Atlantiz - Forever

Video Sharing

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:32:00 +0000

Hey pals,

I came across some very meaningful video from my friends blog and I really think that you guys will like it...

Do check it out when y'all have time ya!

#1. How the internet is changing advertising...

#2. Did you know?

#3. Dove Evolution...

#4. Muslim Demographics

#5. Story of Stuffs...

Hope you all like it....

Cheers!

Atlantiz 6 aka. 凯元

XuShen

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:45:00 +0000

concept ..color may need not be like that .

by XuShen

'cause we are awesome!

v.boey@yahoo.com (vb) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:35:00 +0000

hehe...any comment?

Boey

nine...

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:58:00 +0000

What is having in ong's mind now...

1. Today is mum birthday...

2. Planning my silk road to taiwan... hope everything smooth... i am gonna shoot good photo there... just now recieve sms from andrew... he ask me got place to go or not... but kim yong and him is super god damn far away people... super serious vs super diao er lang dang... kao... lets imagine the scene... kim yong shy and dun want to talk all the way... he blame me bring other then he dun know...or andrew keep sorry bout can not understand what we are talking and joking... lol... god will make away... but how to tell him first?

3. How to spend my next whole week holiday in JB...planing to do some outing with hsia... Every no plan for her, sorry for her... i will do something...love u hsia...

4. Atlantiz shirt design... how come so far only got chew and me got design? Where are those who called them self artist?hello atlantiz... got chances pass by any clothing shop please help each other to see the plain shirt sell how much... i pretty sure mega sales is everywhere now... We targeted RM15 and below... unless the quality make me talkess...

5. where to go on 25/26 DEC for atlantiz gathering... Meng guan already say no to his college for the langkawi trip... We need to plan de... but not even an apply from atlantiz... as usual... lol... Since when our discussion become one people decision... gathering become some events that got free then attend... i dun mind atlantiz take advantage on me...but anyone can give suprise to atlantiz sometime ka??hope is hope...tired is tired... but tell u what... i am ong...

6. I learned too little thing in this training... fuck him...

Banana ong...

ong 4th design

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:29:00 +0000

Roman ten X in the middle represent 10 years of brother hood...

A as simple as atlantiz...

est since 2000...

ONG 3RD DESIGN

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:52:00 +0000

~ATLANTIZ CREW~

Atlantizian, ATLANTIZ Needs A New T-Shirt!

v.boey@yahoo.com (vb) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:43:00 +0000

Hi Atlantizian,

ATLANTIZ will become 10-year-old one month++ from today on XX/XX/2010. One way I want to celebrate this anniversary will be organizing a fun ATLAN-TEE design contest.

I think there are many talented and artistic people in ATLANTIZ, so I am asking you to show us your creativity and imagination by creating a new design that can be used for a new ATLANTIZ t-shirt. If there is enough interest, maybe we can also use the design for other things too.

However, we must see the design first!

(Sample)

Submitting Your Design

The design must be original and it must include the “ATLANTIZ” name.

It should be very cool, so everyone will want one.

Please submit/upload your design here. All designs must be received by 2009 December 20, Sunday 23:59.

Please also describe your design, and explain any limitations or recommendations for how your design should be used. For example, please tell us if your design can be on different colors or just some colors of T-shirt. This information may be used during the voting period so people can better understand your design and ideas. You may submit more than one design.

Voting For Your Favorite Design

ATLANTIZ visitors and members will be encouraged to view and comment on each design. I think this can be very fun and interesting if a lot of people submit designs (so please submit designs!). These votes will help determine which design is selected.

Winning Design

The winning design will be announced on 2009 December XX, XXXday. (During our Reunion Date)

The winning designer will receive a free t-shirt and, if there is enough interest, we can maybe provide bigger prize (etc: Free BBQ/Steamboat seat at Ong house). You can suggest reasonable prizes in the below comments for fun and we will consider them.

Attention: T-Shirt Makers

If you can make t-shirts or can recommend a good t-shirt making company, please contact me or Ong. I would like for this new ATLANTIZ t-shirt to be much cheaper than the original T-shirt from Stussy and CLOT (but of course also reasonable quality!).

By the way~~ we really need to see some designs here ~~~ plan to release New Tee before Chinese new year 2010~~~

Many Thanks.

ATLZ 7 aka BOEY

ong 2nd design

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:09:00 +0000

I love atlantiz~~~ simple and simple and simple~~~

lol~~~

god bless soon seng and wee ser for their trip~~~

X'mas'09 and New Year'10 cEleBrAtIOn!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:05:00 +0000

To all the atlantiz PAPI~~

Due to this year end 31st never hit the weekend and since half of the atlantiz start working de~~ we just decided to switch OUR aannual new year celebration to the 25th 26th 27th of Dec~
So what do u all think?

after brainstorm after teasection after futsul activity last saturday~~~

few ideas might just give whole new idea of new year celebration to our ...oooOOOATLANTIZOOOooo...

due to time (not more then 2 days), budget not more then RM200...

How is sounds celebrate xMAS on top of gunung ledang? of just first check point kolam gajah to u?

ok~~ how bout teluk ramunia to u? go back and find back some old memory?

