Slap Me, Harder

Fire also come ah!!

2009-09-27T23:12:00.001+08:00

Damn it… damn tulan…

Was having a great and lazy saturday evening until received a sms from the architect.

Asking for my feedback and revised report on sunday. The worst part was “unless we hear from you” thing, that one really heats up the fire!

To add oil to the fire, her boss fired us on our discipline.

Even my boss decided to keep quiet and allowing it.

OK fine.

You want it on Sunday? ok, i give you on Sunday 10pm.

happy editing then.

Sorry.

2009-09-16T23:24:00.001+08:00

We have money for space travelling.

We have money for F1 racing team.

We have money for world’s tallest building.

We just do not have extra money to spare with you.

We are so sorry.

from Windows Live Writer

2009-09-12T19:34:00.001+08:00

First post from Windows Live Writer.

Rainy Day

2009-08-30T13:39:00.000+08:00

No buddy loves raining afternoon.

It killed my sunday.

Car Collected

2009-08-28T19:09:00.000+08:00

Car collected in the afternoon.

lucky sg still have $1,000 note, which is quite handy for people who do not have a cheque book, like me.

Bonus

2009-08-25T22:47:00.000+08:00

Boss with mask on: Nah, this is your annual performance bonus.

me with mask on: Thank you.

The people in opposite division treated us like monster or zombie in resident evil, minus the shotgun fire.

Slight update

2009-08-24T12:24:00.000+08:00

I'm officially in debt, because...

I've just paid a deposit for a 2.5 years old altis.

I can now go back KL more often, yayaya.

Work from home

2009-08-24T12:18:00.000+08:00

am working from home.

finally someone in my division is dignosed with h1n1, he came back from hospital (work related)and kena on friday.

I was happily having my breakfast and suddenly kena chased back home.

Just managed to get online earlier with company's laptop to home network.

I should start work now....

or may be after lunch....

LOL

Tired

2009-08-01T12:46:00.001+08:00

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I really wanted to update the blog as frequent as I could, but the situation ain’t working the way I wanted. What I returned home everyday was a piece of mentally tired flesh with shirt on it. The work load is getting crazier and crazier day by day and seriously thinking how long more I can last another.
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Lesson Learnt

2009-07-23T22:04:00.003+08:00

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I had a disappointing presentation earlier of the day.

Slides got messed up and lack of important points.

Script was not prepared and speech was clogged up in the middle.

Lesson learnt and moving forward for the next one.
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Batman and Suparman is here.

2009-07-09T23:07:00.001+08:00

Why Sg is safer than Msia?

Three More Days.

2009-07-07T23:35:00.004+08:00

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Three more days, I’ll be on my way to Perhentian.

The long waited island escape is counting down in me.,,,

At least I can stay away from this bored little tiny island with tonnes of workaholics and get a good rest.

I’ll be taking the earliest available bus at 7.30am and hopefully can reach KL at noon. Then my busy day would begin with getting a haircut, delivering road tax, groceries stock up, and also entertain my dog. Then only catching a bus at putra station at evening.
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Penang Bridge Expansion

2009-06-27T21:27:00.001+08:00

I find this video quite interesting. The way it presents the method of alteration.

Widening Of The Longest Bridge In South East Asia - The best video clips are here

Marley, Beer and Me

2009-06-26T23:35:00.001+08:00

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I’ve just watched Marley and Me. I know. I know this is an old movie.

But you will have different feelings if you really have a dog.

Especially during the scene where Marley is euthanised. I really don’t hope to witness that in real life.

I missed my dog so much, should I leave sg and back to kl for him?

Damn it, just finish off the bud and get some good rest.
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Its Monday Again...

2009-06-15T23:00:00.002+08:00

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I hate Monday Full stop Full stop Full stop.

Have you been to the chive?

If not, I seriously recommend this to kill your time. It is very addictive.

Trust me, liew liew no harm ppl one.
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Thursday...

2009-06-11T23:17:00.000+08:00

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Stomp is a crap place for crap ppl to complaint shit. Today they have reach a new level.

Hawker sells me boneless chicken that is not boneless.

Wooohooo~~~~ the level of complaining is reaching another new height. Pity those ppl who does not have a better life to live.

No, actually not their fault, because the school or text book didn’t teach them to eat with bones.
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Wednesday..

2009-06-10T19:17:00.002+08:00

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Wanted to iron all my working attires yesterday night, but I couldn’t locate the ironing board. I know the pigeon holes in sg are very small, but still....

I ended up turning on football manager to kill the rest of the night.

Suddenly, some voices come from my mind. “what will I gain from playing this?”, “your life will be the same even though you signed all the stars to your team”

The next thing I did was, finish off the match and headed to bed. Well, at least I will have more rest for a better tomorrow!
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Tuesday.

2009-06-09T22:33:00.001+08:00

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On Tuesday evening, while cooperate slaves like me rushing home at 6pm the rest are enjoying their life. On the left hand side of the sg’s famous HDB void deck, you can hear aunties practicing line dance. “one, to, tee, for, fy, sig, seone, egg, to, to, tee, for, fy sig seone, egg, tee tee... on the other side, some folks are putting up the badminton net for some games. From what i observed, most of them played seriously, and winning can be far better than enjoying the relaxing game with friends. Something is not right here.

Well, when you talk about my dinner, choices are plenty. I have four foodcourts nearby to choose from. Yes, the food can never be better than the neighbour. I always missed those foods in KL.

Wanted to write more, but I have a lousy maid that half ironed my shirt. So I need to post this up and iron. See you.
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Today, I Repeatedly Remembered Something Called Tired

2009-06-02T23:31:00.002+08:00

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Has been sucked into the whirlpool of work recently and busy rushing report after report. Haih, paperworks are more than double what I did back in msia. Every decision needs written evidence here unlike the simpler life in kl.
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Passed my driving theory test and ready to convert my license to the local one. I know the test is simple but anyhow the one who sat next to me failed the test even though he studied until the very last minute before the test starts. Possibly something call common sense is lack of in him.
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Result is out and almost flipped into the fail region. I guess this is what I deserve for late coming and not paying attention to lectures. Something I still overlooked even in the second attempt. Hopefully I can pull back to safe zone in the final run and leave the uni in a proper manner.

One Lazy Saturday

2009-05-23T19:12:00.002+08:00

lazy to do a write up.

Roast beef with mashed potato, wayyyy better than KL marche 1.

A good way to enjoy one lazy hot saturday.

The first cabinet built by YY Liew.

First TV from my own bank account. sob sob sob
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ciao

Kena flu but not the swine type

2009-05-17T22:05:00.004+08:00

some bastards passed on his/her flu to me yesterday night in st james power house. i'm down with flu plus sore throat plus smelly farts.

nevertheless, i still need to get up to fix the cupboard that brought in ikea on Saturday.

took some naps for about 5 hours in total to recover from late return from power house around 4am. that bloody taxi ride from the club to my flat cost me $21 . wtf. i also want to become a taxi driver money so easy to earn.

Driving Test Reading Up

2009-05-14T23:18:00.002+08:00

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Been spending few days on reading up the theory test for my driving license conversion use.

Folks over here are not so fortune like those kids across the straits where only one theory test and coffee without milk practical test. Over here, all have to go thru basic theory then goes to advance then only can start to get a learner’s license to learn driving.

I realized that reading such material is almost the strongest sleeping pill you can ever found in the market and without side effect at all.

