Swensen's

Heard of it? I just went there, for some yummy and delicous ice-cream!!! It may be expensive a bit(OK, It's very expensive), but the best thing of all, it's delicous!
There are more then 10 flavours, and some are rare. Like the one I chose, the new, brand new, Sticky Choco Mix! Yum you may say, expensive you may say. But i think it's worth it. Actually I think it's the first time I went to Swensens =.=...
There was this main course, that costs Rm60, a.k.a. 20USD, probably one month of your pocket money(depends). I donno if it's expensive or cheap in your country, but for us, it's quite expensive. Would you use a whole month of pocket money just to buy a main course?? On second thoughts I should not ask that. 0_O
Well, here's something from Wikipedia:Swensen's is a global chain of ice cream restaurants that started in San Francisco.
[edit] History
The company was started in 1948 by Earle Swensen. Swensen opened his first shop at the corner of Union and Hyde Streets, along the cable car tracks in Russian Hill in San Francisco at what had been a failed ice cream parlor.[1] Although vanilla was his lifelong favorite, he developed more than 150 flavors, which he marketed under the motto "Good as Father Used to Make". The original store sold ice cream and other frozen dessert specialties (such as sundaes and banana splits), with primarily take out service. Later other Swensen's franchisees added indoor seating and offered various types of food, including sandwiches and hamburgers.
Swensen sold the rights to franchise Swensen's Ice Cream Factories and Restaurants to William Meyers and investors in the 1970s but retained exclusive rights in San Francisco and continued to operate his original store (which still exists today) until 1994, a year before his death at age 83. Under new management the company expanded to 400 stores, mostly franchise locations, by the 1980s. However, in the 1990s it contracted to half of that size before being acquired and expanding again, mostly in Asia. Today the company is owned by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada, which bought the franchise business from CoolBrands in 2006. The chain now includes about 300 franchise outlets worldwide including locations in Asia, the Middle East, the United States and South America. IFC also owns such notable brands as Yogen Früz, I Can't Believe It's Yogurt (ICBY), Golden Swirl and Bresler's ice cream.


No so much eh?

5 days 4 nights at Buddhist Camp Day 5

Today's the last day...

So, I woke up at 6:00, and did the same schedule as the 2nd and 3rd day. But at morning session, I shivered so hard that my teeth are fighting. So I asked to be in the medic room, again. But the boy's medic room is unusable, cause no one, and nothing is in there. So I just have to move to the girl's medic room, and I shivered even harder. And no blanket. I felt like a person only with underwear on abandoned at the North Pole. Luckily, someone pushed the off switch, and I have to say to myself 'Why didn't you think of that?'. It was all black. There were no windows at that room(Know any rooms like that?). I woke up at about 1:00 and ate the 2nd lunch (Clue: Waste not, Want not). After delicious lunch it's time for work (I call it chores). The time I wanted to start, they told me not to do it (cause I'm sick), but I insisted. So I did it, but easier ^^ .

Then we have to go to the hall for some reasons, and I remembered: who is the winner? I asked my teammates but sadly, we didn't win. Then all the workers sat down on chairs on the stage, and that's went the drama began. The manager, co-manager and some others gave us a sad, but wonderful speech about how long they took to plan and do this camp for us. Most of us cried. But some didn't cry, and that was my cousin, and cousin's cousins, who can only put their mind on computers. I don't want to leave here. It's so fun. And of course, I can't bear leaving friends, forever. I felt sorrow. My tears fell down. But no one saw it. That's right, most of them are crying, or trying to cheer up the crying ones. Guess what? Even the workers and helpers cry. And if some people see people cry, they cry.

After this speech, It's time we putted our luggage at the luggage room (there's no room, I meant the back of the hall). then we prepared for the closing ceremony. The winners get to replay their show, and the losers just sit back and watch. Then for the awards. our team won nothing, but our leader won the 'Best Leader Trophy', and then all of us get a cerfiticate. Then some people give us a speech, then it ended.

Farwell freinds......

Farwell...

Bye..

Bye.

We'll meet again.

Clan Jetties

I bet all of you know what's a clan, but a clan jetty? What is it? Ok, I'll tell you what it is. It's a place where it's near to the sea, and, the people live in there. But there are different types of clans, so there are more than 1 jetties. For example the Lim Jetty, or the Chew Jetty, and so on and on. I went to two of those jetties (up there) yesterday, am I'm here to tell you about it.



All this things here are the things I see and my opinions.

