Eulogy to my dearly departed Father on 21 Dec 2010 . We love you Papak..

Good afternoon
Father Simon Poh,Dato ,my mum relative and friends

I Wenceslas Tan am here today representing my mum, 4 brothers and sister in laws (Christopher and Doreen, )  my wife Rosalind ,Ivan,Victor and Phylis, my one n only sister, Jannie,  ,John and  Sui yeen,  and my 3 nephews and 6 nieces.
My father , A truly kind and loving and  a very compassionate man
He gave us love courage and strength.
He showed us love by loving his mother dearly, our  gradma and my mum and all of us very much. My mom is always and will be forever  the love of his life.He loves us too, there'd was incident,he use to come back to Kuching when he was working in Bau in the 60's during a big flood he swim across streches of water through rubber  garden and spend a night in a malay  house  and walked until he was in  Kuching just to be with us.Their  commitment to one another is a true example of a loving family   Through hardship and joy hn bringing up all the children to be good people.
His love for us is gentle  and sweet.
At  times he is stern and strict,all these is because he knows what is best .
He brought adventures to our life by bringing us to various town where he had worked in public works department (JKR), Serian in the early sixties ,building the serian Sri Aman ,and also Bau.then in the 70's , to Gedong . whenever  I think of my childhood ,which I think my brother and I Sister would agree , was  fun,adventurous and instilled in us the love for nature and had the opportunity to meet other people  while  building these roads and bridges
Our strong family bond , respecting each other, a family , that stays  together is not an easy  task as building road n bridges.  He showed love,  kindness and compassion.
He showed us how to live a good Christian life,he would wake up early in the morning 3am ,light up the candle and read the bible and prayed daily. ,there was an instance when he suffered a second stroke and completely confined to wheel chair,during a divine mercy Sunday three years ago ,the lord spoke to him  you can wak now, he woke up and from that day onward he can walk.
He is a very hardworking man and my mum will always tell us
"dad is working overtime today"
He instilled in us that altitude and culture to work hard and live honestly.Born  11 may 1929, dad had a difficult childhood. Our grandad passed away when my papak was five years old. But the good Lord blessed him . He worked hard and we all grew up , having the best what dad and mom can provide for us.
he passed away peacefully on the 19 December  2010 at the age of 81.
His last few days was very difficult but he showed courage.
His last words to my mum
" that he is truly blessed
He  was happy and is very grateful for caring for him all these years, That he knows she love him very much."
Let me end my this short speech
It is by saying,  we love our papak very much , growing up is about his heart,
and getting very close to him , that kept the family together and our thought of him will always make us think about all the meaningful things in life and also in knowing and loving God more. What you see now, all of his children respecting, loving and supporting one another, is the result of our dad.
I read this , from lance, a favorite boy whom my dad and mum love very much.
Lance is 12 years old today. My mom looked after him when he was one month old. We grew very fond to him,lance we love you too.
Thank you all for your presence, support and prayers during this time of loss.

Beautiful Shanghai

It's getting colder by the day in China and after the freezing cold in Beijing it was welcoming to be in sunny Shanghai with a more beareable temperature of about 12 deg Celcius. Went straight to The Bund and it was indeed a lovely sight, more pictures coming but these by the iPhone.

It's cool to be green!

I have been accused of being materialistic and I can see why. All the cars that I love are high powered German or Italian supermodels. All the watches that I love are also likewise. However I beg to differ from such accusations because I love these things from an engineering point of view. Because these cars are beautifully designed and engineered, there are superb cars and naturally,very sought after and expensive. There's a saying in the aviation world, "if it looks good, it flies good too". My last beloved car was a VW GTi Mk V, it won numerous Car of the Year Award internationally, the TFSi Engine also won awards and the DSG gearbox in still unbeatable and copied from all other makes. The other reason I love this car is how VW is able to give big power to a small package. CO2 emission is incredible for a car with sports inclination. It's less of a guilt trip like saying I have the dessert but will run extra 5 km after that.

 However, you will soon realized when crawling in any of the inescapable daily jam in KL that all these power goes to waste! Imagine if all the standstill vehicles shut off their engine for 5 minutes daily! How much fuel we saved and how much carbon foot print we reduced! A few months ago my beloved GTI was hijacked at knife point and as much as I love to replace it with a MK VI, I get a phobia of being hijack again. The quest for a feel good factor while driving not necessary comes from 0-100 dash times or how little body roll exists when I dive into a chicane but from knowing that you are in a seat of future motoring technology and you are saving a ton of Co2 emission a year. Yes ladies and gentlemen you are looking at the proud owner of the latest and last Honda Civic Hybrid in Malaysia! FYI, the Honda CRZ Hybrid just won Japan Car of the Year! I can assure you it's a matter of time before you drive one. So why wait when you can do it now, go on join the green brigade.......don't you know it's cool to be green!
Good article on here.

Time is Money....literally!

