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V's Day + One 2011

2011-02-16T09:57:00.000+08:00

It's the blog's 6th year anniversary.

kthxbai

Woah~!

2011-01-31T13:39:00.000+08:00

Woah~!

This fucking is still alive y'all... woot!

Just a public service reminder

2009-09-08T16:04:00.001+08:00

Just a fucking public service reminder to tell everyone that this fucking blog is still fucking alive!!!

Thank you

Woah!

2008-05-04T21:53:00.002+08:00

Woah!
I actually met Liz at Scarlet on Saturday...

It's like woah!

read more here

Thank you

Vote Cheesie!

2008-03-14T00:00:00.001+08:00

Vote or die!

V's Day + One

2008-02-15T20:10:00.003+08:00

Happy Valentine Day + One
and
Happy 4th birthday to my blog

Yeah, whatever...

This is a blog post

2007-04-19T23:01:00.000+08:00

This is a blog post

Blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog.

Yeah, like I said, this is a blog post.

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Before this, I was: Shopping at 1-U
Currently listening to: Estranged - THAT malay song
Currently feeling: Bored (as usual)

V-day+1

2007-02-15T23:11:00.000+08:00

Hey, uit's that time of the day again, which technically is also the anniversary of this blog that nobody bothers to read nor know of its existence. Somehow V-day always managed to trigger my emo mode and wanting to write something on the blog. Nonetheless, this year I shall just shut up and not say anything and this post is just a mere reminder that I am emo on V-day and wanted to write something on the blog.

Happy V-day+1

Bye bye

Event report: KL Sing Song Mini College Tour May 2006. Taylor's College

2006-05-20T01:24:00.000+08:00

KL Sing Song has finally returned this year and kicked off with a mini college tour; starting at Taylor's College Subang Jaya campus. The tour will continue to other colleges, including hELP Institute and some other college I'm not sure which one. Co-organized by Troubadours Enterprise and Taylor's College Society of Performing Arts, the event is held at lecture theatre one and is scheduled for 19th May 2006 at 7.30pm.

This time around, Troubodours Enterprise lined up some of the most talented singer-songwriter in Malaysia; Izzy, Broken Scar and Ida Lisa. Troubadors trio; Tan Sei Hon, Azmyl Yunor and Jerome Kugan, as well as bands; Ferns and The Sofa Session.

The night's event is kick-started with a video presentation of last year's KL Sing Song at ICOM featuring influential Asian singer-songwriter. This year's KL Sing Song would be held at Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC) in Sentul at the 14 and 15 July 2006.

The first performer of the night is Izzy, who performed 4 songs; Fall, Pelangi, Closed Down and Hanya Kamu. Her song are more inclined to the slower side, but her guitar strumming and excellent voice (Despite her claiming she has sore throat) managed to captivate the crowd to hum along to her more catchy tunes like Pelangi.

The next performer is one part of the Troubadors Enterprise; Tan Sei Hon who only performed one song; Black & Blue on Brick Walls due to time constraint. Nonetheless, the catchy tune and vocal of the song managed to get the crowd tapping their feets (Especially when Tan is literally stomping his foot on stage).

One-man band, Kevin of Broken Scar is probably the most charismatic performer of the night, he managed to captivate the audience by inviting them to participate during the chorus and all around lifted the spirit of the acoustic crowd. Kevin performed 5 songs from his latest album; Midnight in St Kilda (Which I am now a proud owner of an autographed CD); Scratch, Venus in September, Happy Song, Hey You and Down

Ida Lisa 's songs are rather slow and soft, which lulled the entire crowd into a melancholic acoustic mode, but her powerful vocals managed to keeep them captivated to the small girl on stage. He performed 3 songs; Fatal Love, Plan (Plant?) and a malay song.

The next on the line-up is Azmyl Yunor, which also happens to be one of the main organizer of the night's event, and also a lecturer in Taylor's College. He is probably the most celebrated performer that night, probably due to the fact that almost half of the crowd are his students, including yours truly, an ex-student). He performed two malay songs, one from his current album Tenets EP called Makan Gaji and one from his upcoming album (It's always upcoming)called Anak Dara.

Ferns is supposed to perform now, but they're unavailable, so the next performer; Jerome KUgan will start first. He started witha cover of Rezsô Seress' Gloomy Sunday, which is apparently banned by the BBC because it incites people to commit suicide. Its haunting melody and his voice really managed to capture the audience's attention. Butluckily no one commited suicide, yet, I think. He did 3 more songs, include 2 Dolls and 2 more English gons that I didn't catch the title (Private Dancer?).

Finally 4-man band (5 because they claim their drummer is absent); Ferns appeared on stage. A refreshing band of 2 guitars, 1 bass and the girl playing the I-don't-know-what-it's-called; an instrument with keys like a piano but is blown. Their songs are rather catchy in a melancholic acoustic way.

The last performer for the night; The Sofa Sessions appeared on stage to what's going to be the best performance of the night. They started the night with a Malay song; Sunat followed by a mixture of a few English as well as Malay songs; Nobody Else, Mengapa Marah? and Cry a Little. They did a cover of Can't Take My Eyes of You that brought the house down and got the entire audience clapping and singing along to it. They ended their performance with a malay song; Lagu Malas.

**Please refer to Troubadors Blog for latest news and upcoming gigs.

I'll be missing you

2006-04-25T22:48:00.000+08:00

It's been more than a week since I got back to KL, life is pretty much getting back to its normal chaos. But something still nags at me, a small fraction of memory that I can't seem to forget, no matter how hard I tried, somehow her face still lingers in my mind until now.

As I mentioned, night comes really early in Kota Kinabalu, so pretty much by 7, it's already pitch dark. The exhibition is supposed to last until 9pm, but there wasn't much crowd at the venue come night. So pretty much everybody packs up by 8 and do whatever they do, as for me and my colleague, it's trudge back to the hotel room and pretty much do nothing. Due to the fact that we've been standing around at the exhibition the entire day, we inevitably and unintentionally fall asleep really fast, often even before 10. That's the same process almost everyday, so I'm determined not to sleep so early at the last night we're at KK.

As usual, we're back to the hotel room by 7 something, but since it's the last night, we went out to grab a taste of the famous cheap seafood in KK. We got back to the hotel at about 11 something, watch some TV on Vision Four and started to feel sleepy, but since I'm determined to not sleep so early, I went downstairs to the lounge.

It wasn't much of a lounge, pretty much just a bar and some tables. There's a projector screen showing football, so I supposed watching football still beats doing nothing in the room. The bar is rather empty except for some local dudes watching football, I suspect maybe it's a Sunday night and there really wasn't that many guests in the hotel.

So I was happily sipping my RM 18 per mug Heineken while staring at the TV, then she came in. Looking all cute in her customary black skirt and white shirt uniform of the hotel waitress. My initial reaction wasn't really much enthusiasted, maybe just a second look and I return to the TV. It wasn't long later the game ended and there wasn't anything interesting on TV anymore, she's sitting inside the bar near counter, which is more or less right in front of me. Since there wasn't much else to do, I made a customary "Hi" and "How are you?" to her, since she doesn't have much to do anyway.

Pretty soon, the bar is empty except the two of us, she inside the bar and me sitting on the bar stool opposite her. I'd have to say that she's really cute, can't really say hot nor especially beautiful, but more of the innocent sort of girl-next-door cuteness. She's a native of Sabah; a Kadazan, which gave her that exotic look that I'm pretty much a sucker for.

We talked about a whole load of things; What to do in KK?, KK nightlife, the food, shopping, music, football (She Chelsea supporter), smoking, beer, the hotel, my job, her job and a whole load more that I can't even remember. She wasn't very fluent in English, but then again, everybody speaks abit of English in KK, so we spoke in abit of English + Malay + funny hand gesture combination the entire night.

It's almost 2am, and we've been talking almost non-stop for hours, the bar closes at 2, and the other staff start coming into the bar to pack up and close down. She have to start helping out as well, so I just excused myself and went back to my room, after I got her phone number of course.

My flight back to KL is the next day, but I didn't get a chance to meet her again though because since she finishes work at 2am, she starts the next day's shift at 6pm, which at that time I'm already on my way to the airport. Then again, I do have her phone number, so I managed to say good bye to her for the last time when I called her at the airport.

I'm not sure if you'll ever read this post, nor even realize the existence of this blog, but if you somehow do managed read this, I'd like to say that few hours we had, just you and me in the bar is one of the happiest moments I've had for a long long time. Take care, and I'll be missing you.

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Currently feeling: Emo, melancholy, tired, sleepy

Currently listening to: Oasis - Take Me Away

Kota Kinabalu: The place & the people

2006-04-18T21:30:00.000+08:00

The place; Kota Kinabalu is really different from KL in alot of ways, its alot cleaner, alot quieter, alot fresher and hella lot nicer in general.

Night seems to come alot earlier in KK too, by 6.30 - 7pm, it's literally night already. I think the earliest time the sky turns night dark in KL is by 7.30. It's very quiet too at night, probably largely due to the fact that there's alot less motorcycles there than KL, and maybe it's just that I stayed at some god-forsaken place.

And speaking of god-forsaken place, the hotel I stayed in is really bad, it's the little fancy building on top of a small hill near Karamunsing area, the white hotel that's supposed to look like a castle. It's opened in 1989 (Proudly declared at the entrance) and I think it's never been serviced since then. The room has this perculiar musty smell of old buildings, the air-cond is a big-ass unit the size of a closet that is never cold, but will somehow freezes over overnight, everynight, the mini-bar fridge that smells weird and is never cold too and the TV is smaller than my office PC's monitor. And they they call themselves a 3-star hotel, and did I mentioned that they're part of a relatively large hotel group in Malaysia? It's pathetic...

Karamunsing Complex reminds me abit of Imbi Plaza, except that's its bigger and hella lot less dodgy. The upper floors of the Plaza is largely dominated by computer shops and hair saloons, so the entire place got a perculiar smell of saloons? Which reminds me, what smell are those anyway? No matter which saloon you go, its always that smell, I'm suspecting it's those solutions they used when perming hair, anyone got any idea?

The most common vehicle there is the four-wheeler pickup truck. From work-horse pickups like the old Toyota Land Cruiser Stationwagon to luxurious Range Rovers. Comes in all sorts of accessories you can think of on a pick-up truck, flatbed covers, crew cab, roof storage area, roof racks, snorkel exhaust pipes and hood spoilers. The most perculiar one I saw is definitely the one I saw parked at the hotel one morning, a big ass Toyota Hi-lux 3.0 that's converted into a low-rider, means no high suspensions like a typical pickup, complete with spoilers and car-parts brand names sticker on the door. I didn't check, but I bet it got a hige ass exhaust pipe as well to complement the sports pickup truck look.

Food in KK in general wasn't much different from KL, prices are pretty much the same, maybe slightly steeper there on certain food. Except seafood of course, the cheapness of seafood there is phenomenal. It almost gave me a shock when my colleague started ordering during our first dinner there at a seafood restaurant, I was expecting the bill to be more than RM 200, but it came less than RM 100. I knew seafood there is cheap, but have no idea it was THAT cheap!

The people; I've got to admit that KK has got some of the most beautiful ~~chick~~ girls in Malaysia. My friend mentioned that its most likely that most of the girls in town are the aboriginals of Sabah, which is the Kadazans, and Kadazan girls are quite well known for being beautiful. They're very fair and looked a little like Malay with abit of Chinese features. But then again, maybe it's the exotic looks that's attractive, like Latinos and Japanese, the distinct look that you'll recognise at a glance.

Almost everybody speaks abit of English there, so it wasn't too difficult to communicate because I can never understand what they're trying to say when they're talking to me in Malay. Not to say my Malay is bad, matter of fact, I'm very fluent in Malay, it's just that they speak in very different dialect. The sounds of their Malay is very 'baku' and some words are different than the normal Malay used in KL. Mandarin is the common Chinese dialect there, and there are alot of Hakka people there, so I have no problem speaking to Chinese there.

Another very distinct thing about KK is that there are very few aliens (Banglas and Indons) there, even the construction workers are local. Unlike KL where everywhere you look, you're bound to spot an Indon or a Bangla among the crowd. I've no problem with Banglas, in my opinion, they're one of the most hard-working people I've seen and they're really here to work, not to do shit like the Indons. The lack of Indons also means you won't see hordes of them sitting around smoking kreteks and making noise and that alone makes the entire place generally cleaner, quieter and hella lot nicer.

When you sit down to eat in KL, it is a safe bet that there will be some fella approaching you selling pirated DVDs. But instead of selling DVDs, you'll be approached by people selling fake leather goods and watches, handy-craft and dried seafood in KK. I've seen a fella hauling a big ass crafted figurine of a horse going table to table at the restaurant trying to sell it off for RM 200!

The people there are rather friendly too, easily approachable and willing to chat. By the 2nd day of the exhibition, I already know most of the people around my booth and can start chatting with them. I've worked at Mid Valley for years and I think there are still a few guys that I've never spoke to at the shop next to mine. And the fact that they're friendly also helped when you're hitting on a chick at one of the booth nearby, although I never made any milestone success with any of the girls at the exhibition, but at the end there's her...

But that is another story.

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Before this, I was: MUDding

Currently listening to: Sarah Brightman - Any Dream Will Do

Currently feeling: Tired, restless, emo

I'm hauling my ass away

2006-04-09T22:40:00.000+08:00

Yup, I'm hauling my ass away from KL to Kota Kinabalu this Tuesday. I'll be there fo a week, gotta attend a certain exhibition, so if anyone happens to stumble upon this post and happens to be at a certain exhibition in ~~Centre Point~~ Karamunsing Plaza, Kota Kinabalu next weekend, drop by and say hi. Can't recognize me? Simple, just look for the phattest ass in there. No, seriously, if you know that you'll be there next weekend, drop me an email and we can go have a drink or something, I don't know anybody there and I'm forecasting boring days ahead.

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Before this, I was: Watching TV

Currently listening to: OAG - Knocked Silly

Currently feeling: Bored, restless, argh!

Seriously... wtf?!

2006-04-05T23:07:00.000+08:00

Seriously, what the fuck?

...is going wrong with the police?

...is going wrong with the justice system?

First, they condemned the act of kissing and hugging in public as a crime.

Second, they blame CSI for their lack of brainpower to solve crimes.

Seriously, what the fuck?

What's all this bullshit about upholding asian values that condemns the act of kissing and hugging in public? Who the fuck determines what is a proper asian value and what is not? Its the fucking over-zealous politicians who determines what's wrong and what's right, the people never bothered with 'Asian values', everybody is too fucking busy worrying about petrol values, car values, interest values, monetary values to even fucking bother with pointless bullshit like 'Asian values'

OK, maybe there -are- some sohais out there who scorns the act of hugging and kissing in public, but they are a fucking minority, since when do we give a fuck about what the minorities think? You don't like seeing people kiss and hug in public, fucking cover your eyes lar, or better still, walk away. Why the fuck would you want to make such a fucking big fuss about it?

I respect the fact that hugging and kissing in public is against the teachings of Islam, I'd understand if a Muslim couple is caught hugging and kissing in public and they should be charged under the Syariah court. But why make it a federal law? Means every bloody couple that's hugging and kissing in public should be charged in the court of law. Then shouldn't the act of politicians hugging each other during this and that summit meeting be condemned as well? And how the fuck do you explain this? Our very own prime minister, in full view, kissing his wife? If mrely hugging and kissing can be charged, then shouldn't the couples fucking in public at Bukit Gasing and Titiwangsa Lake in the middle of the night be shot?

Enough of that shit... now to the other shit, which almost made me keel over laughing!

"US crime drama CSI is helping criminals to escape justice, a senior
policeman in Malaysia has said."

What the fuck? CSI is American, and probably the only similarity between American and Malaysian police is both of them like donuts, oh wait, I think Malaysian police prefer roti canais more than donuts. Anyway, how can the actions of a team of American forensic officers help Malaysian criminals escape? If that's really the case, what about Gerak Khas? They show the workings of the Malaysian police force also, they're even more realistic than the Americans right? What would you call that then? Malaysian Police Escape Manual?

If truly CSI can teach criminals escape justice, the next thing you know the army is using Survivor to train the recruits survival skill, Ally McBeal to train aspiring lawyers and House to train doctors. Hell, we can even use Star Wars to train our next batch of astronauts!

Sohai betul!

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Before this, I was: Laughing my ass off!

Currently listening to: The Offsprings - Pay The Man

Currently feeling: muahahhahaa, wtf?!, bored, sleepy

Me blog from phone!

2006-03-31T23:11:00.001+08:00

I'm now posting from my phone using GPRS at Gunung Semanggol R&R on my way balik kampung!

Me blog from phone!

2006-03-31T23:11:00.000+08:00

I'm now posting from my phone using GPRS at Gunung Semanggol R&R on my way balik kampung!

JD on the rocks on a Saturday night

2006-03-26T01:50:00.000+08:00

The bitterness of being alone on Saturday night

The sweetness of Jack Daniels whisky

The bittersweet of JD on the rocks on a saturday night...

Here I am, alone again on a Saturday night, sipping JD on the rocks in front of the PC, blogging on one side, listening to Metallica on another, chatting on MSN on another and massacring 6 orcs at the same time on the other side. My life is such a bore...

The past week had been superbly tiring, I've been assigned to the warehouse for the last week and next, and lucky me, just in time for the March shipment of 3 containers of good to arrive. So there really isn't much else for me to do, except checking on the stocks... all 3 containers of them, exceeding the number of 100 thousand individual pieces all in all! Whee!

Oh, as I was saying, last Monday is my birthday, so happy belated birthday to me. I'm officially 24 now, another chapter in the book of my life. Which if I think that such book were to exist, almost every pages would be dog-eared, a few pages have that wet-but-dried texture, a few pages missing, some torn, and almost every pages are dirty with grafitti, and random coffee stains here and there, and possibly other unindentified stains too.

When we're all kids, birthdays used to be all about cakes, presents and food. Slightly older, its about wishes and friends. When you're my age, birthdays is just another way to remind yourself that you're another year older and you're still a loser.

Do you actually make a wish when you blow out the candles on your cake? I used to do it, but somehow when I blew out the candles on the cake last Monday, my mind went blank, and I just blew out the candles, without even pausnig to wish, matter-of-fact, making a wish didn't even really crossed my mind at all. Come to think of it, even now I can't think of a wish that I would wish for had I remember to make a wish that night.

There are just too many things that I would wished for nowadays, so many that I wouldn't know which to actually wish for. A stable career? A stable relationship? A better life in general? World peace? or maybe just a simple wish that tomorrow would be better than today?

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Before this, I was: Sipping JD on the rocks

Currently listening to: Metallica - Don't Tread On Me

Currently feeling: Bored, emo, sleepy, tired, sore

Happy Birthday to ME!

2006-03-20T21:12:00.000+08:00

Yeah...

Happy Birthday to ME!

Yeah...

Bye

Protest? wtf?!

2006-03-10T21:46:00.000+08:00

If any of you actually bothers to read, listen or watch the news, you'll notice that there's been a 30 cent price increase on petrol price.

And if you bother to bother, you'll also notice there's a bunch of idiots staging protests at KLCC to protest the petrol price increase.

And if you bother to actually bother yourself to bother to read about the protests, you'll notice that the protest wasn't about the petrol price increase at all, it's more like a political protest against the ruling government.

