BREAKING NEWS!

       My grandmother (on my dad's side of family) has left this Earth in peace, ready to be united with God. It all began with a high fever, and she had to be hospitalized, where she suffers from liver failure, which followed by a heart failure, the doctors needs to put in some sort of drug to get her heart working again. After she has been transfer to another hospital, she has to be put in life support. But she could not hold on any longer, and finally, she rested in peace on December 1st, 2010, between 10:20 to 10:30a.m. Malaysian time (November 30th, 2010, 9:20-9:30p.m. Eastern U.S. time) Exact time unknown here in U.S

      My dad received the news that she was hospitalized late morning of November 30th (Eastern U.S. time), I was the 2nd one to know in the evening on the way to martial arts. I suggest that he should immediately schedule an emergency flight that'll take him to Malaysia within the next week because judging from the condition, I predict that she'll live no more than 2 months. He did, a limo driver has schedule to come to pick him up at 3 the next morning, and the plane will take off at around 9:15, also in the morning. But as he packed up, it was too late. My prediction was way off, I have no idea that this was her last day.

      He's in Malaysia now and the funeral will take place on Sunday, December 5th.

 

    

The Karate Kid (2010) Alternate Ending: Mr. HAN vs. Master LI

Smooth Criminal-MJJ

Halloween Special video

My feature video: Billie Jean 25th anniversary performance

Return trip from Malaysia

I woke up around 4 or 5 in the morning, and left Klang for Kuala Lumpur International Airport.We arrived around 6 to check in and to eat some breakfast, at McDonald's, at least, me and my brother ate there. My parents ate after we passed through immigration checkpoint.We got on our flight immediately after that. The restaurant is practically right next to the gate, and we saw our flight arrive at the restaurant window.

Our flight took off around 9:30 or 10. It landed at Hong Kong around 1:30 in the afternoon. There we have to do the unusual. My dad is seeing his friend & colleague and we have lunch with him. We passed through immigration with no problem, fast & easy. We've re-entered the immigration around 2 to 3 for our flight to Hong Kong at 5:30. The plane is newer than any I've ever seen. instead of a mostly white body, it is a mostly dark green one. It is a Boeing 777-300ER, and it will be "the future of Cathay Pacific..." as it said on the magazine on my previous flight. The ER difference in ER than the original 777-300 is that the wingspan is slightly bigger, I got it from the Boeing website. I also found from Wikipedia that ER stands for Extended Range.

This is a picture my mom took as we're flying out of Hong Kong.

Hey! Does anyone had seen 2 sunsets with a sunrise in between during a flight? I hope so. Because our flight is later than usual because of my dad's meeting with his friend. So the 1st sunset occurred right when we're in Russian airspace. I fell asleep a couple hours after because I'm so tired, so I missed sunrise as we passed over the Arctic. I  woke up when we're nearing Hudson Bay, I think it was afternoon, or something. We have a 2nd sunset when we're nearing U.S. airspace.

The 1st sunset taken by my mom.

Finally we landed around 8, by then the sun had already set. The immigration lines are very long. Although the line for Green Card holders & U.S. Citizens are longer, they are gone faster. Because U.S. is careful about security, their immigration is slow as a turtle. Compared to Hong Kong, U.S's immigration is at least 50 times slower than Hong Kong, in Hong Kong the line isn't very long and it only takes minutes for a family to pass through. So about an hour & 15 minutes later, we're still there. Finally we passed through. It takes another 10 minutes to grab our bags, check if we have goods to declare, and met up with our limo driver, is the same as last time. Finally it took 5 more minutes to get to our limo van.
By the time we got out of the parking lot, it was nearly 10 at night. I fell asleep again when we got out of the New York City area, my parents were asleep way before that. I woke up some where before Connecticut's capital, Hartford. Then a few miles before exiting the highway, we stopped for bathroom breaks & to buy some food. We got home sometime before 2.

