Formosa Yang Mei

During my recent trip to Taipei, I took a chance for a round of golf with my Taipei Golf kaki. It was on Wednesday 26 April 2008. We played at the Formosa Yang Mei, which is about 90 mins drive from where I stay in Yang Ming San.

Enjoy the views!

We start from hole #10 that day.

View of the club house for hole #10.

Hole #10 fairway.

A top view from one of the hole (I don't remember which!)


Another top view.

And another top view from one of the tee box.

Overlooking view of the fairway on the left.


View from hole #18.


Our scores that day!

Swing Sequence - Mantal

I caught this at the driving range recently. A swing by one of Brunei's single handicapper. Represented Brunei in the Brunei Open during the past few years. He is Suhaimi Ibrahim also known as Mantal.

Beautiful swing!

Going West for the East!

Recently I have a trip going west-ward to play at Miri's Eastwood Valley Golf Club.

I can't rememebr which hole is which, so I can't label the pics.

It was really a nice trip. The cream of it was, when I birdied two holes.

:)

Easy vs Difficult

Easy is to judge the mistakes of others
Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes

Easy is to talk without thinking
Difficult is to refrain the tongue

Easy is to hurt someone who loves us.
Difficult is to heal the wound...

Easy is to forgive others
Difficult is to ask for forgiveness

Easy is to set rules.
Difficult is to follow them...

Easy is to dream every night.
Difficult is to fight for a dream...

Easy is to show victory.
Difficult is to assume defeat with dignity...

Easy is to admire a full moon.
Difficult to see the other side...

Easy is to stumble with a stone.
Difficult is to get up...

Easy is to enjoy life every day.
Difficult to give its real value...

Easy is to promise something to someone.
Difficult is to fulfill that promise...

Easy is to say we love.
Difficult is to show it every day...

Easy is to criticize others.
Difficult is to improve oneself...

Easy is to make mistakes.
Difficult is to learn from them...

Easy is to weep for a lost love.
Difficult is to take care of it so not to lose it.

Easy is to think about improving.
Difficult is to stop thinking it and put it into action...

Easy is to think bad of others
Difficult is to give them the benefit of the doubt...

Easy is to receive
Difficult is to give

Easy to read this
Difficult to follow

Easy is keep the friendship with words
Difficult is to keep it with meanings

[Received this from a friend. Thanks!]

Bingka Susu

I got two old recipes for Bingka Susu from a colleague, for my wife. Where she got it from her mom. Thanks a lot to Hjh Wizana.

BINGKA SUSU - Ver 1

BAHAN2-NYA:

1 chawan kastad

1/2 chawan tepong gandum

3 biji telor

1 chawan mentega atau majerin

1 chawan gula

1/2 tin susu manis

1/2 tin sus chair

1 chamcha teh vanilla

MEMBUAT-NYA:

Kachau kastad dengan ayer sejok, tumpahkan ayer panas (buat saperti kanji). Lepas itu sejokkan. Pukul mentega dan gula sampai kambang masokkan telor sa-biji2, tepong gandum dan kastad di-sejokkan, sus manis dan susu chair gaul rata2.

Alas achuan dengan kertas minyak, sapu mentega, tuang adunan ka-dalam-nya, bakar di-api sederhana. Apabila sejok boleh-lah di-masokkan ka-dalam peti sejok.

Bingka Susu - Ver 2

Bahan2-nya
10 biji telor
2 tin susu chair
1 tin susu manis
1 tin mentiga jangan di-habiskan
4 sudu makan gula
4 sudu makan tepung
1 sudu vanilla

Peraturan-nya
Mentiga di-kachau sama susu manis, telor di-kachau jangan kambang, kemudian semua-nya jadikan satu. Alas achuandengan kertas minyak. Kemudian di-bakar sampai masak dan sejok.

Selamat mencuba!

Jamaican gets a bank loan

This one is good. It takes a Jamaican to come up with this. Actually I received this from a friend.

A young Jamaican man walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to Jamaica on a vacation for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.

The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for the loan, so the Jamaican man hands over the keys to a new BMW 740i. The car is parked on the street in front of the bank. The Jamaican produces the title and everything checks out. The loan officer agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan.

The bank's president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the Jamaican for using a $80,000 BMW as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drives the BMW into the bank's underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, the Jamaican man returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41.

The loan officer says, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a successful business man. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"

The Jamaican replies: "Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return?"

The bank employees watch as he pulls out of the garage, windows down and sunroof open. The music was blasting from his car as he pulled away, "We run things, things no run we, everything we do, it done properly."

FAKE friends vs REAL friends

I receive this from a friend thru my e-mail. I would like to share this. It is about the difference between FAKE friends and REAL friends.

FAKE FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
REAL FRIENDS: Is the reason you have no food.

FAKE FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr / Mrs
REAL FRIENDS: Call your parents DAD/MOM

FAKE FRIENDS: Never seen you cry
REAL FRIENDS: Cry with you

FAKE FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back
REAL FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours

FAKE FRIENDS: Know a few things about you
REAL FRIENDS: Could write a book about you with direct quotes from you

FAKE FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing
REAL FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds butt that left you

FAKE FRIENDS: Would knock on your front door
REAL FRIENDS: Walk right in and say 'I'M HOME!'

FAKE FRIENDS: Are for awhile
REAL FRIENDS: Are for life

FAKE FRIENDS: Will talk bad to the person who talks bad about you.
REAL FRIENDS: Will knock the person out that talked bad about you

However, when you read this, you are my friends! No matter FAKE or REAL!