Sunday, February 25, 2007

- Blogging... again... -

25th February, 2007.

I would like to make a toast to me, myself and I, for celebrating couple of events that had happened for the past few weeks. First of all it's the 1st Anniversary of my blog. Happy Birthday to fabian5822.blogspot.com for being 1 year old. No doubt for the past few months i hadn't been update my blog but i will try to push forward and update myself all the time.

Second of all, it's my Birthday. Yes. Valerian Fabian Chung Yun Khim turns 22 this year. One year older in the year of Pig. A year full with eat, sleep and more routine. Regardless of i'm still working in SOP, i wish things would got better this year. On the day of my birthday itself, i had a very taboo experience of listening to the phone while leaving the consequences unbearable. While talking on the phone, i heard broken glass in the house. I totally ignore it because i knew something bad happened. My friend actually broke my favorite clay glass which i bought from one of the church in the suburb area. It's not that i mind, but something like that happened during my birthday is just... bad. (thinking of some vocab to use).

Third of all, Happy Valentine's Day to all the couples around the globe considering i'm still a bachelor here. Anyway, i hope all of u out there enjoy this Month, full of Love. Love is just in the air.

[sitting here blogging] 2333. Raining. Hard to say anything because it's the Eighth Day of Chinese New Year. I mean, am i suppose to feel happy about completing the training i was going through for the past few months in the remote jungle of Borneo? Palm Oil is just another demand from commercializing and practicing on how to manage my future. Like wise, i have to crack my head to start writing the report tomorrow. I wasn't in the mood of doing it considering it's Chinese New Year and everyone was celebrating it in their own way, Piggy way. Friends and relatives coming back for Reunion Dinner. Me?? Came back in time to witness the grand fireworks of Xin Nian. Grand i would say. Again, CNY is not CNY until there's fireworks.

Well, i went to Chinese New Year Mass on the 1st day of Chinese New Year. Later, my cousins, aunties, uncles, come to my place to have breakfast. Just like old times. From the second day onwards, my friends and i visited our friends all over Kuching. As far as i can think about, it was tiring. haven had enough though i had live through 3 months of healthy lives in SOP, things just got ugly somehow. Put it into a positive way of thinking, it's not the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

My experiences of working is SOP is that i know lots of helpful people, generous people who taught me things about the plant, the culture there, how to have a descent meal with palm oil and everything about palm oil from A to Z. I just can forget about the memorable experiences i had obtained. Thanks to the 3 really good Engineer who had help me to understand more about "Live of Engineer in Palm Oil Mill". It's a complement, really. 3 months full of hardness, difficulties and lots and lots of opportunity and choices to make. i wonder why sometimes i couldn't make the best choices and cherish the golden opportunity.

Books Review. Yes, considering i was in the mill spending most of the time with the fruits. Besides Playing cards to kill time, I read one book almost every week. Here's the list and recommended books. Deception Point by Dan Brown; Digital Fortress by Dan Brown; The Knighs Templar by Steve Berry; Seven Deadly Wonders by Matthew Reily and not forgetting about Two readers digest for January and February.

Back here in Kuching. Nostalgic. The place where i was borned. Well, it's been a week plus i came back here and i have been doing lots of things to pampered myself replacing back the past 3 months.

Anyway, life have been away a little. Things eventually will turns out fine. I guess. God bless.

Cheers~!!!!


p/s: The dog that barks, saying "Goodbye"...

Saturday, January 27, 2007

- 6 days ago -

Looking backwords... if u happened to browse through this blog... don't bother to read it till next Friday. Yes, get me? Read it Next Friday, which is 2nd of February. So, what's up with all ya people out there?? i've been busy preparing all the training stuffs and things like focusing on wad i wanted to do in my Industrial Training. Not much actually.

Well, for starters. It's not too to wish all of u out there Happy New Year (a lil late actually, wad the heck). Anyway, i've away for so long for my blog. No inspiration to blog. Not since my last update. Life have been bored, time flies. 3 more weeks for my Training completion. Mr. thong the Mill Manager let us go for Chinese New Year on the Last week of our training, which is relevant because i wanted to go home so desperately...!!! Yeah, got me?? Desperately. Ever since i was staying in the accommodation provided, Monday is always the Bluessssssss.... More "sssss" okok.. Blue Monday for me. Seems like i still have 4 and a half day to get through the filthy mill and the disgusting smell there. Guess wad?? smells like dung (i would like to say shit but since i made some sort of vow, i would resist on saying the F word too). Anyhow, i don't get the people there for once. They eventually got immune to the smell there. Even the least place that i wanted to go, which is the disposal of the effluent from the mill. it's like u are putting perfume to a party or something.. let's say, u juz go for a walk by the ponds of the waste water, eventually, the smell juz won't go off till the last thing u would do. Take a long bath.

