This is our life (errr...more like my life)

Wake up every morning do some exercise such as 50 sit-ups or just stretching the muscles.

Then shower, prepare breakfast, then go to work. I have the option of either taking the bus, the luxury to take my trustworthy car or to cycle.

There is another option which I think is the most extreme ,which is walking.

Maybe I will try it sometime.... :)

After arriving at my desk, the first thing to do is to login to the network, check all emails from work to leisure (yahoo, bla bla)...

Then after work, either driving home or taking the bus.

Then to the gym,cycling or just at home doing nothing when I am at my laziest point :)

Cook dinner and then go to sleep hoping for a sweet dream and wait for tomorrow to come again, and it sure comes again ... again and again..until...?

maybe as long as I could live perhaps?

I remember a line from the movie P.S I Love You - Hillary Swank was saying: "...this is our life and no one ever come out of it alive."

How true ....!

I guess this is my life and the routine seems boring sometimes but hey, this is my life..

I finally bought a bike!!

After work today, I decided to pop into a bike shop near my flat and I was lucky because the shop was offering a mountain bike with a front disc brake and full suspension for £99.

It would have been £125 without the discounted price.

So without much consideration, I bought it!! yeee haaa....

Only two bikes were left, so I grabbed one as summer is fast coming and today's weather was sooo lovely.

I cycled for about 4 miles which is quite a good distance for me since I stopped cycling after I got my motorcycle and driving license 18 years ago!!

Wow, that's quite a loooongg time ago!! Time flies, really flies...

The gears (24-speed) all work and the suspension absorbed the rut and bumps along the way beautifully!

Can't wait to go to work with my bike tomorrow.

Powering a nation: Have you ever spare a thought?

Everybody needs energy but where will it come from?

See these Chevron ads:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJZgGb_8pQw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nrOTFoHzQw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS5Kzmv9nOM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2XpCkbh6oA&feature=related

These ads are a bit mushy but they are actually true , not that I am promoting Chevron but the message is poignant and scary.

Most Malaysian people when asked where do u think our electricity comes from, they will answer - hydroelectric.

Do they know that currently this form of renewable power only supplies 11% of the country's power?

The balance is made up with gas/coal or diesel fired power stations.
These can supply anything between 500MW to 2,500MW and they only need a small space.

Hydro electric in Malaysia can only supply between 300MW to 1,000MW perhaps?

Even Hoover Dam can only supply around 2,000MW of electricity and look at the sheer area it takes just to generate that much power.

Another example is China's Three Gorges Dam. Which is huge and probably can supply power around 3,000MW.

Dams are not 100% environmentally friendly because they may also pose environmental problems like flooding, silting, deforestation (in order to make space for them) and so on.

So have we ever spare a thought when we flick that airconditioner switch in our homes, where does our energy comes from?

We need to educate ourselves and our family to understand this issue better and for a better tomorrow.

The Beginning

Hi all,

Well finally I managed to create my own blog after some time of reading others.,albeit deliberately.

Maybe I was lazy or just didn't have enough courage, I don't know.

Welcome to my blog, my thoughts and life away from home.

Today is Saturday April 19,2008.

Another gloomy and cloudy spring (or is it?) morning in London.

Don't know what to write this morning.

Just bought a few mp3 songs on the net from The Beatles, Van Morrisson and listening to old Malay mp3 downloaded last night.

Some childhood nostalgia songs like Kain Pelikat (la la la la) by Anuar and Ellina.

Sedap pulak dengar suara dia orang nih...nostalgia beb.

While looking for old Malay songs last night on the net, I stumbled with a website (can't remember the name right now), where I found a lot of old 60s,70s and even 50s Malay songs .
I also found some 80's song like Dr. Sam's-Saya anak Malaysia

These songs are actually nice to listen and for some reason, I felt so patriotic when I listened to Saya anak Malaysia.

I guess where ever we go, kita tetap anak Malaysia be you a Malay, Chinese, Indian, Iban, Bidayuh, Kadazan etc.

But looking at Malaysia today, I kinda feel sad that the country (the Malays especially) try very hard to sideline their own culture for a culture they don't really belong to.

Anyway, I will write more about this when I feel like it...hahahahaha.. :)