Kuching Dance Festival 2010 - part 1

25 July 2010

Thank to Tyng Dance Academy, I got a chance to attend International Belia Dance Night 2010. This concert was held at Borneo Convention Center.

The program tentative was

Since i miss the first International dance festival, I will not miss this chance again.

First time drive to Borneo Convention Center, I like the fact that the parking is free. phew ... can save a bit.

It is very big and modern building. The main gate was facing a river and from the balcony / parking drop off point, we can see beautiful sunset.

Back to the topic, the event of the year. Got the chance to see different kinds of dance from different country. In my opinion,

The most touching is "faraway dad "dance from one of the china troupe.
synopsis of faraway dad
in china, some of the parent need to leave their children at the hometown for a better life. They will travel far to the city to earn living. Thus the only communication between the parent and the child was weekend phone call. the dance really show every little details of the reality.

This bring back my memory. Last year I travel to china to visit my dad. we are lucky that one of
dad's friend(Mr A) invited us to experience China ancient village lilfe style / kampung lifestyle in yancheng , 盐城. Mr and Ms A work in Shanghai and only gone home twice a year. Thus, they pack lots of things for their family members in their hometown. The most important was they finally have the chance to reunion with their little girl. During the journey, I can hear that Ms A was chatting happily with her daughter (Girl A). A series of events was plannedfor the home coming.

Once reach the yancheng home, Girl A rushed out to hug her mother. touching was the only word come to my mind. Family love was always the best. During the 2 days stay in 盐城, Ms A will buy any things Girl A ask for. Girl A was an obedient and filial girl. all she ask for was pigeon soup and some tidbits. During every meal, I witnessed Ms A was happily cooking all the dishes for her little girl.

At the end of the home stay, Mr A's family hug tightly to each other. Once a year, they can only met 4 time. They really treasure the moment together.

This dance really bring back my memory and i can't help think Girl A and my parent.


The most sexy dance is belly dance from Indonesia
shimmering was consider one of the most difficult dance movement. But, it prove me wrong, the dancer can easy dance out. her belly was shilvering gentlely and her move capture my heart. all her movement was so sexy that my eye could not leave her. I believe all the photographers agreed with me. because the clicking sound was greater during this performance.


The most visual effect was korea dance from hong kong troupe.


The story that can get across me was"the story of white crane"
The most memorable opening - sarawak troupe

a parking story

Dad: 哇，中saman啊。。
friend： 是咯。。哎~~
Dad：一定是park 黄线是不是？叫你不要park 黄线了咯。。...

friend ： 就是咯。。很多人park 那边，而且每次都没事。。要反省了 。。。 T.T
Dad：知道错了没有？
friend： 知道了。。
Dad： 就是嘛。。。下次不要park 黄线了。。直接点，我们park 路中央。。这样saman比较划算~~~
friend： 爸，你这句话好帅啊~~~

quoted from my friend

can't help admire her dad's humor sense
hahahah ^0^

The story of a rice cooker

Rice pot is a necessity.
However, things changed when I study in UNIMAS
Rice Pot = All purpose pot.

I can use rice pot to cook soup, rice, fried vegetables, fried eggs, cook spaghetti and lots more.
This rice been follow a long time. If not mistaken, it was with me since i was born. During my first year in uni, mum let me bring the pot to school. wow, it work till today. salute to national rice cooker.

This rice cooker not only contain memory from my family. it also have lots of interesting story behind it. Although some of the story is funny and embarrassing but sharing mean no harm. little laugh may light up your day too.

1) Friendly moments.
I love to cook green bean soup, red bean soup and spaghetti for my friends. Especially spaghetti, although it is just ordinary spaghetti, with mushroom source and slice of hard boil egg, we can enjoy the moment and chatting non stop. Chinese quote say that 3 woman = 1 market /pasar. This quote is true and we can create a pasar instantly.

2) funny moment
During Bako Trip, I was in charge of food and beverage. for breakfast i decided to cook vico drink for everyone to drinks. tang tang tang......no hot water so I use rice cooker to boil water. once the water boil, I took out the vico drink packet. aiaya vico become hard rock.(another friend left for us) it is impossible to crush it into powder form. thus the best way is ... throw the whole packet of vico into rice cooker. stir and stir and stir. slowly the hard rock vico boil into vico drink. phew done....


when i was stirring the drink, some of my friends was curious and approach me. From sleepy face into shocked face.

Friend TSW: hi what are you cooking?

me: vico lah (continue stirring the drink)

Friend P: face turn a bit weird

Firend TCK: where got people cook vico like that one?

me: eeehhh.... can not meh. easy mah later every one can scope and drink it.

Friend PCY: OMG!!! what is this?????????? (the tone is weird too)

me: (weird face) cooking vico lah (really don't understand the situation)

Friend P: this is the first time i see some one cook drink like that

next moment, every one in the kitchen roar into laugh. I went blur. then friend PCP explained to me that vico drink is use teaspoon and stir in a cup. No one in the worlds will cook it with rice cooker. Thus, it become one of the most memorable event in Bako trip.

