On food

Wow, Papa John sucks big time. I have never tasted such pizza before. I have no more appetite after the first bite, and we left half the pizza there. The cheese doesn't even taste like cheese, okay, it is cheese but definitely it doesn't taste like those cheese you found in pizza. And the breadsticks, it is big (like a sausage) and dry and the taste is just not that. This is our first visit there and it will be our last as well. Bleh...

We had dinner at Apartment in Curve yesterday and I heard that the bill comes up to MYR 2xxx. Well, it's still quite cheap considering we have about 26 people there.

So now, between La Risata and Michaelangelo, which one would you choose?

Waiting for 8GB tar file to be untar

Even though we have a 10k rpm Raptor HDD, it is still crap slow.

Ah, I don't know what to do blog. Should I just stop blogging?

Self discipline

Those who lacked of it is really unpleasant to be with.

Transporter 3

Okay, I have to admit it's getting too dull.
First transporter episode is superb, second is so-so, third is a definite no-no.
The fighting scenes are all jumping here and there, it's like hiding up some details of the fight so we can't see that Jason can't really fight.
They should learn from Wong Fei Hung movies on how to record a fighting scene, or maybe Dragon Tiger Gate.

And the secret agents chasing Jason's car scene, those agents have machine guns and they can't even land a single shot on Jason's car. Why not give me the gun and I'm sure I can land at least 10 shots on the car. And also, why they have never thought of using machine at the beginning when they saw Jason's car? Illogical!

I hate it when a movie is too shallow. We are not dumb!

Anyway, I'm so sleepy.

Plastic is back!

I got my plastic back! Now with Wave feature. Still the expiry date the same. :(

Bloody hell! Drove his 2800 CC straight six to Ampang and back just now, it was simply amazing! 0 km/h to 100 km/h uphill, in just 6 seconds. There was one car from behind, already at steady 100 km/h, wanted to overtake us but he fails and the car easily reach 120 km/h at the top of the hill and if we pressed on further, it can easily reach 160 and beyond. But nah, it was raining and it's too dangerous even with ABS and stability control.

The fuel consumption meter is still in analog form and it's really cute. You can see it swinging from left to right, right to left when we accelerate the car. It is counted in L/100km. Not sure how accurate is that.

Surely that car is powerful. Floor the pedal and it is screaming (silently) you can see the speedometer goes up like crazy. 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, each with only one second passed. Ah...

But it's just too expensive in a country like Malaysia.

Plastic no more

She lost hers, I lost mine.
Hopefully mine is a honest one, but her's wasn't.
You know, I can always help.

Was it my tastebud?

Or their culinary skills has become worse.

We went to Cova the other day, had the stuffed chicken breast with lots of mashed potatoes, and some fried vegetables. It just doesn't suit my appetite anymore. It was fine, very nice when we went there for the 1st time few months ago. Anyway, I'll skip that out when we go to MV next time, the white chocolate drink.. it taste like coffee! Hmm. Maybe I miss Starbucks too much. *Shall ... not ... contribute ... to ... Berjaya ... group ... anymore*

Then we went to Tian Siang for steamboat today. It is.. a pure Taiwanese restaurant, no one can speak Cantonese in there. And the spicy soup is really pure wicked spicy. And they don't serve tea! They give us.. some kind of herbal.. concoction as drinks? It is not so bad (as it's sweet, so it canceled out the spicy taste somehow).

The chicken is super nice! Although the portion is not as big as in 1+1 (which gave us 123456789 pieces of chicken), and we got conned over the beef. They are doing some serious promotion there, free 50 bucks voucher for every meal spent there. Not too shabby.

Difficult times

Year end is always very difficult for some of us.

Pasar malam!

We bought tonnes of food from Pasar Malam yesterday! I have to admit the biscuit is a bit expensive, looks like it will taste better than the normal Tiger that I'm eating, but the Po Piah is so good! I feel like I can eat 10 of them in one row. And green coloured drink rox! I want more plum!

Time flies nowadays.

Old Town Kopitiam

Just got back from there, I think we had too much of Kopitiam food lately. Not only the food actually, even the drinks. I lost my appetite halfway chewing through the rice, and the drinks made it worse. Urgh! I think we will avoid it for the rest of this year.

Ate some homemade noodle this afternoon and the portion served is so little for an exorbitant price. They must be making a fortune there. But surely it taste good!

More and more work piled up waiting to be done. I don't know which way to go... Shall I accumulate more knowledge first or shall I accumulate more money first?

If I accumulate more money first, I would have more to spend in the near future, if I accumulate more knowledge first, it would be easier for me to find job next time. Argh!

Keeping up

Might need to get a new PC to keep up with Windows Vista..

About exercising

After slacking off for about 8 years now since secondary school, I haven't been doing any real exercise.

We used to cycle for more than 5km daily, going to Sea Rescue training every weekend, playing basketball on non-tuition weekdays and weekends, and also playing badminton/table tennis almost everyday.

I doubt if I still can swim for more than 400 metres now.

Hello Jakarta!

All taken from the Hotel.

Why it's easier to be the bad guy instead of the good guy

When we are the good guy, sometimes people won't notice, and we get nothing in return.
When we are the bad guy, if people don't notice, we will get more in return.

Good guy need to be afraid of bad guy but bad guy does not need to be afraid of good guys. Example? Good guy goes into the bank to deposit 10k of cash, bad guy came in with a gun to rob the bank. Can the good guy not to be afraid?

What makes a bad guy? Opinions, laws, common sense, etc. If there is no good guy and bad guy in the world, the world would surely be a better place....

A few weeks ago I purchased a laptop and then a server using my CC and it has only 500 bucks left in the credit limit.

Today I purchased another laptop and then we book the flight ticket and hotel using my CC and there's less than 500 left in the credit limit.

Gee. I'm leaving on a jet place with almost unusable credit card.

Singapore Grand Prix

Alonso won again! This time in ING uniform.

