Chinese New Year.

On the eve of chinese new year i don't feel very well as i'm down with flu.. 50% mostly stay back on bed for a rest. Throughout the day and night i could hear lots of crowd going in and out exchange greetings while at night our cousin organized a mini gig concert outside our grandma house compund. Friend, relative and neighbout comes to join in the festive event wich lasts overnight till 4am. On 1st day i was 80% ok able to move around with minimal flu effect. Me and the whole family went visiting our nearby relative and reunion. Its was quite a feast with foods, drinks, chatting and laughter. Were very delighted to meet them after year of absence from the festive scene especially me. Dumplings, cakes, biscuits, assorments of jerky, muchies and sweets was serve, i had my eye on everything chocolates, sweets, cheese and cuttlefish snacks. Was good for my stomach. Always keep the plate empty which is worth a day full of goodies. On the second day i'm 90% ok from flu, have to say farewell to my grandmother and cousins as i had to go home back to my hometown, i think my holidays was all food stuff well at least i get to meet my buddy the cat. As usual i never return empty handed from Limbang, got me cool r/c gadget from cool r/c stores, visit some restaurant, driving around places on my car around the Limbang and Brunei and took plenty of camera shots of Limbang scenery. That's worth it.

Childhood

Sunday in Limbang Church, breezy morning. Problem is my cold and feverish feeling started to bleak out into my brain, goo started to ooze from my nose but yet i remain 90% sane and capable. I couldn't stick much around in the church else i'll be spreading the cold to neary by neighbout so i decided to walkout for a fresh air outside and look around some interesting places. For me the outside compound wasn't much foreign to me. surrounding the church are old 70's blue woooden kindergarden schools, teachers quarters, primary schools and the old bridge crossing the big drain which by far most prominent landmarks stood permanent after 30 years.
Back then there was so much love and caring between me any my father, bond between father and son is strong. I was only 6 back then in this very place where i stand. I can still remember my father always be there watching over me outside the kindergarden classroom, feeding me during lunchtime, pick me up home on his old 60's vespa after school and by noon afterworks brrought us munchies to keep us happy everyday, During his spare times he always bring me out for a jog around behind the school and then would help me push the rocking chair at the playground with my sister everyweekend. There's not much material toys for us to shower for but we are much happier that our father always keep us happy and protect us as we always hold hands where ever we go. My life as kid was full of happiness, no despair yet fail to see who's behind all these possibilities, only after 23 years i'm back at the same place touching the same soil flash back the memories seeing mirage of an adult holding hands with a child on the children playground distance from where i stood...i realised its was all my fathers endless love and support.

Going back to the birth place

Its time were going back home to the peaceful small tme in the middle of Borneo island. An approximately 3 hour hefty drive from MIRI city passing through BRUNEI border then back into the state on the other eastern side where then we reach to a small town called LIMBANG. MMMmmmmmm..... feels like young again....except with that driving part and immigration queue up. My parents, brother, sisters and relative went along for a holiday retrun to my grandma house for family reunion this coming Chinese New Year which is 1 day from now, we only have 1 grandma left that is our father side. Her house was on the country side up the hill above the horizon were i can enjoy nic`e view overall the sight. Stood this humble house is her loyal 3 loyal doggies and a cat who have been a good trusty grandma companion for years.

Slow-mo blogger

With so much to do and interesting activity to attend everyday it seems that i almost have no time to spent blogging on my computer. Recently i don't hook much on computers except checking mails, forum and reading news and that's it. Not much to doings of 3d design work since my computer all crappy and randomly hang up on me everytime i designing things on heavy graphics. So i hang out more on quality time with outdoor activity with my friends outside either riding my bikes or r/c racing. Pretty much i enjoyed a lot being outside rather than being at home infront of computer or watching tv. It really help me increase appetite eating any food on the table since outdoor really burns lots of energy which actually keeps my body in good shape. No worries on fatty food. Also i've keep me away from my busy and rushy work n my 3d design project. I'm saved from annoying fans in my mails. Thats good news yeah.

New looks.

New wheels, new body shell and improved performance. Can wait to try out with new tuning.

Rain rain

Rain rain rain, its cold and damp for more than a week, our outdoor activity was hindered by bad weather. Sometimes at deparate moment we have to go out since we have been confined at home for days passively. Mountain biking and r/c activity all roaming in our heads. Thanks goodness we never felt sick after playing under wet weather even we played without covering our body for hours. Looks like i'm very well immune..hehehehe...

It has return!

Tougher, stronger, more bling and fully aluminum strength. It reminds me of my olds monter truck i design for 4x4evo1/2: the MAXXIMUS Zen.

