Happy 4th Blogiversary

Although I didn't blog much for the last few months, but I haven't abandon this space of mine yet. Today (25.4.2009) marks my weblog's 4th birthday. Time really flies. I have get to know many of you all out there throughout the year, and quite a number has become my friends in real life, not only virtual acquaintances. Although quite a majority of people that i know of via blogging have stopped blogging as time goes, but I think I won't join their bandwagon yet. With this 4th blogiversary, I'm planning to revive this weblog again.

Happy 4th Blogiversary to http://chen22.blogspot.com aka A Journey Called Life... Should i give it a new home? I meant getting a new domain?

And last but not least, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for spending your valuable time on this little humble space of mine. Terima Kasih Banyak-Banyak :)

Tweet Cloud

Reminiscing the Twitter Craze several months back.. Or was it a year ago? or was it 1.5 years back? Can't remember when was it liao.. Mmmm.. Never mind...

Get to know the Twitter Cloud aka Tweet Cloud from Rinnah's blog post. Hence I gatai tangan and checked mine too.. Hahaha, apparently Misti is the word I used or twitted most frequently in Twitter.. And the Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk........ And surprisingly I even see "See Ghost" inside there.. Really 见鬼 liao.. :P

Happy 3rd Blogiversary

It seems like I have been blogging for ages but the reality is.. it's just only 3 years. It all started on 25.4.2005, when my hands were itchy and i started to crap blog, and the rest are histories. And today marks the 3rd Blogiversary of A Journey Called Life. Will I continue to write in the future? How far will I go with this blog? I dunno, as I'm not only writing for my own blog at this moment, but also another memorial blog for a dear and close friend of mine. Time will tell, but rest assured I will still continue on doing what I started 3 years back, and won't stop in the near future...

And last but not least, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for spending your valuable time on this humble space of mine. Terima Kasih Banyak-Banyak :)

A New Beginning

Today I gatai itchy-hand and changed my blog template (after using the same blog template for 2 years. I have been using the TicTacBlue as my blog template since January 2006, till February 2008. Prior to that I used the ThisAway Blue template in 2005).

And for the mean time, I will use this picture as my blog header. This is the stitched panoromic shot of the Tanjung Bungah Beach taken in December last year. The photos were taken at the same time and same location of those water sports shots in my earlier post.

How u like the new look? Might be this is just temporary. I might play around with the template layout again. Who knows I might revert back to the old template again. Hehehehe...

Amazing (Fluff)Race

After racing through 1114 Races at Five Continents, Ten Countries, Twenty Cities And more than 50,000 Miles at the spead of 16106 fph, Moo Moo is now the official Winner of The Amazing Fluff Race 13. Hahahahha, does this sounds familiar? Yeah, the hard work finally pays. What seems impossible in the past (as portrayed in the Fluffy Fluff Talk) has now become reality. Thanks to the endless support that is given to Moo Moo throughout these period of time.

Group Photo of Moo Moo taken together with all the Mini-s and the Trophies

Missions Accomplished. Moo Moo has collected the Bronze, Silver and Gold Medals Trophies. She can now take her long CNY leaves and enjoy her Leaf Medley, Pumpkin and Lokam in peace. And the Mini-s can take have their CNY hols too.
As a token of appreciation for the endless support given to Moo Moo, Moo Moo would like to treat all the supporters One Glass of Fresh Milk, fresh from the Farm ;)
Last but not least.. Happy 16th Birthday Rinnah. My Moo Moo belanja u one big mug of Strawberry Milk on this auspicious day. Forever Young Young, Happy Happy, Pretty Pretty, Sweet Sweet and Tweet Tweet :)

Fluffy Fluff

Thanks to Dobbs and Fibrate, I was kinda addicted to (Fluff)Friends over the last 2 weeks, (just as how I was once addicted to RPS) ~ busy petting and racing with the other fluff friends besides feeding my dear Moo Moo to increase her speed. Gosh, that was tiring.. no wonder I had sored arms and shoulder, hence I finally took a long break from fluffing Fluff Racing.

My beloved Moo Moo with all the Mini-s and the trophies.

