Tasik Chini

Tasik Chini is the second largest fresh water lake in Malaysia, it is made up of a series of 12 lakes which in total is 12,565 acres. I have absolutely no idea how big is 12,565 acres but I can guarantee you that Tasik Chini is bigger than my house’s toilet.



Tasik Chini is situated in Pahang and is just 60km away from Muadzam Shah so it was in my “must visit list” before I graduated.

The map of Tasik Chini

When me and my friends arrived at Tasik Chini, what we can see was just a simple hotel beside the lake, no water sports or babes in bikinis playing volleyball. Just when I started to feel a bit bored loitering around the lakeside a friendly resort staff approached us and started to give us some knowledge of Tasik Chini. He told us so many things until I forgot almost half of what he said. He then told us that we can see a whole lot more beautiful scenery by taking a boat ride around Tasik Chini.

So being a bunch of naïve students at that time, we fall into the staff’s “marketing trap”, we decided to go on a boat trip around the lake.



After we got on the boat, the guide took us to another side of the lake and we instantly fall in love with the nice view. It was the view of a big peaceful lake where you can see the reflection of the sky on the surface of the lake.






When I look down into the lake, the water was like black in color, so I assume that the lake was very very very deep, I then asked the guide about the depth of the lake and the guide just said that he don’t know. He said that many expedition teams from local and overseas had been here to survey the depth and the ecosystem of the lake but ended up failed or one of their team members drown to death. It was because of the huge amount of water plants inside the lake where divers were stuck inside of it.



I don’t know how true the story is but Tasik Chini’s view definitely surprised me. The time we went there was the lotus season and some part of the lake was full of lotus flowers. The view of lotus and the calm lake view definitely let me forgot about the coming examinations which I haven’t started studying.







Having enough of the big lake view, the guide took us to another part of Tasik Chini. It was the part of lake which was canopied by the rainforest.




There was a big hole by the lake side inside the canopied area where legend says that there was a damn huge snake inside the lake and the snake crawled to land at night. The snake was so huge that the hole that it created at the lakeside can fit two adults.

If the snake was real, I think it can swallow a space shuttle

The boat ride also included the visit to the Orang Asli’s village.

The Orang Asli kids with Susan, Amy and Tiffany (from left to right with colorful clothes)

When we reached there, we were welcomed by the friendly Orang Asli. Their village is just a few simple atap huts, no Astro, no computers, not even a proper gas stove, but yet the people there were satisfied at their standard of living and never had a thought of leaving for the cities, I guess this is how people have different levels of satisfaction. For me, my satisfaction level is at where I have all the supercars like Falali and Lembugini in my garage.

One of the old man in the Orang Asli village was kind enough to teach us how to hunt using their weapon of mass destruction.




A tube with poisonous sharp needle.



The old man let us try using it with a non-poisonous needle (just in case some people shoot it on other people’s buttocks) by targeting at a soft board set up nearby. I tried it and I think that I did quite well.

I seriously think that I can participate in the Beijing Olympic games

The boat trip ended after the Orang Asli village visit. When we came back on shore we saw something interesting.

A black and white squirrel.

The guide said that this kind of squirrel is called the Pahang squirrel, because its fur color matches the color of the Pahang state flag and can be only found in Pahang.

Pahang state flag

Now I wonder how Perlis squirrel will looks like…

Perlis state flag

Preparation for my graduation

I finished my studying days in UNITEN on mid of April 2008.

After studying very hard for 5 years to get my accounting degree, I am looking forward to attend my own graduation day where I can throw the “graduation square hat”, or whatever they called it, to mark the end of my studying days.

Studying very hard

My graduation is set on 23rd of August 2008 and I am already very excited about it.

But as one of the leading private universities in Malaysia, UNITEN decided that they wanted to give the students more sufferings before “releasing” them.

A month after I finished my FINAL final examinations, I received a snail mail from UNITEN regarding on how to register myself for the graduation day.

Macam-macam documents, just to attend a graduation ceremony

It was a simple letter judging by its looks, but hey, never judge a damn letter by its damn looks. I got a headache once I opened and read it.

To simplify things, UNITEN requires us to go through a lot of damn processes, just to attend a graduation day.

The first document in the letter was a cheque attached with a statement where UNITEN returned me the extra fees I paid during my studies, it was a RM330 cheque and I was glad that they returned it but not taking it as a donation from students.

My joy was short lived, ruined by the next document. The next document was basically 2 forms and a letter. I was required to fill in both the forms and pass one of it to the admin staffs at UNITEN after I pay RM150 at the finance department for the graduation fees. These two things have to be done before 1st August 2008. So I have to apply a 1 day annual leave just to go to UNITEN to pay them the damn RM150 and give them the damn form.

