Cheras-Kajang Highway freak accident

I don't know why, but every year during the 7th Lunar Month, I notice many people pass away naturally or unnaturally. The elder people will say that it is because of the Hungry Ghost Festival, where the hell gates are opened for the spirits to roam the earth, and they will ground us after 7pm, fearing that the hungry ghosts will harm us or whatsoever.

Yesterday, on the very first day of the 7th Lunar Month, a freak accident took away 2 lives and left 7 others injured, with 5 in critical condition. You might be thinking that I'm being superstitious for making a connection with the freak accident with the 7th lunar month, but would you not believe it in this case? To me it's like too true to be a coincidence, especially when you drive to and fro from school using the very same road almost everyday.

Read the news here.

The accident caused a massive jam which lasted around 5 hours

A 10-tonne lorry carrying big rocks came down from the slope on
the upper left of the picture. I think the brakes failed and
look what happened in the coming pictures.

Luckily there was a 8-feet high stone wall, if it were to be a flat piece of land, imagine
how bad it would be if the lorry didn't stop and go on crashing into the Giant Hypermarket

I don't think there's anyway the lorry driver could have
survived the crash in such a condition

The Iswara is beyond recognition

The usual crowd at accident sites

The Kancil and Kelisa. The driver of the Kancil survived unharmed.

The lorry's first victims. The motorcycle and the Ssang Yong.

Pile of scrap metal, and rocks. Look at the sandwiched van.
Miraculously, the driver survived the crash.

Imagine that if it were you, at 9:30 in the morning, you were happily driving to work/school, happily thinking that today is a Friday and thinking of plans with your friends and loved ones for the weekend, and suddenly a 10-tonne lorry out of nowhere came crashing into you, just like a big bowling ball, sweeping you and the other cars right to the stone wall? You don't even have time to say goodbye to your loved ones, nor tell them how much you love them, or tell them how sorry you are for all the mistakes you have made.

Life is precious, but very short. There's a chinese saying that, 棺材是裝死人，不是裝老人 (Coffins are for dead people, not old people). We'll never know when we might leave this world, maybe tomorrow, maybe the very next second. Just like Kpl Mohd Nuh Ali, who in his many years put his life at risk diffusing bombs, would not even imagned that he would die in such a way.

Condolenses to the families of Kpl Mohd Nuh Ali and Mr. Kang Ban Hin, may both of them rest in peace. As for the 7 other survivors, may you get well soon.

Life is not just about eating, drinking, sleeping, and enjoying. Live our lives to the fullest, be grateful for what we have now and cherish the people around us before everything is too late.

Dad, Mom, Michelle, Missy, Bing, my family members, my friends, and my loved one,
I LOVE YOU ALL.

Clouds~

Clouds can be so therapheutic when looked at... Imagine lying down on the green grass, looking up the bright blue sky full of white, fluffy clouds~~

I have a sudden passion for clouds recently... Couldn't stop myself from paying attention to the formation of clouds everytime I'm out in the sun... especially when driving alone... what a blissful solitude~

Monster with really BIG eyes~

Looks like a crescent moon to me.

Anyone can see the Borneo island?

Cotton balls in the sky~

The sky is splitting into half!

Sunny day, fluffy clouds.

My all time favourite, up to now, though it's quite dark.

I think one day I might get myself into a car accident for inattentive driving~

On election day

My 80+ year old grandmother missed this year's general election because there's too much inconvenience for her to fulfill her duties.

The next day when the results were all over the news...

AhMa: I didn't vote la, can or not one? (looking worried)
Dad: Can la... Malaysian government won't send u back to China for not voting...

You see, there's a reason behind why she's so afraid of not voting.

About two decades ago, the Chinese old folks were "threatened" that if you don't vote for the government, you'll be sent back to China. And their tactics for the other uneducated people will be, "Let me teach you how to fill up the ballot paper... Nah, you don't want to choose 'Chin Kia' (the scale) right, put a BIG CROSS beside their logo, don't let them win!"

