DANGEROUS! Streets of Malaysia #2

So this will be my last post as the assignment is going to be over after this is done. I hope I have been a decent writer. So this post will be about the dangers of out there on the streets on our very own country. I'm sure you've all heard the stories of kidnapping, rapping, robbing, snatch theft and the latest edition to the collection ACID SPLASHING! So I shall run down the long list of dangers on the streets. First off,
Kidnapping!
I'm sure everyone has seen or heard something of the kidnapped children in Malaysia that were never found.
Sure everyone has seen the signs of "Have You Seen ....."  I pray all the kids that are missing will be reunited with their families safe and sound
Rapping.
This is something that usually only happens to females as far as I know.(thank god so much) Rapping are usually done by well, perverts who can't please themselves enough so they have to go take it out on innocent ladies on the streets. Ladies walk into an alley and never come out. Sound familiar? Girls should take up some form of martial arts class so they can defend themselves against all these perverts out there, I would recommend Muay Thai or MMA :] thank me later
ROBBING!
Now this I have a story for because it has happened to me before, sort off. First of all there are so many ways now a days that they can rob your belongings. Smash your window and in an instance grab a bag from your car of some sort and zoom off. The streets are so dangerous now a days, who in the world is safe anymore? Now I mentioned I have sort off been robbed before. Now here's the story, I was on the way to get a cab (this was a few years ago) so I took a short cut through an alley, suddenly this guy jumps me from behind and nailed me in the head. I didn't pass out, so I was being yelled at saying " GIVE ME EVERYTHING YOU GOT NOW!!!" I had a knife being pointed at me, so yea I thought that was it for me. BUT I have no clue where this came from I decided to fight back, managed to get the knife away from his hand and err I kinda beat the robber up -.- well he had it coming, funny thing? I only had like 5 bucks in my wallet.

Snatch Theft!
This basically happens to anyone with a bag on them. Usually done by people on motorcycles. They do it so seamlessly that sometimes people can't release their grips from their bags and get dragged along. Advice to anyone. Keep your backs on the shoulder that is not facing the roads when walking, won't stop it from happening but will help at least.

ACID SPLASHING!
Ok I seriously have no clue what in the world is this about. What do you gain by splashing acid on someone, usually women's, face. I know women are the most idiotic things in the world, SOME not all. I read this once "30% of women in the world die being abused by their husbands or boyfriends, 30% of women should have kept their mouths shut!" I completely agree with this, just because the law protects ladies against abuse don't think you idiotic girls with big mouths won't get a nice slap. Ok back to topic. The culprit for this acid splashing has recently been identified. Please stay alert everywhere you go. He has nothing better to do with his life. Ladies stay safe from this please and men protect those ladies you love.

That's it for my final post, I hope it's been worth reading :]

Watch while driving or walking, Streets of Malaysia #1

Hi Everyone!

How's everyone doing? Hope all's good

Streets of Malaysia! I'll literally be talking about the STREETS of Malaysia.

Simple question........WHY IN THE BLUE HELL ARE THERE SO MANY HOLES IN THE ROADS?! Won't be just talking bout the bad condition of roads but something else that's been bothering me about the streets too. BUT anyway, everywhere I go I have to maneuver around a hole and if i didn't see it BAM there goes my car's suspension. Holes, Deep holes, long holes, bumpy roads, whatever it is! I really wish the country would do something bout it. I cannot tell you the amount of times I've drove over a hole that nearly made me shit in my pants cause I honestly don't see them. I shall tell everyone a really embarrassing incident I had on the road with the holes *driving driving driving driving*........ suddenly *BADA BAM!*  "OMG IS THIS AN EARTHQUAKE?!" *stops by the side of the road and looks around* "oh damn that was embarrassing". Yea don't laugh at me that was one of my weird moments :] OH I just remembered another incident I saw on the road. I feel so mean but it was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. So if I remember correctly this was somewhere around Subang. I was driving home past a secondary school. On the road there was a sewer hole, the lid of the sewer hole was not there so someone used a thin piece of plank to cover it, hoping people would know not to walk over it. So yea passing by this secondary school, their school had just ended so everyone was outside. As I was stuck in the jam

