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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Melaka Trip

6 of us (reagan hg ht me wk shaun) went to Melaka on christmas day.

Melaka is famous for its varied history, like the sultan system in the old melaka empire, european colonization (portugal, holland and british), cultural history ( baba and nyonya, portuguese descendants) and more. You can find a lot of food there too, especially at the Jonker Street there.

I'm not going to go into details about the trip anyway.

Apart from visiting to those meaningful venues that we were supposed to visit in Melaka, had fun and took a lot of photos, we were actually having a " the amazing race look-alike" journey there, becoz we walked from one location to the other without caring so much for the distance ( but i do care, pls notice that i am using the word "we" instead of an "i"), far or not far, we just walk, ok i will name a few of our hardcore journeys, JONKER STREET TO PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENT THEN BACK TO PAHLAWAN, from A FAMOSA wanna walk to the EYE OF MALAYSIA but got GG-ed at a spot quite far away from the SHIP which we initially thought the right path that can lead us there. Its kinda true as EOM was just in front of us, but the problem was that there was a river seperated us from the notorious site, holy shit then we walked all the way back again to the SHIP there and took another route to get to the site, what made things worse was that we were actually walking under a hot-scorched sun, so we look like a red indian now.

We actually covered a lot a lot of distances, from venues to venues but i lazy to name it. AHH before i forget, we attempted to walk back to Melaka Sentral from Pahlawan Mall after watching Sherlock Holmes as our bus to ride back home was scheduled to reach at Melaka Sentral at 6am. It was 3am at that time. The idea was super hardcore because the distance was just too damn far plus we were super duper tired at that time, so walk lo, no choice, bus tak de, taxi susah nak cari. We walked for around 20+ minutes i think and reached a spot somewhere around Jalan Munshi Abdullah and there was a super kind uncle who was kind enuf and willing to take us there. We salute your kindness man. Thank you Uncle.

Most of my college frens are going to fly early to US and take the remaining subjects (subjects that can be taken in INTI) there. It's time to know more juniors and of cause mix around with them. I will be flying on august next year anyway. I can also fly on April or May but i dont want to take summer class there as the fees are super expensive.









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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Travel

Travelling is something everyone would like to experience from a very young age, including me of course. We are introduced to other countries first by watching television programs held to inform us about the different cultures, languages, food and sights other places have. Visiting countries other than your own is extremely interesting. Some travel on business, some on a holiday. Students also travel to study, to take a post graduate course in a well-known University. Others travel to educate themselves, to learn more about the country they are visiting, like art and history museums, and also to experience their culture. It is important to savour other nation's culture, experience first hand the way they live, cook and do things in everday life.

Yes, These are all true but i am more into famous historical venues from all around the world like Colloseum, Great Wall of China, Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp etc. To visit to these places are my dream ever since i was a primary school kid. For some of you, history is the most boring thing ever, but for me, history is amazing. If i can get to accomplish it, that would be awesome because it's a kind of satisfaction that i couldn't describe in words, a life accomplishment indeed.

Travelling is always my main aim in life but i feel sad at the moment because i've never been to other countries so far in my life ( although i'm going to further my studies in US next year ). I tend to get jealous easily when some of my friends get the chance to visit to other countries and took a lot of meaningful photos while i am staying in malaysia and do nothing. This feeling sucks seriously.

By the way, speaking of travel. I can't wait to leave Malaysia for USA next year. Sorry for saying this but I'm not a hot blood patriotic person, i dont like the government, i don't sing negaraku, i dont fancy voting for either BN or the opposition party when i get to 21 years old, in other words, i dont give a fuck. These words might offend some of you, so i would like to apologise, but you know, this is just me, i have my own thoughts too, and also rights to express my thoughts. Hopefully you guys can understand.

I was supposed to visit to Beijing during this holidays but failed to make it at the end because of the hardcore weather currently undergoing there. I don't exactly know wtf is the chinese government doing but Chinese scientists ( presumably ordered by the chinese government) tinkered with the weather there and caused millions of tons of artificial snow to fall on Beijing. This artificial snow can has its own negative effects. It caused building with bad structure and bad engineering to collapse easily. And the most adverse one, flight delays and also massive traffic jam (caused by the snow blocking the road). You obviously don't want to encounter problems like this when you are going there for vacation because it wastes money and also the mood of vacationing. So i missed the chance to visit to forbidden palace and great wall of china, sien.

