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A working sunday

2012-01-15T00:41:00.000-08:00

Back in the office today, despite it's a sunny sunday. Luckily we mobilised the equipment yesterday as the weather was just nice. So my working trip is coming to an end. Supposedly going to the rig site but I have no intention to forsake my cny celebration and trip to china-macao, so I "withdraw" myself from going to the location at Kalasin, north-eastern part of Thailand, which should be quite an interesting place to check out too I suppose.

Anyway, it's been a nice experience working in this yard. Despite the communication barrier, works were done as desired and on time. People here are helpful and friendly, which means a lot.

Hope to come back here again some time, but let me have a break first...

Outdid the year 2011

2011-12-02T06:32:00.001-08:00

Year 2011 has been awesome so far. There're lots of things which I am happy and grateful for.

Got hired early of the year, starting out my journey as a working adult. Engaged with closed loop drilling technology, something which I used to have very little exposure of, but yea, I find the work rewarding as it's something interesting and I believe it has a promising future too. Besides, the job has already taken me to many different places. From Kerteh, Labuan, to Singapore, Batam (Indonesia), Songkhla (Thailand), Aberdeen & Edinburgh (Scotland), there are many beautiful things to see and experience one place to another.

Did couple of outdoors, such as Skytrex, Paintball, cycling & trekking in Pulau Ubin, Singapore. I guess these are the things which add spices to my life. Hope that there are more different kind of adventures to execute in future.

Had my house renovated. Had done a food trip in the town of Malacca. Had found a significant one and still trying. Had learned about own self better. Had met up lots of people and made lots of friends from different ages and levels. Had improved my social network. Had missed the family trip to Hainan (with regret). Had laid a good groundwork at work for years ahead, hopefully. Had earned a bit of money. Had learned more about independence and to remain positive in light of adversity. Had settled my bond with Petronas who'd sponsored for tertiary education.

This year I see myself taking on a pretty steep learning curve, it's however that I find it interesting and fulfilling. I believe the momentum is still poised to pick up more in 2012.

Looking ahead to a passionate and optimistic 2012. Waste no time, live life out.

那些年，我們一起追的女孩

2011-11-28T02:11:00.000-08:00

No, I haven't watched the movie yet, though it has been hyped tremendously and it's already holding several records. Basically a movie with huge success.

I got the book for someone significant, which she said that the movie is touchy.

And I downloaded the e-book, started reading it since yesterday night and just done reading it. Can't believe that I finish a novel in less than 24 hours. This is the first novel which I read from first page to final page, and page to page. Usually I don't finish the novel I read.

Basically the author narrates his adolescence. A bum student who at first does nothing but causing mess and disturbance, totally transforms himself after being "assigned" to a good and pretty girl who is supposed to keep an eye on him. He changes and catches up a lot in his studies. He starts a romance with another girl who is excellent in academics until before secondary school. After that he falls in love with the girl whom he used to be "assigned" to and started his relentless but uninformed pursuit. There are many scenes of sweetness during the courtship. I admire his persistence towards love for someone he really likes.

There are pictures which I can bring very close to my heart. I wasn't really interested in books until standard 5. I was very playful and always rooming below the average region. In order to look good to the people I liked, I started working hard and caught up a lot. To date, I'm doing relatively well among my clan of those days, which I can proudly say.

It's a good read. There are many tips to pick up too. And yea, ADOLESCENCE is perhaps the greatest moment in live I think.

November 11, 2011

2011-11-11T06:54:00.001-08:00

A date to celebrate, isn't it? To many people (including myself) it is a strong affirmative.

So how would you look at it. A repetition of Elevens, or a repetition of Ones? I'd prefer the latter. One, as in the origin, or the point of time when it all kicks off or "原点" in mandarin. It's kind of like a reminder for me to go back to some points of time in the past when I have had well-defined visions or dreams. Unfortunately, time erodes almost everything. We got lost, we sway and we go out of focus when we are faced with multitude of shits.

So, nevermind that the reality bites, nevermind that things don't usually go in our favour, or however big the challenges are, be sure that you're responsible to preserve a strong, relentless, and persistent will to follow through whatever your heart genuinely believe in from the very beginning.

Yea, I am a believer of the future and I've got lotsa things to look forward to. So the 111111 is again something to tell me that I need to move forward and look ahead.

A bookmark I made it my own, it's a dedication for U & me.

And yea, it's a pretty special occasion too, so much so that I've got five injections of vaccines for my forthcoming trip to Papua New Guinea. I seldom face needles, and today I faced 5 of them all one shot. Great!

What to expect from the adventure in PNG?? Honestly I'm quite freaked out but at the same time I can't wait to find out, that's me, GATAL!

She've made it thru

2011-10-31T08:28:00.000-07:00

Selena Jen, has made it. She was at the peak of her career as a singer as well as an artist before the nightmare fell on her. A fire mishap during the filming of My Date With Spring (我和春天有個約會) in mainland China had almost robbed her of everything, but not of her live and her love. It's said that she suffered a 3rd degree burn on 35% of her body. But yea, these all weren't too big a challenge for her to take, she has pulled it through and there she is...

More pictures of her wedding, see here.

Congratulation, Selina. She definitely has touched many hearts with her courage and toughness.

《是时候》

2011-10-24T08:43:00.000-07:00

I'm never so sure about it and and I'm never so determined to want to do this and so yea, I hope this is a good mix of right timing, right place and right person! Finger crossed then =)

Steve Job

2011-10-08T09:01:00.000-07:00

Apple has been doing extraordinary phenomenal in recent years and it even overtook the big oil Exxon Mobil as the most valuable corporation in US. The worldwide craze, hype and excitement that Apple has drawn when it launched its products is totally mind-boggling, at least to me. Apple hit it again - More than 1 million consumers in seven countries ordered Apple Inc's latest phone, the iPhone 4S, in the first day, beating the company's previous record despite complaints from fans when products was unveiled. Read more.

Logo created by a Hong Kong's design student

The huge success of Apple has to be attributed to a man at the helm of the corporation, who would be no other than Steve Job, a truly visionary and inspiring leader. He pursued for quality product intercepting with fine art, a vital recipe for unrivaled coolness, in my opinion. Otherwise, the Apple fans wouldn't have queued up overnight to be among the firsts to get the iPhone. Make sense enough?

I'd love to call Job the inventor of modern days. He had brought about revolutionary change in the digital world which we are so heavily relying on for various purposes like communicating with each other and multi-media usages. The way we perceive technology has also been changed, partly due to the experience from Apple's innovative products and unconventionality.

Job's passing is no doubt a huge losses to the world. Some even said that his time hadn't reached a peak yet. When I first learned about the news, I was shocked.

These few days, I can't help but to notice that all the big media are doing coverage about Job, his life, his ways of success, his characteristics, and so on.

Few messages from Job that I've captured:

Don't dwell on mistakes.

Passion counts for a lot.

Stay foolish, stay hungry.

Steve Job, RIP.

1st "Mid-sem" break at work

2011-09-02T04:56:00.000-07:00

Back from a week long break, thanks to the Hari Raya and Independence Day. I was off to my lovely hometown for rejuvenation.

Time was flying freaking fast. Spent time with family and friends. Went for badminton, and of course, sea-swimming. Can't believe that we even had a brief picnic too, and it's kind of fun.

It so happened that my friend's dad passed away, attended the funeral to offer my condolences. Hope she will get over it soon and stay tough in light of the challenges the life has to bring to us all.

Just yesterday, while going round aimlessly by the beach, I bumped into an American couple who was in the middle of trouble because their motorbike was out of fuel. I went up to them and offered a helping hand. I know how hell of a time it was to get stuck at that particular stretch of road which is kind of isolated and the day was getting darker and darker, worst still there is no street light. I rushed to the town and bring them a bottle of fuel to "live" their bike. They were very grateful of me and wanted to give me a tip of RM2. Well, pretty stingy i guess. Anyway, I turned down the offer. I hope that I had made an impression to the American couple that the people of Pangkor are kind and friendly and spread it out to his friends and family. I'd like to see people from all over the world learn about Pankor and even make a trip here, forgetting the part they do cause pollution sometimes.

Anyway, it is a pretty enjoyable break, I hope things will start rolling again.

Nearing the crossroad?

2011-08-27T07:49:00.000-07:00

You know, when you are coming to a crossroad, a junction or any equivalence, you will have gotta make a decision, or else you are just going to stay on the same ground and going no where.

I am kind of in a dilemma right now whether I should seek for a change or stay on, wait and see. Frankly, I totally love what I am doing now, but situational arrangement may prove to be quite unfavorable to my long term growth. Well, perhaps it's an issue with the person-organisation fit. I am not sure if I am a fans of the culture and values of the company.

It will be another test of patience I guess. I say give it a bit more time to assess if the situation may become favorable or bullish. Because once I make a decision, it means I am just gotta get going and no turning back.

All is well...

What's up next...

2011-08-16T06:00:00.000-07:00

Long lost, ain't I? haha... I'm still good and kicking around. But yea, am kind of lazy to do posting here, due partly also to the lack of interesting ideas of what to pen down in here.

Anyway, recently I can't help but to get caught up by the kind of messes the world are facing. It is coming from all direction, spanning from political upheaval and reformation, economy crisis (what many believe a double- dip recession), chaotic social orderness. To name a few, US faced a downgrade of credit rating from AAA to AA- by S&P, Euro zone is still struggling over the sovereign debt, uprisings in middle east, tsunami and nuclear crisis in japan, unsustainably escalating inflation in china, and the list goes on and on.

What's up next?

In those days, it was not that difficult to foretell/predict what's gonna take place, how something would turn out to be like and so on. Back then, there was no such thing as supercomputer for modelling various scenarios or processing tonnes of formulas. Simply relying on hindsight, our forefathers could get a fairly good idea of what's up next. Conventional wisdom proved to be pretty adequate.

To date, things have gone a little out of control. Things are less predictable. Things are going erratically. Things are ferocious. Things are somewhat at scales never seen before. No doubt, our generation are smarter and more efficient than our ancestors were. However, are we getting to anywhere? As people keep wanting for more, more than what is needed, the whole system will become unsustainable. We think big, we want to take on something big fast enough. We cut corners. We manipulate things at the expense of something else. Worst of all, we operate in such a way that we ignore our responsibility, integrity and ethics. A fucking corrupted system, isn't it?

Thanks to globalization, thanks to advances in information technology, we are enjoying increased opportunities and instant communication with anyone anywhere anytime. The other side of the coin, the fact that we are so much connected/linked depending on one another, that we can no longer do without each other. What this means it that we barely can isolate the detrimental effects or damage done to our neighbours or someone at different geographic location. This means that crisis is even harder to be contained and managed.

It's time to give a thought what is our contribution to the mother earth and the world, although tiny as it may sound, if everyone shares the same thought, this is immense enough to make a difference. We are living in a highly complex world but we have got to always take care the fundamentals to go ahead and go further.

Marathon of unexpected events

2011-06-22T07:02:00.001-07:00

Got surprises one after another recently.

At first I was flown to Kemaman for job, tentatively to fly offshore in 2 days. It was my first trip to offshore, and I was pretty excited about it. Unfortunately and totally unexpectedly at night, I got a call asking me to come back to KL the next day because the job had been delayed. Well, fair enough, I tried the nasi kukus which I had heard a lot of.

The day after I got back to KL, I traveled back to home at Pangkor. It's Father Day. I guess it's not too bad as the job had been off but I got to come back home unexpectedly on Father's Day. Fair enough lar.

I tried to push for a back-up, which was to travel to Labuan for job preparation at the yard. It actually happened. I got approval the day before my flight, which was only confirmed 3 hours earlier than it. I rushed my ass off, from office back to home, did my packing, and got to KLIA all in 2.30 hours, a pretty great record for myself. Pretty unexpectedly, I am in Labuan now.

I just entered the yard today. The condition was rather unexpectedly tough (probably I had sit too long in the cozy office). It was a freaking hot day, and lots of physical works. No easy job, but no problem, I can pull it through.

Still, I am waiting for my replacement job offshore Guess it will come as a surprise again. I find it a lot of fun when there are many things taking place just out of the thin air. Hope that such momentum will keep building up till a point when I wanna put on the brake.

Don't forget to smile

2011-05-22T07:01:00.000-07:00

Living in the favorable and unfavorable situation is called "Part of Life",

but smiling in all those situation is called "Art of Life"

A very meaningful post here: Secrets of Smile.

Mixed experience at hair salon

2011-05-09T07:01:00.000-07:00

Thanks to the fuss over the heatwave, I finally decided to visit. Don't see the relationship?? Longer hair tends to trap heat.

Quite often, it's a hard decision as to which salon to visit, since there just so many of them around the area I reside. I am actually thinking to try out one by one.

I entered the Quay salon, a random choice though. I sat down.

Girl assistant (GA): who (which director) are you looking for?

Me: It's my first time here, I have no idea.

GA walked off for awhile and came back.

Me: How you do charge?

GA: Hair cut is RM35, hair wash and treatment is RM5. Blah blah blah...(Wth, She was mumbling, I had to observe her lip's movement to guess the message. Is it the new way of doing sales? )

Me: (Shit, so expansive one!) OK, wash, treat and cut then. (See, she managed to close the deal)

Hair wash, scalp message, rinse, blow all done in 5mins plus. The director showed up. He was called Ah Boy (wth? C'mon ain't you a freaking director? Ah boy? Lol). He is around my age. Appearance wise, he doesn't quite portrait the sense of a hair director, don't wanna comment further.

Ah boy: How do want to cut?

Me: What hair can you do for me?

Ah boy "ransacked" my hair and head, to which I could tell that he was having excessive energy.

Ah boy: I'm gonna cut roughly the same style as it's now, but the side I will trim more ... blahx3

Me: Fine. (You better prove your creativity)

Cutting in progress. He started off using "mow-er" to trim the side hair, just like how the Mico's director did. However, he was pretty detailed, to which he did it over and over again, changed the mow-er's head into different sizes. I could definitely see that he's concentrating on my hair. Unfortunately, this led to a problem. He f*cking pulled my right ear, yea just the right ear to lock my head into position so that he could continue to mow. I could totally feel his "pinch" and I could observe that my right ear already turned reddish. Recalling back the scene, it brought back the memory when I was in my primary school back then, the teacher did that to me (as punishement) for submiting the homeworks late. I was puzzled, didn't I ever screw him, did I? My left ear was completely untouched. Thanks god but still wth big time. Then he switched to a scissors and continued to work on my hair. From time to time, he'd just pulled my right ear again and again. I was getting pissed off already, and the level just went up and up. Lukily he managed to get my hair done in time before I lost my control to may be sound at him or something.
The GA came to rinse my hair. Still very soft-spoken. While blow my hair to make it dry, a kid came in. Out of thin air, she showed all the of excitement and she actually could speak up. Not it yet, when she done with me, she then used the hair dryer to blow away my cut hair on the floor near the wall. I got quite puzzled.
About the same time also, a malay girl came in. She had to remove her tudung and a guy help to cut her hair. It's like an eye opener for me. Lol...

Ah boy styled my hair. I paid and left with the director's name card, for god's sake"Ah Boy" is clearly printed there, no kidding.

I thought my hair is pretty well done, his detailed efforts somewhat pay off. I got chilled a lil.

I said the money I paid make a bit of sense but a lot of nonsenses.

Likin the new hairstyle quite a lot...

Everyone born awesome

2011-04-27T05:14:00.000-07:00

Every single one of us is awesome, but not many of us are aware of the fact. Well, a better way to put it, we tend to forget that we are awesome/beautiful in our very own way.

