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Influencing styles

2012-01-25T10:42:00.002+08:00

Below is an excerpt from hbr.org about an article about influencing styles.

You may have an idea what your style is just from hearing these labels, but the most accurate way to identify your style is with an influence style indicator — a self-scoring assessment that classifies your style based on answers to questions about preferred influencing tactics. But even without the indicator, here are some questions you can ask yourself to begin to understand your style:

Rationalizing: Do you use logic, facts, and reasoning to present your ideas? Do you leverage your facts, logic, expertise, and experience to persuade others?
Asserting: Do you rely on your personal confidence, rules, law, and authority to influence others? Do you insist that your ideas are heard and considered, even when others disagree? Do you challenge the ideas of others when they don't agree with yours? Do you debate with or pressure others to get them to see your point of view?
Negotiating: Do you look for compromises and make concessions in order to reach an outcome that satisfies your greater interest? Do you make tradeoffs and exchanges in order to meet your larger interests? If necessary, will you delay the discussion until a more opportune time?
Inspiring: Do you encourage others toward your position by communicating a sense of shared mission and exciting possibility? Do you use inspirational appeals, stories, and metaphors to encourage a shared sense of purpose?
Bridging: Do you attempt to influence outcomes by uniting or connecting with others? Do you rely on reciprocity, engaging superior support, consultation, building coalitions, and using personal relationships to get people to agree with your position?

While answering these questions, take your style a step further. How often does it work for you? Are you more successful with certain types of people? Have you ever wondered why? Since there are five different influencing styles, using only your preferred style has the potential to undermine your influence with as many as four out of five people.

Gaining awareness about our own influencing style and those of others is especially critical in light of today's fast-paced and stressful work environments, and here's why: When we are operating unconsciously out of a preference (our style) and not seeing the results we expect, we actually have the tendency to intensify our preferred behavior — even when it's not working!

If your individual success depends on gaining the cooperation of people over whom you have no direct authority, this should concern you. The way to begin to increase your odds of influencing more people is to learn to recognize and use each of the five styles.

Becoming aware that there are influencing styles other than yours is a good start. To further increase your influence, you must learn what each style sounds like when it's being used effectively and ineffectively. Gaining this awareness will help you recognize when the style you're using isn't working and how to determine one that will.

What's your influencing style? And what are you going to do about it?

How to repay PTPTN via CIMBclicks

2011-03-03T22:41:00.022+08:00

First, what you need?

Your handphone

Your PTPTN pin.

A CIMB account with CIMBclicks activated.

Pop-up blocker disabled.

If not you will be stuck at this step. How to disable it? Click here

Please note that you can only pay online from 7am-11pm

If not you will see this

So now you have a CIMBclicks account, pop-up blocker disabled and the time is somewhere between 7am - 11pm. And you decided to repay your PTPTN loan.

Lets get started.

With your browser, go here https://epay.ptptn.gov.my/loan/ptptnlogin.html

You will see this

Or from the main site of http://www.ptptn.gov.my/web/guest/anjung

Click on E-FES under TREXX ZONE

Now key in your IC no. and PTPTN pin and proceed

You will see your statement. Like here.

Scroll down to the payment section as below.

For example above I paid RM100.00 Ticked the ponjaman 1 and click Pay

You will see the following

Proceed.

You will see the screenshot below

Select CIMBclicks

Then Agree and Continue

You will see this

And a pop-up such as this. Note that your first window will show this until the transaction is complete.

You will arrive here.

Obtain a TAC code. By clicking on the box 'Click Here' You will receive the TAC code on your handphone.

Now key in the TAC code, select a account to pay from and 'Submit'

A confirmation page will follow

Confirm and you will come to the receipt page.

As follows

Your transaction is complete. If you go back to your first window you should see as follows.

Click Print if you want,

If you click Next you will arrive here.

Complete!

You have paid PTPTN repayment!

Note : You can relogin into your PTPTN and doublecheck the transaction.

Dinner!

2011-02-08T21:21:00.004+08:00

Had this for dinner

Its a lai liu har ko fun.. or 濑尿虾蛄饭 in chinese.

Nice filling meal for you =D

Ipoh Chee Cheong Fun!

2011-01-31T23:34:00.004+08:00

Place to go.

Canning Gardens Chee Cheong Fun in Ipoh.

Said to be the best Chee Cheong Fun in Ipoh.

