Good books?

I ordered two books from amazon china, they arrived within 2 days. No delivery fees charged. I am happy.

Very old poh poh style hor to feel happy on this small little thing?

By the way, I can't find any good books (have to be my taste also lah of course) that is written by chinese writer lately, and this, I feel disappointed. Where are the good books?

My good fren Siew Wai bought many 几米 books from amazon too... I used to like 几米 a lot, but.. later on I feel very ng dai to finish his books (some more so expensive one) within one hour. So, i stop following his book.

Then I like this japanese comics 高木直子, her famous "150cm Life" is so funny... I bought all her collection, and she never draw any new stuff lately. I am quite disappointed also. Also, I lent one of the book to my manager, she never returns also :( sob. Now my collection is "not perfect" liao. Sigh. Should I re-buy that one?

Mitch Albom also another one. No new books newly written lately. Why??

I think next trip when i go back KL, i want to buy "P.S. I Love You". I watched the dvd, it's so touching... i want to buy the books to read it. I believe this is a true story?? Anyway, cannot let bui bui knows, he hate I read or watch this kind of "grey" color movie one.

I also wasted my time reading a novel, i think the name is simi 摩天轮... that book is wasting my time. It is so sad to realized this after I spent 1 week to finish the last chapter and the story just ended like that. Chiu..... I think when she wrote that last chapter, she gup si, that's why she 草草了事. I am so disappointed.

My mom asked me to buy “我与父辈"... this one I also think not so good. His writing is really so-so only. The only good thing to get from this book is to understand how those 农民 live back in those pre and post-文化大革命 period. And I have read 1/3 already, he still hasn't written anything very touching about his dad, or his uncles; actually, he seldom talks about his dad, at least in that 1/3 pages that I read. So, I am going to give up on the 2/3 portion. Again, wasted my time lah.

Anyone has any good books to recommend lately?

被废武功

以前看小说，里面说的什么被废武功。以前还以为只有虚拟的武侠小说才有这么一回事。原来现实生活中也可以发生的。

My bui bui

That night, I cannot sleep.

Whenever I cannot sleep, I like to torture bui bui. So, this time I have some challenging questions to him.

Me, "are u asleep?" (Actually, I heard him snored already... i purposely want to wake him up)

Bui, "er.. nope.. what's up honey?"

Me, "I ask u har... if given a woman, look like me, smell like me, cook your favorite dishes like me, but just a better version of me - better shen choi with big big bor, and know how to give u great foot massage, would u choose to love her instead of me?"

Bui, "... no babe... of course not"

Me, "Why? Why you want to lie to me???? who doesn't want a better version??? U lied to me, U no good!!" I feeling pretty angry and upset, and I kicked off the blanket.

Bui, "... I didn't lie babe..."

Me, "then how could u not fall for the better version of me?"

Bui, "because if I say yes, you will hit me or kick me. I don't want that to happen again."

Me, "......" don't know want to angry or laugh, seems like bui bui learnt the lesson already.

Aih... have to think for new way to torture bui bui next time if I cannot sleep... sob.

Hong Leong Bank, sucks too

Recent phone call to their call center concludes at least to me that Hong Leong Bank sucks too, in terms of customer service. If I rated HSBC 3 stars out of 5, then HLB is worth 1.5 star.

BLEAH~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Count with my 10 fingers, I find that I have encountered different level of unpleasant experience with almost all the banks in Malaysia, except (surprisingly) CIMB and Southern Bank (does it still exist or merged with other bank liao??).

And yet in China, I have relationship with China Bank, China Merchant Bank and ICBC Bank, so far I do not have "unpleasant level" of complaint about them. I am not pro China, but hey, these 3 banks have good customer service level.

And yet, I have this love hate relationship with Hong Leong Bank. Some special 情怀... but it is really testing my patient..

Long awaited Bali trip

We are back, from Bali. Yay~~~~ Thanks to China National week (they merdeka) + mooncake festival holiday, we had a long break.

The flight was long, it was like 6 hours+, sit until wants to go crazy liao. But luckily, this time my ear is ok. I wear the ear pressure regulator thing on the whole flight, 6 hours, so you can imagine when i get off the plane, is a bit coo coo already.

After reach Denpasar airport, because we booked the hotel is in Ubud, there's another 1 hour car ride. It was raining... so when we reached the hotel and after check in, it was like 1am. The guy showed us around our villa, we were so excited even though at 1am. Check it out:

Our bed - it's like those 蚊帐床, is very back to nature, and antique.

Toilet -- this is just 2/3 of the whole bathroom! We played around in the hot tub (not that same night lah, damn tired), it was really fun.

The next morning, we checked out our villa outside, all green leaves plants, trees, and got a private pool! See the private pool? So close to nature, it was such a relaxing feeling just looking at the pool.

You don't see Jay like very brave like that, he doesn't know how to swim. He was pretending he was floating.. heheh.

