Black & White

不是我不好
不是我比不上他
只是你不喜欢我罢了
你有想起我吗？
没有的话，不是我的错
只是我的好，你不懂欣赏吧！
给我一次机会
你会再爱上我 可以吗？

- Jacky Cheung
from Jacky Cheung Black & White Compilation Album

I read the booklet that comes together with the compilation the other day. This one caught my attention the most lah...

Oh yeah, my friends gave me this compilation as a gift from Hong Kong. They went to Hong Kong for 2 days after the event at Macau. How sweet of them!

This is my first original CD/DVD for Jacky Cheung~! I like it so much, I'm gonna rip it and keep the original CD/DVD in a very safe place ^_^

29 Days Later...

Sounds creepy right? especially when it sounds like the movie "28 Days Later"... Haha...

So, it has been 29 days since my 30-day Low Carbo Diet... what did I notice?

- When I lift my hand up, I can see my ribs (just like 4 years ago)
- When I run, my pants feel like falling
- My wrist is thinner
- And my friend who just came back from a 9-day Macau trip said, "Andrew! You look thinner!"

Haha... I doubt I weigh lighter... but at least I look thinner a bit lah...

Tomorrow is going to be the 30th day... I think I'm going to continue for another 30-day of Low Carbo Diet... I wonder?

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Latest Update

I had insomnia... My head is full of things to think... and when the time is 2am, I'm still fresh! I only sleep at 3.30am these few days... woke up at 8.30am and felt like I have been working all night....

Wallpaper... Back In Action

So... I am back in my wallpaper making mood now...

Just did this in less than 15 minutes...

Right click on the link and "Save Target As..."

The Simpson Full Cast

26 Short Messaging System Per Day

I did a clean-up on my mobile phone 2 nights ago and I found out one surprising phenomenon.

I had 2952 sms-es in my sent mailbox. Yes, I am able to save so many sms-es because I am using a PDA Phone. That 2952 sms-es are all sent within approximately 3.5 months.

In average, I sent 26 SMS messages per day. That is like 1.x SMS messages per hour.

If I send 26 SMS messages per day, that will make 780 SMS messages per month and 9360 SMS messages per year! Only 1 person... Imagine all 27 million people in Malaysia, each send 15 SMS messages per day.

1 user
15 SMS per day
450 SMS per month
5400 SMS per year

27 million users
145800 million SMS per year!

Wow... RM0.01 per SMS... how much is that?

But then of course not all Malaysian send SMS everyday...

Boleh-Land Story vol.1

Many students, in fact most of them, are attending tuition classes. The time they spend on tuition classes are way more than the time they have for leisure as well as other extra curricular activities!

I still remember when I was in Primary School. I attended tuition classes for Bahasa Malaysia, English Language, Mandarin, Mathematics. I have no time to play but my results for UPSR is superb!

I took up Malay, Mandarin, Maths (Additional Maths and Modern Maths), Physics tuition when I was in Secondary School. I remembered I asked my mom if she ever when for tuition classes when she was studying. She said, "No" and yet, she was the top student back then.

I wonder what happened? I was too busy going for tuition classes, I had no time to think.

When I was in college, I had no tuition at all. Why is that?

I read this article on TheStar Online today.

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Tuition raids affect students

PETALING JAYA: Public examinations are around the corner, but there will be added strain for many students nationwide when schools reopen this week because of the sudden closure of their tuition classes due to a clampdown.

Read more here... http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/8/26/nation/18700064&sec=nation
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I once thought that teachers that conduct tuition classes and earn big money doesnt really perform well in school as they are only getting "that much" of money from the Gov. Teachers that conduct tuition classes make big money. Yes, my tuition teacher changed his car once every 3 years. Believe it or not! How can one, that is depending on Gov's salary, get so much money to buy new car, if not because of extra tuition classes?

Why parents send their kids for tuition? That is helluva extra money to pay. I read this article today from TheStar Online too...

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Counting on the tutors

Is tuition a necessity? Is the hassle worth it?

“We don't want them to be left behind. Tuition helps,” she replies.

While many have criticised teachers for giving private tuition at the expense of their duties at school and for commercialising education, there are also many parents who depend on tutors for their children's grades.

Caroline Ong, who questions the competency, if not dedication, of some teachers in school, shares that her son’s teacher is incompetent.

