BYE

in five minutes times, i have to leave the house, going airport early!! and its gonna rain, well, hopefully it will stop, please, i dun like it when i am on the plane and it rains. so goodbye ppl! hope to see you soon and must keep in contatc ok? if lazyto write email, at least write sth in the comment bos!! so i know how you are doing and where you are. wont gurantee there will be a constant post though!!! BYE, ADIOS< MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL

16 hours left

16 hours left, and i will be leaving kuching for good. goodness, i just cant believe. after 13 years i have stayed here, now its time for me to leave. it seems that i was just 4 years old yesterday but rite now, i am 17 years old.man, i must be getting old. well, of all the years staying in kuching, this is my hometown, the place i grew up, the place where i learnt all the experiences that i possessed now. i will definitely miss kuching, and the people i have made frens with, my frens, teachers, and all others. this is the place where it taught me the behaviours of people, the culture and the language of others and lots more. and in 16 hours time, i will be leaving kch for good...still unbelivable for me. although i can still come ack for holidays, i guess its different as its just a temporary stop, unlike the 13 permanent years i have been staying. tomorrow marks my new day of life, vernturing to new cities as my future is uncertain. my next stop is kl and after that, no one knows. i do not have a home and tomorrow i shall be startin my adventurous journey on other parts of the world. but no matter whereever i go, whenever it is, i will never forget kuching - the people, places, the food, my school, teachers and frens and the experiences that i have gathered......to all of my frens, thanks for letting me to be your fren, accepting me in your life! i shall stop here for the time being, maybe iwill post one more again tomorrow.....before my flight leave at 1.50pm....

6 more days!!

6 more days left and i will be gone from kch, FOR GOOD.
and my room is STILL in a mess, WORSE THAN the first time i tell you i need to clear my room i think.
and i still haven packed.
and i still haven make some things.
and i still haven go out with some ppl. which means, still have to go out this week.
and i still haven eat some things which i dearly want to eat before leaving.
and i still haven kau tim some applications....
omg, no time!!
well, yesterday, chun yik's nite, gatherin at his house. BBQ dinner. met lotsa ppl again. like AMELIA......yea, my dearest amelia. goodness, she ssay that i write sad stuff again. actually, not sad stuff la, but its some things,
which i ponder as time goes by. and not only me, its some things wihch my frens and i PONDER TOO, and looking for the answer towards it. what life wiithout pondering and questioning and having the challenge to find the answer rite? oh well, dun worry melia, i wont write anymore sad stuff......cos, this blog is gonna over i guess in 6 days time. so, you wont have to read anymore happy/sad stuff here. well, i dunno yet, if i am gonna stop this blog for good too since i am gonna be away from kch already....i dunno, what you guys think??
gtg dinner!!

What a day/month/year

i guess i have to conclude that december is not a lucky month for me. keep losing things and it sucks. or should i say this year is kinda unlucky cos i lose sooo many stuff. one my wallet and ic in school, two my anklet during my holiday and lastly, to wrap up the year, my badminton racquet which my frens gave me for my bday present. lost it today at kgs, i means it is somehow disappear/gone. dunno wanna talk about it cos i am gonna feel terrible, not because i lose it, cos i din but the fact is, I AM SORRY TO THOSE WHO GAVE IT TO ME!!! sorry, pf, edine, sy, lik, bernie, dn and esp stella of the badminton racquet. it meant so much to me but i guess i dun have fate with it. i am sorry for not taking good care of it. am really sorry, but at least i still have the bag. i know you guys must be killing me because of it. dun worry, i am myself.
nothing i can do about it but to move on without my lost things. am sorry guys. and john dun worry about it anymore. well, i always believe that there must be a reason of losing things. if i dun lose it now or lose certain things, maybe the next time i lose sth, its either even more valuable or precious. well, trying to console myself. again, there is always a reason. HOPE YOU GUYS are ok!!! talking bout ok, i am not OK, i guess, of course am not ok, after losing my wallet, anklet and racquet, boy, i just need to concentrate with my things next time. and of course not ok again, I HAVEN FIN what i am suppose to do, clean, make and pack. er....running out of time, ah, better stop uttering to myself and move one. gtg

LIK AND IIIIII, this is for you, LIK!! 

