I AM BACK!

I suddenly remembered....

I have a blog!

As soon as I got home, I turned on my laptop and uhhh... I couldn't remember what the website is >.< I googled for my own blog. How terrible is that?!

Oh my, I didn't post anything in the year 2023?! Was I that busy until I did not have time to update my blog? Or I simply had nothing interesting to share in my life anymore? 

I remembered, urging LY to start her own blog. She said she has nothing to write about. I remembered telling her to just make small matters into big matters, then a blog post is born. And look where I have been? LY loyally updates her blogspot like a diary, whereas my blog is dead quiet. 

ok ok, my 2024 resolution is, to update my blog as much as possible. I need to revive it. I need to make my brain work hard again (although I think it's overworked as I can see my growing numbers of grey hair. I think my brain is sucking out all the nutrients from my hair 😰)

Let me summarize my 2023 here so I know I did not skip one year haha

We started to travel in September 2022 when borders started to open. We flew mum to Brisbane. I must say, after not being on any long flight for 3 years, 7 hours of flight is a torture. Then we travelled to Singapore, KL, Taiwan, Vietnam, China in 2023, reunited with siblings and nephews and nieces, relatives.  They also came back to spend time with us. 

Then to end 2023, I had really bad pain in my lower abdominal when we were on the high-speed train from Teochew to Guangzhou and it lasted for 2 damn days. fortunately, I managed to become better and made it home safely. Luckily, I had my mum's trolley to use, it helped me walk further and was able to continue to buy buy buy and eat eat eat. After all, Guangzhou is food and shopping haven. No matter how sick one is, eating and buying have to continue! haha

Thanks to Jane and My mum for taking good care of me. My mum enjoyed the trip the most. Why? She bought so much that she has TWO full luggage home. Yes, she took my luggage weight too~  

Happy 2024! 

Our way to end 2023

What it is like in Kids World

My nephew drew this when he was 6. 

Yep, he drew France. can see one of the icons of Paris - Arc of Triumph.

The other day, we were chatting via video chat. He said, yiyi, you can choose any paintings you want. 

Then he started showing us one by one. When he got to this panting, i said, Nah, yiyi don't want this because Covid 19 situation is really bad in France (姨姨不要法国，那里这么多疫情）.

Then he said, yiyi, i didn't draw the pandemic (姨姨，我没有画疫情~）

Awwww, it's so cute. Such an innocent remark 

 

新身份

我今天升级啦~

叫我姨婆 ~~ 😎😎😎

baby kai kai ~

Virtual gifts giving

haha, had a 'chat' with my cute little 4 yo nephew just now.

We don't get to see each other everyday but we do have conference calls a few times a week. He is growing fast and talks a lot. 

I must say, he is a very warm-hearted little boy. In January, all of us, including my dad who hates to fly, flew to Singapore to spend two weeks with him. My dad, he usually takes forever to decide whether to fly to a place. Many times, we ended up buying super unbelievably high priced airfare just because he didn't want to decide a destination or kept changing his minds on whereabouts we go. So, how did my cute little nephew  manage to convince my dad to decide IMMEDIATELY? yes! Immediately! I helped him buy airfare that night after he talked to my nephew! 

My sister video-called my dad one day. He saw his little grandson sitting inside a box so he asked him why is he in the box. My nephew replied, gong gong (grandpa), I wanna row a boat to visit you! My dad was so touched by what he said and he promised him that he would fly to Singapore to spend time with him. Grandpa's promise to grandson. 

See, it was only that easy haha.. My dad immediately ordered all of us to meet at Singapore :P

My nephew can really sweet talk. I need to learn from him 

Just now, he sent some voice recordings over. Awww.. what a cute voice. He gave us some hearts and in return, we gave him some ice creams, candies, sundaes, cakes.. which my sister usually doesn't allow him to eat,  as a treat. He then sent back 100 meaning he really liked the gifts and rated them 100. haha... Jane gave him gifts and told him to open one by one. He then gave us lollipops, teddy bear, gifts and hamburgers and told us not to finish the lollipops in one go. Can keep them in a box and they will last very long. And we can play with teddy bear and then have hamburger. Awwww.. It's so funny and adorable at the same time. 