Now, I do agree that we are all suffering from the petrol price increase, but what are you goin to do about it? Here are some exampels that I've collected;

1. Travel less? Avoid unnecessary travels to far places

2. Drive slower? A mere decrease of 20 km/h would save a significant percentage in your petrol usage

3. Avoid jam-packed areas as much as possible? Constant stop-and-go would increase petrol usage by a significant lot

4. Protest at KLCC? This is probably the best, you get to travel damned far and get stucked in one of the most jam-packed areas in KL and waste your time

*Pressed a knob on head and turn off sarcastic mode*

I don't believe in boycott and protest, what makes your puny mind think that hanging around KLCC wasting time and shouting your lungs out would make the government change their decision?

You think they just woke up in the morning someday and though of the idea while having their morning piss?

*Yawn*

"Fucking sien man, another sohai day in Putrajaya, what should I do today? I know! Let's increase petrol price, that should be fun. How much ah? Let's count my shudders after this piss and that'll be the price

increase, whee!"

*Continues pissing happily*

Seriously,

Petrol price went up by 30 cents, so? We still have -the- cheapest petrol price in the region, except Brunei of course.

I read somewhere that says that we're suckered to believe that we've the cheapest petrol in the region by the government.

Fine, you want to argue that way? Singland and Thailand petrol price is definitely higher than us, just look at petrol stations in Johor and Kelantan/Terengganu... They're literally packed with Singlanders and Thais pumping -our- petrol into -their- car.

So to those sohais protesters and boycotters at KLCC and the equally sohai anti-government sohais that started it all... Go fuck yourself lah!

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Before this, I was: Reading about the KLCC protest

Currently listening to: Black Sabbath - Psycho Man

Currently feeling: wtf?!, enraged, *yawn*

I'm still a salesman

2006-03-07T22:24:00.000+08:00

Yeah, as I was saying...

This company is very similar to The Factory where I worked for a mere 2 weeks few months back, matter of fact, some of the products sold are almost identical. I'm still thinking of a good name to call this new places, but at the moment I'll just call it The Office. Not too bad a place, not crowded, not too sparse, about 16 of us in total, and most of the time half of them are not in the office.

I'm at the moment still based in the office, reading through product catalogues and brochures, helping out with office paper works, helping out around the office most of the time. I'm expected to develop an entire new list of clientele soon, a line of clients never before walked by the salesman in this office, I won't be mentioning what this line's going to be, but lets just say it sometimes involves chicks. So yeah...

The pay wasn't too bad, will be egtting RM1500 as basic pay, and there are other perks as well, like phone and petrol allowances, and of course there is the comission, I AM a salesman after all...

I'm currently up to my throat with jobs this few weeks, is working 6 days a week at The Office, worked at The Shop in Mid Valley on Sundays and at the same time, occasionally hustle for my event. It's literally 8 days a week, 25 hours a day for me now.

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Before this, I was: MUDding

Currently listening to: Oasis - Take Me Away

Currently feeling: Tired, sleepy, bored, restlessa

I'm a salesman

2006-03-06T22:44:00.000+08:00

I've always rejected the notion of working a job that is unrelated to your field of study. I always believed that if you study a certain subject, you stick to the certain subject's job scope. Why bother studying something for few years just to come out and throw it all away by working something totally unrelated?

In my case, I'm in the communication field, and my passion is in events. I've tried my hands on various industry within the field, full-fledge agency, PR, media and events. But I've never really settled myself well within the industry, the longest time I spend in a company is just 6 months. For the past 2 years since graduation, i spend more time bumming than actually working in any company within the industry. I don't think I can bum any longer now, I've to pay for the car, the petrol for the car and hell lot more other thing else. I needed a proper job. I might need to change industry.

Which I did...

Remember I mentioned that I'll be doing something against my principle few weeks back?

I'm a salesman now...

Which explain why I looked like a fat zombie almost everyday, I've to wake up at 6.30 in the bloody morning everyday, endure almost an hour long jam to work, leave office at almost 7 almost everyday, and endure another hour jam to get home.

I've nothing much to say about the new job, except its very very similar to the job in The Factory few months back. And I'm too lazy to write anything else now...

Oh, did I mention this is not the only job I'm doing at the moment?

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Before this, I was: Sleeping

Currently listening to: Slither - Metallica

Currently feeling: Tired, sleepy, bored

I flame

2006-02-20T23:29:00.000+08:00

I've been blogging for more than a year already, and for almost eevryone who reads my blog, I'm a good guy in general. I don't like to put people down by talking bad about them, I don't flame other blogs because they're stupid. But I'm bored, am I'm destructive when I'm bored, so I shall flame.

These people sucks.

MENJ's Critical Thoughs

Critical my chinese arse! He's probably the fucking most close minded blogger in the entire blogosphere. Everything he posted are either racist, religion-ist or anti-government. This is the perfect example of a first world citizen with a third-world mentality. Everything something happens, doesn't matter if its good or bad, he'll refer it back to the Q**an and come out with some twisted logic and explanation that's totally opposite with the moral majority.

Hottestblogger

This fella has been a debate in the Malaysian blogosphere awhile back, and is probably hated by almost every female blogger out there. What gives you the fucking rights to publish their pictures and let the world vote on them? Let's see people take your mother's picture and post her in a blog and let people vote, you like or not? Sohai!

The third blog I hate was fortunately no longer exist Whores. Some of you veterans might remember this bloody blog, they'll pick a a blog and criticize on them, no matter good or bad, they'll think of something bad to say. Oi! What makes you think you're so great a blogger to criticize other ah?

OK, you might ask me the same thing, what makes me so great to criticize other blogs? I'm not criticizing them because they're bad, I just hates their contents. Oh, you think I sucks too? Fine, go fuck yourself and don't come back!

Since I'm in the mood to flame people now, I might as well add this in Princess. (Link taken from YC) What the fuck?! So fucking shameless call herself princess, face like fuck want to be princess? If being a princess means being ugly, then you're not a princess, you're the queen! And what the fuck with the pictures? All posing kaw kaw like a fucking model, when none of them would even qualify to be qualified to be auditioned to me models. Stellar? What the fuck?! Sounds like a bloody lesbian sorority cult to me, you know? The ones that kidnap young man and sexually torture them to death.

Yeah, flaming is good. That shall be all...

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Before this, i was: Laughing my ass off at the stupid pictures in Princess' friendster

Currently listening to: Metallica - Carpe Diem Baby

Currently feeling: Bored, irritated flame!

V Day + One

2006-02-15T03:33:00.000+08:00

Exactly a year ago, I started this blog, back then it was still called Soliloquy.

Exactly a year ago, my first post is called V's Day + One.

Exactly a year ago, I chill out with the guys on V Day night

Exactly a year ago, I had a plan

Exactly a year ago, I had my heart broken

If it wasn't for this blog to constantly remind me, I would not have remembered what happened last year. My memory was never good, especially with insignificant matters, like my life. I've been too pre-occupied with all the shits in life at the moment, job, money, relationship, life as a whole.

Minutes seem to blur into hours and days and speeds by without me even realizing what's happening around me. My life revolves around being in front of the computer at home, running around everywhere to hustle the project I'm working on and mopping around in the office, and ccasionally blurring in the shop in Mid Valley. I'm doing too many things and too little things in too little time and too many time, things are never perfect, Its always too many things, too little time and too little things, too many time.

My long term and long distance relationship with her had finally ended, it ended nicely, it ended sadly, it ended peacefully. There are no tears, no rage, no shouting, no argument, just regrets, alot of regrets. I guessed I should have known that we're never meant to be together long time ago, a very long time ago. We're so different in manner, character and interest that its a surprise that we could be together for such a long time.

I'm likely to make a very drastic change in my life very soon, something that will forever alter my principle in life, but for the good of all. However, until the time comes, I'm still me, whoever I may be.

Who am I anyway? Merely just another insignificant individual mopping around in this cruel and unforgiving world. I was preparing a career profile of someone for the project I'm working on and it hit me that if someone were to prepare a profile for me, he'll have a hard time trying to find anything significant at all to be included into the profile.

Tomorrow would be the last day I'll be hustling for my project, my first personal hustle. I've been losing sleep over it almost everyday for the past week. The lethal combination of lack of sleep, the amount of stress and the mental fatigue for the past few days made me a very violent man lately. I've been picking arguments with my parents, shouting at strangers and trying to pick fights with everybody, and worst of all, I raised my voice to my friends. For those whom I shouted at for the last few days, those I pissed off; I'm sorry.

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Before this, I was: Finalizing the proposal for my hustle

Currently listening to: John Lennon - Mind Games

Currently feeling: Fatigue both physically and mentally, emo, sad, sleepy, excited, stressed, burned-out

Malaysian websites are stupid

2006-02-07T22:09:00.000+08:00

MALAYSIAN WEBSITES ARE FUCKING STUPID!

Seriously, some websites, especially those designed and managed by and for Malaysian companies are FUCKING stupid!

I'm not sure about other websites, but here are two extremely fucking stupid website. They're a fucking hotel, and yet they don't provide any means of contact number for them at all, how the fuck they expect people who want to contact them for booking fucking contact them if they don't provide any fucking contact number?!

www.summithotel.com.my

www.holidayvillasubang.com

Fucking sohai!

I'm available again... for the job market

2006-01-24T01:23:00.000+08:00

So I'm looking for a job again, after a 3-weeks stint at The Factory. The Factory was probably the worst working condition I ever had, but this time, I didn't want to leave, I was asked to do so.

The first few weeks I was there was terrible, being stranded in an environment I have absolutely no familiarity with, nor interest in. But come the 3rd week, I was transferred to another department, and is assigned a task that is my passion; events. I paid my 100% attention and effort in creating a working proposal for an event in just 3 days, and I was given the big thank you on the 4th day.

I'm not very sure about the conditions nor the reasons of my termination. It mentioned non-performing on my thank you letter, but after I asked the managers of the various departments I was attached to in the first 2 weeks, most of them don't have any problems with me. I said most of them because I know there is one particular department where I was slacking the most and I think that might be the reason of it all. But don't my contributions in the other departments count for anything at all? How can my actions in a department that I know I would never join affect the attention and effort I given to the departments I know I might be placed in?

That's the problem working in a small chinaman company, you can do a thousand things that benefitted the company, but a small mistake is enough a reason for them to boot you out of the company. The other problem is that most chinaman companies don't bother to look at your paper qualifications at all, and at times, even your years of experience don't matter to them. They just want to see the results and the monies that comes into the company.

The Factory's boss is pretty much a chinaman, despite his inability to speak a single word in chinese. He's the type of boss who believe in punchcards, motivational talks and discipline. He'll go around the office and stop at random areas and starts to lecture the poor soul about the importance of planning, or instructing them the proper ways to mind-map their ideas. One thing he never really understand is the relationship between an employer and an employee. Nobody wants to hear a motivational talk when the deadline is just around the corner, nor want to learn the proper way to mind-map when work is stacked up to their brain. The boss thnks by going around the office and motivating them is a good way to build up a good relationship, not what he didn't know is that he's more an annoyance than anything else.

And what the fuck is this about ISO 900352375127537812? What the fuck does a fucking organization in Switzerland know about the workings of a factory in Malaysia? ISO requires certain things to be done with the -proper- way, and expects that everybody to obeys it. There is a situation where one of the factory worker in The Factory is caught hauling a load of trash to the trash area with a forklift and is lectured by the boss about proper ways to do it. Apparently the proper way is to carry the trash by hand and placed the bag gently into the trash area as not to damage any fragile content in the bag, and if too heavy, use a trolley. Gently as not to damage the fragile content in the bag? Who gives a flying fuck whether the trash are damaged? It won't be trash if it's not damaged is it? And to carry the trash by hand one by one? If there are 10 fucking bags, it means he'll need to repeat the task 10 fucking times right? Wouldn't it be so much easier if he can just fucking throw all 10 bags onto a pallet and forklift ALL of them to the trash area at one time? I think all ISO did was to stress the employees to do certain things the proper way, even sometimes the proper ways doesn't really mean the fastest nor the most efficient.

Nonetheless, I did learned alot at The Factory, the goods and the bads. Met alot of people I can take example from, heard alot of good advices about working, living and about life in general. Most I can really think into it and leard from, and of course there are the bad things of working that unfortunately, I had to learn the hard way.

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Before this, I was: Sending out resumes

Currently listening to: Pete Teo - Alive 'N Free

Currently feeling: Bored, sleepy, frustrated

Me-me, schme-me of 5

2006-01-21T01:59:00.000+08:00

Amazingly, I'm able to type this shit...

Anyway, Joe tagged me for a me-me, so me shall atempt this me-me..

1. Post 5-weird/random stuff about yourself.

2. At the end, list the names of 5 people whom you want next to do this, and leave a comment "YOU ARE TAGGED!" in their blog and tell them to read your blog for rules.

5 Weird Things About me:

1. I can sleep at 4am and wake up at 7am feeling perfectly fine the next morning. I might find it extremely hard to wake up, but once I awake, I'm perfectly well and fit, and I can do this few days in a row.

2. I can eat the amount equivalent to a small country. Contact Joe to verify...

3. I like to travel... weirdly. Ever tried walking from Taylor's College to Puchong at 2am in the morning? Ever tried taking the LRT from one end to the other and back again? Ever tried walking from KLCC to Bukit Bintang and back again for no reason at all? Ever tried wandering around Bukit Bintang at 4am in the morning? Ever tried driving all the way to Ipoh just to drink the 'original' white coffee and back again? Don't ask...

4. I think playing a game that have absolutely no graphics, no sounds and is all words is fun. Contact David to verify...

5. I dress weird. But then again, jeans + wallet chain + skate shoes + executive shirt + tie wasn't THAT weird is it?

5 person I tag:

1. David (I doubt he'll do it)

2. Bok (She no blog)

3. You

4. You

5. You (Yeah, I know, this is sad, but no one bothers to read my blog anyway)

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Before this, I was: Trying to get myself drunk... without success

Currently listening to: Azmyl Yunor - Bone Dry

Currnetly feeling: Whee! Burp! Whee! Zzz

in-between jobs

2006-01-21T01:52:00.000+08:00

As of today, I'm officially 'in-between jobs'.

I don't type well after downing several glasses of Jack Daniels, so I won't...

Cheerios

It wasn't too bad after all

2006-01-19T00:08:00.000+08:00

Can't believe its been almost 3 weeks into the new year already. Time flies, especially when you are stumbling along in a daze.

This also means its been 3 weeks into my new job at The Factory. The first 2 weeks there was bad, it was terrible. This week I'm re-assigned to the sales department, which I expected to be just as bad as every other department I've been. But few days into the new department, I'm seeing The Factory in a whole new light, this place wasn't too bad after all.

Probably the fact that I'm doing something I enjoy helps, I'm currently assigned to work out a proposal for a promotion event for one of our product. It's going to be nationwide and it's going to be huge, and it's mine. I've always enjoyed the event management field, and the chance to plan an entire campaign of my own really was an unusual experience.

Most of the things looked not bad at the moment, maybe except the fact that I still don't own my own desk, nor chair, nor computer, not even a pencil! I do own a piece of diskette now though; Verbatim you know? Don't play play... Damned sad

Anyway, its still too early for me to judge the place as a whole, maybe a few months down the road, I'll be looking for a job again.

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Before this, I was: Sleeping, while the TV watch me, I mean watching TV

Currently listening to: Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child 'O Mine

Currnetly feeling: Tired, sleepy, bored

Work Sucks!

2006-01-09T01:00:00.000+08:00

This is such a long delayed post, eversince the new year, I've been working my ass off 7 days a week and almost every night, I'm too dead tired to do anything. I sometimes can't even be bothered to have my dinner, much less blog. Waking up at 7 is definietly not me.

Since last Tuesday, I started my new job at this company in USJ, which is pretty much a factory. I shall not reveal the nature of the factory's products because its too small a market to be anonymous. Anyway, I'm placed as a management trainee, which basically got me circulating to different departments in the factory, namely warehouse, R&D, production and ultimately sales. My first assigned department is the warehouse department, which pretty sees me working a store-keeper's job; taking product inventory; preparing stock management cards and pretty much every other general works available in a warehouse.

I've worked a total of 4 days since Tuesday and already I'm seeking a new job. The factory is pretty much all it is; a fucking factory. Everybody have to punch in their card before going into the factory, the work-start time, lunch-time and going-back time is signaled by an air raid siren sound-alike. Where everybody in the factory pretty much lines up at the guardhouse, each holding his punch card taking turns to punch out to go for lunch, and repeat the exact process to come in in the morning, come back from lunch and going home at 5.30. Working environment is downright bullshit, there's no air-conditioning (It's a bloody factory!), the fans are in-adequate, it's loud (Defeaning!), everywhere is dirty and the entire place has a perculiar chemical smell.

All those are the negative points of the factory, but the main reason that is urging me to get the hell out of the place is the nature of the job itself. Everything is too systematic, everything has a schedule and a program. There's absolutely no room for expansion, no area for creativity and definitely no freedom at all. It's like a fucking assembly line, everything must be done in a certain order, being creative would probably result in a disaster. In another word, the place is deadpan, it's interupting my creative process, which is pretty much the core of my work interest, I might not be so much of a creative person, but at least some of the jobs I did involves certain degree of creativity to do something.

Another reason that is considered as an excuse to leave the factory is that it does not recognize my academic qualification. What I'm doing now can be done by almost anybody, and as far as I've seen the other departments in the factory, anybody can do anybody's job, probably some training required, but definitely not a degree. I met one of the salesperson which has a Master in Applied Chemistry and is working the same amount of shit and earning the same amount of peanut as the salesperson with a diploma in IT. if I knew I'm to work in this company in the first place, why would I bother to waste several years of my life pursuing a fucking degree and yet end up in this fucking factory that I could have joined straight out of form 5. Hell! They don't even need to hire a Malaysian, they can get any fucking Bangla or Indon to do the same shit as the fella with a Master in Applied Chemistry!

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Before this, I was: Doing my weekly report on the promo job

Currently listening to: No Doubt - Running

Currently feeling: Tired, frustrated, pissed, fuck you!

Happy New Year

2006-01-03T01:15:00.000+08:00

Yeah... it's few days away, but I'm only free now...
Well actually, not really, I've got to:

1. Sleep early; first day of work tomorrow
2. Eat; fucking hungry now
3. Prepare some shit for tomorrow
4. Make a certain phone call

Got donkey load's of stuff to post, half of it is drafted, but ain't got the time to post... 'till then.

Bye

Long distance relationship

2005-12-29T00:34:00.000+08:00

They say true love never forgets

They say true love survives time and distance

They say true love never dies

They also say out of sight, out of mind

They also say long distance relationship never work

They also say there's no such thing as true love

Can someone really fall in love and remain in love with someone you barely seen? You depend on the phone and the internet to communicate each other, you talked and chatted with each other almost everyday, and yet the last time you see them was ages ago.

Technologies are very convenient when you want to communicate with someone from long distance. You're jumping happily when you see them online on MSN, you're hopping with glee when you receive their SMS. Their voice is just but a few buttons away on you phone. But what happens when the internet's down? What happens when they're not within reach of the convenience of the internet? What happens when the telecommunication netwok screwed up?

Without the presence of the interpersonal touch of a normal relationship, communication becomes vague, there's no body language involved, you can't see the true feelings of the other person at the end of the line. You can hear their voice, but you can never know what they're thinking.

Is something wrong?

Why is she so cold today?

Why didn't she pick up the phone?

Why didn't she reply my SMS?

A thousand and one questions played in your head. In a normal relationship, you know seeing them is just but mere days away in the coming weekend, or maybe just mere few hours away when you're going to meet them later. You know you can discuss the problems when you meet.

In long distance relationship, you know the next time you'll be seeing them in far away, you don't even know when's the exact date you'll be meeting them, or whether you'll be meeting them at all.

The nagging feeling thinking when's the next time you'll seeing them again, the sinking feeling in the heart when you think of them, the times when you really needed someone to hold, someone to love, and yet they're out of reach.

