Jack Murphy

Damn this guy is funny!

Jack Murphy is my long time golf buddy at Beijing. Even though the generation gap (his eldest son is 38 years old), I can see how he was a cool dude when he was younger coz he’s still cool as shit now.

Staying at a baller pad and with a baller car in Beijing. I’ve been riding with him to golf and back almost every Sunday. One of the best guys to play golf with, always smiling, never in a bad mood, and always encouraging and motivating. No wonder he’s where he is today.

Hope he comes visit Malaysia soon or else I’ll have to go to Kentucky to find this dude.

Check him out https://www.facebook.com/jack.murphy.98892

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After one day, he sent me another picture:

Here he is smoking them cigars while playing golf.

Malaysian go away dinner at Beijing

I have been here in Beijing for 2 years. As much as I’m reluctant to leave, I’m also excited at the new opportunity that awaits. The close Malaysian friends I have here in Beijing decided to do a quick get together before I leave.

From left to right: Clarice, whom I hang out with quite a bit because she’s cool, lame, and stays very nearby; Joanne, whom I met from Clarice that also likes to rock climb; Gerry, Steph Chew’s sister who is super cool and a super salesperson; Nicholas Chay, visiting from KL and just taking a quick look around here in China for the first time; me, yes you don’t recognize me because I didn’t put any product on my hair; Saichow, CHS-mate that’s also leaving Beijing for good in Oct; Clare, Chet’s wife who is sure still young at heart on the dance floor; Chet, CHS-mate; and Aikseng, CHS-mate:

 

Nicholas, doing the Nicholas:

I’m sure I’ll do some real ABC when I’m back in KL, although I’m not a big ABC fan:

With the Lau’s:

This better not happen in real life:

The restaurant we were at was called Boston (yes, weird name too). I don’t know why we got together at a Malaysian restaurant to celebrate 2 people leaving back to Malaysia. Didn’t make sense, but the company was good.

Make money by making my wife pregnant

Yes. These ads always appear on Beijing bus stands, roadsides, pillars. I’m not sure if I understand correctly, but you get paid millions for impregnating someone’s wife because that guy is infertile. I’d be surprised if people believe something like this. If they do, there has to be a business model that can be worked out of this.

CHS in Beijing

On Zibin’s second day in Beijing, I bumped into this very familiar face in Yigongyishan, a club for rock music bands. From afar, I was looking at him, and was wondering if that was really Zibin, a friend that I haven’t seen for 10 years after high school. I was thinking it would be too small a world to meet someone from the same high school in the same city away from home 10 years after graduation and still look the same.

I went up to speak to him to make sure, and wallahhhh it was Zibin.

Then found out that Aikseng was in town as well, married and with a kid, and doing very well here in Beijing. We had dinner about a month ago.

Then found out Saichow, a senior from CHS, was telling Zibin that he keeps seeing this familiar face (me) at Xiu everytime he goes there. But wasn’t sure if it was me. Apparently I go there too much, according to him, I won’t deny, it’s just across the street.

So finally we decided, that there are too many CHS people in Beijing to not meet up. So we did last Friday and had a blast! Started off with dinner at Malacca Legend and continued on to Spark.

Of course it wasn’t a fully CHS affair. For dinner we had Lynn, Jane, Clarice, Elena, Claire, Robin join us as well in addition to the CHS-ians which included Ting Nan, Favian, and Chet Terng. Was great to meet everyone again and have some familiar Malaysian food.

At Spark, as regular as it seems, we met more Singaporeans (friends’ of Saichow and Elena) there. Oh boy did it get rowdy with the amount of alcohol that was consumed that night. Didn’t remember much of what happened that evening, not sure if anyone did. But have to say, I did have a good time!

Muay Thai in Beijing

Haven’t showed any pictures with me doing Muay Thai before since I’ve been doing it for a while (been showing way more golf pictures haha). Actually started kickboxing in Jan 2007 in Minneapolis, MN when introduced by Nicholas Lee who was then doing this almost everyday, including getting punched in the face every Saturday morning at 9am during sparring after getting smashed/drunk on Friday night. I would wake up at noon on Saturday only to see Nick coming back from sparring session with a blue eye.

So that was where kickboxing started. Then I went back to Malaysia and continued at TNT kickboxing at Desa Seri Hartamas ever since for the whole time until I got to Beijing.

Then when I got to Beijing last September, I had to find another gym to continue working out. So I found this gym called Club Hero but was focusing more on Muay Thai than kickboxing. So that’s where more knees, elbows and roundhouses came in. No more side kicks, ducking, back kicks, hook kicks.

Now I’m at a gym called Battle Club since Club hero closed down and I must admit it’s not cheap for Muay Thai here in Beijing, wasn’t cheap in KL anyway. But it’s a good way to work out without being starred at by gay people at the normal gym.

Not like there’s anything to stare at anyway.