H1N1 flu case in Wangsa Maju

*Update: I heard from a TARC friend that 3 students from there kena H1N1. 2 from SBS and 1 from SSH. OMG..... please do not come and attack UTAR students. Praying hard.....

So people, pls be extra careful!!! *



Finally, it is said that a H1N1 flu case has been detected in Wangsa Maju.

And now everyone is shouting, "CLOSE UTAR!!!!"

Haha... I would like that too. But to think that we have to replace all those lectures and tutorials make me think twice.

Anyway, heard that this case was not reported to the public. Not until someone stumbled upon Wee Choo Keong's (MP for Wangsa Maju) blog post dated June 20 2009. You can read more in this post or here.

So people, especially students of TARC and UTAR, be more careful la. Maybe soon we have to wear mask, which I really hate to.

Ok la, quite a short update only to warn you all. Will not blog so often as I am very busy lately. I really hate closing accounts!!!

p/s: Sorry the Beijing post will be up soon I promise!

-sherril=xuele-

Bukit Tabur

Yea! Finally I have conquered Bukit Tabur! Wohoo!!!!!

It was an awesome and challenging experience. Those of you who haven't been there before and love adventurous trips should definitely try this place out.

There were 7 of us, 4 guys and 2 girls. 3 hiked before this hill and 4 including me were newbies. We started hiking around 7am and reached downhill at about 11am. We were slow because we were busy snapping pictures and I was the one who dragged their time as I was slow.

I love this type of challenge but I really have no confidence in myself when it comes to this kind of hiking/jungle trekking because of my height. My legs and hands are short, and this makes me think that I cannot bypass those huge gaps or climb up steep places. But every time after some tough hikings, they will boost up my confidence more and more. Same goes to this time. I am sure I can be better next time!

Though SOME people said that this hill discriminates shorties, but being a truly shortie, I successfully completed the whole journey! So I am sure the rest of you can make it too!

The weather today was so nice, cloudy and breezy. We thought it would rain before we managed to reach donwhill but thank god, it did not and we reached downhill safely =)

We were in time to see sunrise. One of my all-this-while-wish was finally completed. Yahoo! Too bad it did not go on like I planned to with him. =(

Beautiful view of Klang Gates Dam with sunrise.

Watching sunrise.

Another side of view.

It was adventurous because there were no staircases or whatsoever to help you up hill and downhill, except some ropes at some steep areas and of course tha natural ROCKS available there. Haha.

There were no railings as well, so one wrong step could really grab your life away. It is really DANGEROUS. No doubt there were many cases whereby hikers went missing or their bodies found dead after their slips and falls. There were even warnings along the pathway to warn us about nasty incidents that have happened before. I did not dare to read any of them in case they made me feel discouraged.

This is just the starting.

More challenging parts ahead.

Eh Shyuan, what's so special about your water bottle huh??

Some people camp-fired there. I wonder if they really overnighted there??!

Noone gave up in this hiking. Hooray teammates! I am glad we made a good team who were willing to help each other. Below are some of the dangerous and tough moments:

Damn high and steep.

See my 'kin chiong' face? LOL so ugly my god.

This is the place where I was stuck.
1 slip and Sherril Leow will be gone. *choi*!!

I was supposed to climb up the rock that I placed my hands against to. But the gap between this rock and the rock I was standing on was slightly huge. Furthermore those so-called holes/steps for you to step on the rock seemed so far, which seemed to be beyond my reach!

Clinging hard to the rock.

When I successfully crossed over, I was practically hugging this rock, not wanting to let go at all. Because I was scared that my foot could not reach the place it was supposed to be and I would slip! But then, haha I made my way up anyway with a bit of help =) Now nothing can stop me anymore!

1,2,3 Jump!!!! Haha.

Wah, 90° loh!

Nah, it is actually like this =)

I am getting better and braver.

Finally I can go solo!!

This is Mei Fern, with short legs like me haha.

So in the end, we did it! Haha the feeling after this hiking is soo good!

Shyuan and Fern so steady.

Wah finally no more 'kin chiong' face =)

Baby Ong said I act cute. WTH?

This time I can cling to the rock and posed for the camera!

When we reached the top part (1 stop before the most top point), it was of course our resting time. Guess what? Zhou Chong brought a watermelon up and it was watermelon feasting and photo shooting time!

