Red Moon

Tonight there will be a lunar eclipse tonight and the moon will be turning red...
(Huh?)
Yea...red but things don't look good thanks to the rain aih... but the next lunar eclipse that'll be visible to Asia is on 21/2/08 but do stay tune as I know I will
and when the people asks why is the moon red? Just tell them it's because the sky is blue...
yea i read this in Yahoo but..I don't really understand will ask my physics teacher when there's a chance.
By the way, I'm going to write about something that I think will catch your attention but msot probably will be next week.

Frustration

Although the title of this post is frustration, my main topic for today is
Jealousy
I'll tell you people later why I put frustration.
Well don't you get always get jealous like for say, your cousin's getting a new car, your partner is closer to another person, not getting the same treatment at home and many more.

Jealousy typically refers to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that occur when a person believes a valued relationship is being threatened by a rival. This rival may have no knowledge that he or she is threatening the relationship was what Wikipedia said.
But that is not main definition of jealousy but more to the common concept where relationships are involved.

I've always been jealous I guess I can say, how come that person can have so much money to spend, how come he drives a Honda Civic while I, Honda Wave...
of course not everyone feels jealous at the things that other people do just because it's the difference of perspectives , I think I should get a car that's why I envy those who has while another friend might already be driving 1 so he doesn't really need to feel jealous. And most of the time I just feel "he shouldn't be getting a damn car! I SHOULD!@~!@ ARGH!!!"

But according to some books which I've read including some articles, jealousy is always caused by the feeling of insecurity in relationships, thus the partner might feel jealous when the counterpart is talking and laughing away with another person.. Have you experienced that before?
Though some experts agree that jealousy is good as it adds some spice to your love life but as always too much is not good.
Oh my I'm drifting away from my topic till I can't get back on track guess that's all.
Now,
Frustration because I wanted to update my blog last night but the internet failed on me! because I wanna have a good game but thanks to some party, it turns to a high-blood-pressure-inducing-game.
ARGH!!!!

Sumatran Rhinos

Well I have always been interested to be a part of WWF...NOT THE WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATIONS!

WORLD WILDLIFE FUND

ok back to the topic.

A lot of flora and fauna has become extinct throughout the era of advancement due to humans destroying their natural habitats..Just in case you don't know habitat is the place where the animals live.
So when you destroy their home, you ultimately destroyed them!! It's like burning somebody's house up and when they see their house being engulfed in flames.. they'll feel they have lost everything so that's exactly how they feel and so WWF was founded to preserve these animals where their natural habitats have been destroyed and in SEA 1 of the near-extinct animals are Sumatran Rhinos so Nuffnang is going to create a lot awareness for these animals so I am hereby publicly stating that I fully support this program!

Shoutout @ Red Garden

Last monday, Ree Nee and I reached at 6.50pm but didn't see anyone there so Ree Nee and I just walked around and when I called up Warren (Dragon Head) he said on the way so we waited for a while and 20 mins later he and Chee Hsien made their entry and then came JJ and so we sat down on a table near the stage and then Ree Nee spotted a rainbow and she asked me to take a picture of it but me with my lousy camera can't possibly take anything so Chee Hsien took it.
After a while Al arrived and Dragon Head looked for the boss to get our coupons "I'm looking for someone with blue shirt and white collar" he said.

Our coupon

Look at her evil grin~ for the coupon she's got a keji (wicked) smile!!

I'm just grateful...grateful only mah!!

Coupons along with the brochures

After getting our coupons we began our venture of food :

The menu at the Thai Fried Rice Corner

Ree Nee ordered Ramen which isn't very bad in fact I'd give it a rating of 8/10

I ordered my all time favourite Nasi Goreng Pataya but I'd give it only a 7.5/10 I'd prefer the Gurneys' though.

Some of the wine bottles on display at the Teppanyaki corner
2 pix, 1 with flash 1 without

Dragon Head got himself..umm let's see Wantan Mee, Big Pau (Tua Pau), Chicken Chop and...oh yea Frankie's Tomyam Pizza for all of us. Chee Hsien had Singapore Bee Hoon. JJ had Ee Fu Mee.

