MY JOURNEY TO SARAWAK - DAY ONE

Hye folks,

It's been almost one week since I'd updated my blog as I'm away to Sarawak with my dear friend, Azizan. Once I came back I was damn busy replacing my tuition classes as well as editing pictures that I took there. In one word, Fabulous !!! That's the only thing I could say about Sarawak Trip . I will tell you guys what we did for 4 days and three nights there at The Cat City.

DAY ONE 16042011

Ganesh had sent us to LCCT Airport. Without delay the flight take off around 8.30 a.m and we manage to reach Kuching International Airport by 10.10 a.m. We (Myself & Azizan) were well received by my uncle at the Kuching Airport. First of all, he brought us to an Indian Nasi Kandar shop known as Nasi Kandar Cahaya. Surprisingly there was a banner 'Nasi Kandar Pulau Pinang' there but the taste nowhere near to our original Penang style. Then we went to my uncles house to keep our bags at the same time met my other relatives and cousins. The town was not as busy as Penang or KayHell it was really nice walking around the Cat City as it offer you with shops where you could buy some interesting handicratfs, t-shirt and other local merchandise. Me and Azizan as planned earlier had bought some Sarawak T-shirt as we decided to wear only Sarawak T-Shirt throughout our 4 days trip. First I got fascinated in Kuching was the 'Sarawakian Girls', Hehehehehe. but remember they might not as open-minded as we expected :) At a souvenir shop, I found this saleswomen, she was really beautiful and I thought wanna snapped a pic with her. When I approached her, she told me that she will do so only if I bought 2 T-Shirts from her. Sadly, I only bought 1 as I dont like other designs, when I asked whether she could snapped a photo with me, she said 'NO WAY' as she firm with her decision that she will only agreed if I bought 2 t-shirts. Hahahaha, shame on me !!! Anyhow, I like the dealing :) We also had a lunch at a restaurant where we had the famous Laksa Sarawak and Kolo Mee. The food was not as our expectations but we thought we might choosen the wrong shop and decide to try it again at different shop the next day. There were plenty of handicraft shops along the Riverside Waterfront Kuching road and the price of Sarawak Merchandise also not very expensive and that really surprise me. Besides that the quality or materials used to make the souvenirs, t-shirt also good and really worth buying. In a short gap we had a chance to taste Kuching's Ais Kacang and the taste was really different and Azizan really liked it very much. Then we went across the Sarawak River by a small sampan. Across the river there is a village there where we had a chance to enjoy the 'real' kampung dish as 'Pansuh' - Chicken cooked in bamboo with 15 kind of Jungle Ferns and Herbs, 'Umai' - Raw Prawn Merinated with Lime Chilli and Onion and Sarawak Cocktail Juice. The food was damn nice and really liked it very much.  One thing I found out in Sarawak was the people there seems like not interested in spicy food as even tough they put chili and spices on their food but still it was not as spicy food here. Around 6.30pm it already started to dark here and as what we learned Sarawak and Peninsular got 30 minutes of time different. We did enjoy watching sunset at the waterfront while waiting for my uncle to pick up us. Once we get back home, we were welcomed again by my aunt, Gloria , my Ponni atthai, my cousin Sheila and others. I've uploaded some of the pics taken on the first day of our trip to Sarawak.

LCCT KLIA

AZIZAN RAHIM

FROM THE AIR

STATE ASSEMBLY BUILDING

FIRST MOSQUE IN KUCHING

ELECTRA HOUSE - NICE FOOD COURTS AROUND THERE

SARAWAKIAN GURLS :)

KUCHING AIS KACANG

CAT CITY STATUES

SARAWAK 'COCKTAIL' JUICE

PRAWN 'UMAI'

PANSUH AYAM

SUNSET @ WATERFRONT

 

Ok folks, thats all for today and see you guys tomorrow with my 2nd day experience @ Kuching :)

Lots of of love, respect and regards,

jayG'z TONE

a.k.a

JAYA GOBEE ARUMUGAM

14042011 - HAPPY TAMIL NEW YEAR :)

