№12. Another Rainbow

7AM. Groggy. Woke up to Pastor Lui's place to take the van for today's event. Looked up. Wow... Another one... Hm....

№11. Two Weeks of Loneliness & Rainbows

Ah... taking a break after training, here am I writing again... Was in Penang the whole week last week, and ended up in KK this week to conduct training... Well, sad to say, it kinda felt a bit lonely at times, especially end of the day when you're tired and back to the hotel room.

Talking about hotel rooms, my rooms are pretty special... In Penang, my room's entrance light will randomly switch on at night. Meanwhile, in KK, my room's power supply wouldn't cut off even if I took the card out. Talk about spooky...

Anyway, over the last one month I had a fair share of rainbows, the first group being a "double rainbow" in Blue Mountain, Australia, and the second one is two rainbows in a row while driving up to Penang. Hm... In the Bible, after the great flood, the rainbow signifies God's convenant to His people. I've seen so many rainbows in my life, sometimes in the football field, sometimes when driving home (saw about 5 in a row while on the way to Sunway to work on a rainy morning), in the office in Sentral... Sigh, looks like I've really got some "seeking" to do know what is God trying to remind me...

[small rainbow on the way to Penang]

[double rainbow in Blue Mountain]

[rainbow seen on 12th floor in Plaza Sentral]

Sydney - Part 2: The Rocks

Oh dear... It's been such a long time since the last post... My bad... Haha... Been travelling here and there for work purposes... Penang, and now in Kota Kinabalu... Well, gonna hope to post more, but with the slow upload speed (sad as I am as a telco engineer), doubt will be posting so fast...

Once we got of George St., we decided to go for a tour! Ya, a tour! It was a walk tour, costed us AU$25... Well, it was quite OK for me, since we manage to get a bit of Sydney's history...

The Rocks
This is supposedly where it all started. In summary, the Brits wanted to put their prisoners some where (apparently they were having a shortage of prisons), and the American was getting their independence, so, they were looking for a new place to "relocate" their felons... And to cut the story short, they found Sydney, and hence it became a place for the prisoners to be "shipped" to. The Rocks is basically the place where to prisoners community (yes, they had their own community) was, while the officials, wardens & colonists stayed on the other side of town. Kinda hard to imagine, a prison town....

[a wall drawing showing the history of Sydney]


[Right pix: The prisoners stay on the right side of the street, hence the older buildings while modern ones are on the left]


[Top left: A wharf converted to business building; Other pix: Sculpture depicting the three main group of Sydney's early residents - the colonists, the warden and the prisoner]

We also stopped by this old military church.. Which kinda nice looking stained glass and pews...

[Right pix: Each pew has a number engraved to it]


[Right pix: "I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD" - JESUS]

[to be continued...]

Sydney - Part I: YHA Central & Walking George St

Wow... It's been a loooong time since I've last written a blog. Guess nothing much been happening till I finally booked a ticket a went to Down Under with my friend, Lucas! After one whole year of deliberating... Hahah....

Well, over the next few days, hope I'm able to share my experience down there. Basically, I went to Sydney for about 6 days and hopped on to Melbourne for 4 days...

The MAS flight was ok, except that it was a night flight! Which usually means they give you your meals at 12am and then wake you up at 4am for breakfast. Can't really complain because that's actually the best way to go as you can go out exploring upon arrival in the morning. Manage to catch Enchanted on the flight movie before dozing off. Upon arrival, it's the boring CHECK OUT-GET LUGGAGE-GO THRU CUSTOMS-YES, I'M ASIAN routine, before finally - I'm breathing Aussie air! Then it was straight a cab to....

YHA Central
Located near to George Street (seems to be the MAIN street across Sydney town) and fairly near to Chinatown, I would say this is a good place for AU$40+ as a backpacker's accomodation. Best is the bathroom! Has to be one of the best baths I have ever seen in this kind of lodging.



After finally getting to check in, we headed out towards the Rocks by walk along...