Kukup will always the place for us also?

okok, ong chin horng house will always be the first and last place for all the atlantiz since 2000~~~

hoping opinion flowing in~~~

come on my papi~~lets brain storm~~~~~~

the 9th wonder is wondering~~~

Ong 1st design~~~

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:06:00 +0000

The first idea I wish to link atlantiz to GO GREEN~~~ thats y u see the tree~~

after that~~~ i found tat this tree is so unique among the google search picture~~

blaba bla balalablablabla~~~ just 1st poor design~~ don't want say so much~~~ just throw brick hopping jade~~~

OK~~ the main idea is we -- Atlantiz members all busying on own stuff...tats y u see the upper branches~~~BUT!we never forget our root~ and we cant change our root~~ tat is Atlantiz~~~

Together we will make a big tree~~ together we will hold each other's back to grow~~~ through communication~interaction~ thin & thick foundation~ we proud to be family of atlantiz and we wanted to grow more expose more to become the biggest tree in the jungle~~

wooowwwwwooohhohohoooooooooo....

Banana 9

Xu Shen's Design

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:48:00 +0000

My design

Rationale :

1. Wanna emphasize our friendship that's as strong and as deep just like the anchor .

2. To supplement that, I've also included the year since we first called ourselve "atlantiz".

3. I think is good to have simple design , then we buy better cutting/design's shirt to print on it. Then we can have better looking , more comfortable and practical shirt to wear . ( No point print on sub quality shirt in which we are not going to wear them . )

Design objective : As simple as possible, and i'll like it to be more casual , less formal this year.

Note : I know i've misaligned the EST wordings ...

Xu Shen.

Manager

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:48:00 +0000

Atlantiz New Tee Design Competition

Rules and regulation:

> Any Atlantizian can participate...

> No prize will given to the winner...

> Winner will do all the shit jobs...

> Winner will get all the honors and respects if and only if the shirt are really nice and good quality... LOL~~~ this is AtlantiZ~~~

By the way~~ we really need to see some designs here ~~~ plan to release New Tee before next year Chinese new year~~~

In response to the article below ...

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:46:00 +0000

This happened yesterday.

I was expecting a parcel from Poland. The parcel did reach my house but it cannot be delivered without my presence. My mum didn't inform me of this and she only told me this last saturday. And so I urged her to help me to collect it on my behalf yesterday ( since post office is not open during weekend ). She called me yesterday night and told me that the parcel has been sent back to Poland and there's nothing she can do about it.

Well , I got pretty upset. i am in the middle of my preparation for my final exam and things didnt go very smoothly recently. I kind of expressed my discontent over the phone and grunted on how much easier it would be if she told me earlier about the parcel so that i can make arrangement to go back and claim the parcel. She apologized and sounded worried over the phone. I kinda ended the conversation like " OK lar , no choice, I will find a way to settle this. bye"

I went back to the table where I was studying before the call. I sat down and re-consider how I've behaved. Although I didn't explicitly blame my mum or use any harsh words, I didn't feel right about it. I'm afraid that she'll take the blame to herself and worry too much. I just couldn't concentrate on my studies anymore. After a few moments of thoughts, I left the study table and made a call back to my mum. I re-assured her that it is after all not a big problem and I could solve the problem fairly easy myself ( tho I have to admit things would be easier otherwise .... ) and told her not to worry about me. Then I started chatting casually with my mum just to cheer her up a little bit. To my surprised, I found out that she's not feeling well the whole day and yet she went to the post office to help me to ask for the parcel. I felt kinda ashamed of myself and I quickly comfort her as best as I could.

Indeed I felt a chill up my spines after the call. I'm so glad that I took the initiatives and made the call afterwards. After all, who am I to think that only I'm the one who has pressures and stress and problems ?

XuShen

母親，我怎麼讓你等了那麼久

crusaderz@live.com (cruSadER) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:59:00 +0000

I read this in Jing Wen's blog, thought of sharing with all of you aspiring youngsters and dream chasers.

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母親真的老了，變得孩子般纏人，每次打電話來，總是滿懷熱誠地問：「你什麼時候回家？」