Jay, relaxing at our villa. It was really a nice villa. We stayed at Royal Pita Maha, it has 53 villas together, each has a private pool. Because I handled the whole trip booking, Jay looked at me and asked how much a night is this? I told him the figure, he immediately jumped out from the seat and gu-jit me... he didn't know it was at that price. keekekekee.... oh hey, you also like the villa mah:p

This is our villa door. Antique isn't it? We have no hotel key card, we have lock. Yes, big lock.

This is the hotel lobby.

This is the lobby entrance:

At such classy hotel, even drinking plain water is very relaxing and enjoying... Speaking of drinks, i had papaya juice everyday in Bali. It was so nice!!

The next morning, after we enjoyed the breakfast, and enjoyed the 1 hour complimentary massage in the hotel, we rented half a day car to go out jalan-jalan and had our lunch at Ibu Oka (babi guling), recommended by someone in the hotel. It was very "meaty" i don't quite like that. And I thought indonesian mostly are muslim, this is babi wor how? The driver explained that 98% of Balinese are Hindus, so this explained why.

After Ibu Oka, we went to Kuta Square, bought a aroma oil, so nice the smell... it's expensive but it is really nice. Then saw a DVD shop, went in, wholly c**, so cheap! it's USD$1, and we scared quality not nice, so just bought 1, the "PS I Love You". We watched already, the quality is suberbly clear, translation is very accurate, and for this kind of quality, you have to pay RMB10 in China. So, the cheapest place to get good quality DVD is not in China anymore, it's in Bali! How we regret just buying 1 pc.

After that we went to beach. So many handsome ass guy surfing.

Next day we went to this Kintamani active valcano. It's quite foggy when we are taking the photo that time.

Then went to visit the Tempaka Siring, the temple.

I love this photo that Jay took. The kids are so naive, "clean", and happily eating the snacks at the pool side. This is such a peaceful picture.

People lining up to get a bath in this holy water. It was supposed to clean away all the sickness in your body and bring you good luck.

We went to Ubud Market after that. So many stores there... so many cool dining restaurants also!

The 3rd day, we went water rafting. Jay was a bit uncertain about this at first because he doesn't know how to swim. But the guide kept telling us it is fun, and even if drop to the water, got jacket, it will float. So, Jay decided to give it a try, he turned to me and said, "if i drop into the water, save me!" hahhaa... We are so glad we did this activity even though we are home with sore muscles, it was so fun!!!!!!!! so fun if there are more time, i want to try again!

Some crafter crafted all these image on the river bank. Isn't it cool? It all started 5 years ago and they are still doing it. Heard the hotel paid some of the money to them. Oh the water rafting is just around our hotel area, so convenient and so fun to see our hotel from the river!

Our guide, his name is Coco. He is a happy lad, and he kept reminds me of Coco Lee. hehehe...

After water rafting, we have to climb some stairs to go back to the rafting center. And here I spotted a good view of padi field.Before the long flight back to shanghai, and after the rough water rafting, we decided to pampered ourselves at some spa, I took a 3 hour package, and jay took his 2.5 hour package. It was so pampered I felt guilty to have such treatment. OK OK, no next time lah, gu gu jit bai! hohoho.... it was expensive the spa, there goes my dreamt PSP.. sob. [Jay made me belanja him spa, isn't him bad?!]

I like Bali. Would come back again if got chance. People here although mostly not rich, but they always have the contented smile on their face. I find that balinese are not greedy, they are friendly, and they worked hard to earn their money. Bali is so far the 2nd place I went to (besides cambodia) that I feel I am blessed to be a Malaysian.

60th Anniversary -- 总理，您辛苦了

I was flipping channels after dinner last night, and suddenly I stopped at a news channel, featuring President Hu visiting a park in Beijing, hand shaking the people's hand in the park, asking them some questions, and chit chatting with them.

There are 2 lines of conversation that leaves strong impression in my head, even until this afternoon:

President Hu, hand shaking a old po po (not very old lah, probably late 50s), telling her "要照顾好身体，好日子在后头呢". I am very touched when he said that good life is waiting for them in the future. Wow.. that is very motivating.

And the second phrase that moves me, is when he talking to a canadian chinese that visited Beijing in the park, he asked her, "感觉如何?" she answered "很好，越来越好!总理，您辛苦了！"... wah... i don't know about President Hu, but I sure feel very moved and motivated. And normally it is only President Hu gets to say this phrase, "同志们，你们辛苦了！", not the other way round, "总理，您辛苦了！"

Of all the scenes that the tv news captured last night, the 老百姓 all very feel proud and excited to meet President Hu and wanted to shake his hand so badly like he is the popular singing stars like that.

Then I picture myself, what would I do if I meet our PM in Midvalley? I will not so eager go shake his hand, and I don't think he will create such a 冲动 in the crowd also, prabably those that appeared eagerly wants to shake his hand are the "actors".... if u know what i mean.. And this scene won't happen one lah... nah. Totally don't think so.