a tribute to my pals in sunway (1st part)

well, today im gonna talk about my life in Sunway Coll.. a one and a half year emotional roller coaster ride is probably the best way to describe my experience. Going to Sunway did not only enable me to learn academically, but also other important stuff like having frens, camraderie, etc..Living alone, i learnt to maximise every ringgit..being stingy was the key to survival( especially at the end of the month) coins were actually important..life would have been a drab if it werent for my pals especially my close circle of friends..the East Malaysian gang+3..haha! +3 because Arthur, Seetha and Brenda are locals(residing in selangor lah) The east malaysian members were Jacintha, Michelle, Phillip, Amanda, Pamela and also Ignatius..we had so much fun as a group. I cant thank you guys enough for the memories( are those lyrics from a song?). To tell this story would be impossible, because i cant shrink 1 and a half years to a single session of blogging, so im just going to show pictures(memorable ones la) followed by brief explanations. Note that the pics are not in chronological order.

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being gay with iggy and phillip..phillip's birthaday party @ nandos. Quite a disturbing experience hahaha!

as usual, the girls do their shoe shopping in vincci and leave us men sitting in boredom. Good training for married life i guess

now this was taken in itallianies.It brings back memories of good food and togetherness(l-r).brenda, phillip, me, amanda, pam, chelle, jacintha followed by an unknown wannabe...hahaha!! no lah abel, just kidding.

this was part of our moral studies project, visiting the rumah kanak kanak cacat selangor. I was trying to communicate with this kid..well the person is actually 14 years old. Jacintha can be seen talking to another disabled person(out of the pic)

watching one of the children..he was trying to tell us something but i couldnt figure it out. The other 2 guys in d pic are my coursemates William andElijah

overall, this trip left one of the most lasting memories of my time studying in sunway. Not only did i learn a whole new level of communication and a shift in my perception of life, i also was cured of the irrational fear of mentally handicapped children..honestly,i was apprehensive at first but at the end of the day, i found myself wanting more =) ...finally a moral project in which i actually learned something.

thats all for now, will post other parts at a later time

busy busy busy

Jabu and Wife with Telang Usan Assemblyman Lihan jok( facing away from cam) wit my dad

Ive been keeping myself really busy these past couple of days..ok lets first start with Sunday morning...i had to accompany my parents to my Dad's clinic Coz the Deputy Chief Minister was supposed to visit..i woke up that morning and decided to wear my jeans(torn slightly) and a collared shirt..a pretty decent effort to me. My dad gave me one look and told me to change" AND MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A TIE!!!!" ..were the last words i heard before i closed the door to my room. So we went to the clinic and waited for the dude to arrive. A whole lotta ppl turned up including members of the media and community leaders. My job was to be the family photographer...filming the event on my dad's Sony Camcorder. To my surprise, the red merc with the sarawak flag fluttering appeared almost exactly at 8 and i started to film. My Dad took his blood pressure, he looked arnd, said some pleasant stuff, looked arnd summore, had breakfast in my dads office( the pic in the left corner which i took), said summore pleasant stuff signed the guest book and left. All this happened with the press snapping photos, and ppl crowding arnd.

Makin the pua kumbu

The days after that, i was unofficially hired as a photographer for Dayak Association haha...took some interesting photos of the process of making pua kumbu..a traditional cloth used in the old times to place skulls of ppl who ran afoul with iban warriors, and also used in funerals .My dad told me that only selected women could weave the pua coz its suppsed to be sacred or sumthing but nowadays , anyone can do it. Some of the weavers apparently have dreams and use them as inspiration to design the pattern on the pua. Scary huh..

Ok...Time for JOe's random facts of the day..no inspiration today so no facts to note...haha, thats it for today, chow d mau~