且不說相隔一千多里路，要轉三次車，光是工作、孩子已經讓我分身無術，哪裡還抽得出時間回家。
母親的耳朵不好，我解釋了半天，她仍舊熱切地問：「你什麼時候能回來？」

幾次三番，我終於沒有了耐心，在電話裏衝母親大聲嚷嚷，她終於聽明白，默默掛了電話。

隔幾天，母親又問同樣的問題，只是那語調怯怯地，沒有了底氣。

像個不甘心的孩子，明知問了也是白問，可就是忍不住。
我心一軟，沉吟了一下。

母親見我沒有煩，立刻開心起來。她欣喜地向我描述：「後院的石榴都開花了，西瓜快熟了，你回來吧。」

我為難地說：「那麼忙，怎麼能請得上假呢！」
她急急地說：「你就說媽媽得了癌，只有半年的活頭了！」我立刻責怪她胡說，她呵呵地笑了。

小時候，每逢颳風下雨，我不想去上學，便裝肚子疼，被母親識破，挨了一頓好罵。
現在老了，她反而教著女兒說謊了，我又好氣又好笑。

這樣的問答不停地重複著，我終於不忍心，告訴她下個月一定回去，母親竟高興得哽咽起來。

可不知怎麼了，永遠都有忙不完的事，每件事都比回家重要，最後，到底沒能回去。

電話那頭的母親，仿佛沒有力氣再說一個字，我滿懷內疚：「媽，生氣了吧？」
母親這一回聽真了，她連忙說：「孩子，我沒有生你的氣，我知道你忙。」

可是沒幾天，母親的電話催得越發緊了。

她說，葡萄熟了，梨熟了，快回來吃吧。我說，有什麼稀罕，這裏滿大街都是，花個十元八元就能吃個夠。
母親不高興了，我又耐下性子來哄她：「不過，那些東西都是化肥和農藥餵大的，哪有你種的好呢。」母親得意地笑起來。

星期六那天，氣溫特別高，我不敢出門，開了空調在家裏呆著。孩子嚷嚷雪糕沒了，我只好下樓去超市買。
在暑氣蒸騰的街頭，我忽然就看見了母親的背影。

看樣子她剛下車，胳膊上挎著個籃子，背上背著沉甸甸的袋子，她彎著腰，左躲右閃著，怕別人碰了她的東西。
在擁擠的人流裏，母親每走一步都很吃力。

我大聲地叫她，她急急抬起滿是熱汗的臉，四處尋找，看見我走過來，竟驚喜地說不出話來。

一回到家，母親就喜滋滋地往外捧那些東西。她的手青筋暴露，十指上都纏著膠布，手背上有結了痂的血口子。
母親笑著對我說：「吃呀，你快吃呀，這全是我挑出來的。」

我這沒有出過遠門的母親，只為著我的一句話，便千里迢迢地趕了來。

她坐的是最便宜、沒有空調的客車，車上又熱又擠，但那些水靈靈的葡萄和梨子都完好無損。
我想像不出，她一路上是如何過來的，我只知道，在這世上，凡有母親的地方就有奇蹟。

母親只住了三天，她說我太辛苦，起早貪黑地上班，還要照顧孩子，她乾著急卻幫不上忙。
城裏的廚房設施，她一樣也不敢碰，生怕弄壞了。
她自己悄悄去訂了票，又悄悄地一個人走。

才回去一星期，母親又說想我了，不住地催我回家。我苦笑：「媽，你再耐心一些吧！」
第二天，我接到姨媽的電話：「你媽媽病了，你快回來吧。」
我急得眼前發黑，淚眼婆娑地奔到車站，趕上了最後一趟車。

一路上，我心裏不住地祈禱。
我希望這是母親騙我的，我希望她好好的。

我願意聽她的嘮叨，願意吃光她給我做的所有飯菜，願意經常抽空來看她。

此時，我才知道，人活到八十歲也是需要母親的。

車子終於到了村口，母親小跑著過來，滿臉的笑。
我抱住她，又想哭又想笑，嗔怪道：「你說什麼不好，說自己有病，虧你想得出！」
受了責備的母親，仍然無限地歡喜，她只是想看到我。

母親樂呵呵地忙進忙出，擺了一桌子好吃的東西，等著我的誇獎。
我毫不留情地批評：「紅豆粥煮糊了；水煎包子的皮太厚；滷肉味道太鹹。」

母親的笑容頓時變得尷尬，她無奈地搔著頭。
我心裏暗笑，我知道，一旦我說什麼東西好吃，母親非得逼我吃一大堆，走的時候還要帶上

就這樣，我被她餵得肥肥白白，怎麼都瘦不下去。而且，不貶低她，我怎麼有機會佔領灶台呢？

我給母親做飯，跟她聊天，母親長時間地凝視著我，眼裏滿是疼愛。

無論我說什麼，她都虔誠地半張著嘴，側著耳朵凝神地聽，就連午睡，她也坐在床邊，笑咪咪地看著我。

我說：「既然這麼疼我，為什麼不跟著我住呢？」她說住不慣城裏的高樓。

沒呆幾天，我就急著要回去，母親苦苦央求我再住一天。
她說，今早已託人到城裏買菜了，一會兒準能回來，她一定要好好給我做頓飯。
縣城離這兒九十多里路，母親要把所有她認為好吃的東西都弄回來，讓我吃下去，她才能心安。

從姨媽家回來的時候，母親精心準備的菜餚，終於端上了桌，我不禁驚詫──
魚鱗沒有刮盡、雞塊上是細密的雞毛、香油金針菇裏居然有頭髮絲。無論是葷的還是素的，都讓人無法下箸。
母親年輕時那麼愛乾淨，如今老了竟邋遢得這樣。母親見我挑來挑去就是不吃，她心疼地妥協了，送我去坐夜班車。

