Went to Phuket with Satkuru last Wednesday. A totally awesome trip. Ever-smiling, top notch service by the Thailanders. Made me went woahhh! with wonder many, many times.

Seriously, I can’t wait to write about it once I finished up my Philippines trip. Meanwhile, do enjoy the video on the trip put together by Sat using his iPhone. ^^

Ah well, except for Manila where the place is more hectic, and smoky and horrendous traffic. But hey, Manila’s the capital and that’s what you usually find in a capital. Lol.

As much as I wanted to write on Philippines right away, but I still have 2 pending posts on Indonesia; so probably Philippines would start in August. Still, I felt that I should post something related to Philippines since I’m still in the post-philippines-trip mood. Lolololol!

Hence a video upon reaching Philippines. Enjoy!

Wenyan went to Cambodia 6 months before mine. While vacationing, she was saddened with the fact that the children in Cambodia lost their parents due to war (with Khmer Rouge) and landmines. Hence, she vowed to donate the remaining USD50 from her trip to the orphanage. However she couldn’t place the donation herself in the airport, thus asking me to donate on her behalf.

She did tell me to bank in the money to the orphanage of her choice (which she included in) – if we couldn’t go to the orphanage or see any donation box for children welfare.

However, I couldn’t do so as by the time we finished our tour in Angkor, the bank already closed.

So, Sat told our tour guide, Siya about Wenyan’s intention of donating money to orphanage. Lucky for us, Siya’s sister is working in NGO for children’s welfare and he called up his sister for advice.

I can’t recall if he asked us to pass the money to his sister or not, but I think we told him that we want to personally give the money to the orphanage and I added in that I don’t want the money to fall into wrong hands.

Siya understood and told us that we could stop by an orphanage centre on the way back from Prasat Kravan.

But then, we went back directly to our lodge. On the way back, Siya told us that there is one nearby our lodge and suggested us to buy rice from the market for them instead of donating money.

Which made us asked him, “how much is a bag of rice?“

“USD50 per bag of 50kg.”

Which was then the decision of chipping in the money to USD100 to buy 2 bags of rice arised. I mean it doesn’t look good going all the way to the orphanage just to send in a bag of rice. Afterall, we as a human aren’t made of cold heart – should do charity if we could. So the suggestion of everyone paid equally of about USD7 or more if one insisted came up too.

Thinking back, contributing RM24.50 to charity is like so little only! –”

Everyone agreed, and off we went to our lodge for quick shower and dressed up for that night was our last night in Cambodia.

Since the guys were faster in showering as compared to the girls, the guys went to the market with Siya and our van driver to get the rice. Which was a good thing as we could rest a little longer. Kaka!

However we weren’t that slow. After we were done, we walked down and waited for the van.

Though a minor dispute happened – but we got our rice! And off we went to the orphanage with excited heart. I don’t know bout the rest, but I know I was super excited in meeting them. Kaka!

The orphanage is situated opposite a paddy field, a few streets away from our lodge, well hidden from the main road. The orphanage itself is a stilted kampung house with extended building at the back, and a big land for the kids to run around.

Mr van driver (I feel so bad for not remembering his name ) parked his van at the side of the fence and the guys quickly unloaded the rice bags after getting down from the van.

The kids were playing in front of the kampung house and when we reached, they stopped and stood in a line, looking at us either shyly or cheekily.

The ‘father’ of the orphanage walked to us after knowing he has visitors. Seeing the bags of rice, he kept saying thank you nonstop and bowing at us - as though we were Japanese. Lol.

He then signalled the kids to say HELLO to us!

Which was rather funny as they repeated it after we hello-ed at them back. Then the owner explained to us about the orphanage. Took us for a little tour around his ‘castle’. He used to be a tour guide, but knowing that the kids roamed around the cities and having no place to cover their head and sleep, he decided to open up an orphanage and went around the market and roads taking kids in. One of the boys is a victim of landmine who lost one of his legs. One of the girls is tested positive for HIV and she doesn’t even know about it. They keep it a secret from her and the rest of the kids because they want her to have a normal life and not being outcast by the rest.

My heart saddens upon hearing that – that’s why I can still remember all these details though it has been more than a year.

He asked us if we want to look around the area. Gladly we said yes! while Siya waited for us patiently at the water well with our van driver. Yes, they have their own well like the kampung house in Malaysia! Haha!