Claimed by Foodstreet, Motormouth from Ipoh, Cumi & Ciki,

Note: Operates in the morning only.

Where is it? Click here

2009-09-11T01:40:00.002+08:00

Black Canyon Cappuccino ^^

Transformers II trailer - HD! (View in Fullscreen!)

2009-05-02T14:01:00.001+08:00

We're the boss

2009-04-16T02:08:00.002+08:00

From Malaysian Insider

To YB, from your Boss

APRIL 15 –

Dear Yang Berhormat,

You do not know me although I know about you, since you are such a famous person.

I am just one of the millions of voters in this country we call our home. I am one of those who have voted regularly and, through this process of voting, selected our representatives to form the government.

You are one of the representatives elected by the people , even though the votes are secret and you would not know how each and every one of us voted.

You won because majority of the people in your area voted for you, and your party won the majority of the seats in Parliament, which is the place where all the representatives elected by people like me meet to think how to govern this country on our behalf.

Although you owe your position, your trappings of power and your wealth to our votes, you do not need to be grateful to us.

We do not ask you to be grateful to us. We just want you to do the job – the one that you wanted and asked for, and that we have given you – well.

Just like in a company, if a CEO and his team can do a good job and earn good dividends for shareholders, the shareholders will be happy and reward the team with another extension of tenure.

But, when the management team is not functioning well, and the company prospects are affected, the shareholders have the right to choose another team to replace the team.

The situation is the same here. We voted you and your team to power so that you can carry out projects and policies that benefit all of us.

It is our right, as your ultimate boss, to have schools built, and hospitals that are well manned, and roads well paved, and drains that flow.

It is our right to have protection against harm provided by the security forces which are funded by us.

It is our right to earn a decent living by having licences given to us by the very people that we put in place in the first instance.

It is our right to have a well-run civil service, since the civil servants are our employees, so to speak.

So, as the ultimate boss, we expect development; we expect progress. These development and progress must be continuous and should not be on an ad hoc basis.

Projects paid for with money taxed from us should not be used by your team as gifts to buy our votes or withheld as blackmail during elections, by or general.

As the ultimate boss, it is our right to throw out of office any representative who is not heeding the wishes of the people, who is not functioning well, and who is on the take. This is our right as citizens.

And please do not say we are not grateful if we did not vote you, since to function well is part of your job description, and you have to fulfil your job description in order for us to vote you in again, and not through using projects to exchange for our votes.

If you are too busy to remember all that I have written, just remember one thing.

The people – and I am one of them – are the real Boss. Your Boss.

Thank you for your precious time.

Hsu

(A boss)

Dr Hsu Dar Ren is a medical doctor and blogs on socio-economic issues; he believes that a fair and equitable society with good governance is the key to the future of this country.

Meow!

2009-03-17T05:01:00.007+08:00

Have a test on Thursday, Report on Friday, Presentation and a report due next Monday, Letter due on 31st March. Best of all its on Wednesday(two days from now) there will be a presentation, OR a test, the lecturer himself doest know, LOL.
So heck busy, but yeah should be able to handle, we can do all things in Christ who strengthens you. So yeah I feel like I'm Superman

Anyway, caught this cat lie stretched, nicely leaned onto the wall
Meow!

Rimba Ilmu

2009-03-15T18:41:00.003+08:00

Went Rimba Ilmu, Universiti Malaya two weeks ago, a place my friend worked during his semester break. He took me to meet his boss, Dr Elengo. Dr Elengo took me on a tour first his lab then the herbarium which is known to be the biggest in Peninsula. Then into an Housed garden where exotic orchids are conserved. One of orchid which was hybrided in Rimba Ilmu itself is named Rimba Ilmu!
Below are more pictures from Rimba Ilmu

Blue moon

2008-11-24T17:56:00.001+08:00

Get ready your telescopes for there is a blue moon up in the sky!

