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乘着这几天回乡看小孩，整理一下自己这十几年来subscribe的一大票电子服务。突然看到这篇“东西”存放在草稿内：-

“今天不想谈估量师的辛酸史，反而先谈一谈自己的成长史。

可能以前和我同住一个住宅区的朋友实在太少，造成自己的性格比较孤僻，大部分的玩乐时间都是一个人在过。左手一个奥特曼，右手一个假面超人，编剧武术特效爆破音效配音导演全是本爷，场景搞定，场一清（就把房门关上），开始了两大英雄人物史诗般的战斗，不到一方陨落誓不罢休。现在回想起来还好自己那个时候没有搞到有 imaginary friend，此乃不幸中的大幸。

到了自己稍微会看点字，机缘巧合下邂逅了机器猫，春心荡漾的我抵挡不了诱惑，一头栽进了大雄的抽屉，坐上时光机冒险去。从此爸妈的房间不再上演“街头殴斗”，有的是一副“死尸”24/7地躺着看漫画。家长最喜欢的就是小孩子乖乖不吵，所以漫画这颗种子在没有天敌的情况下慢慢地萌芽，叶子一片两片三片，树干一寸两寸三寸，和主人共生了下来。后来树大招风，可老树盘根，我和漫画的羁绊太强，为人父母的想棒打鸳鸯却也太迟矣。

就这样，我和漫画从热恋到细水流长，一路走来也有二十多年之久。”


忘了自己是抱着怎么样的心情写下这些。应该也没写完，是现在也不知要如何继续下去。反正写作这件事是随性的，就让它悬在那里吧。

Quantity Surveyor 估量师之Part 1

毕业工作也快四年了（虽然已经有一年没在这行业打滚）。周围的人（家人除外）似乎都不太了解我的工作是什么“东东”。N年和同学们过年过节出来喝茶，提过了自己的行业，或许大家没听懂，装懂，然后潜意识地认为，哦，建筑的 = 工程师就对啦，老子管你是算什么的。当大伙儿再度相聚时问起，我仰着性子，发挥阿Q精神，再解释。奈何，人类本善忘，事件开始进入恶性循环的阶段，年复年，日复日，气结。Ok，建筑的 = 工程师，什么都好，老子照单全收，老子做什么的老子不管啦！ 

在看着这篇文章的你应该也不懂吧？对，就是你，不要假装看隔壁的人！没关系，我现在慢慢剖析给你听什么是 QS。

 近日看到一张趣图，其实也蛮反映着事实，先和大家共享之。。。

Quantity surveyor （QS)估量师和civil engineer 土木工程师其实是两码子的事。当 Architect 绘测师把建筑物的概念图和造型画出来后，土木就需要负责设计内部的结构，确保建筑物是可建，安全的。接着，出钱发展的人一定会问，要多少钱啊？说时迟，那时快，本躲在一角没什么存在感的估量师现形了。做状在计算机上敲打敲打（随性就好），登登登登！我说呢这栋大楼的建筑费大概需要一亿马币！这就是 QS ！感觉上很 PRO 对吧？慢着，请继续看下文～ 

这种时候通常 Client 的反应有两个可能： 

一，如果你初出茅庐：QS 你不要乱乱来，信口开河！回去问你老板然后告诉我！然后这些建筑图拿回去做个详细的预算！几时可以给我？今天？（今天我给条命你） 

二，如果你有一段工作经验而且外表沧桑：那样啊，要酱贵？然后这些建筑图拿回去做个详细的预算！几时可以给我？今天？（今天我给条命你） 

这个时候 QS 就要进入讨价还价模式：不行啊，就只有我一人在做（事实也是这样），明天好吗？Client呢，在众目睽睽下，这时当然会卖你人情（中间那些他吊高来卖的就省略掉）。

