HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!

   Happy New Year guys and for the New Year's special, I'm going to put the videos of New Year celebrations from my two favorite locations: Time Square in New York and in London. I'll put two videos for each location, one from 2000, and one from this year. Watch it, and see the difference of the pyrotechnics over the years.

Time Square

London

Is on the week of CHRISTMAS!!!

     Aaahhhhh, Christmas of 2010 comes and goes and a New Year is coming up, so I'm doing the Christmas in review. At the start of the week, almost everything is normal, normal school days, normal martial arts class, normal...well, everything. But for the past couple weeks, I have prayed to God for a miracle, especially in school. At first I thought is not going to happen, but God had fulfilled my wish one morning before classes starts. Abigail, one of my friends have given me cookies (homemade) and mint chocolates. I had never thought any girl would gave me something, but she did. And guess what, I LOVED it, the cookies are deliciously made, and she ended up actually giving me two chocolates when it suppose to be one. I think I'm the only boy who had actually received those from her, maybe one or two more, but as far as I know, I'm the only boy. I'm overjoyed. , in fact, I appreciate it so much, I vowed myself to give something to her in return. When me and my dad are at the Crabtree & Evelyn he had suggest a gift, and after a thought, I took it. I also had planned to draw a picture with a letter behind it. It was her, riding on the night of Christmas eve and the star of Bethlehem appeared through the snow cloud, I called it Ride in the Silent Night. I gave it to her at the last minute of the day before Christmas Eve. She loves it, and I am really happy that day.
     On Friday, we have the most peaceful of the Christmas Eve mass. God had helped me find my inner peace that night, and I am thankful for that. 

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.