LEGOLAND Malaysia & Kukup The Fishing Village

The enjoyment and excitement that took place on last three weeks ago still very fresh in my memory and it seems like just happened yesterday! I can still feel the enjoyment and excitement; WOW, I think that the enjoyment and the excitement really created a big impact on me! What is this enjoyment and excitement that I am mentioning about? The answer, I guess you might know it because it is already stated on the title of this post. Yeah, I went to LEGOLAND Malaysia and I also visited Kukup, the fishing village in Johore.

Actually, the main factor that created the enjoyment and excitement in me was not entirely about the places that I went but it was about the people who I went with... Who are these people that created such a great enjoyment and excitement in me? They are my AWESOME and FANTABULOUS friends from my secondary school!

Introduction; from the left: Danny, Jonathan, Kevin, Me, Jaysec, Jeffrey, Kyle & Derrick

LEGOLAND Malaysia

This Malaysia's 1st international theme park is situated in Johore. Not a very big theme park but yet we spent a whole day here and the rain was the interruption of the day. Well, the rain didn't stopped us from having fun! :) The roller-coasters in LEGOLAND, not so thrilling but it can still get your nerve-wracking and your heart beating fast! Then, the LEGO Studio; showing a 4D movie adventure and it was really an awesome one. It was beyond what I expected; from the wind blowing to snowing, really cool! Last but not least, the Miniland; with all the famous landmarks in ASEAN countries that built by LEGO blocks, really fascinating!

Kukup, The Fishing Village

Kukup, what an awesome place for relaxing! I really had a great time of relaxing and fellowshipping with my friends here; we really had so much fun, laughter and enjoyment! The accommodation and the foods were really good. If you ask me to rate, I will give 101%. A BIG thank you to Jaysec for organizing and bringing us to such an awesome place! We managed to catch the beautiful sunset too and guess what, our dinner was accompany by fireworks, that was so awesome!

Thank you Jaysec for the entire trip; for organizing and all the arranging :) and to the rest, Jonathan, Kevin, Kyle, Danny, Jeffrey and Derrick, thank you for making the trip happened!

Thank you again everyone for making the trip so much fun, laughter, enjoyment and excitement; indeed it was a memorable and remarkable trip! God bless :)

My Favorite Cake Shop

Just now, I was having dinner and suddenly I thought of this cake shop that situated in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia. When I was a child, I used to drop by there and eat whatever cakes or pastries that I like, for free. *smiling* Actually, this cake shop owned by aunt, my mum's sister.

Well, it is not any ordinary cake shop that you see today. I don't know when was this cake shop opened but back in early to mid 90's, the setting of this cake shop was really different than today's cake shop. I was really young, all I could remember only two things about this cake shop:-
1. The pastry cabinet; which was very, very different! It made of wood -if I remember correctly- I went the back of the cabinet, slid the glass panel and then I just grabbed the cake or pastry that I want! *smiling*
2.  My aunt's chocolate tart! It was my favorite thing in the cake shop. In addition, I can ate it for free, aren't that awesome?

Now the cake shop is not there anymore; so sad but no matter what, it will always be the favorite cake shop of mine!

How I Wish I Can Do What Taylor Swift Is Doing!

Today, having lunch alone and browsing through the news feed on my Facebook. Suddenly, I saw this music video, 'Begin Again' by Taylor Swift, posted by my cousin sister. Immediately I felt 'in love' with the music video as I already 'in love' with the song so much since it was released. Taylor Swift wrote such a beautiful love song.

I am not obsess about Taylor Swift, I am just admiring her talents where every songs that she wrote is based on her life experiences. How nice if I can write songs about my life experience; something like:- in love, missing someone, hurts, disappointed, angry about something, grateful and thankful about something, my loved ones, my friends, etc. I believe that this can be one of the ways to share my feelings and emotions.

If I can write these songs like Teardrops On My Guitar, when I am sad and down; Back To December, about my regrets in life and how I wish I can turn back the time to fix it; Ours, when I am in love; You Belong With Me, when I am secretly admiring someone; White Horse, when I am angry; or something like this song, Ronan, when I was heartbroken seeing my patients suffering from cancer.

One of the reasons why I like Country music because these Country artists, they don't just sing or just to sell a record, they write and they sing about life testimonies or stories that is very encouraging and inspiring to their listener! And these Country songs are my favorite and always inspire me like Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) by Alan Jackson, Anyway by Martina McBride and Temporary Home by Carrie Underwood.

"Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here...

You were my best four years...

I remember your bare feet down the hallway,

I love you to the moon and back..."

- Ronan by Taylor Swift

A Moment Like This

"A moment like this...

Some people wait for a lifetime for a moment like this,

Some people search forever...

...Oh I can't believe it's happening to me,

Some people wait for a lifetime for a moment like this.

-A Moment Like This by Kelly Clarkson"

Every time when I am listening to this song, A Moment Like This by Kelly Clarkson, it will brings me back to some of my life greatest moments that I experienced before. And all these MOMENTS are very special to me which is also very precious to me. Sometimes, I wish that particular moment will last forever. Well, usually on that moment, it will just lasted for a while and then it will become a memory that you will cherish for life.

