Total Eclipse of the Heart;

11:28 PM

Glenelg punya ferris wheel

Glenelg Bridge

Ah sou, koko and me

torturing uby...sorry mite have put on weight..hehe

know how cold i was

i surfed! its our surfing board! but..made in china..

look enjoyed...actualy was suffering from the freezing water and strong wind..

It's me and Chris at the middle of the sea~~~haha..it looks far, but actualy its quite shallow

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10:53 PM

my Uby get me CAmeRa~~hehe..bleh

the oni 4 gals lef in Adelaide during summer..sobsob

lighting the firecrackers

Act busy~~~

look closely..its the prawn balls..and all those balls...my favourites..

Oh jacob look drunk even b4 drink...

Cheerss!!

Happy Belated Christmas to everyone. 2007 Christmas fell on Tues, which was 3 days ago. It was my first Christmas without family around and it was also my first celebration in Adelaide. On the CHristmas Eve, we decided to have our Family Dinner together with Frens, my ex-housemates, Jacob, Meipei, Joseph. Then ofcz Chris as well. Day before the Christmas eve, we did our preparation. We met up at city to buy those food for bbq. As usual, would never missed out chicken wings, chicken drumsticks, ham, salads...but for my first time, we even bbq prawn balls, and all kinds of balls..meat ball..fish ball...and wouldn't miss out the turkey, since its so famous here to have it for Christmas..then ofcz..few bottles of sparking wine..champagne..soft drinks..and mostly they were prepared for game use.. we had our bbq infront of my Wilson street house, just infront of the house, it is the park...with bbq stove ready to be used. We just cleaned it up and then lighted it up. one con for that day was, the park wasnt support with light or lamp...so we used MIni touch-light!...haha...after the dinner, again, we were back to those games...killer and detective...cards game....CJ, Khailing and Chiu Hui joined in later. To make it more fun and better atmosphere, we on the CHristmast songs around. 12am sharp, we exchanged presents....i got a candle....some get HOT CHOCHLATE SET...haha...cool..

On the Christmas day itself, it would be freaking boring...Becuz the whole city is dead..bcz no shops are opened...u can even have fastfood like McD, Hungry jack, or KFC..ppl really rested and off for that day... but to my suprise...big department stores like Myer, David Jones, Target, Haris Scarfe start business at midnite...12am..which is on the 26th Dec...its weird..bcz normally working days the shops all closed at 5pm...how can they open on public holiday summore its midnite?? after watching the news from tv...Oohh..oni we know tat, here in Aus, normaly they will have their great big clearanc sale during 3 days b4 CHristmas and 3days after CHristmaas...and its really big big sale...some even have up to 70% sales! its the best time to shop....so these few days..i m kinda busy...everyday go rundle mall...check out whether i got miss out any cheap and worthy gadgets not..haha..so today...i got 5 necklaces at one shoot..but nah..its just cheap cheap nia..and a pants..

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9:49 AM

Help me ! I'm frekking boring !! BEen sitting at home for 5 weeks. Hunted for jobs, sent in more than 5 resumes, but didn't get any reply back.. My resume was writteb badly meh, i wonder why nobody give me call, not even one.. Maybe i'm bit late for job, as during summer its very competitive to work at the local's shops because Local students must be the first priority.. Unless chinatown...NONO...i'm not gonna work for those chinese...especialy those CHina ppl... not tat im bias, but its fact. Joseph is currently working at one of the chinse restaurant at china town, paid $9 per hour, which is consider quite low d..n lots work for him..washing dishes, delivery..But fortunately, he has a boss tat is not tat bosy... HOwever, most of chinese restaurants worker r damn lansi... dono wat they lansi for..Anyway, i m waiting for the Kbox's response. She said mite hire me..but not so soon, probably end of Dec or early Jan, when those worker gone back to HK. Hope i will the job. If not will really get rotten at Adelaide.

Yesterday there was a Xmas Celebration hold at Festival events centre. Again, its full of ppl... the Aus-ians like this kind of event...this event is hold at the riverbank, at a park near the Festival event centre.. What they had there? emm..just like those usual season's event lo.. Stage perfomance, Singing, dancing... by those unknown artists..emm..maybe they are famous to the local, but not us..The perfomance get started at 8pm, however, the floor was opened at 4pm. These aus-ians are Semangat as the Malays...haha...y Malays? don't u realize that Malays alwiz appear at those Celebration events back in Msia? s long s its free...wat kind of shows and perfomance there will alwiz full with them..and its alwiz much much ealier than the event's time...haha..the local here, would carry lots stuff there..like the rubber maps..all the picnic gadgets...and even foldable chairs... and ofcz foods...there are stalls selling foods and beverage here..wat can they have? ofcz its chips, fries, hotdogs, ice-cream, spag, pasta, kebab and those wrap away food..those very oily and fatty food..

Xmass coming soon.. "santa claus is coming to town..." ...CHrismast is a grand and important festive here... most streets are decorated. they have kinds of Xmas's best decorations. likes the candy canes, Xmas stocking (with kind of Sizes), Glitter baubbless, ofcz cant miss the fairy lights.. door decorations..they even have those festive countdown planner by those supermarket for the customers...Yooo.... too bad i dono any local here...if not can go for their parties.. We plan to have a bbq at magil's park..since the park hv the stove ready there..hopefully 24th nite no residents using it.. but, currently, there are oni few ppl stay back here..lots have gone back to msia.. im gonna be the planner again. good also, i m given tasks , something for me to do now...haha..