The worst is when friend YSF come into the kitchen and saw a pot of vico soup

Friend Y stared at me: how much water do you boil?

Again, everyone in the kitchen roar into laugh. My ear turn red. really no face liao ~0~



3) rice pot= "warm box"
life without a refrigerator is unbearable sometime. I can not buy meat to cook. thus, i prefer to be vegetarian when cook myself or with my friend. vegetables that we bought need to be cook earlier. Yes we are survivor.

This is how i warm my burger. I am not an owl. thus unlike my friend, supper = my breakfast. so how to prevent supper from spoilt. Thank to my kawaii rice pot, it keep y food warm till the second day. thus i can still enjoy my meal ^0^

thank mum for letting me having this great rice pot. this rice pot really create lots of memory ^0^

During Infosys Foundation Program - Meal part

3 meals provided throughout infosys foundation program was a dream to me. I can eat freely as I want. Thank alot to Malaysia government, MDEC, UNIMSA, UTEM, INFOSYS and who ever that sponsored and taught us. However, the consequence is body out of shape, face will grow fatter and become fish ball. I worry that my face will grow from fish ball to tang yuan. Then I will be having more trouble to slim down.


Back to the topic. lets discuss on the types of dishes we have during the program
Breakfast
Beverages: -Milo, Coffee, Tea
meals:

• sandwich
• cream puff
• curry puff
• nasi lemak
• fried rice
• fried noodle
• mee sarawak
• mee jawa
• mee hong kong
• roti canai
• roti jala
• kuih muih
• satay
• ketupat
• bread

Lunch:
Beverages:- orange juice, pepsi, root beer, laichi, guava juice, ice lemon tea, sirap, corn drink, sky juice
meals:

• rice
• pineapple rice
• tomota rice
• nasi berani
• curry ayam
• ayam masak merah
• ayam masak ginger
• ayam masak lemon
• ayam pangang
• ayam goreng
• ikan goreng
• ikan goreng dalam sauce
• rendang
• sotong
• fried prawn
• fried vege
• raw vege
• paku pakis
• fruit
• and the list go on (too many liao)

Dinner
Beverages:- orange juice, pepsi, root beer, laichi, guava juice, ice lemon tea, sirap, corn drink, sky juice
meal:

• fruit
• soup
• almost same as lunch

during lunch time, if you are not so hungry, better wait for a moment.
most of the people will rush to grab food.

During Infosys Foundation Program - part 2

Second part of Infosys Foundation Program (July to August 2010)

when past participants said it will be intensive, please believe and be prepared. it is truly intensive and challenging

project completion duration

5 minutes before project submission


after project evaluation


relax a bit ^0^

food in Kuching ^0^

Ladies and gentleman let me proudly present a very delicious pork satay. Pork satay is really
rare. Firstly, it need techniques to cut the meat so it is easier to chew. Second to BBQ pork it need to have good marinate source.

Hehehe
I found it. It tastes better than my home town pork satay. It is located at Taman Hui Sing Commerical area/hawker Centre, Kuching

Nicely marinate pork satay mixed bit a bit spicy and crunchy satay source. Hmmmm, tender meat rolled into your mouth. As your chew, the fragrance begins to spread too. Every taste buds on your tongue can enjoy the tasty source.

A few stores away from stay shop is a drink shop. A friend introduces us to have “white lady” as a drink. White lady…. White lady…… hmm it sound more like girl wearing white dress to me. But it turn out to be a nice drink.

There are 2 layers of colours. Bottom is mango sauce white top one is ideal milk. Yummy yummy, it is truly a good drink for a hot summer night. (Malaysia has summer night every day actually )

Bau Trip

2 June 2010

^0^ Make some new friends from Infosys Foundation Program. As a "Kaki Jalan"/ traveler like me, never will miss a chance to travel and find new place to eat.(Provided, wallet have enough money ~0~)

First stop: 7 mile market /pasar batu tujuh

Here we tasted
1) Teh c ais special
2) kolok mee
3) kampua mee
4) huang ping/ gong pia

guy really can really ate up a lot. in the end , our breakfast table was stacked with bowls, plates and glasses.
Second stop: wind cave

when park ranger said it is a dark, and must travel with torchlight. He really mean it. It is really dark in the cave. Wind cave have no wind.Entrance fee = rm1.50 (because got matric card ^0^)


Third Stop: Fairy Cave

after some steep climb, a beautiful scenery reach our eyes. It is more windy than wind cave.

Forth Stop: Serikin

places where you can get cheap souvenir from Indonesia. however, we went on the wrong day. thus it look like silent hill

Fifth Stop: Lunch at Pekan Bau

Sixth Stop: Tasik Biru

It look more green than blue to me

Seventh Stop: Air Panas Paku



Hmm lesson learn is never believe the signboard. air panas = air kolam very disappointing. but it give us a good laugh.