天很黑，母親挽著我的胳膊。她說，你走不慣鄉下的路。

她陪我上了車，不住地囑咐東囑咐西，車子都開了，才急著下去，衣角卻被車門夾住，險些摔倒。
我哽咽著，趴在車窗上大叫：「媽，媽，你小心些！」

她沒聽清楚，邊追著車跑邊喊：「孩子，我沒有生你的氣，我知道你忙！」

這一回，母親仿佛滿足了，她竟沒有再催過我回家，只是不斷地對我說些開心的事：

「家裏又添了隻很乖的小牛犢；明年開春，她要在院子裏種好多好多的花。」聽著聽著，我心裏一片溫暖。

到年底，我又接到姨媽的電話。她說：「你媽媽病了，快回來吧。」

我哪裡相信，我們前天才通的話，母親說自己很好，叫我不要掛念。

姨媽只是不住地催我，半信半疑的我還是回去了，並且買了一大袋母親愛吃的油糕。

車到村頭的時候，我伸長脖子張望著，母親沒來接我，我心裏忽地就有了種不祥的預感。

姨媽告訴我，給我打電話的時候，母親就已經不在了，她走得很安詳。

半年前，母親就被診斷出了癌症，只是她沒有告訴任何人，仍和平常一樣樂呵呵地忙裏忙外

並且把自己的後事都安排妥當了。
姨媽還告訴我，母親老早就患了眼疾，看東西很費勁。

我緊緊地把那袋油糕抱在胸前，一顆心仿佛被人挖走。

原來，母親知道自己剩下的日子不多了，才不住地打電話叫我回家，她想再多看我幾眼，再和我多說幾句話。
原來，我挑剔著不肯下箸的飯菜，是她在視力模糊的情況下做的，我是多麼的粗心！
我走的那個晚上，她一個人是如何摸索到家，她跌倒了沒有，我永遠都無從知道了。

母親，在生命最後的時光裏，還快樂地告訴我，牽牛花爬滿了舊煙囪，扁豆花開得像我小時候穿的紫衣裳。
你留下所有的愛，所有的溫暖，然後安靜地離開。

我知道，你是這世上唯一不會生我氣的人，唯一肯永遠等著我的人

也就是仗著這份寵愛，我才敢讓你等了那麼久。

可是，母親啊，我真的有那麼忙嗎？

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Till December

Atlantiz29 @ Crusader

Something all of us, the more priviledged to have access to education should do.

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:51:00 +0000

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

-excerpt from J.K. Rowling's 2008 Harvard Commencement Speech.

Just feel like sharing this with you guys.

Indonesia's Earthquake

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:11:00 +0000

Argh. Tsunami, Volcano eruption, earthquake.

It is time like this I cant help but ask this question again.

They told me that God has all the plans for us. So, I'll assume that God knows this will happen. And he didnt stop it from happening. Should I be glad that God has chosen me as the one that watches this suffering, not the one who's suffering?

If he loves everyone as equal, then why should some suffer, while some just stand aside and watch !

Or , perhaps, there's no equality at all. Even god himself.

I pray for you, indonesians, especially to those people who're affected by this earthquake. I pray to the Very same God who allows this earthquake to happen.

How ironic.

I really don't understand Him.

mid autumn BBQ promotion part II

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:16:00 +0000

Dont want go? come on... u must be missing this~~~

No? how bout candles? childhood ? we dont want to forget dont we?

A ha~~~ lantern? for how many years de? how bout a tree wif lot of it? i bet it wont lose to a christmas tree...

Moon cake? come on~ this is shanghai moon cake~~~ my favorite one~~~ u tell me u still dont want to go?

OK...ok............ ultimate de~~~ have u forgotten chicken wing with ONG secret recipe? a....ha~~~~ wipe ur saliva ba~~~~

no choice de... i want to call my cousin come and BBQ le~~~

anyone interest please leave us a message~~ have nice day~~ haha

Atlantiz_9

Have U Forgotten SometHing ImPortant?

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:38:00 +0000

Who is in?!?! who is in ??!?!? WHO IS IN?!?!?! WhowHowhowowhohwohohwohwohowhowh?

If let say 3rd OCT 2009 mid-autumn BBQ section at bangkali ONG's house?

Series of performance will be done~

Point the moon competition, see who's ear got most blood~~

Lantern making and Deco teaching~~

Sing Out Loud Moooooooon's Song ~~

Night photo taking competition~~

and the highlight will be

**CUT the only Mooncake~~~

I been waiting this for years de~~~

Miss ur guys~~~

B'Nana~~

Recycle ! Couple Shirt

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:51:00 +0000

I help my friend designed , and painted ( spray-painted , to be precise ) this couple T as the costume for his skit performance about environment. I like it alot... haha.

materials used : Nippon spray paint, Gold colour marker pen , Baleno T
Cost : about 7 dollar a piece.

method : Just make some cupboards with the shapes of the words cut out, spray paint on it. The words 'recycle' is coloured by hand ...

Well.. there'a big mistake made on the Shirts tho .. ahah. the word 'she' should be on the guy's shirt while 'he' on the girl's shirt. I sprayed the wrong shirt ! but meh, who cares.

Proudly handmade by Xu Shen !!

Xu Shen.

Busying preparing for coming midterm exams.

How much does XuShen worth ?

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:10:00 +0000

Dear all,

Since the blog is so quiet, I thought I should write something here , even its irrelevant to atlantiz , lol .

Borrow this place to vent my emotions. I guarantee you this post will be boring.