Note: There is very little pictures for the last 2 blogs, because the pictures takes a very long time to load and to save, these are from my mom's

What I did in Malaysia

After landing, we go to my aunts house to stay while my parents applied for our new U.S. Visa. After staying for a couple days we finally went back to our hometown, Ipoh.

Then after just a week or two, we are out of town, for a week at least, first going to Pulau Pinang (Pinang Island), then to the countryside town of Sitiawan, then back to Pinang, when it's time to go back, instead of taking the bridge, we took a ferry across the harbor.

Now, the movies I buy are all M.J.J. movies

1. The album Dangerous short films
2. Michael Jackson Moonwalker
3. This Is It (This hasn't even came out in the U.S. yet, not until January of 2011)

We visited some of my aunts & uncles and my cousins over the next few weeks, but otherwise, I just stay either at my house, or my grandparent's house.

Then, the Friday, before we leave for U.S, we have to got to Klang again, because, one of my cousins is getting married, on Saturday. For the next 3 days, I hang out with my other cousins, and nephews.

To be continued on the next post...

Trip to Malaysia

trUnbelievably, I actually found Internet connection at my grandparents house, that's how I'm able to write this.
OK, we left our house on a black van limousine sent by the American Executive Limousine.

On the way, we stopped at Burger King for dinner. Then it took another couple hours to get there. Then, we stayed at Hilton Garden Inn just about a mile or two from John F. Kennedy International Airport and stayed there for the night. The next morning, we left at around 7. Arrive there, checked in, pass through security checkpoint. Then we ate breakfast McDonald's. then, approximately an hour before the flight, I took motion sickness pill, a less drowsy formula, it's my new precaution after what happened last year. On the return trip, just as we are about to land at London Heathrow, I threw up. Our flight is on Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-300, and as always, we used economy class. As another precaution, I have to go to sleep once in a while, so I won't tire myself out during battle against turbulence & dizziness. We are stopping at Hong Kong first for a transfer flight. Our flight path is fly north to Canada, fly to western Greenland over the North Pole, into Russia, then China, then arrive at Hong Kong. Also, speaking of North Pole...

The North Pole on the flight path map & through the window.

It was raining when we got to Hong Kong, it was raining, so we have to delay our landing for 10-20 minutes. We are already late for our 1:05p.m. flight and we are relieved that it hasn't taken off yet. Only when we are inside did we find out that due to the lines of thunderstorm slamming into the airport that all flights are grounded for take-off. We haven't take off until around 6, by then we are suppose to be nearing Kuala Lumpur International Airport. But i fell asleep and didn't even remember taking off or having an ordeal against the turbulence cause by clouds. We arrived at Malaysia at around 9. But we discovered more bad news, our luggage's did not got there. In fact, all who trans fer flights in Hong Kong didn't have theirs. We got word that because of the storm, the crews are unable to transfer the baggage. The 1st thing that goes through my mind is: are they stupid? hey should have covered the luggage's before making the transfer out in open tarmac. Or they could have do it indoors. Anyway, my dad is having an interview for a new U.S. Visa at the U.S. Embassy the next day in K.L. so we stayed at one of my aunts house. We got it successfully. And we got our luggage's that evening.

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Projectile weapons week

It's my favorite week of all. For normal classes, you have either the ninja throwing stars, or blow darts. For Black Belt Club member classes, they get additional projectile weapons like archery and others that are a little more longer ranged. Not that I'm jealous of them anyway. I've been already taught about the basics about archery by my friend. Last year, because I only go tho the class once that week instead of 2, I only get to try out throwing stars.

TUESDAY'S CLASS:

Today, we've reviewed our forms and gun self-defenses. I learn that most of the green belts are moving up to red belts. That doesn't bother me none. What bothers me, is that I'm going back to Malaysia next week, which is stripe testing and graduation week. Then, at the end of class, we get to try out the weapons. I didn't do the throwing stars for 2 reasons: I've already done it last year, and that my joint is hurting since Saturday. I don't know why it hurts, maybe it was from last week's board breaking week, or I didn't sleep correctly. We've got 5 tries, it was easier than I thought, because of the width of the barrel. My best hit that day is right between the yellow (center), and red, which is the one before.