Sometimes, we just can't wait for the moment to take place, we have do something, maybe we have to work hard to earn or to achieve that moment; the special, memorable and precious moment. But also, sometimes, the moment that we wanted so much to take place might not turn out to be the moment that we really want.

I like to capture down special and precious moments and this is the reason why I bought a DSLR camera. Some people like compose a song that describe about their special moment. Also, some moments are recorded down in a book or in a video. And most of us will keep any special moment in our life and bury it deep down inside our heart!

No matter what it is, please do not miss out some precious moments in your life!

The Beginning of Something New

Day 5, having lunch alone; again, already 3 times in this week. Well, I am still very much a stranger to this new environment where it will be my second home because I will be spending 9.5 hours out of my precious 24 hours in this place from Monday to Friday.

There is always a price to pay every time when you make a decision to move on from one season to another season or from one chapter to another chapter. Everyone wondered why I left my previous working place; the famous and glamorous to this small and not so famous place. Well, the reason of my leaving is not important anymore as I already left but at least I am really happy now with this current place where I am working. It is completely a new experience and excitement for me!

'PET CT Scan' is one of the new things that I learn here. I am so blessed to have the opportunity to gain this new experience although it is quite a dangerous thing to do especially handling with radioactive source. However, handling and encountering with cancer patients here in this place can be quite demotivating to me because it really break my heart seeing my patients going through the tough battle and their darkest times of their life. This kind of heartache is painful and it can even make me cry!

I am grateful and thankful, and also really blessed that God use all these cancer patients to touch and soften my heart especially at times when my heart is so harden! God also use them to encourage and to inspire me to live my life to the fullest and also to live it purposefully! All these cancer patients; they are fighting really hard to live another day and they didn't give up on hope! How about me, or us, who are healthy and strong, shall we just give up easily just because of a little or a simple thing happen while these people didn't give up and keep fighting. To those who ever have the thought of suicide, please think again! Look at these people, who are dying to live another day while you can have today and yet, you just want to end it because of a failure? Aren't that silly to have such a thought or decision to commit suicide?

Just only 5 days here but what I gained and learned is far more than I can imagine. The experience that I gained and the lesson that I learned is so priceless and precious! It really can help to shape my character especially to be more humble, to treasure whatever I have and not to take things for granted like my loved ones.

Life is a GIFT; it is not about how long it lasted but how we live it!

God bless! :)

The Blank Music Notebook

"All stories, even the ones we love, must eventually come to an end and when they do, it's only an opportunity for another story to begin.

-Eric Applebaum, the Hat collector in Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium"

Before this story begin, I brought along with me a blank music notebook. I planned not to write anything in it, just leave it blank, as long as I could!

I started the story one year and six months ago, not much a hero and all I knew that I was needed to start from zero again! I came into this place, huge place with many uncertainty and also fears! Well, things were started not as smooth as I expected, obviously, not as Sunny as I thought. I broke down few times in the toilet, cried and blaming myself for making such a decision where I had to face so many giants in life! Thank God for my family and also my friends whom never fail to be my encouragement to continue to run the race that I started, to continue the story that I had begun! BUT the blank music notebook was still very much empty...

So the story continued, I started to adapt to the new environment! Meeting and getting to know all the heroes and angels in this new place. Who are these heroes and angels? Suku, who brought so much laughter in my life and he taught me so much lessons that is not written in a book. Arif, who brought so much encouragement and hope in my life; one day when the whole world ignored me, he was there for me and he gave me a tap on my shoulder and I was so encouraged and blessed by his little act that meant so much to me! And he was also a great companion to me; I enjoyed having meals and spending quality times with him. Syifa, she was the first person who knew about the stress that I was going through and she was there to help me to walk through all the stress. Zirah, rain or shine, she never failed to be there for me; together, we laughed, we cried and we shared so many things in common. Shuddy, guided me and helped me in many ways and always be there to listened to my problems. Junne, my laughing partner; enjoyed laughing together with her. Hashalini, went to this place that known as London, a place where we poured out everything together and nice to have her around. ZZ and Kin, always be there to helped me especially when I was lost. Bib, Tan, Nazari and Liew, wonderful seniors who taught me so much precious lessons. Nurses, nice working together with them. Last but not least, my most respected ones, Yong, my great Sifu, who always inspired me, encouraged me, taught me, helped me and be there for me every time when I needed him. Not to forget these great heroes and angels too like Tina, Ching Hui, Aileen and Anna who also played a big part in my life.

Day by day and month after month, these heroes and angels; one by one, they wrote some music notes into my blank music notebook without me knowing it. And when the story about to end, I took out the music notebook, I realized that they had composed a beautiful music.

And now, my music notebook is no longer blank. This beautiful music will always accompany me and will be my inspiration and encouragement for the new story that about to begin. Thank you to all of you, my unsung heroes and guardian angels for making this chapter of my life so beautiful and wonderful.

- The End -