He led us to the kitchen, and introduced us to his cooks and other caretakers. If not mistaken there were 2 ladies in the kitchen, cooking a big pot of rice and soup.

He then explained what the children normally ate. And told us that the 2 bags of rice we donated could last them 2 weeks.

2 WEEKS?! We repeated, astonishingly.

He said, yes. 2 weeks. Because rice is their staple food and they have about 17 kids and 4 caretakers to feed. That’s why 2 weeks.

Seriously, after hearing that I wish I could donate another bag of rice.

He then led us up to the ladies bedroom.

The place is small, but surprisingly neat! Unlike my room! Haha! There are 2 types of bed in it. A king and a queen size bed. If not mistaken, the lady caretakers and the 4 young girls sleep on the King size bed while the younger boys sleep on the queen size bed.

But I know that the owner aka caretaker and the few older boys sleep in the room downstairs.

After a quick look and snaps by the rest (I didn’t bring my DSLR out, therefore the pictures here all stolen with permission from the Satkuru, Aaron and Emily!), we went down.

There is a hut in front of the kampung house and a vegetable farm at the side of the house.

The hut is the place where the children learn and study after school. Mr Caretaker/Owner told us that he taught the children himself when he’s free, but sometimes if the visitors drop by, they would teach the children English too! He even asked us if we wanna teach the kids awhile. But because we were in a hurry (need to go somewhere else later), that’s why we couldn’t spend much time there. Or else I would love to mingle around with the children and teach them a little bit of Mathematics! Haha!

Besides being taught by Mr Caretaker/Owner and visitors, the children, especially the girls also learn Apsara dance steps once a week from a volunteer who is a dancer.

As for the vegetable farm, they grow their own vegetable to reduce their marketing expenses and also to instill hardworking attitude in the kids.

Done with the introduction and explanation, Mr Caretaker/Owner then asked the kids to sing songs to us.

Which they did!

They sang few songs. One is the Hello Hello song, which everyone knows and we sang the ‘hello hello’ part too. Lol. While singing they clapped hands too, which we followed too! Some of them sang louder and louder until at a certain point, it seemed like shouting rather than singing. Lol.

They then sing Khmer songs which we didn’t understand but really appreciated that. I wish Wenyan could be there to witness all these, but since she can’t, we took numerous videos which Sat joined them together into one!

With heavy hearts, we said goodbye to the kids as it was the time for us to run and head to our next destination. Before leaving, we took a group photo with them!

Which supposed to be nice… until Mr Caretaker/Owner asked the kids to do the YEAHHHHH! Pose! Kantoi kao kao. Aaron’s face totally BLOCKED!

Here’s the video Sat compiled.

Two days ago, I heard this song on Channel V, and I totally fell for this. The melody, the Chinese instruments in it, everything, it’s so nice cannn…

The first time I heard this song was over the radio when I was in office, editing floor plan. My reaction was – hmm… this song not bad, I wonder what’s the title. Must download it! But thanks to my poor memory, I was unable to remember the title of the song. Just know that few local artists sang this song together.

One fine day, out of sudden, Nelson nudged me and sent me a song over MSN. I was like, okay. What’s that? Somehow I just know that that particular song is THE SONG. And Nelson reconfirmed that it’s.

Of cz I was overjoyed! I was looking for it and it came to me. Now I’m gonna put the song here and let the rest enjoys this relaxing song. I promise you it’s.

Hold on brother hold on
The road is long, we’re on stony ground
But I’m strong, and you ain’t heavy
Oh there’s a misspoken truth that lies
Colors don’t bind, oh no
What do they know? They speak falsely

Here in my home
I’ll tell you what it’s all about
There’s just one hope here in my heart
One love undivided
That’s what it’s all about
Please won’t you fall in one by one by one with me?
(Fall in~ Fall in~)
Fall in with me
(hmm … fall in~)
Fall in fall in fall in with me

Push back sister won’t you push back?
Love won’t wait, just keep pushing on
Yes I’m strong, you ain’t heavy
Oh don’t you worry about that …
What we have shadows can’t deny
Don’t you know it’s now or never?

Here in my home
I’ll tell you what it’s all about
There’s just one hope here in my heart
One love undivided
That’s what it’s all about
Please won’t you fall in one by one?

