying the deity around the compound to symbolize the journey

Thus, the deity came to confront evil.. coming up in a straight charge against it (evil stood a form of a banana tree..)

The charging of the goddess...

(but this part is so potong-stim. At the most exciting part of the event, my camera had some battery malfunction problem.. No thanks to expired batteries from a herbal shop..)

Finally, burning the remains of evil..

Thus, the goddess headed back, and cleanse herself ...

so we had time to camwhore while they prepare for the following procession..

Gaya and I

Eyka, Khomathi, and Suruya

Suruya and I

Me and Eyka

Thus, they bathe the goddess in Water, Milk and a mixture of fruits and honey.. To Clean her after killing evil..

Milk

And after the festival, there was banana leaf feast..
Apparently, different from other cultures.. This feast is not self service..
(From a Chinese point of view, who would want to treat you food and serve you at the same time, go get your own XD)
They were very hospitable, and i still love the chilly-sambal-taufu..

Banana Leaf rice

Okay, after the event we went back.....
Thanks again to Komathi and Suruya being our guide for the event, and Gaya for transporting us savely to and fore.. XD

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Yeah, there's more...
After the goddess bathing ceremony,











We saw a national celebrity,














National Badminton Player, Lee Chong Wei!!!!
Wohoo!!!
He came to receive blessings from the gods before the next competition..
Plus he came from humble beginnings, staying at the village off Bukit Kiara..
Here's the pict, to show that it did happend!!
XD

Yeah, we don't look alike..
(Yeah, the facial reaction is due to the stunned face rubbing shoulders with celebs)

Groupie!!

Unfortunetly, my camera got knocked out right after that... So no pictures with the other players...

XD

Speeding Trip up Awana in 45 minutes

During the raya seasons.....

Yeah, 45 minutes ride of your life... Running through the semi-dry road of Ulu Yam trunk road.. Passing through the Selangor water reservoir, Steams of fresh water caption area populated with the various Classes and Orders of fishes.... And traveling at an average 80Km/h through the tight, winding and incline steps of the Ulu-Yam to Genting route..

Revving of the engine wakes all life through the valley....
Passing tree, earth, sky, tree, earth , sky, occasional orang asli earth, sky, tree, earth , sky, passing traffic, and more earth, sky, tree, earth , sky and tress.... It does wonders of a city-boy whom rarely travel out of handphone reception area, enjoying the lush forest and greenery of Malaysia..
Plus the 45 minute trips was filled with jokes , laughter and G-force swaying me from side to side..


First and only stop throughout the journey was the Awana Genting stop..
When the door opened, a rush of cool air, lower air pressure creating a cool surrounding does puts on a joker's grin for as long as we were there...

1337-mobile visits Awana, Bro's the driver.. I'm just decor to make the car heavier XD

Yo!!! Poser for Awana!! You don't come here everyday just to pose and have breakfast..

Still grinning and enjoying the scenic view..

Yeha.. Then we had breakfast in somewhat under-staff-hari-raya-mood mamak stall which don't serve curry early in the morning with their rotis....

Yeah, the trip back down was done with the high way... Less scenic, less dangerous, makes it less memorable...








































Last but no Least.....

Serious Cat found in Awana!!!!

15 Ounce of Blood

Donation is a word quite irritating to everyone's ears.. Donate money here, give money there... But how much actually gets to the person that's in need? and how do they know that the person in need has more urgency for cash then other... So why bother donating money if it may not change people's life the way you wanted...

Take a change....

Donate something everyone has, and you'll need it in life and death situations...

Donate Blood!!!

Quite simple few steps:

1. Look out for a blood donation campaign..
2. Make sure you are 18 and above
3. Get enough sleep, no alcoholic drinks the night before..
4. Have a light breakfast before donation, (the earlier you eat, the less stress on the stomach while donating blood)
5. Go get registered at the blood drive campaign
6. Go through a simple form of yes/no's

7. Short checkup before donating....Awaiting my blood-book

8. By now, you'll be sitting on the chair waiting for the pretty orderlies/nurses to get some of your blood...Yeah, see no pain at all.... simple and easy!!