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Before this, I was: Sleeping

Currently listening to: Babyface - Everytime I close My Eyes

Currently feeling: Sad, emo, worry

Merry Christmas

2005-12-25T04:14:00.000+08:00

It was a Merry Christmas indeed...

I mean, how merrier can it be than being stuck in a bloody traffic jam counting down to Christmas together with the radio DJ and accompanied with car horns. Did I mention alone?

I was in 1 Utama as usual every weekend for the last several weeks, I never had any plans for tonight, David's out of town, Nelsen's out of shape and the rest pretty much got plans of their own. I'm hanging around with Omar after the promo ended, found some of his friends at Chili's and chill out awhile. Called Agnes to wish her Merry Christmas, and she told me that she's in KL for a party and invited me over, noting that the time wasn't even 10.30pm yet, I decided to make a move to KL, thinking there should be more than enough time to get there before 12. But then again, KL traffic killed my plans and I ended up in KL at almost 12.30, counting down my Christmas in the car, in the jam...

She and her friends wanted to get a drink but almost none of them are familiar with KL nor PJ, so after some discussions and arguments, we decided to go back to Kepong. Since I've no problem with driving to anywhere, I agreed. So yeah...

Me tipsy 'hic'

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Before this, I was: taking a bath

Currently listening to: Beatles - I wanna Hold Your Hand

Currently feeling: Sleepy, happy, merry, blur, tipsy, whee...

Subang to KLIA - Pushing the limits

2005-12-24T03:16:00.000+08:00

I drove all the way from Subang to KLIA in under 30 minutes!
"Big Deal!" You might say
"I can't do it in 15 minutes!" You might say

But did I mentioned that my petrol warning indication light was on all the way?

David was flying off back to Terengganu for Christmasearlier this evening, I'm not sure what time is the flight, but he's supposed to check-into the terminal by 7 something and I supposed to pick him up by 6. But due to the slight rain earlier, the traffic along LDP was in a massive jam and I only managed to get to david's place by 6.45.

When I left my house, there's still 1 notch from empty and I estimated that to be more than enough to go all the way to KLIA. But due to the constant go-stop in the jam, the petrol dwindled to slightly above the empty notch, due to the lack of time, I ignored the petrol level and drove all the way to KLIA, pushing the petrol level to the very limit.

After dropping off David, I re-filled at the Petronas on the way out from KLIA, the RM 50 fill-up didn't even reach the second notch, normally a RM 50 fill-up will have the meter touching the top notch. Pretty much tells me that the petrol tank is already used up to the minimum, probably will go 'poof' within the next few kilometres.

Anyone have any idea how far a Wira 1.5 Auto can go with a full tank? 'm not even quite sure how much a full tank really is, I've filled a RM 53 full tank, and at one time it touched RM 60 to be full, what's the actual capacity of the tank?

After dropping off David, I picked up Nick, Jerry and Philip to go see Nelsen in Gleneagles Intan Hospital, that fella is down for an operation on his knee for to a torn ligament, due to 'overuse' of the muscle. Stupid sport jock... Anyway, it took us ages to get there, almost 2 hours stuck in the car due to a bloody jam in along Jalan Pudu and Jalan Imbi, luckily Jalan Sultan Ismail is free and it took us less than 10 minutes to reach the hospital from there.

When we reach there, Angie and Fabian already reached, Komathi was supposed to be there with them too, but couldn't make it. We just hang out at his 'suite' for almost an hour and left for food, because Philip, Nick and me almost fainted from hunger. So all 6 of us packed into my car and went to Jalan Alor for food, since most of us are new-comer to that area, we ended up at a stupid stall that sells stupid, expensive and yuck food. Then again, I think everything there is stupid, expensive and yuck, maybe except the famous chicken wings, which I forgot where the stall is.

I agreed to send Angie home because I'm a very kind-hearted person that hates to leave a girl to take a cab home in the middle of the night all by herself. Really, I am... Anyway, Angie stayed in this bloody-far-god-forsaken place in Taman Cuepacs in Cheras, which wasn't actually really far in from the mainroad, but it definitely is god-forsaken lar, looks abit like Puchong when it's first developed, the whole place empty, no shops, no mamak, no traffic. After that, I send Fabian home because I'm a good person and hate to dump him in Subang. He stays in Kota Kemuning, somewhere near Sri Muda in Shah Alam, bloody far in another god-forsaken place. Stupid Indian... (Fabian: Portugese!)

Oh! I'm no longer unemployed! Went for an interview at a company in USJ today, does sealants and tapes (The sticky type). I applied for the post of management trainee and I got the job immediately, maybe they're really impressed by my good-natured personality and the gung-ho-hardworking look, or maybe because the boss who interviewed me already knew me because my dad is one of his client. Shit...

Nonetheless, at least I'm no longer unemployed come next year. I'm to start work at the 3rd of January, with a salary of RM 1*00. No extra allowances and benefits, means it'll be even lower than when I'm working at the previous company. But then again, beggars can't be choosers, at least I'm earning more than what I'm getting right now. I'm likely to continue this promotion job of mine, it'll only last until end of January anyway. I think I can still survive one month without weekends, at least I'll have more money for the Chinese New Year at the end of Jnuary.

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Before this, I was: reading Suanie (I won blog of the year!)

Currently listening to: Penny Tai - Chen Yang (How?)

Currently feeling: Happy, tired, sleepy, blur

It's been quite some time...

2005-12-14T01:44:00.000+08:00

It's been quite some time...

...since I posted anything worthwhile in here. Nothing meaningful, nothing deep, nothing special. I seem to have lost the inspiration that drives me to blog almost everyday last time, the inspiration to write record down my thoughs and feelings of the day, the inspiration to question certain things in life. I seem to have lost the passion for writing, the passion to record down everything that happened that day.

It's been quite some time...

...since I did anything worthy. I've been extremely busy lately, at the promotion every weekend, working at the shop almost everyday. But it somehow seems like everything I did for the last few months isn't worthy at all, the satisfaction is not there, the fun is not there, even the pay wasn't really visible at all. I've resumed actively seeking for job already, newspapers and websites. The replies aren't really coming in, or maybe not yet. Maybe...

It's been quite some time...

...since I enjoy my life. My life revolves around work recently, works that doesn't really pay much. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed myself, not the recent Langkawi trip, not mamak sessions, not even the weekly gaming session with the guys. Computer games isn't as fun anymore, reading wasn't as captivating anymore, even the prospect of a relationship doesn't excites me. I get bored at everything easily nowadays, I get angry at everything easily nowadays, I get emo-ed over everything nowadays.

It's been quite some time...

...since I went shopping. I like to buy things, but I can't afford anything at all right now, not even for Christmas. There's alot of things I want to buy, I want a new cap, I want, no wait... I need a new motherboard for the computer, I want new books, I want new casettes. There are tons of things I want, but I can't... This is not a fucking Christmas wish list, those are things I wanted to buy for ages already, but can never afford them. The old company still owes me my allowances for the races, Joe still owes me, I still owe david, I still owe my mom.

There are too many things that's going downhill for me recently, nothing is interesting, nothing is worthy, nothing is worthy, everything is nothing. Sometimes I wonder if I'm living my life correctly? I've managed to change once, I'm sure I can do it again this time. I've been through worst, alot worst. I've pulled through, pulled myself out of the slump, I did it before, or else I'd probably be in prison, or dead by now if I didn't pulled myself through the last time.

There are too many things in life for me to achieve, I can't give up now. I've to work hard, alot harder than I've ever did to achieve those things. Maybe I should set a goal for myself like Joe did, maybe I should just let life takes it course and go where ever it takes me. Maybe I should just end it right here...

Sad to say, I used to believe in suicides, I used to believe deaths solves alot of things, I used to believe that pain can relieve pain. I believe in them no more, I've seen more problems created with death than it solves.

I need new goals

I need a new focus

I need a new direction

The new year is just a mere few weeks away, I don't want to go into the new year like this. There probably isn't enough time to change anything now, but at least I need to know that I won't be like this for too long. A new year, a new life?

Inspired by Joe

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Before this, I was: Contemplating my life

Currently listening to: The Doors - The End

Currently feeling: Bored, emo, sad, frustrated, unsatisfied, melancholy

Ain't much to talk about...

2005-12-08T01:30:00.000+08:00

Just a short one just so to confirm Joe that this blog is indeed alive, barely...

Had been bloody busy for the last several days, almost everyday at the shop in Mid Valley and every weekend is somewhere in Klang Valley for the roadshow promotion. Money wasn't really something I have in abundance at the moment, it's not like I ever had money in abundance before anyway, but I'll have some extras for books, or music or some fun. budget had been very tight this few months, I think I need to find a proper job soon. I supposed myself is to be blamed for the fact that I'm still doing part times only, I had never really been actively seeking jobs the last few months, send out a few applications, went to one interview and that's it. Been filtering and choosy about the jobs I'm applying too, only applying for the jobs that I like and is related to me. Should I start branching out to other industries? Or do something entirely unrelated to what I was trained? Sales and marketing maybe? This is probably the easiest job to find out there, everybody is looking for a salesman.

Sigh...

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Before this, I was: Scheduling this weekend's roadshow staff

Currently listening to: Pete Teo - Jesselton Tonight

Currently feeling: Emo, tired, confused

Langkawi, and other stuff

2005-12-02T01:27:00.000+08:00

Been quite some time since the last post, had been very very busy for the last few weeks. Much had happened since; Langkawi, mad work, bad relationship, party.

I was at Langkawi few weeks back with my family, and when I say family, it includes my 3 aunts, 2 uncles, my grandfather and a hoard of cousins, all together 17 people. We stayed at the apartment serviced by Leisure Holidays Berhad at the north-east side of the island, rather secluded and hidden unless you know how to get there. The place wasn't that big, a modest 2 room unit with all the comforts of home. We booked 2 units and somehow managed to squeeze all 17 people inside comfortably, probably broken a record somewhere. Another record breaking feat performed when we're there is the ability for us to squeeze ALL 17 of us into ONE Toyota Hi-Ace van, luckily there are a few children and most of the adults are rather on the wiry side, except for me of course, but I'm sitting in front so there's no squeezing at all.

Most of the tourist spots in Langkawi are rather far apart, and the roads wasn't exactly perfect and the road signs are like every other road sign in Malaysia; confusing. So going anywhere in Langkawi is rather problematic, and with 17 people tagging along everywhere is downright disaster. It takes a full 5 minutes just to climb into the car and position themselves comfortably, and another 5 to climb out. The van itself also wasn't in her best condition, the van had probably been driven a thousand times and the engine is just around the corner from the scrapyard.

The last time I'm in Langkawi was with friends more than a year back, spent more time at the beach and in the sea than anywhere else. We barely went to any of the tourist spots at all, just the Underwater World and a few other free entrance places and then left soon. But this time, I'm with the family with old people and kids, beach bumming and bar hopping wasn't exactly what they have in mind. The very first place we visited was the old Mahsuri Tomb, that doesn't very old now. They, whoever they are, had build the place up to look more like any other generic tourist spot than a historical location, complete with a air-conditioned museum and gift shops. It's probably a good idea to beautify the place a little to make it more tourist friendly, but I personally think a historical site should remain a historical site image and not look like a bloody shopping mall, albeit one with an ancient tomb in it. The next spot we visit is supposed to be Pantai Pasir Hitam, or Black Sand Beach. But we got lost and ended up at Tanjung Rhu beach instead, so we got off the van and walked around abit, looking around and let the kids play around awhile before we're forced to climb back into the van because the weather doesn't look very friendly. That night, we went down to the jetty and walked around near the huge eagle statue that is now the symbol of the island.

The next morning we went to Telaga Tujuh, or the Seven Wells waterfall, basically its just like any other waterfall anywhere else, unless you're willing to climb up the god-knows-how-far I-think-it-looked-too-step-for-comfort stairs to see the actual seven wells. Apparently, the top of the waterfall is actually a lake that looked like seven interlinked wells, or at least thats what the tourist brochures said, never really bothered to go look for myself. The next place we went was probably the highlight of the trip, for some of us that is; the Underwater World. Most of the adults, well actually all the adults are reluctant to go inside, in the end, there's only me, my sister, my aunt and the children that goes in. In the beginning, I was also reluctant to go because the entrance fee is RM28, and since I've already been in there before, I decided to give this place a skip. But after looking at the tourist brochures and the pictures of the interior displayed at the entrance, and noticing that the place had been renovated and is alot bigger than last time, I decided to join the children and go in. The new wing now housed a semi-outdoor area with swans and flamingos and a huge anaconda, slightly further in is the brand spanking new arctic section with penguins and seals, of which we spend the most time gawking at the penguins dive bombing into the water. A new addition to the place is the 3D theater show that wasn't really that interesting at all, although the seats was very welcoming after walking around the place.

The last place we visited was Galeri Perdana, or Perdana Gallery, displaying the various gifts and items owned by our previous prime minister; Tun Dr. Mahathir. It displays everything from the gifts from various foreign visits and visitors from foreign countries to the the potraits presented to him by famous artists around the world to even his and his wife's doctorate certificates he got years ago. That's all the places we visited, and of course no trip to Langkawi would be complete without a visit to our favorite duty free shopping place; Teow Soon Huat. Bought loads of chocolates and liquors, which I probably cost more than anything else we spend at the trip. My only encounter with the sea was dipping my feet in the sea water for a few short seconds when we walked to the beach of the resort next door to our apartment.

That's pretty much all I did in Langkawi, which is rather boring to be frank. Probably at my age, anything you do with your family won't be much interesting compared to what we did when we're with friends.

The very next morning after we got back to KL, I've to work at the promotion, this time at the Homedec '05 exhibition in Mid Valley for 3 days straight, followed by the same roadshow at different locations at the weekend and another 3 days straight at the CD shop in Mid Valley; 8 days straight working non stop from day to night. Today is actually the only day I'm free and is able to actually rest since I got back from Langkawi, I just got back last week and I felt like I need another vacation soon.

Had a slight fallout with my dad last week, wasn't really serious, I'm not even sure what the hell happened. But then again, the old man is known for his bad temper, I think I'll just be a good boy and just stay low for a few days for things to cool and pretend nothing happened. It worked before, will probably work again this time. My relationship with my dad was never really a perfect father-son relationship, I never really understand what he wants and he is just, well, being him.

Today was Nelsen's birthday party, not his actual birthday, which is a few days away, and it wasn't really a party at all, but just sort of a get together with a few friends and had dinner. Had a good laugh with them when we reminiscense the last time we're at Langkawi and of course college times. It was a pretty nice break from the pressures I've to face for the last several days, a time where we can just hang out and chill and talk cock and forget about work, even if its just a few short hours.

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Before this, I was: Just got back from Nelsen's party

Currently listening to: Pete Teo - Arms of Marianne

Currently feeling: Bored, emo, sleepy

Gohtong Jaya: I wuz there!

2005-11-13T01:57:00.000+08:00

I was driving myself home after packing up the roadshow in Batu Cave's Giant today, going there was pretty easy, take the LDP all the way straight, but going back was rather confusing, especially with all the constructions going there at the moment, hence I got lost. The signboards were pretty much as useless as any other signboards in KL, but nonetheless, I just follow the direction to Kuala Lumpur, at least I know my way around KL city. So I just drive around on the highway following the direction to Kuala Lumpur, did I mention I don't even know which highway / expressway I'm on? So I just pretty much blindly driving along, noticing signboards to know where I'm heading.

The next thing I know, a signboard says Plaza Tol: 500m. Shit! I'm already on the highway, I can't possibly make a U-turn can I? But when I reached the toll booth, it says RM4 for cars and I instantly recognized which tollbooth that is and where it's headed; Genting. I also know that the nearest interchange to turn off the highway and make a U-turn is Genting itself, or another 20km further to Bentong.

So about half-an-hour, 1/5 tank petrol and RM4 later, I'm in Gohtong Jaya. Spend less than 5 minutes there, made a U-turn and straight back down to KL city. My first time driving to Gohtong Jaya, in the night, and raining slightly, it's a miracle I'm still alive, pretty much drove all the way up with the auto gear at 2nd and low. Yeah, that's my adventure getting lost and drove all the way to Gohtong Jaya.... Nevermind

Zouk Abuse Real? Hoax? Publicity stunt? See for yourselves...

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Before this, I was: Reading that Zouk Hoax blog

Currently listening to: Da Lench Mob - Guerillas In Tha Mist (GTA: SA - Radio Los Santos)

Currently feeling: Tired, sleepy, bored

IC renewal and Gangster

2005-11-08T03:33:00.000+08:00

I finally managed to drag my lazy ass up at 6.30 in the morning to renew my IC today. I've been procastinating that idea for the last few months, I actually decided to do it during the Puasa month, thinking that there would be a shorter queue, but I was sort of busy at that time and conveniently forgotten about it. I decided to go today because I know if I drag it any longer, it'll be December and I'll have to pay to renew it, and me being a stingy Chinese me, I rather lose sleep than pay for anything.

So I dragged my ass up at 6.30am, with less than 3 hours of sleep, I'm literally walking in my sleep into the bathroom and only woke up when the water hit me. Got dressed in shirt and slacks and tie, and off I go to the JPN in Puchong Utama. It's not even 7.30 and already there's a queue from the frontdoor to 5 shoplot away. Because I was zombie-ing when I woke up, I forgot to bring a book, or even a newspaper to read while waiting, luckily I got my new phone and spend the next half an hour playing chess with my phone, which I lost... a few times. Luckily, when the center opens at 8, everybody streams into the center and got their number, mine is number 1070, which is estimated to be about 11am. So I just drag my ass away from the center, grab a roti canai, go home and bum until 10 something and away I go, again.

I never really like to wear my slacks, and thinking that they only need the photo of my head, I decided to wear jeans instead. Little that I know, what I decided to wear to JPN is probably the most radical fashion statement I ever wore, which I only realized later. There I was, in my baggy Sean John jeans, wallet chain and all my wrist accesories, Osiris sneakers, long-sleeved shirt, buttoned to the neck, untucked AND tie with a proper tie-clip... oh, and properly combed and gelled hair. It's pretty much yuppie proper executive look in the upper body and hip-hop bum from the waist down, oh, and I was holding my coat too. I doubt I'll ever this radical anytime in the future, but then again, I think it sorta looked cool, I think.

Spend the rest of the day sleeping like a dead dog, which explains why I'm still wide-awake and not feeling sleepy at all at 4am.

I was channel surfing on Astro awhile ago, and somehow landed on channel 4; Astro Ria. Its showing some Hari Raya movie special, and today's happened to be Gangster. I looked abit like a Fast & Furious rip-off, complete with a Mitsubishi Evo, Subaru WRX and Proton Satria. I didn't really understand the movie because I stumbled into it midway. But somehow it sort of tried to tie three different completely irrelevent plot into one. There's this rich kid with the Evo, but can't really drive who have to steal money from his parents to modify his car to race against some dude in the WRX. A guy that tries to rescue a chick who works as a drug dealer for the 'bad guy'; who wears leather and sports blonde hair and beard. The last plot is about a man who owes somebody alot of money and tries to escape but ended up his wife and daughter got kidnapped and he is forced to steal to repay his debt.

Somehow in the last few minutes of the movie, all the plot hit each other, literally. The Evo and WRX crashed into the guy who tries to rescue the chick in an old beat-up Volkswagon Beatle and the debt-ridden guy stole the bag of the girl the guy's trying to rescue. The movie ended up with both the Evo and WRX guy dead, the bad guy got shot by somebody, both the guy and the girl he's trying to rescue survived, but no idea what happened to them after that and the debt-ridden guy got arrested. Confused? So am I.