“My son did not complete some exercises in his school workbook. I asked him why he did not ask his teacher for help and he replied that he did ask but the teacher said she didn't know how to do it either.

Read more here... http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/8/26/focus/18698628&sec=focus
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See? Caroline's son is not lazy. It's the son's teacher that is incompetent. A teacher that does not even know how to solve the student's problem? It's school work, not personal counselling?!

It's ok if you a family has only one child. It will be crazy if a family has 3 or more children studying at the same time. One family has to set aside a minimum of RM200 per month for a tuition fee of 3 children, for 3 subjects. Tuition fee can go as high as RM500 per month if more subjects are taken or personal tutoring is engaged.

Have you guys see the connection here?

a. Incompetence of a teacher will lead to parents sending their child(ren) for tuition classes.
b. Tuition classes needs money. Thus parents have to find ways to make more money.
c. When parents are busy looking for money to support their children's tuition fee, they have less time for family.
d. Children do not have time to play or learn other skills. Childhood wasted.
e. Children that have not much attention from parents will try to do things to get attention (drugs, gangsterism...)
f. Parents that cant find enough money to support the tuition fee will be frustrated and will be in bad temper.
g. Even if they are in good temper, they will have to withdraw their children from tuition and thus cause their children's results to be worsen
h. Children that has bad results will have low self esteem and thus making them anti social
i. This list can go on and on and on... never-ending consequences...

And who is the culprit here? Nope... the culprit is not the teachers. Yes, you got it right, it's the Government a.k.a. Education Ministry.

- MOE (Ministry of Education) did not allocate good salary for teachers thus causing good teachers to start tuition classes to make money.
- MOE hires stupid teachers and force parents of the innocent students to enrol them in tuition classes
- The education system, Examination Based System, is making every student and parent to fear that their examination results are bad and cannot enrol in any "good" universities
- And this list can also go on and on and on...

Point to ponder my dear friends... Have you ever heard of the children of our ministers that is in Local Universities? Even our very own ministers doubted their own... our country's... Education System.

Thanks for reading and Think Twice before you start to be proud of the Local Education Institution that you graduated from...

16种不健康的生活方式 (16 Unhealthy Daily Activities)

!! Beware, content below is full of Chinese Characters !!

I saw this interesting article below when I was browsing the net. Surprisingly, there are many things that we always do that are... considered as "unhealthy".

1.起床先叠被 Fold your blanket right after you wake up
人体本身—也是一个污染源。在一夜的睡眠中，人体的皮肤会排出大量的水蒸气，使被子不同程度地受潮。人的呼吸和分布全身的毛孔所排出的化学物质有145种，从汗液中蒸发的化学物质有151种。被子吸收或吸附水分和气体，如不让其散发出去，就立即叠被，易使被子受潮及受化学物质污染。 　　

2.不吃早餐 Not eating Breakfast 　　
不吃早餐的人则通常饮食无规律，容易感到疲倦，头晕无力，天长日久就会造成营养不良、贫血、抵抗力降低，并会产生胰、胆结石。 　　

3.饭后松裤带 Loosen your belt after meal 　　
饭后松裤带可使腹腔内压下降，消化器官的活动与韧带的负荷量增加，从而促使肠子蠕动加剧，易发生肠扭转，使人腹胀、腹痛、呕吐，还容易患胃下垂等病。 　　

4.饭后即睡 Sleep right after meal 　　
饭后即睡会使大脑的血液流向胃部，由于血压降低，大脑的供氧量也随之减少，造成饭后极度疲倦，易引起心口灼热及消化不良，还会发胖。如果血液原已有供应不足的情况，饭后倒下便睡，这种静止不动的状态，极易招致中风。 　　

5.饱食 Fill yourself too much 　　
饱食容易引起记忆力下降，思维迟钝，注意力不集中，应激能力减弱。经常饱食，尤其是过饱的晚餐，因热量摄入太多，会使体内脂肪过剩，血脂增高，导致脑动脉粥样硬化。还会引起一种叫“纤维芽细胞生长因子”的物质在大脑中数以万倍增长，这是一种促使动脉硬化的蛋白质。脑动脉硬化的结果会导致大脑缺氧和缺乏营养，影响脑细胞的新陈代谢。经常饱食，还会诱发胆结石、胆囊炎、糖尿病等疾病，使人未老先衰，寿命缩短。 　　