It's amazing that Singaporeans can convert the circuit back to the normal street for traffic within 10 hours. Gee. First time F1 being held at night. I guess raining would make it all more challenging.

Massa drove out of the pit too fast, and he dragged the fuel tube and also person holding the tube together. Hopefully it's just a minor accident.

Belle is pee-ing again. Oh well.

Grateful

I'm grateful to have a house to shelter me during rain.
I'm grateful to be able to wake up every morning to enjoy the lovely weather.
I'm grateful to be able to serve people for another day.
I'm grateful to have such a good job.
I'm grateful to have such a loving girlfriend.
...

Lets admit it

Lets go stay in Mars instead of Earth.

Junction in life

Finally I have reached another junction of my life. Shall I turn left or right?

Making money works

By leeching off the rich.

He got the Porsche spare parts from Singapore at a cost price of 4k SGD, but he charged the customers here 8k SGD, and they are still paying him happily. In the end, you get a new spare parts, a happy customer, a happy sales man, a happy mechanic, and a happy vendor.

Money makes the world go round.

It has been a long time

Pudu is still so packed nowadays.
Ate the wonton noodle at one of the shops there but it's a bit too dry.
The wonton taste astonishingly good.

Paid 30 cents just to use the washroom.
Paid 2 bucks for the parking.

Chance to spend time with my mom? Priceless!

Our customers were the first one to wish me on this big day.

Truth or lies?

How does a lie become the truth? Just keep on repeating it every time until everyone forgets what's the original truth, then a lie will become the truth.

It's sad when truth cannot be seen sometimes. Nowadays it takes skill to present a truth even. A truth presented badly might be treated as a lie.

Coconut

Ran over a coconut yesterday and the car starting to give some funny sound.
That crap coconut.

Langkawi people can work really late. I'm waiting for a call from someone who's suppose to go to Four Seasons to troubleshoot something but they haven't called yet.

About life

Life is too short to be moody, because when we are moody, we get mad easily.
Life is too short to be angry, when we are angry, there's no productivity.
Even if there's productivity, it's productivity without producing anything useful.

Looking back in time

I haven't really been spending enough time with him.

When I was in secondary school, he wanted to send me to school but I insisted to cycle to school myself. After school, he wanted to send me to tuition but I insisted to let my friend fetched me. He wanted me to attend piano lessons but sometimes I skipped them. He wanted me to learn calligraphy but I decided to stop halfway. He wanted me to learn drawing but I told him that I have no more time for this kind of classes.

When my sister was still in secondary school, we always go up to Ipoh once a fortnight to visit the Tun Razak library for story books. When my sister was in college, we always come up to KL for one day trip - to shop for computer parts that I want.

I wanted him to live a relaxing life after his retirement but he knew that he would have to work even after retirement because there's no way he can support the family by just living on pension.

I know he always wanted the best for us, but it's just that sometimes we don't know how to appreciate it. I haven't had the chance to thank him yet. But he just left like that.

It's funny that I haven't shed a drop of tears for him back then but now the tears are swelling in my eyes whenever I think of him.

I know it's over a long time ago but.. there are just so many things that I wanted to talk to him.

...

I just need to rest for a while.

Crazy schedule on Monday

Would have to work until 12 midnight.

That's actually nothing.

I have tried not sleeping for 2 days straight, and on the third day, everything feels numb. Food is tasteless and nothing can make me excited anymore.

Dumb keyboard! Lesson learnt today, we should never buy wireless keyboard for gaming.

A new millionaire

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/Frontpage/20080821111132/Article/index_html

I hate to say this but isn't it a bit too easy for 2 million bucks?

Some people can work for their whole life, even after a few generations of family, they still could not accumulate 2 million bucks.

Concept of time is funny

The customer said he will be back in 30 minutes but it's already 1 hour and we don't see him around.

The person suppose to come for interview today but he did not make it and only called us AFTER the interview time - And he made me skip my lunch

Sometimes the interview is scheduled at 10 am but they can arrive at the office at 9 am.

Sometimes customer can call you from the other side of earth without realizing there is a huge time difference between you and him.

Having fever is fun

Under a hot sun, you can walk for miles before starting to sweat.
You just can't sleep at night no matter how hard you try.
You won't feel hungry even a day without foot.
You just don't care about what's around you until it's too late.
You won't feel pain even when your hand is bleeding.
You feel thirsty all the time.
You can drink 10 cups of water without going to pee.
You can speak Cantonese, Hokkien and Mandarin in one sentence.

You feel that your body is lighter now...

Tricks or treat?

Next week there will be 2 shortlist candidates coming for the final assessment. I would need to prepare a simple test for them. And we will pick the final candidate based on the test result.

Here's what I can think of, instead of let them use the Windows that they are familiar with, I'm going to boot them into Linux and let it run off Knoppix. I'll give them a 10 minutes crash course with our system and give them a chance to ask questions for 10 minutes, and finally let them fix the things in 10 minutes.

Been spending a lot of NPE nowadays as I went down to Subang twice last week. Somehow the car fuel consumption is not that high compare to new cars, I have estimated it wrongly. Well, time to do new homework again. The secret project!

Game over

The kitten is dead. Somehow he was not breathing when we found him, with his front leg possibly broken already. Poor thing. Just minutes ago, we saw him still in his usual self. Lazying around and asking for food all the time.

Life is cruel.
To be born into this world itself is cruel.
All living things shall die one day.
Time waits for no one.
Why should we be sad when we understand this?

I'm a boring person

Well, I spend my times regarding Harvard e-Articles and Kiyosaki's.
Occasionally business reviews and Forbes.
Wikipedia is my closest friend, when I have nothing to do, I can spend my time looking up random words and each random article lead to new article.
I can't survive without Internet.
Without a PC is even worse.

