Full Month of My Baby

Yes! I have reached full month already!

Last Satursday was my baby Jing Yi full month, then I rushed back from Singapore to see him. Moreover I really missed him a lot. We just had simple ceremony, and having red eggs and chicken. I would like to thx for my mother in helping me to distribute full month meal to my relatives. Besides this, I also would like to thx to those visiting/greeting my baby.

Happy full month, Jing Yi!

cuddling my baby. Did I look profesional on that? :p

My parents gave baby a leg bracelet whereas my parents in law gave him a gold bracelet.

We bought him a nice and cute cloth set which bought few months ago

Receiving several gifts from relatives

some cloths from my brother and sister in law

The most special gift received was the greeting message from my nephews, Jing Hong & Jing Da, Growing up quickly and staying healthy. Just wondering who is the cartoon person.

A nice card from my wife collegues & thx for visiting baby :) although they were working late

I am a little giraffe

gaining weight from 3.1kg to 4.6kg now. A bit puffy in his face.

Does he look like me?

wink and smile at us

This is his typical sleeping style. zzzz. Good night dear.

15 Malaysia Films

These 15 Malaysia films are fantastic describing the problems that Malaysia is facing. All the problem messages are burried and hidden in the films. Hopefully non-Malaysians can understand the hidden messages as well.

Potong Saga, is directed by Ho YungHang and casted by namewee 明志, who had once created a great controvesy in Malaysia about editting national song to Negarakuku from Negaraku . A laugh-out-loud film about a Chinese boy’s misguided attempts at opening an Islamic bank account. It reveals the misunderstanding and misinterpreting can easily happened in Malaysia if hearing from rumours, hearsays or incomlete sensentences. For this case, it shows Malaysian misinterpreting on "Islam".

Chocolate directed by Yasmin Ahmad. This film is actually very complex which has many hidden problems. See how many problems you can spot!


Tree: Malaysia’s most influential spiritual leader Nik Aziz offers commentary on the virtuous and Islamic way to conduct ethical commerce in his inimitable style.
This film is a bit bored in the way it presented, kind like an interview.

House: An Indian boy is asked to build a model of his house at school. A tale on the social economic plight faced by many Malaysians.

This is a real and true story that happened @ happening in Malaysia. Pretty sad and pity on the poor. What is our government doing?

PS: do you know who the last lady chatting with the little Indian student.. hehe.. you can get the answer from the film too...

美顶尖大学毕业 博士失业改驾德士

Stanford PhD as Taxi-Driver in Singapore

(taken from http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory200908191515-84293.html)

本地著名作词人小寒说，改行当德士司机博士,是她念大学二年级的科研导师。

博士失业，改行驾德士。

一名男子在博客中透露，他拥有美国斯坦福大学博士学位，曾在新加坡科技研究局（A*STAR）担任首席研究员，自去年5月份合约被终止后，就一直找不到工作，于是决定转行当德士司机。

自称蔡明杰(译音，Cai Ming Jie）的博士，在今年4月6日，以“一个新加坡德士司机的日记”为题目，开始在网上写博客。

他说，他可能是世界上唯一拥有斯坦福大学博士学位的德士司机。

他声称，他在新加坡科技研究局的分子与生物细胞研究院(Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology，IMCB）担任16年的首席研究员，可是却在事业颠峰期离开研究工作，过后因为种种原因找不到合适的工作。

他声称，他是在07年接到通知，指他的应聘合约将在08年5月份被终止。他说，他被逼入窘境，因为这个年龄突然失业，是一场最糟的恶梦。

“我一直很努力找工作，寄出无数份履历，包括本地大学、政府机构和私营公司，大多数都石沉大海，只有少数回应，可是却没有结果。”

经济萧条，令他更难找到工作。去年11月，也就是离职半年后，他决定当德士司机。他去年12月份报读德士司机课程，今年2月份，终于取得执照。

他在博客中也感谢家人的支持和信任，不断在他身边鼓励他，让他有推动力继续下去。

看小寒部落格文章，点击这里。

http://taxidiary.blogspot.com/

Probably the only taxi driver in this world with a PhD from Stanford and a proven track record of scientific accomplishments, I have been forced out of my research job at the height of my scientific career, and unable to find another one, for reasons I can only describe as something "uniquely Singapore". As a result, I am driving taxi to make a living and writing these real life stories just to make the dull job a little more interesting. I hope that these stories are interesting to you too.

