The Eve Of 2011

As 2010 is drawing to an end, everyone is bidding goodbye to 2010 and making resolutions for this coming new year.

I can still remember that I was in Beijing China for last year's new year eve, initially I was hoping for a New Year Countdown or Fireworks at the Tian An Men Square but the weather was too cold to persuade me to leave my comfy room. Furthermore, our tour guide told us that apparently the locals don't really celebrate 1st Jan, instead they focus more on Chinese New Year according to the Lunar Calender. By the way, until now I still think that whatever he said about the celebration was a lie. So in the end, I spent the whole night staying in my warm hotel room watching TV programmes (such as their national orchestra performances, both western and eastern and dramas) and even fall asleep before the clock strucked 12am.

As for this year's new year eve, I am currently back to the small peaceful town of Taiping for the wedding ceremony of a friend of mine which will be tomorrow. 1/1/11 = 1111. Meaningful date huh? Sitting in front of my laptop while listening to the "noise" of Fireworks and Fire-Cracker. Reading people's new year shoutouts in Facebook and Twitter. Switching my mood to nostalgic and starting to recall on everything happened within the last 1 year.

Another quiet yet peaceful New Year countdown for me.

Frankly speaking, this 2010 wasn't really quite smooth for me. Stressful Tension moments and Heart-Breaking moments keep playing the "Catch Me If You Can" game for the first half of the year.  Thankfully I did manage to step out from the shadow during the second half of the year, especially during my 5 months internship period. You know sometimes if you take a step backwards from the circle and observe it with a third person point of view, you can actually view the entire situation clearer and thus evaluate the relationship better. With that, when disappointment strikes either an individual or the group, we can handle the down side of our emotion better and stronger.

Here is a link to the video of the World's famous new year Fireworks at Syndey Harbour Bridge. Nice Fireworks indicating a fabolous new year ahead.

And this London Fireworks were even better. Check it out. (updated on 2/1/11)


Any new year resolution form me?? Well, I just hope that me can graduate smoothly by the end of this coming May. The rest?? I think I will take a step at a time. =)

Happy New Year eveyone.
May this coming 2011 brings more health, wealth and love to everyone.
Cheers.

This December

2 more days before the month of December reaches to an end. So far it has been a month to be cherished. Good enough to compensate the remaining portion of the year that hasn't been so good in my opinion. And here are some recaps on some happening momentss for the last 29 days.

Early of the month before our mid-term break started,

we went to Mount Kiara on a quiet night.

To a Japanese Buffet Restaurant name Tenji.

In conjuction with Julian and Pei Se's Birthday few days later.

The place was nice and high class.

But not so much variety on the food.

I mean you are expecting something more than that when you are paying for that amount right ?

Then during the Mid-term break, I went to Singapore for a few days with my family.

Although I did have a tough week after returning to campus from the mid-term break, due to my poor performance in the last two mid-term papers of my degree year. I did have a short period of down moments after that but that's allright for now already. =)

Then on 14th Dec night, everyone took the effort to come out for a while to celebrate yours truly's birthday.

Smiles that come from deep inside your heart always look the best.
Agree ?

Didn't have the time to do any year-end shopping nor Christmas shopping due to undisclose reasons. 

And the only time that I visited a shopping mall in KayEl was during a midnight movie session. Where all the shops were already closed. But you felt like you owned the whole mall to do whatever you want with these Giant bears.

Then a week later, everyone gathered around again to celebrate Yin Fung and Way Chow's Birthday.

Then few days later, it was Christmas eve and we spent the night on the peak of Genting Highland.

The crowd was there but not so for the Countdown.

Everyone was like expecting something spectacular from somewhere.

And 12am just passed by without most of us noticing it.

But we still had funs up there though.

Spent a few hours chit-chatting at Starbuck while waiting for the rest to come out from the Casino. By the way, I managed to resist myself from changing any cash chips. ^^

And I love this shot so much,

was from my Sony Ericsson P1i not so smart smartphone.

and less than 12 hours after we came down from Genting, we gathered around again for some sort of Christmas Party. As you can see, we had a Christmas tree and a lots of presents one wei...

And it was also Tze Ing the Christmas Boy's birthday.

Everyone with the blink blink Christmas Tree.

And everyone with their presents.

Will not be celebrating 2011 New Year eve with them so I guess that should be the fullstop for a wonderful December and a mix-fortuned 2010.

I hope 2011 will be a better yaer. Will it be ?

The Love Towards Christmas Balls

You know Christmas is pretty much just around the corner when you can make shots like this.

2009-12-24 Christmas Eve @ Pavilion

2009-12-26 @ Genting.

2009-12-27 @ Beijing Hollyear Hotel

2010-1-2 @ Beijing 前门大街.

Got snow on it somemore.