Random stuff

When I was changing the theme for my Windows today, suddenly all went black. Yeah, both the background, the window, and the font went black. Can see nothing at all. Totally nothing. Right after the windows logo went missing from a successful boot up, the screen is blank.

Hopefully I have another laptop here which, I guess the keyboard shortcut to restore back my theme. Gee. Lesson learnt for today, do not mess with the Windows theme if you do not know what you're dealing with.

Work came in like no tomorrow today. Complains, questions, problems, all coming at the same time. Calls, text, mails, messenger, gee, I need two lines of task bar in order to show of them without scrolling up and down.

To live in this country is like living next to a black hole. You need to work twice as hard as living in other country to survive, wait, was it twice? I think it's thrice, that is to keep out of the black hole. Some people were born with a golden spoon, some people are genetically blessed to live a good life, some people are just plain lucky. The rest would work hard for the rest of their life and so on with their next generations.

Financial intelligence, when you are just one like me, no matter what amount of financial intelligence you have, you can proceed by living off foodcourts and mamaks. I just don't want the government to suck off so much of our money, can or not?

Bat man!

Is he hot?

Come on, which actor is not hot?

The world is sick.

Short post

My housemate has just bought a BMW and he's complaining about his life nowadays.
Gee, some people can never be satisfied. :D

Just in case you didn't know, Malaysia is one of the most expensive place to live in the world! When the national car is selling at 50k while fresh grad is getting only 2k a month pay, you know you are in deep shit when you are staying in a place called KL.

Internet Explorer sux big time! Can they please fix the printing bug? It's driving us nuts.

Last year

On this date, it was my first time going up to Genting, and got sick shortly afterwards. This year, on this date, I nearly broke up with my dear but I guess the relationship survived another day of hardship. What doesn't kill it, shall make it stronger. :)

Good bye casing

After using the casing for about... 7 years now. Finally I can afford to change to a newer computer casing.

When I was bought the casing, it was quite state of the art because most of the part are tool-less. At that time, nobody would have thought of that. And it's using really high quality SECC metal sheet (and that makes it twice as heavy as normal casing).

The casing has changed its heart many times, first it was an Athlon Thunderbird 1 Ghz, then we changed it to Celeron 2.4 Ghz, then we changed it to Pentium 4 3.0E, then we changed it to Pentium D 2.8, then now it's using Pentium D 3.0.

Surely it brought back some memories...

Perfect sleep

Why did you left me?

Why do I keep waking up after one hour or so?

Why I can't have dreams anymore?

Do you know I'll be tired in the morning?

Sigh. Looks like I have to help myself to a generous amount of coffee tomorrow.

Movie review

Journey to the centre of the earth!

It is loosely based on the book. I don't remember that they have to sit on Dinosaur skull when they were shot out of the geyser. And also, I remember something like a gigantic homo-sapien appearing in the book but not in the movie. The carnivorous plant is moving really fast. Since it has no problem with feeding, I wonder why we can't see it today? But the centre of the earth.. will never have a place like that. It is all molten lava. Waking up to the mouth of a fish looking like that is.. priceless!

HellBoy 2!

It is becoming more of a love story to anything else. I don't see a reason why those small flying things don't bite the mutants but they only chose to bite the human. That's so illogical. And the big plant monster is really easy to kill. Gee, and the elf is playing kung-fu. I can't imagine any further.

I'm a morning guy

I love sunrise! The moment right before the sun rays penetrate the morning darkness is a moment to behold! When I was back in primary school and high school, I would prefer to cycle to school so that I can spend a longer time observing the sky, unless when it's raining.

While flying on the plane, there's no sunrise or sunset because without the clouds, the sun would be so bright and it's no longer possible to stare at it with bare eyes without burning a hole in your retina.

I'm always more willing to wake up early than to sleep late. But sometimes work just eat away your schedule and there's nothing we can do about it.

Goodbye Nuffnang

It is way too slow. First it has to connect to synad.nuffnang, then it has to wait for Google Analytics to load. Before that my blog loading time was less than 5 seconds (pure text - no image), with Nuffnang, the loading time is now longer than 30 seconds and still waiting.

A month of usage and Nuffnang actually gave me 0 cents. Thanks a lot!

Furthermore, I really feel that Nuffnang is biased more towards girls than guys. Guess there's nothing much you can do when the Nuffnang big boss is a guy.

Got stuck in the lift!

Whoa! There were so many people at the lobby today, I thought there was a concert going on. It was just a big let down when we found out that the lift has broken down beyond immediate repair.

Just as we were about the take the stairs, some of the lift start functioning again. We happily jumped on it, and hey, it started moving! 3rd floor, fine. 7th floor, fine. 12th floor, fine. Then it stopped! Right in the middle between 12th and 13th floor. It's a total power cutoff.

After we forced open the lift door, we have to jump down. And.. the show's over. I wish the lift could have a free fall when the power was cut off.

Doing the same thing over and over again

That's life!

Today's tom yam taste a bit funny. It could have been thicker, spicier and ... more fish balls!

Anyway, in just one blink of the eye, it's already past middle of the year. Can I stop time for 1 second?

Random stuff

5 years ago I randomly put myself from Jordan in my blogger's profile. I thought I would never be able to step into Jordan for my whole life.

But I guess sometimes the future is just funny.

Hancock and more

Well, Hancock is a bit.. too unreal. Even superhero has a sibling nowadays. And the best thing is, they can turn back to human anytime and become superhero again anytime. Not like superman, where he can't be killed even in human form, Hancock can be killed when he's in human form. The movie is a bit too short. I want to see more action! Hancock 2?

Cova in Gardens is really nice. After reading so much review about it, we decided to give it a shot. The mashed potato is heavenly! But apart from that, the other portion is a bit small. Had chicken breast and it's really filling. We had our lunch at around 3 pm and I'm still full until now. The lobster bisque has only ... one prawn? The lemon tea is way too sour. But the service is good and attentive. Thumbs up!