this boy was running around for who knows what reason. Then I saw him running towards the hole, I was like "omg here it comes". Then he stopped moving JUST before the hole, I went PHEW my heart nearly jumped out of my chest. But then he took one step back, then *SPLASH* I saw poop and other disgusting stuff fly out. As mean as it sounds I began to laugh my lungs out. Then I stopped by the side of the road and went to help the boy out.  He smelt like hell, his white uniform become welll...... yellow? brown? something like that. I could feel my nose burning smelling him. Yea just imagine what he fell into. Most of the sewage in that area going through that pipe. Poop, pee, puke and etc and that poor boy fell into that. He probably had to shower with acid or something to remove the nonsense off him. OH speaking of acid. Just a random note, everyone please be careful of the acid splasher going around. He's a first rate lunatic and should be dead. If you see him on the roads, please don't hesitate to ram him to death. Break his legs or something just make sure he gets what's coming to him. So, back to topic. I mentioned earlier in the post I wanted to inform everyone about and hopefully it will stick in your heads and you will do something about it. It's about animals being rammed on the roads. If people on the highways see animals crossing the roads, I beg of you to please stop! Don't run over them, they did nothing to you. I've seen it twice, cars just ran over animals as if they have no feelings. I know the animal rights topic has passed but this is something everyone should be aware of. Whether it's cats, dogs, cows or even goats. Anything that crosses the roads, please stop for them just as how other drivers would stop for you when YOU cross the roads. Once when I was driving next to a car, I saw a dog crossing the road so I slowed down to let it pass, the idiotic car beside me just zoomed over it. I have never been so stunned in my life, stunned at the fact that someone would just run over a dog like that without second thoughts. I immediately pulled over at the side of the highway, ran to the middle of the road where the dog's body was and carried it to the side of the road. Painfully, by the time I put the dog down by the side of the road it was already gone. While running it's blood dripped on my shoe, so I was really sad that it had to go that way. People driving must've thought I was drunk or something, running in the middle of the road like that to pick up a dead dog. But there was no way in the world that I was going to leave that poor dog's corpse in the middle of the road to be smashed to bits by other moronic drivers. So everyone please KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROADS, for holes and crossing animals... or people.

The world from a colourful point of view.

You know how when you watch a movie or TV show of humans with extraordinary abilities and just think "oh if only that could be real". I recently discovered there is something similar that really DOES exist.  It is known as Synesthesia. I started being curious about what Synesthesia really was, so I did a little studying on it. Before I continue, I would like to mention that Synesthesia is not a form of illness, desease or any sort of medical condition but merely a gift certain individuals are born with, it is merely their way of looking at the world. Synesthesia is a condition where the brain of an individual mixes up the senses. From what I know Synesthesia is a gift where the brain links certain information with colours. People with this gift are known as Synesthetes. Because I was curious to know more about Synesthesia, I found and started talking to a couple of Synesthetes, hard to find but I managed. Synesthesia is a gift where around 1 out of 500 are born with. Some Synesthetes actually do not know that their gift is, in a way unusual until they find out that other people do not have it. Others on the other hand feel like it's a secret they hide from others. There are several types of Synesthesia. One of which is where a Synesthete recognizes a specific person's name or a day with a specific colour. Like say if they were to meet a person named Matt for example, they would somehow think of maybe.. Blue when they hear that name and from then on everytime instead of knowing that person at Matt they would think of blue instead. Another example is days, like monday COULD be blue, tuesday could be yellow, and maybe thursday could be a darker or lighter shade of yellow. It is just a way their brains work which I think actually helps with going through daily tasks. Another type of Synesthesia is known as Chromethesia. This is where a Synesthete is able to see music, yes I said SEE music as colours or shapes. In fact Mozart is said to have had to had this form of Synesthesia. He mentioned that the key of a D-major had a warm 'orangey' sound to it, where a B-flat minor was blackish and an A-major was a rainbow of colours to him. This may explain why he wrote some of his music using different colours for different music notes. Moving on, I asked some Synesthetes I met online through youtube of their experiences being a synesthete. Now THIS is where things begin to get interesting, this is all true experiences from real life Synesthetes. First person I talked to was a girl I shall call her "A" to respect her privacy. Her greatest synesthetic experience was when she was 12, she began taking violin classes and during her second week of classes she notices as she was playing she could see faded shades of colours illuminating her vision. The colours she saw would differ as the notes she played changed. She mentioned then on she loved playing the violin because she felt special playing. Sadly she doesn't play the violin anymore. Next person, I shall address as "B" is a engaged man, I managed to find the conversation we had so I will put his EXACT words here "I'll tell you about my strongest synesthetic experience. It was years ago, and I was visiting my girlfriend, who was in an African drum ensemble class. I couldn't drum myself, so instead I sat and listened to the music they were making. When I closed my eyes, I saw circular explosions of colored light, that differed depending on the pitch of the drum being hit." I can't imagine what he sees everytime he is around musical instruments and closes his eyes. Last person I talked to, "C". Yes I only managed to find 3 Synesthetes. "C" is amazingly a 6 year old girl, actually I talked to her mom, not the little girl herself. Her mom mentioned that her daughter was Synesthete, so yea... According to her mom, "C" once mentioned to her mom that when they attended a piano performance, she could see colourful lights radiating out of the piano. It is one of those GRAND piano's that have a sort off opened hood.