My Moo Moo's latest speed is 11245 fph and she has won the bronze and silver trophy from fluff racing (hard-earned trophies). Seems like it is impossible to win the gold trophy since ECL's Kabpo is ranked top on the list with 95.15% victory with the speed 13746 fph. (Hard to beat that leh). Moo Moo is on daun on leave and resting at the moment. Yeah, Moo Moo deserved a good rest after all the hard work and she didn't race for the last 5 days. If you eat full and nothing better to do are free, don't forget to drop by and pet Moo Moo's head (please don't pull her legs nor her tail, although she doesn't bite).

p/s: The Fluff Addicts Fluff Doctors (Dr Dobbs with her Skippy (Our Fluff Tai Kar Cher), Dr Fibrate with her Pork Chop, Dr Chev with her Moo Moo, Dr Yenjai with his Cosy, Dr Eve with her Messy, Dr Bernard with his Bernie, Dr Jason with his TuTu) are hoping to have their first ever Fluffy-MeetUp, wearing their beloved Fluff-printed T shirts (hahahaha) while discussing medical and work related issues enjoying the Fluff-Talk, Fluff-Happenings and Fluff Photography. Hopefully no one will race against one another during the Fluff-MeetUp. LOL

And not forgetting, Fluff Friends have their own group, blog, forum and store.

Blog Blop Bloq.. Blurp

Rinnah wanna knows this and that, err.. those ocipala stuff regarding my weblog and weblog related questions. Hence she tagged me with this easy tag ;)

1. What is your blogging name?
Chen Chev

2. When did you start blogging, exact date?
- 25 April 2005 for this blog.
- 24 April 2005 for my first blog which I abandoned after 1-day-old :D

3. What was your first blogpost title?
My first blogpost title is kinda boring. Let's talk about Blog Name instead, it's from Ramblings... to A Journey Called Life... (I changed it somewhere in 2006?)

4. Which post do you feel is the best so far?
Mmmm... Dunno leh as I have posted 862 posts so far and this is the 863th post. I guess the most memorable one is the sampat wordless ... post :P

5. Who promotes / is the source of inspiration for you to blog?
After reading blog for several months, my hands become itchy ... and the rest are now history..

6. When do you usually post entries?
Whenever I feel like doing so, but mostly at night time.. (provided I'm free lah, of course).

7. Where would you prefer to be when you are blogging?
Inside my so called "computer room" (home sweet home)

8. Have you met other bloggers? Who?
Plenty. Let me count-count..
Winn, May, Angel, LB, Carcar, Day Dreamer, Butt, Kenny, Zeroimpact, Nyonya Penang, Sengkor, JL, King's Wife, Cocka, 9393, Ah Tak, Kat, Laundry Amah, Rinnah, Narrowband, Mozilla, EastCoastLife, Wenn, Sin Ling, Ray, BabeKL, Izso, Alicialphh, Will, Wynn, ShookMe, AC, Shackks, Darren, Jellyfish, Cynthia, CooknEngr, Agus, Fish Fish, Sharl612, Black Widow, Yellow Ant, Dayang, Sbanboy, LT, Gasman, NBB, Bernard, Pink Cotton, Red Sponge, Mr Goober, Ben, Papercrazy, Wilson, FH2O, Kristopher, Miracle8, Ah Nel, Slenzie, Dreckker, Liucas.. Err... and not forgetting Ah Boy. Wow, this is a long list. Did I miss out anyone's names? Hopefully not.. And I'm looking forward to meet up with many more of u.. :)

9. How many entries do you make in a month?
Depends. Around 20 or 20+ posts a month? Nowadays I post less compared to those early days.

10. Would you reveal your face or your family in your blog? Why?
No No No. I'm partially anonymous plus paranoid, and cannot see light. I don't want to have stalkers in my workplace. Furthermore, my family members don't like their photos to appear online ;)

11. Would you promote the concept of blogging to your friends? Why?
Some of my friends don't even have emails, and some even hardly check their emails. What say you?

12. Would you feel restless / guilty conscience / incomplete if you didn't blog for a month?
One month? Of course, unless if I'm extremely busy or pre-occupied with something else or if i'm on the road.. err... I mean travelling :)

And what say you? My dearie blogging partners in crimes, namely...
* LB (Italy)
* May (Australia) ~ a yummy yam-yam brekkie
* Angel (Malaysia) ~ Blogger Tag
* Misti (Singapore) ~ Blog Blop Bloq.. Blurp

Genius woh...

I saw this from Rinnah's latest post. Since I EFND and my hands are itchy, so I clicked on the given link and checked The Blog Readability Test to see what level of education is required to understand my weblog posts. Guess what? Tra Daa...

The Blog Readability Test

OMS!!! Muahahahahahahha... Might be there are too many ocipala and sot sot terminology with hidden meanings here kua (plus some medical terminology?). Only the Genius will know the meaning behind it? Hahahaha.. So congrats, coz you all are GENIUS as you understand my masterpiece !!! you guys and gals ROCKS !! LOL

Blogging Tips

Backlogs! Backlogs! So many people tagged me for this meme.. Bernard, Rinnah, Ehon and Misti. I have lost count what are the other tags that I haven't answer liao.. jialat..

