Day trip to Singapore

Tomorrow is going to be a longggg day. I will be going down to Singapore for a day of work.



I have got to wake up at 4.30am! ARGHHHH too darn early. Stay up for football? HAHAHA I don't watch football but Spain VS France? Maybe... maybe not.

Taxi will come at 5am and I have got to check in by 6am. I have no idea what I'm going to do until I board the plane. Duty free shopping at 6am? Nar, I think I most probably find some place quite to nap.

I think I will be very miserable after lunch... maybe fall asleep after tea. Hopefully I get my "business" done early and I can be off! My bro asked if we should have dinner before I leave. I hope I have time to have a meal with him. But... I can't check-in online with SIA because I need to have 6 more months of "life" on my passport for that. I hope I can get in and out without problem... Darn... I forgot to check the expiry date until now.

MAS should really improve on their service too. And add more info on their website! I was searching high and low for the check-in time and services. SIA did a good job but MAS... OMG! SIA really makes it easy for customers to check in. I can do a check-in online 48 hours before my flight. You can even SMS check-in! For MAS phone check-ins are only for First Class and Golden Club Class as well as Enrich Gold members. No internet services at all! Blahhhhh...

I think I will want to fly with Singapore Airlines next time. More convenient. Too bad my company have preference with MAS.

Ahh well.. better get some sleep. 4.30am is way tooooo early for me.

The man behind the camera

Just for laughs. I think I have tried all of their pose before too... hopefully no one caught me on camera LOL!


I think when you take a picture from that angle, you can actually take whats up her skirt.


LOL!


Split! I actually do this a lot. Doing the split is much easier than sticking the butt out and bending down to the camera.


HAHAHA I need a good focusing cam if I want to do that.


Everyone does this right?


HAHAHA isn't doing the split a better idea? Nice butt!


This guy must have learn some kung fu or something.


Ballerina!


Do everyone is China know kung fu? Hehehe


The answer is no, this one is a Tai Chi pose


And 1, and 2, and 3, and 4, now hands on your waist, and 5, and 6 ...


Ok, I have done this many many time to get a low shot angle. That's the only way to do it ...


The phone or the girl?


Must be some rare bird on the tree... or maybe a snake or lizard.


Too fake. This picture was photoshoped.


Nice butt!


I hope that branch didn't break.


Get a better focusing cam dude.


Now.... I'm not really sure now to use this cam... but this isn't about the cam, your zipper is down! No wait... it's not even the zipper! It's a big big hole!

Living like water world

While I was attending a company sponsored training, my mom, dad and sis was attending something else. They attended a self sponsored holiday. I was suppose to be on my DREAM TRIP TO CAMBODIA with them but too bad =(

But, I'm looking at the bright side; I am even more determine to go for a trip there. After looking at the pictures that my family took and the stories they told me, I can plan for a better trip. I will definitely want to spend a whole day at Angkor Wat itself, and I don't think I will want to go to Phnom Penh already. And now when I go, I at least will not have my mom nagging me with "Cambodia dangerous la, not save..." bla bla bla.

When I want to go, made my plans, she complains. Later in the months when there's cheap air flights to Siem Riep, she says she wants to go there for a holiday. ISH!

There's a lot of place there didn't get to go though. Too little time spent there. A lot of things and food they didn't try too! What a waste! But my sis did get to try Balut (more famous in the Philippines. Balut is boiled duck embryo). She says it didn't taste disgusting or whatever, "ok la". So I guess it's nothing after all. But I think really high in cholesterol!

By staying home, I missed all this and many more... can't wait until it's my turn!


Some wat (wat as in temple) in Siem Riep. There are just too many wats to visit. But all are beautiful.


Pink stone wat. According to my mom, she was told that when the temple was firstly built, it was pink in color.


Very simple carvings on the temple walls. My sis took a lot of other wall carvings that are really detailed and complexed. I wonder if they built the stone temple first, then crave them, are crave the stones then built. Both way, it wasn't an easy task as even the smallest wat there takes at least 30 years to built.


