Pimp My Bike...getting serious....

From this time onwards, USM engineering campus has another gorgeous bike on the road. This is my bike, whole thing made from junks like abandone frame, left over wheels, this and that. Well i resembled it and put a elegant white paint on it. Puff here comes another new bike.

In fact this bike works better than most of the bikes around, it has working suspension, front v rim wheel, shimano gear shifting, tuned shifting sequence and bearings, tight brakings and top of all, its trademark the bull horn.

Introducing VK biking-01....

Machinemare and Chutemare

Dream recorded-Warning-View this with your responsibility, not suitable for those who wish a sweet dream before sleep.

One guy trapped in a huge space, surrounded by meshing gears and operating machines. Looking around, every matings are synchronized, everything is moving, and the space is kept occupying and getting smaller. The place seemed overworked, some cracking noises were heard, lubricants were leaking out. Smoke's emerging, gears teeth are wearing. Soon, that guy felt like suffocating, he looked like its going to be squeezed in the machine. He ran.

He ran as much as he could, fortunately the machine is slower than he did, he ran into a diffused channel. There is light out there, there is air and space awaits him. As soon as he rushed to the end, there is no more path leading. Its an open end. In front is air, below is sea, behind was the converging machine room.

He saw a parachute above, he backed 5 steps, and ran to catch the parachute. He glides. The parachute ties is loosening, he is falling down. He hold the life rope with one hand, with all energy channel to that single arm, graping the hope of life. His mind blanked.

The will wins and makes him a strong man. Eventually he lands. On a new found land. He saw flat grassland, open wide lake, a small hut. He knocks and the doors opens slowly.

I awake. Woke up in sweat and exhausting mind but a relief heart and yet expecting whats behind the door.

Mountain Trail Biking

4th April marks my new adventure in biking, i was looking for an adventure since i could not stay in this peaceful campus. My legs have been calling for a new adventure and thus i went for mountain trail biking.

Here in Nibong Tebal where my campus is located has a place where many cyclists came and do some trail biking. I was once saw a group of them went into a trail, this leaves me a curiosity where the trail will lead to. Today, i decided to go into that place and discover the adventure behind.

I came into the crossroad to that"trail" and entrance to bukit panchor, my guts leads me into the unknown. I passed a cemetery, palm oil estate, creepy jungle, small huts, open spaces abandoned construction site, streams and etc.

I follow the trail and i simply just choose the the less creepy one at the diverged paths. i got a feeling that i gonna get lost also, hence i have to retreat before 7pm.

Then, i came to a wet trail ahead path at 7, i think i had enough so i save the further part for next time. I turned around and went back. On my way back, i played Bon Jovi's Highway to Hell, how inappropriate...

I got lost somehow, i choose a quite okay path and it leads to some place unfamiliar. There was a bridge which i never encounter, there were guard dogs around. One barks and the rest follow.

Soon, i feel my presence is unwelcome and i turned back. I regret not to have GPS with me. However, i still got my way back. There is a steep rocky slope, i was gliding all the time. Its way too fun and hecky dangerous. I fell off at the big dent of the slope, hurt my knee but it just a skin deep.

I was then back to familiar paths, i passed by that cemetery again. Back to that initial crossroad, went over the fly over, and gosh...tyre puncture at the water dam just behind my campus. i try to buy more distance before i goes totally flat. The rest of the journey, i walked with my dirty bike.

On my way back, my player played another Bon Jovi's" Live before you die". I do not regret what i had today, and also what i have done this semester, i had my many first-time, to things to people and there are still a lot of "first time"s awaiting me in future. Make all those happen.

When you are young, you always think, the sun is going to shine,

There will come a day, you have to say hello to goodbye

sit down son, take my hand, look me in the eyes

take these words,promise me

you will live before you die

This keeps lingering in my mind, on my way back, i am happy today.

Stop! Love's Ahead

just being poetic...

I used to be alone in my world,

I keep my story to myself,

Locking my heart and left the key elsewhere...

She came to play when i was weak,

I secretly told her where i loss my key,

And she just got lucky with the first pick.

I glimpse at her when she is not seeing me,

I study her when she is concentrating,

And i would like to stand two steps behind to protect her.

She looked pretty when she is in a mess,

Every little bad habit is just a signatory,

These signatories simply become more special to me.

I swear to become her prince in her fairytale,

With chivalrous honor and courtly love,

To make her a perfect love story.

Once together weights as much as living forever,

Nostalgias are as sweet as Possessions,

There is never a wish better than being blessed with love.

A Note For A Friend

Fate brought us in a place,

like two dots coincident in a maze.

You have been a special friend of mine,

and i like to tell you everything in my mind.

A place in my heart is reserved for you,

I always think of you whenever there is something new.

Every time we have been together is fun,

And you always make me smile like a sun.

In your eyes, I want to be the best,

As i want to better off the rest.

Our confessions are secret,

Our promises are sacred.

Cambodia Voluntary Work

This is my foreword of report of my Cambodia Project: (hope it creates resonance with more people)

Project Discovering Cambodia is an excellent initiative which exposed participants to an international organization, for this instance, a non-government organization (NGO) to learn how to conduct sustainable community services for the poor.

The capitalism world has come to a crossroad where people are facing humanity greatest challenge. The distribution of wealth is imbalance in which 80% of the world’s assets are owned by top 20% population of the social economic pyramid which is known by the 80/20 principle.

USM is aware of this global issue and strives to educate the students to work on the undertakings that benefit the world in lieu of merely providing human resources to meet the manpower demand of the job market. Hence, the newly established mission of USM which bestowed this institution with APEX status is to empower the bottom billion of the population to transform into a better social economic well being.

The verdicts are to create profitable business to raise the living quality of the poor, respect cultural diversity and conserve ecological integrity of the planet for the future generations.

Embracing this central idea, we started our very first step by learning the proven market-based approach practiced by the experienced NGO. We have chosen our collaboration partner-International Development Enterprise (IDE) as our learning example. IDE has taken the market approach by empowering the poor to sustain their socio economical status. Helping the people without really involving the locals to help themselves is the form of aids which are futile because local people will tend to be more dependant to external aids in the coming times.

Instead, IDE develops the communities simply using the natural law of economics-providing supply and creating demand.“The invisible hand” will integrate the local communities to do what is good for them. All the NGO need to do is initiate the product designs/ innovations to sparks the minds of the underserved, building supply chain value, creating demand by education and instill awareness. The starting points could be the basic amenity, living requirement or even the tool of earning a living. Water, toilets, food, capital, health and electricity are something that is lack of for these unfortunate.

If we are talking about being world class contributor, then the world should be defined in the context of empowering the bottom billion (80%) of the population in the world which earns less than USD3 per day.

Having this perspective in mind instilled before we went for the survey. We actually able to learn more by experienced during the survey. As for post trip effort, this report is to be published with the aim of spreading the seed of this new kind of idea. It is not novel but it is the trend of the future as foreseen.

Lastly, we would like to held social entrepreneurship as a votive and not in vain to be justified as a virtue for every future youth leaders.

Back to Writings...

I have been away for a long time in blogspot. Been stop blogging since Vietnam trip. Why? Perhaps been lazy...perhaps been engaged with a lot of activities...perhaps my passion of blogging is fading.

Well, i am back to business. I want to start writing again and blog. However, if i start from old business, probably it will demotivate me.

Hence i would to blog from recent undertakings, recent relationships and future plans in mind.