房间的气息，
像我手中冷掉的可可。
最最叫人残念的，
总是未完成的另一半的歌...

Housemanship

     So I started my journey ( a very long journey) as a medical doctor 2 weeks ago. 

     I was given the medical posting to start off with. Hospital Seberang Jaya would be my 2nd home for the next two years to come. It is quite a nice place, not too busy and huge, but doesn't lack the facilities to train house officers. 

        How time flies and I'm off tag now, meaning that i have to only work according to shift systems in this posting. Work will be either from 7am (we usually have to come earlier) till 6pm (or later if our work doesn't finish by that time) or the night shift of 4pm-8am. 

       Things have been going quite smoothly except for a few bad patches here and there. There were tears of joy, touched, sadness and weakness throughout these 2 weeks. I can now look forward to more good things in the future. 

        Life has been kind to me, so has been my friends/colleagues and my dear, always so supportive of me. 

Fried noodles from dear's mum. How lovely!

Homemade bread by my dear <3

Nice pastries :)

Dear dear who always thinks of me. She even reserved a lunch box with me. 

The first time having breakfast with colleagues at tim sum house in Chai Leng park.

        4 more months to go in medical (3 1/2 months to be exact), medical posting will be the best posting ever in my housemanship life. 

yikping
1028pm

等一个人·咖啡

    这个世界上，每个人都在等一个人：伴侣，恋人，另一半，携手到老。也许，你等的那个人，曾与你擦肩而过，或者在茫茫人海里窜动。缘份的瞬间，犹如拉着红线的月下老，让我们能够碰面。世界上两个根本没有任何关系的人就这样认识了，为各自的生活书写崭新的故事，人生的旅程。

 

        渗入了对方的生活，慢慢地发现，其实对方没有你想象中的那么好，你会怎样做？继续等他，还是换杯咖啡？咖啡的香浓，是表面的，口感和味觉，只有品尝的人才了解。大家都会向往甜美的爱情，如童话故事般的完美，就如总人都会被咖啡的浓郁所吸引。若果你慢慢地品尝，慢慢的细嚼，每一杯咖啡，都是独特的。从咖啡豆的名字，到产生地，收割的季节，都会令看是模棱两可的咖啡产生不同的咖啡味。

       
        你在等他，她在等你。人往往都会好高骛远，把视野放到一个很高的台阶，期望过得比人家好，比人家幸福。我们会向往美好的，甚至遥不可及的，然后忽略了我们已经拥有的，上天已经在我们周围安排好给我们的事物。电影里的思萤，把心里的空位留给了辩论社团的泽与，成天都期待着奇迹的出现。与此同时，她却不知道最好的朋友阿拓也喜欢着她。直到了阿拓的离别，她才发现原来最喜欢的是阿拓。曾经的轰轰烈烈，赴汤蹈火，昨天的我爱你，转眼间有可能演变成今天的我恨你。没有谁有义务帮你自制咖啡，只有谁有义务诚恳地喝完你泡制的咖啡。失去，往往才会让人更加惦念。

        你就是你，我才能是我，彼此都是彼此的缺口。你期望，你等的那个人，可以弥补你的缺口。但，你等的那个人，是否也和你一样，在等着你，弥补他的缺口呢？

奕斌
1133am

Bodyworks Gym and Fitness Centre

        I'm a gym guy. So this is the forth gym that I've joined since my long holidays started way back in April. It's very near to my previous gym (Orient fitness) which I had posted before. 

The notice board downstairs notifying about the operation hours. 

Warming up before entering the gym, perhaps?

Can you spot my previous gym opposite? The green building =)

        My first take on this gym was: Was I entering a gym museum? This is the lockers section. It was very small and looks dilapidated. The gym has a space of three shoplots combined at the third floor. The floor was rubber and the equipment were all over the place. 

View from the locker's area

Quite messy arrangement that I had to take some time to locate each machine

The weights section which has, sadly, only dumb bells. I was looking forward to at least a few barbells. Well, that's what you get for a cheap price of RM45/ month. Can't complain too much right?

The weights were not the best I would have wanted but at least they can still be useful at some point. 

Old old weights covered with rust. Seem like those things survived from the 90's.

Pictures around the gyms showing models which, hey, did you come from the 80's?

Ignore the television and just focus on the cardio machines. I bet you never saw such a thing before in you life, have you? It's a cycling machine that looks so....ancient.

There are some new ones actually, but they decided to keep the old ones here as well. For display purposes?

