星期一, 五月 28, 2007

柬埔寨游记-第一日

今朝五时许,眯着眼睛勉强起床,刚刚梳洗完毕德士就来了。我把前一晚收拾好的旅行背包一提,便出门了。妈和妹都跟着因为他们想见识一下著名的吉隆坡国际机场。我感觉好悃,就在德士上小睡一番养神。

花了大概三句钟之后,我们到达了机场。我们在机场附近吃了不好吃的早餐,然后就赶往机场了。雨下得好大,我心里祈祷着到了柬蒲赛之后不会碰到大雨,要不然我的行程就完了。我的担心不是没理由的,因为根据调查,这个时期正是雨季。

怕迟到的关系,办出境手续时匆匆忙忙,竟忘了把要看的书本带上机舱内,结果在等机处好不无聊的等着飞机的到来。也许不是旺季的关系,等机的旅客好少,大概只有不到十个。我坐在候机处静静的观察经过的人群,有时看到一些美女,还算驱走了寂寞的心情。

飞机迟了一个十五分钟左右,总算还好。可能乘客少的关系吧,马航的美丽空姐还算是彬彬有礼的,很贴心,很体谅,让我对她们的印象加分。空姐中没华人,只有马来人和印度人(相信是嘛嘛)。

飞行过程感觉不错,美中不足的是在吃午餐时不小心打翻了饭盒,还好角度不大,没把所有的饭都到了出来,但也够好受了。在无法可施下,我把身上的饭粒全扫在地上,感觉有点内疚和不好意思,但没法啊,没有更好的方法了,希望空姐们好好打扫啰。无论如何,那餐还蛮不错的,炒饭配番茄鱼柳蔬菜,加上一些甜品,健康好吃。

大块朵颐一番后,我便翻阅报纸,才看完整份不久就听到广播飞机将要下降了。第一个感觉是,好快啊!

下了机,午间一时许,感觉好热,根据报告是摄氏31度。办了入境手续,出了机场,感觉有点茫然和不知所措。别的游客都已经联络好了各自的司机,而我呢,什么也没做。有点后悔为什么不选之前联络的那几位。无暇想这么多了,我订了机场所准备的摩托车司机。就随便一点吧。

这位司机还算不错,只是他的英语口音好重,造成我俩的沟通有一些的问题。但基本上他还算尽责,不但充当我的司机,还充当我的导游,让我必须重排行程。

他带我入住客栈后,由于时间还早,我便根据他的建议去了洞里萨湖。根据他的解释,洞里的意思是湖,而萨的意思则是淡水。不知准不准,嘻嘻。路程中好担心,看着就在不远处的一片乌云,好担心会下大雨。但他拼命的说不会的不会的。哎,要赚钱到这种地步,不过我也将就一点,就体验一下别人没有的经验吧。有云天降大任于斯人,必先苦其心志、锻其筋骨。

那段路糟透了,完全是泥浆,他的摩托车走得还有点吃力。上了船不久,果然下了大雨,还刮了大风,我的身体完全被淋湿了,真多谢那个残旧的破船。有一阵子船还必须应刮大风的关系而靠岸。

我其实最怕的还是闪电。只见闪电不断,难以想象我所乘的船被击中的后果是如何。多谢上天,我最后还是平安的回到客栈里。

在洞里萨湖停在一间泊在湖中央的餐厅,那餐厅也没什么特别的,只销售些纪念品及等等。我拍了些照片,就离开了。沿途中,看到了好些很穷的人家,是真的很穷的。不知他们是幸福快乐的过日子呢还是相反的。我在这里为他们祈祷。

回到市区,可说是一片狼藉,交通混乱不消说,还有好多的路段被河水淹了,害得我裤子被淹湿了。看来这个城市的排水设施还有待改善。

晚间匆匆去了一个餐厅,看了些传统舞蹈表演,吃了些普通的自由餐。就回来完成这个文章了。明日再谈了。再见。

第三日
第四日
第五日

星期三, 三月 28, 2007

A very good morning!

Good morning to you guys out there. I enjoyed a good sleep for the past two days. It's been precious to me as i long time never really have a proper sleep. I have either slept very late then woke up late or slept for a few hours only, even on Saturday or Sunday! Most of the time i just have one feeling that i do not have enough sleep as my eyes always easily get tired! I really have to thank god for giving me such a chance to have a good quality sleep.

This morning i woke up at around 7 am, i could hardly get myself back to sweet dream again so i just got up from the bed, brushed my teeth, cleared my colon, then went for swimming. Recently the weather is so hot so the water in the pool is very warm! Great! I swam for around 15 minutes. Enjoyable!

After that i took a shower then went to office. I made myself a first organic breakfast in Kulai. Anyway i also bought a pack of fried mee hon as i was worried that little organic oat could not fill in my stomach. I happened to meet my colleague when i was going out from office and she was so surprised that i came to office so early!