Hye folks,

My day starts with plenty of messages and SMS wishing me 'Puthandhu Vaazhtukkal'. To count, until now I received altogether about 92 messages. Not sure whether I read them all or not, mostly forwarded messages, hihihi. Out of that 92 messages, the one memorable was from Pahang. It goes like this "Hye Jaya, How's life? Everybody is talking about your changes here, even the one you expecting also. How long you going to be like this? Come and negotiate la, still there is a room for to make your life better". See, that's life, its all about hypocrites around you. When you are needed, lots of people will praise or raise you up to heaven but when you fall down, you can't expect who gonna stand and give you a hand and lift you up again. Changes are permanent as I always said, sometime people might talk positively to you but it wont take much longer for the same person to talk harsh words with you. It's a human nature. So, the moral value here was people only could accept or appreciate you are needed to them, if not we will only experience disappointment in life. Its materialistic world now, where humans look like things now, only use when needed, otherwise throw it away or kept in a museum where we do visit once in a while to check whether it was still there or not. That was what happened for me today, where a person who message me do check whether I'm still breathing or not, its ok, whatever I do look at it positively and comfort myself with that positive thoughts. A new beginning and hope this year, started of well indeed and appreciate the force of nature and the almighty for that. I only has one hope for this year, I wish I could be the same Jaya Gobee Arumugam who is still able to accept everything in life with ease. Still treasuring what I lost and what I gain but couldn't feel it. Those doesn't knew me well, might confused with that line and Im really sorry for that.

Forget about past for life and lets talk what I had done today with my Action Song Competition today. I have to make some props besides training the pupils with colleague, Umi. Me and Umi really had a tiring day today as we had to finish a backdrop within 2 hours as we have to attend Farewell Party for our clerk who is retiring today. Whatsoever, we managed to do it and I'd uploaded some of the pictures taken during the practice and preparing the backdrop as well. The best part was I did some art work after a long long time, and even Umi told me that, 'Jaya, you memang pandai cat la nie', dont know whether she wants to boost my confidence or not, but Im convinced with that statement and I really enjoy myself doing that today with my pupils assistants as well. After my school need to go and find some mask for props, finally I did found what I was searching so easily.

Ok, guys thats all for right now as Im preparing myself to my Sarawak Trip tomorrow. We never know what gonna happened the next seconds. Enjoy the very breathe our life with positive thoughts and mind. Let's celebrate this year with a new hope and beginning. Puthaandu Vaazhtukkal !!! God Bless :)

Lots of of love, respect and regards,

jayG'z TONE

a.k.a

JAYA GOBEE ARUMUGAM

13042011 - THE DREAM - THE THOUGHTS - THE OBJECTIVE

Hye folks,

I had a wonderful dream earlier this morning. It’s a dream about something that I was hoping desperately in every breath of my life. Whether it will happened or not it’s not a matter now, but at least I could experience the joy and happiness as I got what I desperately need right now. Sometime, we can’t get the answer for so many questions that aroused in our mind, but we do get the answer through our dreams. But the problem is when I woke and face the reality; I started back to question myself whether to accept the fact in the dream? Or it was just another illusion on what I’m hoping for a long time and that’s the reason why it reflects in my dream. How good if I could use the same method of changing people perceptions or situation as what I saw in the ‘Inception’ film where the characters travel through people’s dream to change their perception to provide a better reality. So, I decided myself to explore more about this dream world. I often study about thoughts and dream are related indirectly. As what I learnt after researching about dreams today was the content and purpose of dreams are not yet understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history. Recorded history? It must be something to do with our thinking and what we experienced in the past. Yes, I do thinking a lot about some matters and it bothered me a lot for the past few days. Before this , I might not thinking about it too often as I always keep myself busy with other work and try not to give room for thinking some issues that might make me stressful. I said that I had a wonderful dream and really hoping that if it could be happen in reality, I analyst this type of feeling and got an answer. Actually what I experience today was a hypotheses on dreaming where that dreams allow the repressed parts of the mind to be satisfied through fantasy while keeping the conscious mind from thought. I was really enjoying the incident happened in my dream without thinking anything that happened in the pas. It was something like nothing bad had happened. Another finding also proposed that the dream, when told, may communicate something that is not being said outright. This was damn true also because what I kept inside within me such a long time, I blurted out through my dream. Really interesting !!!! Then, I too discover something about bad dreams as well, the famous Sigmund Freud suggested that bad dreams let the brain learn to gain control over emotions resulting from distressing experiences. That's the reason why sometime people do scared when they experienced a nightmare or bad dreams. Some of them couldn't take it as well and continuously thinking bout it without realizing that nothing beyond out thoughts power. When it happened we will sing 'kanavu palithuthey , kanavu palithuthey' and refused to accept that actually our own thoughts that made it happened . Even the most recent research had suggested that suggested that dreaming metaphorically completes patterns of emotional expectation in the autonomic nervous system and lowers stress levels in mammals. I agree with that as what I experienced in my life today, where since morning I was really happy for nothing by just imagining that what I dream had happened. I do experience these kind of feeling even tough I might sound stupid here. These kind of good dreams usually happened due to our last thought before we sleep as well. Frankly before I sleep yesterday, I was thinking something positively regarding a problem that pending for a long time and I just thought that I wish that bad moments doesn't existed in my life, and for sure my life completely different right now. It was a positive thought and I received a surprise in my dream and expressed something that I put it inside me there. Then I recall back my old dreams and try to remember how was my thought before I sleep that time. Finally , I came to conclusion that our thoughts reflect or decide our dream. Our dream might be metaphors or personified with some fantasy like flying or something that human cant do. I even research bout it, then I found out that dreaming something strange also will give power to our thoughts as well. When people dream like there were flying, it normally means that they are hoping for a freedom from anything. So, there were so many explanation and I'm sure if you able to analyst a bit of your dreams, you may found some or at least 1 similarities with either your past or present life.

