In Memory of My Auntie

Yesterday 25th December 2008, one of my auntie (I always called her as Mak De) has passed away at around 11pm in my mum's kampung at Tangkak, Johor. She had been suffered of...i believed is Alzheimer for pass few years back. She is around 72 years old.

1st thing I remember which related to her, when I still a small kid, she came to the kampung house , and I was at there. That time if I not mistaken I was chewing a chewing- gum, and she took the chewed gum and turns it into a locket shape..haha. I also still remember I was asking her how does she tied her hair into a bun without using any hairban or anything..and I love how she doing it.

I still remember my 1st visit to her house (maybe not my 1st visit, as I was very small at that time so i dun really remember if I got visited her before). She lived with her husband and they had no children. The house was quite old and obsolete. She was happy with my family visits and treat us good even she was actually dont have anything much in her kitchen. I remember she served us with alphabetical shape of biscuits, and being a small kid at that time, I was actually love it.

Few years after that, her husband passed away. She left her old house (due to some reason which I dunno) stayed at rent house owned by my her young sis. I've been told that she selling kuih during her stay at the house. I think she only stayed there for few months before she moved in to my mum family house (or kampung), living together with her other siblings. That was actually her last house during her lifetime.. Although there are many people living in the house..but I doubt if she lived happily there.

Everytime if my family back to the house during raya or holidays, I never missed to chat with her as well as my other aunties. I got remember she told me to study well and never forget her when I grown up. Few years after that when I was in form 2, somthing personal happened which make my family hardly to go back to the house as we are "prohibited".

One of my auntie (who used to stay with my family before the incident) always call me occasionally, and from her, I noe wads happening in the house during our absence. Few years later, she told me that Mak De behaviour has slowly changed and she always keep forgetting things and it keep worsen time by time to time. Sometimes get scolded by other people because of her symptoms of Alzheimer.

Last year, my family decided to visit the home during raya.. and I got chance to meet my aunties there, including Mak De. I asked her if she got remember me, and she said yes. She looks fine imo at that time. However not long after that, I've been told by my auntie that Mak De started to forget peoples around her and she even lost her way while trying to go back home at one day..

Again this year raya which is last October my family visit the house and this time, she no longer remember all of us. During that day, before we left the house, she said please pray for her and may it (things happened to her) not happened to us. She was like knowing what was happening to her.. That was the last time I met her.

Few days ago, my auntie called me and said that Mak De started to become weak and she even said that it looks like Mak De will "go" soon. And finally yesterday 25/12/08 my mum's uncle called my dad and told about her death. It is a sad news for us my family.

May Allah placed her among the pious. And to Mak De I will never forget you, just like what you told me..

Al-Fatihah.

Comic Fiesta 2008 @ Sunway Pyramid (20&21/12/08)

Yesterday, I went to Comic Fiesta 2008 at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre. It was my 1st time went to the fiesta. All people will be charged RM15 for 1 day ticket. Visitors can choose 2 days ticket..well, worth if u wanna came again on the 2nd day. Most booths here are about japanese anime, I guess its a good place for anime lovers to find their goodies of their favourite anime here.
Im not a big fan of anime actually as I seldom watch them, but since my bro and sis very eager to go, so i just followed them..haha. They did spent quite some of money for those goodies.. and I did spent a bit for some items there. Here's the pic of wad I bought on the event; a pair of cake keychain, a nekomimi (cat's ear) and a bear keychain of Kuma-chan, from Ouran High School Host Club anime.


Although there is many booths there but I think thats not the main attraction of this fiesta. The main attraction which might pop up all visitors eyes over there are...COSPLAY!! The cosplayers are actually done by some visitors. Other visitors can see most of their favourite anime character "lively" because of the cosplayers. I've caught some picture of them and some of the cosplay are extremely unique and interesting.

Final Fantasy X-2

Swordman! I dunno wad anime is this.

S.A. anime. They cute, arent they?

Chobits!

Resident evil Nemesis

This big thing make most people screaming of excitement as he/she walked into the exhibition centre

*more picture of cosplay coming soon*

More pictures on the event.

Nice manga drawing in display

Hundreds of figurines

Might be longest comic drawing in the country.