回到办公室下午五点了，终于可以静下来处理其他 remeh-temeh 的事情，回家休息充电gao gao然后明天把东西赶出来，下午交货。这时，身边传来一阵电话声！我们这一行有不文明规定，接近放工时间最好不要接电话。好，不接！十秒过了，电话终于静下来了。突然腰间一阵抖动。不好！手提电话在响！好一招“夺命连环call”！ “喂，qs 啊，明天“早上”交货，不要讲不可以，我已经给你老板脸通融到明天了，也是你自己讲明天的！还是你要我跟你老板讲？” 这时我们能做的也就只有不停地陪笑。

十分钟后，终于盖下电话，然后不停咒骂。干你x10,000遍（千与千寻也只不过一千）！发疯式地甩文件！孰不知公司的 cctv 已把你的失态录下，让明天 HR 和老板重播当娱乐。 

墙上的时钟敲打着，时间是傍晚五点半。QS，瘫坐在电脑荧幕前。。。嘴唇在抽搐，但却无语问苍天。嗯，泪水是咸的。

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看看最后一个贴的日期，才发现已经有两年多没写上什么了。是田太瘦，抑或是这个农夫太懒？再看看其他朋友的。。。似乎也没有比我好多少，心里的愧疚感立马消失得无影踪！不过想想现在有什么facebook啦，什么微博twitter啦，blog喔，除非你是想写些嗮命的东西，比如说我最近去了豪华欧洲行啦，我在马六甲鸡场街吃了什么美食啦，不然没人会在意你在你的blog倾诉你今天的心情吧。科技一直在转变，人们关心的事也在转变。不变的就只有人们的目光永远不对焦，看东西永远不着重点，就好像我也不知道我自己要说什么。 

唉，你看了一大堆，一定也没看懂，对不？随便啦，反正我就是吃饱撑，所以决定重耕我的瘦田！按下“开启键”，开工咯！

大力给我按下去，会有惊喜哦！！！



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希望你没那么听话啦，不然我会不好意思的。。。（无聊） 

呃。。。忽然又有点懒，还是明天再继续写吧！客官我们明天再聊。（我到底是农夫还是店小二啊？）

无间道 IV － 无间变有间

时代变了。

人类烦恼的年龄趋年轻化。你是不是也在烦？为工作为生活为自己为身边的人？

不要那么烦啦。来，一起看看“咸蛋黄”，烦恼马上消失再消失。

人生本是苦杯。

来，干杯！

无题

这个星期工作上有突发时间，之前计划好的一大堆计划（那到底是什么计划？）全泡汤。没关系，反正不是第一次了，事情能解决就好。

今天是星期天，起了个大早（精神有问题，礼拜那么早醒干嘛？）。今天是我的 orientation，人生中大学第二次的 orientation。是的，我登记就读 wawasan open u 的硕士！！！出乎意料吧？所以工作做不完也得撇下啦，总之今天“老林”都一定不能缺席！

前几个星期要擦皮鞋可是都选择性玩失忆，没用啦我。以前中学中六的时候，我才第一次穿皮鞋。每次怎么擦都不能把鞋擦亮。这时爸爸就会主动把我的鞋接去，细心的把鞋油抹上，刷刷刷，鞋就亮到能照镜子了。依稀记得我大学毕业前夕，皮鞋能发光发亮也是爸爸的功劳，二十多岁人鞋还要爸爸擦，在一旁的我好像回到了小时候。

看着暗淡的鞋子，心里有点感触。自己渐渐也开始老了，不知道爸爸还能替我擦几久的鞋。。。希望爸爸妈妈一切安康。我这个八月尾就会回家探你们了。到时候再慢慢想你们投诉生活上的点滴 ^_^

U never will c this brand in Malaysia

Come back from my HK trip last 2 weeks. Trip was awesome except rainy days. Come back Malaysia on thurs, friday terus plumb my head to work. Pathetic life.

A picture paints a thousand words, truely reflect my feeling right now..