At the first 10 minutes, you still can have two-way traffic with the book.

On the 11th minute, you start to see traffic lights switching colours in your brain.

On the 15th minute, you will see a STOP sign. Dunno is from the book or imagined by your mind.

On the 16th minute, this sign is in front of me and see you tomorrow.

10 things to do before I die

2009-05-07T20:55:00.001+08:00

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This post was inspired by a friend who came and left sg after few months of work here. I know working here is tough and you had some great rough time. Nevertheless, you found a better way of living your life, and I’m proud of it.

10 things to do before I die. Hmmmm that’s hard, don’t believe 10 is enough.

Here goes my list.

1. Try to spend some time to call all my friends, I know I’ve not been doing a good job.

2. Go on a vacation with my family, well at least we can have some time to meet up and talk during the trip.

3. Spread my wealth properly, don't worry, it won’t take long, 10 dollars is easy to divide.

4. Spend some time with my pet.

5. Travel to San Siro again.

6. Write about my history, don’t think people will read thou.

7. Another vacation with my loved one.

8. Help my mom to prepare a dinner and feast on my favorite biscuit coated fried pork chop again.

9. Learn how to swim and dive for once.

10. Travel around the world and see as much as I can.

This might not be the most impressive list you ever seen, but this is purely extracted from my heart and no seasoning at all.
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Another Slight Update

2009-05-05T22:19:00.001+08:00

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Study is temporarily over, and holiday is totally gone.

Dipped into the working pool deeply and swimming with sharks and traps.

In fact I was quite sad when I knew my holiday is over during the flight back to sg. You can even feel the classic sg attitude on the plane which still on thailand’s land. Haih, how pathetic is that.

So glad that I can avoid the breeding land of kiasu-ness until august when new torturing semester is gonna start again.
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Fruit Season!

2009-04-29T19:18:00.000+08:00

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Tough times were gone, now is to enjoy the fruits.

Flying to bangcock tmr morning.

I miss home. Damn it.

Ciao, gonna start packing.
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Exam!

2009-04-15T22:41:00.001+08:00

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Exam is kicking start at coming Friday and I’m officially on unpaid leave.. woohoo, less money this month!!

The old video card is finally dead on Monday and I’m on onboard video card. However, it doesn’t support widescreen size, so all my display now is mega huge + blur font. Great.

My long serving Sennheiser headphone is died on me too yesterday, RM160 / 5 years = RM32/year, still quite worth it la.
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Cheat Sheet

2009-04-14T00:14:00.003+08:00

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This is my second time preparing such information sheet to be brought into the examination hall. They called it cheat sheet anyway.

Dunno which bastard invented this idea.

Life become even harder when you need to write as small font as possible and tried to squeeze the entire lecture notes in it.

MDG2

2009-04-09T23:55:00.004+08:00

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Today I wanna talk about MDG2. Been following for quite sometime since season 1 and if you want to compare, I do prefer season 1. Probably more “right” ladies to watch than second season.

More and more advertisements and lesser proper show going on = season 2

Now even worst, almost 50% of the episode is dramaaaa. You good to me, I good to you. You stab me, I stab you back. Wahlau, like watching ~~movie~~ soap drama like that.

When talk about contestants, my hopes are on Ming, Dawn and Pinky (I’m not bias on any single race ok)

Ming, so far so good. I like the way she is, being confident and make use of her unique face.

Dawn, initially I didn’t realize her in the competition so much until more and more girls were kicked out and ahha….. She is Dawn. The most sensible way of speech you can get from her in season 2. She even have fan club in Facebook!

Pinky ar, she was my top choice initially, based on her lovely look and type. But when she starts to speak, “YALAHHHH” wahlau my headphone almost killed my precious hearing ability. So slowly slowly I prefer Ming more than her.

The rest I really don’t feel like mentioning along. What I remembered about them was drama, drama and damn it drama again.

Ok, back to episode 13 and sleep early. ciao
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Blah Blah

2009-04-08T20:43:00.002+08:00

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Why work and study do not mixed well.

Tuesday was the last lecture of the semester, and I’m supposed to be glad about that.

Anyhow, I ended up rushing work’s report when I reached home from class at 11pm.

Surrendered at 1am.

My studies are lacking so much and I can feel the heat in the ass.
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Blah

2009-04-08T20:37:00.002+08:00

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How do you know you are too tired?

Misused the menthol anti-dandruff shampoo as shower gel.

Result: sensationally cool at sensitive area.

I really need more rest.

p/s: my life sucks
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Rest Day

2009-04-01T14:51:00.001+08:00

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Today is my company’s 10th anniversary and we do not need to work.

No, I’m not joking.
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The Great Dinner of March 29

2009-03-29T21:45:00.000+08:00

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Had chicken lice for dinner.

Too tasty til I couldn’t dare to post up to create any nuisance to public.

So please imagine yourself.

Its quite easy to imagine.

Chicken

Rice

Cucumber

Soy sauce

Chili sauce

Paper wrapper

Plastic spoon

Rubber band.

Thank you.
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Random Pictures, Random Moments

2009-03-29T15:48:00.002+08:00

pomfret penyet at Novena Square 2, where my office is. This one STILL ok.

This is a typical lecture moment, not much students taking masters actually.

Some lousy "nasi lemak" at NTU. You have low life fried chicken wings, saddening thin fried egg, half life sausages, factory taste fish cake slices, kiamsiap 1 slice cucumber, peanuts, salty ikan bilis, and lasty bloody sticky-salty sambal. This is NTU's life. No wonder so many ppl died over here. It's damn sad to eat this.

Assignment's answer, taken for my own "use".

Please Take Good Care of Our Dams

2009-03-28T09:49:00.001+08:00

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Indonesia dam burst kills dozens

This is something that I’m quite worried could happen in Msia. Not I’m looking down at us but, our homeland boys’ maintenance records are always famous of third world class with first world facilities. Some of our early dams were also built during the zaman penjajahan and how did they actually maintain it really still a question mark. To me, Msia and Indonesia have almost the same with type of people and attitude. Hopefully our water boys doing their job and not just eat and sleep.
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Gimme Me a Peaceful Weekend Please

2009-03-14T23:27:00.002+08:00

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So far this is the best version I found in youtube.

Ahhhhhh……….

Few minutes of peace…..

Hope you can rest awhile from your tough day.

All of us just need a break from all kinds of surrounded shits and troubles.

Follow this video to the rest of the classics.

Have a nice and peaceful weekend!
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Something Interesting

2009-03-08T16:57:00.002+08:00

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This could be interesting to some of the people.

Well, to me at least.

No Long Weekend for Me

2009-03-08T16:31:00.002+08:00

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No wonder so many folks saying balik kampung this weekend, it’s a long long weekend and only in msia.

Damn, I’m starting to miss those weird public holidays.
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NTU Hit the Headlines

2009-03-03T23:47:00.003+08:00

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Look, study in NTU is not easy.

Not all foreigners can cope with the local study culture, even I’m also struggling.

Definately there are more relaxing place to study.

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http://www.asiaone.com/static/multimedia/gallery/090303_stabbed/

2/3/2008 and 2/3/2009

2009-03-02T23:26:00.005+08:00

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2nd of March 2008,
I woke up at 7.20am, drove to work.
Had lunch at the building behind office.
Drove myself transport to construction site.
Left the office at 6.30pm and think of where dinner should take place.
Had dinner with friends at some cozy restaurant.
Went home later, surf net and watch TV.
Rest at 12am.