TODAY

picked up my relatives, talked to them, afternoon, nap, then over to edine with pf watched 7 swords, supposed to have dinner but cancelled. talked to lik, and he insist on having me putting the pix i took with him during grad nite! so, this pix is for you lik!. Miss you sooo much

After the trip

so after the trip, back in kch, got news bout my accomodation at kl. so tired but couldnt sleep yet cos i need to finalise all the important stuff. that was friday, then edine told me bout val's dinner on saturday.
SATURDAY morning, introduced edine to taylors so like that we can get money => and then nite, dinner with val, as she would be leaving soon and most of us wont be meeting her anymore. Chun yik picked me up to bla bla bla. and then nite, back home, starting to watch one tree hill season 2, courtesy of joanne's cd. of course, doing cross stitch at the same time!!
SUNDAY, day of rest??? i think so!! started clearing up my room and afternoon, nap. and nite, baru found out got new apprentice. forgot to tell you that sunday was the day of tv redemption. watched all my series that i recorded or series that i have missed.
MONDAY, i forgot what i did?? goodness got short term memory liao. actually, it was just yesterday. o h ya, woke up late, actually i wake up late everyday, and yesterday , i organised all my books and unwanted papers. But its still undone. unfinished. got lots more paper to sort out. want to throw away, very sayang!! what else,oh ya, updated my blog with my trip back home. and then nite again, watch one tree hill..
TODAY, TUESDAY, undergo my medical check-up and then around 10.30am, went out with girls, edine, chieh, dn, steph and tian. eat, talk and shop. later berbs, ben, john and pf joined us. its sale and i want to buy so many things but again HAVE TO CONTROL!! since i am going kl, might as well buy it there!went to bings and have tea. steph says she hates me cos i wont be able to attend her party and because i am leaving early. yeh, to come to think of it, its really fast. time is running here for me in kch and i still haven get so many things done!!!dn send me home and now blogging. got to make presents and cross stitch and watch series.

After today, it makes me realise and wonder some things. think its just my daily complaints i guess, when people dun have anyone else close, then they go for you, the last choice?
when they found someone, they forget bout those who have helped them before?
do they always avoid and forget bout you?
have we all lost contact just because we rarely meet no matter how close we are last time?
does it take one to keep on reminding the other in order to be in the memory?
Sometimes, i rather be alone, no one around me so that i dun keep on thinking all this!!

I just love this pix, taken when on the way back to Kch!! 

Typical view of the roads in Indonesia! Hectic, lots of cars stopping all of sudden, and rows of stalls and shops at the road side!! 

Day 5 - 7th Dec 2005 - Wednesday
Morning, my cousin drove us back to jakarta, believe me you need to go early no matter how late your flight is from jakarta to your destination cos you never know how bad the traffic jam there will be like. Actually, my cousin's driver is supposed to drive us but he was ill. Kasihan my cousin have to drive us there and back, it sure is tiring driving for one whole day!!. At the airport, got on the 1.30pm flight to Pontianak, and my mum was not feeling very well. Arriving at ptk, it was raining, and i just HATE the airport, because getting the luggage was HORRIBLE. like refugee, thats why i said, kch airport even under construction is better!!My aunt came to pick us despite how busy she was. Check-in to the hotel and we were all so tired. That nite wa stotal rest cos my mum wasnt feeling well. My dad and i walked to nearby supermarket to buy some chips while watching tv. Dinner near my aunt's shop, eatting baso kwe tiao, actually it means meatball, and boy, was it nice.

Day 6 & 7 - 8/9 Dec 2005 - Thurs & Fri
My dad went out with his old friends. And my mumwas just not well, SICK!!! and TIRED!! So, she did not wan to go out. Stayed at hotel and waited for my aunt to come. Brought some porridge for my mum and out we were. Went to the nearby mall to gramedia, sth like kinokuniya. Bought some books and of course, papers and stationaries for making my presents!! After that, paid a visit to my aunt's family, bought ayam masak cili merah sooo nice....then lunch. Kinda late already by then, 3pm went to kaisar supermarket and bought MY groceries!!! Then i urged my aunt to sent me back to the hotel since i know my aunt is a busy lady. Rushed her back to her office! So, back i am at the hotel, start packing already! and my mum still sick. So at nite, went with my dad to visit my other aunts and uncles!!! Pay a last visit bfore i leave to kl! and at nite, no dinner cos i was still full.....Next morning, early breakfast cos need to go airport at 7am. Then walk over to my aunts place and buy kuih-muih. All tradisional cakes and biscuits, soooo cute looking all of them!!!then, off to airport, back here, at kch!!

The Christmas tree at the peak of the mountain. It so tall, i just wonder how the people managed to hang the lights up as its impossible to have a crane that high. On top of the tree marks a V, symbolising the restaurant, The Valley, as Bandung is situated in a valley!! 

As the huts are situated quite far from the main restaurant building, to call the waiter, you just have to hit the bamboo using the stick.The red painted name is the name for the hut you are sitting at, instead of using numbers to differentiate the huts.  

A small stream the owner made!! 

My dad and i curi-curi pluck some blueberry at the paddy field, but actually the worker say can pluck! 

Strawberry farm near the paddy field! 