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What happens to Singapore. It is sad to of knowing this news that Singapore is so materialistic of terminating his job at that age, who had contributed his valuable knowledge to the company as a principle investigator. I previously thought Singapore was more cherish to science & high tech related industries besides business since Singapore is in a shortage of knowledgeable researchers and scientists. I might change the view on Singapore. Is it a cold blood materialistic country? No wonder people say Singapore is a good place to earn money (when you are young) but not on living, especially for the elders, since the medical charges are astronomically expensive. Is it true?
This news is a bit demotivating me as I am pursuing my Phd in NTU. Is it a good decision of studying Phd? Just looking forward and strive hard...since I have no plan of settling down here :p

親近大自然：漫山遍野的茅草啊！

Taken from: 星洲日報／快樂星期天‧文：林悅‧2009.05.17
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烈日當空，我喘著氣走在上山的小徑上，汗流浹背。那陡峭的泥路，阻礙著我前進的速度，有時候還迫使我不得不手腳並用爬上高處。老遠跑來這裡，為的是甚麼呢？你聽了一定笑——就為了看茅草！

對啊，就為了看漫山遍野的茅草！

我身邊有朋友是“花癡”，為了尋花、賞花，不惜舟車勞頓，非找到看花的目的地不可。“花癡”每一次吐出“漫山遍野的花啊”這句話時，總是充滿感動，並陶醉在自己的浪漫遐想中。

“漫山遍野”，仿佛有巨大的渲染力，叫人一聽，就浮想翩翩。想想，整座山頭被某種植物和色彩覆蓋，能不撼人嗎？

老早就聽說武來岸有座茅草山（正確名稱是武來岸山，但別名茅草山更富盛名），山頭長滿了隨風搖曳的茅草，蔚為奇觀。我不是“花癡”，我願意為看茅草而走一趟。

入口在油棕園

出發那一天，天氣好得不得了。雲朵分明，天空湛藍，連影子都被照射得分外清晰。

我從吉隆坡開車，取蕉賴／加影大道走，然後轉進士毛月方向，跟著Broga的指示牌，大約1小時，就到了武來岸。

這是一個很小的鎮，位於森美蘭和雪蘭莪之間。先是找了一家熟食檔，叫了一碗咖喱面，再加一杯煎堆飲料。大熱天，充滿碎冰的煎堆，真是好味，喝個見底還意猶未盡。

向幹活的年輕美眉打聽茅草山在哪裡，她指出方向，原來必須回頭走出大街，直到看見一家兔莊就可停車了。而茅草山的進口，就在兔莊對面的油棕園。

跟著她的指示，我輕易找到了兔莊，也發現對面的油棕園，以及清晰的路徑。

沿著泥路深入油棕園，陰沉的環境讓人感覺一絲不安，但短短的一段路之後，就走到了油棕園的盡頭，看見了岔路。我選擇了往高處去的那條，那是正確的。擺脫陰沉的油棕園，我處在了陽光暴曬下的環境，偶爾有樹陰，卻蚊子特多。那段期間武來岸染上基孔肯雅症的人共有4人，而我被無處不在的蚊子叮咬，還真是有點冒險。

路徑一直很明顯，雖然有的地段還蠻陡峭，但基本上不難走，充其量是行山，不是爬山。



在還未抵達山頂之前，綠茵的樹木和植物，以及嬌艷的花朵隨路可見，但等到茅草開始出現之後，就再也沒有樹木可遮蔭了。大片的山頭，頂著大藍天，開闊無比，而綠樹則慢慢退到腳下，必須以俯視的角度觀望了。

春風吹又生

茅草開始多了起來，在路徑兩旁，在山崖邊，最後是一大片地出現。這種根系不易根除的植物，生長力特強，一但蔓延開來，就瘋長似地攻占土地，它那頂部的白色的穗狀花，像棉花般，彎彎的，輕盈如雲，風一吹，一同順著一個方向擺去，搖曳出詩意。

密集相連的茅草，白茫茫成海，那是溫柔的花海，更像是一副渲染了白紙的水彩畫。茅草沒有鮮艷的色彩，它一身素淡，簡樸平實，一如它的身份，是草芥，不是瑰寶，更多時候，它只會惹人厭，就因為它生長的速度，實在太快了。

“斬草不除根，春風吹又生。”正好是茅草的比喻。

從山上往下看，油棕園平靜地徜徉在陽光下，山坡一層接一層，可看見游人慢慢從樹陰走了出來，穿梭在茅草之間，緩慢登高。他們帶著相機、水和歡樂，趁週末的到來一同去郊游，不起眼的茅草，就因為游人的口耳相傳，美名傳播出去，像我這樣慕名而來的游人，其實不算少。茅草，如此平凡的植物，因此有了不同的價值。美景，其實還真不一定要多壯闊或璀璨，只要懂得品味，我們周邊的好山好水，也有獨特的氣質與個性。

絡繹不絕的游人

前來茅草山的人，一是大清早就登高看日出，一是前來看日落的。我是午後才來的，當準備要下山的時候，正是太陽斜射，照射出一片金黃光芒的時刻。

那真是美麗的時刻，山坡、樹林、茅草，全都浸淫在亮錚錚的金光中，乍看之下，茅草變成了稻穗，垂著頭，一道美麗的弧線附上了邊緣光，如此細，如此亮眼。

一面下山，一面忍不住回頭望，那漫山遍野的茅草，逐漸隱退，我再次走進了綠茵的叢林，向地面貼近。而這個時候，還有人陸續的前來，與我持相反的方向而去。我與樂融融有說有笑的家庭成員擦肩而過，做爸爸的那個手裡抱著孩子，他還叫孩子跟我說“哈羅，姐姐”；還有其他上山的人，是一幫朋友，他們搬了食物和帳篷，準備在山上過夜。