This figurine kinda pretty.

Visistors watching anime from the wide screen

This Doraemon music box is damn cute!

*more picture will be uploaded soon*

Sorry for the bad quality picture, Im using hp camera. (My poor camera still not yet to be fixed)

All pictures are by me. Pls credit me and this blog incase anyone wan to use those picture in this blog.

Short Trip: Fraser's Hill

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"Fraser's Hill takes its name after a legendary trader adventurer, Louis James Fraser who operates a "tin-ore in the forested Titiwangsa Range between the Selangor-Pahang borders
during the end of the 19th century. In the late 1880s, Fraser was last seen trudging along a beaten jungle path which connects Tras and Kuala Kubu, hauling a tem of mules laden with crude thin ore. After that day, no one seems to know when, how and why he left. In 1917, Bishop C.J Ferguson-Davie and Rev. A. B Champion went to the Gap rest house for a short holiday, as well as to search for possible new holiday bungalow sites due to the increasing number of European in South East Asia. The Clergymen returned to Singapore and submit a report of their visit, starting "within the five miles of the Gap, on the main trunk road between Selangor and Pahang (Kuala Kubu-Tras), there was an area which seemed to be eminently Suitable for a hill station. and which could be rapidly, easily and cheaply developed."
Thus the potential of Fraser's Hill as a cool highland gateaway was uncovered. Soon after Submission of the preliminary topographical survey report in 1910, works to develop the hill resort began. In 1925, Sir George Maxwell, the British High Commisioner in Malaya wrote "Fraser's Hill will always be the most exquisite and the most dainty hill station in Malaya, and I have no doubt that in few years will see great developement of enterprise in building bungalows there". "
Copied from "Fraser's Hill at a Glance

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Last Friday, my family and I went to Fraser's Hill for a short trip since the school holiday just started. This is the second time in this year we went to Fraser's Hill which last time was a few months ago. We out from home quite late in the evening with a heavy rain and we stucked in traffic jam for I dunno how long. The ride was a bit uncomfortable for me because I was having a car sick lols due to frequent breaks at the traffic jam, and the route to Fraser's Hill of course. We finally reached at the rest house at 10pm something. Lucky we already booked the room earlier so the room is alreasy ready for us ~.~. Just like our previous visit, we stayed in Sri Berkat Rest House since the rent is kinda cheap (around RM120 per night) with a spacious room, however they provided no tv in each room =x. But since we were not to watch tv, somemore there is 1 televisyen at the house hall..so its not a problem to us. Anyway, as all of us kinda exhausted after the taugh ride, we straight went to sleep after a light dinner..haha.

The next day, hmmm.. I can say there is nothing much that we done. We have a breakfast at around 10am, after that suddenly got a heavy rain =.=. So we decided to stay at room till the rain slow down..and eventually all of us just stay sleeping in the room till pass afternoon..lols.. maybe I should call this a sleeping trip. While waiting in the room, I played with my camera, snapping pictures from windows or whatever things inside the house. Then after not long after that, something is wrong with the cam lense. My camera is spoiled!! T.T.. Haizz..now I need to depends on my hp camera or the video cam -.-. Then after the rain's gone, we went out and head to the town centre. Unfortunately, like our previous trip, the town is still under construction and there is no much progression since the last time which is already few months. In my opinion the Majlis Daerah who incharge on this should put more initiative to make the work done before the school holiday started because it the only period when Fraser's Hill can get more profits from the visitors. Without these visitors I can say it will looks like a dead town, with no proper care.
Since the town is "dead", we decided to go sightseing by the car. Fraser'sHill is beautiful actually with its cold whether but it is lack of maintenance and care by the Majlis Daerah which make it looks pretty shabby and messy at certain part.