I've been feeling quite stressed lately. The closer I get to graduation, the more I scare. It's already stressful enough to live in this small country, but it is even worse if you have no talent to pull you off from all these fierce, cut-throat competitions.

I never thought I'm stupid, in any standard, but I do feel I'm dumb during my time studying in NUS. In here, I'll always be inferior, and sadly, not only academically. There are people that can pull off spectacular academic results, and yet their social, inter-personal and leadership skills are so good that you will wonder how they can cope with studies and life. Worse still, these kind of people are almost everywhere in Singapore.

Coming to Singapore does make me realize, and ultimately admit to myself that I'm not those kind of elites . Not in studies. Not in life and management either. However, there's no reason I should just give-up and do nothing. I encourage myself to keep learning. Learn new stuffs, new thinkings, new ways of handling things, and try to find my own niche among the competition. This, is precisely where my pressure comes from. There are just too much things i need to learn.

I try to learn investment. I started by reading books and guides online. I force myself to look at the indexes everyday, and read those annual reports from companies that doesnt even make sense to me. I read news,finance report,analysis as much as i could. I set a target , to participate and to at least win something in the coming POEMS stock challenge. I even try to obtain a bloomberg certification.

I try to take-up Computer science minor. Surprisingly, I always get better grade for computing subjects in NUS. I thought I should capitalize on that. The subjects this semester, Computer networking and Database Management turn out to be much more harder than I can possible learn. Both subjects require projects, and both projects require extensive programming knowledge. I do not know how will I fare compared to those normal computing students. To make it worse, i have to learn a few other softwares completely from scratch all by myself in order to complete the database management project: SQL system particularly DB2 or Sybase , Web Server, Apache, PHP, and HTML. Damn how do I learn so much things in one sem ?

I try to work. Finding work is not easy now, especially when I dont have any skill at all to compete with other applicants. To fund myself for the student exchange next year to europe, I have to work. Inability to find a suitable work that wont jeopardize my studies is stressful by its own right.

I try to study harder. To continue doing honours year after I come back from poland, I gotta get good grades this semester. There are just too much stuffs I dont understand and have to learn by myself. Take for example, financial Mathematics 2 - all the probability theories and applications are so complex that I have to set aside some time and go library to find extra books to learn all that myself in order to catch up with the lecture. Hmph !

I did update my resume recently. I looked at it , and thought how a HR manager will react upon reading it. I guess they will throw my resume downright to the bin. I feeling so stressful of having not accomplished anything commendable that'll help me to find a career. Exactly how much I'm worth, I really dont know. I would guess I worth very, very little at the moment. I must definitely put in more effort to improve myself.

Of cause, there's a big part of me telling me that I'm going to be an entrepreneur one day later. That's my dream and my interest. I hope that I can come out with some brilliant ideas and I can fully commit myself to execute it and eventually make it a profitable business. I've been talking to friends all these while to keep generating new ideas and accessing their feasibilities. One day, a good,workable idea will come, i believe. Till that happens, I must keep improving myself in management skills, general knowledges and having positive attitude.

ahh... too much. Gotta go learn SQL now.

regards,
xuShen aka manager aka 0.

What an unexpected Atlantiz Gathering

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:48:00 +0000

What was only a lunch with shin liang turned out to be a fantastic long awaited atlantiz gathering ( altho the gathering abit short ).

It was a normal and boring day. Shin liang decided to do something to ease the boredom. I received his call in the morning and he wanted to go bowling with yen hong ( Malao Band king ! ) and soon jeck. I thought it would be quite boring but it's better than sit silly at home doing nothing.

So , shin liang picked me up at my house and we headed to soon jeck's house. Surprisingly , we saw Kai Yuan's little kancil parked outside his house just not far away from soon jeck's house. Liang ( with his usual qiong-ness ) stopped infront of kai yuan's house and called him. Yuan ( with his unusual qiong-ness ) changed his clothes immediately and followed us out for lunch and bowling.

Atlantiz members so far : 0 , 6 , 10 , soon jeck ( sorry man , i cant remember everyone's number )

On our way from Yuan's house to Plaza tasek to pick up Yen Hong, Yuan suddenly recalled that Weez might be at home. Thrilled, we made a call to him and found out he's indeed back in JB. After picking yen, we went to weez house.( I din expect to visit his house apart from annual bai nian ! how rare ! ) . He treated us with some funny taste drinks that was bought from Malacca.

Atlantiz members so far : 0, 6 , 23 , 10 , soon jeck )

Before we went to the famous Shui Tang Lu Laksa, liang with his usual qiong-ness again , suggested that we should go genting the next morning , and depart for KL that night. We made a detour to liang's office to see his mum. He managed to borrow his mum's car for the KL trip. ( How qiong ! and me, weez, and yuan actually agreed to go KL without much consideration ~! )

We had a good bowling session , chit chat , some catching up with each others , and some good laugh at the bowling stadium. (Weez came out first with score nearing 100 and liang 3rd place with one point less than me ) . SOon jeck's surgical-doctoral hands proved not suitable for sports like bowling.

