Not contactable

So, my mobile phone decided to retire 3 weeks ago, and I’ve been without a phone for that long since. Felt as though I’m so disconnected from the world. No longer contactable anywhere, anytime, no more whatsapp and facebook. Back to the life of pre-mobile phone era….

I’m glad that there’s en extended warranty from the shop where I bought my phone from. However, it’s just taking too long to fix it. Sigh! I begin to feel I’m so off touch from this world.

Nevertheless, life’s been a little bit crazy now. 3 colleagues in my team resigned for the past 1 month, which leads to many late nights. Training has been intensified, gearing up to my very first triathlon in September. Sleep has been an average of 5-6 hours daily. Doing nothing and just chilling out has been a luxury which hard to come by these days.

I’ve just completed level 1 Total Immersion swimming program. Felt so much better with my free-style stroke now. I’m amazed how I could swim laps and laps without feeling to worn out on my body. But still a lot of practise and fine tuning to the stroke. I hope I’ll be able to master it just in time for the race in September.

The yearly affair of haze issue at KL is back again. This time it seems to be worse than before. visibility is low and I began to feel slight depressed for not able to see and feel the Sun. I hope the haze would be gone before KL marathon happening next Sunday.

Appreciating my family root

It’s that time of the year again, where in Chinese culture, we go to visit our deceased family member’s grave to pay homage and to remember out root. Or better known as 清明节.

My parents always thought me that although being a Christian, we’re not supposed to pray to our ancestors, but we should always come back to visit my grandparents’ grave to appreciate our family roots. That’s one of the many the good things from Chinese culture that we should preserve.

The first stop is my mom’s side of grandfather’s grave, at Penang. Things have changed a lot since the day I can remember I first coming to visit the grave. It used to be my whole family affair. My still living grandmother,  Auntie, mom, dad, my siblings and I. Now, it’s just me and my parents. The grave’s terrain can be a bit challenging for my grandmother to visit now.

After we’ve done cleaning the grave, We did the usual thing of laying down the flowers and coloured papers to tells others that this grave has been visited by the deceased family members.

It’s such time that I always get to learn more about how my grandfather was like in person.

Although my grandfather from my mom’s side has passed away since before i was born, or when my mom was still schooling … to be exact, I’m thankful for him to had brought my mom to this world!

 

Healthy lunch

It’s a known fact that in Malaysia, eating out means you’ll be eating a lot of oily stuffs, which is bad for health. Sometimes, I’d rather pack my own lunch.

Today, I brought along my homemade Tuna Sandwich, with generous amount of mixed lettuce leaves. It’s easy to prepare and pack with all the basic nutrient that the body needs.

Christmas mood

Christmas is around the corner, so does my Christmas tree! LOL!

Finally brought out my Christmas tree and put it up in time for the coming Christmas. That’s like within a week’s time. I could already feel the holiday mood!

What are they up to?

Saw this pic on The Star newspaper today. The picture shows the JPJ enforcement officer caught a bus driver who committed a road offence. But the whole picture just doesn’t look right…. why is the enforcement officer seems so happy. And who’s the guy in chequered shirt? He seems arrogantly showing off the ticket on his hand….

The whole picture just gave an idea that the enforcement set a trap upon the driver and caught him red handed, with the chequered shirt man as the mastermind.

One of the signs of aging

This is real scary to come to term that certain signs in life, which come into the later part of one’s life, is actually the sign of getting old.

One of which I’m going to talk about is actually the food intake capacity. You know you’re getting old when you’re eating lesser but your weight is increasing. This food intake pattern has slowly creeping into me these days.

Recently, I’ve made a short vacation to Penang. Everyone does know that when one goes to Penang, binging on local Penang food is the top to-do list. As much as I didn’t really plan this vacation as an eating trip, I can’t resist being there but not hunting around for good local food. So there I was, at various food court and restaurants. I used to be able to order many type and plates of food and eat like there’s no tomorrow. Thing has changed lately. After a plate or 2, I realised that I can’t take in anymore food; or more like appetite just shut off and just want to stay away from food for a while.

Things have definitely changed! And I’m getting older each day!

Simple maths

I was just doing a simple maths today. Really, it’s that simple!! It goes like this…. if I were to write only 1 blog entry per month, then I’ll only have 12 blog entries for a year! What does that represent? well, my reader will only need to log in to my blog at the end of each month and pretty much know what’s happening in my life of that month! (as if I have many readers. lol!)

I guess that would do me justice of maintaining this blog! I’m still exploring ways to kick my bum so that I will update this blog more often.

…. lets see, with this entry, it’ll make it as my second post of this month. 2 entries per month adds up to 24 entries per year. …. well at least that’s a good start!

Something wrong with my eye!!

Part of my left eye turned really red since yesterday. It feels a bit irritate at times. I hope it will subside within couple of days.

View surrounding my condo at night

Was playing around with my camera’s night mode, and  I thought the pics turn out pretty good.

 

Anyway, after done with 2 marathons, I fell sick. :(

Reminder

I’m truly amazed at how God spoke to me today. Some how I couldn’t help but having this song by Bette Midley’s playing in my head this morning, with the catchy line that goes “God is watching us, from a distance”.

As I proceed to do my devotion, the topic for today actually touches on “Immanuel”, which means “God is with us”. It further stressed the thing we easily forgotten that God is indeed just next to us, and not watching us from a distance. Man! I literary felt goose bums after reading it. Just when I felt things are going a bit quiet. It’s so real that God is truly next to us. lol!

The difference between artificial and natural

Which one do you prefer?

Rain Forest Garden at 1 Utama shopping centre

Kota Damansara Forest Reserve Community Park

So I finally discovered this beautify forest park near my place. The whole place was amazing. Will definitely find some time to go trekking inside this forest park one of these days.

Monsoon Season

It’s been raining every day without fail. On one hand, it cools down the weather; on the other hand, any outdoor’s activity seems unlikely to happen anymore.

I was just standing at my balcony yesterday to have a breather and I could see an interesting sight.

 

On the right hand side, I could see the storm was sweeping through the places; on the left hand side, it’s all clear blue sky! Monsoon season does has its own marvels.

Shark eating shark

Wouldn’t you freak out when you see a great white shark being eaten by another much bigger great white shark?

Horror attack... the remains of the great white shark that was bitten nearly in half by what authorities - judging from the size of the bite marks - estimated was a 6-metre monster.

This happened at the coast of South East Queensland, Australia recently. Geez, thinking back the days when I used to surf there so often, I must’ve been lucky my closest encounter with big fishes are only dolphins. 

Read more about it by clicking here.

Facebook disasters!

It's amazing to see how almost everyone is on Facebook now. Besides sharing out one's own photo albums and videos, the catchy things has been the instant status updates. I've came accross this interesting article from an Australian newsportal. It's been a good read about the disasters that arrises from this sort of feature on Facebook.

Exposing too much about what you're doing:

Complaining about work? Think twice:

... yes, it goes out to the whole world:

Trying to ask a girl out without doing your homework can be painful:

People do share the same name, so make sure you get the right person: