passing of a faithful servant

you first carry me on de basketball courts, where we could just soar with de wind, with our teammates;
working overtime on badminton courts, volleyball courts and de chong hwa running tracks since we played almost everything;

then you were with me at de langkawi graduation trip, which all my best buddies din go T.T but lil things made it memorable and worth mentioning here;

and then wearing you to de asian x-games events in KLCC park that leads to our time on de skateboard, and sparked my braided tail intention;

after a while on de vast land of australia;
you were having a leasure time, since snowboarding calls for snow boots and kendo calls for bare feet;

so, you were regulated to support de long walking journeys with a penniless backpacker;
spending nights on roads gazing at de orion and de southern cross;
crossing murray-darling, mekong, huanghe, and even sg. melaka, de great rivers that nurtured and witnessed so much histories that are so different;

then you were left forgotten for a while until futsal came our way;
there, de soaring feeling were back again, with ppl that makes it even more special;
but there, also came de severe shock loads that left your jaws droping;
which pretty much means the end of your service.

well worn but no tear until then, you've been great! rest in peace...

one of de many farewells for many

this is for those that wasn't there...

an apartment with "every single surface is hard!"
+
number of pillows and soft toys assymptotes to 100
=
more than cosy enough for eight


farewell clockwise from left bottom, byebye soviet doc, byebye english archi., byebye kiwi backpacker, byebye S'pore teacher, byebye i really dunno ur future plans couple, byebye malaysian musician.

seems like it's really by chance that we get to go somewhere together :)
de best part is, after not seeing each other for 5 or 6 yrs, everything still feel like de same old days.

我要带中华英雄。。。可以去吗？
asa可以去，asa不小心去到了。。。
天啊，中华英雄和饼干和眼镜和颖见的十二指肠到底有什么关系？！！

pix to share...
still waiting for huey yin's pix to complete de pix trio...


self potrait with "lets go picnic, i'll tell you if you can go" game master huey yin, caught by june's camera.


june taking pix of us, caught by yee hong.


hehe, the original pranksters... ah, just realized 4 of JPs were actually there!


Menjalara + Jln. Ipoh + Menara Duta 2 + forgot already Hilton queens buying their way out of jail, wakaka~

TravelMate的名字叫海燕

据说,
june的Vaio的名字叫小鹿
伟权的不懂什么的名字叫灵犀
所以我的TravelMate就叫海燕吧~

荣誉呈现即将陪伴我遨游天下的Acer TravelMate 6291


小鹿是来自--心中小鹿乱撞
灵犀是来自--心有灵犀一点通
海燕咧?一点来历都没有...

本来是要叫精卫的...将就有来历了,精卫填海吗~几有气势~

可是精卫是一个可爱的小女孩来的...
TravelMate的official名字(key in电脑那个)是elnino de oro = the golden boy = fernando torres :P 装满了沐浴在西班牙阳光下的梦想啊~(换成LL就是亲吻西班牙大地的梦想,哇咔~)

so?怎么办?性别冲突咧...难道要集金童玉女于一身?

呵呵,一不小心想到神话故事里精卫后来和海燕结合了,生下一大堆小精卫,小海燕一起填海^^跟愚公一家有得fight~他们应该合作把愚公的山搬去填精卫的海,事半功倍~~哎,扯远了...
又不小心想到董总的华文课本里面有一篇高尔基(谢谢高尔基氏体才记得这位伯伯的名字)的文章就叫<<海燕>>
quote最后一段:

这是勇敢的海燕，在怒吼的大海上，在闪电中间，高傲的飞翔；这是胜利的预言家在叫喊：
　──让暴风雨来得更猛烈些吧

酷啊~~

所以,海燕好,海燕好...载着梦想和祝福翱翔的海燕XD

smiling all de way~

but I was actually quite surprised to see that sentimental side of you...

that was a comment by woei woei on de last two or three posts.(yes! we finally got to chat again after wot seems to be a century)

hehe, guess it probably applies to most of you also? especially for those who've knew me for almost half of your life ;)
我是带着微笑面具的修罗~ haha

coz it's only recently that i found out i dun always have to be tough ma :) and june says ppl who dun show their true emotion is not sincere T.T i've been unsincere for so many years...

anyway, it's so nice to be marry's little lamb ^^, or irene's little roberto ^^(my favco master's pampered pet dog). as i was saying to woei, i still have two more wks to enjoy this luxury. then i'll need to transform into a (smiling?) big bad wolf again, haha~

btw, i've got a really cute new sweater! and a new beannie! post pix when i'm actually wearing them~ (as usual, not guaranteed)

<<生于忧患,死于安乐>>篇

尔征于色,发于声,而后喻...诚苦也.