First time I've seen so many Xiu Long Bao tonight. I can't really taste the difference between crab and normal Xiu Long Bao, maybe my taste bud is too tired after having the Gelato-ish ice cream.

Ah.... weekends!

Eating Tiger biscuit in DIA

Tiger biscuit = good stuff. Guess that's the only time we'll be able to see Tiger in Middle East.

While waiting at the boarding gate, I noticed that there are plenty of Africans waiting there as well. I thought they might be going to Malaysia for a visit, who cares. Was chatting away with my sister on MSN (Glad they have WiFi now in Doha), while waiting for the time to pass. On my way back from the washroom, I saw that the screen is displaying that the destination is to Tripoli. I thought it was a code sharing flight, so I didn't care. I grew a bit uneasy after a while, and went to check the flight information panel again.

Craps. I mis-read the gate number.

Anyway, seems like they do not use Boeing 747 anymore long haul flights. Boeing 777 is the way to go, and Airbus 33x series is for medium long haul flights.

Bad things happen

Somehow, I found myself have split personality when dealing with personal life and dealing with work. Is this a right thing or not?

In my personal life, when bad things happen, the first thing I'll do is to find a quick and good solution. No matter at what cost. To find a solution does not mean to find out the cause of the problem, it is to fix the problem as soon as possible. I don't care how did the problem occurs sometimes. I would never blame anyone or anything unless I'm really really frustrated and no other way to go.

In my work life, when bad things happen, I find that the first thing I'll do is to find out who and what's causing the problem. Sometimes I just want dig out whatever hidden beneath and see how did the problem occurs. Come to think of it, sometimes only incompetent people or people lacking a proper attitude would cause problems to happen, if it's not possible to find out the incompetent people in the organization, sooner or later the organization will rot to its roots. I was busy digging out who did the wrong specification in Jordan until my colleague reminds me that finding solution is more important. Then I just woke up.

Oh well.

Fleeced a little

This morning I took a taxi from the Hotel to the client's office. The normal meter should start at 0.15 but his meter is starting at 0.25. Hopefully it reaches the client place within the cost of 1 JD. Usually they won't give change if it's less than 1 JD, I mean, most taxi drivers here don't carry change.

Yesterday the taxi driver is really nice. I only have 5 JDs but he gave me back change, and all the change he has. I don't know how to read the coins, gee, so I just accepted them.

Just now when I was on my way back, I managed to get hold of a taxi when I'm already walking halfway there. But he doesn't use meter, so I told him that he MUST use meter, but he insisted on not using it and saying that it's spoiled. So I tell him 2 JDs is the max I can give him and he says I'm a kind man. Gee.

Should have negotiated lower.

Got fleeced!

Argh! I was charged 4 bucks by the taxi driver! Usually it is only 1 buck. But, I failed to notice his taxi was without meter, and I was too lazy to get down halfway to flag another taxi because I waited for 15 minutes and there weren't a single taxi around.

When I was here for the first time in my life, I gave the taxi driver 8 bucks while actually it was under 1 buck because I did not know how to interpret the meter.

Oh well. Life's like that.

Pushing the time to go faster.

Life's here

The sunrise happens at 4:30 am everyday. But the sunset is about at the same time.

Seems like they have a day longer than the night.

Financially independent

Inflation has been going up steadily over the past few years now, with the recent fuel price hike in M'sia, I just got news from the bank that, to be considered as financially independent, at someone around my age, we would need to have a minimum deposit with the bank of MYR 3 million without any outstanding debts, loan, and that is not even considering any fixed assets or liquid assets that we might own. Up MYR 1.5 million from 2 years ago.

Anything less than that, we are considered to have a very high risk of getting a financial burden later in life. And by the statistics accumulated by them so far, 30% of Malaysians around my age already have an accumulated net worth of 500k.

This has also taken into calculation of the instability of Malaysian politics and economic factor as well.

Cheers!

Hulk

Hey, I didn't know their skin can be so hard, even bullets cannot pierce through. That's a bit too much, don't you think?

Funny that they should mix Iron Man character together with Incredible Hulk, so does it mean that next episode they should team up together and fight off the villains?

The movie is so-so and it is too predictable. We are in not for the plot, but for the action!

I want James Bond! When's the next episode?

Anyway, another one more week and one of my colleagues will be flying back already. I hope we can still cope without him.

When you are short of funds

You would have no desires but worries.

Simply deciding between cup noodles or tiger biscuit is just so difficult.

Have to drive slower than usual.

Start looking for other means to get more fund..

Work work

Work + work = last minute work

Work + bonus = happy work

Work + commission = fake work

0 - work = unemployed

Evolution of PCs

The first PC I got was way back to 1990, where it was a 80286 PC without any HDD, that we need to insert a 5 inch floppy to boot and to run any program. RAM was really expensive then, probably 200 bucks for 1 MB stick.

Then we bought a 80386 PC with 1MB RAM, which was one of the fastest and most economical around (Not to compare with Pentium 66 Mhz then). Pentium was the speed demon (and the price cost an arm too). The 80386 came with a 20MB HDD, which is really conveninet to be able to run and store things in it. Everything is in DOS flavor. dir/w is the most common command. Plug and play is unheard of.

Then finally, we bought a DX2-66 and it was really fast. It comes with 4MB RAM default and preloaded with Windows 95. We reformatted it with Windows 98 and it can still run fine. Slowness is unheard of because everyone is in 486 era where Pentium is still costing a premium over it.

Then AMD and Cyrix started to roll out their own alternatives. But I'll leave that to another day.

Evolution of Internet

Way back in 1995 - 1996, where Internet in Malaysia is still in its infancy, I was one of the few lucky ones to have a 14.4k dial-up modem to TMNet's 1515. Even then I was not the first one in my hometown to have an Internet line at home, there were some other nerds who got it first before me.