Yea, this kind of grand piano. She said that the coloured lights would radiate out of the piano and the colour of the lights would disappear when the notes silent and it would changed when the note changed. How amazing is that? Can you even imagine what that little girl saw? It seems like such a magical gift to have. I believe people who are born with Synesthesia are truly blessed. AND did you know not only Synesthetes can have synesthetic experiences? We ordinary people can too. For example if we were taking drugs or are drunk. Another way is for example, when you are REALLY really really tired and somebody suddenly slams a door, do you realise that you actually see colours coming from the door in this case? I remember something like this happening before but never knew exactly what it was. With further digging I managed to find a video of someone having a synesthetic experience, this is from the TV show "Heroes" and is merely a depiction of what Enhanced Synesthesia would be like.

I felt so magical as I watched that but remember that it is nearly this dramatic in real life. But from what I was thought, it's pretty close.
Well hoped this post was a good read and I sure hope I can find out more things like this to write about again. Have a good day :]

Superman?

So Superman? Strongest man ever? Sort off but.... not exactly. For people who know me pretty well, you'd know I'm am pretty 'in' to fitness, sports,working out and basically being active. The man I'm writing about today is dubbed as 'The Unstoppable Athlete' due to his recent feat of completing 30 different sports in 30 straight days. This man's name is Sam Tickle. Some may question is it actually possible for a human being to put that much stress on their bodies and make it through something like this? 30 days of endless sports, everyday something new. This challenge is titled officially 'The Unstoppable Tour'.  Here's a list of all the 30 sports this man completed:

• Sea Kayaking
• Speed Skating
• Rugby
• Swimming
• Boxing
• Soccer
• Octopush (bet no one has heard of this)
• Rowing
• Basketball
• Tower Running
• Sepak Takraw
• Baseball
• Cyclocross
• Speed Golf
• Sand Boarding
• Power Yoga
• Fire Fighter Fitness
• Endurance Riding (Horse Riding)
• Football
• Volleyball
• Rock Climbing
• Ultimate
• Ju-Jitsu
• Rafting
• Fencing
• Mountain Biking
• Kite Boarding
• Street Hockey
• Surfing
• Marathon

Forgive me for the insanely long list but I wouldn't want you guys to miss any details. There are a few I personally find interesting. For one Octopushing, I honestly had no clue what this was when I first saw the title and when I saw the video of it... well it still didn't make much sense to me but I thought it was really interesting because it's new to me. Besides that Tower Running, Fire Fighter Fitness, Rock Climbing and Kite Boarding. I'll post videos of Sam doing those sports so you guys can get a good look of what it's like. And by the way, I'm sorry if it takes you guys 10 years to watch the videos. It takes awhile to appear but the loading should be fast once the video appears.

The first video is on OCTOPUSH, well basicly in a nutshell octopush is underwater hockey except you have a shorter stick and you swim around. Sounds simple but again not so much....

Cool huh? This is the second sport I know that involves water besides water polo. Would love to give this a try if I ever get the chance.

Next off, Tower Running! Now this is really really really REALLY insane. The amount of strength required to just do this is just outrageous. I never knew this was even a sport. Wonder what it is? Check it out below

So there it is. Climbing the Willis Tower.. BY STAIRS. 110 stories high and 25,000 miles of plumming and 75,000 tons of steel. This guy is pretty much unstoppable right now but there's more!

Next up is Fire Fighter Training. This is not really a sport from my view but it's amazing as well because you get to see what sort of physical condition you have to be in to even qualify to be a fireman. It's no walk in the park for anyone. Just watch what he has to go through.

Think you can do it? Maybe you could but you won't be able to move for a week after that sort of physical torture.

Now we come to ROCK CLIMBING! Like real rock climbing. This is something I've always wanted to do, I love to test myself with physical activities like this, only thing is I've never really gotten the chance to sadly. But here is a video of what it's like

Check out the view from the top. One day I swear I'm going to rock climb!

Last off Kite Boarding! Extreme! Crazy! and FUN! Well it looks fun atleast. If only they had this in Malaysia, DO they have this in Malaysia? If so please tell me where I want to try this. It looks awesome. As you can tell I love some extreme sports. Check out Sam taking on Kite Boarding!

