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Slippers at KOMTAR Bus Interchange Station

Today, I was at bus station waiting for bus to Dato Kramat. U206 does not goes to Padang or Convent Dato Kramat by the way. I took U203 and stopped by at Padang and walked to Seang Teik Rd. I shouldn’t be stop there because I should have actually stopped at Penang Times Square and walked across the road straight to Seang Teik Rd where my tuition is.

At the bus interchange station, I saw a man running and he got his slippers drop on the ground but didn’t stop for it. I thought he was insane at first, but people seems to looking towards that running person. Then I think it shouldn’t be that simple, it must be a snatch theft have happened. Waited for so long, that person didn’t even come back for his slippers, woah! Damn, snatch theft always happens at this area, the government should do something about it.

See this, the first lane is dedicated to Rapid Penang bus that goes to Batu Feringghi and Queensbay Mall, but then I saw the stupid Hin Bus driver happily drove into this lane. Stealing customer, but people were clever, they didn’t bother about it and wait for Rapid Penang.

It was not fast today, I and my friend waited like for 20 minutes until a bus arrive. Should it be I was unlucky or the bus was slow?

Red Box Karaoke Friday

Last Friday was the last day of school for first term and it’s time to take a 2 week break of from school. I don’t really have much plan for the holiday but I’ll be just going out for movies, karaoke and I’ll be going to Ipoh this weekend for my Leo Club activity for 3 days.

I think you guys have been seeing a lot of photos of me being in Red Box karaoke and seriously, I am now like goes there once a month. I love to sing a lot, but I can’t really sing well, though I enjoy the process and funness of singing which can really express myself.

It’s nice being a student right now as I get cheaper price when going into Karaoke. We payed like a person for just RM10 and we got 2 glass of drinks. During weekdays, I think it’s cheaper at only RM7 per student. Real cheap leh.

You might think why not sing at home but the music database at Red Box is huge. By the way, I don’t know what they are doing. Doesn’t look like posing.

I’ve so become a Red Box-kaki lately. It’s always the same gang though it’s fun.

For the first time, my personal in-class tutor, Mr tall 195cm guy Fangs came along with us. I always thought that what he does is only study and read, but the the presense of him makes me change my mind. He rocks.

It’s always the girl not the boy that take the stage. She’s Amanda, girl of Wei Chung. Best thing is I knew about her because she is so popular that she was the champion for Leo Idol (a singing competition among Leo members). Woah!

It’s me, Tee Jin and Zez Chien the emo one. Now I know why Tee Jin’s email address was registered as somethingsomething_thedog@somethingsomething.com. Hahaha.

Yes, we enjoyed ourself a lot. Maybe next time I’ll have a Blogger gathering at Red Box. What do you think?

Ken Lee, Without You

Do you know how it sounds like when a Bulgarian sings a English song? A Music Idol contestant, Valentina Hassan with broken English plus Bulgarian slang sings the song Ken Lee (Without You - Mariah Carey) has became famous because it. Check the video out and let’s a long.

She’s actually singing in English but totally doesn’t sounds like English.

Ken leeeee, tulibu dibu douchoooo (Can’t Leave, Without You).

D’ Tuesday

Ha! Holiday is quite free for me. Staying up late and waking up late is my everyday routine.

Woke up by the door bell today and a postman turn up with parcel. It’s my game that I bought online a week ago which I’ve almost forgotten. Got myself clean up, had a glass of milk then I went off to the McDonald’s at Gurney Plaza to get my free Big Mac for lunch.

Didn’t what to do later and so I went for a movie with some friends there at Gurney. Since I got a buy one free one coupon, I get to watch My Wife Is A Gambling Maestro for free. If you want a good laugh, go for it, a nice movie as the miss-in-action comedian actor Nick Cheung Ka-Fei is back.

Went home right after the movie and have been Guitar Hero-ing for an hour then later I fell asleep until dinner.

Now I am wondering what’s my plan for tomorrow? Iron Man?

Hummer H3 spotted in Penang, Malaysia

I have heard about Hummer car selling in Malaysia but I haven’t seen it before. Last Friday, I finally spotted a Hummer H3 in front of my school. I admire this car a lot because it’s very popular in the America when you watch the movie, a lot of superstar own this car. The rim, the handle, looks so shiny and metallic feeling and it’s very classy.

