Cameron Highland

TEN of Us @ Cameron

First Stop we looked at the BOH tea leaves and the BOH Tea factory. More Pics found HERE ..
:: BOH TEA ::

Then we Go Hiking on on the tree roots.. It's our first TIme hiking.. The View up there is so beautiful... :: Hiking Trip ::






Cactus Valley.. a place we saw many cactus, flowers..
::Cactus Valley::






At Last.. farm visit to Strawberry..Vegetable .. flower..
We got to pluck fresh strawberries frm the farm.
::Farm Tour::









We set off to KL the next morning around 0830...
Took few pics outside the Equitorial Hotel and we took a mini van down the hill.. the kids can't take it and vomitted...
::Equitorial Hotel, Cameron::

Behind Scene

What we see May not be What We see..

I always believed that for everything that took place has it's very own reason. Be it good or BAD. What we see is good may not be exactly good and what is bad may not be exactly bad.

It reminds me of a story...and is like something like this:-
Long Long ago, there lives a Prince..
He was very smart looking...
One day he finger got cut off and was very sad about it.
Everyone was sad to hear the news too and thought is such a pity...

BUT.. There was a day he was Kidnapped..
When the Kidnapper saw that he has missing finger and thought that is not worth the price as he is a handicapped..and he let him off...

Thus..initally everyone see it a very bad thing that he lost his finger but then there maybe a reason behind. he could have lost his life if not bcos of his finger..

**I think i may remember the story wrongly..but the morale is there. i will go find out the correct version and publish again accordingly..

Below is another story that i think share the sample morale..

THIS IS JUST IN

This little pearl was just sent to me by email. Something to make you appreciate where you are at this particular moment.

After Sept. 11th, one company invited remaining members of other companies who had been decimated by the attack on the Twin Towers to share their available office space.

At a morning meeting, the head of security told stories of why these people were alive...... and they all were about the simple things of that morning...

As you might know, the head of the company got in late that day because his son started kindergarten.

Another fellow was alive because it was his turn to bring donuts.

One woman was late because her alarm clock didn't go off in time.

One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike because of an auto accident.

One of them missed his bus.

One spilled food on her clothes and had to take time to change.

One's car wouldn't start.

One went back to answer the telephone.

One had a child that dawdled and didn't get ready as soon as he should have.

One couldn't get a taxi.

The one that struck me was the man who put on a new pair of shoes that morning, took the various means to get to work but before he got there, he developed a blister on his foot. He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today.

Now when I am stuck in traffic, miss an elevator, turn back to answer a ringing telephone ... all the little things that annoy me. I think to myself, this is exactly where God wants me to be at this very moment.

Next time your morning seems to be going wrong, the children are slow getting dressed, you can't seem to find the car keys, you hit every traffic light, don't get mad or frustrated; God is at work watching over you.

May God continue to bless you with all those annoying little things and may you remember their possible purpose.

Pass this on to someone else, if you'd like. There is NO LUCK attached. If you delete this, it's okay: God's Love Is Not Dependent on E-Mail.

By Diane, Department of Veterans Affairs
(Extracted from:- HERE)

Blogging@Work

Look! It's 4:35pm and Opal shld be at work but she is BLOGGING!!!
Got this shot while i was testing the camera and I like this pic very much.
Sunflower: It brightens up my day and will clear my cloudy mood when i see the smiling face.
So please smile when u see me! and i will smile back! this makes the world a more friendly place to live in...

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity.

If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready. The great Tao flows everywhere

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve.

Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

QN: Am i a blogger or Am I just a cute gal who happen to blog? ~think (",}

Gloom

Hmmm.... TOday is Wednesday NOT Monday but today is really not a day to work! I have been coughing n coughing and feel really sick. Feverish too... I realised.. before i go for any trip, i will somehow get sick or stung by something... haiz and tis weekend me going Cameron n KL..maybe this explain why I am SICK today? ~~~~~~~~

Let's see the rest of my buddy:-
Pinky@work..
TOday is not a good day for her either..
She ate 2 pandadol extra this morning and this make her extra HIGH. SEE she can work @ 2 Station simultaneouly.
But as you can see.. We love our work place... We beautify our work area and we feel @ home :D



Eindy@Work...
Eindy was @ the copier machine and ME was standing beside her
Opal: "Sor Hui"
and she turned over.. Gotcha..I snap this precious moment...