天将降大任于是人也,必先苦其心志,劳其筋骨,饿其体肤,空乏其身,行拂乱其所为,所以动心忍性,曾益其所不能...可为残乎?

然后知生于忧患，而死于安乐乎?(嗢噱...借来一用)

故予自苦心志,自劳筋骨,自饿体肤,自空其身,行拂乱之为,所以动心忍性,曾益自所不能...足生乎?
唯大任者予乃拒之...足生,足矣.

用先进的2007年版的AutoCAD画winch画到一半突然时光倒流2300年(左右啦,不要将挑剔...),有点想回去打孟子...(2300年前是公元前293年,孟子虚岁八十,风中残烛矣,应该打得过他...)

futsal快点回来,全身充满干劲,我不要化干劲为暴力...

conversation sk y 飞叶

wanted to post this since a while ago...

sk (树，终于明白，没有根，才能够自由。)
飞叶 ：树是谁？
sk : 树就是树，不是谁。
飞叶 ：哦，我还以为你在指一个人:P
sk : 哈哈，没有啦。。。
飞叶 ：呵呵，最近有点神经质。
sk : 神经质？做末咧？发生了什么？
飞叶 ：因为要离开了。。。
sk : 哦，去瑞典哦？
飞叶 ：嗯，看到你的nick有点感触，因为我曾经也有根，也是树的一部分。
sk : 明白。叶的离开，是因为风的热忱，还是树的不挽留？
飞叶 ：我本来就是风，但现在只能是随风而飘的叶。
sk : 哈，很好的答案:)
飞叶 ：是事实哦，如果注意就会发现我的签名还是华文字的“风”:)
sk : 但是我知道，落叶还是会归根，你还是会回来的:)
飞叶 ：嗯，化作春泥更护花。。。
sk : 哈哈。
飞叶 ：:)
好了，跟你谈真开心，但是要回去做工了。
sk : 我也是。下次再来把酒吟诗作对 :)

lil background,
sk is a mate that i met in de indochina trip.
as some of you might know，飞叶 is the net ID i use.
在文化大沙漠里找到小小的绿洲。
虽然离小伟大的境界还远，但也有点小开心 :)

new phase in life...

Time, people, memories, I find them amazing too :)
especially for those who always dun have enough time, who dun have the choice to see the people they want to see most, and can only visit time spent with these people in memories :)

cant help feeling it after LL's finally left for another long-no-see-time. to venture into a new phase in life... on the weekend that i myself leave the bunch of colleagues that i'm so used to be with in the pass 10 months.

LL, sorry for not making to the airport... it was the last thing on my mind before i finally passed out under influence of too much alcohol 3 hrs before your flight. din even give you a proper farewell hug or something... but i did toast to you and to our friendship quietly you know... and yaya (in a tired but warm way like woei), lets fulfill all the dream buckets one by one until sky waste earth old :)

and june, sorry for not able to make to the no longer existed K-session :P
look forward to meet up soon also.

it's been a bloody high and low, up and down, awesome and awful week for a few of us. for now, just lets all be happy :) happy with the new phases in life.

lewis on the rise

first ever african decended F1 driver!
it's good for the sport, good for the people!
and first ever rookie who stands on the podium for all the 6 races he's start!
and the best of all, he's leading the world drivers championship!!
and needless to say, it's with fernandez alfonso de dual world defending champ driving the identical car along side, filipe-who-cares-massa, our kimi and so many other experenced drivers racing against him on the track!

and a very affectionable personality.
with a very affectionate dad flying with him to every single race on the calendar.
shreading tears everytime his son achieve the impossible. (impossible from the angle of historians and statisticians that is.)

the F1 world will definately like him, if not love him :)
worth a tribute post?
or is this post a lil bit late?
took me a while to get convinced ^^

end of football season... almost...& some other thoughts

ah.... why did you loose, MU? echoes of the MAS ad.
at least we had a great season of enjoyable football to enjoy.

it's now Real's turn to show their true colour!!
la liga couldn't have been more exciting!

but the bad thing is working really kills my passion over both football and F1 softly :P
it's good that i'm going back to study soon :)
looking forward to the ice villages up above! although gothenburg is not exactly a village.

doing a bit of study on aurora, so that when one does occur someday, i will be able to capture it, with woei beside me and some fancy cameras on our gloved hands. dreaming again...