6.空腹吃糖 Sugar intake during empty stomach 　　
越来越多的证据表明，空腹吃糖的嗜好时间越长，对各种蛋白质吸收的损伤程度越重。由于蛋白质是生命活动的基础，因而长期的空腹吃糖，更会影响人体各种正常机能，使人体变得衰弱以致缩短寿命。 　　

7.吃太咸的食物 Eating food that is too salty 　　
钠在人体内滞留，容易形成或加重高血压和心脏病。 　　

8.留胡子 Grow Beard 　　
胡子具有吸附有害物质的性能。当人吸气时，被吸附在胡子上的有害物质就有可能被吸入呼吸道内。据对留有胡子的人吸入的空气成分进行定量分析，发现吸进的空气中含有几十种有害物质，其中包括酚、甲苯、丙酮、异戊问二烯等多种致癌物，留有胡子的人吸入的空气污染指数，是普通空气的4．2倍。如果下巴留有胡子，又留八字胡，其污染指数可高达7.2倍。再加上抽烟等因素，污染指数将高达普通空气的50倍。 　　

9.跷二郎腿 Sit with leg folded / lifted up 　　
跷二郎腿会使腿部血流不畅，影响健康。如果是静脉瘤、关节炎、神经痛、静脉血栓患者，跷腿会使病情更加严重。尤其是腿长的人或孕妇，很容易得静脉血栓。 　　

10.眯眼看东西、揉擦眼睛 Looking at things with your eye lids half closed / Rubbing your eyes 　　
眯眼看东西，眼角易出现鱼尾状皱纹。习惯性眯眼还可使眼肌疲劳、眼花头疼。揉眼时，病菌会由手部传染眼睛，导致发炎、睫毛折断或脱落。 　　

11.强忍小便 Holding your bladder 　　
强忍小便有可能造成急性膀胱炎，出现尿频、尿疼、小腹胀疼等症状。美国科学家发布的一份研究报告指出，有憋尿习惯的人患膀胱癌的可能性比一般人高5倍。憋尿时，膀胱贮存的尿液不能及时排出，形成人为的尿潴留。如经常憋尿，就会使括约肌和逼尿肌常常处于紧张状态；如果憋尿时间过长，膀胱内尿量不断增加，还会使内压逐渐升高，时间长了就会发生膀胱颈受阻症状，造成排尿困难、不畅，或漏尿、尿失禁等毛病。在尿潴留时还易引起并发感染和结石，严重时还影响肾功能。 　　

12.伏案午睡 Afternoon Nap 　　
一般人在伏案午睡后会出现暂时性的视力模糊，原因就是眼球受到压迫，引起角膜变形、弧度改变造成的。倘若每天都压迫眼球，会造成眼压过高，长此下去视力就会受到损害。 　　

13.俯睡 Sleeping Chest-down 　　
俯睡使脊柱弯曲,增加肌肉及韧带的压力，使人在睡觉时仍然得不到休息。此外，还会增加胸部、心脏、肺部及面部的压力，导致睡醒后面部浮肿，眼睛出现血丝。 　　

14.睡前不洗脸 Not washing your face before sleep 　　
留在脸上的化妆品不洗掉，会引起粉刺和针眼之类的炎症，还能使眼睛发炎，引起皮肤过敏反应。 　　

15.睡前不刷牙 Not brushing teeth before sleep 　　
睡前刷牙比起床后刷牙更重要，这是因为遗留在口腔中和牙齿上的细菌、残留物在夜里对牙齿、牙龄有较强的腐蚀作用。 　　

16.睡懒觉 Sleep too long / Over-sleeping 　　
睡懒觉使大脑皮层抑制时间过长，天长日久，可引起一定程度人为的大脑功能障碍，导致理解力和记忆力减退，还会使免疫功能下降，扰乱肌体的生物节律自.

1st Anniversary

No...

- It is not my birthday
- It has nothing to do with me having a girlfriend for a year (In fact, I'm still single~)
- It's not my car (My Myvi is only 5 months old)

It is my 365th day as a staff in this company that I am working in (You will know what is the company name if you know where I work in). I am not suppose to reveal where I work in my blog due to some reasons. The FBI (Frantic Blog Investigator) is keeping their eyes on my blog... Haha~ Just kidding!