Nonetheless, the movie is really rather interesting; lotsa action sequence, lotsa angry words that would likely be replaced with extremely insulting phrases in real life, nicely chroreographed car chase sequence and some hot chicks too. However, the movie would do better with less pretentious dialogs and better acting. I'd say the movie as a whole is good, but if the actors are singled out, most of them can do alot better.

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Before this, I was: Watching Gangster on Astro Ria

Currently listening to: Carpenters - Top of The World

Currently feeling: Restless, bored, confused

Bouncy, bouncy...

2005-11-06T03:22:00.000+08:00

Recently I've been rather preoccupied with this bouncing ball of mine, yeah. No, i's not what you think it is. You see, I've got this li'l bouncy squash-ball sorta rubber ball that I got as a free gift when I bought my Kingston RAM from last year's PC fair. It's been sitting on my table collecting dust all the while, wasn't really interested in 'playing' with it. But a few days ago, as I was sitting at my desk reading, I idle hand grabbed it and started to bounce it up and down, and I'm stick to doing that ever since. I'm bouncing the ball while watching TV, reading and alternating-between-typing-and-bouncing while on the PC, I even attempted to bounce it while eating, until my mom threatens to feed me that ball.

Today is officially the first day I started using the Nokia 6610i that I 'purchased' from David, I won't go into details how he got his hand onto the phone, but he sold it to me. This is the first color screen-phone I got and the first camera-phone I got, the first MMS-phone I got and I've no idea how to use it. Been fiddling with the settings the entire day in the shop and I still don't fully understand all the functions of the phone. All my previous phones are primarily used for SMS and phone calls only, none of those fancy MMS-wallpaper-customizable folders-fancy ringtones-camera whatnots functions. Fortunately I've been using a Nokia since my first phone, and I know the basic features of the phone, give me a Motorola or a Samsung, and I'll probably take a week just to learn the basic functions. Yeah, I'm a handphone noob.

I was with Nelsen for some C&C: Generals session just now, sort of training before we face David when he gets back. You see, David somehow always wins during a free-for-all session among us, I don't know why, but we all seem to always have some sort of advantage over our defensives. Nonetheless, me and Nelsen had some proper training for the last few days and is waiting for the day we kick David's ass.

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Before this, I was: Answering some questionnaire

Currently listening to: Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

Currently feeling: Bored, tired, restless

Boring

2005-11-05T02:31:00.000+08:00

You remember the times when being at home is actually fun?

Remember when you were kid and you wish you were at home?

Remember that time in the office when you wanted to go home so badly?

Come to think of it, home wasn't really fun at all... Then again, maybe its just me.

I'm at home the entire day today, woke up at almost 4pm, watch TV, sleep again, eat, watch more TV and go online. The weather outside is fucking hot, lazy to go anywhere.

...still bored

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Before this, I was: Reading some idiot's blog, will talk about this fella one day

Currently listening to: Azmyl Yunor - Serotonin Blues

Currently feeling: Bored, sleepy, sick

Selamat Hari Raya

2005-11-04T03:31:00.000+08:00

Kepada semua saudara and saudari muslimin dan musliman sekalian, saya disini ingin menambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan:

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Maaf zahir dan batin

Kay-el

2005-11-02T03:25:00.000+08:00

Was out almost the entire day in KL today with the guys; David, Nelsen and Joe. Nelsen and Joe wanted to buy shoes from Sg. Wang, and since I'm the 'expert' in and around Sg. Wang, I'm dragged along as the tour guide, and driver. I don't really have anything in mind to buy actually, was thinking of maybe getting another gun into my collection, but that fella refused to sell me if I buy just one gun.

I ended up buying a T-Shirt from Echo Park in Times Square, and some games DVD. Saw a pair of Nike SB at Miz-29; the shop where I got my Osiris from and I'm instantly hooked onto the shoe, it cost RM 329, I think. Saw it again at Showroom Times Square, priced RM 369. I've decided that my next target purchase would be a brown Nike SB. Whee!

We're at Low Yatt Plaza for a short while because David wanted to buy some gadget. While hanging, we saw a sight that blew us away, almost literally. There's this one erm... girl whom is rather chubby, even for my standard, wearing a sexy, red bare-back piece and a black super mini-tight skirt that would look extremely 'enticing' on a better looking female specimen, but definitely not this girl. I shuddered thinking of her right now and I would rather not talk about her in here to save myself from puking in front of the PC, let's just all imagine how a pig woukd look like in a red bare-back piece and a black super mini-tight skirt... exactly!

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Before this, i was: Watching House on AXN

Currently listening to: Kid Frost - La Raza (GTA: San Andreas, Radio Los Santos)
Currently feeling: Tired, sleepy, sick

Hi-tech nuns

2005-10-31T00:18:00.000+08:00

Another weekend went by leaving me behind anticipating the next weekend. At least next week would be alot more enjoyable, especially since there are only 2 working days the entire week next week. The past week was fast and furious for me, was in the office almost everyday and running around the place for the last two days.

This week, my locations for the roadshow is in 1-Utama, Subang Parade and a god-forsaken place called Pandan Kapital. 1-Utama was of course, the best place yet, especially with the other promoters from other products who happens to be hot chicks standing around, and of course, the hot chicks walking around in 1-U. Subang Parade on the other hand, is definitely a family place, the only people that comes are families looking for electrical appliances. Pandan Kapital is terrible, there are chicks alright, but most of them are la la muis coming into The Store to buy whatever crap they buy and hang out at the game arcade.

Talk about 1-Utama, the traffic there on Saturday night was terrible. The usual road leading into the new wing parking lot was closed and all cars are diveted into the Dataran BU open-air car park, and due to the confusion, the queue leading into the parking goes all the way to the traffic light in the middle of the old and new wing. Almost half an hour later, I quit queue and decided its not worth going anyway.

On Thursday evening, there is a briefing / merchandising training session at the office of the product I was doing the roadshow on. Prior to the briefing, me and my boss was at Low Yat Plaza's Starbucks interviewing a couple of new candidates as promoters for our roadshow. After the interview, my boss went opposite to the coffee shop to get something to eat and I decided to grab a coffee first before joining him opposite. I looked around the shop hoping to see some hot chick while the barista prepares my coffee (Mocha Frappucino rox!), but instead of a hot chick, I spotted a Buddhist nun, shaved head, grey robe and all, sitting at the corner with a cup of coffee at hand, laptop open in front of her and she's talking into a headphone. From her conversation into the headphone, I can tell that she's not local, maybe from China or Taiwan. Sort of gave me a shock, aren't buddhist nuns / priests supposed to be humble? Aren't they supposed to reside in temples? Aren't they vegetarian? (Coffee got milk, milk's not vegetarian right?)

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Before this, I was: Emailing out my CV
Currently listening to: Innuendo - Belaian Jiwa

Currently feeling: Tired, sleepy, sick

Lunching alone! Again!

2005-10-27T13:51:00.000+08:00

I bloody hate lunching alone!

Am now in a bloody cyber cafe near the place where I had my lunch. Lunchtime is an hour, but it takes me about 15 mins to finish my lunch, so I have time to do my own stuff for awhile.

This is the problem with working in a SOHO based office, the boss(es) lunch at home and left me to wander around looking for food alone.

If this goes on any longer, I might even leave the bloody company and state 'Forced to lunch alone' as reason for leaving

mchccbknn!!

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Before this, I was: Eating... Alone!

Currently listening to: Some idiot playing DOTA next to me

Currently feeling: Bored, pissed, frustrated

People actually read my blog?

2005-10-27T01:34:00.000+08:00

Firstly, I seldom whore my blog in PPS, simply because most of my posts are bloody uninteresting anyway. However, yesterday, I whored my blog on PPS with the post 'Newsflash: Blog War'. Sort of a newsreport style of writing regarding the XiaXue vs. Peter Tan issue. What happened after I pinged PPS blew me away. I've a 139 hits boost overnight, I posted that post yesterday midnight, and I checked my blog awhile ago and it jumped 139 hits in less than 24 hours. People actually read my blog? Wow! I know this might sound trivial for 'probloggers' who get 1000 over hits a day, but for someone whom the previous highest hits in one day is just 29, 139 is a lot.

Back to the news, there have been some disagreement in my comment box about whether Peter Tan actually apologized to XiaXue. from the way I see it, he did apologized for sending those emails, not apologize to her personally. I only report it the way i see it, if you see it differently, good for you then, I don't wanna know.

The weather for the last few weeks was really depressing, it rained almost the entire day and my mood sort of in tune with the weather. When it rains, I'm moody and sleepy, and I get bored. Which probabaly says that I'm moody, sleepy and bored the entire day everyday for the last few weeks, it sucked.

Going back to the office in OUG tomorrow, I went back to Mid valley today because the boss wasn't around and the shop's short of hand. frankly, I don't really like to go to the office in OUG, I think that place is too boring; no music, no laughter, not chattering, no MSN, everybody's busy doing their shit and all. Occasionally I get to play with the cat though, but I felt like shotting it more than playing with most of the time, so that doesn't count much.

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Before this, I was: Pouring over statcounter charts
Currently listening to: Azmyl Yunor - Charity lane
Currently feeling: Bored, sleepy, tired

Newsflash: Blog War

2005-10-26T01:17:00.000+08:00

This post is a newsflash and will not be blogged my usual way. This newsflash is supposed to be neutral and any prejudices are not intended.
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Once again, the normally peaceful south-east asian blogsphere is rocked by an incident that caused a furor between prominent bloggers from both Singapore and malaysia. And once again, the protagonist of this cross-causeway 'blog war' is none other than miss XiaXue; the most popular blogger in Singapore. On the malaysian side, the war is spearheaded by Kimberlycun and backed by prominent blogger; Peter Tan.

This so-called war was triggered by this post, which appeared in her blog on Sunday, 16th October 2005. I shall not mention the content of this post, as it had been bitched upon in almost every damned blog everywhere for the last two weeks.

Shortly after she posted that post, Kimberlycun launched a 'Boycott products endorsed by bad models of society' campaign in an attempt to point out that "behaviors that are arrogantly portrayed by these irresponsible people and approved by some companies are going to influence our young and impressionable generation", targetting at the 3 companies that are currently endorsing XiaXue, namely Local Brand, Visage and Voxy.

At that point in time, everybody is eagerly awaiting Peter Tan to say something because what XiaXue said is directly against Peter Tan's attempt to create awareness in the public regarding disability. A few short days later, this post appeared in Peter Tan's blog, a simple, straight-to-the-point, fact-laden article about the usage of the disabled's toilet.

Most recently, according to this post, Peter Tan apparently emailed to Local Brand, Visage and Voxy and CC-ed to all disabled charity organization in an attempt to stop the mentioned brands to stop endorsing Xiaxue. However, Peter Tan expressed an apology to his "tactless, callous and impolite" actions in his blog.

At this point in time, it is confirmed that Visage and Voxy had withdrawed their endorsement for XiaXue. However, her current endorsement. Local Brand; a prominent fashion label in Singapore is highly unlikely to withdraw their endorsement as its owner; Turodrique is a personal friend of XiaXue.

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I hate lunching alone!

2005-10-25T13:39:00.000+08:00

I love lunchtimes, everybody love lunchtimes.

But there's nothing I hate more during lunchtime than lunching alone!

I'm now at a cyber cafe near where I had my lunch

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Before this, I was: Eating my lunch

Currently listening to: So idiot playing DOTA next to me
Currently feeling: Frustrated, bored, pissed

First day at work

2005-10-25T01:28:00.000+08:00

Today (Monday) is the first day I'm working in an office environment for a long time, well, it wasn't really an office, more like my boss's house. Pretty much spend the entire morning scanning through newspapers spotting write-ups and articles of our clients. After lunch, did a short press release on the product of the roadshow during the weekend. It was pretty much my first time writing a press release, never really wrote any corporate writing before in my life. Went out to NST with a colleague for a short while, and spend almost an hour browsing through magazines at the newsstand spotting articles of our clients. Spend the rest of the evening in the office scanning the articles into the PC all the way until 9pm, so much for office-hour jobs eh?

I'm not sure if I'll be comfortable with this job if I were to be offered to be a permanent staff. All the browsing through newspapers and magazines might sound fun initially, but it'll pretty much bore the hell out of me sooner or later. The events are rather rare and far apart because they're more a PR consultant than an event agency, and my corporate writing skills wasn't really good at all. Probably the only visible advantage I can see in this company is the laidback and relaxing environment, of course there are work to be done, but at least the stress level are kept to the minimum.

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Before this, I was: Browsing jobstreet.com
Currently listening to : Atlantic Starr - Masterpiece
Currently feeling: Sick, sleepy, tired

Weekend? What weekend?

2005-10-24T01:03:00.000+08:00

Another weekend came and went without me realizing it, had been very busy with the roadshow this weekend? Been running to and fro between 1 Utama and Ikano Power Center for the last two days, almost a full tank of petrol gone just this two days alone, not really due to the travelling distance between Puchong and Damansara, but more petrol was lost in cruising in the parking lot looking for parking.

I never really walked around Ikano Power Center before, and this time is pretty much the first time I'm there, and the final verdict of that place is, it sucked. Most of the shops are catered for the upper tier of society, granted that it sits smack right in the middle of Mutiara damansara; one of the more upperty place in KL, but the stuff there are ridiculously expensive and pretty much have no appeal to me at all, maybe it's just me.

1 Utama is the first venue for the Chevorlet Corvette Z06 roadshow in Malaysia, and sure as hell, when there are hot cars, there are hot chicks. But sadly, the promoter girls for the Corvette is way below average, the only thing nice that I can safely say about ONE of them is that she got a very sweet voice, the others pretty much sucked.

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Before this, I was: Looking up info for the Corvette Z06
Currently listening to ; Innuendo - Belaian Jiwa
Currently feeling: Sick, tired, sleepy

Disappointing day

2005-10-21T01:36:00.000+08:00

Firstly, a moment of silent to respect the passing of the wife of our beloved prime minister; datin Seri Endon Mahmood.

the briefing for my supervisor job this weekend was rather smooth, except the looking for parking around OUG part lar, that was fuck. We'll be doing the promo for a certain brand of household electrical appliance. I'll be at 1 Utama, Ikano Power Center and Mid Valley for the weekend, so I'm expecting lotsa travelling to and from these venues. I'll be getting RM75 a day for this, slightly higher than Mid Valley, but still lower than comfortable. I'm a little disappointed that most of the promoters hired are guys though, makes sense that the product is an electrical appliance, but still, dissapointed. They also offered me to work part time in the office for a week next week, its sort oif a training / get-used-to-it program, will be getting RM50 for that, same as Mid Valley, but at least this is a normal office hour job, I think...

I was at Taylor's Halloween Party earlier tonight with the guys, supposedly organized by Mass Comm, but it was pretty much dominated by students from the other programs. Nonetheless, a good word to describe the entire party would be; suck. Granted that there are loads of hot chicks around in costumes, but the ambience is bad, the food sucks, and the performance is below average. The turn-up wasn't too bad though, there are a few witches, a barbarian, a few musketeers, a chinese vampire, two jedis (David included in this one), a extremely cute looking girl dressed up to look like Van Helsing, a dude that tried to look like Jesus but looks more like a rastafarian on a bad hair day, and a few more weird costumes, no fairies or angels though, I thought those were the favorites. The entire party was pretty much a disappointment on the whole.

Looks like the entire day was pretty much disappointing for me, everything turn up lower than my expectations, the promoters, the pay, the party.

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Before this, I was: reading Age of Empires 3 reviews
Currently listening to: Witness featuring Agota - Life Must Go On

Currently feeling: Sick, sleepy, bored

Doom

2005-10-20T03:02:00.000+08:00

Slept at almost 6 am Wednesday morning, yeah, it's GTA's fault. Slept until almost 3pm and spend the rest of the day dozing off in front of the TV.

I was at the premier screening of Doom in Mid Valley earlier today, was there with David, Nelsen, Jerry and some others that I don't know. The movie was erm... rather cool. Super violent, lotsa BIG guns, lotsa suspense, lotsa action, lotsa blood. But the one thing that tops it was the 'first-person' view of the movie, where one of the character; Reaper runs around shooting the creatures with the the audience seeing through HIS eyes, just like playing the game. The movie wasn't loyal to the game's storylines, but it sure is loyal to the game itself!

My meeting with the people from About Communications tomorrow morning is postponed, we'll be meeting in the evening at 5 instead, at the McDonald's in OUG Plaza. The bunch of promoters would be there too for the briefing, I wonder if there would be any looker amonjg them. Come to think of it, I'll be reprising my pimp role like what I did when I was at Oz again, cool.

... still sick.

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Before this, I was: Wiki-ing Doom
Currently listening to: David Tao - Angel
Currently feeling: Sick, sleepy, tired

I lost count...

2005-10-19T01:59:00.000+08:00

I was talking on the phone with a friend of mine awhile ago, she's sort of sad because her ex called her and said something erm... 'mean' to her. They broke up a few months ago, after more than a year of relationship together. I didn't pretend to understand her, as I've never been in a real relationship with anyone before, but I'm confident to say I understand how it felt like to be heart-broken.

Our conversation brings alot of memories back to me, the many girls that I liked, but never managed to start a relationship with, the many girls that I've secretly admired but never had the guts to tell her, the many girls that I liked and I told them I like her and is rejected by her. I lost count, there are too many...

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Before this, I was: On the phone
Currently listening to: David Tao - Katrina
Currently feeling: Emo, sad, melancholy

Interviewed

2005-10-18T01:22:00.000+08:00

The interview earlier today was rather nice, the people there are friendly blokes and funny too. The 'office' was in fact someone's house, the boss' I think, I didn't ask. the entire office has only 3 personworking there, and I already met all of them. It's a nice SOHO sorta place, they do all sort of events and PR works for all sort of companies from techs to pharmaceuticals to sporting goods. It does sound like a good enough job, but am I up to the challenge? All the working late, work on weekends bullshit is not a problem to me, even the events and promotions stuff they told me they do wasn't a problem to me at all, but the writing part might be a problem to me. All the press releases, the product write-ups and shit might turn out to be a problem to me, I can write, but to write a formal, corporate piece of article is probably out of my league since my english grammar and even sentence structuring wasn't really up to standard.

I'll be going there again this Thursday for a briefing for a job they offered as part-time. Doing supervisory job for their roadshows in some shopping center somewhere in Klang Valley; they didn't specify where, yet. I assumed it'll be like somehting I did for Oz during the Champ's roadshow, where I just have to be there during the roadshow to monitor the situation. I don't know how much they're paying me, but I doubt it'll be anything lower than what I'm getting in Mid Valley now. They did mentioned that this might be a proving ground for me for them to consider my application to be a permanent staff, I'm not really sure I really wanted the job, but I wouldn't mind another part-time job in the meantime, so even I've made up my mind to reject this job, I'll want to part-time for them.

XiaXue did another shit on her blog again today, only two days after she revamped her blog design. I don't really know how to explain the shit she did, it's something to do about handicapped people and handicapped toilet use, just read her blog to find out more. But one interesting part of the blog post would be, she'll be in the direct path of our very own Peter Tan, a prominent wheelchair-bound blogger in Malaysian blogosphere. Things will sure to get very interesting if Peter Tan decides to attack her the way Shaolin Tiger does, of which, we all hope he will.

