So quiet...

It has been a while since anyone posted anything, including myself. The blog is so quiet all of a sudden...any specific reasons? Is it due to everyone is too busy watching the Olympic? Is it due to everyone is too busy with their life? Or is it due to the recession?

So, what have you been up to recently?

As for me, I am busy trying to come up with a name for the baby. It sounds easy, but when you start looking, it's really difficult...especially when your Chinese is not good. If I am not mistaken, during my days in Chong Hwa, I failed my Chinese studies every year. It's one of my least favourite subject. Recently I borrowed two Chinese dictionaries from a friend, I am surprised that I still remember how to use them. I started looking from page one and I did find a lot of nice words I like...the only problem is these words are used by a lot of people I know! China needs to come up with some NEW words so that I can use them!

Every parent wants the best for their off-springs, and there are only so many nice and good Chinese words to go around. Parents want their children to be handsome, beautiful, clever, smart, happy, healthy...it's just so difficult.

Tried to get my parents and my parents-in-law to help out but they refused, why? Simple. They are worried that if they suggested something and I don't like it, I still use it because I don't want to offend or hurt them. How thoughtful of them...

I think I better stop moaning and start thinking...

Best music/sound I've ever heard.

Got my very first walkman when I was twelve. Got it when I joined a school trip to Singapore, after finishing primary six. It was a blue Sony walkman. Can't remember how much I paid for it but I can remember the very first cassette I put in it -- The Very Best Of Sam Hui! He was my childhood hero...you guys remember 最佳排挡? He was the only singer I listened to, until Junior Middle Three...

During Junior Middle Three, a friend by the name of Tan Kok Sai(陈国狮) introduced me to a band called Beyond, from Hong Kong. They played the most marvelous rock music, ever! Until one of the band member died tragically while performing...

In Senior Middle Two, Celene introduced me to Arron Kwok and the Four Heavenly Kings, but I think the best is still Jacky Cheung. Some of you might disagree with me but fans from these four 'camps' still hate each other till this day!

Stopped listening to music for a while after graduating from high school and the entertaining industry wasn't really producing much quality artists. Recently read an article about a Chinese artist by the name of Sa Ding Ding (萨顶顶). Got on to Youtube and found some of her MTV...the music/sound was awesome...you guys heard of her? She even developed her own language!!

Last week, my wife was experiencing some kind of pain in her stomach. She said the pain was like someone slicing open her flesh! We went to our family doctor and he said it might be some sort of infection. He took some urine sample for testing and told us we would get the result in 2-3 days...2-3 days?! I was not ready to wait 2-3 days for the result!! The next morning, we went straight to the hospital. We spent 7 hours in the hospital doing all kinds of tests and also waiting for test results. After all the waiting, the tests came back negative, there weren't any infections! All thats left to do now is to listen to the baby's heartbeat...the doctor turn on a special listening device, put some gel on the device and started rubbing it onto my wife's stomach and...bopop,bopop,bopop...that WAS the world's best music/sound I've ever heard! It wasn't my childhood hero, it wasn't a rock band, definitely not those four Heavenly Kings, or the Chinese singer. It was the very healthy heartbeat of my unborn child!

I suddenly realised that my child's heartbeat was the best music/sound I've ever heard. And I am sure that it will also be the only music/sound I will ever want to listen to...for the next 200 years!

My dad and me.

My dad once told me this : Son, when you grow up, all your best friends in life will come from your years in high school. I was still in primary school when he said this and I didn't understand what he was trying to tell me.

After finishing primary school, my dad gave me two choices to choose from, for my higher educations:

1. Chong Hwa Independent High School in KL
2. Hin Hwa Independent High School in Klang

Deep down inside, I really wanted to go to those government high schools, just like my uncles and aunties, just like my cousin brothers and sisters, and most important of all, just like my primary school's 'buddies', they were all going to the same high school!! Both Independent high schools accepted my applications (my dad's applications to be precise!) and both offered me hostel accommodations. Unwilling, I chose option 1, Chong Hwa Independent High School.

