OK... 9 more to go...Cannot procrastinate anymore.

9. Is it me or is this country full of slow-down bumps on the road? At least it stopped those idiotic pelumba motor kapcai haram from racing around my flat making super duper noises and making me lose my sleep. Thank God for Malaysian road bumps and I mean it! (though some idiots tend to vandalize the signboard lah, you Malaysians should know what I mean)

8. Thank you Malaysia for the likes of Yasmin Ahmad, Michelle Yeoh, Nicole David, Wong Mei Choo and Wong Choong Han. These are the people who stood up on their own feet, being famous world wide and made us proud whilst being humble at the same time. Yeah, especially Nicole and Yasmin. Salute 'em.

7. Rain, lots of rain. Yes, despite us complaining about the rain spoiling our day or the floods coming up, rain is like heaven especially with the hot hazy tropical weather now. So thank God for rain.

6. Malaysian radiowaves with an amalgamation of songs that are either English, Malay, Indian, Chinese can do serious hypnosis on your brain. Yesterday I came down from the RapidKL bus, humming and drumming to the Indian song that was playing and the Malay bus driver was tapping on his steering wheel to the beat of the same song too.

5. Again, like those imported English childhood stories, we have the local children stories, like the Pak Pandir series, Hang Nadim, and stories that always, always involve names like Abu, Ah Chong and Siva, or Pak Lebai and his wife.

4. Malaysian Mega Sales annual triple series! 20, 30 or even up to 70% discounts! Enuff said... :D

3. Scaling mountains, island hopping, backpacking through the jungles, swimming in beautiful waterfalls, boating through rivers, wading through underground streams in humongous caves; and that is just a handful of the natural beauties Malaysia can offer!

2. My roots are here. Though my ancestors' origin were the islands of Polynesia (yeah, read up about the chronicles of how the Melanaus came to Sarawak in the first place) and my grandfather was an immigrant from China, my roots have gone too deep and long down here, that being in another country just seemed... wrong. Despite all the misgivings of this country, yes, my roots belonged here.

1. I am born here. I have a country that is called my own. Isn't that something we always take for granted?

Now all that is done...

I just saw Reza, my DVM senior on 8tv! And showing off what he loves the most, wrestling with crocodiles on camera! Woot!