Anyway, I am moving for good. I have also been contemplating on whether I should use my TLD (Top Level Domain) as my blog address as I had initially planned to have it point to my home machine. After giving it much thought, I have finally decided I would do it. I now present to you:

http://www.alvinchong.net/

Yes, and I can now have the flexibility of adding chat boxes, adding adverts, adding statistic counters and customize many more scripts of my own to run as I wish. Also, I will no longer be updating here, so head over to the new address, well, not that new anyway, just a www instead of blog. If you bookmarked this blog, don’t forget to update your bookmarks. Cheers people!

Anyway, I was browsing some news site this morning and this advertisement on the new Ford TDCi caught my attention. It’s quite a nice car in my humble opinion. So I clicked around their website a little to see what the car has to offer.

Then, I was reading through the brief description of its power and torque capabilities for the advert was saying that towing a 3 tonne load wouldn’t be a problem. Let’s have a look at this:

22% more power!

With 141bhp to tap on and 33Nm of torque to use, which is of course the best-in-class, you can drag 3 tonnes of weight without any problems! My Swift, on the other hand, has only 133Nm of torque which is of course the best in the whole world, is capable of carrying 10 tonnes without a problem then!

Of course I know it’s just a typo. Ford, don’t get mad at me if you’re reading this. I am just making a parody out of the typo. Have a sense of humour when reading this aye? The car of course is still a good car, well not that I have test drove it but rather, from the specs and the looks alone.

Well, so much for joking around early in the morning. I am back to work now. See you guys later, peepz!

IT Terms To Describe Life?

I was browsing my archive when I stumbled upon it. That was then, but it’s different now. Now, it would go something like this:

I have just managed to install GirlFriend 1.4 a few months back. I managed to remove the NobodyLovesMe virus by installing the Charming 2.0 software. This time, its algorithm was superb in eliminating the virus.

With GirlFriend 1.4 installed, I needed Cash 2.5 as well. Cash 1.5 was just not sufficient and would break down during heavy loads from the GirlFriend program and then OS itself. Cash 2.5 runs better but would still break down occasionally.

With an upgraded OS and GirlFriend 1.4 installed, CreditCard 5.0 was also needed to assist Cash 2.5 in handling the load from the OS and GirlFriend 1.4. With credit card 5.0, there is a problem. It creates a buffer to assist Cash 2.5 in its duties, but it will eventually overload Cash 2.5 every once a month. I am currently hoping for Cash 3.5 to be released so that I can reduce the dependability on CreditCard 5.0.

As of writing, swiftmod.exe still cannot be installed. It requires a minimum of Cash 4.5 to be installed if I remembered correctly. I am speculating Cash 4.5 will only be available Spring 2009. Car 2.0 is also needed but will need some proper management on Cash 2.5, otherwise, the OS will be screwed. Oh, and Car 2.0 runs perfectly with GirlFriend 1.4, so no worries about that. So right now, I think I need Car 2.0 and Cash 3.5 to run smoothly.

Anyway, I went to Damai with my family and Clare. It was a 1 night trip. We got outselves a family suite, which to me is relatively big for the price of RM 380.

I don’t know about you guys but I really like the room environment in a resort. It gives me this comfy feeling and that I don’t have to bother too much about cleaning. Someone will do it for me.

Even the toilet was kinda… errr… nice?

Nice innit? Unfortunately, Murphy must have followed me the other day. The blardy aircond wasn’t functioning and I felt as if I was in a sauna. So much for RM 380.

Oh, and the photo above, that is the room below. Yes, the suite has 2 levels. The level below is basically meant for kids. Even the design of the room itself is kinda childish, but you know what? I kinda like it. Hey, don’t laugh, everyone has a little child in him.

By this time, Clare and friends (oh Cheryl and ehem boy boy) were out playing basketball. Me being the lazy one, didn’t join them. I stayed in the room under the cold aircond instead. The one below was working. Nonetheless, I was still sweating like a pig.

Anyway, back to the room below. Oh, did I mention they even have a TV below and a cute little sofa set for people (kids?) to sit and watch sports cartoons?

I like the room but because the damn aircond above wasn’t functioning, we had to give the reception a call to change rooms. We got ourselves a fairly equivalent room for a change.

So, the new room looks something like the above and the below pictures.

Of course the room is actually much bigger than you’d expect. The photos I published here won’t do justice to the actual size of the room. The new room is actually more conventional but still, it’s equally comfy and luxurious.

And of course, this room has the advantage of a superb view of the beach. Serious, I am not kidding! Have a look for yourself:

It was still kinda hot and all, but I came to my senses. Hey, I didn’t pay RM 380 to be there to stay in the hotel doing nothing. So I gave Clare a call and we both went to the swimming pool with her friends, for a swim. It felt very nice to be swimming after having stopped swimming for ages. One thing, my age is taking its toll and I lost the superb stamina I used to have about 9 years back.

Alas, time past extremely fast. Without me realising, the sun was already setting. We went to the beach earlier on and got back for shower and prepared for dinner. The sunset was extremely beautiful and I couldn’t resist the urge to snap it with the dSLR.

Come dinner time, we were kinda hungry we downed the seafood and unknowingly didn’t take any pictures of the dishes. Sorry folks, no pictures of midin and prawns and crabs, etc. Needless to say, dinner was at Kampung Buntal. We met a bunch of French there. They were looking at us having a good time and greeted us with Bon Appetit as they passed us.

Then, minutes later, I saw the waiter going over to their table with a big plate of FRESH WATER CRABS!!! &*@!^#$*#@!@&^!@$!@#. Blardy hell, they enjoyed better food than we did. LOL!

We went back to the hotel after that, sitting at the lobby. About half an hour later, the same bunch of French came back to the same hotel. I couldn’t help but realised one of them was actually holding the same camera I did.

The way he took his pictures? SO WRONG! I mean, you look into the viewfinder to take pictures on the dSLR. The back LCD doesn’t provide you with a preview of the scene that will be captured. Blardy French didn’t even look into the viewfinder. All he did was set the dSLR to auto mode, and snapped away. It’s like shooting without aiming, if you know what I mean.

The next day, we woke up mid morning, proceeded for breakfast and then played in the cold river stream coming from the mountains. By noon, we were back in the hotel, showering and preparing for checkout.

That’s basically it. This post is getting kinda long. So I’ll end this post with a note that I got myself a sunburn for playing under the not too hot (so I thought?) sun for too long. Damn it, but nonetheless, it was still a great trip after a long long time.

On The Side Note:

1) Vote for Nicole (No. 14) at http://www.mix.fm/05/special/mmw07/ Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful contestant in Miss Malaysia World 2007. Nicole, now, where is my reward?

My mind has been filled with numerous stuff, I don’t even have the brain cells to think anymore. No longer am I enjoying life as I used to. I am full of commitments and I have to think of a lot of things that I didn’t use to have to think. Everyday, it is about work work and work. Even when you’re off work, you mind keeps thinking what has to be done the next day, for fear that you will not be able to finish your work and all.

For those who have the opportunity to go travel around the world and then tell me they have been busy, don’t give me that bullcrap. You obviously have the extra time to do those travels and you are obviously miles better than me. My head is so full of things now, thinking about money, about work, about relationship, thinking about friendship, thinking about my future. Yes, as I am writing this now, I am thinking of all those. Sometimes I get so frustrated that I think I shouldn’t give a fuck about the world. I think I am gonna do just that to relieve myself off the trouble.

Anyway, after a hectic day of work, I come back to the condominium and I see this amazing sight. As if it isn’t already beautiful enough, people just had to decorate it:

You saw that?!?! Pink “tongues” sticking out of each mail box! Isn’t the decoration just superb?!?!? Isn’t it amazing how people can make the mailbox so “beautiful”?

Now, it got me wondering, did the management specifically consent to this or is the distributor just plain stupid?

This was what I saw, so it is either the management consent to it or the distributor just does not understand plain English. Smart but an annoying way to finish distributing leaflets. I don’t know about you guys, but it annoys the shit out of me to see leaflets everywhere, let alone putting it on my car windshield. When it rains, if the printing is low quality, the bloody ink just stains the whole windshield. *!@^#*!&@!@&#*!#&!@*%#^%!#*@&!@

It’s hard to find good places to relax in KL. It’s sucha hectic and busy place to live in. It seems as if my whole life evolves around my work when I am in KL. Hence, I appreciate my return back to Kuching. It lets me enjoy the simple life that I need very much.

The city of Kuching itself is not too busy and I like it. Look at the picture above, isn’t it just lovely? Oh well, just a week or so and I am now back to the city of KL.

Now, I am back to seeing the buildings that I am so used to. Everywhere you go in KL, buildings are all that you see. I am still not in the mood to work. Feels like as if I am still on vacation. Literally, I still am, but I was forced to come back earlier.

Oh well, that’s life, work work work and work. No work no money, and I NEED money!!! Hmmm…

I always get this nostalgic feeling whenever someone I love leaves me, be it my family member or anyone else dear to me. This one was especially hard because we spent quality time together and went to places together. Thinking of it now makes me feel blue. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed my time with her, it’s just that I now miss the time we spent together. Thanks to my work nature, I was also literally cursing everyday, since day one she was here.

I get nostalgic even before the day of departure. The day of departure itself is hard. I have not much of a mood left in me to enjoy myself. The thought of having to be separated in a matter of hours just gets to me. The airport itself looks nice and enticing if I am just there for the fun of it or if I know I am on my way for a vacation. When it comes to sending people off, the view of the airport itself is just depressing.

As I carried her luggage to the check in counter, all I could think of was to get her checked in first, since it was running a lil late. Thank god, the process was a breeze. Oh, and the airport smelt of salted fish. Now, which smart alec brought salted fish to the airport or was someone smelling like salted fish? HMMMM…

Not wanting anymore of that smell, we proceeded to Eraman for some fresh perfume smell. Yeap, definitely smelt better. She wanted to check on the Ralph Lauren perfume and the sales lady was a bitch.

“Come come, I’ll do it for you, you’ll spoil the spray nozzle later…”

Bitch, I have been using perfume all my life and the nozzles are all the same. You don’t tell me I’ll spoil the nozzle. I’ll slap the living daylight out of you if I could. For the sake of courtesy, I shall not curse in this post but that bitch is really getting on my nerves. The moment she said that, I left the shop immediately.

We lingered around the airport a little, quite reluctant to be separated. I had a lot of things to tell her, but I just couldn’t find words for them. I was practically quiet the few minutes we were lingering at the airport. All I could do was look at her and said how fast time passed and how everything had come to an end so fast.

The I saw the aircraft landing and it was a sign that she should be boarding. Still reluctant to be separated, we sticked around a while longer until the aircraft was parked at the tarmac. After that, as reluctant as I was, I told her it was time to board as I didn’t want her to miss her flight.

I walked her to the departure hall and I gave her a long, tight hug. I was beginning to feel really emotional. I bid her Bon Voyage. I saw her eyes getting teary and my heart was starting to cry as well. I felt very heavy hearted as I looked into her eyes. Trying to remain calm and macho, I refrained from dropping even a single drop of tears. I waved her good bye as she went through the security check and disappeared into the hall. I won’t deny the fact that I felt very emotional the moment she left me, because that would be a complete lie.

I went outside the terminal and watched her queue for boarding, still reluctant to leave the airport. As the plane left the terminal after all passengers boarded and took onto the skies, I walked to my car, still not used to the fact that I am all alone. As I looked at the airport one last time, I drove off with the nostalgic feeling. I now know how it feels when people lose someone they love, forever. It’s a really sad feeling and it is at times like this, I wish I had all the money in the world and almost everything would be virtually possible.

As I am writing this now, I am still feeling really blue and this is the only place I can voice it out. Alas, I am going to retire from the online world for now and get some fresh air to make myself feel better. Take care peepz! Till then, cheers!

So what do I plan to do when I am back in Kuching? Hmmm… come to think of it, there isn’t much to be done in Kuching. So I’ll have to say, I’d basically be eating to my heart’s content. Ya, I am fat but so what? It’s not like I get to enjoy Kuching delicacies everyday and I am seriously quite sick of mamak food already.

Then, I think I’ll be travelling around places just to get the feel of the small city of Kuching once more. God speed, I hope I really can travel around and PLEASE PLEASE, Murphy’s Law, please stay far far away from me! I can use some peace when I am back in Kuching. As I am writing this, I am praying really hard to god to make sure I have a peaceful vacation back in my hometown.

I think I’ll also be spending quality time with my dear, time permitting. I kinda like it when none Kuchingites visit Kuching. You get to bring them around and probably enjoy places and things you would seldom do. It kinda gets me out of my mundane life.

Now, that was the good part, the bad part is that I just had news that I would probably have to cut short my trip back to Kuching for some working reason. ARRGGHH, why does this always have to happen to me when I am supposed to be having a great time? I have been looking forward to this day and and nearing it, I get news that I would have to cut short my vacation. DAMN IT!

Yes, I can push the remaining vacation to a later time, but I seriously doubt I can take that long a vacation in the future. 3 weeks consecutively? I can go on dreaming! Opppzz, another bla bla bla post from me. Anyway, I am off now and take care peepz! Cheers!

Yes, in case you might still be wondering, yes, I did get myself a dSLR baby. It’s a beginner’s Canon EOS 400D. Of course I didn’t opt for the extra lens package, you know, being broke and all. So it came with the standard 18-55mm lens kit.

Anyway, having the itch to play around with my latest baby, I brought it around taking random shots of anything interesting or not interesting along the way. Don’t mind my lousy shots. I am still poor at taking photos and I am poor at framing my shots. I am a noob after all, so pardon me if they suck.

First, I took a shot of this mini fountain in the middle of the building I work at:

The slower shutter speed was intentional to make for the water movement.

I then walked around and I was just so bored, not knowing what to take around my work area that I took this:

I tell you, I am just so obsessed with the camera, I literally bring it everywhere I go. Come night time, I thought this neon lighted sign was kinda nice, so I took it anyway.

It’s kinda amazing how I can take night shots pretty easily now. With my previous camera, I had to be really steady else I’d be taking blurred night pictures. For some reason, this dSLR does a pretty decent job in getting nice night shots without the need for an IS (Image Stabilizer) lens.

I have pictures taken at night at ISO1600 which are kinda overexposed. The surrounding wasn’t exactly bright and this was what I got, without flash:

Pardon the blurness as I was shaking a little while taking this picture (This is where an IS lens would have helped). This was taken at midnight when no one was around. Trust me, the surrounding wasn’t even half as bright as what you’re seeing, but I love the brightness.

This picture of The Place was also taken with ISO1600:

Again, this is an overexposed picture but the effect is just superb. The only downside when using the ISO1600 sensitivity is that noises start creeping in and it’s pretty visible when printed large, but for the sake of blogging, it’s just fine.

At another time, I brought my camera to The Curve, hoping to take some beautiful night scenes. True enough, I took quite a few:

This picture is slightly blurred because I wasn’t exactly still, but it shows you just how nice The Curve is at night.

This was also taken at The Curve. Not something unusual but I find it kinda nice. The effect of the lighting and the water flowing is just nice.

This is another waterfall picture taken at The Curve.

I have no idea what to take so I took a night shot of Ikano Power Centre. Somehow, I just like night shots because the lightings just make everything look different. Pardon the noises in the image as it was taken with ISO1600, if I am not mistaken.

Oh well, another shot of the Ikano Power Centre. Isn’t the lighting just fantastic?

Last but not least, I particularly love this shot:

I simply love the dark effect against the Canon word. The light and the darkness simply blends. I love it, but that is just me, so it’s my personal liking.

OK, seems to me like this is a post just showing pictures with no particular purpose. Oh well, I guess that’s the point of this post, so enjoy! Do leave comments on the pictures so that I can improve. I know there are still lots of room for improvements, because I am a noob afterall.

“and who are u to say that?! people has its own choice on whatever they want to post and anytime they want to update (cute pictures, unupdated blogs)! and even if they say they’re fat or ugly but still posted their pictures.. well, it’s none of your bussiness >_”

Right, first of all, you’re not so anonymous. A check on Friendster revealed you and for the sake of your privacy, I shall not reveal your identity. Thanks for dropping by and dropping me a comment, albeit not a very nice one. Yes, people have their own choices and that is why I do not go around people’s blogs or Friendster account and start shooting them for whatever they do. The most I did was click on the ‘X’ or Back button when I reach these pages.

Yes I am aware my blog isn’t interesting as well but then again, it’s my blog and the 10 things I hate about Friendster are just merely my opinion and also to tell people what I dislike about Friendster. It’s just me. Some people might like what I dislike, after all, they say, beauty is in the beholder of the eyes. It all boils down to personal preferences, but I am sure you would have to agree to almost half the things I wrote, no? OK, if the answer was a no, then I am sorry. Then again, my point is that, it’s a personal opinion of mine, and the fact that I don’t go about condemning people in their blogs for whatever they wrote indicates my respect for whatever they do and that what I have written on my blog was just my personal opinion in general and not meant to shoot anyone specifically.

Then, I had someone leaving me a message on my chat box asking me this:

“Are you ever satisfied with ANYTHING?”

Well, the answer to this is, YES, I am satisfied with almost anything. The fact that most people cannot compromise and be content with what they have is what is making me dissatisfied. You want examples? I can already think of a few. Tell me, how is it that I am supposed to be satisfied with my work when work means dealing with a bunch of idiots on a daily basis? Tell me, how am I supposed to be satisfied when I am supposed to be happy with my life and making lots of friends when someone starts stabbing me from my back? Tell me, how am I supposed to be satisfied when I want to open a bank account and people tell me I couldn’t and I should literally die of poorness? Tell me, how am I supposed to be satisfied when I am supposed to be enjoying broadband which turns out to be more of a narrowband? Last, but not least, tell me, how am I supposed to be satisfied when someone just swerved into my lane while driving and almost caused me my life and my car?

These are just a few examples to quote for. If there wasn’t anything for me to grumble on, I wouldn’t be grumbling, would I? I am sorry if these grumbles made you felt as if I am not satisfied with anything at all. Probably you’re right, I shouldn’t be grumbling a lot because lets face it, the world is what it is and my grumble alone wouldn’t change it in years to come, let alone overnight. Then again, this is my blog and I treat it as a place where I can talk just about almost anything under the sun. When there is something exciting, I talk about it. If there are any happy occasions, I talk about it as well and of course, if there are any rants, I’ll talk about it as well. I don’t get to rant often in the public so I won’t hesitate ranting here once in a while.

I’ll stop here now as this is just a post to clarify my point of view. Before anyone of you start shooting me, I reiterate that this post was meant to generally point out my stand in the matter and was not meant as a personal attack on anyone of you out there. I apologize if anyone of you felt my posts were too harsh, but sarcasm and annoyance with stupid things and people are just in me. It’s just the way I write and express myself. Some like it and some don’t. I am who I am and that fact won’t change overnight. Read my posts with a slight sense of humour and don’t take them too seriously. Ponder on my points, if any, and if you disagree with them, leave me a comment, debate the points with me. You are most welcomed to do that. Constructive criticism is what I am looking for. All that being said, I am off for now, and remember, read with a slight sense of humour and not take things too seriously. Cheers people!

You know, that is just so NOT true! I have came to realize that I miss virtually anyone close to me whenever I get separated from them but the feeling doesn’t last though. Perhaps it is due to the fondness of someone or something that makes me feel this way. I also feel the same when I have to leave the comfort of my own home in Kuching for KL. You see, I am so used to the comfort of my own home that the thought of leaving it and going to a shithole is just not helping.

Everytime I have to leave Kuching for work in KL, I’ll be in no mood on the day of travel itself. No it’s not a day or two of travel but rather, almost 4 months. I already start feeling this way even a day before travel. It all returns to normal after a day anyway. Even during CNY when my parents came over to KL, I felt the same thing the day they left KL, but I was fine the next day. I recently felt the same way again when my love left me.

This probably is my weak point but then again, it probably is my good point. Depending on how you look at it, it might be a good thing. I personally feel that it’s a bad thing since it makes me feel down. I get over it pretty fast though, and that is a good thing. That is not to say I don’t care for the things or person I love, I do.

Oh well, like I said, this is a lame post, so I am just gonna stop right here. Take care guyz.

OK, enough about kids. Back to the general public, we have come to rely heavily on mobile phones that if we were to lose our mobile phones, it would render us helpless. Take me for example, I use my mobile phone a lot for calls, so much so that when I forget to bring my phone when I am out, I really find it a hassle to communicate. When I need to ask somebody something, I can’t. What is more important is that I have my entire phone book in my phone and not having the phone with me, I can’t even recall a single number with the exception of numbers that I regularly dial. Don’t laugh! At least I can still remember my own number when some people can’t even recall their own mobile number. To find a public phone is also a problem because they are mostly either damaged if not filled with saliva in the coin return area.

Public phones were once extremely useful when mobile phones were still not within reach for most people. Mobile phones are dirt cheap nowadays you can literally get one for less than RM200! Therefore, public phones are not so important nowadays. Nonetheless, humans, or should I say low life Malaysians, have found a new use for public phones. Public phones were once used to make calls. Simple, insert coins/card, dial a number, talk and hang up. Now, you can use a public phone for this:

Now you can:

1) Take the whole phone out of its booth. (God knows how)

2) Stick adverts on it. Loan RM10,000 from me and pay a low 3% interest. If you can’t pay back, I’ll hunt you down and chop your little brother off.

3) Stick your phone number on the booth offering sex for RM100 a night. What is there to lose? You get pleasure and money, great deal!

4) Last but not least, throw rubbish in it! How useful! You can now use a phone booth as a rubbish bin as well, brilliant!

Now, says who Malaysians are dumb? We are one innovative bunch of people. Where else can you find a rubbish bin phone booth? MALAYSIA!!! We have long been known as the Boleh Land and now we have proven ourselves once again. Malaysia Boleh!!!

Take for instance when a forumer asked, “What should I do? I am in love with this girl and I don’t know if she feels the same.”

Some idiot then replied, “Don’t be a man with no balls. Go and approach her and just tell her you are interested. If she is into you, good for you, if not, move on and get a life.”

What in god’s name was that? Don’t try to be smart OK! If he had the balls to approach her and tell her, he wouldn’t be here asking for opinions OK! I am not saying they cannot give their opinions but at least give one that will help him and not something that wouldn’t do him any good. Don’t try to be smart giving such an answer because this is real life and the world is never an ideal place to live in. You think courting a girl is as easy as I like you, you like me? If you don’t, I am looking else where? EASIER SAID THAN DONE, OK!!! So shut up with stupid replies like that.

Then, there are people who hop around people’s blogs, read what people have to say and then leave comments like these ones:

“You are such a disgrace because your English suck big time.”

or

“You look fugly the whole world can die looking at your pictures.”

or

“Your blog sucks!”

or

“You ought to get a life. All you do is sit down here and blog. Go out and socialise.”

Yea, my English suck big time, then again, why were you here in the first place? Wait, I am guessing you probably can’t comprehend proper English and so you decided my English “sucks”? Yes, I am fugly and again, you are here, looking at my pictures, not leaving…… still not leaving…… still here looking at my vain pictures. Yes I know, I am handsome, you are not. You are just here to insult me to make yourself feel good. I know, I know, you are here to compliment me, so SHUT UP with the stupid comments already, CAN?!?!?!?!.

Oh and my blog sucks by the way, BUT YOU ARE STILL HERE!!!! WTF DO YOU WANT?!?!?! Speaking of which, I do have a life. In fact, I believe I have a wider social network than you losers do. Wait a minute, while I was out having yam cha sessions with friends, out having a great time with my family and friends, where were you? Oh I see now, you were being a sad fuck, browsing through my blog and probably a few others having a great time spamming us with your useless, good for nothing comments. Talk about getting a life, YOU SHOULD GET ONE!!! What’s more, you leave comments anonymously thinking people won’t know who you are? tsk tsk tsk. Sure, we probably won’t know who you are and we don’t wish to know.

That’s about all I have to say about smart alecs. The next time I receive spam comments, I’ll happily be marking them as spams and happily clicking away on the Delete button. Trying to hurt my feelings by insulting me? Try harder because I am already immune to that. Keep your stupid comments to yourself, get lost if you don’t like what you read (you probably don’t like everything you read anyway) and get a life as you suggested. Leave your insults in your blog just like I do. It’s your blog after all and I can’t do a damn thing about it anyway. It’s probably the best thing for you to do. Till then, see ya peepz, good night and I’m outta here.

Of course when I was in primary school, some kid crowned me with the nickname Babiloi and it stayed even till today, despite less calling of names already. I was basically called that because I was kinda big in size and according to some kids, I looked like a pig. Yes, that didn’t help in boosting my ego, which explains why I am such an introvert today. Kids with a bunch of so called macho friends, or rather bullies, picked on me knowing I wouldn’t retaliate.

I didn’t exactly like my primary school years but then again, I made some friends who lasted me through the years. I could recall myself going against the prefects when I was back in primary 1. I was slightly late for class and when i reached the school compound gates, the prefects stopped me and I was pissed, i shook myself off their grasp and ran to my classroom, crying in front of the class later on without shame.

When I was in primary 2, I achieved first place for the first time in my life. I meant academically though. I was so darn proud of myself my nose was literally sticking up and started growing as long as Pinocchio’s. For that, my dad awarded me with a family trip to KL. That marked my first time travelling and stepping onto an aircraft. I have always been fascinated with aircraft since young and the feeling of stepping into one was sheer pleasure.

We weren’t as lucky as children nowadays to have a leap jump from primary 3 to primary 5 with an exam. So I had to undergo primary 4. Primary 4 was where we started being splitted based on our academic results. Me and all those smart alecs were moved to the best class. We started learning science, living skills, etc. Come to think of it, it was kinda fun but I didn’t treasure what we learnt back then. Life continued till primary 6 where the real deal of UPSR started haunting us. Life has always been great until the first public exam started bugging us.