That's our virtual gifts giving session and best of all, it costs nothing and leaves melting hearts haha...

Goodbye 2019

Today is the last day of 2019. 

Time really really flies! I remembered struggling to write the new year correctly when we first entered the year 2019. Just when i finally got used to it, it's over and it's time to learn to write correctly again. 

It's year 2020 tomorrow. A year which seems very far from reach when I was younger but now, it's only a few hours away! Kinda scary but grateful at the same time. Feeling scared because time flies by too fast and i feel i have not properly utilised it or achieved anything! >.< Feeling grateful because I managed to survive til 2020! Maybe i could consider that as an achievement? what do u think :P

ok, so it's 2020. I still don't have a spaceship. I also don't have robot maids at home. I still need to climb the staircase using my feet etc etc... although we have not achieved those futuristic lifestyle as shown in the The Jetsons cartoon, i think it's good. At least we still need to do some manual work in order to stay fit. I'm happy that i could still use my feet to walk and my hands to work so i know they are still functioning well haha...

There are certain things in life that just shouldn't and couldn't be replaced with technologies, like spending quality time with loved ones.

Say Sake~

Happy 2020! Wishing everyone good health and happiness!

The hidden message

Some say, the opposite attracts. I think otherwise though. Just think of it this way, if you can't stand a certain things, how would it be possible for u to form a good relationship with people who possess those things? Unless it's unconditional love hahahaha.. like how i love Jane :P

In my view, people form friendship with those who hold the same values as them. Otherwise, u are into topic A and he/she is into topic B, i don't know how long this kind of friendship would last haha

In my world, i don't like to regards problems as problems. I don't like to sit there and whine about how unfair life is because we are the writers of our own destiny. You choose what kind of a person you want to be. You choose how you want to react to situations. There is no easy way but when there is a will, there is a way.  To me, nothing is good or bad. It's us, who put a tag on what we like and don't like or what's good or bad. 

I used to get frustrated when certain things turned out differently when I'd already made perfect plans. Then i realised, that's the way things are, change is constant. I either move with change or be left behind. I still do my best to prevent things from happening, but if it still turns out differently, i just gotta accept it and see how else i could improve. And who knows, the unexpected change might turn out to be a good thing! 

I have been added to many chat groups - Buddhism class group, medical volunteer group,  charity org group,  real estate motivating group.... The one thing these groups have in common is, they all want to make a difference to the society.

One day, i had nothing to do and viewed the group of people in one of the groups (haha, how meaningful :P). Wow, everyone has very positive quotes as their introduction. I guess the quotes must be what they want to achieve in the future or have achieved or realised. 

When i got to the bottom of the list, i laughed so hard XD

If these people ever go through the list like i did, i wonder what they think of me when they see the chicken! haha..

Actually, the chicken is not just a random icon i put. It has a positive energy meaning. U have to read the hidden message!

So i did a little survey by asking a few friends what they think the icon implies.

A friend said, "don't know. You are craving for chicken rice?" (i do like to eat chicken rice but that's not what it means haha)

Another said, is that your year of birth? (oh, why not? haha)

My colleague gave the most hilarious reply

She said, "it's very obvious! I think u support 那只鸡" (@.@)

haha, ok, looks like great minds aren't easy to find hehe...

That chicken, popping out from the egg means 重生 (Rebirth) --> when we are presented with new things which we have no idea how to handle, do not fear or run away. Find ways to overcome them. Once u crossover, you are no longer the person you were yesterday because you have gained one more strength, you are one step better.

That chicken popping out from its egg also means stepping out from your comfort zone. Do not let fears stop you from chasing after your dreams. We only live once. If you never never try, you will never never know your capabilities.

That chicken popping out from the egg also means, growing up/ being strong because if it breaks from the outside, it means you let yourself be beaten by the external forces, however if it breaks from the inside, it means that you have taken actions to overcome your shortcomings ( 从外打破是压力，从内打破是成长).