Enough of dreaming and back to reality. Today had some discussion with Jenniffer regarding teaching techniques for level one students. I told her regarding some problem that faced by Malaysian Teachers are to beat the time the finish the syllabus by the Ministry of Education rather than fulfilling the objectives or learning outcome. I do wonder what are the real objective in learning the English Language in this country? When we ask the politicians, for sure they will say to fulfill the knowledge and competence of the language as a International or Global Language. For that reason one must know or have good commands in the language rather than getting 'A' for writing. Most of the students are chasing for 'A's in Malaysia. They managed to get what they want, but when we ask him to speak in English only some or can be said very few especially in rural areas could done justice for that. What a shame !!! Students could get 'A' in English but unable to posses good command or competence in English? It looks like the person who is planning The Education Plan doesn't give a damn for the competence of the International Language but more preferring in giving importance for the oral assessment. You may what about Oral Test that conducted in school. Yes they did that but the marks will not be included in the UPSR final result. So, what's the point here? Our parents mentality are to give importance only to subjects or assessments that required in the final exam, so they themselves also will not give a damn to the importance of speaking the language. This is not fair for the students who can speak better than writing. I really hope that oral based assessment as a compulsory and make it as a apart of evaluation so that we as a proud teacher could produce a well balance students rather than memorizing students. 

Ok, folks, thats all for now, and I would like to wish all the hindus, HAPPY TAMIL NEW YEAR. May this year brings you more luck, prosperity and happiness !!! God Bless, CHEERS :)

Lots of of love, respect and regards,

jayG'z TONE

a.k.a

JAYA GOBEE ARUMUGAM

12042011 - THE NUMBER THREE & THE OPPORTUNITY

Hye folks,

Hope everyone doing good out there. Normally, I will get tensed for the date 03,12,21,30 (number 3) and 08,17,and 26 (number 8). You guys might guys if I am great numerology follower. Not exactly but normally most of my bad experience got some relations with these numbers. Not one or two to relate with but most of the experience. For me, no 3 quite a unique number for me as I have both good and bad experience with this number. The best part if its involve the same person I deal with most of my happiness and sorrows. That's why I called it as a unique number. So, today I was a bit tensed and thrilled expecting what this no 3 date (12 = 1+2) going to offer me. But it proves me wrong as I started my day with positive note as I got a call from my camera technician saying that my camera's external flash could be repaired but I have to pay for it. I don't mind paying it as long as I get back the flash. If not I have to find nearly RM 2000 to get a new flash. After that I saw lots of improvement with my Action Song students and it was really a good sign of winning the championship this year. Hehehehehe. 

No 3 story apart, This day also offered me with a minor disappointment where I forced to say 'NO' for a great opportunity that could changed my future for the sake of my family. My disappointment did not sustain too long as for me Family comes First. Before this when I was in Pahang, I never gave priority to my family and just sank in the flow of what I called as 'Maya', or unrealistic world and Im experiencing the consequences now. Whatever happened to my life before, still I'm accepted in my family with full heart and never failed to give me the strength, support and unconditional love, that's what we called 'blood relation'.

