兩瓶礦泉水 訓練全身肌肉

羨慕別人強壯的身體嗎? 沒關係，我們一步一步的練好肌肉。



上臂二頭肌的鍛鍊

１．雙腳與肩同寬站立，雙膝稍微彎曲，上腹部用力，把肌肉縮緊，背部挺直。雙手垂於身體前，各握一重物，如水瓶或書本等。

２．彎曲手肘，慢慢將重物舉起到肩膀的高度，保持這個姿勢，再慢慢把手放下，回到原來的姿勢。每次大約持續做12到15次。

上臂後方肌肉及三頭肌的鍛鍊

１．站直，雙腳打開至與肩同寬，腹部用力，把肌肉縮緊，背部挺直。單手握一重物，先高舉過頭部，再將手肘彎曲，將重物至於頭後方，此時舉起的上臂要與身體成一直線。
２．伸直彎曲的手臂，使整隻手臂與身體成一直線。保持這個姿勢大約幾秒後再回覆到原來的姿勢。每次大約重複做15到20次。

肩部三角肌的鍛鍊

１．上身挺直，膝蓋張開與肩同寬並微微彎曲，雙手各拿一重物，如水瓶或書本，垂放於身體兩側。

２．緩緩將雙手水平側舉至與肩平行，持續一會兒後，再緩緩將雙手放下至原來姿勢。每次大約持續做12到15次。

背部肌肉的鍛鍊

１．雙腳與肩同寬站立，雙膝稍微彎曲，彎下腰讓上身與地板平行，雙手各握一 重物，如水瓶、書本等，自然下垂，與地面垂直。　　

２．上臂往側後方提高，到與地面平行的位置，此時握著重物的雙手位於胸前或胸側，雙腿仍保持原來姿勢。保持這個姿勢一會兒，再將雙手慢慢放下，回到原來的姿勢。每次大約持續做12到15次。

胸肌的鍛鍊

１．伏地挺身是在沒有任何器材時最好的健胸運動，方法如下：面向下，以手掌撐著地面，雙手伸直，略比肩寬；雙腳伸直，以腳尖頂著地面，以手掌和腳尖支撐身體的重量。


２．雙手彎曲，讓身體平行下降，接近地面或輕觸地面，以這個姿勢暫停一下，再伸直雙手回到原來的姿勢。每次大約持續做12到15次。

腹部肌肉的鍛鍊

１．仰臥起坐是在沒有任何器材時，最好訓練腹肌的運動，方法如下：臉朝上平躺在地上，背部打直，雙腿彎曲，雙手放在頭兩側。

２．用力將肩膀往膝蓋處伸展，維持此姿勢一會兒，再徐徐回到原來姿勢，特別要注意起身時吐氣，下來時吸氣，重複約２０次。

大腿肌肉的鍛鍊

１．站直，雙腳打開至與肩同寬，雙手握著力量可以負擔的重物，如裝滿水的礦泉水瓶或字典等，將它們舉到與肩同高，腹部用力，把腹部肌肉縮緊，背部挺直。


２．屈膝，彎曲角度不可超過90度，以免膝蓋和背部受傷；上身仍保持挺直，這個姿勢大約持續幾秒後再回覆到原來的姿勢。每次大約重複做15到20次。

文章來源: 這裡

Android: Creating New Page

Recently, I feel like wanna playing around with the android programming, it had been almost a year since I last read the android programming code. It is a Java based programming, but got to admit, it is quite a pain in the ass. For an instance, even though I attended a 5 days android training last year, I noticed that, during the training, we literally do-all-the-things with a single page. We were taught to use the TextView, ListView, creating an animation, a game, even SQL query, several classes were created, but at the end of the day, all the outcome shows only in a single page. I never wonder how to create another page! At that time, I wasnt realize about that because I was excited to see those outcomes I guess.

And now, I am having an android phone, with some experiences playing with applications, I realized almost all the applications come with several pages, and I started to question myself, ermm, how to create another page? Well, I guess the idea of creating a second page is just similar with the conventional Java programming, but how? 

I started google-ing, and I finally found the solution from a thread, where someone asked the same question.

If you want another "screen":
1. create a new layout in /res/layout  (e.g. myLayout.xml)
2. create a new class that extends Activity (e.g. MyActivity)
3. in the onCreate of MyActivity add setContentView(R.layout.myLayout);
4. in AndroidManifest.xml inside the application node add   (NB: there is a full-stop before the class name)
5. in the onClick of your button in your original activity (the one that calls setContentView(R.layout.main); and has the button)  call startActivity(new Intent(this, MyActivity.class)); 

And this works for me! I am able to create a new screen with these steps now! 

悦悦

你认识悦悦吗？一个只有两岁的中国佛山女童，悦悦吗？十月十七日前，很多人都不知道谁是悦悦，但是，一段影片，一份报道，让大家认识了这位仅有两岁的女童，悦悦。

今早当我在看报纸时，翻到国际版时，就看到一个大大的标题。

“冷血！中国社会道德沦丧！2车碾女童，18路人漠视！”


当我读着那报道时，心里震惊得很，虽然现在的社会大多都是自扫门前雪，但是却没有想到一个人的心肠可以如此的硬啊，一个女童，仅有两岁的女童，被一辆白色小货车撞倒，被卷入车底，货车稍停顿，司机竟踩油门离去，后轮在轧过她的下半身。几秒后，就有人路过，却视若无睹，或仅是望一眼也不作停留。不久又有一辆货车经过，右侧前后轮连续碾过女童双脚。此后，又有人经过，却都没有人伸出援手，宛如是街边一只频死的小动物。


被两辆车碾过，18个路人经过，但是却没有一个给予援手，任凭她躺在血泊中，整7分钟之久，才被一名拾荒阿姨救起。


是肇事逃逸的司机可恶，还是不伸出援手的路人更可恨呢？


事后，警方也扣留了肇事的两位司机，但是，非常心寒啊。第一辆肇事的司机是山东肥城人，胡某，在案后的第三天向警方自首。胡某在自首前向悦悦的父母表示自己愿意赔钱了事，但是悦悦父亲断然拒绝并报警。


胡某在被捕前与媒体通话，表示曾想逃跑去新疆，还大言不惭，“如果她走路走得好一点，我怎会撞倒她。” 


