pissed off

I am Soooooo angry with the pasar malam stall holder.. it's the 1st pasar malam opp my blk, so i tot i'll support... yet last evening i went for a walk, saw this cute and nice clip folder/memo pad with seven dwarf.. I can't resist not to see and buy, which all my friend knew.. so i was looking around to see if there is anything else beside the file, then i saw another nice folder, but this lady was "starring" at me.. Yes stare! so i tot i shld give her a smile and compilment her product, yet... Shit... guess what she say??? "WHAT"! errrrrrrrr... i was damn mad at her rudeness.. so i put down the thing and walk off.. come on, that's not the only stall selling.. juz a few stall away there was one too.. I've decided, today i shall buy from the second stall and walk in front of her to show her what i've got!!! So Pissed off.. what is this, can't i even look at the product before buying.. if i don't how do i know if it value for money..nowaday some sales person is really sickening! Of course there is some nice one out there

Start work

Immediatly after a simple lunch we started to roll up our sleves and proceed to the work site.. I can't imagine, they are so poor that everything is MANUAL.. no machinery at all.. some of the workers are like us, volunteers, some were paid workers, but of course they won't be highly paid. The guys started to cover the buddha statue with canvas and making steps for easy access and climbing. The statue is abt 2 storey high that we need to make a platform before we can climb up and paint it in Gold colours.. there only 1 statue which will be place in the middle of the temple, it's huge... the weather was horrible, 38 degree.. all of us were sweating like hell. My job is the easiest, all i do is distributing sweet and goodies to the children around there, I can see the joy and happiness in them, it;s only 2pkts of chips and some jelly, choc and sweet for them, but they are so grateful and they really appreciate. They are juz so simple! Never have i enjoy giving out sweet so much.. It's so nice so see them so happy. My other duty is giving out mineral water to the people working and taking picture. Of course i cook also. It's the 1st time going to the wet market, 6am! there are huge varieties of veggie, but the meat there was surrounded by flies... scaryyyyyyyy, but still have to buy, all i do was wash it with lots of salt water!!!Oh ya, the you cha kueh there was in mini size.. very small, i can easily eat 6-7 pcs, there is lots of weird weird meat, whihc I DARE NOT TRY AT ALL!!!

Sweaty day...

Finally we've reached Surin, A pretty remoted village, we head straight to the temple where the Luong Por (Head Monk) Luong Pu Kee stayed, he was so happy when he saw us... I likes him, he has a very fatherly looked, toothless, reminds me of my dad.. very nice and warm head monk who can wake up middle of the night to make us coffee and serve us! his elder disciple was busy running around boiling water to make coffee for all of us, when we reach the temple, they really make us feel at home. The new temple to be build was located next to the existing temple.. why are we building one, it's because the old temple is sinking! really sinking soon... so it's not safe for the monks there. In fact there is a new temple which was built halfway, next to ours.. it belong to the fellow monk, who was one of the top monk in Thailand.. the project has to call off becos of those unscrupulous contractor, cheated all the 4million baht.. so sad rite, it takes the monk years to get the donation... how can they do such things to the monk, i believe in retributions, they will not gain from these. Imagine, how sad the monk will be. But no worries, the $$ for our temple is well taken care of, we don't give lump sum to them, once the completion of some parts, then we give money for the next.

Meaningful Trip PT 2

It's 21st Jan, we had breakfast at the stall selling "kueh Teow" soup.. the fried meat ball was great, the soup as usual i put in lots of chilli powder.. it's so spicy but shiok! after breakfast we gonna start our 5 hours drive to Surin, to start with our mission! The drive was ok, we were separated to 2 van. Me, ray, FC, FC Dad, Ran, Ton was in the same van while those aunty, aunt in another van with Reika. Perhap it's becos we woke up too early, we all fall asleep in the van, or maybe becos there us nothing to do. We stop at the petro kiosk to buy drinks and tibits, but each time after all the tibit session, we went to sleep again.. so we repeat.. Stop at petro kiosk, go pee, buy tibit, get in the van, eat and sleep again, for the next 5 hours.. Oh Ya! the steam peanut, green mangoes are wonderful... Ya, as well as the bbq sweet corn.. wow....

Meaningful trip P1-Hotel Room

This special and meaningful trip was made in Jan 2005. Why was it meaningful? because it's not an usual shopping trip to Bangkok! No shopping at all! surprised? lots of my friends and me too... surprised that i can resist all the shopping.
I reached BBK in the evening on the 1st day, hence after a delicious abalone, fresh scallop and sharkfin meal at the chinese restaurant, we check into the P hotel (3 star only). In fact the place was nice, I've got room 616? 611? can't recall. But... wonder if Francis trying to scare me or what, but he don't look as if he is. But he told me to make sure that i on the TV for the whole nite, cos there is "someone what there" who loved TV, if i don't hee hee.. i might not be able to have my sleep.. oh gosh.. so eerie rite, but i didn't tell Ray.. SO we brought our bags up to the room, hoping to take a nice shower and meet them at the lounge for some coffee. I have this habit, before opening the door, i will give a knock, this is to tell "whoever" in the room that i'm only using the room for few days, hope they will be ok and leave me alone. The feeling was strange... but i reminded myself, not to talk nonsense... AFter shower we went down to meet them. After an hour we came up to the room, and thou i don't understand Thai and there is no good show, i follow what Francis said, on the TV! Ray ask why don't want to sleep, nothing to watch, but i juz tell him, it's ok, go ahead and sleep, i'll off it.. but... i on it throughout... I thought i won't be able to sleep.. but, perhap i'm too tired, nothing happen.. i dozed off....

Construction work

Never know that construction work can be fun too.. carrying sand and cement. The piling ceremony was conducted by the top monk together with other 10 monks. First there is a chanting and prayer session, all are invited, then it was followed by the presenting of pails full of goodies to the monk and be blessed by the monk. Can see from the eyes of the villigers, how happy they are to be involve in the pouring of cement to make the 1st pillar. and the way they look at us I felt warm and proud! The thais believe that if one help to build temples, not by form of donation but by building it, there will be great merits. The merit is even higher than those who contribute money only. One of my friend's dad was so touched to see that we go all out to help, not afraid of getting ourselve wet and dirty, he announce that he would like to make a personal donation of S$100,000-00! Oh Gosh! all of us there was SHOCKED! as we know, with this $100,000-00, lots of things can be done, our project will be able to complete very soon... we were worried too, worried that we may not get enough funds. We do not want to keep on appealing for donation from devotees in s'pore, we don't want people to misunderstood that we use the money for personal use. We wanna make sure that we use every single cent in the right way.The ceremony was a success and right now we juz need to wait for the temple to be completed by 2006, and all of us will go there for the opening ceremony. A temple built by SINGAPOREANS!

oh NO....

oh dear, i've forgotten to renew my hubby's biz.. today is the last day, tried many times, juz can't recall his singpass.. how... if late got penalty..die die la... he was a little angry lor, i shld have do it earlier but aiya, i always like that, like to do last min thing.. shouldn't lor, but i did it again...

lunch with darryl

Hooray, darryl cuming again for lunch, but.. i tot i'm supposed to start my diet plan, with him.. how???? die die.. now already have all the food in mind... xiao liao la.. today is monday, but at least not too bad, times seems to pass fast.. haha, coming weekends will b bz.schedule full! vesak day got event at HQ, nxt wk monk coming.. oso got event, gonna be a bz week man..