doing a bit of thinking as well. about money, and wot kind of life i shall have in the future. and concluded that, although my financial health in the pass few months had really brought me certain level of convenience and stability, there is some kind of emptiness that comes along with it. it's the chaotic playful little devil that has won against the steady thoughtful little angle inside me. then they cooperate and chose the path to sweden. this is in the expense of either staying in Favco for a longer period (not only because of the projects i have in hand, there are other reasons and commitments for me to do so) or getting a higher paid job (by 3x at least) in australia. (for future travelling sake! :P)

i love my family, but i don't think i'll have a lot more time with them in the future. last year, the 5 unemployed months after travelling around was the longest i've been with them since the day i left for secondary school. but there are things that drives me away from home, and i'm sure my parents understands that. it's great to have a brother who has now matured enough to help out and put things right when needed. takes a lot of responsibility off me. and more burden will be passed to him, the eldest son of the family.

love the ppl in Favco too, especially in Eng department! they've thought me so much, about the job and also about life, in their own ways. though we might not know each other well enough to have any heart to heart conversations yet. gotta appologize for concealling the other side of me most of the time. thanks for the great experience! well, life goes on. for those who will be keeping in contact, i'm sure you'll see more of asa than the usual xinfu.

and at last but not least, you guys who bother to read my blog. you guys who know in your heart that i'm refering to you, lol. you are those who i worry the least. because, i know where ever i go, wotever i do, there is a chance that you might just pop-up on my door way someday and say "yo..." in a lazy tone. or maybe excited tone, since it's the.. say... 2nd time we meet in 6 yrs... lol, breaking the record woei and i set, and still setting.

ah, it's nice to love, and be loved. even when you are a million miles apart. Something i used to feel three years ago.

p/s: love rooney, haha

dealings with Favelle Favco

whoever pronounces the title of this post correctly will get a present~

yay! let us know, wot de heck is that?!!

that's the place where i spend most of my time nowadays... in short, the company that is so kind to have me employed~

ok, wot does Favco do? according to exhibitors in Offshore South East Asia in S'pore, we are crane makers who specialises in offshore pedetal cranes and tower cranes. well, thanks for bearing with that, i know that chunck of words is boring and probably meaningless for most of you ppl... just in case you have no idea wot a crane is, it's something that collapsed with the ice-cubes in "Happy Feet"... or if you prefer action movie, it's the structure James "007" Bond and the african "agile-freak" guy jumping and climbing on, that hangs in mid-air.... still dont get the picture? ok... call me.

another thing about Favco, go buy our shares, and dun let go. our big boss Mr. Chung Hui or Chong Hoi or Cuuunggg Woooiijy is trying all he can to push it up to the main board nxt yr. rumour has it, Favco is going to get upto at least RM1.00 and my colleagues are buying in stocks.... anyway, gambling of any kind is not my cup of tea nor my expertice. so if you happen to loose any money in persuation of this post, dun call me...

nah... i'm not going to get any more serious or in depth here. boring my few left readers (or is there any left?) is not a wise idea. so, the rest, i leave for your imagination to work out =P

F1 season return!!!

The season opener is in just a day over a week's time!
all F1 feverer lets roar~~~~ to make up to the noise lvl of V8-V10 convertion =P

kimi broke the track record in Valencia by a V8 car... but anthony broke the track record all together today... no doubt BAR have a strong car this yr, but we will beat them! beat renault! beat ferrari! beat everyone!!

my heart is already in bahrain~~~~

p/s: i'm gonna change into macca's livery ~~lol

Saigon magnifier

wa!!!
not going to Mekong Delta T.T waawaaawaaa......T.T
coz 2 mates are rushing for their flight from Da Nang on 14th Feb. So, our stay in Saigon is cut short T.T

Seriously, loads of lenglui in Vietnam!!! nO, u must come!!!

anyway, we went to Cu Chi Tunnel, one of the gerilla communists' most important hiding and most heavilly bombed place during war time.

walked to Notre Dame Cathedral, the GPO nxt door, Reunification Palace, War Remnants Museum just after arriving yesterday.

so, suggestion... if u r to come to Saigon, better spend more than 2 nights here. more is better, but less is really not enough T.T

leaving Saigon tonight, will be on the road for a few days, might need to store some food, but it's raining cats n dogs outside... sien...


Coming up next...

Nha Trang -- Hoi An -- Da Nang -- Hue -- Ha Noi

phnom penh news

din expect to hear from me this soon LL? ^^^

phnom penh is not as bad as first thougt, just tht last night alone there were 3 blackouts >.<

the famous killing field is a bit dissapointing, but it's still fascinating to see thousands and thousands of skulls pilled up in one place =P

the feeling at the first sight of the great mekong river is undescribable... the mekong in geography text books, the mekong i always wanted to see! hope fully we can see more of mekong delta in saigon, our nxt destination =)

leaving phnom penh 6.45am tml morning, leave u with pics from bangkok, siem reap and phnom penh.

