A Journey To Australia

This will be my first Journey to australia, acompany by my brother. Before even we pack to leave we forgot about to apply visa to stay, Praise God for even helping us for our last minute careless mistake, but the toll of mistake cause us to miss the bus to singapore! And God Grace is upon us for a last minute bus!
Wow! I never knew taking a fly to Australia is quite a energy consuming, a lot of patience and document to fil in. Really praise God that bring us journey mercy to Perth(in Australia) then take another fly to Adelaide(also Australia), from there my dad will pick us up to Rode(town). 3 months from now is about 90 days to spend in Australia, I pray to God to help me to spend my time wisely and fruitly and of course purposeful. And also i will like to find out whats the next course to study.

By David Tan, January 13th, 2007

My beloved “butter Prawn” story

I love the sea food meal call "butter Prawn" it is amazing delicious and the way to cook and presentation is just beautiful. I first ate butter prawn if i remember well, it is from my grandma, she love us and she knows i love her butter prawn. So in every-time i will visit her and saying, " grandma! grandma! can i have prawn??" of course she will cook it for me, when she cooks , the aroma of the butter just fill the whole house. The best thing was it is cook only for me!! no one to share!! Muahahaha(evil laugh)
Well my grandma isn’t around anymore… i do miss her a lot . But she did leave me a mark that i will remember her forever, even i become a grandpa. She left me a "seafood allergic" ha-ha.. really maybe because i ate too much in the past, now if i take over a limited seafood, especially prawns. I tongue will feel itch. " I love you grandma!! I will always remenber you grandma and your butter prawns!!"
ps:
My dad cooks the best butter prawn now, other than my grandma. He even won the awards of the "curry prawn in claypot" in australia!! CHEF ROCKS!!

My childhoon thoughts about “old”

hmm…. Let me recall and tell you a true story about me. David(me) once upon a time which only 5 or 7 years old boy. I always being a crybaby kid and think a lot about getting old, not for me but mostly to my mom and dad.
I love my parents. And i am very close to my mom and she always chat with me and i love to ask stupid question and funny one, which make me laugh out loud whenever my mom answer me with stupid answer too haha, especially "where babys come from".. ahemm hahah.
My childhood is quite interesting for me to know, or interesting enough. So i watch alot of movies, from horror to drama. So i can proudly say, now have none of the horror movie can haunt me now. So that one question always in my mind during my childhood, about getting old one day and pass on.. like what in the movie showing. And the sign of getting old is white hair… and the worse is my mom always ask me to get rid of her white hair… soo means she is getting old and she will pass away in time..
I don know what to do…. all i do is cry when on one is seeing. I cry everyday and every 7pm or 8pm. I choose that time because it is the most quiet and the only time i can go into the dark room and cry to myself because i don know what to do… i being crying to myself in a long long time almost everyday in few months.
And one day.. both of my sister realized, maybe because i cry to loud or maybe i being crying almost everyday in a same time in the room. So my sisters ask me,, when i cry? i just answer.." I don wanna mom to die….(sob loudly). they wanted for me to stop and comfort me with this "beautiful lie" haha.. well it is.. they told me this," people don get old.. hong(my name)… they just coloured it" and i believed them lol… how silly i was… but they did make me stop crying by saying a lie haha.