The tempayan, with coconut shell to get the water, wash hands before eatting using our hands, the water, is very cool, purely from the mountain! 

Look, paddy field, sorry la, sakai person, never see sawah padi. its just so cool to eat next to it!! 

Thats like the hut that we had for our lunch, one side paddy field and the other a pond and another side, the fire place!!! 

This pix, supposed to post it before the huts, pix taken at the factory outlet garden. At the back, there food stalls, so that fathers or boyfrens who dun wan to shop can have a break at the garden!! 

Other huts nearer to the paddy field!!COOL EH? 

Other huts, which means other tables to sit, actually not sit on chair but floor, have to cross leg. At nite, its like eatting by the fire place cos they will light a fire at the middle. 

The hut, the eattin place!! cool isnt it? we dun have it here in kuching!! 

Day 4 - 6th Dec 2005 Tuesday
Shopping Day!!!! before that, got breakfast at hotel, but i din eat, tummy like sooooo full, bloated with food i ate past few days so eat a lil only. and then my cousin drove us to shop. bandung, heaven of jeans, but i dun plan to buy except my dad cos he plans to go shanghai and wants to buy more winter clothes. So, wen to this factory outlet. WOW!!! the place, DOES NOT even look like a factory outlet. You know when we hear factory outlet in malaysia the clothes there are like not good at all but this!!!!! goodness, got garden, so many fitting rooms nnnnnnn the clothes are sooooooooo many. and good quality too. your eyes can just go,....dunno what to say, rambang mata looking at the clothes. So, times to choose clothes, but then i couldnt buy much seeing that i am going kl and i cant bring ALL my things there rite?? so, sadden eyes looking at the clothes. But of course, got buy SOME clothes. and good thing is that the brand is still on. Only some clothes they cut of their brand. so no one knows if you bought it at the store or the factory outlet. By then, it was already 2pm, and we haven had lunch. So off we went to have lunch. Again at the mountain side. on the way there, pass roads of selling flowers and all sorts of plants. sooooo nice. if only i could buy them back. and there we were at SAPU LIDI. the restaurant name. boy, was it cool, eatting at sawah paddy @paddy field. i just love the condition there. SOOO NICE!!! and then, eat using hands, the place to wash hands very cool, the water also cooling, but of course got proper toilet. and then where we eat is like a small hut and then got sooo many huts. got strawberry farm too. food is great, ambience is fantastic, i just love it. after lunch, back to hotel, dinner with my cousins family at the Valley, situated at the peak of the mountain too. WEll, there, you can see the whole city. and i have to say that the road towards the place is sooooo dangerous. full of slopes and turns. After that, back to hotel and sleep

The dress i boughy, actually top shirt and skirt! 

The other side of the factory outlet!!, my dad and cousin, it was raining, so we got stuck at the building! 

See, thats the outside of the factory outlet building!! got garden!! cant take photos of the inside la 

The garden that my couin-in-law designed for one of her coustomers. i just love it!! 

Day 3 - 5th Dec 2005 Monday
Monday morning, breakfast and check-out from hotel. Planning to leave Jakarta at 9.30am when not tmuch traffic jam. Cousin will be driving us to his place, Bandung 160km away from Jakarta using the old way, which means passing thru the peak of mountain and not using highway! Before heading off, my cousin came to gave us some stuff and boy were we shocked when my dad pays for the hotel. At first we tot, berbaloi the hotel room with the price BUT THEN WHEN TIME TO PAY, goodness, i think can say this all my fault, keep on saying cheap cheap cheap, i din say the room rates list is excluing gov and service charge. and guess how much is the tax. 21%%%% can you imagine. thats cheating man, and the breakfast too. So, initially the price stated was 300 000++ and now with all the taxes and everything it becomes 500000++ so all in all for two rooms its more than 2 million rupiah. worse of all there are diff charges for types of rooms, like single bed or double bed and all that. Forget about the hotel now, its over. So, off we all to Bandung via the long distance one. Well, at least got scenary to see. Typical view of inso, all side of the road, people selling things in stalls. Going thru puncak, peak of the mountain, was already noon, stopped by at rindu alam restaurant. food there was great and i just love the fresh air and scenary. Better than the hectic and chaotic, polluted environment in Jakarta. After lunch, head off to Bandung, road was pretty scary, turns and bumps, you sure need good driving skills in Indo. When arriving at Bandung, we stopped by to visit my cousin's parents. I never met them and my parents said its been a long time since they have met. We also get to meet my cousin's baby, named Ricko, cute lil boy, cried when saw us. After that, we picked up my cousin-in-law at the new house they are building. and architect, she designed everything and the furnitures are all made by both my cousin and his wife. cool eh, i just love the house they designed, all diff designs unlike here fixed designs!!so, after that, check in to hotel and rest for a while. nite, dinner with my cousin and wife. delicious sundanese food, all those ulam-ulaman, fried chicken with sambal, fried gurame.....nite, back to sleep!!