...and I'm sick

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Before this, I was: checking out sinfest.net new comic
Currently listening to: Jolin tsai - Jiu Shi Ai
Currently feeling: Sick, tired, sleepy

GTA fucked me

2005-10-16T01:36:00.000+08:00

Once again, my life is fucked by the marvels of computer gaming technology, went to bed at 7 something Saturday morning because I was busy killing innocent pedestrians in an innocent hick county in San Andreas. I fell asleep in front of the TV and woke up at 4 something, and went online to check my email, I've planned to check my emails, and went to bed straight-after. But after going offline, my finger got itchy and clicked on the GTA icon, and I'm hooked until 7 something, and I realized it's 7 something only because I heard my parents alarm clock go off. I immediately saved the game, alt-F4 it, switch off the PC and dashed into bed and pretend I've been sleeping in it the whole night. Spend the rest of the day dozing off in front of the TV...

I've an interview in OUG this Monday, rather surprised when they called me at 10 something, asking me briefly on my experiences and sort of preparing me for what is to come for the interview. Well, the fact that the lady called me at 10 something and mentioning to me she's still in the office made me realized that this would be another all-day-all-night job. But then again, it might be fun, I don't know, let's see how the interview goes first.

I was at 1 Utama with my parents just now and bought myself 3 Hotwheels, it was a buy 2, free 1 promotion. I haven't bought any Hotwheels lately, so it's about time I expand my collection.

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Before this, I was: Watching Ben's Bitches' Aku Suka Jolok MTV (Bloody funny!)
Currently listening to: Sammi Cheng & LMF - Love Is
Currently feeling: Tired, bored, restless

Parenting

2005-10-14T02:55:00.000+08:00

You remember when you were a kid and your parents will spank you because you were naughty and they'll tell you that they spank you because they love you? This afternoon in the shop, a typical chinese family walked into my shop with a little kid in tow, while the parents are busy being an asshole, erm... I mean busy looking through the games, the kid went out of the shop and look at our neighbor shop's boss playing game. The mom suddenly realized the kid was gone and went furious. When she saw the kid was next door looking at the boss playing game, she went straight to him and whacked that little kid like nobody's business, shouting at the top of her voice telling the kid to don't wander off and he might get kidnap or something.

I know that the mom meant good, telling the kid to don't wander off, but why does she needs to whack the kid? Can't she tell the kid nicely not to wander off? I supposed the old saying that she whack him because she love the kid, but how the hell would the kid understand it? That kid was probably not more than 8 years old, all he's thinking is probably "Mommy don't love me, that's why she hits me"

I've heard alot of time parents saying something like this "You go away, mommy don't want you anymore, always crying only, go away!" Of course the mommy don't mean it, it's just another trick to get the kid to stop crying. But why the hell would the parent say somehting like that to their own children? Have you any idea what are the psychology effects of saying something like that to a kid? You think the kid would know you don't mean it? They just think that their mommy is really leaving them and all they'll do is cry louder, and the the mommy would whack the kid because they refused to shut up.

Parents claim that if they don't hit the child, they would never listen to them, and the child would be spoilt. But how can you assume that a child would understand that their parents hit them because their parents love them? The kid would probably fuck up his life grow up to hate his parents because he thinks his parents hates him. I think the best approach would still be a straight discussion with the child, tell them straight to their face that they shouldn't do this and that, don't use stupid terms like "Shut up or I'll give you away" Tell the kid nicely, not threaten them into submission, and DO NOT hit them! OK, whack them a little, but don't overdo it, maybe just spanking their ass a little, or the school teacher style of canning their palm, lightly!, and DON'T EVER slap the kid, it's the worst that a parent can do, slapping a kid and you can bet that they'll hate you forever...

Maybe now I know why I have issues with my father.

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Before this, I was: Checking emails
Currently listening to: Jay Chou - Father, I'm home
Currently feeling: Melancholy, sad, regret why I have issues with my father

Post-quitting symptoms

2005-10-12T00:12:00.000+08:00

Since quitting smoking (My last cigarette was on Saturday, 1st October), I find myself more aggresive than ever, I'm always feeling restless, not the type of fidgetting like an addict, but more like restless because I'm bored all the time, always looking for something to do, something new, and my interest span is in an all time low, I'll lose interest in things very fast. I also find myself get angry and hot-headed very very easy, I almost slapped the kid crying in front of this morning when I was queue-ing up to pay for my lunch this afternoon, I shouted at other drivers in the jam out of Mid Valley just now, and I was all surly and angry when I got home.

I 've always been someone with a very sensitive temper and gets angry easily and I've got myself in a very serious shit when I lost my temper several years ago. I better try to control my temper as much as possible now, because when I lost my temper, well, let's just say a 100+ kilo fellow in a rampage wasn't a pretty sight... Furthermore, my work in Mid Valley now involves meeting alot of idiots almost all the time.

Almost two weeks and there's still no replies from any companies that I've applied for. I think it's about time to start worrying, been telling myself that they might reply me late because they need to sort out the applications first and will only call the ones they're interested in to be interviewed. Then again, I've only applied for a few jobs, but there's no related jobs advertised in the papers at all lately, and I refuse to change switch industry just yet.

Been jokingly telling my mom that I'll cut my long hair short once I get a job, not just any long hair mind you, I've been keeping my hair long for a few years already, and keeping it that long for a guy wasn't an easy job at all. It's like in certain stories where you wish for something and pledge to forgo something as a sacrifice for your wish to come true? This is what I'm doing now, I pledge my long hair to get a good job (That I enjoy) as soon as possible. Hell, if that job last for more than a year, me getting paid very well and I'm enjoying it, I'll shave my head! The Flyz has spoken!

A bald Fly... Hmm, now that WASN'T a pretty sight at all... OK, I'll just cut it very short then.

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Before this, I was: Browsing through jobstreet.com
Currently listening to: Wu Bai - Last Dance
Currently feeling: Restless, bored, argh!

St. Fly

2005-10-11T01:57:00.000+08:00

Now this is really one for the records of one of the funniest blog post I've ever read, link from Rant Rave Bitch

I barely smoke nowadays, barely drink, barely fuck, barely talk cock, barely sin...

Hell, I'm even more qualify than that fellow!

That's it, I'm proclaiming myself St. Fly, Patron Saint of Phatasses

Googey!

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Before this, I was: Laughing my ass of reading that post

Currently listening to: Korn - Freak On A Leash
Currently feeling: Whee!, funny, happy

Googey!

2005-10-11T01:24:00.000+08:00

That was a frame from Tatsuya Ishida's Sinfest comic for 10th October 2005

I've no bloody idea what googey means, but its sounds catchy and I'll be 'Googey!' rather frequently from now on. Don't ask...

Today was my first day at work in Mid Valley after a very long absent from that shop, and also more than a week bumming at home. I felt rather good to be doing something at last, all this bumming at home is not very good, already I get bored at things easily, and being at home feeling bored all the time doesn't help.

I've applied for several jobs already for the last few weeks, but no reply from anybody yet, which is starting to worry me. One of the job I applied for is A&P exec for Trend Matrix, the brainchild behind some of the hottest clubs in KL, Beach Club included, now that's one job I really wanted.

Sleepy...

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Before this, I was: Browsing Sinfest.net

Currently listening to: Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot

Currently feeling: Bored, sleepy, restless

Untitled

2005-10-09T02:29:00.000+08:00

Was out with David, Nelsen, Nicole, Tricia and Michelle earlier today, initially we planned to go Hartamas to have dinner, but osmehow we ended up in SS2 Murni instead. I can never really grasp what's so great about Murni that so many people like to go there anyway, the food there wasn't especially great, nor the price, and I'm not even going into the service, but the variety is really staggering though, ever heard of Naan Beckham? Murni's got it, never tried though...

Tricia and Michelle left slightly earlier than us, Michelle has to return her car to her sister early and Tricia had to adjourned to somewhere else with her boyfriend. The thing between me and Tricia is a very complicated relationship, you see, we both hates each other's gut with passion. I never really understand what's her problem with me, but I hate her simply because she hates me. Been going on since early diploma days, and I'll probably never understand why, but then again, it's OK with me.

The issue of Nelsen and Devonia came up during the conversations, and frankly, I think they'll really be a sweet couple, IF Nelsen got the balls to go for it that is. I find Devonia a rather sweet girl, the homey, quiet, girl-next-door type, which Nelsen fancies. Devonia's sister was rather sweet too, her name's Huey Li, I think, sounds that way, but I don't know how to spell her name.

Nicole went to watch a movie with Devonia after the dinner and the guys all went home after that. I sorta wandered around KL after dropping off David, tried to call Arthur out for a drink, but he's jamming in a studio and won't be available until 2am, Keh Leong is in Genting, Alex is sleeping and Dyonne is with some friends. I just drove around KL and went home eventually. I've been really bored lately, probably due to the fact that I'm at home the entire day, now that I'm unemployed again.

I'm playing back GTA: San Andreas again, Dungeon Siege 2 was too boring for me to continue, and since I never uninstalled GTA, I played it again. Planning to play it with more detail this time, now that I understand the game now, and also is more familiar with the controls compared to the first time I played it.

I'll be in Mid Valley's CD shop the entire next week, which is probably a goosd thing, takes my mind off the bloody boredom for awhile, and also earning some extra money.

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Before this, I was: Reading up GTA: San Andreas guides

Currently listening to: Foo Fighter - Times Like These (Acoustic version)

Currently feeling: Bored, emo, melancholy

Insomnia

2005-10-07T02:45:00.000+08:00

I went to sleep at 8.30 Thursday morning. After the previous post yesterday, I planned to go to bed, but I can't sleep, went downstairs to watch Rambo 3 DVD instead, and some TV after that, before I know it, it's 6am and my dad and sister is waking up to go to school. Went for a morning jog at about6.30, it's really nice to breathe in some fresh air once awhile, came back about an hour later, took a bath and wanted to blog a little, but blogger.com was down for maintenance at that time, so i went to bed instead, and falling asleep only after almost an hour later.

We went to watch The Longest yard just now, after missing it yesterday. Me, David, Nelsen, David's sister; Cheryl, Chia Wei, Nicole, Devonia and Devonia's sister; Huey Li I think, I forgot her name. Not a bad movie, one of the best comedy for a long long time, everything else on the cinema lately sucks. Anyway, after the movie, we went to Asia cafe again, had something to eat and drink and talk, Cheryl and Chia Wei went home already. Talked about everything from songs to the movie to what we did in Pulau kapas a few years ago. sorta brings back all the old memories from that trip, one of the best vacation I've had.

Still no replies for the CVs I send out the last few days, I assumed they'll only reply when the dateline is up and they've done sorting out the emails, I just send out another application for PR Exec awhile ago, 'till they reply, all I can do is wait. I'll be working in the old CD shop in Mid Valley next week, earn myself some pocket money while bumming.

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Befoer this, I was: Emailing my CV

Currently listening to: Chad Kroger & Santana - Why Don't You and I

Currently feeling: Tired, melancholy, emo

Food and other things

2005-10-06T02:02:00.000+08:00

Was out with David, Nelsen, Chia Wei, Nicole and devonia earlier today, was supposed to watch 'The Longest Yard', but some shit came up about the cinema policy about cnnot use free tickets redeems first week of movie screening or some shit.

We ended up at Asia Cafe in SS15 to hang out and have a drink and a bite or two, but boy did we bite! The little drink and munch session turned out to be a full course mage-supper involving the likes of Ikan bakar, fried mushrooms, popiah, lobak, Sarawak noodle, satay and some Japanese stuff. Of course I'm not the type to complain about food, especially when I'm only paying partially for it. Whee!!

I've applied for a few jobs yesterday, send out a couple of CVs via the email and hoping they'll call me, or email me, or something. I'm applying mostly for advertising, event management or PR related jobs, or course I'll like to go back into event management, but those jobs are hard to come by and are seldom hiring, so all I probably do now is hope I guess.

My PC is infected by spyware! Fuckers, it somehow even managed to corrupt my spysweeper and rendered it useless, unless I re-install the software, which I have no idea where the CD is now. I think I'm going to format my PC soon, waiting for the Norton Antivirus 2006 to come out and I'll format my PC and update all my softwares. Naturally spywares and adwares wasn't a great big harm to your PC at all, it just pops up an advertisement here and there, which you can always click it away and continur to do whatever you do. But naturally also, I like to keep my PC clean of crap, so it bothers me alot when I found out that my PC is infected. Is going to download Ad -Aware and see how's the scan result is like, if its too critical, I might format my PC even before the new antivirus is out.

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Before this, I was: Downloading some free spyware removing program

Currently listening to: faye Wong - Shuen Mu

Currently feeling: Angry, frustrated, pissed

Me be professional bum...

2005-10-03T02:18:00.000+08:00

i am now a professional bum, which is very different from a typical bum. A typical bum would hang around at home and do typical house chores and not making any profit. A professional bum hangs out at home, sleep, eat and play games on the PC. I'm talking nonsense...

Last week was absofuckinglutely boring, spend the entire day in the office doing nothing, surfing the net, reading blogs and chatting on MSN, of course there's lunchtime and the occasionally piss cum cigarette break. I go into the office at almost 11 and leave at 5.30 sharp, someone should make me example employee.

Probably the only thing that lifted my spirit, albeit a little, is the college reunion / gathering on Saturday. For the first time, the students from my batch and my senior were together in a gathering. Although only 7 of us from my batch, but it was fun, I think...

Nonetheless, after the duinner, me and the guys ended up in a cyber cafe in SS15 for our gaming session, when this thought struck me; "Damned, we be sad people or not?" Half the people who attended the gathering adjourned to other places, some went home and sleep, but most went either clubbing, bar-hopping, drinking, having fun and 'socializing'. I wouldn't say our gaming session wasn't fun, but that's all we did all the fucking time. I don't plan to waste my prime years spending every weekend in a fucking cyber cafe playing games like a geek we are.

What's the problem? Nelsen was a typical chinese boy who stays at home and watch TV on weekends, the irony is that he can't speak a word in Chinese. David is a erm... I don't know what to say. He just DON'T socialize with strangers, and don't drink beer. That left me with Joe, whom half the time is either missing in action, or working. I'm stuck in this sad sad world of mine. I think I needed a girlfriend, soon, really, before I turn into a gay geek. Ack!

Frankly, I didn't make a single attempt to look for a job now, yeah, I'm browsing the newspapers and searching the websites looking for job, but I didn't really send out any resume at all, matter of fact, i haven't even updated my resume.

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Before this, I was: checking out jobstreet.com
Currently listening to: Metallica - The Memory Remains

Currently feeling: Bored, frustrated, restless

'In between jobs'

2005-09-24T01:50:00.000+08:00

I am now officially 'in between jobs'

I received the news today, my company had decided to not extend my probation period and I am to leave the company with effect on 30th September 2005, which is next week. frankly saying, I was never really interested in my job anyway, and I have sort of expected this to come sooner or later.

So I have 1 week to bum around the office and start looking for jobs again. i year ago, I probably won't give a shit whether I'm working or not? Not working means I'll be bumming at home. But the situation has changed, dramatically. I have bigger esponsibilities now, I have to pay for the car, deal with the car's petrol myself, and other shit that I don't even bother to think about last time.

I'm scanning through the employment section of The Star today, and found a few companies hiring AEs. I supposed I'm going to stick to the communications field or work, advertising, PR, events and stuff. The whole world is telling me that marketing is definitely a better paying job than the shit I'm doing now, but I don't think I want to branch into another field just yet. People have been telling me that it's OK to do other jobs, and it's not neccessary to work what you studie. But my answer is why bother studying for something if you don't plan to work in that field? I might as well take up a degree in marketing if I were to end up in marketing anyway. I think I'll stick to my own field, its probably the only field where my passion is, don't bother to work for the sake of working.

I'm expecting at least a month of bumming at home, unemployed before I can find another job. It's not going to be easy, but luckily with this month's salary and the combined allowances for the past few rounds is able to support me for a few months before I can start earning normal salary again, as long as I don't overspend; which means no more Hot Wheels for the next few months, and I have to put my camera on hold until I can afford it effortlessly again.

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Before this, I was: Reading blogs

Currently listening to: Machi - Hey Baby

Currently feeling: Sad, bored, restless

I'm bored...

2005-09-21T14:53:00.000+08:00

Got back from Kangar on Monday evening, I swear that was the furthest I've travelled in a car all my life, to and fro KL - Kangar - KL had a combination of over 24 hours. The race was the usual hoos and has, so nothing great, except maybe you consider soaking in the bloody rain 2 days in a row is great.

Realizing that the last race was the last race of the season before the finals wasn't really a cheery though, it literally means stuck in the office for the next few months and not to mention no more event allowance for the next few months.

Eversince I got back from Kangar, I felt extremely bored, like there isn't any interesting thing to do at all. This post should've been up 2 days ago, but I'm just too bored to blog. TV wasn't as interesting anymore, yam char with the guys are filled with bored silence, hell, even GTA: San Andreas wasn't interesting anymore. I think I know what I need, a new game. Yeah, Dungeon Siege 2; the one I've been planning to play for sometime, but haven't got there yet.

And I think to do something interesting soon. Vacation; no time, no money, hold on to this first, clubbing; this I can do anytime, if I can find someone to go with me that is, drinking; yeah, this is definitely not a problem, but again, if I can find anyone to go with me that is. Joe is a fucking emo when it comes to beer, and David; being an Irish, doesn't drink beer. Maybe we should go Finnigan's, he should feel right at home there.

Here's an example how bored I am, as most of you know, I don't really enjoy online flash games at all, not even Yahoo! Games. But for the last few days, I've been indulging myself in a simple, yet mind boggling puzzle game. I found it via Lainie's blog, the bloody game is so simple, it's frustrating to play; it takes only 10 clicks of the mouse to complete the game, but it depends on which icon you click first to start a different chain reaction. The game's called Grow Cube, I'm sure some of you might recognize the Grow game that was a fad sometime ago, the one with the big red ball and click on icons to make it 'grow', well, this is a cube. Check it out here, I already found the combination to win the game, took me over 2 days though.

Had an overdose of fairy dust lately, no, not that fairy dust. But Joyce aka KinkyBlueFairy, been reading her blog quite frequently these few days, mainly because most other blogs are just not as interesting lately, and her blog seems to be quite a fun read.

Had a sudden craving of coffee right now; Starbucks Mocha Frappucino. Might be going to Mid Valley later after work, wanted to get Dungeon Siege 2, and since I'm there, coffee too, and maybe a Hotwheels or two, or more...

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Before this, I was: Reading the fairy's blog

Currently listening to: Silence

Currently feeling: Bored, sleepy, still emo

Birth month

2005-09-15T16:37:00.000+08:00

I got this in some forwarded email in my inbox just now and since I'm damned free now, I'll say something about it.

MARCH

* Attractive personality (Am I? I think I am...)

* Affectionate (I agree with this)

* Shy and reserved (Yeah, not all the time, but mostly true)

* Secretive (Yeah, I have tons of deep, dark secret that only a bottle of Veritaserum can reveal)

* Naturally honest, generous and sympathetic (Naturally, but sadly, I'm polluted)

* Loves peace and serenity (Most of the time, but there are also times where I appreciate some noise)

* Sensitive to others (Am I? You tell me)

* Loves to serve others (You wish is my command mistress)

* Not easily angered (Now this is very NOT true)

* Trustworthy (If you think you can trust me, you're right)

* Appreciative and returns kindness (When I felt like it)

* Observant and assess others (Yeah, I like to 'observe' things)

* Revengeful (Do me wrong and you suffer)

* Loves to dream and fantasize (Very TRUE, refer to my previous post)

* Loves travelling (Yup)

* Loves attention (I'm an attention whore)

* Hasty decisions in choosing partners (Sadly, this is true)

* Loves home decors (As long as they're minimalist)

* Musically talented (I listen to music, yes)

* Loves special things (I do appreciate 'those special moments')

* Moody (Very true indeed)

Does this means that everyone born in the month of March all shares the same traits? This really do means that our lives are governed by the stars and our destiny are pre-determined even before we're born. Freaky...