Smart... but so unethical... thanks to the internet and bloggers, Malaysians are now more aware of you know what...

Nothing is impossible... 5 states, 2/3 majority... what's next?









Picture source: http://votemalaysia.com/

Myth or Fact?

what say you?

Stamp? What's a stamp?

Just now my uncle Sean came knocking at my door, "Ei Mindy you got stamp or not?"
I was dumbstruck for a moment, thinking "Stamp? What is it already ah? Sounds familiar."
3 seconds later I managed to dig through my archives of vocabulary in my brain and found the rusted word 'stamp'...
"Uh, don't have wor..."
In my head I was saying, "How many people will still use stamps now wor..."

Suddenly remembered how I use to collect stamps when I was in early primary school... It was the 'in' thing back then, where we do not spend most of the time in front of the PC, i think Microsoft Windows was not born yet... We were still using MS Dos and playing games like Lemmings, using floppy disks, and watching cartoons from video tapes.



I guess children now don't know what are stamps and video tapes already, all they know is "You're a NOOB!" Maybe in a few years time when we visit the museum, we'll see stamps and video tapes in the displays...



So if you still have your collection of stamps with you, keep it well~ Who knows you'll make a fortune out of them?

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Somewhere in this universe, there's a red planet called Mars, and on it, lived millions of happy men.

On a far away planet from Mars, there's a green planet called Venus. On it, lived millions of happy women.

Men see men everyday, women see women everyday, and years later, the men got bored of each other, and started building telescopes to explore the universe.

They looked far far into space, and saw something interesting on a green planet not far away. They saw women!

Women became their subjects of interest from that day onwards, with more and more telescopes built, to the point that every man has one. Months later, the men wanted more, they started building spaceships, and in no time, they landed at Venus.

Opposite attracts, special chemicals formed, the men and women fell in love, and this kind of happiness is beyond what they have ever experienced in their own planet! The men wanted to stay back at Venus to be with their loved ones, and some Venusians left for Mars to be with their other half. But somehow, things didn't work out well, the Martians couldn't live in Venus because of the differences, same does the Venusians who find it suffocating and hard to cope in Mars.

They searched for ways to solve this problem, tried to compromise with each other, and in the end, they found the middle path -- a blue planet in between their planets, a planet called Earth, where both men and women can live harmoniously.

Sometimes we tend to think that we have come to the end of the road, but in fact it's not the end yet, it's just a junction with even more possibilities and opportunities lying ahead.

Don't bump into the wall or stop there looking when it's obstructing your way, turn away and walk around it~ Just don't stop walking and don't look back while walking, you'll trip~

-end of crappy post-

Dangerous natural disaster

What's the most dangerous natural disaster behind wheels?

?????????????????

It's predictable

It's uncontrollable

It's fast

It can be torturing

It's BAD!

There are millions of versions for it, some sound like these...

Hah-chiu!
Hah-chi!
Chiu!

and the best version of all, a long, loud, satisfying

Ahhhh-Choooo!!!!!!



Imagine you feel that a sneeze is coming when you are driving: your eyes start to water, vision becomes blur, then all of a sudden, ahhh-choo!
Along with that sneeze, your eyes close shut, your hand covers your nose and mouth, your mind goes blank for a few milliseconds, your body moves forward abruptly as you sneeze.
And your hands are supposed to be on the wheel, and eyes on the road. How dangerous could that be? You might sneeze real hard and the next thing you know, you've kissed the car in front of you ><'''

I've just realized that this is so far the most dangerous "natural disaster" behind wheels.

What do you think?

What a relief!

Thank God it's back!

Lesson learned:
1. DO NOT ever play around with HTML if you don't really know how to use it!
2. Read instructions! It'll make things easier rather than trying out everything one by one.
3. Be satisfied and thankful with what you have now, don't be too greedy.
4. Learn to crawl first before trying to run.
5. DON'T take risks. XD

*sob* I've learned my lesson... I'll promise to be a good girl... Until next time... wahahaha....