他还表示当时意识自己撞到人后心里很害怕，“如果她死了，我只要陪1，2万，但是如果她活着可能几十万都不够”，“换作是你，你也会跑”。


今天，那女童活了下来，但是这女童以后的生活必定受到影响，更不必说女童的父母，他们所受的煎熬，想必不是言语可以描叙的。


这世界也许被冷漠包围，但是有影子的地方，就有光明。尽管18个人不给予援手，但是一个拾荒阿姨简单的想要救那女童，却彰显了人性其实也并不是完全泯灭。


如果我在现场，我会怎么做呢？伸出援手，还是一样的回避闪开呢？我的良心是不是也全泯灭了呢？老实说，我还真的不知道呢，汗颜！


其实啊，道德伦理丧失何止只是中国呢？我国，时不时都能在报纸上看到雇主虐到女佣的新闻。有时候，真的不了解，这些人的心态到底是怎么了呢？如果女佣的效率不好，换一个不就得了，干嘛非得虐待毒打人家？没钱是万万不能，但是有钱也不代表凡事都能，有钱也不代表可以理直气壮的欺负人家。


现在的社会到底是怎么了呢？


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人生观

学习，要耐得住寂寞；

恋爱，要经得起考验；

婚姻，要懂得维护    ；

成长，要靠逐步积累；

成功，要受得起煎熬；

做人，须经得起风雨；

幸福，要懂得珍惜；

烦恼，要学会忘记；

有些伤口，时间久了就会慢慢长好；

有些委屈，受过想通了也就释然了；

有些伤痛，忍过了疼久了也称习惯了；

然而却在很多孤独的瞬间，又重新涌上心头。

其实，有些藏在心底的话，并不是故意要去隐瞒，

只是，并不是所有的疼痛，都可以呐喊。 

拥有幸福的10个态度

很多时候，我们不知道该怎样拥有幸福？也不知道幸福其实是什么，怎么才算是幸福。也许，这就是所谓的，身在福中，不知福吧。

看到一篇文章教导怎么才能拥有幸福，有10中不同的态度，大家看看。

1. 不抱怨生活

幸福的人并不比其他人拥有更多的幸福，而是因为他们对待生活和困难的态度不同，他们从不问“为什么”，而是问“为的是什么”，他们不会再“生活为什么对我如此不公平”的问题上做过长时间的纠缠，而是努力去想解决问题的方法。


抱怨是一个人潜意识的逃避自己的生活方式，因为人总是有个自私的想法，就是全世界的人都是错的，只有自己是对的，一个逃避的态度。因为这态度，是最简单面对生活上的一些打击和考验。但是这虽然是最简单，却也是最无效率的一件事，抱怨改变不了事实，只有积极面对，才能解决问题。


2. 不贪图安逸
幸福的人总是离开让自己感到安逸的生活环境，幸福有时是离开了安逸生活才能积累出的感觉，从来不求改变的人自然缺乏丰富的生活经验，也就难感受到幸福。


其实我觉得这一点，想要表达的是，只有离开自己目前舒服安逸的生活，在面对不同的生活环境和苛求下，一个人才会察觉自己原先所拥有的，就是那简单的幸福。

3. 感受友情
广交朋友并不一定带来幸福感，而一段深厚的友谊才能让你感到幸福，友谊所衍生的归属感和团结精神让人感到被信任和充实，幸福的人几乎都拥有团结人的天才。


身在喧哗中却莫名的寂寞，说的就是第一段，再多的朋友，也不如一个知心的朋友，一个可以分享欢笑和眼泪的知心朋友。幸福的人几乎都拥有团结人的天才，这条件有点苛刻，在我看来，在欢笑时，有几个朋友可以分享喜悦，在哭泣时，有几个朋友默默坐在一边静静的陪伴，其实，就是简单的生活幸福。


4. 勤奋工作
专注于某一项活动能够刺激人体内特有的一种荷尔蒙的分泌，它能让人处于一种愉悦的状态，研究者发现，工作能发掘人的潜能，让人感到被需要和责任，这给予人充实感。


嗯，这观点就真的就见仁见智了，当自己手上的功夫顺利的完成，那么就真的有非常妙的充实感，但是如果工作碰到瓶颈，那不是勤奋就能完成的挫折感啊。


5. 降低负面情绪
少接受些有关灾难，谋杀或其他的负面消息，这样，无形中就保持了对世界的一份美乐观的态度。


这，不就是当鸵鸟吗？我不是非常的赞同！！与其让自己现在一个假幻的幸福小世界，还不如坦然的面对世界的残酷，那么才会了解自己现在又拥有的，虽然不多，不富，但也不少，不贫！幸福其实就是在一个人认知的范围里，各有不同。


6. 生活的理想
幸福的人总是不断地为自己树立一些目标，通常我们会重视短期目标而轻视长期目标，而长期目标的实现更能给我们带来幸福感受，你可以把你的目标写下来，让自己清楚地知道为什么而活。


没有目标的人生，确实是非常可悲啊。


7. 给自己动力
通常人们只有通过快乐和有趣的事情才能够拥有轻松的心情，但是幸福的人能从恐惧和愤怒中获得动力，他们不会因困难而感到沮丧。


这一点，难啊！因为人，总是简单的，想走最简单的路。


8. 规律的生活
幸福的人从不把生活弄得一团糟，至少在思想上是条理清晰的，这有助于保持轻松的生活态度，他们会将一切收拾的有条不紊，整齐而有序的生活让人感到自信，也更容易感到满足和快乐。


也许，条理清晰的人不会觉得是种幸福，而是一种理所当然的态度。但是退一步想想，简单有序的生活，其实不就是幸福吗？


9. 珍惜时间
幸福的人很少体会到被时间牵着鼻子走的感觉，另外，专注还能使身体提高预防疾病的能力，因为，每30分钟大脑会有意识地花90秒收集资讯，感受外部环境，检查呼吸系统的状况以及身体各器官的活动。


不被时间牵着走的人，自然多了一点从容不迫的态度。后半部，我就还真的雾里看花，哈哈。


10. 心怀感激
抱怨的人把精力全集中在生活的不满之处，而幸福的人把注意力集中在能令他们开心的事情上，所以，他们更多地感受到生命中美好的一面，因为对生活的这份感激，所以他们才能感到幸福。


事情总有好坏个一面，把视线着重于美好的一面，视野不同，角度不同，心境自然也不同。

什么是幸福？幸福就是身边一些小小的事情，三餐不断，工作顺利，与友同畅，每一天同样规律不停发生的事情，其实，就是小小的幸福啊。

求知若飢，虛心若愚（Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish）

以下是Steve Jobs在2005年向史丹福大學畢業生發表的演講辭，內容非常發人深省！

“

今天，很榮幸來到各位從世界上最好的學校之一畢業的畢業典禮上。我從來沒從大學畢業過，說實話，這是我離大學畢業最近的一刻。今天，我只說三個故事，不談大道理，三個故事就好。

