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  • Back To Chung Ling High School on 020710

    Back To Chung Ling High School on 020710

    I went back to my high school last Friday for lunch. Some people thought that it’s kinda weird going back to high school to have meal at there. Tell you what, I miss my high school’s canteen food a lot and ex-Chung Ling students often go back to the canteen for meal too. Same as my dad who have graduated for over 30 years and he still sometimes go back for lunch.

    One is because it’s cheap, two is parking and three is delicious. When I was in high school, the delicious feeling couldn’t be tasted because we were like eating the same thing every day but when we get out, it’s like we couldn’t eat the same thing everyday again and sometimes, crave for it.

    Went there with Chien Chern. After lunch, we walked around the school. This might not be my last time going back to school, but it might be my last time walking around the school. 2 weeks plus and I will be leaving Penang. I course will come back to look for my high school’s canteen food, but don’t know when will be the next time. I will be far away!

    Saw many friends but hard to join in because they are mixing with a new gang right now, new class and new year for them. I am still waiting for college.

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    Then I found my Leo Club’s notice board, it’s so much different from what I did for the board right now. I did contribute to the notice board when I was in the club last year. =D

    Looking at them working out in school, I kinda miss the days back, but I know nothing can turn the clock backwards. I have to move on already. If you are still in high school, do enjoy it to the max, it’s the best part of life. Always have no worries one. I regret why I only enjoyed the last two years and the other 3 years, maybe I was still too naive. Haha.

    Walking around the school was actually not because wanted to walk for fun, it’s too full after the lunch and was trying to digest the food, at the same time, checking out old stuff like classes I studied in.

    When I was in afternoon class that time, during form 1 and form 2, not many great memories though, was still like a kid. But one thing I know, I was a blogger since end of Form 1 and started experiment with photography in Form 2. =D

    Class changed a lot. It was a place I crazied, slept, shouted, screamed in and it’s now my place. If you ask me to be back student for a day, I can’t, because the feeling has gone and it’s a past. No more turning back. Everyone is gone! Look at the table arrangement, it’s all different already.


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    Form 4 and Form 5 were the best year in high school. I am not a bad kid but I have kena disciplined action before because of always bringing stuffs like camera and cellphone and going out of the class. Haha. Don’t think I am bad, I am just playful, I assumed. If I didn’t bring camera, you wouldn’t see so many school life post at here already.


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    Why the school here don’t allow cellphone and camera? I strongly disagree with these. I need to blog my life and share! It’s memories. Cellphone is for contacting and don’t talk about public pay phone, they sucks and it’s only usable after school. What if you want to contact your parents to fetch you when you found out the meeting has canceled or on the other way around? But nevermind, I brought it like almost every day last time, just I didn’t use in class, I am sure.

    High school rocks, especially Chung Ling High School.

  • Larger Photos and Videos, Changed 3 Columns to 2 Columns and Cleaner Sidebar

    Larger Photos and Videos, Changed 3 Columns to 2 Columns and Cleaner Sidebar

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    Hello reader, Nick Chan Dot Net has finally changed the alignment of the blog a bit. The significance change is the 3 columns blog template to 2 columns and another thing is you will notice larger photos and videos. The sidebar is more arranged right now. Hope you guys like it and this blog is only for high speed internet user, slow dial-up or 384k is definitely not good for reading.

  • 斗母宫 Raja Uda Tow Boo Kong / Nine Emperor Gods Temple

    斗母宫 Raja Uda Tow Boo Kong / Nine Emperor Gods Temple

    Last Tuesday was fun because I went to Butterworth for a little road trip and visits to holy places, the St. Anne’s Sanctuary and now the Raja Uda famous Tow Boo Kong or simply known as the Nine Emperor Gods Temple. If you are curious about my religion, I am not really sure what am I, I guess I am Taoist which believe in Buddhism too.


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    From Bukit Mertajam to Raja Uda in Butterworth is not near! I always thought they are close to each other but not already after this trip. Google Maps was our guide and it sucks because it brought us into Kampung and using those little road instead of the high way.


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    Which eventually made us a little bit scared because for 20-30 minutes along the road, we saw paddy field, old houses, Malay village and it’s very rural. Scared there we were lost and in the end decided to look for sign and turn into highway and forget about the maps. We agak-agak know it’s somewhere on Raja Uda Rd, so we didn’t bother the maps in the end and went there on our own.

    After driving for like 45 minutes, turning in and out from the rural and unfamiliar roads, forgetting about the GPS, we have reach the Tow Boo Kong safely. So happy to see the gate and the temple. I am not a very superstitious person but I know a little bit of Nine Emporor God. I know there’s Nine Emperor God Festival which happens during September of Chinese calendar every year and it’s very happenings in Penang or place with Nine Emperor Gods Temple. It’s also season when devotees become vegetarian during the festival.

