3 Days To Go

Taken in Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan.=)..i named it the gateway to heaven..=P *just a random photo*

A view from my balcony..=)

here i am, back to Nilai again. yup, have to really start preparing for the upcoming EASA exam, not only is the exam tough, the price is quite "reasonable" as well, priced at RM800 per piece, you can easily sit for the exam if you have RM 800 as pocket money, just save up to RM200 per month, and after a sem, you can register for one subject, isnt that brilliant?

okok, sorry that i'm starting to talk crap..XD..back to the topic, yup, 3 more days to go, my first paper is on the 4th of may, which is physics, and second paper on the 6th, materials and hardware. a total of 5 books..and guess what..i only finished 3 books..2 more books to go in 3 days..man..that's quite a challenge eh?=D..that's ok, because life's boring without some challenges..=D..

i'm goin to stop here this time, i think this is by far the shortest post i have ever type..lol..gotta get back to my revision now..tataz..=)..

It Never Ends

Sigh..once again..my final exam had came..it's like it will never ends, study for 2 weeks or so, then comes another exam..=S..

but think on the brighter side is that i dont have any assignments..well, if moral studies is

included, that makes it one assignment so far..XD. but the thing is that we have to always bury our mind and soul into a pile of books which is litterally means bad for our health..=S..

Stress + Skip Meals = Gastrik + Extreme Pain in Stomach + Pain In Wallet ( Go to Clinic) =.="

yup, that's what happening to me for a few days, there's gas in my stomach and i couldnt concentrate to do my revision. couldnt sleep well cause of my stomach being a bit bigger than usual. Used all the traditional way to get rid of it but it still comes back..=S..

in the end, i still have to resort to western medicine which i always wanted to stay away from unless it's emergency..XD..

well., i'll end this post with a joke, i found it funny so hope you'll all like it..=)..

one day, a guy is driving a perodua kancil in the highway, and suddenly his car just starts to slow down and wont move at all. therefore, he steered his car into the emergency lane while the car is still able to move.

while he was checking what's the problem under the bonnet, a Bugatti veyron stopped infront of him and the driver ask him what's the matter.

he explained bout the situation and asked the guy whether he could tow his car to the nearest workshop. he agrees so when he started to attach the towing rope, the driver told him if he was driving too fast, all he have to do is just flash his headlights and he'll slow down.

After awhile, they started to make a move. everything is goin well when it just started, the veyron is doin 60km/h and they are making good progress. But then suddenly a Ferrari Enzo passes by the Veyron with a speed of 300km/h.

Couldnt resist the challenge, the Veyron push the pedal to the metal and start building up speed to 330km/h.

Later on, a traffic pollice hiding in the bush tracked the speed of both car.

and this is what report back to the station...

There's an Enzo and a Veyron both speeding at approximately 300km/h, but there's also a kancil at that speed sticking at the veyron's tail with it's headlights flashing!!

lol, that's by far the most hillarious joke i have heard.XD..

hmm..if you guys have not heard of a Perodua Kancil, just imagine the slowest accelaration car on earth which shakes like a washing machine when reached 100km/h with a top speed of.. well, no one can really measure that as anyone who reached top speed in it wont be alive to tell us about it, and it's made out of recycled milo tin and will dissintogrates into the atmosphere when met with a collision with a wall or something.

haha, i guess i'll end it now and continue with my revision..=)..

*signed out*

One Step Closer

Here i am again..cleaning the "dust" from my blog..=D..

ya..i know, it's been almost half a month since i update..but exam is coming..cant do anything bout it..XD..as a matter of fact..i'm having my finals now..=D..

So, today's post will be a good news..yup..good news..=D..

Remember in the previous post where i mentioned bout the AirAsia's blog competition "So you wanna be a pilot?"..yup..that one..I'M SHORTLISTED!!..XD..althought it's been a few days since my post is shortlisted..but it's never too late to submit it now..haha..=D..

Here's the post..i'll be "copy-paste"ing the whole thing from the website to here..=P..

First of all, i would like to say thank you to Airasia for coming up with this brilliant idea of giving us all aspiring pilot an oppurtunity to change our life and most importantly, to fulfill our dream as a pilot!!

