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In view of the “Cheng Beng” festival, whereby it is the time of the year where Buddhist goes to the cemetery to pray, visit, offer offerings to the gods to continue protecting and take good care of those rested in peace. I also got to know that for Buddhist, there are a certain time to go and one should not go pray / visit more than once and also there are certain rituals practices to comply to.

However in this modern day contacts, I am not sure how many young people would know all the rituals unless they have been practicing it year in, year out following their parents practices. Even if they do, would they know the logic behind it?

For me it is a time of remembrance of your loved ones whom you have much loved, live life with, and reminiscence on good times spent during the person’s live on this earth. It has been a few weeks that I heard is “Cheng Beng” and I asked my mom if we needed to go put some flowers on my Grandma’s cemetery as a sign of remembrance to her. As Christians, things are pretty simple and straight forward, what’s important is the sincerity from the heart and the time spent to just go pay a visit and replace the old flowers. I believe she is now watching us from heaven above and having a better life there than here on earth. Where heaven have no tears and no pain. So this afternoon, I bought some daisies and chrysanthemum along the way preparing for a visit to the PJ Christian cemetery.

My simple flower arrangement, looks pretty fresh and brightens up the environment isn’t it? hehe Just realize i bought too many and the left overs were brought back home for simple dining table deco. (I realize I am turning to become a more homely person, would love to cook and bake some day ) It was also in conjunction with Good Friday and Easter, it reminds me that our life on earth is just temporary and we will one day be reunited with God with our heavenly bodies while our body on earth will turn back to dust and fade away.

One thing i realize looking at the photos i took this afternoon, is that, my grandma is also “staying” at house number 21! Which she was supposedly shift in with us to our Subang house on Nov 2006, but sadly she didn’t make it through. Being there made me realize how time past so quickly and she has been gone for more than 2.5 years now. Our last visit was about 6 months ago, during the 2 year anniversary.

Believe it or not, if my memory did not fail me, this is my first visit to Malaysia’s PC Fair! The crowd is crazee…It took me an hour to get to Etiqa building to look for Jackfrom TPM. My first time taking this route, Sri Petaling Star LRT -> Masjid Jamek -> Putra LRT – KLCC -> Etiqa building = 1 hour 10 minutes!!! It rained and a little drizzling when i finally got to Etiqa and place my laptop bag there At the Masjid Jamek – Putra LRT, it was really crowded with homo-sapiens! It has been a long time since i’ve taken Putra LRT and now they have lines forming a homo-sapien jam! (Listening to Flo-rida – Hand in the Ayer….Oh hot damn, this is modern JAM!)

Enjoy the night drizzle view of Twin Tower from the big pantry, have a piece of peach cake and a cup of Ceres juice. Compliments of Quintiq lounge

The lite up twin tower

From my last trip to the office, there have grown quite alot, in terms of the number of employees and the best thing is that people there are very friendly! The same goes to their office in Amsterdam and best of all their pantry has lotsa goodies…hehe…from fruits, drinks, and chocolates! Ops, before i go out of topic…i was suppose to be talking about PC Fair!!

So last week, we bought a LCD monitor, and this time around to get the All-in-one printer, which we find a fax at home will make things much more convenient But instead Jack already bought his gadget that he way eyeing on last week. But again, this was a good bargain! Damn…spending alot these days – Blame it on the sales! haha…

My Book Home Edition - 1TB!

I guess being a techy guy, have a good bargain on techy gadgets like these really make his day!

USB, Firewire, eSATA

Whoa all the technical languages I am talking about, its part of a learning process and keeping updated with the latest technology. But thanks to Jack I have someone to ask and explain to me in layman terms Thanks babe!

Cool!

But afterall is a cool gadget isn’t it? This would enable him to keep more datas, videos, photos, movies, songs…”never needed to delete again” that was their tagline.

