星期六, 二月 24, 2007

初二乡间游

农历初二,一如往常,阖家齐归母亲娘家。烈日当空,心情却好。行程30几里,车程20多分钟,路途多经马来乡村,一有不慎可撞及鸡狗牛羊。可怕之处在于,自小听说在马来乡村出事,只要肤色不对,错就在于你。虽不曾亲生经历,乃人云亦云,但报章上激烈的、偏激的言语往往提醒我此事亦可真。
天使亦能成魔鬼,此言不虚,因人有数旬,除了“根本”的思想外,多数的想法皆随光阴而变更。只要资讯与思考方式的组合不对,火车就掉了轨道。马来乡村内人人样子和蔼可亲,行事懒懒散散(车子龟速行驶是个例子),但当炸药点着了,那爆炸的威力非人可阻。中下层无力出国的本土中华子民最可悲,往往是牺牲者,1998年印尼暴行至今难忘,魔鬼的杰作仍令人惊心动魄。

此行女友第一次随行。往年在那儿有如木人,长辈过老,晚辈过嫩,人头处处却无人可倾谈。可喜此次不同以往,女友随行,能与她在个角落恩恩爱爱、窃窃私语。不过当天也让自己逊了一把,外婆赏了我一颗椰,要我自个儿剖,费尽牛力、剖得好辛苦还久不见洞。外婆看不过眼,年过7旬的她接过刀子与椰,砍了两三下后那型就出来了,我这青年还不如她啊!无论如何,她留了三分的工作给我----挖出洞口。我费了一番劲方弄出了个小洞来。喝着椰水,心底欣慰年迈的外婆还是那么的硬朗,我相信乃拜早年困苦的生活所赐,加上近年来适当的劳动,方锻炼了外婆的身躯。要知道,她可需要割胶及拾水果呢。他们那代困苦过了,总希望下一代轻轻松松赚大钱,殊不知下一代的晚年可有这么健康否?!

临近晚餐时间,吾与女友于屋外散布。乡间摩托车好多,特色是少见友族。我们走得并不自在,皆因摩托车川流不息,不仅污染了清新的空气,也让行人历经风险。但是他们并没犯规,所以我们也尽快地返回屋内。国内这样的华人新村不知所剩多少,在年轻一代都受到更多地教育后,多数都选择了往大都会发展,留守新村的通常都是中年人士或老年人,因新村人多从事农业,工作上的选择并不多,此乃情有可原。否极泰来,吾相信总有一天年轻人还是会回流的,事物总是在圈子内流转,好让阴阳稳定,维持道之运转。但人们相信农业能提供一番出路后,将会有人重新投入此业。

我走得并不尽兴,所以开车去巡一巡,看看有何新鲜之物。正巡着当儿,见到了一间好漂亮的神庙,除了拥有各个神庙皆有的神殿外,其旁还有一个小型公园,立了不少的雕塑,还有个小小鱼池,走在里面凉意遍遍,午间的酷热随风而去。走没多久,亲人打来通知晚餐时间到,唯有匆匆而去。

岂知父母有心拜祭此庙神明,晚餐后我又回到了原地。在灯光的衬托下,那些雕塑显得更养眼了。吾特拍了数照,于此分享。


鱼池旁的观世音菩萨雕像。池上有人造瀑布。水不停地流转,风生水起。雕塑旁种有杨柳,以伴菩萨。


池内鲤鱼条条肥大,正在畅游。



Great Ang Pau!

I received a great Ang Pau this Chinese New Year. It's given by Public Mutual! Wahaha! All Public Mutual funds that i bought grow crazily and one of them even achieved 26.07% of return rate so far! Man, it's not even one year yet! All my clients as well earning big Ang Pau. I can sense the happiness from them as i am having the same one! I will continue to monitor & survey to gain more profit for me & my clients. Yahoo...

Mean while, the 2 stocks i bought have become my Fortune God! One of them even achieved 27.94% of return rate per year!!! This is so great. I am happy i manage to achieve Warran Buffett's target! Well, a bit disappointed as the total amount i earned still not very large. My initial investment amount is too little. Sigh, that's why rich guys earn faster! They can afford to put in a huge amount of money and earn the huge return if they success their investment!

Anyway, thanks Fire Pig(Chinese Master Horoscope for this year) for giving me such a reward. I will continue to cultivate my skill at Financial side to earn me a better living in future. I really hope i do not work blindly for my boss only. I wish to be someone useful for society, not a donkey/dog for my boss. Sorry boss, you can't stop people from chasing their dream, anyway, i shall work hard for my boss as that is my responsibility.

星期一, 一月 22, 2007

返乡成功!