My tip will be a picture speaks a thousand of words. Avoid lengthy post. Keep your post short and sweet with picture(s).

-Start Copy-
When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. Write your own blogging tip for other bloggers. Try to make your tip general.

1. Look, read, and learn. http://www.neonscent.com/
2. Be, EXCELLENT to each other. http://www.bushmackel.com/
3. Don't let money change ya! http://therandomforest.info/
4. Always reply to your comments. http://chattiekat.com/
5. Blog about what you know & love. http://sugar-queens-dream.blogspot.com/
6. Don't use filthy language-buy a dictionary. http://shinade.blogspot.com/
7. Blog about something educational http://climateofourfuture.org/
8. Be yourself; others will follow http://sfgirl-thealiennextdoor.blogspot.com/
9. Don't have too many blogs that will become a chore to maintain http://cubicledenizen.blogspot.com/
10. Keep it simple, user-friendly, interesting and organised! http://erishaling.blogspot.com/
11. Keep the blog simple and sweet!! http://www.leslieho.com/
12. Share with others your thoughts and don't be shy! http://groovy-olives.com/blog
13. Never ask for link exchange. Blog hop to increase traffic. http://www.jessieling.com/
14. Blog about something uniquely you. Or post some unique pictures. http://bernardchan.net/
15. Avoid too lengthy posts e.g. less than 200 words if you can help it. http://www.mylongkang.com/
16. Avoid Doing Tags.. http://clementwongpy.blogspot.com/
17. Remember to go to the toilet when nature calls, don't just sit glued to the computer or you'll shit in your pant! http://wuching.blogspot.com/
18. Blog hopping is fun. You'll never know what gem you'll find in the blogsphere. http://che-cheh.com/
19. Do Not Plagiarize. http://narrowband.org/
20. Don't put pressure on yourself to blog. Blogging should be FUN! http://rinnah.blogspot.com/
21. Love yourself, love your blog, love your readers, and keep sharing your love through your blog. http://yeehon.blogspot.com/
22. Be prepared to receive brickbats when you open your comments area to the general public or friends. http://angelestrix.blogspot.com/
23. Do not take things too seriously, it’s just a blog. http://mistipurple.blogspot.com/
24. A picture speaks a thousand of words. Avoid lengthy post. Keep your post short and sweet with picture(s). http://chen22.blogspot.com
-End Copy-


**Who to pass on the baton?
I know LB has been tagged few times for this tag but since he hasn't do it, so I gotta tag him (The LB-Star) again. Kkkkkkk...

Yippeeee! I'm back

Finally I'm back home. YES !!!!!!!!!!!!! What a relief. Hahahhaa... Have been away for almost a week for work related attachment. Where else is better than home sweet home? And I definitely miss my broadband connection. Haven't read blogs for almost a week. I will hop over to your places soon. LOL

And I almost get a shock out of my life when I log on to FaceBook.

So many requests.. I see till eye blur-blur liao.. Must go through each and every one of the requests slowly :P

And not only that, there are 161 new notifications.. Wow, u guys (& gals) are great. And thanks for poking me. No wonder there are bruises all over my body. Kakkakkaa.. I lup u all. Hugs and Muacks (and pokes...) LOL

Buku Muka @ Soo Mian

What the heck is Buku Muka @ Soo Mian? It's none other the super duper addictive FaceBook. It connects you with the people around you. Not only that, it is also..

• an ichiban place to sampat,
• update news/status about oneself - such as hungwee, tired, lazy, angeri, Zzzzz.. pull out hairs, tick tock tick tock etc ..
  
• a good questioning place to ask silly questions and give silly answers,
• a fantastic place to throw pie, cakes, ice cream cones, drumstick and hence food fight,
• a fabulous place to yum char and enjoying Happy Hour, buying frens drink,
  
• a sampat place to poke, pinch, slap, bite, lick, smack, spank, tickle, hug or kiss acquaintences, (and not forgetting throwing sheeps),
• a lovely place to send cute and adorable gifts (such as bear-bear, bones, penguins, cakes etc), including those naughty gifts, very naughty gifts and also "sexually transmitted gifts" including chocolate salty balls, cottage cheese chlamydia, UTI, Elephantitis, dutch oven, choking the chicken (=Cocka the kokokai),
  
• a shalalala place to dedicate angmoh and cina songs,
• a comfy place to conteng, draw or sketch on friends' walls with different paints,
• a place to give nicknames.. eg kokokai, winnliuliu etc
  
• a sampat place to describe frens such as melayang-layang queen etc :P
  
• a unique place to watch money plants, heart-shaped flowers growing or eggs hatching,
• a heavenly place to send candies or bread or food (more dental caries on the move),
• a place to own and rear virtual pets @ fluffy friends, (mine is Ah MooLah)
  
• a lively aquarium - can keep and send sotsot Sotong, crappy crabs and fishy fish..
  