After watching the video from Hare's post, it inspires me a lot, the video title's is "are you going to finish strong". it's like giving me a push in the back telling me not to give up and keep on trying my best in each entry i sent it, there's nothing impossible if 100 percent of effort is put in.so here's my 2nd attempt. Giving up is NOT an option!. even if i failed 10 times out of the 10 times i tried, i wont give up and will still continue to try.

here goes, do i wanna become a pilot? yes! i WANTED to become a pilot more than anything else in this world. Why me? why must Airasia choose me as one of the 10 candidates for cadet pilot? because i'm positively sure that to be a pilot is what i wanted to become, eversince the first time i saw and have a flight on a small aircraft, i have always dreamt of sitting in the cockpit myself and manuevering this engineering wonder. although until now, this dream of mine is no where near succeed, i have never intent of letting this dream of mine remain as a dream, because i have the passion of flying and full interest that keeps me going.

To me, a person must have full interest in what he or she is doing, if not, the outcome will be catastrophic. Same goes to pilot, if someone who flies an aircraft is just doing it because of the good paycheck at the end of the month, what that person doing is very dangerous as he might get bored of the job quickly, take everything for granted and a tragedy might happen because of mishandling the aircraft.

In the year of 1999, i participate in a competition, i forgot bout the competition's name, what i could remember is the organizer which is disney channel. my real life story here might sound childish, but believe me, dreams do starts from your childhood time.

The competition's are to make three wishes, the candidate who make the most meaningful wishes will get a chance to fulfill one of those wishes. From what i could remember, this are the 3 wishes i made:

1) i wish to be the richest person on earth so i could donate money to the people who needs it.

2) i wish to be given wings and fly to school by my own so i wouldn't have to trouble my parents to wake up early in the morning to send me to school.

3) *couldnt remember*..sorry bout that..XD..

days passed and finally one day, they called my parents and told them i was chosen and will fulfill my number 2 wish and will tell me bout the details. At first, they had prepared a hot air baloon trip for me, but it was cancelled due to some technical difficulities, and replaced it with a half an hour flight over the Kuala Lumpur City. How cool was that?! of course, they couldnt really have given me a pair of wings to let me fly to school, so i guess that they chosen me because of the meaning of the wishes i have made, and fulfill my wish in the nearest way possible.

the aircraft they prepared was a single engine cessna. i have the oppurtunity to sit in front side by side with the pilot. shortly after we take off, i was totally amazed and overwhelmed with the amazing view and experienced the feeling of being infront of the aircraft. The feeling i'm having now just cant simply be described with words.

eventhought i have been in a commercial aircraft before, which is in the passenger seat. the feeling is totally different when you are up infront of the aircraft. it's like being in your own dimension, the world feels like it had stopped and you have all the world to yourself. that's not all, looking at how the pilot manuever the aircraft amazed me beyond the limits, from this point on, i told myself, i wanted to become a pilot and i will. after 30 minutes, the pilot said he'll start decending now, 30 minutes up in the air feels like just 5 minutes.

after we touched down, i asked the pilot is it hard to become a pilot? i will always remember this words. "haha! it's not hard, it's just like learning to ride a bicycle or drive a car, once you know how, you'll remember how forever." not to forget, the responsibilities become bigger as the transportation vehicle become bigger as well, but to me, it's not the matter of easy or not, it's about how you really enjoy it. From that day onwards, i have filled up my ambition column in my school's survey with a positively sure attitude, P-I-L-O-T.

since secondary school, i have been active in leadership camps and hold a position as a prefect. the main purpose is to train myself to be more a team player and not like a hero who does everything by himself. to be successful, one must have team work and be able to face a difficult situation calmly. Well, life just doesnt goes smoothly, in the year of 2005, a tragedy had befall in our family, it had leave a big scar in our heart. since then, i had lost hope, feel so lost and started to neglect my studies. which i had deeply regret.

1 month is left before SPM, i was reading the star an when i flipped open to the vacancies section, and ad caught my attention, it's a mas cadet pilot recruitment ad, it say's "do you have what it takes to become a pilot?" reading that line alone had slapped me awake from all this sorrow i'm having, and i think that even my late dad wouldnt want to see me in this situation, from that time onwards, i quickly start to put more effort in the subjects that i had fall behind a lot and tried my very best.

when the results are out, it feels like a lightning had strike me in the chest. My physics was one grade below the requirement of a cadet pilot. i was so shock at that time, but rather than regret what i have done, i tried to apply for cadetship from mas and airasia, hoping for the best outcome. months have passed and i didnt received any reply, to prevent myself from wasting time, i went on and start pursuing a diploma in aircraft maintenance engineering, to further enhance my knowledge on aircrafts so that i'll be well prepared to be accepted as a cadet pilot if possible. eversince i failed to achieve the required grade for physics, i started to put even more effort to equip myself with a better knowledge in physics, so that i will have the sufficient physics knowledge needed to become a cadet pilot.

everyday when i was having classes about flight controls or theory of flight, i couldnt help myself but think about sitting in the cockpit and operating the aircraft, how great would that feeling be? 1)hmm, so if i pull the control column, it will ascend. *holding my imaginery control column*

2) pressing the diagram in the text book as though it's a real aircon control panel.

all this thoughts will just come to my mind, and will make me want to work harder so that my imaginery control column will just materialize!haha!