I cant believe that I have actually worked in Klang Valley for a year already! That is impressive huh? "Surviving" in a company that has helluva workload but lots of FUN for a year~? That is really awesome uh?

Well, I couldn't agree more with my ex-boss. Yes, she is my mentor (I have many mentors around) and I still remember what she said, "If you want to be successful, stay out from your comfort zone..." She even approved my application to attend a training that has everything to do with "Change". I must thank her for her support~! Thanks Dr. Sia~

Ok, tomorrow will be the 1st day of my 2nd year of work in Klang Valley... What do I feel? I am kinda numb now cos I am still having my running nose and it is hard to talk or sing or breathe with a stucked nose.

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20th Day of the Month

Yes, today is the 20th day of the month and because today is my 1st Anniversary, I decided to reward myself by eating rice for both my meals today. I had rice for both my lunch and dinner.

So far, I have not been eating a lot of rice. It's like about 500g of rice only so far. Normally I can go up to 3 - 4 kg of rice for 2o days. That is a lot of cutting down uh?

Now, I dont feel as hungry as before and I dont eat as much as before. Maybe this diet affects my brain. Now, I am full by eating 70% of what I used to have for a meal.

Another 10 days to go and hope I can go ahead for another 30 days.

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I found these pictures in sitting in my computer for so long, I didnt even realise they were there!

These are 3 cute little kittens back in my hometown. I took their pics last Chinese New Year (I think...)

One of the kittens, staring at me

All 3 of them, under the shade

Little kitten in my Dad's hands

What Card Are You?

I saw this interesting Tarot Card personality test thingy on my friend's blog.

So, I thought I tried it out... and it came out... almost as accurate

You are The Devil

Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession

The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.

Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

我心中的旋律 - My Melody

Well... recently there are a lot of new songs on air. Especially new mandarin songs played on MyFM...

Other than the new ones, I also downloaded (oops.... dont catch me) some old songs, songs that are worth listening and songs that I have not obtain when the album release. Kinda like "back-ordered" songs. Many of the songs are very touching and some of them... very meaningful.

Some say that you can only appreciate the meaning of the lyric, if it happened to you before or to someone around you. Hmmm... not many people can appreciate lyrics. Some choose to see who is the lyric writer, some go for the singer. For me, irregardless of who is the lyric writer or singer, as long as the lyric is meaningful... I'm OK with it.

Some songs are lousy, in the sense that the lyric carries no meaning at all. They are just words that accompany the music.

There are a few songs that caught my attention... mainly mandarin songs...

曾国辉 - 下一片天空
曹格 - 背叛
黄品冠 - 我以为
张栋梁 - 痛彻心扉
张栋梁 - 日日夜夜

and many more...

Ah? All sad song? Haha...

Another Weekend... Well Spent

Hmmm... I was chatting with my friend on MSN earlier and she asked me what have I done these 2 days. Come to think of it, it was a weekend... well spent.. Yes, money well spent!

Last weekend was really unproductive compared to yesterday and today. My friend and I went to meet up with someone that has to do with financial planning (keke...) and then we went to One Utama Shopping Centre cos I wanna get myself a pair of shoes for my coming event in September. I spent 3 hours browsing 3 - 4 shoe outlets and no results! I was choosing between Nike Cortez Basic Leather (White shoe with the Red Swoosh) and Nike Total 90 Shoot (Casual synthetic leather shoe).

Oh yeah, the reason I need a pair of new shoes is because the Adidas Sport Shoe that I got early last year, kinda not fit me anymore. Not that my feet has grown but I bought the wrong size, 0.5 unit size smaller. I have been "surviving" with my ONLY PAIR of working leather shoe, which I bought it beginning of last year. It was a Hush Puppies'

I got my left foot injured last week because I have been wearing those shoe for events, both setup and exact event. Due to long hours of walking and (try to) running... I got myself injured. So, to prevent myself from getting more injuries, I decided to allocate an amount of money for a new pair of shoes. Not the thing that I would do normally because I am very much a person that buy things that I need and not set priority on getting the things, that I only want.

I used to think that a new pair of shoes is something that I WANT... Now it has became something that I NEED. Therefore, I had to fork out money lo... I also WANT a blazer (suit, jacket or whatever you wanna call it) in which, one of my manager insisted that I should have one.

