Ohh we do have an eco-guesthouse ya...

Found this while i was browsing for more information about my town to help guiding two upcoming Unimates tours.

http://greenselipar.com/2008/12/15/the-flying-rhino-a-heritage-eco-guesthouse-on-the-foot-of-fraser-hill/

Interesting.... I didn't even know bout this even though it's opened more than half a year ago. One of the reasons i enjoy bringing people around my hometown is that it allows me to learn and re-discover more things and facts of my beloved hometown. I do strongly agree with the article i read about 5 years ago, that to cultivate younger generations' interests in Geography and History, we should start exposing them to the local ones.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Kuala_Kubu_Baru#

Most parts of the article are not written by me, but I'll try adding in more details to it if I have the time and mood :p

Email to 14 Tourists

Below is an email sent by a tour guide to his 14 tourists. :p

Ok this is the rough outline what we gonna do on that day

7am gather then depart.

We have 3 cars, with Darren, Daniel and Guan Meng driving. So if u guys wanna join any particular car just let the drivers know. And ya do discuss with your driver how to subsidize them some petrol money because it's not a short journey like going to sri petaling to have lunch or dinner rite? (KKB is about 80km away from Bukit Jalil) Somemore we'll need to go around after we reach.

It's a Sunday so my estimation is we'll reach there in about 1 hours 15 to 30 minutes.

So we'll reach about 8.30am, then we'll go somewhere to have breakfast first, my plan now is to go have handmade wantan mee in my neighbour town, Rasa. It's famous locally la though i don't really know how it tastes because i think most of u guys know right, i'm allergic/intolerant to eggs. Then after the breakfast we'll head to my town, KKB. I'm thinking of asking IMU whether they can let us get the keys of 1 of the houses so that we can lodge most of our luggages and stuffs there first, i'll try ask them and see, if i' going to IMU later (Friday).

Around 10am we'll head towards the waterfall, which will pass our dam, the Sungai Selangor Dam. The scenery is quite good and so do bring your cameras if u're thinking of snapping some pictures there or anywhere later in KKB. (Part of the Old Town Restaurant recent advertisement was shot here, the most notable being a big lake behind a swing on grass). Shortly after the dam, we'll reach the entrance to the waterfall. Then we'll need to trek for about 1 hour, depending on how smooth our journey gonna be, might be more, or less than the estimated time. I have to admit I've never been to the waterfall, but the trails should help, and I do hope we'll choose most if not all the trails right, though don't worry we would not get lost, we can always just turn back if we pick a wrong trail. And ya, in case I didn't tell u, we'd need to cross streams and rivers few times, bout 5-6, which the highest would be till abdomen level.

We'll spend about 1-2 hrs there at the waterfall, before heading back to our cars. WE might have picnic or slight lunch there if u guys want. The waterfall is called Sungai Chilling Waterfall, and some people say it's because of the icy cold CHILLING water. Couldn't tell u more, since i'd never been there also. Then the trek back should be relatively shorter. After the waterfall trip, we'll head south again to Ulu Yam Lama for its famous Loh Mee, the most famous food in Hulu Selangor. Again i've never tried it before because of allergy/intolerance, and despite the so-so reviews from my family members and girlfriend, I still think we should have a try.

After lunch, we'll go to the hot spring somewhere in Batang Kali, the gateway to Genting Highlands for people from the north ie Perak Penang Kedah... It's not being anywhere near to extraordinary, just until knee level, yet i think it should be a new experience for those who've never been to a hot spring before, something which is part of my childhood memory.

After hot spring, Jian Ren will head back to KL, and the rest of us will go back north to KKB to meet up with the rest going there by bus. I do have an idea though, this is all depend on u guys. I'm thinking of going to Tanjung Malim, somewhere 20km north from KKB, the border town of Perak and Selangor, divided by Sungai Bernam (something we've learned in Geography way back in secondary school, which is also 1 of the favourite questions). Why so far? For the famous Tanjung Malim Paus i love so much lo. I especially like the curry chicken paus, and i heard the kaya paus there also not bad. But really, it all depends on u guys lo, also if we've enough time la. And also u can actually get them when u're going north by PLUS, at the Tg Malim rest station.

So enough about the trip rough outline. Now it's about what u should bring, specifically for the waterfall.

1. Sport shoes, this is a must, u won't want foot ache, or even worse, have your slippers flown away by the rapid stream right? If u do "sayang" your favourite Nike Adidas New Balance or whatever brands of sport shoes so much, i'd suggest getting a cheap Power la. Just a suggestion la.

2. Some biscuits and drinking water. Or even some other food for picnicking?

3. First aid kit, this 1 no need to worry, thanks to Han Eyong who is willing to lend us his, and Jian Ren who is willing to carry it.

4. Extra pair of clothes, and leave it on the cars, since we sure be getting wet right?

5. If u bringing camera, better bring a water-proof 1, since we're crossing rivers or streams. If yours not, maybe u can consider getting water proof cap? But i really really hope we will be able to snap some pictures there.

That's all i can think for now, please do not hesitate to remind or tell if u think i miss out something. And please do ask if there's any other query. That's it for now, and hope we all will have a nice trip to KKB.

Arsene Wenger's Castrol Coaching Session

Went to Arsene Wenger's Castrol Coaching Session just now. Will elaborate more after i get my pictures. At the mean time this is the only picture i found online so far...


