祝馬來西亞國慶快樂
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
來臺灣昨天剛滿四年
在馬來西亞也生活了26年多
每次回去, 都會讓我感嘆祖國的偉大
天然資源 高速公路 高樓大廈 美麗風景 還有殖民時期留下來的遺跡
馬來亞獨立了53年 馬來西亞成立了47年
從葡萄牙荷蘭英國日本再回到英國
不同地方的移民 中國印度葡萄牙
還有本土的原住民
造就了多元種族的生活環境 宗教信仰 文化氣息 南洋美食
每次看到很多關於祖國的新聞
有些是令人鼓舞的, 可是也有不少會讓我憤怒失望
不公平的對待, 讓我們更加努力向上
多元的社會, 讓我們學會了很多技能
面對不同的人, 讓我們適應能力更強
政治的亂象、貪污和腐敗, 讓我們有進步的空間成偉真正的民主國家
種族與宗教的課題, 一直是馬來西亞政治的包袱
許多制度的不透明, 一直是馬來西亞社會的無奈
改變所帶來的公平, 一直是馬來西亞人民的希望!
雖然我不滿意現在的政府
可是政府提供了13年免費的國民義務教育
提供貸學金完成了大學學位
很幸運的拿到獎學金完成了碩士學位
提供幾乎免費的醫療設施, 雖然服務品質有所保留
扣除薪資作為公積金, 讓日後退休生活可以無虞 (通膨的上揚讓很多人幾年內就花光了)
中立、不结盟的外交政策, 讓我們去很多國家都不必辦簽證 (如果你有時間金錢換有世界)
提供各種民生用品的津貼, 來減輕市民生活負擔 (薪資從來沒有上漲, 很多人錢不夠用)
馬來西亞訓練了很多人才送到世界各地 , 自己不留
我不知道我以後的命運會是什麼
也許有一天我可以為妳付出些什麼
充實自己, 把本分做好一定會有回饋貢獻的一天!
至少, 我會跟大家說, 我是馬來西亞人!
我愛妳 馬來西亞
Labels: Malaysia, Random Crap, Taiwan, Teoh Pak Guan, teopag
posted by teopag @ 12:34 PM,
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2010 Watoto Care for Children Concert
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Last night, i went for a concert at Activity Centre of Academia Sinica.
2010關懷弱勢兒童 Watoto兒童合唱團中研院音樂會
The concert was performed by Uganda Children's Choir "Watoto" Taiwan Concert Tour organised of World Vision. Currently, "Watoto" is having their Taiwan Tour in whole August 2010 and Academia Sinica invited them for a show here.
It is an African choir dedicated to improve the way of life for the children in Africa. The choir members are made up of children who have lost one or both parents to the AIDS epidemic or to war. Although their performances which are mainly a blend of gospel music and native African dance are very new to me. Frankly, i did not appreciate much on gospel songs. The performance was lasted for 1.5 hour. One of their performance in singing a Chinese song "感恩的心" really touched me. My body developed goose bumps when i heard the foreign accents blend with a familiar melody. The choir sing with their passion and present their talent together with a strong will of living to the audience. It was a great musical show!
After the show, i signed up for the Child Sponsorship Programme to sponsor a child.
This video clip is part of their Taiwan Tour performances uploaded by someone to YouTube.
感恩的心
作詞：陳樂融 作曲：陳志遠
我來自偶然 像一顆塵土
有誰看出我的脆弱
我來自何方 我情歸何處
誰在下一刻呼喚我
天地雖寬 這條路卻難走
我看遍這人間坎坷辛苦
我還有多少愛 我還有多少淚
要蒼天知道 我不認輸
感恩的心 感謝有你
伴我一生 讓我有勇氣作我自己
感恩的心 感謝命運
花開花落 我一樣會珍惜
Labels: Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Teoh Pak Guan, teopag, World Vision
posted by teopag @ 3:06 PM,
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Chuah Chong Han
Monday, August 23, 2010
Just met an old friend whom we haven't meet each other for almost 16 years!!!