    Penang is famous for this event at Carnavon Street and here at Raja Uda. It’s a little bit like Indian’s Thaipusam with poking on human flesh. Woo.

    The temple was long and has a super pretty gate on the outside. The whole compound is huge but the temple is not super huge as I thought. It’s not like the St Anne or Kek Lok Si in Penang so big. But the place is nice.

    They have good design, good engraving, modernish mixed with Chinese temple feel.

    Although I am not a superstitious person, but since visited to the temple, might as well do some prayers for myself and family. =)

    Guess what, it was late afternoon, sunset time and it was only us praying in the temple. =D It’s super quiet! One interesting about the temple is that when doing prayers, putting the joss stick, there’s actually numbering sequence for which pot and which god and goddess to pray first, so there’s like 1, 2, 3 so you wouldn’t be confuse which to start first and which to end. Damn cool for people like me who don’t really know the “protocol” of a temple. Hehe.

    Tow Boo Kong rocks.

  • Glee, My Latest Favourite Show

    I heard about Glee last time but I didn’t bother to check it out until my friend, Cheong Kin asked me to watch it. Since there’s not many TV series is on right now, I went to check out Glee on PPS.tv and guess what, it’s freaking awesome! Spent 3 days catching up all the episodes and I am now finished with season 1. Can’t wait for season 2, love the music a lot and makes me wanna sing more!

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    Who like Glee? =D

  • Hard Rock Hotel And Beach With NS Friends

    Hard Rock Hotel And Beach With NS Friends

    This is part of my Penang trip with Hornet (the squadron I was in during National Service) NS friends. Many of them were not from Penang island so I was so glad to bring them around and this Hard Rock Hotel visit was during the last day of our 3 days Penang trip.

    Very surprise that Chuan, Khang and Weng who was from the mainland Penang didn’t know about Hard Rock, the name. They were pretty excited of visiting the hotel for the first time. This was not my first time, 2nd or 3rd already, but this should be my first proper visit with friends of that many people, and during the day time.

    No idea what event or gathering was there. There were so many BMW cars with Singapore’s plate at the hotel.

    It’s just like a museum or galleria full or artwork, artist’s costume, guitars and many many more. I like going there although I have already been there before, inside is really pretty and cool.

    For the first time, I went to the swimming pool area because normally it’s close during night time and there’s a saying that this is the longest swimming pool in Penang. And swimming in the pool need to have a tag on the wrist just like going to a theme park.

    So nice seeing the kids playing water, there’s slide too, which reminds me back when I was small and I so wish I could get into the pool at there. Before getting into the pool, I need to get a room there! You see, there’s room right in front of the swimming pool, damn cool man. It’s like can get into the pool anytime you want.

    It was almost sunset, but it’s very hot and I was sweating like crazy.

    Out of the pool is the beach. The beach is for everyone and it’s so happenings and so many people playing by the beach. Water sports, sand castle, swimming, horse riding, para sailing and so much more to play!

    I wanna try para sailing so badly, it seems like so fun to be in the air!

    We thought, why not our Penang trip’s accommodation be at Hard Rock Hotel? The simple reason, $! It’s expensive, and hopefully someone would sponsor me to stay at there, for a night or two. One night should be cool already. Hehe.

    Took many photos and Hard Rock Hotel rocks. I am still looking for Hard Rock’s t-shirt with Batu Ferringhi or Penang printed on it. Have anyone seen it at the night market already? I am so not going into the Hard Rock gift shop. Hehe.

  • St Anne’s Church At Bukit Mertajam Is Cool

    St Anne’s Church At Bukit Mertajam Is Cool

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    It’s a 20 minutes drive from Penang Bridge to reach St Anne’s Sanctuary or simply known as the St Anne’s Church. I have been hearing from people saying that this church is nice, this church is cool, this church is huge, this church is old and I only saw it from photos and finally I got a chance to visit it.

    Actually I have nothing to do in Penang, no school, no work, and so went visiting church. Haha. But I have a thing for holy places one because they are beautiful!

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    The afternoon was quiet. Probably there’s no service on that day and church is always open for prayers. Apologize first if I write something wrong because I don’t really know about Christian and church. =)

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    At first glance, the place is huge! The little church standing above is not the main one, there’s even a bigger one at the other side and there’s like a place where we can up, like a little park on foot hill. I have no idea how to describe it. Haha.

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    When I saw the place, I was like “Wow, there’s actually something like this.” Pretty cool, I never see churches that big before, it’s not like those western one with very awesome design, it’s pretty but not very complicated, but the whole place is huge, with trees and super mini hiking trail which I called.

