Every trimester break, most of the students will plan a holiday trip with their university mates or hometown friends to give themselves a break and as a reward for themselves after one whole trimester of studying. However, every time I ask them where their destination is, most of them will answer me – Genting or Pulau Redang. Honestly, I am going to be surprised if their destination is neither one. Although I have nothing against Genting or Pulau Redang, I really wonder what makes them to choose Genting or Pulau Redang as their dream holiday destination. Below are my personal view / opinions, do feel free to comment and discuss, but there is no reason for you to accept what I have written here.

Genting Highlands

There are only 2 main attractions – indoor and outdoor theme park. If it is raining cats and dogs on that day, you only have indoor theme park as your only choice.

There is nothing much to eat and the food is slightly over priced. There was one time when I was charged RM1.50 for a piece of “Roti Kosong”!

There will be queue every where, from the roller coaster ride to the toilets. If it is peak season like weekends, school holidays or festive season, the queue can be as long as the queue during an audition for Malaysian Idol or when the ticket for Jay Chau’s concert is on sale.

Another attraction will be the casino which is basically for those who are 21 years old and above. Jason only mumbles, but does not gamble (except Chinese New Year). Therefore, the casino does not attract me although with my size, height and look, I can sneak inside even though I am below 21. For your information, I am 21 now.

If by screaming or laughing out loudly are part of your method to relax yourself, then this reason does not applicable to you. I do not see the point of screaming your lungs out or get excited (frightened?) by the rides in order to relax yourself. I believe that I am more exhausted after a whole day of excitement and therefore, I do not feel relaxed at all. After all, a holiday trip is to relax, recharge and rest your body.

Pulau Redang

It became a popular holiday destination after the movie “Summer Holiday” which was starred by Richie Ren and Sammi Cheng. I wonder what the island will be if the movie was shot in another island like Pulau Tioman.

I suppose the main attraction will be snorkeling in the crystal clear water, looking at the fishes swimming right in front of your eyes and the beautiful corals at the sea bed. It is fun, but to snorkel for 3 days continuously (I assume that the package is a 4 days 3 nights.), is not that a little bit too much? I think I will be bored of it by the second time.

There is nothing much to eat and the food is slightly over priced.

The place has been promoted too much by various travel agencies. The price of a Pulau Redang package can go as low as RM248, as promoted by MMU’s Travel Club. I supposed during the previous MATA (Is it MATA or MATTA?) travel fair, the island’s package was selling like hot cakes.

The last time I went to Genting Highlands was 1999, about 6 years ago, if not mistaken. My family previously chose Pulau Redang as part of the family trip early this year, but I did not join them because I was having my mid-term examinations during that time. However, when they came back and was telling me how fun it was, I was not interested at all (My sister – Jamie gave up telling how fun the trip was.) and I did not feel jealous or regret for not joining them. –sweat-

I am blogging about two currently most popular holiday destination because I am going for a holiday trip tomorrow with my close friends (Photos of them will be uploaded later.). No, we are not going to Genting Highlands or Pulau Redang. We are going Cameron Highlands and we are going to visit Bidor, Ipoh and Kuala Kangsar.

We chose Cameron Highlands because the place is very relaxing, easy going, lots of green coloured sceneries and sight seeing places, cooling and not time consuming. Besides, the 4 star hotel / apartment that we are going to stay are half of the weekends / peak season rate. The hotel has a swimming pool, sauna, gym, tennis / squash / basketball court and jungle trekking. (Hopefully we can book the place.) There are a lot of foods – my favourite “Tom Yam” steamboat at one particular shop, cheap but delicious chicken / beef / lamb chops for breakfast, fresh local strawberries, 100% pure strawberry ice cream / ice and the yummy golden fried sweet potatoes. We are stopping at Bidor for Duck / Herbal Soup Noodles, 50 cents sized Wan Tan with big prawns inside, chilled white coffee, “lou poh beng”, “gai zai beng” and the shop’s specialty. We might skip Ipoh, but “Yim Guk Gai”, “Nga Choi Gai”, Fu Shan’s “Dim Sum” will be nice if we manage to make it. As for Kuala Kangsar, I have to thank my friends as they agreed to go there for the sake of me – to meet Juliana Ooi, owner of the wonderful and well written blog of “J”ded. Too bad, I cannot meet Carol Tee at the same time. –sad-

