Holidays - Woohoo

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.

Gunung Jerai! - Part 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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