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1. Have you given your first kiss away?
No, and -I believe- not in the near future.

2. If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 3 blog buddies you would take with you? Why?
Can I be greedy here?

3. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Everywhere! Hahaa...except Middle East until the extremist there calm down.

4. If you can have a dream to come true, what would it be?
To do what Tan Sri Dato' Francis Yeoh did, to rebuild and redevelop rack & ruin lands ecologically.

5. Who would i marry?
I don't know & don't care.
I couldn't be bothered about it, right now & the subsequent decade.

6.Do you believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain?
After being scientifically proven to exist due to refraction of lights by water particles clogging the troposphere, how can I be expected to deny? Its not about belief here - its fact!

7. What are you afraid to lose the most now?
Another finger? I'm slightly hypochondriac lately, but I'll get over it soon.

8.If you win $1 million, what would you do?
Whoa...With $ 1 million -if US$ is still valuable and living cost doesn't go up- I'll build plumbing & piping, sanitary and filter systems in the dehydrated countries.
The world water crisis is one of the largest public health issues of our time. Nearly 1.1 billion people (roughly 20% of the world’s population) lack access to safe drinking water. The lack of clean, safe drinking water is estimated to kill almost 4,500 children per day. In fact, out of the 2.2 million unsafe drinking water deaths in 2004, 90% were children under the age of five. Water is essential to the treatment of diseases, something especially critical for children.
This problem isn’t confined to a particular region of the world. A third of the Earth’s population lives in “water stressed” countries and that number is expected to rise dramatically over the next two decades. The crisis is worst in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
The world water crisis is created by a confluence of factors including climate and geography, lack of water systems and infrastructure, and inadequate sanitation, something that 2.6 billion people (40% of the world’s population) lack access to. Some of these countries have additional problems, including high levels of arsenic and fluoride in drinking water.
Many women and young girls in rural areas in Sub-Saharan African and other parts of the world must trek as much as six miles everyday to retrieve water for their families. Due to this manual labor, such women and children are prevented from pursuing an education, maintaining their households or earning additional income.
Thus, the lack of clean water, coupled with the lack of basic sanitation and a dearth of hygiene education, is one of the largest obstacles to progress and development in these regions and across the world. The UN has prioritized water access among its Millennium Development Goals because it contributes to such widespread suffering, including increased poverty, high child mortality rates, depressed education levels, and political instability. Without question, the world water crisis condemns billions of people to a perpetual struggle to survive at the subsistence level,9 thus inspiring millions to engage and alleviate this problem. Sources: [1] WaterAid, 2005 [2] UNICEF/WHO Water for Life, Making it Happen, 2005 [3] UNICEF/WHO Water for Life, Making it Happen, 2005 [4] BBC News October 19, 2004 [5] UNICEF/WHO Water for Life, Making it Happen, 2005 [6] Department of International Development, Water Action Plan, March 2004 [7] UNESCO/ International Year of Fresh Water 2003 [8] UNESCO/ International Year of Fresh Water 2003 [9] UNICEF/WHO Water for Life, Making it Happen, 2005
Otherwise I'll employ people to widen roads in traffic congested areas, plant more trees, and clean-up our outragiously dirty city!
9. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
I seriously can't tell yet- I might be an evolved person by the time I grow up to love a person in that manner.

10. If given the chance to rewind or replay, what would the moment be?
All I can do is be occasionally nolstalgic...I wouldn't wanna go back because the process is a li' exhausting.

11. Which type of person do you hate the most?
I don't harbor hatred. That very word makes me sick... But I wouldn't like a person who violates human rights (provoke war or social riots, massacre etc.), chops trees without replanting them or smokes in a confined space.

12. Do you like black or white?
What is black without white & white without black? Black & white eccentuates, compliments each other.
Black overwhelms, like a white torch in a pitch-dark cavern; a moon in the boundless night sky. White astounds, like a black seal in vast pristine snow; an alphabet on a blank sheet.

Does anyone get it? Here's a cliche:" One is nothing without the other." Therefore I equally love & is constantly surprised by both ends of the colour spectrum.

13. If you have faults, would you rather the ppl around you point out to you or would you rather they keep quiet?

What are friends for? Guys, please let me know if theres anything wrong with me.
14. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?