Tips of the day:-
Remember to smile always... so you will never get caught with this "Arh" expression...OR Say cheese whenever someone callu from back

LUNCH TIME



And IS LUNCH TIME...and we went JP
We ate @ Swenson.. the ice-cream taste tat bad?
hmmm... it's mango flavour...

This Old Man

Inspiring Selfless Story

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One day an old man boarded a bus.
As he was going up the steps, one of his shoes slipped off.
The door closed and the bus moved off so he was unable to retrieve it.
The old man calmly took off his other shoe and threw it out of the window.
A young man on the bus saw what happened, and could not help going up to the old man and asked, "I noticed what you did sir. Why did you throw out your other shoe?"
The old man promptly replied, "So that whoever finds them will be able to use them."

The old man in the story understood the fundamental philosophy: do not hold on to something simply for the sake of possessing it or because you do not wish others to have it.
We lose things all the time. The loss may seem to us grievous and unjust initially,
but loss only happens so that positive changes can occur in our lives.
We should not always assume that losing something is bad, because if things do not shift, we'll never become better people or experience better things.
That's not to say of course that we only lose "bad" things; it simply means that in order for us to mature emotionally and spiritually, and for us to contribute to the world, the
interchange between loss and gain is necessary.

Like the old man in the story, we have to learn to let go.
The world had decided that it was time for the old man to lose his shoe.
Maybe this happened to add momentum to a series of events leading to a better pair of shoes for the old man. Maybe the search for another pair of shoes would lead the old man to a great benefactor. Maybe the world decided that someone else needed the shoes more.

Whatever the reason, we can't avoid losing things. The old man understood this. One of his shoes had gone out of his reach. The remaining shoe would not have been much help to him, but it would be a cherished gift to a homeless person desperately in need of protection from the ground. Hoarding possessions does nothing to make us or the world better. We all have to decide constantly if some things or people have run their course in our lives or would be better off with others. We then have to muster the courage to give them away.

DO NOT DWELL UPON THE PAST.. LOOK FORWARD AND MOVE!

Xpression

As the Sunset here...

Is The Begin of A New Day..

It may be the sun setting here but the sun is also rising at the other end of the world..
Many times we tend to only pay attention to what we can see but not realising things that can happening which we don't see...

Attended a wake and I've got alot of thoughts..
I was thinking..
Did we spend enough time with our loves ones..?
Did we spend time listening..?
Did we spend time sharing..?
Did we ....
Did we....???

Things happened fast and unpredicted..
Today we may be having lunch or fun together,
But we do not know what will happen later..
This point we maybe talking happily...who noes the next sec one of us will just die?

When someone passed away, will they be at the wake?
My answer is YES! A BIG YES!
So please do not quarrel or talk things not good about the person, cos he or she will know and will be SAD to hear that too!

This is a postitive entry! Please remember to spend more time with your close ones and do not argue with them cos you may regret not spending more time with them and y argue over a small matter!!!

Babies

Kayla & Yu Xuan Get Together!

Kayla was born on 14 Sept 2003 and Yu Xuan was born on 22 Oct 2003. Kayla Ma Ma and Yu Xuan Ma Ma was colleague then and that's how they got to know each other.... and tat's how i see them grow.

Kayla seems to co-operate and smile...
but Yu Xuan was too engrossed cooking..!! :p









They play together...









Opps..what happen?









Xuan riding on the pooh while kalya pusing the shopping cart around...









Here came Jayden.. He is the little brother of Kayla.
He was born in October 2005, 11. They both have big eyes!

This is Jayden with Aunty Merlin...
She is mother of Yu Xuan.., and
Friend of Kayla, Jayden Mummy... Joanne.

Look.. He is saying 'Hi' to everyone!













Jayden with Aunty Bee Guat...
Friend of Kayla, Jayden Mummy... Joanne.
Look.. He is crying... what happened?
Did Aunty Bee bully him?
He is actually hungry and wants MILK!

Tats all for now... Tomorrow is Jayden's One Month..
but his celebration is on Sunday! May God Bless ...

TUES Morning Thoughts

As a second passed..
As a minute passed...
As an hour passed....
As a day passed.....
and we grew day by day...lived months after months...
what are we really achieving...
Are things we worked for eternal? We worked everyday and trying our very hard to achieve our very own goal. But PAUSED.. spend some precious time and really come to think about it, what is a thing that is eternal and that is worth our effort to spend our precious time on it and not wasting our breathe here now.