Recovery plan - saving critical work

Things going bad for my old computer starting last December. Unstable motherboard, frequent hardisk crash and overheated graphic card. Worse thing doesnt goes well when hardisk failed to but which suspected having bad sector on boot table. So quickly i have to make few backup copies of my work into new storage and everthing have to go into safe procedure before my computer messed up. XAVAGE model design was highly affected by these issue but thankfully my project are safe tuck away from cippled computer system. Few copies of backup available on remote server all over the net to make sure no disaster happen if my computer went bad to worse.

There goes another $50

Should have spent on pizza than this spare foamy tires. What the heck. GPM Racing tyre really crap at cornering outdoors.

Nitro power

After been playing for weeks finally i really love how this nitro fuel powered 1/8 scale r/c buggy off-roader performed. Not as staggering fast as my 120km/h 1/18 scale touring but this one have huge torque enough to fly over my head when hiting the bumps. Cheaper parts replacement but very oily maintenance work. Few months before the international race/competition i have to sharpen my skills more to keep up with most of the racer. The sounds also really good too. Another good reason for being outside the house all the time. Another unboring activity yet make more new friends too.

Break neck tropical adventure.

Woke up in the morning with heavy painful sore and muscle ache all around my body. Hardly able to pickup anything heavier then my pillow. Its all due to heavy biking activity yesterday. We went to Miri Tropical Rainforest resort with special invitation from the management. The place is very nice pure tropical feeling all around us. Green lush trees, cold breezy wet afternoon and the forest was packed with wild plants.
We bike around the forest but mostly we have to climb around the terrain a lot with bikes over the shoulder for hours. Wasn't a good moments when every slips, fall, crashed, tumble and hit some trees or rocks. Lucky were on safety equipment. More 3 hours in the narrow foerst trails going up and down felt like stuck in there for a month. Some of us almost give up in the middle of nowhere waiting for rescue. I almost tought i'm going to be stuck here making headlines on the news papers due to unexpected tragedy. Plus heavy rain pour on us making terrain more difficult to climb and slippery. With strong will and determination we manage to escape from grungy twisting jungle in one piece after climbing to the highest peak in the forest. We bike down back to the next check point towards another exotic places like waterfall reservoir park, riding on very long floating wet and slipperywooden platform almost above the jungle canopy where i almost slip and fell due to slippery tyres and also riding around the lake nearby. We went back before the days getting dark and ready to pack and leave. Its wet and cold, few buddies of mine got out from the jungle unlucky with leeches all over the legs while other including me some cut and bruises after crashing and bumping to some obstacles inside the narrow twisty forest, Welll its worth riding for the days since its a new location for us to explore rather that our usual place we ride every weekend.

Silent night 1984.

It nice to be adventurous, young and curious back in the past. Life was like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin. Me and my neighbour always sneak out into the nearby forest led by curiousity and insearch for paranormal truth. I remember vividly in was in 1984 when the electric was cut off accdentally causing houses and streets went off into the dark. Both our mom shouted all over placed to plead usto return back home but we ignored about it. Me and my buddy haste out into the forest behind the house seeking something we believe monsters and ghost behind of very bushy lush forest behind our backyard. We went very deep into dense bushy of tall grass. We then laid our back ontop of the grass for a rest and laid our eyes into the clear dark blue sky in the middle of the night, its was very windy and breezy night and the stars was very white bright, no clouds. The moons lits so bright and when i wake upright to see our huge fields of bushy surroundings its was all luminences blue illumintaing the puffy cotton grass. The city light no longer blinding the moonlight rays by man made lights. It was beautiful.... all puffy blue illuminates like star dust as bit of cotton flew as the wind blew agains the cotton grass in one direction. We remained silence for a few minutes...the suddenly insects began to play their musical forest tune followed by fire flies....tonnes of them. We watch in awe and yet we never doubt something like in fairy tails is if its a normal act of nature because we are too young to filter out reality and stunning even. We just sit there and enjoy the scene like watching everyday fireworks. Beyond the bushy fields of forest our houses remains unlit but visible thanks to the blue moon. We fell on our back against the grass against wathing the star position shift into transition. We never speak much because we just wanna listen the silent night. The symphonic melody of the forest around us, it took minutes to interpret the sound but after few hours i manage to enjoy every tune made by mother nature...something that was taken for granted whenever i viewed from windows of my house when i see the forest. Form there i leaned that if you keep silence nature will revealed its real cover exposing secret of untold, when we listen we learn, when we listen we know and when we listen we experinced and gain knowledge both wonderfull things and vice-versa. As i gotten old things going pretty different but techniques does apply. At an adult state it really paid of the become completely silent, i learned lots of people characteristic, behaviour and how the world evolve around me. But who should i care for because i'm still adventurous seeking for curiosity to fill my happy adventurous need.