Xiao Qin called me from his mobile. I thought he was ready to go to CR city but he was cautioned me to go to sign in. I did not i need to go to sign so early, not though 8am. As the schduled meeting was postponed, thus i thought i would go after 9am.

Tomorrow will be the staff meeting and then i know what classes i am taking. There would be a long year to go.

However, i went to CR city by taking a lift from a colleague as he and two other teachers sending the research report to the main office.

Aha, the next thing was i went swimming paying 30 B as it is the private pool.

Feeling tired, will log more later.

Ok, my handset which i bought in China, produced in 2002 has hit the 400 hours of speaking and listening. hehehe, u may not understand it. Well, i bought that phone Nokia 3510, i heard only sold in china and found the problem thus sold in package of RMB 400. Now, if someone stolen that, i don;'t mind liao as i have to the least use the phone for 1 hour 1 RMB as a rental. Infact. i should have use it about 700 but the Nokia 3220 has the talk time of 320 hours. Huh this one i used 1600 RMB to get it wor.

Tired, will write more as whole day was traveling and tired.

Life is stillness. I thought it would be fun travelling up and down. Yes, in fact i thought of that. But i don't have the money. I need Bahts to go around. Now i know how nice the Miss M is. Hahaha, As Hodi complains that she is not too happy about the pay that she gets. In fact. i told her that if i could get 1800 sing dollars i am wiling to be in the Liaon city. Saving 1k of sing daollars meant 2k of Rm.

Well, rain pours today and till now midnight, it is till raining. I need to go to CM tomorrow monring, May the 5th, what a wonderful day, to attend a colleaque's father's funeral ceremony. With such i need to buy a black T -shirt, a black pants , 150+200, low quality of course. I don't like black shirt. Just a feeling of it, not comfortable but i need that here. There are many such occasions here i need it.

On coming Sunday, the Chinese Teachers are invited to attend a function and i was asked to represent the school to attend it. Wow, not even signing for work and is already assigned with the work of representative.

Lately online till midnight in the conference room. I was given a key. They trusted me. :))

Pinged Hodi a few times last week but she did not even bother to say Hi. I was a little annoyed as i have so many things to share with her. Well, she is like all the time busy as she is going to be a beautician. In fact she is now she told me this morning. What ! Hodi is a beautician and i strongly believe her friends would not be able to think so.

Life has many changes and I witnessed it all the time. We get up and go and we fell and we sat and we waited and the get up again. Jet Li' s interview with the Phoenix TV stung me not like a bee but in fact hammered me hard. I started to look again into my life. Yes, my life.

These few days were so busy listening and reading Phoenix TV programmes.

http://audio.phoenixtv.com/audio_play.aspx?id=45d597c7-fefe-4759-9c2f-4fde2bd131cc

If u like Jet Li, here are some audio from Feng Huang TV that u could possibly should not miss.

他是一代武术巨星，却积极倡导反暴力哲学；他有着万贯家财，却随时做好了失去财富的准备；他曾经抛弃了一个深爱他的女人，却为了另一个女人宁可献出自己的生命；他因为功夫被无数人拿来和李小龙、成龙比较，他却将一切看得淡然：“人类就是因为比较才痛苦。”

在美国，有《时代周刊》的记者问他：“jetli，你觉得中国最高的功夫是什么？”李连杰说：“是微笑。因为，微笑无敌。”记者又问：“那你觉得中国武术的最高境界是什么？”李连杰答：“是爱，爱最博大高深。” 日前，功夫巨星李连杰走进央视，与著名主持人王志《面对面》，总结了他坎坷又精彩的前半生。他说：“名利的东西，我早已看淡。” http://audio.phoenixtv.com/qt.aspx http://ent.phoenixtv.com/idolnews/200705/0501_8_112702.shtml

Well, as too many shopping to do and slowly i realised that the bahts are running short though Lao Hua lent me 10,000 bahts. Ok, look, this morning the staff of the tuck shop stopped the Chinese teacher informing him to get a yellow T shirt which cost 150 B. It is cheap. I got one in the Tesco which cost 250 B. But of course with different style. The yellow colour is the main colour for the land of Sawadee this year, infact it continues from the past year when the King was on thrown 60 years celebration. This year the King celebrate 80 years old birthday in December, i think.