If you went there, you would think of your house (For an Malaysian adult) It was so old. To tell you, almost every house over there is the house you can find in Malaysia in the 70's. And 90%( by that i mean most) of the houses over there is made out of wood. And if you have a sensitive nose, you would smell something awful(to me). And, if you look inside the houses, first thing you would see is a statue of their Taoism god. And at some jetties at the end you would find a temple. Also, the waste you do in the toilet comes straight down to the sea! How awful is that? The jetties has became a place of tourism. They also have a jetty competition, and I'm surprised by that. Ok. Enough with my opinions, I'll show you all the jetties down there.

Seh Lim Keo (Lim Jetty)
Seh Chew Keo (Chew Jetty)
Seh Tan Keo (Tan Jetty)
Seh Lee Keo (Lee Jetty)
Chap Seh Keo (Mixed Clan Jetty)
Seh Yeoh Keo (Yeoh Jetty)

You should go and see for yourself! Cause I only went there for an hour and a half only. :p

P.S.Actually I didn't want to go there, I was forced! Because the real place I wanna go is the Megamall shopping for the game Plants vs. Zombies. This note was deleted by me due some reasons.

5 days 4 nights at Buddhist Camp Day 4 2/2

...We all are very excited. You know the winners will get a trophy each person and get to show-off at the closing ceremony. That's why we are excited. There are 3 different types of trophies. The best MV, the best drama, and of course, the best hand language/dance. Cause we are the 4th, we get to practise again our MV. The problem is, there had been changes. Great, now I'm becoming a train for the 1st part, then back to my places in the 2nd part. At least I'm the head of the train, and I get to act after all. So we watched and watched, when the 2nd group started acting, our eyes popped out. It was so great, that I can ensure it's gonna win, they are just so unique, that I can't use words to describe them. And for the 3rd, if I write down everything no one would believe me! When the 3rd started acting, we went on the backstage. Don't ask me how I could see on the backstage, cause... Alright. There is a window, happy? When they finished, we got on stage. We went to our places, and it went perfect, until.... Did you read about the train? Cause we didn't practise it, When the train started surrounding the people the music started. So we have to do it so quickly that you had known: we made a BIG mistake. So after acting still a big wave of applause, but it seemed more quiet than the 2nd team's applause. Sigh, that's what happens if yo make big changes.

After that I felt uncomfortable again, so I have to go to you know, the medic room. It turned out I have to sleep in the medic's, again. So I missed out some of the shows =_= thanks to viruses. After all those shows, I went to rest. Sleep for an hour and something, I went for dinner, and no campers. After I went to medic's not for sleep, for nothing. They told me that there is gonna have a campfire tonight, and ask me if I wanna come, and the answer is a 'yes'.

So after 5 minutes, the campfire started. They started dancing and stuff, while me and the other sick guys watch them fooling around. After they threw a fireball to the wood, the wood started burning, and burning, and burning.

After that, they went for supper, and I went for sleep!

5 days 4 nights at Buddhist Camp Day 4 1/2

I know, i haven't mentioned about the show on that last one, but it was only a practice for the judges to see, and let them improvise it, my bad.

Day 4

I woke up at about 6:15, and quickly brushed my teeth and changed my clothes; or else I'm late for morning lesson. But when I went there, I was late. But because I'm sick, no one really cared. Which was good for me ^^. Cause if i do too much of this thing, I would get asthma. So today there is a trip. We have to split groups and it was so boring. I was in group 5. Good thing. My other friends are in Group 5. After breakfast, which we had to eat on the bus, we went on the bus. Good news is, it is air-conditioned, Bad news, the Group 4 people have to come on the Group 5 bus. Really bad news, the bus is really noisy and they are talking dumb things. So I had avoided all these bad things by the 1 thing that you all have~~~~~~~~~Sleep. Yes, I was so tired any ways that I didn't eat my breakfast. I think I slept for 15 minutes, and the noises of the campers awaken me. They are singing and rehearsing, that I still can hear noises even when I am closing my ears.


Finally, we arrived our destination. it was the home for handicaps. No, in there didn't have people with no eyes or have problem with their ears, all the people in there are just no legs or arms. First, the house manager guided us all places in the home of handicaps. There were a gym, library in the home of handicaps, even a swimming pool! After seeing all those places, we began help them with their work, which was very simple, but hard for them. There are 2 jobs, getting rid of rubber lids of plastic sticks, 2nd, putting the little rubber thingies into the pen lid. I spent most of my time doing Job no.1, and when I am doing that, I asked the handicaps some questions. Like, are you happy? Or, do you like it here? After doing all those work, we performed for the handicaps, then went to another destination.

