Thaipusam, in Batu Caves. 2010

sorry for the dead blog for some times. I don’t really get the chance to sit down, and slowly write my blog in uni due the speed of the internet there.

My PM says, One Malaysia.
And my awesome lecturer always encourage us to go and experience other ppl’s culture, don’t be so ignorant. living in such multi racial and multi-cultural country, but how many of us actually know and bother about what others are doing.

So, I went to Thaipusam on Thaipusam Day itself which is 31st January this year. together phoenix and Sioew Phey ( the most 38 junior )
Woke up at 430am in the morning ( I almost called it off because I was so sleepy )
Went to have this curry mee at Seapark near SS2 at 5am. the best curry mee I taste in Pj!

Reach Batu Caves at around 640am.
Massive Jam there.

Along the way to the caves, I see lots of stalls selling clothes, drinks, food, accessories..
But sth special about this is, I see ppl shaving including women. Wow, I never know ppl go bald for Thaipusam.
* okay, I went Thaipusam without reading information about Thaipusam.. *

Later I found out that the shaved hair is a offering to their Lord Murugan as a token of gratitude and devotion.

I din understand why was Mother Mary there…
then others told me that Hindus, they believe that all God are actually the same.

Devotees carried kavadis and palkudams (milk pots)
Carrying kavadis is a practice of penance and also lessen the bad karma that the devotees tat have created.
Only some of the kavadis carrier piece through their cheek as it is optional for them.
Fyi, the kavadis are REALLY REALLY heavy. Some of them, even have like assistant to carry chair for them.
They sat whenever the parade stop moving.. then kavadi carrier’s assistant will massage their leg to sooth the leg muscles.

Made by roses!!!!!! super super beautiful. My fav. kavadi I saw that day.

Grand stuff!!! He is Lord Murugan, and see all the devotees going up to give their offering to the lord Murugan.
I took an hour to go in the cave. usually ppl take 10 or 15 mins. can u imagine how packed was it?
and imagine ppl with heavy kavadis..

These are some of the piercing I saw. What u see in the second pic are oranges and lime. There are ppl using Roses and
small milk pots ( however I am not sure whether is there any milk inside ) also.
Along the way, I heard ppl saying Vel Vel, Vel Vel ( sounds like will will ).. all the way up till they gave their
offering to the Lord Murugan.
The vel itself is a representative of Lord Murugan. It symbolises His power of wisdom and love over ignorance and arrogance.
Often piercing thru the cheek and tongue are in Vel shape. it’s like a shape of a leave.

Looks like India or not?? hahahhaaha… Pic I took while i was stucked at the staircase.

Another pic i took.

Inside the cave, see alot of milkpots??
In this case, it’s not good to be short. Shorty like me was like under everyone’s armpit. smelling the essence of others armpits.
* help I need some fresh air….. *
It was so packed till I felt sth near my butt there… * a guy was standing really really close to me, it’s like we are sticking to each other*
GROSS!

All the milkpots are designed/covered with yellow color cloth. Yellow color symbolizes purification.

Inside batu caves..

When I looked up….

The pic on the left is the leg accessories that some of the devotees have.
the pic of the right is the trend of sandals now…
I wonder, were the sandals designer inspired by Thaipusam leg accessories?

Sieow Phey smiled like a maniac when she saw handsome white man
hahahha. don’t kill me sieow phey

Light of Hope.

Finally, at around 1230 noon.. we left Batu Caves.
I din realize how tired I was till I showered..
I was so into the festival and keep taking pictures..
I slept like a pig the whole afternoon.

Beside Batu Caves, Penang is another place that alot of devotees celebrate Thaipusam there.

So, next year Thaipusam, I shall go Penang!!!! WOAH!!!!

Can’t wait for more cultural event/festival to come…
Hungry Ghost Festival, Mooncake Festival… 9 Wan Yeh Birthday etc etc….
So much to see, so much to know and so much to learn.

More pictures at
www.facebook.com/ivyhar?v=feed&story_fbid=311798791319#!/album.php?aid=2056589&id=1197271418

I dreamt that you are gone

She was the one I turned to whenever my grandpa bullies me. ( grandpa loves to take my little finger to go and dig his nose, but always I’ll struggle so never once he managed to do that She was the one I wanna see whenever I got caned from my parents from being naughty.
She was the one who brought me around the kampung to 38 38 with her friends..
She was the one who made me milo in the milk bottle everytime before she goes to work at 5am..

I will always make sure that I get to sleep right beside her
Whenever she is too tired to pad my butt till I sleep, I’ll rub my feet and get angry
really badly till she can’t sleep and forced to pad my butt

However, when I grow up..