BABILA!!!!

hatred

Actually i have a lots of stuff want to share with you all, e.g. my Dec X'mas in Malacca, Chap Goh Mei at Tungzen Temple, quite a variety of nice food, movies, songs, games, etc... Some i even finish the draft and wait to upload its photo then it can be posted.

Too bad, recently i am totally pissed off with my job. Totally moodless to write positive things to share with. Already busy busy rushing rushing for how long? It's so damn long! i just wish to have a peace of mind. Ok la, i know i can't take too much pressure, my EQ is sucks, the world is too harsh for me, work anywhere also got pressure... blah blah blah...

Damn, come to my office and take my seat for 1 months, i bet you all will cry for your MAMA... PKM! DNM! MJB! Ok, seems feeling a bit better.

Sigh, i just want my life back. Is that too much i asking for? T_T

God, i hate you. At least let me win Toto Mega once. T-T

迟来的海角七号

海角七号 ～～ 上一个月，耳边不停窜来这一个名号。电台不停地在宣传，金马奖的呼声也很高，连阿顺哥也要在他的部落阁大赞特赞。海角七号似乎还真的有两三把刷子。但一看到阿顺哥说这是一部比他认为已经很好看的《不能说的秘密》还好的电影，我心里一沉，《不能说的秘密》只是一部让杰迷看杰伦耍帅的电影吧？能和它肩并肩的电影，好极应该也有个限度吧！

昨晚，我看了海角七号。很美的一部电影。一部很台湾本土的电影。一部情节不复杂的电影。

故事里的人物都有自己鲜明的个性。爱出风头的茂伯，爱他的公主的劳马，拼搏的马拉桑，早熟又很跩的大大，喜欢他老板娘的水蛙。。。虽然在电影里他们的过去都只是点到即止，但却已足够刻画大家的个性，不需画蛇添足把情节搞杂。他们的出现，让我觉得反而主人翁只是一个夭寿的反叛青年－阿嘉。或许阿嘉（小范饰）这号人物真的属于舞台吧。只有在舞台，那才是真正的阿嘉，一个不再对周遭不满、披满尖刺的阿嘉。在故事的后端，阿嘉的光彩终于真正散发出来。而女主角友子也不是什么大明星还是名人，只是一个对工作有着不满的普通女孩。这一群普通的人，聚在一起，造就了一场精彩的暖场表演，造就了《海角一号》。



国境之南，说实在，我觉得只是一首还蛮不错的抒情歌，就止而已。看了海角七号，再听国境之南，脑海却不停涌现大伙在演唱会搬出一些表面上根本不谐调的乐曲，演奏这这首曲子。曲子唱到一半停了，阿嘉看着友子，演唱会摄录机转向友子，大伙儿盯着友子。。。友子接受阿嘉的爱意。。。这时，曲子才继续，直到终了。。。

在留下这段文字的时候，国境之南犹在耳边响起，歌颂着这段平凡的爱情故事。。。



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那这部电影到底好不好？套用台湾人的口语 － 干！这电影真他妈的好！（竖起大拇指，我双眼发亮）

Penang Bridge Marathon 2008

3 and a half year in Penang, i never participate in Penang Bridge Marathon... I guess i will hate myself forever if i continue to ignore it. As in the mid of year 2008, due to some political issues (i believe it is), federal government is not organising this event again. What a disappointment!!! The good news is, the amazing race is coming back, organised by the new state government.



16 November 2008. The day finally came. 3.30am early in the morning, me and Eng woke up reluctantly, walking to Queensbay Mall from our apartment as a warm up. I was running for the Half Marathon (25km) and Eng was participating for the Fun Run (10km). Our racing time was different. Mine is on 4.30am while hers was on 6.30am. So by the time we arrived QB Mall, the time was so tight for me. Desperately i look for the registration counter, which i had ran here and there like a mad man then only i found it. The prelude of the race was already a disaster for me. This was all organiser's fault! Placing their counter at dunno-where-the-hell!