It's never easy to achieve a dream, but it doesnt mean it's impossible, you have to believe in yourself if you want to achieve anything. That's why here i am, doing whatever is nessecary, to achieve my dream and one day, be able to be a pilot and spread my "wings" to the sky!

looking towards the future.

once again, thank you airasia for giving this wonderful and amazing opportunity to us all aspiring pilots. This is indeed the opportunity of a lifetime. . hereby, i hope a chance will be given to me so that i could prove myself worthy of becoming part of airasia big family. as what airasia have aspired to do, "Now Everyone Can Fly". hopefully i will be part of the team who make it happen. thank you!

There's also a note from the blog team: We took a break for one day and decided to see if anyone would ask for them to be chosen but heres number fifteen. Siu Ming, you have the honour of taking it to the next level. Congratulations and we wish you the best at the next stage of reaching your dreams.

Ya.i know it's a bit long..but it's hard to tell why you wanna become a pilot with just a couple hundreds of words eh?XD..

here i am, one step closer..=D..

*so Mr Gary and Miss Winnie, i update d la..*..XD..

And thank you to Ah Hong for the wishes..=)..hope you'll graduate soon and hope we'll see each other in the skies..=D..GOOD LUCK!

A Horrifying Experience

It was a typical morning, nothing special, i woke up at 8, start to wash my cloths, eat an apple, some bread. Then i was thinking, why not i go plane-seeing? maybe i could get some inspiration while looking at the plane passes by.=)..

so i set off, driving at my own pace while listening to the tunes. it was a perfect day and it seems to me that nothing would go wrong. As i drove along, i can already see planes taking off, they look magnificent.=D..

i reached LCCT at around 9.30, so i settled down and wait for a plane to approach for landing, and finally, an Airasia A320 approaches. i quickly snapped a photo..




ya, i know it looks almost the same as the previous post's photo..but this is a better quality one..XD..


It will take some time for the next plane to come, so i sit back in my car and study the aircon course notes. then another MAS 737 approaches, and this is the time when the horrifying experience starts..

mind you, it's not the plane crashes or something, it's what happened on the ground. Suddenly, 2 Polis vans approaches and stopped right infront of me, almost 5 policeman got out from the van, and guess what? they are all armed with weapons, shotguns, machineguns, and handguns at their waist.



The conversation starts like this..
Policeman:P Me: L



P: Selamat pagi, dik, kamu sedang buat apa di sini? sini dilarang berhenti kenderaan.



L: Selamat pagi, hmm, saya sedang menengok kapal terbang, sorry encik, saya akan pergi sekarang.



P: eh, tunggu dulu, saya nak check IC dan lesen kamu.



L: oh..ok..( i think my heart beat now is over the limit) *handover my ic and lesen.



P: kamu datang dari PJ ya, apa hal kamu datang sini pulak?



L: Saya belajar kat Nilai University college, kadang kala saya akan lalu sini untuk tengok kapal terbang.



now all the other policeman are surrounding my car,it's like they dont want me to get away.. then there's another policeman behind contacting the headquarters, checking my car's profile. he kept on repeating :" Whisky Golf Alpha 9226, tolong check kenderaan ini, proton iswara." i was like huh? even policeman uses this kind of codes?..



Well, back to the conversation..



P: ok, semasa kami sedang menunggu report dari HQ, saya nak check kereta kamu, mungkin ada benda haram.



L: ok..(oh man, this is getting worse).



P : ei!..



L: huh?



P: spare tyre kamu tak ada angin la, mesti isi tau?



L: oh, ok..nanti saya akan isi..(scared the hell out of me).


after that, the conversation starts to ease up, quite a number of them starts to smoke, and even the policeman who asked me the questions, told me that there's another place to see airplanes if i wanted to, all i need to do is just go further down the road and and there's a place near the weather tower, it's better there he said..=D..(he turned from a bad cop to a good cop in a fraction of a second..XD..)


After awhile, the report came and the policeman said i can go now, *what a relief* i said thank you and speed my way out of that place..XD..i think that's the fastest time where i reached nilai in just around 15 minutes. lol..so now here am i, typing out my experience here, so readers, do take note and unless you wanted to spend half an hour talking with a bunch of heavy armed policeman, dont parked at that place anymore.=)..