Beneath My Sky

Currently Listening to:

Footprints in the Sand

by

Leona Lewis

(my current favourite song)

As most of you have know, the Potato is back in KL. Her trip to Indonesia was okay. Aside from the biggest shopping spree of her life, the Potato came back bearing sickness (not H1NI) but safely made it past the airport's quarantine. :)

It was a 7 day trip from Jakarta ->Bandung -> Yogjakarta and shopping was everywhere!

Of course the main purpose of the Potato's presence in Indo was Borobodur!! Visited lotsa ancient temple in Yogjakarta, saw a volcano, jalan2 like mad etc. The Potato is satistified, tired and thankful! I'm so blessed, thank the Lord! :)

She doesn't plan to blog much about it (wanna know more, ask me yourself) so here's a few pics and a list of her shopping inventory (yes, show off la... :P) - Note: the things were very CHEAP there.... hence:

34 TOPS:

- 17 T-shirts (purely mine and not including those I bought for my friends and family)

- 6 dresses

- 4 camisoles

- 4 blouses

- 2 batik top

- 1 poncho

6 Bottoms:

- 2 exercise pants

- 2 skirts (one formal and one jeans)

- 2 jean shorts

Accessories:

- 3 feet wear (2 pairs of slippers and a pair of sandals)

- 2 belts

- 1 hat

- 7 badges

- a whole lot of key chains


The Potato wants to thank the Lord for providing and blessing her with such loving, generous and great parents who made this possible (my dad is complaining that I have too many baju :P). Thanks mum and dad, you are the best! Thank the Lord for his blessings, favor, protection and neverending love in my life. There were ups and downs during the trip in Indo, but the Lord has been good and I proclaim His awesomeness in my life. :D

The ancient temple of Prambanan

I have the Borobudur in the palm of my hand!!

Love my parents!

Got sick halfway in Indo. Had to cover up in the streets of Bandung during shopping as it was very dusty.

Jakarta! The big city!


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Praise the Lord for His grace, mercy, love, faithfulness, blessings, protection, favor and providence. He is awesome and good.

Have a blessed week jolly people.

Hugs. :)

A Touch of Spring

Currently Listening to: Elsewhere by Bethany Joy Lenz

Okay, maaf la.... I've been tangguh-ing my blogging again cause days are just to short, lazy and sometimes busy. Have been hanging out at Mdm Yiang's place for the past couple of days and it was just great. Had a 7 hour shopping spree in Times Square and Sungai Wang. Bought my CNY clothes and ate non-stop there. Spend the night yakking away with Mdm Yiang in her room - it was so comfy and cozy (I so wanna sleep over again, lol) :P

Watched Twilight again. :D :D :D with my two crazy buddies - who were crazy enough to do so after expressing much loathing towards the movie. I just love Twilight. I can't believe I read it 5 times! New Moon - 3 times and Midnight's Sun partial draft 4 times!! Okay, so I admit maybe I am a little sick la....haha. I am terribly devastated that I can't seem to get my hands on Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. It's sold out everywhere!!!! Ggggrrr... sabar la....

Okay, guess I'll blog about my 2nd day in Turkey then (new post)...

Have a nice day - God bless! :D

Blooming Carnations

Currently Listening to:

Vissi d'arte

by

Angela Gheorghiu

I love shopping with my mum. :D

Got two cute pairs of shorts, three t-shirts, a blouse/dress, two comic books and a computer mouse... a PINK computer mouse (at last!!!)

It was a great mum and daughter outing-bonding-shopping session as usual. :D

p/s: I'm so used to using the touch pad on the laptop that I find it hard to adjust to using a mouse. :P (but it feels kinda nice clicking with a mouse)

I hope you had a great day.... God bless!

My Cup of Tea!

Currently Listening to: Oogway Ascends (OST: Kungfu Panda)

Got a new playlist on my blog from MyFlashFetish. :) The good thing is, the songs come straight from Youtube. So I can find some unconventional songs (since Youtube has almost all kind of songs and sounds) that I really like and have them played easily. No need for uploading whatsoever. :)

Had a great time shopping at Ikano with mum and dad yesterday. It was the last day of sale. Managed to get 2 pair of jeans, 2 shirts and a blouse. Pretty happy!!! Especially with the jeans. :D :D :D

Meeting Rachel tomorrow (and Yiang too)!!! After more than a year and a half! Miss you girl, can't wait.