We constantly need assurance and positive feedback from people to help reminding us that we're good, or even great. At times, we receive bad comments or critics, we may take a blow. To me, this is quite unnecessary, simply because if the critics are constructive, take them in and change for good. In contrary, ignore the comments if they are nonsense, there is no need to take offense.

There is no way to tell/measure how awesomeyou are, simply because it is not something quantifiable. Different individuals have their own standards and expectations.

We all have got our parts/roles to play. Our values is definitely there, it is whether you choose to see and believe your values or ignore them. Of course I will go with the former. Even the leech has functons to serve. According the Answer.com, leech is any of various chiefly aquatic bloodsucking or carnivorous annelid worms of the class Hirudinea, of which one species (Hirudo medicinalis) was formerly used by physicians to bleed patients and is now sometimes used as a temporary aid to circulation during surgical reattachment of a body part.

So, if you already know that you are awesome, valueble, important and etc, I congratulate you, thrive on the thought. If you haven't, you seriously should find out the hideout of your values.

While you should believe that you yourself are pretty good, don't let the ego kill you too, unfortunately this happens alot. Be at the middle, at best, in the spectrum.

About the priority

2011-04-18T06:07:00.000-07:00

Different individual has different agendas and preferences, as each one of us sees things in our very own ways. So, automatically we all have our own set of priorities, which are, to a considerable extent, depending on our own values, resources and limitations. Bear in mind that priority is sort of dynamic and ever-changing, as it subjects to the passage of time, meaning to say at different stage in life, different things matter to us. (In my point of view) It is critically important to get the priorities right, and it's similarly/even more important to be able to follow them through disregard of what the obstacles are. From time to time, do revision. This is easy said, but no easy at all to do, at least to me, as I am up to so many things at once. I am definitely not getting all these easy on myself right now, and I have to tell myself chillax again and again...(take a deep breath)...

I have just walked into the society as a working individual/adult, for like 3 months ago. That said, I'm young and inexperienced, and am still trying hard to figure out how actually things work in the society and also the path which allows me to really optimize my resources: time, money, skills and what not. Until I have got these all sorted out, it's not going to be easy for me to proceed down the road, perhaps bypassing some shortcuts to my desired destination, or going on a bumpier road. I'd more than pleased to sit down with any individual who can insightfully advise me on this matter.

"Do today what you want for your tomorrows”. Robert Kiyosaki. I couldn't agree more with him on this. Your actions now will have significant effect on your future. So, make sure you put your resources to work for you or and use them to your advantage, rather than just letting them go to waste. This is especially true in the case of time, which I think can be singled out as the MOST precious yet finite resource one can have. Waste no time and always remember: The clock is ticking. It really scares the hell out of me every time I look back how fast the time flies, incredibly fast!!! It somehow scares me too when I see people not capitalizing their time too...

Distraction is by all means HUGE out here. Be focused or get drifted off and drowned. Let's pray for an "all izz well".

First of April

2011-04-01T09:12:00.001-07:00

Today is April Fool, nothing much happened, except for part that I bidded a crystal stone. I guess I made a brilliant choice to dine at the food center near the LRT station. There was an auction going on. A crystal jeweller put up a stall and started talking to the crowd, the people who came and had their dinner there. Initially I didn't quite give a thing about it, as the background noice of the traffic and train was overwhelming. Partly also, I am kind of skeptical with auction at such place. However, it started to grab my attention when the jeweller explaining on the connection between some fengshui with different crystals. For the first time, I was participating in a bid and I guess it's pretty fun. The scenes in Hong Kong drama where the riches call out prices in an auction popped out in my mind and I thought those are cool acts. I called the price too. The difference is that for every call, there is an increase of 2 bucks, completely insignificant to what's in the show. Well, I think it's manageable and within my budget, so I took part. At the beginning, the "market" was kind of passive as in not many people paying attention to the jeweller despite all the fantastic sales pitches. He wasn't engaging the audience. Soon, it got warmed up a bit as the items being autioned become more and more interesting. Apparently there was a group of guys at the other table sort of "coming after" me. The items I was up for, they wanted them too. I called the price, then one of them called, and i called again and he called, on and on and on...as it went beyond my limit (RM30), I stopped. As far as I am concerned, we never should pay too high a price for anything even if it's good stuff. think the auction itself is a good simulation of the scenarios in stock market. The way to play it is never get too obsessed with anything in partcular, always look out for numbers. Something which are attractive will become unattractive if it gets over it's intrinsic value (book value) and therefore the risk incurs will be increased correspondingly. It is also about control of greed and fear, the emotional work is imperative. At certain point of time during the auction, when those guys were aftering me, I was kind of feeling that I was losing my ground. I feel like I should probably put up a good fight and I almost failed to refrain going over my predetermined prices at times. I came pretty closed to being carried away by what people call, the stampede effect. But yea, I managed to bring myself under control and keep head cool. Eventually I got a pretty good bargain I guess. The bunch of dudes ran out of "bullet"? Lol...

The jeweller called it White Rose. I bid it for RM 16. Of any worth???

For health, for luck, hope that it works things out well for me.

White Rose?? What a name. It's said that be from Paraguay, am i conned?

Seeing good trend in things

2011-03-31T07:14:00.000-07:00

Don't I look good on my CNY cloth...It's so red, I might well wear it during CNY Day 1!

Things are going pretty awesome. I've secured what I have been up for, landing on the department which, in my firm belief, is offering the industry some technologies of tomorrow.

MPD --> Let's drill for the undrillables!

Some major changes in the company's management and policies are taking place. Of course I will be affected in one way or another. However, let's don't bother about what is beyond our control...or simply control the controllables...

For one thing which I am goddamn sure of, I have a lot a lot of things to learn and pick up. It's so much fun that you know you are absorbing so much stuffs everyday. Time's lapsing fast, you see, I mistook today for wednesday. The last thing you want to do is thinking a way to kill time, and this is not my case, indeed terrific.

Things have been lovely thus far for me, let's hope for the good if not better.

Two months old at work

2011-03-13T03:31:00.000-07:00

Have worked for almost 2 months. If you were to ask me how's my works like or how do I do thus far, I'm sorry that I can't really answer your questions? As a matter of fact, we (14 of us joined by 6 thai) haven't really done much. As this is a graduate program, the past two months is kind of an orientation period for us (variety of engineering backgrounds) to grab some pieces of the whole picture into what this industry is about and the company's diverse businesses and its organisation. Well, some of us might be more informed about these, I guess it is still of help to revise stuffs over before they get too complicated. Well, I am pretty sure they by no mean will be complicated, else we wouldn't have the edge to earn big bucks, correct or not??

Anyway, I did accomplish something already I guess. Apart from the increased level of understanding about the industry, I've built a pretty good relationship with the thai trainees. They are truly a fun and interesting bunch and I'd love to join them in bangkok or songkla in the near future. On top of that, I had passed the BOSIET training in MSDS Pasir Gudang. I did the courses like Helicopter Under Escape Training (HUET), boat transfer, fire fighting, hydrogen sulfide (H2S), manual handling and cardiopulmonary resucitation (CPR) by the formula DRABC (Danger, Response, Airway, Breathing, Circulationg) and so on. Yea I hope I am able to make an escape in any case of emergency and if possible help to rescue lives. Be informed that in time of emergency, the key thing is to remain calm, think and act. Pray hard that there is no emergency throughout my career life though. So, I have got my "passport" and I'm ready to go. Cool stuff!!

My honeymoon is coming to an end perhaps in two weeks time. It's almost time to get rock and roll...cheers....and yea that also means that I can almost able to answer your questions above. Keep finger crossed!

The bowling masters

2011-03-12T06:18:00.000-08:00

Few weeks ago, I went for bowling session with the thai trainees in Time Square. I hadn't touched this game for like a year but I did pretty well.

Check out for row 2 -Jeffrey, a score of 125, led the game all the way through.

But yea, this dude was fantastic. Row 1 - TH scored 139. This is insane. haha...

Pencil has got some lessons for us

2011-02-12T07:22:00.000-08:00

A pencil maker told his pencils 5 important lessons in life...

1st: Everything you do will always leave a mark...
2nd: You can always correct the mistakes you make...
3rd: What's important is what is inside of you...
4th: In life, you will undergo painful sharpenings that
will make you a better pencil...

and.....

5th: The most important is to be the best pencil you can be.
By allowing yourself to be held and guided by the hand that holds you.

Excerpt from Dawn Yang blog post.

Moments of CNY 2011

2011-02-08T05:23:00.000-08:00

Snapped using my bro's semi pro. This is a good pic, the people and the backdrop...excellent!

My former high school mates. They all are looking good still.
This pic is also good set against a backdrop of fishing village, truly Pangkor, lovely!!

Gathering @ the ZS's house.
Those who are in their own random shirt other than white shirt are the pissed opposition getting ready for a mess.

It's a freaking hot day, but it's all worthwhile having a nice pic like this!

This is our self-designed t-shirt, specially for cny 2011, *Year of Rabbit*.

We planned it out, had it designed, but it was a terrible finishing.

Supposedly it looked good, at least looked ok provided the piece of cloth is something of quality.

Unfortunately, he gave us all piece of crap at an unfair piece.

It's a pretty much fucked up "project", and the shirt wasn't well accepted at all.

He, the cheater actually got cursed during CNY...too bad.

Summing it up, it's a pretty good celebration, things (gathering, eating, gambling, yumcha, night out by the beach) were a bit routine, but I'm cool with all these. Sharing moments with good companions matter the most to me. Time ran out swiftly. I heard quite a few people saying that the cny is going to be more and more boring as we've grown up. I'm not that buying into such claim. Of course, if there is any fresh elements added to the course of time, it should be a lot more interesting.

Good to go already

2011-01-28T17:57:00.000-08:00

As a scholarship holder to the national oil company, it is basically that everyone of us is obliged to wait for 6 months after graduation before you are free to go and join any other companies, provided there is no job offer coming through from them in the length of time.

Yea, there is always another option which is a breach of contract and repayment of a full loan, of which the amount is probably equivalent to a Honda City. Since my background isn't so strong, the second option is not even a legitimate option actually. In other words, I am practically and entirely unprepared for a boc.

However, I personally have some issues with the bond of 10 years, as I would prefer to seek adventure somewhere else and take full charge of my future endeavours. This is probably to say that I am choosing a more difficult and uncertain path which can be more rewarding too if things turn out anywhere from good to great and of course it can be the other way around. I can tell y'all that it is the risks which I am willing to take.

So I pretty much stucked at that point/period of time. I could do nothing except for waiting for their offer to call me in (which I pray not) and at the same time waiting for the six months to expire (which I truly pray for). This is a hell of a kind process, as it took a great deal of patience. It kind of broke my nerves at times. However, I simply had got no choice.

But now, the cloudy sky has cleared out for me already. I have come out from the tunnel. The six months is FINALLY and EVENTUALLY and ABSOLUTELY over and thus I am freed. Well, I still have to pay a cut of the *Honda City* worth bond, but I am more than happy to do that.

It used to be that I am on the chopping board but now it's the opposite. Indeed an excellent and awesome gift for my 2011 chinese new year. Things seem to be changed in my favor and I am guessing if it is the manifestation of the Law of Attraction, after all my relentless prayers.

Kong He Fa Choi

Going to go to work

2011-01-14T16:42:00.000-08:00

Of sudden, I am feeling a bit agitated. Perhaps I have already gotten myself too comfortable at home, a place where most things are taken cared of and you need not worry much. It has been a really long hiatus which is very soon to come to an end. Of sudden, the clock seems to tick faster. Is it a sign telling that I'm looking forward to go to work? Thinking about having to do the 8-5 hours, I am sort of freaked out already.

Pal, time to stay out of comfort zone and keep your finger crossed. tc =)

新的开始

2011-01-03T21:31:00.000-08:00

又新的一年。应该会很忙吧。忙事业，忙捞人生的第一桶金，忙自我增值，寻找自己，忙寻找欢乐等。。。

当然还要忙下找个伴，时间终于对了，（还不算太迟吧？）有心不怕迟！骗下自己好了。

看下谁是自己的女神吧。

金泰希，绝对是我的首号。美貌+智慧+气质=完美

Jessica Biel: 美貌+健康+神秘感

Jessica - SNSD: 甜美+活力+开心

Ivanka Trump: 美貌+智慧+本领高

哈哈。。。在发梦。。。找个能合得来的就好。。。为忙碌的新一年加油去吧！

Looking back and ahead

2010-12-30T16:48:00.000-08:00

It's the last page on the 2010 calendar! I think it already makes no point to try to describe how fast time flies.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. So this is time to do this.

This year has been quite bumpy, but ain't it always about "swim or sank". Yes, I have survived storm after storm, and thus I'd say I'm tougher than ever (well physically may be rounder). I am expecting awesomenesses in the new year which has already proven to be a more challenging time. Nevermind, just remain hopeful, things will come the ways we want it, i mean EVENTUALLY!

I have had some milestones this year. With all kinda greatness, both the goods and bads, I have come out of the university and assume a title of "fresh graduate". Shit happened and I was out of job for quite a long time. I had gone through a couple of interviews before I successfully landed myself on a job. I'd say getting a job is no easy, let alone a desirable job. Being a little bit choosy should make things worse. Anyway, the good part is the I'd gain some experience.

On the other side of the coin, the protracted unemployment has allowed me to spend more time with my family. Since I got into university, I have been away from home most of the time. This time around, I was with my family for many festivals like duan wu jie, qing ming jie, zhong qiu jie, dong zi, and christmas. Well, it's nothing but meaningful. I have been swimming a lot too, that makes me a better swimmer, hopefully. Along with my job search, I have done quite some traveling, from Singapore to Johor and KL.

So, my 2010 is somewhat like a pendulum that has been swinging downward. This point in time, it almost hits the bottom, and looking forward, it will swing upward. The future is never predictable but I do have some optimism and enthusiasm. Pray for a better tomorrow!

BYE 2010 & HELLO 2011

My first french dude

2010-12-22T19:17:00.000-08:00

I was introduced by a friend to a French dude, Patrick by the name, whom he "met" via couchsurfing website. Couchsurfing is almost like facebook except that it serves the backpackers community. It is indeed a great offering for those who wish to experience the distinctive way of live of the local people and their cultures and norms , let alone to cut cost.

The three of us hosted Patrick. It's a 4D 3N trip. We provided him a place to stay and showed him around the places. He is a French but he speaks very fluent english, to which I presumed the otherwise at first and that I would have some problems communicating with him. He is at his early of 50s and in a very good physical shape. He is an archeologist, rare enough? He could even tell that there's a mistake with regard to the date the Dutch Fort being listed as Heritage of something. Well, he may be wight. We brought him to the newly open Galery of Pangkor. He seemed to have great deal of interest on the ceramics and writings on which many of us have almost zero interest. Really interesting it is.

Despite the huge difference in age, generation gap wasn't even an issue for us. It had been very nice, informative and enjoyable to chat with him. We had some real good chats by the cliff, on the rock facing the sea at night, over meals, during swimming, at home and etc. Exchange of ideas is really the thing which I have vast interest in and this time, it was with a Caucasian. Our topics were so broad, from the stories about his 30D India trip, couchsurfing experience, the European's stuffs, the field of archeology to whatever stories of ours. I went with him to a spot at where the sunset is best beheld and I learned a good lesson about it. While many of other tourists were impatient to leave the spot, the two of us were taking our time there seeing how amazingly the sunset changed every other seconds. I wasn't awared about this last time.