For me , 'Disappointment are the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air". Maybe, what I lost just now was a short term loss, by doing this small sacrifice the happiness that Im going to gain the future will provide me Infinite happiness. So, I don't mind at all with my decision. So, my spiritual guru was my friend who had called me and offer the opportunity :)

Today I was moved by the an article in Malaysia Nanban where Malaysia Hindu Sangam President, RS Mohan Shan, said it was surprising that the community could afford to spend thousands of ringgit in building huge arches for temples but not a sen for poor students. It was in my mind for a long time, I'm even discussing this issues with my father and even my dad. Our Indians is always remained as a Unique community, as we could give monthy fee known as 'Santhaa Kaasu' for temple but refused to send their kids to tuition classes or even buy them some useful revision books for the future. I dont find any logic reason for building high class state of the art temples with Millions of Ringgit rather than using it for good purpose for the Tamil students education which could changed their community's fate in the future. Sometime, I do feel that Indians often complaining the government for not providing enough funds for the Tamil School. Well, if the temple committee rather than put all their revenue on Thiruvizha's and jeweleries for the altar, why not they do some contributions towards helping the Tamil School?If they are fund raising for building a temple, I dont know they could successfully could get Millions of ringgit and managed to build a big statues, marriage hall, and so on but find it too difficult to collect some money for the school fund to buy some books for the library or even to organize a sports day for the students. Is that Indian people too greedy till they believe they only could get whatever they want in life if they could sponsor lots of money or contribution to the temple? Or they feel honored if their name appeared in the Thiruvizha's newspaper or Listed in the temple itself as the highest donor to temple development? What type of mentality is this? Don't you learn that what you give you get back? Come on Indians, don't complained bout other races. As I'm teaching at Sekolah Kebangsaan, I want to tell that the extra classes that we are teaching for year 4, 5 and 6 students was paid and sponsored by zakat. For those who don't know what is Zakat, let me explained it to you, Zakāt is one of the Five Pillars in Islam, is the giving of 2.5% of one's possessions (surplus wealth) to charity, generally to the poor and needy.I always wonder why we dont practise these kind of noble cause in our religion. But still it was not too late for Malaysian Indian Congress, or Malaysian Hindu Sangam to implement this in Malaysia. I think if all the Malaysian Indian urged to pay at least RM 5 a month for this Tamil School Education Fund, they will be no one question regarding the budget. It may sounds ridiculous for some but please think, I don't think most of the Indians unable to pay at least RM 5 a month. With that collected money, we could do extra classes especially for critical subject as Maths, English and most importantly Bahasa Melayu with who had experienced in marking papers. If our community could pay for temple fund, I dont think its a big burden for the sake of their children or the next generation education. But all this should be well organized and the responsbility should be given to the experts who are not involving or representing any political parties. My humble request to the MIC and any other Indian Association, rather than visiting to the temples, please give more importance to the Tamil School Development. Only education could change their fate.

Ok folks, don't wanna talk politically, right now. See you guys tomorrow, till then CHEERS :)

Lots of of love, respect and regards,

jayG'z TONE

a.k.a

JAYA GOBEE ARUMUGAM

09042011 / 10042011 / 11042011 BHARATHAM / CHARIOT / BIRTHDAY

Hye folks,

Really felt bad for the past two days as I couldnt update my blog due to hectic schedule and once I got back home late, I felt damn tired and even fatigue. Well, some may ask me what is fatigue? Fatigue and tired differ in some extent where fatigue is a situation where you cant sleep even when you are tired. But even tough I cant sleep, I try to not spoiled my eyes by looking or sitting in front of my laptop for a long time when I am in these kind of situation, So I'd rather choose to lay in my sofa while watching some tv shows instead. Ok lets see, what I'd done for the past three days. I dont want to make my blog readers to feel bored to read the whole incident happened for the past three days, so I will tell you guys to most interesting part of it.