I've got so many reasons to be happy. So many blessings to be thankful of. And I am.

I just feel a little 'murung'....

Hope all is well! :D

God bless!

The Souls of Butterflies

Jellos and bellos. A little annoying report here... a minute ago, 'someone' tak tahu siapa la called me (no name) and when I answered, 'it' (the person) didn't answer nor said anything and then later on hung up. I thought "whatever la" and didn't bother. And then the same annoying number smsed and started talking like kawan. And immediatly, I knew 'it' was some random person with no life who decides to find a 'friend' through random number calling. -_- I despise those kind of people! This is so not the first time. The first time however was worst (and also because I apa pun tak tahu that I layan je). It was during Diploma time when Mdm Yiang and I was shopping at 1 Utama. I had this random phone call from dunno what marketting person yada yada. "It" started asking me questions and blindly I answered (how stupdily 'professional' can I be??) - and before I noticed, macam giving out my personal details (of course not everything la - and I only gave vague answers). When I noticed how pointless the conversation was (at that point I didnt know I was being fooled), I politely decline whatever it was yada yada and tried to get off the phone. That person refused to 'let go' and me being the soft and pushover beancurd then, could only keep politely declining like an idiot (later on only did I know that being polite is what people usually take advantage off). So anyway (back to the story), the person in the end managed to get off the phone (at that time I was still so stupid and gutless to hang up rudely) and you know what 'it' said? "I'll call you tonight"( -_-") At that time, I knew it was no business/survey thingie call (slow right me?) and got pissed at myself for 'entertaining' someone so gila. Anyway, I didn't bother la till that very night about 11pm something that that same number called. Of course my stupidity then wasn't really that bad so hence I obviously didn't bother picking it up. I told my parents about it ended up getting 'lashed' fir being so 'dumb'. Hahahaha.... and all the while I thought I was being a polite and nice person. But I guess the rest of the world isn't.

Gosh, I've whinned and crapped so much bout the random phone call thingie that I forgot that I'm suppose to blog bout part 2 of day 4. :P Hehehe, before that, I would like to apologise if some of you are disturbed by the morbit-ness of the torture pics (got several nudges on it). I noticed some do not have the stomach for it and it's ok and very natural as well. The reason why I took and posted those pics wasn't for any simple reason. Yes, every other tourists then were taking photo of the pics, but what compelled me to do so was because I realised that it wasn't just cruel and horrible but it was something more. If you're in my generation (which I presume most of you are), I am pretty sure you've not seen war, tremendous physical pain, abuse, torture and tragedy. Maybe you've had bad times but I am sure nothing of the sort that happened in Cambodia (not even during the Japanese Occupation). What I saw there made me realised that we are freaking blessed to live here in Malaysia with peace and freedom. Sure, Malaysia is not perfect but it's way better than many countries and a beautiful one at it (it's just that our politic sucks, that's all). And by realising, I think we've yet to see what's really out there and how bad it could be. 9 out of 10 people, do not know or have any knowledge of the mass genocide in Cambodia. Yes, because we are so priviledge and blessed (and there's nothing wrong with that). I confess that I didn't know a thing till I went there and since I do now, I think it is a right thing to spread the word and tell people that such tyranny and malicious time had once past. And that millions of innocent Cambodians were tortured and murdered (and should not go unnoticed). Posting severe pictures serves to show and remind people that such incident once too place. To let the people and world know that this genocide should never repeat again (which is why the museum took no hesitation is posting up so many morbit pictures). For if the museum and pictures did not exist, 50 or more years from now (when the older has gone) when the new has come and have no knowledge of it and may just repeat such. It serves to remind others of the victim's suffering and that mankind should never neglect compassion and cruelty can not and shall not prevail. So people, be grateful with your life and always be kind of others! :)

I'm suppose to blog about Choeungek Genocidal Centre today... but then I realised that I left a few pictures out (different section) and forgot to post them up previously on Toulseng Genocide Museum. So hence, I shall continue it and then only go on with the Choeungek Centre later in this entry. This post will not be as morbit as the previous one (no worries, no disturbing pictures) but still sad none the less. So please take time browsing, enlarging and reading the 'pics'... :)

Day 4 in Cambodia (Part 2): Continuation of Toulseng Genocide Museum Tour and visit to Choeungek Genocide Centre (Kiling Fields).