第一個故事，是關於人生中的點點滴滴如何串連在一起。

我在里德學院（Reed College）待了六個月就辦休學了。到我退學前，一共休學了十八個月。那麼，我為什麼休學？（聽眾笑）

這得從我出生前講起。

我 的親生母親當時是個研究生，年輕未婚媽媽，她決定讓別人收養我。她強烈覺得應該讓有大學畢業的人收養我，所以我出生時，她就準備讓我被一對律師夫婦收養。 但是這對夫妻到了最後一刻反悔了，他們想收養女孩。所以在等待收養名單上的一對夫妻，我的養父母，在一天半夜裡接到一通電話，問他們「有一名意外出生的男 孩，你們要認養他嗎？」而他們的回答是「當然要」。後來，我的生母發現，我現在的媽媽從來沒有大學畢業，我現在的爸爸則連高中畢業也沒有。她拒絕在認養文 件上做最後簽字。直到幾個月後，我的養父母保證將來一定會讓我上大學，她的態度才軟化。

十七年後，我上大學了。但是當時我無知地選了一所 學費幾乎跟史丹佛一樣貴的大學（聽眾笑），我那工人階級的父母將所有積蓄都花在我的學費上。六個月後，我看不出唸這個書的價值何在。那時候，我不知道這輩 子要幹什麼，也不知道唸大學能對我有什麼幫助，只知道我為了唸這個書，花光了我父母這輩子的所有積蓄，所以我決定休學，相信船到橋頭自然直。當時這個決定 看來相當可怕，可是現在看來，那是我這輩子做過最好的決定之一。（聽眾笑）

當我休學之後，我再也不用上我沒興趣的必修課，把時間拿去聽那 些我有興趣的課。這一點也不浪漫。我沒有宿舍，所以我睡在友人家裡的地板上，靠著回收可樂空罐的退費五分錢買吃的，每個星期天晚上得走七哩的路繞過大半個 鎮去印度教的Hare Krishna神廟吃頓好料，我喜歡Hare Krishna神廟的好料。就這樣追隨我的好奇與直覺，大部分我所投入過的事務，後來看來都成了無比珍貴的經歷（And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on）。舉個例來說。當時里德學院有著大概是全國最好的書寫教育。校園內的每一張海報上，每個抽屜的標籤上，都是美麗的手寫字。因為我休學了，可以不照正 常選課程序來，所以我跑去上書寫課。我學了serif與sanserif字體，學到在不同字母組合間變更字間距，學到活字印刷偉大的地方。書寫的美好、歷 史感與藝術感是科學所無法掌握的，我覺得這很迷人。

我沒預期過學這些東西能在我生活中起些什麼實際作用，不過十年後，當我在設計第一台麥金塔時，我想起了當時所學的東西，所以把這些東西都設計進了麥金塔裡，這是第一台能印刷出漂亮東西的電腦。

如果我沒沉溺於那樣一門課裡，麥金塔可能就不會有多重字體跟等比例間距字體了。又因為Windows抄襲了麥金塔的使用方式（聽眾鼓掌大笑），因此，如果當 年我沒有休學，沒有去上那門書寫課，大概所有的個人電腦都不會有這些東西，印不出現在我們看到的漂亮的字來了。當然，當我還在大學裡時，不可能把這些點點 滴滴預先串連在一起，但在十年後的今天回顧，一切就顯得非常清楚。

我再說一次，你無法預先把點點滴滴串連起來；只有在未來回顧時，你才會 明白那些點點滴滴是如何串在一起的（you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards）。所以你得相信，眼前你經歷的種種，將來多少會連結在一起。你得信任某個東西，直覺也好，命運也好，生命也好，或者業力。這種作法從 來沒讓我失望，我的人生因此變得完全不同。（Jobs停下來喝水）

我的第二個故事，是有關愛與失去。

我很幸運－年輕時就 發現自己愛做什麼事。我二十歲時，跟Steve Wozniak在我爸媽的車庫裡開始了蘋果電腦的事業。我們拼命工作，蘋果電腦在十年間從一間車庫裡的兩個小夥子擴展成了一家員工超過四千人、市價二十億 美金的公司，在那事件之前一年推出了我們最棒的作品－麥金塔電腦（Macintosh），那時我才剛邁入三十歲，然後我被解僱了。

我怎麼會被自己創辦的公司給解僱了？（聽眾笑）

嗯，當蘋果電腦成長後，我請了一個我以為在經營公司上很有才幹的傢伙來，他在頭幾年也確實幹得不錯。可是我們對未來的願景不同，最後只好分道揚鑣，董事會站在他那邊，就這樣在我30歲的時候，公開把我給解僱了。我失去了整個生活的重心，我的人生就這樣被摧毀。

有 幾個月，我不知道要做些什麼。我覺得我令企業界的前輩們失望－我把他們交給我的接力棒弄丟了。我見了創辦HP的David Packard跟創辦Intel的Bob Noyce，跟他們說很抱歉我把事情給搞砸了。我成了公眾眼中失敗的示範，我甚至想要離開矽谷。但是漸漸的，我發現，我還是喜愛那些我做過的事情，在蘋果 電腦中經歷的那些事絲毫沒有改變我愛做的事。雖然我被否定了，可是我還是愛做那些事情，所以我決定從頭來過。

當時我沒發現，但現在看來，被蘋果電腦開除，是我所經歷過最好的事情。成功的沉重被從頭來過的輕鬆所取代，每件事情都不那麼確定，讓我自由進入這輩子最有創意的年代。

接 下來五年，我開了一家叫做 NeXT的公司，又開一家叫做Pixar的公司，也跟後來的老婆（Laurene）談起了戀愛。Pixar接著製作了世界上第一部全電腦動畫電影，玩具總 動員（Toy Story），現在是世界上最成功的動畫製作公司（聽眾鼓掌大笑）。然後，蘋果電腦買下了NeXT，我回到了蘋果，我們在NeXT發展的技術成了蘋果電腦 後來復興的核心部份。我也有了個美妙的家庭。

我很確定，如果當年蘋果電腦沒開除我，就不會發生這些事情。這帖藥很苦口，可是我想蘋果電腦 這個病人需要這帖藥。有時候，人生會用磚頭打你的頭。不要喪失信心。我確信我愛我所做的事情，這就是這些年來支持我繼續走下去的唯一理由（I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did）。

你得找出你的最愛，工作上是如此，人生伴侶也是如此。

你的工作將佔掉你人生的一大部分，唯一真正獲得滿足的方法就是做你相信是偉大的工作，而唯一做偉大工作的方法是愛你所做的事（And the only way to do great work is to love what you do）。