Mom said that there are lakes and water cannels surrounding most of the wats.


Old hand granades from the war.


Floating church. My sis took a picture of a floating basketball court too! Being a fan of the movie "Waterworld", my mom was awed by all this floating boats. Floating houses, floating halls, everything is floating smack right in the middle of this huge lake. Echo from mom ("Really like water world one, REALLY!");

Your regrets, not mine

Life is so unfair when you are in your early twenties, young, beautiful *puke puke cough cough* and single. Every single relative I talk to is telling sharing with lecturing me about "picking your life partner 101".

My reaction? "OH PLEASEEEE NOT AGAINNNNNNN!!!!"

40 years down the road, I think I will be one of them aunties lecturing some other young and single relatives on "Ah girl, got boyfriend already or not? Have to find one quick you know, you won't stay young forever. Make sure he is good you know... must be able to take care of you."

So irritating! And what can I do? Puke on a fake smile and nod my head to everything that is said (not like I'm listening anyway) while my heart goes "Yah Yah bla bla bla yada yada yada...pls la, give me a break aunty, your generation and mine is totaly different. Let me tell you what I think and then you tell me if that's what you wanted to tell me".

"People that have eaten more salt compared to me eating rice" thinks that the younger generation (like me) have no clue about relationships and maraiges. You know what? You maybe right, but give us credit and keep that ego because we can teach you and TELL you what we know and already know.

1# Obviously I know I'm going to grow old and die an "oh ba ba" if I don't find a life partner. But when it comes it comes. I know I won't stay young forever and I know time flies quickly and I'll "age". I KNOW THAT ALREADY.

2# I will never ever EVER be involved with a married man and be some third\fourth\fifth ...party in any relationship. NEVER. So please don't give me that lecture.

3# I don't see why I have to look for a wealthy partner. You all "experienced" people think that marring a rich partner will make you rich. Must have house, must have car, must have this, must have that. Come one man, and I though you are experienced? It's all about potential. So what if you have a billionaire husband but 10 years down the road a bankruptcy? Isn't life more meaningful if you grow rich with someone you love?

Thinking like "Hm.. he's got a stable job and income, polite, fatherly figure... ok la can marry" is totally not me. No, no, no.

4# You can judge a person a little by looking at how he\she treats his\her family, friends and strangers. But then, you have to also know if he\she is faking it. Everything seems perfect when people are in love. All the sacrifices, all the "aiyah nevermind la" and the "it's ok". But when time comes, "why like that one?!" or the "not ok la, why you so selfish?!". Having someone loving you and having someone loving you being you is very very different.

5# I could never be with someone who;
- looks down on people, especially me.
- I don't respect
- beats me!
- hides their past
- lies, and hides the real truth

Sometimes you think that hiding the past or some truth will help in a relationship, I guess you are right. But not for me. I'm not a person who judges a person by his\her past, but I would still like to know the "thick dusty history" behind him\her... especially what he\she learnt from it. What really sucks and really is disappointing is learning the history from rumors and not from them self. What's even worst is when the whole truth is only reveled when in a "last resort to save his\her ass\relationship" kind of situation. Cheap and disrespectful trick. You think your partner is so dumb ah? Playing dumb and putting all that "ignorance is bliss" action on doesn't mean feelings she\he feels nothing.

6# I think I'm moving off track.. so back to the topic. Even if there is a perfect man, I am not perfect. Even with Mr.Right, no family and marriage is perfect. So aunties-aunties sekalian, please take back all that bullshit. I never believed marriage is\will be perfect. There will come a time where trust will questioned, the "other hanky panky stuff going on", the anger outburst, the hurtful words, the selfish biatch\beast.... I know that for a fact. I know that already so don't waste time telling me how picking the right man will solve all that.

And the list goes on ....