Arhhh... there is a laughing stock. The two of my friends had a funny conflict/disagreement on who is greater, the beatles, celine dion or air supply. Well, the three are of something like apple, orange and pineapple and are all awesome at their respective time I would say. Another thing is that having a karaoke isn't such a good idea for him (perhaps the Causasians in general). It's thought as noise especially when you have either a terrible voice or terrible song choice or both. But yea, it's pretty entertaining and it actually made our day in a way. Conflict arised too between him and Sin over the use of facebook and couchsurfing. It is however, in essense, the differences didn't bother us much.

So we have become friend and yea we were invited to pay him a visit at Reims. Hope my financials will improve a lot to allow me to do that as soon as possible.

A little souvenir =)

This is it!

2010-12-12T17:08:00.000-08:00

the sky is kind of blue today,
the weather is just pleasant,

thanks to the downpour last night,

refreshing breeze felt in the face

the leaves of the durian trees flip over blown by the wind

it is almost like as if thousands of glorified-yellow hues greeting me good morning,

the songs played sound nicer than all other time,

I feel light, easier to move around and move along,

the intepretations of a handsome mood are amazingly fantastic,

I should be staying this way...yes i should,

let's blossom on positive energy everyday.

yup, I'm delighted at the moment.

Courtesy SNSD-Jessica's new solo: Sweet Delight

finally I know it's near the bottom after months of fucked-up unemployment,

c'mon i ain't that bad,

hell is that many things are just beyond control,

and fuck it,

i'm gonna be back to active mode leading a more meaningful live soon,

it sounds like a reborn,

well it is,

have faith and stay strong and lucky ...

Of recent changes in Pangkor from an insider's view

2010-11-22T02:59:00.000-08:00

"Nothing ever built to last" - How true it is. Changes is necessary for sake the of growth and sustainability. For example, if human being don't grow old, fall sick and die, the human population will precipitously explode, and thus become not sustainable, in terms of food supply, job employment, lands for shelters, transportation and so on.

My hometown, Pulau Pangkor is of no escape from changes too. Here goes my anthropological study about this wonderful island.

Changes was once gradual, not until Dato' Seri Dr. Zambry Abdul Kadir was made the menteri besar of Perak in 2009. Under his leadership, it is without reasonable doubt that a lot of money has since been injected to upgrade the aging infrastructure and facilities on the island, including a modern incinerator, fire station, police station, jetties, road, the street lights and so on. While the Pangkor people are happy to see all these changes, the health care and hospital facility, which are what we truly need, are literally left unattended to. (Well, perhaps just so little has been done about them.) In the event of emergency, there is always much delay to send the sicks/woundeds across the sea to the better hospital(s) in mainland. Such delays have claimed lives on many occasions. This is a major problem which the authority should look into as soon as possible to prevent unnecessary loss of lives. Despite a rather small population, we definitely need a few experienced paramedics to provide on-the-spot treatment to stabilise patients. Besides, we also need a fast and efficient means to send the patients across to mainland. Both of these can really make a difference between life and death.

Demographically, there is an evident outflow of young people seeking opportunities outside, in pursuit of eduction and career. Such trend is especially profound among the Chinese community in their twenties. Immigrants like Thai, Indonesian, Myanmar have been imported for the jobs in fishing boats as well as construction sites. Interestingly, there is also quite a number of men who have gotten themselves the Vietnamese wives. I believe the size of population has been going down but the diversity of community is growing. I hope the social security and peace will always be maintained and intact.

On the economy aspect, fishery has long been the primary economic thrust. Tourism is increasingly gaining ground as Pangkor has long established its name for both local and international tourists. However, the fact that it is very seasonal, as crowds are only seen on festivals and public holidays, has capped its potential to becoming a bigger contributor to local economy mix. I hope the authority will have more dustbins placed along the beaches and arrange regular clean-up, as the beachside (especially near the Pasir Bogak) are always heavily littered as a result of mass tourism. Ask yourself, if the people cannot find any dustbin in the vicinity, how do you expect them to "manage" the rubbish? On the other hand, some businesses, especially food stalls/outlets, have vanished, either because of the operators passed away/became unfit/retired or due to low market activity. There is no many new businesses. I am actually quite worried that it may become an old folks island ten years down the road.

The cost of living has been affordably high (due to transport fee as it's isolated from the mainland) and it is on the rise gradually in light of nationwide inflation. I don't see much reform regarding the education system. There is a couple of excellent SPM students every year and some occurrences of disciplinary problems. Something different from the old days is that there is more and more people going for tertiary education. The use of Internet has also been widespread among the young people in recent years. I hope the "Window" can leverage them to world of knowledge keeping them on track with the ever changing world. Facebook is definitely one of the emerging trend here too. Moreover, the island is considerably safe as there is almost negligible criminal cases thus far, except for several cases of snatch thefts. Road accident rate is pretty low too.

As to the environmental aspect, deforestation has been observed taking place actively. Trees are being cut down to make way for development. This has raised quite a considerable concern. It is feared that if such action go uncontrolled, it can potentially pose some threats to the community, such as flash flood, landslide, warmer weather, destroy of scenic view of nature and so on. This activity has to be monitored and afforestation should be carried out simultaneously too. Furthermore, it has also been observed that the beachside are being gradually eroded by rough sea condition as well as rising sea water level. This is a slow process but its impacts will become pronounced from one decade to another. Hence, beach preservation and restoration efforts are important.

Changes are intended for betterment. Pangkor is inarguably very much liveable to the locals, as well as being a terrific touristic spot for a weekend getaway. Its slow pace of life, relatively complete infrastructure, smooth traffic, scenic seaview, fresh air and clean environment, island-kind-of weather and so on are among the good mix for such an amazing place. I hope the authority will always check their works and really go near the community to seek their opinions regarding the development/changes/upgrade that are most relevant to them, embracing all-inclusive policy.

The people sitting next table at kopitiam

2010-10-24T09:20:00.000-07:00

It really doesn't make you look any good when you are busy condemning somebody or something. Worse still if the topics are sensitive to the people at the surrounding.

I was at the kopitiam with a friend, trying to get chilled from the heatwave. Soon, a group of people of religion X came and sat just beside us. They were easily identified because this is such a small community in my hometown. We carried on with our conversation, so did they. Probably they were of such a big group that they were chatting audibly loud. It's not difficult to guess that they were having some sort of sharing session. (You most probably have guessed what X is)

At first, we weren't get bothered much, not until we heard a familiar name, Stanley. We actually paused our conversation to catch on what's with him from their chat. Well, simply because Stanley is such an unpopularly interesting person the way he is (unconventional, weird). The key point is what he has in common with the rest of them, place of worship. Coincidentally enough that Stanley is a friend of ours. They were bashing him terribly and laughing out loud. Another guy who is closely associated with Stanley was being "victimised" too. Apparently there are lots of prejudice/bias on them both. It certainly didn't reflect to me any good about them because I stereotype that they are like a "family" who have due respect for each other in absence of discriminate for any member.

They were such a big crap that they went on condemning the culture of others, the practices of their own families, and some sensitive issues regarding ethnicity. Me and my friend had to abandon our topics to follow their chat which annoyed us a lot. I bet they didn't have a clue what they were doing. First, their topics are senstive, then their chat were audible like as if they weren't only chatting to themselves, and for god's sake it's a public area.

Well, I won't classified them as a representation to the others of the same religion. In my campus, I have seen the so-called "family" too. Their bonding is solid and they treat and support each other well. (as much as I'd observed)

Yea, as to the grudging bunch, I truly feel sorry for them if they continue doing so. (Wrong place, wrong time, wrong subjects).

While it's fun to condemn something, it requires some skills. And yea, I believe that it doesn't make you look any good busy condemning.

Laugh once at others, laugh twice at yourself.

Accidental volunteering for a good cause

2010-10-15T09:44:00.001-07:00

I had to travel all the way down Singapore on a mission.

Can u believe that me canvassing for a blood donation drive at the entrance of a sg mall?!!

It was all by coincidence. At first, I had an interview to attend. Then I had to prolong my stay due to some issues. Over the weekend, I basically got all the time to room around the city. I met up a dude, wen kiat who has voluntered himself for a blood donation drive organised by his company. Since I need him to show me the *inside of singpoare*, I simply tagged along the charitable work. Well, my previous visit has covered some touristic places, so this trip I would wish to see the speciality of the Lion City.

Giving out tissues and balloons, sending out the awareness about the ongoing blood donation drive is definately one of its kind experience. I believe we had done great job. We did get quite some rejections but so what, we hit the target!! I certainly felt good about that. But yea, a wide range of personalities encountered, from lansi, kiat su kiat si, buat bodoh to kind, generous, friendly, polite and so.

He certainly had introduced me quite some interesting stuffs. I was brought to visit NTU and SMU, the Main Public Library (hotel-like), cyber cafe for left 4 death game, clubbing hub @ kranji, Sands, the commercial hub, harbourfront and so on. Indeed, they make my visit more meaningful (insightful). Thanks macha...

It's time to gulung tikar the soccer

2010-09-13T05:33:00.000-07:00

I have long (years) been absent from field. I remember back then, during my secondary school, I really couldn't do without football. Certain seasons like during the FIFA @ UEFA frenzy, we played it almost everyday without fail. Like the saying goes, practice makes perfect. I was fast, I got everlasting stamina and I was skillful. The mix allowed me to play for school with another friend. I was the main dynamo steering the direction of games.

This afternoon, I spotted a group of juniors playing football at the field. I invited another friend, Sin Sin to play with them and we did. Yea, we were just slightly better than *kaki bangku*. Decreased speed, slow response time, poor stamina, stiff physical and bad ball control. Unlikely, some of the juniors are really good. Initially I thought to do some show-offs, end up being trashed by the juniors team. Well of course they have the advantage because they play it constantly. Moreover, when it comes to sport, age is always a major factor.

Erm...i think I better *bungkus* @ *gulung tikar* and seek adventure inside the computer game. Even the greatest players like Maradona and Ronaldo have to quit their football career, the nature is really taking its course.

Whatever it is, football remains one of my favorite sports and it will always hold true.

Got pisssed twice today

2010-09-08T10:27:00.000-07:00

This afternoon, I walked out of my house heading off to post office for paying my broadband bill, only to find out an apei was *taking without permission* the veggies that my father plants. Apparently I got pissed right away. I approached him to sort of *check him out*. It's my intention to cause him some embarrassment.

Me: Hey, what're doing?
Him: I want to take some veggies. Ah Eng plants this right? This veggies very nice ler, good for health...blar blar blar. (keep taking the veggies)
Me: Who Ah Eng?? It's my dad who plants this. Walao, how much you want to take?? (Raised tone + dulan face)
Him: Two three more. (then he cabut on his bicycle)
Me: (If he comes again, I am really gonna shoot him gao gao, not more bagi muka.)

Then I went to post office. A fucked up fellow tried to cut my queue. I didn't realise at first because he went straight to the lady in front of me and chit-chat a lil. Suddenly, the lady said to the fella u tak payah beratur meh?? I got pissed right away and immediately put on my dulan face. I guess he felt something wrong and then went queueing up. C'mon on lar fella, just queue up for the sake of orderness.

I am particularly irritated when someone cuts queue, especially my queue, well emergency case is exceptional. I remember there was once when I was paying for my goods at university's kopetro, a junior cut my queue and the cashier was so moroon to accept his money too. He really acted like as if it was alright for his deed. That's in the midst of examination. Everyone got tensioned up. I almost went exploded and spelled out *Can you get the fxxx out of here, go queue dude!!!*. Somemore his face is really a fucked face.

I don't know. May be I'm kind of fucked up these days due to the prolonged unemployment. Keep reminding myself that *patience is virtue*. Perhaps it's time to sip vodka or something!! hahaha...

Singapore-JB trip

2010-09-06T22:04:00.001-07:00

Recently I went south to visit Singapore and dropped by JB to catch up with friends. My last visit to s'pore was such many years ago that I barely remember how it used to look. Plus the country is advancing by leaps and bounces. So, this visit is kind of eye opener to me! What I can say about s'pore is that "they really make something out of nothing".

The suspension bridge @ Sentosa man-made beach

King kong in the city @ Marina Bay Sands Singapore, famous for its sky garden.

One of my hosts in JB, Simon-Kerwin-Ong

@ Pasir Gudang Crocodile Farm.

The crocodiles look absolutely like toys to me.

Delicious Ikan Bakar @ The Zone, Johore

The Nasi Goreng Udang (TM), the best food I had there.

The entrance of casino @ Resort World Sentosa. The white is my favorite, Lamborghini Gallardo.

The symbolic, Lion Fountain in proximity with Marina Bay Sands.

While unfolding of TBH's death

2010-08-19T23:10:00.000-07:00

His death was suicidal or homicidal? This is absolutely a big case, as many things are on stake now including the justice, humanitarian, the reputation of the country, the credibility of profession like law and forensic pathology and so on.

Dr Pornthip, a renowned forensic pathologist, risking her personal security, came to testify in court for the second time few days ago. She has ruled out suicide in disagreement with the other three pathologists hired by MACC (two locals and Dr Peter Vanezis, a brit).

Dr Pornthip. Very the *chio* right, but she is highly recognized for her piece of work and professionalism

The case is being really so well plotted out. Perhaps all are acts fuelled by desperation to hide the truth. Dr Porthip's report was made public in recent inquest and the world (both the locals and internationals) watched a *world class* inquest. *World class* because we have thai and britain national pathologists as witnesses and "world class" lawyer Abdul Razak. Haha...

This is him, the *world class* lawyer. Widely criticized for his incompetence despite 24 yrs in service. But yea, his great sense of humor is out of question.

If you have little/no idea about TBH's case, read this through. I assure you it makes your day.

Here goes my fb comment in dedication to Teoh's inquest.

*In short, TBH's case shows a lot of ugly sides about the country (the corrupted execution system, the sluggish jurisdiction system, the incompetence in profession of law, and the bias and superficialness in forensic pathology. Indeed an insult to bolehland*

Hope the truth will be revealed soon.

Handling of phone call pon a lot std deviation

2010-08-19T00:05:00.000-07:00

These days, companies normally have their own websites for whatever reasons la. Of course one can always find the contacts of the companies from their website for whatever inquiries.

Am doing jobseek recently. I searched for contacts and called up quite a number of companies Here goes some of my experiences with the ladies on the other end of the line.

Company A-->I actually got contacts of several personnel of the company. I called them up one by one and to my absofreakinglutely surprise, none of them actually picked up my call. Apparently I was kind of taken aback. All of them are away, really?? Public holiday or what?? By the way, a friend of mine told me that he had to call in more than 10 times until the call was finally answered. It means that this is a constant situation which may have been around for months or years, god knows.

Company B --> I called up the general line. A receptionist picked up and was damn blur about everything, so she forwarded me to another "expert". You know what, the "expert" was freaking blur too, she sounded like she just got awaken from sleep or something by the call. Her tone was bad which made me think she was on her period. Absolutely wtf.

Company C -->The receptionist was fast to pick up my call and was very helpful. Sounded professional, directed me to the relevant personnel who was adept at responding my inquiries. Damn impressed.

Company D --> The personnel was someone whom I'd dealt with before. Impressed because she is still able to recognize me although I have not been "bugging" her for a while already. Of course, she was helpful and able to provide me the tips I wanted.