MONEY,ASSETS,CAREER...etc
Some maybe working very hard for money...
Some maybe working very hard to buy a house, a car, club membership..etc
Some maybe working very hard for career OR EVEN stepping on your dearest friends or colleague who also have to work to live, just to climb to the top ladder...

BUT HEY! on the day when we have to leave this world as some belived that we are just a visitor here....
CAN WE BRING ALONG OUR ASSETS/MONEY?
YOU MAY BE A CEO, DIRECTOR, GM, MANAGER, EXECUTIVE OR A CLEANER,
BUT WHEN U ARE PRONOUNCEd DEAD, WHAT WILL YOU BE?

Imagine, If you were given a chance to be sick and you know you got no much time left, what you wish for? Would it be MONEY,ASSETS,CAREER...etc?

Come to think about it.. We were given a chance to live... We are here with a mission OR We are really just a visitor here with a Social Visit Pass from Above?

Opal Dearest

It's Grandma's Bday and we had a celebration at Teochew Garden Restuarant@Concourse.

童真

Motherly Love

I see the monkeys cuddle, it reminds me of motherly love. 愛

Sentosa-KM8

Harbour Front Mrt @ 1000hrs. We are supposed to meet here but where is the rest? They were of course late lah.. people who come on time were Marcus..Chee Mun and Yap Chong. We went Macdonald for breakfast at 1045hrs and proceed our journey to KM8.. we reached there at NOON... it's scorching hot.... but GOOD










What can be done there?
Those who like suntanning can Tan...
Those who like swimming.. u can swim from island to island
Or you can play beach volly or flying disc (frisbee)
and chilled out with kakis and take great picture lah

Sunset @ Taipei

Beauty of Mother Nature

Opal Lives in Taipei

Holiday to Taipei, Taiwan 10 – 15 September 2005

10 September 2005

1230 board Jetstar 3K521
1715 reach Taipei Chung Cheng airport 中正機場
1730 Collect Luggage and buy bus tix. We took Free GO (飛狗) BUS to hotel...
1830 reach holiday inn asiaworld 環亞 and check-inn
1900 Asiaworld foodcourt makan and we met Laurie and she bring us to Raohe Night Market and we walk walk.. eat eat .. drink drink
2300 We took BUS Number 306 back to the hotel....before we go back hotel we went to HI LIFE (convenience shop) to buy tibits n drink.
2400 Tired & Sleep..

I spent about 800NT for DAY 1.... includes transport, makan, shopping...est.($40.00) DAY1 PIC

11 September 2005

0800 Good Morning..
0900 Yum Yum Breakfast @ holiday-inn cafe
0930 Walk to Jie Yun 捷運 @ Nanjing East Station to XinPu 新埔Station
1010 Reaached Xinpu station and we Met JS Li... He drove us to San Xia 三峽, 霛隱寺 Lin YIn Shi..i always want to go in my dream.. met many seniors and elders...
1245 Went to Ming Dao Su yuan and we had lunch there and met more elder and seniors.. we visited the place and saw many things we dun get to see in SIN...and we played water in the river..
1430 JS Li send us to Xinpu station
1515 we met Laurie at Taipei MAIN Station...and we went to CKS Memorial Hall
1630 we went to NTU...not Nanyang Technological University but National Taiwan University @ Gong Guan Station. we tried to walk into the courtyard of NTU but was too hungry and tired to continue the journey.. we gave up and opt to go 吃東西... so we went to catch some makan opp road...we 吃東西、買東西、吃東西、買東西、 again and was really really tired, we took a rest at the STARBUCKS.
2000 Took bus number 284 to Ji Long road and went to Ling Jiang Night Market...
2215 finished xia ping and we took BUS 282 back to our hotel...
2300 Home sweet Home ::DAY 2::

12 September 2005

0900 Good Morning..
1000 Breakfast @ cafe and came back to room and clear our emails....
1230 Laurie came and bring us out... we bought our easy card to we took jie yun
1300 We reached Zhong Xiao Dong Road and we visted SOGO... and we walk around the plc..and we saw this interesting restuarant.. all the things inside our very oldies.. maybe the 50's or 60's..?? we had our lunch there..
1600 After shopping around the area we took jie yun to SUn YAT SEN Memorial Hall and we went to a garden and we saw the Ah Pin GE.. knocked off work and the flag down ceremony... very interesting to see them marched..very different from the way SAF march...and we walk all the way to Taipei City Hall and to TAipei 101.. we met Laurie's friend who worked there and managed to get a discount tix up the 101!! thank god... we are so lucky..and we took many many pics and after that we took jie yun again to Long Shan Temple.. we went to the temple and Hua Xi Jie..we shop around and we find tat we dun like the place... we saw snake.. turtle..? and R-rated stuff... |||
2230 Opps we missed our dinner... we took a train to DAAn station and we had sweet potatoes porriage @ the nearby shop.. we chop chop eat cos we need to finish eating fast and catch the train back b4 12...(Cinderella) ::DAY 3::