WEDNESDAY'S CLASS:
Most people there that day is on Black Belt Club theme class. So only me & my friend Dustin are in it. We did the same thing that we did yesterday, except with one thing out of usual. I found out I won the raffle tickets for my age group. So I get a free nun-chucks. It's a black foam nun-chuck with a dragon going down the side. Although people usually fight with 2 of these, I haven't started my weapons training yet, but I made up a few tricks from the nun-chuck forms I watched the black belts do after class. We did the blow darts again. Dustin chose the shorter one, although I preferred the longer on because I believed it's range is longer. Not that it mattered, because our firing range is no more than 25 feet. For each bulls-eye, you get 2 extra raffle tickets, you got 10 tries. Dustin got 1, I aimed more carefully so I got 3. So Dustin got 6 raffle tickets, 4 for class, 2 for 1 bulls-eye. I've got 10 total, 4 for class, 6 for 3 bulls-eye!

Sparklers at night

Me and my dad bought a total of 30 Sparklers fireworks on Saturday. Sparklers are fireworks in the shape of a metal stick that you hold. When ignite, the sparks starts to come out, and burn until it got over halfway through the stick.

We were planning to set it off that night, but my parents do not know where the lighter is. If my memory serves me, I think my brother played with it last time. But that was a while ago,and both of us had no idea where it was. So the next night, me and my pals at church went to one of my friends house who is currently in China, but his dad stayed behind. We have BBQ that night, but we left before sunset. Fortunately, he let us borrow a lighter. So that's how I have fun that night...

Is it real or fake?

At 1st look, does it look real, whether real laser or or computer generated, or is it just a toy still?
Put answers in comments, the final answer will come soon...

Breaking board week in martial arts

 TUESDAY'S CLASS:
In the summer there's a variety of activities each week and this week is breaking board. Yesterday's class, we practiced the moves in the form Common Peace of Mind 3 that could be used for breaking boards. For the board breaking, I decided to use one of the hardest in my level, elbowing. You actually hit with the forearm so it doesn't hurt. But when I go up, I put all my strength to it, but after 3 tries it is no use. I could have switched to hammer fist but I ended up doing the easiest, palm strike.During the elbow attempt, I skinned my forearm a bit.  When the black belts is going up, I was amaze with 2 girls. One smashed the board into 3 pieces, which is very rare. The other one did what I call it a cartwheel smash. You cart wheel once, when your foot is about to land, that's when it was suppose to hit, the first 2 attempts ended up with a miss, but the 3rd time was successful.

 WEDNESDAY'S CLASS:
Today, there are only 3 of us in the class, that's because the rest of them are having a Demo Team practice for summer celebration in Woodstock Fair.We used most of our energy to do push ups, sit ups, and providing power to the forms multiple times. Today, I chose either cross-over side kick, or hammer fist to smash it. The results were surprising & frustrating. Side kick did not break the board, neither does hammer fist. For my hammer fist, I skinned my pinkie, and I hit my wrist bone most of the time and it hurts a while after. By that point, I could hardly do it. I couldn't even do a palm strike, which I did perfectly yesterday in one shot. Well, our instructor told me that I stopped on contact. That's is one thing I would disagree on. I did tempted to stop, but I didn't. Also she fell back when I made contact with the board she's holding. I knew but experience that the board wouldn't break if she followed with the momentum, she has to hold firm if the board were to break. So I ended up doing a stomp, which takes hardly any energy with 1 board. So I'm feeling lousy for the rest of the night.

