Neither Here Nor There.

It has been quite awhile since I last update. Last week was quite a hectic week. Because of the Medical Conference in UMMC on Saturday and my client's Health Awareness event on Sunday, I worked 7 days! But all is good.

Have been binging in alot too. Nestle's feeding us really well. Char kuey teow for breakfast, bah kut teh for lunch and SS15 Cendol for teabreak -- what would you expect of me? Yeah, call me fat. I really need to do something with this.

Anyway, I'll be turning 23 years old this coming June. I'm neither old nor young now. Sucks to be at this stage you know.

When I go for youth, people like Iri will be "omg mk, you're so old edi la!" and if I join my company for any events or joined-fieldwork they'll all treat me like a kid. Yes, a kid! Not even a young people!

I think if I go on like this, I'll start facing identity crisis. Haha. Blogging from office now which I shouldn't.

Anyway, I think I might be getting sales in a while. Pray for God's prayer. Will update again soon!

Update: Yeah I got the sale! Again neither here nor there now. Not to say alot more to meet my target but not to say very easy to meet also. Your favour is all I need now.

Stop For Them!

Just the other day over the table sipping our chinese tea, someone highlighted the incident of the Australian exchange student who got knocked down by a vehicle outside Monash Sunway Campus. Apparently that girl was chasing the bus or something and she ran out to the zebra crossing but the car didn't stop or something like that. Thank God she didn't die (or else Monash's School of Science will be in great trouble) but she had some blood clot in her brain. So surgery and blah blah blah. Now still in ICU i think.

I'm not very sure of the actual version of this incident but the key point here is, we drivers should all stop when someone wants to cross the road at the zebra crossing.

Cannot be denied that it's Malaysian's culture to not stop at zebra crossings. I vividly remember my trip with the HCA guys to Singapore, there was once when Ronnie and I wanted to cross the road, so we stopped at the zebra crossing 'cause we saw cars but they stopped for us immediately. I also realise that the rest of the Singaporeans just cross without looking at zebra crossings because the drivers there WILL stop their vehicle for us. Unlike Malaysia, if Ronnie and I did that here, we would have been knocked down by something long ago. Yes, that bad.

And when Liangyi and gang (Singaporeans) came for a 3-months exchange program in UM, they actually stopped at the zebra crossing for sooooooooo long in their campus but no car seems to stop for them. So they came and asked me why.

Someone told me that its the culture here, an unchangable bad habit that's etched deeply in our roots, our culture, the Malaysian culture to not stop for them.

Well, I beg to differ.

I think its more of the mentality and its something that we can train. We're in control of our actions, not entirely depending on the mentality (or the culture like said). Someone also brought up that its more dangerous to stop our car just in case the car behind us speeds and our sudden braking for the pedestrian crossings would cause an accident. This is true till a certain extend but I guess, the world will not change if nobody do their part.

We just need to set an example, one by one and things would happen. Things won't change overnight but it takes effort. Let's say now I encourage some of you (say 2 of you) to practise this way (stop for the pedestrian) , the two of you will make some changes and tell another 2 and that 2 will tell another 2. That's like 1 become 2, 2 become 4, 4 become 8 and so on. An exponentially increasing chain reaction!

When there's a need for change of mindset, effort will be required too. Nothing will be done if nobody does it. It has to start somewhere! It can start with US (as in kita, and not Amerika Syarikat)!

Come on people, lets do this together!

Sepang & Klang

I was at Sepang last Thursday.



Like said, what's going to Sepang without paying a visit to the Sepang F1 circuit right? It's just like going to Pizza Hut and not eating pizza, where can? So I went there during my lunch break.








This place's quite cool. I even get to stand on the Grand Stand to watch some of the racers practising.











To put on the bragging cap for a while, (to be honest) sometimes I'm quite amazed by my timing for photography. I mean, you guys know how fast these F1 racers speed right? To capture them would take quite abit? Haha damn perasan! Anyway!

Next, I had to cover some of the clinics around Sepang town and also their outskirt. So I took the coastal road back to Klang. Damn far weyy! In the end, all in all I drove 252km just for this whole trip. That's like driving from KL to JB (or maybe Singapore?) already. Jialat!