I could still remember a time when we were in primary 6. We were so noisy and naughty our teacher couldn’t stand us anymore and cried her way out of the classroom and the discipline teacher had to come to our classroom. She challenged us to obtain good grades in UPSR. We were so egoistic we vowed to prove her so wrong. Life continued as it was. We were still as noisy and playful as ever. We stayed back after lunch and ran around the whole school compound playing. The janitor had to come and shoo us off.

The dreaded day came and we all took our UPSR. After that, it was freedom and we were so happy to have our long break. Our happiness was cut short when the results were announced. I was eagerly checking out my name. TAdah, I found it and I glanced from left to right. A, A, A aaannnndddddd……………………………….. mai chibai kanina pukitiang mother fucking D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just cried there and then. I didn’t know how to face my parents. I knew they put high hopes on me and I disappointed them. They came almost minutes the results were announced and when they asked me, I just kept silent and told them to go look for themselves. They returned moments later not knowing what to say. They didn’t exactly blame me for the result. The results were out and there was nothing I could do about it. They just let go and hoped I could get into Form 1.

That was one of those dark moments in my life and primary school life ended without me knowing it. It seemed just like a year or two since I left kindergarten for primary school and now, I was preparing for my secondary education. Oh, and did I mention I was made prefect in primary school? Ironic huh? Me going against prefects and later made a prefect.

Always treasure what you have. You’ll only realise how important they are when you lose them.

1) Tell 5 jokes

Nia bu, you think I am a joker mer? I tell you a joke enough la. The rest you go find joker Wei wei and Alisa to tell you la. Their joke so the very “funny” la.

OK, here goes:

One day, a man was walking in the jungle. As usual, he wanted to chop some wood for his family’s daily use. As he settled and started chopping, he heard a voice of an old woman asking for help. Curious, he set out finding where the voice came from. He finally found the old woman who was trapped under a heavy log.

Old woman: Young man, please help me get out of this. In return for your generosity, I’ll give you 3 matches that will grant you 3 wishes.

Man: Ohh, OK. I’ll help you anyway. Don’t worry about it.

(The man helped the woman out)

Old woman: Thank you young man. Here are your 3 matches. If you want anything, just take a match, raise it up in your hands and say yor wish out loud.

Man: Thanks a lot. i really isn’t necessary.

The old woman left and excited, the man ran back home and told his wife and children about the matches. Upon hearing the news, the man’s family became so excited they started asking for things.

Man’s wife: Lao kung, I want the best kitchen.

Eldest Son: Pa, I want a nice car.

Youngest Son: Pa, I want the best bicycle.

Daughter: Pa, I want Barbie doll.

The man, not knowing what to do came up with a brilliant idea.

Man: OK, keep quiet everyone. I’ll give you all the things you want.

The man then held up a match and loudly said:

Man: Simi lanjiao also want.

The lanjiao from everywhere came falling down from the sky covering his house.

Man: Shit, this is not what I meant. Damn it!

He then took another match

Man: Simi lanjiao also don’t want.

Then all the lanjiao disappeared, including his and his sons’.

Man: KNNCCB!!!

Ashamed and frustrated, he took out the third match and said

Man: Gimme back my lanjiao!!!

His lanjiao then came back but his sons lost theirs.

OK, those who have heard, shheessshhhh… Those who find it lame, please shehhheeeeehhh as well. Thank you.

No more jokes. I can’t think of any more early in the morning.

2) Name the top 4 person that you adore the most.

- My dad. He is my inspiration to be a better person in life. He is my role model.

- My mum. She took good care of me and has always been there for me for the past 23 years. She’d sacrifice herself to see me lead a better life, though I might be a little cranky on her at times. Thanks mum, love you lots!!!

- My dear. She gives me a whole new meaning of life. I never knew life could be this good until she came into my life. Thanks dear!

OK, I can think of no more. Top 3 can liao la. Mahai, why need 4? I so pantang number 4 you still gimme 4, you want this? *shows fist*

3) 3 animals you think resemble you:-

- Pig. A lot of people find me a pig OK. I am fat and I look like one.

- Lion. I like leading the pack and I like roaring at idiots who are too stupid to comprehend simple stuff.

- Rat. I am shy shy and I am an introvert. Besides, I am a rat in the chinese zodiac.

4) Tag 5 other bloggers after that:-

Tag simi lanjiao!!! You think other people so free to do this kinda thing like me mer? Who else want to tag me? Come la, put your horse la. I am not scared want la.

On The Side Note:
1) These past few days have been a great and life changing one. I am hoping someone feels the same. I don’t know, I am still wondering.
2) I have been pretty stressed up these few days. Unbearable workloads, idiots, uncooperative people and lack of energy do not help.

I bet my readers must have been bored to death reading the first part of my life. Alas, I am still going to continue my writing. You can skip this post if you want to, I am trying to document my life for my own future reading. There are some people who commented and asked for pictures of the big headed boy. No, I ain’t publishing that, it would just make all my readers run away shouting hysterical profanities at me for posting such an ugly picture.

Now back to when I was 5, I was still in nursery and no, I didn’t go to kindergarten at age 5. I don’t know why but my parents probably thought I wasn’t ready. Still as rebellious as ever, I continued at my back then current nursery. Come to think of it, I must have made life a miserable hell for my caretakers back then. For that, I apologize and thank you all for taking such good care of me. Then again, I am guessing none of them will be reading this.

At an age of 6 years old, I entered Saint Jude kindergarten. At that tender age, all I thought about all day long was eat, play and sleep. I thought kindergarten was that and I was so wrong. Being an introvert, I didn’t really made friends when I first entered kindergarten. Every morning before class, my mum would have to lure me with junk food to get me to go into class. I’d do anything for junk food back then, even if it meant saying “Yes, I’ll go to class” unwillingly.

The moment I stepped into class and my mum started leaving, I’ll start running towards her like a mad dog while crying out loud without shame. Nothing else mattered but to be close to my mum. Yes, start calling me a cry baby and start calling me a mummy’s boy. I don’t give a damn because I am proud of who I am today. Say all you like but I am a useful person in society, so if you have something bad to say, just zip it.

My teachers had to pull me back and asked my mum to leave me alone, quoting I’ll get used to it eventually as a reason. Yes, I eventually got used to it and I believed I must have made quite a number of friends. Even my girl cousin was in the same class as me. Year end, the whole class took a picture and I am pretty sure I have purchased the picture. The greatest regret I have now is that I cannot recall where I kept it. Looking back at the picture from some of my friends who came from the same class in the same kindergarten, I begun realizing how small Kuching is. Some have grown up to be really pretty/handsome and some ugly, like me. I am even shy to ask some girls, whom I used to mingle with, out now. How ironic, humans tend to be more self conscious as they grow older.

After a year, I proceeded to the most prestigious school back then, the Saint Josephs Primary School. Many people will beg to differ but as far as I am concerned, Saint Josephs must have been one of the most prestigious school in Kuching. Prestigious not as in high class but rather the standard of education for its students. My form teacher, Madam Teresa, whom I still remember vividly, took great care and spent ample time with me. She taught me maths and Bahasa Melayu. She guided me in my handwriting. Everytime I wrote wrongly, I was smacked. I am kinda glad she did that but my handwriting is still as fugly as ever. She taught me basic calculations, forced us with timetables from 1 to 12. It sticked with me till now. Don’t laugh, some people cannot even make out 11 X 12 as 132, what a shame. She regularly reported to my mum on my progress. My mum will then ensure I did regular revisions and finished my homework before the next day. Where did I learn my discipline, it has gotta be from here.

In primary one, we were basically splitted out into 4 classes based on our date of birth. I was placed in the third class along with a number of friends, who are still my friends today. I am not complaining as it was a pretty good class with good teachers. Of course being in primary school, everyone started being narcissistic and more self conscious. They try to make as many friends as possible but hope you don’t make any. The concept was that the more friends you had, the more popular you were. Of course, being fat, an introvert and ugly didn’t help much in that department. Alas, life continues as it is, lonely with no friends.

Now, part 2 has come to an end and continuation of my life will be done in part 3. Now, my already halved reader is going to be reduced by yet another half or they can now start laughing their ass off at this pathetic little fella I was talking about. Anyway, it’s late and I gotta hit the bed now. Stay tuned peepz, if you’re interested that is!

To start off, I was borned to an average family on the 25th October 1984 in the small city of Kuching. My mum used to tell me I were a real pain in the ass as a baby, a pretty demanding one. I used to cry the night through for milk, for wetting my pampers and for pooping without care for the world. Not that I have any recollection but now that I see babies, I must have done that, else I wouldn’t be normal.

As a baby, I was never a cute one. I had a pretty big head for a baby and looking back at the photos, I couldn’t help but think I look like ET. I was also one hell of a skinny baby. Trust me, I might be big in size now but I was real skinny back then. My brother, on the other hand, was a very much cuter baby. My grandma would always remind me, every now and then, how I used to be so active, running and jumping around. You know how weird it is when you see a big headed kid jumping around? Annoying I know, but that’s me!

Borned as a Scorpio, according to the Western zodiac and borned as a Rat according to the Chinese, I am one rebellious kid although not to the extreme. As a young child, I’d run about playing and ignoring my parents. When they advise me on certain things, I’d always do otherwise. I don’t know why but I guess it’s just in me.

I can still vividly recall a moment in nursery school where I didn’t like being kept in the house. It felt like as if I was locked up and I felt suffocated. As a child of 3 years old, I wanted freedom. One day, out of the blue, I managed to sneak out the gates and I ran like there was no tomorrow. Indeed, there was no tomorrow since I didn’t know where to run to and I didn’t know where to find my parents. As a child, I had a very good sense of direction. I could literally run several hundred meters away and can still find my way back to my origins. My caretakers had a hard time chasing me down and that was how rebellious I was even before the age of 5.

Not that I can recall a lot as a child, but I’ll stop right here for now. The next instalment will then talk more about me. As if my blog isn’t boring enough, writing this will definitely push more readers away. Either that or my readers will start laughing their ass off at the stupid me for writing this entry. Anyway, that’s all for now and till then, take care peepz!!

Anyway, back to what this post is all about, I was walking around a shop sometime ago browsing through the computer section for interesting gadgets which I can drool at and not buy, which really is quite traumatising. I came across this keyboard with illuminated keys. I thought it was kinda cool and I checked the price out thinking to myself, “I’d purchase this if it’s not too expensive.”

I kneeled down, leveled my eyes with the keyboard package and focused on the price tag. I almost fainted when I saw the price. The keyboard was priced at an unbelievable RM2999!!!

For a moment I was dazed, it took me a second or two to recover from it. Refusing to believe there is such an expensive keyboard, since it is just a normal keyboard but with lighting, I browsed through the same keyboard on the shelf.

I glanced at the price tag of another same keyboard. Now, this makes more sense. RM256 is the actual price of the keyboard. Phew!!! What a relieve, but still, it’s out of my budget.

Proper usage results in a perfect community of friends communicating with each other. In fact, Friendster is also a tool to expand your friendship network. Somehow or another, Murphy’s law always holds. There are always bound to be idiots out there spoiling the perfect cycle at the least expected time.

Here, I am going to list the top 10 things I hate about Friendster, or rather about people using Friendster:

10) Nicknames not resembling the person

Some people put nicknames and not have a single photo associated with them. Along the line I start forgetting who they are. How am I supposed to recognize you? I don’t have the Death Note OK! I won’t write your name in the notebook even if I know your name OK! Won’t die letting me know your name OK!

9) People having more than an account with full friends list

Now, having friends are fine but when you post “cute” pictures of yourself trying to gain attention, you get a lot of superficial friends. You know, sometimes, you aren’t that cute in real life and it is with all the make up and the desperate attempts that make you look “cute”. You end up with 500 “friends” in your account and 3 quarter of them are deperate people trying to get to know and bed you. Period.

8 ) Guys who add pretty girls, girls who add handsome guys

These idiots, if you noticed, add all the pretty girls and handsome guys to their lists. Call me a sour grape, whatever. Fucking stupid OK! Add all you want, people hide behind names and photos of porn stars claiming those are them. You add them and later discover these pigs are the total opposite of who they are in real life and die of heart attack knowing the truth.

7) People opening a Friendster blog and have it empty for eternity/write crap

You see a lot of people open Friendster blogs because the majority of the crowd is doing so. One month later, you return to the blog and find a fucking empty page staring right back at you. You might also find the one and only post stating this “Hi, I am new here. I want to write a blog…” and they disappear to god knows where.

Then, some people open a blog to torment your soul with “Wah, time past by so fast. It has been a long time since I updated my stupid blog and I am here now to update the fucking blog so that you can read my stupid post and die of boredom right in front of the computer.”

“Today, I went and eat shit. Life is short, I just want to try everything I can. Today I went and meet up with some online pals who gang raped me because I was so stupid to go and meet them up even before knowing their true nature.”

6) Posting pictures of themselves and claim they are fat/ugly

These people post pictures of themselves and go “Wah I am so fat and ugly.” You bet you are, so just take the god damn picture off the site and save me the agony of having to browse through your fugly pictures. Trying to fish for compliments eh? I don’t want to give you the compliment, how? You are fugly, how? Sue me!!!

5) Using CSS to send me down to hell

I have said this and I’ll say it again. Imagine this, blinking stars background, animated pictures all around the website. Annoying sounds playing in the back ground. Green/pink colour background against yellow texts. Someone kill me right now. I think, Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft should also change their websites to these kinda designs. The blinking effects and animations will definitely attract more traffic to their sites NOT!!! So quit it!!! The first thing I do when I see this kinda site is hit the Back button almost immediately.

4) Useless testimonials

Stop sending useless and annoying testimonials. I go to your site to look up your profile and not listen to a stupid bird singing. The bird is annoying OK! Don’t even send meaningless testimonials like “This is a meaningful testimonial. This testimonial is meaningful because it is not meaningless. A lot of people send meaningless testimonials, unlike this meaningful testimonial that is not meaningless.” Damn you, it might be interesting the first few times I read it. It becomes annoying after reading it 100 god damn times. Truth be told, this is the most meaningless testimonial of all meaningless testimonials.

3) Forwarded chain messages

You have been haunted by the spirit of an evil ghost. If you do not forward it in the next 5 minutes, the ghost will haunt you for the next 1 year. Forward this to at least 20 people or bad luck will come your way.

@^&!%@#& KNNCCBTNS, mahai, come la, I don’t and never forward these messages. Come and haunt me, I don’t give a shit, can?!?! Puki you, while I dump and ignore this message, I hope you are the one who is haunted.

I love god, I know you love god. If you love god, forward this to 20 people or else god will not be happy, etc etc…

@!&*#!&*@#&!@#%& You go and fuck yourself. I love god, but god never state in the bible/manuscript that I have to forward this fucking message to 20 people to show my love for him. You don’t come and teach me stupid things like that. I’ll smack you on your head I tell you! Now go and confess all your sins, you are such a disgrace and hopefully god forgives you for what you have done!

2) Arrogant assholes

Ever came across people who put this is their profiles?

“I do not simply add people. If I do not know you, don’t add me. I will delete people who I do not know and I will not entertain any messages from people I don’t know”

I say, SCREW YOU! You don’t have to say it out to the whole wide world. We already know you’re being a bitch for not adding us. We get it, you don’t have to write it out and tell the whole damn world you are so “famous” and egoistic, you do not entertain people you don’t know. You probably might have your own reasons, but still, don’t have to tell it to the whole wide world!

1) FRIENDSTER IS CLOSING DOWN! THAT MOTHERFUCKER ALLEN SMITH IS COMING! RUN RUN!!!

OMG, Friendster is so gonna close down NOT!!! Are you stupid? Friendster is going to close your account? Where did you heard that from? You are willing to take an idiot’s words for it and you are not willing to read through Friendster’s help area to validate it’s a bullshit?

Where is that motherfucking Allen Smith? Certainly not on Friendster! Ask him to come and close my fucking account. This is so widespread I have received it not once, not twice, not even trice but more than 10 times. I tried responding to it and sending it back to my friend. Surprisingly, people forward spams like this but I have yet to see the message I sent, come back to me. What is wrong with you idiots?

One last time, Allen Smith does not exist, Friendster is not closing down and STOP SENDING THE GOD DAMN STUPID MESSAGE!!! Mai chao turtle!!!

Now, let me see, where is the tag? Hmm… *searching*

Ahh, here, finally… Before that, this meme (what what what??? meme? meme what? Can someone tell me what it means? I am a stupid fella) was inspired from my meet up with someone. Aiseh, didn’t know I’d get tagged also. Anyway, here goes…

1) Who is the first blogger you meet?

Let me think, thinking hard… My friends counted or not? If yes, I can’t even recall anymore. Genuinely, I think the first blogger I met was Ms Clare the kek si lang Ng. This girl here cannot even survive one day not giving me a hard time with her sarcasms. Wah rao, meeting her 1 day can shorten my life 1 year. Her knife hor, very sharp. You insult her dog, she insults your mother. You insult her mother, she insults your grandmother. You insult her, she insults you and your little brother. Tsk tsk tsk… She claimed herself to be shy and guai. Right, then I am like an innocent angel from the sky! *Runs away and hides in a jungle before she reads this*. Trust me guys, I am in so much deep shit for writing this. You guys can start wishing me condolences. If you guys don’t hear from me for the next 1 week, you know what happened.

2) Who is the ‘Most wanted to meet blogger?’ for you?

Aiya, easy la. All the leng luis come and the leng chais go. Someone slap me, I dream too much. My testosterone is taking over me. Huahahaha… OK OK… seriously, I don’t know. Can ask more meaningful questions or not!?!? I have never thought about this. Come la, whoever wants to meet me come, come, semua mali mali. Don’t care la, I want to meet bloggers who want to meet me most. Hehehe! Lesbians, straight, handsome, ugly, fat, thin… semua mali mali… So long as you don’t molest and rape me, I am fine with it. Muahahahaa…

3) Who is the ‘I can meet, want to meet but somehow never got to meet’ blogger?

Huh? What what what?!?!? I can meet, want to meet, what meet what meet? So many meet can! Dunno la, people I can meet don’t want to meet me. People I can’t meet want to meet me. People I don’t want to meet want to meet me. So that somehow makes us never meet.

You see har, for example:

I can meet Kenny Sia, but he doesn’t wanna meet me.

I want to meet Kuching bloggers but they held the meeting when I am still in KL, so somehow we never got to meet.

I want to meet Alisa and Wei Wei, but I can’t meet them and they also very mian chiang to meet me.

The whole collosal thing is that I want but can’t meet any bloggers. I can but they don’t want to meet me. The conclusion is that, we somehow never got to meet. Confusing enough, yes, I am as confused.

4) Who are the group of bloggers you most wanted to meet?

Har, got group of bloggers want mer? Like that also can? Hmm, no idea on this one. Got leng lui group of bloggers? Got? got? If anyone knows of any, quickly drop me a comment and tell me the venue and time. I’ll not miss the meeting for anything in the world. Then hor, guys can siam far far away when I go for this meeting hor. I like some private and VIP time with this group of bloggers hor? OK enough said.

5) Do you have any bloggers/blog readers that you wish to meet right now?

Honestly, I don’t intentionally go out and meet people. I am an introvert and shy guy la. You don’t believe you go and ask Clare la. Wait, she wrote in her blog somewhere that I am not shy hor? That makes her words untrustable. OK, don’t ask her, take my words for it la hor. Any bloggers or blog readers wanting to meet me, I want to meet you right now. Sincerely, I want to meet you people. I want to meet this girl and this girl. Rumours have it that these girls or was it only her, very the cho lo want. A bit a bit also TNS, KNNCCB, CB. Fuiyo, I got a bit scared le… Intimidated wei, but I sincerely want to meet them, unlike someone, want to meet me hor, but, say until very insincere. Just because I am her only unknown blog reader, she mian chiang mian chiang meet me la. I quote her:

“ok la. i got only one unknown blog reader which is alvin. ok la. meet him la meet him la..“

You see? Very the mian chiang, right? *Runs and hides in the jungle before she reads this as well*

OK OK, it seems I have made a parody out of this. I am sorry, but I just suck when it comes to this. Seriously, these are questions I have never thought of and quite frankly, I have no idea. Nevermind la hor? I know you guys have a good sense of humour. Clare, I hope you don’t get offended hor? Alisa and Wei Wei, don’t get offended as well la hor? I know you girls can take it. hehehe…

Fuuuiyyyoooo, 2am already?!?!? I wanted to post another posting but seeing how “early” it is now, I’ll keep it for another day. Take care guys. Wei Wei and Alisa, don’t say I didn’t give face har… I did it at 1:30am hor?

As for me, my family flew over to KL and I did not return to Kuching for celebration. There is a reason to that though. Let’s just say, it has been a tradition for my family to get out of hometown during CNY. I know it’s weird, don’t ask me why but that is just the way we like it. So, I’ll leave it at that.

My CNY this year is subtlely different in the sense that it feels different, the mood is different. Probably because I am working now. Instead of enjoying the new year like I would any other years, I felt obliged to complete a certain tasks before I could have my enjoyment.

Let me tell you students out there, if there is one thing I learned, that would be study hard, enjoy your time while you still can and enjoy your new years while you still can. When you step into the working world, there is no such thing as new year anymore. Everyday feels the same. Even to the last day before celebration, you can’t feel it, not unless you let go of that workload and start celebrating like nobody’s business.

There is no such thing as having a 2 weeks break for CNY. No, time isn’t that flexible anymore. I was once a student and I know how great it felt to be able to get all the flexibility and what’s best was the fact that I get 3 months of summer holidays. Now, I can only dream about a 1 week break, let alone 3 months! Oh well, I guess that’s just life.

As you might have noticed, it’s all text again this time, yes, because I don’t camwhore a lot. Besides, I am all nostalgic now so I can forget about pictures. I just got back not too long ago from the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) sending my family off. I am in a state of mixed emotion now. Not that I cannot live without my family, I can. It is the fact that I just got reunited with them for barely a week and before I even get to sit down and have a proper talk with them, they’re gone.

I have to say, I am extremely glad and happy to be able to be reunited with my family on this occasion and I am definitely glad my parents and I went to Starbucks last night and had a great chat over a cup of Cuppachino. Afterall, this is what Chinese New year is all about, reunion with your family and having a great time. Now that they are gone, I feel time is too short when we are enjoying and it’s always long when we are doing our routines.

Now that my parents are back to Kuching and I have exhausted my 3 days leave, I will be back to work tomorrow morning. As much as I hate to work, I guess it’s just life and I am gonna start being more positive starting tomorrow. I am gonna be an idealist. Being positive is the only way for me to attain a better and happier life.

Anyway, so much for my grumbling. Enough of that already, I am off now and Happy Chinese New Year to you guys again!!!

As I am writing this, I am thinking and analyzing the very existence of me in this world. I am popping questions to myself every so often. Questions that challenge me intellectually for answers. Until I can think straight and find answers to my questions, I’ll remain in exile.

Anyway, I was chatting with a friend of mine not too long ago and I popped a question to her, asking, “What are your requisites for a guy to become your boyfriend material”. Hell, she gave me one whole list of requirements that made me go O_o. Anyway, I sort of replied each and every question but for the general public, I’ll restructure my answers somewhat. Of course, I’ll also strike out some questions not relevant to the general public.

Anyway, here goes:

1) Must be 175cm(or whatever measurement you prefer) tall

Sorry people, yes it’s ideal for guys to be that tall, but I believe when it comes to really liking a person, you’d be too blind to even notice he is shorter than that. I am personally shorter than that, but not by much. I am still generally taller than most girls anyway, but I don’t give a damn anyway.

2) Must be matured

I notice a lot of girls like matured guys and I acknowledge that. Then again, maturity is a very subjective matter and it depends on the maturity of the girl as well. You don’t and you can’t expect me to treat immature girls with maturity, do you?

3) Drives nice car

Now, I know a lot of girls will beg to differ on this matter but really, in almost every girl, there is always a desire for their hunks to drive nice cars. They might not know jack about cars but in Malaysia, this will always hold true until some miracle happens, Nice car = Loaded. PERIOD!

4) Older than me

This is generally the case but in this 21st century, this older than me thing does not really hold anymore. I can be younger than you by a year or two but really, what does it matter? I mean, we love each other not due to our age, is it? We love each other for who we are.

5) Must be a gentleman

Yes, every girl wants a gentleman. Girls who disagree, don’t talk. Wait till you get one that is not a gentleman and gets bashed up for no apparent reason, then you come and talk to me. Thank you. So am I a gentleman? That depends on what type of girl I am with. If the girl wants me to be “cho” then I’ll be “cho”. If she wants me to be gentle, I can too.

6) Must be crazy about me

Again, this depends on how deep I love a girl. If she is the one, then I’ll be crazy over her. Hell, I’ll even sacrifice for her. Then again, if she isn’t the one, there cannot be any crazy feelings. No one can force it.

7) Accept me for who I am

Yes, I’ll accept my girl for who she is. Afterall, if I wouldn’t, then I wouldn’t have chosen her, to begin with. Then again, to a certain extend, I believe both parties can always change for the better. It’s not about accepting people for who they are, but rather some changes done to make things better, get the drill?

8 ) Love me unconditionally

If I were to love a girl conditionally, then it wouldn’t be true love I suppose. Unconditional love can only be given if the girl can fully understand me and love me unconditionally as well. Unconditional love can only be showered upon a girl who does not conflict with me unnecessarily. Then again, unconditional love is very subjective. Some girls are happy with the love showered upon them and some expects more. The guy might have already showered all his love but the girl finds it not enough and this leads to NOT loving her unconditionally.

9) Can cook very well

They say, the way to a girls heart is through her mouth. I reckon not all girls will need their guys to cook very well. Rather, they prefer guys who would serve and pamper them with meals once in a while. Bad taste isn’t an issue here as the love would make the food taste better than anything a good chef can prepare anyway.

10) Sense of humour

This is like the umpteenth time I have heard this. Almost every single girl I know of emphasizes on this point. I have to agree that this is really important. Humour is always an essence in everything. Without humour, everything just turns wrong and sour. So yes, I do have a good sense of humour, when I am in the mood though, but when I am not, don’t expect me to humour with you 24/7.