See? i do not even need any words to express my positive thoughts! Awesome right?

My one little chicken icon is FULL of Wisdom!

This is truly a picture is worth ten thousand words! :P

Doggie year is coming

The year of doggie is just around the corner. It's this Friday to be exact *excited*

It has been raining everyday last week, making it difficult to do some CNY chores. But it also makes it cooler to be doing CNY chores. See? There are always two sides of a coin, it depends on which side one chooses to see. How about seeing both sides? :P 

Me shopping in the rain :P

Love the old fashion way of displaying tit bits

I am ashamed to say, I haven't done much CNY preparation. Yes, AGAIN!! But I am confident that everything will get done before the doggie visits for i am someone who will only become productive and efficient when deadline is near T___T   If you plan to follow my step, beware, because you should only act like this provided you can take pressure ;P

We have bought drinks and cny tit bits and most of the house are already cleaned. We have even put up CNY deco. Mum, being in charge of CNY design, this year she creatively put some cherry blossoms on her plants. Hahaha i bet the plant which never flowers must be happy that it's finally full of pink flowers!

Even Tiger had his bath, which he didn't like very much. He tried to escape but of coz, he has a smart owner who made sure he had no place to hide ;P  

In the year of dog, the appropriate word to put is 旺. Sound exactly like Tiger's barking! :P I sense that it's gonna be a very very prosperous year ahead *fingers crossed*

I have a colleague who is looking hard for ways to make sure she is prosperous all year round. She said she went everywhere looking for coconuts which she wanted to display in her house during CNY. 

Coconut? i have never heard anything auspicious about it. She said she wants a coconut that will 'explode". Explode? Wouldn't it be easier just to light firecrackers if she is looking for "huat dao bao"? haha... And i have never heard of coconut that will explode by itself haha...  Her respond made me laugh so hard. She said, if the coconut explodes, it means "yiah dao bik" (Hokkien. I have no proper English phrase for this haha...). 

Then she also looks for small golden pumpkins. She said pumpkins means "pump kim" in Hokkien which means pump-in gold. Oh.... hahaha... She also wants to get a big chunk of charcoal wood. I have seen a lot of kopitiams putting this near their cashier counters but i thought it's for getting rid of odour since charcoal is commonly used for this purpose. My colleague kindly explained to me that, apart from 'sucking' away the odour, it can suck in money too @.@. I totally salute her for being able to associate everything with money!

You are welcome to copy her ideas. For me, i just wanna keep it simple as life is already complicated as it is :P

My new addiction

Ever since i had this canned coffee in KL in 2016, i couldn't have enough...

So far the best canned kopi in my opinion

Oh gosh! So I managed to get rid of my unhealthy habit of taking too much teh c but it was replaced by having too much kopi C. Recently, I started to get addicted to this! I drink it at every chance i have. And i crave for it when I know i shouldn't be  ╮(╯_╰)╭     

And the absurd thing is, I even manage to influence the people around me to start taking it! My colleague called me just now to ask me the name of the coffee i like. Another friend whatsapp-ed me the picture of the coffee to confirm if it's the one i like haha...

You know what? I think Wonda should really pay me a commission for such wonda-ful advertisement!!

Special Day!!

First of all, let's cheer out loud! 

For it's that special time of the year again!

Nope, it's not because there are crazy online sales!

And nope, it's not because a lot of couples get married on this day.

It's simply because it's the birthday of a pair of adorable identical twins who, when standing together, looks exactly like 11 hahaha...

Years ago, Jane and I were playing in a netball competition against our colleagues from Sabah. She was the goal keeper while i was the goal shooter. We effortless (ok, i exaggerated. actually with little effort la hahaha) got ourselves 13 goals against 0. The opponents looked embarrassed so we decided to give them 1 goal. Jane had to pretend she jumped short and couldn't block the shooter from shooting hahaha.. from then onwards, Jane and I became famous in the Land of Borneo and  are known as the Twin Towers.

I feel lucky to have a friend, a soul mate as soon as we were conceived. Am sure Jane feels the same way too because her life would be soOOooo dull without my existence for sure!