Zhou Chong cutting watermelon. (not sure how to spell his name)

Wong Hon Sern aka 'Hansen'. Fern said he looked like a monkey in this pic haha.

Shyuan with her usual pose for promoting food.

My 1st attempt for a jumping pose shot.

I totally suck in jumping, with my legs so short and heavy weight. LOL. So after numerous tryouts.....

This is my BEST shot! (but I know still kns)

Yay!!!!

The 3 musketeers.

The must-take group photo!

Going downhill was far more easier than going up hill. So basically there was no problem with that. There was an uncle who claimed that this usual route to go downhill was not challenging enough so he patah balik the way he came up, which was also the way we came up. He was really adventurous huh? Going downhill through that route is soooo damn dangerous!

The safer route.

Don't know what flower.

Some scatches are necessary =)

All on tree!

There was an orchard on the way downhill. We counted already, there were at least 7 different fruits: Nangka, Cempedak, Durian, Rambutan, Mangosteen, Starfruit, and another one I do not know the name.

Mei Fern was scared of this scarecrow. She said it looked like "those things".

Bye bye Bukit Tabur!

Now let me introduce you - the couple of the year!! Mei Fern and her Kenny.

They really make me envy la. Sigh.







Then now for the heroes of the day!

Zhou Chong, damn pro!

'Key Chain', solo somemore! This is his 1st hiking experience.

Saw the man there? We actually came all the way from there.

The hill behind is where we hiked.

Looking back, we realized that we have hiked a hill that seems almost impossible to hike. That is why, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!

I totally love this trip. Next trip to Broga!!


-sherril=xuele-

1st Attempt

My 1st attempt and this is the result of it!



I have severely bruised my hands!!!



I hate volleyball!!!!

Haha no la, not really hate. In fact, I have started to like it a bit. JUST A BIT.

Not really my 1st attempt, but it was the 1st time I played this game for so long. Last time if I played, I would give up within minutes. I never had the heart and patience to learn because I cannot bear the pain.

Thanks to my classmates Zhi Ling and Ah Fang, who are pros of volleyball, they taught me and Shyuan the correct way to play. Though I think I made them a bit frustrated because I always made mistakes and whacked the ball into the drain with some contaminated water for uncountable times =_=''

Wondering why there was drain in the court? Because we did not use proper venue, we played at Sri Pelangi carpark. Cars that were parked over there were being hit a few times but I swear there were no scratches made =)

Well, a nice attempt I would say. At least I have the courage to hit the ball already!

Maybe you will like to try playing volleyball sometime too?


-sherril=xuele-

Beijing - Day 1

Hehe finally I am here to blog about my Beijing trip. Like I said it was awesome! Hmm I have no talent like Kae Vin to describe his Cambodia trip in such a creative way. Really love the way he wrote about it. So I will just do it in a simple way and let the pictures do most of the job.

For your information, we went under Forever Travel tour agency. My family's 1st trip under them. Before hand we always went under Lye Peng tour agency. Well my rating for this agency - 4 out of 5. I love my tour leader. She is so pretty!

So, our tour group consists of 16 participants with 1 pretty leader (tour guide). Out of 16 people, 12 of them are my family members. The rest are a pair of mum and daughter from Singapore (working there) and a pair of husband and wife from Aussie (migrated from M'sia).

Basically for the 1st day, we spent most of the time in airports and airplanes. From Penang International Airport, we flew with Cathay Pacific and stopped at KLIA and waited for passengers from there to board. Then we continued our journey to Hong Kong International Ariport for transit. Then finally we flew with Dragonair to Beijing Capital Airport.

I think the whole journey took about 12 hours, maybe a bit less. Stuck quite long in KLIA and on the track of Hong Kong International Airport. The airport was sooo busy that more than 10 airplanes needed to queue up just for taking off! Can you imagine that?

As usual during long hours flight, what you can do are just to eat, sleep, watch movies, listen to music or go to toilet. That is why I became fatter after coming back from China. Input more than output... Damn!

1 of the meals.

Wrapped myself in blanket like I was so cold.

Shyuan reading my CLEO, pretending to be interested.

What made this day interesting was, something funny happened when we arrived Beijing Capital Airport. I am really amazed at how cautious and concerned the China government is regarding the H1NI cases. Compared to them, Malaysia is lousy.