Different companies make different level of phone call handling. Some are satisfying while others are not. I wonder whether phone call response actually reflects the operational efficiency of the company cuz I can see that some screwed up companies suck big time in it

Somebody masuk longkang

2010-08-07T01:33:00.000-07:00

Weather was just nice this afternoon. After getting some stuffs done, I decided to go "on-patrol". Being unemployed, I'm doing nothing but guarding off the island from any invasion or intrusion sort of things. Plain craps, but yea, I rode off slowly enjoying what the mother nature has to offer, the soothing breeze, the merciful sun and the scenic seaview. Nope, I wasn't checking out for chicks. Instead, I was kind of looking out for any signs of construction and devestation done to the used-to-be a wonderful place. In fact, I have always been vigilant on this since the arguably renowned Datuk Zambri was officially made the Menteri Besar of Perak.

Alright, back to the loser story. While I was having some fantasies on my mind, a motorbike overtook me swiftly. I was kind of shocked as it was all out of a sudden and I literally heard nothing coming from my back. Spooky?? My initial thought was: Walao, so fast meh!!! Need or not!! Chill lar bro...

Ahead of us was a van moving slowly and further down is a narrow sharp corner. Instead of slowing down, the man-in-act went on speeding up trying to overtake the van. As blocked by the van, he got off from my sight momentarily. To my surprise, there came an incoming proton saga from the opposite direction going kind of slowly too. Immediately I started to wonder how would he even manage to get through it based on the difficulties: *narrow*, *sharp corner* and *incoming car*. I rode on and then I saw him came to a halt already. He had got himself plunged into drainage channel by the roadside. He just stood there, unharmed and seemed frustrated. The bike got cacat a bit kot!!

Thanks god, it didn't turn out an accident, rather a failed stunt. That said, I think I'm a much skilled rider than he is. Yea, I always speed on the road but the difference between us is that I control my speed, at all time.

Personal financial management

2010-08-03T00:21:00.000-07:00

A meaningful program was aired via Ai FM this morning. I'm here to share some points regarding the topic.

Just when everyone wants to be rich, they normally do not have a definitive idea of how much of a wealth or asset should they possess. In simpler term, most people in general are actually not aware of what is the eventual wealth for them to attain financial freedom. Even simpler, how much is enough? They may say they want to earn a lot of money, have big houses and cars and other luxurious materials like jewelleries and so on. This is the misconception of the group of public about being rich.

By the concept of scarcity in economics sense, the wants and needs of individuals are always unlimited as opposed to their resources (time, money, skills, etc). Having that said, ones would normally get tied up by liabilities in pursuit of the materials as the cash outflow is faster than the cash inflow.

According to the guest of the program (陈凯顺, if i got it right), financial freedom is the state when our reserved resources can self-sustain/fulfill our needs and wants without needing us to work or find the external income. That would mean that at our retirement (say 50 or 60), we can still lead a desirable lifestyle using money from savings, investments, or business for ten, twenty, thirty years or so on until we die. That would also mean that we need a substantial amount of reserved resources which can generate sufficient cash inflow by themselves. Apparently, I couldn't agree more on his perspective about being rich.

He also mentioned about a golden rule for personal financial management which says the personal income should be broken into a ratio of 2:1:1:6 as representatives for investment, kid's education, insurance, and expenses.

2 for investments including bonds, mutual funds, stocks, real estates and so on.
1 for kid's (tertiary) education fee when they finish high school, or marriage fee.
1 for insurance (to protect for emergencies that need huge sum of money)
6 for expenses including food, transportation, rental, entertainments, parents and so on.

NOTE: Prior to this income breakdown, it is important to have upfront a saving of 6-12 months of your current income so that you can cash out for emergencies or unforeseen events (i.e. out of job).

Of course this is just one of the example out of so many strategies to personal financial management out there. And different individuals have their own constraints and situations to which they are bound within, and thus need different strategies to go about it. The key point to make here is that it is important to learn about it EARLY, execute it EARLY and probably do a review from time to time. Why bother to start EARLY? Well, simply we want to take advantage of the compounding, a process of generating earning on an asset's reinvested earning.

Being the greatest mathematical discovery of all time (quoted by Albert Einstein), here is how the compound interest works the magics. The formula is:

[Future worth = capital x 1.06^n], where n is number of yrs;

Take 6% interest rate and capital as 10,000, then:

n= 1, thus FW = 10,000 x 1.06^1 = 10,600
n=5, thus FW = 10, 000 x 1.06^5 = 13,382.26
n=10, thus FW = 10, 000 x 1.06^10 = 17908,48
n=20, thus FW = 10, 000 x 1.06^20 = 32,0271.35
n=30, thus FW = 10,000 x 1.06^30 = 57,434,91

If one is to plot it in graph, one can see that the graph accelerates fast with increase in the number of years. It takes reinvestment of earning and time, therefore it's critical to start it early.

Back to the Ai FM program, I find it very insightful and particularly useful for ones who are "green" about personal financial investment. Indeed an excellent program.

The final words of wisdom from the guest: ones may earn less but financial freedom is absolutely achievable by having a good financial management. Ones who earn a lot but may remain money slave forever if they do not manage their wealth properly.

Jho Low's frenzy

2010-07-30T23:31:00.000-07:00

Recently, this young Penangite has been drawing tremendous attention from both local and international media. Initially, Jho Low was widely reported to have partied with Paris Hilton and many other international famous socialites and his excessive lifestyle spending exorbitant bills on alcohols and entertainment. As a matter of fact, he had so little track records in the past, and was whole mysterious to especially the oversea media who started off making away speculative reports.

Not until he lost his patience and came out to clarify rumors around him. Going through his profile, I am incredibly impressed. He has been a millionaire while he was still in university. Built on excellent fundation in business and superior networking with some super-richs from middle east, he is now a distinguished businessman, investor and fund manager, at the age of 28. Me, got mind blown off. He attributes his successs to the right place, right time and right people, which I couldn't agree more with the saying. If any of these factors is absent, the story will be whole different. And of course, he needs to possess a set of quality within him to deal with the resources made available to him.

I think he is a very inspiring figure, and if can I would wish to take some lessons from him...wakakaka...Well, he proves to us that "Malaysia Boleh" as opposed to the politicians who prove us nothing but bullshits. As an instance, malaysia foreign direct investment (FDI) crashed by 80% for year 2009. (Read) Perhaps Jho Low could somehow help to attract more middle east investors to pump in money here, like what happens in the Iskandar Zone where the major investors are from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.

有亲自远方来

2010-07-24T00:00:00.000-07:00

前两天，海南岛的亲戚千里遥遥，跨山渡海，到我家乡来探亲。其实这是初次见面。我是觉得满陌生的，但他们却相当的亲切，初次和我握手时，似乎握着久久都不要放手的，最后还要我用微力的拉脱. （是扮出来的吗？听太多中国人骗扎的故事了。）

他们一共有四人，是我外公还没南下大马前在海南岛和第一个老婆生的儿子的儿子和他的家庭，其中包过他，太太，女儿和孙女。简单说，他是我妈同父异母的哥哥的儿子。

因为乘错飞机，他们先到新加坡，在那白待了两天，来到我这里时也是满匆忙的，第二天又要下槟城了。互相问候，了解些对方的背景，吃些好料，带他们去名胜看看,时间一下就过去了。其中他们想去看看我外公的照片，就带他们去海南会馆看。看着照片时，他们很自然的就流泪起来，说外公长的和他父亲很像脸，走时还很舍不得似的。还有带他们到外婆的灵位去祭拜，因为有把外公也请来。他们也直接的就哭成泪人。（我却又联想到中国老千的故事，糟糕！！）他们其实都没见过我外公的，也只能由他父亲的故事去瓶空想象，不过他们就是有那刹那的感触。那种思念亲人，寻根究底的精神，不是我所能了解的，但我很敬佩。突然也觉得自称是新世纪人的我抬不应该了。

他们的到访虽然短暂，但有令我领悟到什么的，希望过不久后也能到海南岛探亲游玩。。。

So Zzzzz...am doing the butterfly liao

2010-07-20T06:50:00.000-07:00

Fearing of getting out of shape, I tell myself that I have got to work out constantly. Or else, routine consisting of eating, sleeping, tv-ing, online, and little walking does grow people horizontally, no escape for anyone. Just this evening, I went swimming though without any companion. My dudes have gone out for study, working and so on. That's the thing for an isolated island that is short of facilities and opportunies, what to do. So it's only me who get stuck here. I'd never gone swimming alone, not until just now. Perhaps, part of the reasons is that I was dead bored.

Eye candy

And yea, am on a self-learning course to do the butterfly. Just for a lil fun lar...again, dead bored mar...(ZZZZZzzzzz) Had gotten several educational videos on it from youtube, but still I couldn't get the exact patterns doing it. But yea, just found a really good illustration on the steps.

Wish me the perserverance to master it. =)

Regret that didn't get Ah Beng, the Perak's swimmer to teach me this last time. ZZzzzzzz...

We're gonna pay more for everything

2010-07-18T21:31:00.000-07:00

The subsidy rationalization was put forth by Datuk Seri Idris Jala. According to him, the country would become bankrupt by 2019 say the government debt continued to grow by 12% per year. (Yet to be verified)

The cut finally phased in last week. It came as a surprise too because there was no related public announcement made, well may be there was but the coverage was kind of limited I suppose. Prices of commodities such as petrol, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and sugar have gone up. It is a rather marginal increase I believe as many have yet felt the pinch of the price hike.

Yea I can't agree more with subsidy rationalization. It is necessitated as the global prices of commodities continue to soar due to increasingly higher demand to fuel for development and industrialization. If the national commodities prices are to be maintained unchange, the government will have to fork out unprecedentedly huge sum of money to offset the increase in global prices of commodities, up to an extent that the government's expenditure goes beyond the government's revenue (tax), the country will sustain deficit and eventually go bankrupt.

So, subsidy cut should be in place. Consequently, we are going to have to pay more for almost everything, from transportation, to food and beverage, goods and services and even the properties. The cost of living will inevitably go up further. If it is not implementated systematically and timely, the general public is going to face huge pressure of living while the underpriviledged groups will face an especially hard time. They may be so frustrated that they go on strike, carry out demonstation, commit crimes, and so on to get extra money, release tension or whatever. All these will cause instability in the national security and thus affect the country's economy and even politics because they all are interrelated. Therefore, cutting subsidy may be a bad move if it's not done well.

I hope our government is dependable and capable of laying out a sound subsidy rationalization plan and be very vigilant and effective with the implementation. The money saved should be used wisely. There should also be reasonable relief programs to facilitate the various groups to weather the price hike. Companies should also revise their wages for their employees. I believe it will set the country in better position to move forward or probably achieve the vision 2o20 (in the best case senario).

Got the ticket officially

2010-07-15T18:49:00.001-07:00

It turned out the most cocked up results I ever got. As a matter of fact, it's the least I'd expected it to be. As in that the subjects which I was very confident in (did well in coursework, nail their final examinations) sinked, while the subjects (FYP & FYDP) in which I was nonsense-ly lambasted ballooned. Honestly, I'm fxcking lost trying to figure out single good reason for it.

Well, I got my ticket in the end. Can't bother much but to be thankful! Let's get on and yea, I'm praying all for lucks, lucks and lucks!!

I'm coming!!

Spain won her first WC

2010-07-11T21:18:00.000-07:00

Paul the octopus is not merely a creature with tentacles, but that comes from the future who had repeatedly and accurately forecasted the world cup's results without fail.

In the war between Netherland and Spain, Paul chose the meal served at the Spain's side.

Andres Iniesta, the man who contributed the only goal that concluded the game.

Here goes my fb's posting regarding the game:

Initially Holland put up very good defense (by burning the yellow cards) but when more and more cards came out from them, it's clear that they're in big SHIT...Yea eventualli SHIT happenned. Losing a player = handicapped. Spain, after letting so many chances slipped away, they made it thanks to Iniesta's wonderful goal. Robben's getting MAD!!

It's with regret though that Brazil, my all time favorite didn't make it to final. The rest of this world cup are pretty much fascinating for me. Wonder what would the result be if for a final between Brazil and Spain?? It's time to shake off the nocturnal habit...Get some rest!!

The final of FIFA 2010 is here

2010-07-07T20:48:00.000-07:00

The long awaited South Africa World Cup is approaching its end soon. This time around, I'm pretty much of a world cup fanatic, following more than half of the 32 matches, which I used not to be doing. Thanks to the idleness I'm indulging in. I don't bet on a single match, instead I just enjoy watching the dynamics going on in every match. Thus far, the results of the matches are absofreakinglutely unpredictable I would say despite the probability of 50:50 (win @ loss). At first, both the teams competing for the final in last FIFA (France & Italy) were kicked in the preliminary round. After that, the highly disputable judgments committed by the umpires as thought to be the probable causes for the elimination of England and South Korea. Some bookies effect and the Octopus's prediction too create a lot of twists.

Anyway, it will be a final between Netherland and Spain.

Holland bad girls??

Definately the source of motivation for the Netherland FIFA Squad.

They are the one who sent the 5-times-world-cup-winner Brazil home. Their coach is like a magician who is adept at re-strategise. Take for instance netherland vs brazil, first half Brazil took the lead and freaking dominated the game, then second half, Netherland made it the other way around and defeated Brazil. Roughly the same pattern seen in the Netherland vs Uraguay. They also have superstar players like Robben, Sneijder...who actually throw us surprises.

The bull fighting nationals (why all males har?) cheering for Spain fifa squad.
They're the 2008 UEFA champion and their form are back having defeated Germany who incredibly outplayed the Argentina by 4-0.

So, here I'd pronounce my support goes to Spain. Let's see.

Lionel Messi's is plucked!

2010-06-23T23:29:00.000-07:00

One of the limelight figure in this World Cup, Lionel Messi who is predicted to be capable of leading Argentina to win the championship. Take a look at the photo down here.

Taken from Sin Chiew Daily's World Cup special edition.

Erm...I would suggest him to go and insure his penis or perhaps the whole of his body (from head to toes) because it's for certain that his opponents are going to mark/mock/tackle him just to make sure he will be on the bench because he is such a huge threat.

Surprises strike

2010-06-22T19:14:00.001-07:00

Just received an invitation for job interview in a southern state. It's a job which I don't desire much though (at the moment). Then I find out there is a notification regarding an invitation for interview from a giant that I've been longing for. Few days back, I got the feedback that I'm "recommended", which means that sooner or later I have got to return to the company. However, it's no surprise that the company moves so snail that I'm afraid I can't afford to just sit at home and wait. And when I was typing away this post entry, I got another phone call from a sound service company inviting me for an interview. Wow, all come in one morning session.

Now I'm left undecisive which one to go with. I'm bonded, do I still have the choice?? Darn!!

The bullfighters lost (by chance)

2010-06-16T20:59:00.000-07:00

The bullfighters (Spain), a team which I forecast is going to come head to head with Brazil in the very final of FIFA 2010 lost to the watch-maker (Switzerland) yesterday.

Just when everyone predicted Spain would have bashed Switzerland terribly, they defaulted. It's certainly heartbreaking watching how my favorite dominated and took excellent control of the whole game but failed at every finishings. Switzerland, on the hand, penetrated the goal just at the very few attacks and concerted all their efforts defending throughout the game and their strategy did harvest fruit.

Fernando Torres, the iconic striker of Spain,

Plz go make us some surprises.

