Stories through my lens

A picture speaks thousands of words..

Hospital,my Utopia 医院，我的乌托邦

Utopia,a Greek word,means good place.

Yesterday I came across a chinese book called 'Hospital,my Utopia 医院，我的乌托邦' by Dr.George Lee.

Dr.George Lee (李永业医生) is a Kelantan-born kampung boy who went Ireland to further his study at the age of 16. I could still remember reading his embarrassing stories of how hilarious he was when he first board the plane and flied to Ireland.

He had a poor command of English at that time and when his lecturer asked him what's his horoscope,he answered his Chinese zodiac sign--Chicken. His nickname 'George' also came from his Irish lecturer.

But soon he began to pick up his English and performed beautifully in his studies. He got admitted to top university in the world .

He had been servicing in England for more than 20 years. But few years ago he decided to give up his highly-paid profession in England and came back to serve his home-country,Malaysia.

The main reason he decided to come back is because he realised the importance of tracing ones root and tradition . He was a traditional Chinese boy who had a perfect Chinese background upbringing from his late father. He celebrates Chinese traditional festivals and follows all the traditions passed down from his father. His father had a great influence on him and his regret of not being a good son when his father was illy sick and not being able to be at his father's side when he passed away unfortunately led to his decision of coming back to Malaysia.

The book ' Hospital,my Utopia' narrates the stories he saw and experienced during his career as a urologist.

It is not a book of medical knowledge . It's a book of how he perceives and thinks about everything happened around him. It's all his life experience. I like the way he convey his message through his real stories. There's always positive message from every stories he was trying to say in the book. There are stories touching enough to make you weep.

I manage to find 1 which he wrote for Sinchew daily 2 years ago here .

Hospital,a place where people afraid of going. It's a place where most people like us have to unveil our masks and show our real selves.

We love to read touching stories. By reading them it makes us realise how lucky we are and treasure things around us more. Actually there are many touching stories which also happen on us. It's just that we don't know or pretend not to know coz we always take things for granted.

李永业医生说:“人间最美丽和最伟大的信仰，那就是爱。”

Dr.George Lee says,"The most beautiful and mightiest belief in the world,that's LOVE ."

With love, the whole world is Utopia !

那夜， 星光灿烂

那夜，在圆月渗透出黄色月光的夜晚。
十万八千里以外的星星 零零星星 格外美丽。
这样美丽的夜晚，迎着凉快的风，凳子上，我们掏心相对聊个天南地北。
周围，小虫唧唧地叫，演奏着它们最擅长的交响乐。
我们俩肩并着肩遥望星空，仿佛在遥望我们的未来。。
不管多么的不舍，深夜还是会降临。
不管多么的不舍，短暂的分离还是无法避免。
那夜，星光很灿烂。。。

Act Of Valor

Went to watch this movie at Cathay AMK Hub today.

It is a movie about a group of patriotic and enthusiastic active-duty U.S navy SEALS who fought hard against terrorism. I've long heard of U.S navy SEALS whose biggest mission was the hunt-down of Osama Bin Laden in Iraq.

It started off with a kidnap of a CIA operative which results in the discovery of a terrifying global threat. It is a group of people doing illegal weapon production and training people for suicide bomb. So an elite team of highly-trained Navy SEALS embarked on a adrenaline-fueled mission. The outcome of it will affect the fate of us all.

One of the best scenes I find in the movie was when the team was on a mission in Mexico. The chief of the team sacrificed himself by covering the grenade which was going to explode to save his teammates. It was a movie about courage,royalty and honour.

You can find out more about this movie here.

Dream and Desire

No one gets to the end of their lives and regret going for their dreams. We only live one life. There are no do-overs. If we let time slip by without pursuing our dreams, then we may lose our true calling in life.

But what differentiate dream and desire?

Dream brings us hope, but desires don't.

Desires only lead to more desires. It's like a never-ending cycle.

Dream brings us happiness.

Desires will only bring sadness, because you will never be contented with what you have.

Look at those old folks in old folks home. Sitting on wheelchair having problems moving around.

What keeps them alive? Dream or desire?

Timeless Love 那个夏天

Timeless love is an upcoming local Singapore movie which is to be released on 8th March.

First look at the chinese name of the movie, it reminds me of the famous Taiwanese love movie 那些年，我们一起追的女孩. And the movie poster is quite the same.

So here is the synopsis of the movie which I found in Google :

Morgan is a wealthy university student who has been living with his grandmother since young. However, he is also a lonely boy whose systematic way of handling things that result in paranoia when something was amiss led to a rigidness and inflexibility in his behaviour that others find intolerable. His life soon changes when his grandmother passes away, and amongst her belongings, Morgan finds an island's lease and a few pictures of his grandmother and a stranger posing intimately in an island. He somehow recalled that his grandmother used to tell him stories of her regrets with regards to a watch and the island when he was younger... Intrigued about the identity of the mysterious man and to escape the paparazzi, he decided to head to the island to unravel the mysteries and seek answers.

Honestly I am not into local movie and I don't really know any of the directors and actors of the movie. Those whom I know are just Desmond Koh who I saw him hosting some Singapore TV shows on TV and Aloysius Pang who acted in the famous childhood movie I'm Not Stupid.

So I was at the actors meeting-up session at Choa Chu Kang the other day . It was just so coincident that me and my friends were there to have our dinner and saw this event going on.

So we just stopped by,joined in the crowd ( which was not really big,I think just 30-50 people,and mostly girllsssss) which somehow made 3 of us guys felt awkward to join in haha.

Sometimes I wonder why all the die-hard fans are normally and mostly girls. I think it's just their inborn nature. haha

Oh yeah happened to find the song of the movie in Youtube. The name is 当我们正同在一起. It's quite soothing and calming.

On top of the.... Singapore!

So I was at the highest point of Singapore yesterday---- the summit of Bukit Timah!
Feel so proud of myself. Haha
I've never make myself to the highest point of anyplace by my own effort ( my legs ).. Not even my home town--TAiping!
The highest point of Taiping is at the height of 1035m above sea level, the peak of Maxwell Hill. I've been there few times before but was by the jeep service provided there. I think I must seriously consider hiking up to the tip myself 1 day to consider myself as Taipingite!
Haha
So the hike yesterday was humid. With rain drizzling. It was really cooling with the mist around us as if we were in the heaven!
Siang kept complaining of how stupid he was to follow us for the hike yesterday which is why I think he is what he is today ( his size ) haha
The hike up was surprisingly easy. I never expect it to be so low! It's only 163m above sea level. And it's the highest point of Singapore!
When we reached the tip rain started to get heavier and so we hid from the rain under the 'summit hut' there.
We were the 1st to reach there. And few moments later few groups of people also reached and planned to stay there until the rain get lighter.
Faint splattering sounds came from our head, hissing as lightning struck the sky. I could hear the wind tugging at the trees, and small droplets of water rolled down the hut. We chit-chat happily. It was a nice moment chatting as the wind blowing at you.
We waited there for almost an hour and as we saw the people around started leaving we began to feel unease. When we were the only 3 left waiting there at last we decided to begin our journey down regardless of the rain. Jacky wore his poncho while I shared my small umbrella with the big sized Siang! Haha
We got drenched but we were warm inside. The experience wasn't bad at all. We enjoyed talking and joking around. And I think this is what friendship is all about! :)