Happy Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year Holiday has passed by so quickly. The 2 days holidays were perfect! I did a lot of activities which mostly include eating!! Last Sunday, this was supposed to be the 1st day if CNY, at church, I was told by my sister Ivy that our grandfather (babai Nupat) has died. Many plans for home visiting but we decide to cut it into few less so that we would be able to go back to kampong to show our last respect to grandpa whom had suffer for the pass 10 years.
As usual my family likes to go visiting in one big group. The 1st house which we went to was my 1st cousin Kinyoi whom married a Chinese guy. Oh, she served mostly my favorite foods which I no need to elaborate here. The foods were perfectly decorated and served! I think I ate trice of my normal daily intake which made me full until that evening! Around 2PM, we went back home. Full and tired, I slept like a baby. The weather was sporting, cold and windy. We slept until 7pm. Later mom called around 7.30 inviting us to go back to Kampong with my brother, Andy. I agreed and they picked us up around 7.45PM in his Satria. Satria is perfect transportation to avoid jam, fast and for easy parking.
We arrived at grandpa home around 8.30PM. There were so many people and they were singing Hymns. I saw some familiar faces. They were my cousins and clos relatives, aunties and uncles! The service ended 10 minutes later and as usual, people would go and eat whatever was prepared on the dining hall. Around 12.00 midnight, we left for home. So tired!
The next day I woke up so early and yet it was a rainy Monday. Ton and his group came wound 8pm to build up a division so that my puppies could be control easily. It cost me RM480.00.. No discount ka Mr Yon? Around 2.30pm, wife and I went to check in at the Sheraton Hotel, where we had sweet memories and we want to treat it as vacation place. Hey we got married there, OK. Last time we were given the airport view but this time, wffe preferred city view. So we got a floor 7 room facing the city. Dolin and her family came later, with my brother and they proceed to the swimming pool. I came later.
Around 7.30pm, wife and I needed to get ready because Jethro is picking us up to visit my cousin Jamie. Many funny things happen while we were on the road. I could not mention it here due to some sensitive issue, just read this: Malaysian is considered guilty unless proven he is NOT! In other country, they are NOT GUILTY unless proved guilty! We arrived at Jamie's residency and immediately being fed with sumptuous foods too. We chat and talk and eat and update each other at the same time. Hafiz was always be the hottest topic while next were the government issues. We left around midnight and I was so damn tired. Thanks cousin for the hospitality. Jethro sent us back to the hotel.

JFTSO Blogging!

Yeah.. long time already I did not update the blog… How I wish the word busy never was appear in the dictionary. I have changed my job description and it makes me more occupied with office work. Being a process engineer is not so much different than an equipment engineer. Ah, leave work load alone. Let this blog clean from any work load story. Leave work load alone. Let it be where it supposed to be!
Last Saturday I was thinking having a small makan2 with my little family. How I miss them! Yeah, I miss each and every one of them!!! Being a husband I have more duties. One of it is to kill the housefly, eat what ever my wife cook, bathe the puppies, lit up the mosquito’s coils, say hi to the neighbor, pray for the meals and so on! Not to say wife have no chores, infact she has MORE heavy chores than me. Enough said, so last Saturday, after our music practice, I informed family to have an eating session at my place in the evening. The 1st to come was my parents and my sister Ivy and her family, Oh lily, Dresden’s sister also came. They were beyond control until they both needed to be tied far form each other. Later, my sister Doli and her family came. Too bad both of my brothers didn’t turn up, so they missed the fun and the eating session that we had.
While my parents and aunty Tookies and my brother in-law were having coffee after meal at the patio, the rest of us were busying watching DVD about a dog by the name of Marly. Oh it was such a nice story which made my sister Dolina cried like a baby. Ayoyo.. Sorry sis, no tissue that night. Around 11.30, every body went off! I had a great time watching Marly. Did I cry? Yes I did. Huhuhu…It’s so painful to keep the cry instead, just let it go…But I cry little bit only lah… hehehehehe…

This weekend is the Chinese New Year and I’m really looking forward to this long vacation. Just imagine next week I only work from Wednesday till Friday. Wah… Honeymoon again.. hahahaha… I have not taken any leave since 1st of January and my carry forward leave is mounting! I thin after February, my leave remains 32.5 days. After March, 34 days and after May, HR will send an email so that I should apply for leave! Huhuhu.. I think let’s wait for the e-mail so that my new boss will be alert that I have many leaves and let he’s the one to ask me to take leave.. Hahahaha…