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9:04 AM

taken during the Melb Trip, Aus's general election day

Truth and justice are no longer Malaysian way

By Michael Backman

The Age

November 21, 2007

THE Government of Australia will probably change hands this weekend. There will be no arrests, no tear gas and no water cannons. The Government of John Howard will leave office, the Opposition will form a government and everyone will accept the verdict.

For this, every Australian can feel justifiably proud. This playing by the rules is what has made Australia rich and a good place in which to invest. It is a country to which people want to migrate; not leave.

Now consider Malaysia. The weekend before last, up to 40,000 Malaysians took to the streets in Kuala Lumpur to protest peacefully against the judiciary's lack of independence, electoral fraud, corruption and a controlled media.

In response, they were threatened by the Prime Minister, called monkeys by his powerful son-in-law, and blasted with water cannons and tear gas. And yet the vast majority of Malaysians do not want a change of government. All they want is for their government to govern better.

Both Malaysia and Australia have a rule of law that's based on the English system. Both started out as colonies of Britain. So why is Malaysia getting it so wrong now?

Malaysia's Government hates feedback. Dissent is regarded as dangerous, rather than a product of diversity. And like the wicked witch so ugly that she can't stand mirrors, the Government of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi controls the media so that it doesn't have to see its own reflection.

Demonstrations are typically banned. But what every Malaysian should know is that in Britain, Australia and other modern countries, when people wish to demonstrate, the police typically clear the way and make sure no one gets hurt. The streets belong to the people. And the police, like the politicians, are their servants. It is not the other way around.

But increasingly in Malaysia, Malaysians are being denied a voice ? especially young people.

Section 15 of Malaysia's Universities and University Colleges Act states that no student shall be a member of or in any manner associate with any society, political party, trade union or any other organisation, body or group of people whatsoever, be it in or outside Malaysia, unless it is approved in advance and in writing by the vice- chancellor.

Nor can any student express or do anything that may be construed as expressing support, sympathy or opposition to any political party or union. Breaking this law can lead to a fine, a jail term or both. The judiciary as a source of independent viewpoints has been squashed.

The previous prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, did many good things for Malaysia, but his firing of the Lord President (chief justice) and two other Supreme Court judges in 1988 was an unmitigated disaster. Since then, what passes for a judiciary in Malaysia has been an utter disgrace and the Government knows it.

Several years ago, Daim Zainuddin, the country's then powerful finance minister, told me that judges in Malaysia were a bunch of idiots. Of course we want them to be biased, he told me, but not that biased.

Rarely do government ministers need to telephone a judge and demand this or that verdict because the judges are so in tune with the Government's desires that they automatically do the Government's beckoning.

Just how appalling Malaysia's judiciary has become was made clear in recent weeks with the circulation of a video clip showing a senior lawyer assuring someone by telephone that he will lobby the Government to have him made Lord President of the Supreme Court because he had been loyal to the Government. That someone is believed to have been Ahmad Fairuz Abdul Halim, who did in fact become Lord President.

A protest march organised by the Malaysian Bar Council was staged in response to this, and corruption among the judiciary in general. But the mainstream Malaysian media barely covered the march even though up to 2000 Bar Council members were taking part. Reportedly, the Prime Minister's office instructed editors to play down the event.

Instead of a free media, independent judges and open public debate, Malaysians are given stunts ? the world's tallest building and most recently, a Malaysian cosmonaut. Essentially, they are given the play things of modernity but not modernity itself.

Many senior Malays are absolutely despairing at the direction of their country today. But with the media tightly controlled they have no way of getting their views out to their fellow countrymen. This means that most Malaysians falsely assume that the Malay elite is unified when it comes to the country's direction.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, a former finance minister and today still a member of the Government, told me several weeks ago in Kuala Lumpur that he could see no reason why today Malaysia could not have a completely free media, a completely independent judiciary and that corrupt ministers and other officials should be publicly exposed and humiliated.

According to Tengku Razaleigh, all of the institutions designed to make Malaysia's Government accountable and honest have been dismantled or neutered. It didn't need to be like this. Malaysia is not North Korea or Indonesia. It is something quite different. Its legal system is based on British codes. Coupled with traditional Malay culture, which is one of the world's most hospitable, decent and gentle cultures, Malaysia has the cultural and historical underpinnings to become one of Asia's most civilised, rules-based, successful societies.

Instead, Malaysia's Government is incrementally wasting Malaysia's inheritance.

secret happiness:

This article is so true. Last Saturday was the Aus's general election day. I actualy saw it from the tv and the city , its so lucky tat i was at Melbourne tat time. So get to see them. Though i dono much about the politic, however, the Labor- Kevin Rudd really won in the election. can see his joy and happiness. The participation in election, the vote is real..its not fabricated or make up...Ehh...i THINK and i FELT la..besides, staying here, i actualy can see that the local and Aus-ians love their country alot, they respect and love the environment..all living harmoniously. This is all bout the country the government. people loyal to the country becuz the government love the people!

i took this pic at the Bourke st, Melb

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