It was not a 'real' destination, we just stop by there for lunch. While eating lunch, many black-striped mosquitoes came to sting us. It was said If you got sting by that little devil you would get Dengue fever. I bet you wouldn't want that, so some of the mates launched a counter attack, but the ones who attack got stung the most. I got stung, but then I asked for some medicine, and the itch went away. After we went to another destination, the landmarks of Penang. Bad time for a road trip, It was boiling hot walking and walking. We went to the Little India, and I forgot. Didn't do well on remembering names.

At last, went on to the air-conditioned bus. This time, I sat with the helper, due to the reason 'talking annoying things that I can't sleep'. And I could finally can have my quiet piece of time, but it only lasted half an hour. Then back to the camp. The tryout is here. It's to see who's the best of the best. And we are the fourth to do the tryout. To be continued due to special reasons....


(Like, my time is up. I'll continue tommorow. I only can write 1 hour, max.)

Drama class

And it's only 1 day. We went there at 8:00am, after grabbing a egg muffin at Mcdonald's. The class was held at the KOMTAR, which had about 64 floors. We had to do a drama according to a story based like this. It's a bit childlish



Once upon a time, there were 2 planet that were so close to each other it had a bridge to connect those 2 planets. The planets were called cavity planet and clean teeth planet. Cavity planet people's teeth are broken,and the Clean teeth planet's people have clean teeth. What's the cause of the Cavity planet's people's cavities? It's the dirty work of the cavity worm. It loves to break the teeth of the people who don't brush. But one day, the planet's people were sick of their cavities, so all of them went to the dentist and take care of their teeth. Now the cavity worm has noone's teeth to rot. So where did he went? The Clean teeth planet. But that planet has a superhero called Captain Toothbrush. Captain Toothbrush's job is to remind the kids to brush, and cavity worm doesn't want that. At last, he though of a plan. He transformed into a girl whiched selled junk food. Bad junk food that can rot their teeth. The children were stupid so they trusted he/her words. The junk food seller a.k.a the cavity worm said that if you brush your teeth then the smell of the junk food will be gone forever. The kids like junk food. So everytime Captain Toothbrush comes, the kids lie to them that they haved brush.

1 week later,
The kids meet again. A kid said:"My teeth are yellow and black" . Then another kid asked:"How many days you all have didn't brush?" They counted. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7!!!!!!! They all said:"We've all hadn't brush for a week!" One kid said:"The junk food seller lied! We have stinky breath!" Another kid said:"Let's go brush!" All the kids agreed. But when they are about to brush they were shocked. Their teeth had holes and are yellow and black. This is when Captain Toothbrush came. He asked:"Why are you so sad?" They answered:"Our tooths hurt" Ct:"How come?" K:"We lied to you Ct, we didn't brush." Cavity worm appears. Cw:"Haha!Foolish children, I'll rot your teeth and lay little cavity worms!" K:"Eeek!!!!" Cw:"I'll turn your planet into my cavity planet!" K:"AHHHHHH!" Cw:"The only way to save it is to have your teeth pulled out!" K:'(closed their mouth)" Ct wasn't very impressed. He had a battle with him. Cavity worm used his color pencils and driller while Captain Toothbrush used his toothpaste snowball, soon toothbrush man used his Colgate cannon the cavity worm was defeated.



Phew!!!! Got me 1 hour on this one!


Ct=Captain Tooth
K=Kids
Cw=Cavity worm

5 days 4 nights at Buddhist Camp Day 3

Still 6:00. No, not 6:00 pm, am! Again we took our toothbrushes and clothes to the bathroom, and change. But me, I need my own privacy when I change. So I went into the shower stall and changed instead. After changing and brushing, I went up the hall for morning lesson. Yes, I know, pray, pray, and pray again. Afterwards the camp manager told us that today was supposed to be our outing trip, but we have shows today. What shows you may ask, Sigh, have you been reading all my hard work? It's the show that every group has prepared! Then, time for handing out the awards. Our team got the 'Best Team Bracelet', which makes us kinda proud. Also the our helper. They get one too you know. Did I tell you this? I didn't made friends with any of my so called 'teammates', but with the helpers!

