Project 2 : From Melacca To Muar

Last Thursday, my friends and I did a spontaneous last minute planned journey. That's cycle from Melacca to Muar, Johor then back again.

The team consists of Leroy Bryan, Gin Shen, Kingsley Tan, Noel Martin Smith and I. After my holiday to Phuket, Thailand, it has been uneventful and boring holidays for me. I don't even have the motivation to study at least half a page of those darn subjects. So this is a perfect getaway for me.

Little did I know that this so called perfect is actually torture for me. I was the slowest among them and apparently I dragged the journey longer than it should be. Damn the laziness for not cycling since like.... never.

So the trip started from Ujong Pasir at around 8am, then all the way to the highway that leads to Muar. It took us (kinda took me) 2 hours plus to reach Muar. Sometimes there were apparently no car on the road. A type of animal called snake that we saw on the highway. A coconut water stall on our trip which was very refreshing and brain freezing. Prove that we reached the border of Johor!While we're at Muar something funny actually happened. Noel had a leg cramp, then he literally laughed in pain because he said the pain is ticklish. Then that leads to stomach cramp because he laughed too much. Haha Noel is the man =)

The disappointing thing is we went there to savour on Muar's famous fried oyster, but it usually starts its business around evening time. So we ate pork rice and wantan mee instead, which Melacca ones are better.

Another thing is Muar actually resembles Melacca a lot. Like this street which looks like Bunga Raya. The other attraction that we spent most of the time at is this park where our friends stay. Did I mention they were monkeys? We bought junk food from a stall there and feed most of them. I don't know how they can grow up normal just by eating junk food almost everyday. Spot the monkey. The river there, Which again, is why I'm not being cruel when I say most of Malaysia's rivers are dirty.

A picture just before we leave Muar. Notice how dark we all look.
(On our way back, Noel had another cramp.)

Well I'm not really satisfied with my cycling skill and all but hey, I've certainly done it!
Will I do it again?

After a lot of training perhaps.

Project 1 : Phoneless

For the past month of May, when people try to contact me, they either get pissed off because I never answer their calls, never reply or even message them back. And on a rare occasion, I'll answer it. This is something that I've started recently, which is Project Self-Disclosure. According to abacon.com (Yeah it's not according to Wikipedia),

Scholars define self-disclosure as sharing information with others that they would not normally know or discover. Self-disclosure involves risk and vulnerability on the part of the person sharing the information.

But what I basically do is just doing something out of the ordinary or some adventures, and I'll share it with you!

So, I've been thinking to myself around the month of April, can a person (more like teenager) survive a day/week/month without cell phone?

So I leave my phone on a side, only to check it now and then, and only reply using my house phone when it's important. Undoubtedly, the number of friends that contact me decreases day by day. But hey! The chances of me getting brain cancer or radiation decreases too! (I'm just trying to make myself feel better so shut up)

Well so now I'm back to using my phone. But the good thing is I don't use it for unnecessary calls and messages anymore and more attention is paid on other matters.

So I dare you to do the same thing too! Well maybe not a month, but maybe a day or two and you'll notice how much money you can save =)

I do encourage you guys to have the same kind of aim too. Like quitting on smoking, emo-ing or over spendage of money on unnecessary stuff. Plan yourself towards a better lifestyle by creating it!

Yeah it seems nothing much for the 1st project. But do suggest ideas or adventures that are realistic of course!