11) Good family background

Yes, this is an added bonus. A good family is always something good. You get no additional burden and pressure from family members. I would like to think of my family as quite a good one. I have no comments but you’ll see when you meet them.

12) Not possessive

This is also very subjective. Different girls view possessiveness differently. Guys might come as being possessive to some girls but really, sometimes, the intention is only to check on her security and safety. Of course, to a certain extend, it feels more like insecurity rather than caring. So, I really don’t know if I’ll turn out to be a possessive guy to girls.

13) Non-smoker, non-alchoholic, non-gambler

I have to say, I do smoke occasionally. I am not a hardcore smoker though. I just smoke for the thrill of it. I am willing to not smoke all together, even socially, if that is what it takes for things to work out with me and my girl. READ “smoke occasionally”. So don’t give me comments like, “You smoking bastard.” I control when I smoke and don’t. In fact, I don’t smoke when I mingle with friends who do not smoke. Yes, I can do that! So I am no hardcore smoker.

I am also a social drinker and I drink if there is any occasion that calls for it or due to socializing reasons. I drink but I still know what I am doing. Drinking till you drop is never a good idea. Other than that, I don’t normally drink at home.

I am also a gambler when I go to Genting and come Chinese New Year. Other than that, no gambling, thank you. There is always a limit to everything. So long as you can distinguish the right and the wrong, it shouldn’t be a problem. Of course, I do not gamble away my house, wife and children. I am just not that type of person.

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Yeap, that’s the end of it. It’s my turn to list my requirements for girls to be girlfriend material but not in this post. It will be in the near future.

All that being said, Happy Chinese New Year people!! Have a great and prosperous year ahead and may your business or whatever you are doing blossom! Take care people, I am off to exile land again. Bye…

P/S: This is “Britney Spears” (note the double quotes) and is in no way associated with the actual Britney Spears.

- When you least expect something, it comes to you. When you expect it the most, it is almost never there.

- There is power in anticipation. (CIMB advert)

- Failure to plan is a plan to fail.

Yea, these are the few things I was thinking about. Nothing much, just to keep me motivated in continuing a meaningful life. Anyway, lazy to blog, so just hear me blah the above. See ya later, mates!

So I thought, it was about high time I got myself geared with photos to compliment my post as well, so this is it. The photos are not so good though, since I am no professional photographer so don’t expect fancy angles and lightings. Some of the photographs are even blur due to night shots. It’s sucha shame but what the heck. LOL.
Anyway, back to today, I woke up unfortunately to work on a Saturday. Yes, I still have to work half a day on a Saturday, officially that is, but off the record, I still work one full day. So yes, woke up, got ready and rushed down to the kopitiam to grab myself a quick breakfast.

See, a poor guy like me does not indulge in luxurious breakfasts, so for me, it’s only a taosa pau and a teh peng. What else? Because I can’t afford ba… I seldom take breakfast, if you must know. Foreigners often have this impression that Malaysians love their breakfast but it doesn’t work that way for me. The reason I am taking breakfasts nowadays though is because I fear my gastric will strike again. Yes, I am big in size but I still get gastric OK, I am still human after all. Anyway, the breakfast only lasted a meagre 10 minutes and I was off to the office after that.

Nothing distant though, it’s actually just 5 minutes walk from my condo, or less. Looking at the photo above, I just noticed, advertisers have indulged in a new way to advertise their stuffs. The sign posts and the lamp post are being utilized fully for advertising. BRAVO!!!

Basically, the whole morning was work, work, work and work. Pretty hectic for a Saturday morning, I have to say and I won’t bore you with my work details. I have sworn before that I wouldn’t write a typical entry choreographing my day to day life but again, it isn’t the intention of this post to do that. This post was meant to illustrate my thinkings of the day as I went through it.

Come lunch time, I just felt very “pictorial” so I brought my camera along for lunch. I came across this bush, well not exactly bush, where a dog has been hiding for quite sometime with her puppies. As I stood in position ready to take pictures of her and her puppy, I dared not hold my camera up in an abrupt manner fearing that the mother would just come charging at me, thinking I was trying to harm its puppies. I slowly raised my camera, and thanks to the 10X optical zoom, I took a close up shot from a distance.

Trust me, you don’t wanna mess with a dog especially when it is protecting it’s young. It got me thinking, even animals have motherly instinct. Isn’t god’s creation just wonderful? Well, with the exception that animal instincts aren’t as good as human’s.

Lunch came after that and I took a quick one then headed back to office once again. By then, no one was to be seen in the office anymore, except me but I am pretty used to that already so it was alright. Then something struck me and got me thinking, since I have been working day and night for the past week, why not take some time off and go for a movie or something, right?

The picture right above is where the dog and it’s puppies are hiding, right under the shady leaves. Anyway later in the evening, I headed down to The Curve and I have to say, The Curve is pretty jam packed with people nowadays. It’s gaining popularity by the days. People come here mainly for the food and atmosphere most of the time though. Of course, there is always the flea market every Saturday and Sunday (which is expanding in “network”).

I have to say the management of The Curve is pretty creative though, when it comes to decorating for occasions and seasons. They used a blue theme for Christmas and now the red theme for Chinese New Year. Speaking of which, Chinese New Year is around the corner but I haven’t exactly started feeling the mood yet, probably due to excessive work.

It was pretty crowded since it was a Saturday evening and the flea market was everywhere. This was also the very place Kenny bought his RM500 paintings that his mother denounced as a waste of money. Besides, HSBC was promoting their credit cards and so had set up stages as well as functions for its loyal credit card holders, making the night even more happening.

HSBC also hired lion dancers to dance all the way from Ikano, The Curve as well as Cineleisure. The 3 groups of lions eventually met up somewhere in front of Cineleisure’s main entrance. If you noticed the smiling “I don’t know what you call that”, I thought the mask was kinda cute and adorable.

Speaking of which, HSBC talked me into getting another credit card. As if I haven’t enough credit cards already, I took another one. Well, I was just attracted by the discount offers the card has to offer, so I took it. After all, there are no obligations to use it for the first 2 years and I can cancel off the card after 2 years, so I thought, what the heck.

By then, it was almost 8 pm and I was starting to get a little hungry. Quite frankly, I have ran out of places to eat. Mamak doesn’t taste nice to me anymore. I have been taking mamak food ever since the day I set foot on KL. I decided on the yummy, quick KFC since it has been ages since I last took one of those.

I made it a fast one as well and headed for Borders Bookshop at The Curve to read some magazines. The interesting thing is that you can actually grab some magazines and just sit down and read them. You end up not buying them but that’s a good thing, innit? Ya la, I know la, I am a cheapskate and you people ain’t.

After all that, it was only then that I headed over to Cineleisure for my movie. My initial plan was to watch Stranger Than Fiction but because the seating wasn’t good, I finally decided on Blood and Chocolate. It isn’t exactly the most exciting movie to date but still, it’s watchable.

Cineleisure is starting to grow in terms of operation. I have seen it grown from the start where it was just opened for business and the only thing around back then was Cathay Cineplex. Of course, other outlets started moving in slowly. At the time, things didn’t seem promising but looking at how it’s operating now, I am pretty confident it’s gonna do fine. Bravo to the first few who decided on opening an outlet there. That was a good business decision and it got them good spots in the building.

Now that I remembered one thing, I was trying to take a shot of Cathay Cineplex and a guy came to me and said no photography was allowed without prior consent from the management. I was just thinking, why is it so wrong to take a photo of the cineplex lobby? Was it because you fear me plotting a bomb inplant on the place? Or was it because you feared me talking bad about the place, online or otherwise?

It’s just stupid OK! This “NO PHOTOGRAPHY WITHIN THIS ZONE” thing is just bull crap. I can’t see the logic behind it all. So are you saying, I cannot capture happy moments of me and my loved one at that particular place just for memories? If it’s people’s private home, I can understand why not to take pictures, but hey, no pictures in areas I consider as open (albeit it being a private area) is just absurd. Hey, you opened your office to the public, it’s a cineplex OK!

Enough of that already. What really made my day was this. There is this place near the place I work which teaches dancing. They call it a ballet academy though. Everything is fine but…

AKADEMI BALET NUTCRACKER is just hillarious. What nuts did they think of cracking? WAHAHAHAHAHAHA… You guys better be careful out there if you have any friends learning ballet. Apparently, they can crack nuts, if the skills this academy is teaching is really true, that is. WAHAHAHAHA… Anyway, that’s the end of my boring Saturday so cheers people.

On The Side Note:
1) This girl, yes, GIRL is so foulmouthed (as she calls herself) that her blog is so full of profanities. Nonetheless, I just DIG the meanness of the blog. Tiu nia seng, pu ki tiang, chao fa hai, nia ma chao chibai son of a bitch….. See, faichai (she lets me call her Wei Wei), I can also curse like there is no tomorrow.

2) I got myself so drunk the night of 31st January 2007, it felt so good. It felt great to be able to release all the stress I have inside me and for once not care about anything in the world but to just enjoy 3 jug of beer, sing to the music and get high.

Of late, I haven’t exactly been motivated to write any interesting nor motivational posts. The posts of mine have been pretty demoralizing lately. Then again, how can I be writing motivational posts when I, myself, am not motivated?

Anyhow, back to the topic, I have a friend who had just recently broke up with a two timer jerk. As a guy, I hate to say this, but a two timer jerk is just a disgrace to the XY chromosome species. In no way do I condone the acts of a two timer jerk, in fact I despise this kinda people down to my very soul.

Two timer jerks, or rather, bastards go out and find for another girl/guy and in the process, retain their spouse. Upon confirmation from the third party, they’ll then break up with their spouse. Otherwise, they’ll stay on and pretend to love their spouse and act like nothing ever happened. Don’t tell me you still love them, because if you say that, I am going to slap your stupid face off your head and shove it straight up your @$$ and after that pull it back out and feed it to the stray dogs by the road side. Who did you think you were kidding? A five year old kid? Any Tom, Dick and Harry would have agreed with me that you’re just kidding yourself.

How, in the name of god, can someone actually do that? That is just pure selfishness and it doesn’t do anyone any good. If you want to go for another person, please let the current one go. Be fair to them, don’t let them suffer in your process. After all, you’re seeking a new partner and you don’t love them anymore because if you did, you wouldn’t be doing what you’re doing now, to begin with.

Since, you don’t love them anymore, why not just let go? Why are you retaining them? As your spare in case you fail miserably on the other one? Just to make yourself feel good? You don’t love them anymore, it won’t make you feel any better. It’ll just make them feel real bad about themselves later on.

I see no point in two timing. I’d rather be single if I didn’t love a girl anymore and be on the look out for my Mrs Right. That’s fair to her and me and at least I was being honest and wasn’t playing her feelings. I’ll tell you two timers out there one thing, it’s not always Sunday, if you get my drill. One day, you’re gonna get a taste of your own medicine and it is only then that you’ll realize how silly you were when you did the exact same thing to your ex spouse. By that time, I guess it would all probably be too late anyway, since your ex wouldn’t even wanna see or meet you ever!

One last thing, I intended to make this a very mean post, but as you can all see, I have tried my utmost, miserable best to keep this post as discreet as possible although I probably shouldn’t because I just despise this kinda people. Everyone knows what happens to the people I dislike. Then again, I won’t make this a very mean post because I wanna try keep my blog from profanities, if possible, well except for the On The Side Note above. I was just trying to make my point there. One last advise, if you continue doing what you do, both boats will end up going their own separate ways and you’ll end up in neither boats and sink right to the bottom of the sea. So good luck be careful and think before two timing, you have been warned!!

Sometimes I wonder if it really pays to believe in fate. I mean, I am a hardcore believer in fate yet sometimes, I wonder, if there is anything I can actually do to change fate. Being fated, most of the time, things do not go the way you want them to. So it is under circumstances like that you feel like changing fate.

Then again, I cannot say fate hadn’t brought me anything good. I mean, fate has brought me here to KL to work. Fate has also introduced me to friends that I thought I would have never known. For all I know, fate would eventually also bring me my counterpart in the near future. I never know.

Then again, fate had also caused me to lose my wallet. Fate had also caused me to wipe out the whole database in my company and fate had also dictated that I do not have a back up copy of the database I just wiped out. I would have quitted my current job about less than a month from now but fate dictated other wise.

It’s ironic how everything seems to be fated and in place. Some people were fated to die early and some fated to live a longer life. It seems as if our whole course of life has been predetermined and that there is nothing we can really do about it. We can attempt whatever we like to change our course of life but as fated, the outcome will still be the same.

I thought of opening a savings account with Hong Leong bank but finally decided on Maybank only to be told “I am sorry Sir, we do not allow opening of accounts with a temporary IC.” As you can all see, I am still clearly pissed at the classic, smart alec, brainless answer given to me. I finally reverted back to opening a Hong Leong bank account. Fated? You all be the judge.

It’s also ironic how when you are thinking about something or someone, god just seems to want to remind you about the things or person you’re thinking about. Where ever you go, you just seem to notice bits and pieces of things that relate to the thing or person you’re thinking. I have been thinking about this one person quite a lot lately, and where ever I go, I just seem to be reminded of that person. Things that weren’t there, or rather weren’t noticed before, just suddenly pop up before me and keep reminding me of the person. Coincidence? I just don’t buy it.

Life seems to be revolving around fate and my fate isn’t exactly good. So tell me guys, what is there to be done in order to change fate?

Picture courtesy of Celcom

The beauty of it all though is that I get to surf the internet without any need for any telephone lines. It’s broadband speed as well, though not the fastest of them all, I still get a decent 384Kbps. Imagine being able to surf the internet on the go. Sit in a bus on the way down to Johor from KL and surfing the internet from the bus. Way cool, huh? No Wifi hotspot limitations and no lines, that’s true freedom. That goes to show how far technology has come and how humans are pushing the limits of it. What was thought to be impossible more than a decade ago is now coming true.

So yes, I finally have my own internet connection in KL which is really a good thing. I don’t have to feel so bored when I am at home now. Celcom 3G, Now Playing In Your Hands.

Spammers have gone the extra mile to ensure that their spams look innocently legitimate. One such spam would look something like this:

The name and also the content of the comment looks perfectly legitimate in isolation. In fact, I felt so honoured by the comment that “he” appreciates indepth views such as mine. Upon further inspections on the post “he” was commenting on, it immediately occured to me that this is some kinda spam. Why? Because the comment was for this post. I quote myself:

“So, barely 4 weeks after I touched down in Kuching, off I go again to KL. This time, it’s gonna be a long one. Naturally, I blog less when I am in KL because I lag an internet connection off office hours and also I barely have the time for it. I’ll try to blog as much as I can and I hope I can. Now, can anyone who is in KL leave me a comment? We can probably meet up or something!”

That post had no indepth views whatsoever. In connection, the comment became absolutely stupid. Spammers, let me teach you a lesson or two. Write spam bots that are smarter and choose your posts with care so that the comment is relevant. No way is such a stupid comment on such a post gonna bypass Akismet. It’s such a shame but thanks for the spam, NOT!!!

Ignore this post if you wanna because I don’t blog for audiences. Rather I blog to express my own feelings in my own ways. I know very well, pictures along with words attract more readers since it is just in humans to take pictures better than words. However, I am not in the mood for any pictures right now, so this is just a plain text post. Anyway, work isn’t good for me, things haven’t been running smoothly. It is extremely frustrating when you seat in front of the computer the whole day trying to get something to work and it just wouldn’t. To make it worse, your boss and your associates are pestering and pressuring you to get up to speed. That is double the frustration, double the pressure and double the oooommmppphhh….

Life isn’t good as well. I have no one to resort to as I am alone in KL. I do have quite a number of friends in KL, but still, most are busy with their own life and couldn’t be bothered with me. Needless to say, I don’t have a counterpart as well. Ya ya, don’t start telling me being single is good and being in a relationship is not. I have heard enough of that crap already, so enough of that. They both have their own pros and cons. I just feel like it’s time I have someone who can share my feelings with me. Call me pathetic if you would, but if you do, make sure you don’t get into any relationships ever!

It’s not everyday you come across a girl you like and you feel is suitable for you. I mean, I do have a lot of female friends but then again, I feel there is nothing more than that. Although I must admit I give in pretty easily to girls, but I don’t tend to like every girl I come across. However, each time I come across a girl that I like, it’s either she doesn’t have any feelings for me, or she already has someone else in mind. Call me sad, I don’t care, but it’s a fact and I won’t hide it from the world. I don’t usually tell girls I like them directly in the face, but rather, I hint them. I am an inward person, an introvert and previous blows didn’t do me any good. So, I beat around the bush most of the time until I am fairly confident in tackling the girl.

I highly believe in this saying “some things are better left unknown”. When you get to know some things, they sadden you and they demoralize you. They don’t boost your ego nor do they ommmppphhh your self esteem. In fact, if anyone has a very low self esteem, that would have to be me. I have a very low self esteem when it comes to meeting the public and girls. I am getting better at it but still, some things just don’t help in the process.

I am one who easily backs off from a girl if being confronted by another guy who also likes her. Although I strongly believe that love is unfair and that you fight for yourself, I still I tend to back off as I feel it’s the easier thing to do. Call me a coward if you would but sometimes, you just have this feeling that it’s pointless as it is really going no where and the girl isn’t really showing any signs of interest. Oh yea, I am pretty experienced in this part, so don’t even question it. Blame that on girls who try to play cool and hard to get. I know girls don’t like guys who are cowards but still, it takes more than that to get a girl.

I know I am not some drop dead gorgeous guy but I don’t know why, I tend to fall for girls who are hard to get and are mostly pretty. Being the pessimist that I am, I always have this negative thinking that it’s impossible. I mean, how and why would a pretty girl fall for an ugly guy like me unless I am loaded, which I am not of course? I am merely stating facts here and I am not trying to beg for sympathy. So really, why would a girl fall for an ugly guy like me unless she has come to know me for quite sometime and gets attracted by my inner self? If first impression is to count, then I have failed miserably in that department.

I feel so hopeless I just lose concentration in my work sometimes and that’s not a good thing. I find no motivation to do things and the thought of not being able to be with someone you like is just excruciating. Sometimes, you just feel like dropping the thought off your mind and not think about it, but you just can’t. It’s easier said than done but really, it’s quite impossible. All I could do is just wish and pray that this feeling would go away and I would wake up to a brand new, happy day.

So as you can see, I am pretty depressed and stressed right now due to my work and personal life. Therefore, humour is of an essence to me and it helps keep me alive and prevents me from going insane. Which is why whenever I find the opportunity to laugh, I’d gladly do so. Nonetheless, nothing stops me from thinking all these, because when the laughter is over, everything is back to square one.

Oh god, this is one of those times I really need god by my side to comfort me and to make me feel better. This is also one of those times I can use some family member companionship. Unfortunately, my family is not with me so there really isn’t anyone I can turn to right now. Hmmm, what should I do with myself?

Now people, have some sense of humour alright? Don’t slam me with racist comments and craps like that because I ain’t the one pulling the prank. I was merely enjoying the prank people pulled off. So shut up with stupid comments. I reiterate, IT’S JUST A JOKE… so seriously, please shut up if you have nothing good to say. I’ll gladly delete offensive comments so don’t even try.

To those with a sense of humour. Enjoy and god bless you when you laugh until your tears come dripping non-stop. I watched it at least four times and I am still laughing like crazy. I love it so much that I downloaded it off. So there.. enjoy..!!

This is further complicated by the fact that my bank book is in Kuching AND my ATM card could not be renewed anywhere except Kuching. This practically leaves me with no means for withdrawal of money, which of course, I need badly since I am cash limited.

So, of course, I got myself a replacement IC, which would only come in 3 weeks time. Therefore, I am now holding a temporary IC. With it, I expect to get a new bank account to deposit my pay cheque and then withdraw some money for my survival. So, I headed over to Maybank The Curve eagerly hoping to open a new account. When I went there, I got this classic reply…

“Sir, we do not allow any opening of accounts with a temporary IC…”

So, this would then be my reply for them, which of course I didn’t do, since I was rushing… Anyway, this is what I think:

What the fark is wrong with you people? Why is it that I can’t open an account with a temporary IC? Already, here I am, being miserable because I lost my essential stuffs and in desperate need for cash and you idiots are telling me I cannot open an account with a temporary IC? GO FARK YOURSELF!!! Do you expect me to farking live for 3 weeks on RM150 until I get my IC replacement? WHAT THE FARK WERE YOU GUYS THINKING!!??!! Are you saying I am gonna cheat the bank just because I have a temporary IC? People, the temporary IC is an original copy ISSUED BY the NATIONAL REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF MALAYSIA, OK!!!!! MOTHERFOOKERS!!! Why the fark is it so hard for me to open an account. It’s business for you guys and I was going to bank in at least a grand!!! You don’t want business?!?!!? FINE BY ME!!!! I have a bank account, 2 credit cards, and a hirepurchase loan with you guys and you’re FARKING SCARED I’ll cheat you guys? MOTHERFOOKERS!!!! FARK security. Don’t talk security with me. This is just absurd. If I were holding a photostated copy of the temporary IC, that’s completely understandable BUT I am holding the FRIGGIN’ ORIGINAL COPY~! !@*^#!*&@%&@#%@#

To any readers working for Maybank, yes, this is how discontent I am with their service. I was hoping to open another Maybank account as it has a wider network of ATMs. If you are working for Maybank, get your boss to read this post. I don farking care. I wanna let the whole world know how discontent I am with Maybank. Hell, you can even call me up and gimme a piece of your mind and I’ll assure you I’ll give you a hundred pieces of mine. Piss me off like that again, and I will not hesitate to switch banks.

Then I went to Hong Leong bank to open an account and walla, what do you know? Effortless! For that, I would like to extend by deepest gratitude to the friendly staffs at Hong Leong Bank Damansara Perdana in assisting me in my account creation. It was a great sense of relieve for me to finally be able to cash in my long overdued pay cheque. Thank you very much!

So tell me people, why is it wrong for me to open an account with a temporary IC? Justify the security issue in it. If there really was a security issue, Hong Leong bank would have been long screwed before I could even open an account with them. In fact, their policy when you lose your cards is to file a police report, close the existing account and reopen a new one with the temporary IC. Maybank, thank you very much for making my life a miserable hell. So much for being the bigger and better bank, and you are being rediculed over such a matter?!?! Ain’t worth it…!!!

Anyway, I think probably more than a month ago, I thought I bumped into our local sensational blogger, Kenny Sia. In case you haven’t already know who he is, this dude is a fellow Kuchingite who writes interesting entries and unlike others, he writes multi genre entries ranging from politics, travels, local happenings, new products and all the way to his own personal life. As such I would like to promote the campaign:

Picture courtesy of kennysia.com

Kenny, if in anyway you do not wish for me to hotlink your picture, please tell me and I’ll gladly remove it.

That being said, visit his blog and read his entries to get what I mean. As good as his blog is, please please people, don’t just go to his blog and leave mine alone! I know my entries are not as interesting, but still, gimme face la, drop a comment la.. tell me who you are la. haha… Pardon all the “la” because I am just a fellow local Kuchingite attempting to blog as well.

Anyway, back to me bumping into Kenny Sia. Wah, that fella is really serious in real life. By the way, I bumped into him at Da Jui Ba (read that in Mandarin). Didn’t say hi to him as I wasn’t sure it was him until I saw his car. So I stalked him…

See? I told you I was stalking Kenny. OK OK, on the serious note, I didn’t stalk him la, he turned right and I turned left la OK! I am not a pervert, so no, I didn’t stalk him. In fact I was kind enough to stop my car right behind him to let him get out of the parking lot. See, I was so kind. I emailed the guy and asked if it was him but he didn’t reply. Well, understandable, since he probably gets a thousand of those a day.

OK OK, enough of Kenny already. Now, let us move on to a Engrish matter. I cannot understand how some companies can actually put up a big sign board and at the same time fail to see what is wrong with it.

What on earth is Wholly By Ben Foods…!?!?!?

If my English is something that the world can understand, I actually comprehend this as a product called Wholly by a company called Ben Foods. So what’s up with that? If it means to say Wholely owned by Ben Foods… then I can understand. Then again, Wholly by Ben Food? !@*&*!&%@&^%$@*&#$

So I lost approximately RM150 which is not that big an amount but still money for me to survive almost a week.The biggest trouble of all though, is the hassle of having to cancel all my credit card and ATM facilities. I literally have no means of withdrawing money from my own account because the only way to do that now is with my bank passbook and that is in Kuching as well. Thank you very much! The ATM card can only be reissued at the branch I did my card, which is in Kuching as well. @!&^#%!*&%#!*&@#%

So, the easiest thing to do now is to take my pay cheque and use that to open another new bank account in KL. Then again, that is also a hassle. To make things worse, I lost my IC and driver’s license as well. I needed the IC to open a new bank account. I had to get a colleague of mine to drive me all the way up to Damansara Utama and get a replacement from the National Registration Department. That would also take about 3 weeks. I am supposed to be holding a temporary IC BUT the friggin’ camera at the department did not function and I was forced to come back the next day. Talk about everything not going your way? I think this is it.

Then, the stupid StreamyX in my office had to go down again, just a day after I called up to report a bad connection. God damn it, what does it take to make things go the way it should be? !@*&%#!&*@^#%

When everything seemed to have settled down a little, came the news from my mom that my car central locking mechanism isn’t functioning. !@*&%#!&@^#!@*#$!@ What the fark is wrong with the world today? Already, I wasn’t in the mood and I get all this crap…

Then, I came back to office, hoping to have a peaceful night surfing the internet and catching up with friends I haven’t had the time to catch up with. What do you know? The friggin’ alarm from another office not too far away from mine started sounding like crazy. As of writing now, it’s still sounding and it’s driving me mad!!! !@*&#!*&@%!%!@#*!^#

So I am guessing, today, god is trying to make a fool out of me and that today just wasn’t meant for me. Bah, why the fark am I even complaining here? I should just head home and get the hell to bed and pray and hope and like one of my friend said, eat lots of onion, have a sweet dream and hope that I will wake up to a better tomorrow. *SIGH*

On The Side Note:

1) I have said many times I would not do something but the stubborn side of me always defeats me at it. What does it take for me to mean what I say?!?!