Kinda busy lately... assignments and presentations lining up, waiting to strangle me off my last breath... but don't worry, because I'll be back!

Do we really look alike?

Don't know since when, many people have been asking whether my elder sister and I are twins, sometimes out of fun, we lie to them that we are, and some people do believe that... But not all people are easily fooled lah....

my elder sis & I

Can bluff people that we are twins meh... sometimes only la... But we are born 3 years apart wor, so do I look older than my age, or she looks younger than her age? I hope it's not the latter, coz I'm not old! I'm not even 20! *telling half a lie*

But at one point of time, my parents couldn't differentiate my elder sis and I from far =.=''' And now it turns out that my younger sis looks alike my elder sis too wor, but different from me la...

younger sis & I

Ok ok... I know we don't look totally different lar, people can still see that we are sisters... So one last pic from the camwhores...


Each of us are born 3 years apart, and many times people thought that my younger sis is the eldest among us, so... hahaha! So it means that she looks old, and we look young! Yeah ^^v
She better not see this, I'll get killed... But hey, it's the truth what! Wakaka....

Size does matter?

Does size really matter that much? In case you don't know what I mean, I'm referring to the so-called "women assets"... I'm sure you know which "asset" I'm referring to.... I have just read Kenny Sia's blog, about the new thing in town, after slimming fad comes the breast enlargement fad... Good news or bad news?

By the way, yesterday a male friend of mine asked me whether I saw something really "great" in class. Innocently I said,

"No, everything was normal in class today".
"Didn't you see something 'great' in class just now?"
"Really? I didn't notice anything great...."
"How could you not notice that.. It's something really great..." (with his hands spread out)
"Huh? Like how great?" (still very blur and innocent)
"Great lah... GREAT...." (his body language started to look awkward, with his hands spreading out from his chest in semi-circular motion)

He repeated himself again and again as I starred at him blankly... A friend beside me couldn't stand it anymore and started laughing...
"Ohhhh!!! Understood! Understood!" I burst out laughing...

How could I think so innocently that time?! It's because I never imagined he'll say something like that! He said he and his guy friends almost spurted out blood in class when our lecturer who was wearing a really loose and low cut blouse bended over in front of the whole class, right in front of them, and they caught the best view! I was sitting at the side, at the back row, and my vision was partially blocked most of the time, so it's normal for me not to notice that... But we all did notice that we can already see her "longkang" even when she's standing up straight =.='''

"What's so great about it anyway, she's older than you by almost 10 years! Don't tell me you haven't seen a little bit of too much cleavage, especially with so many hot babes around campus wearing even lesser!"
"It's different.... very much different..."
"What's so different about it?"
"The SIZE of course!"
*speechless*

Then lots of dirty things came to my mind... Wanted to ask him tonnes of questions, but couldn't find the courage to ask. So I started with, what's your respond then?

"Shocked lah! Never imagined something like that would happen... in class! And she's a lecturer!"
"Shocked only? No other responses? *eyes looking down with a grin on my face*
"NO LAH! I'm not sexcited about it... but I don't know about the other guys..."
"So... was it 'young' or 'old'?"
"What do u mean..."
"Is it still firm la!?"
"...... normal la!"
"Then, how much you saw?" *eyebrows raised*
"Quite a lot... 40%"
"40% is only a little, I thought you guys saw half of it... haha..."
"But for that size 40% is A LOT!"

Ok I had enough, I guess the girls will be disgusted rather than sexicted...

What's so great about having big boobs anyway? Throwing gold on plastic surgery to enlarge your breasts is not a really good idea... Originality is the keyword!
With small boobs you can run faster, you can squeeze in crowds without smashing your boobs on little children's faces, you're able to wear small tees, and weigh less!
By the way, big ones doesn't last either, gravity will pull it down and in a few decades, it'll rest on your tummy... But with small ones, the effect wouldn't be that great!
Okay okay, I know I'm just comforting myself, but hey, that's the truth! But for your information, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm happy with myself ^^

One last question, especially to the guys, Does size really matter?