On our way back , we decided to show yuan and weez peter's current working place. We then went to Sutera Mall to see our next atlantiz member. Peter was busy with his work when we arrived. He was teaching xiao mei mei how to play the super cool swaveboard. How sweet when I saw him holding the cute xiao mei mei's hand while she's learning to balance herself on the board. ( Maybe peter's preparing himself to be a daddy soon ? )

Atlantiz members so far :

Totally unexpected , two lao shu, both big and small appeared in sutera mall. There were there to visit peter as well. We were all surprised how coincident it was. So indeed everyone cares for each others in atlantiz!

Atlantiz members in the end : 0, 6 , 23 , 10 , soon jeck , 8 , 1 , xi yuan ( lol i forgot his number too ... is it 3 ? )

We grabbed the precious opportunity to take this precious photos down. Hey , its not that easy to have so much ppl together nowadays. Presenting to you :

Note : swaveboard - latest coolest sports in town, endorsed by atlantiz, only available in sutera mall 2nd floor ! Look for peter and quote Atlantiz to get a free try at the cool sports !

We all had a quick chat with each others and liang and lao Shun went to play archery. Saw Mr.tey inside and had a quick chat with him.

After that , yuan and jeck need to go back for a dinner , me and liang and weez went back to prepare for KL trip , fat mouse accompany his gf buy grocery , peter continue working , and xiao lao shu went back home alone ( lol ) .

That's about it lar . Majority of atlantiz members that day have decided that whoever isnt present at that day must be punished .. except those with valid reason , like in UK and work . Know who you are ~!

Sign off,
Xu Shen , 0

This time... I really felt death is upon me.

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:44:00 +0000

I dunno how to describe this feeling ... that you feel that you are so close to death .

I've experienced yet another scary experience in new zealand... less than 2 months since last accident.

I was in Queenstown for ski. ( tho I'm not going to elaborate more of the ski-ing experience, but I gotta tell you ski is hell lots of fun ! I took 2 beginner's lessons and i daresay I can ski quite abit already ! haha ) . Whatever , I took a coach bus that's suppose to deliver us to the ski field from the town and fetch us back at the end of the day. The accident happened on the way back from the ski field.

It was about 4.30pm . Temperature about freezing or below freezing point. Our coach was leaving the mountain and we are actually going downhill . It would normally take 40 minutes to descend from the top of the mountain where the ski field is, to the bottom of the mountain thru quite a steep road , with lots of sharp turnings. ( actually the speed limit for the corners are all about 25 to 35 km/h , imagine how sharp the turning is ) .

Since the way down is only one-lane with no passing, vehicles practically have to queue and follow the front car slowly. What happenned was , the car infront of us was braking continously for no reason. Our driver has been trying to slow down the bus by slowly braking. However, there's one instance where the car infront of us slowed down too much, our bus nearly hit it. In an effort to try to avoid crashing to the front car, our driver stepped on the brake as much as he could. As the road is frozen with ice ( i guess it's called black ice ) , our bus's rear wheels lost control and started to slide on the road's icy surface. Our driver counter-steered the bus and it slid to the right side of the road , towards the mountain ...

Right before that moment , I was actually dozing off on the bus. I was a bit tired after the whole day's fun at the ski field. I heard screamings from the other passengers on the bus. The next thing I know, I raised my head, I saw our bus missed the front car by inch, then our bus started sliding sideways ( not the fast sort, it happenned slowly ) . More screamings , and to our horror, , we actually realised that we are going to fall down the mountain. The bus sort of stopped and halted by the steel wires fence at the side , with the front tyre almost out of the road.

The front passenger stood up, shouted to the back of the bus so that everyone dont panic and stay still. At the moment, we dont know how long of the bus is actually hanging on the mountain. So all our concern was if the passengers at the back of the bus all rush to the front exit , the bus might fall . ( I was right at the middle of the bus ) . After a few seconds where the bus seems to have no more movement, the driver told us it is save to get down the bus.

The fence of steel wire has saved us all. We went down the bus, and the driver explained to us what had happened. Our bus blocked the whole road and whole mountain's ski-ers have to wait behind our bus. The driver called the ski-field and they came to tow the bus. We waited at the roadside for about one hour before the tow-er came. They accessed the damage of the bus and they confirmed that it is safe for us to board the bus again. ( well, frankly, I'm not very convinced at that time ). The driver reassured us and he drove extremely slow and got us down the mountain.

The moment when the bus is slidding towards the mountain, all I thought was how can I survive . I was thinking of holding onto something so that when the bus is turning, I wont be falling here and there. In addition, I was thinking of covering my head with my jacket so that I wont get hit by sharp things. Survivor instinct ! And , the thought of .. " Is this the end of my life " really occured to me.

Well, I hope the saying " da nan bu si, bi you hou fu" is true. Then I'll have 2 times of hou fu !

Let's see the photos that I took while waiting for the tow truck

Saved by the fence. NOT all of the parts of the road has fence ... luckily there are fences at the place the accident took place.