Church teen group cook out & July 4th, Independence Day fireworks

On the night of July 2nd, it's the annual Independence Day fireworks in Putnam alongside of the Quinebaug River in downtown Putnam. For the last couple of years, we sat on a bridge to watch the fireworks, near the source of the fireworks. But this year is completely different. I'm going to the Tri-State Church teen group cook out at the pastors house while the rest of my family is going directly to the fireworks after dinner. 2 of my classmates are there, Jasmin & Courtney. We have some fun activities. Only 2 games, but fun. Both games are boys vs girls. the 1st game is the ultimate Frisbee game. Is basically like soccer except whoever has the Frisbee has to stay where they are and have to pass to their teammates toward the goal area. If the person drops it, your team's turn is over. The guys totally won the game. We played until it got accidentally thrown deep into the part of the house with tall grasses, and there's also a small ravine, or whatever it was called, blocking the way.
The next game is a little harder, volleyball. I know for a fact that some of the girls are playing volleyball for their school team and I thought we are going to fail this one. And it seems like it is, the girls got an early advantage. But this time, God is on our side. Thanks to our teen group leader Brother Steve, we are able to get many points, and we stay in the lead 'till the end.
Then, comes dinner. I have hot dog, marshmallows, and a coke for dinner.I took pictures of Courtney & Jasmine.
Then, after prayer, we are off to Putnam to watch the fireworks. I've been to every one of them. Usually our family arrives there about an hour or 2 before the fireworks to look around, and we watch the fireworks on the bridge, close to where the fireworks are setting off. This time, it's different, we took a shortcut I didn't even know of there. Bro. Steve knows the way even without the GPS. We ended up at the New Alliance Bank, right across from the familiar Putnam Supermarket. We watched from right in front of the police department. Closer from the source of the fireworks, closer than I would have preferred but that's OK. It turns out, we arrived barely a few minutes before it starts.
When it starts, I took a few precious seconds to get my camera and my position ready, and I filmed all the way without stopping. Meanwhile, my parents are on a hill behind Price Chopper supermarket, in front of my martial arts school, where the school's having a cookout as well. My mom did the filming, cutting the firework show up into segments, that's what I think made mom missed most of the last unexpected round of fireworks. Speaking of that, back to me please. The round of fireworks is over, or so I thought. I was about to stop the camera when I heard another round of fireworks being launched. I point my cam to the sky just a split second before it explodes. Then it's over around 30 minutes and 40 seconds after it started.

You had wonder why I didn't get my own pictures of the cookout and my own video of the fireworks, that is because that my autistic brother had foolishly deleted ALL of my pictures just to randomly record movie scenes.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Last day of school/field day