4.30am, the atmosphere was getting so tense... "Gentlemen, start your engine." Bang! The Half Marathon finally started. With slow pace i was running. It's been 2 months ago after my last improper training for the race. By the time i wanted to boost up my stamina by undergoing some intensive training. My boss which is from hell start giving me a "mountain" of works. Great! T_T So i did not expect much in this race. If i can finish half of the journey i consider myself very "man" already.

"Comrades, once you start, there is no return. Don't look back, no matter how many men were down... Our homeland is awaiting!"

Along the way, rations were distributed. Spritzer, 100 plus, Power Bar... This Power Bar was new to me. I never take this type of product before. What i get was a concentrated glucose with electrolyte, flavour: Banana with Strawberry. I decided to keep it later in case i was hungry later. Jogging is a mind game, not just only stamina (for amateur like me). I came out with a strategy - walk when uphill, not to push myself to the limit so earlier. Anyhow, i just want to finish the race.

Things get a little bit out of control later. The water supply seems running low. For some stations, participants dare not drink much or waste much water since there were still many people hadn't had theirs. After passing the middle part of the bridge, we couldn't find any sanitation facilities. The worst is, i cannot tahan already. I WAN TO PEE!!! I saw 1 guy peeing beside the barricade. The sky was still dark, but i did not have the courage. Dawn will come! i believe.

So the later part of the i was busy looking for toilet. My performance was getting worse. I no longer can find any water station along my way passing the toll stations. I started to feel hungry. It's Power Bar time! The gel was so sweet, diabolic sweet! To be very frankly, the gel looks like sperm... T_T Hungry issue settled! Only on the way return to the middle of the bridge, i finally found a toilet. Holy crap! the unflushed toilet make me halt.. Holy crap, the crap was really big! I decided to keep on running (finally settle at the next toilet, but then it is another 10 minutes).

At 7.20am, i could see the end of the bridge. QB mall, i am coming! Alas, my hungry issue came back. This time, i can feel my body was getting cold, my heart was beating at abnormal pace, i felt dizzy. I cannot down now! If i manage to arrive QB Mall at 8am, i was entitled a finisher medal. Thing had gone so far and there was no way i wanted to give up. Some of you may feel that i was so silly, never training but still pushing myself so much, furthermore, i had achieve my earlier target which only need to finish half of the race (12.5km). Guess i was a stubborn man, in my heart, i treat this marathon as a challenge to myself. If i can pass this obstacle, i soon will be invincible. It is the very first step to turn my life into something exciting!

Run Jie wei Run! At the last 5km, i no longer can feel my legs. I no longer can run. My head was so empty. I did not feeling well at all. I might had collapsed at that time. 8am passed, i failed! I tell myself, just get it done.

To my surprise, the finisher medal was still available. Within the 50m to the end point. I ran! Yeah!! I got it! I can do this!



The marathon wasn't perfect. There are still many to improve. If you ask me do i ready for next year? haha, maybe i will pass. Now, my whole body is pain, i cant even walk properly now. I get my very first finisher medal, in return, i was totally wasted. I felt like i was dying.



p/s: karhong, next time don't play DOTA when you go for the marathon. Get some rest! See, i can finish the race without taking Sweeper Bus leh.. haha!

My Sunny T_T

I guess i was too "steam" about Suzuki Swift last few months... Mind was full of its sexy & horny pictures until...

My Sunny was so jealous go and "long" a Kelisa!!!


* My poor Sunny T_T

It all happen 2 weeks ago when i was turning into USM Sungai Dua's gate. I was on my way to Khaleel Restaurant to have my Yummy, Large, Cheap, with Tasty Mayo, Khaleel's Burger. Tired? + Pressure? + probably thinking too much of having a Suzuki Swift, i drift into USM without any hesitation. Great, i should have hesitated as i always do.