P/S: Woah! This is the fifth post for the day, waiting for my boss to come back from meeting to go Kangar. Oh, and this is the 50th post in my blog. Whee!!

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Before this, I was: checking my email

Currently listening to: Silence

Currently feeling: Bored, Lazy, Sleepy, Emo

Future

2005-09-15T15:49:00.000+08:00

Have you ever wondered how your future is going to look like? Have you dreamt of a perfect future? Fantasized a perfect life? Planned the perfect steps? I have a dream, or fantasy, depends on how you look at it.

I'm working in an advertising / event company, a managerial status, or maybe be my own boss. I'll be driving a tuner car, or a cool 4WD. My company is a very pleasant and open place, where everybody can share a good joke anytime and everybody treat each other more like friends rather than colleagues. My home would likely be an apartment, or a condo, and I'd prefer it to be a studio home. It's going to be minimally furnished and simple deco, mostly dark, relaxing colors and cool interiors. Of course, I'll dedicate a room for my books, and my Hotwheels collection, of which I've probably reached the thousand mark. Of course, the woman of the house will be there; maybe my co-habitating / stay here occasionally girlfriend; or my wife. I might get married early, who know? shit happens.

My fantasy basically revolves around two important factors of my life; career and family. Noticed I put career first? I believe that without career, there would be no family, I don't know any girl who would be with a job-less guy, those only happens on TV.

My career right now is like a humpty-dumpty on the fucking wall, he might fall down anytime. I'm still not confirmed in this company, and already I'm hating my job. I want to stay in the advertising / event management industry, I love this industry and is probably the only job I can do with passion, and not working for the sake of working. I'm likely to change my job soon, if I can find one that is. But one thing for sure is that I won't be going anywhere unless I secured another job first. Unless they fire me of course, or decided not to confirm me.

I'm too young to think about family right now, I don't even have a girlfriend damned it. But I do hope I'll find myself a decent girl soon, I've been single for too bloody long now. Somehow it struck me that every girl I like does like me to a certain degree, but refused to proceed into a more meaningful relationship. Did I do anything wrong to cause such reaction? I wish I knew...

Inspired by Joe

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Before this, I was: reading Joe's blog

Currently listening to: Silence

Currently feeling: Bored, lazy, Sleepy, Emo

Shouldn't have...

2005-09-15T11:50:00.000+08:00

There are many thing that you do that'll make you regret later in life, things that you shouldn't have done in the first place. But we do things out of compulsion, out of impulse and without thinking. We do things to amuse ourselves, to satisfy our own curiosity, for pleasure.

Shouldn't have said what I said...Shouldn't have stolen that thing...Shouldn't have joined them...Shouldn't have joined the fight...Shouldn't have kicked his ass...Shouldn't have stayed when everybody runs...Shouldn't have joined that class...Shouldn't have met you...Shouldn't have talk to you...Shouldn't have fallen for you...Shouldn't have that crushed feeling...Shouldn't have bought that...Shouldn't have gone there...Shouldn't have did that

Inspired by Tekhnikolorprojektor

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Before this, I was: Typing my previous blog post

Currently lietening to: Silence

Currently feeling: Reflective

I can't wait......

2005-09-15T11:21:00.000+08:00

There are so many things you want to do at the same time, but it seems like theres always not enough time to do anything. Time is like a grain of sand in the Sahara, there are too many of it that you take it for granted, but you only realized you're running out of it when you're in need of them. Time never wait for anyone, we grow older every second as time goes by. I remember like it was yesterday that I'm going for my first race in Melaka back then, and today I'm going off to the the last race of the season before the finals in December. There are so many things I want to do now, things I can't wait...

I can't wait to go to sleep

I can't wait to read my Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for the third time

I can't wait for the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie to come out

I can't wait to see Cho Chang in the movie

I can't wait to see Hermione in the movie

I can't wait to give Joe a good kick in the ass, just for the heck of it

I can't wait to shoot Nelsen, just for pure satisfaction

I can't wait to get my hands on Jack Kerouac's Big Sur

I can't wait for the next Clive Cussler book to come out

I can't wait for the race to over

I can't wait to go home after the race

I can't wait for the race season to over

I can't wait for the next season to begin

I can't wait to go another eating spree with Joe

I can't wait to get drunk, of which I haven't done in the past few years

I can't wait to go shopping again

I can't wait for my third pair of Osiris

I can't wait for my new pair of Nike Air Force One I'm planning to buy

I can't wait to go for a vacation

I can't wait to go to the museum, which I haven't went since primary school

I can't wait to go Aquarius in KLCC
I can't wait to go Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

I can't wait to get out of town

I can't wait for lunch time

I can't wait for my next Starbucks Grande Mocha Frappucino, with extra whip cream

I can't wait to go to a banana leaf Indian food session with the guys

I can't wait for a Secret Recipe cheesecake

I can't wait to see her again

I can't wait to receiver her SMS

I can't wait to talk to her

I can't wait to hear her voice

I can't wait to see her new boyfriend...

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Before this, I was: printing out the race schedule

Currently listening to: Silence

Currently feeling: Emo, Creative, Artsy

Crossroad

2005-09-15T01:15:00.000+08:00

Remember that crossroad I mentioned? Well, I've explored the few options I can take, one is blocked by a huge boulder; one has potholes the size of a schmuck (don't ask) and another is windy, but looked clear, although I can see some obstacles in the distance.

Received a rather shocking piece of news today, it pretty much confirms that issue, the issue I refused to believe, until today. The sources of the news are very convincing, one is a collegue and another is the pet brother; both my good friends. I guess I can believe them.

What should I do? I can't really sit at the crossroad forever can I? I can either climb the bloody boulder, and risking breaking my back; jump the potholes, and risking dead; or I can continue the windy road and pray the obstacles along the way are no big deal.

I'm going off to Kangar today (Thursday) for the race, and is coming back on Monday. Working is good, at least working keeps the mind occupied to the job at hand and keeps it from wandering too far.

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Before this, I was: reading Shaolin Tiger's blog

Currently listening to: Dan Hill - It's A Long Road (Rambo: First Blood OST)

Currently feeling: Sad, lazy, confused

Emo and booze don't mix

2005-09-13T01:39:00.000+08:00

Went to Reta's campaign launch this morning in Taylor's College, at the old campus. A STD awareness campaign for her final year assignment, the same as my own snatch theft pervention campaign back then. It really made me missed college, not because of the assignments, nor the exams, nor the classes, but the chicks. *Grin* the first thing to hit me when I walk into the campus are the chicks, haven't seen so many chicks in one place since college. *Drools*

Planned to go happy hours at Bar Flam with Joe and David after work today, but when we're all done, its passed 8 and the hours aren't too happy anymore, at least not to our wallets. We ended up at Min Tien for dinner and Joe ordered a bottle of beer. But I refused to drink because, well, let's just say my conscience took over me. You see, experience told me that emo and booze don't mix, I'm not feeling too cheery at that time, and if fueled with booze, I might go overboard with the emo shit and do a Joe. We tried to call her to join us, but she's sorta busy, that's probably another reason to add to my less-than-cheery feeling at the time.

Earlier today, Joe sort of told me that she is seeing somebody at the moment, probably that's the reason why she broke up with th brit fella, but I guessed I'll never know. But once again, I refused to believe it, just like when Yee May and the other girls gossipped about her and another guy, I refused to believe it.

I'm at a crossroad now, do I continue to go for her, or should I give up? I've been at this crossroad before, so many times that if there's an attendant at this crossroad, we're probably best buddies by now. But being at this crossroad numerous times doesn't mean I know where to go, I'm still lost and stuck at this crossroad, pondering whichpart to take. Can anyone help me? Anyone have a map or something? I guess not.

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Before this, I was: taking a bath, just got home

Currently listening to: Jesse McCartney - Beautiful Soul

There goes another weekend

2005-09-12T00:31:00.000+08:00

Woohoo!!

It's Monday 'very early' morning!!

FUCK!!

Damned, there goes another weekend, and I won't be having another weekend for another 2 weeks. Next week I'll be in Perlis for another round of the bloody race. Sigh.

Yesterday was September 11th, one of the darkest day, not only for the Americans, but to mankind as well. I still feel sad when I see images of the victims or the re-run of the footage where the plane hit the building. I still shed a tear or two when I heard Alan Jackson's Where Were You (When the world stop turning), a song he wrote especially for the 9-11 victim's charity concert.

I didn't SMSed her at all today, because I know she'll be at the race the entire day and would probably be tired after that, I might SMS her tomorrow, or maybe even call her. I missed her, is that good or bad? I wish I know... Damned

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Before this, I was: Reading fan fics on Schnoogle.com

Currently listening to: Alan Jackson - Where Were You (When the world stop turning)

Untitled

2005-09-11T03:54:00.000+08:00

Yeah, yet another untitled post, simply because there isn't any topic of focus in this post, if I can categorized the blog like Wordpress, it'll be under ramblings.

I just got back not too long ago, went out yamchar with Arthur, a friend of mine who used to work in UK Computer together. Was at the mamak near his place, this fella is available almost all the time and I think he spend more time at that mamak than he is at home.

She's in Penang now, her company is doing some promotion at the Penag Turf Club for a race tomorrow, erm...today (Sunday). I SMSed her a few times and actually called her once, and she replied me. Whee!

OK, so what if she replied your SMS? What so great about someone replying your SMS? You daft or something? People reply SMS also so happy? Because I seldom receive SMSes and she's the type who seldom reply SMSes when you SMSed her. Or maybe I'm just happy she SMSed me.

Oh, Nelsen is there too. He got some futsal thingy going on in Penang, and they both stayed at Gurney Hotel, it sort of have a corporate account with the company they work in, so whenever someone from their company goes to Penang, they stay there. I told Nelsen I'll cut off his balls if he does anything funny to her, but I doubt he will anyway...

It's 4am already, I'm tired, bored and sleepy... I think I'll go watch The Godfather part 2.

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Before this, I was: Checking my email (Email me if you want a gmail account!)

Currently listening to: Metallica - The Memory Remains

Dreams shall remain dreams...

2005-09-07T00:04:00.000+08:00

Today looked like a happy day in the beginning...

1. Went into office late today because car needed some service.

2. Had a great lunch of hot soup.

3. SMS ed her and she actually replied.

4. Done the paper passes for the Perlis round next week in a single day.

5. Going home no jam.

6. Progressed deeper in Juiced.

7. Saw her online on MSN

.... and her telling me that she's going to Penang for an event on Friday morning.

There goes my plans of asking her out this weekend, so once again, dreams shall remain dreams.

Fuck!

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Before this, I was: Blog surfing, the last blog I visited was Tekhnikolor Projektor
Currently listening to: Extreme - More Than Words

I refused to believe it...

2005-09-06T00:13:00.000+08:00

Can't post for the last few days because I was away at Sepang for the 4th round of the ARRC, I do come home every night, but I'm too tired to do anything. The race was OK. Rahim is an idiot, first ever Malaysian to be champion this season and he drugged it away. The race was the same shit as every other races, so there's nothing much for me to talk about, so I shall not...

Let's rewind to the events the day before I went to Sepang. Liek I said in the previous post, we're all going to a get-together at Yee May's place on Merdeka day, and she's supposed to come to, but have to go off early. Well, that's not the case... The party started rather well with me arriving late with almost all the vital ingredients, including the pot. Anyway, she and Monica was late, she had to accompany her grandaunt at the rehab center because her grandaunt was just discharged from the hospital not long ago. OK, good enough a reason. Monica on the other hand, was plain bitch, that's all I have to say...

Nonetheless, she arrived when we're all done eating and is sitting around playing cards, Monica arrived slightly earlier than her, but let's not talk about that bitch. Anyway, girls really have a way of digging out scandals when they're together. They asked her whether she got a new boyfriend already, and when she kept quiet, they all automatically jumped to conclusion that she does. Which left me whacked and lost the next 4 rounds of cards in a row, luckily there's no money involved. I just kept quiet and melancholy the entire day after that.

After the party, me and David went to Mid Valley, or rather I wanted to go Mid Valley and somehow coaxed him to join me. Call it escapism if you want, but I just want to do something to keep my mind occupied and not to think other 'unneccessary' issues. I SMSed her when I was at MV, and she did reply, even even mentioned she'll gimme a call later that day, which she never did...

I SMSed her on Saturday night, wondering if she's asleep and wanted to have a chat, but she never replied, or rather, she replied, but I only received it the next morning, because she replied me at 4 in the morning. I didn't reply her when I saw it in the morning, thinking that since she's still awake at 4am, I'll let her sleep without inteference. I replied her later that afternoon from the circuit, she mentioned that she never went home and stayed over at her colleague's place, and the fact that she's still there when I replied her in the afternoon.

I can't help it but wonder if that 'colleague' was just another girl-friend of hers from work, or is it her new boyfriend? Although I refused to think that it might be a guy, but the question remains, and I dare not ask her. I refused to believe that she got a new boyfriend.

I know some of my friends might tell me that as long as she's not married to him, I still stand a chance. But call me stupid, or dumb, or whatever fuck you want, but I stick to my principle that I will never go for a girl who is attached. I know how it felt like having my girlfriend choosing another man over me, and I don't want other to feel the way I felt when that happened.

Does she know I like her? I mean, she did knew that I liked her before she's attached to that Brit fellow, but does she know I like her still? Most of my friends knew I never quite stopped liking her even when she's attached to that Brit fellow. I think even the girls know I like her. But does she know?

Like I said, I don't want to rush this relationship, I wished that it will develop slowly without any rushed decisions, a mistake that I've commited too many times before. But if she's really liking someone and I didn't take any action now, I might lose her forever, for the 2nd time... Damned

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Before this, I was: Playing Juiced (Bloody difficult game)

Currently listening to: Azmyl Yunor - Serotonin Blues

A dashed dream

2005-08-31T03:21:00.000+08:00

Merdeka!

Merdeka!
Merdeka!

Yeah, it's merdeka day today, the day we celebrate our independence. The day we celebrate...

It wasn't much a celebration for me yesterday(Merdeka eve), busy like mad in the office, went to dinner with family because it's my dad's birthday today, then went out with David for the rest of the night... doing grocery shopping. Ack!

I've a grand plan brewing in my head during the day; after dinner with family, will go out with David to hang out somewhere, then meet up with her after she's done with her event in KLCC. You see, her company organized a concert together with Petronas in conjunction with the Merdeka countdown in KLCC, and as a PR Executive, she'll have to be there. I can't really ask her to join us during her event can I? So I plan to call her once her event is done and ask her to join us, or I can go meet her somewhere to have a drink and some chit-chat.

BUT...

I can't manage to contact her at 11 something, something's wrong with the network, probably its too busy. When i managed to contact her, she didn't pick up the phone. And when she did pick up her phone, she's busy and will call me back. And when she called me back, she's going to a friend's place somewhere to have a drink, thus dashing my plans and dreams to meet up with her tonight.

I'm really trying to start this relationship slowly, but I just can't seem to control my impulse to call her or SMS her all the time. I don't want to call or SMS her all the time, I don't want to be impulsive, I want it to be patient and grow slowly. But I can't...

We're meeting up tomorrow at Yee May's place to have a lunch get-together, she's coming too. BUT, she'll have to leave early to help a friend move house, thus dashing my plans AGAIN. I planned to ask her out tomorrow after the get-together, but once again, it all went down the drain.

Fuck...

Malaysia Boleh!

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Before this, I was: Updating my Hot Wheels list

Currently listening to: Verve Pipe - The Freshman

*Edit - I just SMS her again 30 seconds ago... Fuck!

Wow!

2005-08-25T17:19:00.000+08:00

Wow!

Yeah!

Whee!

Sure... Uh huh

Damned I'm bored, I've got loads of stuff to do in the office now, but I'm just too damned bored to do anything now, just waiting for the time to past 6 and I'll fuck off. Going to catch a movie with David and Nelsen tonight, don't know what to watch yet, maybe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I wanted to watch Gol & Gincu, heard from alot of people saying its good, wanna check it out, but I doubt Nelsen would wanna watch this type of movie, he hates it. Hmm, maybe I'll ask her to watch with me... *smile*

Been reading some some blogs just now, came across a few good ones, and a few that I felt like reaching into the monitor and slap them.

Ive been reading Joyce The Fairy for quite some time already, I think she is funny, I like the way she writes spontaneously.
I found Vernon when I'm searching for information about the Proton Satria R3 Limited Edition, apparently he owns one. He's a designer that races cars as a hobby.
Erm... Suanie, I forgot how or when I stumbled into her blog, but I found her blog to be very funny and an interesting read no doubt.
Finicky Feline, this is the blogger that I felt like reacing across the monitor to slap her. I mean, she's a bloody Malaysian and is pretending to be Singlander, what a bitch. I still read her though.

Oh look at the time, I'm going home now. Planning a short nap before going out to meet the guys later.

I think I'll just scrap the joke of the day, it's not funny...

*EDIT: The real time is alot faster than the blog time by the way, as I'm typing this, its already 6.02pm

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Currently supposed to be: On the way home
Currently listening to: Something on radio that I can't make out

I'm a survivor!

2005-08-24T22:02:00.000+08:00

I'm back from Taiping!

My races are as whacked as usual; set-up tents, put up promos, monitor race, take down promo, take down tents... The usual shit

Only that this round was slightly worst than the others, it rained like mad there. Luckily it wasn't pouring rain all the time, but it drizzled non stop, and work goes on as usual even in the rain, so we're basically soaked to the bones taking down the tents on Sunday night. As if the situation can't get worst, The Ford Ranger Hurricane that we went in, had some problem with the air cond when we're about to leave Monday morning. We decided to check what happened, expecting just that it ran out of gas and only needed a refill. But the fella told us the radiator is leaking and we need to replace it as soon as possible. Great! 4 hours spend sitting around doing nothing waiting for the fella to replace the damned radiator.

OK, there's that about the shit part of the race.

The grid girls for this race was rather good looking, I heard they're all from Penang this time, almost all of them chinese. As usual, I never knew their name, nor their contact or anything else. Damned... Anyway, I'll post up their pictures once its available.

Oh, I called her when I'm in Taiping. What a great feeling! In the midst of the fucking rain, Mat Rempits zooming away at the track, I'm standing behind our operations truck to block the bikes noise and talking to her. I'm happy :-)

What's next?
Still stucked in the damned office doing the same shit all over again. Got a race on the 4th of September in Sepang, The FIM ARRC, which means I'll have to leave for Sepang latest by Thursday, although somehting makes me think I'll have to be working on Merdeka day. Now that'll be big shit!

No joke of the day in this post, I'm posting from home, so no joke book at hand.

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Currently supposed to be: Sleeping (Damned tired)
Currently listening to: Marc Anthony - You Sang To Me

Untitled

2005-08-18T10:34:00.000+08:00

Another untitled ramblings...

Just to mention, I'm going Taiping today, in a matter of hours.

Yet another of the bloody races I have to attend, This would be my 7th race I've attended since joining this company, and it's all the same... Seriously, same shit, different place. Literally.

Oh, was out with David and Nelsen yesterday, went to watch Fantastic 4. Jessica Alba's hot! Especially when they make her strip (Yes, STRIP) because her invisiblity does not include her clothes, but she somehow become visible halfway with just her underwear on. What a coincidence, can't she become visible just a few seconds later? Then her bra would be off already, stupid!

Anyway, after the movie we went to yamchar in some mamak near Nelsen's place. He told us his encounter with some chick in Sg. Petani, sad story...