Dogathon

2008-08-12T02:40:00.000+08:00

Woohoo it UPM held an event, a doggy event on Sunday 10/8/08, erm correction: a doggy and owners' event lol, called Dogathon at Bukit Ekspo. It was organized by the vet students of UPM on a yearly basis now. As a dog person(means i like dogs) It was an oppotunity i ought not to miss. Thus, on that cooling Sunday morning, i went for Dogathon.
It started to drizzle on the way there while waiting for the bus, I became worried cause I don't want to see a wet Dogathon with wet dogs around and certainly no one else especially the vets wants to see a wet Dogathon neither. But praise God, before the VIP (me) =.= reach reach Bukit Ekspo it stop drizzling!
I went around Bukit Ekspo and saw many people with their many dogs. All the dogs seem so happy and joyful, some wagging their tail, some found a nice spot to 'buang air' but all seem out of breath o.O
The activities they had were like a maze activity where owners were to guide his/her dog out of the maze, an obsticle course and a dog dancing competition! lol yea that was fun. There were also many booths set up throught Bukit Elspo, some selling snacks, some dog foods, some dog assecories and some were information booths, like WWF and one discribed the importance of dogs to many immorbilized people, to these people their dogs became a inseperable companion, a helper which will always be there when the owner is in need.
Dogs unconditional love for their master is admirable, but what is more remarkable is their ability to listen and obey whatever you say and stay loyal to its master regardless of the consequence.

No time lar

2008-07-07T18:23:00.003+08:00

I had time, a short time, time seems insufficient, time went by fast, time to reastablish contacts and and pay old friends a visit, time to visit aging relatives, time to read the news and time to be up to date with the current technology, time to make coffee, I also had to prepare for my future(my future wife and our love), so time is essence of my break, time is vital for my plans to succeed, moreover my holidays end faster than the rest of the local unis, can say as much as 2 weeks shorter compared to other universities and most other courses thus i cherished every second i get, my motto of the time was get the best of what u have.
These are my goals:
Met up with old friends
Read up Malaysian politics
Watch a movie
Get macho for forestry camp
Get enough sleep
So I planned well and came out with a plan to carry out my plannings. Of course I also got ready if I were to be called to be a family driver, lol. During this time, facebook became my closest friend, I got to know what was happening with my closest buddies. soon i got to met up with many close friends and the 1st goal was accomplished. after meeting old friends we then organised a trip to the cinema, thus goal 3 was a success! For the second goal , websites such as malaysia-today, malaysiakini, and malaysian insider got me comprehensive view on malaysian politics, as The Star newspaper became unreliable and biased since before the March 8 elections, the newspaper often left out news of what good things the opposition party did. With daily crunchers and sit-ups and weight lifting it is quite obvious that I got macho for forestry camp =p
Ahh the last wan, to get enough sleep... I felt that i got more sleep than i get when studying lol but still not enough, no time lar

SCAMs

2008-05-24T19:28:00.005+08:00

I am quite sure you have received scams.
I receive many scams thru email and sms, one particular email scam I often receive says that 'hotmail is going to charge money for its services, forward this message to avoid getting charged later' or 'hotmail is running out of user names, sign this message and forward it so that your hotmail accounts will not be forfeited' I received those emails years back, and hey! I am still using hotmail for free with my same account!

Another scam email I received also so funny it says you can use a gold ring to test for lead.. lol How can gold react with lead?!
Most scams via sms have a format, most have 'Win some nonsense by typing I'm an Idiot and send to 33333' but this sms scam I especially remember on the night of the March 8 elections telling me to stop sending false sms regarding the election results, a special body is formed to take action. Please lar we got different different ways to get authentic election results wad.. any sms can be clarified via internet wad.. lol

Bellow is an article about the absurdity of scams from here entitled 'Zombie nation'

I just received this SMS:

“Pls switch OFF all ur handphone 2NITE. According to Metro TV, there will be a BIG RADIATION WAVE circulating thru the handphone towers at 11PM 2nite which is very DANGEROUS to humans. Pls inform ur friends NOT 2 keep their phones with them. Please FORWARD…”

It sounded damn fake to me. So I told the sender it was some scam la. She said her AUNTY told her she saw it on ASTRO. What the heck. So I GOOGLED it.

Apparently, on Thursday (yesterday) night, many people received similar messages, with variants such as the following:

“Please switch off all your hand phones, laptops and computers by 11pm tonite. According to Metro, a large wave of radiation will be released. Please forward.”

“smua HANDPHONE malam ini dimatikan. Menurut METRO TV, pada jam 11 malam ini akan ada gelombang radiasi yang besar yang berbahaya utk manusia. yang akan tertangkap oleh semua hp & pemancar. Beritahu yang lain/teman2 jgan taruh hp dekat kepala”

Of course many people complied, and wasted what I’m sure must’ve been a whole lotta credit altogether forwarding the stupid message to their friends.