09042011 - Smt Kayathri Ramayah's ARANGETRAM

I was invited by my dear friend, Umavathi to be a photographer for her sister's Kayathri's Arangetram. First of all, I felt very bad as my external flash got some problem and couldn't be fixed at the moment. I was a tough job to snap a picture without external flash inside an auditorium and with heavy heart, I explained the situation to Uma and told her if she got other option as I couldnt guarantee the outcome if I use my internal flash. But without any hesitation, Uma replied me back to do my best even without external flash. I was really touched when she told me as she has the faith on my talent even after I told her the consequences snapping pictures without external flash. Anyway, I did managed to get few good shots and was really grateful as there were another photographer as well who is Uma's brother's friend. I did really enjoy all the performance as well as my family. We were really proud to see Indian Cultural Programme after a long time. Furthermore, Kayathri is just 22 years old and she really did a great job. Even the musicians also had done fabulous job with their vocals, miruthangam and violin. I was really amazed to see how Kayathri as a disciple of Smt Jayagowri Krishnasamy respect her guru. There will be no other happiness for a guru where your teacher could able to see your achievements and the way you appreciate her with stupendous performance in the stage. HATS OFF Kayathri and wish you the best in the future. I uploaded some of the pictures of her performances and pictures taken during the Arangetram.

10042011 - JAYA GEETA'S BIRTHDAY @ SHRIDI SAI BABA CENTRE

My beloved sister, Jaya Geeta's birthday today. As planned earlier, we go to the Shridi Sai Baba Centre today as there were Pallaki festival where Shridi Sai Baba statue will be carried around the market street as a chariot. Lots of crowd attent to this event. We really did enjoy our sister's birthday in a spiritual way. Really happy to be here as there were no fights, no gangsters, no urumi's, no loud speakers, but only peace of mind that we experienced here. I really hope and believed that we will experience these kind of celebration or prayers in our temples as well. I always feel disappointed when I look at other races and religion like muslims, chinese and christian where they will only experience silence and give priority to peacefulness when perform prayers. Even there were no discrimination here in Sai Baba Centre or in mosque, church or chinese temple as happened in our Indian Temple. Discrimination? I mean there were no special honour to Temple head, those who given the highest donation or special pooja's for VIP's. Actually, that's the reason why I seldom go to the temple to pray as sometime I do felt temple as same like a political party where the organisation or the committee only gives respect for those who contributed large amount of money or some important person n even there were some caste system also applicable and practice here indirectly. For me, who contributed RM 1 or RM 10000 or even higher amount of money were equally same and deserved equal rights to get the best service from the temple organization. For a poor, RM 1 equal to RM 1000 for the rich, so both of them doing the best as they could to donate something but what we normally experience in the temple was the 'Muthal Mariyathai' was always given to those who contribute more or VIP's. Remember, inside the temple there will be no one ranked higher than the almighty, so don't practice politics there, we all same as a normal and slave to the almighty and no one deserved first class treatment once you inside the temple. Ok, I dont want to spoiled this blog by telling the whole truth as it will be sour to the max to some people out there. I'll uploaded some pics for you guys that was taken during this chariot.

After the chariot ends, as well as the prayers, I bring my sisters to Ampangan Air Itam to view some beautiful view of Penang as well get some peace of mind. I even did some photoshoot there with my sisters as a model. Glad that they really did enjoyed the place especially the birthday girl. That's the only thing I could do for them and really hope they really appreciate it. I'd uploaded some pics taken there as well.

Once finished some precious time there we move to my sister's friend, Devi's house for a special birthday party that she was organized at her house.. She did a great job by bought a delicious peanut cake as well as outstanding meals for dinner. We were really hungry that time because before we reach her house we were stuck with heavy traffic jam at Juru. We spent about 3 hours to get out of the traffic from Juru Toll to Bukit Tambun exit. Even tough we spent about 3 hours to reach Bukit Tambun which is only 5km journey, still we have to pay the toll and that's PLUS for you and for the rest of Malaysian !!! I wonder as the PLUS highway should be the one get to know about the accident but why they doesn't want to divert the road before Juru Toll by urging the road users to use old road for the sake preventing more traffic, it's a big question but could get the answer instantly, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY :)

11042011

Nothing much interesting thing happened today other than hectic situation as always with my school, Action Song Competition, Meeting and Night class for my year 6 students. At the same time, I'm drafting a schedule for my Sarawak Trip with my friend by browsing the net and look forward to some experience by other blog users. My Sarawak Paati and her family members are eagerly awaiting for my arrival this Saturday as what she told my father today through phone. Hope to have a great weekend there. Ok folks thats all for now, will update daily basis again starting tomorrow. Take Care !!!!!

Lots of of love, respect and regards,

jayG'z TONE

a.k.a

JAYA GOBEE ARUMUGAM