Yo, I almost forgot writing my last day of school. It was on June 21st, the same day that the 7th & 8th grade field day is taking place. This time, instead of homeroom that makes a team, we are randomly chosen into different groups. I got my writing teachers group, Ms. Barnat. First, we have kickball against Mrs. Audet's group. A version of baseball except we're using bouncy 4-square ball. We've totally got the upper hand from the start, so you can say we won this game.
Next is always my favorite, dodgeball. Except this time, once you get hit by a ball and you are out, you stay out, there's no way you can get back in. We won most of the games, we've played around 4-5 games. Like last year, in one of the games, I was the LAST ONE STANDING. This time though, some of my own teammates even told me to give up, we could start another game! Well, I'm not the sort of person who gives up even though the chances of winning are pretty slim and we could start another. Unfortunately, it ended almost the exact same way as last year. Somebody caught my ball before it hit the ground. Except, last year I threw the ball like a baseball pitch straight in the middle, this time, I threw it a bit higher than I intended it to be, and Cody got it, that's the only game we lost. But I stayed in throughout the rest of the time.
Then comes capture the flag. This is a lot harder than the ones in gym because, there are more people defending & capturing the flag, and you have to run a longer distance to get the flag and back. Nevertheless, our teammates overcome the odds and win almost all the games, the only time we lost is when Bailey captured the flag. I did defending and rescuing the "prisoners" that are captured when they are attempting to capture and retrieve the flag. I never even try to get the flag because I know that I won't even make it back, even though I have maneuverability, I lacked speed, and that will be my downfall.
I forgot what the next sport is call, it something like a volleyball. Except that you have to catch it first, then throw it back to the other side, and also that if it hits the floor, the person closest is out. We've won most of the games and only lost twice.
Our group doesn't have time to do basketball and one other sport, because we have to move on. To a series of tug-of-war games. All classes from 7th & 8th grade gathered there for the game. 1st the 7th grade teams compete against each other. Our 1st game is against Hannah's group. Remember the picture I've taken on the field trip, the one with Molly? She's on the right. I will have to say this, she hates me more than anybody else does. Although I had tried countless failed attempts to turn her around, sometimes I turn to rivalry myself as well. So, we defeated her group easily. Next game against my own homeroom teacher's group was not so lucky.Several of our teammates had gone to take a drink and we don't expect them to start until they are back. But they started anyway. We are totally taken by surprise, we are defeated swiftly. I can't believe it, we are defeated at the hands of my own homeroom teacher. Her group ended up being the champ of the 7th grade group. Then the 8th grade classes go up next. My friends mom Mrs.Crawford is leading one of the groups, they become the champs of the 8th grade group. Then the final, ultimate game of 7th grade champs against the 8th grade champs is next. If you ask me who to root for, it's no contest. Expectantly, Mrs.Crawford's group swiftly beat Mrs.Rodgers. So, Mrs Crawford becomes the ultimate champion.
Then, after field day, the whole grade has to clean out the lockers. After is lunch. As my final lunch for the school, I have hot dogs, also there's a slide shows of pictures taken throughout the year. After recess, we are watching a movie called "The Astronaut Farmer."
Then, we can play or sign yearbooks in gym. Unusually weird, Molly wanted to sign my yearbook again even though she already sign it small a few days ago. So, she ended up having the largest & smallest signature in my yearbook. Before I'm outta there, I received hugs. Couple from Abby, then a final one from Ariana. Then I ended my school year. The difference this year is that I didn't cry on my way out. Not like last year, but I don't want to get into the details.

The Last Airbender Trailer - Official (HD)

A new movie is coming out! It is based on one of my favorite cartoons when I came here: Avatar:The Last Airbender. It is coming out very soon.

YUGI VS JADEN - BATTLE! Very funny

Caution: I rate this video PG due to brief language & crude humor.

But, as I said, it is very funny.

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Well,it is about the same subject as last time.



Lyrics for GIVE IN  TO ME

Michael Jackson: favorite music videos

It is a great music video. As my friend had said, if you like this music, it means that you have interested in girls. This is very true to me since 3rd grade. But, I never known or heard about Michael Jackson. In fact, I heard of the song "Thriller" without knowing that it is by the KING OF POP M.J.

#1





#2 is Give In to Me, see next post for the video

#3


#4


#5


To see Michael Jackson's music videos on YouTube, go to the user michaeljacksonVEVO page.

 Lyrics for DIRTY DIANA 
 Lyrics for YOU ROCK MY WORLD
 Lyrics for BAD
 Lyrics for THRILLER

Field Trip-Captain John's Whale Watch at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Today, the whole 7th grade is going on a field trip to a whale watch off the coast of Plymouth MA. The last time I had been to this town is on a field trip to see the Mayflower II & the Plymouth plantation. It's a 2 and a half hour drive from the school to the dock. I am ready, with my mom's camera, binocular, Sea-Bands (wristbands that prevents motion sickness) By the time the 4 buses (I'm on the white one so it is easy to know which bus I am on) reached there it is already almost 10 a.m. It took another 10 minutes for the boat to go after we gone in there. The boat I am on is called Captain John & Son II.It took more than an hour to get to the Bank by boat. If you saw mt account picture, that was taken at the field trip by Molly. While I am on the way, I saw some islands, a couple of lighthouse, most of them I look with my binoculars to get a better view.

This is one of the islands.