After finished sightseing, we stop at a food stall called "Laman Jalan Lurah" for lunch or should I call tea breaks since it was already pass afternoon long long already. Well..talking about food there..there is nothing special. Just usual stall food like nasi lemak, fried banana, laksa etc etc.. +_+ But nvm, since all hungry already, we just bought some fired banana and nasi lemak to filled our empty stomach. Since it was so cold, the hot fried bananas tasted extra delicious than usual..haha. After that we stop awhile at a grocery shop to buy some snack before we head back to the rest house. I went to watched some tv shows at halls with my parents after that. Shows over, we went back to the room and rest/slack/sleep again..Haha, i guess a cold whether really nice for us to "hibernate". Somemore what else can we do? The town is dead, not much place for sightseing, wan do outside activity also cannot because it was raining, camera spoil, tv at hall=lazy -.-'' So realxing inside room is among the best thing we can do..lol. When it was already night, my dad and brothers went out to bought us dinner, while me, my sis and mum ought to just stay in room. My dad bought us satay~yummy. Not as nice as "satay Kajang" but still not bad. Few hours then, we went to bed. That was the end of our day 2 in Fraser's Hill.

The next day, my dad got a phone call from his business friend for a meeting. So my we need to leave the place early to catch the meeting. We out from Fraser's Hill gate at around 10am after breakfast..Haiz, what a rush trip T.T. Before we head back to KL, my dad stop awhile at Kuala Kubu Bharu (town after Fraser's Hill) to buy something. As some of my friend knows, I used to stay at this town for quite a long time before i shifted to Seri Kembangan. I've grown up in this small town so it holds a lot of memories >.< We continue our ride back to KL after that..and thats the end of my short trip.

Well..even I can say it wasnt a really nice trip for vacation, but I guess its better than no go anywhere, am I right? Anyway, here is some pictures from the visit:''

Welcome to Fraser's Hill

Seri Berkat Rest House

Our room from outside

This is how the typical room inside the rest house looks like. Not bad for RM100 huh?

Stall we stop for tea break
Nothing special here..
Waiting for orders to be done

Raining..

Kuala Kubu Bharu

Wanted to buy "kuih" but since it was already afternoon, all are finished already

Since my camera spoli half way, I didnt took much photo using the noob hp camera. So here I included some of photos from my previous visit.

Green

Love this small flowers

Flowers~

Pink and red

Is this Daisy?

How is this picture? Nice?=p

Trying to take photo from different angle. See my dad and bros there?

My dad having a breeze from window

I wonder if still got people using this school

This butterfly have been stay still for hours!!-.-

Another butterfly. I felt the head looks like an owl O.o

Today is someone's Birthday

It is someone's birthday today~ but looks like the person is "celebrating" the day at other place..
But never mind, even you not here or u might not reading this, my wish is still on.

To the person who turned 1 year old older today, Happy Birthday to you~ I wish you all the best in life and it whatever you do. I know you will having a tough years ahead but I wish you happy always throught the year.

Happy Birthday..

Finally, a new RAM T.T

After suffering a few years of working with a non-popular-branded laptop with poor Intel Celeron M processor plus a pathetic 256mb RAM with a partly of it is shared as graphic card which make me left only 192mb RAM, finally I can feel the suffer finally came to an end when I finally bought a new extension 1g RAM! Maybe people will say, "what so big deal about RAM? RAM cheap only wad..wan buy 2 gig also no problem la". Oh well..that only applies if u using a DDR2 RAM. My freaking laptop use DDR1 RAM, which really can cost me a big bomb. This precious chip of 1g RAM already cost me RM170 -.- which create a big hole in my pocket now. What more heart pain is the price is almost equivalent to 3 gig DDR2 laptop RAM, or maybe 4? -.-

But never mind.. I feel it worth my money because now I no longer suffer from the bad damn lag of my small RAM before and no more blue screen after few tabs of internet explorer together with wmp (which I used to had before).

Finally, I can enjoy my smooth working with my laptop. ^.^

MUET

Last Saturday, I sat for my MUET exam (reading, writing & listening). It was my 1st time sit for MUET as I need it for my degree. I also felt that I a bit unlucky, because starting from my batch, new format or test spesification had been introduced..and for my opinion it is harder then old format, especially for listening part. If the old format for listening only consist of multiple choice question, the new format is a combination of multiple choice questions, information transfer, and short answer, I tell you..it's not as easy as the old format. And for writing, the old format: summary not more than 100 words, and extended writing not fewer than 250 words. For new format ah.. Interpretation of information based on specific stimuli provided (no less than 150 words) and Extended writing based on a given topic (no less than 350 words). You can see how differ it is, but the timimg is still 90 minutes!!! New format apply to reading as well, but its not that hard compare to other. For those who want to know more detail about the new format u can check this website : http://www.malaysia-students.com/2007/07/malaysian-university-english-test-muet.html

Well..I was actually target for at least band 5..(band 6 seems imposible..><)..but I think I've screwed up my MUET especially with those new format...Ahh.. I guess I will resit for next session..

