Wesak 2012 - The 2,556th year of Buddha Era

5th May 2012 marks the 2,556th Year of Buddha Era. As a Buddhist, I celebrate this festival to commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha.

4th May 2012, Wesak's eve, ending the year with celebrating Wesak's eve at Buddhist Gems Fellowship (BGF), joining in the Puja, listening to Bro Benny Liow's talk and capped with performance by iGemz.

iGemz

Naughty Aiden

5th May 2012, starting the new year in the morning at BGF, with lots of activities planned by BGF such as morning puja, performance by the iGemz kid, talk, blessing (get a red string) and lunch dana.

Performance by the Kids

The main highlight of the day will be bathing of the baby buddha. This symbolises the purification of our mind to remove our mental dirt of greed, hatred and ignorance. Preparing myself to walk for a long distance at night, I get back home to have a good rest after lunch dana. 

Buddhist Maha Vihara

The most beautiful procession

Beautiful view of BMV

Around 6pm, I reach Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV) and meet up with the others (Leang, Bulat Tan, Jestin etc.). Waiting for the start of the Wesak's procession, we loiter around BMV and I get my 2nd round of blessing (and a yellow string). The procession start around 8pm and the route start from Brickfields, toward Bukit Bintang and back to BMV. As a Starbucks' addict, I manage to grab a double shot espresso Dark Mocha frappucino at Bukit Bintang to replenish my energy. We reach back at BMV around 11pm and my leg feel numb but I am happy and blessed to be able to join the procession this time around.

P.S.: Happy Wesak Day to ALL

BERSIH 3.0 - The day my government go to war with her people

April 28, 2012 will forever be etched into my heart. This is the day I stand up for what I believe in as a Malaysian, and the day I walk with ten of thousands of Malaysian.

A peaceful start

 

My day started early in the morning when I get out from my house at around 9.30am. Fearing that there will be road blocks, I insist of fetching a friend of mine, ON in Cheras and not meeting him in the city. From there, we proceed toward the capital. To make a long story short, after some difficulties (driving, walking and taking bus), we manage to reach the cordoned-off Dataran Merdeka around 12.00pm. There is festive-like atmosphere and the crowd is enjoying themselves taking pictures, sight-seeing and chatting around.

We joined the crowd, took pictures and walking around Dataran Merdaka due to the fact that we cannot enter  the square. Walking around, I cannot help to realise that every races is there attending this so-called rally. What a sights to behold!!!

A boring DUDUK BANTAH

Walking around, standing, sitting and singing 'Negaraku' with other protesters from 12.00pm until 3.00pm, I actually feel bored. Take note that by saying I am bored, I mean we are extremely PEACEFUL. We walk around looking for any leaders that is giving speeches but found none. Sporadically, there are some rogue protestors shouting 'REFORMASI' but it does not gain traction because the majority of us actually wanted 'DEMOKRASI'. Around 3.00pm, we found a place to sit and waited for 4.00pm so that we can go back.

An eventful ending

By 3.15pm, sittting at the stairs of HSBC HQ, I almost fall asleep when ON told me, 'Look, water cannon'. This is followed by tear gas. By now, all hells break loose. Make no mistake, attacked by tear gas in no joke. I tear, chocked and almost collapsed. With face mask, wet towel and salt, I manage to recover myself and by now, we try to move away from the ground zero. Playing hide and seek, we walk till Menara Maybank and wait for everything to calm down before making our way back home.

Conclusion

Today marked a very sad day for Malaysia. We are just peaceful people sitting down, walking and singing national anthem yet we are attacked. Among the crowd, there are children and I even saw a baby. How can we be threat a to the public? To all the people who walk and sit with me sincerely without any exterior motives except for the 8 DEMANDS of BERSIH 3.0, a big thank you for making my day. 

Brooks Run 2012

1st run of the year, participating in 10km and without any preparation, my timing suck big time. The run is held at National Stadium Bukit Jalil on 11th March 2012. Personally, I think the organisation is not really good compare to Malakoff and Adidas KOTR that I attended last year. I am stuck at the starting point for 4 minutes before I reach the starting line. The first kilometer is a nightmare because there are too many peoples around and I am not able to even jog at all.