The next building in the school.... Note, if you look properly (and if you can't, click to enlarge), this building is 'enveloped' with spikey wires. This is because this particular building is a temporary jail and the wires are used to prevent victims from escaping and jumping off.

Their tiny cells... Looks easy and simple... but then again, the victims would be too severely injured to even 'breakthrough'.
The brick jail section...

The wooden jail section..

At last a pic of me then... (in the cell):P Because it was a 'sad' place, I barely took any pics of us inside....
The skull exhibition... This is a very small display of the victim's skulls (compared to Choeungek Centre).

It shows that the skull depicts signs of severe injuries....

And then later on we took a half an hour ride of tuk tuk to Choeungek Genocide Centre which is widely known as 'Killing Fields'. This is the place where the tortured victims at the Toulseng was taken and brutally killed before mass burried.

This whole building here was built to contain thousands of skulls of the victims from the graveyard excavation...

The sign outside the monument...
The skulls of victims.... And these are only a fraction of the millions of victims murdered.

After that, we walked around the place to see the mass graveyards.... It was sad as the victims were killed, they were just dumped in a big hole and burried together...

The sign here says...

"Mass Grave of 450 Victims"

Click to read and view more intamately.
If not the sign there says...
"Mass Grave of 166 Victims Without Heads"
And the grave here really nudged my heart... It says:
"Mass Grave of more than 100 victims children and women whose majority were naked"
I suppose those women were most likely raped before killed and burried... And it was horrible.
It says "Killing tree against which executioners beat chilren"
How it was done is that the cruel executioner would hold the leg of the infant and slam or whack the child unto the tree to kill it. It was terrible and this tree was next to that grave (previously shown). So after beating dead each child, they would just throw it into the grave hole next to it... When I heard about it, disgust ran through my veins just by looking at the tree.
This is a different tree. Please click to enlarge and read... (kinda malas to type it down) :P

Also please read...

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After that, we continued with our program and went shopping at the famous 'Dome' Central Market. Yes, it's a little untasteful to go shopping after witnessing all that, but it was part of the tour so just ikut... and errr... buy lotsa stuff??? :P

Inside the Dome Market... lotsa jewelries...

How it is outside...

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Okay, I'm done with day 4...Yeah! Thank you for taking you precious time in reading and viewing this entry. I hope the posts of day 4 has made a difference and gave you a clearer view on life and that we should always install love where ever we are and be grateful for each blessings and smiles.

God bless!

Hugs!

Summer's Wind

At last the camera and memory card is back and the pics are saved!!!! Yeah!! Praise God, Amen!!! Hehehe.... At last the post on Cambodia can go on.

Day 1 in Cambodia (Part 2):

Sunset at Phnom Bakheng Temple and Shopping at Night Market

A little summary here before the the load of pics... In the early evening after shopping (view previous post on part 1), we went for a beautiful sunset at the top of Phnom Bakheng Temple. It was beautiful but to getting up there wasn't. We had to go through a half hour hike to reach the temple (dad refused to pay 15USD per person for the elephant ride up) and later on climb very steep stairs up the temple. We practically and literally climbed up like rock climbing...hahah. But it was great being up there... the view was spectacular and the sunset was amazing. After that, we had dinner and went shopping in the night market before the day ends.

We passed by the Angkot Wat on our way to Phnom Bakheng Temple... it was my first sight beholding the awesomess of the place. Was so excited then. :D

The elephant ride I never got...haha..

Land mine victims playing musical instruments as we hiked towards Phnom Bakheng...

Love this pic!

Tourists that took all my space....haha...

Typical tourists...haha.. all taking pics of the sunset...

Okay people, and that's all for Day 1 part 2. The next post on Day 2 will come soon... And I think it will come in at least 3 parts...haha... cause I have the most pics on day 2 (and videos too!). So till then, do take care and have a smiley day. God bless! HUGS!