如果你還沒找到這些事，繼續找，別停頓。盡你全心全力，你知道你一定會找到。而且，如同任何偉大的事業，事情只會隨著時間愈來愈好。所以，在你找到之前，繼續找，別停頓。（聽眾鼓掌，Jobs喝水）

我的第三個故事，是關於死亡。

當我十七歲時，我讀到一則格言，好像是「把每一天都當成生命中的最後一天，你就會輕鬆自在。（If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right）」（聽眾笑）這對我影響深遠，在過去33年裡，我每天早上都會照鏡子，自問：「如果今天是此生最後一日，我今天要做些什麼？」每當我連續太多 天都得到一個「沒事做」的答案時，我就知道我必須有所改變了。提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中面臨重大決定時，所用過最重要的方法。因為幾乎每件事－所有外 界期望、所有的名聲、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼－在面對死亡時，都消失了，只有最真實重要的東西才會留下（Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important）。提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入畏懼失去的陷阱裡最好的方法。人生不帶來、死不帶去，沒理由不能順心而為。

一年 前，我被診斷出癌症。我在早上七點半作斷層掃描，在胰臟清楚出現一個腫瘤，我連胰臟是什麼都不知道。醫生告訴我，那幾乎可以確定是一種不治之症，預計我大 概活不到三到六個月了。醫生建議我回家，好好跟親人們聚一聚，這是醫生對臨終病人的標準建議。那代表你得試著在幾個月內把你將來十年想跟小孩講的話講完。 那代表你得把每件事情搞定，家人才會盡量輕鬆。那代表你得跟人說再見了。我整天想著那個診斷結果，那天晚上做了一次切片，從喉嚨伸入一個內視鏡，穿過胃進 到腸子，將探針伸進胰臟，取了一些腫瘤細胞出來。我打了鎮靜劑，不醒人事，但是我老婆在場。她後來跟我說，當醫生們用顯微鏡看過那些細胞後，他們都哭了， 因為那是非常少見的一種胰臟癌，可以用手術治好。所以我接受了手術，康復了。（聽眾鼓掌）

這是我最接近死亡的時候，我希望那會繼續是未來幾十年內最接近的一次。經歷此事後，我可以比先前死亡只是純粹想像時，要能更肯定地告訴你們下面這些：沒有人想死。即使那些想上天堂的人，也想活著上天堂。（聽眾笑）

但是死亡是我們共同的終點，沒有人逃得過。這是註定的，因為死亡很可能就是生命中最棒的發明，是生命交替的媒介，送走老人們，給新生代開出道路。現在你們是新生代，但是不久的將來，你們也會逐漸變老，被送出人生的舞台。抱歉講得這麼戲劇化，但是這是真的。

你們的時間有限，所以不要浪費時間活在別人的生活裡。不要被教條所侷限--盲從教條就是活在別人思考結果裡。不要讓別人的意見淹沒了你內在的心聲。最重要 的，擁有追隨自己內心與直覺的勇氣，你的內心與直覺多少已經知道你真正想要成為什麼樣的人（have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become），任何其他事物都是次要的。

（聽眾鼓掌）

在我年輕時，有本神奇的雜誌叫做《Whole Earth Catalog》，當年這可是我們的經典讀物。那是一位住在離這不遠的Menlo Park的Stewart Brand發行的，他把雜誌辦得很有詩意。那是1960年代末期，個人電腦跟桌上出版還沒出現，所有內容都是打字機、剪刀跟拍立得相機做出來的。雜誌內容 有點像印在紙上的平面Google，在Google出現之前35年就有了：這本雜誌很理想主義，充滿新奇工具與偉大的見解。

Stewart跟他的團隊出版了好幾期的《Whole Earth Catalog》，然後很自然的，最後出了停刊號。當時是1970年代中期，我正是你們現在這個年齡的時候。在停刊號的封底，有張清晨鄉間小路的照片，那種你四處搭便車冒險旅行時會經過的鄉間小路。

在照片下印了行小字：

求知若飢，虛心若愚（Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish）

那是他們親筆寫下的告別訊息，我總是以此自許。當你們畢業，展開新生活，我也以此祝福你們。

求知若飢，虛心若愚。

非常謝謝大家。 （聽眾起立鼓掌二分鐘）”

原文摘于： 这里


人固有一死，或重于泰山，或轻于鸿毛， Steven Jobs 无疑是本世纪一个非常的代表人物，安息吧。

2010, iPhone 4 推荐会

李佳薇 - 感谢爱人

第一次听李佳薇的专辑，《感谢爱人》时，我还真的一点感觉都没有，我还记得我和朋友说了没有特色，但是我其中一个朋友则说，“有啊，飙高音啊”，说的还真的没有错！但是这算是特色吗？老实说，我就只记得《煎熬》，其他的，就真的听过就算了。

主打《煎熬》，刚开始听的时候真的好煎熬，我接受不了副歌的尖锐，所以第一次听时，就被我切歌了呢。但是后来在听电台播这歌时，我没有办法切歌，所以就硬着头皮听完。

奇怪的事情突然就发生了，有一天，莫名其妙的，我的脑袋就不停的传来一段旋律，认真的回想，竟然就是李佳薇的《煎熬》！！！

我有一刹那的呆楞，因为我觉得那旋律还不错，而且朗朗上口呢。然后慢慢地觉得这歌其实也没有那么煎熬，李佳薇在比赛时除了以高亢铁肺奠定她的地位，她对一首歌的起承转合，层次的拿捏其实非常的不错，我时不时都起鸡皮疙瘩，眼眶湿润，呵呵。我不知道一首歌要怎样唱才会有所谓的感情，但是一首歌如果唱的能引起共鸣，那基本上就很好了。李佳薇其实没有这一方面的能力，但是基于她赋予一首歌的层次，有时，也带来一些小小的感动。

《煎熬》这歌，层次是一定有的，第一次的副歌以假音唱，第二次就用真音上阵。而且这歌的音域好广阔。其实这个令人非常不耐的是第一遍副歌，假音太太尖锐了，所以让人觉得煎熬，哈哈。但是第二次副歌，那澎湃的感觉就出来了，其实，对第一次听这歌时就切歌的我有点不好意思说，爽啊！！

这歌的mv也引起满大的风波，被Youtube给禁播了，其实真的有点夸张，但是那mv还真的有够恶心！但是偏激的拍摄，配合李佳薇煎熬的《煎熬》，也吸引了不少人的查看。红了？其实也没有。

后来也看到朋友推荐另一首歌，《分隔线》，我也听了听，还真的不错，有比较流行乐的味道。

还有几首《大火》，《离场》都不错，我还特喜欢《离场》，尤其是副歌，看了看，原来是伍家辉写的，不错不错。

李佳薇 - 《离场》

其实如果李佳薇能够唱出更强烈的情感，也许这张专辑会买的很不错，可惜，技巧，层次都有了，就是少了感情这一块，唱不到人心，好听是好听，但是少了共鸣啊。

专辑曲目

1. 送你分手

2. 煎熬

3. 分隔线

4. 也好也不好

5. 撤

6. 大火

7. 鞋

8. 离场

9. 感谢爱人

10. 如果爱是星光

4th Oct 2011

Today definitely one of the most excited day to the Apple's fan. Yupe, today, at the another side of the globe, there will be an iPhone event at 10am Pacific Time, which is approximately 1pm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. People started guessing what the event is all about long before today. Would it be the newest iPhone 5? or just a slightly enhanced version of iPhone 4, iPhone 4S?