The food that we had for lunch at Puncak. Hot steaming sop kambing, lontong, sambal, and sizzling satay. Delicious when served hot but then since weather was sooo cooling, the food turned cold rather fast..=>

Lunch at the peak at Rindu Alam Restaurant. As the name of the restaurant says it, rindu alam, scenic view at the restaurant, all tea plantation! 

On the way Up the Mountain @ Puncak while on the way to Bandung!! Very refreshing, cool air, sangat nyaman!! 

Trip Back!!!

Day 2 - 4th Dec 2005 Sunday
i guess i forgotten to tell you that this was the second time i have been to jakarta. first was on my way to kch and now the second time, on my way leaving kuching. ironic isn't it?? Morning breakfast at hotel then off we went to visit my relatives house. And again a headache on the roads of Jakarta. Its just impossible for anyone to be not stuck in a jam one day in Jakarta. Visited my aunt and two of my cousins. Actually, got more relatives back there but its just impossible to visit all as one lives at the north the other south and east and west. We only managed to visit those who were in the same area. Came back in the evening, rest for a while and at nite, dinner with one of my cousin!!! food was soooooo nice. eat alll bakar bakar stuff which mean grilled stuff. actually, going back to indon is like eatting indon food of course, not gonna eat chinese food since we eat like that food EVERYDAY. so dinner was great, fried gurame, grilled sotong, prawn, crab and kangkung asap and cockerel. soooo nice and delicious. that nite, full belly,and it was the nite i found sth missing!!!! my anklet!!!! GONE....dunno where i dropped it. i mean dunno where it terlepas. SOOOOOOO SOIIIIII, gold some more, money terbuang just like that!!!


Day 1 - 3rd Dec 2005 Saturday
I came back from the dinner at around 1.30am. Striaght away i did some last minute packing and slept around 2am. I woke up around 8am and my parents were saying they woke up late. Well, for me, i think 8am is perfectly the correct time for me to be awake since we are goign to the airport at 9am. However, my dad's fren came early to pick us up to to the airport and boy, i was rushing, but i still managed to post up sth before i left. So, at the airport, still sleepy, met my mum's old fren who's going back to Pontianak @ Kun Thien. Actually, our schedule was quite packed. Getting a plane to Jakarta, we have to get out of ptk airport and then re check-in there as we bought tickets back there. It was MUCH MUCH cheaper and more safe!! So, all the way thru the flight back, we chit-chat with my mum's fren seeing that its been a long long time since we all get to meet. the flight took only 25 minutes.....fast isn't it??? Arriving at the airport, we had to get our luggage immediately, as our flight from ptk to jkt was 40 minutes away and back at indon, flights can just rescehdule without you knowing it. GETTING THE LUGGAGE WAS HORRIBLE. Frens, you guys are lucky to have a rather good facility here in kch when getting luggage, back there, its horrible. Immediately grabbing our bags, my aunt waited for us to pass us our tickets and finally we got to the waiting room. Managed to get on the plane and then off we were to jakarta. Arriving at 12.30pm which means malaysian time is one hour later, my cousin who is staying at Bandung, 160km from Jkt was waiting for us. Mind you, he drove all the way from bandung to Jkt which took 3 hours. We first when to the hotel, and boy, JAKARTA.......a crazy city i would say. WORSE THAN KL, how can a highway be jammed??? i guess there is just too many people there. sooo packed and i can ensure you its stressful to get stuck in a jam like that. bet my lil bro will scream if he was in the same situation as i am that day. it finally took us 33333333 whole hours just to reach our hotel. IMAGINE, from airport to hotel 3 hours. No wonder, my relatives all say no good coming to JAKARTA as you will be stuck on the road the whole day. Checking in to our hotel, its nearly 4pm, and we went to survey the place my nephew tooks place. imagine if we dun know the place and only find it an hour before the dinner starrts??? i think by the time we reach the venue, the dinner is over. SO, finally finding the place, it took us half an hour and we had a short tea break. Back to the hotel, rest for a while and freshen up. BOY THE HOTEL IS COOL. SOOOO big for such reasonable price. So nite time, dinner, and for the first time, i get to meet all my relatives, all unknown to me. Dun even know that they exist until that nite. Everyone starts talking about the past and we all just chit-chat. That was the end of day 1.

I dunno why i just love this bed at the hotel in Jakarta, its just like a bed for the couples who just got married!! 

JASON LIM, very funny guy, thanks for sending me here and there all the time!! 

Deanne and i, picture taken when we are on our way home!!