上个星期六成功回家了!之前吾心还忐忑不安呢!因为雨停了没几天而已,而真担心永平往三合港地其中一个低洼路段之水位未退。好在一路顺风,呵呵。

在心里还不安的时候,老神在在地在永平市区查找福州蛋面所在。嗯,是一本书介绍的。照着书中地图,不费吹灰之力就找到了。那儿还有个美眉哦!尝了几口,蛮特别的,但是并不是很适合我的胃口,不过可能适合你的呢?!呵呵。





吃着吃着,雨就下了,幸好是一场小雨而已。



吃完上路,拍了路边的积水区。


星期一, 一月 15, 2007

第二波水灾记 - 返乡受阻

上个星期六虽然得知水灾灾情相当严重,但还是抱着半信半疑的态度,尝试返乡,毕竟人云亦云时常发生,且容易出错。我在新山载了也想回乡的朋友后,就往永平方向出发了。概欲回乡,必经永平。到了永平时,发现市区一如往常,心里稍安,可惜在之后的路程就不甚顺利了。

出了市区,一眼望尽,水淹处处,我尝试冲出三个淹水地路段后就被前面更多更高更猛的淹水处吓着了。我与朋友考虑着该不该继续往前走,因为失败的话后果是相当严重的。在斟酌了片刻后决定还是放弃了。因为前面路途还遥远着,我们也担心即使到了还回不回得来。最后打道而返。此行浪费了车油与精神,还好吃了些永平著名食物,稍慰心情。

这里是淹水路段(永平前往三合港的路段)的照片:






Lucky , Unlucky

Last week i was supposed to go back to my hometown with my friends. Before that there were a heavy rain for a few days in Johor so we were worried whether we would be able to make it or not. In the end we decided to give a try. On Saturday morning i met him at Cityquare, we had our lunch there and moved on to our journey. By the time we reached Yong Peng it was already 2 something in the noon. Here we faced our first obstacle. The road was filled by water but the water level was not that high for a car. I easily got through. I managed to penetrate through 3 times. However, for the 4th one i started to get worried. The water level was high & it was flowing rapidly. I started to consider what would be the outcome if my car broke down in the middle of the stream. I had a long discussion with my friend and both of us decided not to take this risk as we only managed to finish our first half journey. What lies ahead could be a few more tougher condition. I thus turned my car back. I got passed the first flooded area and then i reached the 2nd one. My goodness... this time it was higher than just now already. It was 2 feet more and the water was flowing fast. As there is no other choice already, i kept pressing my oil pedal and praying that the car in front would not stop suddenly.
Luckily i managed to got passed in the end. After that me & my friend were looking for famous food in Yong Peng to eat and we got what we wanted after a long searching. At night we went to a shopping center in Johor Bahru so i could look for an old movie soundtrack After that we had our dinner at Anjung Warisan just before i sent him to the Malaysia custom.

The next day, i woke up at 11 something. Initially I was trying to call one of my ex-colleagues out but she was not free that day so i moved on to my 2nd plan. After having a leisure breakfast at one new coffee shop in Kulai. I drove to Jusco Terbrau City to visit its bookstore -- Harris. I reached there at around 2 something. I left the bookstore at around 4 something and went to buy movie's ticket. While waiting for the movie to start, i was wandering around and got my parents & my gf's parents some nice packaged food. I also applied Jusco Card. At around 5:45 i rushed to the cinema as the movie was about to start at 5:50pm. Fortunately i did not miss the beginning part. It was an average movie. Its title is "The Return". Anyway, if you have the patience reading up to this part i will strongly suggest you that not to watch that in cinema. The movie ended at 7:20pm and i moved on to Harris again. There i bought 3 books about China & World History which cost me RM200. That time was already 9pm and i decided to have my dinner at Sushi King which cost me RM21! On the way to Sushi King i bought 1 shirt to myself and 1 shirt for my gf for Valentine's present at Levi's. That cost me about RM150! What a big spender you think! haha.

I went back home with a very much satisfactory & leisure mood. Even tough i did not manage to find the soundtrack i am longing for, but at least i enjoyed & got myself t-shirt & nice books. That's great, isn't that. Being alone sometimes can be enjoyable as nobody will have to stop you from going to places you want and you don't need to force yourself to go to places they like but you don't like either way.

星期二, 一月 09, 2007

華美茶餐室美食之旅記

有一天我往新山市区办事去,偶经一间老式海南咖啡馆,望了望招牌,突然想起了似曾相识,几番思考后,啊!原来是在一本介绍美食的书本看到的。当时已经午间三点多,肚子已饱,但抱着美食不可错过的心态,还是入内一试了。

里面洋溢着我喜欢的老式海南气氛,不禁遥想着殖民时来马工作的海南人的辛劳,他们代表着华人一支,见证了国家从殖民地时期过渡到如今,也为大马独特的多元文化做出了卓越的贡献。

我攀上了二楼,找了个靠窗的位置坐下,看出窗外,远处的新加坡移民厅遥遥可见,若隐若现的笼罩在一片迷蒙中。

来招待的是两位上了年纪的妇女,其中一位和蔼可亲,倍觉温暖。不说这么多,让你们看看那美味的食物。

我叫了一杯咖啡C和一片炭考面包,涂上了浓厚的牛油块和加椰(大马的特产吧?恕我平时不做考察)


吃着美味的面包,喝着还算不错的海南咖啡,我欣赏着窗外的一片车水马龙,打量着熙来攘往的人群。在想,好不容易来到这儿,总该吃多点吧!就叫了一盘煎散蛋搭配绿豆及土豆,嗯,也很不错哦!


接着我环顾店内四周,发现了一样有趣的东西。其中一位妇女员工正拉着井水呢!哈哈,不要误会,那不是井水,而是楼下厨师煮了食物后送上来的方式。很有趣呢!


消磨了一阵子,到了该走的时间了。其中一位妇女员工开了一张单给我,说我需在楼下还钱。在楼下等待的当儿,又看到了一样东西。一架老古董收账机,我可是头一遭见识此物。


离开了华美茶餐室,在车内拍摄了一张其店外表,为这次之旅作了一个总结。


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