One thing for sure, it will be the new iOS, iOS5, coming. iOS5 comes with several new features, the top ten new features of the iOS5. Besides these new features, the most exciting of the iOS is its killer app Assistant. However, I personally find the Assistant app does not attract me much in any aspect. 

As for Malaysian, especially the Form Three teenagers, today is probably the most nerve breaking day of their life to date. Yupe, today is their first day of PMR examination. It had been a decade since I had my PMR examination, time flies huh. My sister is one of the candidates this year, and she told me that our cousin, who also a candidate, sms her last night saying she was too nervous and couldnt fall asleep. Poor girls. I forgot about my case back on that day, but I guess everyone shared the same experience, nervous, scared, and maybe a bit excited, for those well prepared. And i was definitely not the well prepared geng, but i think i did the best i could, i think, hahaha.

Despite of that exciting yet nerve breaking news, today actually is the World Animal Day. I learned this when i was watching the NTV7 The Breakfast Show this morning, haha. It is a special day for the animal lovers. I am one? Haha, maybe, I dont know.

4th Oct 2011, an ordinary Tuesday yet a day with full excitement, nerve breaking, and loving all around the world.

"一心多用"只會讓我們損失更多

科學家們已經發現，那些經常“一心多用”的人，恰恰有著最糟糕的記憶力。不僅如此，一心多用的人還容易患狂躁症、胃病、心血管病，甚至社交能力都會變差。

信息量過多，接受速度會慢美國斯坦福大學教授埃亞勒‧奧斐致力于這方面的研究，他說：“一切都分散著人們的注意力。當人們始終在接受眼前的所有信息時，他們就難以令頭腦中已存儲的信息保持獨立。”另一位科學家安東尼‧瓦格納也說，“無法過濾信息，意味著會受到無關信息的影響，導致處理信息速度變慢。”研究人員利用層析X線照相法，去觀察大腦的活動，發現人們在處理多件事情時，是大腦額葉前部皮層在發揮關鍵作用。額葉前部皮層能提高人的工作效率，但它只是在迅速調節兩件事先後處理的順序，有時這種轉換速度可以快到讓我們產生“同時進行”的幻覺。大腦處理兩件事的轉換需要時間，人們可以通過練習縮短轉換時間，卻不可能將其縮短到任意小的數值。而且練習所產生的效果，很大程度上也取決于事情的難易程度。加州大學科學家馬克的研究也顯示，當人們在不同工作中換來換去時，他們工作速度的確快，但效率其實很低。研究人員指出，除了一心多用處理工作事務，我們如今還有鋪天蓋地的新信息需要去消化和記憶。網際網路、移動電話、電視和其它電子產品裏，都源源不斷涌現出新鮮事物，科學家估計，如今人們希望大腦一天之中可以盡量去處理完的信息量，相當于100年前，我們的曾祖母整整一個星期收到的信息量。“當不同信息同時涌現在記憶中，人們會無法篩選出與當前目標不相關的信息，甚至還會禁不住去思考那些尚未開始做的事情，于是會出現顧此失彼。”


長期一心多用，影響身心健康澳大利亞昆士蘭大學的研究人員發現，邊走路邊說話會損害健康。由于說話和呼吸屬于大腦同一區域控制，邊走路邊說話會造成中樞神經係統神經信號傳輸的中斷，腹部肌肉活動減弱，脊椎等部位也易受損。同樣，如果一邊進食，一邊思考問題，或一邊進食，一邊看書、看電視，由于大量血液要供應腦部工作，會直接影響胃腸道的血液供應。長此以往，會導致胃病發生。嚴重時甚至會引發一係列危險的精神問題，比如成年人的狂躁症，或者孩子的學習障礙和自閉症等。美國麻省理工學院的神經學家厄爾‧米勒研究證實，同時做兩件或多件事需要付出更多腦力。他對志願者進行腦部掃描，發現同時處理不同工作時，即使面前有很多看得見的物體，也僅有一兩件會引起大腦的反應，這表明我們實際上只能集中精力做一兩件事。也就是說，我們的大腦在處理太多不同工作時，只會來回忙碌，做無用功，因此容易導致大腦的處理能力透支並引發嚴重腦部問題。澳洲中央昆士蘭大學行為科學家艾倫‧基恩博士認為，“一心多用”是狂躁症蔓延的重要因素。隨著生活節奏加快，大腦中會產生一些化學變化，包括應激激素指標的長期增加。這會使人們更傾向于好鬥並且容易衝動，同時增加患心血管疾病的風險。長遠來看，“一心多用”引起的心理和治理損耗會導致更普遍的危害，年輕一代面臨的危險尤其大。年輕人“一心多用”時間越長，集中注意力能力就越差。邊學習邊做別的事，會直接影響孩子的智力發育。因此美國神經科學家加雷‧斯默警告說，在性格形成時期總是“一心多用”的孩子，社交能力會變差，他們會誤解甚至無法理解那些微妙的、非言語的信息。


運動與睡眠，有助提高效率研究人員認為習慣長期“一心多用”的人，可能要麼是先天的注意力不集中，要麼是因為一次性吸收太多東西，導致認知控制受損。想要改善這種狀況，首先要我們有意識地去主動停止一些“一心多用”的做法。比如你在查郵件，就別在那個時候接電話；如果你在閱讀，就把電視關上……有時候最簡單的方法最有效。除此之外，我們必須讓自己保證足夠的睡眠，睡眠對于記憶至關重要，它能幫助我們消化和鞏固白天獲得的信息。以色列海法大學的研究人員發現，在上午學習一項新任務後，那些有90分鐘午睡的人，在一天結束時能夠回憶出上午學習的新任務的信息量，明顯要比那些沒有午睡的人多得多。鍛煉身體和活躍大腦也是一種自我救治的方法。任何身體鍛煉，如每天慢跑或遊泳，都可以促進身體產生一種可以提高記憶力的化學物質，做填字遊戲或數獨遊戲則可以保持大腦活躍。當你保持充沛的體力與清醒的大腦，試問又有多少事可以難倒你呢？

原文摘引：http://scimage-news.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post_6017.html

糗事

最近老是想起一些过去的糗事，

真的，非常的，

无地自容啊。。。

而且，怎么就那么多件呢？

是不是人老了，

就真的较会想当年呢？

馬來西亞 神秘巨蛇 納布

在部落格之间溜走时，意外看见这个标题，身为大马公民，在这土地行走呼吸了24载，也在砂劳越待了要五年了，今天才知道，原来在砂劳越有个这么的一个当地传说，神秘巨蛇，纳布 (Nabau).