Anyway, it's a wonderful morning for me.

星期二, 三月 20, 2007

谁想要高破案率

根据日前报导,大马警方破案率为东南亚最高,相信警队也以此为荣。此课题引起了一些争议,先不说国内人民对警队的负面印象,人们关心的其实是国内节节上升的罪案率。别的国家很有可能有很低的犯罪率,因此破案率也降低了不少。因为以人民对警方的坏印象来看,如果我国警方的效率都成为东南亚之冠,那么别国的人民岂不是在水深火热之中?

我们人民要的是安居乐业,不让不法分子扰乱我们有秩序的生活。就拿新加坡比就好了,我相信他们的国内罪案率总不必大马高吧!就算他们警方如何办事不力,都没有很大的关系,因为罪案率已经很低了。

罪案率的高低警方免不了有一些的责任,但并不是完全的。个人认为主要要从教育着手。某某宗教过于缺乏自信,所以在各方面千方百计实施属于他们宗教的教条,让人民感到好笑非常。一个自信的宗教是并不需要强迫大家接受或感染它的好处的。如果它受大家的欢迎,那么大家自然而然会选择信仰它,何须处处派遣宗教人员抓违反宗教教义者呢?此宗教过于压抑教徒,所以教徒们往往做出了一堆违反法律的事情来发泄。举手拿来的例子就有飚车、乱伦、强奸、轮奸等等有关情绪上的发泄。

如果你的教徒专做这些事,那么对你的宗教真是一种侮辱啊!为什么不开放点,用新颖的点子来促使他们遵循你的教义呢?难道你不知道,勉强是没有幸福的啊!

星期二, 三月 13, 2007

Sun Tech Days

Last week i managed to attend the Sun Tech Days event. That was the first Sun Tech event in Malaysia. I felt extremely happy as i had the chance to see the real person of the father of Java - James Gosling. My company sent me together with my colleagues to this event which overall took 2 days to finish. On the night before the event i set out my journey together with the 2 other colleagues from Kulai to Kl at around 8pm. We had our dinner in Kulai first then continued our journey. Thanks to the lengthy conversation between me & one of my colleagues who was sitting next to me, i managed to keep myself awake throughout the 300km journey. Of course, we had some light tea session in the midst of the journey as well. We arrived at the destination hotel at around 12.30pm. So me & one of my colleagues were assigned in the same room. We watched the fantastic four in Star Movie and then slept to recharge ourselves for the exciting event the next day.

Here comes the Sun Tech Days, we set out from the hotel at around 8 something in the morning. The event actually started at 7.30 which means we were late for that. Luckily the event location is just a few minute by walking distance from our hotel. Anyway, the important part of the event was the speech addressed by Mr. James Gosling which started at around 9 something. We reached there with empty stomach. The first 2 speakers who one of them is the Sun Microsystems Managing Director in Southeast Asia Region and the later one was one of the many minister in Malaysia. Both of them are really lousy speakers as they only spoke something which are not interesting at all. Next was the famous James Gosling. Somehow his speech also not much of excitement probably because he is a typical technical guy who is always an introvert.

I do not want to describe so much of details here as there were too many things to talk about. Perhaps let me do my research first then will share with you guys on those cutting edge technologies. In short, these are EJB 3.0, J2EE 5, J2SE6 and etc. What impressed me was the easy creation of Web Service using J2EE5 as right now i got to crack my head configuring this & that before publishing my web service. With the advent of J2EE5, all we need to do is to use the annotations to mark whether this function shall be wrapped into a web service or not. As for the EJB 3.0 i think i do not need to mention that much already as it looks certainly is the implementation standard of business logic(IOC) & Object-Relational Mapping framework in future which also means the current famous framework Hibernate & IOC framework Spring will be replaced by this new framework in the end. So, annotation again! It really plays an important role in making this EJB 3.0 up.

There are several meals provided throughout the whole day. The meal is not bad indeed. Even tough that is considered too much for me already, but i really enjoyed it! The whole day ended with joy and exhaustion as we managed to learn new things but at the same time tired of sitting there for a whole day to pay full attention to what had been addressed by those speakers. Thanks to their efforts & professionalism. I think they really had the passion & willingness to share with us of what they know. They are promoting Java with great effort!

The next day was a little bit boring as some of the topics did not really help us in improving our current work. Perhaps it is only helpful for people who is working in other fields. Some of the speakers tone are too monotonous that's why making some of us asleep. Since those topics did not stir much of our interest, so i did not learn much from there. I also purchased the SCJP exam voucher at a discount rate! I planned to take this exam within this year and this voucher expires on March 2008. Anyway, i did not manage to finish listening the last session as i got to accompany my colleagues back to hotel to take his stuff which were put along together with my luggage. After that i waited for the rest of my colleagues in the hotel lobby to move on to our journey back. Thanks to another colleagues again for kept talking to me so as to keep me awake along the way back to Kulai. Thanks ya. We reached there at around 12.30. After taking bath and lying down on my bed, i was talking to myself, i really got to appreciate the chance give to me and really learned something from there.