I receive sms from my friend Melcome telling me that he’s flying over to US. Wow, America, be prepare because a Sarawakian is coming to town. I don’t know how much strict the airport condition now even after the whole precautious step taken, there were still escapees! Scary! I hope there are no rules and regulations saying flyers must be checked thoroughly or flyers fly in nude! Hahahaha… I think I had enough of flying… What does it mean??? It means, maybe I should go tour on cruise or driving though it would not bring me far until US, hmmmmm, am I sick of flying? Believe me. Imagine this, you are located at the far end of a long tube, big enough to carry about 300 peoples, imagine those crowds whom sit infront and behind and on your left and right. The limited space and air makes me uncomfortable what else to stretch your body in the 12 hours journey where you have to change your time according to theirs and then when you arrive there, everything looks so differently and the weather and climate change too. Oh, I’ve experience all those things and I personally not to prefer but if it is a must, I’ll go, provided it’s FOC!

Huhuhu...

Last night I had a bad dream. It was about the destruction of planet earth. As usual, people in my dreams would sometimes presence on and off. Location, I was somewhere in Sarawak while mom and dad were also seperatedly somewhere in Sarawak too. But it was too obvious that dad was in the army again by looking at his attire and some army troopers who were with him at that time. They were physically hiding from something in a confine room, wrapped in Al or sort of metallic wrapping paper. Usually that would makes people think of radiation prevention! But in this dream, dad seemed not to be so close to me or could it be he was on duty and never to be disturbed! In this dream, none of my siblings were around. Even my wife, but my two puppies were there with me. I just watched dad helplessly from far praying that everything would be all right soon!
Kaboom! The 1st Nuclear bomb stroked the earth. I saw bright light everywhere but I don’t know where to run. There were so many people running here and there searching for sanctuary. I didn’t know where to go but later I found out that I was by the river bank with my puppies. Then suddenly there was a man from nowhere shouted at me "Watch out for your puppies, they might get killed for food!” At the same time, I called my mom and ask what was her situation back at home. She replied to me that she was fine together with the others and she continued so that I would be ready to face the 2nd nuclear bomb strike. “2nd one?” I asked her back for confirmation hoping that I did not hear her properly.
I have to get myself prepared for the 2nd one but how? I had not been eaten well and to drink the poisoned water by the river, it’s suicidal, only the tap water from one place was safe to drink because the source is from the mountain. Waiting for the 2nd strike was actually depressing. So some groups of people purposely get together some sort like a party to leave aside temporarily their problems and the bad feelings. I was there too, hoping to meet or see anyone that I knew in that place but too bad, everyone is a alien to each other but share the same fret which is mounting in them!
Some of them have their radio on and music was playing but still everyone had no mood or no reason to be jovial. Later the 2nd nuclear bomb strokes the earth. And it was 6.45am. I heard Madonna singing ‘Take a bow’ on my cell phone. I was awoken by the morning alarm Oh; thank God my nightmare is over... I’m glad that I don’t have to see nor experience the 2nd nuclear bomb effects. Not now, I guess, I’m not ready yet. Maybe I’m not ready for the 1st nuclear bomb effect too. It would be terrible I know!

But what happen if it was not a dream?

It's hot now..