Sheo ba zhang

2010-06-16T04:06:00.000-07:00

It has been quite some years when I wasn't home during Duan Wu festival. This year I got lucky to able to feed my taste buds with the home-made dumpling (shea ba zhang in Ho Kien). It is definately one of my favorite food which I would only bother to have ones on this special occasion. My mom's dumplings are usually small in size, which she said it's good cuz the portion of filings are bigger compared to that of big dumplings.

I think this festival is gradually eroded by time. Apart from the dumplings, there's no other relevant festivities organized here. Sadly, even in the news, it is reported that the prices of raw materials needed to make dumplings are on the rise, and thus the dumplings are sold at higher price.

Huge minerals reserves discovered in Afghan

2010-06-13T20:59:00.001-07:00

So, I came across this interesting news. It said nearly 1 trillion of mineral deposits found, an amount which is so significant that it is claimed to potentially alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the war itself. Among the deposits identified including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metal like lithium (the key raw material for manufacture of laptop batteries and Blackberrys). Can you imagine that Afghanistan becomes the "Saudi Arabia of Lithium" and transforms into one of the most important mining centers internationally when the country is in a terrible chaos thanks to the terrorism and corrupted politics.

Further in the news gave some analysis of the implications due to the discovery, both the positive and negative. Among them are the prosperity brought about by the resources, the possibly intensified battling of Taliban to take control of the mining business, a more corrupted Afghan government, worsened China-US relationship, degradation of environment due to irresponsible exploitation, and so on.

Immediately then, scenes in the Blood Diamond popped out my mind. Terrific and meaningful movie it is!

Such discovery may be viewed as a prosperous gain, but to greater extend, it can always leads to disastrous torment to the underprivileged, innocent and vulnerable public of Afghan.

Let's pray that peace will prevails in the land of terrorism. =)

The worst oil spill (BP Deepwater Horizon)

2010-06-10T22:28:00.000-07:00

The catastrophic explosion of Deepwater Horizon drilling rig situated about 40 miles southeast of Louisiana April 20 has by far caused the worst oil spill ever occured in the whole history of man kind.

The spill rate has been revised and suggested to be twice as much as the initial estimate, which amounts to 25000 -30000 barrels of oil per day. The amount is equivalent to exxon valdez disaster could be flowing into Gulf of Mexico every 8-10 days.

After a series of failures to seal the leak, BP is now resorting to a large capping mechanism to contain the oil slick and production vessels for recovering some cut of the leak. It is said that the flow can only be stemmed by drilling two relief wells and permanently plugging the well.

Methods that have been tried to stop the leaking oil.

The damage as a result from the leak is still surging. The cost for clean up could easily run up to billions of dollars. As the revised figure of leak is on the rise, it poses even greater stake to BP. Fearing the company may end up declaring bankruptcy, many investors have sold the company shares leading to volatilization of BP's share price over 40%, which amount to tens of billions of losses. It said "Today BP is worth $91.4 bil. In mid April, the company was worth $180 bil"

Such a spill is totally disastrous and its impact on the environment and economy will remain for decades to come. I hope that the planning, implementationof offshore activities will go through greater scrutiny, be free from bribery and in compliance with regulations.

Extension I
In view that the regulations for deepwater drilling which were established since decades ago have expired, as the operators are going to ultra deep water, president Obama annouced a moratorium for offshore drilling in US water. Whilst, drilling experts are reviewing the regulations to meet the unprecedented drilling conditions. According to industry officials, new regulations aimed at permanently reshaping the US offshore oil and gas industry will raise cost and could reduce offshore output.

In response to that, four of the world largest oil companies have come together for an initiative in order to regain confidence and thus get the moratorium removed. An industry consortium called the Marine Well Containment Co. has been founded to combat future oil spill. They are going to manufacture a system that is capable of containing spill in water as deep as 10000 feets, and capture up to 100000 barrels of oil a day. It is said to be flexible, adaptable and available for rapid response.

Extension II
The US government officially lifted the moratorium on Oct. 12, but energy companies are now due toface a more difficult and costly process to get permits to resume exploration there.

A concluding note

2010-06-06T05:26:00.000-07:00

Wow, my university life has finally come to an end.

Attending university has long become a norm for today's society. However, having grown up in an isolated island, the environment wasn't as competitive in terms of education in the old days as compared to the urban area. Back then, the people in my community didn't actually view education as a survival kit. Sad but true that most of us are up to nothing but enjoying slack life. Thanks god that I didn't go too far with the kind of thoughts. There had been several individuals who had helped me much and yea I got lucky to land myself in a pretty decent university, or so to speak eventually.

It's been 5 freaking years already as a university student. Ups and downs happened, inevitably. The univerisity brings together people from different locations and background and thus a variety of personalities I've encountered. At times, I was shocked with some discoveries. Again, thanks god that I've made some great friends here who are true, who are more than willing to help, who are there for enjoyments and adversities. I seriously couldn't ask for more other than this. This point onwards, everyone's gonna head to different destinations, difference and alienation should arise, but I hope the friendship remains resilient over time.

I used to be very impatient to get out from this place, but I'm having mixed feeling now. I do wish I could stay longer, wish I could doze off in lectures, wish to hang out with dudes and so on, wish to crack a lil more jokes and so on. The reality bites. When it's time to go, we just got no choice. Well, let's embrace what's there awaits for us then.

What a great time it has been. May be it's because that I'm a happy person who tend to forget about the bad times.

Wish everyone a good future.

Living with shemale

2010-05-17T09:48:00.000-07:00

Something of my house which I feel worth to pen it down here, the "faggotism", which I've spend almost the whole semester trying to orientate myself to but to no avail.

Fresh as it may appear to you, it's derived from the word "faggot" or simply "fag", which means ah gua, or chua ah gua. Therefore, "faggotism" is the culture or style of the shemale.

I'm staying in male dorm (of course). Making some noises is pretty common, but what's unusual about my housemates (I suppose 3-4 of them) is that they yell, they shout, they scream on regular basis, if not every night. We (me and roommate) kept wondering what's going on with them. All I can tell, they sounded like as if they're riding on each other doing the thing. Horny and top of their pitch. I don't think Adam Lambert can hit that note, seriously. Oh, they sounded exactly like the UTP's monkeys.

Yew Ting, a friend of mine whose room is one floor above mine has been insulted/harrassed too by their noise. He actually asked me to find out what's happening. A turkmen, Bayram was amazed too by them when dropping by my room.

I reason it that it's either because they've never grown up or they have too much estrogen flowing in their bodies. The latter makes more sense though.

I find one of them particularly irritating. He always squeezes his pimples in the toilet and have the water flowing non-stop for at least 30 mins every time. He really thinks the water is invaluable. Screw him lar, king of fag.

If I manage to record anything of them, i probably will pose it on fb. Darn, a bunch of weirdo.

The clearance

2010-05-16T19:51:00.000-07:00

When you first enter the university, you may be a happy lil kid but there are piles and piles of works (if not shits) waiting for you to take on. As you go along, you offload or clear them out one after another. Towards the end the journey as an university student, you have got the best part of them done. And then you'll kick off another journey as another happy lil kid again. By that, are you all kidded by life??

Oh hell yea, I'm going to write the first subject my final final examination, Engineers in Society, one of the most boring subject on earth, according to noisee munkee!!!

The chemy outing

2010-05-12T06:10:00.000-07:00

The sand art game.

The triathlon game

The Greenies

The rubber passing game

The assembly before push-off

The netball game

The Blackies

Being amongst the graduating students, we the chemies are soon to bid each other farewell (of course lar). Having been through the similar range of encounters (easeness, hardships, torture, joy, tension, relief and the like) together for nearly 4 to 5 years, we thought it's fair to celebrate upon their completion. On top of that, it's good to celebrate the identity of being a chemie, a lil something of which I have my pride. I have to say it has been bumpy journey, and without reasonable doubt, we all have come a long way. Congrats to my (course)mates.

So the chemy outing was today (the whole day) at Teluk Rubiah. Thanks to Achul, who volunteerily took up the responsibility to organise such outing. We all have been so occupied till lately. Of huge accident and mistake, I was taken as assistant project manager nonetheless I didn't help out much. My apology to the committee.

With regard to the event, it went pretty smooth. Convoy consisting of nearly 30 cars from UTP to Teluk Rubiah, wasn't it breathtaking? Apparently, the turnout was more than marvelous. Luv ya sporting-ness the chemies. I did have good fun, personally. The mini games such as passing of rubber bands, passing of balloons, run- crawl-puzzle, sand art were kinda boring. However, after lunch, the games were exciting, of which the netball games was my favorite and my team emerged winner. Hehe... Also, we had tug-of-war just by the beach in rain. It's such a terrific experience. May soon attach sum photoes here.

It's definitely one of the memorable events throughout my campus life.

All the best, the Chemies-to-be.

Of noisee munkee's

2010-05-05T04:28:00.000-07:00

I got to know this dude when I entered UTP. Since then, we have been co-rooming for nearly 5 years. Wow, freaking 5 years already. Without reasonable doubt, he is one of my best buddies in the campus. I'd like to dedicate him this post.

Sucking cincau-teh in Old Town Ipoh

Avril's concert during Merdeka eve.

State of being molested. Get yaself a pepper spray.

Inspector Noisee Munkee for English II.

Locating national treasure during convo treasure hunt.

Remember we went mamak till the wee hours of the morning and

then found ourselves exhausted to hunt.

The last two standing.

Posing in the V1C-cell (syok sendiri)

~Happy Birthday~

The cool moves I had around uni

2010-04-21T10:16:00.000-07:00

Inspired by final things to do before uni life ends, I kinda gave it a thought as to what have I done worth to be nominated for the Chemoster's craziest moves in UTP.

Well, I certainly sick of the routine I have here. Things like classes, assignments, meals, naps, basketball, sleeps, get-aways js keep looping day in day out.

Here goes:

1. First hang-over.
It's an after-prom party. We joined in and clubbed at Voodoo. It's my first visit. Nice beats, packed, pretty much happening. On a dare from ZP, had a few rounds one-go of pure Tequila. Shake the body, checked the floor, get low sorta things. In the end, puked a little, passed out, but yea, I had a great deal of fun! Unfortunately, some crooks snapped my stoned face. Damn..

2. Birthday prank 3 yrs back.
It's at the nitez of my birthday, the dudes asked to play basketball. Din sense anything amiss, I tagged along. At one point of the game, C.K, the pale-looking frail guy collapsed to floor after something (forgot). I was taken aback and dashed to him trying to wake him up. After much effort and some time (15mins), he remained unconscious. I knew nothing about first aid, but I knew well that this was getting critical. The others ain't did much too. In desperation, I asked someone to call a driver to send him to hospital. It's Chong (not mistaken), which then followed by the scene that Xi Yi holding a cake. Then only I realised that it's a show specially tailored for me. I think them Oscar stars and it's a sound plot too! They GOT me. This should stay with me for many many yrs!!! Thanks!!!

3. Silly offence in front of security in the noob year.
Was with a fren (w.k) walking towards IRC. He forgot to bring his matric card which may be punishable of something. Forgot about the reason, I handed him my matric card and had his Tailor college matric card instead. It so happened that the security confronted us. She found out that I was using matric card of other Uni. She condemned me that this could b a sign of disloyalty to UTP sorta stuff and made it like a big big deal. Being a noob, we din process much, we freaked out and kept admitting to the misconduct and apologising. That's how noob we're! No different than a plain sheet of paper!! I would have sounded her back if I were being selamba a lil more.

List goes on...

4. Awesome stunts regarding tests.
Once, I went for OM test knowing absolutely nothing, not only I lost track with the lecturer, nor I did a lil revision about it. Was too occupied. Of course, I was gonna cheat. The funny part is that it was Reja whom I peeped the answers from. He is a Turkmen who did pretty badly in academic but he seemed confident with his answer. Will find out whether it pays or not to buy him in time of trouble. The phrase that best describes my situation : "Ji Dou" in canto.
It's a big joke too about EIS test I had recently. I spared js a couple of hours going through the past year. Again, was too occupied. However, I actually nailed the paper. Study smart actually pays in this case. The funny part, it's Bayram (another Turkmen) who snatched over my question paper on which I circled my answers and passed me his question paper. I was left in suspend for a while. "Everybody" saw it but the invigilators. What's a stunt.

5. Bombastic club annual dinner
It's perhaps in my 2nd year when I organised the ICC club annual dinner which was at ballroom in Clear Water Sanctuary Golfclub. The dinner's arrangement is somewhat a breakthrough in the context of utp's culture, which I would say very much dominated by malay's culture. We divided the dinner into 2 sessions. First half is pretty much official as we had award giving and dining in presence of the rector. Prior to the second half, we sent off the rector and pumped in some good energy with Auntie Mable band performing live. Pushing aside the tables to make up some space for a dance floor, everyone was sort of got high and moved along. At points, it might go a lil wild. But it's definately awesome watching them having so much of fun.

Soon to leave uni

2010-04-15T11:50:00.000-07:00

I got my final exam slip this afternoon, marking that I'm a soon to leave guy. Sadly, many deadlines are lining up yet, thanks to that I'm a chemical engineering student.

Roughly speaking, it's been 5 yrs me dwelling in this place. Here I had my ups and downs. I entered the uni as a totally independent entity as I knew nobody at all. Over time, I mingled around and found some dudes who share the interests of mine. During the freshman years, this was kind of easy as people were going to the same classes, and yea we knew each other little. We cooked maggi in the middle of nite and chat-chit yet went to classes the next day morning. That's fun.

As time flips, various factors kick-in leading to grouping, separation, alienation and stuffs. At some points of time, I sort of losing a lil sense of belonging, but yea friendship is something to be valued, managed and treasured on, I wouldn't say I've championed it but I guess I'm doing pretty well. Cuz I know well that being stuck in a deserted place like this or probably anywhere u go, friends or the companions are what cherish u.

As I've come along, shits happenned occasionally. But believe me or not, they do turn out to be sweet reminiscenes.

I constantly feel that this place way sucks but yea looking back in time, I did have quite some blast, ironically. I make new friends, I've grown up a lil, leaned a bunch, exprienced a variety of stuffs, and etc, all thanks to UTP.

I'm certainly looking forward to the day I'm leaving, and I hope that the remaining days are beautiful that no heatwave, no projects, no tests, sorta things. Dream on lar...

Pulau Redang is no longer meant for general public

2010-04-12T05:42:00.000-07:00

Yet another controversy popped out in a place where nothing is impossible, the bolehland. I bet 100 bucks that you are for certain amazed to learn this.

Pulau Redang is set to be a high-end and exclusive tourist destination. Source.

Among the specifics given by Terengganu MB:
- Only hotels rated five-star and above will be allowed to be built.
- Hotel rate shall cost no less than US$500 (RM1599) a night.
- As a measure for curbing environmental destruction and indiscriminate littering.
- Budget tourists are asked to opt for Pulau Kapas and Pulau Perhentian.

Am thinking if there is conspiracy of making it a private island?? Like Pangkor Laut owned by YTL group which is exclusive and niched for the affluent class of people. Of so many preventive measures to abate the environmental damages as a result of massive tourism, do they actually need to resort to a move deemed as desperation.

Check out what others say about it.
Elitism is being practised openly
Resolve problem by raising money beyond everyone's reach

Quickiy book your flight to visit Redang or later you will be charged RM1600/nite.

prank of being vietnamese?

2010-03-31T22:04:00.000-07:00

This morning, I went to class as usual. Sitting at the back of lecture hall, I was then joined by two other friends. The lecture bored me to hell as usual. Thus, I normally start talking away with those in proximity.

Out of sudden,(while looking in my direction) the lecturer said: The guy... in green shirt, can you understand me?? Apparently he was directing it to me.