Frankie's Pizza

Chicken Chop

Fish fingers

Black Pepper Chicken

Fried oyster

Then came the 'main course', The 16 beauty Pageants were here and they kinda made the place 'livelier' you know what I mean? Yea you know what I mean.

The ladies going to order food

"Faster lah hungry d!!!"
"Waitla my stash is dropping~!"

YB Cheang Chee Gooi the committee of Board of Tourism Penang

YB logging in the site

A shot of their website and the souvenir for the YB

Some of the beauts

More of them~

more of them

and more of them

and more

and some more

I think she's pretty yes..more of their pix

A shot of them together..yes yes more of them~~

fellow shouters

Apparently there will be dances at around 10++

This pair is good

For more info, head on over to Red Garden's website



*pictures without watermark are courtesy from Ree Nee's Blog*

Penang Bloggers Meet

Tonight we'll be going to

Food Review & beauty pageant in Red Garden Penang Food

lol big letters huh let me quote from Project010

Penang Bloggers are invited to attend a Food Review cum Beauty Pageant Preview this coming Monday at Red Garden Food Paradise at Upper Penang Road!!! Expect a preview parade of 16 beauty queens where they will later battle it out for the finals in G Hotel next weekend! The winner will represent Malaysia in China for the finals for the "Queens International Global" Besides the girls, there will be a variety of Penang Hawker delights during the event. Anyway, Red Garden will also be launching their official website to the public and hope fellow bloggers could write about the wonderful food and website. Not to forget there will be a shopping arcade located and night market located in the bungalow building.

So..that's it! It's tonight.

Oopz - 7th Month

Wah suddenly 2 days I didn't blog! I thought I did ok? ok! I thought ish!
But anyhow nothing much really but today marks the first day of the 7th lunar month in accordance to the chinese calender and below is an exert from Wikipedia.org:

In Chinese tradition, the seventh month in the Chinese calendar is called the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower world to visit earth. The Ghost Festival is the climax of a series of the Ghost Month celebrations. Traditionally, ancestor worshiping was an important part of the festivals, with activities including preparing ritualistic offering food, and burning hell money and bags containing cloth to please the visiting ghosts and spirits of the ancestors, as well as other deities. Other activities include, burying and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water, which signifies "giving directions to the lost ghosts and spirits of the ancestors and other deities." A very solemn festival of ancestor worshiping, the festival nevertheless represents a connection between the ancestors and the descendants, the living and the dead, earth and heaven, as well as body and soul.

The Ghost Festival shares some similarities with the predominantly Mexican observance of El Día de los Muertos. Due to theme of ghosts and spirits, the festival is sometimes also known as the Chinese Halloween, though many have debated the difference between the two.

From a book, "The boy who speaks to ghosts" by Benny Wong, 7th month was started from an emperor...oops i forgot the name but the emperor was visited by a spirit that told him to offer some offerings to spirits and in accordance to that he wore a white robe and stick out his tongue and those who was visited by him will be given a lump of mud/soil which will turn into gold... I think those is correct if my memory serves me right

and so there is a lot to this festival you see but this post seems to be long enough so will talk more about it tomorrow.

Tagged?

I didn't do my last tag sorry!! Was...you can put it as lazy~
YEAP JUST PLAIN LAZY! IS THAT AGAINST THE LAW!?!

Anyway just to prove Ree Nee wrong, I'M DOING IT!
but.. I don't know how?
oh well I think I'll do something like hers

4 things I want
1. A car.. I really really want a car
2. A headphone a Philips one actually..someone?
3. A holiday..or a day which I'll be able to relax completely without thinking of anything and I do mean of anything!... Very desperate to find 1
4. For this list to come true in which order does not matter.