Then there were no Windows messenger (MSN Messenger), no Yahoo Messenger (YM), Google is still unheard of and the most powerful search engine is powered by Inktomi, Hotbot. ICQ is still starting out (where people get 5 digits or 6 digits number when they registered), and we were the few pioneers to join mIRC and hang out in DALnet (Dragon Realm Network) servers.

Things were really slow then when I get to become a SuperOP in smtbm (Sekolah Menengah Taman Bukit Maluri) which I didn't even know where was it then. Then we created a new channel name valentine and I get to become the co-founder. At its peak, valentine channel was listed as one of the most popular in mIRC client for DALNet where anytime in the day, there will be more than 100 users concurrently online in the channel. Then followed by the channel sitiawan, and a few minor ones.

After than I registered for ICQ due to the reason that DALNet has begun to ban Malaysian IPs (because of hacks and bots). We were one of the unlucky innocent few.
ICQ is one persistent program that manage to stay with me for more than 5 years.

By 1998, most of us have jumped to 56.6k connection speed and we were playing TF (Team Fortress) on Quake then. Then it was named TFC (Team Fortress Classic). Our favourite server is Killing Fields (KF) which is based in India. I still remembered that S'pore players were able to get a ping of sub 100 ms but Malaysians are stuck with 400 ms ping, sometimes we were able to get 200 ms ping, ISDN (which is freaking expensive then), are always at 200 ms ping. Those S'poreans were able to frag us more than we could do it to them, but oh well, we had some well known snipers around which can even kill those players with 10 ms ping like those local players from India.

By 1999, I was still stucked with dial up to 1515. Streamyx started to roll out only since 2000 - 2001 in major areas, I believed. When we were in college, we were one of the first few from our area to register at TMNet branch in Titiwangsa. The first modem we get from them is the Hyundai Hase 220 which can get a max of 32kbps in Setapak. There were 4 of us who are online almost all the time but we manage to cope with only 32 kbps.

Oh well, 8 years later, here I am, with redundant streamyx line with optional maxis 3g mobile roaming with my cellphone for Internet access.

Just lazy to go year by year anymore. :P

Random events

Was caught up in the crazy queue for gas yesterday. Wasted my precious 30 minutes.

Finally I know how does fried lamb fur taste like. It is hard, like plastic, and yet crunchy, like peanuts. It has a very very mild taste which makes it usually covered by the usual lamb smell. So far I've swallowed it all the time. Sooner or later I'll have to start looking for short fur on my body.

After all, I think we should just stick to satay.

The food is seriously overpriced! 40 bucks for like 8 pieces of small beef stick. 20 bucks for 2 sticks of chicken cube which is almost tasteless. And there were really lots of breads. The prawn wasn't fresh, the lemon tea is way too sour, the parking is expensive, and the chair is so uncomfortable.

Oh well. I'll never go there again.

On my way back, the crazy queue for gas is still there, almost all the gas stations I passed by, there were many cars waiting in a line for gas.

Sooner or later we will get to see this every month because our fuel price will adapt to the global fuel price. And the paper mentioned it will be adjusted every month. Very interesting. Can I quit driving?

Festival de Cannes 2008

Face-off

I'm so glad that they can get along fine.

Nuffnang

Please let me know if it's causing too much irritation to you.

Thank you!

Wong Kok

We put the money on the tray and he took it back.

The next thing we knew, he took exactly the same tray back to us and went away.

Heh, free meal!
Nah, we are not that evil.

Past few days

Went to Semenyih for dinner with dear's family and relatives. It's crazy to go far for dinner but oh well, if the food is good, guess nobody cares. The tofu is exactly the same like we had in Queen's park. And the curry fishhead is a bit too spicy, although it's not that spicy looking, but their servings is huge! Maybe we can finish it after her smaller siblings grow up.

I guess maybe it's the way her auntie drive or something else, I lost a bit of my appetite to eat. Or maybe we went to high up and suddenly suffer a lost of altitude. Or maybe we have been on the road for too long. Or maybe it was because of the minor disagreement in car. Or maybe because there were too many turns...

Anyway, surely the new car sure feels different. I could have fallen asleep if the trip was longer somehow. We saw a nasty accident on the way there, hopefully there was not much traffic then, if not, we could have been caught in a massive congestion...

On the next day, I drove all the way up to Batang Berjuntai for a small project there. First I was planning to take the coastal road (Sg Buloh - Kuala Selangor), but they recommended using the highway. For a few years now I haven't been using the highway, didn't know now there's a new exit, Bukit Tagar.

So I took that, and in the end, guess what? Bukit Tagar is the dumpsite for all our household waste! I had follow some really big ass dump truck and the smell of the air is just superb! Hopefully the dumpsite turn off is just a short distance from the exit of the highway.

Oh well, I went there again on the second day.

On my way back, I have to go to TPM to collect something from our customer, and I took the Tun Razak way, and guess I turned off a bit too early, took the turn in to Kuchai Lama, then took the turn to Pusat Bandaraya, then took the turn in NPE, and took the turn back to Bangsar, and then I went another round using Tun Razak way, then I turned into the KL Putrajaya highway, and then finally, arrived at TPM. A big trip in south of KL.

On the next day, I went to Midvalley for a meeting. Saw one of my college friend working at the company but I was not sure, until much later.

Oh well, I have to work now, been typing this since 10 am just now, then work a bit, then continue typing, then work a bit. See you peeps!

Crystal Skull

Cate Blanchett is a pure Russian if you asked me.

Apart from that, I don't see Harrison Ford get old.

Botox perhaps.

That antibiotic pill is freaking huge!

I'm sure I haven't seen any pills as big as that Curam thinggy before. It was individually wrapped in foil paper instead of coming in a jar or bottle.

Alright, I think the cat passed the flu virus to me, or... wait, is it the dog?

Curry rice...

Last time I could get curry gravy with fried chicken in my secondary school for just 1 bucks!

Then we moved on to college and the only source of curry rice in Fatimah restaurant, which in the end have to make way for another shop because their squid is too expensive.