2nd of March 2009,
I woke up at 7.00am, walk to the MRT station and catch a train to work.
Had lunch at the building across the road.
Took MRT and taxi to construction site.
Left the office at 6.00pm and think of what should eat along the way to uni.
Had dinner in the lecture hall.
Went home by MRT + bus after lectures, surf net and wanted to rest immediately.
Rest at 11.30pm.

Look, life can be so much different in a year’s time. Life can be from easy to busy.

What I am trying to describe is, you will never know what will happen in future, not even tomorrow. You will be ended up differently from what you wanted for.
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Short Notes

2009-02-28T23:59:00.000+08:00

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I have finally received my new lappie at work. Changing from a Pentium 4 M to core 2 duo is so much difference, specially the huge jump of memory from 256mb to 2gb. I have to wait nearly 2 month to get this and was suffering with that old piece of junk from store room.

When the lady sitting next to me starts to talk to herself, I’ll start to worry. Worried she will poke a knife on me when she can’t cope with the working pressure.
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Time is No Enough

2009-02-24T21:31:00.001+08:00

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Busy months ahead.

March – Night classes
April - Exam
May – Bangkok trip
June – work work work
July – Perhentian island (planning)
August – Night classes start again
Nov - Exam
Dec – Beijing trip
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No More Games For Me

2009-02-14T23:42:00.003+08:00

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Apparently my video card has failed on me, I couldn’t load FM anymore.

In fact that is the hardest part of upgrading. I have changed to new mobo and transferred the old video card to here before, as I love my 5 years old radeon 9800 XT too much, unwilling to let it go. It performed well and still partially in service. Why is this the hardest part? This 9800 old tech stuff is running on AGP slot and it has been phased out for quite sometime already. So, the following options that are available to me:-

1. Get another AGP video card, but not much choices available on the shelf.
2. Get a new mobo with PCI Express slot.

Second option is like getting whole new system since the ram is not supporting too.

This is why I hate to play computer games. The upgrading of computer performance is increasing vastly and costly too. Might as well get a PS2 or 3 which can last for at least 5 years.

Now even surfing the net can be very slow sometimes and even freeze the whole system.
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ROFLMAO Moment 1

2009-02-14T17:32:00.000+08:00

If you have some time to spare with me, please watch this. thanks.

All I Want is a Camera

2009-02-14T00:13:00.000+08:00

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Been gathering digital camera’s info for the past weeks, wanted to have a new personal camera and throw my 2.0 megapixel and kill someone perhaps. There are few models came into my consideration, Panasonic LX3, Canon G10, Panasonic TZ5 and Nikon P5100.

Anyhow, G10 is the best in my affordable range but too bulky. P5100 not so good comments, TZ5 abit outdated. So what I left is LX3.

Die Die Must Buy Some

2009-02-12T22:58:00.003+08:00

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I thought I’m a Duracell rabbit, can never say die, but the rabbit died once.

My mom and brother were in sg for the weekend, and me being the gooooood son, I gave up my lovely bed to them. So I spent 2 nights on one inch cushion placed on cold hard tiles. Definitely didn’t sleep well at all and so tired throughout the weekend.

At first I thought I can finally get maximum rest on Monday night after my night class, but it ended up sitting next to the computer. Stupid air asia is selling free tickets on 12.00am onwards again, and SM is not going to miss this chance to get some tickets. Die die must buy tonite. The night wasn’t smooth too, air asia was incapable to cater and the booking system was clogged up like you flushed down an elephant in your toilet. The booking system went frosted still ok, to add salt to the wound, the merchant for ticket payments was facing technical difficulties. Damn it! We initially were trying to get 6 tickets for a trip of 6, but we only managed to buy 4. At the end we gave up and head to bed in the middle of the night.

Tuesday was another full day of work and night class again.

Why la, why your marketing dept can think of such idiotic ideas like selling discounted tickets in midnight or odd hours? I mean if really want to, at least the booking system is should to cater for all users, and not letting us suffer by staring at the monitor for hours. Saw a news that came out on the following 2 days about the complaints about the inefficient of air asia ticketing system.

Anyhow, I’ve planned two trips for year 2009. Had a quiet year 2008, and I’m ready to fly more this year.

Will be revisiting Bangkok again during this labour day.

And another year end trip, either Beijing, Taipei or Seoul.
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Tired v1.0235

2009-02-09T23:42:00.001+08:00

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Had a wild ride on contractor’s Subaru Impreza WRX this morning. We were rushing from site to another site. Now I know how much fun you can have when you drive a performance car. The torque and grip is simply different from normal cars even C200 kompressor. The seat holds you tightly and stays low. He even did a 90 degree handbrake turn at 80km/h into a small housing access road.

When can I get myself a vw golf gti? Damn it. Have to work harder, 85k is not an unreachable target.

On another side note, I have this ongoing project. The architect, structural, and electrical engineer are all ladies. I love my boss.
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Gimme More Time Please……

2009-02-05T20:13:00.003+08:00

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Ever since I have started work and study in a same time, I feel so drained out and no mood to do anything else when I return home. The worst day is Tuesday night class, the second straight night of classes in a week.

I shall remove this picture if I’m the lucky one.

There is a special toto draw during the cny, my colleagues went to grab a hope during lunch break and I betted $1. Just to try my luck. $10 million!

I’ve been assigned to participate in a security project, and I need to declare my background to the government. Digging back old history like where I have been staying for the past freaking ten years and all my exam results. The hardest part is to get two people who know me more than 2 years in sg and has to be prepared for interview with the home affairs. Dunno who could help me on this, hopefully I din put them into trouble.
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CNY is over, for me at least!

2009-01-28T20:35:00.004+08:00

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Okay.

Chinese New Year is over for me. Started work today, chor 3. How sad is that.

All I had for cny was sore throat then ultra sore throat and also tsunami style sore throat.

Almost finish one whole box of Difflam lozenges which costs me RM20 for 16 sweets and still pain like hell.

Got my first paycheck in sg dollar first time, but still most of them contributed to my tuition fees. So sad.

Started to plan something out for year 2009, since there are so many public holidays on Monday and Friday. For example, the Christmas and new year are Fridays and four days of leave can generate 10 days to travel.
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Relax, Holiday Mood la Boss

2009-01-22T21:27:00.001+08:00

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One more day left.

I’m going back, to a place I called home, a place where you are very familiar even though you haven’t stepped in for a long time.

I missed KL.

The food is sometimes bad, but you are spoiled with choices of Chinese food or probably I’m used to have it the KL way for 20 years.

This new year I wanna eat/drink:
Pork mee
Prawn mee
Roti telur bawang
Daging special cheese burger
The KL way of lou sang
The KL way of drinking beer
Wantan mee
Cheesy wedges
Nasi lemak with rendang daging
Sateyyyy
Redbull less sugar
Nescafe ice
Bak kut teh
Melawati kebab

Damn it, I’ve got only 3 days in KL, how the hell can I achieve it?
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Adik Perempuan System

2009-01-14T23:36:00.001+08:00

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Isn’t it great to hear that the AP system might be extended to 2020?

Those sissy AP holders are so-called not ready, to stand on their own feet. Still need spoon feeding from the people, and the parents are about to accept it.

Hopeless la.

So what are you waiting for?