Butttt, at the end of the day, listing all this and listing what criteria you want in your partner won't really mean anything. Why?

Love concurs it all.

Even the most stubborn egoistical bitch can just burn that list when in love. The list.... it's just a guide. So auntie-auntie, I know that the list will come in handy if I never fall in love *touch wood*, but if I do, that is my life to live.

"Yalah, make decision already then don't regret lo". Life is full of regrets. It's so fake when people say they have no regrets because in some point there will be regrets, maybe not big ones but even the small regrets counts. So if regret, it's my regrets. You may not realize this but a reason you aunties-aunties are telling me this because deep down in side you there's regret!

Learn and move on. No point lecturing to some young and single person on your regrets!

Thank you Ah Tai

My last living great grandmother passed away this evening at about 6pm. So I guess she won't be turning 84 next month.

Ah Tai, I know you have been suffering even since before Chinese New Year. You have always wished that you'll be taken sooner. You always ask "Why am I not taken?" "Why am I still here?" "Just let me go"

Ah Tai, I know why. Thank you Ah Tai. Thank you very much.

I'm sorry you had to suffer for months. I'm sorry that you have to walk miles just to reach the bridge but they won't let you cross. They said your name wasn't on the list. They said they lost your name. They said if they didn't find it in a few days, you name won't be included.

But they found your name. And wrote it down on the list.

I know you wanted to cross so badly. So bye bye Ah Tai. Have a good afterlife. We are all happy for you.

Coolmaster functional fabric

Yesterday's upgrade went really smooth. It took only 2 hours to complete rather than the predicted 8 hours. LOL! Me and my colleague ended up in KLCC for some last minute shopping for our dads.

It was quite fun actually. We detoured from our goal many times but in the end we did manage to find something for our dads. We went hunting in Isetan, Parkson,... and all that over priced designer shops in KLCC (Hugo Boss is having sale, belts in Armani Exchange really looked "Pasar Seni" cheap) but ended back up in Isetan.

I ended up buying my dad a Bonia sports polo-T. The material used was way "cool". It's called the coolmaster functional fabric, it's really cool. The inner of the shirt feels very fine, smooth and thin cotton shirt but from the outside, it looks thick but silky heavy. Maybe I bought it because of the "technology" put into the shirt. It works like the Dri-fit material from Nike.

Happy father's day dadi!

Hope for something to go wrong

Yay! Tomorrow will be my first involvement in a server upgrade! Actually, not really a file server....a conference bridge.

I'll be heading back to the office to run some back ups and then when the clock strikes 3, the firmware upgrading process will begin. I predict it will be kind of boring though. All I think I have to do is just reboot the bridge, test some ports, make some calls.... Since the maintenance and stuff are all outsourced, all I have to do is just to man the physical hardware.

I wonder if it would be bad to hope for something to go wrong... I think I better not, the upgrade takes 8 hours and I don't think I want to drag it longer.

It's going to be super cold too! Staying in the data center for 15 minutes is already *brrrrr* for me. We are talking about 8 whole freaking hours tomorrow. Plus the temperature will drop later in the evening, and worst if it rains! Got to make sure I wear as much layer of clothes as possible LOL!

Things at work is going kind of speedy. I have not even been in my position for a month but I felt I have been there for 3 months already. I’m really starting to learn a lot about the support life… kind of fun for now. The headache will come when I really get hands on and be on-call. *yikes*

Anyway, I won’t be going to work next week because I’ll be on external training. And you know what, I will be taking a plane to work and back in a fortnights time. LOL! That will be another first time for me.

All is fun for now… hope it stays this way for as long as possible hehehe

too bad for me

Cyberjaya already... A few weeks too late. Boohoo just too bad for me =(

Speechless

Heh… I tell you, these people are just unbelievable. I wanted to say something, but then why say when there’s no point saying because they are just to selfish to think of others. Put yourselves in their shoes before you comment. No point wasting my time. Misunderstand me if you will because you are not worth my time.