No morning exercise. Donno why, probably because of the girl campers are striking for 'girl rights'. I also told you before. Have you been reading???? :( Breakfast. Some rice as breakfast. Imagine that in your daily life, especially when you have to eat it ALL. Sound scary? Not so much. Also practising, for the show. I think it's about time I showed you the it's lyrics.
啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~
我要你陪着我看着那海龟水中游
慢慢的爬在沙滩上数着浪花一朵朵
你不要害怕你不会寂寞
我会一直陪在你的左右让你乐悠悠
日子一天一天过我们会慢慢长大
我不管你懂不懂我在唱什么我知道有一天
你一定会爱上我因为我觉得我真的很不错
时光匆匆匆匆流走也也也不会回头
美女变成老太婆
哎呀那那那个时候我我我我也也已经是个糟老头
啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~我们一起手牵手
啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~数着浪花一朵朵
music......我要你陪着我看着那海龟水中游
慢慢的爬在沙滩上数着浪花一朵朵
你不要害怕你不会寂寞我会一直陪在你的左右
让你乐悠悠日子一天一天过我们会慢慢长大
我不管你懂不懂我在唱什么我知道有一天
你一定会爱上我因为我觉得我真的很不错
时光匆匆匆匆流走也也也不会回头
美女变成老太婆
哎呀那那那个时候我我我我也也已经是个糟老头
啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~我们一起手牵手
啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~啦啦啦~~数着浪花一朵朵我们数着浪花一朵朵
Phew! Quite a lot isn't it? Sorry no music, but you can find it yourself, It's title is 浪花一朵朵.

We are doing a MV about it. And I'm in the center in the show. No, we are not all about us dancing, also hand language. I can still remember it well although 1 week had gone. Another rabbi(which also means high priest) came to give us a speech, very interested. They putted jokes in it, that's why it's fun. No, I can't tell you the jokes, they are in Chinese, and if I translated them it would not be funny. But, he understands a quite lot about kids, he knows what we are playing and can solve our problems, and thats how my identity when out. You see, they don't know I just came back from Czech, but at that point They mistaken Europe to Australia, until I explained to my fellow friend helpers. They keep asking me questions, but I'm not surprised. Actually I'm kinda glad! I think I have felt what it feels to be....uh....donno. Speaking about Europe, I felt kinda sick while we are playing treasure Bingo. So i have to go and rest for the rest of the day (2 rests, ha ha). And that's where I also meet 2 friends, Zhi Hui and Jia Yi. Actually Jia Yi has a English name, But i didn't ask him about it. They took care of me for the rest of the day including my team's helpers and some people from the camp. Also, they chatting and chatting, even when bedtime because obviously someone had to look after me!(And it's JiaYi ,a high school student who really likes to talk with me, in PerfectEnglish! I slept at 2pm, at the air-conditioned medical room! But never mind, as long I get my rest today.

5 days 4 nights at Buddhist Children Camp Day 2

Guess when did we had to woke up? 6:00 am!! And you thought 9 hours is still not enough for you. Then I, I mean we had to go and change and brush. At about 6:30, we all went to the hall to do a morning lesson. I'll tell you what we do.



We are given each person a paper, laminated, and have to read those things inside. Those poems were some parts of the Buddhist 'Bible'. It was all so holy, you should see for yourself. But some kids come and break the scene. You know how? They took the 'Bible' and fold it, shake it like a fan (that doesn't need electric and no it's not solar powered), and even worse, pick their toenails with it. We knew that by the camp manager announcing: You have done 60% as we expected and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, And some people use the 'Bible' and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I think it was 15 minutes long. not a very good start for a day, isn't it?



Then the camp manager then gave the 'Excellent Camper Badge', 'Excellent Leader Badge' and the 'Excellent Team Bracelet' to of course, to the excellent ones. Guess what? We didn't get any, how's that? Afterwards we did some morning exercise, which you can say, I've been to hell before. We had to do some physical movements to our teammates, and no. We don't split up a team for boys, a team for girls. Unluckily, I end up with a girl in front of me. Don't look at me (you can't anyway), It's not only me who's suffering, but the girl in front too. How would you like a massage by a boy which is younger than you and you hardly even know him? After 15 minutes, finally over. Thanks a lot, I said to God/Buddha/or whatever. It's just my habit, you know, up there. When something bad happens, I groan to the sky. Not a very good thing to do, especially when a big statue of Buddha is on your back.



After breakfast, we played a game, then a monk, who was a Christian before, came to a give a speech about 'The Life of Buddha'. Wow, that took 2 hours, and it was so interesting that i didn't forget a word he said, only few.



