gawai holidays + process hold compulsory leave + forced un-paid leave = si peh longgg holidays 

Went back to SriAman spent times with parents, grandma, old friends, my dogs and hell lotta fooooddss.  Seriously I think 1 of the best parts of going back to SriAman is FOOD.  Non-stop eating!  Imagine, you wake up at 8am then you have breakfast with parents, 2nd breakfast with friends around 10am, lunch at 12pm, and then you have bubuchacha, roti kahwin, kopi O for tea break around 3pm and next thing you know, dinner is served at 7pm, NOT finish yet, lastly you will have you supper around 8pm with other bunch of friends, and finally you go to bed at 10pm.  Isn’t that a good holiday retreat?  It makes me RIP for this trip back home, Wuiiii ….NOT Rest In Peace lah, it’s…

Rejuvenate Into Prince

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Lets us take a moment to praise 屈原, because without him there would be no Bak Chang! ^^::

I want to eat Bak Chang! Happy 端午节.

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What is the commonality between salsa dance & rock climbing?  Well, I would say footwork.

Salsa music has a regular tempo that normally goes like 4 quarter notes or beats per musical measure (4/4 rhythm).  But when come to footwork, you always need to remember that you only step on 6 of them which goes like — 1, 2, 3.. and 5, 6, 7..  You should not move your feet on the 4th and 8th beats.  The feet will just stand still for those beats and the step timing can be thought of as step, step, step, pause; step, step, step, paused.  It may sound pretty easy to you but salsa songs are usually a little faster, typically 180 to 210 beats per minute.  When the really fast songs play, the speed is extremely difficult to keep up with.  If you screw up the footwork during your dance, you most probably step on your partner’s feet.

My 1st climb was really lame.  I didn’t trust my feet, I used my arm to push my body up, I rushed my moves, then I hugged the rock.  Next, my arm got really pumped up and I had the feeling like my skin going to explode any minute.  It’s really tight like someone blowing air into my muscles.  Eventually my arm had no strength and I didn’t even able to grip at all.  For rock climbing, good footwork is one of the most important assets.  You will climb basically on your feet, and your arms acting only as a support mechanism to maintain balance as you step up from one foot hold to the next.  With practice you will find that even the tiniest foothold can provide good support, you just need to trust your feet.  It may sounds easy but actual fact it isn’t.

Now, what does it got to do with Yin & Yang?  Well, I consider Salsa as Yin and Rock Climbing as Yang.  Obviously for rock climbing you need hell lot of energy & strength and you sweat like mad within a minute when you are on climb.  Salsa, on the other hand, pretty relaxing and its fun.  I mentioned before about maintaining a balance between Yin and Yang results in perfect health of body, mind and soul.  Perhaps all these activities could gain me the balance of life, give me a beneficial chi flow and maximize my life quality.

Oh yeah, I almost forget the highlights!

Salsa - We (salsa dancers) got a free bottle of Chivas on the house (Lounge2) for performing our rojak salsa in the Pub.

Rock climbing - I came I saw I conquered the Triple 9 route! (with belayer’s help :P)

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~All Photos courtesy of Louis Wong~

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The Mothers

M-O-T-H-E-R

“M” is for the million things she gave me,

“O” means only that she’s growing old,

“T” is for the tears she shed to save me,

“H” is for her heart of purest gold;

“E” is for her eyes with love-light shining,

“R” means right and right she’ll always be,

put them all together, the spell “MOTHER”,

A word that means the world to me.

Howard Johnson

Happy Mother’s Day & I Love You Mom !

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If I were you and provided I had the chance to go back in time, I would most probably end up making the same decision as you.  Love isn’t something that just comes along like a flight where you can say “Hey, I’ll just catch the next 1″.  If everything we’ve been told about true love is in fact true, maybe it comes along once.  Does it make sense to exalt all sort of rational or intellectual judgments over your one change of true love?  ~Love is blind~

To my Sagittarius friend :

“If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn’t bring you tears either of joy or sadness, consider it wasted.”

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Burritos

Burrito is Mexican food, it consists of tortilla wrapped or folded around a filling.  Tortilla is made from corn or wheat, its a  naturally low fat , low sodium food and contains iron, calcium, potassium, fiber & other B vitamins.  I think it best serves as dinner (after workout), not too light and not too heavy, cun cun ho. I tried 2 different types of filling, both turned out good and I prefer ginger beef more compared to tuna mayo.

Tips - Use cornstarch to make beef extra tender.  Do not overcook the beef and  remember to pour some white wine into the wok when the meat is cooked.  Toss quickly and remove.  It smells and tastes so orgasmic!

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Some people feel down and defeated when faced with difficult situations, while others feel challenged and hopeful. Some people see the glass half empty, others see it as half full.  These different reactions are due to Event Interpretation - whether they view things from an optimistic or a pessimistic viewpoint.

Most people tend to be an optimist sometimes and a pessimist other times.  Ironically, things turn out how people tend to feel about them.  If a person feels like something will go smoothly or feels optimistic about it, it usually seems to go well.  The same is true of the reverse.  When someone feels like something will go awfully, it tends to do just that.  Though, extreme optimism can be off putting and invalidating because it seems delusion and can be denial of reality and pain.  Extreme pessimism can be depressing because it seems to only focus on the negative and catastrophic events.  The right dosage of optimism can be uplifting and hopeful, while the right dosage of pessimism can be realistic and wise.  Achieving the balance can be a challenge.

Just like Taoism - Yin Yang symbol.  It represents every conceivable pair of opposites: birth and death, growth and decay, healthy and illness.  Everything that is born must die and everything that grows will one day decay and we can assume that what  is Yin today is destined to become Yang in future.  Maintaining a balance between Yin and Yang results in perfect health of body, mind and soul.

wft, so not me.  Maybe because I am sick, that’s why!  Intoxicated by meds.  Falling sick on the long weekend + holiday, it sucks a BIG time!

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I dreamed of him on 30 April 09 night.  In my dream I recall we were riding in the car and there was some kind of conversation between us, we were laughing at each other. He was very solid and I could hug him and hold his hand.  The last thing I knew was I kissed him on the forehead and I woke up.  I told my dad the next morning during dinner time, and he told me it was grandpa 2nd year death anniversary yesterday (which I totally forgot already).  I felt immediate thrilled by that.  If it wasn’t the anniversary I would have just totally dismissed it as “mind tricks”, but it just seemed a bit too coincidental.

Do you think it was just a dream, or maybe I was actually visited by my grandpa?  I think he just dropped in to say “hi”, he misses me already.  Miss ya grandpa! I miss your dry curry too! lol …

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