4 things I have but not really happy about it
1. My internet connection! too slow sometimes but I can't really be more grateful for it
2. My watch which the strap came off..broke..patah! Not snapped but broke!
3. My fish tank which I can't do what I want with *refer to post below*
4. My life... I really mean this.

4 things I don't want anymore
1. A lot of my old memories which are bitter
2. A lot of junk on my table which I can't clear myself
3. The troubling things which are troubling me and causing my BLOOD PRESSURE TO RISE
4. The studying scheduling thingy which I need to everyday!

4 things (more like person) I appreciate most now
1. Ree Nee
2. My family
3. Jia Wei
3. Chun Soon
4. My other 'unmention' friends
note that the above 3s are not typo just the same rank given to them heheh!

I don't know who should I tag to...oh well no need lah~~ Kinda fun doing this

Feelings

You know how I feel now? All that is mine is not mine.
You understand that statement? No? Think about it.
Have you ever felt that way? I know I have and quite common as most of the time and the most recent incident that made me feel this way is:
My fish tank is no longer mine!
My dad put some gold fish in it and some of it fell ill! AND HE BLAMED IT ON MY FAILED CO2!!!

See! Where got such theory? Ish no mood blog...

An Interesting Song

Hmm I found this song which is very meaningful to all of us nowadays so here it is:



The lyric of the song is here: just in case you wanna sing along

What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain...
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we’ve shed before
Did you ever stop this notice
This crying earth this we make sure?

Aaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaah

What have we done to the world
Look what we’ve done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying earth this we make sure?

Aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaah

I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don’t know where we are
Although I know we’ve drifted far

Aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaah
Aaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaah

Hey, what about yesterday
(what about us)
What about the seas
(what about us)
The heavens are falling down
(what about us)
I can’t even breathe
(what about us)
What about everything
(what about us)
I have given you
(what about us)
What about nature’s worth
(ooo,ooo)
It’s our planet’s womb
(what about us)
What about animals
(what about it)
We’ve turned kingdoms to dust
(what about us)
What about elephants
(what about us)
Have we lost their trust
(what about us)
What about crying whales
(what about us)
We’re ravaging the seas
(what about us)
What about forest trails
(ooo, ooo)
Burnt despite our pleas
(what about us)
What about the holy land
(what about it)
Torn apart by creed
(what about us)
What about the common man
(what about us)
Can’t we set him free
(what about us)
What about children dying
(what about us)
Can’t you hear them cry
(what about us)
Where do we go wrong
(ooo, ooo)
Someone tell me why
(what about us)
What about baby boy
(what about it)
What about the days
(what about us)
What about all their joy
(what about us)
What about the men
(what about us)
What about the crying man
(what about us)
What about abraham
(what was us)
What about death again
(ooo, ooo)
Do we give a damn

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaa

Rapid Penang - A Change to Penang

Ok! As promised, a review about Rapid Penang!
Well Ree Nee and I took the bus on friday actually and I just got lazy to blog about it especially when I can't upload the pix to the pc.
We started our journey at about 4pm when we left Ree Nee's house and when we got to the bus stop it was around 4.04 already and then I started timing the time we waited for the bus and it was around 18++ (I accidentally deleted the stopwatch time!! Stupid me) minutes not more than 18 I'm sure and the sight of 101 of Rapid Penang's bus that leads directly to Teluk Bahang appeared and we got on it. The bus driver asked where were we going and I replied "Prangin, berapa?" and "1 ringgit" was his reply and I told him 2 person so it's 2 person and I deposited RM 2 into the money-collecting-device-thingamajig and he gave me 1 ticket and as I started to walk towards Ree Nee "EH! TICKET TAK AMBIL" and I approached him he asked me "U sudah ambil berapa"
"satu"
"Satu lagi, u dua orang kan"

So here it is, first compliment to Rapid Penang, the bus driver was actually polite and honest so fun~.

Then the bus started leaving from oh yea I forgot to mention we were waiting for the bus at the Phor Tay High School's bus stop. The bus's interior was rather clean and surprising comfy

The left side of the bus from our seat that was at the back,

and the right side.