:P

An ______ a day, keeps the doctor away

Wrong, the answer is not apple. The correct answer is Ah Beng. "An Ah Beng a day keeps the doctors away." Why? Haven't you heard of "laughter is the best medicine" before?

OK, some Ah Beng's stories:

At the Karaoke

Ah Beng and his friends went into a karaoke lounge. So Ah Beng requested for the DJ to play the song "Ah Cheng Buey Ro Ti" (In Hokkien meaning Ah Cheng buys bread). The DJ told them that they only have English songs and told him to re-select another song. Ah Beng was angry and kicked up a big fuss, claiming that the DJ had insulted him. The manager had to intervene in order to calm him down. Finally, after many hours of talking, the manager managed to solve the problem when he told the DJ that the song Ah Beng had requested was actually "Unchained Melody".

Father and Mother?

Ah Beng was in an English class one day
Teacher: "Class, do you know the meaning of parents?"
Ah Beng: "Yes, teacher, it means father and mother"
Teacher: "Good. Can you give me an example?"
Ah Beng: "Sure. Cowboy's parents means cowboy's father and mother. Also can say Cowboy's father is Cow Pay & Cowboy's mother is Cow Boo. So together we say Cow Pay Cow Boo”. (KPKB). The English teacher fainted at Ah Beng’s remarks and applied for a transfer to get away from him.

Flight time

Ah Beng wanted to find out how long it will take to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo. So he calls up Malaysian Airlines and asked , “Sir, can you please tell me how long it takes to fly from KL to Tokyo ? The airline staff replied, “Just a minute”. Ah Beng replied, “Wow, that is fast. Thank you very much. ” and hangs up the phone.

The jokes nais or not?? Visit Ah Beng.org to find out more jokes. May they brighten up your day :)

P/s: Finally Bukit Jalil receives its first downpour after a long 1-week-drought. Woohoo, though that means, I'm gonna have hard times going to uni in 1 hours time :(

Just A Picture

A random picture from a random source from a random guy :p

(Click on the picture for a better viewing experience (: )

Plain blog

This blog is rather plain at the moment. Anyone has any idea how should I make it more interesting??

Personas

Haha can't believe i've abandoned this blog for almost a year. Sorry i lost count. Anyway I've decided (this is n-th time i said so) i'll try to activate this blog again. Perhaps this time by posting little2 short posts rather than long winded 1s? No1 gonna read my long posts by the way i think.

So today i'll be recommending a cool firefox add-on i just found out yesterday (though i think many have found out much earlier before me). It's called personas.

What will your browser wear today?

I think 1 sentence above is sufficient to describe about this feature. So why wait, just go to www.getpersonas.com and get yours installed today. :)

P/s: By the way for you guys who're still using Internet Explorer (IE), which I prefer to address it as Idiotic Elephant (which is in my opinion slow and unreliable), it's time to change to better browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome etc

What a waste!!

Can't believe my first post in 2 months will be something like this. That day my home's desktop got infected by some chinese spywares. I went on to install spyware doctor starter edition. It then detected 6 kinds of spywares in total of 118 infections. I came out with this 6118 and asked my parents to buy 4d for this. No one bought and it really came out in Magnum. Who doesn't want at least rm200 free out of just rm1 though it's just special prize. Feel so sorry for this. So gik sum.

Revival

After hibernating for so long (because of the procrastinating owner), this blog is finally revived again. Revival here does not promise new elements or changes to my blog, it's just because I think I should not abandon this blog anymore since I have Internet connection already.

Quite many things had happened despite the relatively dull life in IMU, during the hibernation of this blog. I went to my first ever world class badminton tournament, Malaysia Open, just 10 minutes walk away from my condo. Also I was there at Stadium Merdeka for Jay Chou's concert. The most recent was my Summative 2 test, which i didn't really do well enough to my expectation, but hopefully the result is still okay.

EoS 2 (End of Semester exam 2) is just 45 days away, yet I still went to TWO movies (L Change The World and Three Kingdoms : Resurrection of The Dragon) alone after my lecture yesterday. It was actually quite risky to rush alone to take the last LRT back to Vista (also safety-wise), but it was a good experience, though the movies are just fair for me. L is not as good as the previous 2 death note, mainly because of lack of support from the stories from manga. The enemies are inferior intellectually, and the movie is far less surprising than the previous 2.

Oh ya, I'm in the IMU Chinese Singing Competition Committee now, as the leader of programme coordinators. Since IMU Idol has copied us, so we need to come out with some new ideas. Any idea is really appreciated. And who should I invite as Guest Singer? Hmmm... Anyone?

Last Post of The Year

Tempus fugit, here we are at the closing moments of the year of 2007, verging on 2008. As a usual procrastinator, here only I am to draw a conclusion of the year. There should be no more excuse of inconvenience not to blog, yet this is only my first and also last post of the year after I got my laptop. Eliminating, or at least reducing procrastination really should be on my top priorities of the coming year.

In a nutshell the year of 2007 is an assortment of success and disappointment. I dare not to check my resolution set on the very first day of this year because I’ve failed to fulfill most of them. Amongst my uppermost goals next year are to be more healthy and successful in my studies. May the New Year be a better one, we always hope so right? Tomorrow is another better day.

Till then. Gotta go for my last lectures of the year, but the first lectures of Foundation 2. Jiayou Yiau Hoong.