Thankful for year 2010...

New year is here! I truly want to remind myself once again to be thankful for all things despite the challenges that I encountered in year 2010. I want to count my blessings & be grateful for what I have now...

I thank God for my loved ones, career, a great church that I belong to & a lovely home that I'm living. Thankful for the capacity that has been enlarged in my life.

These are some of the highlights which came true in 2010 :

A new guitar for me to learn

Visited my high school best friend in KT

A new water heater on Christmas eve (no more cold water for shower!)

Australia trip in December

My students in school & the field trips that we went

and etc...

All in all, it was an exciting year. 2011, here I come!

Mount Hiking Experience in Gunung Bunga Buah

Finally I have time to post something on my blog again! :) Well, on the 30th of August which was a Saturday, my coursemates and I went to Gunung Bunga Buah located in Genting Highlands (around Gohtong Jaya) for a field trip. This trip was meant for our Biosystematics subject's assignment.

All in all, this trip was fun though all of us were really exhausted after a whole day and had encountered with many leechesss! None of us was not bitten by them!

View from the hill...

This is ginger... very unique!

Group photo

Orchid

Equisetum (Horsetail) plant

Morning glory. Now u don't see...

Now u do! (Butterfly landing on flower)
Captured this butterfly on my own
before it flew away!
With just a compact cam. ^_^

Flower flower flower...

4th Sem Break

Fourth Semester Break has just begun! Ended my last paper on the 23rd, then 6 of us consist of uni mates and course mates went to one of our friend, Hooi Sin's house in Kapar, Klang for a 3 days,2 nights stay. We really enjoyed ourselves as her family offered their big house which is fully furnished for us to stay. They do not live there as they have another house, the old one. This place is located outskirts of the city, and I was really amazed during the long journey there. ;) Of course we did not miss out the famous cuisine such as Bak Kut Teh, seafood, and hand-made Pan Mee.


While we were in the midst of having K-session at Green Box, one of us was invited to go out for this game with other customers, making a partition by collecting the most green peas among the red beans. In the end, we won! We thought that we'll be given extra session, voucher or dinner, but we got a bottle of sparkling juice for the prize only... In the evening, we had badminton session at the sports complex. At night, we played mahjong, I learnt it for the first time, knew how to play at last! ^_^

All in all, it was really fun during the trip to Klang this time. ;)

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Meeting with Nuan Shu, my Form 2 to Form 5 classmate, a bright student in Sunway Uni College before & currently working in Ernst & Young. Picture was taken at her mum's retirement dinner, also my mummy's school's principal. Venue : Palace of The Golden Horses

Last but not least, my task for this 2 months break will be planting Kangkung (water convolvulus) for my final year project!! I need to choose a type of vegetable or herb for my research. They are in the process of growing already.

Day 7

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Day 21

'Mosquitoe-catching' camp in Puchong Forest

A trip to mosquito-catching camp? Yup, on the 2nd-4th February, though Chinese New Year celebration is just around the corner, about 34 of us, from the same course, Biology course, taking the same subject, which is Parasitology and Health Entomology, were asked by our Professor to join a field trip.

The purpose of this field trip is to study more about mosquitoes and their larvae, parasites of rodents, such as rat and squirrel, various insects and snails...

The forest that we went was actually a forest reserve in Air Hitam Puchong, allowed by the State Government to our university, UPM to take care of it and also to do research there.
It is a very good experience as we really slept in the tent for two nights, and during late at night, we had to come out to catch mosquitoes! How to catch it? It was not really difficult though, a few of us in a group stayed under a mosquito net for a moment, the insects will then land on the outside of the net. Just be focussed when it comes near you, and use a test tube to capture it.

All in all, it was really an eye-opener to all of us! That's what we study and the advantages of it ^-^

Girls' tent ^_^

unknown thing...

Squirrel dissecting