Then we moved on to Kepong and there's no curry rice in sight. So we stopped eating curry rice for about 2 years then until my dear brought me to U-Village for their curry chicken rice. It is the best I've tasted so far (apart from dear's mom superb curry chicken - if I wasn't having flu, I could have finished up the whole pot of chicken with the gravy)

Occasionally we do go the lucky garden's fish head curry, which will usually cost around 10 bucks per head for one big obscene fish head, fried chicken drumstick, and one squid, and one vege, not that bad isn't it? But there's one time we barely have enough cash to pay for it, and nearly have to help them to wash plates there as part time job.

Feeding the cats

Once in while I have to take over the job of feeding the cats when the owner is not around.

So there was this time when only 2 cats were around, the veteran white cat and the younger brown cat. The brown cat is afraid of human but the white cat can handle it very pro. And right after feeding themselves on 3 handful of cat food, the white cat decided it's no more for him and come scrubbing its fur on my feet. The purring sound is really heavy now. So I petted him. Then he lie down on the cement and I tickled his belly. Out of the sudden, he caught my hand with his paws and bit on it. Craps. I must be tickling too close to his private parts.. teeheehee.

And so, there was one time when there were 4 cats around. The veteran white cat, 2 of the younger brown cats, and one mixed coloured cat. All of them are afraid of human except the white cat. So I put the food into the designated round bowl for the white cat, and the square bowl for the rest of them. I sat on the couch and look at them, they just refused to eat their food until I appear out of sight. So in the end, the while cat finished up 2 bowls of food and drank a bit of water, and went to sleep almost right after that.

He told me the name of the cats before but I can't remember.

Next, the tale of the black dog.

Narnia is boring!

The fighting scenes somehow remind me of the LOTR.

I mean, the whole plot, you could have guessed it all along from the beginning. The good guy wins and the bad guys all die. The not so bad general survived and live til the end. Even towards the ending, where the lion Aslan roared at the river, somehow resemble the LOTR scene where Arwen crossed the river with the Nazguls in hot pursuit.

Have they run out of ideas?

They tried to put in some funny elements with reference to animals and dwarf but I don't find it funny even a bit. Maybe I need a different kind of humour after all.

Can't wait for Indiana Jones.

Innocence

Cat and dog playing with one another. Guess they don't know one another really well yet.

Change

One sure way to survive is to adapt to changes as soon as we can.

Dinosaurs which roamed the same ground which we are stepping on now, are now extinct.

But with the rate of pollution and capitalism is taking over our world, even Charles Darwin might be obsolete one day.

Do you believe in destiny?

What would you have done if you know what's going to happen in the future?

Maybe I'm going to suffer the same fate as all previous generations in my family, maybe not. Something surely is wrong when the metabolism is so high. As with all living things, the harder one work, the faster they will get tired. Even overworked cells will die and be replaced sooner until no new cells are being produced anymore.

Normal people at my age will have a pulse rate of around 60 - 80 bpm, mine is around 90 bpm without doing any activity. Guess that's the one which is helping me to digest food faster than most of the people there, and probably that's the reason it will be difficult to feel cold (unless I'm sick).

Even on normal days, I'll be sweating until my clothes are soaked. Well, apart from that, I just need to drink a lot of water.

Well, back to cleaning my room now.

No matter what happens, life goes on. :D

Bloated stomach

We ordered so much food during our extra-ordinary lunch today and it is really unexpected that we can finish up all the food!

It must be a hey-day for all the bacteria in my stomach.

They are going for yum cha at 24hr A&W PJ today. It's just way too far from my place.

I need to stockpile up all the food again (Just in case of a crisis)

Should I put up a wall rack in my room?

New iDC

We are shifting over to NTT iDC in CBJ!

The guards there are real friendly. They even remembered the company name!

I'm going to take a long leave

Shall see you guys soon when I'm back.

Sweated a river

The weather is a bit hot nowadays, don't you think so?

A short walk from Sg. Wang entrance to the Maybank at the corner, go in through BB Plaza entrace and walk to Low Yat through the parking lots, my t-shirt is all wet.

On the other hand, went up to 4th floor where TEC Asia is located, there was this shop right opposite the escalator going up, employed a security guard to stop anyone going in to their shop with their bags. They pointed me somewhere but I don't know what they are mumbling. Craps, not like they are selling diamonds or some gold bars, do they really need to get a security guard?

I have to admit we ordered too much food in U-Village my darling.

How do you keep yourself awake during office hour?

As for me, here's what I'll do:

- Plug in the earphone and blast the music away.
- View funny videos on break.com or youtube.
- Listen to soccer commentary.
- Wash my face in the washroom
- Take the lift to the ground floor and up again.
- Talk to colleagues

If all else fails, I'll just drink some heavy dose of Nescafe.

What is the worst job in the world?

Low pay does not belong to the worst job because you get to keep the job as long as you like and the company does not get rid of you because you're the highest valued asset the company can have. (low pay but productive)

Long working hours does not belong to the worst job because the company likes hardworking workers. They won't get rid of you because it's difficult to find workers who can work up to 10 pm single day without failing. As long as you are productive, your job is far more than secured.

Worst job in the world belongs to a type of job that is highly overpaid and yet the effort does not reflects it. Unless JobStreet salary survey is lying, I guess my job life span is really short.

Now let me thihk.. What's May 1st again?

Job definition in IT line

Sales


TCSS champion (Talk Cock Sing Song)


No need come back office as long as sales keep coming in




Marketing


Heighten customer expectations and put misery on the support staff




Support


Make customer happy and put misery on R&D staff




R&D


Keep blaming any changes will affect system reliability and refuse to implement it

In deep shit.

You know you are knee deep in shit when a clown in the US is earning more than what you are earning in Malaysia right now.

I am just feeling so miserable.

World's local bank?

Seriously, I doubt it.