By David Tan, January 23rd, 2008

David in Australia’s adventure:part one> craigfish hunting

Good day mate!! haha i had my awesome experience in Feb 2008 in my second home in Australia, a small town named Robe. My dad’s friends invited my family for a ride in their boat and bring us to see what it like to catch crayfish(lobster) ha ha this is one great experience offer by 2 Australia(Shane and killsby) free of charge.
In an cold morning woken by a invitation to catches cray, i got up and full of adventurous mood ha ha. we got to the harbor only like 3 min away in drive. Shane and killsby is waiting for us in a small yacht but a real nice one, she is a beauty. And off we start the engine motor, getting exciting with this moment. and once after we get off the harbor, and killsby is driving even faster! and this is heck of a bumpy ride, i could have fallen off the yacht anytime! and it was a scares moment while fighting with the wave, i even took alot of strength to hold on to anything that prevent me from "bye bye David and enjoy the water"
wow… the sun is bright and the sea is a beauty, with the wind and the waves, it was a spectacular indeed, just amazing. but the wind is chilling cold, we were freezing. We came to this floating thingy which tell us where is the Cray’s cage are. When killsby drove the yacht next to the floats, and Shane will hook it up with a hook(duh) and pull all the way up til the boat. aww…. cuz the first cage was empty.. well Shane change the bait with some fish’s head and abalone(waste!! ha ha) and throw it back in the sea. We came til the last cages, it wasn’t empty but it is not a crayfish sign… but a snapper fish ha ha. well by law we still can’t keep the snapper because it is not in the legal size yet. (FYI: Australia have laws even fishing, that why i love this country, to prevent over catching til near extinction). well we all say our bye bye to the snapper fish and threw away.
We couldn’t get any crayfish that day but we cheated hahaha we asked Shane to go buy some crayfish and bring it back to the restaurant for some lunch!! hahahaha well at least i have fun and the rest(Shane,killsby,my both sister and my bro-in-law)
PS: thanks for the ride! OZ Shane and killsby ha ha, i wannabe OZ too!
By: David Tan, February 24th, 2008

Australia Adventure. part 2: Joy Flight in Robe

I have always dream of wonders when i look up to the blue sky in a sunny day. Wondering how it is look like if i able to fly up to the air and look down to the places that i stand, i am sure it is different if we put ourself in sky,look down from heaven above. Looking from sky to the earth, just like God looking down from heaven above. I always knew if i look from above things will be different when i look at the ground. oh…. how i wish i know what its like to be.
Finally a dream able to come true! My wonderful Aussie mate Ross is giving us a chances of a lifetime, to fly in the sky, well of cause it won’t be the same as real flying like birds, but still have 1 pairs of wings and able to mend with the winds! Ross has 2 airplane!! how awesome it is to own mini-planes and able to fly up the sky, well lets not calculate the petrol for the plane ahem… anyway Ross is a great man! and shane is wonderful to accompany us with the flight. so exciting!! >.<


Well it is really not as board an big airplane like going for a trip, its different, cuz it is control by your friend, as it is please, and it is mini, dangerous it may but i love it! I put my life on Ross’s hand as he starting for preparations for us to aboard. Well we(my 2 sister, bro-in-law and shane) hahah Ross will be our pilot and Shane will be our co-pilot/air-stewards for a day haha just joking. Well we able to enjoy our view better than normal airplane. its totally amazing i telling you. First Ross giving this coolest ear-phone and to prevent us from damaging our hearing by the loud air-engine and able us to communicate with a cool voice, like "Good day mate" in a cyborg voices hahaha.. it is really hilarious.
When up in the sky… whooaa…. Its really a beauty this land, i really felt in love with the place i was being, Robe is a nice town. I can’t stop snapping photos with my camera i bought. I can see the far horizontal blue sea and our famous obelisk of Robe just near to the lighthouse. The sea is fabulous! i could see the waves and the depth of the water from above. Ross purposely bring us to above my dad restaurant for a few rounds hahaha.. its kind of funny.


wow… now i able to see the world in a new angle, from the sky. It simply marvelous to have this chances for this experience really. I just hope i could express it out more, We have our wonderful time. Robe it is a beauty isn’t it? Thanks Ross for giving us the wonderful ride of lifetime and Shane for be our air- steward haha just joking, for taking care of us while in Australia.

by: David Tan, February 24th, 2008.

My Encounter With Dolphins (Australia)