Here’s what one of them (Zombie survivor #1 at http://starcladnight.blogspot.com/) had to say today:

So if my family were the only ones who did switch off our phones - much to my dismay, that means we are the only survivors!

Then.. if we are the only survivors… who will be reading my blog?

*GASP!* I forgot one important point!! Mutated cells means clever zombies!! And now these zombies can operate computer! And click on starcladnight.blogspot.com!! And READ!!

Some DUMB people, of course, decided not risk the consequences of being killed by GIANT RADIATION WAVES that are ‘DANGEROUS TO HUMANS’ and mutate their arms and limbs and eat their brains.

They became zombies.

Zombiefied human #1 at http://underseaserenity.blogspot.com says:

I left my handphone on, my laptop on, my computer on and I’m still alive to write this…

Wow… thanks humans for only sending me the SMS NOW. That means I’ve become a zombie too since I didn’t know about it and left my handphone on ALL NIGHT LONG.

SO WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS STORY?

Don’t SIMPLY FORWARD messages (be it e-mail, SMS, or any other form of communication) unless you know it comes from a credible source
Please please for the sake of credibility (or whatever little of it is left with how easy it is to spread hoaxes these days), do NOT simply quote sources like ASTRO when it’s so obvious that things like this ‘radiation wave invasion’ has not even been anywhere near CREDIBLE news sources - otherwise, we’d have heard about it.It’s irresponsible!
THINK. Hoax sign #1 - Why isn’t this ‘big news’ on mainstream media? Hoax sign #2 - It doesn’t even say what is the cause of this wave. Come from where? Outer space ah? Hoax sign #3 - If everyone shuts off their handphones/any electronic device that can emit radiation at 11 PM tonight, that’s going be a LOT of losses for businesses everywhere. YET we’re not hearing bout this aside from informal SMSes thru personal friends.
You are SUPPORTING the people who started this hoax if you just forward it without checking reliable sources. That makes you as irresponsible as them. An example of a reliable source would be THIS:

KUALA LUMPUR: Menggemparkan! Ramai pengguna telefon bimbit mula panik berikutan penyebaran SMS yang meminta orang ramai berhati-hati dengan panggilan santau atau ‘tarik nyawa’ yang kononnya boleh membunuh mereka sejurus menjawab panggilan itu.

Lebih menakutkan apabila kandungan SMS itu mendakwa panggilan maut itu sudah meragut sembilan nyawa di Indonesia sejak bulan lalu dan kini mula menular kepada jutaan pengguna telefon di negara ini bagi menagih korban terbaru.

Siasatan dilakukan pihak berkuasa Indonesia mendapati nombor pengirim SMS itu berasal dari Sumatera Selatan dan Kepulauan Riau, Indonesia.

Susulan maklumat dikumpulkan, seorang remaja perempuan yang disyaki mencipta dan menghantar SMS terbabit sudah ditahan minggu lalu oleh polis Indonesia di Riau.

Selepas disoal siasat, remaja terbabit mengaku menyebarkan SMS itu hanya untuk gurauan kepada rakannya.

Finally, for everything else, there’s GOOGLE. =P

GOSH. I just wasted half an hour typing out this lame post. Maybe I HAVE been zombified after all. I feel my brains turning to mush.

2008-05-16T03:39:00.005+08:00

Check this out! Interesting stuff from Malaysia Today Raja Petra's article on " How to strike back and counter the sabotage"
I urge all Muslims to pay their zakat and fitrah in any one of the five Pakatan Rakyat states. Are you aware that you can pay zakat in lieu of your income tax? And you can request that your salary be deducted monthly and the money be sent to the state zakat office instead of to the IRD. No, it is not exemption from tax like if you were to donate to a tax-exempt charity. It is zakat in lieu of tax. That means when you pay zakat you need not pay income tax.

Say you have to pay RM1,000 income tax per month on your salary (or RM12,000 per year if you pay annually). You just pay the money to the zakat office instead and send the receipt to the IRD and consider your income tax fully paid.

Why do this? Well, when you pay to the IRD, the money goes to the Federal Government and Umno will use the money. But when you pay zakat the state gets to keep the money and in the five Pakatan Rakyat states for sure Umno will not be able to get its hands on the money.