Vampires are already sucking your blood for generations and you still not going to fight back?
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Haw Par Villa is Almost Gone

2009-01-11T23:14:00.002+08:00

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Paid a visit to the Haw Par Villa today. My last visit was like at least 10 years ago, when everything still well maintained. It’s kind of sad to see the park now in run down state, algae filled ponds and deteriorating statues.

All the rides were gone, the theaters were closed down forever and the crowds were no longer there.

Hopefully someone can revamp the one and only Chinese mythological theme park in Singapore and bring the long lost fame and proud back.
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Work + Study = Crap

2009-01-08T21:00:00.002+08:00

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Work has started on Tuesday, but now only I could have some oomph to update here. Work til 6 and rush to uni for 6.45pm class is very hectic. Too rush, not enough time, too crowded. When you reach home, you will head to bed right after shower, no time to figure out whether I have time for other activities or not.

My first job was a small company which has only 10 staffs at most, and then 50 staffs for the second one and now 110, just my division alone. Corporate life is not fun at all, I always missed the life in my first job. My temporary lappie is like 7 years old, it has 2.0GHz 256mb ram running on win xp pro. It takes its own sweet time to boot up and launch whatever programmes. To add salt to the wound, my user account is still a mistake, guest account. I can’t even access to my team’s data. Basically I’m still not even on track with the rest of the team, perhaps things get better next week.

When you study, you want to work. When you work, you want to study. Conclusion, I have an itchy ass.
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Cina Punya Tahun Baru la

2009-01-04T00:43:00.002+08:00

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We celebrated Christmas and New Year not long ago, and we now switch our attention to the most important times in Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year.

It’s less than a month to CNY. I bet most of us already planned their trip back to hometown for the precious reunion dinner on the 30th Night of the 12th Month in Chinese calendar.

For me, I have new job and another semester coming in January, and my class resumes on the third day of the New Year. So I would have to leave the town on Chor 2, 8am to be exact. Blame myself for procrastinating so much til the golden tickets are all sold out. I’m heading to KL on the 23rd of January, departing at 11pm. Another sleepless night again I guess.

Hopefully I can meet more long lost friends and lou sang until lao sai this time.

Ang pau here I come!!!
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Abstract of 2008

2008-12-30T18:23:00.001+08:00

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Year 2008 curtain is coming down soon. Its been a very bumpy ride compared to 2007 and 2006 for me. Made some decisive moves and changed my life tremendously. Yet, I have no regret on every single decision made. I know I didn’t managed to make more money than others, but I’m much happier than previous years.

I did the following,
1. Resigned from comfort zone and leave Malaysia
2. Took up a master course
3. Went on a roadtrip without any proper planning
4. Catch up with sports or fitness again
5. Been to Taman Negara and Sungai Kanching waterfall
6. Crushed my right wrist and immobilized for 1 month.
7. And brought it to roadtrip!
8. Had my longest MC ever, 21 days in July.
9. Ruined by total of 5 inches of lecture notes just for the sake of exam again.
10. Kept alcohol outside
11. Started to love reading
12. Extremely glad to meet so many long lost friends
13. Spent a lot more time with her
14. Burnt almost the entire savings of three years of hard work.
15. Maintained my record of punctuality at work.
16. Made two great barbeque sessions in my house, which I love to plan parties.
17. Found a new job in a new country.
18. Told my mom “If I wanted to have an easy life, I would have stayed back in my previous job for the rest of my life. I have chosen the hard way; I want to improve the situation.”

I regretted doing the following,
1. Addicted to redbull, and coffee.
2. Didn’t travel and see much of Malaysia and Singapore, or just the rest of the world.
3. Didn’t study hard enough.
4. Didn’t take much photos enough to remember year 2008.
5. Spend not enough time with parents and pet.
6. Making not enough of new friends in uni.
7. Didn’t participate hard enough in uni activities.

Major incidents that affected me,
1. Relocation of ex-company to far far unknown land.
2. Relocation to Singapore and the culture shock is just as bad as UK time.
3. Un-employed for 5 months.
4. Left parent’s umbrella and stood under rainstorms alone.

My wish in year 2009,
1. Take more time to travel.
2. Complete my master on time.
3. Stay competitive in study and work.
4. Make more people happy.
5. Update the blog more frequently.
6. Pay more attention to surroundings and friends.
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Exam Results + Job Hunting + Holiday = Today

2008-12-22T18:25:00.000+08:00

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It’s been a month of holiday, awaiting exam results and job hunting. Everything comes to its end today, except holiday! Yeah!

Remember the day that I panicked like hell because of my poor attempt on one of those papers? The exam result is finally out and quite satisfying, although I’m the lowest among the rest of the classmates that I know. At least I don’t need to retake any subject. One of my friend asked

”eh, why don’t you request for review for that paper?”

my answer was

“you siao ar, I can only answer one question which worth only 15 marks and you want me to look for trouble again? I’m sure fine with any grade other than ‘F’”

Found myself a job too, although the pay is not handsome, but still, better than unemployed during the recession period.

Going back to KL again tomorrow, to get some mandatory rest before the work and study stress piles up together like combo meals.

Have a nice day!
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Why Wait?

2008-12-18T11:24:00.000+08:00

Why wait until a doctor to tell you have only six months left then only you start to do something you like in life?

You only live once.

Zero New Job!

2008-12-16T10:39:00.001+08:00

ROTFL

2008-12-14T23:09:00.001+08:00

I was laughing too laugh and woke my gf up.

Cool Stuff

2008-12-13T22:00:00.002+08:00

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If WWII was an MMORTS

This is real funny! You gonna regret if your missed it.

Those people are damn creative wei~~~

My Blog's Reading Level

2008-12-12T15:05:00.001+08:00

How about yours?

Ministers are Impressive Heroes

2008-12-11T17:28:00.003+08:00

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Our minister is somehow got leveled up again, and saying yet another some unbeatable remarks.

Developers and buyers responsible too, says Shabery

To me it sounded like this:-

Itu lu punya pasal, siapa suruh you tinggal sana? You beli rumah sana, you pun perlu bertanggungjawab tau.

GREAT.

Now I hope and pray damn hard so that landslide will happen to his house today. Come let’s pray with me, we don’t need such ignorant.

I agree developers are evils, but how can you say that buyers’ fault? Who wants to live in some dangerous spots if he/she knows it? Look at those artist impression posters, photoshopped advertisements. Our fault? Don’t expect a doctor will know everything about geotechnical stuffs around his home, or a geotechnical engineer to know how to operate like a surgeon. What are the authorities for? To protect whose interest?

We pay cukai this cukai that for what? To galvanise your steel rice bowl? Show us some ethics man. And some sympathy to victims too. Please, please, please! Use your pea brain hardly before making a speech.
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Useless Stuffs Again

2008-12-10T20:44:00.000+08:00

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Saw this today:

Don’t cry because it is over,

Smile because it happened.
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Landslide, My Version

2008-12-08T23:49:00.000+08:00

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Another huge landslide in Ulu Klang.

I could still recall the small landslide that happened to my house many years back, few years after the highland towers incident.

I remembered that day was still raining when I returned home from school. Just like one usual day, unlock the gate and walked into the house. Bloody hell! The whole ground floor was flooded with muddy water like milo, I was so shocked and quickly look for the source. Apparently the water came from second floor; this is because my house is actually sits on the hill and the backyard where the hill is connected to the second floor. In other words, the ground floor is partially underground. The worst part which makes me very fuming at was, my maid was shoving the muddy water outside of her room, to stop water entering her room only. Arghhhh!!!! How selfish is that?