Me: yea..following. (Speaking of which, he was teaching LP (not lampa lar...Linear programming okeyyy??)

Him: Good. By the way, are you from Vietnam?

Me: (Thought I heard it wrongly)...nah...I'm Malaysian. (felt insulted)

Him: Oooo...hahahaha (He can always do this kind of successful laughter, as in he laughs but the others don't)

As a result of that (the stupid question), the two friends started making fun of me being a Vietnamese.

Previously, I committed the same crime when I unintentionally regarded "somebody" from India while in fact, he's from Kansas, a nation in the State. I thought it's no big deal, not until today lor...

But yea, js checked the fb and came to realise that this is April 1...So, it could be a prank, right?

1st interview

2010-03-30T01:13:00.001-07:00

It's another TEC (Technology, Education and Career) around the campus. It is probably the most awaited event for most of the final sem students as they can expect some interviews and even job offers. Apparently this TEC is few steps backward compared to past TEC judging from number the recruiting companies and exhibitors. This ain't helping at all. Yea, I just attended one and the only one interview, which was with slb. Let's talk about my experience.

Woke up damn early and arrived at the interview room on time as told, 8.00am. Waited for some time just to find out that the tec person in charge had yet arrived. From supposedly first come first serve basic as to whose turn to be assessed, he had to turn to the shortlisted name list and called upon accordingly. On which, I'm the first for chemicel eng. (Shall I say i had the least to expect from? who cares anyway!)

Orite then, let's do it (self-talk). It's a malay female interviewer whom I presumed as adept in selamba-ness. The interview went like lightning, yeap, js as quick as that. Well, it's a first screening afterall. Here's the content.

slb: tell me about yourself something which is NOT inside the resume.

she literally looked into my eye waiting for my answer. Pushy!!!

me: (Diao, I already portrait myself to best in my resume lo. Boomed and was at the brink of suspension) uhmmm...yea, would like to elaborate on my strength. I want to do better every other day....uhmmm...(fuck it)...yup that's it.

slb: ok. let me pick a topic. tell me about "dengue".

me: (Diao, come another c4) Dengue is a disease which is potentially fatal (if medical attention is not provided soon enough). It is caused by Aedes mosquitoes. Cases are on the rise especially during monsoon season... Lot of research have been done but the cure is not yet found...The Ministry of Health constantly carries out fogging to eliminate the mosquitoes, especially in the high risk areas...(run short of craps)...uhm...that's about it.

Could have spoken more but js at the instant, ideas didn't come. So shit happened. Din make it to the next round (the group workshop and assessment). Blame it all to my incompetency in playing with c4. Thinking to join some special force already. wtf...

Wish you luck~

Can PRC win?

2010-03-24T07:24:00.000-07:00

Was chatting with a friend of mine, who is an all time fans of the People Republic of China (PRC).

Well, the world is witnessing the unprecedented competition between 2 super powers, PRC and USA. Beijing Olympic 2008 not only successfully brought PRC into international recognition (Bird-nest Stadium, scales of performances...etc), it also has thereof "leveraged" the war of the two.

US, tough provoking about democracy and human right, but they never fail to advocate violence and more violence, for example the Vietnam War, Korean War, Middle East Invasion, Taiwan-China-Tibet. Millions perished including the innocents, the children, the unarmed and so on. More chaotic the world becomes, better the military sales, and thus better US economy, true??

PRC is definitely a recognized emerging super power albeit the western media makes baseless accusations about it, perhaps for the sake to remain a competitive media in the western community. Does it taste good to learn about the downside of own nation or own people, sure no!! Well they may be true about some claims, but most of the time they just magnify or zoom in the negative issues. Does it do any justice to PRC?

Yea, are you positive that China taking the lead of the race in near future (As in pioneering the world economy, technology and future trend.)? 10 yrs? 20yrs? US has led the world for decades and situate many of the world best universities. On the other hand, PRC has the word biggest population of the most industrious kind allegedly.

PETRONAS finds big oilfield

2010-03-21T00:54:00.000-07:00

Was blown mind off by the report on Petronas makes "big oil find".

It alleged that the discovery is the biggest oil field or oil well (not only) in this part of world but also in any part of the world. Which I intepret it as the period of plateau or peak production is in excess of million barrels (MMbbls) per day. My guess is based on the producution of the best-known giant oilfield, Ghawar in Saudi Arabia that is 5 MMbbls/day.

If the allegation is true, the company revenue will go up the a whole new level. In the scenario of oil price goes up to USD 100, the revenue is simply skyrocketed. The fact that PETRONAS pays a good cut of its revenue to the government, we're gonna be more properous than ever. So, this is the fact that we all Malaysian should celebrate about.

It said PETRONAS contributed about RM75 billion annually to the federal government, which is equivalent to about 42 per cent of the country's revenue. With this discovery ,we might be getting like RM100 billion or more. Hoping that the wealth is effectively managed for the goodness of the country and its people.

More info of Malaysia ogs industy.

Where are we actualli in the world map?

2010-03-16T09:32:00.000-07:00

Hey hey hey, interesting fact to tell, but it's kinda damning, prepare yaself.

Here it goes. Yo, I made some research into the top university in the planet. That led me to a site, which revealed to me such a depressing fact that my university actually comes from bottom in the ranking, absolutely NOWHERE at the top!!! I snapped the photo here.

Ranks of universities in M'sia. Click to enlarge the photo. See for yourself.

This then led me to some further thoughts.

I personally like to defend that the university should top the list locally. However, when being put on the world map, we're so completely "submerged" from the crowd. So listen here, we SERIOUSLY got no solid reason to act cocky and conceited! UTPians, NO big deal...but yea trust yourself that you're gonna change the world. And hopefully you do by Law of Attraction!! Well enough that the university is transforming into a research center, I'm in full support of this with the hope that the university name will surface one day!!

It's already a fact that all the local universities are like midway or at the end of the ranking. For years and years, the government has pledged to enhance the education sector, that has a critical role to the nation building and progress. Huge resources and money are put it, yet we're js THERE only. What has gone wrong with the planning, the implementation, the follow up and the post mortem and stuffs. Thailand and Indonesia do actually have their universities ranked way higher us when in fact the country had way done well in the past, yea in the past.

It is tough funny that lots of lepasan spm still fighting hard to land themselves into the universities...I'm pretty sure that most of them have absolutely no idea about this or else they most likely consider to go abroad.

It's alr week 8!

2010-03-06T19:49:00.001-08:00

And so I've made it here, week 8, such a big deal har??? Crap..but yea, this is gotta be kidding me, time flies so fast so that I'm totally puzzled by the coming of my 2nd mid-sem break. I had my 1st mid sem break during CNY. I ain't in the fast lane kinda lifestyle yet I feel like time has little mercy on me, what if later on I am employed and have long queue of SERIOUS assignments to do and deadlines to meet? Really can't imagine that...

The causes of ill

2010-03-04T22:16:00.000-08:00

Finally my body is succumbed to the extreme weather. Could barely sleep last night cuz having a stuck nose. Trying to figure out the reasons why I'm falling sick.

1. Had a basketball match in a fine afternoon right under the burning sun. It's 1.3o noon and the sun was at its peak of intensity. The game was js 20 mins ++ long but I got cooked alr. Thanks to the thoughtful iChemi organiser.

2. Had a V5 cafe burger set two-night ago. The burger sucks, so as the fries and the salad. Worst that it's way oily and heaty that it's caused me sore throat few hours after I consumed it. I guess this was the result from the way they made the food. It's definitely a NO for V5 Cafe Burger.

3. Nothing thrills me much recently which leads to the downfall of my body defense system??? Perhaps I need some doses of happiness, but it's a routine everyday. Sigh...

4. Aging?? That my body's ability to adapt to the change of environment is declining? Hope not!!!

5. Of all the reasons, I think the primary culprit is still the mad heatwave. Even the mosquitoes don't survive the heat. It's rare to find a mosquitoe recently, no?

Just-In-Time ain't all good

2010-03-01T01:26:00.000-08:00

Doing things in excess or in deficit is pointless in most situations, or so I think. Hence, I truly appreciate the word "Just Nice". From here, a brilliant concept has emerged, the JIT (Just-In-Time). It is such a vital concept where operations are concerned, especially for big organizations. It allows for the just-enough inventories and thus an enhanced cash flow. McDonald, a global giant in fast food industry, has adopted this idea that the operations in any of its outlets run smoothly and the customers never fail to enjoy swift service from them.

Recently I've picked up JIT too. I'm reflecting on two instances. I started my FYP progress report 5 hrs before it's due, more unbelievably an assignment 1 hr prior to its deadline. (It's because of the heatwave lar!! hehe) I managed to hand in both JIT-ly. It hasn't caused me any harm probably because that I'd forecasted the workloads pretty accurately. But the thing is that I gotta rush my ass off (din even have time to go toilet?!!). Sooner or later JIT is gonna come and haunt me I believe.

JIT is supposedly tactical but I've made it a fair substitude for "last minute". Time to rid it off!!! But I've contracted the FSS (Final Sem Syndrom). Swt! Swt! Swt! Is this called oxymoron?

Finding a Spray Nozzle that exerts 70 Kpa water flow

2010-02-23T08:24:00.000-08:00

Have you ever thought of the technical specs of a spray nozzle? This sounds stunning, no?

It's all due to my lab which reqiures a spray nozzle that flows water at 70 KPa (specified by American Petroleum Institute). Unfortunately, the uni doesn't won one according to the HIGHLY reliable source, the lab technician.

Being not able to obtain what exactly I need, I resorted to the hair spray of my room mate. Yet, there's another problem. How the heck am I going to measure the pressure of water coming out from the nozzle? So, I consulted the google.

Step 1 - Get the key-words right. Instead of spray nozzle, it's adjustable spray bottle.

Step 2 - Convert 70 KPa to 10psi (more widely used)

Step 3 - Search for something compatible to my subject in terms of the pressure range. Peek here there. Not in ebay but in Amazon.

Hopefully it works tomorrow.

My CNY

2010-02-22T02:22:00.000-08:00

"Gong Xi Fatt Chai". Hope it's not too late to say this.

Wonderful time always passes fast. It's been a pretty great celebration. Nothing different from those of my age, had a marathon of friend gatherings to attend. Some of them had real good story to tell. Of course some did bullshit a lot.

When I was young, I burned a lot of fire crackers, which translated into my forced-savings. I did have great deal of fun doing so. It felt like putting up good show for people. How incomplete a CNY is without firecrackers, right? However, I play no more these days. Culture is passed on to the young generation.

On Day 1 coinciding the Valentine Day, we had a bulk celebration whereby we went to beach at night and constructed a candles-lit heart shape. I thought it's mere fun. Any way, this was something fresh to us.

I brought in poker game to my friends . Ironically, the first-timers won away my money. Keep wondering if they were THAT lucky or they're phycho geek.

An UTP friend, TH dropped by with her friends. They're interesting fellows. Glad to know them.
After all the fun, I'm back for bad. Whatever it is, Happy Hu Nian.

How things should be!

2010-02-08T19:43:00.000-08:00

* This is a mere copy-paste. I'd like to have a copy myself and of course share it with ya all.

1. Don’t go for looks, they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile.

2. There are moments in life when you really miss someone that you want to pick them up from your dreams and hug them. Hope you dream of that someone.

3. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want in life.

4. May you have…Enough happiness to make you sweet, Enough trials to make you strong, Enough sorrow to keep you human, Enough hope to make you happy, And enough money to keep you comfortable.

5. When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But we often took so long at the closed door, that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.

6. The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch, swing with,never saying a word and then walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.

7. It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.

8. Always put yourself in other’s shoes. If you feel that it hurts you,it probably does hurt the person too.

9. A careless word may kindle a strife. A cruel word may wreck a life. A timely word may level stress. A lovely word may heal and bless.

10. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them with our own image, otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

11. The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along the way.

12. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we should know how to be grateful for that gift.

13. It takes a minute to have a crushon someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

14. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched and those who have tried. For only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

15. Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and find out you still care for that person.

16. A sad thing about life is that when you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and youjust have to let go.

17. Love starts with a smile, develops with a kiss and ends with a tear.

18. Love comes to those who still hope even though they’ve been disappointed,to those who still believe even though they’ve been betrayed, need to love those who still love, even though they’ve been hurt before.

19. It hurts to love someone, and not to be loved in return but what is most painful is to love someone and never finds the courage to let the personknow how you feel.

20. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

21. Never say goodbye when you still want to try; Never give up when you still feel you can take it; Never say you don’t love that person anymore when you can’t let go.

22. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they’ll love you back. Don’t expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it doesn’t, be content it grew in yours.

23. There are things you love to hear but you would never hear it from the person whom you would like to hear itfrom, but don’t be deaf to hear it from the person who says it with his heart.

24. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life to the fullest so that when you die, you’re smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Into fb world

2010-02-05T07:34:00.000-08:00

Facebook is truly an amazing social networking site. After six years from inception, it has already made its footprint to (proly) everywhere on globe. Inevitably, it has become an iconic element in the 21st century human civilisation. Thanks to the rapid advancement in information technology (especially web 2.0) as well as the globalization. It does nothing but to connect people effortlessly regardless of location at zero cost. Having a wide range of applications spanning from the texts, photoes, videos, and games, it is one of the most integrated visual world by far ever created. It certainly does beyond than joining people. Imagine, lots and lots of people spend hours daily on fb, why? Had not it offered fabulously, the population of fb-ers wouldn't have grown as many as 400 millions. And M'sia population is just somewhere aroung 28 millions. Isn't this insane?

I have immense respect for Mark Zuckerberg, one of the fb founders. I had watched a documentary regarding fb. During the start-up, he thought it as just a "Harvard-thing", which later spread through and even beyond US.

~Happy 6th Anniversity ~

Check out also this controversy. Muslims must avoid being totally immersed in Facebook, Twitter: Rais

Last note, any piece of info being shared on fb is pretty much open to public. It could be an issue of privacy violation somehow. Do be careful...

My adventure #1

2010-02-02T08:41:00.000-08:00

I guess adventure is becoming my type of game. During the break, I joined the Outward Bound School, Lumut. It's by far the toughest camp that I ever been to. The major activities include 2 sea expiditions ( whaling + sailing & kayaking) and 2 nights camp-outs. Being on sea for a duration more than 5 hours doing all the physical things, we worn out but we just gotta keep going. Strong mental came into play. Awesome and life-time experience I would say.

The Outward Bound School.

Just last saturday, we conquered the Gunung Kledang. I actually did it twice. There are basically three routes accessing to the top (the Menara TM), muddy+stairs, tarred and through the trees respectively. During the first climb, I used the muddy+stairs route. Thus, I thought it's a piece of cake to do it prior to the second climb, which we took the literally hardcore route (through the trees).

Arrived before it broke dawn. It's like 6 if not mistaken. Hoping to catch sunrise but we're up there too late unfornately.

Taking "the road not taken" mistakenly leading us to all kind of unexpecteds. As we're all totally clueless about the climb, it's pretty risky. Getting lost, the wilds, the spookies and stuffs. touch wood*. We walked our way through following the red knots along way using two MISERABLE touchlights. But yea, it's seriously untrodden route.

See the happy face. Still hadn't sensed anything going wrong. OMG...nonchalant?

We kept walking, resting, walking...for more than 3 hours before we got to the top. It's pretty exhaustive. So again, mental took over physical. Remarkably, the air up there is refreshing. The view is breathtaking.