But that's not the point, the point is when he mentioned the reactions of his colleagues that went with him. I have to say, those are the type of colleagues I would be happy working together with, can talk cock, can joke, can share a few fun moments with. Not the uptight, strict, elitist, golf-playing family man type of people in my company. I think the word here would be generation-gap, almost all of them here passed 30 and I'm the youngest around, but definitely not the smallest mind you. The way of communication here are so bloody different, everybody's so bloody polite and adults they are, they're disciplined. Boring!

The best place I worked is still People 'n Rich. I'd like to say the CD shop, but that's not really work is it? The guys are P'nR are damned sporting, everybody's a snake king in their own ways, and they are not afraid to admit it. Lunchtime there is 1 hour, and we are definitely out there for at least 1 hour, if not more. Everybody don't felt like going back to office after lunch, no matter how rush the works at hand are, and being the creative department, everything's a rush.

Here? Lunchtime's also 1 hour alright, but most of the time we're back in less than 45 minutes, if not less. Everybody's a damned workaholic and can't wait to go back to office and work. Bah!

Confession... I AM missing someone now. I won't tell you who, not yet, but I can only say I'm missing someone now and is longing for her voice. Sigh...

Oh, I'll be starting a joke of the day from today on, IF I blog from office that is, just found an old copy of a Mad Magazine's a-joke-a-day-for-a-year. So I'll be quoting some jokes from there now and then.

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Joke of the day

Which is more satisfying?

Not getting caught by police speed trap becasue you slowed down in time?

Not getting caught by police speed trap because that idiot Ah Beng in his Ah Beng Wira got caught first?

(Localized version)

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Currently supposed to be: Sleeping (Rainy outside; Rain = Sleep)

Currently listening to: Speed of Sound - Coldplay

Hazed

2005-08-13T01:28:00.000+08:00

Most of you guys would probably already knew that the bloody haze is back to Malaysia again, yes again... for the last 8 years. And just like the last eight years, its caused by the Indonesians, and of course, contributed by irresponsible malaysians as well.

It just kinda makes you wonder why isn't there anything done since its nothing new anymore? I mean, I'll understand if there's nothing we can do the first time, or even the first few years it hit us, but eight? Come on, eight years is pretty much long enough to do any research to come up with a proper solution isn't it?

Probably the only 'action' taken this year is the releasing of the Air Polution Index (API) that has always been kept secret for the past several years, other than that, nothing else.

What's the government doing about it? Set up special commitee to discuss the issue

What's Department of Environment doing about it? Set up special commitee to discuss the issue

What's the media doing about it? This I know... NOTHING!

Set up special commitee to discuss the issue, it's probably the same thing every time something happens in Malaysia. Landslides due to extensive hillside developement? Set up commitee to discuss and monitor. Flashflood in KL? Set up commitee to discuss and monitor. I mean, what the fuck?

What are the practical actions taken to tackle these issues? Other than sitting in some posh conference room in Putrajaya, breathing crispy clean ionized air conditioned air, downing gallons of 'teh tarik' and tons of 'karipap' while 'commoners' like you and me are choking our lungs in the haze.

There are a few conventional actions that can be taken, and is actually taken in the previous years to tackle the haze, one of the most efficient I think, cloud seeding. 'Seeding' (Don't ask me how) the cloud to create man-made rain in densely hazed areas. But surprisingly, there are no reports of cloud seeding being done anywhere, even places like Klang and Kuala Selangor, which reached the API of 500, which is critical level.

And of course there are the unconventional ways, which I supports 100%

I think it's about time we get back at Indonesia for what they're doing to us for the past several years, not as extreme as proposed by Mr. Rajan, but soemthing along the legal area maybe? Isn't there soemthing written in the international law the prohibits one country to pollute another?

Fuck it, let's all hope that a 'real' rain will come soon to wash away the haze, or some strong wind to blow it away (Singapore preferably)

Charity Scam (An insider's report)

2005-08-08T15:34:00.000+08:00

The Star Malaysia ran a report yesterday about various organizations preying on the public goodwill by making money under the cover of charity. It is reported that these various organizations sells bookmarks, hand-fans and pens for RM 1, RM5 and RM 10 respectively, the salesgirl / salesboy will of course, no doubt tell you that all proceeds of the sales goes to the whatever charity they're supposed to represent, HOWEVER, that's not the case, only a mere 10% (Which is only 10 cents from RM 1 for the mathematicaly challenged ones) goes to the said charity. The rest is divided among the salesperson, their boss and the company that manufactures the products. Among the few companies 'revealed' by The Star are; Montrans Connections Sdn Bhd, Sharity Greetings (M) Sdn Bhd, Asian Support Direct (M) Sdn Bhd, Appco Sdn Bhd, Granton Sdn Bhd and Cobra Group.

How does it all work?

Here's an insider's report.

I used to work with a direct sales company in Old Klang Road called WWI, I forgot what it stands for; Worldwide something something, right after form 5, before college starts. Did I mention that that company was registered under Cobra Group too? Not directly, but its registered under Granton Sdn Bhd, which is registered under Cobra, so there you go. Anyway. it advertised for advertising executives and stated no experienced required and the silly and naive me went for an interview, and surprisingly, accepted on the spot. Sounds great in the beginning from the way they say it. So the next week, there I am going into the office early in the morning, eager to start my first job. They introduced me to my supervisor, which I'm still in contact with, not sure if he's still in the business though; Lee (His real surname). OK, so this Lee fellow told me some details about what to do, what they do and other shits like that. I'm supposed to follow him around that day, see the way how they work and stuff like that, which involved going somewhere with some merchandise and sell to someone.

OK, let's not dwelve into my experience in the company anymore and let me tell you what they do.

Firstly, I'll like to mention that I'm not selling charity, but merchandises like keychains and stuff, which is different from what The Star reported, but my company is also registered under Cobra Group and the entire damned organization works the same way.

All the workers in the group are supposed to wear formally, slacks and shirts, ties and all. Everey morning starts damend early at abt 6 something because we all have to be in a large room and do some motivation shit like chanting ~~demonic~~ motivational shit to 'supposedly' lift our spirits, but in fact everybody is yawning away and is brain-asleep.

Next, we'll have to queue up at the storeroom to receive our consignment of that day's product, which changes bi-weekly. We'll all then file out of the company like loyal monkeys and 'work'. Work here means we'll have to approach strangers and go "Good morning sir, may I interest you in this super-kazooper-useless-something you'll never need-thingie?" or "Good morning miss, you look hot can I fuck you? Erm... I mean, buy this useless product we're selling?"

The usual price per item is RM10, and we received 30% of it, whatever expenses used during your sales trip is 100% borned by yourself; taxi, food, drinks, whatever shit, which leaves you earning an average of RM30 a day, if you're hardworking enough and is able to at least sell 20 items of whatever you're selling. If you think 20 items can't be that hard, ask yourself this "Who the hell would wanna buy a inferior stationary set for RM10 when they can buy several dozens of quality pencils for the same price?" Some items, however are hot cakes, like keychains, notepads and at one time, personal alarms, and yes, greeting cards, which I sold once during Chinese New Year period, which also stated are meant for charity, so yes, I'm guilty. But I didn't do it on my free will, GTA made me do it.

I also understands that my immediate supervisor receives 50% of what I earned, the boss of the company earns 50% of what I earned and 100% of what I earned goes to the organization. So that means if I sold 1 item that cost RM10, I get RM 3, my supervisor gets RM1.50, my boss gets RM 1.50, the company gets RM 3 and RM1 goes to whatever charity we're supposed to represent. Scam I tell you, scam...

So there you go, an insider's report of what happened in a direct sales company in Malaysia. I think it's the same for other countries as well because I know a person from Taiwan who did the same shit and is actually a representative of the Taiwan branch of my company coming down for our annual dinner. So does a friend of mine from US who told me he did the same shit before.

So the next time you're at a mamak and a fellow come trying to sell you something, if its nice and good, buy it, they're just victims of a scamming company. But if its useless, and they're persistent as hell, which we are trained to be by the company, just ask them to go to hell, tell them Flyz told you do say so.

Articles from The Star can be found here

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Currently supposed to be: Working

Currently listening to: Get Right - J. Lo on Mix.fm

Life is fragile

2005-08-07T04:56:00.000+08:00

I received a call early this (yesterday) morning from David, telling me that the mother of a close friend had just passed away. I'm never really closed with this friend, although I do confess that I had a crush on her sometimes before, but that's another story.

Yesterday night, we went to pay our respect to this friends mother in PJ. I wouldn't pretend to understand her feelings, but I think I know how she felt for I had lost my grandmother last year. I think I shall reveal anything about the funeral, nor mention anything about this friend of mine.

Let's talk about death...

Yeah, it wasn't a very good topic to talk about isn't it? especially not now in the midst of the thick haze in the middle of the night. But we all know that death was inevitable, it will come soooner or later for everybody. I lost my grandmother early last year, and an uncle later the same year. I was devastated and broke down completely when I found out that my grandmother passed away. I was never close to my grand mother from my fathers side of the family as she passed when I'm very young, so young that i never really understand the notion of death yet.

I'm very close to my grandmother from my mother's side of the family, I still remember me spending months at a time when I was in primary school when school holidays were once a year for a few months. from what I heard from my mother, she's the second person to hold me when I'm born, even before my father had a change to hold me. Its been over a year now since her death, but when times that I'm alone and had time to think of the past, I can still remember her clearly, and I do cry when I think of her.

Life is fragile, diseases and sickness plagued our lives constantly, there are simply too many chemicals and harmful materials involved in our daily life that its almost impossible for us to avoid them.

If there is one sickness that I wished never existed, its cancer, AIDS was a different story, if you live a healthy and clean lifestyle, its almost impossible to contract AIDS. But cancern is a killer that is almost impossible to avoid, everybody is at risk of one type or another. To date, I already attended the funeral of 2 victims of cancer, one of them being the mother of my friend which I went last night and an aunt that is battling cancer at the moment.

I don't think I can think of anything to talk about anymore now, Its too late, and I'm too tired, My eyes are wet when I though of my grandmother and I think everything I written in the past few paragraphs are slightly incoherent and uncoordinated.

I shall stop now...

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Currently supposed to be: Sleeping (Morally supporting the Malaysian Blogathon)

Currently listening to: Neil Young - War of man (live version)

Woo

2005-08-06T03:48:00.000+08:00

That's it, another night gone st\itting in front of the PC tinkling with the blog. It looked rather satisfying to me, but there would definitely be more changes.

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Currently supposed to be: Sleeping (Eating, is abit hungry now)

Currently listening to: Wonderful - Everclear

Phew...

2005-08-05T02:23:00.000+08:00

Been tinkling with the blog for the entire night, a few successful changes, countless blunders and mistakes. The name of the blog is yet to be confirmed, I might stick to this one, I might not, I don't know. For the moment, this will do...

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Currently supposed to be: Sleeping

Currently listening to: Martika - Toy Soldier

Digi is full of crap

2005-08-04T12:42:00.000+08:00

Mots of us Malaysians probably already knew that Digi is having it's 10th anniversary now and giving out mega promotions to celebrate it. Yeah, why not? If you've survived in such a competitive industry for 10 bloody years, its definitely a good reason to celebrate. Let's see what sort of 'stuff' they're doing for celebration:

1. Free RM30 talktime for NEW prepaid subscribers

2. Free supplementary line for NEW postpaid subscribers

3. Free family line if you subscribe for the NEW business plan

4. Only RM0.48 for IDD calls

5. Free downloads of wallpapers, tones and other stuff

6. RM0.10 for traffic information

7. Only RM0.10 per MMS

8. Bubbletalk promotion

9. SMS contest to win 10 months' salary

10. Radio contest on Mix.fm

Here's the crap part, first 3...

It a bloody promotion for NEW subscribers, what about people like me who's been using Digi for donkey years?! Now they have Beyond prepaid, Prepaid Plus and all the fancy names, my SIM card still simply says Digi Prepaid, that's when Digi was among the first to have a prepaid service. What do I get for being so loyal to the brand for so long?

Number 4

How many people do you know who still uses their handphone to make IDD calls? RM0.48? Why would anyone pay that amout when they can use a landline and call for like RM0.30?

Number 5 and 7

You think everyone is rich enough to own a MMS enabled phone ah? Most people only need the phone to make calls and SMS, we don't need stupid MMS, GPRS, PMS or whatever asses in our phone, it's a bloody phone, not a computer!

Number 6

Traffic information? Need any? Turn on the radio and get it for FREE! Want something on the spot, call Red 104.9 for FREE!

Number 8

Bubbletalk? Huh? What the fuck?

Number 9

Yeah, I tried this, wasted money to win a CHANCE, not to win the contest, just a bloody chance to win the contest. Excellent!

Number 10

Radio contest, bullshit-lah! I have perfect ideas how radio contests works, and believe me, don't even bother to try.

The reason I actually stick to Digi is because like I said, I've used this number for donkey years, and changing numbers and telling everyone is sheer stupidity. But don't you think that Digi should at least do something to appreciate loyal users like me? I'll be content if they send us maybe say, RM10 talk time as a token of appreciation for brand loyalty, but no! They're only interested in fishing new customers. What a load of crap, 10th anniversary... Bah!

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Currently supposed to be: Working

Currently listening to: The cracking of the old air-cond behind me

Date?

2005-08-04T01:41:00.000+08:00

Just a short post...

I was on MSN with Yin Yin awhile ago, chatting up some small talk and stuff. When she's about to go, she said taht we should catch up soon and mentioned that if I'm willing to pick her up from Klang and send her home tomorrow night, she's OK with it. But I don't understand the 'tomorrow night' part though, what's she playing at? Hmm...

Of course I said no problem and I'll call her when we should meet up.

Is it a date then? Hmm...

"now now dont jump to conclusions" - David

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Currently supposed to be: Sleeping
Currently listening to: Metallica - Low Man's Lyric

New look...

2005-08-03T17:54:00.000+08:00

I just changed the layout of my blog to a slightly more refreshing new look, other than the boring old one. You'll notice that some of the older posts are slightly jumbled up without spaces between paragraphs, that's because when I switched template, all previous formattings are gone, so just ignore it.

Will have more changes once I got home later, I think...

Currently supposed to be: Working
Currently listening to: My colleague talking to herself

Untitled

2005-08-02T17:27:00.000+08:00

Another untitled post, as always, I can't seem to think of a proper title for my posts, so untitled it is then...

Yesterday night was spend mostly in the car, cruising around KL, while my pet-sister; Agnes is sitting at the passenger seat crying. She just broke up with her boyfriend.

Here's how it goes, she called me at about 8 something yesterday night, sobbing into the phone, but not saying anything. She just refused to tell me what happened, I told her I'll go meet her at Sg. Long to talk about it. I kinda guessed what happened, probably she had an argument with the boyfriend or something like that, I never expected anything that serious.

I'll not go into the details of what happened to her, but just a vague idea of what happened for argument sake. It goes along the line of the boy liking another girl and decided that he liked THAT girl more than my pet-sister. Fine, boy like new girl, boy dumps old girl, good enough a reason and definitely valid enough, shits like that happens all the time. But the thing that ticks me off and the biggest reason she cried her hearts out yesterday was that he didn't properly explained to her what happened. He didn't meet up with her and tell her face-to-face about breaking-uplike a self-respecting gentleman would do. He just SMSed her telling her that he decided to break-up with her.

Would you believe it? That prick just SMSed her to tell her something like that... Fucker didn't even bother to call, much less meeting face-to-face. I've always hated that fucker anyway, probably the only ass among my pet-sisters string of admirers that dared to put down the phone on me. I felt like kicking his ass at that time, well, more a reason to do so now eh?

Nonetheless, is there even a proper way to break-up a relationship, I mean its not like something you do all the time, not even occasionally. As for me, I haven't a single clue of what to do, but I still think that whatever it is, it has got to be done in person, not just a fucking SMS.

I really don't know what to say to her when she told me what happened yesterday, other than lending a shoulder to cry on, I don't even know what to do. But she's a strong girl, I'm sure she'll pull it through soon enough. In the meantime, anyone felt like kicking some fucker's ass?

P/S: In case you're wondering what I meant by kicking ass, no... I'm not going to ask him to bend down for me to kick his ass. And I don't kill, I'll just do as David and break his legs. I mean, why killing him while you can make him suffer for a lifetime?

Me? A sadist? No, I'm just evil...

Meme... Schmeme 2

2005-08-01T14:21:00.000+08:00

Wow! Joe tagged me for a meme! I'm so thrilled! Whee!

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OK, due to the unwritten rule that one must answer memes once one is tagged or your genitals will fall off, I shall answer the meme

Vital Statistics

Name: Wan Yat Fei aka Fly aka Flyz aka Fatboy aka Pigga aka His Royal Fatness

Birthday: 20th March 1982

Gender: Male

Height: Erm... 180 something cm, I think

Relationship status: Sadly, hopelessly single

Starsign: The sign of the 2 whale (That's Pisces for the ignorant ones)

Chinese year of the: Dog

Ethnicity: Chinese

Hobbies: Reading, playing PC games, sleeping, eating... among other things

Pets: Pets are a waste of time

Family members: Mom, dad and an 18 years old sister (Don't get any funny ideas!)

Quote: "I'm hungry"

Favorites

Drink: Hmm, hard to say... Vanilla coke I supposed

Alcohol: Erm... I don't drink much, but I can down a significant quantity

Cigarettes: Marlboro Lights

Food: Do I look picky to you?

Football team: I don't watch football, but if you must... Arsenal

Actor: Erm... Johnny Depp is cool

Actress: Emma Watson :-p

Movies: Hackers, Fast and Furious (1 & 2), Cruel Intentions, The Beach

Comic: Not a comic fan, but again, if you must... The Star's daily comics

Song: Hmm... hard to say. Faye Wong - Eyes on Me (FF8 Theme) among others...

Color: Any shade of blue (Yes, even gay-ass neon blue)

Are you...?

A career person: Hmm, I think I am... I think

A risk taker: Typical Chinese me... no

A sociable person: Not really, sometimes prefer to be alone

A family person: If this means you stick to your family, yes

A party animal: Sometimes, mostly not

A nymphomaniac: If I'm a chick, I might be...

A BDSM freak: Hell no!

A flirt: A wannabe...

Do you?

Like little furry animals: If I can shoot them, yes

Like scantily dressed members of the opposite sex: Very much so, yes (Hell yeah!)

Like to sit down with a good book: Yup, books relaxes me

Like playful, active children: Anything, as long as they're quiet

Like anyone in particular: Erm... yes, and no, I mean yes, no, no, er... yes

Describe:

A funny experience: "Leong tiu mao" will always be a classic

A nightmare: I don't remember dreams... nor nightmares

Your dreams: I'll tell you once its confirmed

Fill in the sentence with the most imaginative thing you have in mind:

The aardvark... Stand in the middle of the road, stops a Proton Wira, forced open the door, dragged the driver out, told the driver "No hard feelings, but you're being jacked!" and drove off

OK, meme accomplished...

I can't tag anyone because no one reads my blog and the one who did are either already tagged, or don't own a blog. So be it then...

Good shit...

2005-07-27T16:02:00.000+08:00

Taken from http://bash.org/?browse&p=361

Nori123: You don't know jack shit

VioletSky: That's not true, I know him well

Nori123: Haha

VioletSky: I'm serious

VioletSky: Jack is the son of Awe Schitt and O. Schitt. Awe Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, married O. Schitt, the owner of Needeep N. Schitt Inc. They had one son, Jack. In turn Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt, the deeply religious couple produced 6 children

VioletSky: Holie Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Giva Schitt, Bull Schitt, and the twins: Deap Schitt and Dip Schitt. Against her parents' objections, Deap Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school drop out.

VioletSky: However, after being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced. Noe Schitt later remarried Ted Sherlock and, because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name.