My latest acquisition is the Rolex GMT ll Ceramic. This is a practical watch for pilots who frequently traverse numerous time zones in a single flight. More than just a mere watch, I consider it part of my flying equipment. The original GMT were designed for Pan Am pilots. This watch is beautifully crafted, tough and yet refine. My intimate and perfect companion, I love it!

In action at 40K ft!

Top Down Pleasure!

Was back in Kuching for a few days and had the pleasure of being picked up Tim my best friend in by a Porsche Boxster S. Nothing beats driving with the wind in your hair, sunnies on and hearing the wonderful exhaust note from sports car! Thanks Tim. 

Some cuties in Chengdu.

On another trip to china, this time was in Chengdu. Found out that there is Panda research base and took 45 min by cab. You would instantly fall in love with these seemingly docile and not a care in the world attitude of these lovely cute creatures. Just eat, sleep, eat some more and sleep some more but much loved by everyone.

Guanzhou, China

Was in Guangzhou for a few days. Unfortunately it was raining for a few days and I forgot my back up battery so did a limited shoot at Yiuxiu Park and Chinese muslims celebratinn Aidil Adha.

Nothing like......

having the top down in a sports car in sunny Houston!

Sarawak Borneo

Travel Log KUL-SIN-HOU

The journey has begun! KLIA-CHANGI-MOSCOW-HOUSTON....26 hours of flying. Boy or boy. More photos in linked album.

How do you like my new office?

Well folks I have finally hang up my guns so to speak. So I am moving to a new equipment, a Bombardier Challenger CL 601-3R! A mid size corporate jet! Am heading to Houston for some training before I flew this beauty!

Cool app on iPhone.

iPhone3Gs 3 megapixel built in camera is relatively a very basic offering compared to some of the

other more popular makes like Nokia or Samsung. It doesn't even have a flash! Nevertheless there's a ton of apps that you can pick and choose to make it interesting. You can geotagged yout images, upload it on the fly to your online album, bog or the ever popular FB. 

iPhone Pixs

I have been trying out some iPhone photography apps. The few free apps  I have tried so far are fantastic.

• Camera Plus. Add extra controls into your basic camera function which Apple should have included in the 1st place. Thumbs Up.
• Vintage Shift. Gives a tilt & shift effect to the pix. Thumbs Up.
• PS Mobile. This the best free app from Adobe so far. Let's you edit images and upload it to your online album at photoshop.com.  You can then further edit the pictures here. Double thumbs up.

Don't you wish?

That on a sunny sunday you are at a beautiful white sandy beach with warm blue surf and crystal clear blue skies! Ahh that's Bali.

Isle of Gods, Bali Indonesia.

Had a wonderful weekend in Bali, truly an island for the Gods, with the numerous temples amidst exotic settings. The places that all visitors should at least go in Bali are, Ubud, Tanah Lot and Uluwatu.

This was take at the Ubud market Temple where beautiful maidens made their rounds of offerings and prayers.

Little offerings.

Aerial Photography

Went flying over KL city today with a buddy with intention of getting some nice city shots. Unfortunately sky was a bit hazy and reflective panel from the windshield also gave some minor problems, nevertheless flying was fun!

From Tokina 12-24mm F4

From Tokina 12-24mm F4

Evening Shoot

Was out with Andi shopping for some camera stuffs. Had dinner & happy hour trying out his new 100mm F 2.8 IS L. What a super sharp lens with awesome image stabilisers. (sans flash of course)

Andi (sharp even at 1/13 sec!)

Enoying Happy Hour

Dinner@Roadside

A friendly company @ 1/8 sec,amazing!

Gave myself a month to shape up.

I have been going regularly to the gym and my routine would be to do some 30-40mins workout followed by a 10-15mins run. Objective was just to stay in shape but through out the time that I started at the gym, some of those serious guys really bulked up and I am amazed at the rate they can do it. One common thing I found was that they were taking some supplements, mainly protein to sustain and build their muscles. So all these while I could have had better results with the same amount of effort that I was doing. So I ordered my protein from one of the regulars and gave myself a month to get into even better shape.
See if I'll get ripped in a month! Note: can u spot Barney sleeping in the gym?

Note To God

Lyrics

Singapore AirShow 2010

We were fortunate enough to be invited to the Singapore Airshow 2010 on the 3rd Feb 2010. Flew into Payar Lebar Airbase and a tour bus shuttled us to the Airshow. First 3 days were opened for trade visitors but there were not many aerial shows. Most of the major players were present and Gulfstream came in full force with G550, G450,G200 & G200 there. Ofcourse the RSAF showed off their recently acquired AEW G550.It was scorching hot and didn't manage to get many photos.


Queuing to shoot Airbus latest A330 Freighter!

All the gleaming bizjets with the RSAF displaying their skills in the background.

Globemaster lll

1st photoshoot 2010

Happy new Year to All! For the start of 2010, went out with fellow shutterbug buddy Andreas for an urban photshoot. Plan is to indulge more in interesting subjects and locations.

Tartan Hats Brigade!