9. Relaxing/posing /stoning or what ever you seem fit of doing while your blood is flowing into the bag... (camwhoring is allowed XD)Trying to look dead XD

10.Tada, here's the 450ml of blood!!
In some cases, the blood may be split and separated into 3 bags. This will of course save 3 people's life!!!

My 450ml of blood to save the needy

11.Take a rest and enjoy some simple beverage and bread prepared..

And you have save a life.....

Not upkeeping this place

Yeah, I haven't posted in a long time..... I seriously need to be a better blogger to upkeep my blog...
Well, lets start on something...

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Original Full Moon

A full moon drawn in a shape ( yeah, do it by moving the camera fast enough)

Somewhat shape done my moving the camera more..

And I say JUMP!!!

Group huggies.......

Done for now... Mind still half blank.......

30th March Outing (Part 2)

Ah Long Pte Ltd


This is another Jack Neo film which is set out to tickle fellow Malaysians and Singaporeans..
Having some of the same cast as "Just Follow Law", The story sets out to shed some light regarding Ah Longs (illegal money lender).The shows has a vague similarity as the previous film, as the lead female character is a strong female and the male a girly man...

This show is rated 18 PL for various reasons, as many crude and vulgar were used in the conversations, there is a little more blood and gore, plus a scene depicting more nudity than the previous film. As in contrast to his previous film "Just Follow Law", Ah Long Pte Ltd sets out on a different and more controversial film.. Depicting the lead male character as a girly man, whom faces discrimination as a soft person.

This Jack Neo film has change the way he tells his story, showing more action and humor, more than just savvy conversations and harsh words.

I rate this show:
Watch only if you are prepared to accept the crude way of gangster life.. This is not the humorers " Just Follow Law".. This show is rated 18PL for a reason...

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Tea at Plus Shabu Shabu

Japanese Steam Boat:
This is the first time I ate Japanese steam boat, please note that I have ate chinese steam boat, lok lok from the back of the truck and even having 1 at home plus grill too..
As 4 of us, Mel, Kelly, Jun Long (Issit Jun or Yun??) and me, decided to eat something after the movie. Although all of us was not that hungry because of the pop corn, cheese rings and not enough sleep..

The place has good ventilation for a close air space, has a high ceiling plus good service... The waiters and waitress were kind and helpful.. As the guy help me with the conduction induction heater which is written in some foreign tongue that i can't read.. The food is roughly RM20++ bucks per person, giving that they serve you a standard dish of vegies noodles,1 big prawn,etc and a special dish which you can choose between beef, fish and others... Given that the portion of the food was so so for RM20 bucks.. They give you a standard dish with a soup of choice which can be refilled with a press of a button.. Drinks however, is served per jug.. Which is 1.5 liters... All was well except that the sour plum thingy that we ordered requires "acquired taste". As this being a Japanese steamboat, there was less chance of oily-chopstick-coated-with-saliva fishing through meat in a big pot...
This place is neat for those people whom do not like steamboat because of the saliva-sharing-stuff.. For big eaters and those who prefer variety of choises, All you can steamboat wins hands down...

Pictures

Yes, All of us had different shapes of jelly...

The various sauces available for picking

Girls taking picture of their desert, Mel had a heart shape jelly..

Spending a few minutes slicing the jelly apart with her fork..

Urm... *Kelly looks on Mel still slicing that pudding

Group Picture from my phone
Top: Jun Long, Me

Btm: Mel, Kelly
-Taken by Ling, the staff-

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The day is not over yet...

After Jun Long left for a COD:4 Clan tourney, I bumped into Christine at MPH... Taken this oh-so-weird-looking picture in the taxi on the way back..

Day end..
Cheers...

29/30th Weekender

Saturday Night:
-Double Surprise-
Ernest came back from NS due to the knee injury symptoms... Well.... His NS was shortened to 2 weeks in stead of 3 months.. From his comments: The NS camp in Kerteh was located on the beach... by the sea.... and next to a hill.... This is more like a National Service Resort than a camp... Well, and they had the occasional stingray for dinner.... Ikan Pari pangang in NS... Now i so feel like going... Anyhows... He's back from the service and i don't think they'll call him back...