P.S: I found this non-sexual website about breasts... It's really educational... But if you're not ready for normal breasts which doesn't resemble those porn stars' fake boobs, better don't look at it... Anyhow it's good to know what normal breasts are like... and after visiting the website, I realized that mine are much more beautiful *blush*
http://www.007b.com/breast_gallery.php

Valentines Day

A cool fact: Could you believe that I was in a 2 years relationship before and i have not celebrated Valentine's in my entire life? Cool right ><''' Well let's not talk about the past, talk about the present... Yes, tomorrow's Valentine's Day, a day to celebrate LOVE! And I think that we shouldn't just express love to our 'other halves' on that day... Love comes in many forms, family love, friendship love, teacher and students love... love for pets, cars, football teams, etc... You name it you have it... So Valentine's Day is for everyone! Not just for lovebirds.... This is to make singles feel better... haha...
In today's class, my lecturer asked a classmate, "What do you think about celebrating Valentine's Day?" He said he felt that it was kinda awkward to just expressing your love to your loved one on that special day, instead he said, he'll make everyday a Valentine's Day, not necessarily buying expensive gifts everyday, he'll do it by showing love and affection to her everyday, try his best to make her happy and fulfill her needs... And then the whole class, especially the girls went "Awwww... you're so sweeeeet....." His girlfriend is really one lucky girl... At least he tried his best to give whatever he can.... see... that's the effort! The effort is the most important, not the results! Guys, take note of this... Not all girls are materialistic ok...
Happy Valentine's Day to all my friends and family! I love you all!

What will you do?

What will you do when you're stressed out? I mean real stressed, plus feeling helpless at the same time? For me, I'll start going nuts, not meaning that I'll go on a killing rampage or what... I'll start talking nonsense, entertaining others and myself... This afternoon I was listening to the baby laughing posted in the previous post, over and over again... And just now, I suddenly thought of this song... the Cupcake song... A very very cute song... And if I ever come across a child who can sing exactly like her.... hohoho... I don't know what I'll do... ngek ngek... Listening to these really worked when I'm stressed... But the problem will still be there... *sigh*
But at least I'm laughing ^^

dreams~dreams~dreams

Did i actually slept yesterday night? I did, but when i woke up, i felt like i didn't sleep at all, maybe because i was dreaming the whole night... Freakish dream! I dreamed i was taking care of a little brat on the plane (don't know whose child is that, supposedly is someone whose parent i know) , and the most freaking part, i dreamed i was asked to do a math question on the white board, which i didn't do beforehand, and i don't know how to do it on the spot!! Everybody was waiting, and i was writing and rubbing it off again and again, hand sweating, felt so uncomfortable and embarrassed! I don't think i managed to finish the question, until i realized i did the wrong question, i was supposed to do the easier one ><''' It's still giving me the creeps! I can say so that it was a nightmare :S

Mr.James asked us to write down our dreams everyday, for it is easier to interpret... For the flying and babysitting part, i don't have a clue... As from what i guessed, the math part, maybe it's just my anxiety of the Statistics for Psychology subject, that i am unable to concentrate in class, and test is this Friday, clashing with the deadline for another assignment, which i haven't started doing! Ahhhh!!!! Can someone kill me!!! Or let me just take 许玮伦's place...??

Anybody knows how to have a QUALITY sleep? I tried quantity, but it's useless, i just get even more tired (maybe i slept at the wrong time)... I've been waking up everyday for the past days (or maybe weeks) feeling tired and heavy, and feeling damn tired in the day, and energetic at night... But yesterday was a different case, whole day super blur and tired... My memory span and capacity is deteriorating! I can't concentrate! I can't do anything! Help me!!