Constructing whatever I have in my blueprint- realize myself.
15. Are you a shopaholic or not?

I do more window-shopping than shopping, except for basic items.
16. What's on your mind right now?

I'm wasting my time.
17. If you have a chance, which part of your character you would like to change?

I'm not perfect in every aspect of life, but I wouldn't change- will try improving it.
18. What's bothering you lately?
How to manoeuvre around a chopped-off finger and still do things as normal.
19. What is life about?
People, Challenges & Compassion.
20. Tagging is troublesome. Agree?
Ah well...its a medium to share thoughts & ideas among mates. If I find it that troublesome I would just ignore the tag, hahaa...

"......!"

" What happened to your finger!?"

To answer everyone's question:
" It was CHOPPED off !"

Although it was gruesome to recall, I know nobody would be satisfied without at least a brief account of
" What happened !?"

It was a long story... but I'll snip the details.
23rd March. Sunday (1 day b4 Orientation Day)- There was a fight at home. I was trying to resolve it. I was pushing my brother out of the bedroom when my dear sister slammed the door. The rest was a dizzy blur. My sister screamed and open the door, I think. Everything within near circumference was blood-splattered. 1/3 my middle finger was soaked in a crinsom puddle at the corner of the door.

I pick up that piece of flesh (and nail). The arteries in my limbs felt flushed, numb. All I can think of doing was to breathe.

As the doctor poked disinfectants, jabs and needles, I try dispersing all the gloom and doom, croaking random jokes and stuff, and smiling to my poor mom, who kept flinching whenever she glance at that finger (or whats left of it). Of course it hurts - I'm not some super-mutant - I felt sudden shots of electrocution coming from that broken nerve end of that middle finger.

A bath that usually takes 5 minutes now eats up at least 20 minutes. All 5 fingers, especially the 2 direct neighbours, are affected, basically, my left hand is trembling, numb and invalid, for the moment. It'll take months, (no swimming, cycling..."sob!) but hope recovery would speed up.

It was really painful, both physically and the prospect of having a distorted finger - forever. But I have loads to be thankful for...

I am thankful, b'coz it isn't my RIGHT HAND. I can still survive and make a living, hahaa...

Thankful, it wasn't the whole limb, I was relatively more fortunate than many other people, I have a nice doctor (who told me the pain would last for at least a fortnight and the scars permanent)... etc. etc.

Hahaa... Just have to adjust and try get use to things. Next time I see you guyz (the Decommisioned Eleven and other old school mates), please don't be offended if I kept pointing F---

moaning...

Tired...
Never admitted. After 3 months of work, or whatever anybody chooses to call it,
I was exhausted to tears T_T
7.23 p.m., 21st March. Last day in this office, though not the last day of work.
Tired... physically.
Mentally, I'm still all fired up, raring to go!
I'm not pressuring myself. Simply, am keen in everything I do.
Tired= no rest? Or Tired= terribly miss friends. Or worst, combined. [I am rambling...]
College starts on Monday. Can't wait. Wish this weekend would just disappear. Need to see people of my age. Need to talk to people of my age. Can't wait. Ravenous to start learning. Thirsty for knowledge...knowledge...knowledge......
argh - felt like a zombie...must've been blabbing like one too.

musing...

When you type "LOL", are you really "Laughing Out Loud"?

'Coz when I type "LOL", I merely smiled or felt my laughing bones itch.
But then if I type "LOL", whatever I was reading was genuinely humorous.

I donated 10,000 grains just now. Try challenge that.
http://www.freerice.com/

12/03/2008

I am in a loss for words-
[ How do you feel? ]
I was excited-
to see friends I've not seen since we parted at the last day.
I was bubbly-
I laughed & talked more than I did lately.
I was pensive-
till everybody was motioned into the school hall.

Then come noon, overheard:" Results are out! Results are out! "
I tensed up.
I am in a loss for words-
[ How do you feel? ]
(I sighed) RELIEF! Thats what I feel.
A 4B & a 5C for Malaysian & Mandarin Language each,
as expected,
because I was disconcerted, when I submit my answer scripts.
I never felt I earn an A for any of those subjects,
if I got an A, it'll be FALSE, it'll only be temporary euphoria.
I am in a loss of words-
[ How do you feel? ]
I feel nothing for myself.