We had a dinner at Grand Hyatt Taipei and shared a lot of informations regarding our old classmates. Those past memories we shared together were so precious and memorable!
Labels: Friends, Ipoh, Malaysia, Sam Tet, Taipei, Taiwan, Teoh Pak Guan, teopag
posted by teopag @ 10:41 PM,
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Weekend of 21st August
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Yesterday we intended to go to watch the fireworks show L'amour a` Bitan organised by Taipei County Government at Bitan in conjunction with Lunar 7/7 Chinese Valentine's Day. After having dinner with friends, we headed to Xindian MRT station. Once the train arrived at the destination stop, the MRT station was very crowded. Escalators were not functioning as too many people were gathering inside the stations, hence we assume there were more crowds outside the station.
After considering for a while, we decided to leave to avoid the crowd, especially after the event ended. Before leaving, i managed to capture this advertisement featuring Sandra Ng, one of my favourite artists. This advertisement is appealing public to care for the blind chilren...
We called it a day after doing some shopping at Taipei Main Station.
This afternoon, i cooked for the lunch. I included the yesterday-bought coconut milk powder in the yellow curry. I changed the adding order of the ingredients by boiling the curry paste first together with stir-fried onion cubes and coconut milk. It did give different textures and more aromas! I tried to cook another vegetarian dish with mushroom, corn, cucumber and onion. Appropriate amount of salt and soy sauce was added to taste, and it tastes good! The potato leaves were a bit fibrous. :p
So, i better go to lab to prepare for my tomorrow lab meeting content.
Labels: Food, Life, Taipei, Taiwan, Teoh Pak Guan, teopag
posted by teopag @ 5:41 PM,
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Chinese is broad and profound, just do as the Romans do. 華語博大精深，入鄉隨俗就好。
Friday, August 13, 2010
Time flies and I have been living in Taiwan for 4 years. Since Chinese Language (Mandarin) is widely used in Taipei as the medium of daily communication, my Chinese proficiency has improved a lot compared to 4 years ago. I can speak fluently without mixing with other languages or dialects and with proper sentence structure. In the begining, i found that people here speaks differently from us, albeit the usage of Traditional Chinese characters versus Simplified Chinese characters and different accents, the pronunciation or tones over some Chinese characters are a bit different from what i learnt in my home country.
Let me summarise some of the major differences on the pronunciation below:
在台灣生活了一段時間，轉眼已經快進入第五年了。由於在這裡的衣食住行都離不開中文，所以我的中文進步了，現在的我跟當初的我比起來，的確是改變很多。應該說講話比以前流利了，可以完整以中文來表達，不需要加入其它語言或方言了，且會開始注意句子結構。
剛開始，會覺得臺灣人說的中文或華語,怎麼有點不一樣... 這不是繁體字與簡體字的差異或者口音的問題，而是有些字的發音，跟以前老師教的不一樣...
以下讓我來舉例一些最常遇到的差異:
角 角色 → 我們念"絕"，不念"腳"，角度如三角形等，則念"腳"
和 我和你 → 這裡念我"汗"你, 而我們是念我"河"你
亞 馬來西亞 東南亞 亞洲 → 這裡是念"雅"，我們念"訝"
微 微笑、微小、微波爐 → 這裡念"唯"，我們是念"威"
艘 一艘船 → 這裡是念"騷"，我們念"收"
淑 淑女 → 這裡是念"贖"，我們念"書"
廈 高樓大廈 → 這裡念"夏"，我們念"煞"
攜 攜帶 → 這裡是念"西"，我們則念"協"
企 企業、企鵝、企圖 → 這裡人念"器"，我們念"起"
錫 錫米 → 這裡是念"席"，我們則念"西"
什 什麼 → 這裡是念"蛇"，我們則念"神"
法 法國 → 這裡是念第四聲，我們念第二聲，方法的"法"皆念第二聲
酪 乳酪 → "lao"(ㄌㄠ)跟"luo"(ㄉㄨㄛ), 皆念第四聲
垃圾 → "勒色"跟"拉雞"
Well, that's all i can recall so far.