Well, I had planned to get that blazer (yeah, Im eyeing on one) if it wasn't for the leg injury which further made me buying a pair of new shoes. Looks like that blazer has to wait lah~

Oh, I bought a NIKE AIR... Black one and it is a Size 12 UK~! I'm so excited to see a Size 12 UK shoe in that pile of, discounted, shoes. I picked up that pair and I fell in love with it (of course, after looking at the price then...). Still, I was so indecisive and walked around to see if there is any other better bargain. In the end, I bought the very first pair that I picked. Love at First Sight uh?

Now I can't wait to wear it this Friday (Casual Day for my work place)

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Today is the 12th Day...

So far no rice... I had about 50g of rice yesterday at the mamak stall. Hmm... I was left with no choice though. Dinner I had noodles with my friend.

I also had Bee Hoon this afternoon for lunch at MidValley then dinner was Baked Beans cooked with sausages, meat, egg, onions and garlic. It is great to be accompanied with wholemeal bread!

Hmm... looks like it going fine but I think im going crazy as now... even for drinks, Im looking at the Nutrition Facts label before I buy them~!

18 days to go before I weight myself again. I dont think my weight is going to drop a lot, I think it would be a maximum of 2 kg? Haha...

Let's Be Fair..... Sure Or Not?

We always say, "Life is not fair!" and stuff like that most of the day. We say it when we meet difficulties or sometimes, when we are disappointed or just a cliche to relief ones mind.

We are all human, how can we be 100% fair? Follow the book all the time? I dont think so lah...

Let's see, now the DPM wants all races benefit from government fund.

"The practice of looking only after one’s own community should be discarded for the good of the country, the Deputy Prime Minister added.

“For example, allocations given to assemblymen from Umno are not to be shared with just bumiputras.

“We must distribute the amount in a fair and just manner to those of other parties, like the MCA, the MIC, Gerakan, the PPP and even the IPF (which is a non-coalition member)."

Adapted from http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/8/10/nation/18550531&sec=nation

So, what do you think? You think it will be possible? After staying so long in M'sia... Do you still think that it is possible?

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Today is the 11th Day

Thanks for all the comments from fellow blog readers! Today will be the 11th Day of my Low Carbo Diet month.

Yesterday I had rice for lunch. Yeah, I know I am not suppose to but I just have no choice. 2 days ago I had rice too but a small portion, even the shop owner was shocked when I only take such a small amount of rice. I had to take rice because there are just nothing else for me to choose.

So far, I had about 300g of cooked rice only... some bee hoon and noodles. I refrain myself from taking instant noodles and I did it! It's the 11th day and I have not had even 1 packet of instant noodle!

Wish me luck then... Hope I can stay like this for another 20 days!

Today is the 7th Day

Yes, today is the 7th day of my Low Carbo Diet.

It started since 1 Aug 2007. From then, I had less than 50gram of cooked rice... Muahaha~!

So, now i am avoiding food like mee hoon, noodles and other food that has carbo. I am more detailed now cos now I read the Nutritional Facts before I buy certain food.

Hope my 30-day Low Carbo Diet will allow me to loose 5kg lah... Haha... Support me!

搞笑大王

我时常称自己为＂幽默又有才华＂(Funny And Talented - FAT)。其实很多人说小丑也有伤心的时候，搞笑是为了伪装掉下的眼泪。。。

到底我是不是也一样呢？我每天都在搞笑。。。能使别人笑，也是我最大的愿望。因为我不想看到别人愁眉苦脸地。。。

身边的每个人都把我看成搞笑的＂代言人＂。。。而有多少人知道，其实，我也会落泪呢？

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身为Acappella成员之一的我，也在早前爱上了着首歌。。。

SBDW － 世界末日

作曲：周杰伦 作词：周杰伦　

想笑 来伪装掉下的眼泪
点点头 承认自己会怕黑
我只求 能借一点的时间来陪
你却连同情都不给

想哭 来试探自己麻痹了没
全世界 好像只有我疲惫
无所谓 反正难过就敷衍
走一回 但愿绝望和无奈远走高飞

天灰灰 会不会 让我忘了你是谁夜越黑
梦违背 难追难回味我的世界将被摧毁
也许事与愿违

累不累 睡不睡 单影无人相依偎夜越黑
梦违背 有谁肯安慰我的世界将被摧毁
或许颓废也是一种美

天灰灰 会不会 让我入睡 夜越黑 梦违背 有谁安慰