Although I do spend a lot of time connecting myself to the internet, I do have my offline life too! I am going to enjoy this, for sure! It has been a long time since I go for my own holidays because I have been taking up part time jobs every trimester break since I came to MMU.

I will be back with lots of photos. I promised.

P/S :

Ju, I can’t wait to meet you on Monday. Hopefully, I will not have my tongue tied so tight till I am not able to talk. –lol-

Carol, it is a little sad that I am not able to meet you in Kuala Kangsar, together with Ju. However, I am sure we shall meet up someday in K.L., and may be that time, we can call Mr. Kiasu, Tiu Nia Sing, Emily (She wants to meet Juliana.), Mun Kit and may be even the wonderful SAHMs.

Since I am not able to blog on Sunday, I wish all mothers “Happy Mother’s Day”!

NeeNee boiled sweet potato dessert yesterday and she “invited” me to her place for a bowl. Actually, she was forced to invite me because of one reason – I bought the sweet potato from the market, as early as 8 o’clock in the morning.

NeeNee said she did not know how to cut it into cube shape, therefore, it explained the funny shape of the sweet potato – cylinder shape. It sure looked like banana from the top and the picture.

I do not know why I am not as excited as when she said she would be making “Sushi“. Although it was a very simple dessert, it was nice. Too bad, it has cooled down; else, it would be perfect. Thanks a lot, NeeNee. –hugs-

P/S : I only had a bowl, because NeeNee did not offer me another bowl. Cis~!

I have been blogging since 9th of November and next Monday will be exactly 6 months. Fear not, I am not going through what I have gained through blogging, but I shall write something else. I suppose my blog is more on the cheerful, happy, with occasionally some emotional / sad posts and also a place where I am able to rant anything that happened to me or under the sun. However, my blog portraits part of me only, not all. I shall try to disclose myself as much as possible with various parts, and hopefully that “Jason Mumbles”’ readers will get to know more about me.

I am a very quiet person, not as talkative as you have feel in my blog. I can talk a lot on the net and on IMs, is because it is not verbal communication and I express 100 times better by typing it out. In reality, I have problem when comes to verbal communication. It does not matter if it is 1 person or a group of people. I have problem talking to anybody, even my family up or my best friends. It is that I do not know what and how to bring up a new topic in a conversation. Besides, I do not know how to join in the conversation or to be interested with the topic they are talking about. Most of the time, I prefer to listen than to talk. It takes great effort for me to strike a conversation with anybody and usually, the conversation will end up with a moment of awkward silence.

There was one time when I joined a group of ex-classmates for a “yam cha” session some time ago. There were about 15 people and the session lasted for 2.5 hours. Throughout the 150 minutes, I only said not more than 20 sentences. Giggling for the sake of giggling was the only thing I did throughout the whole night. I listened to their conversation which were mainly about lame jokes, lame jokes and even more lame jokes; occasionally, chipped in some gossips about other friends who were from different classes. Basically, I was “yam cha”-ing with myself, alone. I was hoping it would end as fast as possible. It is that bad whenever I am going out with a group of friends whom I am not so close or do not clique.

However, my problem does not limit to a group of people. Even when I am with a person, especially girls, things will be even worse. There is a girl who will avoid as much as possible in going out with me alone, as in just the two of us. Even if we are going out together, she will always bring another friend along in order to avoid the awkward and embarrassing silence. Whenever I am talking face-to-face with her, my tongue is tied so badly that dumb is the only word to describe myself. She is a passive type of girls when comes to having conversation, and she will be more active if and only the guy is able to come up with endless topics and feedbacks, in other words, the active type. When both of us meet, we always end up with looking at each other like some dumb ass. Whenever she agrees to go out with me, I actually will plan what topics to talk about in my mind just to avoid the awkward moment. However, sad to say, I never succeed. Who is she? She is none other than NeeNee. I suppose, she is sick of having face-to-face conversation with me.