Blocking the whole road

View from further away

I'll never forget how these have save my life.

very very strong steel... it stopped the whole bus from sliding further

just how steep it is ... and it is a very very long way down ...

all of the passengers

the truck ... fitted with ice-chain ( to gain more grip on the icy road surface , fancy our bus didnt have that one !! )

well , since I'm not dead.. I should be feeling happy and take a photo down , right ? LOL

that's about all . the next day we actually drove to milford sound ... risking avalanche and driving on the icy roads with our own car. Thanks see hon for driving carefully ( it is very very very tiring to concentrate so much on driving on that road conditions )and got us in and out of the place safely !

sign off ,

Xu Shen , 0
Atlantiz.

P/S : Going back soon !!

BaNanA OnG reaCh sOme PlaCe naME kuRsK

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Hello atlantiz and all... i just back from my trip to Russia and Finland...hm... I am lucky to have such nice chance to be there... Ivan said i snatch my parents' chance to go there *&^%$#@! grrhhhhh... But i really thanks them for the chance... i love u pa ma... cos u all give me wat i love~~~TrAvEL...

Haha... got a sudden thought that ur blogsite is like kind of travel blog site... hmhm... why not why not...

Ok... basically my travel plan is something like this : Kursk-->Moscow-->St.peterburg-->Finland-->then St.peterburg again-->home sweet home(not really)...

ok... i will start my blog from where i start...my room!!!... lol...

as my mum call me boylele from childhood... i am also blur blur till now...hm... repeated count all the things in my MUST list for 3 times before pack...lolx... 2 am in the morning...

KLIA express... the ticket seller tell me the train will reach KLIA from KL Sentral in DUA Puluh LAPAN minit!!! hmhm... not a bad one... this is 5 am in the morning...

Mask on my handsome face...keep H1N1 away~~ lol... but i dun find anyone wear it accept me!!! KLIA airport custom.

Thai airway dish rocks!!! but i dint shoot it nicely la... lol... the sausage is so juicy!!! wiuuuuuuuwit...

lalala... my screen~~ i watch 17 again and cinderella man in the 9 hours flight from bangkok to moscow... cinderella man is so touching.... woohohohooo~~~

from moscow 8 hour train to Kursk... Kypck... lol... sis told me that p pronouce as r... r as n... c as s... N inverse as I...b as v, quite interesting...Kursk is where my sis and 18 study...quite a peaceful village...
Every way sell cheese... it is so cheap compare to malaysia... this is my first time see this kind of gaint cheese... mouse here must be damn fat...
after gaint cheese... i saw gaint sausage pulak... the sausage is something size like my leg...
snickers Ice crEam~~~ my sis favourite... hmhm.. something cant found in malaysia... it is nice... but expensive....

this is how they sell cheese... look like taufu... those which not fans of cheese will vomit cos of the smell there i bet....

market in kursk... unfortunately i dun know russian... so i cant buy anything by myself...

1=adin.2=duva=3=trii.4=chit tey ray.5=pieat.6=shes... ...
hmhm... my sis campus cafeteria... is very cheap... very high carbo lunch huh... all potato nia~~~
wow.... hsiauma... or trauma... forgot its name de... is pork!!! hmhm... this is quite nice... taste like shao rou plus their BBQ sause...
me like kampung gia... it took me some time to look at how the bus link with the cable... like bom bom car...lolx

my sis bought me some Russian traditional food... this is Pelmini... is actually a meat ball dumbling...hmhm... it taste okok...

tiring afternoon... sis and i decided cook Big Bon~ kind of instant noodles(but it is big!) + some cheery + apricot + and peach~~~ steal bite 2 mouth of the nugget before photo... to0o0o0o hungry...

this is also some of russian traditional food... the dark bread taste bit sour sour... the soup name saauliangkka(mixture of pig organ)... it taste good out of my expectation... lol... the other two i forgot their name de la....

yayaya... this is the soup i mean nice taste one... hmhm... the white thingy just mayonise...

ooohooo... this is something much more expensive and taste really good... squid ink pasta... the combination of cheese and lemon...kupang and squid... shhshshrrururpppp...

this is another cheezy chickenchop rice... it taste really nice at the first mouth... but for me who dun like cheese tat much...more than half plate i will feel bit geli geli~~

hmhm... sis + sis friend and i walk about a 1km disance to reach a very peaceful lake... this flower attract me much~~~ look like bird nest~~ haha..

this flowers back ground got bit fake... lol... hmhm... look at the 10.00pm skyline.... i love that place more whenever i breath...is cold...relax...peaceful...

lady bird... In Russia, a ladybird is called Божья-Коровка (God's cow)...

this is the peaceful lake i mean... hmhm...

10.30pm skyline with Triumph arch (built, in honor of Russian victory in Kursk battle in 1943, in 1999)

ps: more to go... stay tune...next blog of banana Ong... moscow trip... then st.petersburg... lastly Finland~~

From atlantiz for atlantiz... ... ...

Banana Ong aka AtlantiZ

29 Climbed Mt Kinabalu

crusaderz@live.com (cruSadER) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:52:00 +0000

Since like Form 3, after we climbed Gunung Ledang, and after a speech by our dear Mr. Paul Juby, in the kindergarten at Holy Light Church, we've set our target to conquer:

Mount Kinabalu, Sabah

Man, I waited quite long...