(dududu lululu … alot of dululu until i micount them)

(Bahasa Malaysia)
Bertubi asakan berkurun lamanya
Hati ke depan mencari yang sayang
[Years of fears and years of tribulation
The heart keeps searching for that endless devotion]

(Bahasa Mandarin)
手牵手大家一起走，我们代表国人开口未来就没有丢走
shou qian shou da jia yi qi zou, wo men dai biao guo ren kai kou wei lai jiu mei you diu zou
[Hand in hand we'll march like blood brothers
I speak for my people, hope we'll find peace forever]

(Bahasa Tamil)
இந்த பயணம் பயணம்.. என் வெற்றி தாகம்,
அந்த கனா காலம்.. நம் வெற்றி ராகம்,
நண்பா.. நண்பா..
inthe payanam payanamm yen vettri thaagam
anthee kaana kaalam naam vetri raagam…nanba nanba
[May the road ahead quench my thirst for success
May the road behind echo a song of the blessed]

(Bahasa English)
Yes I feel it in my bones, so I will let it be known
No matter where I roam this is home sweet home

Sing!

Here in my home
I’ll tell you what it’s all about
There’s just one hope here in my heart
One love undivided
That’s what it’s all about
Please won’t you fall in one by one by one with me?
(yeah~ Yeah~)

Here in my home
(Here in my home)
I’ll tell you what it’s all about
(I’ll tell you …)
There’s just one hope here in my heart
(one hope! one hope yo!)
One love undivided
(aa~ one~)
That’s what it’s all about
(That’s what it’s all about~)
Please won’t you fall in one by one by one with me?

Here in my home
(Here in my home~)
I’ll tell you what it’s all about
There’s just one hope here in my heart
(one love one love one love ^^)
One love undivided
That’s what it’s all about
Please won’t you fall in one by one by one with me?
(clap clap clap woo~ i love you man)

Lyrics courtesy of a cup of hot soothing chinese tea ]]> http://phingelicious.com/2008/05/here-in-my-home/feed/ 1 http://phingelicious.com/2008/04/take-a-look-at-the-video/ http://phingelicious.com/2008/04/take-a-look-at-the-video/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:13:00 +0000 angeline http://dolphinmiss.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/take-a-look-at-the-video/ I was blogging on Hari Ko-K post (about to finish d) then suddenly Jack messaged me, asking me to view a video. In fact, this is the second time he asked me to do so. Curiously, I click on the url sent by him and gosh…

Totally speechless. You should see them for yourself. Click the video below.

Speechless cz I totally awed by the video. Kudos to MEtz Team for producing such a wonderful trailer for 29th IDC. MEtz Team comprises of Jack, Daniel and TzaYeong, three from totally different background, mindset, education; manage to come out with such an incredible video to introduce IDC to the public. Not an easy work, but they proved to the world that nothing is impossible! With strong determination, no matter what obstacles they face during this production, they didn’t give up and thus, completed it. Read here for behind-the-scene.

To MEtz Team, you got my respect for this. That’s the reason why I change my mind and blog bout this first. *Salute*

*Details:-
That video is actually a trailer on the coming IDC. Just like movie trailers, it’s created to ‘attract’ human (sorry, dogs, seafoods are not allowed) of aged 17 and above to join this camp. What’s IDC? Well, to know more about IDC visit the sites below.
Incovar-main website
Incovar
MEtz Team ]]> http://phingelicious.com/2008/04/take-a-look-at-the-video/feed/ 3 http://phingelicious.com/2008/03/siao-dancers/ http://phingelicious.com/2008/03/siao-dancers/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:54:00 +0000 angeline http://dolphinmiss.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/siao-dancers/ Remember in earlier post that I got video that I wanted to share with you guys? About the siao stuff we did while waiting for our turn to dance? Well, Mike has uploaded to internet on my behalf therefore I’m able to share with you guys~ Yay~

The video is noisy and blurry cz I’m taking from not a nice angle. The conversation is in Mandarin, cz we converse to each other in Mandarin. I know my Mandarin still ‘half plus six’. I’m learning okay!!! Those doesn’t understand Mandarin – thousand of apologies to you guys for not able to understand what they’re doing.

Enjoy the video ya.

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