Thank you to my family and friends who sent us birthday wishes through all kind of means. 

And thank you to those who took precious time out from their busy lives to take me out for meals. 

And of course my parents, who took me to nice dinner on 11/11. Too bad I forgot to take a pictures with them T___T

Oh, i just remembered that, i still have birthday cake in the fridge. I better clear it because the moulds get to it. 

Thank you once again for celebrating with me! Big hugs & kisses to u all!

forgot to take pic with my parents & brothers T__T

Yy's adventure in Taipei

It was summer holiday in France. My sister decided to send little YY to school in Taipei. 

Lucky YY for being able to "study overseas" at such young age! Haha~ 

My nephew is now 2.5 yo. When we con-call,  he talks but we can't understand. We thought he is still baby talking. Then one day we realised that he was actually speaking FRENCH! >.<

The only French words i could speak are bonjour, c'est super, c'est la vie... yeah, u see the problem haha

My sister and brother-in-law want him to learn more Chinese vocabs so they thought, why not spend one month in Taipei since there are a variety of programs to choose from. So my sister enrolled him into a summer school.

We all flew to Taipei to spend some time with them.  It's definitely nearer and cheaper to fly to Taipei than to Paris haha...  YY has grown really tall! He is still adorable. Kinda miss him now that i am writing this.

YY loves bus. Whenever he sees bus, he would point at one and says BUS. We even purposely took a bus somewhere just to fulfil his dreams. He was excited and very alert the whole time. He watched the moving items without blinking. That's how concentrate he was haha~ 

And it's amazing how one thing can stuck in one child's mind. No wonder ppl say, kids are like sponges. They see, they learn. Oh and one more, they remember. One morning after breakfast, my sister walked him to school while mum and I walked back to our hotel. They witnessed an accident where a bus hit a motorcyclist. To avoid my nephew from looking at the bloody scene, my sister quickly led him away. At night before he slept, he told my sister about the incident. My sister was shocked that he remembered! 

He said:

"Bus. Boom. Pipu pipu"

Mannnn.. i should learn from little YY. 

His story is short and straight to the point. 4 words to tell a story to be exact! Save time, save breath! 

Now I am ashamed. My posts are usually more than 100 words 🙈🙈

         Yy's adventure in Taipei

New Hobby

我有一班種花發燒友。我們還是幼稚園的 level - 不太會照顧但又很愛種很愛繁殖的那種。為了省買花草的錢，我們常常互相交換。有時去到 nursery看到喜歡的，還是會失心瘋。

我們這群熱愛種花的還成立了一個‘花痴粉絲’組群 哈哈

我們大家各有喜好。我朋友喜歡葉子類的，另一位喜歡野生的植物。另外一位喜歡不太需要理會就能容易活下去的（這個比較不負責任吧？哈哈）。而我比較喜歡花及香草類的。

我喜歡薰衣草。好幾次家人從澳洲回來，我拜託他們帶回來給我。大姐二姐給我剪了好多薰衣草的枝，還買了’催生劑‘給我，可惜還是枯了。沒辦法，本人功力有限。後來我二姐超級貼心的，她特別提了2個蝴蝶薰衣草給我，她說既然妹妹想要，就帶了最特別的品種給我。我二姐人美心美！呵呵~ 雖然後來也是變成‘標本’ T___T 最後本人決定不麻煩姐姐，我自己從台灣帶回來，目前在我朋友家寄住，2顆活1顆，我覺得不錯了。我下次還要帶紫素，不同種類的香草，蝴蝶薰衣草等等。很多朋友都說“可以帶活花回來咩？！”。可以啊，至少我和家人們都多次成功帶入。

那天朋友和 Jane 在台北狂掃蘭花。我抱著一盆薰衣草在花市等了他們好久好久。他們的邏輯就是，反正要扛花回去了，那就一次拿多點，反正一次苦過。哈哈，我不知道這是阿Q精神，積極的精神還是歐巴桑的精神？我知道自己的能力，能帶一顆植物回國就已經很厲害了，但這兩位小姐竟然買了一堆。打包行李時，她們的聊天如下：