!!drooling strictly prohibited in this blog!! lol

Thai - Cambodia border


tuk tuk in Siem Reap


sunrise at Angkor Wat


Vietnamese illegal migrant kids boating on Tonle Sap


Mekong riverside


skull monument in Chueng Ek killing field


mass grave beside killing field, full of butterflies... liang2 zhu4 T.T

Angkor News Letter

yo~ just a sec, no pics this time, they are coming soon alright?

this is my 5th day on the road, 4th day in siem reap cambodia, 3rd and final day in angkor.

story in angkor is too long, i'll send them in wif photos =) <--- not guaranteed =P

just came back from tonle sap. nO, when u see the water, u know can swim onot.... although still a lot of ppl swim... those illegal immigrants from vietnam, most of them are kids, some are disabled...

leaving form phnom penh early tml morning, heard tht it's quite unsave =P but the stay is short, only 2 days, so hopefully nothing bad will happen. vishnu protect me, lol~~

safely back home =)

yo yo~
this is asa calling from msia~~~
^^^ <--- june's 3 eyed smile

lack of updates....

T.T

the first month of 2006 is almost over.... n this is only my first post this yr... lazy me.... first of all, my travel agent stuffed up my airticket!!! >.< alamak!! but hopefully things can b settled before the day ends.... pray... pray... pray for LL oso... =P

righto, andy roddick lost to a 20yr old kid... ppl dunno him but i do... last yr he played federer the great in centre court too, so it's not the first time he was there. tht was a good match too.

n australia lost to sri lanka...hahahaha... oo, tht's cricket.

erm... wot else, yeah, my boss owe me AUD 550++... told him yesterday, he said "zang mai li gei yat la~" =.= must ask for interest liao....

the rest ar... i'll upload aussie open's pic later. b patient~~~

Mission Pack

yo! i've got a new backpack, without having to pay for it =P although it's a hiking pack, i bet it'll do as well for travelling =) light weight fabric and stuffs u c. and instead of the usual top-only-openning of a hiking pack, it's got a side zip so tht i can still get stuffs out of it without removing other stuffs ontop... ah, i dunno wot i'm talking liao, just see the pic lo~

to do it justice, it actually looks much handsomer than wot i made it look in the photo =P
btw, it's a 50L =)

the price tag... dun miss the 50% discount sticker ^^

st. kilda BBQ

well, the story is we had a bbq at st. kilda beach this noon-afternoon. but the pix hav nothing much to do wf the event. i was just a bit bored and wandered off for a while to take these pix.

the sea


doggies entertaining theirselves


the beach


bottle lid


little flower (i got hook taking pix of wild flowers)


weavy shadow of a pedestrian sign board

Le Tour de Merri Creek II

this time biking to lake coburg, heading upstream instead of down like Le first Tour =P

we started from lcf's place in north melbourne at 10:45am. all the way to teng's house through lygon st. then from there on, we followed the merri creek trail upstream (which pretty much means uphill >_<) all the way to lake coburg, had our lunch there and had some fun too. leg got cramp... fortunately the way back is all downhill, arrive teng's appartment at around 4.30pm. slept there for the night, end of story! hurrah!!!

lazy to take pic, so only 2 which i thought worth while...

Duck family day out~


cocky seagull

九张机

看到ano的“浩浩愁，茫茫劫，短歌终，明月缺。郁郁佳城，中有碧血。碧亦有时尽，血亦有时灭，一缕香魂无断绝！是耶非耶？化为蝴蝶。”和阳的《侠客行》，我不甘示弱，用了《四张机》做msn nick。夜猫看到后说黄蓉有《八张机》，我就去找了一下，结果发现这个---