4095 meters from sea level

Some friends from USM in my group (They have good stamina too)

Managed to catch sunrise at the peak - Amazing view

With Yi Chun and Li Chiat

It's hot up the peak!

At mid-point - Laban Rata

I was in Sabah for around 6 days. Went to a few islands for snorkeling - Pulau Manukan (bigger and more tourist), Pulau Sapi (my favourite one, as it's smaller, but very beautiful), and Pulau Mamutik.

Jetty

Warning (DON'T STAND ON THE CORALS, which I actually did... Sorry)

You don't find much clear deep blue sea water like that in Peninsular Malaysia

We went to a place called Poring, where they had this hot spring

And had white water rafting (beginer level though... Next time I'll go for the challenging one)

Overall, Sabah is a really good place to tour. It's nature so well preserved, never again in Malaysia. Check it out guys!

And take care.

Signing off
Crusader @ 29

Holiday enD...New Sem start~~ hight light of wat banana Ong did~

noreply@blogger.com (Atlantiz) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:54:00 +0000

The day my final exam paper finish~ i straight go play snooker wif gan wei pao the most boring moon guy~~saw the man u flag and u can see how holy am i for being fans of Man U... Anyone say me Newcastle again and u try~

Then the next day i go bukit tinggi wif my lovely coursemates~ o m g... because i came late and wanna handsome bit... i walk up the hill road at bkt tinggi bout 3.5 km to find my friend... cool... it tooks me 40 mins~ my comments for Bkt tinggi:Is not a bad place to go but is a place that surely suck ur pocket money... The cheapest meal we found was hokkien mee cost RM18...
Advice:prepare ur own meal if u dont wanna queeze ur wallet...
pic above is just lame funny shit!

~ High school musical IV in UTAR~

lonely white swan in the lake of bkt tinggi... haiz... the other side of the pond got pair of black swan... feel sorry for it~

RM 80 super huge pizza on BKT tinggi~~

The day after Bkt Tinggi... Chew call me out for klang bak kut teh~~ then i got a pakistan Cola from TQ~~ really TQ lo TQ~~ give u an atlantiz salute~ Then I when back~~ A han Sick le~~ she suffering from sinusitis and virus inflection of lungs... but she is ok de... and now she already can jump here and there all over the house de~~

Han stay over night at Johor Specialist for 5days...we take turn to accompany her... let her play game... walk up and down of the hospital... watch movie and TV... jokes...

Well, This is my top event when holiday... 2days 1 night melaka trip wif hsia... wif my sis law car viva and my bro's nevigator... we manage to go smoothly from one place to another... we reach there bout 5pm and out for dinner.. the pic are out 1st stop to eat... Melaka most famous Satay Celup Shop CAPITOL satay celup... i cant photo nicely since my hands full wif all the foods...SEE THAT... the Boss add peanut and secret meat into the satay sauce... the fragrant dominate my mouth... i will give this Capitol Satay Celup 8 stars out of 10... 1 minus for too long cue and the other one minus for the price is slightly higher then other satay house in melaka (accrording to Regi)... but it real nice...

This things this huge prawn i must give clap for the shop... it will automatically gv us this for normal price RM1.50 after we eat for few things... it is real nice juicy fat holy prawn...

The chiken Rice ball... Well... U must try or else u cant say u been to melaka... it is good... it is simple... The sesame oil smell inside the chicken when u chew the meat~~ simply nice~

Waliu... this is another one own my heart... the durian cendol... not too durian... not too sweet... not too milky... i will say 9 stars out of 10... 1 mark minus for too delicious and one bowl not enough....Tan Kim Hock... emem... One of my reason here is to buy the famous Gula Melaka... is a must go place for tourist if u wish to buy something for ur loving one...Well... this shop i will highly recommended for u all... S&S ... is a mid night dessert house... is near SRJKC PING MING melaka... the overall ice i will give 8 out of 10 stars...see... Gula Melaka again...Funny shit incident... got one fat lady showing of her thousand holes panty behind me... the ppl who cant stop laughing is my girlfriend wong yen hsia...

We both got our new slipper for A famosa water World.... but bit disappointed... i will just give 3 out of 10 stars for A famosa water world... hmhm...

Belows are some random picture at the red house and our breakfast place:

Melaka night... we took 45 mins river cruise along Melaka river...

Thanks to the 6 aka yuan's gal Cute fatty Gina as our tour guide...

Eyes of Malaysia... RM 10 for 6 turns.... worth to try it... remember to bring ur Mycard~

Before back... my friend kim yong Qiong me to eat Korean Food near Sutera Mall... not bad.... me kim and liang...

Last... this is my dessert for her... i make myself hong zao... pear... gula melaka... and rock sugar for this... it taste not bad... got chance i will do it for Atlantiz... i gv myself 7 out of 10 stars for tat...

PSPSPS:

1.I do not have the Kota tinggi wee kang farewell Firefly trip photo... boey please gv it out...

2.New years pic missing for long times de... small mouse and cong please gv it out...

3.Chew ok?

4.Liang just done his ligament operation successfuly... visit him call him or sms him if u can...

5. Man U... Be still... u still got me~~

From Atlantiz; For atlantiZ