I had thought it's getting better and better. 30 minutes later the boat is out to open sea. I try to see any further islands on the upper deck. No luck. So I asked the captain where we are. He has the coordinates, so me and my teacher figured out where we are with a map. Surprisingly, we

are still a long way there, at least another hour. The ship is starting to get a little bit shaky, I have to hold on the railings real tight as I was walking down the stairs. I made my way back to the bow. The galley has a long line of people waiting for food, and I feel weird in there, so I decided not to eat any lunch, even though I have $20 in my pocket. At the bow, I took pictures of the ocean, buoys, ships, and even my classmates.

Molly & Hannah

Then I decide to sit down on a chair because I couldn't hold my balance any longer. Finally, after a long wait, I finally saw Cape Cod in the horizon.

Cape Cod at the horizon, look close to see it

As we get further out into sea, the waves are increasing as well. The wind picked up earlier than the captains predict. I know I couldn't leave my seat because:

• Anything could happen
• I am feeling, not so well

It is getting worse, it drags on for a long time. Just as my homeroom teacher suspected, it doesn't work as it should be. Now we are very close to Stellwagen Bank, and people are starting to crowd in on the bow. Which makes it worse, considering that Claustrophobia might take over easier than any other situations. The waves had reach its maximum height of about 5-6 feet, seasickness type of waves. One of my classmates Jared is the 1st to notice the change in me. Most classmates start to suggest that I move into the galley. I didn't do it because I've been warned by my teachers that it will only want you to throw up more because of the confined space. I am personally angry at them because I can't believe they already forgot in over 1 day.Cape Cod never left my sights,which means we are pretty close. But, it is getting worse & worse. I was feeling so bad that I even prayed to God, twice. Finally, just as we are slowing down, I threw up. The Sea-Band failed. Well Hannah (considering that she hated me most), is like a talking newspaper, caused about 1/3 of the people on the boat to notice. The only thing I ate or drank is a bottle of Gatorade, and I threw that all up. After the boat stopped, I threw up the 2nd time. Everybody is a little shocked. Even in the midst of the sickness, I mange to see 2 pairs of whales. And one of my classmates took the pictures for me. Unfortunately, the whales didn't breech, so we only see their backs. One pair MIGHT be a whale & a calf, the other pair is CERTAINLY a whale & a calf.My friend didn't zoom all the way in, so you have to zoom way in to see it

Later, I found out that the earlier Whale Watch groups are more lucky, by the time we came, they might have already gone down for lunch. Only the 2 pairs stayed because the calf couldn't dive very deep & hold its breath for long, so the mother whale look after it at the surface. Anyway, the 1st teacher on the scene was Mrs. Audet, my math teacher. The boat had to move further east because the whales are isolated, that is what I am worrying about. Finally, when we are turning around and heading back to shore. I feel tired so I fell asleep, in my chair, head down, only thing that keeps me from falling is my hand on the railings. Also, Mrs. Audet sat at my side just to make sure I'm OK at least until I can stand. But, it's a weird thing that my hand could still balanced on the railings even though I fell asleep. I snapped awake when a wave slammed my head against the railings. It hurts, I kept my head low though. While my head is down, I heard that several other classmates got sick. Then somebody noticed I'm awake, and people starts to ask me if I'm OK. I stay put, when I got my head up though, there's a surprising sight. It is rainstorms, scattered around the bay area. Looks like the weather forecasters were wrong again. Well, weather in New England could change quickly, and this is the quote that says it: "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a minute..." Anyway,we dodged most of them but finally got caught as we are very close to dock. Oh yeah, there's a small boat that is decorated to look like a PIRATE SHIP! With only one guy only, that make sense, since the boat is so small.

Now, thew best part, although I'm not getting into details. This trip could be the most romantic moment of the year. The moments:

• As we are heading toward open sea from harbor.
• When I recovered from the sickness to when we step back to dock.

These are the moments, because I get to hang out with Molly & her friends, it was really worth it. We ended up getting back an hour late because we have to travel further.

Captain John & Son II

Visit Captain John's blog, remember go to June 8th at 10am trip.