If they don't get it means they don't. I have really got no comments. I’m just speechless. Wake up man. The world does not revolve around you.

Ego will kill you in the long run

No one said life is fair. I have got to remember that. No point being pissed and angry.

I have to understand that not everyone understands. And even if they do, most of them are selfish... or have the bully mentality. I pity them though because they only can feel confident by making people feel inferior.

Negative kiasu. Remember kids, rise above, don't push people down.

Or maybe that wasn't what it meant... so arrogant, just so arrogant. But I guess it was that way since day one. Who to blame? No one. Because we are all humans. Wake up dude. Keeping your ego and nose high just makes you smaller. You learn nothing from that, except how stupid you look.

Remember kids, ego will kill you in the long run.

Compare and contras kids, compare and contras. Forgive and learn, don't forgive and forget. Be wise not smart. Be wise... be really wise and brave.

I might as well just ignore all I have said.... ignorance is bliss ...at least for now.

Part time jobs for super heros

I can't help but laugh out loud when I saw these pictures.

Need a phone which can support 2 SIM cards

I’m really not the type of person that likes to chit chat and blank talk on the phone. Ever since young, I have never gotten nags or scolding because I blew the phone bill over the top. (I have only blown my Internet bill LOL!) I’m just not that type of person who will actually make phone calls to long lost friends and chat up.

Initially my cell phone serves as a tracker for my parents to track and to be able to reach me. My phone would usually be around me when I attend classes or when I’m out with friends. I can’t be bothered to carry my cell phone with me when I’m out with my family.

Slowly, friends stop calling my home to reach me, but on my cell phone instead. I stop giving out my home phone too. Soon my cell phone was my primary contact. But… I still couldn’t be bothered if people can’t reach me. If it was important, they will know how to reach me.

Contacting people on the go without my cell phone when I lost (twice!) is in the past was really difficult. But I was kind of glad that people couldn’t bug reach me. For those who really did want or needed to talk to me, they have got my home phones (though only those who knows me well enough have them), and there’s always IM and email.

I also stop returning every single phone call. …sometimes, I don’t even reply messages unless it’s really necessary.

It’s ironic for someone like me to be given another phone. It’s ironic, and really a dreadful thing. Starting yesterday, I have to keep my support phone close to me where ever I go and make sure I pick calls up. *argh*

I have to carry two phones around now. I can’t work out and go for classes at the gym without having my phone on LOUD beside me. I can’t take a long shower and hit the steam or sauna room. I have to wear pants with pocketssss to fit 2 phones!

Lugging around the phone is a hassle!

I need a solution to this. I still want to enjoy my gyming session without worrying about the phone. I need one of those arm bands for gadgets. …I guess I won’t be using it for my Nano but would be using it for my phone instead.

I think I need to shop for a mini sling bag or pouch or something too. My lanyard is getting crowded with all the support junk. I have my company tag, my travel pass, my thumb drive, my gym locker key, my office drawer keys and a hardware token for my support work. I wanted to hang my support phone on my lanyard as well but I don’t want to break my neck carrying all that around with me.

…or I think I just need a phone which can support 2 SIM cards.

Junk Mail for 7th June 2006

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I got this really interesting junk mail today and I though ahhh, internet presence, I have presence here that's why I'm getting this from you. Ironic. Here's the content. Echo("

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You know, for non tech savvy people or company, I really don't this is a bad idea. It's kind of true these days that a simple website contain some basic information on the company's product\services and contact information is essential for business. As we move on to the more techie world, web presence is important to enhance growth.

Simple start up for web presence with a small price, Assuming the RM360.00 is for a one year hosting. There's templates and all, not too bad. But I don't like the fact that "Our banner advertisement will appear on your Welcome page". I think this is stupid. Companies have to pay for web space and have advertisements on their website?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ah Ma

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ah Ma!

She had her grand birthday last year so this year makes her 91! wOOt!