嗯，目前只想到這麼多。
Living in Malaysia, besides mastering the major three languages, sometimes we need to communicate with Chinese dialects such as Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, Fuchou, Hainan and etc (I am not that great to know all of them..., normally simple Mandarin, Cantonese or Hokkein is sufficient), hence most of the speeches of Chinese descendants in Malaysia are mixed with various dialects and languages for effective communication and expression, and all of us are used to that. We watch a lot of TV programmes from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan everyday exposing to different types of languages among the regions, so we might mix-up with the pronunciation of some Chinese characters as they are different from what we known and used daily. However, we might be pronouncing these characters wrong all the way since we were young. To be frank, i learnt a lot of new Chinese characters through watching the drama series from Hong Kong, so sometimes i only know how to read the characters in Cantonese instead of Mandarin... Ops...
To make a long story short, so if you ever got the chance to visit Taiwan of Mainland China and the local peoples there could not understand what you said or correct your pronunciation over certain characters, try not to deny yourself at the beginning, this could be due to the differences across the straits and there is no right or wrong. My suggestion is, when in Rome, do as the Romans do!
Next time i will talk about different names given on the same object.
在馬來西亞生活，除了要掌握三種語言，說話時也許還需要加入一些華人的方言，如福建、廣東、潮州、客家、福州和海南等（我沒那麼厲害全部都會啦..，一般上用華語，廣東話或福建話就可以溝通了）來強化溝通和表達，所以造成大馬華裔說的中文像個大雜燴，雖然一句話當中可能會參插了一些來自不同語言或方言，不過大部分的人都聽得懂。在日常生活中，看很多中港臺的電視節目和電影，對於不同的中文發音可能會感到混淆，好像跟日常生活所用的不一樣，不過，這當然也有可能我們自己從小到大都念錯某些字... 老實說，很多中文字詞的用法，我是看港劇學的，所以有時候知道廣東發音，卻不知道其中文的發音...哈哈!
長話短說吧～
所以，如果以後你們有機會去臺灣或中國，當地人聽不懂或糾正你的發音時，先別否定自己的中文程度，因為這只是兩岸的差異所造成的，並沒有對與錯。個人建議，入鄉隨俗就好!
下次再談談不同名詞的用法，就是相同的東西，名稱卻不一樣。
Labels: Life, Malaysia, Random Crap, Taiwan, Teoh Pak Guan, teopag
posted by teopag @ 7:21 PM,
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Ice Kacang Puppy Love 初戀紅豆冰
Sunday, August 08, 2010
I went to watch "Ice Kacang Puppy Love" again for the second time yesterday.
Actually i was being tempted by this set of postcards.
昨天去看了<初戀紅豆冰>, 第二次看.
其實, 是為了這一組明信片.
Haha.., hopefully with all the promotion events and testimonials from the celebrities, this homemade film will hit the box office in Taiwan.
希望在那麼多的宣傳活動以及眾多明星好友的加持下, 這部家鄉的電影, 能夠在台灣發光發熱!
Labels: Malaysia, Movie, Taipei, Taiwan, Teoh Pak Guan, teopag
posted by teopag @ 1:49 PM,
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100 Miles from Memphis
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Sheryl Crow's latest album "100 Miles from Memphis" was released last month. I just got to know about it yesterday, so i bought it today!
This is one of the tracks in the album, Summer day.
Labels: Music, Sheryl Crow, Teoh Pak Guan, teopag
posted by teopag @ 11:58 PM,
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Farewell with Aaron
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Farewell dinner with Aaron before he being recruited to the military camp tomorrow.
Eslite Food Court, Taipei
少小認識約三載
歡天喜地唱遊去
穿戴衣袍入兵營
富裕生活在眼前
登峰造極創佳績
奇珍異寶小天使
義重情深祝摯友
Labels: Friends, Life, Taipei, Taiwan, Teoh Pak Guan, teopag
posted by teopag @ 10:39 PM,
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