This week I managed to complete my last 2 projects. To total up there were 5 projects since year April 2009 until Jan 2010. All is implemented and some are under tight follow up by the module representatives. Well, should I be proud of myself? Should I ask for an increment and a job promotion? My last increment was in last November if I’m not mistaken and it is only RM500.00. That’s an average value a staff like me would always get yearly actually but I also am hoping for more this years ahead. With the higher living cost, fuel, hey, Kuching is not like 5 years back. Kuching has grown wild and congested! Thank God, I still have jungle just nearby my house and I hope it would be there until many generations.
Last night wife, Bruxels, Dresden and I had a fun time BBQed at the patio. I bought few pieces of chicken wings while she bought charcoals and few slices of hams. As usual wife would start the fire, and jokingly I told her that I was a member of the Red Crescent and not Scouts who are good in making fires and survive in thick woods. Within seconds, flash... the fire woods burn and I was so excited to do the grilling. As if I’m watching the AFC channel, license to grill, where a man doing his cooking outside his house with some expensive utensils and big oven and his big refrigerator is just nearby and the most interesting part is there is a big swimming pool behind him! So when I did my own grilling, it’s quite similar to what he did. I don’t have big oven but I do have a small cheap portable BBQ stove. I don’t have swimming pool but I do have a small plastic swimming pool where Dresden, Bruxels and I swam during hot time. It was anyway a perfect picture where I can do everything like that man. Of course the main point here is to grill a good meal and we did it. The chicken wings, the hams, beans and the salads were all ready by news time. I bought each a bottle of coke and it was very refreshing!! We ate at the patio by the garden while watching the news TV3 and the puppies were greatly behaving themselves lying on the floor waiting for their turn to be fed.
I got my bicycle back but too bad both tubes were faulty and need to be replaced if I want to use it. Emm, got to plan it this coming Saturday. I have lists of things to do this Saturday, morning I need to bring E’den for his final vaccination, and to start his de-worm therapy. Only after that I have time to fix my bicycle. I don’t want to have a hectic weekend. Let it come and go as slowly as possible and as long I enjoy it to the fullest, I don’t mind! Oh, there will be the audition for AF* this weekend too. Not sure whether I should follow up on this like I use to do since AF1 until AF7. No regret what!! I flew to KL twice and I met my cousin Jamie for the 1st time and I went to IKEA and the CURVE for the 1st time in my life and I ate at my favorite restaurant the Burger King and I wonder why all of those are only found in KL?? Oh, American Idols also now playing on the screen searching for the top 12 finalist. Surprisingly if you watch properly on most of the candidates, they really had a changed of personality before and after they finish the audition. Fr example, there was a girl from Alaska I think, and she was so devoted to her religion and she walks gently into the studio and praying so that she will do well. She was an angel like I can say but when the result came out with a red card, she screamed like a rejected angel falling from the sky. OMG, I never such thing…. So embarrassing I guess but to me, that idiotic melodrama is unnecessary
January will end soon and here comes the month of February. I do hope my project works and I really pray to God that HE will guide my way to success. Maybe I give myself another 5 years with this company before I resign and be my own boss to my own company. May God Bless me! But starting next week, I’ll be doing something different. It is something I really am looking for actually, though it’s tough, hard and time consume, I am willing because it is worth!
I want to attached my puppies pictures here but the net is to slow now, later maybe…

Weekend Picnic

Last week I brought my puppies, nephew and my niece for a picnic at Tang Bukap River. The overnight rain made the water quite deep and the rapid is I consider quite dangerous for children. I don’t know why i was so eager to go outing on that rainy morning where people tend to sleep on that cold Saturday morning but I didn’t. Actually I myself love the outside activity such as camping, jungle tracking, swimming and travelling. But I never like to drive on a straight lane road because it made me easily tired and sleepy.
After preparing everything, I drove my wife’s kembara to fetch my child fruit and my dad to baby sit them. I know they love water but since my puppies are going so I need more menpower to take care of some other thing. Through the journey Dresden and Bruxels slept underneath the sitting compartment. Maybe they were afraid or nerves but they were being so good puppies and they did not bark and made any tantrums like some children used to act.
We reached the river side an hour after we got the best spot. There were so many nice spot where you can have a level ground to set your picnic spot and also the fire and the choice is yours. As for us, we prioritized the safety and only then the fun of being by the river. My wife set up the fire while I bring my child fruits and puppies by the river. My dad just sat down on the mat to relax while reading the newspaper. Too bad, I forgot to bring the radio. Ok here are some basic needs if you want to go picnic.
Big Mattress, a radio with good transmission, Old newspaper, Pillows, mosquitoes’ coils, Foods and drinks, Few bottles of clean water-you may keep in the car to wash your feet later, Plastic bags for left-overs and rubbish, junk fruits and some sweets, slippers and enough clothing.
Enough of that, hehhehe… As you know that Dresden is a little bit a city puppy while Bruxels just came from kampong, believe it or not, Bruxels would survived if I put her alone in the jungle for a few days but only God know what will happen to my Dresden who doesn’t know how to go down the slippery hills, how to swim along the shallow river and how to sustain the nasty cold. Bruxels, no Problem. She went down the hills in seconds of time and she swam like an Olympic swimmer and the cold is aher friend! But my love to them is equals. They are from different breed and from different parents but they are so close to each other. I could remember the 1st time they met, since Dresden is our 1st puppy, he has all the authority to do things that he wants.
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Wow, the rain has not stop since yesterday. Hmm there’s a possibility flood will hit us again. I have to stop here for a while. I’m too full.