With 2 empty stomaches, me and lee eng had to go Balai and made report. I was fined RM300 and i haven't pay yet due to critical financial crisis. So anyone feel sympathy bout me, please spare me some change, or i will end up like Raymond Brothers... T_T

The next day i went to garage, ask them to quote the repairing cost. OMGggg (can't even speak fluently at this moment), at least 3k... The guy even told me buy a new one. Geram... After seeking opinion from "heroes from four directions", i decided to go Mainland to give another try.

Mainland is much much more cheaper, 1.4k a package deal. Nice. But still, my financial crisis even worse now.. So, again, please support me by donating money to this account, CIMB Bank, xxxx-00-xxxx-xxxx. Thank you.

Anyway, the luckiest is Lee Eng is sound and safe. The whole world / Sunny is nothing if she is not sitting beside me again... I will drive extremely careful next time. I promise.

Toh Soon Cafe - Roti Bakar

I always the biggest fans for food blogger. After reading Penang Tuapui and Lingzie , i had decided to try out the infamous roti bakar along Campbell Street last week (the day after 3 people were arrested under ISA), which i always pass by but never notice such a jewel.

This place is so hidden and you will never notice its presence unless you are a local. Basically, it is not a shop. It is more like a storage space which can be extended and transformed into a cafe. I don't know about foreigners, but for Malaysian, we know that only the stall in alley produce the best food in town. Dirty? Dark? Stomachache? Nah, we give no damn.









* Crowded even i went quite early at 830 a.m.

I heard Penang CM is the regular customer here. I did bump into him after having my Roti Bakar and went to the convocation of one of my friends. So next time if you want to meet him, do eat the roti bakar here.



What so special of their roti bakar? Even now people are using oven to make toast, they still follow the traditional ways to make Roti Bakar. Yup, charcoal. They toast bread wit charcoal. Whether Roti Bakar or steamed roti, they come with topping like butter, kaya, jam, and combination of them.

I had ordered 2 set of Roti Bakar with butter and kaya, and most importantly, the half-boiled eggs! You cannot eat Roti Bakar without it, it's like fish and water! Great satisfaction is what you get when u dip Roti Bakar into half-boiled egg! Yummy!





The Roti Bakar is crunchy, it never "kek" on your teeth. Lol! Credits on the bread's quality and the way they toast it. However, the kaya, i am not sure whether it's not thick enough or what, it definitely a let down. Improve on that please. Haha.

In short, it definitely an ideal place for breakfast. Roti Bakar with half-boiled eggs, to me, simply nostalgia! From their insist of using charcoal to toast bread, i can see they are serious in making Roti Bakar, money wise, our satisfaction are their main concern.

Today, i would say a food is delicious not because of its price, its fancy ingredients, but is the attitude of the chef who prepare it.

Super Hokkien Mee

Penangite favourite, Hokkien Mee! This shop is located behind Giant Supermarket along Jalan Burma. Let's say you are coming from the Jetty, Giant will be at your right hand side. But, do not pass Giant. There is a modern food court - New World Park, after the Park, the first junction where you can turn right, TURN! Go straight and turn left. Man, you have arrived one of the famous place for Hokkien Mee in Penang!

The legendary stall in inside One Corner Cafe. It has a funny name, "Super Hokkien Mee". So lame the name. (Photo "curi" from Lingzie's  Tummy Treat blog).

Actually i had come to this cafe twice. Previously i failed to taste on the Hokkien Mee, as the Boss said "Mee bo liao, come next time la". Bloody hell, that time was only 10am. I had been told this stall always want customer to wait at least 45 minutes for their mee (although they are not that busy!).

So, i come back again this time, at 845am. As expected, the Boss ask me to wait 1 hour. "Niama", i said to myself. Ok, fight you till the death! I wait! This time i bring myself newspaper and had ordered western breakfast while waiting for the mee.

After 45 minutes, the mee finally come. It looks normal.

It is spicy, spicy till i can't taste the prawn soup T_T and i was bathed in sweat.

This Hokkien Mee is famous, because of:

1) The boss LC, purposely make you wait.