Thus, on Saturday... We went to Tbun, our local Cyber getaway... Yes, more COD4: Modern Warfare.. Besides that, the LYNK decided to turn up for some WARGHH... We greeted them with MP5's, Grenades, and all sorts of COD4 weapons arsenal... Thanks to Aaron for supplying the various modification that did help us in the game....

At 10.. We went to Richards to collect my long awaited 2 box of Cadian Shock Troops.... Yes, now I have to spend time to fix up the collection of bodies that await their assembly....

And finally, we went to SS2 together to get some steamboat and herbal tea... Then, As the guys sent me back.. Seems that everyone at home was asleep... and i had to ring the doorbell a couple of times to get any responds.. Thus i did some cha -cha dance in front of the house, while the guys were laughing frantically in the car

*Slept at 1, spending time fixing up the first men from the box..

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30th December: (Part 1)

Yes, I didn't go to the pet exhibition in midvally.. Well, in turn i caught Ah Long Pte Ltd in 1U at the 1.30 curtain..

Melisa was so kind to pick me up from home at 10.30 with kelly in the car with her.. Then we headed to Jun Long's place... And then to 1U...

First Meal of the day: Robert Harris at 1 Utama.. (A place not to eat)

Yes, this meal is the most dramatic meal that i ever had that cost RM60 bucks for 4 people...

At the start, we were served by a middle aged old woman whom had a serious attitude problem.. Fine, i know its early in the morning and every one has their days... So this middle aged waiter took our order with what little brain cells she has: 1 spicy spaghetti, 1 very spicy spaghetti, and a chicken barbecue. Drinks were 2 esprit, 1 orange juice and a lime juice... Easy??

Then the drinks came.. All were in order, so far so good.. Then she started setting the table with cutlery.. She stood at 1 end of the table and furiously set down the cutlery and hurry off... Er?? *What was with this women??*

Then after waiting for 5 minutes, the food came... First to arrive was the very spicy spaghetti, she did say: "This is very spicy" which was not that spicy... Then after a few minutes only did the real very spicy spaghetti came, and she place it on the table and hurried off..

Okay, so we complained to another staff. Which she accepted the comment and apologize for the inconvenience caused. I was still wondering where did my barbecue chicken went?? I was already waiting for 15 minutes... Besides that, A table that came later than us was already feasting through their sandwich...

Then, a male waiter came and told me that they forgotten to key chicken order into the PC, and they are doing it now.. It'll take 5 minutes, then he hurried off... I waited for 5 minutes, nibbling some of Mel and Kelly's spicy spaghetti..

Then i took it to the counter, I don't want that chicken no more.... I was actually surprise to see the reaction on the staff's face.. They actually glared back at the customers!?!? Woot!!! Plus the male attendant threated to put the chicken in the bill... Wow.. Strong words from a restaurant staff... I told them that i won't pay for the chicken as i canceled it before it came... So leaving the staff pissed and me no happier.. I went back to the table...

To my disbelief, the guy actually came up strong and insisted i took the chicken.. The manager hurried over trying to settle the issue... I told the manager that i won't accept the chicken as they came late, and the girls had already finish eating.. She apologize for the mistake and hurried off... Then, WAMB!! The guy waiter threw the plate of chicken into the bin showing his anger....

We finished the last bits of the food and paid the bill to leave.. The thing is, how are we to ask for the bill as all the waiters and waitress are gathering at the front counter?? We actually have to wave frantically for them to realize that we want the bill... Pissed off at that darn place.. We left for some Baskin Robbins..... Before we left, I saw the restaurant manager actually moping up the Barbecue sauce that was spill on the floor by the male waiter...

-2 cents please-

Ladies's Afternoon..