• a place to play with Moolah (yeah, play with $$$)
• a place to show off photos and albums
  
• and new things are being discovered and added daily... Endless activities..

One word to describe - syiok !!

Keep in mind not to spend long hours with FaceBook coz this is extremely addictive (thus neglecting other activities such as working or blogging.. Hahahaha) :P If u haven't join Buku Muka, what else are u waiting for? Don't miss out the fun. We are waiting to throw lobsters (if not chicken legs or pigs feet or Coconut Milk) at you to welcome you. No more twit twit liao.. blame it on Soo Mian. Kkkkkk.. (Although u can add Twitter on FaceBook too..)

*This is not a sponsored post, but community service brought to u free of charge by Chen* kkkkkk...

Sampat Blogger AwardTM

Since there are so many different categories of awards, I will come up with my own award - The Sampat Blogger Award^™, together with the Sampat Trophy^™. Why I choose figure 8 (I meant 8 recipients)? Coz sampat = 3-8. That's how the figure 8 comes about.The 8 honourable 3-8 recipients for this 3-8 award are none other than .... *Cue the Drum Roll*
1) 3-8 Angel
2) 3-8 Albie
3) 3-8 May
4) 3-8 Misti
5) 3-8 Winn
6) 3-8 Carcar
7) 3-8 Ben
8) 3-8 Ehon

Those who are bestowed this Sampat Blogger Award^™ have the privilege to award the other bloggers whom they think fulfil the sampat criteria. No hard and fast rules how many should they award to :P The recipients who received the most number of sampat awards at the end of the day will be crowned King or Queen of Sampat.

I have created a smaller thumbnail for those who wished to display The Sampat Blogger Trophy^™ cum Award at the sidebar. Really sampat, huh? Sampat Rules & Sampat Rocks. Kkkkkk.. Small One only, Not Big One... Don't worry, No See Ghost ;)

Rockin' Girl Blogger Award

Angel handed me the Rockin' Girl Blogger Award followed by Doreen.

Whom shall I awardThe Rockin' Girl Blogger Award to leh? Mmmm....
It is GOOD to be awarded ONCE
It is BETTER to be awarded TWICE
It is BEST to be awarded THRICE
It is BESTEST to be awarded FOUR TIMES more than THRICE (what come after thrice by the way ah?)
The MORE, the BETTER mah.. Kkkkk..

So I will give The Rockin' Girl Blogger Award to the following recipients (I know they have received the award at least once or twice liao, but since they rock kaw-kaw, so they deserved to receive the award again) :-
(1) Angel
(2) May
(3) Misti
(4) Day Dreamer
(5) Butt
(6) Doreen

What's wrong?

What's wrong with this picture?
(Click on the image or click here for larger view)

Spotted the picture from MMR website. . What's wrong with the picture above? It's time to exercise your eye muscles and brain cells. U gotta exercise your eye muscles, namely superior oblique muscles, inferior oblique muscles, lateral rectus muscles, medial rectus muscles, superior rectus muscles, inferior rectus muscles, orbiculis oris muscles etc. Dun curi tulang. And never squint your eyes though.. Kkkkkkk....

Finally...

This is the email reply I get from blogger.com after a long wait being locked from 2/6/07 till today..

Hello,

Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that
it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and
sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your
patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

Yeah.. I can start crapping again. And thanks to those who participated in the Advertlets poll/survey. I still need 24 more participants. Thanks :)

Geram...

Posting from my desktop using Windows Live Writer, since my blog was mistakenly locked by the Blogger Spam Prevention Robot. I can still logon into my blogger account and post comments and save my posts as drafts but won't be able to publish them till my blog is unlocked.