There were many plantations all along my way and yes, these are my 'only' views all the way! I bet most of you take dragon fruit alot (btw, it contains a high amount of antioxidant. take more!)
and just in case you thought they grow on the tree just like apples or durian, you're wrong.
Basically, this is how they look like :)



Had a chance to just converse with the farmer for a while and learned some knowledge from them. Quite cool. I was told that its off-season now and they only get 300 dragon fruit out of 3000 trees planted (that means only 10% of the trees planted bear 1 fruit each). I was also told that at this time last year, NO dragon fruit succeed growing. So maybe dragon fruit may be a little more pricey now til June.

I also stopped by Bagan Lalang and enjoyed the breeze for a while before I head back home.


beach at Bagan Lalang

I'm pretty amazed by our country. As we all know, Australia's Goldcoast is one of the finest and most beautiful beach in the world. Here, Bagan Lalang's implementing something similar and a part of this beach is known as Sepang Goldcoast now. Ain't kidding here! Serious!



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Today (Saturday) is a happy day for me. Had lunch with Dr E, Dr Lau & husband, Jing Tien and Minghui.


Isn't she exceptionally pretty especially in my personal photo with her? :P

They met up in my house first (Jing Tien and Dr E parked their car at my place) and its so awkward for me to introduce Dr E and Dr Lau as my lecturers to my dad.

I was like, "Dad, meet my friend, Jing Tien. And these are my lecturers" O.o

And all I saw was Dr E's awkwardness upon hearing that, giving her shy yet sweetest smile while saying her hello. Cute!



(I hope she doesn't see this or I'll get killed)

We went for bah kut teh and then Cendol together. I don't know what wrong/funny things I said in my car 'cause everyone (Dr E, Minghui & Jingtien) tends to laugh at every word I say/do. They literally laugh till they get cramps at their abdomen. I'm not a clown la!

And Dr E calls me a budak and she thinks that I'm so manja, childish and playful --- which is so obviously untrue right? I bet you all know that :) (i mean the untrue part).

And she called me her stalker also! :O

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And tonight, I almost ran over a stupid goat who ran out to the road all in a sudden at a heavy traffic. Thank God I managed to give an emergency brake and the goat was just 5 cm in front of my car. It was that close! And the car behind my car couldn't stop in time and so he swerved to his left (we were on the right lane) but there was another car on the left too (heavy traffic). Thank God he managed to slip through in the middle, or else mom's vios will be rammed from behind because of that stupid goat! Pfft! I still thank God I didn't kill it la.

Looks like we have to educate them to look left and right before crossing the road!

Batu Caves, Gombak.

If you've been following my blog entries, or if you're my friend, you'll probably know by now that I'm working as a Medical Rep.

So today I was in Gombak, met a few doctors before I break for lunch. And then after lunch, I drove my car to this road and I've no idea why I stopped at the junction there for so long and it took me a while to realise the smoke coming out from the adjacent car





I drove away just in case it explodes while debating if I should call the bomba. I parked my car at a corner and walked back towards that smoky car while the crowd builds up and the bomba's siren alarmed making its own grand entrance towards the car.




Everyone was keeping a distance just in case it explodes while the kepoh mk went nearer to take pictures of firefighters at work. Fuyoh!



I don't know what happened and Minghui said it could be a stolen car. The car was not locked and there's a hole on the top middle of the bonnet. And thats the part that's 'burning'. Actually its more like its corroded by acid, really.

Anyway, my point here is that I witnessed a live incident once again! (haha, though its not something that one should be happy about but at least I've seen it before)

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Went around Sri Gombak to meet doctors and in the end of the day, what's going to Batu Caves and not climb their ever-so-famous long steps right?



So yes, I went.

There were alot of pigeons on the floor and these pigeons are not human-phobia!



They're not like our usual pigeons who will fly off whenever human come near them. Note how close I was to them in order to take this shot.



Or rather, they all flock together and attack if you happen to hold food. Having them flying pass my face/head at the sight of food somehow reminds me of Sueli's Mudpie (sp?) story. They're quite aggresive!



Saw the red tiny stairs on the left hand side? Yeah, that's the super long flight of stairs that everyone has been talking about!

This is how it looks like when you go near them, the starting point of the mission to complete this flight of stairs.