The speaking test was held 2 weeks before the other component.. I was a candidate C, and the task which was given to me is actually not that hard. I was required to explain about Malaysian made product as one of Malaysian greatest achievement since independent.. Many ideas flew from my brain but because I was too nervous..I end up with many "ermm..ummm..emm.. " =.=.. It was okay but it isnt my best..T.T

For Reading and Comprehension, I think I do quite well..(hopefully). And for writing..hmm.The 1st question I need to write a short paragraph based on the bar chart given, and for 2nd task, I need to write an essay of opinion on a topic "Materialistic"(350 words and above). I got no problem in writing actually but the big problem is my time management. I spent too much time on task A, compare to task B which need more time for elaboration. Even I managed to finished it but I think i screwed up my Task B, because no enough time to give long explaination and elaboration...sad =(

And lastly for listening.. Listening is actually my favourite component for my BEL subject (aka MUET subject) in UiTM. But after I sat for the MUET, I now think it is among the taughest part in MUET, thanks to the new format. The information transfer and fill in the blanks part is kinda tricky for me. Even I think I managed to answer most of it, but..I dunno... hope still can get high marks there.

In conclusion, I think it is hard for me to get band 5 and no hope for band 6, and I wont satisfy with only band 4 (if I managed to get la).. So..I guess, see you again for MUET 2009 -.-.

The Coffin

Recently, I went to Mid Valley with my bro. Since we had so much of free time, we decided to catch a movie. There were quite a number of movies on screen that day such as High School Musical 3, The Vampire Who Admires Me, The Coffin, My Best Friend's Girl, Bangkok Dangerous, The House Bunny, Tropic Thunder, Disaster Movie and many more. Even among all the movies, High School Musical is the one with most promotion event, but we kinda not interested to watch it. Haha.. Then I actually was attracted to watch My Best Friend's Girl since it looks like romantic movie >.<. But, my bro dun like that type of lurvie gilrie romantico movies =/ . So after we looked again to the movies on showing, we finally choosed The Coffin. Why I choose The Coffin? First, I attracted to its title and poster. haha. Second is because Karen Mok is one of the cast =x. So..here we go..The Coffin!!


(I wont add any spoiler, most of the synopsis is based on the official website of this movie)


The movie which is 80% english spoken with some Thailand diaologue, cast by Karen Mok (Sue), Ananda Everingham (Chris), Andrew Lin (Jack), Aki Shibuya (Mariko), and Napakpapha Nakprasitte (May). This movie is based on a true ritual practic in Thailand, where a person need to lie inside a coffin in order to get rid of their bad karma and to prolong life.
So, a young man, Chris and a young woman, Sue (who both of them dont have any relation in this story aka 2 story lines) decided to join the ritual in order to save them from their bad karma. Chris girlfriend, Mariko is coma in hospital, while Sue is diagnosed with tumor before her wedding. After the ritual, good events started to appear for both of them, but however followed by a series of pharanormal event which are believed to be the result from disturbing a wheel of karma (by join the ritual in the 1st place). Thus both of them tried warious ways in order to escape from being haunted by the pharanormality.

Overall, I can say its not a bad movie..Nice cast, beautiful cinematographic, and..yeah..it gives me a chill at times but however some plot of the movie are not so clear, especially the storyline of Chris, with the mysterious May. At the end I still not sure who is May actually..haha. But nvm, the movie is allright..I give 3 stars out of 5 :D


So, for those who interested to watch The Coffin, here is some pictures for u to see. All pictures credits to http://www.thecoffin-movie.com/en/ .

Hundreds of coffins surround the Budha for the ritual.

Sue and Chris

Bride and groom to be

Sweet couple

May looks pretty, isnt she?

Okay, enaugh with the pictures. For those who plan to watch, happy watching^^