Visiting to historical venues can be amazing if you know the origin of a particular historical venue well. This is because you can imagize what had actually happened there. Like for example, err, Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. When you are visiting there and walking past all the crematoriums, prisons, barracks, gas chambers etc, you can actually feel and imagine how the jews felt when they were being sent there because most of them didn't know that they were going to be killed. You can feel how clueless and scared they actually were when they were ordered to strip off their own clothes and go into the so called "bathroom" ( gas chamber actually ). What you can imagine after that is the shouting and screaming of the victims which can be heard through the opening and it was clear that they fought for their lives, but of cause none of them survived. Besides, you can also feel how the prisoners felt when they were thrown into the crematorium alive.

Imagination is one of the very few ways to make yourself comfortable and entertained during a trip to historical venues. The others are being curiosity to explore and also the urge to learn more local historical knowledge. Most people find that trip to these kind of historical venues are super boring and meaningless because they want to visit to some other places where they can get themselves MORE entertained rather than staring at all these bullshit historical monuments. Well, you can't expect to find entertainment in historical venues because there are no restaurant, no shopping centre, no good facilities provided etc. Sometimes the weather can be harsh to you too when you are visiting historical sites like Giza Pyramid, Petra etc because these sites are located in super hot zone.

Historical sites are not boring and meaningless. It actually showed how human civilization and culture have evolved over thousands of years. This can be explained in many aspects, like economic relations between one continent and the other, cultural exchanges between 2 countries with different cultural background, political/diplomatic/military relations between two countries and a lot more. There are so many aspects that relate each other, of cause i will not list all out here. Archeologists gathered information from historical sites and monuments by conducting research and experiments on them.

Photos below here are some of the historical venues that i want to visit desperately. I always try my best to search for articles regarding these historical venues on the internet, particularly wikipedia to know more about them. (wikipedia-ing is one of my favourite past time).


The front gate of Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camp ( Poland ). Jews, Ghettos, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities arrived here on daily basis during 1940s. Most of them were going to be killed as to support the racial policy introduced by adolf hitler.


The electrical fence in Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. This was built to prevent the camp inmates from escaping. Inmates who tried to escape usually were eletroculated to death when their body touched the fence.


Chichen Itza, the unique Pre-Colombian site famously built by the Mayan civilization. Located in Yucatan, Mexico.


The Forbidden Palace in Bejing. It served as the home of the Emperor and his household, as well as the ceremonial and political centre of Chinese government from the Ming Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty.


Everyone knows this. The Great Wall Of China.


Machu Picchu, one of the most notorious and familiar symbols of the long lost Pre-Columbian Inca Empire. Located above the Urubamba Valley in Peru.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

Colloseum, the largest building ever built in the Roman Empire. Capable of hosting gladiatorial contests and public spectacles.


The Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.


Petra, which is located in Arabah, Jordan was the capital city built by the Nabataeans around 100 BC. You can see this building in the movie -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Of cause there are a lot a lot more historical sites that i want to visit. But of cause i can't post everything out here.
If God were to give me two choices, Marriage or Travelling. I would choose Travelling without a doubt. Marriage was never a top priority in my life. To be able to travel around the world is always my number 1 to do list in my life. This dream will never change as it has already cemented a place in my heart.
But of cause travelling needs a lot of money. And i desperately need some money now. Any kind soul mind donate some money to me??







Tuesday, December 1, 2009

feng shui

I've been thinking of changing my room.

My mom told me that my current room's feng shui is very bad. To be precise, what she was trying to tell me is that my current room has some kind of "wtfidonohowtoexplain" thingy that will affect my daily life, especially my studies and luck.

OK, thats what my mom told me. Yeah she knows a bit of feng shui.

Although i am not as superstitious as my mom, but i got to agree with her.

This is because my life had been turned upside down after i moved to this room few years ago. This could explain my failure and luckless in almost everything in recent years.

No wonder i can feel something is wrong with me for the past few years. I didnt noticed these failure luckless bullshit everything have something to do with FENG SHUI until my mom told me about it. i know it sounds sarcastic, but to believe or not to believe, it's your own choice, not mine. i choose to believe partially. 30% believe, 70% not believe.

I excel in studies and sports when i was staying in my old room. I'm not joking seriously. People respects me, praises me. But after i moved to my current room, everything has changed, things get fucked up easily.

This kind of stuff cannot be explained scientifically. Believe it or not, my life changed dramatically after i moved to this room.

What i got to do now is to change back to my old room as soon as possible and see what happens next. If my life starts to get better after i changed back to my old room, then i've got to believe that belief like feng shui which cannot be explained scientifically can be true sometimes.

My mom asked me to change room also, but my sister stays in my old room right now. Maybe i will try to explain to her about this shit and see what's her point of view.

I've a lot a lot of things that i wanna share here. But i'm lazy.

Lazy to continue. I guess this post will stay for a very long time.