My ah ma's great grand children. Don't play play ok, my grand ma is still very healthy and strong, carrying 2 kids is still no problem.


This is us..75 to 80% of the family. Mainly grand and great grand children. After looking at all the pictures, I realized that there were no pictures taken with my grandma and all of her children. None... aie

blog for money

Sometimes it's better not to say anything. So I didn't.

The famous "blog blog" topic discussion came up again today. You know what I think? ...people don't blog for themselves anymore, blogging is so commercialized. Blogging is an industry.

Large and even small corporations are beginning to have their own blogs (if they don't already have one). I think it's good that they are moving into this because it really so much easier for me to get information off them. E-mailing newsletters will be on their way out soon, replaced with RSS.

Even the less tech-savy computer users "I have to blog this". Every night is spent thinking of blog topics and ideas and ways to increase their site traffic. And obviously, get some money out of that adsense. But is that all bloggers think of now?

Someone said that Asian bloggers are getting boring (or something like that) because all we blog about is life, politics and food, there's no value in them. Another someone said bloggers use 'bad words' just to increase their site traffic. But you know, it doesn't really matter.

A web log after all is a log for anything and everything. What is wrong if an entry contain nonsence and no educational value or uninspiring? I blog crap all the time, and sometimes I don't even know what my crap is about. What is wrong if 'bad words' are used to express themselves? I need to curse when I'm mad to let all that anger and frustration out. Would I vent it out to my family and friends? No, so I do it here.

Go do whatever you want to increase your traffic, no one can stop you... all they can do is just bad mouth you like how you bad mouth them. Famous blogger 1 VS famous blogger 2. Insults and sarcastic comments thrown at each blogger and in the end of the day... well I get to read a few juicy post. But really la, aren't we all like that. You blog about drugs because that's your passion. You post naked pictures of yourself for more traffic. That's your choice, your freedom to do so.

But all that traffic... like I said, blogging is turning into an industry. People don't blog for nothing anymore. More and more people are blogging for money.

For me, Big Head Big Hat will always be for myself.

I microwaved a lizard

I got to know about the movie Daisy a few days back while reading a printed interview with the movie director Andrew Lau. The movie is actually a Korean movie but directed by Andrew Lau who is a HongKie (Hong Kong). He got the Korean's attention with Infernal Affairs (which is my favorite Hong Kong trilogy) and was approached to direct Daisy. The main actress in the movie is the same girl from Sassy Girl (another good Korean movie).

The movie is a romantic movie, with bits and pieces of action going on. I really like the story line of the movie... so happy, yet sad. And yeahhh I cried watching the movie hehehe. Really touching ma ;P I recommended the movie to those that enjoyed Sassy Girl, or Sweet Home Alabama... it's got that kind of feeling to the movie.

Ok, from romantic to gross. I microwaved a lizard today! Unintentionally la of course!

After reheating food or baking, I usually leave the microwave door open first to let all the warm air out before shutting the door. Someone reheated something and left it open too. So... when I place my chung in the microwave, I didn't realize that a lizard actually crawled in it! I didn't see the lizard so I think it must have been under the round metal plate.

I set the heat to Low and reheated for 2 minutes. While waiting, I went to my PC room to continue working on my stuff. I heard something pop in the microwave.... I thought that it was the chung because I didn't cover it for reheat. But ...echo("I used the same settings yesterday also ma, how come no pop sound yesterday? ...hm maybe different type of chung?");

When I went back to collect my chung, I found the lizard lying dead on the round metal plate beside my bowl. EEK!

It looked dried on the outside... but it was still fat so I'm guessing the inside is still "juicy". The lizard must have been crawling around in the heat looking for an exit before it popped to death. I think the wet slimy lizard skin make the popping sound. Thank god it didn't explode in the microwave... the whole lizard was still intact.

Of course I threw out my chung. Cleaned the whole oven after that... but I wonder if that's enough. I want to soak it in Dettol!