        If you are observant enough, you will notice that on the treadmills, a box is placed just below the monitor. I took a closer look only to discover that it is actually like a slot machine, in which you insert coins to get the thing moving. In other words, you have to pay for using the treadmills? I'm not too sure about that cause I do not usually use the treadmills in the gym.

        I wonder how long has this gym been operating.  The equipment look so old and some are rusty. The environment is not as good as the one in orient fitness but it's still better than nothing. Perhaps by time to come, I will be able to enjoy my workout time in this gym, going through the 'cultural shock' from a classy gym to an ordinary gym.

yikping

1120am

慈济大爱之夜

        为期一个星期，为募集慈济在马来西亚的建设基金，大爱之夜的活动，在槟城演艺术中心举行。每一场，都有三百多人来参与。前天被妈妈强逼有幸参与了慈济的大爱之夜。听说是有备受瞩目的vox玩声乐团, 英文称 Acapella，演出才让我比较有兴趣地去看看是怎么一回事。既然爸爸妈妈已经参与了前两场，那只有我和弟弟相伴出席。

Straits Quay的槟城演艺术中心

里头有各式的展览

礼堂并不很大，但是就会给人一种舒服的感觉。一入场，就有慈济的护士小姐带领我们到座位上。

趁节目还没有开始时，有录影片段让我们看看慈济最近的新闻和活动。

虽然入场时间为7时30分，8时正了还有观众陆陆续续进场。响应还蛮热烈的！

访问感恩户.  (注：感恩户，只在生活中突遭变故，而需暂时接受慈济济助的人）

        VOX 玩声乐团演绎了多种歌曲。从古典歌甜蜜蜜，何日君再来，龙的传人，到现代的菊花台以及欧式摇滚曲 Rolling in the deep. 六位歌手都只是以歌喉，把每首歌发挥得淋漓尽致。当中还能‘唱’出二胡，鼓等乐器的伴奏。

               VOX玩声乐团，是“A Cappella”(阿卡贝拉、无伴奏合唱)人声乐团，也是流行音乐团体，成军于2012年，是由六个大男生所组成的纯人声演唱团体，喜欢在人声里分享单纯的感动，擅长演唱现代A Cappella，曲风为流行音乐及摇滚风格。经常将流行音乐改编为A Cappella版本，并在YouTube上播送，也是台湾第一支以阿卡贝拉为职业演出的团体。由重量级音乐制作人“李寿全”老师带领的“VOX玩声乐团” 打造“VOX玩声乐团”尝试多元的演出的风格，让音乐玩得更火热！根据纯人声音乐跨国性整合平台--中华畅声亚洲音乐协会（Vocal Asia）纪载，VOX玩声乐团是目前台湾最活跃、也是最受瞩目的A Cappella 团队之一。 （摘自 wikipedia VOX玩声乐团 ）

                 表演10时正圆满结束。真希望大马也可以出现这种玩声乐团 =）


奕斌
1055am

The Star Property Fair 2014

         The Star again successfully organized it's 12th property fair in G hotel and Gurney Plaza. I was looking forward towards the event as I thought it would develop much of my insight on new housing developments in Penang. However, it was more towards property for the investors as well as for the high end home seekers. Fortunately, there were many talks on various topics on property which really attracted my interest.

        I was fortunate to be able to learn about Green Architecture in Feng Shui presented by Master David Koh. The talk was about how to utilise space and live with nature while at the same time developing housing areas which are nature friendly. For instance, what are the best angles of the slope that a house can be built, how do we do town planning with regards to the river flow, how the wind direction determines the structure of a high rise buiding etc. In this picture above, he was illustrating about space and designs of a house. You could read more on green buildings here. 

The golden proportion on how to design one's house.

Application of the golden rule on the floor plan

        I also had to chance to learn about the effects of GST on property prices. The talk was delivered by accountant Richard Oon who spoke about the GST registered and non GST registered companies. 

The slide which portrays the simple concept of GST in business

        To sum it up, developers would have to increase the prices of the properties once GST is implemented since they cannot collect GST from the raw materials. As a result, the person at the end of the line, which would be the customer, has to absorb the increased cost of materials by paying more for the required property. (Raw materials would be taxed 5%). 

        As the fair progresses into it's third day today, I will be certainly looking forward to more of the talks that will surely benefit me in the future. The talks are FOC anyway, so why should I miss them =)

yikping

124pm

Escape Adventure Teluk Bahang, Penang

        2 days ago my friends and I decided to give this place a try. It is situated at the northern (almost most norther) tip of Penang Island. As a local, I think it is not a bad idea to try out something in my backyard rather than go to the sorts of Sunway Lagoon. It took us a 30 minute drive from Gurney Plaza.