What the heck? Vehicles kena locked I know lah, but blogs also can kena locked wan ah? I'm not the only one. There are several unlucky ones out there who face the same fate. Summore, which features here are suggestive of a spam blog? I'm the one who kena spam uncountable times by those annoying spammers instead. Really GERAM 9-9. Ti(p)u. Summore dunno how long will they take to rectify the problem and to unlock my blog :(

Last but not least, before leaving this space, I hope you can spare few seconds of your precious time to answer 4 simple questions (gender, age group, occupation & whether u have a blog) in the advertlet polls located on the top of the sidebar. I still need 40 more participants . Click on the Refresh Button as shown in the picture above to take the poll. Thanks for participating.

Another SamPat Moment...

While reading Cocka's latest post, I accidentally ter-read the hilarious names he put up for the hyperlinks at the "Nothing To Crow About" sidebar. I have a good time laughing. Almost laff-die-me liao.. I will only listed out few (those whom I know of or whose blogs I read..)

• Dimple Face = Ah Ben (luckily didn't name him as Shaky Butt.. lol)
• Ah Nel = same
• Angeliu = Angel (This one easy.. u know i know. All the liu-s)
• Dr Jekyll = Yours truly loh (o.O. Mmmm.... who is Mr Hyde then?)
• & her dog = Ah Boy (The cute little big eyes boy)
• Dr Bernard = same
• Ka..t = same
• Kereta = Carcar (or 车车 in Chinese. Multilingual mah)
• Free Willy - Eastcoastlife (Hahaha, still can't stop laffing over this..)
• Flyboy = Fantasy Flier (the karipap boy)
• Helens Fatt Mou Blog = Helen
• Kenny Batu = Kenny Ng (kakakkakka. Rock jadi Batu pulak)
• Jilo Impact = Zeroimpact (the zero effect - not talking about inflation :P)
• Hottie = King's Wife (This one really hot)
• Cutie Pie = same
• Emperor Ah Wong = LB (What happened to the Emperor & the 48 Concubines series??)
• Chup her tub = May (ahem..)
• Barney's cousin = Mistipurple (Kkkkkkk.. This one really laff die me - The purplish family)
• Merepek Queen = Nyonya Pg (She manyak terror.. Can yak non stop wan..)
• Plink = same
• Dirty Underwear = Laundry Amah (lol)
• Sin Ling's char koay teow = Sin Ling (CKT? Fish ball i know lah)
• Flying Shit = See Fei (*faint*)
• Selba = same
• Romeo &... = SK (giggle...)
• Juliet = Liucas mummy (ahem...)
• & their talking dog = Liucas (yeah, summore driving Ferrari)
• Jemima's toilet paper = Jemima (Catch no ball how the toilet paper come about)
• Velverse's Waistline = Velverse
• Wenns Wok = Wenn (Cook in da house)
• Zara & Ziraffa = Zara & Zaria (o.O at ziraffa)
• Zewt = same

Unker Cocka, 笑死我, 你係得 geh.(siu sei ngor, lei hai tak geh..). How should we link u up as? The Great Actor 刘丹? LOL

88888 Mania

Haven't play with numbers for long time liao. The last time I played with numbers was during the 38,888th (in August 2006) and Sengkor was the proud winner. How time flies...

This time, who will be the lucky one? The 88,888th visitor, who will 發發發發發 or 发发发发发. Really prosperous kaw kaw liao. So 8. What is the reward? Dunno yet. Shall wait & see. Might be I will ask Ah Boy for his thoughtful dog-ful opinion. ;)

At the moment, the visitor counter has hit the figure 88,803. The visitor counter is located at the far bottom of the page. Please scroll down till the bottom of the page to see what's your lucky number. Who knows, you might be the lucky one? Please take a screenshot of the page if you are the one ;)

p/s: I know Winn will prefer to become the 383838th visitor instead. Sampat mah.. Kkkkk..

*Update*

The result is out. Misti is the lucky one. Congrats, Misti for being the 88,888th visitor :)

Steps

Since I enjoy taking photographs, I decided to participate in PhotoHunt . The site has interesting themes every week. The theme for the week is "Steps".

The Old Ruined Steps..

This was one of the several photos I took during my visit to Kellie Castle last year. I planned to write a post on Kellie Caster earlier on (as what I promised to Simple American.. but up to date, I still haven't work on it yet.. )

QQ Quiz

I came across this test from Monkticon's post. I sampat and itchy hand, and created one of my own. Anyone wanna spare few minutes of your precious time to participate and answer few simple questions? Click Here if you wanna partake the "Friend Test" that I created. U can just simply hantam if u dunno the correct answer. No negative markings though for the wrong answer, unlike the MCQ exam :P Mmmm... those who scores >50% will get a free meal of Penang Assam Laksa or Duck Egg Char Koay Teow :P

Create your own Friend Test here