The earth slide into my backyard with some medium size trees, blocked all drainage and water flooded into the living room in second floor. The water mark at living room was about one inch height while dropping to ground floor through the stairs. The one and only seen waterfall in my house. Great to see, pain to clean the mess.

It took more than a week to get things back in order. Trees need to be cut into smaller pieces and carried away from the backyard. The excessive soil too. Lastly, huge bright blue / orange plastic sheets were being pinned onto it. That was one tiring week! Pinch of salt added to the wound when I saw my maid was playing with the mud water in the living room while cleaning up. Damn it!

Since then any earth movement heard from the slope at the back will kept me awake. To run for my life just in case.

When are they going to ban those developments at very steep sites? Landslide, banned, reviewed, approved, landslide again, banned again, reviewed again and then approved again? Look at those frustrations that are brewing around my neighbourhood.

http://saveukayhts.wordpress.com/

http://ampangsville.blogspot.com/2008/04/ampang-hill-residents-to-meet-state.html

http://www.ukaydevelopment.com.my/faq-land.htm.

The Return of Why Why Liew

2008-12-04T17:18:00.006+08:00

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Oh my goodness, I have only four posts in the entire November?

Hahahaha…..

Damn, I’m just way too hardworking!

I’m just gonna put up some photos and do less talking.

Have been rotting for 2 weeks since my last exam. Applied some jobs, watched some movies and that’s all. I seriously do think that I need a life.

No reply from job application yet, probably I need to rework my resume again.

Taken while waiting for my bus to NTU

179 is the one of the two buses to NTU that I take.

NTU's administration building, I can't show you how old are those engineering depts. What to do? engineers always work in dirty places.

Night version of it.

The following photos were taken during Daren's trip to sg:

somewhere near Boat Quay

Look for the answer yourself.

Yes, the metal "durian".

Construction of Marina Bay Sands

For those who wants to convert their Malaysian driving licence to Sporean one.

Bye now.

Semester One, I’m done

2008-11-24T15:45:00.002+08:00

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At last. At last I finished my first semester in NTU.

Studying masters is no fun at all, or maybe just NTU.

Especially when you have bunch of classmates who study 24-7, and you are relegating from the league.

7-11 in my uni does not open on Sunday and subway too.

I’m going back to KL tomorrow until Friday.

Gonna sleep early today, after so many restless nights.

Currently considering to switch over to part time, doing five subjects are no longer easy for an old man. My brain is plainly just can’t spin as fast as those who are fresh from bachelor degree.

Check out my balik kampung song, isn’t it just suit my current feeling well?

Btw, you can download it too.

18th Nov 2008, The Day which YY Screwed His Exam

2008-11-18T19:08:00.000+08:00

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Today was my second paper, and also the worst day of my life.

I looked at the paper blankly, and don’t even know how to start with.

This is the first time I got real panic in the exam hall.

I can only answered a part which contains 15 marks confidently and the rest are just bullshit and crap. Most likely I’ll need to retake this subject, which saddens me quite a lot.

Spent quite some time of revising and yet still unable to answer it, or maybe I’m not hardworking enough?

Or maybe I’m just not qualified to study masters at all.
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Slight Update

2008-11-05T00:25:00.002+08:00

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Short presentation on Wednesday night, but I'm not prepared yet.

Job interview on Thursday morning, but I'm not ready yet.

Exam next week, and the pressure is piling up till hair drop.

Need more time to sleep, eat and study.

Wish me luck on everything please.

Ciao.
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Top 20 Restaurants in Asia

2008-11-02T14:32:00.000+08:00

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Four out of top 20 fine restaurants are in Singapore. Sadly, Malaysia don’t even have half of it.

The Miele Guide Asia’s Top 20

Who’s coming here to visit me? Bring me there ok? Student no income wor!
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I'm Yellow Skinned

2008-10-30T00:44:00.003+08:00

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I have one classmate who is a local. He is intelligent, picks up everything real fast.

He is hardworking too, just like the rest of them. He needs to wake up at 5am and catch a bus to work. His work starts at 7am and ended at 5~7pm. Then he need to rush to uni for lectures just like me. He would probably reach home around 11pm. This is his life. Looks sad and dull?

Wait till he tell you about his 8.5 months year end bonus then you’ll know. He deserved it.

There’s no free breakfast, lunch, dinner here, you have to work it out. Hardly and badly.

No one cares about your skin colour, only performance and result they want.
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Busy Months

2008-10-27T21:21:00.003+08:00

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The blue ones indicate an important day.

The white one, a breathing day.

Peach one, Weekend.

Thunderstorms and turbulence ahead, please buckle up.

The best song to cure me now:

I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

Complain, Complain and Still Complaining

2008-10-25T20:24:00.002+08:00

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I realized that the people here are really like to complain.

Let me give you some examples,

1. When CCTV surveillance is provided at the common HDB lift, you say waste of electricity. When no CCTV, then you say why no security.
2. Unhappy because people don’t give up the seat to someone else.
3. Vehicles parked at the roadside.
4. Your bus moving too slow or your bus driver eating during his duty.
5. ERP, because they charge you when you use it on peak hour. They don’t know KL people driving midnight 3am still need to pay toll.
6. Drivers changed lanes without signaling.
7. Food court table not cleaned.
8. $3.00 breakfast is expensive.
9. People watched F1 for free on top of trees, while you have to watch it at home.

While comparing to us Malaysians, we are easier to be pleased if today:-
1. No traffic jam.
2. No flood.
3. Step into home and locked the door safely.
4. No sudden 40% increment of petrol price.
5. Back home with handbag not being snatched.
6. No duit kopi given.
7. Your neighbourhood police beat base closed due to unsafe issue.
8. Not being kicked back to China.
9. No third and forth angkasawan flying with your money.
10. Your beloved local uni got into world top 100,000
11. Out of the 10 Maybank ATM you went around, 1 is not out of service.

I’m so proud that I’m a Malaysian. Woohoo~!
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To The Moon!

2008-10-22T10:57:00.000+08:00

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India launched its first rocket to the moon today.

While Malaysia is planning to send the second angkasawan up, proud of eating roti canai on Russian’s spacecraft.

I really feel humiliated. Damn you.

Indian rocket blasts off to the moon
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It’s Great to Share!

2008-10-21T11:47:00.000+08:00

If you have a screwed life, don’t worry. Make yourself a little bit better over here:-

Fail Blog

p/s: I just can’t stop clicking next, next, next, its damn funny……

Have a nice day!

Short Review: WD My Passport Elite

2008-10-16T08:40:00.005+08:00

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My latest addition: WD My Passport Elite

So far, I’ve tried Maxtor, Seagate and also Fujitsu.

Til date, the worst HDD I ever experienced is Seagate. Failed to withstand 24 hours non-stop downloading and died on me in 1 year time. And the warranty claiming was another torturing moment as I need to courier it to Singapore from KL, simply because Malaysia’s branch is unhelpful based on other forumers’ experiences.

In fact, this is my first try on Western Digital.

Pros
5 years warranty instead of 3 like others.
Simple to use.
USB powered.
Low noise.
Lighting response on warranty issue from WD team, bravo!