Ree Nee noticed that there were 4 OKU's seat hmm kinda considerate of them actually.
The first picture I took, compare this with the KGN Hin's bus's review I made last month and you'll know why.
Along with this, 2nd picture taken.
This is a close up of the ticket didn't mean to crumple and don't blame me for the out-focused I was using my handphone ok?
Yea her and her ticket there look there, it says "Rapid Penang'", "RM1.00 Dewasa"


YEAP I'm not complaining


Yet,

As we got to Pulau Tikus onwards, the crowd was starting to gather on the bus and there was a few old uncles and to my frustration is that the young lady on the first pix, the left side of the bus, did not gave up her seat for him!!! How impolite and how mean!!! I got up and squeeze my way through and asked the uncle to sit but..he didn't want to. Aih I'm actually kinda disappointed to see a sight of such.
So here is a reminder,


GIVE UP YOUR SEATS TO ELDERLY PEOPLE AND PREGNANT WOMEN!! THEY NEED IT MORE THAN YOU!

The whole trip on Rapid Penang lasted 22 minutes when we stepped onto ground at Komtar, the stop.

And after we spent a little time at Prangin, we headed towards Komtar Bus Terminal to head home and that was around 7pm when we started to wait for the bus and after 12 minutes 101 came again.
Let me tell you people something else, it was rather a nice sight to see Rapid Penang as an addition to the public transport in Penang. For a change, the public won't need to just to cramp at the KGN Hin's terminal when they wanna head to Gurney or Tanjung Tokong or that area or to Milan to head to... Bayan Lepas area? not sure but yea it was a nice change.

So the way home, it was a sandwiching experience, really! and to my amazement, he (the bus driver) kept picking up customers! argh so cramped! Ree Nee and I was looking for the bell when I spotted it near the exit.. weird as it was rather inconvenient, it should be placed in more locations and easier to be spotted.

When we got back to Phor Tay it was already 730pm so it was a good 28++ minutes ride.
So, after all that sandwiching and bell looking trip, I'd give it a solid A-
So people! Rapid Penang is operational now and is bringing Penang to another level so use more public transport and that will help to save our Earth... Little by Little...OK I ADMIT
Very Very Very Little by Very Very Very Little

Coughs

Yes, I'm gonna talk about coughing because me, is coughing, and me being me, researched a bit on coughing and I found that there are 2 types of cough, subconscious and conscious types.

Subconscious cough occurs when foreign substances impinge in certain nerve fibers in the larynx and larger airways. It is often rapid, forceful, and can occur even when the subject is anesthetized which means even if when you're asleep you can cough. It is a defense mechanism to prevent obstruction in the airway. It is most strongly triggered by touch and rapid increases in local H+ concentration which is acidic and meaning when there is an infection to the throat you cough. This cough reflex can be primed by allergen inhalation in sensitive subjects. It is generally not directly stimulated by inflammatory mediators, tracheal stretch or local muscle contraction.

Conscious cough occurs because we think we have to cough because of a sense of local irritation, whether or not there is actually something impinging on local cough fibers. This is the sort of cough that may linger after certain viral respiratory infections or with COPD(no idea what is this) or asthma. This is the one that happens when you catch a cold and sick and it does not occur in anesthetized individuals. The activated C fibers sensitize the cough reflex and can be physically apart (e.g., lung tissue, esophagus) from the area where coughing starts There are cough receptors in the large airways but not in the peripheral airways. However, stimulation of C fibers in the peripheral airways appears to sensitize the cough receptor so that less stimulation of the latter is needed to induce a cough. That means when you get the itchy feeling, you cough.

This was taken from www.aaaai.org

Today was the official launch of the Honda Civic Type R and Honda Civic Hybrid will check it out when my parents wanna go . Today is also the last day for the Rapid Penang's free ride and after much consideration, I'd take the bus when it's not free so the prices will be known to all and the bus won't be 'sandwich-ing me'