What the fuak, can’t they just minus it out from the extra money of RM330 and pay me back the balance of RM180 (RM330 – RM150)? Sounds stupid isn’t it? Seems like UNITEN is short of a good accountant.

The third document nearly made me ki siao, UNITEN became “cleverer” and asked us to collect our academic attire for the graduation between the period 19th to 22nd of August 2008. And there will be a rehearsal on 22nd August 2008.

I don’t think that I can do these two things one shot on 22nd of August, because almost all my seniors told me that we have to collect our academic attire on the first day (19th August) because if I go collect it on the last day (22nd August) all the “leftovers” academic attires’ sizes will be either too big or too small as the sizes are limited.

Two more annual leaves wasted just for the stupid graduation processes. One day for collecting academic attire and one day for rehearsal. UNITEN is definitely the BEST University in the entire universe.

In total, I have to take 3 days of annual leave just to settle everything so that I can sit inside the hall, wait for my name to be called and go on the stage and take my certificate. It’s just a simple graduation and UNITEN made it si pek difficult.

I don’t understand why UNITEN can’t just make all this stuff be done in ONE day and ONE place? I am not complaining about wasting my precious annual leaves to settle these things, I am complaining about the complicated and lengthy processes that made us fresh graduates look bad in the job market.

Bear in mind that we just started to work for only less than 4 months and are considered new joiners in the companies or firms. And yet we have to take 3 SEPARATE days of annual leave in one month. This is definitely not the best way to impress your boss as a new joiner.

Imagine your boss saying: “Wah… kerja tak sampai 4 bulan sudah mau guna semua annual leave kah?”

If UNITEN doesn’t want it’s graduates to leave a bad impression in the job market or got fired during the first few months of job, they better think of a 1-Stop solution for graduates to settle everything easily and can attend the graduation ceremony without losing their jobs.

Please lah, live it up to the name of one of the best private universities in Malaysia, and I really mean it.

How to eat fresh rambutans

First you need to find a rambutan tree full of rambutans.

Because most rambutan trees are quite tall, you need a special kind of scissors to cut the rambutans from the tree.

As most of the modern people today only know how to order rambutans online, this special scissors requires preparation by the experienced professionals.

The experienced professional

Inappropriate use of this special equipment may lead to you accidentally cut your own kukuciao off.

After the special equipment are ready to be used, just find rambutans from the tree and cut it by pulling one of the ropes, then the rambutans will fall onto the ground. Easy job.

If the dropping point of the rambutans is into the river, you need someone else to collect it before the rambutans dropped into the river.

Professional rambutan collector

If you have some kind of small hut where you can climb up onto the roof for easy access of the rambutans, just do it because you may save a lot of energy and time.

After you have done from the roof top, the way you jump down from the roof is very important or else you will break your legs.

The correct way to jump

Collect all the rambutans and put it under the sun for a while so that all the ants will go away.

Last step: Enjoy the rambutans.

How to eat fresh durians

First you have to determine when the durian season is and find a durian farm with lots of durian trees.

Before enter into the durian farm, you must apply mosquito repellant all over your body, because if you don’t, the mosquitoes will draw a “map” on you.

The "map"

To enter the durian farm, you’ll need a 4 wheel drive transport such as the Nissan X-Trail because if you drive our national car such as the Proton Perdana used by the Terengganu government, the harsh road condition will requires you fork out RM100,000 for repair just after 1 trip.

After you entered the durian farm, you need to travel light because collecting durians involves mountain climbing. So, there will be no iPods, no big ass sunglasses, no fancy shoes, and no heavy makeup. All you need to bring is a bottle of water, a camera to take funny photos and a cell phone just in case you are lost.

Durians usually will drop onto the ground when it’s ripe, so you must look carefully because the color of the durian is the same as the bushes.

When you found durians, you must do whatever you can to get those precious fruits because it’s expensive and it’s delicious.

If you fall down during durian collecting, you must take photos as evidence to show that you fall down on a muddy path or else other people will think that you shit in your pants.

If you need to throw durians to your friends from lower terrains, the correct way to throw it is to shout ‘Look out!!!’ then throw it to an empty spot so that you can save a trip visiting your friends at the hospital.

Step 1: Aim for an empty spot and shout "Look Out !!!"

Step 2: Throw towards the empty spot

For some people durians taste like shit, but for most Malaysians, durians are good shit.

It does looks like shit, but it tastes good

After collecting as many durians as you can carry, head downhill to the nearest hut so that you can open the durians with tools such as knifes or screwdrivers.

Beware of worms inside the durians before eating it because the worms look like this:

I don’t think anyone of you want to eat that together with durians.

Durian, bagus! Belilah satu hari ini juga!

If you like the durians, you must give a good sign with your thumb up and smile to the camera like those old-fashioned advertisements.

This is how Malaysians eat fresh durians in the durian farm.