Cons
The HDD is formatted to FAT32, which means no single file larger 4gb is allowed. There goes all dvd images…… sob sob sob

Price a little bit on the high side

Soft pouch is given unlike the leather ones for normal passport.
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FAQ - My Daily Routine

2008-10-14T12:08:00.000+08:00

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Ever since I’ve relocated to Singapore, I took less than 10 photos from then. I have lost the interest of taking down memories of my student life in sg. I guess the huge reason behind this is my life sucks over here, well, for a student at least.

My daily routine would be rather dull, tasteless, or bleached. However, I still have the privilege of waking up late til 9am. (Yes, 9am is already considered outstanding, based on the noise level outside my room). Then followed by all basic stuffs that other humans did so in the morning.

After that, I’ll need to bring my grandma for a cup of coffee every morning. Then I’ll have a chance to grab something to eat from the kopitiam. This coffee session would normally lasts about 2.5 hours, due to the pace of my grandma, and also some pit stops at the benches along the way go and back.

Usually it will be already 11.30~12pm when I reach home, and rush to chase back some time for revising.

Lunch, it is the same everyday at home. Fried fish with fried vegetables. Healthy diet, due to my grandma’s condition. Eating the first day ok, 1 week still ok, 1 month? Cannot tahan di. But still have to eat. Eating outside oftenly would burn my RM savings even faster as I have lost my earning ability ever since I started study again. Stupid uni doesn’t allow international students to work for the first semester!

Later after lunch, I’ll pack and leave for uni. The journey from Hougang to NTU is about 1.5 hours or less. Taking the purple line all the way down to the second last station, outram park and then switch to green line all the way to the last station, boon lay. Then, I need to catch a public bus to the campus. Sometimes the queue for the bus can be as long as 1km, you can’t even fit into the first empty double decker arrived and wait for the next one.

Normally I’ll choose to study in library or reading room. Library the most of the time, because they have plenty of magazines. Haha. Basically not much activities that look rather interesting to me, I don’t need any grooming for better career, listen to any career talks nor overseas training. Even the mechanical society is almost wasted, their activities calendar is almost emptied and the only activity that launched was exam preparation and tips. WTF. There’s no technical excursion or leisure trip unlike Sheffield’s trip to greyhound racing, Rolls Royce factory visit, etc. I guess everyone here only thinks about their future and worked the rest of their life.

My classes usually starts at 6.45pm, so I need to get an early dinner for that. There are not much canteens or choices in walking distance. Really nothing proud to shout about. The lectures usually ends at 9.30pm but some nasty ones really hogged up til 9.45pm. The worst moment of my life is to squeeze into the public bus with the rest. I still remember once that I heard “excuse me” from my back when everyone is squeezing up and me being gentleman thinking that I’m blocking her to somewhere else and allow her to go through. And what she did next was cut the queue made into the bus in the nest minute. WTF. Her mainland education didn’t teach her about this?

By the time when I reach home, it is always already half past eleven and everyone is already gone to their peace zone. Tidy up myself, do some internet surfing, and hurried to my bed. There goes another day of my student life in Singapore…..
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Stress Stress Stress

2008-10-08T12:47:00.000+08:00

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I can only afford to post up a small update as my first exam is logging in on the coming month.

Stresses are piling up as more and more materials needed to study.

Drowning more and more redbull and vitamins.

Hairline is retreating!

Help!!! mayday mayday!!!
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Who Am I?

2008-10-04T22:17:00.002+08:00

The difference between scientist and engineer.

Scientist: calculated, experiments done and came out with a very accurate and precise outcome.

Engineer: ~~use rule of thumb,~~ using someone’s law and slapped a safety factor of 5~10 and present to client.
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Scientist: presented and explained with more and more scientific terms and clients got lost. More unknown and questions created at the end.

Engineer: part A, B and C got defects. Please change them.

Map to Somewhere

2008-10-02T12:39:00.003+08:00

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I have something is worth mentioning about.

I was in KL last weekend and some friends n I decided to eat Japanese food in Manjalara. For sure I know the directions to there but some might not familiar with that area.

So one of my motivated and considerate friends took the initiative to draw a very detail map for the others and I think it is worth to upload it over here.

Come, let’s enjoy the map.

Yong Han said someone pointing him to Holland, another one felt sick after seeing the map and didn’t turn up.

Conclusion, where to get such good friend, right?

Study Harder?

2008-09-22T17:22:00.001+08:00

This is exactly the lecture notes for only ONE subject in ONE semester.

And i'm doing five of these...

Why so kiasu, why teach so many in so short time?

Starting to regret why should I throw myself in this shit.

Paid to suffer. haih

Gonna read all these up and sit for exam in Nov.
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The Reason I Love AC Milan

2008-09-22T00:09:00.013+08:00

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I’ve being told that my posts are getting shorter and shorter, in fact it’s getting lazier and lazier… LOL.

Alright, today I’m gonna talk about my favorite football club.

Whenever each and every time a new friend asked me about which football team that I support and I’ll not hesitant to tell him that I love AC Milan.

But how and when do I get started to support AC Milan?

To answer this question, I must backtrack to my golden school days. I’m actually a fan of Oliver Bierhoff. Although he’s not a very famous nor outstanding player yet he still attracts my attention.

He was then a striker in AC Milan by that time, quite an interesting partnership with George Weah during 1998 – 2000. Both of them were my best combination in my championship manager computer game. From the game step by step, I’m being exposed to every single player inside the Milan squad. Then I’m slowly got in love with Milan.

While everyone was screaming madly for kaka, I still think that there are still a lot of players heavily contributed to the club. Just to name a few, for example, like Cafu, Thomas Helveg, Rui Costa, Clarence Seedorf, Massimo Ambrosini, Alessandro Costacurta, Serginho, Kakha Kaladze, Leonardo, Zvonimir Boban.

Yes, I’m just highlighting those low profile players that really deserved our respect.

In order to materialize the dream of every Milan fan, Eugene and I visited San Siro during my first year in UK. We got ourselves a pair of match ticket for Milan vs Empoli. That was my first and only Serie A live match. Italian football environment is rather different from EPL one, besides that it was way cheaper to watch football in italy. Supporters in Italy are able to bring in fireworks, huge ass banners, sing and shout as loud as possible.

It was a Sunday afternoon game and the stadium was packed with spectators, we were seated in the neutral zone or rather “tourist” zone. In fact I couldn’t recall much that happen on that day since it was more than four years ago. I’ll let the pictures to do the talking.

I’ve update to Milan official song and on for a week long to celebrate their first win in the new season. Hahahaha.
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The outlook of San Siro

This were the soft and comfy seats we had.

People getting the paint job done.

Milan players warming up near fan zone.... WTF

The hardcore Milan Fan.

No wonder they're so cool.

Flares were already up before the game start.

The starting of first half.

Another neutral or tourist zone.

The final score, it was a penalty.
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Just a Small Update For Now

2008-09-21T22:57:00.002+08:00

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This is my 101th post in blogger ever since Dec 2007.

It’s Week 7 in my first semester and recess week too~~!

Wohoo~~~

Finally I’m getting a rest and time to pick up my leftover studies again.

Oh ya, I’m returning to KL on 25th to 30th Oct. Yeah, trying to beat the raya rush!

p/s: Happy Birthday to yy! [why it sounds so lame and pathetic….]
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Ninja Cat

2008-09-15T18:12:00.000+08:00

omg so cute!

