Its almost 2 months...





my mind's stronger than before....




and....




I'm ready to make a comeback...





in style.....







definitely...

just you wait...



~Jian

another hurdle...


another test...


we got through the last one together...


we'll see this one through again...


tears had been shed in the past...


as for the present...


i'm mentally prepared...

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I'm NOT blogging anymore
'til futher notice

10/8/08
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~Jian

So it was the early morning of july 25th...
all of us gathered at Melbourne Central to wait for the bus..
departed at 1.30am..
to Falls Creek!


forced myself to sleep...
but with the excitement building up...
how could I..


around 4am..
we stopped by McDonalds for breakfast..


ahh yess...
the Sausage McMuffin...with coffee and hashbrown..
perfect combination =)


back on bus...
im still wide awake...
and think the only one...


and at around 7am...
it was my first encounter with the snow...



after placing our luggages and all...


my bro and his gf, serena


its was finally time for snowboarding...
grabbed our board and equipments...
and headed up...




dave, kun, me, aaron, yong




benny, me, kun, yong
and yes...the sun was glaring..




up to the lands where no man had ventured before...
to a place where no man ever returned alive..
we said our prayers as we head up...
a place where the fearsome behemoth lived...




okay...okay...
we just headed up to the peak of the mountains...
the place where even lil kids go...
the place where everyone comes back alive..



can't blame me for exaggerating a lil right..
its my first time seeing snow!
and actually feeling it!






and our snowboarding lessons began...


kun and aaron
in the midst of lessons..



sure...
I had my falls..
few hours of falling on ur ass...ur elbows...
and u'll eventually learn...
so yea...i got the hang of it later in the day..
and if u've done skiing...dont think boarding would be any easier..
two completely different sport..

and yes!
skiing is easier cause you have more control over ur legs..
boarding is more fun though =p




once it hit 5, 6 pm..
we were dead tired..


but instead of taking the chairlift down...
we decided its time to conquer our very first slope..
Wombat's Ramble..
a green slope..


green being the easiest...
follow by blue...
and then black being the hardest..


well..for my bro it was easy...
hes been boarding since last year...
and that exchange trip to canada made him better...
so yea...
he boards a bit...
and then stops and wait for us in front...


part of the Wombat's Ramble..



it was kinda hard for us beginners..
we took about 1 hour just to reach the bottom..
and for the regulars??
it takes them only 15 to 20 minutes...
"one day i tell you...one day..."


dinner was....dissappointing =p
we were hoping to find a nice restaurant..
but everything seems to close really early for a vacation spot..

so in the end...
dinner for us was..


2 loafs of bread...


nutella...



peanut butter...



coffee...





and the classic...
instant cup noodles..


slept 1 hour later...
after the excitement within me died down a lil...


the next few days we were boarding like pros.....


almost...


another few more years and yea...
we will be =)

pics from the 2nd day...

kun, me, aaron, yong





yong eager to begin...










aaron...
the guy who had 7 burgers in less then 3 days!

dinner that night was alot better...
called for pizza delivery...
shared 2 large pizzas with my bro and Serena..
Haiwaian Chicken and "The Man"

....
....

" The Man " tasted really salty...

...
...

but it was all good...
had a drinking session the second night too..
Amanda, Charlene and Zee came over too..
few people got wiped out that night..


few...
like Kun and Aaron...
are still able to cook IndoMee at 1.30am..



and on that very night...
it started to snow...


it was actually snowing...
and i witnessed it...


so on the 3rd and final day...
there were no snowboarding..
just chillin..
and...
bit of snow wars...
at one point i was the victim...
snowballs flying towards me..
hitting me in the head body legs...everywhere...except 'there
i kinda enjoyed gettin whacked by snowballs..
its fun since its my first time...


it snowed again on the 3rd day...
and...
i finally notice...
what snowflakes look like..
i thought it was only in the movies...
or just plain animations...
that made them star-shaped..
but...
i was wrong...


snowflake...
i wouldn't have imagine it to look this way...


we headed back to Melbourne at 1.30pm...

I swear...
we weren't filming in a boy band music video..

top: dave, kun, me, bro, serena
btm: aaron and yong

credits to benny, the photographer..

Dave, Kun, Yong, Benny, Pei Jean, Aaron, Me, Bro, Serena

I'll be back next year!!!
definitely!!!

~Jian

We've heard it all..
from allegations...
to sodomy...
to political backlash..
everything...
issues that will tarnish our country...

numbskull ministers following the leaders blindly...
eating shyt when they're told to..

scared to uphold the truth themselves...
scared to face them..
having a leash around their neck...
tied to the government...


like a dog,
afraid to disobey its master...
like a dog....
who have forgotten their identity...
who have forgotten its nature to protect its people...


yes...
we've heard it all..
and...
we know it all..

im here...
to shed some truth...
some which many of you dont know...
things which will never be published in the daily papers...
for as long as the media is being controlled by the government...



