A Joyous 'Family' Trip

On the 13th of March, I went to Cherating with 19 other friends that I met while organising the UMP CNY '10 Event.

The bunch of friends were the members of Food & Beverages unit along with our beloved 'mother' aka our head unit, Ong Huoy Ying...

We went there by using the chartered bus offered by our university's management.

Our journey started at 10.30am...

Throughout the journey, there were songs singing, throwing the beach ball in the bus and photo session in the bus...

At noon, we stopped at Berserah to have our lunch at KFC Berserah.

Then we continued our journey till we reached to the apartment we rented at Pantai Sungai Ular...

The place we rented is Sanctuary Resort Cherating.

We placed all our belongings and have a rest after few hours of bus ride before getting ourselves wet at the beach.

We had a great time at the beach, especially playing with the sand and covering our assistant head unit with sand.

Then, we dip ourselves in the swimming pool and we had a water polo game there.

That evening, we had steamboat as our dinner.

Although the steamboat prepared is not as grand as the one my actual family normally do annually in Cameron Highlands, its a very enjoyable one as its prepared by most of our 'family' members.

This is what you call the importance of body chemistry!

That night, we played poker card games which include big two.

We also watch Woo Hoo.

After wacthing Woo Hoo, our 'family' was split into two groups, one having ghost story telling session and one having their great time with big two.

At 1am in the morning, we prepared for our next activity but it is failed by the weather as it started to rain when we set up our BBQ set.

We postponed the activity to 9am.

It might be a joke to you to see people doing BBQ session under the scorching sun but you must believe me as we did ours under the mighty sun.

At noon we packed our belonging before departing back to our campus.

I hope that we can be a 'family' forever without looking at distance and boundaries.

Our spirit will continue.

F&B Forever

J.Z.Wong

Busy Weekend: Part 3

As early as 20 minutes past seven, I woke up to get ready for Briged Siswa's event, gotong royong.

The bus departed from UMP to Kg. Pelak, Pekan at eight o'clock.

The journey took half an hour.

At there we were greeted by the villagers warmly...

After having breakfast we were divided into four groups.

My group were assigned to clean up the cemetery area.

I took about two hours for my group along with the villagers to clean up the cemetery.

12.30pm I took my lunch, I was served Ikan Patin with rice and cabbage masak lemak and siren (syrup + orange) in malay as si for sirap and ren for oren as my drink.

Then we left the village for UMP at 2pm and reached my campus at a quarter to three.

Then I continued my work at Block W to wrap the remainding hampers...

Then at five in the evening, I went to the carnival to continue assisting the carnival unit till 9pm...

Then, I went to block W to continue doing the last hamper wrapping...

Then at midnight, our unit were asked to help the 'logistic' unit to shift the things from the square in front of the girls hostel to Block W...

Our job is done at two in the morning before having a briefing session regarding the last day till three in morning.

J.Z.Wong

Busy Weekend: Part 2

Normally when it's a public holiday, I'll be getting up late (minutes before noon) as I watched movies via my laptop till late night but its differs for Maulidur Rasul as I woke up as early as nine o' clock in the morning. With just merely five hours of sleep, I get myself ready to help the carnival unit to prepare the set-ups as they were lacking of members.

My work is done after 2pm then I had myself only a two hours of rest as I'm needed to rush back to assist the carnival unit till 9pm...

Although I'm required to assist them till 9pm only but I stayed to help them till 10pm.

At 10pm, I got myself moved to Block W to wrap several hampers as ordered by our beloved head unit of food and beverages.

Work is only done when it's twelve...

Then we had our own unit's post mortem before having one with the program director of CNY '10 event.

Things were settled at two o' clock in the morning.

J.Z.Wong

Busy Weekend: Part 1

It was the starting of my busy weekend...

It's the eve of Friday...

Normally, the eve of Friday will be my most relaxing night...

But its different for 25th of February 2010...

I'm having a test for Organic Chemistry on that night, then I need to rush myself to meet the head of food for the CNY Carnival then to CHEST(Chemical Engineeing Society) to do the banner for the Maulidur Rasul celebration.

At half past 10, I went to the main lecture hall a.k.a WDKU1 to attend the general meeting of CNY '10 celebration....

I'm stranded in the meeting for nearly two hours of nothing as there were no proper coordination between the units due to the last minute changes that were caused by several unwanted factors.

After the meeting around minutes past midnight, I'm required to rush myself to the square in front of the girl's hostel to set-up the carnival as logistic unit was 'lacking' of 'members'.