Fwd: Crackdown My Foot!

2008-09-15T17:28:00.003+08:00

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Something that worth a little bit of your precious reading time.

Crackdown My Foot!

Malaysia Boleh! Filipino Boleh!
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Release Teresa NOW!!!

2008-09-14T20:48:00.002+08:00

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http://www.petitiononline.com/freetkok/petition.html

Do your part!

nuff said.
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Another Shocked Moment!

2008-09-12T09:17:00.005+08:00

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OMG

Read this!

Bus shelters in the city go missing

New bus shelters were gone!

Right in the middle of the city, right in broad daylight!

One of them was just facing the DBKL headquarters and they don't even aware about it. WTF

DBKL Boleh! Malaysia Boleh!
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Sad

2008-09-09T09:41:00.001+08:00

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Is this what you all Chinese BN supporters voted and hoping for?

Allowing him to act like an untrained animal?

Where’s the Internal Security Act?

Has he forgotten “KEDAULATAN UNDANG-UNDANG” & “KESOPANAN DAN KESUSILAAN”?

It’s time to wake up. We can’t allow this to happen anymore.

Gerakan P Pinang putus hubungan dengan Umno negeri

Get out of BN, Bukit Bendera Umno head tells Gerakan

犹太人论撕子根照孰不可忍槟民政即与槟巫统断绝关系

Something to Share

2008-09-08T17:26:00.002+08:00

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I came across a phrase that is quite interesting.

“The question isn’t how do u reach your goal,
it’s who do you follow?”

got this from Hartford’s advertisement.
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I Missed Chewing Gums!

2008-09-03T11:42:00.004+08:00

I was back to KL on the last weekend.

Guess what i bought when I reach the first rest stop in Msia?

I missed chewing gums damn alot.

My Life

2008-09-03T11:38:00.001+08:00

The view from my window.

I'm stucked in the middle of concrete forest.
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Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 5

2008-08-29T10:18:00.021+08:00

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Day 4 - 13/7/08

Ah ha. Finally this is the last post about this trip. Phewww..

The view of local town in Cameron Highlands, we were the only tourists there.

It was actually an apartment unit and rented out to us.

The first destination would be Sungai Palas. Great place for breakfast with nice view. In fact I would prefer the T-café for scones. Cheaper and taste better. However, we were running out of time and so we combined both objectives in one place. As usual, it was so crowded and all nice locations were already seated. Some of us had cakes, scones, and sandwiches. All of us ordered different flavours of teas and got mixed up eventually since we are not good in distinguishing them.

The brothers of the century.

The last breakfast for our road trip.

Posing is necessary.

The next place we went was the strawberry farm. It’s definitely not an easy place to find the farm. It’s situated deep inside the Sungai Palas and you will see a signboard on your way to BOH Tea Center.

Most of the members were given a basket and spreaded off quickly to harvest strawberries like hardworking bees.

Our machine in front of the animal farm

On the way back, we stopped by at the Blue Valley to get some vegetables back home.

Most of the day was spent inside the car as we traveled from Cameron Highland back to KL via Simpang Pulai route.

This is how we ended our 4 days road trip, with tiredness, sweats, burnt skins, few hundreds poorer, back home with lots of smelly clothes, vegetables and strawberries.

Lastly, I enjoyed much and looking forward to the next trip!

The End
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Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 4
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Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 3
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Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 2
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Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 1
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Things That Freaks Me Out Now

2008-08-26T11:13:00.003+08:00

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The following items are currently annoys me:-

1. Why do people still come for lecture or take up the course when they already can answer everything thrown out by the lectures immediately? University is a place for you to learn, not a place for you to show off. As if like they no need to pay tuition fees like that. Go back to your workplace and impress your boss!! You are wasting time stupid!

2. Why do people use highlighter to highlight almost all the texts in one page? Highlighter is meant to be highlighting important phrases and points and you might as well dip the whole lecture notes inside the bright yellow liquid? Wasting time to draw line by line and using the ruler to guide somemore. Wasting time and money! Another option is print on yellow paper.

OMG!!! Wake up you people! Wake up!!!

Awaiting The Real "Merdeka"

2008-08-19T22:59:00.005+08:00

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National Day is just around the corner.

but I'm ashamed of that.

The real meaning for celebrating National Day is lost.

Laws were no longer applied to politicians and rich.

Freedom of speech is diminishing.

Freedom of religon became playing of fire.

Being threaten for suggesting 10% allowance to university.

Being acused for wearing too provocatively and seductively.

Being warned not to challenge, test their patience, and even question them.

Being told to be grateful as they granted citizenship to you.

Being asked to leave if you don't like it, back to china to be exact.

Still being advised to change lifestyle when everything is minimum.

Being informed that Mercedes Benz is cheaper than Proton.

Being told that RM 1 mil syabu was stolen in police HQ.

Being psycho-ed that our toll and petrol, are cheaper than 1st world countries.

and today's special:-

No to 'too sexy' Avril Lavigne

GREAT.

Malaysia Boleh!
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The Television

2008-08-18T14:22:00.002+08:00

When young,

You watch television.

When old,

The television watches you.

I Wanna Go Here

2008-08-17T23:15:00.001+08:00

How nice if I can see this real. Please donate to my travel fund. Thanks

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Solitude

2008-08-16T11:37:00.003+08:00

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It’s already mid of August and completed Week 2 in NTU. Well, it’s quite a different experience here compared to Malaysia and even in UK. Sometimes I do question myself why I throw myself another year long master courses? Is that going to be very useful and capable to secure a better job in future? Hmmmm….. Throwing myself again into some tedious third order integration and similar difficulty of mathematics? Throw myself away from beloved home and dog? Resting myself on an unfamiliar territory? These questions lied unanswered.

Back to my daily activities, basically I’m back to 100% student life at the moment, since I will not be able to work in the first semester. Waking up late on weekdays can be nice and relaxing, however, I normally reach home around 11.30pm after 3 hours of lectures and 1.5 hours of traveling from west to north east. In one ordinary weekday, I would need to walk to the mrt station nearby and catch a train from there to the second last station of the line and then switch into another line and sit until the last station. The entire process of the train journey is about 55 minutes. After that, I need to grab a bus into the uni campus.

This is actually my first time staying in a very high density place. The noise from the lift upgrading construction outside started 8.30am sharp. It’s not easy to cope with the noise level at first, and I slept with ear plug for the first week. I missed the quietness in my kl home and the comfortable chilly environment in uk.

Btw, if you are wondering what am I studying. It’s actually Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 4

2008-08-14T12:31:00.027+08:00

Day 3 - 12/7/08

Day 3, the day we checked out from Tasik Kenyir and returned to our beloved van which has been rested on the lakeside for quite some time. We packed up and left in the morning, right after another round of nasty resort breakfast.

Great view from our balcony. (This is Kim)

We came across a lot of beautiful sceneries along the journey to next unknown destination. The winding road towards Gua Musang from here was still closed to public and the road condition was real bad. Now I know why the contractor of the project stated that road user’s on their own risk. As a result, we were like sitting roller coaster all the time. I felt sorry for the van owner. LOL.