2) It is dam spicy.

3) The boss put so many Ajinomoto inside, very thirsty after eating.

That's it, i would not come for the second time.

O Chean!!!

O Chean (oyster omelette) is Penang famous delicacy. Although you may get it in many places, but i would say the Penang's has it speciality. Erm, is it their oyster bigger and juicer? Erm... Maybe... I say special then special la, don't push me a!

Ok, this 2 stalls are famous, according to a blog that i read recently online (forgot who the blogger is, paise). The 1st shop is Seng Thor (成都) Coffee Shop at the junction of Carnarvon Road and Kimberly Street. Carnarvon road is also known as "coffin street" and the landmark of Kimberly Street is the biggest "colok" shop i never seen in other states, "Bee Chin Heong".



The next one will be "Bee San Coffee Shop" along Jalan Air Itam, near the "Chung Ling Secondary School" (also very near to Kek Lok Si and Bukit Bendera).



This 2 stalls are actually run by Brothers (Lim's brothers). Their oyster omelette is more to Malacca style, where they put "sambal" to fry along with the egg, but their oyster is far more bigger than Malacca's. Surprisingly their "tepung" (薯粉) are very less, unlike what we have at other stall, you can actually taste the lovely egg and oyster.



So, between this 2 stalls, whose better? I will say "Bee San" at Jalan Air Itam. Thumbs up! For your info, the O Chean stalls in "Seng Thor" start in the afternoon, while "Bee San" at night.

Dim Sum!!!

Ok, now everybody know our convocation is coming, 17 August 2008. It's a big day, your parents are coming, then you start to get panic. Erm, except Penangite.

Panic bout what? What? Are you kidding? Don't ask me such a silly question! Of course where should we bring our parents go to have Penang local famous food! Alright, i know many of you are now in overseas, or no longer in Penang, so for this few weeks, i will review some of the so-call famous "makan" place.

Our first destination, Dim Sum house in Jalan Anson. This place is famous because they have a wide variety of Dim Sum, and most importantly, they are cheap!



The place is damn damn crowded (i went on 10am Sunday). So bear in mind, be an early bird!



I had ordered 8 type of Dim Sum, just for 2 person. Ok, it's too much for 2 people, i just need to "dabao" some of them. Money spent, RM 19.20 nett.



As a conclusion, if your time is tide, you may not want to go Dim Sum House to have your breakfast. The reason is simple, the Dim Sum is average, Pekaka Dim Sum seems better than it.

The Ultimate Mega Mac

Despite i was running out of my money, as i haven't get my monthly pay, i had gone to Mc D to have my very first Mega Mac.

I was quite regret that i had missed out the chance to win a Mega Mac last time, where you just need chanting their stupid slogan within 4 sec and you will get a free 1. It sounds idiotic but you can save up RM 9.90, darn, who cares?

So i had ordered myself a Mega Mac, ala carte, RM 9.90.



With great hope of getting great taste, as great price comes with great food, i take my very first bite... hmmm...



Genius in this world always encounter their famous formula or sciences theory in their routine. So do I.

Mega Mac = Mega Sucks
Therefore, Mac = Sucks
Mac D = Sucks D

For the sake of the mankind, i hope the "D" means Donald, but not Dickinson (Dick). Or else, in future, when you want to invite someone for Mc D, you will have to say, hey bro, wanna go to Sucks Dxxx? My god...

Unexpected Lunch

There is a museum restaurant beside my company. i received a flyer from a Vietnamese during my lunch time. It called The Sire, sounds like it can fulfil all your DESIRE! They were having promotion, you just need to pay for the main course.

So, i went there with my colleague, as the term "museum restaurant" really stir up my curiosity, despite it might make my wallet suffered "internal bleeding".

I am really surprise with the restaurant... Its ID and conservation works really made me impressed!









This old house was previously owned by a Peranakan, tha's why it look like old houses in Malacca (Jonker Street).