George St
Quite a few sights to see even along this road, namely the Queen Victoria Building (otherwise known as QVB) and a string of shopping complexes. There's quite a fair mix of old & new architecture. Also, I'm quite surprised there are a lot of Asians in Sydney (well, my perception was that only Melbourne was like that). Well, we could have simply blended except the fact I was acting so "touristy" taking my camera and snapping photo every where (I don't own an SLR, probably never will and hence the so-so photos)



[to be continued...]

№10. Melaka Food Marathon

Melaka Trip

°Chicken Ball Rice °Chendol °Stadhuys
°Dataran Pahlawan °Mahkota Parade °CJ7
°A Famosa °St Paul Church °Satay Celup
°Fish Ball Noodle °Jonker St °Aussie Shiraz
°Hassan Mee Goreng

№9. A Me, Myself & I Chatroom

[from left: meRational, meEmo, meMeany]

Lately, while browsing through the WeirdWorrysomeWeb called my brain, I stumbled upon this private chatroom happening in a very remote part of my cranium...

meRational: Ok, let's look at the situation now...
meEmo: Aizz... No point... Can't decide.....
meMeany: Oh... Like what you think really count
meRational: You can't say like that!!! He's really confused!!
meEmo: Yeah... I'm just a small... insignificant...
meMeany: 10 points!!! Ding! Ding! Ding! You're right on th-...
meRational: Oi!!!! Cut him some slack!!! One more and you're spending time in the veins. You know this guy's cholesterol level... It's getting pretty cramp in those vessels....
meMeany: Whatever, "boss"...
meEmo: So cramped... aiz... cholesterol level... aiz.. no more half boiled eggs... crabs... quill eggs...
meRational: Ok, you too! Pull yourself together! We need your emotional input here since the other guy here seems to lack of a heart!
meMeany: Oh... you talking about me? I'm taking that as a compliment. Want mine? I think you're an idiot who thinks too much... Hahahaha....
meRational: What?!? Think too much??? Why you're just a sarcastic "smart" mouth, who doesn't seem to "think" before you speak, who-
meMeany: See? Only someone who thinks too much can come up with so much pointers... Hehehe...So, you really wanna continue to banter and lose pathetically, or look at matter at hand?

meRational: Grr... Anyway, back to the main topic. What do you think about the current situation? Go? Or no go?
meEmo: Aiz... dunno la... one is still easy way la... the other... I'm scared la...
meMeany: Aww, come on! We can't afford to have time to be scared! I mean, it's an opportunity of a lifetime! You think this will drop from the sky again??
meEmo: I know la.... But do you feel we can do it? I feel we've been pretty good at the technical side so far...
meRational: I think I concur on that point. We've been going on a smooth highway so far on this road. The other road, well, I think it's a bit BIG...
meMeany: Wei, life is no freebies. Of course it's BIG! Comes with a BIG OPPORTUNITY spelled with a CAPITAL "O"!!!
meRational: Er.. Yeah... But you think you can handle those BIG GUNS up there with just your smart mouth?
meMeany: Why not?? We've got "Mister Feel" here whose instinct's is usually much better than your well-thought actions, and being "Mister Think" yourself, well, you do help when the emotions clouds the judgements. As for me, I don't think you need me to state my obvious importance...

meEmo: Well, it does feel right... I mean, we decided to go already last year, didn't we?
meRational: Yeah, yeah... Just that, I was thinking we have lost that chance and gonna stay on this road...
meMeany: Well, guess they opened the highway again. So are we gonna take it? Or continue to follow that steady small road we're already on?
meEmo: I dunno la... The highway looks.... daunting...
meMeany: Sigh... We're getting nowhere... Should have chosen accounting or finance...
meRational: Ok, ok... Think we've gotta go for yamcha di... We'll continue this later...
meMeany: Oh! Oh! That bunch of guys? This is gonna be fun... Make sure we get coffee... Muahaha....
meEmo: Let's go.... By the way, you feeling ok? I thought you just gave me a compliment earlier...
meMeany: Treasure it. That's the only one you're getting tonight.

TO BE CONTINUED...