When I was still in Kuching a couple of weeks back, I went to Kenyalang Park with a couple of friends and I came across something that I cannot resist laughing at. You know how a sentence doesn’t sound right when translated directly from another language? I think this is just one of it.

I don’t know why, but Buang tahi lalat just sounds a little bit weird and at the same time funny to me. Probably it’s just me but seriously, I still find it funny. OK, this is still fine, but this makes my day…

Kecil Satu RM10

So you mean a small 1 is worth RM10? Hmmm… WAHAHAHAHA!!!

And then, you have, Besar sikit RM20

How exactly do you define besar sikit?

Then you have Paling besar lain kira.

So I guess this picture below of me having a mole would be lain kira…

Oh, and Tahi lalat = Fly Drop!!!

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1) Are your parents married or divorced?

What do you think? Why so keypoh? Does it matter whether my parents are married or divorced? OK OK, for the sake of answering the question, yes, they are married. There, happy?

2) Are you a vegetarian?

I can be if I wanna, but I prefer being carnivorous. Muahaha…

3) Do you believe in Heaven?

Yes, definitely do. (*Alvin is hoping there really is one else he doesn’t know where to go after death…*)

4) Have you ever come close to dying?

Err, not that I can recall. I know I have came close to accidents, but definitely noy dying. Hey, I ain’t complaining and I am thanking god for that.

Pink Cotton’s answer: Almost drown once…and i thought i heard a voice while i was struggling to float…………or maybe just my imaghination *shrugs*

She was just imagining things so I think she doesn’t go to swim nowadays anymore, you know, hydrophobia… muahahaha… I was just kidding, I don’t know but I just felt like making fun of her.

5) What jewellery do you wear 24/7?

Aiya, I am a poor guy, don’t have any jewelleries to wear la. Whichever robber decides to rob me is really unlucky because the only thing he can have from me is my little brother.

Pink Cotton’s answer: Hate those dangly thingies ‘x’ i want FREEEEEEEEEEEEEDOMMMMMM

Don’t know what’s with her and the ‘x’. Seriously, this is the first time I ever hear a girl say she hates jewelleries. Coincidentally she hates those dangly things. Meaning, she hates my little brother as well. *Alvin is speechless*…

6) Favourite time of day?

The time where I get to meet, talk and play with hot chics and not get into any troubles. The time where I can say and curse and slap and kick and punch whoever I like and hate and they still say I am a good guy. Yea, that’s my facourite time of the day. Wait, I am dreaming again….

7) Do you eat the stems of broccoli?

Why not? Only sissies take the leaves. What’s so wrong with the stems? It won’t kill, so yea, I take them. Who is that sissy? Nah…

8) Do you wear makeup?

I am a natural beauty so I don’t need make up. I have all those natural pimples and oil to make me look so beautiful and sexy, so why do I need makeup?

Pink Cotton’s answer: hmmmmm yes lor

Unlike someone who needs make up because she doesn’t have my natural beauty.

9) Ever have plastic surgery?

I am a natural beauty, do you think I need it?*shows fist* Stop insulting me OK!

Pink Cotton’s answer: You want this??? *shows fist* this is all natural ok??? mwehehehee

You can put down your fist down Pink Cotton. It’s not as big as mine. I have seen Pink Cotton after plastic surgery OK! She’s just trying to be innocent. Don’t trust me? Here…

See the girl in white in the middle front? That’s her alright. See how pretty she looks after the surgery?

10) Do you colour your hair?

Used to but I came back to brownish black. Might wanna consider again if any leng lui can help me do it.

11) What do you wear to bed?

I sleep naked? Can?

12) Have you ever done anything illegal?

You never ah? It’s already illegal for you to drive above speed limit OK! 100% of homosapiens have done illegal things. No need to ask.

13) Can you roll your tongue?

Can, of course! I was borned gifted with that ability. Unlike…

Pink Cotton’s answer: CANNOT!!!..my tongue is so painful now…got ulcer can! drink also cannot,eat also cannot,sit also cannot!

One thing though, she can’t drink and eat, I can understand, but why she can’t seat is completely beyond me. Does she has ulcer behind her back as well? Hmmm….

14) Do you tweeze your eyebrows?

STOP INSULTING ME! Read, natural beauty!!!

15) What kind of sneakers?

All kinds la. What kind do you want? They all smell like smelly beancurd though.

16) Do you believe in Abortions?

Religion aside, I am a pretty practical person, so yea, I do believe in abortion, but I’d prefer not to let my girl go through that stage, if possible. I am talking about the future here. Thank you.

17) What is your Hair color?

Natural brownish black. Very sexy hair la… Dandruff comes as a bonus.

18) Future child’s name?

Alvin Junior? Nivla? Alvina? Ah Kao, Ah Long, Ah Tu? I don’t know la, but my child is gonna be a beautiful one with a beautiful name.

19) Do you snore?

YES. Can? I am tired ba, can?

20) If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be?

Need to ask arr? If I can go anywhere, of course I’d go anywhere la!

Pink Cotton’s answer: EVERYWHERE~~..muahahaaha

Pink Cotton is really greddy, but so am I.

21) Do you sleep with stuffed animals?

No, I sleep with no one, and only a pillow and blanket. For all I know, there is something invisible beside me. *Crossing fingers hoping that’s not real*

Pink Cotton’s answer: AFFIRMATIVE!…in fact, i dont have much space left for myself anymore…

Typical girl, but this is too much. Not much space for herself but the dolls? I’d be a parent go crazy if I had this kinda daughter. LOL. Kidding…

22) If you won the lottery, what would you do first?

Throw it into the drain and let the lucky one get it. DDUUHH!!! Of course spend it on charity and on the things I like la…

Pink Cotton’s answer: Keep quiet about it….LOL LOL

She’s probably afraid I was gonna take at least half her winnings off her.

23) Gold or silver?

Gimme the gold and you can take the silver la. Wah rao, this kinda question also can arr?

24) Hamburger or hot dog?

Both, can o not? I am very greedy when it comes to food, which explains my size.

Pink Cotton’s answer: HAMBURGER!!!!! i hate it when the sausage squishes out from the hot dog bun…IRRITATING YOU KNOW?

She doesn’t know how to take hot dog properly and she blames the hot dog for always popping out of the bun. *shakes head*

25) If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Don’t ask this kinda question la. I like too many food that if I could eat only one food for the rest of my life, I’d rather die…

Pink Cotton’s answer: CHEESEEEEEEEEEEE

This is one crazy girl. Siao. Of so many delicious food, she chose CHEEESSSEEEE…

26) City, beach or country?

Beach.

Pink Cotton’s answer: BEACH BEACH!!!!!!!!!!! make sure theres a shopping mall nearby too!

Again, this reinstate my stand that this girl is really greedy. Wants a beach yet a shopping mall by the beach.

27) What was the last thing you touched?

Are you stupid or what? Can’t you see I am typing this, of course the keyboard la!

28) Where did you eat last?

At the coffeeshop? Can ask more meaningful questions or not?

29) When’s the last time you cried?

Can’t even recall. I am not someone who cries easily. Even when my grandma passed away, I found it hard to cry. Not that I don’t miss her or anything like that. I miss her soo much. I still have a fond memory of her, but the tears just don’t seem to flow.

30) Do you read blogs?

Only interesting ones. Not the ones that goes “Today I wake up, wash teeth, eat and sleep…”. Note the bad grammar and boredom. That would shorten my lifespan by at least a year.

31) Would you ever go out dressed like the opposite sex?

Never, I am proud to be the XY species.

Pink Cotton’s answer: hmmm can do…but never do it before…maybe i should buy some matching tees and FORCE someone to wear it with me on V day???

WTH? Become a guy on V day? Please spare me the misery. You’d be the prettiest “guy” so don’t try to be an XY chromosome, stick with XX.

32) Ever been involved with the police?

Yes, many times… it goes something like this:

Me: Yes sir, apa khabar?
Police: IC mana?
Me: Nah.
Police: You tau you punya lampu tak berfungsi?
Me: Oh, ya kah? Tak tau. Sori la sir.
Police: You mahu saya saman ker?
Me: Tak mau la. Tapi, kereta sir pun lampu rosak. Sir mau saman saya ker? Dua-dua kereta pun saman la, macam tu.
Police: Pergi-pergi… *grumbles*

Pink Cotton’s answer: *shoves some loose change* while saying MINUM KOPI BANG?

This actually answers question 12 for Pink Cotton. Wanna get out of trouble with loose change? Hard. Try a “tighter” change next time. LOL.

33) What’s your favourite shampoo conditioner and soap?

Anything that stops my dandruff and makes my hair feels nice and sexy.

34) Do you talk in your sleep?

Got, can? I especially like to talk to my imaginary girlfriend in my sleep so I don’t like sleeping with anyone else.

35) Ocean or pool?

Both la. Depends on my mood.

38) Window seat or aisle?

Aisle would do fine since I get to see the hot Air Asia air stewardess in red but I still prefer the window seat because nothing beats the scenery when you’re on a long flight to say Brisbane, London or New York.

Pink Cotton’s answer: ALWAYS the window seat! YAY!!!!…or else i will sulk the whole journey….WAHSEH

I really shouldn’t go travelling with Pink Cotton. She’d be fighting with me for the window seat and also if she lost, she’d sulk the whole journey.

39) Ever met anyone famous?

No. Don’t care.

40) Do you feel that you’ve had a truly successful life?

No. Still a long way to go, but compared to some, I am pretty successful.

41) Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it?

Aiya, don’t twirl and cut la. Just eat the god damn thing. Suck so hard that the spaghetti swoops into your mouth and splats the sauce all over your face. My dad’s home made, local spaghetti is legendary and is better than any other spaghetti you can get out there. Thanks dad!

Pink Cotton’s answer: Twirl twirl until the spaghetti suddenly unravels itself from your fork and splats sauce all over ur face!

She just likes playing with the thing and not eating it. I bet when I finish the whole plate, he face would be all saucy and she would be sulking whole night long. LOL.

42) Ricki Lake or Oprah Winfrey?

None, but the doors are always opened if Oprah is going to give out free cars to all the audiences of her show. Please, please invite me to one of your shows Oprah, if your giving out goodies like cars or houses. I wouldn’t hesitate and would not miss it for the world!!!

43) Basketball or Football?

I like watching football and I like playing basketball but I am good in neither.

Pink Cotton’s answer: The last time i played football..my shoe flew together with the ball when i kicked it ok?? And im not tall enough for basketball..SATISFIED? hmph

That’s a new style of kicking the football so that the opponent will get it on his face if he tried snatching the ball.

44) How long do your showers last?

I am no girl, so 5 minutes.

45) Automatic or do you drive a stick?

Auto. I drive the stick as well when I have the chance to. So, I am no sissy because I can drive a stick. I have improved tremendously I prefer a short throw now.

I drive an auto because I enjoy leading a luxurious life.

46) Cake or ice cream?

Not really a fan of both but I’d like a cheese cake to go with an ice cream.

47) Are you self-conscious?

Not exactly. At times, yes, especially in formal events as well as meeting up with clients and girls. Other than that, no…

Pink Cotton’s answer: *looks at hair* *looks at nail* *looks at feet* OH?am i self -conscious??yes lorrr….

Unlike this girl, who is so self conscious she doesn’t even want her photo published. ^%$#!^~!%^@.

48) Have you ever drank so much you threw up?

No. It takes so much more to make me throw up.

49) Have you ever given money to a beggar?

Of course, I am generous. Depends on my mood though. I cannot go on giving money to 100 beggars everyday. In no time, I’d be the beggar and not them.

50) Have you been in love?

No wor. Yes wor. Dunno wor… What I do know is the girl I like never likes me. The girl I don’t like also never likes me.

51) Where do you wish you were?

I don’t know. I don’t know where I belong anymore. I am lost, just bring me to somewhere I can feel good.

52) Are you wearing socks?

Ya? I am in the office doing this blardy thing OK! It’s not short and it’s getting on my nerves.

53) Have you ever ridden in an ambulance?

NO NO NO…

54) Can you tango?

Freestyle, doggie style? Yes….. Proper way? NO!

55) Last gift you received?

Can’t recall, I have a pretty bad memory these days.

56) Last sport you played?

Badminton? My legs and buttock still ache until today.

57) Things you spend a lot of money on?

Dunno la. I spend a lot of money on everything. I don’t even know where my money went to.

58) Where do you live?

Kuching. We live on top of a tree house with escalators to bring us up and we use 3G to connect to the internet and we use a Mercedez S Class to bring us around the jungle.

59) Where were you born?

Borned the same place I live in.

60) Last wedding attended?

My cousin’s wedding end of last year.

63) Most hated food(s)?

Don’t know until I come across it. LOL

Pink Cotton’s answer: hmmmm those eewy gooey vege ‘x’ .. bilin is in the list…wahahaha

This girl is crazy. Don’t take her word for it. Bilin is like one of the best local delicacies you can have in Sarawak. Stir fry that with sambal and one taste of it, you go up to heaven. OMG, I am so hungry now.

64) What’s your least favourite?

What do you mean my least favourite? Isn’t my least favourite food kinda like the food I hate?

Pink Cotton’s answer: lady’s finger

OK, let’s go find some ladies and chop their fingers off for Pink Cotton.

65) Can you sing?

Yes I can. Damn well too but I refuse to sing for any of you.

Pink Cotton’s answer: Refuse to answer this lest someone forces me to sing karaoke the nxt time

The person who would be forcing you to sing would be ME!!!

66) Last person you instant messaged?

Why you wanna know? The whole collossal of the thing is that, IT ISN’T YOU!

Pink Cotton’s answer: HELIBELY~

Pink Cotton isn’t chatting with me because she wouldn’t let me to.

67) Last place you went on holiday?

No time for holidays already la nowadays. Not like some people. So free, nothing to do but to go for holidays. I am just being jealous here.

69) Current Song?

I love you, you love me, we are happy family….

Damn it Barney, enough of that already!!!

70) Tag 3 friends

Why should I? It’s hopeless. No tags, thank you.

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Sorry, I just can’t resist teasing Pink Cotton. You know, she was just meant to be teased. LOL. Pink Cotton, don’t take what I said seriously. You know I was just kidding.

I notice a lot of hot, and I mean hot, chics going to clubs. Ladies, can I ask you one thing? Where are you girls during ordinary times? Is it just me being ignorant or are you girls hiding from me? Hehe…

Anyway, a lady was asking me “Is this seat taken?” and I was so deaf I couldn’t hear her and I went “Huh?” 3 times! How much more embarrassing can it get?

I was basically there to meet up with a long lost friend of mine, Ivan. Being a blogger who does not camwhore a lot, I didn’t bother bringing my camera along. I don’t want to be bringing my bulky camera along to a bar. Perhaps I should consider getting a smaller camera for that purpose.

I know of one person who is so envious of us being able to meet up in KL and he can’t. Anyway, going to a club and not drinking is like getting into a car and not driving. So I intended to get myself a glass of Tiger, you know, the world goes the way of the tiger. The bartender pointed to a lager which I thought was Tiger and I ended up having this…

I am not a hard core drinker. I am more of an occasional drinker. Other than drinking at clubs, I don’t usually drink. I mean, beer doesn’t taste as nice as the adverts make it taste. The drink you saw above tastes slightly more bitter than normal golden beer. Nonetheless its for real men

See? I am sorry about the picture quality. A phone camera that doesn’t have auto focus sucks but it reads, “Bold, Distinctive, Full of Character, Just Like The Men Who Drink It”. See? I drink it, I am so full of character. The drink is also so full of character as well because it made me RM26.90 poorer.

I bet the drink is so full of character this sissy couldn’t take it…

Why? Because he goes to bed 10.30pm every night and he has to take his fruits everyday without fail and he complains that he has insufficient sleep because he missed 30 minutes of sleep time chatting with me. SUPER DUPER SISSY OK!

Mate, don’t take what I say seriously, I was just kidding. You know me, I cannot survive a day without sarcastically teasing you.

All in all, I finished my one day’s earning in a night. That’s bad, VERY BAD! Thank goodness I do not do this very often else, I’d go bankrupt in no time. It was worth it though, just to be able to meet up with a long lost friend.

First up, a brief history. I have known this guy for the past one decade. Ever since the first day knowing him, he has always been known to me as “terng kha bang” (hokkien) or “chong kiok mun” (hakka) or simply known as long legged mosquito in English.

This is how he looks like:

Anyway, he recently graduated with a Bachelor Degree. Not any degree OK! It’s a very powderful degree hor? Bachelor of Pharmacy OK PEOPLE!!! DON PRAY PRAY!!! A mosquito getting a bachelor degree should go into the World Guinness Book of Records OK!!!

Anyway, you have to know the significance of this person. I mean, we are all so proud of him but we didn’t know how significant he was to the small city of Kuching until we came to know about this…

Wooooaaarrr…. came out in the newspaper some more. How come I never had this kinda opportunity when I graduated more than a year before him? So unfair. Look at how handsome my friend is? Ladies, still single and available OK!!! You girls be the judge because he claims himself to be an eng tau kia or in English, handsome.

Now, since I didn’t get the opportunity to do what he did, I am gonna pay tribute to myself today. So here…

Mr. Alvin Chong Shin Fui
from USQ, Australia
with Bachelor of Information Technology

Of course, I am not wearing the graduation cloth anymore. This is just an official dinner 1 year later to celebrate my graduation. Kidding, this is a photo from another dinner but it can resemble my graduation.

Wah, I feel so good my graduation is published on a website known to the whole wide world. I am sure my friend would thank me a lot too for helping him publish his photo on this website. So, I better start running and find a place to hide because he is already doing this…

Wooooaaaarrr, so long. Ouch my back hurts. Please don’t poke me on my backside. I know what is to come next, so I am going to run away first!!! RUN!!!

Foolishly, my colleague and I drove right into the trap. For some one like me, originating from a small city like Kuching, I have never seen a protest in real life.

There were dozens of police cars around but I managed to take a snap of only one of them.

I didn’t think it was so serious until I came across this sight…

Holy mother of god, there were riot police, 3-4 layers of them just in case the crowd decided to go crazy. That’s when I realised the implication of the crowd.

My opinion on this is that the toll hike is extremely uncalled for. Yes, there might have been an agreement with the government but heck it’s absurd. Amazingly stupid. In cases, the toll rate hiked as much as 60%.

If someone told me there was a need for a hike as the current toll rate wasn’t substantial to support the company as well as the road maintenance… read this… CRAP! Prove it to the public. Show us figures. Convince us because I sure as hell am not convinced. Enough said.

Now that you have read this, remember, you got to know about this first on Alvin’s World.

Whenever I see someone flies an aircraft, I drool and I yearn to be the one sitting at the left hand seat. Then again, it could just be a lust for it and if I made it a profession, I probably wouldn’t like it that much. See, that’s the thing I am not sure. I fear it might just be the lust and if I took it as a career, I’ll be friggin’ bonded to the airline for like 15 YEARS!!!

Look at this, I find this thrilling…

I dream of this office of mine. It feels so comfortable and it makes me feel like flying every now and then. I feel a sense of freedom when I fly 35,000 feet above sea level. I feel like no one can touch me and ask me to do what I don’t wanna do.

I know flying is like any other profession like a sea captain, or even a bus driver but there is just this distinct difference. Flying an aircraft needs a great deal of dicipline and concentration. Planes are up in the air and it often does not go the way you want it to.

This baby isn’t an easy one to land under crosswinds. It’s huge and it’s heavy but surprisingly gracious with its performance. I have come a long way to be able to fly this thing, well, virtually of course. I am wondering, should I take take it to the next level?

I was thinking, why not? I mean, since I feel a sense of freedom, enjoys travelling and also of course since I love planes so much, why not? What really deters me is the 15 year bond which literally means, I’d be 40 after the bond. So, I have a choice to make. I either go for it and stick with it until I’m old or I forget it and stick to my mundane daily routine and will only live to enjoy my flights in the virtual world.

So, is this just a lust or passion?

So, barely 4 weeks after I touched down in Kuching, off I go again to KL. This time, it’s gonna be a long one.  Naturally, I blog less when I am in KL because I lag an internet connection off office hours and also I barely have the time for it. I’ll try to blog as much as I can and I hope I can. Now, can anyone who is in KL leave me a comment? We can probably meet up or something!

I decided to give fate another try and what did I do to double confirm? I did coin tossing.

If the above was the result, I’d continue to go straight.

And, if the result was this, I’d divert to another road. What do you know? The result turned out to be…

…

…

Unbelievable, seems like as if I was fated to go straight. The gods were giving me the sign and the coin tossing confirmed it. I mean, I tossed once and not twice, not trice. There was a 50/50 chance and it just had to drop on heads.

So I guess this is it. Wish me luck people! I hope the road leading down would be a better one and would have something so much more to offer me in life.

That being said, I did an IQ test because I was so sure I was gonna beat this girl in it. So I took it and this was my result:

I am soooo proud of myself because according to this chart,

I am like a Bright Mastermind. Just 2 ranks shy from the top.

BUT… this girl….for lack of nothing better to post… got this…

She is like a Regional Genius OK!!! I am so humiliated by my miserable score of 122!

On The Side Note:

Note To Self: I hope this coming year is going to be a fruitful and a happy one for me. My resolution would be to drop 10kg off my body (lets see if I can do this) and also to find myself a girl. =P Kidding…

So I thought the last post would be it for the year 2006. Surprisingly, it’s not because since I mentioned quite a number of bloggers, everyone seemed to want to have a piece of it. So here I am, going to write my second post as a tribute to fine bloggers out there

The first person I am gonna introduce to you guys would have to be none other than Rose Wong. She asked me, how come there was no description of her. So here goes, I knew this girl actually from high school. I saw her but obviously, she was oblivious to my presence as I wasn’t significant back then. I am not saying I am now, you get what I mean. In case you guys don’t know, she is a petite, slim girl who claims herself to be FAT! OMG OMG… another case of anorexia nervosa.

Here, here, let me show you guys a picture of her:

As you can see, she was so happy that Frankie took her photo. She even had to pose with her handphone. Frankie censored her and made her look so ugly. How could he? I mean, a beautiful face deserves to be seen by the public, no?

Oh and she calls this a high class Kelisa:

HIGH CLASS KELISA!!! OMG, SHE CALLS THIS A HIGH CLASS KELISA! Can someone please drop by and tell her what this car is? I tried telling her what car this is, CAN DIE!!

Anyway, back to her, I then got to know her very well like errr.. I dunno, after high school, which was like 5 years later. She was like pretending to be “shy” initially. Only after going out with her a couple of times, when I started to suan her like there was no tomorrow that she started opening up and that was when her true colours showed. She became a completely different person all together. Yea, that’s how I like it.

The next person I am gonna talk about would be this guy who likes to call himself, Ah Mike. For some reason, he chose “cloudedpawn” as his web address. Why is he a clouded pawn is just beyond me. I’d rather be the King and have the clouded pawn do my dirty job. I was just kidding mate. Don’t take it seriously.

This guy somehow looks too young to be 22, or is it just me being too old. It is also a surprise that he prefers his face to be censored. I don’t know why because he sure as hell isn’t ugly. In fact, I believe that if I had posted up his picture, a gazillion girls would start flocking to him.

The final person I am gonna talk about would be none other than Pink Cotton. Why she chose pink cotton is beyond me? Does she love pink cotton a lot? I don’t know. One thing for sure is, 80% of all her stuffs are probably pink in colour.

I dropped by her blog recently to greet her with a Hi. The nick I used was @lViN and she interpreted that as Ivin. That was pretty funny. To make it funnier, she asked if Ivan and I were twins. So, the answer to that is no, we are not.

Anyway, this is actually a picture of Pink Cotton:

No, that’s not her. She is supposedly an anonymous blogger. Upon in depth research, she isn’t that anonymous after all. Out of respect for her privacy, I shall not reveal her true identity. So her identity shall remain as Pink Cotton until she decides other wise. See how nice I am to you Pink Cotton?

Anyway, I guess this would really be it for 2006. To those bloggers out there whom I know and I did not pay tribute to, do know that I’d actually add you to the post had I have known about it. It’s also way too long to add all bloggers. To all the fine bloggers out there, another big cheers to you guys and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!!! I am going to light some fireworks up soon.

On The Side Note:
1) The internet has been throttled down to snail’s pace since Wednesday morning due to the Taiwan earthquake. Consequently, trying to link to blogs on international waters are a pain in the back.

2) I am leaving for KL sometime next week. Who is there? Leave me a note.

It’s ironic how blogging can make the world seems so small. After more than a year since I started blogging, I eventually built up a series of network. First of all, I had numerous friends who blog and through them, I started getting to know more people who did the same. Inevitably, there are numerous good bloggers out there such as the like of Kenny Sia. I intended to put his coconut picture here but due to the internet slow down, I failed to do so. Of course, there are others like Sixth Seal (his site has been down for quite sometime, for reasons unknown to me), Nicole and Cheesie/Ringo. These sites are full of photos ranging from food, events, travels all the way to anything at all.

I have got to admit, the photos do make blog entries interesting to read. Somehow, when it comes to photos, I am never a camwhore and I don’t take my camera everywhere I go. So that explains the lack of photos on my blog. Nonetheless, it is the essence of the contents I am looking at when I read a blog. Some people might have tonnes of photos on their blogs but when you read the entries, they bring no meaning whatsoever.

That aside, I have friends who blog and the few whom I initially knew were Michelle, Rose, Tiffanie and Frankie.

This dude Frankie is like my college mate. Those days were sweet. We were basically very carefree and did whatever we liked. Somehow, he got into the art of blogging and he expanded his network pretty fast. I intended my blog as a personal place for me to jot down my thinkings and feelings so that was why I didn’t bother.