On the way up you'll say hello to your monkey friends that will greet you.

Firstly, please meet Huge-Balls-Monkey.



Then, meet his bini (wife) and his family.



And I'd say that this is a close monkey community. They even watch over each other's back!



Yeah, that includes catching kutu (lices).

You can always camwhore on the way up also, just in case people don't believe you that you really went up.



1.. 2.. 3.. 4......................... 271.. 272.......... 273...



I made it up! 273 steps actually not really alot la. I don't get it why everyone think that its so hard to finish these steps. A not-so-fit people like me took only 10 minutes to get up there. I bet you can do better!







And the view from the top:



Actually the descending part's scarier than the ascending part. I tend to be so cautious bout "what if I miss a step and I roll down the whole thing like a Humpty Dumpy?"



Anyway, I made it down and I spent whole load of 1/2 an hour for the whole thing which includes taking lotsa photos.



Now I feel slight fatigue. Thanks to the short jog and then badminton yesterday. It's a real good experience I would say. I may need some Glucosamine now. LOL.

Grace & Mercy.

The two words, grace and mercy are like big words to me. In my earlier days, I don't know how to differentiate them.

You know, its like so common for us to say "I need Your grace and mercy, Lord" but what's the differences?

Looking at the definition now, these words are actually so interesting and beautiful.

Mercy literally means not getting what you deserve. For example, we do wrong and we deserve punishment. But mercy said we can be pardoned for our wrong-doings. The penalty for sin is usually death but because of one's mercy (or in this case, God), we don't get the penalty. Or say, we broke our dad's important vase but instead of getting spankings or scoldings from him, he said its okay. That's the beauty of Father's love. That's what it mean by not getting what we deserve.

On the other hand, grace simply means getting what we don't deserve. For example, salvation. We cannot earn salvation with our own efforts but we receive it freely because of Jesus' complete work on the cross. Hence, its freely given to us eventhough we don't deserve it. Or we haven't been good children but our parents still love us so much and give us whatever we want. That's grace.

Aren't they beautiful? Now I thank God for grace and mercy in my life.

Reunion.

It was 11.43am when I got up just now. It was a good night sleep nonetheless.

I had a dream. A dream about one of my close high school friends, Sharul whom I've entirely lost contact with.

I've left MGS for about 6 years now and the last time I met her was during my days in SPM. After high school, I couldn't get her anymore. She has changed her number, email addresss, deleted her friendster account, no facebook account, nothing. Not even msn.

If I can put it this way, she's just out of reach. None of my friends can get her.

In my dream yesterday, I found her. It was a very pleasant meet up. The hug and the time spent updating each other yesterday was very good. Though it may just be a dream, I'm already happy.

I hope all is well with her. I believe we'll all reunite soon.

p/s: Dr E makes my day! :)

God's Hand.

Done with training (with meals provided!). Going on fieldwork tomorrow onwards. I believe His hand's upon me, and His favour is an essence. I'm falling in love with You more and more, all over again.

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Date: 27th March 2009 (Friday)

Venue: Ryan's residential


Being the most happening cell group, things go awesome from worship right till prayer. No doubt, God's presence was so evident again. When we asked for prayer request, I'm so proud to share that it was Alvina and Adeline's first time for cell group and but they were amongst the first to request for prayer.

Adeline's friend, 14 years old got scheduled for an operation the next morning to remove a huge brain tumour which is already pressing on her vision nerves. The tumour was suspected to be very near her spinal cord and with just a slight mistake/touch, she might be gone forever. Even the surgeon didn't have the confidence in removing it and that she might not make it. So everyone has to be prepared for the worst.

That night, we proclaimed divine healing power and that God will hold the surgeon's hand as he performs the surgery and that His wisdom will be upon the surgeon so that he knows what to do and all. We also prayed for peace to be with her family member.

The chances of survival might be very slim but impossibilities for man are possibilities for God.

The next day, Adeline got so excited and she told me that the surgery was a success and she's safe from the critical moment. I was so happy that I went around telling this good news to all my cell members. Though she's still in the ICU, I believe the peace of God would be with her.

This is not just another co-incidence but its another miracle. He never fail to amaze me. God is always so good la!