根据当地古老传说，当地曾经有种叫纳布的神秘巨蛇，长达30米，拥有龙状脑袋和7个鼻孔。最近，有洪水监控人员乘坐直飞机巡查婆罗洲勒河时，据称在空中拍摄到了一条正在河中游泳的30米巨蛇。

当然，这两张图引起一些在争执，争得无非就是这两张图的真实性，哈哈。不过就我看来，就合成的啦，照片很不自然呢。

当地居民却都坚称纳布是真的存在，因为两张照片都是在婆罗洲勒河不同地点拍到的，他们呢相信纳布回来了。

“本月初，古生物學家曾在哥倫比亞東北部發現了迄今已知最長巨蛇的化石，這種生活在5500萬年前的巨蛇身長在12.8米至13.7 米之間，相當于一輛公共汽車那麼長。這種巨蛇在恐龍滅絕後的1000萬年時間內曾稱雄南美洲熱帶叢林，並且是這一時期最大的陸地捕食者，它以捕食鱷魚和巨 龜為食，能一口吞下一頭母牛那麼大的動物。” 摘引《这里》

如果纳布是真实的，那么它可是比5500万年前的巨蛇至少还要长有一倍呢！

一条长达30米的巨蛇，光是想想就有毛骨悚然，更不用提到这蛇，是只有一条呢，还是两条呢，还是（数算中）。。。

相爱不到老

身边不乏一些令人感到惋惜的感情。
长达数载的感情，有时就是遗憾的以分手挂上句号。

是不是相爱的太早了呢？
十四五岁就发芽的爱情，
七八年后，青春正盛之时，
却发现，自己原本拥有的爱情，
正逐渐凋谢。

原本羡煞旁人的爱情，随着，
自己慢慢长大，
视野渐渐扩展，
悄悄的枯萎了。

爱情的全盛期，就是结婚最佳时机，
但是偏偏，过早开花的爱情，
在当事人刚踏出社会的那一刻开始，
早过了全盛期，慢慢的，
爱情，变成感情，
依赖，成了习惯。

最后，两个人达成协议，
和平分手，开始另一段爱情之旅。
不出两三年，却可以共成连理了。
因为时间，地点，人物，
天时地利人和，自然的就会步入人生第二阶段。

恋爱和婚姻不同，
恋爱需要爱情的养分，
婚姻不只需要爱情的养分，更需要感情的经营。

相爱能不能到老？
是真的需要一种缘分。

吳彤 羅憶詩 - 相愛不到老

September's Wedding

Last year, 4th of September, 2010, I was at JB with some of the Uni friends to attend a wedding ceremony.

This year, 4th of September, 2011, I was at Selangor, again, with some of the Uni friends, to attend another wedding ceremony.

We were at Selangor to witness the process where a boy turned into a man, to begin the second stage of his life. And he is Chiam Jia Wei, commonly known as Chiam among us who from Unimas. 

It was more than just a wedding ceremony to us who attended the wedding. We met Chiam's friends, all his groomsmen, and some of them were very nice to us. When we reached at Klang KTM train station on 3rd of September, two of Chiam's friends, Guo Sheng, and Zhi Xing came to pick us (me, waiyee, yilin and sweetnee) to the hotel. And due to that ride, the four of us got to know the two of them a little bit, compared to the rest of the groomsmen. Practically, they were our drivers, picking us from the station to hotel, then from hotel to Chiam's house. 

At the same night, we went to Chiam's house to join the family dinner fest before the wedding. There we met some of the members of the groomsmen, and there were supposed to be 9 of them, and 7 of them showed up. Surprisingly, 7 of the groomsmen were Chiam's friends since primary school. From the way they spoke to each others, we knew they were really close to each others. The other 2 were from Chiam's friends from Form 6. 

There was this guy, Steven, the leader of the groomsmen, he is incredible in human networking. He talked to us like we knew each other for a long time, but that was the first time we met. The first thing he said to me was, "I saw u before, from facebook", i was just smiling, and later i was seriously suspicious about that, haha. We were dying laughing when Chiam brought his colleague to our table, and Steven said, "Hi, it had been awhile, my name is Steven". We thought he knew Chiam colleague, even Chiam and his colleague himself wondered for a second, "if he/i knew him before". Turned out, that was their first met, but Steven is the kind of guy good with ice breaking, breaks the walls between two strangers instantly. But he also full with craps!!!

Go Go Go!!!

As u can see from the picture above, the theme for the groomsmen was t-shirt and short pant, with sport shoes. Actually, they were wearing t-shirt printed with ANGRY BIRD, ya, angry bird was their theme, kind of funny looking at them put the t-shirt on, hahaha. I will skipped all the games they deal with, for my own sake, in the future!

Chiam was busy with his wedding, and Steven took over the responsible of taking care of us. One thing he used to say the most when we were there, three days was, "No worry, I had perfectly arranged everything!". He knew we dont have any transport to follow the Grooms team to the bride's house on the second day, he immediately said we could drive his car, and follow the team at the back, and he wasnt just saying so, because i was driving his car following the team on the second day! 

Seriously, the four of us, were like the most precious guests, haha, like Steven said, he had arranged everything well and fine, and he was the one responsible of taking us during Chiam's wedding day, and day after that. 

During the dinner, I got to know another groomsman, Yong Tat, who is working as an associate relationship manager at RHB Premier Banking, investment, he told me, haha. We didnt talk during the morning and afternoon, but during that dinner, he was sitting just two seats next to me, and he was very quiet and alone if compared to rest of the groomsmen we met. As for me, the girls were talking to themselves, taking pictures, i was quiet and alone as well, so i made the first step, that's rare! Then he told me that he moved to Klang year 2000, and didnt really remain in touch with the geng, until one or two years ago. That's why we can feel a gap between him and the rest of the groomsmen, excludes Steven, he was close to Steven, compared to the rest, haha. But Steven closes to everyone, that's what he good with, haha.

