In-line Skating

Remember the time when roller skating was a craze during our school days and everybody talked about it? Still remember the kind of old skates which need to be held with shoes laces and protective gears were literally unheard of?

The pictures of this old pair of roller skates invokes a lot of childhood memories.

At that time, king yeung and I too had wanted to learn skating (we have the same desire even though we were 300km apart and do not know the existence of each other yet). However our parents did not allow us to participate in this dangerous sport and thereafter our dreams buried and forgotten.

Perbadanan Putrajaya Complex

However, during our last trip to Putrajaya, we had stopped at the Perbadanan Putrajaya Complex, just opposite of Istana Kehakiman and we noticed how big and spacious the area is. At that time we saw some cyclists cycled by and we thought how fun that would be if we could travel along the Boulevard in the same manner.


We decided to get ourselves a pair of roller blades each and hence the search for the perfect roller blades started for us. We found them at BU and ky bought them as a gift for me ... hurrah!!

the first time we tried it out both of us had terrible falls and bruises that lasted us for many weeks. after many trials and errors, we finally learn to skate without holding onto the the railing. a victorious day for us ... :)

King Yeung and his roller blades

It is tiring activity and both of us sweat like mad.

KY again....

Me ..... but why only one picture? good question ... that is the only best shot from KY the jelly fingers

something interesting going on here ...

last weekend we went back to segamat and we saw this car parked in front of maybank. we try to capture the photo with king yeung's handphone when we stopped at the traffic light but the result turned out to be dissappointing because it was too far away. however, the next morning when we went to the bank again , there we saw it still parked there.


king yeung's car just two cars away.

i don't think maybank can ask the tow truck to tow away this car. the driver even put out the parking tickets for the whole day. i think he wanted to leave it there for many many days until his message gets across the people inside the building.

A visit to Batu Caves

This is a not-so-updated event but i decided to blog it anyway. During the hari raya holiday, king yeung and i went to Batu Caves on one of our leisure excursions on weekends and holidays.

Each time when I drive to Taman Melati in Wangsa Maju from PJ using MRR II, I will definitely pass by Batu caves and the impressive 42.7m high golden statue of Lord Murugan loom majestically from far.

I remembered paying this historical site a visit during a school trip and i was wonderfully suprised when I saw the statue for the first time. It was only completed in 2006 after three years of construction. The first time i saw it was when King Yeung drove me to Taman Melati to look for a room to rent in Septemeber.

That morning when we were supposed to go to Batu Caves was dark and the clouds were pregnant with rain. When we reached there, part of the lime stones hills were already covered with fine, white mist and light drizzle had started.

We went anyway, especially when I told king yeung that there were hundreds of long-tailed macaque monkeys roaming in the caves and hundreds of koi fishes filled to its brim in the pond. We were excited with the thoughts of getting close to the animals and we had brought along a packet of peanuts to feed them too.

Anyway, it was quite a big disappointment when we discovered the monkeys were no longer there; maybe they were chased away because they always harassed the visitors, and the koi fishes were not there too, as they were renovating the ponds.

We just took some pictures, stop to admire a huge white python snake, a monstrous chameleon and an arrogant old monkey tied to a post at the entrance of the cave as we waited for the heavy rain to subside.

The way down the 272 steps were wet and slippery and we huddled close under the umbrella and make our way down slowly. But still we were wet. At the bottom of the steps water had risen to about 3-4 inches and we had to take off our shoes and socks and rolled up our jeans. From there we walked bare-footed back to the car.

We were wet and cold and we ended the excursion with a nice and hot tomyam meal in 1U. yummy … ^-^


Batu Caves - and the impressive Lord Murugan reigns at 42.7m high. He is the God of War and the patron deity of the Tamil land.

Batu Caves view from the entrance of the cave.

the monkey that we don't get to see.

there are a huge sky hole inside the cave, and a whole new world on top of the lime hills.

there are numbers on each step, from the bottom to the top, 272 steps altogether. no jogging and exercising here please!

the interior of the cave is cooling and mystical. but i did look around nervously for signs of bats. Bats mean got bat's shit. don't want to step onto any ... eeeeiii