“我覺得我帶不回去。看來要送給台灣的朋友”

“哎呀，這些裝不下”

“拿這麼多會不會帶不進 （機艙及回國）？”

“我好像可以全部帶回去了”

“可能我先把這個留在朋友家。我下個週末再來拿”

‘早知道不要買這麼多”

“塞在行李箱可以嗎？”

我在一旁看他們忙上忙下，碎碎念。我覺得幸好我沒有自討苦吃。

後來他們有順利把花花帶回國。先苦後甜。

有天Jane 和 朋友各別寄來的她們花花的近況照片，我笑屎了。

 Jane 的

朋友的。

叶子被老鼠咬了几口

有一阵没 follow up 了，不知花儿怎么样了~

Why Hungry?

I'm so glad that my mum's back!

She has been away for 3 weeks. For 3 weeks, i felt hungry all the time even though i'd just eaten a big plate of food @.@

My friends said, my stomach must have been stretched since my mum always cooks a lot and I always try to finish everything she cooks. So this 'big plate of food' is probably just 1/3 of what i normally eat.

Haha, sounds logical but I think that's not the real reason.

I think and analyse hard. Yes, i take this very seriously because it's really a pain to feel hungry all the time!

And

EUREKA!

I finally found the reason!

I was always hungry not because i didn't eat enough.

It's simply because of the quality of the ingredients used in the cooking!

When eating out, the ingredients are probably just normal or below normal quality. But mum, she always uses the best of the best. She spends time growing organic vegetables and fruits for us, going around looking for people who sells high quality ingredients, buying only the freshest. Yep, she shops almost everyday so she cooks what she gets on the day. With so much love, effort and fresh ingredients, no wonder i stay full until the next meal!

This morning, i woke up to find her new dish which she learned in Australia -> Bacon Angel Hair Pasta with olive oil and spices.

My hearty breakfast by my lovely mum

It looked so interesting in our oriental-look plate! haha... I topped it with the basil grown by me (yes, by ME! haha...). I like how it looks in the plate. It kinda symbolizes how life should be ---- blend in!

I'm seriously sick of eating out after weeks of eating out.

I'm so grateful that I can even save this for lunch later (yes, my mum cooks super duber big portion of food)

WohooO! After 3 weeks, i finally feel FULL!

Simple Happiness

I bought some flowers from the florist 2 days ago.

When I put them all in the vases, they took away my breath straightaway for they are simply beautiful! 

Every time i look at them, i feel happy inside! 

Then i thought to myself, the flowers would live a much more meaningful life if they can make many happy instead of just my family and myself. 

So the next morning, I brought some to the office... in my mum's basket hehe... It was so weird that carrying a basket of flowers actually made me felt as if i was in Paris! I even had matching music playing in my mind hahaha~ So romantic, so happy, so full of hope! :P 

A basket of happiness 

I gave one rose to the female colleagues in my office. They were all surprised and had such big smiles on their faces. 

Some of them even took pictures of the roses and uploaded onto their facebook to share with their friends immediately. Guess what? they received a lot of likes and comments! Cool!

Some even asked their family members to deliver vases to the office so they could display the roses nicely.

It is so beautiful to see roses on all the tables. They really brightened up the office, I must say! And everyone who walked past actually stopped, looked at and talked about the roses! It's like, the roses brought everyone together and most importantly, reminded people to stop and smell the flowers. 

can u see the 3rd rose?