VioletSky: She was then known as Noe Schitt-Sherlock. Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt and they produced a son of nervous disposition, Chicken Schitt.

VioletSky: Two other of the 6 children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony.

VioletSky: The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens wedding. The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Hoarse.

VioletSky: Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.

VioletSky: So there.

FiPo: LOL

Nori123: I have actually chortled coke through my nose

Now's that's good shit...

Anyone seen my weekend?

2005-07-27T14:55:00.000+08:00

Its Wednesday already, and I still haven't seen my weekend.

Last weekend was mad, for most, weekends starts on Friday and lasted 'till Sunday. Mine started on Thursday last week. Here's what happened...

It was the 3rd round of the Asia Road Racing Championship 2005 in Sepang, as you all knew, my company's the organizer. Thursday and Friday was pretty much stupid and boring, set this up, bring that up, unload that shit and shits like that...

Saturday was the actual qualifying day, not much of qualifying actually, everyone who registers get to race anyway, its more like a timed practice session. Finally get to see the bikes in action, a little slower than what I expected, but then again, I played too many games, so nevermind.

Sunday's the race day, that's when all the spectators come, the guests comes and the grid girls show themselves. Sad to say, they're nothing much to shout about, just 2 grid girls from Yamaha during most of the races, the uniforms are hot, but the face's a little on the brownbag side, so...

The real hot girls comes out during the 600cc superbike session, these girls comes together with the China team; China Yuan XG Jao Racing Team. Their pictures can be found here; the first two pictures are them. Their uniforms are definitely super hot and of course, so does their bodies, even the faces are passable.

Anyway, at the end of the race, the usual routine kicks in, keep this shit, pack this shit, take down that shit, and other shits...

So, theres goes my weekend... If you can even call it a weekend, it's just a saturday and sunday for me, not a weekend.

Newsflash

2005-07-20T16:09:00.000+08:00

News that doesn't matter, among other things...

Police looking for Ayah Pin

JERTEH: Two days after the Sky Kingdom commune here was attacked by a mob, the whereabouts of the cult leader Ariffin Mohamad, 65, better known as Ayah Pin, is still unknown.

Sources revealed that Ayah Pin has escaped to Afghanistan via an underground tunnel network that connects Malaysia to Indonesia and is believed to have boarded a hijacked aeroplane to Afghanistan.

"It's good to have a housemate to be in hiding together with me, and my, is he handsome or what?" Said Osama Bin Laden.

Help spot the traffic offenders

PUTRAJAYA: The next time you see a traffic offence being committed, snap it – with your handphone or camera – and send the picture to the Hall of Shame section of a newly-launched road safety website.

One week after the launch of the website, a semi-nude photo of a girl, believed to be taken secretly using a hidden camera is loaded into the website. "But she's obstructing traffic!" Claimed the uploader who wished to be anonymous

"We agreed that she's obstructing traffic too, so we posted her picture into the website" Said the website's webmaster, who wished to be anonymous too.

Meanwhile, in the international scene...

Man dies afer being sodomised by a stallion

Washington: A man dies after being sodomised by a horse in a barn dedicated to beastiality sex. The man's colon is believed to be ruptured after being pounded rapidly by the stallion's massive reproductive organ.

"It was the dog, he was jealous that the man liked the horse better than the him, I swore I saw the dog poured some aphrodisiac into the stallion's drinking water before the session" Claimed an anonymous witness.

Ducks may silently pass along bird flu - study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The bird flu virus that experts fear will jump from birds to humans seems to be mutating yet again, and may be able to hide in healthy-looking ducks, thus putting both other birds and people at risk, experts said on Monday.

"That's right, its time we ducks strikes back, the chickens have hogged the limelight too long" Said an agitated Donal Duck

Sports...

Nicol David stuns Grinham

DUISBURG: Malaysia's Nicol David stunned world number one Rachael Grinham in straight games yesterday to win the gold medal in the women's squash competition at the World Games here.

"I'm going to beat that bitch one day, even if that's the last thing I do" Shouted a very bitchy Rachael Grinham in her locker room.

Weekends

2005-07-17T23:25:00.000+08:00

WARNING: This is a boring post, so if you're easily offended by boring post, please move away. Thank you

Last weekend was one of the most boring weekend I've ever experienced in my life (so far). Of the 48 hours, almost 30 hours is spent on sleeping, pretty much re-paying back all the lost sleep during the weekedays before.

Friday night was spend with my families having buffet at The Atrium at Sunway Tower because my grandfather and my cousin is is town, spend the rest of the night in front of the computer playing Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas. Slept early that night...

Woke up early today, went to Subang parade MPH to pick up the new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The book comes in a fancy paper bag which consists of the book (doh!), a can of Vanilla Coke, a pack of Kit-Kat, a pen, ruler and a 10 bucks voucher from MPH. The whole package cost me RM 99.90(!), positively the most I've ever spend on a book. Spend the rest of the day sleeping...

Sunday, glorious sunday morning, but then again, I never knew because when I woke up, it's no longer morning, not even afternoon, I woke up at 3 :-) The rest of the day was spend watching TV, playing GTA and bumming around.

I told you it was a boring post, so until I found something more fun to do, bear with me. Anyway, it IS my life...

Fly vs Boredom (Harry Potter style)

2005-07-15T23:54:00.000+08:00

The new Harry Potter book would be out by tomorrow mornng.

The new Harry Potter movie poster is already available at the Sunway Pyramid TGV.

In the midst of the whole Harry Potter excitement, i'm going to re-post a very very old post about 'Fly vs Boredom' Harry Potter style, enjoy:

Boredom edged himself closer towards Fly.

Fly can feel the fear creeping into his heart, he's scared.

Boredom's reach out to touch Fly

Fly felt the greatest boredom he'd ever felt enveloping him, he draws his last strength and pulls out his wand.

Expecto Patronum!

A silvery wisp shoots out of Fly's wand, but nothing happened.

Expecto Patronum!

This time, a solid translucent silvery figure of a large Fly appears in front of him.

The Patronus Fly wheezes towards boredom, chasing it away.

The Patronus only managed to chase boredom back for awhile. Boredom retals by drawing out its wand and cast a Stupefy! spell on the Patronus. The Patronus fly freezes in mid air and fell onto the floor.

Seeing his patronus is freezed by boredom, the anger in Fly's heart rised to a new level and he is determined to destroy boredom once and for all.

Boredom saw the determination in Fly's eyes and tried to attack Fly before he can do anything.

Crucio!

Boredom casted the torture spell towards Fly.

Protego!

Fly managed to cast the shielding spell just in the nick of time to protect himself from boredom's attack.

Expelliarmus!

Fly casted the disarming spell to disarm boredom of his wand.

Avada Kevadra!

Fly casted the forbidden killing spell to attack boredom. Boredom, now disarmed and defenseless got hit square in the chest by the red bolt that shot out of Fly's wand.

Boredom let out a loud shout, clutched his chest and fell onto the floor. Boredom slowly dissolved into the plain air with a cloud of smoke.

Fly sheaths his wand and look at the empty space on the floor that used to be boredom. Fly leaves the place slowly and walked home.

Little did he know, another boredom is looming near him and is planning the next strike on Fly

Untitled

2005-07-12T16:32:00.000+08:00

Oh heck... I can't think of an appropriate title for this post, here are some that came into my head when I tried to put a title to this post:

a. The Kluang Experience
b. The Kluang Thing
c. A few days in Kluang
d. Bullfarting in Kluang

e. The mis-adventures of a Chinese fellow in a small city in Johor by the name of Kluang

f. I know what I did last weekend

g. Kluang Strikes Back

h. Cub Prix: Revenge of Kluang (!)

I ended up with 'Untitled', which is an appropriate title for a post without a title...

Anyway, I just got back from Kluang yesterday afternoon, after a bloody long weekend toiling at the racetrack in hell, er... I mean Kluang. As most of y'all should already knew by now that I worked in an event organizing company dealing with motorcycle races. (I'd say ALL of you should know because there are virtually no stranger that reads this stupid blog so if you don't I'll have to shoot you, and survivors will be shot again)

Back to pressing issues, Kluang is pretty much as hell as hell can be, the weather is super "Are you sure we're in Malaysia and not Sahara?" hot and it rains like mad in the evening. 3 days of hot and cold wet, hot again, then cold wet can really kill someone. I'm not dead yet, but I felt like dead, my whole body aches, I can barely walk and my nose is running like a damned waterfall.

There really wasn't much to talk about my races, its pretty much monotonous all year round, we set-up the tents, we place the A-boards, we put up the flags, we set-up the banners, we hang around doing nothing-while looking at umbrella girl's ass-while mad idiots risk their life on a bike-while the bosses entertain the VIPs. After the race, we bring down the tents, keep the A-boards, flags and banners and go home. Pretty much the same every damned race, except for a few surprises, like seeing some idiot broke his rib bone, endure the weather (Heat is normal, rain is surprisingly seldom), see the bike fly off the fence and other crap like that. It's a very interesting job indeed (<-- This is probably the biggest lie I ever told myself).

One interesting point during the weekend is the fact that I smoked less than a pack the entire weekend, which is a huge improvement from almost a full pack a day, even more during race weekends. At the moment, I still have 5 un-opened packs of Marlboro Lights that David bought from the airport when he came back from Thailand. I told myself that I'll stretch that 5 packs until end of the year, and then I'll kick it, for good.

Many things happened while I'm away during the weekend, London is in chaos, a bridge fell down in Klang, Fernando Alonso got 2nd in Silverstone (Probably had a bad singing session before the race), a friend of mine broke-up with her boyfriend and aliens invaded Subang! (Don't ask!).

Oh well, enough bullfarting for now, time to go home...

Bye

"I say we nuke 'em all" - George Bush

My Favorite Things

2005-07-07T14:21:00.000+08:00

My Favorite Things

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings

These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

Silver white winters that melt into springs

These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites

When the bee stings

When I'm feeling sad (and bored)

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don't feel so bad

Remember that song?

From Sound of Music... The scene of the thunderstorm with a bunch of girls in pyjamas frolicking on their bed (Stares into nothing dreamily...) Reminds me of another movie, but that's porn, so nevermind.

Firstly, please note the title; My Favorite Things - Plural!

I'll be listing out some of my favorite thingS occasionally now and then from now on, and like I said, note the plural, so I'll probably list down a few favorites in the same category.

So? What shall we start with today? Games! Since I've been rambling about the quite frequently lately, let's start with games.

Now what's my favorite game? Got a few; Diablo 2, Counter Strike, Pirates, GTA...

Let's start with Pirates

Sid Meier's Pirates

I played this game a few months ago, it was actually a remake of an old Sid Meier classic back in the early 90s, when games are still 2D and the sounds are limited to blips and chimes. The new version is 3D and boated a great background music; I can still hum it out.

Why do I like it? Simply because its an adventure game, you get to become a pirate (Doh!) We all know how fun that can be, added by the influence of Pirates of The Caribbean that's still fresh in my mind, pirating can never be more fun, not being able to swim aside. Its also great because you can jump into the midst of the action immediately after the game starts, there's nothing more satisfying than seeing your tiny little sloop sinking a Spanish Imperial Navy War Galleon, boarding an English Royal Navy Ship-of-the-line, or sinking Blackbeard's frigate.

The game's also addictive, and because the gameplay is so fast, you can re-play the game all over again, and again, and again, and again and... I think I re-played the game almost 10 times, using a different strategy and a different country every time.

The graphic of the game is stunning, of course not as whack as Half Life 2 (Which I hate) and GTA, but its great in its own class. You can actually see tiny little cannon balls shooting at the enemy's ship, see the sails fluttering in the wind and the waves actually looked real.

Now you have it, a short review of one of my favorite game, 'till then...

"Shiver me timbers! Ships ahoy! Starboard side! Roll out the cannons!"

Arr...

Untitled

2005-07-07T00:23:00.000+08:00

Firstly, you'll notice I have a lot of blogs titled 'untitled'. That's because I can't think of a title for my post, simple as that... don't ask why

Went to watch War of The Worlds with david today, not a bad movie... one of the best I've seen this year (I don't watch many movies, most of them I watch are free). But like every other good movies, there are the negative points...

1. Tom Cruise is still too short

2. Dakota Fanning talked too much, and screamed waaaaaay too much, kinda annoying

3. Just like every other adapted-from-book movie, it's not faithful to the original book

But still, it's a great movie.
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Oh, guess what?
I'm not going to Kluang tomorrow, will be going on Friday instead.

You know what that means?
I'll be playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas again tonight, I wonder what weird sort of dreams will I get tonight? Stealing cars? 'Getting it on' with one of the girls? Stealing planes? 'Getting it on' with one of the girls? Killing someone? 'Getting it on' with one of the girls? or 'Getting it on' with one of the girls? I wonder...

Listening to Velvet Revolver's Fall to Pieces now, a rather good song really, sorta bring you back to the Guns & Roses era. But then again, Slash is in the Velvet Revolver, so the whole band got an G&R aura around it.

Oh well, I'm going off to play GTA now...

"See you around ese, keep safe" - Cesar Vialpando

Dream a GTA dream

2005-07-06T12:24:00.000+08:00

Whazzup?

As some of y'all might already knew, I'm currently 'into' this new game called Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Very Interesting game no doubt, and addictive... damn bloody addictive. Been playing it for the last few weeks, and is sleeping at almost 4am everyday just to play that stupid game.

I'm an avid gamer, I play all sorts of games, and I'm known to play games until late into the night. So it wasn't much of a surprise when I played GTA until 4am in the morning. But what really freaks me out is I actually dreamt a GTA dream!

Do you play GTA: San Andreas?

If you do, you'll know that one of the missions requires CJ (The character you play in the game) to steal several vehicles from a list for 'export' purpose. So in my dream... I AM CJ, not playing as CJ, but is CJ himself.

One of the vehicles required is a convertible called a Feltzer, of which when I played before I went to bed, took me quite some time to locate. I can still remember the dream rather vividly, I'm sorta walking around in San Fierro and somehow stumbled upon a Feltzer in a parking lot somewhere, so in full GTA tradition, I just jack it and drive it away from the parking lot and drive towards the dock to 'export' it. But that's also when the police start giving chase, and they don't just come in cars and bikes like the game... these came with tanks! And the weird thing is, I can see the tank driver; David (Git! Get outta my dream!) So I drive like mad to escape from the evil tank driver, but...

I woke up at that point, either that or I forgot what happens next. This is really freaky, it shows that I'm definitely playing too many GTA: San Andreas. I can't remember dreaming of being IN any other game before, or like I said, either that or I forgotten.

Luckily I'll be going off to Kluang tomorrow, at least it gave me a chance of NOT playing that damned game for a few days, with luck... I'll be able to keep my sanity until the next GTA comes out.

'till then...

"No hard feelings, but you're being jacked!"

Untitled

2005-07-04T17:41:00.000+08:00

Whazzup?

I'm just posting for fucks now, nothing to do, too bored to do anything. Got a gathering to go tonight, but that's tonight, not now... I'm damned bored now.

I know I said I'm boring all the time, and all my posts are boring all the time. Not really blog award material huh?

I noticed, actually David noticed that most award-winning / famous / popular / whore-able blogs are filled with pictures. Ever noticed that I never insert any pictures into my blogs before? Too much hassle and seriously, I'm lazy / bored / didn't bother to insert any pictures into this damned blog.

Actually, I got loads of things I wanna talk about in this blog, but what the hell! I'm too bored to do it... Will post it later or sometimes, oh what the fuck?!

Bye

Boredom

2005-06-28T11:45:00.000+08:00

Let's talk about something interesting today shall we?
Something that involved and inevitably affects our daily life, and ultimately... our destiny.
... Boredom!

Boredom?! What the hell?! Now that's very interesting to you... har har har (Sarcastic laugh)

I'm bored, but then again... hearing me say ''I'm bored" is almost as common, although not as frequent as hearing me say "I'm hungry"

I'm bored all the time, even when I'm doing things I enjoy, like watching TV, hanging out with friends and even, god forbids, when playing game. It's probably just a sense of boredom, not really boring in real literal term, but just a sense of er... boredom?

It kinda felt like there's nothing to do, when in reality, there's loads to do...

Right now, at this very moment, I'm in the office, feeling bored...
But at least I know what I wanted to do now... sleep; Or go home and try to pass the damned flying school in Verdant Meadows in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Probably this boredom is just another excuse of being lazy, at least for me... The laziness of performing any task at hand, and wanting to do something else with the excuse of being bored of what I am doing now.

Bah, this is too boring...
What the hell?!

Get outta here, it's boring myself to death
Bye

Meme, Schmeme

2005-06-22T22:44:00.000+08:00

OK!!
David's been bugging my ass for ages now to do that whatever meme he got himself tagged, and conveniently tagged me too, git!

If I could be a psychologist:
Now, we all know that people go to psychologist because they've some problems with their brains, and will probably do whatever the doctor told them to. So... If I could be a psychologist, I'll tell all my patients that they're superbly stupid and their brain is hopeless, and I'll tell them to invest their fortune into me so that I'll do my best to cure them, of course which, I'll probably make them worst so that their family members will be depressed too and come see me and I'll make them worst so that the families of their families will come to me and they'll all invest their fortune to me to cure thm, of course which, I'll probably make them worst... oh, you know the rest...

If I could be a chef:
Now this is interesting, I like to eat (But we all knew that all too well don't we?) so isn't it just cool if I could cook well too? Anyone watched the travel channel lately? All the cooking programs that's swarming that channel? I'll be famous, and rich, and powerful. Soon, I'll design my own recipe and put in some 'little something-something' that'll make them come back to eat at my place over and over again, and they'll ask their families to eat at my place and they'll all come over and over again. Then I'll charge them ridiculous price for say like... a thousand bucks for mee goreng or something. And then I'll simply stop cooking, so that those people will have to beg me to cook and offer their virgin daughters to me as offering so that I'll cook again. We all know how much fun that'll be...

If I could be the CEO of Microsoft:
We all know how rich Bill Gates is, and how powerful he is? That geek practically controls the entire software platform in the world! Now, if I were him, I'll just just as what he did... and more. I'll hike up the price of the softwares to a ridiculous price, and force everybody to use original softwares only, I'll use my wealth and power to ensure that whoever caught using pirated softwares will be shot. But of course, no one will be shot because I'll also use my wealth to buy off every damned piracy enforcer so that no one using pirated softwares will ever be caught. Why? Because I control the original software sales AS WELL AS the pirated ones... Then, I'll really be controlling all the computer platforms in the world.

If I could be a movie producer:
I'll be a porn movie producer! What? They make loads of money, and most porn producers are anonymous, believe me, I know :-) I might seem like an honest small time movie producer (Read: POOR) that won't touch any movies that touches on sex and violence. But actually I produces 90% of all the porn movies in the world!

If I could be a dog trainer:
I'll train the dogs to bites David's ass before he had a chance to shoot the dogs... What?

Rambles...

2005-05-12T22:52:00.000+08:00

Actually, I've no idea of what to talk about.

I'm just bored and bored...

Work has been damned boring nowadays, the races are still interesting nonetheless... but bored.

You know what? I think I needed a vacation, badly!

Yeah, I might be going to jakarta end of the month, but that's to work, not a vacation, and going to a vacation with a bunch of strangers are no fun. Yes, they're my colleague, so? Strangers!

Come to think ofit, I can't even remember the last time I had a real vacation, the latest that I can remember is Langkawi after Graduation, and the Penang trip for the convocation... that's hardly a vacation mind you.

Langkawi after graduation?! Holy camel doo doo! That's over a year ago, you mean I haven't been to any vacation for the past entire year? No wonder my brain is going all crazy...

Need vacation soon....