By the lake

Photos taken by the lake @ Pustaka Negeri Sarawak.



I was there early in the morning Last Sunday. I took part in the "Walk-A-Mile" event organised by Sarawak Heart Foundation and Department of Cardiology, Sarawak General Hospital in conjuction with World Heart Day 2007

Hmm...After reading the running, running and running posts from adipos, I want to take part in one too! But you know and I know la, I where got stamina to run like him, so instead of running 21km, I decided to walk a mile. WAKAKAKAKA....adipos, I hope you wont vomit blood while reading this!

That morning, I reached Pustaka around 6:30am. Changed into the T-shirt given for free and waited patiently for VIP to arrive and walk with us around the lake. A mile is short, it is just one round circle the lake. There are about 400 participants (not too sure, but one of the lucky draw number is 400). We walked extremely slow with the crowd. After the walk, I joined them in the line dance and Tai Chi too.


Stage and prizes for lucky draw winners


Arrival of honourable guest - Yang Amat Berbahagia Datuk Amar Puan Sri Dr. Hajjah Laila Taib.


My first time meeting her in person.


While Yang Amat Berbahagia Datuk Amar Puan Sri Dr. Hajjah Laila Taib was giving speech
Advice from her: A person who is below 5ft 10, waistline must keep below 36 inches so that you wont torture your heart!

Breakfast (milk + cereal) sponsored by Nestle.

Basically, the program is similar to last year event. You can read it from 13th panda who took part in it last year.

兄弟 @ Brothers

Have you watch it? It is starred by Andy Lau! So, must watch it quick! LOL!

Watched it together with CPH, Winnie, sandbox, ben and CCW on last Saturday.

The official website of the movie: http://www.brothers2007.com/.
Do remember to change your browser encoding to UTF8 when visiting the official website if you do not wish to see the square box instead of the chinese character.

Overall, I wont say the movie is not nice.

A few points that I like about the movie:

1. The cast - 4 tigers: Andy Lau, Miu Kiu Wai, Felix Wong and Tong Chun Yip. I think it is not easy to gather the 4 experience tigers in a movie. After watching the movie, there is no suitable role for Tony Leung to play in it. But it would be so nice to all the 5 tigers in it.
2. Miu Kiu Wai is soooooooo man. His acting is superb too! ;p
   
3. The storyline is simple and easy to be understood.
   
4. The humour found in the movie.
   

p/s: I saw the moving cloud in the movie again. LOL! You can watch it in both the trailer and teaser in the official website.

6th July, Macau - Hong Kong

Yeah...wake up late in the morning, almost miss the shuttle bus provided by the hotel to the harbour! ^_^

*happy* - because of D!

We told the driver to wait for us as we were checking out from hotel.

*happy* - because of I!

The receipt printer was not functioning.

*happy* - because of S!

The driver got off the bus and rushed the counter staff =)

*happy* - because of N!

Got on the shuttle bus. Reached the harbour and purchased 2 turbo jet tickets to Hong Kong.

*happy* - because of E!

About an hour later, we were on shore again! =)

*happy* - because of Y!

Pulled and dragged the luggage to the MTR station.

*happy* - because of L!

*happy* - because of A!

*happy* - because of N!

*happy* - because of D!


Yes, our destination of the day is Hong Kong Disneyland!!!

We reached Disneyland Hotel at around 12 noon. We were told to collect the room at 3:30pm after paying deposit, booking for the character breakfast and getting our 1 day extension for our theme park ticket.

We had our lunch at one of the hotel restaurant. Ccw ordered dan dan mee while I ordered a burger. Both the dan dan mee and burger are decilious, but they are expensive! It costed us almost HK$200.


After filling up our tummy, we went into the theme park! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~~

Find ourselves a strategic location where there was a shade and not crowded to have good view of the parade along Main Street, U.S.A.


After the parade, we continued to explore the park at the Adventureland.


Then we went to the Fantasyland and Tomorrowland. We missed some of the show scheduled at certain time so we decided visit them on the next day.

After having dinner at Main Street, U.S.A., we waited at the Fantasyland patiently for the fireworks show.

FIREWORKS!!"A whole new world~ A dazzling place~ "

Beautiful~
I listened Disney musics...
I saw colourful sky fill with fireworks above the sleeping beauty's castle...
I was in the Wonderland~~


Finally, we went back to hotel. The room is quite big.
Anything that is complimentary, there will be a note that says "Please bring me home".




Love the washroom the most!

Best part of all, there is the jacuzzi. It helps to massage my tiring legs...haha!

End of Day 3.

Hari Raya break

I love long weekend!





Wondering where you can find the place in the photos above?



Yeap, at Sematan Palm Beach Resort, Sematan.

Refreshing.


p/s: Just check back my previous post on Sematan and guess what?!! I was there during HARI RAYA last year! kekeke...I love blogging!


Another photo taken at Sematan Beach.

Unusual October 2007, it is PINK!

Yesterday, at around 12:25pm, got an sms from my friend telling me our coursemate back in university has passed away that morning.

We were told that she is diagnosed with breast cancer last year. She is already seriously ill and lying on bed by the time we got the news. The feeling is quite complicated, maybe a mixture form of sad, worry and shock that I had.

After graduation, I used to check on coursemates news through their Friendster photos. I saw her traveling photos, photos taken with her colleagues and photos where she is prettily make-over to attend certain functions. To me, she is just doing fine all the time in West Malaysia.

Upon hearing her condition, for us who are in Kuching, we tried to send in cards and one even gather some friends and record a DVD to send to her. For those who are in west Malaysia, they have tried to free their time visiting her. We just want to show her our support and give her as much as encouragement that she needed. Other than that, we can only pray for her.

And I realised that what we can do is that much.

For the first time, many of us waiting eagerly in front of the PC just wishing to know more of her updates from those who have visited her.

And now, we have lost her.

SAD.

Again, helpless hits onto me.

Ever since I know about her condition, I have been browsing through the internet for information on breast cancer.

In fact, this month, October, is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness. You might notice the new logo on top right corner of the blog, that is for anyone who have a blog or forum or website to publish it in order to raise breast cancer awareness. It started out by Matthew Oliphant. Yeap, I decided to go PINK too. By the way, Pink Ribbon is the international symbol of breast cancer awareness.

I find that wikipedia provides very good piece of information on Breast Cancer. Please love yourself and read it to learn more including the symptom, factors, prevention, diagnosis,screening and treatment.

Also, I came across the international breast cancer research fundation - http://www.ibcrf.org/. You may visit the site to learn more how you can help.

Last but not least, let's look at the facts about cancer compile by World Health Organization

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. From a total of 58 million deaths worldwide in 2005, cancer accounts for 7.6 million (or 13%) of all deaths. The main types of cancer leading to overall cancer mortality are:

* lung (1.3 million deaths/year);
* Stomach (almost 1 million deaths/year);
* Liver (662,000 deaths/year);
* Colon (655,000 deaths/year) and
* Breast (502,000 deaths/year).

The most frequent cancer types world wide are:

* Among men (in order of number of global deaths): lung, stomach, liver, colorectal, oesophagus and prostate.
* Among women (in order of number of global deaths): breast, lung, stomach, colorectal and cervical.