The appetiser, a garlic loaf for each of us, and some vege seasoned with cheese powder.





Damn little! Anyway, i shouldn't complain as they are complimentary appetiser.

The curry chicken spaghetti. Taste "mama"..



The seafood spaghetti. An ordinary seafood with spaghetti. Need to put some pepper or it would be a bit tastless.



The cabonara spaghetti (mine). If you are cheese addicted, try this one.


Why all of us ordered spaghetti? It is simple, it is the cheapest main course in the restaurant! lol. Poor people like us can't afford fancy lunch.



Ice cream and coffee on the house. Good.



The spaghetti is always better than many fast food restaurant like Swesen, Pizzahut, etc. And the price is reasonable for dining in such calm and romantic environment.

By the time we finish our lunch, it was already 2pm. Darn, late for work!!!

For fancy version of The Sire, please visit to Lingzie's blog, which is far more better experience than mine.
http://lingzie.com/the-sire-museum-restaurant-king-street-penang/

Dumpling Festival

It's been a long time that i hadn't update my blog. With the great long holiday, my latest gadget - psp, and my family to chat with, i hardly log on to any web account.

Anyway, time flies. Now i am one of them, who work from morning till night, from alive till dead. Whatever.

Cut the story short, finally, the dumpling festival had arrived! (端午节 in google translate is -> Dragon Boat Festival! Is it? Sounds funny to me.)

People always say that at that day, 12pm, the magnetic field of the mother earth is the strongest, so u can make an egg stand at it tip. My gf and i had tried it out... The result? Lol, check this out bro!



Both of the eggs were standing! Serious. With lightning speed i send a mms to my family, simply to show off. Then i received a mms from my brother. OMG!



Ok, i had to admit, i was lost. T_T

做人难

是不是很奇怪，从前很崇拜的人，久而久之就开始被人讨厌了。现世可能就是那么现实吧，人往往只看到白板的一个黑点，而忘了它的白。

人应该多一点宽恕，每个人都有他、她的短或长，当自己在别人面前说别人坏话时，或许该想想自己是不是也有给别人讨厌的地方。身边的人，不由自主的，被灌输了那么多坏话后，突然对那个人也有了坏印象。被讨厌的人是不是会觉得很无辜？煽动别人讨厌你不喜欢的人，毕竟还是不好的。有什么不快，就和当事人，三口六面讲清楚呗。

听着别人说坏话，再想起别人从前的崇拜，真的很刺耳。

20080412 Balik Pulau Day 1

Life never been bored when you are in Penang. Despite of the thesis VIVA on the next monday, we, the hbp team,with 1 pure maths, had departed to Balik Pulau, to explore the unexplored, to discover the mysteries.

The tour start at 4:30pm, 2 cars (Sunny and Waja), with 7 beautiful girls and 2 handsome guys. The road to Balik Pulau is never be easy, the long cum winding cum hilly road, will always give you surprise. So, tenses your nerve when you are driving, or we will see you in hell.

After approximately 30 minutes of drifting, we finally arrived the legendary Balik Pulau. We dared not spin around the town as we were newbies here. We definitely need a tour guide. The first person who came into our mind was Hong Yee, the Balik Pulau "Dai Ka Jie". She has quite some reputation in this area, everybody knows her and whenever you are in deep shit, no money to pay, got people bully you, etc, just split out her name. However, she is more known with her other glamourous name, RS - red shirt.

*Our tour guide - HY

Balik Pulau is an old town, it look exactly the same with the old streets at Bentong, Karak, etc, with all those historical British Colonial time building. Therefore, it gave me a strong feeling of belonging, as i had spend my some of my childhood in a small town like this. Everything seems so familiar to me. Most of the things were miniature, including the road, roundabout, fire bridge, etc. Before we started our first destination, we had a chance to take a glance at HY's former school, Sacred Heart. It has a historical catholic church with a thin long sharp rooftop. It is quite a landmark here. Too bad, we didn't stop for photo session.