Why study Psychology?

Why Psychology? This is a question i still hear every time someone asks what I'm studying... Some of my course mates have great ambitions... which is to make the world a better place with Psychology!!! :S
I'm not an ambitious person, so why did i choose to study Psychology in the first place? It's because i have no other choices... Sciences, Business, Designing etc. is totally not my cup of tea, so I'm left with social sciences... and guess what, I'm surely not suitable for Mass Comm, so i have chosen Psychology. Not to say that I'm forced to study it, somehow it is also my interest... I wish to understand myself more, and other people too. And so far i wasn't disappointed...
James' class was interesting, besides his informative lectures, he gave us personality tests too, to better understand ourselves and our classmates. We did another one today, and this is the result of the test i did:

Full of enthusiasms and loyalties but seldom talk of these until people know them well. Care about learning, ideas, language, and independent projects of their own. Tend to undertake too much, then somehow get it done. Friendly, but often too absorbed in what they are doing to be sociable. Little concerned with possessions or physical surroundings.

Accuracy: 99%
Don't know how to end this post... that's all i have to say....
Pheromones are giving me problems! ><'''

Something meaningful to ponder on

Up to you

It is easy to be miserable. It is just as easy to be happy.

Being miserable will nourish and support your ego. Being happy will bring peace and fulfillment to your spirit.

Being miserable can be very dramatic, complicated and sophisticated. It can make you appear quite impressive to other people.

Being happy, on the other hand, is an expression of simplicity and freedom and joy. Chances are, others could be suspicious or resentful.

Once you have chosen to be miserable, it will require a great deal of energy and effort to maintain that state of misery. By contrast, when you choose happiness, that happiness actually brings additional energy and positive passion to your life.

The choice between happiness and misery is one you make in each moment, over and over again, day after day. Whether you're happy or whether you're miserable is completely up to you.

-- Ralph Marston

Treasure in Words

Someone forwarded me a message on Friendster today, and although i normally don't read those messages, but i find this sweet and meaningful ^^

Life ends when you stop dreaming,
hope ends when you stop believing,
love ends when you stop caring,
friendship ends when you stop sharing.

To love without condition,
to talk without intention,
to give without reason,
and to care without expectation,
is the heart of a true friend.

I might not have love, but at least i still have friends...
I might not have all the money in the world, but at least i still have some to spend...
I might not live to 80 years old, but at least i lived 19 wonderful years...

Yikes, starting to sound like I'm dying soon... Yea, going to die real soon if i don't buck up in this semester... Haven't even start studying for tomorrow's test.... Thinking of switching my phone off tonight... Don't want to get 'harassed' again like yesterday... And there goes my precious time...
Oh gosh, start to feel sleepy... How am i going to finish studying that whole chapter?
Useless piece of wood.... 废柴！

Homework...