Taking pictures become a must during any wedding dinner, that is what i found out all these years, haha. We stayed at the restaurant for almost an hour just to take pictures, chatting, after the dinner. Well, after the dinner, all of us will be going to our own position, and that might be the last chance to take pictures, chat in real person with these newly met friends for the four of us. But everything will come to an end eventually, when the curtain closes, we back to where we belong.

That wasnt just a wedding ceremony to us, but it was a new and old friends gathering, quoted from Waiyee, haha. 

Here by, I would like to thank the new friends who were being so kind to us when we were there for three days. Thank you.

And Chiam, happily ever after! And thanks for the invitation and u have a batch of good good friends!

The groomsmen with the lovely couple

We with the couple

Yong Tat(left) and Steven(right)

Chiam's Form 6 friends

Zhi Xing with his gf

me and Guo Sheng, i found out he looks so so so familiar to me!!! But still unable to think why so..

And here we come with the last big surprise!!! We found Stephanie Sun Yan Zi.

She is Chiam second sister! But she does look alike!

Lake Toba, Medan, 30/5-2/6 2011

During the Chinese New Year break, I had a little gathering with some of my best friends during secondary school. We were classmates since Form 3, year 2001.Well, PuiSee and I were good friends back then, I barely talked to Melisa nor ZhiFang, not until Form 4. Funny thing was, we were classmates ever since, from Form 3 - 5, then another two years spent on Form 6.

And if u know math, this year is the our first 10 years anniversary. So we thought of planning and going some where, to have little trip, among ourselves. Sadly to tell, we never been to a single trip before, even we know each other for 10 years now. Initially, PuiSee suggested to go Beijing, China, she said we got to visit to the China Great Wall, one of the seven wonders in the world once in our lifetime. ZhiFang and I both are easy going people, as long as it is a school holidays, (ZhiFang is a primary teacher) and as for me, a bit shame to say that, I am still a student, so I have the time. That's made it down to Melisa, the busiest person among us. And she was fine with it, so we set our trip on June school break.

We made the decision instantly, and we decided to go by very coming June, so guess what, we couldnt get a cheap flight to Beijing. So the plan changed, from Beijing, to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, and u know what, we missed the promotion flight to Ho Chi Minh!!! Few days later, there was another promotion, and PuiSee and I decided to go to Medan, Indonesia. Seriously, I dont know there is a place called Medan until that day, haha. The other two were fine with the decision, as long as we able to get on the plane, and get ourselves out from Malaysia, haha.

I did some researches before going to Medan, well, I was forced to, because they let me in charge of the trip, planner! God I hate that so much. Need to come out with a budget control some more, that was a very hard time for me. And guess what was troubled me the most? I bought the wrong ticket from Kuching to KL, we were supposed to fly to Medan on morning of 30st May, but I bought the same day ticket, evening time, to fly from Kuching to KL. I am an idiot! That wasnt the worst, after knowing I purchased the wrong ticket, I checked with AirAsian again, luckily I was able to get RM25.00 ticket, excluded the taxes to KL on 25th of May, I thought I could go back home first then headed to KL later. And damn it, I forget I had a training to attend, from 22nd to 28th of May. Jezz, I felt like killing myself already, but what to do, I repurchased another ticket on 28th, night flight. Luckily I was still able to get a flight with RM 25.00, else...sigh

Medan isnt a very interesting location to me, but I found out there is one spot in Medan worth to travel to, the Lake Toba. I searched for the information, and Melisa also helped to send me some links. It isnt the place interested me, but the views, from the photos, wah, incredible nice!

I spent two nights at KL, then finally the four of us got on to the plane, started our first trip ever, woohoo....

Medan is actually only 1 hour distance from KL. Well, Medan airport, very much smaller compare to all the airports I had been to, but only restricted to local airport. haha. The first thing when we got out from the airport, wasnt taking pictures, but checking with the taxi service, we checked before, from Medan to Lake Toba, it takes 5 hours. So we dont want to waste the time, got ourselves a taxi, Toyota Avanza, costed us Rp 600k.

The traffic, a complete nightmare, trust me!

We stopped some where for our lunch. They served the lunch like a buffet style, but smaller and less variety. They served, and charged only those we ate. It was around Rp 50k. Well, if u like hot and spicy, then u gonna love the food in Medan.

We stopped and took few pictures before we reached the Parapat town to get a boat to the Samosir island which is surrounded by the Lake Toba. The weather was nice, bright sun but cold, because it is a highland i think. Once we approached the boat, always someone approached us to recommend himself as our tour guide, and we decided to go by our own, budget constraint. The boat fee is Rp 7k.

After around 1 hour spent on the boat, we finally reached the Samosir Island. There are a lot of cottages, and we booked a room with Samosir Cottage. We took the family room, 2 rooms, 2 king size begs, tv, fringe, bath room, no hot water because it was broken! Rp 350k per night. We chose Samosir Cottage because from the posts I read, people chose Samosir Island, but only for Malaysian. The rooms are big, but too bad the hot water supplier broken. It was so so so cold to take shower in cold water under such a weather.

After setting down all the luggage, we went for a walk, to see how's the people living there. But we were actually still in the tourist zone, so we saw lot of souvenir shops, restaurants, and cottages, but not many local people. By the way, the people living at Samosir Island is known as Batak, just like Iban and Bidayuh in Sarawak. So, the food in Lake Toba, non-halal. We were hungry, so we simply went into one small restaurant., Orari Restaurant. The food price around Rp 12k to Rp 20k per dish. 

Well, I forget what was the name of the food, but kind of obvious those were fried beehoon, fried noodles, then pork with homemade sauce, and the middle one, something like the pohpiah we used to eat in Malaysia.

Here stated the amount we spent for the first day, roughly, I lost the bill i kept, sweat

Taxi - 600k

Lunch - 52k

Boat - 28k (7k pp)

Cottage - 700k (2 nights)

Dinner - 70-80k

The next day, taking shower without hot water in the morning was miserable. We all knew that today we were going to ride on motor, and went around the island, so sun block was a must. I applied the sun block on my legs and arms, and thought applied on my face later after the breakfast. The cottage provided two set breakfast, either fried noodles or fried rice, but there were four of us, so we made extra order, egg waffle and bacon toast. I liked the egg waffle lots! haha.

We got real excited when we saw the motorbikes, couldnt wait to start the journey. Too excited, caused me left something I wished to do before, yupe, the sunblock!!!

On the very beginning of the journey, we were seriously excited, few minutes on the ride, then stopped for few minutes to take pictures, haha. 