I wish to own one in the future because there’s not much of this appear on the road in Malaysia and I want to be uncommon to all. Hahahaha. Nice car right?

For charity, for victims, for community

It has already been 2 weeks after the Si Chuan earthquake disaster in China. However, there are still a lot or miracles yet to be come. People still bring hope there’s survivors under the rubber and debris. Everyday, every hour, every minute, rescuers at Si Chuan non-stop doing their rescue work, digging out survivors who struggle to live.

While they are not struggling to live, stay awake not to fall asleep, drink their own blood and just bite anything just for staying alive waiting for rescuer to rescue them, what are we doing? It’s impossible for you to say that go help out at Si Chuan because the place is inaccessible right now.

I wish to help too, but when once is short of money, how can one donate money? Seriously, if I had extra cash, I would have donated too. Now I’m wondering what my classmate think about these disaster that happens lately, I went through the list of donation amount class, not much people has donated but that was my mom’s intention to do the donation, I believe they didn’t even tell the parents about this donation collection in school.

Forget about it, do whatever you can, if you can’t folk out money, then Igive some prayers, raise awareness about this among friends and spread it around. Encourage people to help too.

As the chinese proverb goes, 祸不单行, meaning ‘Bad Stuffs Don’t Happen Once, But in a Series, One After Another’ (sorry for the lousy translation) Meanwhile, the promotion of the use of biofuel as the alternative source to petroleum has sparked what the economists called the speculative investment on our basic commodity - food! The demand supply theory is messing up our daily lives, causing inflation in almost everywhere of the world. We may not feel the pinch yet, but the poor people from the Africa Region are feeling the pain. They can hardly afford to feed their people, yet the prices of staple food like rich and flour have been spiking. Even the UN’s world food programme is now fighting a losing battle as it is short of millions of dollars to feed the hungry ones. [my brother yikhung.com wrote a great post about charity]

It’s never too late for charity!

The music video above is a song sang by a group of Hong Kong artist for the victims of Sichuan earthquake. It’s entitled promise and it’s made by Crystal Liu Yi Fei.

Original Title: Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies
Music composed by Wong Ka Kui (1961-1993)
New Lyrics by Andy Lau Tak-Wah

Translation:
How many…How many joy taken away?
How many lives buried in a wink… [Jackie Chan]
Transformed into silence
Tears twinkle on the eyes
Dust and dirt on desolate faces (I rather it’s me)

Needless say… Behind you there is me…
Through rugged future I’ll stay with you [LYF and FBB]
There’s One of you…There’s One of me
Burden’s not a sign of weakness
Walk forward, for surely lies ahead - broaden is the path [Li Bingbing]
(You’ve still got me) [Quartet]

Good luck! Donation option for Malaysians after the break.

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Fa Yuen St, Ladies St, Tung Choi St

Fa Yuen St is next to Tung Choi St which is also known as Ladies St. It’s a place where you find all those imitation goods. Though, they don’t place it out, they catalogue for you choose from and then they’ll take the goods to you. Didn’t really buy anything there last time, there’s some nice jacket I saw but it was a little bit too thick to wear in Malaysia. You know lah, it wil never be cold here, even in the mall, the AC is not cold enough.

During the last visit to Hong Kong, I’ve plenty of times and so I’ve been to these streets for a few times but not once. It could be said that they are near to my hotel but still require a long walk. We did try to walk back, but it’s better to take the MTR from Yau Ma Tei to Mong Kok.

If you plan to buy something there, the one thing you must do is bargain and cut price! Give a low price, if he/she refuses, just walkaway. He/she will chase after you. Haha.

Travel tips: Sai Yeung Choi St, Tung Choi St (Ladies St) and Fa Yuen St are must visit places in Hong Kong.

Lan Kwai Fong

How can one not to go to Lan Kwai Fong if visiting to Hong Kong? Although I don’t drink, taking walk there was nice as you can see a lot of nicely decorated pub and open bar. We were there at around 6pm so people just started coming in. I believe it’s more crowded at night like what you see in the TV. Damn cool place, we have it too in Malaysia like Bangsar and Upper Penang Road.