《射雕英雄传》中，周伯通与瑛姑之恋，伴有一首《四张机》：“四张机。鸳鸯织就欲双飞。可怜未老头先白。春波碧草，晓寒深处，相对浴红衣。”金庸借用了其中的《四张机》来说明周伯通与瑛姑的孽缘，以绣有鸳鸯戏水图的锦帕，作为二人的定情信物。“可怜未老头先白”是用来形容书中瑛姑初出场时的面貌：“容色清丽，不过四十左右年纪，想是思虑过度，是以鬓边早见华发。”
《九张机》，见《乐府雅词》录宋无名氏词。其词为联章体，两组。一组十一首，一组九首。九首者，各章皆三十字。三七七四四五句式，叶三平韵，九首韵部相同。且各首分别以“一张机”、“二张机”、“九张机”等领起，使之绵连一体。十一首者，前九首与上述者相同，第十首、第十一首首句各减一字，其馀与前面九首相同。整组词前后尚有口号。词前并有序云：“《醉留客》者，乐府之旧名；《九张机》者，才子之新调，恁戛玉之清歌，写掷梭之春怨。章章寄恨，句句言情。恭对华筵，敢陈口号。”盖亦用于侑酒。《词谱》卷四○列此调，视为大曲。《九张机》并非一般词牌，实当归为“转踏”类（即以诗词间杂组合，用以叙事者）。但因《九张机》结构较为简单，与一般的词区别不大，因此通常词家亦将它作为“词”看待，如胡云翼编《宋词选》收录无名氏《九张机》一首。

无名氏《九张机》：
醉留客者，乐府之旧名；九张机者，才子之新调。凭戛玉之清歌，写掷梭之春怨。章章寄恨，句句言情。恭对华筵，敢陈口号。一掷梭心一缕丝，连连织就九张机，从来巧思知多少，苦恨春风久不归。

一张机。织梭光景去如飞。兰房夜永愁无寐。呕呕轧轧，织成春恨，留着待郎归。
两张机。月明人静漏声稀。千丝万缕相萦系。织成一段，回纹锦字，将去寄呈伊。
三张机。中心有朵耍花儿。娇红嫩绿春明媚。君须早折，一枝浓艳，莫待过芳菲。
四张机。鸳鸯织就欲双飞。可怜未老头先白。春波碧草，晓寒深处，相对浴红衣。
五张机。芳心密与巧心期。合欢树上枝连理。双头花下，两同心处，一对化生儿。
六张机。雕花铺锦半离披。兰房别有留春计。炉添小篆，日长一线，相对绣工迟。
七张机。春蚕吐尽一生丝。莫教容易裁罗绮。无端翦破，仙鸾彩凤，分作两般衣。
八张机。纤纤玉手住无时。蜀江濯尽春波媚。香遗囊麝，花房绣被，归去意迟迟。
九张机。一心长在百花枝。百花共作红堆被。都将春色，藏头裹面，不怕睡多时。
轻丝。象床玉手出新奇。千花万草光凝碧。裁缝衣著，春天歌舞，飞蝶语黄鹂。
春衣。素丝染就已堪悲。尘世昏污无颜色。应同秋扇，从兹永弃，无复奉君时。

歌声飞落画梁尘。舞罢香风卷绣茵。更欲缕成机上恨，尊前忽有断肠人。敛袂而归，相将好去。

“织”的内容
一张机：织梭光景去如飞
两张机：织成一段，回纹锦字
三张机：中心有朵耍花儿
四张机：织就双飞鸳鸯戏水
五张机：织成了“合欢树上枝连理”
六张机：开始“绣工”：雕花铺锦半离披
七张机：绣出“仙鸾彩凤”
八张机：绣出“蜀江濯尽春波媚”
九张机：“百花红堆被”终于完成

全首《九张机》写闺中织女一边织春衣，一边思念情郎，用语浅白。其实唧唧复唧唧，春无非是春恨，什么春波春計、春色春天，全是可怜人一廂情愿的幻想，“此情可待成追忆，只是当时已惘然”。最后春衣织成，情郎未归，忽然想起自己的一番深情，只如秋扇见捐！

《全宋词》另外还有一首《九张机》：
一张机，采桑陌上试春衣。风晴日暖慵无力，桃花枝上，啼莺言语，不肯放人归。
两张机，行人立马意迟迟。深心未忍轻分付，回头一笑，花间归去，只恐被花知。
三张机，吴蚕已老燕雏飞。东风宴罢长洲苑，轻绡催趁，馆娃宫女，要换舞时衣。
四张机，咿哑声里暗颦眉。回梭织朵垂莲子，盘花易绾，愁心难整，肪肪乱如丝。
五张机，横纹织就沈郎诗。中心一句无人会，不言愁恨，不言憔悴，只恁寄相思。
六张机，行行都是耍花儿。花间更有双蝴蝶，停梭一晌，闲窗影里，独自看多时。
七张机，鸳鸯织就又迟疑。只恐被人轻裁剪，分飞两处，一场离恨，何计再相随。
八张机，回文知是阿谁诗？织成一片凄凉意，行行读遍，恹恹无语，不忍更寻思。
九张机，双花双叶又双枝。薄情自古多离别，从头到底，将心萦系，穿过一条丝。