Greetings from TAIPEI

hey people! I'm now officially in Taipei.. been here for the 4th day now. Had a transfer flight in Hong Kong, which was superb. The weather now is turning colder, but love the cool air, and sometimes reali do enjoy the cold wind. Haha~ It's a bit of Beijing-like here, which is.. good of course..
Went to Taipei 101 just now, and I'm so afraid that I'll run out of photo memory space. Will be going off down Taiwan next Tuesday, will be having long and lots of bus trips. Will be having some performances too, not too eager for that, coz I'm still not very close to my group members yet. Hopefully by the middle of the tour I'll be doing well with the members.

Miss everyone back there... especially my family...
Love u all~

Rynn's 1st Concert

Date: December 8, 2008

Venue: Plenary Hall, KLCC Convention Centre



A long-waited event, a much anticipated concert.

The concert was small, with only a 5K-audience, but the whole thing can be considered quality, including the concert hall, live band, performance, and guest artists. Though... sometimes, probalby because of his usual way of performing, it can get a bit of.. boring. Still prefer him singing and playing his guitar. And the performances of the guest artists were definitely a highlight.

Our seats were further away and above the stage, thus getting the unclear pics. Anyway, there goes...

Dueting with guest artist Cheng Lee

some Melodi with Sheila Majid

That's Uncle Lim speaking~

Colleague Ah Do as guest artist (his speech was funny.. but nice~)

The ever popular JJ Lin with [Baby Baby] and [Xi Jie]

The three brothers of Halo Music~!!

Rynn shouting to the audience (without microphone)

Paddy-ed

Luckily got to balik kampung this holiday. Visited my uncle's factory ...finally after its existence for so many years... [A place where Rynn Lim and Kym JinSha had been to~!]

The famous Jati brown rice - ecoBrown

A little demo of rice grain processing

Before and After

Jolin Tsai's been here before too! ;)

Packaging

Talk about quality~

aunt said that Rynn was shooting the video here! =D

Next day, off to the Paddy Museum.

wall paper? wall painting la...

Discovered the new castle-like marine port at the seemingly undeveloped Kuala Kedah.

And part of our job back in hometown.

bandaraya...

to finish up the loads of food~

And now, back to finish up the half-packed luggage.

Preparing for winter again.

3 weeks not at home.

Will miss my bed, my blanket, miss bullying YZ, miss getting crazy with Jin, miss the internet, miss everything here...

but who knows how crazy I'll get when I go touring then~

3 more days to go.

Taiwan here I come~!!

TVXQ! ...

Thought I wouldn't get it, but FW finally called me in the morning yesterday to ask whether I can go for the job. My first ever PT job: to work as operating room crew at TVXQ's concert! Something which I have been longing for long.

However, the job didn't seem as busy or 'fun' as expected, since I was put under operating room crew instead of backstage crew, who were much more busy running around bringing stuff here and there. I'd rather be the busy one, while some other people prefer my place which required me to stay guard in the air-conditioned operating room. And the fact that I was shivering there.. hah~

Anyway, the job was easy, to mark down things going in and out of the room, to clean up the room after the concert. But sitting around can be quite tiring too.. hah~ Stayed there til almost 1am, missed out the supper treat given by the boss.

my pass


backstage
(looked small but heard that the stage was huge)

YZ's Birthday

It's time for this gurl to get 'the key'. A bbq party for her 21st year on this earth.

My first taste of Tiramisu!


The best bbq chicken I've ever had


Side dish.. Thai noodles


dessert.. caramel custard! yummy~

Except for the cake, everything else is home-cooked! hah~

Fate

The meaning of fate. And the amazement of fate.

Found through the internet a long-lost friend who was a classmate back during the times of in Beijing. [The power of internet. Hah~] A gurl from Zambia whom I knew for a year or two but only became true friends for less than half the time. Reminded of those crazy moments then.. especially the craze over BSB...haha...

Over the years I have been meeting new people, but the personality of me has often been an obstacle to really get to know people. And often, it's only after a long time when I discover those who are special to me, those who are somewhat 'spiritually connected' with me. Like this Zambian friend. Like Kathleen.

And sometimes, it only happens too late.

The three friends in life: lost, regret, treasure. These three things never seem to come together. It is after you lose a special someone or something, you regret over it, and you will treasure every other moment you have it. Somehow, I am still trapped within this maze. How would I cross my border to reach out this complicated society? How would I know when I would meet a special someone?

It still depends on fate.

Dreamz

Read an article on a Chinese paper, commenting on the space mission dream…

Huh…but what… Fancy spending thousands of the people’s money to buy an unusable spacecraft which the first ‘angkasawan’ has used to come back to Earth surface. It’s funny how we are taking the shortcuts when others are working their way from the basics. Fancy the first angkasawan wanting to leave the space mission right after enjoying the trip to the ISS with the reason to GET MARRIED. The fact that his own personal NEEDS are so much more important than a government mission. Then why sign up with the mission in the first place when you know you will cabut before it ends? Have some heart…

The grand dream of the leaders against the little dream of a lil someone… here. The grand dream of exploring the space against my ambition-turned-dream of studying architecture. The grand dream which is much anticipated by the people against my dream which is heard by no one. The grand dream which was supported financially by the tax payers against my dream which cannot be achieved by a mere little scholarship. The grand which seems so real (yet quite untrue) and my dream which can only remain as a dream.

Well, the unfairness of the world. How I see other people taking for granted of the little or huge nice things that they have, while some other people are struggling to survive with whatever they have. And probably because of this, the latter often are more able survive in critical moments, and that’s when the former might just sit and cry.

It isn’t always a bad thing to walk the long way before arriving at the destination. It’s how you walk the journey that matters more. And never be afraid to start from the basic. Everyone has his/her first time. As long as it’s a thing to the norm of the society.

PD Power Plant trip

Wasn't in my best during the visit to Port Dickson today. But still had to drag my spinning head and running nose with me to this much anticipated trip.

Reached The Port Dickson Power Bhd plant at around 10.30 am, being welcomed by a security guard with his 'long' speech starting with 'Selamat Datang semua...' and ending with '...selamat datang.' (Basically that's about what we heard.)

This caught our attention as we entered the premise of the plant

Given a briefing about the site by Mr. ......

Tour around the plant...

one of the gas turbines


the four gas turbines


Storage tanks for diesel tanks


water treatment system for cleaning turbine compressor


control room...


...which controls everything. =)


inside the plant...









though in PDP premise, this is owned by TNB


Phoenix and I in cute white helmets! Funny~
And if you wonder why this alien was wearing a jacket while the others were sweating like hell, it was because I was sick! I did feel warm though, hehe~


group photo!


all smiles~

Next stop is the Armed Forces Museum. Spent only about an hour there. Wasn't as interesting as expected, but was worth it. And it was thrilling to play and climb into the tanks!! And dear me, some of the tanks are AUTO-geared!! And basically we climbed on anything that can be climbed~ coz they are all real and HUGE!!

The most eye-catching thing as you arrive~

Phoenix and I on this two-seated 'canon'

ESA punya army... don't play play

We are against war! :p


Inside one of the tanks


The simulacrum of communist tunnel




I want this to go to college.. =p


I need this at home.. =D

Off to Teluk Kemang! It was so empty that it didn't sound 'Port Dickson' at all.. haha~

A nice view from the bus

The population there... crabs and hermit crabs!


Tiffany's crab! =p


TS, Heng, me and Phoenix!

A tiring but happy ending~!!!

Some photos courtesy of Tiffany and Steven. =D