13 September 2005

0600 Very Good Morning... we have to wake up early and meet laurie @ 0800 Jiandan Station
0800 We reached JianTan station and we took bus S15 to Yangmingshan...we went hiking. The place is awesome. the place is beautiful.. see the pics and you will noe..
1130 We took bus s15 and change 206 and finally 108 to to see sulphur at the 小油坑....
1300 finally we went hotspring!!! @ Spring Resort Hotel!!! it cost 900NT for unlimited hotspring wif hi-tea. i find the price worth.. we spent good time there...n watched the sunset too
1930 We took the shuttle bus and tranfer jie yun and we reached shilin night market...
1145 tired and home sweet home ::DAY4::

14 September 2005

0800 wake upcall
we went xindian 新店 Bi Tan Scenic Spot 碧潭風景區...got boat ride too....
then went ximen 西門and to dan shui 淡水... fisherman’s wraft 漁人碼頭.... old st. 老街....supper ||dou jiang you tiao|| 豆漿油條 ::DAY5::

15 September 2005

Going back to Singapore today and will definitely miss Taipei. I will have to go back to my normal routine work and school.
We took Free Go Bus to the airport around one thirty for 135NT per pax. The bus tour us around taipei and reached the airport @ abt 2pm.
And now i'm writing the blog on the plane Jetstar 3K522 with my fujitsu laptop 6120... Singapore I'm back..

I love taiwan .. I love the People here.. they are 彬彬有禮 polite and friendly... and the customer service is BANG!! EXCELLENT!!! kids here are well trained too... EVERY THING IS GOOD!!!
Things i See in Taiwan which we don't get to see in Singapore...

Other than places of interest is different (of course).. the traffic is in another direction and way the people here lives are different too!!!

1. At the Train Station, everyone will take their initiative to keep right and the left lane will be "overtaking"...
2. At the Train Station, everyone will queue in the line to wait for train boarding and will let passenger alight first!!..unlike Singapore where everyone will squeeze all the way in.
3. And the customer service is Taiwan is way far better than us. They were polite. In the night market, we won't get scolded for not buying. and they will ensure we pay for the value. 服務周到， 笑臉迎人 .. serve with a smile.. customer will buy and feel happy
4. Teenagers here are well dressed and discipline unlike what i see in our country.
5. At the Train Station, there is even VOLUTEERS. They will make sure things is inorder and assist us (Tourist). What we don't see in Singapore.
6. The pace here is just right..not too fast..not too slow...
7. Safety was not a concern. at least i feel safe when i'm there and i'm taking public transport everyday... When is late, there is even security petrol at the train platform.

and more more more.... you will know when u by chance visit taiwan. When i was here i was so impressed by this place and think that we (singapore) still have many rooms for improvements..
I will be back to taiwan again and will bring my grandma along...

Acknowledgement:
Thanks Laurie for bringing us around and din even charged us a single cent and you even have to fork money to bring us around. ** Laurie has to spend money buy Swimming Costume @ S$40 just to bring us to hotspring and not to disappoint us. You bring us to good places, good foods and many many...
If Laurie din bring us around, i doubt we can cover so many places. We not only covered the places we want to go but Laurie brought us to unexpected nice places such as Bi Tan… xiao you keng… etc
many many thanks to you and 503 always... hope to see you again soon..be it Taiwan or Singapore or anywhere... All the best to you and good luck for your studies.

||I'm uploading my photos.. shld be ready soon||

Our Family

Family Photo taken on 31 August 2005

This is our last family picture. 31 August 2005 marked the last day of work for our CCE dad. We arranged a farwell lunch and celebrates his 60th Bday. I'm HAPPY for him cos he can retired and enjoy life with his family. but SAD to see him leaves us... Reminds me the days we used to work with/under him. .. will missed those days.....
Anyway..天無不散之宴席 .. lifes still continues on... and shall now being our steps to the NEXT mountain peak.....

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