AN UNFORGETABLE HIKE

Tabur ,especially on the west side has always been my favourite place. So it's no surprise I took advantage of the holiday yesterday to organise a trip there with a few friends. One of my former Body combat instructor even join us, but she swore after the hike she will not come back again. But I hope I can make her change her mind. Whenever it is a public holiday this hill will be packed with people and yesterday was no exception. However one thing that troubled me was people always bring in newbies and they I am sure they were not informed what was in store for them. Alot of them was teriffied during the climb , good thing there were always good samaritan like Ben, who is a regular visitor there  and when I am there I would lend a hand if I see such people. I had the opportunity again to lend a hand at one of the "dangerous"zone and while assisting some of them to climb down, my son's camera which I took without his permission took a plunge down hill into the plantation, it hit against the rock and ricohet and rolled all the way down hill. Ben was kind enough to went to to retrieve it even without my asking for help. Such a kind soul. Unfortunately he could only find the body, the lend an expensive prime len was no where to be seen. When I told my son about his lost he was angry for a day, but this morning he tested me saying he wasnt angry at the loss , but was concern for my safety. It brought some tears to my eyes when I read it. Anyway back to my hike, my body combat instructor suvive the hike although with some dificulty on the rock climbing part. So after resting for a while, we make our way down hill and heard someone crying. On approaching we saw the girl, earlier up the hill whom we saw was struggling with each of the station/peak.  She had twisted her ankle. Good thing I had my first aid kit with me and one of my lady hike help to bandage her up and shouldered her downhill. As if all these incident was not bad enough , on the way back to our home my driver drove like a maniac and even was tailing a car very close. Another friend who was sitting at the passenger seat in front told her off, but she did not heed to her advice and kept doing it .Finally my friend blew her top,(I dont blame her I would too) Latter she posted on her fb status how this friend was trying to show off her driving prowess , but why put other people's lives in danger doing it?  Then this driver friend of ours what'app me and complain about this status. Some people just got an attitude, and can't see their own mistake!
Today my friend update her status again saying "Today I will be the driver to fetch a few of my beloved guests in my car, no worries, even though my driving skill is not so professional, I will ensure and promise you will have a safe ,comfortable ride and enjoyable journey with me" Of course that driver friend saw it and complaint to me again via whatsapp, and even threaten she will pull out of their coming kk trip. Why don't she grow up!

A BLACK DAY FOR MALAYSIA

We have just  had our 13th General Election. Pre Election period, there was a strong indication and excitement in the air every where. All ceremahs were fully packed. Even the one I attended when I was visiting Kulai on a hiking trip it was packed to the maximum and everyone was shouting ubah ubah. There was high hope we would get a new government come may 6th. The signs were there. This morning around 2.30am as I checked  my facebook to catch up on the lastest report on the Election results I saw a lot of black profile staring at me. Barisan Nastional had won the election  and you can be sure it was not via the ballot box,but through manipulating the ballots(new boxes produced upon recount) and some foreigners who were allowed to vote.There were photos and videos of these 'phantom"voters who came by the bus loads, but the Election commisions  had denied them.
 The people of Malaysia have been robbed of their victory . There is no honour of winning by   cheating.It is people without any dignity would resorted to such shameless act, How can such one even be Prime Minister?
 Our hopes of a better Malaysia have been crushed.. This is a very sad day for Malaysia. How long must we wait before we see a new Malaysia, where everyone will be treated as equal and where we can proudly called ourselves as Malaysian?

NOW YOU KNOW WHY BO JIO

Have you ever come across people telling you why bo jio? whenever they see your posting to a certain event or places you have just gone?  Bo chio in hokkien means no invite(why you did not invite me)
It happen to me so often and the reason I stop inviting is because of this:-

If ever they do ask again maybe I should sent this this:-

That ought to get them off my back.