Happy faces

Lynn Li was back from Singapore for a 2 weeks holiday.. Since we've haven't seen each other for like an age... There's the lunch picture that my maid took...
Lunch was at 12... Other than me, Maine, Melia and Ann... others were like kinda late....
So i took the time to slice the rest of the meat that I've forgotten do..
Anyways.. We went up and "visited" the rest of the house.... Which they were very fond of my room..*Just keep what you've seen there to yourself ya!!*
After that, We've started the main course of Teppanyakki.. Then, 1 by 1 the rest started coming.... We've continued to chat over lunch.. then Germaine had to leave for church....
When lunch was finished... We've went another round of room searching... Ended up cosing on the bed in my room talking all sorts of stuff that came to mind.... Well, i really really had fun...
Then we went down for desert.. And suddenly.. *Woosh* all decided to leave at the same time.. Leavine Jo, Lynn and me plus cky to chat over the cake :p
Anyhow.... after cky had left... Lynn, me and Jo went to 1U and check out the place... Arcade was good.... Somehow, i loved the drums the most XD.... More walking around.... Oh, we did visited the reptile conversion/show/what-ever-la-thingy.... It was just looking at animals caged up... Hurm, feels kind of heartless looking at them.. and i contributed RM8 for this act... (shame on me) anyhow... We left after that, and Lynn's relative pick her up from my place....

Tada.. Day end...

p.s: Urm... when we wanna have another pot luck again??? message me.. and Girls whom left containers at my place, when you want em back?? Maybe we can stay loooooonnnnnggggerrrr at my place so i can return the containers on the same day... Please inform me ya...

More fulff of my life....

-Recent Happenings-

Looking back at the results of the SPM,
I got what i deserverd,
"What will be, will be.."
Besides that, I have a week or 2 of facing various people that harass me over the results.. Not in a bad way though, it just shows that everybody cares and want to be apart of people who have good results...
Any how, after I got my results i went to see ask about my future..(No, i did not went and see a fortune tell) Instead, the new PK1 whom was our beloved Pn.Kee.... Pn.Kee was kind and generous to answer my various questions and i clearly was hogging her time, which she was suppose to use to do something more productive...
Well, for what i know about Form 6... That it only starts in MAY!!! And now i have lot of time on my hands.... Good thing is, SMKT is a feeder school for Kota Damansara Seksyen 10 for what i heard.. Now the decision is whether to that school or change to other more famous school like Samad or T.Sea. (Catholic has been removed for various reasons)
Feel free to drop your 2 cents in the box!!

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2 People apart from me..........yet close

Here's to you...

Avi & Amelia

I didn't notice the 2 A's are posing in the same picture.. XD
Avi: Tall, Handsome, Devil's Charm, great manners, smartness without doubt. Once, our lives shared the same paths(To school, back home, then to school again). Then the time came where you started to ascend up the ladder of life... While i linger around.. The future holds bounty full for us both.. No matter how far apart we are in the ladder of life.. The bonds of friendship bound us together...
Btw, Thanks so much for coming to the party with us.. The cake was really nice, although we were already too full.. (thanks to the over-eagerness at the start). Seriously, when you sent the message to me about asking what i want for my birthday. I thought i did something wrong and you were looking for some explanation or a fight.. Congrats on your SPM results and hope you get that scholarship you were aiming for... Keep in touch..

Amelia: Smart, Witty, Friendly and Warming.. Sometimes demanding (while screaming her head off)... Yet, she always pulls through every hurdle... and feels great about it at the end.. Close to god, she seldom loose her way.. but often spend too much time thinking & worrying about a choice.Then again, the choice she made was always right.. If not, its the lesser of 2 evils..
Wish you luck in HELP, and your love for literature bring more flavors into your life...
As we may part our ways in life.. Its the stains of the tears, blood, sweat, spills and the occasional stains of sauce that reminds us the time we had.....
Sorry for coming up with something so late, but i have to write this with all my skills and grace, because i know for sure you will read this...

Birthday Night

08-03-03
-I'll just let the pictures tell the story-
-I'll just do the caption-

Khit yeng blowing at the candle, while i was gesturing to some1.. Hasyim looks over while germaine prepares to blow the candles....

The Men/Boys of the night.. (Nigel clearly having fun)

The whole crew doing free pose (Thanks to sakina's sis for taking the picture)

A proper picture XD

More weird posers...

Nigel having fun with the girls

Ann, Ee wynn and me(clearly red because of the alcohol)

Veggie pose..(Amelia clearly do not like celery :P sorry)

The whole table of people, its a little long...

The Pose (GOCC 2008)

Drink posing..

My other end of the table (clearly another red pict of me)

Destroying the evidence I mean finishing the drink..

The girls

So Marks an end of another reunion..
-I'll upload the various presents soon-