Think about it. Zakat is mandatory under Islam. So you will be fulfilling your Islamic duty plus you will be helping the five Pakatan Rakyat states plus you will be denying Umno that money. That’s killing three birds with one stone.

Okay, zakat is only 2.5% of your wealth (zakat harta) or income (zakat pendapatan) while income tax is higher. So, pay the higher figure. After all, you will have to pay it anyway whether you pay zakat or income tax. And imagine how many poor and destitute people, the homeless, students who need financial aid or scholarships, orphans, single mothers, old folks who can’t work, handicapped people, etc., can be helped with this zakat money.

Please leave your opinions in the comments, 10Q

There's a country...

2008-05-16T03:25:00.004+08:00

Whatever a citizen do is against the law:

When you speak – Sedition Acts

When you write – Printing & Publication Acts

When you assemble peacefully – Illegal Assembly Act

When you raise a sensitive issue – Internal & Security Act

When students speak – College & University Act

When you try to reveal the truth – Official Secret Act

When you eat – you have to pay for Halal Certification Act

So, flol what can people of this country do?

Prodigy boy

2008-05-11T17:51:00.003+08:00

This small boy's cool, he does nice fingerings(he plays well..) Many of his videos are posted up on YouTube and you can see more of Sungha Jung here.

1st saw it here
Thanks Aik Thai!

Influence Conference

2008-05-11T11:28:00.004+08:00

Influence Conference 2008 will be recurring this year on 20 and 21 June 2008.

Organized by Youth Alive Malaysia and hosted by Glad Tidings PJ, we are targeting all Young Working Adults and campus students for this event...
...Learn to be GREAT in the working place and Great in your relationship with God at Influence Conference 2008...

This is really cool

2008-05-11T11:13:00.002+08:00

but you must see it at least past 1 minute 30 seconds!
First saw this on annjee's blog
Thanks geline :)

Holidays - Woohoo

2008-04-27T19:25:00.007+08:00

Finished my last paper on 25th, moving out to a house next semester, and I am home, relaxing, yum cha'ing and catching up on sleep, I love sleep and I've missed sleep for so long now, wonder how sleep is doing after all this time, I am sure sleep miss me too!
LOL that was so random..

So first I will rant about food !! Glorious food!!
One a day my fren went to a mamak stall that sell unique roti's such as roti diana, roti micheal jackson, etc
I ordered for roti joan pronouncing 'joan' as 'joanne' lol lucky my fren correct me.
My fren more funny, insisting that he order roti wawasan 2020, but however the stall only serve either roti 2002 or roti 2004.

The above is roti 'I love you' my fren bought for his darling.. so sweet!
its basically a roti pisang plus the wordings and chili sauce arrow, wow mamak stalls now days so creative luu.
That above is a herbal jelly, its called gui ling gou, its mixture of beneficial(duh!)(1) herbs made into jelly! It tastes good with honey, its slightly bitter by its own, and its exorbitant.. rm9 for a bowl as in the picture.
Different gui ling gou companies has its own mixture of herbs so the taste and effects may differ.

So back to 'college' aka hostel, the following is what I felt:
On Friday 25th April I woke up from the last night I may sleep in the hostel, its 7.45am
Its feeling a bit nostalgic already.. dang! so fast that feeling struck me. So fast it had been 1 year that I've spent living in this building, brings back bittersweet memories, from the day I went into UPM, moving into the first room, trying to live with 5 other people from different parts of the country in the first semester, watching movies together, celebrating the birthday of the son of a fren in the nearby room; then moving into the another room, to live with 3 others in the second semester, one being two years my senior, one being a staunch buddhist, the other(myself) a christian, and the other one that swears from morning till night..
And on the morning of Sunday, today, I packed all my stuff, and left the hostel.
Its the end of my stay in hostel and I'll be living out next semester, for freedom, for internet connection, to live with gals woohoo!

(1) promotes longivity, energizes one's body, improves sleep, improves concentration, increase body immunity etc as what they say.

Hot then wet?!