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    It gave me a feeling of peacefulness and nature. Rocks.

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    There’s the St. Anne’s Water. I want to ask what’s that? Is it holy water?

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    The church is huge! Next stop, we went to the Nine Emperor God Temple at Raja Uda, we almost lost while going there, so do come back and check it out soon. =) One more thing, they say it’s very happenings during St. Anne’s Annual Novena & Feast Day Celebration, from 23 July 2010 to 01 August 2010, it’s a day before I leave Penang, so maybe I could go check it out? =)

  • We Went to Bukit Mertajam

    We Went to Bukit Mertajam

    We went to Province Wellesley on Tuesday’s afternoon. Where’s Province Wellesley? It’s Seberang Perai, the mainland of Penang. =D It’s the English name, but to most Penang island people, I guess they would just call it Butterworth. My days in Penang still left not many days only and I am very free everyday, have nothing to do, it’s either spending time sleeping at home or going out to explore things that haven’t been explored.

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    Was on the phone with Sean last night and she talked about St. Anne’s Church which then gave me an idea where to go. =D I have wanted to go check it out a long time already as people told me it’s a very nice place and feel curious. I also have a thing for holy place, like temples, churches, they have nice architecture. =)

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    Tee Jin.

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    Yiphing. All  was like so busy.

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    It was on a road trip, there’s me, Chien Chern who was the driver, Yiphing and Tee Jin. Four of us only, many friends were in school or already leaved Penang. So sad.

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    We didn’t really know the place and how to go. I only checked it and mark it on Google Maps and the Google Maps brought us there. Sometimes must say hate Google Maps a bit because it will bring us to a rural place just to get away from toll and shortcut. But this trip to St Anne’s Church was safe. I’ll talk about it in another post as we eventually went into same kampung and paddy field while going to Nine Emperor God temple.

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    Alright, Bukit Mertajam is where St Anne’s Church is and I always thought BM is near to Butterworth or Seberang Jaya or anywhere in Province Wellesley but actually they are not, they are far!

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    This building is like so creepy and fugly!

    First time coming here, there’s no high rise building, it’s all shop houses, bungalows, or the highest is like 3-4 floors. It’s a suburb and not a big town like us in Penang, and the road are small too.

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    Reached St Anne’s Church safely. Stay tune for next post! =)

  • Back To Chung Ling For A Short While and Breakfast

    Back To Chung Ling For A Short While and Breakfast

    Oh my god people, I just so miss my high school, Chung Ling High School, so so so much! 4 more week of me being in Penang, I must go back to my school I used to go always more! I miss the food, the friends, the classroom and the teachers! Undeniable that my school rocks.

    I was worrying that I couldn’t get into school because they made an electronic barrel at the front gate, but luckily the barrel was open and my car can pass through without any hesitation.

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    First thing first was go to the canteen to meet up with my friends who are in Form 6 and eat my breakfast at there. Really miss the food a lot. But the feeling is different now when they are still wearing uniform and we were so casual. It’s like people of the different world. OMG.

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    I was early, friend that I called, Arron, Tee Jin and Chien Chern came late.

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    Then they missed the first session of recess, and next recess session came in. Our school have two sessions of recess, the first one is for Form 6 and Form 4, another one is for Form 3 and Form 5. It’s because there’s too many people and the canteen is not big enough, but bigger than average canteen of other school. =D

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    After food, everyone went back to classes also and we went to walkaround. It’s hot! I was sweating a lot at there.

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    Then…

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    We found a place to hang out in school and that’s the Counselling Room with air conditioned! We spent our time chit chat with the teacher there. A lot of graduated students go there because they want to know more about their future studies and pathway, this place will give a little guide to them.

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  • Crazy In The Lift 2

    Crazy In The Lift 2

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    Last year.

    Last year, December, there’s Crazy In The Lift. We were just making fun and a fool around, kidding kidding and yesterday, it’s Crazy In The Lift, Part 2. The same person, same place.

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    This year, yesterday.

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    Just playing people. Chien Chern is my good friend and he is a good person. ^.^

  • My Aunty’s Gallstone Specimen

    My Aunty’s Gallstone Specimen

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    My aunty were admitted into the hospital lately and hope that she’s doing well right now. She thought of having stomach problem but actually it’s the gallstone that’s troubling her and bringing her pain. Now she has no gall bladder, which is no good for the body. Anyway, get well soon and stay healthy, Aunt Patsy!

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    Imagine something really hard grow inside your body. It’s so OMG. Size of almost a golf ball and hard like a rock. WTF? How can something so hard grow in the body. It’s scary a big.

    Eat more fruits and exercise more to be healthy. Closer look after the break.

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