I find her annoying at times because sometimes she 38 too much
I find her annoying when she complains about me to my mum saying that I sms non stop and talk on the phone..
I find her annoying when she talks about the same thing over and over again…
( yala yala, i know la.. how many times you wanna talk about this?)
I dislike it when she causes misunderstanding..
I dislike it cuz she loves to shout.. maybe Hok Chew ppl are just like that..
I dislike it whenever I wanna buy sth, she’ll say : walau so expensive…
I started to walk faster
I started to visit her lesser..

This morning, I dreamt that she died after eating Daging Kura-kura.. ( tortoise meat )
I rushed home and I don’t see her anymore
I cried.. I kept crying
I wanted to see her so badly
I wrote her email ( ya, dunno how come she got email suddenly )
I posted on facebook saying that I wished I didn’t fight back when she scolded me tho she is being unreasonale
I couldn’t even find her pictures anywhere..
I kept crying, and searching for her..

suddenly, my phone rang..
and, it was her calling from another part of the world

I asked : is that you po???

Po : No.. it’s not me

Myself : yes it’s you!! i can recognize your voice

She remained silent.

I asked : where are u po po? Where are u???? ( kept crying )

Po : Im coming back..

Myself : How you come back??? I miss you… po i miss u.. dun die… where are u?

Po : im coming back..( she said a date, i dun rmb… ) between 9am till ( dunno when d )

Myself : can u c me/??? can u c me??

po : ya.. i can c u.. infact, i can even see thru ur clothes..

myself : po.. where are u??? can u come and touch me??? sit beside me???

I kept asking where is she and kept crying… while i was talking to her,
i kept finding for her…

suddenly, the line jsut got cut like dat. it’s 10pm.. maybe the guard from ‘another-world’
din let her call after 10pm or sth.. so i waited for the next day and… I cried non stop..

I woke up.
confused.
and I cried in real-life also…

ya. I’ll try not to fight back next time if she scolds me or do anything bad…..
not to her only, to my parents, and beloved ones….

Death is not scary, but, being apart forever from ur love ones.. is terrifying.

After so long..@ Choice and Chance

Am back in Sitiawan. my 4th sem will start on 28th Dec.
Jing Hooi ( one of the most steady and blur student, haha ) told me that he is going to skip the first week of class.
Tho Im known as the ‘tak takut mati’ member, but still I dare not do that..

Din do well for my Piano Pedagogy Subject.
I really never expect that I’ll get that kind of grade.
Heck it la.. maybe next time I should just keep my mouth shut in class
shouldn’t ask so much questions and give so much opinions. babi!
Malaysia education system = students are trained not to asked=learn to ‘bodek’ in order to get good grades.
very good.

Syallabus changed.
Forced to play concerto next sem.
yeah. I know it’s a good chance for us to explore sth different.

Im playing
Mendelssohn – Piano Concerto 1 ( 1st movement ) * accompanist *
Beethoven – Rondo, Opus 19 No 2.
Mozart – Twinkle Twinkle Little Start, 12 Variations In C.
*I feel the need to record down what I have played.*

Mum’s darling

The one who look like me.

Lime juice
sweet and sour, just like u.

 

No One Fall In love By Choice, It’s by Chance.
(We wouldn’t have got together If I weren’t given a chance@
We wouldn’t have got together If you weren’t given a chance.)

No One Stand In Love By Chance, It’s By Work.
(We wouldn’t have gone this far without your sacrifice@
we wouldn’t have have turn out to be like this if you were to put in more)

No One Fall Out Of Love By Chance, It’s By Choice.
(We’ll remain together if you choose to be together@
We’ll remain together if you chose to be together)

21st Birthday

As I’ve promised..

They brought me to Nando’s 
Together with Shannon who is not a music student but somehow, he comes to our faculty always * maybe because a lot of leng luis like me… right right Shannon?  * 
His birthday is one day before mine ( just like Kelvin Lim and Gary Lim )

 Knowing that I love pink and White….
they all wore that colors!!! 

Sorry this pic is a little blur =p

 

Shannon and I cutting our Wedding Cake!
hahah..

 

Went to Karaoke after dinner..

A : Who wants to marry Ivy?
All of them : ME ME ME ME!! I WANT TO MARRY HER!

* okay la, just being lame. My blog la, u tak suka u FO la.. * 
oh no, getting more vulgar lately!