P/S : Sorry, Nee. Although it has been countless times we went out together, the embarrassing moment is always there. I have tried my best and the result remains the same. However, I guess my actions have proved more than my words.

Not only her, I have the same problems with Adeline too. Adeline belongs to the active and talkative type. There will be no silence whenever she is around. Whenever I am going out with her, Adeline will always try to act dumb / funny in order to keep the conversation going on. At least, she tried. However, there are times when she get fed up of keeping the conversation going on, she will be playing SMS or playing miss call with her hand phone instead of talking to me.

P/S : Sorry, Ling. I hope you understand your brother well enough, that I am like that since the very first day you knew me. I really appreciate whenever you try to keep the conversation going on, but I still suck in it.

This also happens whenever I am about to talk to my parents. Any conversation that has more than 3 sentences, it will always end up with nagging or scolding from my parents while I always do no bother to listen to them. Besides, I never tell anything that happens to me since primary school until today, not even the slightest incident unless they mentioned. When I was in primary school, the relationship with my dad was so bad till my mum’s colleagues (My mum is a primary school teacher in Tampin.), my class teachers and my relatives knew how bad it was. Whenever my dad talked to me, it would be scolding or shouting, sometimes it came with slapping or caning. I never dare to talk to my dad, and sometimes it could go up to few days. Things became better after one of my class teachers suggested that my parents go for some courses that teaches them how to communicate with children, how to be a parent that goes along with the children and other stuffs. Only after the courses, my 2 sisters and I talked more with our parents. Besides, my house is the type that does not talk a lot and every thing is express through actions, scolding or nagging.

P/S : Ma and Pa, sorry to say this, I shall never share my problems or tell you what is happening in my life. Hopefully, my blog will never be discovered by you too. I do not know why I am doing this, but I am definitely happy with it. The only time when I shall tell you problems is when the problem is related to you or I am so desperate till there is no other way to solve it. The only thing I can promise to you and me is that I shall spend more time talking to my own children to avoid the same thing happening on my children. I am sorry.

There is one girl, I guess, the only one… I shall talk about her some other time. This is me – Jason Lioh. Therefore, if so happen we are going out together; please be prepare for excessive boredom. –double sighs-

The “In Reality, Jason Is…” series :

Part I - Scared Of Watching Horror Film

P/S : My deepest condolence to Kenny and his family. My prayers for your beloved father.

Last Sunday, my mum asked me to change our bed sheet.

This is my previous bed sheet. Nice, right?

But look at what my mum bought for my another bed sheet.

Bed sheet with sun flowers on it! It does not suit me at all! Eeeewwww….!

P/S : Happy birthday to Emily. May your dreams come true and all the best in everything you do.

I walked all the way, 38 minutes to be exact from my house to the town’s cyber cafe to connect myself to the internet so that I can chat with Juliana, update my blog, read blogs and send an email to Carol.

Guess what? I actually forgot to bring out my USB memory key with me. Fcuked!

Now, I only can chat with Adeline and Juliana (She, too, forgot that she was chatting with me until I buzzed her. -sweat-) and read blogs. This post supposed to be about my bed sheet, with pictures, but it has became another grumbling post.

Not only that, I have been sneezing and having running nose since this afternoon when I woke up at 12.45PM. Now, which idiot is cursing me from head to toe or which pretty girl is missing me like nuts (perasaan)? -sweat-

Carol, I am sorry. Tomorrow only I send you the email, ok?

I shall blog tomorrow, I promise. (Sorry, Tiu Nia Sing.)

Why did I left my USB key at home?!! Arggggh~! Ahhhhh chooooooooooo~! -sniff sniff-