I don’t get what Frankie is trying to do up there. Seemed like he drew two coconuts. Ohhh, I get it, he loves both his coconuts. No hard feelings, Frankie.

From his blog, I got to know this girl:

She is saying she is too thin, so I am thinking of donating my extra fat off to her free of charge. lol. Just a note, Naomi, if you somehow do not like your picture to be posted here, please do not hesitate to leave me a note and I’ll gladly remove it.

Coincidentally, I also knew her sister, well not personally but I have seen her. What did I say about the world being such a small place? More specifically, Kuching is such a small place! Never would I have imagined bumping into a girl in the world of blogging, whose sister I have seen ages ago. Nothing bad here, in fact I was pleasantly surprised.

I then had some visitors who left a note on my blog. Unfortunately for me, WordPress.com would not allow Javascript chatboxes, so my visitors had to leave comments. Truth be told, one of these visitors somehow found his way around to my blog and what do you know?

This dude, Ivan, is my long long long lost friend. We met at the International Tuition School (ITS). It’s an english tuition school and now, I am going to pay tribute to this very tuition because, had it not been for this tuition, Ivan and I wouldn’t have come this far in the world of English. We learned our very foundation of English in this very tuition, agreed, Ivan?

Then, I had this girl dropping by to wish me a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2007. How sweet of her to have dropped by. The girl I am referring to is AprilCherrie. Unfortunately, I cannot grab a picture of her, since her server would not allow hotlinking her pictures, I believe. Since I can’t grab a picture of her, I would be using this in place of her face:

Anywayz, her site is like number 18 in MalaysiaTopBlogs and mine would have to be like the first FROM THE BOTTOM!

Then, there was this girl, Chloe, who dropped by and gave me a good, short, advice. It’s a very refreshing one especially for someone like me, who is hanging in the middle of no where trying to make the right decision so as not to regret it in the future. Many thanks for the advice girl!

That is her above. That’s Chloe. I WAS JUST KIDDING!

Now, that’s really her, staring at some hot hunks at the beach. I was just kidding again. That’s actually her relaxing at the beach.

For some reason, Chloe names her site purpleism.com. I am wondering why? Could it be that she subscribes to the beliefs of purpleism? Is she a purpleist? In case you guys haven’t noticed, I was just joking around. What does purpleists believe in anyway? Chloe, no offence, I was just merely making a lame joke but way to go girl, nice blog you have there. Chloe, just so you know, you can actually integrate your domain name to WordPress now so you don’t have to redirect the domain to your WordPress account anymore. It costs USD 10 a year though, which isn’t really that expensive.

I also have another visitor who apparently loves the meanness of my blog. Is my blog mean? Sure there are some vulgarities here and there but I can’t help it when I am faced with idiots on a daily basis in my life. Who is this girl I am talking about? It’s none other than Kath.

That’s her and errr…. her world….

She agreed with me strongly on one of the post, so strong that she quoted me, well of course with the vulgarities out of the way.

I tell you, as of writing right now, my balls are growing. I am so proud someone actually quoted me. One thing though, all of a sudden, I turned into a boy. See those underlined words? “This boy is right”. Hmmmm…..

Last but not least, who could forget the invaluable spammers who gave me a grand total of 7,425 spams as of writing. Not too long ago, I was just talking about comment spams within the limits of 3 figures, and it’s now 4 figures and approaching 5! For that, I must thank spammers for their effort and visits but… TRY HARDER NEXT TIME! AKISMET HAS BLOCKED ALL YOUR SPAMS!

Lastly, those who have their pictures posted here, in case you do not wish for your photo to appear here for any reasons, please leave me a note and I’ll remove it, no questions asked. All photos are copyrighted by their respective owners. None of these images were stored on my server except for Frankie’s and of course the firework picture below. The firework picture is also not mine but others. To the owner of the picture below, please leave me a note if you do not wish for me to use your firework picture.

This post serves as a tribute to all the fine bloggers out there who make the world of blogging a better place and not those who blog like this. So happy blogging, people!

All that being said, I think this would pretty much sum up this year for me. I would like to wish my fellow readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007 and may you have a great and blessed year ahead!

The tradition of firecrackers and fireworks were originally practised by the ancient Chinese during the Chinese New Year festival in order to ward off evil spirits. It seems to me that this tradition has evolved overtime into a practise common to all Malaysians during all festivals. As of writing right now, fellow Kuchingites are lighting up fireworks and firecrackers to ward off “evil spirits”.

I don’t mean this in a bad way. It’s a good thing and I like it for the fact that fireworks indeed brighten up any festivals and functions. I am glad people are practising it but of course, please be careful when lighting up fireworks. It’s a fun thing to do if done responsibly. Do not play with home made fireworks for any reason. Those are dangerous and might just go off at very unpredictable moments due to bad manufacturing process. You might end up in the hospital instead of enjoying the festivals. So take care people.

All that being said, I’d like to wish all my fellow readers a very HAPPY AND MERRY CHRISTMAS 2006!!!

Thank you very much for giving me such a pleasant Christmas present!!!

“I am running single.exe on my machine. Single.exe is a memory resident program that comes preinstalled with the OS which can only be overwritten by GirlFriend1.0.exe. Somehow, I am infected by this virus called NobodyLovesMe. This virus is fatal in the sense that it eliminates all possibilities of having the GirlFriend software installed. Formatting my OS doesn’t do the trick because NobodyLovesMe.exe just returns out of no where. I have also tried installing a file called charming1.0.exe, which is known to look out for and eliminate NobodyLovesMe.exe, but to no avail as the algorithm for version 1 of the Charming program is not efficient in completely removing NobodyLovesMe.exe.

I have also tried installing swiftmod.exe but it wouldn’t install because it said I was missing the file called cash.exe which i can’t seem to find no matter how hard I try. Needless to say, GirlFriend1.0.exe also needed cash.exe to be installed. So, I think my problem now is with cash.exe. I can’t seem to find the file. Can anyone help me find it? “

In case the picture isn’t clear enough, it reads:

3x reward points, 5% rebate on Celcom Minutes Plan & 5% rebate on total bill with Citibank Celcom Card. No income documents needed. SMS new to 36700.

See, what most people don’t realise is that, they don’t need your income documents BUT they need your existing credit card. I might be wrong here and if I am, Citibank is free to call me up anytime and explain to me how this works. If my income documents and existing credit cards are not needed, feel free to bring it on.

Being the skeptical person that I am, I just don’t buy the fact that they don’t need any proof of income. It’s just like some Ah Long telling me:

“Brother, come and loan some money for your business la. No need to see your income wan. You need how much, I can just bollow you wan. No worry, you can pay in instalment up to 6 months.[In his heart]*Hehe, no worries, if you don’t pay, I’ll hunt your @$$ down and take anything I can get off you. If that’s not enough, I will even go find your family and friends to settle your debt. Bo tai ji, just borrow.*”

The way I see it, this is a complete joke unless you can prove me otherwise. Who knows, if I am convinced, I might even take up the offer, after all, I am a Celcom user and this is pretty good. So right now, it’s HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…

Then again, it might just be me. People have always been saying, “The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence” which literally means, things are not always how they seem to be. It isn’t exactly as good as it seems. Which is exactly what is putting me in a dilemma. On one hand, I don’t feel happy and I wanna divert to another road, but on the other hand, I am thinking if it might not be a wise decision to make, fearing that I might make the wrong decision and the road that I diverted to might not be that good after all.

At this very moment in time, I am praying to god to assist me in making the best decision as to whether to stay or to move on. What would you guys do? If you’re not happy but the condition is fine, would you stay or would you move on to find your happiness with slightly less fulfilling conditions?

So the question remains, to move on or to stay?

Just this morning, I was driving in Kuching. Oh yea, Kuching is not any better. In fact, I find Kuching drivers worse than KL drivers nowadays. Speaking of which, one taboo in Kuching though is to NEVER HORN! Even if you encounter a near accident situation, NEVER HORN! JUST RAM INTO THE CAR! Then, let the police come and settle. Because if you do, who knows what trouble you might get into. It’s better to waste the money and time then to lose your life over a horn, correct?

Anyway, back to the topic, I was driving towards one of this traffic light in Kuching this morning. The traffic flow used to be as illustrated below:

What it used to be

I have to say that Malaysian drivers are an ignorant bunch. There has been a change in traffic flow for the past one year. I have always blamed the government for not putting up sufficient signs to advice the public on road changes until today. For this very case, the government has been putting up the sign since last year and no one took note, even up till today. It would be fine to drive according to the above traffic flow a year ago, but not today. It has changed, people!

For the sake of making it clear, I am gonna say this one more time, IT HAS CHANGED!!! If any readers here are from Kuching, please tell your friends that the traffic flow at the traffic light heading down from civic centre to Simpang Tiga has changed. It’s the traffic light just after the roundabout near civic centre.

The traffic flow is now like this:

Of course you can still turn right. See, this morning, I saw this woman who was still driving according to the old traffic flow where as I was adapting the new one, which literally translates to the illustration below:

See, that’s me driving according to the red line and that’s her driving according to the blue line. What does that result in? A side collision, of course! This lady just don’t get it. She almost rammed into me and I gave her a nice long horn to make her aware of the situation and also to remind her that she was driving wrongly. What did I get in return, a sour face looking back at me from the back mirror and she was very unhappy I horned her. So much so that she has to brake to almost a halt to wait for me to go near her to have a nice look at my handsome face. I was frustrated at the moment and I stared back at her. It got me thinking, “Wow, she still thinks she is right!”

After a while, I decided to dismiss the whole thing but not for her. I overtook her after that and she just drove a distance away from me, BUT still looking at my car. When I came to a halt at another traffic light, she drove past me on the left and turned back to look at me again!!! Wow, I have got nothing to say about her. She obviously has something against me. She holds a grudge against me for horning her.

Anyway, what I want to point out here is, please, please, I don’t horn you for no reason. I don’t go about horning people if I ain’t sure they are wrong. For all I know, I could be the one who is wrong. The point here is, be aware when you get to the same situation and place again and notice. If you’re wrong, change, else you can just go ahead and fuck me for horning you over nothing.

All these wouldn’t have happened if drivers would just be aware of their surrounding and signs. Please read the signs or even get your passengers to read them for you. I mean, there is nothing more annoying than to have drivers who do not read signs and drive like as if the road belongs to their grandfather. So please READ THE SIGNS.

Then, when it was my turn at the counter, he stepped right beside me and seemed like he was virtually travelling with me. WTF?!?!? Was there something chasing him?!?! So, he stepped up to the counter, started off with his lousy English. I couldn’t quite make out what he said, but the gist of it is that he wanted to check in to Hanoi, which wasn’t until 12pm and it was only 10.40am!!! Anyway, I was done by the counter and I went into the departure hall.

Half an hour later, we were ready to board, and I dreaded this phase of flight with Air Asia. Why? Because there I was, carrying a heavy laptop with some hand luggage and there everyone was, taking their sweet time, boarding the god damn plane. Some didn’t even have the proper travel documents ready at the boarding gate. For those flying Air Asia, the crew staff SPECIFICALLY announced, “Passengers, please prepare your boarding passes with your passport OR IC”. This phrase was announced in two different languages and I presumed us Malaysians would have grasped either one. So, god damn do it!!!

Then, I was in the plane, all packed for the day. So, I just sat on one of the empty seats along the aisle. God help me, I was surrounded by numerous kids who couldn’t even plant their asses on the chair and seat still for a meagre 1 minute! I blame that on too much sugar. Throughout the whole flight, I heard children singing their lungs out to compete against the engine roar, I heard children crying, I got a natural rocking chair. Who needs seats that incline when you get rocking chairs for free?

So, I finally landed an hour and 40 minutes later and what do you know? Kenny Sia was right. The next time round, the pilots don’t have to even bother putting on the seatbelt signs as Malaysians seem to think there is no difference with the sign on and off. So brainless are they that they let their children stand up without seat belts fastened. As soon as the plane came to a halt, everyone naturally got up. Enough said.

OMG… someone actually came to my blog from searching my full name! How many Alvin Chong Shin Fui are there? I mean, a search on Google for “Alvin Chong” would already yield my homepage and blog as the first two results. Searching for my full name is just plain spooky.

Since I am such an introvert, I don’t expect to know too many people in this world and I am still wondering who out there searched my full name to get here. LOL. Anyway, I was just joking. It isn’t all that spooky and I am fine with people searching my name.

Advertisers are now finding any means as a medium of advertisement. I mean, I get advertisements on casinos, drugs, sex, helping children, etc. You name it, I’ve got it. Thank goodness my commenting system has not gone out of hand, else I’d be forced to enforce a strict commenting system.

Anyway, say ‘TAK NAK’ to spams!!! =)

For those who do not know what it means, this is literally a direct translation:

“Uncle/Mr Policeman, please don’t summon my bus spoil engine part. In the process of repairing. Thank you. T.K. T.Q.“

Two weeks and the engine is not fixed yet. The V8 engine must be one hard engine to fix.

I didn’t know we could do that. That is so cool, I am gonna try that out next time. You know, put a note on the screen when I am parking by the road side that reads:

“Encik, tolong jangan saman kereta saya. Kereta rosak. Sedang mencari bantuan. Terima kasih. T.K. T.Q.“

What on earth is T.K. is just beyond me but oh well, I guess it works.

That being said, a lot of so called “love” in this world isn’t exactly love. I can see a trend in humankind which distinguishes whether a person has just fallen in love or whether a couple has been together for quite sometime. Pretty easy to distinguish if you ask me. A rule of thumb is that if a person just fell in love, he/she would be all excited about it and doing all those romantic little stuff like opening the door for the girl (being a gentleman), sharing an umbrella together when it rains, smiling lovingly at each other, holding hands, etc. It is when they grow fond of each other that the feeling of love starts to fade. Each of them open their own doors, each person has their own umbrellas, no longer smiling lovingly at each other and no longer holding hands.

See, love is blind because when you’re in love, it doesn’t matter what the world says to you, because to you, he/she IS THE WORLD. Even when your friends tell you she is FUGLY, you’d say otherwise and claim that she is the most beautiful girl you have ever seen. Of course I can understand that beauty is in the beholder of the eyes but hey, if 80% of the world is saying he/she is FUGLY, then she probably is. It’s not only physically but emotionally as well. He/she might have a bad attitude but we sometimes just don’t see it because we choose not to, only to realize later on.

Of course I do have friends who tell me, “I’ll never fall for him/her. It’s just impossible. He/she is so short/tall, bad habits, younger/older than me, yada yada yada”. The next thing you know, they are together. That is why, never speak of the devil. When you ask why have they fallen for each other, they’d tell you they don’t know. Yeap, there is no explanation for this phenomenon and hence I classify it as being blinded when you are in love.

It’s also a feeling that would encourage you to do stupid/wise decisions. Something you wouldn’t say or do under normal circumstances, you’d do it when you’re in love. It’s amazing what the power of love can do to all of us. Of course some of us have this very open understanding of love, claiming that “Love is not selfish, love is selfless, if you love him/her, let him/her go. If he/she comes back, then he/she is yours. If you love him/her, you should be happy for him/her.” It’s logical, but easier said than done. How many of us can do that? I’d like to think that only a minority of earth’s population can.

Anyway, this is just a share of my thought on this issue. I am just so stressed up nowadays. No, don’t ask me how am I feeling. I am just feeling normal and stressed, and no, there is no feeling of love. I cannot feel it yet with anyone. Let’s see if time will change this. I could use some love to neutralize the stress I am going through now. For that, I’d like to thank my family and friends for always being there for me when I need them the most.

Look at those big eyes, they are so spooky I feel like digging them out of their sockets. Come to think of it, I don’t think I wanna since it would look worse. After watching the movie, the signature sound will not get off your brains for quite sometime. You know, that *GROOOOAAAAKKKK* sound. It’s so eerie that almost every single creaking sound you hear, you’d translate that to Kayako Saeki being nearby you. So much so that I have been mimicking that sound almost everyday since I watched the movie.

To Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s fans out there, you’d be disappointed to learn that her role ended pretty early in the movie. She was dead even before half of the movie. The plot of the movie itself was pretty twisted. I just don’t know how to say this, you just have to watch for yourself. True, the ghost wasn’t exactly scary but it was the sudden appearance and also those freaky eyes and make up that did the trick. There were a couple of times I jumped off my seat when that fucking Kayako Saeki appeared.

Look at that, if a hand suddenly grabbed me from the back when this scene was showing, I would have jumped up and my hands would have automatically smack whoever was behind me. That motherfucking bitch kept scaring the shit out of me.

Look at that evil stare. If it was real, I would have fainted already. Those eyes, after makeup, they are just freaking spooky, OK! Watch the scene where she popped her head out of the basin which Eason(played by Edison Chen) used to develop photos. Ultra shitty scary!!!

Anyway, I am not gonna spoil the fun any further. This movie is a must watch and I rate it a 4/5 stars. It kept my eyes glued to the screen the whole time and the thrill was non-stop. Guys, this is a definite watch with your girlfriends. She’d be so scared she’d hug you so tight you cannot even breath. To those watching at home, switch off all your lights, blast those speakers, put up the bass for best effect. No regrets!!

Now speaking of the movie, when I was in the cineplex, some assholes were speaking so loudly at the back. I hinted with a loud SHHHHHSSSSHHHHH and those mother fuckers didn’t get it. I did that several times and still they DIDN’T get it!!! I felt like going back there and slapping the shit out of them and then turning them in for The Grudge 3!!! Fuckers, it’s a cineplex, not your home. Do everyone a favour, fuck off if you have to talk so loudly. Also, if you are coughing so badly, don’t come to the cineplex. I could do without those stupid coughs. They were so loud they sounded more like he was about to vomit!! There were also a bunch of girls sitting on the same row as I did, I could see they were scared till wits, but they just had to do that *GROOOAAAKKK* sound to anticipate what was to come, just to reduce their shock. They were also giggling like nobody’s business. It was like as if I was watching the movie in their homes. WTF!!!

Short of $$$ and short of transport for personal use really makes it hard. Slap me with even more things like, not having internet access for personal use and not having aircond to sleep in. *shakes head* Who would wanna go to KL if that is the case? Nonetheless, I have no choice but to just go. I’ll just have to drag myself through. This is the road I chose so I have to deal with it.

Wah brother, you hate me that much ar? Searching for STUPID ALVIN to end up in my blog. BOLD some more. Someone out there must have hated me so much they have to type their search term in BOLD and CAPITAL.

Oh, and that’s not it. There are even more terms, funnier ones. Wait till i grab a screen shot of them and I’ll post them up.

“What surprises you most about humankind?”

“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money…
and then lose their money to restore their health.”

“That by thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”

“That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”

Some life lessons:
“To learn they cannot make anyone
love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”

“To learn that it is not good
to compare themselves to others.”

“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”

“To learn that it only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”

“To learn that a rich person
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”

“To learn that there are people
who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned
how to express or show their feelings.”

“To learn that two people can
look at the same thing
and see it differently.”

“To learn that it is not enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”

Think about it. It is actually very true to a certain extend. Very true that I cannot deny I am one of those who are like that.

I sometimes wonder if I made the right choice studying computer. I am not gonna deny that I have the passion for technology and I want to enjoy what I am doing but I am not! Don’t ask me why because I also don’t know why. Everyday, instead of feeling “Wow baby, this is interesting…”, I’d go… “Tiu nia seng…”, “Fuck…”, “Nia ma ling kun…”, “Kan ni niang, chao cheebye“. I don’t know why but probably because I am surrounded by lots of idiots. Speaking of which, I am also not gonna deny the fact that I am surrounded by idiots. A lot I tell you.

Ever since I started working, I feel that I have lost a lot of my freedom and mind you, I am only 22!!! I feel like I cannot do whatever I like anymore. I feel like my whole life is dedicated to my job, which is not what I wanted in the first place. I want to be able to devote myself to my job and I still want to be able to have time with my family and do what I like to do best! I know its no use grumbling here. Probably no one is ever gonna read this anyway but at least I will be reading in the near future and be thinking, “Hey, I was feeling this fucked up today…”

Now, going to the idiots, why the fuck am I surrounded by so many idiots? I cannot comprehend why god is doing this to me. Everywhere I go in my daily life, I am bound to meet an idiot or two, sometimes more. Fuck you idiots, can’t you just stay far far away from me? Will die not coming near to me?I can do without you guys, so please, stay far far from me la ok? CHEEBYE!!! If you make decisions that will affect my life whatsoever, please be considerate and please keep the idiocy to yourself and don’t use it to affect my life. I already have a fucked up life and I don’t need you to fuck it up even more.

That’s it, I am having a very bad day today and I was just pondering on the meaning of life. I still cannot comprehend the meaning of life and I cannot find peace in myself now. The more I think of it, the more I get mad and the deeper I go, the more I discover that the people surrounding me can really affect my emotions. Not in a good way but in a bad way. So that’s it for now, and to the idiots out there, STAY FAR FAR AWAY FROM ME OK!!??! :X

Some people have been complaining about the verification of the Microsoft Windows OS prior to installation of Internet Explorer citing that both are completely different products. Yes, from a piracy point of view, it is a very proper thing to do but it really is a hassle. This means users of “you know what” Windows are unable to install the latest version of Internet Explorer. This is really a hassle if you ask me as both the OS and browser are completely seperated products.

Perhaps it is the intention to completely integrate Windows and IE that they have decided to rebrand Microsoft Internet Explorer to Windows Internet Explorer. It is perhaps also due to this that they have decided to perform verification on the OS before installation of IE can proceed. Still, I am under the opinion that this is not really necessary as IE is a free product anyway and this will further add salt to the already injured IE. People will start shifting over to the ever famous Firefox browser.

I am an avid user of Firefox myself and I have to admit IE has improved quite significantly over the years. Security aside (which I have yet to discover), some of the much needed features like tabbed browsing, phishing website identification, etc. have been added. It is quite sufficient to make people return to IE but with the verification, I am starting to doubt it.

Now, there are some people out there who commented on why most are still sticking with Windows and not moving over to Mac or Linux. I have said it many times over but I am going to say it once more. The main reason is with application compatibility as well as hardware support. People using computers solely for working purposes might not face any problems but home users are very likely to face some problems.

Tell me, how many games out there actually support Mac? How many processors out there actually support Mac? As far as I am concerned, most gaming and overclocking enthusiasts still stick around with Windows because it is utilizing the ever famous IBM compatible PC platform. Tell me also, how many applications and systems out there are designed for Mac and Linux for that matter? Of course I know Linux is a more stable platform for networking and security as well as for daily work. Of course I know Mac is not that prone to virus attacks but heck, who are you to say that when most are attempting hacks on Windows to find all flaws and not on the Macs or Linux? It’s like when a person gets famous, you find they have scandals here and there. What makes you think you are any different? The only reason you are not put on the table for scandals is because you are not famous and your life means nothing to the world.

That being said, I am a Linux user as well and I have got to admit that Linux is very much more stable than Windows in many senses but I don’t go about bashing Windows because a fact is a fact. You cannot live without a Windows PC, well at least me. You need it for a lot of games that you play and I still don’t see a lot of tech gadgets out there designed for Mac or Linux overclockers.

So, my point boils down to this. Each and every OS platform has its own goods and bads. Yes, no doubt Linux and Mac is good but Windows has got its own good points as well. If you can prove me otherwise, it would be time most people started switching over to another platform other than Windows. The way I see it, most are still staying with Windows and there has got to be a reason to it, agreed? So, please don’t go about bashing Windows as I have said, there are pros and cons of each OS.

Now, back to IE 7, its a very good product overall and I have yet to discover any bugs with it. Nice interface with overhauled icons, making it more friendly to the eyes. Tabbeb browsing is definitely a welcomed feature. I have been waiting for this since the IE 5 era. Phishing filter, pop up blocker, integrated search(ala Firefox) and add ons all makes IE on par with browsers like Firefox. Lets wait and see how much better does it fare against Firefox and the like.

Anyway, that’s it for now and lets be objective here and not start bashing products which we have not even tried yet. If it really sucks, then I wouldn’t even stop you from bashing the product. I myself would be one of those who would be boycotting it. So lets be objective here alright guys? Cheers.

Ever came across blogs where you just have this feeling that you are so not coming back again after that very visit? Trust me, I have a lot of those, especially with the introduction of Friendster blog. Please, for god’s forsaken sake, don’t even try to start writing if you have nothing interesting to write? Why do you write just for the sake of updating the blardy god damn stupid blog? DON’T! It ain’t worth it. If you would just close the fucking account because you will read back a decade later and start imagine how stupid you were.

Some people on the other hand write like “Today I woke up at 7am. I brushed my teeth and I went for breakfast with papa and mommy. Later I met my friend and then we yam cha and we talked and then I went to toilet and then at night I went back home and I took my shower and watched TV and spent time with my mommy and daddy and I slept after that.” WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!?!?! YOU A 10 YEAR OLD OR SOMETHING? A FUCKIN’ 10 YEARS OLD KID CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT. Excuse me, a blog is not your personal diary, put that on your diary or at least password protect your post. I don’t give a shit and I don’t even wanna know when you pee and poo and I don’t even wanna know how your poo looks like. Keep it to yourself and to those desperate addicts who are interested in your pathetic life. Come to think of it, why the fuck do I even care? After all, I ain’t returning to that blog ever again, will I?

Some people blog about their feelings, which is fine really, except that the whole fucking blog is about his feelings and to make it worse, he has got no other feelings other than feeling blue 24/7. Stop begging for sympathy, I ain’t gonna sympatize you. If you are feeling blue everytime, go wank yourself so that you will feel much better. How the fuck am I gonna read a blog which always reads, “Today I feel down…” or “Today I am depressed…” or anything that gives that kinda feeling. It doesn’t matter how you put it but they still sound like the aforementioned two phrases.