The came the school colour, the purple, in the kindergarten is pink. Of course, this is a part of the administration. Can you imagine the colourful shirts in the school compound.

Come Firdae will go to Chiang Mai to attend the funeral of a teacher. Her father was more than 90 years old. When i arrived, she came to welcome me with her husband , the Head of the Academy. Two days later she took us to the Labour office to apply for the work permit. I did not know the culture of the people here. Wondering why she could excuse herself from the funeral procession. In fact, they are waiting for some of the relatives to return from the UK.

The body would be claimed out today and the cremation would be held on Friday. Well, there would be a long distance travelling again. Of course, can take a day off in CM if i like after the creamation . but what i could do in CM ? There are lots of fun be found down from the saunna to the lust. However, i am as poor as the church mouse, U know better.

Many days i was trying to login the TW site but i fogot till today. I managed to login and read some of the articles. Again the problems of hair and shirt surfaced and it was sad to note that the pupils did not know that it is the rules from the government, certainly is from Ministry of Education lor.

在校已久了，我都蛮了解每位老师的处事态度。虽然我的成绩并不标青。那我就老师眼中的坏学生！

Again, it rained cats and dogs and temperature came down to 20 degree C. I woke up with a 22 showing however, it is not that chilly. But, bathing with the cold water is still a chanllenging job for me. The school has installed the hot water for us, the foreign teachers. I told Loa Hua , i could not take  hot neither cold.

The CD dis man would not like to work, with the radio could get the local stations. That man, disman was bought in The Store,Muar. Now i could not listen to the CDs i brought along.

I could log in now to write this piece of work have to thank the Academy Director, he gave me the key of the meeting room.

The work permit will be available in a week. All the foreign teachers went to the Labour office on Wednesday and thereafter, i went shopping spree with the driver. We went to Big C and i bought about 2300 bahts. A big amount and this have to blame Loa Hua because she lent me 10000 bahts. :))

Next week will go to the Mai Sai, the immigration department to convert the NON B visa into the resident visa. Then it goes for a 11 month contract. Thus, one month have to drink the west north wind lor.

So this is the life. For the past 5 years, life is always the west north wind hehehe

The hot weather is leaving soon. According to my academy director, with his littke English, he told me that the raining season this year comes early. It rained cats and dogs two nights ago. I was almost dying the second day after arriving from the Boleh Land. Not to worry much, not they kidnapped me for son-in-law but the weather was high till 38 degrees the room temperature and u can imagine the out side  heat.

Therefore, i am lucky , ain't I. The raining season supposed to be in mid May but now it starts and today the noon weather is only 26, huh, missing that ? Come here lah.

Have a quick chat with the senior teacher and the director and hope i would not face the same problem again like those in the past.

Would like to go to open the bank account and certainly the food problem. Staying in the school hostel with cooking facilities , and peti ais juga hot water showering facilities. Not bad.O course, cannot compared with the better facilities in the past. What i appreciared much is that they have given us, the guru asing the best that they can served.

Well, what i like is the weather.

Surprised you. The announcement from the polot said that it would take 2 hours and 50 minutes to rech CNX, however, it landed two 20 minutes earlier.

Wow, it shocked me that there were 5 teachers at the gate to welcome me and the driver too totalled 6.Never experince such a 'jumbo' welcoming.

The night began with a dinner, of course, very sawadee and the worst of all was the heat.

Ya, weather, which is a the part, nasty exerince two years ago.Now it looks it is going to appear.Today the lunch was again fromt he Academy Director.Tomorrow, well, again i think or his wife, to take us to the city to apply for the work permit.

The school has the net surfing facities but the foreign page will make you sleep. But the Thai page is good and now surfing the Happy Time, oh, hope it is good for me.