 2010-12-02 @ Tenji Restaurant Mount Kiara

2010-12-6 @ Singapore Sentosa Island

2010-12-7 @ Singapore Vivo City.

2010-12-8 @ Random Singapore ClubHouse.

2010-12-19 @ Midvalley Megamall.

2010-12-19 still @ Midvalley Megamall.

So quiet no people walking around behind me. lol.

2010-12-25 @ SK27.

Previous years Christmas was just like another normal day to me.

Started to enjoy the celebration of Christmas since 2 years ago.

Hence the date of photos taken.

Here is a Christmas advertisement video from Coca-Cola.

Find it quite interesting to be shared around.
The atmosphere in this video is just so warm.

So how's your countdown fella's?

Merry Christmas Everyone.

and Looking Forward to a Happy New Year.

Ho-Ho-Ho...

Beijing Trip Part 5

Allright, after so many days of delay (since part 4) due to mid-term holiday follwed closely by mid-term exams, now I have the tiniest gap of free time to construct this part 5 of our 2009 trip. And speaking of it, isn't it 2010 is already coming to an end ?? Gosh, the messy time line.... =.=

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Name : Beijing Trip Day 3 Part 2
Date : 29th December 2009
Place : The Great Wall of China @ JuYongGuan

 

So we continue from where we stopped at in the last post,

on half way climbing up the Great Wall.

forgotten how long finally we managed to reach one end.
Just one side of it only though. 

Seeing 4 of our tour members walking around down there.

excluding this small little girl.

the sky was so nice that day.

Hah...now that looking back at this photo,

I remember this couple.

1 from the States and 1 from Beijing.

They were in their honeymoon at that time.

and revisiting Beijing after many many years.

knew all these from a nice short chat with them. =)

I looked so small...lol...

We reached one end, and couldn't go any further.
Well, since there was nobody else there.

A perfect opportunity to have our own sweet time taking photos.

Jump 1.

Jump 2.

slow-mo walking.

My turn to jump jump jump...

After that, decided to take a short rest 

since there were only the two of us.

we sat down, took a deep breath 
and enjoyed the beautiful scenary.

tried to take a panorama shot but fail.

So can only post up seperate pieces of it. =.=

And everything turned even more beautiful when it approached sun set time.

playing with my shadow.

it is true, such historical structures sure need everyone's cooperation to take good care of it.

Endless wall....

Mountains on the other side of the wall.

Favourite photo of the day. ^^

Time to slowly walk back down the hill.

See how steep was it ??

walking down the Great Wall is never easier than climbing up.

Because when you were walking downwards,

you could see how steep it is in front of you.

And the strong wind kept blowing you off-balance.

An example just in case you don't understand what I mean.

Things doesn't look that scary when you are walking upwards right ??

but the view looked totally different from here.

just had to hold on tight to the handrail to prevail the strong wind.

Sharp corner.

Gaya sial....

just so sad to see such Vandalisme act.

How selfish were they...

Continue walking down.

with the mystery locks...

my hair was so messy after taking off the winter hat...

we were back to this stone slab again.

and he demanded another photo with it.

trying to measure how high was it.

reaching the foothill.

back to the pass gate.

favourite photo of the day number 2.

Look at the old couple at the right bottom corner.

"执子之手，与子谐老".

From here, the Great Wall looked grand.

I mean it has been so Grand all the while, 
but to be able to see it with your own eyes,

it was like "wow, how these people built it wei..."

and "how could the ancient soldiers stand climbing it everyday up and down??"

These hills were high, as I mentioned before,

it was more like climbing up a hill more than literally climbing any wall. but the excitement just keep driving you to go forward and forward,

until you reach one end.

and you don't really feel that tired after all.

it is 1 of the places that you're definitely coming back for a second taste. =)

we discovered this at the other side of the pass gate.

do you think it is a real one ??
or just an artifact ??

hey, I saw a familiar orange shirt guy down there.

discovered another small building nearby,

looked like a temple.

signalling an end to our Great Wall journey...

He was randomly pointing at a spot.

one of my stupidest posing photo...lol...

As an ending of this Great Wall trip.

A panorama shot of the Great Wall before we went back to our bus.

Some may noticed that Mrs. Phoon has been missing from this post.

Actually she just climbed half way only,

After she got tired she went back to the bus along with other Aunties,

While me and my brother went all the way Up...hehehe...

We left Beijing for ShanXi 山西 right after that.

Was a roughly 4 hours bus trip. Was sleeping all the way though.

Reached a town in ShanXi named DaTong 大同 around 8pm.

and had their famous ShanXi steamboat 山西火锅 as dinner.
As usual, the Night ended quite early.

and we would be travelling around DaTong the next day.

But what's over there for us to make such a long trip?

Coming Up Next : All the way for a Hanging Temple and Buddhist Temple Grottoes...under such extreme cold weather....like seriously??