P/s  Jio also means banana in hokkien. :D

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Saw this rather amusing quote at the restaurant where I had my lunch:-

Ok I shall not argue with that.  Just want to appreciate the woman of my life.This song
is for you dear .

http://youtu.be/f-x1FsvOAz4

And to all the women out there Happy International women's day.

A SIGN OF INSECURITY?

Just a few days before our hiker’s gathering, I received a message

from  my friend who had earlier confirm her attendance.She said she is giving the function as miss as she felt someone in our circles of friends do not want her around. Her reasoning was  she had shared too many personal things to our mutual friends and now might want to avoid her.She specifically named one person who might not welcome her presence.

And she further said she saw   this  posted on her(the other friend)wall." We’re not together, but no one else is allowed to date you okay? I don’t think that that message was directed to her at all. I mean people post and shared such  quotes all the time.

I wanted to ask that friend if that message was directed at her or not, but later decided against it.

I think she is just being paranold, maybe suffering from withdrawal syndrome even. 

What do you think. Was she over reacting?

ARE YOU ALWAYS IN A HURRY?

Yesterday during our cell meeting we had a video screening and one of the lesson we learnt was that when we are always in a hurry, we missed out some precious moment with our children, loved ones or even friends. As Christians, we might even missed out what God wants to tell us. No wonder the psalmist wrote, "be still, and know I am God"  My friend ,David related  this interesting story.
One day he saw what he thought was some worms on the leaves of his manggo trees.He was about to get rid of them , when on closer look, reliased they were actually caterpillars , and so he left them alone. A few days latter, he was able to watch how the ugly caterpillars transformed to beautiful butterflies. He called both his daugthers to watch  the remarkable creation of God.  I am sure that sight was so special as most city folks will never get to see. While he relate that story, I was able to recall my precious moments too. Years ago I discovered a bird nest in front of my house where we hung out laudry to dry. I could see some eggs inside. I was careful not to  make any physical contact with the nest as I remember reading somewhere if we do, they will abandon their eggs. Over the next few weeks I just watched from my window until the eggs were hatch. Meanwhile I had christened the mother bird Jamie and my oldest son who was about 4 or 5 at that time was with me. Day by day we were able to watch Jamie faitfully bringing food for her babies. One fine day, when we got back home we discovered the nest were empty. Apparently the birds had strong wings and were able to fly. I told my son, Jamie had taken her family to another place where they belong.  We had come to term with Jamie and her babies'departure. Then one day my son called to me rather exhilaratingly.  "Daddy ,Jamie's back. I went out to have a look, sure enough Jamie came back with her family.  For the next couple of days she and her family droped by to say hello and then they were gone for good.   I think she was just saying thank you for the hospitality.
Do you have moments like this?

CLIMBING FOR A GOOD CAUSE

Who would have thought, I could have fun and raise some fund for a needy cause? The needy in this case is two animal shelter namely Noah ark foundation and Malaysian dogs deserves better(mddb).

My friend shang ko came up with this idea of asking climbers to get their friends to sponsor them when they climb. All pledges/donation collected will be shared with the mentioned animal shelter. An event was created on facebook. Everyone was  posting how many sponsor they had and they amount pledged and I had zero. Then I saw one person saying she would not be able to attend, but would be happy to sponsor anyone to climb on her behalf. I quickly volunteered and she pledged rm50.00 .That was a good start

I had no idea who I was going to approach. 

Just a couple of days ago I decided to put on my status saying I will be climbing for a good cause , sadly only one friend from Johor responded and banked in Rm100.00 . I had this problem, when it comes to asking people for donations.  Well since this is for a good cause I have to be a bit thicked skin and so I sent a message to a good friend of mine and he promptly bank in Rm100.00 as well. Then yesterday another friend donated another rm100.00   .   I will chipped in another rm50.00 to make it Rm400.00   It is not much , but at least I did try and I am happy I was able to help out in a small way.

The event was also appear in yesterday's star paper  here