I didn't know that such a little gesture could bring so much happy moments to others. It makes me happy that everyone is happy ^V^

鸡祥如意！

明天過年啦！

這幾天收到了很多祝福語。但事情太多，沒時間一一回复。

雖然沒回复，但我一直沒忘了祝福大家。

因為大家好，我就好。大家不好，我也會擔心。所以為了不擔心，當然希望大家都很好~ 呵呵

有人說，今年沒什麼過年氣氛。

我雖然過的很忙碌。過年前因為工作，連辦年貨的時間都沒有。

昨晚終於過了一個段落。今天才有空上來寫寫心情和更新一下狀況。

我倒覺得今年很有氣氛呀。應該這麼說，氣氛是自己製造，感受的。

上班前我也打掃一下。回家飯後還沒去開夜工前，我立馬也動手動手動腦一下。時間有限，要善用。話說我是一個緊急關頭時才有效率的人 ：P

過年前，我收到了3個紅包喲。呵呵~ 驚喜！

这把年纪了还有红包收！羡慕吧？呵呵

我媽好會佈置。看，多可愛呀~

我家有年兽！

我已經準備好了。你呢？

祝大家鸡祥如意，大鸡大利！

深夜裡的感觸

眼睛有些張不開。

為了大家的‘錢’途，我們在過年前趕緊開 Audit Committee 和 Board Meetings。
外面下著大雨，時間也不早（其實很'早'）了但我還得用力睜開眼睛,絞盡腦汁，在夢遊的狀態下寫報告~ 祈願我的報告不會有太多連我也看不懂的夢話*苦笑*

不知大家收到花紅時，是否知道背後有一群為了大家而犧牲睡眠，吃飯，與家人共處，辦年貨等的人們？

一位好老朋友 （哈哈，有這樣的字嗎？）的醫生說他是高風險產婦，有可能血崩，死亡機率很高。他不收她，請她去大藥房生產。上個月她告知我這件事。我抓著他的手，安慰她說佛菩薩會保佑她的。她會沒事的。但若到時真的需要血，請一定要通知我。她交代了後事。萬一。我點頭，我會幫忙的。昨天，她順利生了一個可愛的貝比。上班時間接到消息，我流下了開心的眼淚。她後來說其實她有流血不止，失了不少血但慶幸醫生順利止住了。

很多人都只緊張肚子裡的貝比卻忘了其實懷孕和生產的媽媽才是最重要的。她很可能連生命都賠上！突然我覺得很傷心。在那個醫學根本不發達的年代，我媽媽竟冒著生命危險把我和Jane生了下來。我想像媽媽很可能就.....

想到這裡，我覺得很內疚。覺得自己是個不稱職的孩子。媽媽有時多說2句，我會對他不耐煩。有時還會跟他頂嘴。偶爾還會不聽她的話，氣她 T___T

我一定要對我的媽媽更好。

她給了我生命。我也應該用我的生命守護她。

媽咪，雖然我很壞蛋，但我真的很愛您喲~

My creation!

All of us have different ways of keeping our secrets.

Some write them (but do people still use their hands to write?) in their diaries. Some tell others about their secrets. Some prefer to keep them deep inside their hearts.

I used to write my secrets in my diaries and naively thought that they would be safe from intrusion for I had them "well-locked". 

I also tell people my secrets.... but only when I decided that they are no longer secrets :P

I also keep them deep inside my heart but i try to avoid this method because they take up the 'storage' space. It's a pain having tode-clutter it. 

So instead of burying them in my heart or jot them down, I now have a new method... that is by burying my secrets in the garden! hehe...

Haha, this is my little secret garden.

I have never liked gardening before although i love flowers and fruit trees. I don't understand why people would want to cover their whole backyard in cement. It just feels 'cold' although it's actually producing a lot of heat during hot days. 

I am lousy at planting. I used to have a few cactus in my office but they all became jelly-soft and died after a while. I suspected they died from radiation overdose.

10 years ago, i saw some colourful cactus in the market. I couldn't resist and bought one.  It didn't die! BRAVO! All because i gave it the correct soil and fed it the correct amount of water. It even  flowered! oh man, i didn't even know my cactus can last that long, let alone flowered!! Then i learned that, plants are just like human beings. In order to live long and stay healthy, they need what they need and not what we think they need. 

gardening tools must be flowery too hehe

People say, one's hobby changes from time to time. It's true.... I analysed my posts for the past 9 years and found that, one of my hobbies was eating, then it was cooking (or reading and keeping recipes). Then I sort of didn't have any hobby for a while and now it's gardening. I don't know how long this hobby will last but for now, I kinda enjoy the little secret garden i have created with my own hands. 