Pink and White cute rangers and a……… white sailormoon?
( the only chinese guy in my batch, lucky he!! )

 

Xing Onn came, and his plan failed! wanted to give me a surprise, but… I spoiled everything. =p Anyway, still a big thank you to u… muax!
* QUEEN OF BOOBS Mei Chan don’t jealous la…. we love u also * 

People said we look alike.

 

Memories that last.
  

Thanks people for all the wishes, and thoughts =)
Very blessed

hugs and flying wet kisses for all of you..
even to those who wanted to wish me but didn’t, forgot to wish me or din want to wish me..
I dun mind! hahahah.. muax!

Methodology Class..

I feel like throwing out now.. 

Stresssss

Am supposed to hand up a thesis proposal next tuesday. Im doing proposal on ‘Teaching School Band With Kodaly Method”..  which can’t really work. die!! I just want to pass this.. 

*hang myself with Kuey Toew * <– what Mr.Ong Eng Seng always say.

2012

2012 is a movie that talks about a global cataclysm where people struggle to survive. Was talking about this movie with my fren, and she said the first thing she wanna do is to STOP STUDYING if 2012 is really a doom day. I was telling my fren 2012 is bullshit. but, after i read the post posted by someone, it got me worried. well, there’s nothing i can do ( eh eh, eh eh.. ) 

I planned to get married in 4 yrs time, to open a music school in 5 yrs time etc etc.. so, if 2012 is real, then all my dreams are gone.. 

some people predict that the exact date for doom day is 22/12/2012 according to some calculation..

 

someone posted this in sinchew.com :

根據美洲馬雅人的預言，地球的壽命共有5個太陽紀，而目前已經是第5個太陽紀。

第5太陽紀始於馬雅紀元3113年，歷經馬雅大週期5125年後，走向最終點。屆時，太陽將會消失，地球發生搖晃的大劇變，終至毀滅。

以現今西曆對照這個終結日子，就是在公元2012年12月22日。

 

there were some movie talking about doom day or the end of the world last few years but I wasn’t really putting attention to any of those.. but since lately has been a awful period for countries with natural disaster bringing death and destruction to the lands.. i start to, freak out! 

As I was on my way back to KL from Sitiawan using the Kuala Selangor way.. I was sadden by the view where trashes are thrown along the way.. plastic bags, cups, tissue.. etc!

And sometimes, I wonder whether students in Uni ****** got common sense anot, or they are just some book worms that only know how to study but without some common sense in how to take care of the environment? They brush their teeth/wash their face with the water in high-flow, admiring their teeth/face in the reflection of the mirror while they just allow the water flow like that.. ignorant ignorant ignorant!
since primary school, we’ve learned that we shouldn’t let our water flow while we are washing clothes, brushing teeth etc.. as if it’s so worthless to them, but still, I see people doing that in the hostel.. so ignorant and have no ‘Water-Sense’ at all =.=’  

My hostel often has water problem as in we don’t have water supply sometimes.. then some idiot would just leave the tap open when they find out there’s no water on that day.. *again another stupid act*   often, when there’s water supply, the water just flow the whole day if there’s no one to go to the toilet and close the taps. 

and they never bother to off the light.. 
some smokers, smoke and pollute the air cukup la.. don throw the ciga butts everywhere. deng! 
sometimes i even see parents doing that infront of their kids.. lagi fail! =.=’ bad example..  

i always tell my friends and even my family, if you continue to pollute the environment, one day, if flood happens, all the trash and rubbish will flow into your house in hundred times! 

okay la, enough said! 

it’s not that people have never learn all these before..

people are just being ignorant, lazy! =.=’ 

 

 

2012.. i dun wan it to happen, boleh tak?

 

busy

im here just

to tell u that

im too busy

to update my

blog lately

i’ll upload some 

pic soon here

very soon

be patient! =)

craps

haven’t update my blog for a long time, cuz i really got have much thing to write, besides, my english is limited edition, so, i always prefer to write like few things/issues together in a post so that my post is not too short / boring / lame.

The increase of death due to H1N1 has frighten a lot of people.. now, even the lecturer ‘beg’  students who is sick to go home and rest and don’t go to class.. cool!! 

I was really sick the last weekend. Initially i dun plan to tell my worry-too-much-mum, but later on, i decided to tell in case I breathe my last breath in the room without anyone knowing. As i expected, she calls me every breakfast, lunch and dinner!! muahahahha.. okay. good la, she cares alot =)

Mum asks me to consider to stop working on saturday cuz she said weak people like me need to rest more. muahahha.. like a princess! but, i got so many things i want to get..
an acoustic guitar ( cuz i wanna play in CG ), Kurzweil Digital piano, last but not least, upgrade my almost 4 yrs PowerBook. 

and, there’s this girl that i cant resist………….
loving her smell.. tho it’s too strong at times.

