JerryC Canon Rock

For those who love Canon In D, this is the original composer for Canon In D rock version, check it out....

Ruined Moon-Cake Festival

For us Chinese, Mooncake Festival is a second big event from Chinese New Year. It is sometimes called Lantern Festival, Moon Festival, August Moon Festival, but the actual name for it is Mid-Autumn Festival, as direct translate from its chinese name (Zhong1 Qiu1 Jie2). I dun want to bore you all about its origins and stories (you can check it on Wiki) but the most important thing is that it brings families together. This annual gathering usually brings many happy memories for mewhile celebrating it with my family and friends. This year however, no celebration, no moon, no lanterns, nothing. Thanks to our dear neighbour Indonesia, the sky has been heavy with haze for almost a week now and unfortunately, today we have no rain again to clear the haze and hence no sun during the day and no moon during the night.

As I have exams this week, I can't go home to celebrate this festival with my family, and this trimester almost all my friends went for industrial training, hence no company. I had hope a little moon would show tonight to celebrate with the moon, but our neighbour has disappointed me. Every year, they would send their "gifts" from their jungle, crops for roughly 3 months. If the wind are in the right direction, we would be "lucky" and get our "gifts" immediately, making us "blessed" with cough, and dryness in the throat. About a month ago, Singaporean ex-prime minister Lee Kuan Yew had said some comments about the politics in Indonesia and Malaysia. Uh-oh, and there comes the crtitics and anger and want Lee to immediately apologize on his comments. He did about a week later. Now let's turn back to this "gift" of Indonesia. We have been receiving this "gift" for about 3 months now (on and off because of the wind), when are we gonna hear an apology from them?? Not to mention they have been sending us these "gifts" every year anually, its like a birthday present from them and every year we hear them they're gonna do something about it, but still NOTHING has been done! I wonder when they're gonna start keeping their promises. They'd probably say "Life's like that". Yeah, how would you like your life to be like that.

I can see our vision year 2020 somewhere around September to receive the same gift, probably even worse than now, and have our skyscrappers chopped off by it and all will be saying "Life's like that".

To The Rescue

Today is a very hot and humid day, I was on my bike 500m away from the uni driving at 80-90km/h when I saw something black brown moving in the middle of the road. Just when i'm passing the crawler, a proton satria from behind when zooming by right in front of it(all cars usually speed around here as there's usually little traffic and especially at this time of the day) and amazingly the head n the feets vanish!! Realizing it must be a tortoise of some sort, i hurriedly make a u-turn at the next avaliable turning. There it is, poking it's head n feet out making another attempt to finish crossing the rest of the road. Well, I had to do something. So I hurriedly stop the bike at a side and rush to the tortoise rescue, the tortoise sees something comes near it and hides inside it's dirty old shell quickly. I pick up the tortoise, surprisingly quite heavy for the size of a small plate, glimpse at both sides of the road then quickly carried it to the other side. After I left it on the pavement, I hurried back to my bike as I'm late for my appointment. I turn my head to check on the tortoise, it had now started crawling again, this time with a couple of crows eying him, probably waiting for the tortoise to get squash by the next traffic. I secretly wish it the best of luck and went on my way.

I once saw a kitten, just about 1 or 2 months old. Me and my friends are trying to cross a heavy traffic and my friend screamed and pointed at that kitten which was just hit by a car. It must be trying to cross the heavy traffic. It was too late when we saw it, it was already rolled over by a car, and we can see blood on the road, the little head squash at a side. The cars was passing by trying to avoid it, so I step up to stop a car which was slowing down for the traffic light (which is turning red a few feet away), I quickly carry the little kitten to the pavement and lay it there. I couldn't do anything to help it, it is already having difficulty breathing and basically dying. It is a sad view. I felt terrible for the little kitten. I just pray a little for it (saying namo amitaba buddha repeatedly) and hope it passed away to a better place. That's what I do when I see dead animals lying on the road, dogs, cats, rats, birds, etc. It's not exactly saving them but more trying to make them at peace.

If you are the one lying helplessly beside the road, don you wish that someone will do something instead of throwing a curious eye then walk away??