Little words from Kikey...

That's a shame that I had been abandon this blog for a year!

I was so busy with work for 1.5 yrs (since July 2010).
Since, I am now on maternity leave expecting my first baby on March 2012.
I am deciding to recall all my memory to complete this blog about my travel.

Love,
Kikey
20/01/2012

Sunday, 30 December 2007

Snowshoeing

This is the first time I try snowshoeing, snowshoeing mean hiking on the snow. When summer time we said hiking at the mountain, when winter time and have snow on the ground, we put on snowshoes go for hiking, so that won't slippery, we called it snowshoeing. (I don't know you understand what I tried to explain or not!! Sorry, poor English!)

Actually, I planed to see the waterfall, but I took a wrong trail, after I hike 2 hours still don't see the waterfall, I gave up, so the total of my hike were round trip 4 hours, my leg were so tired.

Luckily, that was a nice place, the following photos were I took at there, very great view.

Thursday, 27 December 2007

珍惜。把握

失去最心爱的人能改变一个人,使一个快乐的人变成伤心,使幽默的人变成寡言。纵使你知道失去的再也不能回来,可是心痛就是心痛,再怎么的勇敢去面对,你还 是会心痛!那么就让它痛吧,痛过后,就会平复了,就让时间来治愈吧!时间能冲淡一切,就让他(她)永远存在你心中的其中一个位子。日子还是要过的,所以要 懂得珍惜身边人,以免失去了才后悔,於事无补,徒伤悲!

自尊心

自尊心是一个很奇怪的东西,任何人都有自尊心,它是一个很容易作祟的东西,它是不容许让别人践踏的,不管男女都有一定的限度,男生的自尊心尤其容易受伤害,不要看平常那男的常常畏缩于女方的强权之下,其实他只是压抑着自己,总有一天会爆发的。

奉劝所有的女生,尽量手下留情,多留一点面子给男生吧!

Tuesday, 25 December 2007

Christmas time!

This is my first white Christmas, the day before Christmas eve my friend and I went to City Hall to snapped some 'Christmas feel' photos. They decorate all the trees and restaurants have the decoration in front of them. It was so pretty!On Christmas eve, I joined my friend's host family to have a special German style Christmas eve dinner, it call Raclette, its origin from Swiss, dates back hundreds of years when shepherds tended their herds in the mountains, supplies were limited and meals consisted of cheese melted by the fire then drizzled onto potatoes and pickles. Nowadays the table raclette grill was create. It was a good experience for me.
The Swiss Raclette Grill have 2-level cooking unit. The top functions as a griddle to fry food. Underneath is a heating element that function as a broiler to melt cheese or brown food. First you put all the ingredients that you want then cover with the cheese (normally they use Swiss cheese) in a small pan (it's very cute pan) then put under the raclette grill, on top of the grill you can put some big things like sausages.










After the dinner I went to another Christmas party that held in my another friend's house. This party more like American style, everyone have to bring 1 dish, 1 drink and 1 gift.

Saturday, 22 December 2007

¡Hola!

¡Hola! Me llamo Kikey. Soy de Malasia. Tengo 24 años. Mi cumpleaños es el 27 de junio. Soy extrovertida y simpática. Mi color favorito es el verde. Me gusta la música y la natación. Me gusta el verano, porque me encanta viajar.


I just finished my Beginning Spanish Language course, and I was so happy that I got an A. Hurray!! I introduce myself above in Spanish. Can you guess the meaning..? (^.^)

Friday, 21 December 2007

A date with my "daughter"

I'm a live in babysitter, I take care of 3 girls, their ages are 12, 10 and 5 year old. This evening my host mum (boss) and the 2 older girls went to Hannah Montana concert, so I have a special date with the younger girl.

She is a very cute and sweet girl, she like to kiss me on my lip and give me a hug everyday, sometimes she will call me "mummy" by accident, so I always teasing her, she is my daughter, then she will answer me "I'm not, because you speak Chinese and I speak English" Haha.. :D

We called special date because only two of us went out to have fun. After pick her up from school, we went to have a movie, the movie we watched name "Alvin and the Chipmunks", even though this is a kid movie, but I like it! The chipmunks are very cute, it's very nice to watch with kid.

After movie, we went to Italian restaurant name Papa Razzi, I order my favorite dish, that is Risotto. I love it when the first time I tried before.

Alvin and the Chipmunks













my cuty girl, she has some paint on her face
















Chicken Risotto

Sunday, 16 December 2007

Ice Hockey

I went to ice hockey game, Boston Bruins vs. Columbus Blue Jackets, I'm so happy cos the Boston team won, 2:0.

That was my first live ice hockey game, and before I went I have know nothing about ice hockey, after the game, I love it and the game was so exciting, because the speed are very fast, and the game also very violence, they can fight anytime and the referees let them fight until either one fall down or blooding, all the fans were cheering for the fight.
p/s: I don't support for fighting!

The following video I took from YouTube to be an example because the time I watched them fought I was so surprise until forgot take a video.




Saturday, 15 December 2007

Blizzard 大风雪

Yesterday Boston was having blizzard from noon until midnight. The weather was very bad and the road was very slippery. All the school dismissed early, on normal day from the kid's school to my house only took me 15min, but yesterday it took me 45min to get home. My host mum took 3 hours to get home compared to an hour on normal day. It was awful..

This morning I took the following pictures at my house front yard, after yesterday blizzard there were 10 inches height snow on the ground. It was very beautiful because all the things in white colour.

Thursday, 13 December 2007

Snow flakes


When I was in Malaysia i don't understand why the snow for decorate in the mall all look like this, because I think that the snow is like water, no shape at all.


Now I know why already, it is because the real snow flake is look like that.
This picture I took, is the snow flake that on my car's window.
Have you see the shape of the snow flake? very pretty!

