A friend shared this video during an organisation meeting, and shared that we should think before we buy as the ecosystem and the wildlife are now the collateral damage to our consumerism culture. I actually wanna say out loud in the meeting what is the point of watching such emotional video when WE at this very moment are not doing ANYTHING NOW to minimize such damage? My sister works very hard to spread environmental education within the organisation but it is not appreciated when there are times members said it's not convenient to be green.

Correction: It is Never convenient to be a greenie.

And yet our organisation endorsed the Earth Charter. What a joke. Of course, my friends who are of high-ranked in the organisation will be unhappy with my complaints, but the stark truth is WE never practiced green ways. If yes, it's not ENOUGH.

I still could cope watching those dead chicks being stuffed with plastics, but not watching how pests eating native wildlife. Actually if possible I would like to avert my eyes from this sad documentary.

The chicks ... were just born in the wrong era. What a tragic way to die. Their death is not even a natural one but man-made.

Even if I sent millions of prayers to the environment, I cannot do so much to prevent such unnatural disasters.

And albatross chicks are such cute and adorable animals. Can you just imagine if they were human babies with their stomach stuffed with plastic?

It's a nightmare. It's too gruesome to imagine that? You don't have to. Just do your bits for the environment. We just don't have to be so territorial.

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I started off March with amazing events.

Friends from Brunei and Finland came to Malaysia for holiday and I was very happy to meet them especially the ones from Finland. =) There is a possibility of me not able to go to Finland to visit the couple. How nice of them to visit me in Malaysia after I googled them Malaysian restaurant in their country. Coincidentally the restaurant is just a few doors away from their home! I was happy that she gave me a bag of Finnish chocolate!! Ooh. I have been eating chocolates as breakfast for the past two days.

As for the Bruneian friend ... it sounded so wrong. I never thought I will be meeting him up since he mentioned he was invited to some musical play, but decided to skip it to have a quiet night with friends. Because I need to meet up with my Finnish friend on the same night as him, I decided to meet him up at one of the oldest restaurants nearby his hotel. So I instructed him to walk over to the nearest shopping mall to wait for me. And do you know what he said? He texted me that he doesn't know where the shopping mall or where to walk and bla bla. So in the end I replied that I will meet him at the hotel at 5.40 pm.

When I reached the hotel at 5.30 pm. He is no where to be seen, so I went up to his room to pick him up. When we were in the room, he said "It feels so wrong for a girl to pick up a guy for dinner."

YES IT IS. Duh~

But we had a great night! So who cares!

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This song is very nice to listen to. =) Hope you guys like it as much as I do.



It's by the Filipino heartthrob: Christian Bautista and Angeline Quinto.

I like the lyrics too. =)

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On 31 October 2011 ...

This is the second event within the program the Malaysian contingent looked forward to. It's the exhibition.

Dum Dum Dum ... We were pretty excited cum scared with the exhibition because we do not know what to expect from the audience (if you have read this you will know why). Will they love or hate our booth?

I was pretty freaked out myself for seniors have mentioned that food can run out within an hour the exhibition is open to public. The food we brought from Malaysia should be adequate to cover around 1000 passer-by to our booth.

I was given the duty to distribute food. It was indeed a lovely job, because I get to eat too! However, I spent most of the time at the booth for my team mates need assistance in explaining the indigenous music instruments and puzzles.

I love introducing and inviting the visitors to try out the games. Do you know why? Because if you can't solve the game, you can't marry the girl you proposed to. HA! This is the indigenous custom. So the groom is always given this IQ puzzle (depending on the location in Malaysia):

Pintar Buluh


or

Jah re-noi


Many visitors could not solve them and they were quite puzzled with this game. And I often teased them that they won't be able to marry an indigenous girl if they can't solve them. HA.

Here's a picture of me demonstrating how to solve the puzzle.



I can solve them. Aren't I a genius? =)

Tidbits: I love playing the pintar buluh though it's quite difficult to solve it and the jah re-noi at the beginning. The seller refused to sell them to me if I can't solve them, so she tutored me for over 30 minutes. I even recorded her playing and I dutifully watched it for over 20 minutes again and again just to solve them. Jah re-noi is the simplest of all, but I prefer the pintar buluh maybe due to its intricate Bidayuh craft design.

Visitors, to be frank, were quite freak out when I offered them to play. The right word to describe them is overwhelm. Right. They were overwhelmed with the difficulty in solving them.

The other function of the jah re-noi is to entertain the spirits that made the indigenous people getting lost in their own forest territory. There is actually an advance jah re-noi, but I don't know how to play it. Amazingly my senior solved it with ease, and he didn't get the chance to teach me.

On a surprising note, I have to teach my indigenous team member to solve these puzzles!

By the way, our booth received so many visitors that there were not enough of us to entertain them. In the end, we were so spent because we didn't even have time for break like we had planned. Also, I was happy that we even had leftover food from the exhibition. I was glad that my idea of giving sweets worked; I brought 1000 pepper and coconut candies. =)

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On 25 November 2011 ...

My host father owns a decoration business. He is commissioned to decorate shopping malls during festive seasons. And ... to our lovely surprise ... my host father happens to have tonnes of extra teddy bears from his decoration leftovers!!!

That explained why the four of us had teddy bears on our first day. *Smile*

Because my host father has heaps of teddy bears and wanting to get rid of them, he asked the girls to take as many as we want. Gullible we were we all took at least 3 each for our cabin mates. I took the least: only 3.

Two were for my cabin mates and the other is for my team member. Thinking he might want to give it to his fiance in Japan.

I wanted to give a surprise to my cabin mates, and luck was on my side when I found out I was the first one to reach back to our cabin.

I quickly tugged in the teddy bears in between the dovey and left the room for a farewell reception.

When we returned to the room my cabin mates were delighted to see something furry and cute sleeping on their bed. The first one to come back was from Cambodia. A broad smile carved on her face. She instantly caressed the teddy bear and looked at the teddy bears sleeping on my and other mate's bed. She looked at me with a sly grin. She queried where did the teddy bear come from. I replied that the teddy bears were already snuggling on our beds when I came in.

HAHA. Although my Cambodian cabin mate is as quiet as a mouse, she can't be fooled. She knew where it came from. Instead, my Thailand cabin mate was the easily one to fool! When she came in, she thrilled to see it. Cambodian and I acted casually we didn't know where it came from. You know what she said? "OH the teddy bears must be from the room service crew."

WHAT?! Cambodian and I just cannot believe our ears ... so we just continue acting we didn't know. It took her a many minutes for Thai to deduce the furry bears were a gift from me!



Tidbits: Actually the teddy bears were not for my cabin mates but for some team members. I was curious why my homestay mates took more than 5 bears each. They just simply look at me and said the bears were for their cabin mates and some friends on board. I was ashamed for not remembering my lovely boisterous cabin mates. HA!

I would love to take more than 3, but I have limited space in my luggage. I should have taken a luggage bag filled with the bears for they are irresistible cute! By the way, the picture shows my teddy sleeping on my bed on board. I got no idea why I placed my name tag there.

My cabin mates and I hugged the bears to sleep every night. I still do today. =) I give it goodnight kisses too.

Don't be jealous ya!

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I would love to travel, but I need to stay put because my sister's boss is trying to oust her. So I have to stay put and think of how to increase my household income if she's really gonna be fired. Luckily my mum is now working. So we would be able to survive for the next couple of months.

I need to solve my credit card debts first. HA. Luckily it's just three figures. Not 5.

And concentrate on developing myself.

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