Then, there are people who cannot even write proper English. “I are a boy.”,“She are very stupid”, “I using the computer”, “I still in Australia”, “I am still love you”, “I want to fucking you”, etc. What, what, WHAT?!?!?! There are some who are worse. They can’t write sophisticated English but they try to write like they CAN! In their desperate attempt, they end up making themselves look like an utter idiot. NO, I am not in any way saying my English it good. NO, Alvin Chong has never self proclaimed himself to be proficient in English, but, at least I am very sure of one thing, I have a way better command of English than most. I am not being proud here but it’s a fact and I won’t deny it. Heck, my god damn brother is 100 times better than some in English and he doesn’t even start writing a stupid fucked up blog. I can give you plenty of examples of “GOOD” English out there but I won’t. I am sure most of you know it.

Give your blog a meaning, can? Write something people can ponder upon, can? Have some variation, can? Of course I am not gonna report you to the police for being plain. I am not like some stupid people who reports others to the police for using the same smilies. CAN?!?!?!?! Anyway, screw it. I don’t even know what I am talking about. I am just here to grumble and this is just some of the things that have been piling up which I just thought of voicing out. Why am I writing all these? Because I am not in a good mood, I heard things I shouldn’t and I sure as hell feel stressed out from my fucking job. Bah, go on with life, mate!

On The Side Note:
1) I went to watch The Banquet last night. I rate the movie 3/5 stars. An interesting movie for people who know how to enjoy traditional chinese storylines but may bore some people who dislike slow paced movie to death. I personally love it and Zhang Zi Yi is hot, hot, HOT!

This is probably the most rediculous news that I have ever came across. Flipping through the papers a few days ago, I came across a news clip that I would have never expected to see in my whole life. It got me wondering how much more amazing can humans get. If my memory serves me well, the news was about a report being lodged to the police against a 14 year old teenage girl for using the same smilies all over her blog. The rationale was that she isn’t creative and that the blog gave readers a mundane feeling.

Now, if this report ever makes its way to court and if the prosecutor actually wins the case, I’ll have to say that Malaysia probably has one of the most interesting cyber laws ever. For god’s forsaken sake, she is just a teenage girl! What is so god damn wrong with her using the same smilies over and over again? There is no need to take legal action against a young girl who is trying to express herself in her own ways. So much so that she was so traumatised by the whole episode of events that she had decided to shut down her blog for the time being.

It’s the joke of the century. It’s just like coming up to me and then saying you wanna sue me for always smiling because I never show any other expressions on my face other than smiling. Rediculous? Then, the above is just as rediculous! If posts on a blog are offensive and are defaming a person, then it’s a completely different story but to lodge a report against a young girl for expressing her thoughts with no malicious intent to harm anyone is just absurd. Enough said.

This post was supposed to be up on Saturday but due to power outage, I didn’t get to do so. I intended to post on another issue but unfortunately I do not have the needed pictures with me at the moment hence, I am going to talk about Friendster today. I still remember, I was one of those very reluctant people who joined Friendster because I felt it was too public and that people who didn’t know shit about your friends would just add them as friends, simply because they are pretty or handsome.

Probably I was too paranoid back then but over the years, Friendster has changed my perception. I now realise how I can use Friendster to good use. I realise it’s a good way to keep in touch with long lost friends or even enemies. Using Friendster for the past 3 years, I have somehow connected with quite a number of mates from the yesteryears, which I would have forgotten had it not been for Friendster.

Sometimes, I even surf my network of friends to see who I haven’t been in touch with which my other friends might still be in contact with. It’s interesting to see how some have grown physically and also mentally and spiritually. Then, there is also Multiply, Hi5, and all those other friendship network thing. I don’t exactly wanna start accounts on all these systems because, seriously, I find it stupid and redundant to have so many accounts just to keep in touch with almost the same friends. Of course Multiply fares better in certain aspects as compared to Friendster but heck, I can’t be bothered. All I care about is keeping in contact.

Now, added with features like blogs, pictures, fancy testimonials and stupendously fancy pages customized with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), I won’t deny the fact that Friendster has become increasingly interesting. Now, it is when these technologies are wrongly and sinfully used that annoys the fuck outta me. I have came across too many hellish pages which sent me straight down to the core of hell the instance I viewed them. So much so that I was forced to hit the browser’s X button the instance the pages loaded. The end result is that I had to apply the “Safe” option in Friendster to override CSS formatting so I’ll end up seeing the all clean and familiar interface of Friendster. CSS is good when you use it with good web design but it can be a real sore to the eyes if used to format the page with fancy colours that only god knows who can read. For god’s forsaken sake, don’t just put things because you fancy putting them on your webpage. Think about the design of the page and fit the right thing at the right place. Putting pictures(make it worse with all the blinkings and animations) and applying colours where it don’t belong is like painting a house partially pink, yellow and green, sticking pictures of you all over the wall and then having green lights in your study room. Get what I mean people? It’s just so wrong!!! PLEASE SPARE ME THE AGONY!!!

Since I am on it now, I am going to continue runting my frustration with some people who do not have that wee bit of brain in them. Remember Allen Smith from Friendster? Ya that fucking annoying Allen Smith, for the (I lost count) time, would you guys PLEASE stop forwarding that stupid fuckin’ message already? Ya ya, we all know Allen Smith and his team have been planning to cut us off Friendster but until now, all I can see is him talking, with the help of all those idiots out there, about terminating my account but till now, he still doesn’t have the balls to. For one last time, please just let me tell you guys, Friendster, as I see it, is a huge network which I believe is administered and handled by a whole bunch of professionals and had Friendster wanted to terminate your account, wouldn’t you think they would have just emailed you through their system instead of relying on some idiot to start forwarding messages so that they can determine the lucky ones whom they are gonna cut off their system? Some common sense would dictate that Friendster knows when and how long you haven’t been logging on, should they decide to terminate your account to save resources! So quit it!

Another thing, if you notice, is that some people go around finding for people they never even knew in the first place, just to add them because they are pretty or handsome. Now, maybe it’s just me, but I just couldn’t comprehend why on earth would any sensible soul want to add someone whom they don’t know just for the sake of making their list looks so horendously long with “friends” that they don’t know? I do know of friends adding girls from all over Friendster just for the fun of it and reason being, I am competing with my friends to see who gets more leng lui in the list. It defeats the purpose of Friendster and its DUMB!!!

So now that I have said it, I could appreciate what Friendster is there for and the benefits of it but guys, really, don’t abuse the features. I can already put a few links up to show you what I mean by HORENDOUS Friendster pages but I won’t. Just look at your pages and put fanciness aside, if you think your page is so great and is easy on the eyes, good, but if you think otherwise, it probably is time you change your web design. Enough said.

Expand the following equation… yes.. correct Peter… nice job… very funny Peter…

Absolutely right… The conclusion… six = 6

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA…

What is the square root of 2 divide by 2?

Simple… square root!!!

Oh man, the geniuses, I admire them. Pei fu, pei fu.

So, I went to Cathay Cineleisure Damansara last Saturday to watch The Ant Bully. As the title suggests, it’s a movie about an ant colony being ambushed by a kid unknowingly. This kid falls prey to bigger kids. “I am big and you’re small, so what are you gonna do about it?!?!” His underwear would be torn off each time he was bullied because the bully would always hold him up on his underwear.

Not being able to bully the big kid, he resorts to bullying the ants, splashing water at them. Basically, the movie is about the kid turning into a small creature and forced into joining the colony to experience the life of an ant.

After watching the movie, I have got to say I feel for the ants since I sometimes destroy their colonies. More often than not, it is the ants that attack and bully me. I, on the other hand, am forced to destroy their colony because they invade my privacy and bite me for no reason whenever they get the chance to crawl up my legs. It’s so annoying that I have to get them to move out. So don’t blame me for what I do, you ant lovers. Of course, don’t turn me into a tiny being with some magic portion and make me go through the life of an ant. No, I don’t need that. Thank you very much!!!

I would give this movie a 3 out of 5 stars overall. Shut up with comments about the movie being childish. As adults, there is always a child in each and everyone of us. I particularly enjoy the movie because it lets you fantasize on something which you cannot possibly experience in real life. This is certainly a family movie worth a watch. Nice animation by the way.

As usual, the crowd that weekend was stupendously horrible, not to mention some couldn’t even walk properly and had to be blocking every single way there was for me to get through. Even when they wanted to take their leisure time peeking at what had to be offered by booths, the just had to freaking stop right in the middle of the walk way where everyone was walking. Ab-fuckin-solutely annoying, OK!

Anyway, as usual, people opened up stalls offering a variety of food ranging from Chinese, Korean and all the way to local delicacies. Yew Char Kuay, Sio Bi, Lok Lok, Seafood, fried chicken, KFC, friend ice cream, pretty girls and many more. You name it, we’ve got it.

Before any food, I just wanted to see what they had on display at the fair. As usual, cars were on display. Ford, Proton, Naza, Suzuki, Honda and Toyota were all there. Yes, contrary to popular belief, we do not travel on wild boars. We travel on cars way better than some of you might expect!!!

The next thing I noticed, which seems to be the trend nowadays, were credit card booths. This was rather disturbing to me as it felt like as if banks and credit card companies were shouting, “Come come, have a look at our cards. They are so good, they can lend you few thousands of cash when you need it the most. You can pay back later. If you can’t afford it, we’ll kick your ass all the way back to China.” They look more like legal loan sharks to me. More often than not, banks are there to help you when you don’t need it the most and no, you don’t get any help when you need it the most. Try approaching a credit card booth and tell them you do not have a source of income and tell them you wanna apply for a credit card. I bet you a hundred bucks they will tell you to FUCK OFF!!! right in your face. Thank you very much!

As for the rest of what was on display I’ll just let the pictures do the talking.

As I said, you name it, we’ve got it. Even alarm systems were on display.

Cars and that’s Ford’s booth by the way.

Pardon the picture quality. I was shaking when I was taking these pictures and I was using a K750i. <_<
Nonetheless, aircond, anyone? It was damn hot that night. Guess this stall must have had quite a number of visitors that night.

Anyone wants to get married? Photographing services are being offered as well! Beats me to it. What was a wedding photography booth actually doing at the fair? It just doesn’t blend, well at least to me.

After all of that, which was like less than half an hour, I proceeded to the food section. I heard of this particular stall selling friend chicken. Being curious about what was so great, I headed over to Uncle Bob Fried Chicken. Hmm, they didn’t sell chicken wings and neither did they sell drumsticks. They sold chicken boobs breast, which they claimed was as smooth as drumstick. Huh?!?! As smooth as drumstick? Since when was chicken meat smooth? This I have got to try. Perhaps they meant as tender as drumstick?

Turned out, it was just OK. I meant the taste and of course after tasting it, I agreed that it’s as smooth as drumstick. So next time, you guys can try Uncle Bob without skin, without chicken fat errr.. chicken boobs breast?

I also saw this Roti Tissue being served at the fair. In case you haven’t noticed, roti tissue is just a piece of roti (I don’t know what you call it) which is so thin that it looks like a piece of tissue paper, hence the name Roti Tissue. Now, it could just be me, but if compared to the ones being served in KL, our Kuching version of the Roti Tissue is pathetically puny!!!

Last but not least, who could miss the Sio Bi stall? That’s the infamous Kuching Sio Bi. For those who do not know, Kuching Sio Bi is one of a kind. No, it doesn’t taste anything like those Sio Bi or Siew Mai (in cantonese) that you have for Dim Sum. I don’t know how to describe it. You have just got to taste for yourself.

Oh, in case you haven’t notice, the one in front, that’s my brother. Ya ya, he doesn’t look anything like me. I have heard that a gazillion times, so enough of that already.

To sum things up, it was the usual fair held annually to liven up the lovely city of Kuching. Nothing new to me but like I said, I went there for the crowd and also for the food. Meantime, stay tune and take care. Cheers.:)

So now, my tribute to some of the names they have listed. Let’s see how they would sound like if used in real life.

DISCLAIMER: Names stated below are fictitious and are merely for jokes. They are in no way related to any real life person. If you cannot take jokes and are easily offended by name jokes, please do not proceed beyond this point. If for any reason any readers have the same name, I reiterate that the names are in NO WAY related to any real life person.

“Hey there Chong Tua Pooi, long time no see, you have grown fatter!!!”

“Hey there Chang Ang Mor, how’s it going, mate?!?!” (Western style)

“OOI Lu Tua Bug, kua si mi lan jiao?”

“Eh Lai Sor Chai, can’t you understand what I am saying? You stupid or what?!?!”

“Lee Tai Yee, why you eavesdrop on our conversation?!?!”

“Blardy Chiu Chang Chee, go far far away la.”

“Chin Ho Sze, why you so active and naughty?! Really like a monkey.”

Please refer to the picture above for the meaning of the names. Omit the surname if you would. They are just there for decoration.

Cheers people!

What was so special about this World Cup? Well, I went right down to the heart of KL for the finals. The whole stretch of road leading to Federal hotel was completely sealed off for the big screen finals. Organized by Maxis, 3 big screens were set up for the big event. Even before 9 p.m., the heart of KL was already crowded with people from everywhere.

Italian supporters were everywhere. Whenever someone passed with a gigantic Italian flag, almost everyone would be cheering their lungs out. I was the total opposite. I supported France but didn’t dare to shout out loud. See, I didn’t want to die in the middle of nowhere. I don’t want to waste my life just because I decided to cheer for France. How crowded exactly was the place, you ask? Well, I’ll just let the photos do the talking. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Five minutes into the game, Zidane scored with a miraculous penalty kick and France supporters were shouting their lungs out, me included, that I swear those Italian supporters were stunned they never knew there were so many France supporters there that night.

There was this Chinese middle age lady sitting right behind me, talking so loud I swear she was louder than the whole fucking crowd. She got so irritating that I screamed so loud when Zidane scored just to tell her she should just shut the fuck up. She ain’t know shit about football and she talked like she was the manager. To make things worse, she made it sound like the only strategy in football is to kick the god damn ball into the goal, by hook or by crook, even if it was half a field away. I bet cha, if she was the coach, I could even kick those Italians ass back to Italy and I’ll shove some Italian pizza up her candy ass, use some spaghetti to slap her on her face and kick her sending her all the way to Italy while shouting “Forza Italia” at her. Damn annoying OK!!! Don’t talk about her, I damn tulan think about her.

After half time, I was forced to leave as all the monkeys started flocking into the streets. The already cramped area was just barely enough to sit and some monkeys who were initially standing by the road side came and squeezed into the remaining space and was shouting, “Oi, pergi depan la, ada tempat lagi.” I was like, “Fuck you! I can’t even seat properly anymore. You monkeys, shoo shooo… go hang up in the tree.” They forced their way in anyway, so I was forced to leave. I can’t stand monkeys like that. I’d rather watch from the mamak stall.

Anyway, Italy reigned victorious that night. It was a tough but good match. Both teams were pretty good until the last minutes of the second extra time when Zidane shockingly headbutted Matterrazi. For a moment, I was shocked and I didn’t know what happened. “What the fuck was Zidane thinking? Shaolin soccer? Few minutes to end the game and he fucked up? Great!!!”

A few days later, the papers allegedly reported that Matterazzi insulted Zidane’s mom and sister calling them a whore and also calling Zidane a terrorist. Now, now, Matterazzi, deny all you want but I’ll just shove some Italian pizza up your ass each time you speak that you’d be crying and begging me to spare your poor asshole. Didn’t your mamma told cha not to talk about other people’s mom like that? You monkey, don’t act innocent. You don’t know what a terrorist is? Go wank yourself. Even a wanker like me who is nothing to the world follows the news and knows what a terrorist is and you don’t know? That’s insulting my intelligence!! Enough said.

For those who think I am anti Italian, NO! I love spaghetti and I love pizzas, so how could I? I do not condone Zidane’s act but that monkey really deserved it, just like that irritating woman seating behind me. Here’s a joke version of the conversation between Materrazzi and Zidane(just for the fun of it):

Matterazzi: *Rubbing Zidane’s body* Mmm, you have got a nice chest there. I like!
Zidane: Hey monkey, get your hands off me. You can have my shirt later if you want it so much.
Matterazzi: No I want you, you hot terrorist man. Your whore mamma and sista aren’t as good. You smell good too.
Zidane: Fuck you, monkey!
Matterrazi: Come on, gimme your head. They look so bald and sexy.
Zidane: *Running forward, turning back and slamming his head into Matterazi’s chest*
Zidane: Here monkey, fuck you! Forza Italia!!!
Matterazzi: Ahhh, that felt sooo good!

All jokes aside, I will still conclude with 3 words, “Fuck you, Matterrazi!!!”

Ahh, when the finals were over, it was 5 a.m. when I returned home. Needless to say, I was like a walking zombie in the office the next day. That night after work, I came back, dropped onto the bed and just dozed off until the next morning. That was how tired I was. As I am writing this, it’s already 3 a.m. and if I don’t go to sleep soon, I’ll be a walking zombie again. So I’ll get going now and I’ll be updating soon. See you guys and keep updated!

I sometimes wonder if I was also like that when I was young. Either the parents are not educating their child properly or children nowadays just seem to annoy the hell out of their parents. A minute later, the daughter of the said mother came along. The father, not wanting his daughter to annoy her mother, quickly yelled for his daughter to come over. The rebellious daughter was showing signs of disapproval, showing that monkey face that everyone of us does when we just wanna annoy the hell outta someone.

I smile thinking how I would look like if I was the one showing the monkey face. Sometimes, I can understand how a child feels when he/she is not having enough attention. As a child, I wouldn’t say I wasn’t getting any attention from my parents but I am not getting as much since I have working parents. Nonetheless, thanks to them, I am now who I am, a guy, with a Bachelor degree, working as a useful person in the society. For that, I am giving all my thanks to my parents for bringing me up properly and teaching me valuable lessons in life. Without them, I wouldn’t have gone this far.

This got me thinking, why is it that some children are very rebellious and some aren’t. Don’t get me wrong, I personally think I am also one of those rebellious kinda children as I have my own point of view and stand. If I disagree, I disagree and it doesn’t matter if it has anything to do with my parents.

Probably, it’s due to lack of communication among the parent and the children. Authoritative policy might be in place and the children have no say in anything, which in my humble opinion is quite frustrating at times. Now, I personally think, in order to tackle the issue at the root, the parents should sit down and have a good pep talk with their children. Give them a chance to voice out and explain things. By understanding their situation, parents are able to better provide and suit their children’s needs. By that, I don’t mean to say parents should listen and give in to every of their children’s demands. All I am saying is, give where possible and provide order where needed.

Instill good practices within the house hold so that children will grow up to be useful in the society. Remember that charity starts from home. Provide your child with a proper communication channel and encourage voicing out of opinions and troubles. More often than not, teenagers tend to get involve in drugs as they lack proper information and advice. Research has shown that it is due to curiosity that they are involved in drugs. With that natural curiosity and the lack of proper information, they lead themselves to the dark side. Read, PROPER COMMUNICATION CHANNELS.

All that being said, I know it’s not easy being a parent although I am not one. Having to juggle work and household is never an easy task. All I am saying is, it’s possible to provide for a better family. Most of us already know but just don’t realize. We tend to get frustrated faster than our mind can start thinking rationally. So, inculcate this nature of thinking before acting, it might just help. Right, easier said than done. LOL. Anyway, that’s all for now and I’ll see ya soon. Cheers!

I was never really a fan of football. I mean, during normal times, I wouldn’t even bother watching a football match. Nonetheless, when it comes to the World Cup, I just seem to flow with the craze of football. It’s probably due to the fact that the World Cup is only held once in every four years.

See, I am so into the World Cup that even as I am now in KL for a business trip, I would frequent the local mamak stall, right opposite the condominium I am staying, to catch the matches over a cup of tea, so much so that I couldn’t be bothered with updating my blog. Well, it’s actually just part of the reason. The main reason I haven’t been updating for quite sometime is due to the substantial amount of work to be done.

Now, speaking of the World Cup, I just caught up with the Brazil vs. Ghana match last night. I wouldn’t say Brazil was playing at their max, but it was a heart stopping match nonetheless. I anticipate Brazil advancing to the finals. Ghana, despite losing, was pretty impressive last night and I was pretty confident they would have advanced to the quarter finals had they not go against Brazil.

Ronaldo of Brazil, despite being sluggish in this year’s World Cup, scored the first goal at the fifth minute of the first half, giving the Brazilians the advantage. The Brazilians weren’t really aggressive. Throughout the first half, Ghana attempted quite a number of near goal shots which rattled the defense of the Brazilians somewhat. They managed to penetrate the Brazilian defense quite a number of times, but it was good goal keeping that kept the ball from making its way into the Brazilian goal. Despite several aggressive and good attempts, they failed to score their first, only to lead Brazil to their second goal at the forty sixth minute.

The second half of the match was a heart thumping one as well. The Brazilians scored their third goal towards the end of the match. With some divine intervention, the Brazilians managed to penetrate the defenses of Ghana and slow motioned their way to the vulnerable goal post of Ghana. Well, despite losing the match, Ghana has made the Africans proud by making it to the second round of the World Cup.

Not all are good when it comes to the World Cup. One of the worst teams I have encountered in this year’s World Cup has got to be Saudi Arabia. They didn’t seem up to standard but they put up a pretty good fight during their last match against Spain before they retired from the World Cup.

The World Cup is still ongoing and is only going to end on the 9 July 2006. I say enjoy it since it’s only held once in every four years. I might not be an avid fan of football but the World Cup has really got me going and made me understand the game of football more. So, readers, enjoy the World Cup while you still can and I’ll be updating as soon as I can. Signing off and cheers!

Today has been a very, very frustrating day for me. I am feeling mixed emotions right now. Anger, annoyance, frustration, pissed, feeling down and hatred are just some of the emotions I feel now, anything but happiness. I am obviously pissed at the world for what it did to me today. Yes, the world offended the fuck outta me today. Don’t ask me why, some things are better left unknown.

So screw the world for today. Fuck those involved in making my life a miserable hell and blardy fuck that one person that made my day today. Thanks for crushing my ever so high hope. Never have I felt such hatred before, and now I am feeling it. I will fucking remember you for life. You fucked up bastard, I curse you to hell, whoever that is. Go die and rot in hell. No, no, better still die and reincarnate in hell just to die again in a world of eternal fire. Not to forget, while enduring the excruciating pain, go fuck yourself as well!!!

Summary, ..|.. and fuck the world!!!

P/S: Since this was posted up after midnight, obviously when I said “today” in the post, it meant yesterday. Thank you.

On The Side Note:
1) Note To Self: I seriously have to change my lifestyle and thinking to a positive one tomorrow. It’s seriously depressing to be in a state of no mood. I feel lost and I feel like as if I have lost my purpose in life. Sigh.2) People, please think through whatever you do or want to do. Give it a lot of thought and plan in advance. Please do not just say you want to do something and later plan other stuffs and screw up the former plan.

Is it me or is it the dog mating season? I see dogs loitering around the streets lately and some are even “making out” doggy style, right in the middle of the road. Excuse me, go get a hotel!!! =D

It’s not only that, I hear a lot of howling lately, even late in the afternoon. Once one of them starts the sound, the whole neighbourhood’s dogs join in the fun. Ah woooo woooo woooo… That was fun! I joined by howling along. Ah wooo woo wooo… Man, that was fun!

Mind you, if they are doing their business, mind yours and don’t even try to get close. You don’t want to offend a dog at this very moment. This is one of those times where you just don’t wish to offend a dog.

Speaking of dogs, I have ab-fucking-solute stupid and annoying neighbour dogs. Dog lovers, don’t blame me. Those dogs made me what I am today. When I come back at night, the sound obviously got them excited and all. Of course they started barking and that’s fine. Dogs normally stop barking after a certain period of silence, but no, those ab-fucking-solute stupid dogs continued barking into the night that I could almost swear the barkings would have awakened the whole neighbourhood.

Don’t get me wrong. I have two dogs as well and they can be quite annoying at times. I dare bet with you the dogs opposite are at least 5 times more annoying. Yes, that’s how bad it is, well, at least to me. Speaking of which, they just blardy annoyed me this afternoon. I was halfway through my work and there they are, Ah woooo wooo woooo, for a good 5 minutes.

I give up, no use complaining. Someone, please teach me how to deal with dogs like that.
=D

Probably I am asking for too much. For some, having my life is a blessing, but as for me, I still feel I am missing out a lot in life. Let’s see, my current routine in life would be something like:

0930 – Work
1330 – Lunch
1430 – Resume Work
1830 – Off work
1900 – Watch TV / Computer / Out with same friends / Spend time with family
0200 – Sleep

Probably I feel bored because I am doing the same thing over and over again, everyday. I need some ommpphh, but I am still trying to figure out what can give me that ommpphh. If anyone knows of a better way to spice up ones life, please drop me a comment. I could use some suggestions on how to spice up my boring life now.

On The Side Note:
1) Pondering on my past gave me a sort of nostalgic feeling and at the same time giving me false hopes. I shouldn’t have, it makes me feel so helpless. C’est un sentiment difficile…

Over the weekend, I went to Camp Permai with another two of my sad f*ck friends (just kidding really). It was a pretty good trip except that it had to always rain whenever we plan a day out, which is pretty unfortunate really, because we didn’t do much. What a waste!

That night, when the election results were announced, we had no TV and didn’t even know who won until my phone rang. Woo, the news flew pretty fast. All three rockets flew that night. As I announced it to the other two, they were cheering because it was the first time in history that we witness all three rockets flying simultaneously across Kuching City South.

After dinner, we went to the Rejang Lounge at Damai Lagoon. Expecting a huge turn out as it was a Saturday night, we were pretty impressed with what we saw. The whole lounge to us three. There we were, sitting down having our Irish Cream. Boy, was I proud to have a drink costing me RM13 for one eighth a glass full. There, my balls are growing. We were watching the silent TV virtually seeing people talking but hearing music. How much cooler can that get?