I was in the hostel for only a year. There were happy times and also not so happy times. From second year onwards, I had to wake up 5:30 every morning to catch the first bus from Subang Jaya to Kota Raya, and then from Kota Raya to Jalan Ipoh. Those dark, cold and sleepy mornings...the routine went on for the next three years untill I was in Senior Middle Two, my dad bought me my very own transport, a Suzuki scooter! My pride and joy at that time.

High school wasn't easy for me, but, like what my dad said, I made some really good, life long friends! I am proud to say that all you guys are 'priceless' to me. A couple of days ago, I had an MSN session with a friend I knew from Junior Middle One. We were quite close back then but sort of grew apart after Junior Middle One because he stayed in the better classes while I drop back to those 'naughty' classes. The distance grew as we got older, until almost twenty years later! On our first MSN session (typing message, not webcam),he wrote : 'Hello bro, how are you doing?'. I was so shock! He refers to me as 'BRO'?! I don't know what these three alphabets meant to him but they meant the world to me. During that MSN session, we 'click' right away. We just carried on from where we left it in 1988! We covered so many topics, yet not enough, even some very personal ones, no barriers at all. What a session, it was unbelievable!

I guess this is what my dad wanted for me from day one, to make some 'real' friends, some brothers and sisters! When my dad was in high school, he spent two years in a boarding school in Kuantan. Those friends he met in Kuantan are still his best friends today, they still organise annual gatherings, and my dad attended each and everyone on them, another 'unbelievable'. I envy them from the bottom of my heart.

I hope one day we will be able to be like them. At the mean time, I guess I will have to settle for 'gathering' in this blog!

同党

这一群大概是当年作恶多端的同党。你们认识当中多少个人呢？请把他们的名单呈上来吧！可以把名字说得最多的人，重重有赏!!谢谢大家合作！

P/S: 我想。。。我应该不会被寻仇吧！！（King，请安排保护证人组给我）哈哈！

通缉

通缉！！！头号危险人物！！

符国伟（化名老虎）/华人/身高。。。五尺三/籍贯不明/未婚（也许）
钟志光（化名马来仔）/华人（可能是马来人）/身高五尺七呱/籍贯不明/已婚（也许）

此二人于十多年前干下滔天大罪后失去踪影！各位兄弟姐妹，如果你们有他们的消息，请告知！
谢谢！

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Hello Everyone...

Hope all is well with you. I am Keat-Hau Cheong (张杰浩)… hope you still remember me :-)

I am delighted to see our high school friends started connecting to each other... it has been a long while since I have seen so many friends started reunion and sharing their story... I am moved by you all... just like "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" - Coldplay.

I came to Canada in 1997, it was for study purposes… but somehow ends up settled down in Canada, now I work and live in Calgary… As you may already know I am married to my beautiful wife - Helen (慧蕾) and we have a lovely daughter – Amber (晴妤) last year.

Throughout the six years in Chong Hwa, I crossed path with many friends, later become good friends, we grown up together, shared the ups and downs; looking back today, those piece and bit of memories are so precious and sweet, and I cheeriest those moment a lot. I don't think I have forgotten anybody who I knew before, but I may miss your name when I bump into you in KL. Honestly I missed you all. My physical look may look different from 15 year ago… But hey! I am still the same guy you know 15 year ago… I think ;-)

Stay connect and stay put everyone :-)

After reading this site, I found that our friend King has changed (in a positive way), you are more sentimental and sensitive than someone who I used to know before. I like you man! And Thanks for setting up this site.

Last, but not least, Many Many Congratulations to King and his wife for the breaking news… Soon you will be joining the daddy’s club… and share your new experience, I am happy for you :-)

Best regards
Keat-Hau

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hi...so so so sorry......im late!! said will post up for a times....now only do!!
Celene never changed isit? last time i was thinking she will be a bufalo if she keep on the body figure like tat....haha!! but, drop spec ler....now she become an elegant and smart lady!! tat's wat we call "gal big 18 change"!! :P