2008-04-07T15:50:00.006+08:00

Hot hot hot! Got up at 8 in the morning, took one cup of HOT nestum... bleh! Then at 12 walked to the food court, the Putra Food Court, man, the weather was so the hot. How nice if you courted someone as HOT as this day's weather. Even at half way to the food court, we were literally raining inside our shirts lol. I ate 杂饭 from the ah neh stall. Wondering what to add to my rice.. I saw a dish of fried chicken with black dots(pepper or herbs) on it, it looked delicious thus I took it. With every bite of the chicken I can't help but smell the herbs, that made the so chicken fragrant that made me not complain about the slight lack of tastiness of the chicken. After walking back to hostel from lunch in an extremely HOT weather, I was told that I had to get some letters officially signed. Thus I went out while the day was HOT together with a few friends get the letters signed and at the same time pass up an assignment manually to a lecturer who doesn't clears his inbox... and expects his students to email to him! We stopped at to the koko center, after a long discussion about signing the letter, we demanded that they sign the letter, alas they did. So then continued to go to the Golf center of UPM and pass in the letter. Now back in hostel, and its about to rain. What an unpredictable weather we have in Malaysia, dude. Time to bathe and get myself wet before the land gets wet
tata

Gunung Jerai! - Part 3

2008-04-06T03:49:00.010+08:00

Woohoo! its Sunday morning and we're up climbing Gunung Jerai again, that day's plot was done at about the same altitude as the forestry museum around 900m above sea level. vans took us up the mountain like the day before but what different today is the vans dropped us directly at the museum! yay! But we stil have to walk :( but less walking compared to the day before =) There is a trail adjacent to the museum that leads to a recreational park, and just beyond that park is our plot site! Thats how we got there!

At the plot site, we found mushrooms at the ground, moss on rocks and hard surfaces, fungi on tree barks. The wet environment of the forest made it suitable for those types of moss and fungi to grow.
When all is done, we all gathered at the recreational park, as the park is located up on a rocky slope, we get an awesome, panoramic view of what is at the bottom. I saw the flat lands of Kedah, I saw acres after acres of rice fields and I then I clearly know why, Kedah is called 'The Rice Bowl of Malaysia'. And far away into the horizon, towards my left, I saw the Straits of Malacca. We were facing North.

Oh me God! The slope, so.. so.. the steep! One wrong step and bye bye, lol
After having lunch at the park, we went into the museum, the Forestry Museum, bellow is how it looks from the outside.
Structures of the bamboo plant on display
Insects, found in the Malaysian Forest on display
Besides having bamboo and insects for display, the museum displays posters on information of some of Malaysian dipterocarps and other unique trees found in Malaysia, that include Chengal, Merbau, Keruing and many more. However I have only saw a small section of the museum(tree rows of display), the rest of the museum is still under renovation...

And so, we walked out of the museum, waited for the vans to fetch us back to base. Then, as if a white cloud gracefully fell on us, the road became misty. My friends and I being excited tried to catch them, lol

The van came and took us back to base, then my friend and I ate 'ice kacang', after we bid farewell and left Gunung Jerai at 3pm.
This picture is taken as the bus passed the Perak river.
Reached UPM at midnight, that cocluded my Gunung Jerai trip!

Gunung Jerai! - Part 2

2008-04-03T20:54:00.005+08:00

At 8.30am that very Saturday morning, we started the ascend up Gunung Jerai.While climbing the mountain, we saw some breath-taking panoramic view, a truly unforgettable experience. This picture is taken only half way up the mountain, imagine how nice it would be up at the peak..

Alas, we (my group) reached the plot site. Nope the plot site does not include the road. And yes it is full of shrubs, trees, vines, and leeches! Being professional foresters, we collected all needed data efficiently and effectively =)

So tada its a picture taken at the first plot site. Woohoo a peacher plant! I am so excited, lol

Completed the study at 1pm, now we walked up the peak. On the way, saw someone collecting jewel orchid plants. It is said that jewel orchids can improve sex.
So after syoik sendiri at the peak, we declared we have climb to the top of Gunung Jerai. Satisfied, we went downhill, on the way down we had lunch. Right after lunch, a truck carrying bitumen came and offered to take us down. We accepted the offer and load up the back of the truck, went down the mountain. I can't seem to forget the warm bitumen we were standing on the back of the truck. Luckily the bitumen is not warm enough to melt our rubber shoes!

At mid hill, we had time to relax. Just then a friend got attacked by a leech! lol After sprinkling medicated oil on it, it detached itself from the leg, then twist and twirl in irritation, and met a horrible end. eww..