When the sun was approaching the center of the sky, we started to worry, because, we even finished 1/3 of the journey!!! We stopped and asked the people around, when they showed us where we were on the map, seriously, we started to worry if we able to get back to the cottage before dark. Either turned back or went on. We decided to went on, and we started to speed! I doubted the motors were modified, because no matter how fast I went, it showed on 60km/h, which based on my experience, it should be 80km/h at least!

Even we wanna to speed up our journey, the road condition started to change, from a smooth blacktop to stone crushed road. God, we couldnt even speed to 40km/h. At that moment, I knew we were all not in a very good mood! And we actually passing by the villages on the island. I believe that is what we used to rural area. People here lives a simple life, though the kids kept saying "money, money, money", I believe they are all friendly and kind hearted.

After almost 2 hours speeding, we finally reached the town with the hot spring, which is located on the middle of the map. We were a bit relieved as we knew we might be able to get back to the cottage by time. Speaking of the hot spring, disappointed. The hot spring was created because of the volcano. And I rather call it a hot stream, but it is a stream. The people takes that as a business opportunity, they stored the hot spring in a little pool, and the visitors have to pay for the entry. There are three-five this kind of hot spring provided shops. We just rode through, and stopped to take the pictures, then be gone!

In the rest of the journey, we were still speeding up, because when we got into the town, it is blacktop road again, hoorey. We didnt stop for taking pictures anymore, but the one sitting behind, for instance, ZhiFang and PuiSee tried to capture the nice scene while we were speeding, haha. Stil lot of quality pictures taken.

It had been a long long day!!! We were so tired and body sore!! Too bad there was no massage service, haha. We went for dinner, and they said wanna tried the BBQ fish, so we ordered one. Honestly, it was just ok. The fish was however fresh, as we saw the owner caught one in front of us, haha. 

And yupe, we didnt take our lunch, I dont have the urge, because of the long riding, haha. We skipped our lunch, even though we could have our lunch when we were in the hot spring town. And of course, we didnt apply lot of sunblock, we were all burnt!!!

We had our own little activity during the nights. We watched the local drama, , got to say, not bad actually, but I found myself so hard to understand Bahasa Indonesia, and of course, no subtitle! And I brought manjong cards,  and we had small punishment for those who lost the game, beer!!! 2 nights, total, 3 bottle, and 4 cans. Crazy us.

Dinner - around 50-60k

Motor - unable to recall... But it was cheaper than the people offered me before I got on the boat. And we rented the motorbikes from the Samosir Cottage as well, they actually rented from the villagers, so the motorbike condition is quite not bad.

The third day, again started with the cold water, and we need to prepare ourselves to check out and got back to Medan town. While we were having our breakfast, another couple from Malaysia sat next to us, and seeing  4 of us seriously burnt asking if we were on ride yesterday, and the guy talked to us, he himself also burnt. We talked for awhile, then we got to say, the world is small, coz the guy also from Sitiawan, in fact, senior from our secondary school, the very senior of course, haha. He was on vocation with his couple, and they were the crazy one as they were going for another island riding, for proper visiting, salute! One thing he mentioned about us, he said when he saw the way we started the engine of the motor day before, then he knew this group of four surely anak kampung!!! Because we were very get used with the motor, haha. We almost missed the time of the boat, and when we were in hungry, we forgot to pay for the breakfast bill!!! I paid only when I returned the room key, the worker showed me the bill, that was embarrassing.  

We actually booked a van back to Medan through Samosir Cottage, and booked the hotel rooms at Medan as well. The hotel at Medan town is ok, but the driver, errmmm, no, unacceptable to me. He was splitting all way back from Parapat to Medan. And because he needed to split, so he let the windows open, and didnt turn on the air condition. At Parapat, it was ok because the weather was nice, and cold. But not all the way to Medan! Not to mention when the traffic got crowded, and lot of dust! However, one benefit of having the van service through Samosir Cottage is that the driver will bring you around to visit to another visiting venues. And of course, some of the venues required entrance fees, which they will charge us more because they need to pay the driver the fees of bringing people to visit these venues. And the driver we got, kind of asshole, he charged us quite a lot, but what to do? He told us if we wanna to go to visit the waterfall, which was supposed to be included in the service, according to the manager of the Samosir Cottage, we needs to pay another 100k\150k because it was a bit far from where we were at that moment. We managed to cut it to 80k, and just 1 or 2 minutes we made the deal, we were at the waterfall park. What the H***??!!

Backed to Medan town, we went to the shopping mall twice, the first night we stayed at Medan, and the second day, before we heading to the airport. The mall isnt any special, just that we prefer to find a place with air cond to have our dinner and lunch. I was very surprise when I saw the people smoking indoor! Due to that, the air cond, wasnt much help!!!

The first two food shown in the picture above were Baso, the local cuisine. It was just ok to us but PuiSee liked it alot, haha. 

Van - 600k

Rooms at Medan - 350k each (x2, the disadvantage of having the cottage to book the rooms for us because they actually forbid us to share the room, and they will fine us because they knew exact how many people we have! But save the troubles.)

Dinner - Roughly 100k (downtown, shopping mall some more)

At the airport, we bought, layer cake!!! But got to say, the cake really nice, should give it a try, wasnt too expensive, I forgot the price though, we paid in RM if i not mistaken. Our flight backed to Malaysia was delayed for almost an hour. That's so bored at the airport, especially when the airport was so so so small.

Thanks to the delay, me and ZhiFang unable to get the bus back to Sitiawan from the airport. Luckily PuiSee and her boyfriend dropped us at Puduraya bus station, and it was 10pm already, and we havent eat our dinner yet!!! We bought 10.30pm bus backed to Sitiawan, so unable to have dinner with PuiSee and her boyfriend. We said our goodbye with Melisa at the airport, to PuiSee at the bus station, and I said goodbye to ZhiFang when we reached Sitiawan by 2.30am!

How much did we spend? PuiSee only changed RM400, Melisa and ZhiFang RM500, and me RM600. Each of us able to remain some balances after all, if dont feel like buying souvenirs, then RM400 should be enough.Like what we did, we did not save much for the budget for accommodations, not a high class hotel of course, but at least everyone of us had our own single bed to sleep every night. If you able to find a way to sneak in the hotel, and shared a double room with four person, then definitely saved a certain amount.

Finally finishing this blog, wanna write it immediately after the trip, but I was unable to get the pictures, not even single one! Because I didnt use my camera, and my memory card is still with Melisa, because hers was full when we were riding around the island. This raya holiday break, PuiSee, ZhiFang and I gathered for lunch two days ago, and finally we have the complete set of the pictures as ZhiFang took the pictures from Melisa while Melisa backed to Sitiawan. 

That was a great trip, looking forward for the next trip, guess should be Beijing or Taiwan!!hahaha...

More pictures, my facebook account, only for friends though, haha.