茅草山，原來這麼受歡迎。

那天，我帶著發燙的身體離開茅草山，一回到家，迫不及待地處理之前拍攝的照片，在黑夜中，一盞暈黃燈光照明之下，我再次看見連片的茅草，發出柔光，如此淡雅，如此樸實，卻瘋狂地霸佔了整個山頭，既蠻橫，又美麗。

如何前往：
朝士毛月（Semenyih）去，進入市區之後（Jalan Semenyih），留意Broga（武來岸）指示牌，在Petronas油站前的紅綠燈轉入Broga。一段路之後，會看見Nottingham大學出現在左手邊。再往前走3公里，東亞兔莊出現在右手邊，對面是油棕園，那即是茅草山的入口。

認識白矛（茅草）：
學名：Imperata cylindrica（L.）Beauv.
科名：禾本科（Poaceae）
俗名：茅草、絲茅、茅柴、地筋。
莖：地下莖發達，長而多節，地上部莖直立，簇生。
葉：葉片狹長，呈線狀，葉緣粗糙。
花：總狀花序聚集成緊縮的圓錐花序。
果：披針形的穎果，1有白色絹毛。
鑑定特徵：草本，發達的黃白色地下莖及白色穗狀花序。
分布：低海拔至平地的向陽開闊地、海濱、田埂等
用途：藥用、建築材料。
星洲日報／快樂星期天‧文：林悅‧2009.05.17

Kuala Gandah: Elephant Santuary

Kuala Gandah: Elephant ride!

If you like to take a ride on a real elephant, then you cant miss the elephant santuary located at Kuala Gandah. It can be reached by taking Karak Expressway from Kuala Lumpur (the same highway to Genting). Pay a toll in Gombak toll and another toll in Bentong. After that, drive along with East Coast Expressway and take an exit to Lanchang. Then take a right turn right after the toll. After that, follow the signboard to Kuala Gandah, which is located at remote area. It approximately takes about 2 hours plus drive from KL. The map below provides the direction/guidance to Kuala Gandah.

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There are few activities in this elephant santuary.

• feeding elephant with fruit in a close distance.
• Take an elephant ride on ground
• Take an elephant ride on river
• bath with elephant
• visit elephant museum

Elephant feeding (fruits are provided)

elephant riding

This is the first time I ride on an elephant

Ride on elephant across river and bath with it

The most especial event is riding on elephant on river. Why? take a look on the youtube below from someone:

You will get completely wet. Therefore make sure you bring extra cloths to change.

Have fun :)

NICE THOUGHTS

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings

Deeds not words shall speak me

you dont love a women because she is beautiful because you love her

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver 5 minutes longer

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.

A ship in harbour is safe but that is not what the ship are build for

blackberry vs Apple

Blackberry takes a shot at Apple!


Apple is the boss better than Blackberry !!!

Giving birth @ Hospital UKM

22 July 09 is an important milestone of my life, my lovely son was borned at hospital UKM (HUKM), KL. We are excited and happy to welcome the arrival of my baby. He is really cute! He was about 3.1kg & 50cm.

I found HUKM is quite good in term of environment and facilities. The doctors there are professional and friendly. Besides this, HUKM is not as crowded as in government hospital like hospital Kajang. I am impressed that I was allowed to enter labour room when my wife giving birth. I have seen the whole process how my wife striving hard to 'push' my son out. I thought I would be afraid when seeing blood, but I was not afraid. I was with her to show my full support. The whole process took around few hours. The total cost is around RM425 if I am not mistaken. It is much cheaper than private hospitals which definitely more than RM1k for natural labour.

Finally gone through the labour process...

having lunch

cute baby

mother & baby wrist bands

does he look like me or my wife?
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This is an equipment to measure baby heart beat (red color) and contraction rate (yellow color). The heart beat is to make sure baby is healthy and breathing whereas the contraction rate is where the muscles at the abdomen contract so that woman can push baby out. In a layman, it is also an indicator of how painful she is.

In normal condition, the contraction rate is below 30 in the reading. It could shoot up to 140~150 in less than 5 minutes. The frequency of the contraction can increase sharply. I saw my wife holding tightly on the handrail when the reading was moving up to 60 and above rapidly. I really felt her pain too. So giving birth is not an easy task. It needs a lot of courages to endure the pain!

the contraction rate was moving above 127

This is a place where baby is placed right after the baby come out. The roof of the equipment provides warm temperature to baby. Baby will be cleaned out over here too. Note that it is located within the labour room, just beside the labour bed.

My wife in the labour room and the contraction rate was low