Eighth Stop: Taman Sahabat, Jalan Song

Ninth Stop: Dinner at Jalan Song
delicious fuchow roll chicken, ham and cheese
Again, I witnessed a full table of food till I not sure which to eat first. Guys are really good at eating

Tenth Stop: Wash cloth at hostel
hahaahahaha, our clothes are really dirty and smelly. Spend up more time to wash the clothes

World Rain Forest Music Festival 2010

I finally got the chance to join World Rain Forest Music Festival.
Thank to celcom, I got the chance to get student ticket. it really save me a lot of money. thus extra money can be spend on travel expenses , food and beverage.

9am- eat green noodles at 3rd mile. happily eating dumpling "yuntun", green noodle, soy bean and toast bread. the green noodle is made up of spanish vegetable. I prefer the charsiew greeen noodle. it taste better because the char siew is really delicious and yummy. while the ginger duck green noodle is too oily.

10am- chatting till we almost forget the time thus we quickly pack and travel to sarawak cultural village.

11am- reach Sarawak Cultural Village. weird why less people. but before mentioning o the crowd. the shutter van service. Due to some reason they blocked away the Sarawak Cultural Village parking lot, thus we need to park our car at santubong resort.

the distance from santubong resort to sarawak culural village(SCV) is hmm far, quite far actually very far. thus we need to take shutter van. the round up trip for shutter van cost RM10. I turn into ice stone cold. although is far but it will only took Rm1 to rm 2 just to travel the long distance. *sigh once in the life time , just forget about the money

while in the SCV alot of camp was set up. a lot of craft, souvenier, food and beverage store were set up.




2pm- Indian Percussion at theater

amzed, bravo, marvellous, hao bang. I hope i can use up all the good words i know to the performances. It was so cool . usinmg simple rhythm , masterpiece will start encircled the hall.

I was clapping my hand so hard that i did not realise the pain till the show finished

3.15pm - Come and dance: balkan dance at Dewan Lagenda


Really enjoy this session. learn balkan dance. it is very simple. 1,2,3,4, ,kick right, kick left. very easy to catch up. the music was lovely too

4.30pm - Rhythm master at Iban Long house

Drums from all over the world.
when they plays the last piece, I reminds me a little story told by an australian monk.
Once you are the master of your instrument, You can play a lovely piece of music. When music masters gathers and work in harmony, master piece of music will be produced. Ignore the the skin colour, culture, language, religious, If we master the things well, we can corporate and work in harmony. the music was just great.

5.30pm- ckc and me faster went to dewan lagenda to booked a good spot for the great event of the day. Live concert. who care the floor is dirty, i just want to have a good spot to enjoy the music.

5.50pm- enjoy our simple dinner. example, sushi, ice cream, soda, pia bread.(the mutton pita bread is really delicious)

7.00pm - started to dozed off -.-zzzz raining heavly, lots of people gathered at dewan lagenda

7.00pm - first performance started. ^0^ Sarawak ethnic music

7.30pm - China music performance.

8.30pm- gypsies prformance. wow the crow was really really high on this performance, a beautiful gypsy lady dance gracefuly with lots of items. such as very high hat(i think so, is really really high), glass, fire, rope, candle stand and skirt. I like her tradisional costume.

9.30pm - need to go back

It is a MUST event to join and participate in life time. You can really enjoy good music and enjoy the rain forest. it really mean to be raining all night long because it is truly rain forest ^0^

During Infosys Foundation Program

After 3 years of study computer science, I realised that I very easy get tired in front of pc and thinking solutions for problems.

thus, during break time, a tittle rest will not do harm. so there are ways to take a break (take a kikat)
1) rest on the table.
From my observation, we like to have a small nap in front of the pc. a few moment of rest will refresh our mind

2) hide behind the curtain
=.=||||| speechless may be behind the curtain we can find a pot of gold

3) chatting
anythings and everything can be chat under sun

4) take a walk

5) go to restroom

6) drink a cup of coke/tea/coffee

7)went blank (发呆)

take a small rest before continue the journey (休息。是为了走更长的路)
^0^

True Colour

One of the lesson learned from Dr Ranjit Workshop: do not be emotional.
Even during characteristic test, some of my friends advise me to stay calm and rational. Try not be too emotional too.
After a series of event, I reflect in class and at room. I really need to change my attitude. I can not live on with my emotional unstable.

On a windy Tuesday night, we help 2 friends to celebrate their birthday. After the cake cutting ceremony, the @#$%^&* few naughty fellows/ demons started to play with icing. An innocent photographer like me also been drag into the icing war. After part of my face was covered with icing, I went berserk (luckily I still know how to keep my dslr away first. If not there will be a lot of sleepless night for me)



When I went berserk, I lost track of my consciousness. The following act was unexpected. I not sure what did I do. I really cannot remember. The next moment, I saw demon T*** was against the wall. The worst thing was my left hand was on his neck. What have I done?


Story heard from my other friends, demon T*** was lifted from the floor and struggling under my caught. If the story is really true, that means I have potential energy and can lift heavy thing.
My eye was filled with killer aura that frightens away my friends. This is the first time I saw a guy’s hand was shivering when I stood beside him

From the event, I truly regret on my ignorance, arrogant and childlike behavior. My short term goal: improve my EQ in 2 months time. Avoid throwing tantrum. Avoid throwing or hitting other . try to think dance steps when emotional went too high.