This is taken at mid hill, and thats my lecturer Dr. Nazre.
After a short wait at mid hill, vans came and take us down, all 86 students and a few demonstrators plus a lecturer down the mountain back to base.
its a 20 minutes trip down to base, hungry and exhausted, we went into the bus and slept awhile.
At 4.30pm we decided to leave the base to find dinner to dapau or to take away. Feeling hungry, suddenly we felt so happy, Yes, we thought we found a place to eat at a nearby town, a malay noodle shop. Initially we were all elated. The shop owner was happily JUAD thinking he'll be doing the business of 90plus people. Then all were disappointed, his shop only served soup, noticably the mee rebus(a soup mee), but no mee goreng (fried mee). Geeesh, thus, the bus driver himself decided that we will dapau dinner further up in the town. After dapauing we went to the Dorms in the Forestry Department of Kedah to spend the night.
Bellow is a lake adjacent the dorms in the Forestry Department of Kedah

To be continued...

Gunung Jerai! - Part 1

2008-04-01T15:26:00.011+08:00

Yup I am back, from Mount Jerai
All of us being exited and sleepy at the same time load up a bus and left upm right after mid night on Saturday. Dreaming half way thru, I was awaken when the bus stopped at Tapah as some people went to the loo. So I went down and took some pix at the place where the truck drivers parked their vehicles lol Then some friends decided to play around =)

Left the stop a few minutes after 3.10am after the bus driver made sure all of us took a pee! Its a 30 minutes break, if there is another break like this we all would not reach Gunung Jerai in time, lol. Thus, All of us are litterally put to sleep until we reached the destination, Gunung Jerai, my God(1). Once we reached there, the target place, the destination! We were all refreshed from the deep sleep in the bus (except for the bus driver) Its 7.15 am, Its morning already! We are JUAD(2) in celebration. We have finally reached Gunung Jerai safely, in whole, nothing left behind, lol, somemore we brought an empty stomach!

Nice view, a beautiful sunrise, a tranquil landscape, a picture of peace and quiet. Dang! Its taken from inside the bus! I was just awoke at the time. Didn't want to miss the chance! But too lazy to get up at the same time? lol Maybe I'll work on the picture with photoshop? If its nice maybe print it out? Frame it up? Ah bellow is a chicken! lol as a city boy seeing a chicken is like wow cool.. wad is dis? alien ka? lol all I see at home is a lizard, ants, dogs... thats all lol

To be continued... stay tuned

(1) We were so sleepy we put ourselves to sleep
(2)JUAD = Jumping Up And Down

2008-03-26T18:42:00.008+08:00

Its evening in UPM. This is taken just outside my class 7.21pm, +8.00GMT local time. I was on my way to dinner, abit of Malaysian Char Kuei Teow and a cup of cappuccino. aiyak! I forgot to take pictures of my wonderfully delicious dinner gg. While writing this, I am in class of the malay version of public speaking, pengucapan awam after a class of the English version of Public Speaking - Public Speaking. lol
So rite now, Some frens are promoting their product thru a presentation speech today. In today's class we are to promote a product thru the company we hace formed ourselves. The lecturer will then grade us based on the speech given as well as the presentation made also to promote the product.
One of the items being promoted by my frens is a multipurpose bag! Below is how it is looked like:
lol

Further advertistments about the bag will not be aired as the company did not pay the advertising fee...

Ah well, bellow its a bowl of 板面 pan mian, photograph taken in a pasar malam or night market in Sri Serdang, a place adjacent to UPM, this night market is held every Monday nights. Many types of food can be found in the stalls, ranging from sweets to tidbits, local delicacies such as hawker foods; fried chicken, beijing burgers, and not forgetting the pan mian as shown bellow:

Haha bellow is a picture taken from a Forest Ecology camp in Ayer Hitam, its a 3 day two night stay in the forest reserve. The camp was meant for work (1) but ended up with a lot of fun, bathing and having fun in the stream, swimming by the waterfall, and eating spicy Malay food. lol Its was a real challenge to climb the hill forest when it started to rain as the terrain was muddy and slippery. But with our skill and courage as forestry students, we managed to climb up and down the forest complete the practical well and in time!