I emphatize
my dear friends-
Emotions pulled along the spectrum of outcomes.
The sheer triumph
of they who reaped;
The hollow despair
of they who hold scant.

I am still in a loss of words-
To all my friends, whatever you've got,
a handshake, a smile, a mighty HUG.

NET <- between -> WOK

For FRESH SEAFOOD, my family, my uncle's family and I go to Kuala Selangor.

It was a casual 45-minute car-ride from home, no preparations whatsoever, just sufficient CASH.

[fishermen unloading the afternoon's catch]


We didn't have make haste, 2p.m. was early enough.
The boats wouldn't be around till 3p.m., so we settled for a SEAFOOD lunch- crabs, squids, prawns and fish(we could have ordered mollusc too but don't think stomachs would allow). Yea- when I said FRESH, I mean what I said. They were SO FRESH I would even eat the prawns! (my dear friends who had been to Kuala Gula, Perak during Band Trip Dec'06 should have known how I wouldn't touch prawns at all) Seriously, the fish? I can tell, FRESH is FRESH.

[caught]


Well, we didn't have to make haste, so we didn't. We-maybe only my parents and uncle, and I listen whilst walk around(the table)-just chat politics, while eating; whack crab shells, while eating; craw apart fish flesh, while eating; bask in the salty breeze, while eating......

[eeek. My hair stood feelin' the belly of this flatfish look-a-like(asked the fishermen but they could only give chinese name for it) on my fingers]


Two hours later, we finally paid the bills. The table was a mess, crustacean shells, fish bones and spilled rice scattered THROUGHOUT the table and below. Anyway, we then proceed to the dock.
The dock- really wet, really FISHY. Weighing scales hanging about, buckets and buckets of dead, or near-dead sea creatures, ice, hose... (ok, a lot more, but thats enough for now,hehe...) The adults make their selections, the semi-adults watch the non-adults, and 5 kids ooh-and aah-ing at everything.
[pinched a squid. Base on sense of touch: VERY VERY VERY SLIMY. Effect: shock waves from fingertips to my neck, sudden errection of hairs on my skin, stomach belching, and a distorted look on the blogger's face, causing fits of laughter from the kids. Brrr...]

Tips for seafood seekers:
1. Prepare at least RM 450 if you plan to have lunch for a family(less if below 6-7 adults) and purchase enough seafood to eat till your next trip.
2. Wear sandals and shorts, 'coz the whole place is really WET.
3. Listen to the weather forecast before you go.
4. Ask your grandparents or friends or anybody if they want some fresh catch too. But if you really are gonna help out, prepare the CASH.

[ARRRRR..]

National Elections 2008

8th March. A drizzling Saturday, chilling wind breathing outdoors; the polling day, heated agitation brewing indoors.
This blogger is, right now snugged among uncles&aunts in her grandma's house. The TV now holds excited audience of the national news, instead of the usual football matches or badminton tourments, but atmosphere does not alter, the exclaimation, air-punching, shock, sighing, laughing, discussions.
I wouldn't speak of the results now(it'll be announced tomorrow anyway). There are much more shifting and stirring throughout the peninsular tonight, compared to prior elections. And many, many surprises.
Malaysia is undergoing plastic surgery.
As the saying goes:" Prepare for the UNEXPECTED."

R U SLEEPING?

Perhaps I had been too rigorously censoring-underlying sentiments, dramatized emo-display(though I doubt I had any these years), personal pictures, daily activities... this blog seems to bore.
Perhaps I had been influenced by Jane Austen's novels, my pen seems prone to elaborate description, unnecesary dialogs, that cause this blog to bore.
Perhaps I am too distracted to write, whenever there's fun; too disinclined to write, when slightly depressed; too busy to write, when truely preoccupied- so this blog bores.
Perhaps this blogger is indeed boring, hence this boring blog.
LOL~ so maybe something cool would happen, and maybe I would report about it, then we'll see.

ItZ Comin' OUT!!!

SPM! 12th March! 10a.m.!
AAAAAARRRGGGHHHHHHHH!
lol...its not Judgement Day, and yea-its no biggie, but really can't help being a bit excited :)