I'll try my best to summarize various articles...
and piece them together...
to give u all one big picture...
but i hope...
you can take the time..to read each of them...

**The following articles were extracted from Malaysia-Today and The Malaysian Insider.
none of which, were rewritten in any way.

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You can skip this if u're not interested in the Anwar sodomy case,
but...dont skip the next article!!



LIVE UDPATE!!
faster than TheStar!
29th July

Anwar to be charged with sodomy as police wrap up probe

KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 — The police have completed their investigations into sodomy allegations against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and are going to charge the opposition icon soon for sodomising his accuser Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

......

Anwar has claimed that he is a victim of a political conspiracy and has refused to give a blood sample for DNA tests, saying that it could be used to fabricate evidence against him.

Waving the leaked medical report today, Anwar called on the police to drop the case, saying it was proof there was a plot to implicate him in a repeat of the 1998 case.

"How else can we fathom why the police during the last four weeks of their 'thorough and professional investigations' have overlooked such a critical piece of evidence?

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Earlier today. Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said police will not cease investigations into the allegations against the former deputy prime minister despite a leaked medical report that states Saiful has no medical evidence of sodomy. The former male aide to Anwar lodged a police report on June 28, alleging that he had been sodomised by Anwar in a condominium on June 26.

"This is just one aspect of the investigations. The police are piecing together evidence, let them do their job and complete their investigations," Syed Hamid said. "As it is, they haven't charged Anwar with anything yet," he added.

The Malaysia Today news portal yesterday revealed a medical report dated June 28 that indicated the lack of evidence of anal intercourse, with its editor Raja Petra Kamarudin also claiming that the examining doctor, Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid, had gone into hiding because the police had attempted to have him change his medical report to implicate Anwar.

For the full article on this breaking news,
please click this link

For the full article on the doctor's report,
please click this link

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**THE ARTICLE WHICH YOU MUST READ**

Actually, I did not know why we were going to see Najib. Saiful just said that he wanted to go and see Najib and he wanted me to follow him. So I followed him.


By Raja Petra Kamarudin


I am now facing one sedition charge and three criminal defamation charges. They say Muslims are allowed four and I have just reached my limit of four. Nevertheless, my great-grandfather, Sultan Ala’eddin Suleiman Shah, the Fifth Sultan of Selangor, had ten wives. He also had 44 children from these ten wives, my grandmother, Tengku Badariah, being one of those 44. Needless to say, with the track record set by my great-grandfather, would I be satisfied with stopping at just four? Certainly not! And, today, I am going to chalk up my fifth ‘criminal charge’, whatever that charge is going to be.

Today, in the spirit of my fifth criminal charge, I am going to make another ‘seditious’ or ‘criminal defamation’ allegation against Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, in the spirit of what Anwar Ibrahim said to CNN last week. And this allegation is that Najib met Saiful to discuss the sodomy allegation against Anwar and for no other reason other than that -- and certainly not to discuss the young man’s future career or scholarship.

This time I am going for broke.

This time I am prepared to go to jail for a long, long time

just to make sure that
Najib is not going to become Prime Minister of Malaysia in June 2010.

Yes, I know I am headed for a fall, but I am going to bring Najib down with me. We shall both hit the dirt and become history, side-by-side.

And how will that happen? Well, this time I video-recorded a ‘confession’ session. And the video recording is now in a safe place, ready to surface during my trial when they charge me for this newest ‘crime’, whatever that crime is going to be.



The gist is as follows. When Saiful went to meet Najib, he brought a friend along. And this friend has confessed to the entire thing in a video recording, which I now have in my possession. So bring it on. Give me all you’ve got. Charge me and let us see what happens in court.



Yes, Najib met Saiful to discuss how to fix Anwar on a sodomy allegation. No doubt, at first Najib denied all this. At first he said he never met Saiful, not even once in his life. Then he admitted meeting Saiful but said he met Saiful to offer the young man ‘career guidance’ and to discuss his future, scholarship, and all such matters. The first statement was a lie. The second was also a lie. Najib met Saiful to discuss the sodomy allegation against Anwar.



If Najib can lie so many times with regards to his meeting with Saiful, would he not also be capable of lying about never meeting or knowing Altantuya? What would Najib say if during my trial I adduce a military intelligence report dated when Altantuya was still alive which confirms that he was involved romantically (or ‘involved sexually’ would probably be the more appropriate word to use) with Altantuya?



Sure, charge me. Put me on trial. Even obtain a conviction and send me to jail if you wish. Hey, I am 58. By the time I go to jail I would probably be 60, if I happen to still be around and not already dead by then. So, you can send me to jail, but for how long? What difference does it make when I am no longer alive anyway? And I really don’t expect to live to a ripe old age of 83 like Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Najib, however, will never become Prime Minister in June 2010.