Just like any other days, Thinking what shall I do in the free time of afternoon I got. Preparing with all the swimming gear, which I only bought my Google, Swimming trunk, Bag and Towels.
Walking down on the sandy beach with the thinking of, ‘ Today sea waters should be the same temperature like any other days I swarm, It was sunny and cold sea waters but that didn’t make me give up for a nice swim. I looked around and it seem no one is swimming, a few of people is sun bathing. while I prepare to swim, i always need few minutes to adapt the cold water before deep my whole in. When a old lady saw thats a person in the waters, along she came with the husband, well no one like to swimming alone and it is a big beach. While I get to adapt the coldness I start to swim side to side, the old lady swimming with a mini surf board back and fort. I was floating to rest on it like a sea bed until a sound bursting the water like a seal or whale was heard, I got a shock of fear, I quickly swim nearer to the shore but water about the height of my belly button. I ask the old lady which near to me and ask her with a smile( I still can smile in the time of shock ),’ what was that!? ‘ she reply in saying,’ Is a scuba divers In my mind thinking IT cannot be.. because is definitely is a weird sound and scuba diving here? thats nothing to see except sand and seaweed. She then added,’ maybe is a seal (some seal do bite) at the same time something added my fear when i saw a big fin and the old lady husband shouted,’ there something coming towards you!’ to the wife but I wasn’t further than 3m from her! but as I observe more… my fear is reduce and joy came but still got shock, It was a dolphin! with that curve and fin, I sure of it! but i wasn’t get to far from the shore because even though is a dolphin but still wild. I was observing where they swim and appear or disappear, and one dolphin swim so close to me that i can almost touch it but is only 2 second than it swam out to the sea. My mind cried out to God,’ Thank God is dolphins and not sharks! and blessing me with the most precious gift to me, To Swim With A Wild Dolphins Or A Amazing Visit Than Anyone Can Hope For, From A Dolphins!

My Favorite Animal Jokes

Fifteen Reasons Why Men Have 2 dogs And Not 2 Wives
1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you.
2.Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s name.
3.Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor.
4. A dog’s parents never visit
5. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.
6. Dogs like to do their snooping outside rather than in your wallet or desk.
7. You never have to wait for a dog, they’re ready to go 24 hours a day.
8. Dogs find you amusing when you’re drunk
9. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing.
10. A dog will not wake you up at the middle of the night to ask, ‘If I died, would you get another dog?’ (My favorite)
11. If a dog has a babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away.
12. A dog will let you put a studded collar on it without calling you a pervert.
13. If a dog smell another dog on you, they don’t get mad. they just think it’s interesting
14. Dogs like to ride in the back of a pickup truck.
15. If a dog leaves, it won’t take half of your stuff.

PS: that pic is my Dog, monkgol :)

David Tan's Stress On 2007

Welcome to my world of stress. know what? even when I having SPM(A Malaysia exam for secondary), I didn’t have this stress of college life that I am facing now. The first semester is good and got a "not bad" gred. But until this November short semester, things aren’t the same as i thought it will be.
Long semester = 4months + 4 Subject
Short semester= 2 months + 2 subject
Well sound OK right? you will wonder is reasonable right? but let me tell you how I being till now(13.12.07) I having 13 tutorials, 3 practical, 2 test and 1 practical test. for subject INFO SYSTEM. I am having 6 tutorial, 1 individual assignment, 1 group assignment and 1 test for my INFO BUSINESS. If it still sounded reasonable to you, let me tell you this, I have NO COMPUTER! at home and TEXT BOOK! still OK to you? Let me add this, My final exam is on 24th(Christmas eve) and 26th(after Christmas). so what I will do in Christmas time this year? books!? NOTES?
I having extreme stress of all this, and i can’t cope with this semester, if i fail, i gonna repeat again for the fee of RM4000! (rm 1000 for each subject) times 2 fail is equal to Rm 4000!
Personal issue!
> Now my parents and sister not around at home, usually left me or my brother only. You guys must be thinking how fun I can have, like party at home, brings girl-friends back to house for night, no curfew and bla bla bla… Its all just a dream my friend!
I responsible to make sure everything alright at home! even i am the youngest in the family, doesn’t mean i no need to pay bills, home retail, college fee, car loan, food, and the best thing for any teenager! which not only clean your room( like how your mom will nag you always) now i have to clean the whole 2 stories house! mop,sweep,repair,maintain and etc (wanna know more? ask your maid and mom how are the feeling) I am a "college house wive" oops is "college houseboy"
OK OK…. enough of my nagging and complains. I still need to do all this for God,family,friends and myself. The only things i can do is work hard and pray. And also having fun while doing all things.
TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Thank your for always being there for me. Please at least pray for me and my family OK? I need strength and etc. I hope i won’t over stress till i kill myself or others( who irritate me while I having stress) ha-ha I know i won’t. Please don worry. God bless all!
PS: Please don sue me for saying "kill". just a joke to laugh at myself, its the least i can do to keep me " going" :P