After approximately one hour there, we decided to head back to our hotel. Was a fine night but a little dark though. Reaching the entrance of our hotel, we opened the door only to let 3 moths into the room, how ironic. I went for a shower and those two were anxiously catching the moths. They went, “See, see, I caught 2 and you caught 1. I win. Let’s release them and catch them again.” I was kidding again. Really, had they release the moths, I’d catch the moths and force them to sleep with the moths.

After all the moth anxiety, we settled down and sang, “I love you, you love me, we are happy family…. Bla bla bla…”. Screw you, Barney the purple b*st*rd. You brainwashed me with your evil songs and now they’re gonna stick with me forever. Kidding again, we settled down and wad do you know? We did what we do best, SLEEP!

Even then, one of the moths started flapping its wing like mad. I can’t sleep and I finally had to throw the plastic bag outside. It should be a peaceful sleep after that. Arrhhhh… nice, cold aircond, under the sheets. Good night people. Wait, I hear something in my mind, and it sounds…. “I love you, you love me…..”

Argghhh…. SCREW YOU, BARNEY!!!

The whole place was so jam packed that an ordinarily peaceful area buzzed to live earlier tonight. So, there I was approaching the stage area after looking for a god damn car park some distance away. I was eager to actually know what they were talking about because I haven’t been to such a talk for ages.

When I got there, one of them were already talking. Come to think of it, some of the things they said did actually make sense. Other than that, it’s all about putting down the opposition. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying they shouldn’t. I mean, after all, it’s the election and to convince and gain the trust of the people, sometimes they just have to do that to make a comparison.

In fact, some statements made were pretty hilarious as well. Not to forget, I stood there for at least two freaking hours just to hear what they have to say. My legs were pretty sore from having to stand at the same location without moving for the past two hours. I have to say though that we pretty much need to have our own stand and point of view, otherwise, this would be a talk which would pretty much confuse you that somehow, it gets you thinking about who to actually support. Yes, this is how powerful talks are in provoking and instilling different thoughts into the human minds.

To the state leaders, today is like what an exam is to a student. It’s like a day’s war where you either win or lose. The only difference is that, students get to sit for the exam more frequent that country leaders do. To some, they might be having sleepless nights for the next few nights to come.

Last night was also a perfect example for the famous saying that goes something like “You roar when you enter the lion’s dent, you snort when you enter a pig sty”. Albeit the difference in animal names, had I snort when I entered the lion’s dent last night, I don’t think I could have come out alive to see the sun rise today. Yes, there were that many people last night, attending the ceramah. Can you even imagine?

All that being said, I wouldn’t want to elaborate any further. I just want to say, we choose whom we want to lead us and we should make this decision wisely as it will affect how the state is run and developed for the next five years to come. So, happy voting people, and damn, it’s a working day for me tomorrow. How interesting. =)

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That being said, I am going to be back in Kuching on the 13th May 2006 evening and I guess that’s it for now. I will be updating more in about 2 weeks time. Till then, see ya and take care, people.

Anyway, my flight is supposed to be at 1945hrs and it was cancelled for god knows what reason! I am now rescheduled to a later flight at 2150hrs getting me to Kuala Lumpur by 2320hrs (crossing my fingers hoping there is no delay). Getting me down to KL Sentral from the LCC Terminal is another 1 hour and 15 minutes, effectively making it past midnight. Getting back to my place is another 30 minutes.

The mother of all bad things? I have to blardy work tomorrow. Anyway, off I go for another trip to Kuala Lumpur to enjoy work. So cheers and keep me up to date with your boring life as well. Leave me a comment, will ya? Cheers!

Whenever, I do have the time, I’d rather do something else than sit in front of the blardy computer blogging, considering the fact that I sit in front of the computer no less than 12 hours a day!

Look at the time now, gosh, it’s 3:35 AM. I tell you, I’d be sleeping my fat ass off now, had it been working days. Considering it’s a blessed public holiday today (yes, public holidays are a blessing), here I am, sitting in front of the computer posting some good for nothing, useless, time wasting, just to get attention, just for the sake of updating the blog, piece of post.

Hmm, at this wee hour, you don’t really expect me to write anything much, right? I knew you were kidding. How can one actually sit in front of a computer at 3 AM writing something useful someone can ponder on? Nah, I am one good example. Read anything useful yet so far in this post? I don’t think so. Oh well, I better be off sleeping now. You people take care and cheers!

Anyway, see you all and I’ll blog again when I can find a connection or when I have the time to.

Off I went to the aquarium, which was somewhat 10 minutes drive from my place. I was there waiting for a good half and hour for him to choose his fishes. When he was finally done, we proceeded home and on the way, I had to go along the Simpang Tiga roundabout. While I was doing just that, I came across a guy who was trimming the grass at the edge of the roundabout center. Being cautious so as not to get my car dirty and sticking with grass, I sort of drove slightly away from the roundabout center while passing him.

All of a sudden, PPPAAAAAAKKKKK!!! I was shocked for a second. Thousands of thoughts and possibilities ran through my mind for that one second and as I came back to reality, it began to strike me that something just hit my car. My blood began boiling and my face was beginning to turn red. Outraged, I just blurted out, “kaniniang, chao cheebye, pukima, pubokia, mother fucking bastard.” A stone just flew up from the grass cutting machine and hit my car body. That made my day. I was practically cursing and scolding throughout my whole journey back home. I was also cursing the whole night. The harshest, most vulgar word available in the English language today just wasn’t enough to vent my frustration and anger. Heck, not even the Chinese language was sufficient. After only 2 short months of hard effort to protect my car from harms way, all effort was just gone, just LIKE THAT! Lucky for me, the stone neither hit my car too low nor too high. If it did, my glasses would have either shattered or my car body would have been badly dented.

The result, my car body’s paint work was slightly chipped off and my window rubber seal was damaged by the hit on the front driver’s door.

Nothing major but I am still very pissed. Had that brainless idiot used his brain a little, just a small portion of it, this wouldn’t have happened. Trimming the grass on the edge of the roundabout where a lot of cars are passing by, knowing that stones or minor particles might just fly up and hit passing vehicles, for god’s forsaken sake, please, please, trim the grass inwards!!! That way, even if anything flew up, it would have flown inwards and not outwards towards passing vehicles.

Now that the idiot have incurred the damage on my vehicle, who is going to pay for it? Neither him nor the council, so it has gotta be me! Bugger! This isn’t the first and I reckon it won’t be the last time, so the next time I experience this again, I am just gonna blardy alight my car and just screw the hell out of these brainless idiots. Now, get back to work and REMEMBER, trim the grass INWARDS when trimming at the edge of any roads with passing vehicles, GET IT?!?!?! GET IT, HUH?!?!?!

The Sarawak Tribune is a goner. The decision has been made and the Sarawak Tribune has been suspended indefinitely until further notice. I received The Borneo Post this morning instead of my regular Sarawak Tribune.

Indefinite suspension 61-year-old Sarawak Tribune

Tolong flash selepas menggunakan toilet ini.

Tolong what what what?!?!?! Tolong flash? Flash what? Want me to flash my little brother or my coconuts?

Since this is what they call Bahasa Melayu, then I suppose the English translation for this text would be:

“Please flash after using this tandas.“

By the way, what the hell is flash? What has it got to do with anything?

That’s it, this made my day. WAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..

The Sarawak Tribune has really gotten itself into trouble this time. Just because some editor on duty decided to go about publishing a news extract from a foreign media, which caused havocs and protests throughout the whole world, the whole company is at stake now.

Although the Sarawak Tribune was at fault, I really do not wish for it to be ended just like that. Afterall, the upper management has even pulled back the news and has even published a three quarter front page apology in their papers for the past few days. They even went to the extent of publishing the apology in West Malaysian papers.

The prime minister is due to give his decision by today. Let’s just wait and see the fate of one of our largest and oldest daily English paper.

Source:
Cabinet wants tough action against Sarawak Tribune

On The Side Note:

1) I didn’t manage to wish you all a very Happy Chinese New Year before I left for Kuala Lumpur, so here I am wishing all my readers a very Happy Chinese New Year and may you have a prosperous and blessed year ahead.

The year 2005 is a bygone and I am here today to present “The World’s Most Emotionally Dangerous Person Of 2005 Award”. Now, bear in mind that I am not personally attacking anyone in this post so don’t shoot personal attacks at me as well. If you feel the hotness of the chilli, go look yourself up in the mirror and if you’re still pissed at me for writing this, then you truly deserve this award. Congratulations! Mind telling me who you are? Yea, yea, go ahead and use the comment box.

After considering all contestants, I am proud to present to you the winner of this year. No no, I won’t name anyone but I’ll tell you the type of person that won this award. The type of person that won this award is none other than the “two face trouble maker” hereinafter referred to as “the winner”.

Seriously, the winner won the award because he is worse than a backstabber. A backstabber does what he does because he has something beneficial to achieve but a “two face trouble maker” does what he does just for sheer entertainment.

The 2005 winner is a person who is seriously ill minded. He makes “friends” just to later end it up with shit lots of trouble. See, he has sheer fun seeing other people conflicting each other. Who is the mysterious source of the conflict? It’s none other than the winner! AMAZING!

The winner is also the kind of person, when being told stuff will start exaggerating and eventually make it sound bigger than the whole world. He also goes about telling different people different things.

He is also the kind, where when being confronted for all his faults and wrong doings, shuts the fuck up and shows his blardy idiotic, son of a gun, bitchy, chao ah ter, pu ki ma, cheebye, mother fucking FACE! (Yes, your face looks that fucking ugly, alright! Deny all you want but you look like shit! So, shut the fuck up and eat my shit!) Later, he goes around explaining to all his peers that he is so god damn innocent and that someone blardy scolded him for no apparent reason.

He can also turn pretty close friends into arch rivals. Enough said! Not to mention, he is also one that contradicts himself in different situations. He is the angel and also the devil. So that makes him everything, need I say more?

Now, isn’t it quite apparent that a “two face trouble maker” is the best suited candidate for this award? So, to those who felt the hotness of the chilli, wow wow wow, chill out. I never said it was you! I just wrote this because I thought the “two face trouble maker” kinda person really deserves it. I have my fair share of friends, or should I call foes, who are “two face trouble makers”. Why are you so pissed and mad? I am sorry if I made you feel this way but really, why are you all worked out? This award was intended to represent the whole population of “two face trouble makers”. So, chill out!

There goes, the 2005 winner. Heck, I so god damn like the “two face trouble maker” kinda person that I’ll even present him with the Darwin Award.

I’ll be handing out “The World’s Most Emotionally Dangerous Person Award” annually so let’s see who will be the winner in the following years.

Oh ya, before I forget, I should hand over some kind of prize for this award, no? Alright, so I’ll end this award presentation ceremony by presenting the winner with the most prestigious throphy of all time and I call upon “the two face trouble maker”. Give him a round of applause. *Clap* *Clap* *Clap*

The Worlds Most Prestigious Throphy

Why do some people like to brag about things they DON’T have? Get a life!

In response to that question, they brag because these low life fucks have nothing better to do and their sheer entertainment would be to see people get into deep shit. They brag because they want to feel as good despite not having what some other people have. Also, don’t advise them to go get a life, because they don’t and also they couldn’t give a shit. See, if they needed a life, they would have gotten one, but no, they chose to live in their own world of “denials of the dumb fucks”. So let those dumb fucks be, let them be dumb fucks forever. After all, we need no more dumb fucks becoming too intelligent and getting more people into trouble with their intelligence deployed not to combat stupidity but to actually aid it! Muahahaha, my best response of 2006 yet!

On The Side Note:

1) The year 2006 seems to be a promising one. It seems to promise me new hopes and light. Let’s hope this isn’t just a feeling, let’s hope this is for real.

2) Chinese New Year is around the corner and I have to start spring cleaning the house yet again. As much as I hate it, I still have to do it. Sigh.

Introduction

Hmm, the first post in this brand new year of 2006. Having the Suzuki Swift for almost 3 weeks, I’ll now have my take on it. You can call this an official review from me. Anyway, for a start, the car itself is considered a compact hatchback and you wouldn’t be expecting too much interior space out of such a car now, would you?

It has always been my dream to at least own a Japanese make and here it is, my first Japanese car, and I tell you, it’s completely Japanese CBU (Complete Build Up). It’s an imported car from Japan and is not locally assembled. This justifies the hefty price of the car. Rumours have it that the CKD (Complete Knock Down) version of the car is going to be in the local market by the fourth quarter of this year.

As said before, I chose a hatchback for my own personal reasons. You’d know why I chose the Swift by the end of this review.

The Dimensions

The car dimension itself is nothing to shout about:

Overall Length: 3,695mm
Overall Width: 1,690mm
Overall Height: 1,510mm
Wheelbase: 2,390mm
Track(Front/Rear): 1470/1480mm

For comparison, the Swift is basically shorter in both length and height if compared to the MyVi. It has a slightly shorter wheelbase as well but notice that both front and rear tracks are wider than the MyVi, hence the better stability.

Interior

Step into the car and you get a decent but classy interior. Materials used are good all round. Some parts use plastic but they are generally good quality plastic. For the price you are paying, you get a comfortably wrapped leather steering, a Clarion single CD player with 4 speakers and 2 tweeters, dual climate air conditioning, and comfortable seats. Leg and head room is just right for front passengers but gets slightly uncomfortable for the back passengers. Due to the aerodynamic design, you get less head room at the back. Nonetheless, it’s still acceptable for people with average Asian heights. The car is good for 4 full size adults. Ferrying 5 would be fine, but with 3 smaller sized adults at the back.

The interior of the Swift.

The sporty meter cluster.

The meter cluster shows the normal information a driver needs, with a big, hard to miss, speedometer in the center. It also houses the digital trip computer, which is common in modern cars nowadays.

The back seats. Not ample of space but is just right.

The back is relatively comfortable except that the sitting position might be a little bit too upright for your liking. Notice that there is a retractable hook at the back of the front passenger seat.

The multi information display.

The car also comes with a nifty multi information display which displays the time, the outside air temperature and the instantaneous fuel consumption. I personally find the instantaneous fuel consumption information useless. It would have been more useful if they would have calculated the average fuel consumption instead. You can turn the instantaneous fuel consumption computer off though, but it would be cool to leave it running.

The dash built in CD Player.

This might not be a favourite to ICE fans out there but good news, there are after market brackets to fit with after market players. As for me, I am not that fussy so I can live with the player. Nonetheless, I still prefer the Proton Waja speakers as they produce more bass.

The dual climatic aircond controller.

The gear shift has a style similar to those on luxurious cars. Sweet!!!

Exterior

The exterior is nothing short of breathtaking. I fell in love with it the first time I saw the car and I still am in love with it. The shape is somehow ripped off from the Mini which defines its European style. The headlamps and backlamps look slightly like those from the Nissan 350Z. With an aerodynamic figure of only 0.32cd, the body of the car hits the sweet spot of maintaining its beauty yet providing a quiet ride by reducing wind noise.

The front. You get fog lamps as well.

The back. You get electronic tailgates as well. Sleek feat!

The back tailgate can be opened by pushing a button beneath the handle. Very high class indeed for a car in this segment.

The side with those sweet 15” alloy rims direct from Japan.

The 15″ alloy rims are wrapped with 185/60R15 tyres. I’d personally love to see a 17″ alloy wrapped with 205/40R17 tyres. That would be sweet!

Performance

Coupled with a M15A 1.5L 16V DOHC Variable Valve Timing (VVT) engine, this small innocent hatchback performs in a mile manner when being driven normally. It however performs like a beast when being pushed. Do not be deceived by its small engine capacity as the 1490cc engine churns out a whalloping 102HP@6000rpm and 133Nm@4000rpm and it does a century sprint in 10.7 seconds.

Suzuki has always been known for manufacturing reliable and robust engines and here is one of them. When driven normally, it roars with a subtle hint of its capabilities but push it beyond 4000rpm and you have a monster on the loose with the sweet engine note starting to penetrate the cabin, which sounds sweeter than the radio music.

As for the suspension system, you get the normal MacPherson strut for the front and you get a torsion beam and coil spring for the rear. You also get an Electronic Power steering (EPS) which is sharp in feel to aid you in maneuvering the car. After a long time using it, you get so used to it that you find the conventional power steering heavy. The result of all these is that you get a ride which is extremely firm when you tackle a corner or even on a straight stretch of road.

You would be attacking corners at higher speeds than you would on other cars. I’d forgive you for that as you wouldn’t even know unless you look at the meters. However, the back suspension is still a tad bit too soft for my liking. It gives me an unstable feeling. The suspension is also a tad bit too loud for my liking when it’s doing its work. A little more bushing would make the driving experience better.

You also get ventilated discs for the front brakes and you get leading and trailing drums for the rear brakes. It’s funny why they didn’t bother fitting the car with an all wheel disc brake system but I guess they must have their own reasons.

Safety

You’d think a car of this size would not have adequate safety features built into it but you’re wrong. For one, it comes standard with Dual SRS airbags and it even comes with a front seat belt pretensioner system. It comes with ABS (Antilock Braking System), EBD (Electronic Brakeforce Distribution) and BA (Brake Assist) as well to aid in emergency braking. Not to forget, the car also comes with the pedestrian impact protection to minimise pedestrian injuries in an accident.

Miscellaneous

You have a choice of 6 colours to choose from. At the time of buying this car, there were only 2 colour choices, namely pearl red and pearl blue, available to me and I chose the pearl blue as it’s a striking colour and it looks great under the sun. There are other colours like black, white, orange and azure grey for selection with white being the limited edition. The whites would be the last to come out of the port, last I heard.

You will also hear some rattles from the door panels as you go through rough or bumpy roads. This minor issue can be resolved with some noise insulation mat added to the door panel. Another thing to note is that the roof of the car is not really insulated so it might get a little bit loud when it rains.

Conclusion

All in all, I think this car is a great value for money and you get lots of driving pleasure from it. To add to it, it’s a chick magnet and is sporty for youngsters like me. This car is good if you are not fussy about space and are willing to compromise space for driving pleasure.

Although it’s not a perfect car, but for that price, I have no complaints. Nonetheless, I still hope to resolve some of my dislikes about the car in the near future.

I bought this car for a hefty RM 86,000++ OTR inclusive of insurance. I know it’s expensive and some might say it doesn’t justify the car’s downside at that price but hey, we have to thank our excise duty and import tax for that, no? I believe this car would have been sold at a mere RM 70,000++ had it not been for the taxes and duties. So, for a Japanese CBU at this price, it justifies the car’s downside, well at least for me.

Anyway, that’s all from me for now and this is Alvin, signing off. See you later!

On The Side Note:1) I haven’t been blogging for a long time to come. Damn, it just isn’t like me. Anyway, my apologies to errr… who? Damn, there ain’t no one reading this blog! Oh well…

2) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2006 everybody. May the year to come bring you all great prosperity and abundant blessings.

I have finished my studies and am sitting at home like a retard. What next? I have been searching high and low around Kuching for a blardy IT job, for the past 3 months but to no avail! Alas, never give up I say. Wish me luck and I should be able to secure a job in a few days time. I better have my fingers crossed. Wish me luck, guys.

Now, what next? Hmm, a car sounds like a great idea. After all, my Protong Waja was giving me quite a headache and was costing a bomb to maintain. Scrutinizing the market, I decided on a hatchback for some personal reasons. In conclusion, I shortlisted my candidates of the Perodua MyVi, the all new Kia Rio and the Suzuki Swift.

Now, the MyVi is such a steal, priced at a handsome RM54,000 OTR for the premium automatic version. Needless to say, almost everyone can afford it and the queue for the car is BBBLLLLAAAAARRRDDDDYYYY long! At the time of consideration, it was more than half a year’s wait. Needing a car almost instantly, the MyVi didn’t seem too feasible, added to the fact that the audio head unit and the sound system did not sound too convincing.

The Kia Rio looked pretty appealing but priced at RM78,000 OTR. The only problem is, it doesn’t come with an airbag. Now, that is a big turn off. I know it will never come into use given that I drive normally down town but in an emergency, it could be a matter of life and death.

A word of caution to salesmen out there, never come to your customers and try to convince them that the car is equally good without airbags. Cut the crap because most cars nowadays come with them and are priced similarly. There is no excuse for not having an airbag. If the car doesn’t have one, just state it as a downside and focus on other advantages. Never make it a selling point. I just don’t buy it and it’s such a turn off, knowing you are trying to convince me like I am some kind of an idiot. So, take note.

I finally settled for the Suzuki Swift. Yea, it’s priced at a hefty RM86,000 OTR, thanks to our approve permit(AP) and also thanks to the excise duty. In this Boleh Land, we get a similar car priced at a mere AUD18,000 for the above mentioned price. Malaysia memang boleh!!!

Oh well, all fuss aside, I finally settled for the Suzuki Swift. Despite a lot of negative comments from relatives, I decided against them as I reckon Suzuki would be here to stay in Malaysia for quite sometime. I could indeed be right as I am seeing more and more Suzuki vehicles on the road nowadays. Added to the fact that Suzuki Malaysia Automobiles is putting in great efforts to promote their car sales, I see the Suzuki brand to stay in Malaysia for years to come.

Besides, the Suzuki Swift came with such an irresistible package which is handsomely priced. Anyway, in my next post, I’ll be doing a review on the Suzuki Swift, so do stay tuned. Thanks for dropping by and listening to my grunts and runts.

On The Side Note:

1) Readers of my blog (grand total of 0), please leave comments if you have anything to say about any of the posts or just drop me a line in the comment box to let me know that you have dropped by. Appreciate it lots and thanks for dropping by.

2) I wish I could just erase my memories and start all over again. Life’s so unfair and will always be. Just when you thought everything is alright, it never was. Just when I thought I could let go, I realized I am still holding on.

Let’s dissect my name one at a time shall we? Let’s see:

First Name: Alvin Shin Fui
Last Name: Chong

Yes, that is how my name was written when I was in Australia doing my studies. In fact, I filled out most, if not all, Australian forms like that. In our society, Alvin is supposedly my English name. Chong would then be my surname and Shin Fui would be just a stupid name derived from some chinese characters. Yes, Shin Fui is supposed to sound like my chinese counter part, 胜斐 (shen fei). Sound alike? Oh well, almost.

Chong is also derived from a chinese character but there could be a lot of different English surnames for the same chinese character. Chong is actually derived from the chinese character 张 (zhang). Notice the character on the right of the chinese character? It’s 长 (zhang), which means long.

I don’t know if this was how they derived my English surname but I reckon it should be. I am a Hakka and the word long is pronounced as chong in Hakka and hence the derivation of the surname, Chong.

In Asian countries, I am called Alvin Chong Shin Fui. Over in Australia, I am known as Alvin Shin Fui Chong or Chong Alvin Shin Fui. Them Australians have a weird systematic naming convention. Perhaps I should have put my first name as Shin Fui Alvin. That way, I’d be called Shin Fui Alvin Chong or Chong Shin Fui Alvin.

Them Australians also have a cryptic way of deriving my name. My university just sent me a letter 3 days back and if my memory serves me right, I registered my first and last name with them as:

First Name: Alvin Shin Fui
Last Name: Chong

For some reason, the computer system, with some special name derivation algorithm, came up with this:

Mr. Shin Chong

I ain’t no Mr. Shin Chong?!?!? How did that come about? Don’t ask me, I am just as dumbfounded as you are. For a moment, I thought they actually got the wrong person and was actually addressing this very familiar person.

Mr. Shin Chan. Da xiang! Da xiang!

Motherfucker n

A despicable or very unpleasant person or thing.

Now, having that very simple and concise definition of a motherfucker in mind, I would like to proceed with my post which some might say is extremely outrageous. Put yourself in my shoes after reading this and you’d think otherwise.

I don’t know when or how or who did it. Motherfuckers like them really do not deserve to live. They deserve very much to go straight to hell. Call me cruel, call me evil, call me whatever you want but they really don’t deserve to live. Just who am I referring to? It is those MOTHERFUCKING, read my mouth properly, M O T H E R F U C K I N G thieves!!!

Pardon me because I am writing this in a state of anger that is beyond your imagination. You see, some motherfucker so happened to decide to pick on my dad’s office to break into. I don’t know when they did it but they sure pulled the plan off well or should I say they were lucky to pull that stunt off?

They came in through the back, as usual. I can almost imagine and think what those motherfuckers were thinking. Any Tom, Dick and Harry who has a tiny bit of brain in him would be able to perceive such idiotic thoughts. They hammered, yes they hammered the door handle open. Nice stunt, IDIOTS!!!

Later, they somehow, and this I don’t know how, got the grill opened as well. Notice the hole? WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! A stealing attempt done in desperation!!! They somehow got the steel, which was supposed to go through the hole on the latch handle, cut off!

Notice the hole? That piece of steel is gone!!! The grill is practically rendered useless…

The door handle of the door leading into the office was later hammered off! Look at that, the whole handle is… GONE!!! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

Gone… Where the fuck is the door handle?!?!?!

They then went into my dad’s office and took their sweet time dismantling the 4 months old computer together with the 4 months old laser printer that I just purchased for the company.

What used to once be the place where the monitor was sitting is now plain… EMPTY!!!

Now you motherfuckers. Listen up!!! You might have pulled the stunt off this time. You were just plain lucky. Yes, read my lips, plain L U C K Y!!! If I ever, EVER, catch you breaking into the office, GOD BLESS YOU!!! Only god knows what will happen to you!!! BASTARDS, heed my advice VERY VERY seriously. You have just messed with the wrong company and DEFINITELY the wrong guy!

Careful now, your EVERY move is being watched……….

On The Side Note:I decided to give my car a wash yesterday and I also gave my floor tiles a wash as well. With no luck on my side, it rained while I was washing up but I couldn’t give a hood since I was already half way through. This was how I looked like after all was said and done.

Alvin “Stupid” Chong

It has been quite sometime since I last blogged. No excuse there, I was just plain lazy. I get tired pretty fast nowadays. Damn, I need some energy booster. Anyone willing to sponsor me some? =)

Oh well, back to the topic. I went to the Beijing Great Wall Of China show on the 25th October 2005. Yes, it was on my birthday alright. It was basically some chinese dance performed by a group called the Beijing Great Wall Of China. They came all the way from China because they were invited to do the show for charity purposes. By buying the ticket, you supposedly donate some amount of cash to the Sarawak Kidney Association.