The same day we came back from China (we reached early in the morning), my mum already gave us homework to do ><''' She wanted us to write a report, or rather our feelings and thoughts from our trip... Well, this work here won't be read by my computer illiterate mum, but still it'll be written anyway coz this is what i planned to do even before she assigned it to us...
The trip to China was an eye opener for me, made me feel even more grateful to be born in Malaysia, to be a 'anak Malaysia'... Almost everywhere we go, those women who talked to my mum started the conversation by asking whether the 4 of us are her children... All of them envied my mum and said how lucky we are to have each other as brother and sisters, coz in China only one child is allowed in a family... Imagine how much pressure and competition each child has to face in their entire life! *sigh*
The tour guide herself even gave us insights about how hard it is to find a job in China, how big the competition is... A university graduate herself, she has no choice but to become a tour guide because of the tough competition... And even if you find yourself a job as a normal factory worker, your pay will be very very low, that's why most of the items you can find in your house are made in China... because of cheap labour work...
China is such a big piece of land, and it has the biggest population in the world, imagine how much talented people they have... If you are not educated enough and you don't know something like painting, singing, dancing, acrobatic, sewing or whatsoever, you wouldn't survive in China... In rural areas, everywhere you go you'll see people selling their paintings, pottery or artwork at a minimal price by the roadside. With their delicate and skillful masterpieces, they'll become famous artists in Malaysia... But it is a different story in China... *second sigh*
Beggars are not something unusual in China. Besides, the beggars there are much more diligent then our own country's beggars. Malaysian beggars would just sit (or sleep) on the floor with a bowl, whereas China's beggars would follow you all the way, even when we reach the bus they will beg at the entrance of the bus.... Quite scary at first, but we got used to it and just ignore them... We have no choice but to walk off, that's the advice by the tour guide herself... She warned us on the very first day not to give money to the street beggars, especially children beggars, coz once you gave one child beggar money, suddenly one big group of children will run out from the alleys begging you for more money... So in order not to get ourselves into trouble, we were advised to just walk on if you see a beggar, especially if the beggar is still young and able bodied...
Malaysians are always labeled by tourists as friendly and kind people, i doubt that until this trip to China... It's not that the Chinese are not friendly, they can be rude at sometimes, I got bumped into almost all the time when i walk in a crowd... or maybe I'm too short to be noticed... =.=''' Speaking of crowds, i have never ever seen so many people in my entire life, don't count concerts or mass gathering la, it's just a normal place sort of like Petaling Street and you can see so 'much' people, not just in one place, but a lot of places at one time, especially in Shanghai... Kinda scary, just like ants roaming freely...
China has a population of more than 1.3billion, and their land is so big that even a lake called "Tai Hu" is four times bigger than the whole of Singapore... Sadly speaking, if i have not mistaken, the tour guide said there are more than 2o million children in China who do not have an 'identity' in China... they are just a nobody in their country because they do not have a birth certificate. In rural areas where the law of one child per family is not that tight, many families bore many children... only one child in a family can register for a birth cert and officially be a citizen of China, but for the other children of the same family, they couldn't even go to school or get a job. So what can they do? Become farmers, roadside acrobats, and worse, prostitutes... 20 million people without an identity, and that's just an estimation by the government, there might be even more... 20 million is almost one Malaysia already =.='''
I'm really thankful to be born in Malaysia, a democratic country (although not so democratic at some times) with no natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons, etc... All of us living here must have done many many good deeds in our past lives to be born in Malaysia this life, haha... So love our country everyone... be proud to be a Malaysian! Malaysia Boleh! (ya, apa pun boleh most of the time) ><''

Love = Egg?

The hope of succeeding in a relationship, is just like trying to hatch an egg with your bare hands...
Although it's risky, many still search high and low for this special egg for themselves, pour in their precious time and unconditional love to care for this egg, eager to have a good outcome, hoping to enjoy the process, and harvest the fruit of labour when the egg hatches...


Most people choose to cover up the egg with their hands, to protect it from harm and give it warmth, without knowing that the egg is about to suffocate inside... Although it is possible to hold on the egg for quite a long period of time, true love will die out sooner or later, and the egg might not hatch in the end...

Some clever ones choose to balance the egg on their palm, to give the egg more space for itself, and at the same time keeping an eye on it...


Although it might take a longer time for the egg to hatch, with more space to breathe and moderate warmth, eternal love will hatch out from the egg when the right time comes...


However, for some people who are worried that the egg might fall out from their hands, choose to hold the egg tightly in their hands... The egg will not fall out no matter what, but not long after that, the pressure upon the egg will cause it to be smashed... By their own hands...
The egg is gone... It's gone all because you hold to it too tight...


No matter how much litre of tears you shed, and how hard you prayed for this egg to return to it's original state, it will still remain a smashed egg.... Why cry over a smashed egg? Fry and eat it up! After that, wipe your mouth and get yourself another egg, when you are ready for the new challenge of course...