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Ah, nothing much happened in the past week. Well actually, many things happened. But I shan’t elaborate :D Was in Singapore for the weekend! I love Singapore :)

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I went to Medan and Lake Toba some time in March this year. At one time I even thought I wouldn’t be writing about the trip at all :p I went with three other friends, who were a rather publicity-shy lot. Therefore there are less photos of people in this entry!

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Quad biking is generally a fun sport. Even the idea of riding ATVs and going off-roading sounds interesting (not to mention adventurous). So when we found out that we could actually go quad biking in Kuala Lumpur itself, we rang up the operator and expressed our interest.

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I’m shy to say that I had never been to the Bon Odori festival before, even though I live just 15 minutes’ drive away from the event venue in Shah Alam. Last night was my first time, and obviously the first thing that amazed me was the super crowd.

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When I was in secondary three (that’s nine years ago), I remember we had a new teacher in our school. He was Mr Gunasegaran, who taught us English. He was probably in his early 30’s, and had a very charming, youthful character. We all loved him because he was close to us and always made us laugh. After several weeks of teaching us English, he also became our PE teacher.

I remember one day, during one of our PE sessions, my friends and I were talking about something funny when Mr Guna, upon hearing our jokes, said to us “Hey… *points to his feet*… even my toes are laughing… hahaha”. We always enjoyed his lessons. To many of us, he was more than just a teacher. He was a friend, in and out of the classroom. A few days ago, I learned that our beloved Mr Guna had passed away.

A friend told me that he had fallen from a roof a week earlier, and had been in coma since. My body went numb upon learning this. A group of (current) students attended his funeral wake, which I’m sure I’d have gone if I’d known. Many of my former classmates didn’t know about it either. But as my friends Sanjay and Anton put it, at least Mr Guna left us all with good memories. I’m sure he will be fondly missed.

God bless his soul.

One fine morning, I decided do something about my pool of pending friend requests on Facebook. I had been trying to recall if I knew them, before approving the requests. I studied their profile but they rang no bell. I’d be more than happy to approve if we had at least something in common - like going to the same school or uni, or having met at some event before. But no, some of these requests appear to be very random. So I like to initiate a conversation in order to get to know that person better. And I like to do away with the ubiquitous “Hi, intro pls” one-liner. So I jump straight into something like this:
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This has got to be the most random entry ever. Haha. I saw the pictures I’ve watermarked and uploaded for my Bali trip in my flickr, which reminded me that I still have unfinished business! LOL.

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I want to thank you all for the kind birthday wishes last month. I got most of them one day late, even though they were sent between 0000hrs and 0100hrs on my birthday. That’s because I didn’t have telco coverage at that time. We were somewhere outside Tokyo Bay. I received a birthday cake from the company too, which was pretty cool. I and another American engineer both celebrated birthdays on board the vessel together.

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I feel like running head-on into a punching bag now. I was composing an entry when I got an MSN message - which was, by the way, nothing but a virus-infected URL - and like always, I wanted to close the window. I didn’t realize the window wasn’t maximized, and I accidentally closed my Firefox instead. I have decided to block the contact. Serve me right for not blocking her earlier, because everytime she came online, the same message would appear. Whatever happened just now has got to be the last straw. If it affects my blogging - which I haven’t been doing much lately - it affects me badly!

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Do you like jungle-trekking? How about doing it without touching the ground? Introducing SkyTrex Adventure, where you can challenge yourself to a series of obstacles, suspended at about 3 to 17 meters above the ground. You basically need to move from one tree to another, and the entire course takes around 1 and 1/2 hours to complete - depending on your physical fitness and agility!

SkyTrex Adventure is located inside Taman Pertanian Malaysia (Malaysia Agricultural Park), Shah Alam, which is about 30-40 minutes drive from the KL City Center. If you have been following my blog since last year, you’d probably have read about my cycling excursion in that park with some friends on a Sunday morning. I didn’t know about SkyTrex Adventure back then.
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