Wednesday, 12 December 2007

学佛不毕业

文·继程法师

毕业不等于「休业」。

但很多大学生毕业了,就自愿休业了,休止自己的学业。休止自己的学习,以此不再成长,不再长进了。

很多学佛的大专生,也是如此。在大学生涯中,参与佛教活动,参与佛学课程,以及种种修行活动。但毕业后,也休业了。休止学佛的道业,不再精进了。

不论是学识,或学佛。应该是无休止的。不只是活到老,学到老,而是时时处处都在学习。尤其学佛的道业,更应如此。因为学佛是一种修养,生活的修养,也是一种调心修心的学习。

这类心灵上的修行,生活中的修养,直接影响到每个人的生活品质。因为是属于精神层面的,不能用物质的层面来衡量。

但由于修养是无形相的,无法用有形相的物质来传达,虽然有时候也可以通 过有相的行为表达出来,但毕竟是有限的。

这类的修行是无止尽的。需要持续性的用功,在行为上表达了某种程度的慈悲与智慧,为人类做出应有的贡献,也让自己的生命,发挥得更美。

只是有很多人却以物质来衡量生活价值,才会停滞在物质的追逐上,忘失了生命的更高意义。如果我们的修养,或修行休业了,就直接的传达了这种停滞,乃至枯萎的精神生命。

这应该不是知识份子的作法,否则以往所学的学问都失去学习的意义,整个人生的学习,也失去了生机。

明乎于此,就将之化为行动,实际的运作。使自己在物质生活的基本需求满足了,能在精神和心灵上的修养,无限制的提升。

注(1):继程师父为UM佛友会的宗教顾问。此文为师父写给2007/2008佛友会会员大会的致词。


当我读完以上继程法师的致词时,感到很惭愧也很认同,好多大学时期非常活跃于佛教会的,毕业以后就不再那么热衷。我们应该把学佛当做生活的一部分,继续精进佛学。

Monday, 10 December 2007

The funny video from youtube (Indian F4)

Actually I view this video from my friend's blog Ang Ku Kueh, it's very funny so I post at here to share with you.


Tired day

Today is a tire day for me, I worked until 10.15pm. I like my host family but sometimes I feel tire and can't take it any more. It is because the kids I taking care are misbehave. I'm so tired to fight (with mouth) with them. They can very rude to you, even you are adult. And the parents are connive to their behavior.

I have one more year to going on...
I hoped I can lasting to the end of my year at here.
Bless me!

Wednesday, 5 December 2007

Hanukkah (Chanukah)



If you think that the gifts above are Christmas Gift then you was wrong. My host family is Jewish, so they celebrate Hanukkah. Hanukkah is one of the holidays for Jewish. In this day, they also give and receive gift.

The story about Hanukkah - Long ago in the land of Judea there was a Syrian king, Antiochus. The king ordered the Jewish people to reject their G-d, their religion, their customs and their beliefs and to worship the Greek gods. There were some who did as they were told, but many refused. One who refused was Judah Maccabee.

Judah and his four brothers formed an army and chose as their name the word "Maccabee", which means hammer. After three years of fighting, the Maccabees were finally successful in driving the Syrians out of Israel and reclaimed the Temple in Jerusalem. The Maccabees wanted to clean the building and to remove the hated Greek symbols and statues. On the 25th day of the month of Kislev, the job was finished and the temple was rededicated.

 When Judah and his followers finished cleaning the temple, they wanted to light the eternal light, known as the N'er Tamid, which is present in every Jewish house of worship. Once lit, the oil lamp should never be extinguished.

 Only a tiny jug of oil was found with only enough for a single day. The oil lamp was filled and lit. Then a miracle occurred as the tiny amount of oil stayed lit not for one day, but for eight days.

 Jews celebrate Chanukah to mark the victory over the Syrians and the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple. The Festival of the Lights, Chanukah, lasts for eight days to commemorate the miracle of the oil. The word Chanukah means "rededication".


Saturday, 1 December 2007

麻薩諸塞州 Massachusetts (MA)


麻州你可能不熟悉,那么波士顿(Boston)你应该懂吧!
波士顿是麻州的首府,它拥有数百年的悠久文化历史。
它拥有世上闻名的学府,如哈佛大学(Harvard)、麻省理工学院(MIT)等。

想要更了解它,那么你必须走一趟 “自由之路”
(The Freedom Trail) 它全长2.5哩,参观波士顿主要历史景点及建筑,起点是波士顿公园(Boston Common) -->州议会大楼(State House) -->公园大街教堂(Park Street Church) -->国王祷告堂(King's Chapel) -->Franklin Statue -->Old Corner Bookstore -->老州议会庭(Old State House) -->昆士市场(Quincy Market) -->Faneuil Hall -->老会议庭(Old South Meeting House) -->Paul Reserve House -->老教堂(Old North Church) -->墓地(Copp's Hill Burying Ground) -->海军码头(Charlestown Navy Yard) -->纪念碑(Bunker Hill Monument)。

夏天大家都蜂拥至
Cape Cod以及附近的小岛,它们拥有美丽的海滩及灯塔。我的最爱是Martha's Vineyard小岛,它集文化与大自然景色。

唐人街
(Chinatown)是我常报到的地方,这里有一间名为 “槟城” 的
餐馆,售卖马来西亚食物,如:
roti canai,炒果条等。很多时候是到超级市场购物,如:Tomyam,Milo,怡保白咖啡等。

当然少不了博物馆,我是
Museum Walker,我喜欢到各个博物馆参观,它能使你增加知识,美国每一个州都有很优秀的博物馆,它们包括了美术博物馆、自然界博物馆、科学博物馆、历史博物馆等。