Hopefully it won the Best Retail Bank but not the Best Consumer Bank.
It is really obvious that they are riding on their egoism and does not require Malaysians to do business with them to survive.

Tell me, what do you need to open a basic savings account?
...







Money, identification card, and signature, right?
It is a basic savings account. Note the word, BASIC.

They want MYR 250, I brought 5k.
They want identification card, I have both photostat and original copy.
They want signature, I can give them both signature and thumbprint.

Finally, they want a reference letter to proof that I'm working as of now.
I don't have that, BUT...
I brought my EA form, I brought my payslip, I offered them my name card.
...








He refused to recognize it.
Can you believe that?

How difficult is it to check whether someone is working in the company or not?
Just pick up the phone and call the company general line lah...
Ask for the person name, surely they will say that please hold on..
bla bla bla...

Grrrr....

Ah, just vent out a piece of my mind right now.
HSBC... I'm just so disappointed with your so-call customer service executive.
Continue to ride on your own egoism and good luck!

Window seat, so what?

Their food sucks! I swear that their fried calamari was twice the size of the yesterday's serving.

But it's fine since both of us are not really a big fan of fried calamari.

I can't tolerate slow service.
Even Yuzu's stone cooked prawn is much more faster than their pasta.

Oh dear, we shall never go back there again.

Tik tik...

The 10,000 BC director must have been eating too much tic-tacs, that's why he could think of no other name.

I shot a long post

Nah, I decided not to post it out.

It's about internal struggle in the family.

Wait until Blogger has the password post feature, then I'll blurt it out.

Yearly thing

Woke up at 4:45 am. Took some bread, and drove to my gran's place.

All of them are awake and we started to pay some respect to my great gran's.

Then we took light breakfast and left to the temple.
There we pay respect to one of my gran's.

Then we went for my dad's and then my uncle's.

It ended at approx 11 am. And strange the sun is not that hot today.

It's the time of the year again

Where most people will be gathering in a location which seems to be empty all the time.

230 km. Time difference is 0.01 seconds?

Having backaches now. Going to take a nap.

Goodbye.

Tiger o Tiger

Why does your crumb keep falling off when I take you out of the wrapper? Everytime I take one piece out, I have to use a tissue to wipe it clean before I can take piece out.

Why sometimes you just taste funny? Can't you be more like the normal Tiger?

Why can't you offer some loyalty reward? I've been eating tiger since I was in my freshman years.

Alright, thanks for reading, I shall finish up this pack now.

Still slogging it out

When the clock strikes 11pm and we are still working, we must feel glad that the business is good for company!

I hope so.

On the past

I can't believe I have been blogging for 5 years now.

Looking back at my posts, I can feel that I've changed. Middle age crisis?

Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZn5nWIj_g

Li Jin or Silk Road...

Their price are almost the same, and they are just located side by side.

For one thing, Li Jin has more dim sum variety but Silk Road does not have that much.

Silk Road does not serve chinese tea in teapot, but Li Jin does.

Silk Road has a specialist to take care of your tea, but Li Jin does not have it.

Shark fin variety are almost the same.

Li Jin seating is more packed but Silk Road is more spacious.

Silk Road waiters and waitresses are a bit more polite and courteous compare to Li Jin.

Silk Road speak mostly Mandarin (but they understand Cantonese and English), while Li Jin speak mostly Cantonese (And understand Mandarin and English)

If you don't know what I'm talking about, never mind.
You'll find out one day.

Life goes on

With me trying up to stand up as a man without any protective umbrella.

It is now gone

He did not manage to live to see his grandchildren.

How to keep petrol price low while easing burden on subsidy

Introduce prepaid petrol!
Make it just like prepaid line for mobile.

Every car will have a prepaid card registered with it.
The card value can be topped up once a month.
The card will have limited discount value i.e. 120 litres of petrol.
Price of putting in this 120 litres would be same as buying petrol from the gas station, * MYR 2 per litre.
The card would need to be swiped each time when we pump petrol, so we won't get charged.
When the card value is used up/without the card, the petrol is at MYR 5 per litre.

How does it sound like?

It could also help to reduce traffic congestion on the road.

Ice lemon tea!

Somehow it ended up onto my shirt and left a yellow patch there. I ran to the washroom to wash it in the basin, and use the hand dryer to blow it dry.

It's all fine now!

Be careful when you are having tea while watching movie!

Sweeney Todd

I have the OST!

Mr Pirelli, king of barbers and barber of kings!

This is a post about LRT

Eeeeeeeeek... Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk.... Sssssshhhhhhhhhhh..............Eeeeeeek.. Eeeeeek.......Dum dum dum dum....... Eeeeeeek.....

Ba Li Dong

Practice makes perfect, the art of sucking.

It has to be fresh to taste good yo!

Dear Thelma...

It's time for you to retire and find someone better!

*Kidding*

Been blogging for 5 years!

Time flies! I'm certified to suffer from middle age crisis now.

I've retired from Facebook

It proved to be too tiring for old people like to keep up.

I've killed my fluffy, my vampire, my zombie, and my werewolf, and also my slayer.
I've deleted superwall because it is so annoying.

I've ignored more than 100 different requests everytime I log in (once in a month)

Oh, I've stopped petting others' fluffy too.

The only thing that keeps me going on is the Flixter's Ultimate Movie Quiz!
All competitors within my friends are my relatives!
It runs in the blood, I guess.

I'm getting tired of all these

Eat oily stuff in the morning... Loose bowels.

Eat too full before I sleep... Loose bowels.

Exercise right after I eat... Loose bowels.

Eat curry chicken with red wine noodle... Loose bowels.

Drink carbonated drinks in the morning... Loose bowels.

Mixed milk with alcohol... Loose bowels.

The list go on and on...

Gosh, it has become a part of my life!