Gotten the tree cutting men to chop fallen trees into chunks

My car actually "sank" a bit because of the weight! hehe

It makes me happy to see the plants being so healthy. It's joyful to see flowers blossoming. It's wonderful to be able to pick up something i've planted to make drinks for my mother and myself. 

I love how the plants are expressing their appreciation when you treat them well. No poker face, no taking you for granted. They love you the way you love them. Ahahaha, ok, i'm a bit out of topic but it's amazing that gardening can increase wisdom too! :P

石隆門探險去 - Bau

週末期間，我和朋友們相約到 石隆門，第二天則去 Borneo Highlands。

是的，我們就是這麼忙，呵呵~

眼看朋友們來古晉的時間越來越靠近，只好快馬加鞭。沒法子，誰叫我平時不燒香，臨時抱佛腳？也因為這樣，我發掘古晉的寶藏。只能說，幸好朋友們要來探訪，要不然我永遠都不知道我家的美~

Bako 可在这里看到 part one 

小時候，每個禮拜天爸媽最愛帶我們到10哩小市鎮吃早餐，過後就帶我們四處遊玩。有點懷念爸媽以前的教育方式。大自然就是教材！難怪古人說，‘讀萬卷書，不如走萬里路’。呵呵，對，我最近很愛引用‘古人’的話~ 沒法子，這都是過來人的經驗談~ 既然都是名句了，幹嘛自討苦吃，不乖乖跟著做呀？古人聽了一定很欣慰吧？呵呵~

話說回頭~ 吃了早餐後，爸爸就會開車到郊外 ----- 其中一個地方就是石隆門小鎮啦。

說到石隆門，我得說一說一個難忘的故事。

隐藏很多秘密的美丽碧湖

很久以前，這裡發生一件大事。據說當時有一輛載滿小孩的巴士不小心掉入碧湖里。沒有生還者。當時大家都說湖里有很多水鬼。湖水很綠很美，但都沒人敢在此戲水游泳。

有天，爸媽帶我們來到碧湖走走。我們站在小"碼頭” 欣賞美景時，頑皮的Jane 從後面推了我一下，我失足掉進了水里。四周突然變成一片綠色（湖水的顏色），我嚇死了。水鬼的故事立刻浮現。我趕緊把眼睛閉上，深怕水鬼跟我面對面！我忘了我是怎麼被救起來的。只記得當時真的嚇死了~ 有人說，雙胞胎，有一個是天使，一個是惡魔 ..... *清喉* 大家現在知道哪個是 惡魔了吧？

那天我們先爬仙洞。要進入仙境，首先要先爬樓梯。

記憶裡的樓梯是又小又窄的。連個欄杆都沒有。雖然很不安全但也不阻擋大家的對仙洞的好奇心。後來建了個穩固的樓梯，現在一家大大小小，老老少少都能輕鬆爬到入口。那天還看到有人抱著小貝比上去呢！猛！上樓梯時，看著當年那窄小的樓梯，真的為當年為了目睹仙洞的美的我們捏了一把冷汗。真的很恐怖！一不小心摔下來就不好了。

爬前先得确认是否有懼高症~

‘新’的楼梯

仙洞很原始。打亮山洞的光不是來自於LED燈而是自然的陽光！這裡真的住著仙子嗎？感覺這裡是他們的玩遊戲的院子，因為真的好大好大！

好大的"院子"

人小的如蚂蚁

大大的世界

站在仙洞的高處往下看，人都很渺小~ 你看！不遠的人，就像螞蟻一樣呢！ 2隻手指就能壓扁她！

在我手里！

下山後，我們到不遠的保靈山玩耍。這裡的小山洞擺了幾尊佛像，是華人參拜的地方。也有不少其他種族來此參訪~ 爬仙洞耗了我們的體力，在這裡，我們吃了2條冰棒及一粒雪糕包。奇怪呀，為何就是沒有雪糕’古油包‘?! *還是不解*