Have been spending on quite some big stuff recently, all in hundred of ringgits. Economy is down but yet we are still spending, well i think that is when good bargain comes along. On Friday, our house modem got struck by lightning. Being an IT guy and an IT savvy family at home whom each of us have our own PC, we kinda can’t live without the Internet / network i would say. So luckily it was Friday and we can instantly go get one the next day.

How the lightning strike these days are really scary, was raining heavily and my mom was watching the Chinese drama series via her PC and the right side of the PC, monitor, phone, router, modem are facing the main wooden door and Boom! the lightning strike in as the wooden door is normally open for airing purpose. Mom thanking God that she wasn’t standing in front of the door looking out! These days KL are facing alot of weird massive lightning and loud thunder storms (is it due to Global warming?)

Walking through the Digital Mall, looking for a modem and we were also planning to get a LCD monitor for a long-long time, waiting anxiously for the prices to drop Supposedly to get it next week during PC fair, but with much hesitation walking around the mall up and down, we decided to take the 22′ Super HD Widescreen LCD home

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The 3 birdies =)

This has made Jacky’s day and guess what it comes with a consequence, which made his attention focus solely on his LCD monitor, but at least i get to share the joy of not squinting my eyes watching via the laptop. Craving and talking about it for more than a year, finally from a 15′ CRT monitor to a Full HD, 20,000:1 LCD flatscreen monitor with internal speaker, is definitely worth the wait and money well spent!

Already eyeing on his next gadget!

This is what one new friend i met recently told me and reminded me this when I told him I went Digital Mall, PJ this afternoon with Jack. This friend mentioned that it is hard to get parking there and i thought indeed it is, but not for me and Jack this afternoon. Because….I simply whispered aloud a simple prayer to God.

It was already drizzling, and we just found the location of this Digital Mall after lunch in SS2, and indeed before we complete 1 round looking for parking, we Found a parking! A miracle simply reminded with a simple prayer acknowledging that God is there! Answering my prayer Love Him!

My friend simply reply me saying “It is a way of Him telling you, He’s still there!”

Turkish Airlines crash near Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam about a week ago. It is such a big news after the 9-11 incident. Turkish -> Europe, some may have thought it is some sort of terrorist again? And my boyfriend was in Netherlands at that time and he was about 45mins away from Amsterdam, was worried if it will effect some flight delay during the weekend when he is suppose to catch a flight back home.

Plane breaks into 3 pieces!

Isn’t it scary? Imagine if you were in the flight! I’m sure its all panicky, and screaming aloud, but I think prior to that I would have say my prayers quietly in my heart. Thinking back I always do that, during both take off and landing. Specially with budget airlines when things are not that stable, it always feels better after a prayer is whispered. (Haha, cos sometimes it feels like a roller-coster ride – minus the screaming )

Due to the time difference, it was on the newspaper frontpage on Thursday morning, only then i got to know about it. Malaysia time about 4pm only, Jack came online and got to know from him that they already knew it on Wednesday itself, as it happens NL time about 10-11am. And on Thursday morning, I was teasing one of colleague who will be departing for ICANN, Mexico on Friday nite, via KLM transit in Amsterdam, Schiphol and the crash just happened! haha…freaky

Burnt Jet Engine

Me with a shiny KLM Jet Engine

2.5 months ago I was at the Schiphol, Amsterdam airport too, so I could imagine the fear I would have got if this recent case just happened! In the Turkish Airline crash, if I am not mistaken none of the Cabin Crew survived, not even the pilot or co-pilot. I guess they thought everything is going to be just fine as any other day, part and parcel of their daily job, but who would have thought? “Cabin Crew, please be seated, we are preparing for landing” That’s what the Pilot/co-pilot would announce about 15mins prior to the landing. As announced today, after the Dutch investigation, “Found that faulty altimeter caused the plane’s autopilot to shut down the engines as it made its approach to land. The Boeing 737-800 crashed a kilometre short of the runway, killing nine people on board. The plane’s black box showed that the altimeter also malfunctioned during two previous landings.” (Reports extracted from “www.dw-world.de”)

So afterall, I have decided it is not a safe dream job!