My service is done for that particular morning at a quarter to three in the morning.

J.Z.Wong

Light = Portable or Less Function?

Look at my beautiful babes.

On the right is my new HP Mini 210 and Fujitsu L1010 on the right.

Well, I'm sure that most of you will ask me why have two computers.

To answer that question netbook is for portability and notebook is for performance but not as good as desktop.

After a week using my mini.

I feel that you should get yourself a netbook if you can afford it.

Honestly its really portable.

About a kilogram of mass, need not to bring bulky notebook to Starbucks or McDonald's to surf the net.

But if you are using heavy softwares such as Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Autodesk AutoCAD 2010, get yourself a notebook first then get a netbook.

I watched a few movies that I downloaded before coming back to KL for the Chinese New Year break, guess what?

The video played well like a portable DVD player.

No drop of quality if you are playing the video from the hard disk drive.

But there is a fall back when I played Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball via my USB Flash Drive, the rendering of the video drop causes the frames per second (fps) to drop from 30fps to 15-20fps.

My advice, transfer the video to you hard disk before watching it.

Using Skype is fine as I'm given two choice, using the Skype in my Windows or Skype in HP Quick Web interface.

I can log in to my Skype without entering my Windows.

Surfing the net also can be done without entering the Windows.

This reduce the time of getting yourself on the net as entering the Windows take at least half of a minute, the HP Quick Web interface is ready to be use as you turn on the netbook like your PDA just without touchscreen.

In a nut shell, get yourself a netbook if you want to surf the net with portability and less fuss.

J.Z.Wong

Welcoming the Roaring Year of Tiger

Sorry for the late publish for this post.

Before I continue, I would like to wish all Malaysians and Chinese around the world Happy Chinese New Year.

Besides that, I would like to wish you all Happy Valentines including singles as Valentines is meant for day of love not day of couples.

I reached KL on the 12th February 2010. It took four and a half hours from Gambang to Pekeliling as there were a few distraction that causes the delay.

Among the distractions were the present of an irresponsible passenger that took extra 45 minutes of break at a Rest and Relax stop and a few more that I shall not discuss here as it is very sensitive to talk about.

This year was my family's first time having reunion dinner at my new house.

The dinner was held on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Although it was a simple dinner with merely nine person, but we had a great time.

As usual there will be prawns and sea cucumbers as they significant happiness in Cantonese.

This year we got extra large prawns and sea cucumbers as my dad did not went to the wet market of Pudu to get it but from the jetty in Mersing.

The prawns we had this year is four times larger than what we had last year but at the same price.

Besides that, mom cooked me my favourite vegetable dish, Hong Kong Choi Sam with Shitake Mushrooms and few slices of canned abalone.

There were also my family's favourite on the table, Pei Pa Roasted Duck and Emperor's Chicken.

We had grass jelly and yee sang as our dessert.

On the first day of Year of Tiger, my family did some prayers to the ancestor (a Chinese culture not Buddhist culture) before going to my maternal grandmother's house.

After going to my grandma's house, we went to my maternal granduncle's house to pay respect since he's the eldest in terms of position though he is a decade younger than my grandma.

There I had fresh oysters, salmon sashimi, roasted lamb and stir fried beef as my main course.

I took some fried mee hoon as starter. Then I had some Ice Kacang as my dessert as I do not take alcohol. My brother get himself some red wine and cocktail as his dessert.

Then we went to my paternal granduncle's house.

There, all my father's relatives gathered at there including Uncle Andrew from Melbourne except my aunt which is staying in Kota Kinabalu.

That night we went to my grandaunt's house to have dinner.

That's all for my reunion dinner and my first day of new year.

J.Z.Wong

Almost the End of the First Half of Semester II 2009/2010

After seven or six weeks of classes, Chinese New Year is nearing!!!

But before that, I need work hard for a week because the season of test has arrived.

Maths II and Grammar Test.

Just sat for Computer Application yesterday and Engineering Drawing a fortnight ago.

Well, its also time for plenty of assignments.

Not just only that, I'm just been elected as a student representative for my program to my Faculty's Student Society as an Exco for Publicity. As the new member of the committee I'm required to scout for new members to work with me and prepare a report on changes should be done to CHEST aka Chemical Engineering Society of UMP by next Thursday night as there is going to be a meeting on Thursday night.

These are the thing that I should face before going for a week holiday.

I'm craving for Yee Sang.

Besides that, I'm going to get my brand new HP mini 210 when I returned home as it is scheduled to be delivered on this Monday's afternoon.

J.Z.Wong