On the way back. The tarred road. Though following the gravitational force, it hurts as our tapak kaki kept pressing against the hard road to slow down. We actually had used up our energy alr by this. How nice if there's an unmanned car!

Taking shortcut. The mud+stairs. Quick dangerous too but we're engineers. We got the way.

So, basically we're so done with Gunung Kledang.

What's next? KK mount, Everest?

One thing for sure, I'm in process to becoming a mountain ranger! Js love doing it.

Let's talk about the mission

2010-01-28T10:46:00.000-08:00

We (the final sem ppl) probably find ourselves taken @ swept away @ haunted by the final year projects.

But pls be reminded that we're on an enormous mission. A mission to infuse the Final SEM student syndrom (FSSS) -- upgraded from Final Year Student Syndrom (FYSS).

So, basically we're gonna have to concert all our energy in expanding the Fei Chai's list. Well, when we bid our goodbye, at least we got something black and while stating how happenning it had been back then.

We need creativity. we need bombastic ideas. we need more outstanding jokes. we need more cool actions, more valueble craps, more wonderful wonders

We gonna spread laughters, happiness, cheers, we're gonna propagate them all.we're gonna make something out of nothing.we're gonna champion the infertile jungle.

Isn't this a great mission which we all should take part in? Anything (at all) that sounds COOL, report to the publisher (xiyi)!

We'll triump! We'll triump! We'll triump!

Let's be the southparkers, shall we?

Avenged Sevenfold's drummer dies

2010-01-27T06:56:00.001-08:00

This comes to me pretty shocking. Jimmy Sullivan aka The Rev has passed away. He was part of my favorite band, Avenged Sevenfold as drummer and backing vocalist. I'm not so much into metal rock, but I love listening to theirs. Hope they will stay rock even with the departure of Jimmy.

The Rev will be missed

Soul rest in peace.

The curry essense

2010-01-23T21:29:00.000-08:00

It seriously is no need to go fancy restaurant for a superb nice food. They might let you down at times and cause you pain in the ass. There's a humble shop in Pusing making real good curry.

Curry wild boar @ RM 4. The curry is concentrated and freaking delicious.

Curry "BIG" prawns @ Rm5. Four of them served. Really generous portion. Taste really good as well.

Dealing with the lab people

2010-01-22T01:19:00.000-08:00

Got back here for more than a week already. Thinking to get my laboratory work started. Unfortunately, am still haven't got all the apparatus and reagents ready yet. Had gone the extra miles to get things. Problem is that here got bunch of kanasai staffs who ain't helping at all. When making requests for items, was either turned down or turned away. It could be that going through a big circle, back to the person who first said "NO" to you gave the thing asked for. Totally frustrated and pissed. That's what I encountered in Chemi labs in general. Very shitty working attitude. Laze around, insincere, indifferent and procratinating. With they all, the university is by all means making no way to becoming a research center.

Literally went through big rounds. The dudes in Mechi labs were a bit acceptable. At least showed the interest to help. The ladies in civil lab were nice and helpful, giving tips and advices and all. Really appreaciate that. PE's dude is rather fine as well.

Biggest shit is that the chemi's fella is the coordinator. Dammit!

Indeed holy crap stuff!

A loser kopitiam in Jusco Ipoh

2010-01-12T23:56:00.001-08:00

It's been some delay and to make up some time, we chose to dine-in inside Jusco. We were stuck at the juncion near to McD and the kopitiam, in hesitation of which one to choose. It's around 8 (dinner time) but it's pretty empty at the kopitiam (if not mistaken, there's just one and the only one table of customers). McD is the opposite, lots of customers. (Who doesn't fancy McD)

Not sensing anything can possible go wrong, we gave a shot at the Kopitiam. Partially it's because I sniffed the good smell of curry.

The staffs outnumber the customers but the service way terrible. I asked the waiter to recommend the signature items. Guess what he replied me? The expansive ones are the nice ones. And he went on mentioning all the dishes on the menu. For he's a foreign worker who speaks little inggeris, so nwm lar. Getting no tip (at all) from him, we tembak our order. Our beverages got served pretty soon but definitely not our food. People who arrived later than us done eating, paid the bill and left. Our food hadn't come. A local girl came by explaining and apologising about the delay. Apparently our order had been left out. Soon later, our food got served. The food was just fine.

Then we asked for bill. A local guy came. Ong was kind of like playing playing with him. He asked whether or not can give discount for the delay. Guess what the fellow replied. "Already gave you a lot of curry soup WHAT!". He looked serious, and he spoke serious. It was like he was even more annoyed and fussed than we were over the mistake they had made. I paused a second and burst out laughing. WT HECK. Like it's OUR BAD?!!

We should have known there's must be a reason why they're getting little customers.

So, I hope the kopitiam owner know what's happenning around his shop before it's getting too late.

Visit to a fish farm

2010-01-12T00:29:00.000-08:00

The other day, I tagged along a friend to visit a fish farm situated some hundreds of meters offshore of Pangkor. There, the offspring of commercial fishes are raised. According to the owner, it takes like a year plus to “upsize” the fishes which are then marketed abroad, especially Hong Kong. The farm was set up two years ago and is undergoing expansion. apparently, the return on investment should be pretty encouraging. Also, he said that close to 1 tonne (1000kg) of small fishes are used to feed the thousands of carnivores daily.

Among the variety species, my favorite one “Long-Dang” simply because it’s the most costly one, sellable at some RM40-RM70/kg depending on season. A big “Long-Dang” can weigh up to 4-8kg which can cost up to couples of hundreds. Say all the offspring are successfully raised, the business is really a good money making machine. But of course, there’s sizeable risk growing the fish newborns. Experience and expertise are key to its success.

Was a pretty awesome experience. Here go some snapshots.

Overview of the farm. Each of the pool can “house” up to hundreds of fishes. Indeed a money generator.

Feeding the carnivores.

*Imagine you accidentally fall into any of the pool, gone U.

It’s like Amazon River. Wakaka...

Calculating the “survivors” to monitor the health of fishes.

Diver to go underwater checking out if there’s any hole on the net letting the “money” freed. Unfortunately, the water wasn’t opaque enough and he needed an oxygen tank. So, mission unaccomplished. “Such a loser”!

Look, how many dogs there are! Initially I was freaked out at the sight.

(gandpa, grandma, father, mother, sons daughthers, grandson...)

Well, a biological measure to safeguard the farm from theft.

All the dogs swim. No kidding. Master of doggie. Of course doggie style lar.

They jump into the sea fear nothing. Really!

The pageant queen. Despite the fact that I dislike dog, it’s an exception.

It’s so fat, so cute, & so nice to touch.

Almost wanted to make it mine!

Hair rebonding - historically existed?

2010-01-08T20:54:00.000-08:00

Hair rebonding has already been a part of fashion back then, I mean even back as far as ancient chinese civilisation.

Really? Go and check out this movie.

One of the interesting characters, 刘郁白, starred by 黎明 (Leon Lai). Look, how frizzy his hair is, no?

But towards the end of film, he got changed, most notably his corrupted ha ir into smooth silky hair. Don't tell me this is due to Sunsilk, Pantene or Himalaya thingy. No way.

Speaking of which, isn't this image of the fictitious movie Chinese Hero (华英雄), but an unknown fella sitting beside kept saying this is 聶風 from The Storm Warrior (風雲). Indeed a stubborn dude!

So go and double check with the Mr director regarding the existence of hair rebonding technique back then.

New in 2010

2010-01-07T07:30:00.000-08:00

Burj Khalifa

Literally surpasses the defending champion, Taipei 101 by more than 300m, translated into nearly 60 floors.

Wiki

迪拜‧世界之錐卡立法

Google Nexus One

The very first google phone. Allegedly a better smart phone than Iphone 3Gs.

Review on TechCrunch

Youtube

On the other hand, the government got us some things new too:

1. RM50 credit card tax stars New Year's Day

2. New year, new sugar price

3. New petrol subsidy policy starting May 1

4. 10+2 SPM formula

Feel free to add more to my list...Tx!

From shock to surprises

2010-01-06T06:06:00.000-08:00

So I had given up all the goods back in my home and hometown (the people, the food, the sea-side, the ease and carefree-ness, and most importantly the comfort), rather unwillingly I got back UTP, for sake of FYP lor...whatelse it can be right! It certainly doesn't feel good. So to the utp-ians, stay back as long as you can afford.

Series of things were awaiting me to find out.

This is my broken fan. I had it put right on my desk before I locked the door and went for break a month ago or so. However, it had been moved outside. I was like "Oh shit", something or all gonna be gone. Getting bit of nervous already. Hastily, I opened the door.

Suprise!

The room was properly done and in a good order. Instead of a break-in, it should be a housekeeping or something.

Yet, that's not the point. To investigate further, the locks were still intact. Hoo...chill x2.

Well, i did actually had quite some things kept inside. (documents, books, speakers, printer, shoes, ...). In fact, everything else gone missing (including those in the drawers) while the wardrobe left untouched. Thanks god that my double locks work.

Thanks god that the way I locked the locks work. hehe...hebat!

In half an hour time, it's in chaos already. Messy person har me...

Happy new year...

New year wish list

2009-12-30T06:17:00.000-08:00

It will soon be 2010. People make their new year wishes every end of year. Here go my wish list:

1. My family is blessed with good health and of course big fortunes.

2. Play-out my final semester. Dear uni-mates, do grab this very last opportunity to enjoy life as a university student. Let’s come together and have fun doing activities in bulk before we bid our farewell. Night-outs, birthday pranks, chats, makan, mamak, sports, parties, lepak…list goes on. Together, we can make the semester just as memorable as that during foundation.

3. Graduation trip to Bali. Hopefully, nothing interrupts and we all gonna have all the fun and come back one piece.

4. I’m gonna need a job after the second quarter. Hope the economy is reborn, market
restores its vibrancy and the crude price gets stabilized. All for paving me to a decent job.

5. The climate change keeps deteriorating. Disasters become more frequent and severe than ever. Like the recent snow-storm in US, China, and part of Europe. Hope that people have seen enough of outcomes of their selfish deeds. Simply consume less, it should be a better world.

6. The nation politic shows no sign of stabilizing. If there shall be a general election (by speculation), hope that Malaysian think far before casting their vote. Good governance should embrace values like honesty, efficiency, trustworthiness, transparency, and accountability. We made it once, and let’s again prove to the politrick-ians we’re liberal and we want changes.

7. Hope for a cease of fire (warship, suicidal bombing, and terrorism). The world leaders should come together resolving problems rather than confronting each others.

8. I would be happy that Brazil and Spain rule the FIFA all the way and meet in final. It should be an interesting match.

Lastly, a quote to share :

2009 is a good year for me, but I am sure 2010 will be a better one for all.. Happy new year :) (Teehooi Suan, 2009)

Close to the finishing already

2009-11-25T00:05:00.001-08:00

Yo, finally break free! State of bliss and relief.

Lately (perhaps for the past two months) I've been squeezed like hell. Pressure, boredom, sleep deprivation, fuss, and the likes all kicked in. Was on marathon from assignments to projects, to quizes, tests, and finally examination. All rowed up back to back. Hardly could steal time for myself. However it's all over. Which also means, final year first sem GAO DIN though it's a bumpy journey.Shits happenned.

Who's the one saying final year is fun?
but hell yea, we did have lotsa fun out of these shits. Coz it's like nothing else matters anymore!
"So-what" is everywhere applicable when you're confronted with shits.

Time flies. Some of my batch mates actually finished their undergruate studies. Congrats and have a good future.

And what's next? Christmas, New Year, Final Semester, Final examination, and cool enough CONVO! Hooray hooray....

Last X-mas gathering with KL-based interns in Berjaya Time Square Complex.

Doubt there'll be any gathering this X-mas...

Anyway

~Have a nice break~

The game

2009-11-17T11:07:00.000-08:00

After mamak, I joined a few dudes playing cards. It's supposed to be a brief game. Simply wanted to release stress, stimulate the brain cell, kill some time, and more importantly have fun. We did play money but of insignificant amount.

As the game went on, out of the blue, Buddy A got 4 X TWOs and thus winning triple straight away. Speaking of which, we were playing Chou Tai Di. That's the turning point of the game. That point onwards, the nature of the game changed. People wanted to recover the loss, which had become a lil of significant unexpectedly. We become strained by the game rather then being entertained off.

The games continued and again, someone drew 4 X TWOs and won straight three times as much. Oh....the tension level shot up. How can this combination of cards occurred twice! hahaha.... we played few more rounds more before we stopped. By that time, two hours plus gone. OMG...run away from the objectives.

Actually, the money involved wasn't that huge. Probably we js don't want to be crowned as "L*ser". Hahaha...

Anyway, it's another fun game though. It kinda teaches you to be cool and chilled when facing the unexpected and also taking into account the risks and stuffs like that....

Supercar Zenvo ST1

2009-11-15T04:30:00.000-08:00

It took me by amazement and exciment. The very first Danish Supercar by Zenvo Automovitive.

The exterior is more than ass-kissing! What a design! I'm all for it.

The other details of Zenvo ST1 -- Learn more.

Quick tour by Zenvo ST1 - Youtube.

New way to become "bloated"

2009-11-12T21:18:00.000-08:00

It's been a bit of absurd. I have yet to engage with my calculator, even little, since the begining of study week. Isn't calculator the core tool for an engineering student? But yea, it's of real little use to me this semester. I have got all the reading subjects to cramp my nerves. When there's one or two of them, things are still pretty much manageable. But I'm doing 4 in a row. From Human Resource Management, to Cultural Anthropology, Malaysian Study and Petroleum Exploration, all are reading and memorizing. Not to say out of hand, but I'm literally "bloated" consuming all "this and that" (theories, examples, definitions, and stuffs).

Guess that the Humanity people are much bloated since they gotta swallow lot lot more stuffs. Year after year, they are getting out of shape, are't they? hehehe...

Pls join me to pay them salutation.

Any possibility to embed this into human brain?

Towards creation of a tomorrow brain -- e-brain!

EE people, come & give a shot.

But note that the warranty period is 5 years!

What happens thereafter?

The hear of e-brain may turn faulty and become "Holly Crap" .

So product durability is critical.

It's not finished yet, probably starting over.

2009-11-08T09:08:00.000-08:00

I CAN'T believe that I'm still working on my FYP NOW. Now, in the midst of study week. Tak habis habis lagi. A stupid miscommucation happenned. I missed out a session of 20% in weightage as a result of following the official annoucement made in elearning. My evaluator was too fussed to listen to me. Ohhh, f...k it! Hopefully I get to redeem this later. Things are negotiable, aren't them?

It's worse as the project will need a major change as advised by my sv. He js freaking told me this last friday, which means I will have to start my research all over, the feasibility, the apparatus availability and stuffs. Erm...not exactly so but something like that.

So, it kinda reminds me of the following.

So this will be my slogan. Till the date of completion of FYP and FYDP.

~ Cheers ~

Big Stars of My Age!

2009-11-07T06:16:00.000-08:00

When I'm still fighting hard for my degree, there have already been a bunch of people of around my age emerging prominenly and gaining fame all across the globe. Is this because that they are
lucky as in meeting the right people? Or because that they know well their own talents and cherish on them? Or merely their hardwork and extraordinary diligence? Or simply their destiny?

Anyway, here goes some rather recent artists that I like to hype about. Umm...all are females.

Megan Fox - 23

Generally labelled as sex symbol.

Oh yea, I have to say she is gorgeous and stunning.