Lunch is served. Veges again. And still have to pray. Sigh, my tounges are dry. Pray this, pray that, its so tough being religous. Don't you think?



Later on we went out side and played the game 五戒, which means the 5 concepts.

I have a concept, and that is don't get wet with your clothes on, and don't get paint on any part of your body. Guess what? They force me to break that concept! I wish you like a guy with a wet, green face! It took 3 hours, and our team didn't even win any competition. Hahahaha.ha...ha......haha....

Then we went inside, of course to take a shower and change, silly! What else?

Then the night lesson. Again praying. And Oh did I mention we are preparing an MV tommorow? It's called 《浪花一朵朵》. It's about the waves. And finally we know what were gonna do. Then dinner. Dinner was sweet, very nice, especially with Mr.Curry with rice. Then we had some midnight activities, then off to bed at 11:00!

5 days 4 nights at Buddhist Children Camp, Day 1

Where have I been in those 5 days 4 nights? Well I'm here to tell you. I went to the 17th Buddhist Children Camp which was located at Butterworth,Penang. Hold your thoughts, this may be a children camp, but it is 60% fun, 40% learning about Buddhism by fun. So how was it? I'll tell you by writing a diary about you know, up there, and enjoy.





The reason I write one day by one is because if i write all together, its gonna take too long.

Note: Buddhism is not a religion, it is a type of education, many people have mistaken. And also the feelings is the feelings that day OK?

Day 1

I had wished I never came. Now my brother can have all the fun at home, including sleep. I have to wake up at 7:45, cause of this camp, my brother can sleep 12 hours a day. After eating breakfast(Wait, I didn't eat anything), I went to the camp at 8:00(don't ask why). When I went there, I think I was a bit early. After getting my name tag, checking my luggage and putting my luggage, I went to the air-conditioned hall and listen to the worker's speeches, about the rules and legacy there, then began to make some things for our team. First we started with song, and it goes like this.

一二三四五六七，

菩提菩提一定行。

加油加油加加油。

爱的鼓励，啪啪啪啪啪啪啪啪啪啪啪。

Can't read? Want me to translate? If it is translated it wouldn't rhyme and have the same beat. So I think I'll skip that, sorry.

If you can read, great! A bit childish isn't it? But that's the best you can do if you only got 600 second, a.k.a. 10 minutes.

We went to lunch. All veges. Even the meat was made out of veges, but it still tastes good.

Then we started the flag, and I didn't get to do anything. Neither planning nor painting. It was done in 30 minutes, and we only had 30 minutes. Guess they can do it without me. It's not good. I feel sorry for the flag. But if we compared it to the others it's quite good.

Then the leader. First we chose a tall guy, but he rejected, so we have to choose a boy named Ling Yong Yu.

The team is done. then we played some games. the games to know each other. I have to say it's kind of fun. So maybe coming here isn't such a bad thing after all. Now I know some names of my teammate. And to be honest, I am the youngest there. it's not very fun i tell you. Then I guess nobody would know if I didn't tell them, and I didn't. Its not fun when someone picks on you, so i kept my age a secret, like girls keep their weight a secret.

Now we have to learn how to pray Buddha, which took 1hour. I have now learned how to do it, in 1 day!!7:30 is time for dinner. We ate veges again, now we have to pray, then we ate.

After that we wrote our diary there (we have to) and write letters to our mate. Mate? OK. It is like this. You draw a card blindfolded, and you have to write a letter for her(boy gets girls. girls get boys). And you musn't let her know who you are. And other people will write a letter for you about how's your day and all that stuff.

After playing some games, we went to bed at 12:00.

Langkawi Underworld Waterpark...rocks!!!

Note:This is a picture blog.

At the 23th of November, I went to Langkawi. I looked on a flyer which had many pictures of marine life and wrote: Langkawi Underworld Waterpark. I've never went to a Underworld Waterpark before(or I think). So I rushed on the second-handed Proton*which I** rented to the Langkawi Underworld Waterpark(Duh,If i didn't I wouldn't put that title).

Catfish:Purr.

Flamingo:No water?

River Terrapin(Endangered!): Help me...

American Fur Seal: I'm bored.

Now for my favourite... Penguins! African Penguin: Diving, As usual

Rockhopper penguin: I'm all alone...

Corals:.... (we can't talk)

Giant Gournami and Snakehead: Digging for gold?

Extra: A Seal Movie

Lots more coming up.

*A malaysia brand car

** I'm not even 18! But Everything here is "me", so yeah.