This coming Friday I will be leaving for Gunung Jerai, in the northern Malaysian state of Kedah, I will expect to have a lot fun. I will be looking forward to eating the local food there, rest assured there will be pictures from the trip up on the blog as soon as I return, muahahaha 'I will be back!' lol. So pray for my safe return and that I bring back many pictures so that all may gain insights into the unique place of Malaysia, not known by foreigners, and many urban people of Malaysia also, haha

(1) Work meant to do a survey on two plots of land, taking data of both geological(soil texture, soil pH, wind speed, soil and air moisture content) and physical data(tree species present in area, number of trees, frequency of tree coverage etc)

Aiyayai

2008-03-15T19:08:00.003+08:00

Pi Yao the bz man, lol quite the bz lately loh, ass this ass that, now going out again lol.
Later,

Pi Yao

Ps: ass is short for assignments, dun misunderstand! thank you

Happy CNY

2008-02-11T16:23:00.000+08:00

Heya first off lets drink a cup of coffee.

Now I greet all Happy Chinese New Year to all, happy holidays to those who are having holidays / Happy Angpau collecting. Elections coming up too, here in Malaysia, posters are being put up already. Here in Malaysia its a democratic parliamentary election. Thus we don't put up posters of monkeys like Mr Bush up a few years back in the US but decent symbols/characters etc in the streets.
Ah yes! Its Valentine's Day coming up, I feel very much pressured, what should I get my significant other, My darling, My loving companion? Should I give her a flower? Its nice to hold and smell for the romantic day, only for that romantic day. Should I give her a shopping spree pass? Haha dream on.. I am not even working.. Treat her a fantastic dinner? A holiday?
Need to take some time off, here's a sudoku puzzle from The Star newspaper, I did half way.. I think there's a mistake somewhere...

My lecturer who taught us once showed us paper made from bamboo and a few planks of bamboo to make parquets. Now I'll show you paper made from bamboo

The following are planks of bamboo

So now I'll end the hot and sunny day with a coconut drink; enjoy!

Food

2008-01-29T16:09:00.001+08:00

Woohoo 28 days past the new year happy belated 2008! lolness end of january edi. haha hostel just recently (less than days days ago) allowed WiFi. Well its long over due but still signal is only available at office, somemore the WiFi here was password protected for years, what are they doing man..
Thus, I will be moving out next semester woohoo! And I will free ..muahahaha lol. Will post some pix on new house soon
Anyway been going out very often lately, Monday south city ate tau fu fa with muaci, Tuesday the mines got a hat and other stuff to be cool haha, Wednesday Jusco Balakong sing k den Saturday go home lol, playing real hard, studying real hard too, (usually back at hostel at 1800 after dinner and shower its 1900 after condition zero and starcraft its 2130 study till 0200 den sleep)
I have strength to go about my day with 4 hours of sleep, thanks to half boil eggs in the morning for breakfast and thank God for great genes muahahaha..
Here are some stuff I ate lol
seafood noodle at one noodle ss2

Pork shop rice and Chocolate milkshake at Food & Tea
Curry mee at ss2
Finally kopi 0 at Taman Megah coffeeshop Restauran Good Luck

so big

2007-12-15T02:23:00.000+08:00

I was driving to church yesterday, at a traffic lights I take a look inside the car like the gears, air cond etc.. then i noticed something obvious.. something really obviously big, it were my biceps even with out-stretched arms holding the steering it was big and i let out a smile and so happen i turn my head saw a lady driver in the next car grinning

Yeah! I feel good na na na na na I knew that I would..

MyHostel hahhaha -part1

2007-12-11T03:53:00.001+08:00

Woohoo! It is fun studying in UPM haha, after I finished my 1st semester, I show u a glimpse of my hostel\room\cubicle\study table .

Oh ya intro abit 1st... In my hostel there are 6 persons in a room, each has his own cubicle, the cubicles are arranged in a 2 by 3 manner, each cubicle consist of a study table, a chair, cupboard, a bed. This is my study table=)
Thats the right side of my study table, hey who put that shirt there? Oh, I did

Thats the center of the study table

All photos are taken from a SE K800i camera
For this particular photo, I used
16x digital zoom
Distance 2m from camera
Actual size of paper 7cm x 6.5cm
Cool man! The words are still readable.

My timetable

Coffee anyone?

2007-11-21T02:01:00.000+08:00

Coffee, aromatic coffee, sweet coffee, bitter coffee, glorious coffee, strong coffee, etc
In mandarin coffee is written as　咖啡 (kafei)
In Malaysia we call it kopi. Coffee without cream is kopi-o, thick coffee (literally translated) is kopi gau, and if you want a cup of coffee you say 'kopi yau' thats how you pronounce my name