She had starred several hollywood movies (i.e. Transformer, Jennifer's body)

Taylor Swift - 19
Sweet country singer. Charming, playing guitar, song writer and composers.
My favorite songs of hers: fearless, fifteen, you're not sorry, tim mcgraw, love story...

Miley Cyrus - 16
Having acted in Hannah Montana, she has now moved into singing.
"The Climb" is a meaningful and wonderful song.
Also, she shared a stage with Taylor Swift in Grammy 2009 singing "Fifteen". Acoutic and real fantastic.

Not forgetting also
Lady Gaga (23)
Orianthi Panagaris (24)
...If you can tell more?

Of course, there're many more from other field/industry for example sport, corporate world, so on. They are "young and dangerous".

I actually doubt if I'm ready to take on the world like them now if given an opportunity. Typical asian mindset. But then it's good to know them and get some inspirations.

Orianthi

2009-11-05T09:29:00.001-08:00

Js watched MJ "This is it" rehearsal movie. Although I'm not a big fans of MJ, I enjoyed it much. I've kinda grapped the idea of how freaking incredible MJ was. Do mind my igonrance! But yea, I have no doubt that his spirit, passion and talent in music would have summed up to an incredible concert, if not the finest one.

I was particularly caught up by a scene in the movie whereby a female guatarist was perfoming along side with MJ.

Introducing you Orianthi. She rocks. She's cool. She's gifted. She geeks in guitar. She's decent. She's fabulous. She is one of a kind. If you are into guitar thingy, I bet you surely wanna check out her more.

Just learned about it

2009-11-03T06:54:00.000-08:00

Js brought down H.R.M test, a paper which I js learned about in less than 20 hours. I considered myself lucky though as I so happenned to check up the e-learning last night. Otherwise, I might have missed the test or rushed my ass off doing the revision though I sorta did. The annoucement was made in the last Thurs class which I skipped as FYDP presentation intervened.

Being totally unposted, thanks god, I am kinda for certain I unscrewed it js now. hehe...Getting a bit of complacent.

"Last minute revision"--Not a problem at all for a F.Y student! I went to bed early last night and even had a short poker game few hours before the test. Well, wanted to kill the boredom!

But yea, dun attempt this at home!

Depicting eyes

2009-10-29T07:57:00.000-07:00

Look at the gap between eyebrow and eyeball.

Might need to build a Bering Bridge to connect they both.

As though wearing eye liner.

If this dude were to put up a concert, the PAS guys will protest all out!

Soul-lost being. Can even freak a bold in daylight!
unforgettable. unforgettable aka "忘不了~忘不了~"

Erm...Like a piece of clay-made work!

Isn't it veli "ba zui" aka Fully-water containing?

Probably can squeeze out a gallen of water worr...

You're lucky. Coz sometimes we don even get to see his eyes!

This incredible dude, he knows how to switch on/off his eyes.

Like I've done a Mega project

2009-10-28T01:34:00.001-07:00

Finally it's over. I can't take it any longer than this. Huhuhuhu....

Talking about Process Plant Design aka (Final Year Design Project), it posed big hell to the chem. people. Well, probably not to all, but to those who gotta help ass-cover of others. The best case of senario is that every member contributes, so the work load is distributed, things could get done easily with quality. But in real case, this is by all means not applicable. Oh yea, it is this UNJUST when we all will score the same. I led and I gotta keep the show running. Seriously, I've used up my energy, time, mind, soul and anything imaginable working on it, JUST on it.

Apparently it has gotten me real real bad, especially in the past 2 weeks when works was intensive:

1. Spent like more than 12 hrs a day for days back to back in the lab trying to complete the process simulation using iCON. Not sure is it because of the dumb simulator or I'm the dumbbie. But hell yea, it took infinite iterations to get a "green-light" on. More iterations to improve the results.

2. Having terrible sleep deficit. This situation is virtually similar to burning candle at both sides. Slept "early" woke up early.

3. Raced against time. Lotsa works. Putting on huge pressure. It's big mental work to suppress all sorts of emotions: depression, stress, frustration, tiredness, disappointment, piss-off, temper and the likes. According to someone, I finally put on a tensioned face. Is this a compliment?

I watch many megastrucure documentaries, for example construction of Petronas Twin Towers, Dubai's Palm Island ...etc. I was always amazed by how incredible the project engineers are. They get things done, deal with "surprises", keep track the progress, and most impressively they solve problems, no matter how hard it is. Now, I can somehow picture myself in their situations. Can I claim myself get something "BIG" done?

Ohya...some credits to those standing by me...

Deevali Eve outing Sitiawan-Telok Batik

2009-10-18T06:58:00.000-07:00

It was a spontaneous plan. Off, we were downtown of Sitiawan for what it's famous for, the seafood. We dine-in the said-to-be best rated restaurant, Amu Seafood Restaurant. I had eaten there before that. The food wan't that yummy. There's a slight improvement this time around. I still love Pangkor-version of seafood which is like cooked specifically to my taste buds.

First dish - fried Bihoo-kuew teo. Tasted fine.

Salted egg prawn. Overly salty, offsprings of crab, not so satisfying.

It sounds like "Ju Ju" when you suck it.

La La. Tasted the best amongst all.

Fried Bihoo with big prawns. Tastelss instead. WTF really.

Sotong fritters. Crunchy. Not bad.

My dining mates.

After meal, off again we headed to Telok Batik Beach, Lumut. Another spontaneous move.

"Beach conferecing". Good experience.

Showing "blue-tears". It was first discovered at a beach of Pangkor isle.

Girls get melted seeing it. Trust me.

I'm emo. Don't I look like I'm emo?

Actually was piled with works but stole some time out. The time ahead is getting real crazy!

"Well-Versed" Pocket-C Operator

2009-10-16T00:44:00.000-07:00

This cafeteria serves bad-rated food in terms of tastiness, hygiene and price as generally perceived. It's getting fair business though I suppose. The only reason I can relate is its location in proximity of lecture spots where there's high traffic of passers-by.

Thinking js to fill my empty stomach, I visited the cafe like the others. While paying for my food, I confronted the cashier, whom I thought he's the boss lar. Apparently, I had some problem getting charged unreasonably. Somewhat like RM 2 in addition to my estimate.

Me: Pak Cik, mahalnya ni. Macam mane u kira?

Boss: Mane mahal. Sausage RM0.50, telur RM0.50, kuah RM0.50 erm...semua RM4.70 (he skipped).

Me: Erm...Bihoo ni RM 2.50 ke? Mahal larrrr. Kat Pocket-D, ni baru RM 1.20 - RM1.50.

Boss: Oh ya ke. Kalau macam tu, you makan sane larrr. (raised tone)

I was literally hanged before reacted to him.

Me: Ooo boleh larr. Lain kali I makan sane. Nak bawa juga kawan ke sane.

The boss seemed to be quite alright with my response, which pissed me off further. I paid and I off.

The rule of thumb in business is to attract as many people as possible to come and buy. It takes big volume to sustain a business. As suggested by the saying "Customers are King", satisfy the customers, make them speak for you rather then you put up costly advertisement in mass media.

The particular cafe operator, however, DRIVES AWAY THE CUSTOMERS. He probably thinks that he doesn't even need us to run his business. In light of this, why would we help him. Correct or not? Let's ban on him.

It just ain't doing any good.

2009-10-14T08:31:00.000-07:00

With dcplus down, let's see where the university internet connection is getting to.

Here go the anonymous feedbacks:

1. CRAZY CONNECTION

2. Sapa ckp internet UTP slow bak siput? Laju je ni..ok la utk refresh 20 kali baru dpt.

3. Don't complain about the connection. Don't complain about the connection. Next in the to-do list, graduate A.S.A.P

4. Is UTP subscribing Dial-Up?

5. wana forget bout internet in utp...yes, tae yeon...i love u tae yeon...

6. finally...there's internet!

7. tlg someone organize mogok..kte mogok xnk anta assignment kalao internet utp x upgrade2 ag..da sental duit student gile2 xkn xde duit nk ks tenet power sket? [jom mulekn ngan assignment eis

8. Arh!!!!!! Internet so slow...how FYP & FYDP progress can be fast?? We should include this into our interim later!!!

9. connection sucks

10. I hate UTP internet connection... F..K

11. CB connection

12. Surprisingly, my connection is good. OUTCONNECTED the rest! Hooray! Js went YouTube.

Now, your say.

"Tonight is a good night"

2009-10-12T00:58:00.000-07:00

The original plan didn't work out. Instead of attending Prom dinner, we went VooDoo, one of the finest clubs in Ipoh.

It's freaking packed inside the club whereby we had to pushed our way through. The music genres were well accepted by most. Beats was deafening and provocating. We made up quite a big group. Three bottles were ordered. Everyone was like literally gone crazy and we DANCED whole night through. They were all very fine companion.

The intoxicant!

As often, there would be someone proposing bottom-up. I went 4 rounds of it which resulted me in "blur" but very "uplifted" mode. That's time when I could rid off stuffs and just dance. Fun I would say.

The alcoholic effect started creeping in after we got out of the club. This was killing me. Had a kick and literally threw out. First time I got this drunk. The feeling was painful and a total awe.

My advice (for both males and females alike) do measure your intake capacity, watch you intake accordingly. Or else it shall put you in a very vulnerable position to any kinda threats (robbed, assaulted, raped, accident, etc.)

Despite all, it was a total blast. Got over the hangover the next day. Losing appetite, migraine, exhausted...But I'm now kicking!

Ban of dcplus

2009-10-08T05:24:00.001-07:00

The university recently put up an ultimate ban to the dcplus, a sharing platform of multimedia, documents, installers and stuffs.

Dcplus is undoubtedly an UTP culture. Many of us had been so heavily dependent on it. After google, or perhaps as par with google, dcplus had been indispensable to me, personally. And I believe same goes to others. It served me as sources of entertainment, knowledge and more importantly time-killer.

The issue raised by the administrators was being copyright infringement. Somehow true but WHO GIVES A DAMN. Elsewhere, probably every university has the equivalence. If not, the internet has any kind of any things. Dcplus was js a focal point of stuffs which is pretty much downloadable from internet. Well, I might not have ever considered about the publishers, entertainers and the likes, but dcplus was just so convenient. We obssessed about it. As a matter of fact, dcplus used to give us life. Imagine what will the afthermath of block of dcplus be?

In consideration of the copyright voilation, can't the administrators make some sorts of negotiations instead of brutally slashing it off?

To live on another semester without dcplus, hell crap lar.

RM40 haircut.

2009-10-07T04:22:00.001-07:00

It's saturday morning. We, the culture anthropologist project team were downtown. We were on an ethnography mission to probe into what sorts of celebrations were there in Sam Poh Tong during Chinese New Year. We were to do an interview with the person in charge there.

Sam Poh Tong, a Chinese Buddhist Temple within a natural limestone hill.

Nice architecture, geen surrounding. Marvelous, isn't it?Come & pay a visit to Sam Poh Tong one day.

It was a brief interview session. In fact, there's no much activities around the temple during CNY. We roomed around checking out the place before departing to JJ. The girls wanted to get new dinner dresses while I needed a haircut.

I notice a banner about promotional haircut @ RM 12 outside a saloon. Thinking to get some saving, I gave it a shot. There's no other customer except me. Without my notice and agreement, the female assistant stylist poured some liquid on my hair and performed a hair wash as well as head massage. It's my first time getting these kinda services. It's kinda fine and relaxing. However, I started to ponder could this be RM 12 haircut. Next, it's the male stylist on my hair. He was rather delicate trimming my hair. Thereon, I was pretty sure no way it's RM12. My thought plunged deeper. He took some 30 mins to overhaul my hair which is of 3 months uncut. The assistant stylist gave me another hairwash (with js plain water this time) and then the stylist styled my hair with clay and spray. I was served for some 40-50 mins. As much as I enjoyed their service, I had been mentally unrest in the process as it would have prolly cost me a fortune. Money has been tapped out fast these day. Swt.

Let's check out the RM40 product:

Side view. I'm happy.

Front view. I'm tired.

When I js needed a haircut, ain't this is a lavishness? Fyi, this is my most pricey haircut. May be I should have js asked for cutting, rather than keeping queit and got sold the whole package.

Day of punishment is close?

2009-10-01T09:58:00.000-07:00

There've been few natural catastropes occuring almost back to back recently. (Ketsana typhoon, Sumatra earthquake, Samao Tsunami.)

They kinda got me thinking. Is it that wht goes around comes around? Probably we need to do our part to not "upset" the mother earth any further. Make way for all forms of peace, make less destructions.

Peace symbol

Going to prom?

2009-09-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

A prom is coming up soon. It's pretty much interesting that it has been one of the hottest topics being debated by the guys here since some time ago. Whether or not to go prom? Who to go with? To buy her fare? List goes on.

Let's look back what's it about prom night? Loosely speaking, it's non other than a gathering/ party for the westerners in their senior years of college life. Their prom can be way wilder and more exciting compared to ours for one very basic reason, with and without booze. You probably can relate to something having watched American Pie but yea, people do lose a bit of conciousness taking in alcohol, when that happens, automatically they become more sporting, more chilled, and all sorts of interesting stuffs can happen. Js like to point out that alcohol can leverage the level of joy.

Prom, as to my point of view, is something like a banquet diner which is supposedly attended by couples/pairs (both the official and unofficial ones). Official couples by its name is straightforward. Unofficial couples would be someone like date for the night. Of course, someone whom you can get along comfortably and blissfully, and it is not necessarily that you have an intent on her. Afterall, I think prom is a casual event for some fun, experience and moments.

Speaking of fun, experience and moment, if you're someone who appreciates life, it would be a must-go event, particularly for the final year fellows. Missing this would possibly mean that you js miss it for the entire of your life.

Well, I certainly don't want to miss out moments in life. Yea, I certainly would like to tag along but things have been complicated here (the surrounding and myself). Clock is ticking every second and my presence becomes diminished thereof.

Heading North - Bk Mertajam (BM)

2009-09-26T03:24:00.000-07:00

My oversea trip had "gone boiling soup". To make up for it, I went north to BM with some hometown dudes. Pathetic? Somehow yes but BM isn't that bad. Like the neighbourhood Penang, BM can fairly be claimed as "heaven of delicacies".

Here go some snapshots:

Penang Steamboat buffet- Cheap. Beautiful. Nice.

RM18/pax - So so many choices of food from which to choose. Even SHARK FINS is provided.

St Annes, historical french catholitic church.

At the entrance.

Trek that extends to the statue as captured in the next photo.
I think this photo is marvelous. What u think?

Seeing from some distance, the Statue of Jesus Christ being crucified.

Statue of Mary, Jesus's Mother.

It started to drizzle. So we drove off to next station. Its name is unknown to me. The only clue I have about it is that it's some 20 mins drive from St Annes. I think it's an ideal place for people who want to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life. In fact, it's a popular spot for jungle trekking or evening exercise for the locals.

Tea Spa in the middle of jungle. The atmosphere was moistly.

The air was refreshing. The surrounding is green. Peace prevails.

We got to sip the japanese green tea . It's a total relax and time passed damn fast here.

Dropped by Autocity as well. A place which situates lots of automotive companies, eateries, and goodies shops.

Miniature of The Penang Bridge.

Splendid SOHO eatery. Romantic, isn't it?

The recommendated food around BM:

Cup rice - Kup Bui (hokien)

Yam rice - Yam Bui

Black white people rojak - O bei lang rojak

Shao bao

Egg tart

Advice:

Pls get a local to bring you around. There are a lot more discoveries to be made.