Once we landed, we were not allowed to leave the aircraft. Paramedics were sent onto the plane to check each and every passenger's body temperature. That means if one of the passengers did not pass this checking, then all passengers might be asked to be quarantined, just in case he/she was the carrier of swine flu.

I nearly thought I was not going to pass the checking and everyone has to be quarantined.

They checked my temperature for 3 times! 3 times! Everyone 1 time but I was checked for 3 times!!! I was worried like hell!

After the 1st time, that girl checked another time for confirmation. Guess something was wrong with my temperature or maybe the device was not functioning well. Then after the 2nd checking, she walked away but turned back to look at my seat number. At that moment, I was already terrified. Why the hell did she need to check on my seat number?!

Then she even asked the other paramedic to check my temperature for the 3rd time! My god! Luckily this time my temperature did not exceed 27°C 37°C. Phew! Thank god I did not make anyone stay in hospital haha.

Shyuan's dad wearing mask for FUN not for prevention haha.

Once we got down from the plane, 1 of my uncles started laughing at me for being checked 3 times. He was teasing and joking about this incident. He even told us confidently that he would be able the pass the checking easily but maybe his wife would not because she was sick before this trip. So all the way he was the 1 laughing and talking the most.

Then came this scenario. We passed by a counter with devices set up like this:


See those 2 cameras and 2 screens? In front of each screen there was seated 1 officer. Everyone was required to walk pass the 2 lanes. Once you walk into the range of screening (where the bars are placed), your image with heat and temperature will be shown in the screen like this:



This device is very sensitive, trust me, and also very accurate. No matter you walk to the left, to the right or maybe you want to jump or squat, your temperature will always be on your head, following you all the way. This makes the officer's job easy to spot those passengers with high temperature (more than 27°C 37°C). If your temperature exceeds 27°C 37°C, there is a high possibility that you are having fever - 1 of the H1N1 symptoms.

Then this image popped up and everyone was excited.


This guy with 37.2°C is that laughing uncle of mine.

He was stopped by the officer in-charge and was ushered into a special 'room' like this, somewhere beside the counter to carry on the necessary procedures to check whether he was really having fever or not.


I wonder how he managed to smile for the camera when he was god damn tension that time. Haha he was the one laughing at people but he was the 1 ended up this room.

It took him ages to come out from that room after being confirmed that his temperature has dropped back to normal. We knew he would be fine since he was not sick, but quite worried that the officer might send him off to be quarantined. As you know, SARS affected China a lot and they have learnt from that lesson.

Everyone in our group applauded when he came out and he was laughing damn hard away. He did not know that there was another checking awaiting him ahead. By that time his temperature rose again because of the laughings =_=''. At the last counter, he was specially asked by the officer in-charge to enter another 'special room', again!

This time, we were really laughing uncontrollably and wondered why he was so unfortunate?

LOL, we were not being mean for laughing at him, we were worried too. But if you were there, you would know why we laughed that hard.

The last checking took him more than 15 minutes (felt like half an hour or more). Luckily this time his temperature dropped again to normal. So this whole journey from airplane to this counter took us more than half an hour and we had not even collected our luggage!!

This is what we did while waiting for him - taking photos!

The airport is soooo huge!

When we reached the luggage collection area, there was no one already. Our luggages were the ones left on the spinning machine. Wonder how many rounds has it spun?

You cannot imagine how big the airport is! We even needed to take a train from the last counter to the luggage collection area! Maybe 10 times of the area of Penang International Airport?!



Well, we were of course late for dinner since the whole checking out process consumed so much time. But this incident also reflected how efficient and cautious the China government is. Our temperatures were checked 3 times at 3 different places! (though mine was checked 5 times) They really want to minimize the number of H1N1 cases. Thumbs up for them!

Maybe Malaysian government should learn from them. There was so much difference when I reached Penang International Aiport from Beijing. No one checked on us... No one! No wonder the number of confirmed cases are increasing. LOL

To call it a day, we checked in Holiday Inn Express where we stayed for 3 nights. The rooms were nice, but the management was damn lousy. They should really improve in that.

My room with Shyuan.

Well, so that is all for day 1. Will not write so long for the next few entries. I am getting more and more long-winded. Sigh.


-sherril=xuele-