Well, I was there pretty early. The show supposedly started at 7 p.m and I was there by 6.15 p.m. Being the pessimist that I was, I doubted very much they were gonna start that early. Well, at least not until 8 p.m. Walla, I was right! The show only started at 8 p.m. While I was busy feasting my eyes on pretty girls, some guy was generous enough to let me have a taste of his Hong Kong leg.

Nice leg you have there, buddy!!!

So, thinking I was gonna taste his Hong Kong smell anyway, I thought I might as well neutralize it with my own instead and I gave him this:

Here you go, buddy… Yeeehhhaaaaaa!!!!

Right at 8 p.m., the show started and some man came on stage to give a talk.

Man on stage: Ge wei, huan ying ni men lai tao wo men de…
Alvin: Bla bla bla… get the freaking show started!!!

After a few minutes of talking, the show started and these were a few of the shots I managed to take. Pardon the poor image quality. Afterall, I only took it with a K750i phone camera with 2.5X digital zoom.

Pretty girls with weird hats

I am drooling now…

I would have fainted right on the spot if any of them would have come and talked to me.

Then, came our Chief Minister of Sarawak, half way through the show, and as he was seated, the chairman (I think) of the Sarawak Kidney Assoctiation, went up to address his speech. At times like these, a minute felt like an hour.

Later, the show continued. The 1000 hands dance was great! I loved it.

Pretty girls…

Woo… the 1000 hands effect… nice…

After that, the Chief Minister of Sarawak left and I got to shake his hand. Pardon me now, I think my balls just grew bigger. Let me readjust my pants a little. Ah, that’s better.

Towards the end of the show, there was a lucky draw and sad to say, I wasn’t so lucky. My number was nowhere near any called out numbers. The show ended with me going back empty handed. On the whole, I would rate this show a 3 out of 5 stars. I especially liked the Er Hu performance.

To the copyright owner of this picture, if this picture is used in violation to anything at all, contact me and I’d gladly remove it.

Alright, here goes, finding x. Damn, I wish I was that smart when I was in my secondary school. If I was the teacher, I’d give him marks for what he did. I mean, seriously, we ought to give him some credit for his brilliant thinking. Have a look and tell me if you agree with me:

He found x!!!

See?!?! He did find x!!! The question asked us to find x, no? It never did ask us to find for the value of x, right? So there, he found it. HERE IT IS!!!

Anyway, here are the specifications for my machine. Won’t say it’s really great but I’d say it’s above average in most aspects. Here’s how my baby will look like when it arrives:

- Intel Pentium D 830 3.0GHz Dual Core Processor
- Intel 945P Chipset
- 1GB NECC Dual Channel 667 MHz DDR2 RAM
- Dell Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
- 9 in 1 USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Card Reader
- 1.44MB FDD
- 160GB SATA 7200RPM HDD
- 16X DVD+/-RW Writer
- IEEE 1394 Controller
- 256MB PCIe x16 nVidia GeForce 6800
- 19″ Flat Panel LCD
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card
- Dell 5.1 Speakers

That’s basically the hardware part. The Windows XP Professional license and also the shipping charges contributed to the price. Phew, can’t wait for my baby to arrive. I’ll post some pictures of my new rig when I have her set up. Doesn’t she look kinda sexy? MUAHAHAHAHA… =D

I paid for the 512/256 package and look at what I get!!!

Not only did I get less, I was disconnected so frequently for the past few months that I felt like slamming my head against the wall. I called up and they asked me to report to another phone number since it might be due to faulty phone lines.

Fine, I did just that and the stupid, good for nothing, operator took my call and couldn’t even answer a single technical question. I could understand her situation but to make things worse, she couldn’t even forward me to a qualified technician. She DIDN’T have any technician contacts!!!

What pissed me off the most was the way she spoke. Woo, she spoke with no hesitation. She sounded so rude and unfriendly that I could almost imagine myself slapping her freakin face off her neck, giving her stupid face a couple more smacks and shoving it right up her candy ass!!!

She told me some technician would attend to the issue. I told her to remind the technician to give me a call after checking the problem out. To date, I have still to receive any phone calls, if there is even ONE!!! I continue to suffer from this injustice done to me!!!

How do you rectify a complaint when NO ONE can even address my technical issues? How could you even call that a complaint centre when a pissed customer starts telling you off about your blardy product and you can’t even take it and your stupid Tom, Dick and Harry operator starts talking like as if the whole world offended her or something?!?!

StreamyX and Telekom, do me some justice will ya?!?! Give me what I paid for. That’s all I am asking for. Is that so hard?!?!

Now that I recalled, I went to check the coming soon schedule on Cinema Online and to my dismay, it was no where to be seen, not even up till February 2006. Now, rumours have it that it won’t even make it to the Malaysian shores or at least not any time soon. Damn it, that movie seemed interesting and they ain’t gonna show it here?!?! What the friggin hell?!?!? I bet those censorship people are gonna sensor most, if not all, of the hilarious parts due to vulgarity and the like even if they were gonna allow screening in Malaysia. NO to piracy? NO TO CENSORSHIP AS WELL!!!

Now, anyone here has any news on whether the clear version of that movie is already out on “DVD”s? If you know what I mean. =)

You see, I haven’t been in my utmost perfect condition these past few days or should I say weeks? I have been through ups and downs by my own. I had to go through my own emotional turmoils and I still am now. I also had to go through with daily idiots and stresses. Since I have been feeling down these few days, I felt like as if I am dead. Since I felt that way, my body felt that way too and perhaps that was what contributed to my sicknesses.

My logic is that when you think you are weak, your body starts feeling weak too and when it does, it doesn’t function normally as it would. Hence, the natural germ fighting mechanism will not function properly. When that happens, all sorts of sicknesses can start attacking you. This is what is happening to me now!!!

It all boils down to your own thinking. It really can affect your whole life, mentally and physically. See what happened to me? I am mentally and physically fucked up. In conclusion, you ARE what you think you are. If you feel useless and dead, you will be that way. If given a situation and you think you’re gonna die, then you’ll die. You just simply have no motivation to live. This is what normally happens to the sick. I am a very good example of the above saying. I feel down so I am down. Even my whole body feels down and all sorts of sicknesses start creeping in. Those blardy sicknesses!!! WTF!!! I’ll make sure they leave in no time!!!

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OK, now that I have said it, lets proceed with the main entry shall we? OK, here goes, the Ah Beng entry. Pardon me because I am not very good at this.

This happened two days ago. That was on the Tuesday, 11 October 2005. Wah, the day started off gloomy. Lim peh woke up already so dark and drizzling. Tiu, lim peh wanted to wake up early also cannot. Ended up, lim peh slept until 10++ in the morning. Lim peh woke up and got ready to go for lunch. Lim peh’s lim peh called up and asked lim peh to go to Lau Ya Keng (sounds like lousy corner to lim peh) for lunch. OK, lim peh also haven’t been eating there for a long time already. Lim peh wanted to eat the mee pok pang oo cho (mee pok with black vinegar). Lim peh’s lim peh told limpeh he was almost there already. Tiu, lim peh just about to get out of the house le.

OK, lim peh steady. Lim peh thought drive faster a bit should be able to reach in no time la. Lim peh took the Waja and started driving out from home at 12 noon. Lim peh took the normal road, Jalan Wan Alwi. Lim peh had the music turned on so loudly that lim peh was dancing while driving. Half way through Jalan Wan Alwi, JAM! KNNCCB, lim peh late already and still jam. TIU! Wah, Kuching steady arr. OK, nevermind, lim peh still steady.

After that lim peh drove through Jalan Simpang Tiga and went straight to Lim Hua San and straight up the hill heading to St Mary’s school. Nia beh, lim peh went up the hill already jam. Chung Hua school is there and it started to jam already. OK, boh su, lim peh slow and steady. Then, lim peh went down the hill to St Mary’s school, tiu, jam again! Mahai, lim peh really suae arrr…. So many roads go and take the road with all the schools. OK, lim peh steady, lim peh thought almost reach liao ma. Besides, that was the shortest road. When lim peh reached the Star Cineplex area, KNNCCB, cars simply park here and there. Want to come out just come out. One signal already straight away come out. TIU, you think the road belongs to your grandfather want hia? Lim peh beh si, kua lu lang ang nei sai chia, lim peh eh tiok sim peh si arr!!! (Lim peh haven’t die, see you people drive like that also will die of heart attack la!!!)

Lim peh reached lau ya keng, KNN, not open!!! Lim peh took all the trouble to come here and NOT OPEN! Lim peh went to the stall near by to eat but now lim peh took the kolo mee pang oo cho (kolo mee with black vinegar). Lim peh waited there from 12:40 P.M. Lim peh waited until 1:30 P.M. Nia beh, eat one kolo mee also have to wait so long!! Nevermind, lim peh hungry already, just eat la, WTF.

Wah, lim peh took only 10 minutes to finish eating. Lim peh so full after that. Lim peh had so many things to worry about. The car window spoilt again. So lim peh wanted to go and buy spare part. Lim peh went to the car and saw the parking warden writing some ticket. Eh eh, lim peh here already. Lim peh pressed the car alarm. She continued writing. Eh, lim peh here already la, slower one minute only, tiu! Lim peh thought raining ba so lim peh didn’t come and renew coupon la. Why you so hard working. It’s raining, car wet, want to issue ticket?

Lim peh’s parking ticket

KNN, when lim peh really need them to be hard working, their shadow is nowhere to be seen. When raining already, come and give lim peh ticket. TIU, lim peh know lim peh’s car very good. Lim peh know lim peh’s car make/model is PRO (see the above picture for the word right on top of the word IMPORTANT) but also no need to issue lim peh parking ticket ma. Fine, lim peh was wrong. Lim peh overparked. NAH, lim peh pay you!!!

Lim peh paid them 53 cents!!!

Lim peh then went to buy the replacement window mechanism for lim peh’s Protong Waja. Mahai, lim peh spent RM 160 for the stupid plastic mechanism. Nia beh, quality ka na sai but charge so expensive. Lim peh went back to the car and then when lim peh wanted to lock the car, CHEEBYE, lim peh’s lock also spoilt!!! Lim peh called up EON, KNNCCB, the freaking motor is RM 230++. TIU lo, Malaysia memang boleh. Lim peh spent lim peh’s lifetime fortune just to repair the blardy Protong.

Wah, it just wasn’t lim peh’s day le. This spoil that spoil. Raining and also jam like Kuching is so damn small. Want to eat also bo kua wak. SIGH, really not lim peh’s day. OK la, lim peh mai kong ang nei che liao la. The more lim peh think about it, the more lim peh tu lan. Everything also turn against lim peh. Lim peh scold CHEEBYE all day long also no use.

Anyway, lim peh sign off first. Lim peh hope to see you soon. Bye bye, lim peh chao liao!!!

I just came across the song Obsession by Frankie J. Man, I can’t tell you how much I love this song. The tune and all, it’s just lovely, and the lyric just reminds me of someone so much. I really miss her so much. Anyway, here goes:

Frankie J – Obsession

(Check check …this happened for real …baby bash..yo.. frankie j…. obession)

Well it’s early in the morning
And my heart is feeling lonely
Just thinkin bout you baby
Got me twisted in the head
And I dont know how to take it
But it’s driving me so crazy
I dont know if it’s right
I’m tossin turning in my bed
It’s 5 oclock in the morning
And I still can’t sleep
Thinkin bout your beauty it makes me
weep…
I’m feeling hopeless in my home
I dont know what to do I think I’m in love
Baby…

[Chorus]

Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Then what am I feeling (what am I doing wrong)
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Is this an illusion that I have in my heart?

Now I know you’re not my lady but I’m just tryin to make this right
I dont know what to do I’m going out of my mind
So baby if u let me could I get you to say maybe we could ride together
We could do this all nite now I don’t care if u got a man
Baby I wish you’d understand
Cuz I know he can’t love u right, quite like I can
It’s 5 oclock in the morning
And I still can’t sleep
Thinkin bout your beauty it makes me
weep…
I’m feeling hopeless at home
I dont know what to do I think I’m in love

[Chorus]

Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Then what am I feeling? (what am I doing wrong)
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Is this an illusion that I have in my heart?

I love the way u freaky like that
I love the way u freaky like that
I love the way u freaky like that
It’s an obsession

[Baby Bash]

Hold up let me dream
Shorty got me feelin less supreme
Where my candy, where my cream
Got your boy feel less supreme
Hold up wait a minute baby you so damn independent
Loving everything your representing
Got alot of money, I love to spend it
And thats whats up and I dont care what people scream
You’re my blessin when I’m stressin
My superfly beauty queen
I’m gonna keep it saucy
Cuz my money know how I do, we go rendez-vous, mi corazon belongs to you

[Chorus]

Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Then what am I feeling? (what am I doing wrong) what am I do wrong [echo]
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Is this an illusion that I have in my heart?
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
What am I feeling? (what am I doing wrong?) what am I do so wrong? [echo]
Amor, no es amor (if this aint love)
Is this an illusion that I have in my heart?

Amor

I am writing this crap early in the morning. You see, I have just been blown off the boat, mentally unstable for now. It felt like a punch right on the stomach that hurts so much, you won’t get up. No, it’s much worse than that. It felt like a stab right through your heart that you feel like you are no longer alive.

What is love? Love, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary 10th Edition, means, an intense feeling of deep affection. It also means a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. It also means a great interest and pleasure in something. Love comes in a variety of forms and factors. In the first context, love means an intense feeling of deep affection as in what a mother feels for her child. The second one means a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone as in what a husband feels for his wife. Similarly, this is how a boyfriend feels for his girlfriend. The third one means a great interest and pleasure in something as in what a person feels for things he likes doing.

You see, I agree with the first and the third definition but not the second one. Where is the love? It doesn’t seem to exist. Is it true what people are saying about love? My boat has been plunged right off the cliff for the third time. You see, the first time I plunged off the cliff, I was terrified of ever riding the boat again.

Then I comforted myself, telling myself it was just a misfortune. I dared myself to venture into riding the boat again. Not long later, I started another adventure. Boy, this was a tough and rough ride. I started fearing for the worst. I got discouraged many times and wanted very much to paddle back to the shores and leave. I however braved myself to continue. When I was nearing the cliffs, I tried very much to control the boat to prevent it from plunging. Despite the fear, I tried my very best. Again, I plunged off the cliff. It was after this second incident that I vowed never to ride the boat ever again until the manufacturer could come up with a perfectly safe boat.

It was later that I saw the third boat. I wasn’t into it at all initially due to past experiences and also due to my ignorance. I saw her everyday and I started liking her characteristics. I thought she handled well despite having a couple of holes on her body. I thought I could fix that up fairly easily. It was then that I took myself for another ride. I wasn’t confident about the ride. I was sure I was going to plunge off the cliff again. Nonetheless, I ignored my gut feelings. I took the ride. Many times, she disappointed me. She leaked. I tried fixing that up but it still leaked slightly. I continued, never giving up on her. Despite many protesting me to continue riding, saying she wasn’t the right boat, I pushed on. Even she, herself, showed some indications that she wasn’t the right boat for me. She leaked at other places as well but she was too closed up. It was just too hard for me to figure out the source of the leakage. She wouldn’t let me. She didn’t have a system capable of showing me where she needed treatment. Despite my desire to fix her up nicely, she just wouldn’t let me due to the lack of physical indications. All I could do is get upset with not being able to fix her up. That’s fine.

I thought I could still continue with slight faults. Afterall, I could pump the water leakage off the boat. I continued to the cliff and I dared myself to try all sorts of maneuvers to keep the boat stable and SPLASH, it went down the cliff. Once again, I was overthrown. I felt so useless. I could never control the boat properly. There I was, wet, sad and disappointed in the river and there she was, floating away peacefully in the river like as if nothing ever happened. I felt excruciating pain in me. I look at her floating away just like that after all the effort I put into her. I wanted very much to swim after her and get her back but I was helpless as she was floating away too quickly.

This is how I feel now, an excruciating and unexplainable pain in me. Some advised me to go on with life. They told me there are still a lot of better boats out there. The fact that three chosen boats just floated away from me leaves me anywhere but near wanting to ride another boat ever again. I am not sure if I will ever ride a boat again even if the manufacturer came out with a safe boat. I would perhaps be too defensive to even notice the safety features. I would perhaps regard it as a boat which is like any other.

I only wish life would be a little bit better for me. I wish I would have been able to control at least one of the boats after all these years but unfortunately, I failed to do so which brings me to my conclusion. I now fear for the worst and I don’t even know if I could ever ride on a boat ever again. The past leaves me not wanting for more.

Phew, I haven’t been blogging almost for the past 2 months. I couldn’t find a time to blog. Yea right!!! Why not say you’re plain lazy?!?!? Oh well, I came back to Australia for my convocation. Come on, lame excuse for going back to enjoy…

Anyway, coming back for the past one month, lots of things, be it expected or unexpected, happened. Most of which are unexpected. I tell you, I don’t even know if it is the right thing I am doing here. One thing for sure is that I am graduated. FINALLY!!! No more worries. Heck I feel so free now but not for long. The graduation ceremony was just right and all. It wasn’t too grand nor too puny. It was just right and that’s a good thing, isn’t it?

I was here with my family for the first 1 week plus. Yea, it was a good experience coming to Australia with my family. We went to Sydney for the first 4 days and later headed east for Brisbane and Gold Coast. That made up another 6 days. We later headed up to Toowoomba for my convocation. That was another 2 days. After that it was time for them to say goodbye to Australia. Not that they didn’t want to stay longer but it just wasn’t feasible especially with the currency conversion ratio of 3 to 1. Anyway, I stayed on for another 2 weeks plus. Yea, I am staying with former housemates now. I know, it’s pathetic, but there is nothing I can do about it. I have no house here anymore.

Anyway, throughout my stay here, I encountered some unexpected problems. I don’t wish to bring them up anymore. Some people might say I am a loser, some might say I am a trouble maker. Whatever it is, say all you want. All I have got to say about the issue is that whoever is involved knows who is right and wrong. Prove me wrong and I will sincerely apologize. No offence but I seriously think I am a fairly normal person and I do reason. So if there is an issue, speak up and things can be ironed out. So for the time being, lets just get the issue out of the way. I don’t wish to further elaborate on it and further complicate the issue.

Other than that, nothing much happened for the past 2 months. Life is just as normal and pathetic. Lets just hope I can get myself a job when I get back home and later earn some money for my own spending. Damn, I am already overspending and now it’s time for me to repay my debts with my own money. So lets hope I get a job I want.

Alright, it’s already 1:16 AM over here in Australia. I am a little bit blur and I don’t really know what I am writing anymore. My brains just ain’t working. I am just writing for the sake of writing. Lets just leave the rest of the stuff to some other time. Perhaps when I get back to Malaysia. Anyway, you guys out there, do have a great time. See ya later mate!!!

Oh dear, I have been back for exactly 2 weeks now and in a way, it feels good. One thing though, I feel like I am missing something. I just can’t seem to explain why. Perhaps it is due to the change in environment and also in life? Perhaps the provoking thought of having to leave my study life and move on to the adult working world is making me feel that way? Perhaps it is due to the change in the people that I interact with? I don’t know. All I know is I am in a mess now. I sometimes wake up not knowing what to do and not knowing what I am thinking and feeling. I sometimes feel down for no apparent reason and later feel much better. Weird. Damn, this isn’t doing me and my health any good!

Anyway, being back home, yea, I get to drive my car and I get to eat all the stuffs I had always wanted to enjoy when I was in Australia. I get all the facilities that I don’t get in Australia. I get to be with my family and all but it still feels weird. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy the companionship of my family and all but I just feel like I am lacking somethings in my life and I am still trying to find out what they are.

Even the people back home are different. Now that I have been in Australia for the past 1 year, I have sort of gotten used to the culture over there and I sometimes dislike the way people act, back in my hometown. Despite it all, no doubt that we have more variety of people here and that is a huge advantage to me, if you get what I mean! LOL.

Anyway, being back home is great and all but sometimes it just feels different knowing that you are home for good. The thought of leaving your friends behind and also the thought of not being able to go back to Australia makes it a really sad case. Of course if I have the cash, then it’d be a whole different story but unfortunately, I don’t.

Anyway, all that being said, I would like to wish all my friends out there all the best of luck in their future undertakings and do know that I will always be there to support you guys in whatever you do, where ever I am. Good luck and all the best, mates!

I woke up this morning hoping for something good to happen for the day. Heck, I mean, who doesn’t, right? I can’t say I wasn’t satisfied with what had to be offered for the day but somehow I felt different at different times. Ask me why? To be frank, I don’t know. One thing for sure, I sure as hell feel good since I am done with the blardy exams. Cross my fingers and hope I get past this stage. I also do feel good since I got to do what I had always wanted to do for a very very long time. Don’t ask me what it is since I prefer to keep it to myself.

On the other hand, I feel down since there were and still are some things which I just can’t seem to justify and explain. Everyone seemed so moody today and that got me so “turned on”! Note the quotes. At the same time, I am feeling down due to some reasons that I myself can’t seem to explain. Not that I can’t, I just can’t seem to put it in words right now. As of now, I am feeling more or less like what is described in the song “Simple Plan – Untitled”. The lyrics are as below:

SIMPLE PLAN – UNTITLED

I open my eyes,

I try to see but I’m blinded by the white light,

I can’t remember how,

I can’t remember why,

I’m lying here tonight,

And I can’t stand the pain,

And I can’t make it go away,

No I can’t stand the pain,

How could this happen to me,

I make my mistakes,

I got nowhere to run,

The night goes on as I’m fading away,

I’m sick of this life,

I just wanna scream,

How could this happen to me?

Everybody’s screaming,

I try to make a sound,

But no one hears me,

I’m slipping off the edge,

I’m hanging by a thread,

I wanna start this over again,

So I try to hold onto a time,

When nothing mattered,

And I can’t explain what happened,

And I can’t erase the things that I’ve done,

No I can’t…

Anyway, isn’t it ironic how one can feel down and at the same time feel good? Is it a good thing? To me it isn’t. Perhaps there are some things in life that was never meant to be? It seems to me that most things in life were never meant to be for me. Oh well, not that I am a pessimist but things just appear like that to me at the moment and there is nothing that I can do to change it. Doing some things just seem wrong and not doing them also seem wrong. I really don’t know what I should be doing. I am confused and lost.

Anyway, sorry for the grunt, but I just want to spit them all out to feel better. I know, readers of this blog will be thinking, what the hell is with this guy? Negative thoughts, is that all he has. Yea, you might say that but it is just how life is to me at the moment. I am emotionally and mentally disturbed at the moment. No worries though, when the moment comes, the right and good things will spring out of nowhere and so will good posts in this blog. Anyway, that is it for now and sorry once again for another stupid post. =)

Pardon my vulgarity but I just have to get this all out. Guess what, another extreme stupidity of mine got me into deep shit again. This time, it’s all about the paranoia. Why the fuck am I such a paranoid? That, I just can’t seem to comprehend. As of today, I am officially called a perfect idiot. Only an idiot makes the same mistakes twice and yeap, that’s who I am!

I screwed up my Java examination by being so so so so fucking careful with what I have to write and being the long winded person that I am, I elaborate the terms to perfection. To my fucking dismay later on, I fucking spent most of my time on the front part of the examination and did not have enough time left for the remaining parts of the examination. The examination consisted of 5 questions and to add salt to the injury they were further broken down to at least 5 parts per question. What the fuck was that? With that amount of questions, the amount of time and also given the blardy amount I wanted to write, 4 hours would do better. I’d rather they had less questions but with more related questions. That way I could do with 3 hours.

Oh what the hell, what is done is done. No returning. Yea, easier said than done. Perhaps it’s just me being the idiot. It seems that others don’t seem to have that problem except for me! The pure idiot! I am going to fuck myself so badly if I screw up this paper. Cross your fingers and pray for me guys. I just hope I don’t flunk this exam due to my stupidity. Just to conclude things, I am so sorry for the vulgarity but I am just in that “DAMN IT” mood right now! Oh man, I just feel like slamming my damn head on the wall right now for being so stupid!

Contrary to popular belief of having to start something off in a good way, I’ll start the first post with something not too good. Well, this is my first blog so do not expect anything interesting. I mean, I am just trying it out to see how things go.

OK, that being said, I really hope that all things said in this blog are not taken too seriously. I mean, after all, the internet is all about freedom of speech. Of course I wouldn’t go to the extreme of cursing people anyhow. Just take it that I am not such a guy in real life and I often express myself through the internet just for the sake of spitting it all out when I have no
where else to look to.

Now, that being said as well, lets start of with the original topic of “The Power Of Words”. Yesterday, I had this feeling that all things would work out well, but in the end, it all tumbled and turned upside down. Why you might ask? Due to my stupidity. Ever wondered how powerful words could be? Words could be used to express oneself. It could also be used to destroy oneself. A small conversation could lead up to some big “hu-ha” that you aren’t even aware of. It could be good, it could be bad. Just because of some stupid thing I said, which I actually meant as a joke, I destroyed myself for good. I lost the trust, I got ignored for good, and I got one helluva “GOOD” treatment. Now, how ironic can that be. One moment, I was in a good condition with that someone and this power of words all came into effect and made one big “hu-ha” out of the situation and *BOOM*, all hell broke lose.

Well, it was my fault and it has always been. The idiot who causes all the trouble. So, yea, I am the idiot manipulating the power of words as I did today, to my disadvantage and see what I have gotten myself into? Nothing but big trouble. So, the next time, if anyone of you would like to say something, think twice or even trice because you never know if your words would make a big “hu-ha” out of someone. Sometimes, it might not sound offensive to you but it does to someone else out there. Hence, use the power of words to your advantage and don’t be an idiot like I am.