And that is worth going to jail for,
however long the sentence may be.

for the full article together with the interview with the 'accomplice'...
click this link

**Quick Update**




Goggles...


check...

Gloves...


check...

Beanie...


check

another 2 hours before we depart...
1am...

in exactly 7 hours....
i'll be snowboarding....
i'll be seeing snow...
for the very first time in my life...


' Come on Mr Snow! Don't dissapoint me now! '



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July 24th

Happy Birthday BRO!!!

Glad to have you back here in Melbourne!
and thanks
for the
shirt
and the
iPod!!

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Surprise party for my bro yesterday...
pics coming soon
=)





~Jian

of dim sums and celebrations...



so...
after months of missing dim sums..
finally got to try a buffet dim sum last month...






the meal that cost RM1k++ ...


this time...we brought...


Kun's cousin..




Rudy


it was alright...
considering that it was our first time...

and...
just 2 weeks back...
Aaron's friends from Perth came down...
so it was buffet dim sum once again..

meet..


Eugene


and


Vincent


we had over 30 bowls of 'sai mei lou' - honeydew sago that day...
in fact, we ordered so many bowls that the waitress actually left the desert cart and the big bowl of 'sai mei lou' for us =)
thats what i call good service!

and...
just couple of days back...
I went buffet dim sum once again with...


Sze Yee

we actually waited for more than 1 hour just for the 'sai mei lou'
ahahha...


'what to do lah i tell you...sai mei lou so nice mah'

so after months of craving for dim sums...
i'm officially sick/'sien'/jelak/'ni' of all the Aussie siu mais, paus , and everything related to aussie dim sum..
its time for a break...
at least a one month break...

on a separate note...
i miss dim sums back home =)



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with Eugene and Vincent here..
been goin out alot for the past week...

~bowling sessions...
*sorry no pics*

and...lets put it this way...
bowling sessions with Eugene and Vincent...
has really opened up my eyes...

I'VE NEVER SEEN SOOOOO MANY VARIETIES/ 'STYLES' OF BOWLING BEFORE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!

bowling with one leg in the gutter,
standing, sitting, lying on the floor while bowling,
sliding forward and bowl..
no look bowl...
literally launching the bowling ball high up in the sky...thank god nobody was injured..
and many more!

you name it...
they've done it...

~clubbing at Seven..


so before we head out...


we had nasi lemak..

made by Benny and Pei Jean...
seriously...
the BEST nasi lemak you can ever find in Melbourne!



on our way..

aaron




with vincent and dave



outside the club

eugene, jas, aaron, vincent





with jas





jas and dave

funniest part of the night?
few asians actually decided to take on the bouncers who were at least triple their size!

~karaoke sessions...

Vincent
the Sarawakian






Eugene and Aaron
the Johorians

letting it all out to....
Frank Sinatra's My Way

after going karaoke few times in Melbourne...
we kinda miss songs back home...
local mandarin and malay songs...
you can't find it here...
ahaha

~
and...
with the dim sums and all...
definitely alot of eating sessions ahahah!



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last Saturday...
birthday celebration for Ashwin and Kun..


Ashwin




Kun

Pei Jean's Tiramisu
as the birthday cake

yeaap she made it!
and...
it tastes not bad at all =)



and of course...

drinks





All of us before drinks...
all sober...



so after we finish the cake...
we moved on to drinking games...devils deck..
more specifically...
they moved on to drinking games...
I didn't plan to drink that night..



so yea...the games began...



weird things happened...
that night..

from..

listening to the Indian birthday boy rap in mandarin...



to a..




ass dance by Eugene...
in order to earn a toilet pass...






to a rule that nobody can laugh for the entire night...
if broken...
face the consequences..




Vincent trying hard not to laugh
by munching on his hand...


and out of nowhere...



everyone started conversing in Malay....



and they even had to do rhymes in Malay...


" we really haven't forgot our roots...
I swear!
=) "


in the end....
lets just say...
i pity the cleaners the next morning...

they even have to clean up pukes in the basketball court...

cause,
for some reason...
someone thought it was a great idea to play basketball when everyone was high...
in the middle of the night...
3am...

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Random photos at Jas's fondue party last month



few of us decided to draw aaron...
guess which one i drew?

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Okay...
moving away from everything...

something caught my eye in the daily papers here in Aussie few days back..


front page of the world section in a Aussie newspaper...


wrote...


' Opposition leader arrested '
.......Dr Anwar Ibrahim, an opposition leader in Malaysia was arrested



i read the news on9 on the very day Anwar got arrested,
and the next day...
it was published in the Aussie papers...


not bad eh?!
Malaysia Boleh!
front page!
with this sort of news...
ahahaha...


when will we ever learn?



thats all for now...


i kinda miss home during winter hols...



signing off with a random pic from Melbourne!





~Jian

.....thanks Jas and PJ for the pics