Bungy Jumping

Date: 26 Oct 2008
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Harbour Bridge, Auckland, NZ

Experience: 1st Time
Excitement Level: 10/10
Nervous Level: 11/10

Can't Wait.............

Nana Has Gone To Heaven

Nana (Mum’s side) has gone to Heaven 2 days ago. After much of struggling, she has passed away on Tuesday evening at 10pm. She has been sick for quite a few years. I remember visiting her during every Chinese New Year and for the first few years, she can remembered who I was but then she will asked again “Who Are you?” after 10 minutes later. Although she couldn’t remember much about the present day but she remembered every detail about my childhood. She will always comment it later that how fast I have grown up but hardly remember that I just visited her the day before.

This year, she has been really sick. She was lying on her bed 24/7 and required a lot of assistance with her daily activities. Mum has been visiting her on and off and taking turn to take care of her with my other Aunties. She has total of 11 kids. One son and ten daughters. 2 of her daughters were given away when they were babies. Although we managed found one of them but couldn’t locate the other one.

Grand-dad passed away almost 23 years ago. Now, she is together with him in the comfort of GOD’s hand.

Almost 10 years ago, my Grand-Father (Dad’s side) passed away when I was still studying in NZ. It came to me as a shock because I remembered him on the day I left M’sia and flew to NZ for my study. I always thought that I will see him again when I’m back for the 1^st year of studying. I was very upset then. I spent a lot of time with him when I was young.

4 years ago, my dearest Grand-Mother passed away out of sudden as well. It breaks my heart because she is the Greatest Grand Mother anyone could ever have. She is always very generous with her love to all her grandchildren and has been fair with anybody. However, I know I was her favourite grand son. She used to bought me heaps of stuff and always ensure that I’m not running out of money. When she was sick, I couldn’t make it to see her for the very last time. I missed her a lot and I wish she is still alive so that I could spend more time with her.

Family is always there for you. Life is too short and it is very important to spend anytime that you have with them. If you couldn’t be there all the time, a phone call will simply make their days and yours.

Auckland, NZ

After 15 hours of traveling and having turbulence all the way from KL to Auckland, got stuck at the custom, ‘striping’ all my luggages inside out by the custom officer, finally, I’m in Auckland again after 10 years ago.

It is nice to be back in this city again. I love NZ. The sky is still very blue, the air is so nice to breath in, the people are still very friendly, nothing much changed in the city except…..THERE ARE SO MANY FREAKING ASIANS HERE NOW!!!

I can’t believe it! It just felt like another Asian City in an Ang Moh environment setting! Of cox, there are a lot of Asian restaurants as well (which is good for me). I guess if it is not because of all these International students, Auckland could be still be a very boring city, just like 10 years ago.

The hotel is really nice and it is right in front of the Harbour. The room is very big and comfortable! The food at the restaurant is good. So far everything has been really good.

I’ve met up with my cousin and we spent some time together catching up all the gossips. I managed to make a few new friends here and went party and drinking together. It was a lot of fun.

Went to visit the Casino and lost some money there. The casino just like Genting! I reckon 90% gamblers there are all Asian (80% are Chinese, probably! So typical!).

Friendship

While I was away from home, I think the only one thing that really kept me going is my friends in Singapore. From times to times, I’ll chat with them on MSN or Skype, and email them occasionally from my loneliness hotel rooms. They kept me entertained and making sure that I’m not too bored or to the worst, talking to the wall. Sometimes, I received SMS from them just to tell me how they missed me, which is quite heart warming.

Friendship is one of the important elements of living a good life. You need true friends to be there for you when you are sad, lonely, bored or happy, and being there for them as well. However, to maintain a good friendship, we have to really go and ‘maintaining’ it. You always have to make it to a point to call them and check on them when you haven’t heard from them for a while, or simply you haven’t called them for a while. Ones must never be selfish or lazy to pick up the phone and making the good call.

Being a good friend to someone, you should always be able to sense their sadness or happiness, even though you are half way around the globe (now, that’s powerful ‘power’). Sometime, they just want a listening ear. Other time, they needed your advice. Friends are the supporting bone of our day to day lives.

Sometime, you don’t need a lot of friends. You just need a couple of good friends. A true and genuine friend.

End of UK Projects!

Finally, after 3 month of traveling in England, Ireland and Scotland, it has come to the end of my UK project. My last project was the most memorable and fun one. This is because I’ve learnt much more than my first few projects as my team mates were willingly to share their knowledge and they were crazy and funny people as well. They have a good heart J

Last weekend, my best friend was here to check on us because it was her project. But the fact is her main priority is here to see me, before I returning back to Singapore. We went to Edinburgh visited another friend of ours and we watched Rugby (All Black) in a local pub and see some interesting places. Edinburgh is a lovely city compared to Glasgow.

Next week, I still have 2 days attachment at the International System Support Center in Glasgow and then I’ll be going to London on Wednesday. Initially, I’m flying back on Wednesday to Singapore immediately. But then, thinking to myself, I never really visited London. So I changed my flight to Saturday and hopefully, this time, I can really ‘feel’ the London.

Meeting Up Ex-Colleague

On Thursday evening, I met up with one of my ex-colleagues from my previous job. She was my surpervisor before. We have been on the phone for the past 2.5 years but we never really had a chance to meet face to face. Finally, I’m in Glasgow and I do not wish to miss this chance. So I called her up and we met at my hotel and have dinner at the hotel’s restaurant and catching up over a few drinks at the bar. It was a lovely evening, except, the fire alarm later in the morning (refer to my below post).

Another One!!

Another one?!?!

It's Thursday and it's 230am! The fire alarm went off again! I really don't know what the F*ck is going on! This is the second time within one week?! Why is that so many fire in this hotel?! (FYI, last one the fire was from the kitchen. Apparently one of the Chefs forgot to turn off the oven after shift) I wonder what is it this time?!

Once again, we were gathered at the hotel car park in front of the hotel main entrance. There wasn't much of action going on again. Can't see any fire (by the way, the picture above was just a random pic) This time, we were back into the hotel after 20 minutes.

Sigh....not sure when is the next one again....