饿了，渴了~ 呵呵

在石隆門小鎮，我們發現了一間好吃好喝的咖啡室。在這裡，我一人就喝了3杯飲料。他們家的檸檬茶，檸檬汁，奶茶太好喝了！叉燒燒肉燒雞也是。還有那碗充滿肉香鹹菜香的湯！簡單又美味！我們大家吃得贊不絕口。決定下次再來這里大吃大喝！呵呵~ 沒辦法，我們以食為先，呵呵~

便宜又好吃！

老旧的木店屋

默默照亮路的路灯

美麗的發現 - Bako National Park

我開始越來越愛我的家鄉了~

這幾週，我去了 Bako National Park, 去了石隆門，去了 Borneo Highlands ，去了 Ann​​a Rais...

最後一次去 Bako 是十幾年前。當時我們留宿一晚。那時的設備也不先進。洗澡的水來自大地 ----> 雨水。洗了好像沒洗過一樣，呵呵~ 晚上用餐時，我們被猴子兄弟們圍觀。我們吃的很急，深怕猴子來搶食。 十幾年後，Bako 變得摩登多了。有自來水，有水泥屋，還有冷氣房！幸好原始的森林仍被保護。

我們的 Sampang 船抵達時，還有隻山豬來出來歡迎我們，可愛極了~

大自然的美！

我們選擇走最短的山路。但越走越吃力，因為有些地方的確是要爬上去或爬下山的。有人邊走邊抱怨。當天天氣真的很熱，有些平時沒運動的，對他們來說的確是吃力的。大家互相鼓勵，盼望爬山後的那頓海鮮餐。

到底是造桥的人辛苦还是走桥的人辛苦？

其實國家公園真的是寶藏！好多稀有的花草樹木，昆蟲，動物，石頭等等。好好去欣賞，不難發現它的魅力。

終於走到終點。迎接我們的是遼闊的海洋。從山崖往前看，好美的海，好美的山，好美的天空，好美的世界！這裡的海風，把所有的累都吹散了！

陶醉在美景里

我是到了月球吗？

一部分的人決定用自己的力量走回去，而我和幾位朋友，決定用金錢買時間和力氣，呵呵~ 聽起來很沒出息吧？ 俗語不是說‘一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰’嗎？古人的智慧我們可是有聽進去的喲~ 這寸金不但買到了時間，還買到了海中美麗的景色 ---> Sea stack 還有遙遠的山都望山。另外我們及時回到HQ, 幸運的避過了場大雨。當我們在食堂快樂的補充飢餓時，其他大夥們正在森林裡冒著雨回來。可見聽古人的勸告是重要的！呵呵~

远方有个sea stack， 你看到了吗？

7块钱买到光阴还有美景！呵呵

‘辛苦’后的奖励： 海鲜餐~

相見恨晚~

最近有一種相見恨晚的感覺。
是否人要到某些年紀才懂得什麼叫感恩，什麼叫珍惜？
不管是什麼原因， 慶幸自己有了這種感覺....

曾經我覺得這個家鄉無趣。感覺很落後，設備也比不上西馬。
曾經大家勸我不要在這裡久留因為沒有前途。
曾經外地朋友們來探訪，我絞盡腦汁想不到古晉有什麼好玩好看好吃好做的。
曾經我看到來訪的外國人，心想他們應該很後悔來到這麼悶的地方。

不是古晉的錯，是我晚了用心去體會它~

或許年紀大人，開始懂得品嚐生活。
生活，不是來自於人事物。
生活，對我來說來自於自己如何看待這個世界。
好心情來自於自己的內心。

外國朋友們將到古晉一遊。
我覺得我有責任呈現古晉最美的一面。
這幾個週末，我忙昏頭了。
準確的來說，我是忙著玩耍，呵呵~ 但我是帶著責任去玩耍的喲~

也因為他們，我更深入了解我的家鄉。
也因此，我發掘了很多’秘密‘。
也因此，讓我更愛這個家鄉。

原來它一直都很美~
我.... 差點錯過了.....

等著我們去發掘的寶藏