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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星期二, 十二月 19, 2006

記天龍宇宙王史 - 簡介篇 - 甲

话说自元史元年始,不知到了第几代以后,出现了一位天龙宇宙王,此子之故事日后再题。此时期乃近代宇宙史演变的转捩点。天龙初年,万物犹新,民间呈现一片欣欣向荣之象。可惜天龙自此变得好大喜功,刚腹自用,错用民间资源,而且欲消除“宇宙王立宪共和制”,解散宇宙议会,把大权归于一身,好实施他所认为的仁政。

由于不能忍受良好制度被破坏,民间因而衍生了许多反天龙的力量。这些团体由于政治上有好多限制而无法给予抗争,所以大多转于在地下进行武装斗争。天龙宇宙王岂能忍受此事,因此成立了间谍团体一一搜出这些地下团体,然后一一歼灭。

恰好朝间游出了位汉族奸臣-- 鹰扬。此人原名仇翰修,出自名门世家,家财万贯。自小就拥有远大的志向,处处表现了他的机灵与狡猾,其父见他如此,便把他送往神鹰门以让他得到管制并好好地修身养性,其师介于易于称呼,而号其鹰扬。鹰扬以为其父偏袒养子-龙九州,而深感不忿,自此思想倾向偏激,发誓要出人头地之心越盛。他天资过人,手段高超,城府又极深,很快地就得到了师傅的欢心及师兄弟的欢迎。其间鹰扬还得奇遇,得遇一神秘高人传授共工劈岳气,鹰扬野心极大,自此暗自修炼,并一心一意要超越神鹰门的任何一人。其师老来开怀,欣慰得一高徒而日后能助神鹰门名扬四海。岂知鹰扬利欲熏心,为了天龙宇宙王许诺的丞相之位,在共工劈大成后,配合当时天龙宇宙军团的力量,歼灭了反对天龙暴政的神鹰门。鹰扬为达目的,六亲不认,不择手段,利用其出色的功力,把神鹰门不降者一一屠杀。其师连同三名师兄弟联手亦不敌,结果都一一惨死于鹰扬阴阳鹰鹫爪下。鹰扬因而鱼跃龙门,一举登高成了一人之下,万人之上的宇宙丞相。不仅如此,他还身兼间谍局局长,在之后的灭邪行动中表现出色,多少正义之士介栽于其手。

欲知后事,拭目以待。

rain,rain,rain...flood,flood,flood

It has been raining for a few days already in my hometown as well as in Kulai. This morning on the way to Singapore office, i saw some places were going to be flooded very soon. The traffic started to go slow. Luckily our(me & my colleagues) journey was considered smooth. We managed to reach our Singapore customer site at around 9.30 which my boss got an appointment with one hardware vendor at this time too. Right now i am in the Singapore office and found myself would need to record down this. I just came across the headlines over the net, wops, looks like a lot of places in Johor was flooded. I was informed via my girlfriend's call that my housing area also nearly got flooded. I wish the rain would have stopped now and can release people's trouble as we Malaysians are facing too many sad issues recently.

I wish tomorrow will not need to go over to Singapore already. In this rainy season i shall put more 'effort' in sleeping so i can get enough rest in which i have made myself exhausted throughout the rushing of the current project. I think the future will be quite kind of dim because next year they are going to make the system live and stabilize it as fast as possible. That will mean a possibility that i will be asked to get ready to support there on live! That's what i don't wish as i need to travel back and forth everyday from Kulai to Singapore. Wosh, that's crazy. Nevertheless i would see how and make the right action in correspondence to the latest situation.

星期一, 十二月 04, 2006

Another OT night

Have been working OT for many days already. When can this stop? Actually i don't mind working late if i could spend time learning something which can help improve myself. However i often found too many things for me to learn. I don't want to be specific in any single field. I want to be as "all-rounder" as possible. Hehe. It's ok. What i got to do now is to finish my task as soon as possible. I really hope my next task won't get me into time-constraint problem which results me to spend my own time just to figure out the best solutions for my company's customers. Argh, if you want to talk about professionalism, completing your task properly and fulfiling customer's needs always come first! They don't really give a damn on how much efforts you have spent. They only want to control control control the budget! What they want to see is result! Good result some more. I will tolerate for a few more months and i believe it won't take me long to get myself to the right track again. I want to improve in every sense. That's my goal. I must get myself improved all the time so that i will ensure that all these while i am not wasting my time. I am getting 25 years old next May i could not afford wasting time this way! I have to achieve some kind of level of knowledge or wisdom!