Not that i mind about that because it's the industry that earns big money every year. Millions. Malaysia are rich because of palm oil and it will be the future hope to substitute transportation fuel in the future. So, Engineer get cracking now cause i'm not into this field anyway. Sometimes, i ponder, what good does it make if we force ourself do something we wouldn't like to do. sucks.. i know.. and i even resists it. Because i'm graduating soon. hopefully by end of this year. One of my New Year Resolution is that i would be writing blog from A to Z which i would try to update myself of whatever left behind. It's like jotting down my own history.

Each week i read one book and since i am so so so so...... so free, i would pampered myself on buying more books. i can juz read one book in my day. froze. none stop reading. but i can't. Presentation coming up and i would wanna get ready for anything that can jot my or even weld down my name in the Mill.

Three weeks to go and i'll be back in Kuching for Gong Xi Fa Chai. Hope time really flies. Lots of movies to catch up. Lots of Friends to catch up too. Lots of sleep to catch up too. My friends, i had encountered.... a spider as big as my palm... hmmmm..... imagine.. 10cm diameter..... right....mayb 20cm... HUGE and UGLY Spider in the house where i stay in the mill....EWE!!!!!!!! WAH!!!!!!!!! scary... can't sleep for the rest of the week.

Till then, Take care and God bless...

Cheerz~!!!

P/s: no pix for the moment... juz words.. so treat it as a bed time story.... lolz....

Sunday, December 31, 2006

- Last Day of 2006 -

Last 3 hours for 2006. Two-Double-0-Seven is coming soon. real soon. And i'm stuck at home in Miri celebrating New Year. Well, it's nice in a way. i get to sleep early after some fireworks show outside my house. i don't think anyone will even notice my existence. LOL.... okok.. its not that bad having a weekend off from my training every week. 4 weeks down, 8 weeks to go, including the public holidays and the leave that i'll be applying it. muahahhahahahhaha..... Tomorrow's mass will be at 7 am. Gosh i need to wake up early again....

2007... A New Year with a New Resolution. Honestly i don't keep any resolution this year. All of them... i mean most of them have been resoluted and i would say that it's great having the best time of the year in 2006. let me see, i was working in the beginning of the year, try to get a taste of how life would be in the work place. seems that i still prefer uni life. of cause it's not that bad but it's exhausting and i would rather sleep at home, hibernating. Anyway, i went to KL to blow my mind off for holidays. Semester starts and everything goes smoothly. the worst thing that had happened to me in 2006 is that the company that i had apply for internship had reject my application. Mayb i need to fix my Resume...... I can speak French.... i can do somersault, i can sing like Josh Groban..... hmmmmm..... Maybe...

Anyway, instead of the company near my hometown, i had to fly 1 hour from Kuching to reach Miri, back to where i don't belong and travel by car around 2 hours with the Borneo Highway, to reach a place called Galasah Palm Oil Mill (GPOM). A place where i have to do my training. It's a suburb like no other suburb. A place where air pollution is constantly killing tons of people and many people suffer from the entertainment trauma. There's not even any entertainment where i live. People there, drink for fun, the indigenous people are watching Astro at home. it's true that they have lots of properties and lots of money or i can say cash. but the fact is that they don't know how to spend them (the money). i see couple of the people having Proton Waja parking in front of their house. Guess what?? If my prediction is not wrong, those people cash their car. hmmm... how i wish i can do that.....

Life have been hard. Ups and downs, highs and lows, Horizontal and vertical..... What else. i don't know. Apart from gaining more experience of the UTP Presentation competition, i joined the National Day Parade. Imagine we are wearing Regalia, colorful regalia and march in front of Agong and all the Prime Minister. hmmmm... guess which place we got?? we got the 13 place over 100 contingents who march throughout the parade. Other than that it's all confidential. hehe....

Anyway, again, i would like to wish everyone Happy New Year 2007 and this is my last blog for this year. Wishing everyone a joyous and peaceful New Year 2007, Living in a more healthier life, Love life, career, Studies and safe traveling to those who are going overseas soon. Hope to see u guys again tomorrow, next year... Peace and Cheerz~!!!

- Valerian -
2006 end

- Me @ Lutong Beach, 2006 -

Monday, December 25, 2006

- 3 -

3 is a number. 3 is spelled three. 3 is a digit and 3 is just a pathetic number.

- 3 -
3 Second is to let the rock free fall from the 3 story building...
3 Minutes is where u are late, as always...
3 Hours is the time i have waited in the airport for the time to pass by very slowly...
3 Days is the last 3 days i'm gonna spend the last moment alone...
3 Weeks has just pass for my Industrial Training
3 Months is the period of my training
3 Years... is the period that i have to wait patiently for it to pass by...
3 will be the number i hate the most...
and 3 is curse...
for eternity...

I'm back in Kuching for Christmas... and it's been a lot easier if this year's Christmas would not be a wet one. of Cause, the whether forecast would say that it's Monsoon season. Rainy season is expected. Christmas brings joyous moment and happiness with peaceful moment for some. For me, i wish that santa would grant me wishes instead of giving me present every year. Having a hard time going through my training is the hardest part for me to cope. Going through some other stuffs without the support of the other part of u is a lot harder. 9 weeks to go... Happy New Year 2007. God bless.

Cheerz~!!!