My result:

RkCat Bib Name Official_Time Net_Time

442 J5321 LEE YONG WEI 01:17:12 01:12:53

Finisher medal but no certificate :(

Participate with two 1st-timer for 10km run, Shu Ning and Wen Yi

Meet Ann Ric and gang after finishing line

My Blind Date's Adventure

My first and last BLIND DATE -.-

It all started with a simple message to my WhatsApp on the fateful day, 30 Jan 2012 at 1.59pm.

Friend: Yong Wei, are you attached?

Me: No, any girl to intro?

Friend: Yes, I am thinking of setting you up with a friend.

Me: -.-''' OK. Let me know then.

So, my adventure begin. My friend exchanged our h/p numbers and me, as a guy send SMSes to her to arrange the location, date and time for the blind date.

On that fateful day, as nervous as I am, I remind myself that this is just a simple meet-up with a new friend. Seriously, I am so friendly that I don't think I cannot handle this meet-up. How wrong can I be.

The whole date took less than 1 hour. We met at Parkson entrance and decided to go to Fullhouse for lunch. From the first impression, I can see that she is a very quiet person, shy and timid. But seriously, if a girl agree to go out for a blind date, at least she is ready to communicate. But then...

During the date:

1. My questions came back with very short answers.

2. There is no eye-contact between us. Tried but she seem too shy to make eye-contact.

3. Awkward silent when I am not initiating communication. There are moments when I don't talk to make her talk more but she just look at her foods and keep eating.

At that moment, I prayed for the date to end as soon as possible. So, when our foods finished, I signalled for the waiter to bring the bill and pay the bill. Walking out with her from Fullhouse, we say goodbye and walk the opposite ways.

Conclusion:

This will be my first and last blind date. From the start, I am not expecting anything. As far as blind date is concerned, I don't even need to know how she look like. So, to go in a date and feeling this awkward until I am speechless, I start to doubt my communication skills. Not putting blame on others, but me; seriously, to be speechless, you are the FIRST person to do that.

The beginning of the end ~.^

Sometimes I wonder whether it's just a crush or I already fall in love with you. I know we are not meant to be together for you are too good to be true. Thanks for all the time that you spend with me. The memories will be kept in my heart for as long as my heart is beating.

oNeOnEoNeOnEoNeOnE

Although I feel 11.11.11 is too overrated, I think I should at least do something to commemorate this day. Here will be a list of ELEVEN places that I wish I can visit before I leave this world. Hopefully I will be able to achieve my dream =)

1. Everest Base Camp

- already in my plan for 2012. *Finger crossed*

2. Niagara Fall.

- next trip to US, I must go.

3. Mauritius

- not sure why, just know that this is in my mind since childhood.

4. Eiffel Tower

- must visit when I go Europe.

5. Bora-Bora Island

- one of the most amazing island in the world.

6. Maui

- Pirate of The Caribbean's fault.

7. Pyramid

- top in my list as the wonder of the world.

8. Taj Mahal

- one word, ROMANTIC.

9. Maldives

- in my honeymoon's plan.

10. Mt Fuji

- hiking in snow will be fun.

11. Amazon

- what can I say, the most mysterious jungle in the world.

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11.30pm 11.11.11

JJ Lin 林俊傑 - Love U U MV (夏日樂悠悠 主題曲)

Listening to this song, I cannot help to ponder how much effort and time should a guy give before finally giving up? Someone once say that guy easily give up when facing rejection or when there is no progress in capturing the heart of his dream girl but if that is the reality, shouldn't he just let go and wish for the happiness for the girl? If he know he will not be able to achieve the expectation of the girl, he is actually doing the right thing and not being selfish of just wanted to be together with the girl.

TRUE LOVE is not about happiness of oneself, but for the one that you love.

就算用盡所有真心

卻到不了你的心底

回憶難以靠近 你是我奢求的唯一

讓我用盡所有力氣 只要你相信

我最堅持的聲音

只剩一句 Love u u stay with me