SOFIA!! 

Don’t u think she is super, uberly, extremely cute?????
( i think the teacher is quite cute also..)
i’ve never meet any student who is that outspoken like her
she shouts in class, she dances in class, she jumps in class
i enjoy having class with her ^^

 

Chinese Community Orientation in 12th Coll
i was the one in charge of the make up for the drum team..* like a pro* <– somebody’s fav line 
i ended doing a very ugly make up for myself. cuz no one do it for me. =.=”

The Malays in my class…
eh.. the malay in her red tudung looks like me right????
 

 

 

still coughing very badly =(

 

 

Feeling

Hate
HateHate
HateHateHate
HateHateHateHate
HateHateHate
HateHate
Hate

 

I shivered.. 
DespairDespairDespairDespairDespairDespairDespairDespairDespair
DepressedImDepressedDepressedDepressedDepressedDepressedDepressed

 

I can’t find my way out
Anger
AngerAnger
AngerAngerAnger
AngerAngerAngerAnger
Anger2004AngerAngerAnger
AngerAngerAngerAngerAngerAnger
AngerAngerAngerAngerAngerAngerAnger
AngerAngerAngerAngerAngerAngerAngerAnger

People are laughing, making fun… I am still holding on

JealousyJealousyJealousyJealousyJealousyJealousy
JealousyJealousyJealousyJealousyJealousy
JealousyJealousyJealousyJealousy
JealousyJealousyJealousy
JealousyJealousy
Jealousy

Promise Breaking
Failing.. again and again.. 

Fear.

 
 

 

When can I see the rainbow?

this is like super funny!

妈妈学英文

（一） 有一天，我正在看VCD，老妈棒了一本书进来。

老妈：这个 “i don’t know.” 是什么意思 ?
我说：我不知道.
老妈：送你去大学读了几年，你怎么什么都不知道 ？ 
我说：不是 ！ 就是”我不知道”嘛 ！
老妈：还嘴硬 ！ 说完老妈给了我一巴掌。 妈妈学英文

（二） 老妈：那 “i know.” 是什么意思你应该知道吧 ！
我说：是 “我知道”.
老妈：知道就快说..
我说：就是 “我知道”.
老妈：你皮痒是不是 ?
我说：就是 “我知道”呀！
老妈：知道你还不说？ 不懂不要装懂！
老妈又给了我一巴掌。 妈妈学英文

（三） 老妈：再问你最后一个，你给我翻译一下 “i know but i don’t want to tell you.” 是什么意思？
我说：… … … … ….. …我拿起枕头往自己的头上猛K三十几下，再用那个头撞墙三十多下，再用脚踢桌角三十多下，再用双手轮流掌嘴三十多下，血肉模糊之时，
我问老妈：这下你满意了吧？！
人们常说：学习是痛苦的历程。 不过我不明白，为什么受伤的总是我。
我妈学英文的热情日益高涨，因而我的苦难就日益加深。

 

今天，她又来问我了。
老妈：儿子啊..! “i’m very annoyed,don’t trouble me.”是什么意思啊？
我说：我很烦，别烦我。
老妈：欠揍！跟你妈这么说话。
于是，我又挨了一巴掌。

 

妈妈学英文 一续二 老妈又问：”i hear nothing,repeat”是什么意思呢？ 我说：我没听清楚，再说一次。
老妈又说了一遍：i hear nothing,repeat.
我说：我没听清楚，再说一次。 我：噢~猛？

 

妈妈学英文 一续三 老妈再问：”what do you say?”又是什么意思？
我说：你说什么？
老妈作势要打我，【算了，问另外一句。】

 

老妈：look up in the dictionary.是什么意思呢？
我说：查字典 老妈：叫我查字典？那我干嘛问你？！
这次我挨了两巴掌。

 

妈妈学英文 一续四 老妈又问：”you better ask somebody.” 怎么翻呢？
我说：你最好问别人。
老妈：你是我的儿子，我问别人干嘛？你又在皮痒了。
我说：啊！god saves me！
老妈：敢耍你老妈？上帝也救不了你！
老妈又给了我一巴掌。

 

妈妈学英文 一续五 老妈：我再问你。”Use your head ,then think it over.”又是什么意思呢？
我说：动动你的脑子，再仔细想想。 老
妈：死仔，还敢耍我？　接着又要动手。
我连忙说：是世上只有妈妈好的意思
老妈：嗯，这还差不多！等下我做好吃的给你，下次再问你。

 

 

 

 

 

hahahahahhahaha