Ok, finally, we were on our way to the first place, indian man's mee goreng. Honestly, the mee goreng was quite delicious (dunno is because of my stomach was so hungry at that time or not). Everything was great except for some hygienic issues. The Indian guy had used his hand to take the overflowed mee back to the plate and, tap water was used for making limau ais...

*The mee goreng were finished before i could take a photo, a pack of starving wolves.

After energised ourselves with the food, the next station was an unknown beach at Pulau Betung. Along the kampung road, we noticed that there were some local people fishing there, as the sea is just beside us. Look like we had ran into a fishing sanctuary. Too bad there were only me and lai who had bring our "rod", if u know what i mean... hehehe...

*The Turtle Island according to our guide.

15 minutes passed and we had arrived the beach. There were people taking their wedding album there, not a easy job as the scorching sun still high upon the sky. After some water splashing and sexy posing, we got to watch the sunset... It was so cool! But then, our stomach got hungry, we had to proceed our journey to hunt for our dinner.

*Group photo at the beach.

photographer: Go get your bitch back for the photo!

bridegroom: Sien... Dun want to marry her liao...

*Girls hiding in the rock.

*Ah Long pte. ltd. 2 - this time she is marrying 2 guys... y me?

*I am hunting for crabs, lobsters, shrimps, lala, kappa...

*No! sun please go away!

I always have a small bladder yet i tends to drink a lot... So at that point, i was actually needed a place to "pay my water bill". Luckily, our "Dai Ka Jie" want to bring us to her untold, secretly located HQ -- in short, her home la. Glad to hear that, ^_^.

Again, you will never find the place if you are not leaded by HY. We need to go to a school first (ya, can you guess the gangster head of Balik Pulau is actually live behind the school? haha, just kidding), then u need to turn into a small thin path, and her house was just like popped out in a middle of no where. POP! Here we were, HY's house.

HY house has many dogs as any typical house in the orchard. After HY introduced her parents to us, we had eaten the fried "buah roti" / "so kun". No wonder Khor So Kun cant win during the election la, because Balik Pulau people keep eating "so kun". Haha!!! It's taste like fried yam, except it is a bit tasteless, so chilli sauce will be the best companion. 

*Me and my buah roti.

Guess what were our dinner that night? Satay! It's not any ordinary satay, it is 25 cent each satay! So, what are we waiting for? 

Half way we stopped at a fried chicken stall. It was not because the fried chicken was so delicious, it was mainly because the girls found out the owner was quite "engtao" and want to take a closer look. Anyhow, i still had my fried drumstick, not bad la. 

* I never knew that my gf is opening a fried chicken stall here.

*Free urut, i should had gone for it.

Finally we arrived at the food court beside the bus station to have our satay. Honestly, the satay a bit small where you just need to have one bite to finish it. However, for only 25 cent, the satay tasted really delicious! Thumbs up thumbs up! Within few minutes, we had finished the 100 satays. We asked for more! and more and more! But the stall was closing at 9pm and they had ran out of chicken satay... Too bad! 

*Behind the satay stall (before it got rained).

* We should had ordered 200 satays.

The night was still young which indeed it is, so we continue to climb all the way up to the mountain road, stopped, enjoyed the night view and breeze. It wasn't much light in Balik Pulau, most of them were tiny little light spot from each of the houses. The strongest one was the newly built bus terminal cum market cum food court. I personally think that it was a gift that not much city light in Balik Pulau. In Georgetown, the sky is in orange although night has fallen. It often make me sleepless, too bright for an old men like me.

*Captured by lai. The brightest spot is the terminal.

*Group photo on the way to a hill-top restaurant.

Night getting late. Sigh, due to some circumstances, i, as the humble driver, had to go home without spending some quality time with the others. In a car of 4 people, we were heading home while the others were enjoying their "dua bang" with nice chilled beers... T_T

-end of day 1-