He did a pretty good job. I can't say I would've done any better because I doubt so, but would love to atleast try it some time. All this talk about sports has got me excited to do them right now. Well that's basicly it for this post, hope you guys liked it and grow a love for sports IF you don't already.

SAY NO TO ANIMAL ABUSE!

To be honest I am at wits end trying to figure out what is there to write, but I just thought if I were to be negative and whine, I shouldn't have wasted my parents money for college. So I decided to shut up and write! SOMETHING.... eventually......Anyway I've decided to write about animal cruelty. I'm sure plenty of us have seen videos of animals being abused by their owners or infront of public. Cat's being stepped on, rabbits torn to shreds, and puppies being thrown into rivers or maybe even the most recent I've seen. Puppies being fed to crocodiles. How can any human be so cruel to do things like this? AND the worst part is they put it on video and show the whole world. Are they mental? Nobody wants to see a puppy being chewed by a crocodile. I'm glad though that people are doing something about this. People should get a heart and stop abusing poor animals. There's nothing much I or anyone can say to change the way some unusual people act. But I can always hope that someday it will stop.
I actually wanted to post videos of people abusing animals but I think they have all been removed and/or banned. http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/dog-abuse-video-triggers-online-search-for-culprits/
This is a link of the infamous dog abuser from Malaysia.
I believe that everyone should be compassionate toward animals everywhere who are in need and help prevent animal abuse. Report any sighting of abuse, intervene, or basicly do anything you can to help!

Poor Little Animals, Animal Rights #1

To many people today, animals are nothing more than pets for children or just for one's amusement, a mere form of education or even worse just for annoyance. Spend 24 hours locked in a tiny room with barely enough space to move your arms, with no privacy, and nothing at all to do to pass the time, and maybe then you will have a taste of what animals go through. Whether in safari parks, zoos, roadside displays, or petting zoos. They are at the bottom of the heap in the zoo world.


Some animals enrage at the feeling of being cage or imprisoned, relentlessly clawing at the bars. While others, have succumbed to the endless routine of boredom and show little interest toward anything at all. The high demand for cute baby animals, particularly for photography purposes, leaves adult animals with nowhere safe to go. Many of them get sold off at auctions, used for hunting, or even slaughtered for exotic meats. Could it get any lower than that? Even with practically the whole world aware of what animals are going through, there is little anyone is doing about it. There are so few agriculture inspectors to oversee thousands, maybe even billions of breeders, dealers and exhibitors. Even so, inspections are carried out roughly once a year, and sometimes even less frequently with minimal standards of concern.
It is perfectly legal to keep a monkey in a tiny cage for his or her entire life or provide a 10-foot, 600 pound tiger with only a fraction of living space of an average housecat.


More breeding does nothing to help the wild populations but merely adds to the number of surplus animals out there. The excess number of big cats such as lions, leopards and tigers discovered is staggering to say the least.
People often fail to give animal the respect and rights they deserve, they are treated as lifeless and emotionless scientific creatures that we discard at our own convenience. Some of these animals come from small shelters or even worse from their own front yard. If you have a pet, imagine your pet being shoved in a cage along with 10 other animals aimlessly waiting to die for no real reason at all due to numerous scientific tests. Before these animals die, they are routinely burned, scalded, poisoned, starved, electrocuted, drugged, subject to near freezing temperatures, dosed with radioactive substances and driven insane. Some are even deliberately infected with deadly deseases such as cancer, diabetes, multiple kinds of infections, syphilis, herpes and etc. Hopefully some day there will be a way that animals can get the respect they deserve.

China! The Best Place/s to Go #2

Wazzappp everyone!

Hows's everybody doing? Hope everyone is doing good. Last year I got the opportunity to visit China just one month before my SPM with my whole family. I found it weird that my parent's asked me to go just before my exams but I got their permission so I guess it's cool. So we left KLIA and arrived at Shanghai first then we got on a bus to Suzhao.

View from my seat on the plane, my family is so big we practically booked this whole row of seats and more.