        The car park was quite nicely designed with atap roofs. There was ample parking space perhaps due to the fact that there were less people during the weekdays. 

        The structure of the reception/ front counter is strikingly awesome. You do not have to book your tickets online if you are not going there in the peak season. You could have a view of the ticket pricing and FAQs on their website. They have quite a decent website. Anyway, we paid RM60 per person.  

        Basically the restrictions are for kids and heavily obese people but this board at the entrance simply listed down all the activities that can be found in the park. 

        A glance of the activities in the park. This is called Monkey Business and there are three levels with ascending difficulty. Level one shouldn't pose a problem but level two will need more endurance and courage. Not to mention being fit for the challenges, which will require lot of climbing and balancing skills. We did not try level three as we were quite tired after all the physical activity used.

        Do not need to worry if you did not bring along the map you received at the entrance as there are many of these maps over the park. 

The restrooms were well maintained.

        No outside food is allowed in their premises. So literally you are forced to dine in the park and mind you, it's exorbitant. Well I would get back to lunch later.

          One interesting thing that I find about the park is that the signboards they use are quite creative. Just look at this one at the dining area. It says feeding time. The theme of this park is actually to connect with nature, not connect to wifi. So as the name suggested, please do not ask for any wifi password =) In addition, we were being like 'animals' by participating in the activities. There were activities that require climbing (monkeys), flying fox, climbing up coconut trees, tarzan' rope and so on. Hence, lunch time is unsurprisingly known as feeding time. 

        This is the topup counter near the dining area. No cash transactions will be performed in the park besides this counter. They use a special debit card for all monetory transactions. But generally you only have to pay for food and water. (Yes, you can't bring water inside the park)

The escape debit card.

        A wrist band is also available for rent at a price of RM5. It is used solely to store your belongings in your locker. I suggest rental of the locker as the park is only a per-entry basis. We stored our wallets, phones and water in the locker.

        Some other interesting signboards that warn up about flying fox activities undergoing above your head. But there is nothing to worry about. Everything is very safe in the park.

The road from monkey business leading all the way to the back where you can find the tarzan's rope.

        So we ordered Nasi Lemak for lunch. For god's sake it cost us RM6/pax for this not-at-all-interesting piece of lunch. As you can see, there is only rice, egg, 3 pieces of cucumber, nuts, some ikan bilis and sambal. You could easily obtain this for RM2 anywhere along the streets. Things are pretty pricey in here and I advice you just to have something simple or nothing at all. A bottle of mineral water of 1.5litres cost us RM4 anyway. So, just eat a little to prevent your stomach from grumbling but not too much as usual. After all, you are going for more physical activity.

        Happy faces after filing up our tummies. We had lunch at 230pm. Once you had lunch, the chances are that you will be lazy to continue to enjoy the other activities as before lunch.

The absailing tower which we did not try out. 

 

        The tarzan's rope is quite fun if you are seeking some exciting experiences. It is about 3 stories high and the excitement comes from the swaying effect. But it was the sudden descend before the giant swing which caught all of us off guard. We ended up playing this thing twice. 

Head and protective gear all set. 

        We finally decided to call it a day around 5pm as we were all exhausted from the whole-day's workout. We did not know they had plenty of bathrooms for us to shower before going home. There were a total of 5 bathrooms in the male bathroom. Hence, I asked the guard for the permission to get our stuff form the car in which he agreed. So we had a good bath before hitting the roads. Please note that all they provide is a bathroom with shower only. No soap (unless you want to use the soap for cleaning hands) or towels are provided, even if you have the money to pay for it. 

        This signboard is located in the souvenir's store. As told by the chief staff, there will be a water theme park opposite the road by the end of 2015. It is currently under construction. If they could produce something like in the drawings then it would be much better than the one in Sunway Lagoon. 

         In all, we spent RM69.25/pax for the whole experience. We were not allowed to hold cameras once we are involved in the activities and hence the lack of interactive photos of us completing the tasks. If you wish to be filmed, you need a friend to be stationed on the ground to capture the memories of the day. I would say it is a truely wonderful experience as we were able to enjoy many facilities such as the 150 meter flying fox, absailing and tubby racer which we would never be able to try out unless you have been to the national service or in the military service. I have been to the national service but I still find this a memorable experience that you too, should not miss out while you are young. I even saw a young European boy as young as 6 years old in the park! 

yikping
1209am