Decomposition of human body

The first stage is self digestion, also known as autolysis. This happens when the cells break down the body into elements the cells can eat. This creates a liquid that gets between the layers of skin and makes the skin peel off. Also during this stage, flies (when present) start to lay eggs in the openings of the body: eyes, belly button, open wounds, and other orifices. They then get under the skin and start to eat the body. The maggots that find the body in the first stage are about as small as uncooked grains of rice.

The second stage of decomposition is bloating. When bacteria breaks down the body it makes gas. When we are alive it makes gas from the food we eat. Once one dies it ends up feeding off the tissue in the body and gas will build up. But the gas cannot escape from a corpse because the small intestine collapses very early on. The bloating usually happens in the abdomen, but can also be seen in the mouth and genitalia, where the most bacteria congregate. The tongue will swell and stick out. This usually happens in about the second week of decomposition. Bloating will keep happening until something gives way. Most of the time it’s the intestines, but on occasion it can be the actual torso, and that usually involves a ripping noise. In the second stage the maggots look like cooked grains of rice: moist, stuck together and larger. The bloat stage usually lasts about a week and then putrefaction and decay set in.

The third stage is putrefaction and decay. It’s the longest process and the last stage. Putrefaction starts during the bloat stage but the effects aren’t obvious until after the bloat stage is over. Putrefaction is when the body breaks down, and tissues and bacteria liquefy. The digestive organs, the brain, and lungs disintegrate first because that’s where the most bacteria are. For about three weeks the organs inside are still identifiable, but after that everything inside turns into the consistency and color of chicken soup. The muscles can be eaten by bacteria, but also be devoured by carnivorous beetles. Under some circumstances the skin is eaten by various things including bacteria and bugs, or it just dries out and hardens. Then nothing really wants to eat it because the skin is too tough. Eventually all that is left is the skeleton.

This is interesting shit!

Introduction to Malaysia

A place where the rich will get richer and the poor will remain the same, if not getting poorer.

Kedai Kopi Pinang Kecik

That was the name of the place which I should see my sister for the last time for this year.

Anyway, I'm wondering why charges stop coming into my credit card since last Monday.

I went to check the mail in the new house a few days ago, saw nothing but a 'Cukai Taksiran' mail from Datuk Bandar. It cost around 30% of the maintenance charge.

Behold! Income tax 2007 e-Filing date is coming soon.

Pushing yourself to the limit

It always come in this order:-

- Hungry
- Feeling dizzy
- Thirsty
- Eyes starting to have tears
- Running nose
- Keep on sneezing non-stop
- Bleeding nose
- Finger nails becoming purple in colour
- Sleep!

Sugar rush!

I was so tired and sleepy and I could not focus on the road...

Then I was being offered a Mars bar.

Without hesitation, I gobbled it down.

And I became as energetic as ever..

Secret recording

Me: Yello?

Dear: *mumble*

Me: Sleeping ah?

Dear: *mumble*

Me: Why you so piggy one?

Dear: *mumble*

Me: I'm going to cut hair

Dear: *mumble*

Me: You want to come along?

Dear: *mumble*

Me: See you later then

Dear: Up to you

Me: Want to sleep somemore?

Dear: *mumble*

Me: Good night then

Dear: *mumble*

Me: Sweet dreams

Dear: Nai.. (I think she said bye)

Me: Byeeee

*hung up*

So meaningful, isn't it?

Chinese New Year!

It's here finally. In just one blink of an eye, I felt that last Chinese New Year was only like yesterday! Alright, it's 2008 now, and I'm officially a granpa.

When we were leaving Amman that day, a Royal Jordanian flight scheduled at 12 pm to Doha would have to be delayed because of few missing passengers, when I board the plane at 2 pm, they are still looking for the missing people. Gee, I'm glad I picked the right one.

We reached Doha at 6:30 pm, and it's already dark, and the driver of the bus took a big round to send us back to the terminal. I'm sure we spent more than 20 minutes circling the airport like on a sightseeing trip.

Guess it's peak hour at that in Doha because the airport is really packed. The security guard insisted that I take off my belt. I hate that. The last time I took off my belt in Sweden, I lost my USB drive.

Oh, I have to run now.
The day's getting late.

Reasoning

This blog is now private! I'm going to vent about politics and also religion, and how it affects us in M'sia.

The reason I'm so stressed out lately is that, my mom's health is failing. She is losing her vision in both her eyes, and I don't know what I can do to help. Just standing on the side and watching life pass her by.

I'm getting old too.

Life on the fast track

On one fine Saturday, I was just thinking to go back to the office to collect my laptop, when I was figuring how to open the glass door, the office phone kept ringing, I rushed inside and picked it up. There was an emergency in Australia, one of our sites could not connect to the credit card payment gateway. Poof, there goes the 5 minutes which I promised my dear. In the end, it turned out to be 1 hour and 30 minutes.

We went home after that. I was trying to recall something that I might have forgotten when packing my luggage. Ah, I managed to recall it, only when I was in the plane! I forgot to bring moisturizer, lotion and also a cotton hat. And that is only like, 8 hours later?

KLIA is spooky at 3 am in the morning.

6 am in Doha is slightly colder than Genting at night. It's pretty okay during noon. Thee is this free Internet PC's in Doha Airport, but each user can only use for 10 minutes. :(

We reached Queen Alia airport at 3 pm in the noon, and the weather is like.. 5 celcius? Hopefully I did bring along some dollars and ended up in the hotel soon afterwards. I slept for 12 hours straight!

I reached the office earlier than their directors everyday, but I slipped on the street and I brought back a free souvenir from Jordan - a bleeding knee.

I wish Malaysia is that cold!

Can't hold it

Going to pee now!

Looking back at 2007

- My sis left us and flew away in a jet plane.
- Shifted to a smaller office.
- Had a few road accidents.
- Did the first road kill.
- Got slapped by dear.
- Had some domestic trips.
- Still not yet save up enough to get a car.

2008..
Wait, don't come yet.

Happy new year!

Finally it's 2008.

Time flies so fast.