That's one part of my family at the airport in China and that man in the brown leather jacket was our tour guide. So on the way to Suzhao, we met our tour guide named Mr David,

and that's Mr David, he speaks pretty good english and on the way to Suzhao he was explaining a lot of the history of China to us which was really interesting. We arrived at Suzhao pretty late so we headed to our hotel first and head to bed. Woke up in the morning went downstairs to have breakfast. One thing anyone going to any part of china might want to know, getting food is like a war. Everyone swarms around the food like hungry wolves, if example a plate of bread or meat lands on the buffet table. Other people won't take their time and walk there, they RUN there and snatch every last bit of food they can get. They even use their chopsticks and take it off your plate sometimes. So didn't get much to eat on the first day but I learnt from then. Only time we could get food was when everyone was gone. After breakfast we headed to some place called The Couple's Garden Retreat, it was an enourmous garden that seemed almost like a town to me. It is a fairly large garden divided into three parts--a central living area flanked by an east and west garden. It is bordered on three sides by canals, with docks on the north and south sides permitting entrance from the waterways. 

That's a directory of the whole garden. Big huh?

This is one tiny part of the garden but it's just so you can get an idea of what it looks like. It was nice walking around there and also a plus because the season was nearing winter so it was cold.

More pictures of the garden. We had to take a boat to get to the other side of the garden, that's how big it is. It has its own little river.

That's us on the boat. We got off the boat at a temple which was still in the garden.

That's where we got down then we continued walking to the tallest temple in the garden where from the top you could see EVERYTHING.

And this is the temple, from the front. Headed up to the top to get a view of everything.

The view from the top. We continued walking around the garden after this until we reached the exit. Headed to our bus then we headed to Hungzhao. After a few hours, we arrived at Hungzhao and checked in to our hotels and hit the sack. Nexy day woke up went out for breakfast. Then we headed to the Hungzhao lake, it was around 8 in the morning so the sun wasn't really up and it the weather was really really really cold. All I could see was a thick fog. Around the lake is actually something like a park where you see plenty of tourists an people going for their morning walks. We took a boat across the river.

View of the sunrise from the park. See that huge temple on the hill? We were heading there.

The boat which we took across the lake, this was taken earlier in the morning, check out the fog. It was actually thicker when we just got there. It was so cold, I could see myself breathe. So now we headed for the temple, I can't really recall the name I apologise. 

Front view of the gigantic temple. You can't see it from this view but there is actually around five more floors. Curious what the view is like from the VERY TOP?

BAM! It was freezing up there. I was in three layers of clothing! And I was still shivering. Inside the temple was a mini museum of ancient artifacts and such. Weapons, armour, clothing, really old literature etc. OH there is something that stood out to me.

A miniature model of Wuzhen. We were going there after we left the temple. The model was actually 3 times longer than this picture but I could only take on picture as we were rushing. Next we left for Wuzhen. 

Map of Wuzhen.

As soon as I stepped into Wuzhen, I saw an OLD man performing some aecrobatic stunts but he was on a tall bamboo........ You don't see that everyday. 

Yea, you definitely don't see an old man doing a plank on a tall bamboo everyday. Conclusion, don't mess with china people, they're strong. We had a tour guide explaining to us the ancient history of Wuzhen, we went into different parts of Wuzhen, each with their unique history.

Inside Wuzhen.

This is apparently the bed royalty used to sleep on back then.

I'm sure many people are familiar with this. It's a machine people back then used to make silk clothes from.

After this we left Wuzhen and went to grab some dinner since it was getting late. After dinner we headed back to our hotel for some sleep. Next day we took our tour bus back to Shanghai. We only arrived at Shanghai at night so we got dinner in and went to catch a ferry ride. Shanghai is amazing atnight because the whole city is so colourful. Lights everywhere!

The ferry we took.

Shanghai atnight. Breathe taking lights.

That's the TV Tower. It's the tallest tower in China. We visited that the next day.

After the ferry ride we headed back to our hotel and hit the sack. Next day, got up, breakfast, left to see the TV Tower. It was designed by the Shanghai Modern Architectural Design Co. Ltd. Principal designers are Jiang Huan Chen, Lin Benlin and Zhang Xiulin. Construction began in 1990 and the tower was completed in 1994. It is 1535 feet tall. The tower has fifteen observatory levels. The highest (known as the Space Module) is at 1148 feet. Me being curious immediately went as high as I could to see if it was really THAT high. The lift that took us up was really cool because it moves really really fast. In 1 second it moves past 4 floors. So I reached the level of the Space Module. It didn't seem that bad, until I went out ofcourse where the floors were transparent.

And that's me, on the transparent floor. From up there everything looked so tiny, the streets of Shanghai looked like a map. 

Closer view of the transparent floor. ZOOMED!!

After that we left for dinner. Then went back to the hotel to rest abit then went out for shopping!

Streets of Shanghai at night.

Next day we left for the airport cause we were heading home, how sad ;( 

The airport.

Well basicly that's it, would definitely recommend everyone to give China a shot if they get the chance. Many things to enjoy there.