We noticed that the van was in half emptied tank fuel since the departure of Tasik Kenyir and the driver decided to try his luck on the closed road. We are getting more and more desperate as the fuel gauge needle is dropping and still no sight of any civilization yet. Luckily we passed by a small hut that we decided to get some lunch. While we were waiting for our orders, one of us asked them about petrol availability nearby. She told us there will be no petrol station around this deserted area and only she has it, in which we believed her undoubtedly. She quoted us RM 3.50 per litre, the most expensive petrol I have ever come across in Malaysia. However, we still have no choice and would rather not risk ourselves of running dry in the sea of palm oil trees. Oh, ya, did I told you that we found a petrol station JUST a stone throw away from the hut? Damn it! Our throats were being cut truly madly deeply.

1 hold, 1 pour, 1 look, and 1 record.

We are somewhere middle of the palm oil jungle.

The hut where we bought petrol at RM3.50 per litre

We somehow reached Gua Musang and got refreshed. By asking the locals we have been told that we will pass by Cameron Highlands in order to reach Ipoh, our next destination.

Suddenly, I remembered that I’ve been told by the van owner to avoid hilly roads as the van may not be able to cope it. And now we are in the middle of nowhere, turning back to tasik kenyir is almost impossible, so we headed the hilly and winding roads towards the highlands.

Not everyone was sleeping in during the journey, we had laughs, arguments, snores, noises, etc. Most of the time the co-driver and driver wake themselves up by arguments. It is actually a very effective way to stay alert throughout the whole trip as your brain thinks harder as you encountered an argument. The whole trip was never short of listening to co-driver shouting the driver as gorilla, monkey, king kong, Michelin, etc. As in return, the driver was screaming trees, ent, tree-man, etc. Definitely all types of foul languages were accompanied and well seated in between the sentences. They were somehow arguing on a new topic about the French language. As we passed by a junction that towards Pos Blau, none of us noticed that would be the critical junction which led us to Cameron Highlands. Both of the co and driver were arguing about the pronunciation of Pos Blau and led us to the end of tar road, somewhere unknown in the middle of peninsular. We had to turn back to the critical junction and wasted so many precious time and the more expensive than V-Power petrol.

Winding road to Cameron Highlands

Top speed.

The road from Pos Blau junction was definitely better surroundings as we are ascending to the highlands. The weather was so nice and made people more calm, especially the co and driver. We traveled from bentong hotspring to salt water beach at East Coast, then to fresh water lake in Tasik Kenyir, and now to highlands.

Things gettings cooler.

The first thing we did in Cameron Highlands was trapped in traffic jam. It’s already 8pm and we were still hungry, no confirmation of accommodation, still stuck in the crazy jam. Eventually the whole jam was caused by the great weekly pasar malam. You cannot believe the hordes of peoples on top of this small hill. We waited like 45 mins to be served for steamboat. Isn’t that steamboat requires no cooking and preparation can be done in advance? What is going wrong?

The next thing we need to do was to look for a place to stay overnight. We drove through the whole three towns and couldn’t get any room at all. It was so full house that until we almost decided to leave for Ipoh. We finally got ourselves a condo unit with 3 rooms. Glad that I have my own proper bed and toilet with lights! The night was not cheap as we were last minute customers, and don’t think they will be kind to our wallet.

Random farm.

Nothing beats the beer after a whole lot of tiring journey.

Steamboat-ing

We got ourselves a bottle of sake while waiting for our dinner to kill the night, and everyone was showing the symptom of fatigue, but still they managed to finish the whole bottle by playing the same old good card game. This is how we ended our night in Cameron Highlands.

Look, how exhausted we are behind the camera.

Drink of the third night.

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To Be Continued......
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Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 3
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Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 2
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Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 1

My Beloved Right Wrist

2008-08-12T13:31:00.010+08:00

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Let's take a break from the roadtrip posts, shall we?

3 weeks, from white to brown, clean to dirty, fresh to smelly

The cast was finally removed on the 28th of July 2008, three weeks after the accident.

What’s your comment for wear it?

No one is going to feel happy for being wrapped and not allowed to move for like a few weeks. Muscle cramps, discomfort, bulkiness, numbs are often happened. Especially at night, when you are tired and sleepy. The worst of the worst part was the psychological part, you always felt that your wrist is in jail and always wanted to get rid of it. There’s no place that can place your wrist in comfortable area, everywhere you put, up or down, left or right, it doesn’t feel any comfortable at all. Even though the cast has many little pores so that it can breaths, but the rate of sweat evaporating is not as fast as you producing the sweat under the hot sun. Therefore, the cast can be very sweaty sticky inside and enormous heat will be trapped inside.

Normally clinics will not have the saw to remove it, so you will need to do it in the hospital and it is not as cheap as pisang goreng. Furthermore, the hospital will not allow you to remove it without any consultation from the doctor. That would possibly cost you a bomb if you don’t have any medical insurance. My total damage to up date is already RM1k plus and occupational therapy is coming up next week.

I would rather pay more in order to obtain the best treatment possible, since right hand or wrist for a right-hander is very important.

I’m currently wearing a splint so that it could provide necessary support and also immobilisation . :-( Luckily the best past is, it is detachable and washable! Yeah!
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Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 3

2008-08-10T12:11:00.034+08:00

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Day 2 - 11/7/08

Activities of the day: Fish, fishing and angling. It's just that simple.

Rising early from a raki night proves that the drink was too mild to them. We had our breakie at the same old place again since there's no other option is available. We went to the fish farm again right after that, to get more baits, as we are going to fish the whole day.

Checking out of the baits at the far side.

These fishes are too big for us.

We could not afford to waste anymore time and proceed to the first fishing spot immediately. Mostly the whole lake was very calm and very nice view. Great for the anglers and also the one who needed a rest after a long working life, like me. Basically I was lying inside the boat and watch until tired. Sometimes i'll hold the camera and net to help them when there's something up.

Wi taking over the steering, for 2 minutes.

One of the calm fishing spots.

After that, we headed back to mainland for lunch. Problem arised. It was Friday, and also public holiday too in an Islamic state. Everyone is not working, including leisure and food industries, even in the state's biggest tourist attraction, how are we going to have 2020 vision? Lastly we could only found a small hut that were selling nasi ayam only, from the mouth of the only operating convenient store. Nothing else you can eat over there, that's wonderful. Maybe we were too hungry and couldn't find any other option, so the nasi ayam did not receive any complaint from us. We were then brought back to the resort as the boatman needs to get onshore to buy petrol at nearby town. They keep complaining about the recent petrol price hike, and have no choice but pass the burden to consumers. How pathetic is that? They were the most affected group as they need petrol to make a living. Screw those people who said our petrol price is STILL cheaper than neighbours!

We spent sometime at the resort's natural swimming pool. 3 different depths of pools that are available to us. One for the kid, only 2 feet. Another one for adults, about 4-5 feet. The last one for brave ones, the lake open style, depth is unknown.

Supa-men!

Olympic long jump, with ghost hand behind.

We moved on the our next fishing spot with our boatman arrives very late. and he promised to stay later of the night. Mainly we killed the day with fishing only, in different locations.

Daren's catch.

Clever Toman bit the tail of the bait without hitting the hook.

Michelin man = safe roadtrip.

Gavin's catch.

"Switching jobs, wise move?"

Gavin's second catch

Kim's catch.

Lastly we converted our catching to our dinner. The biggest one we go for making soup and the rest smaller one we fried it. The resort kitchen charged us RM5 for processing each fish, quite reasonable actually. I didn't join them for the dinner because I went to have a very long rest.

we fish for our dinner.

Finally its absinthe time. All of them look excited and played with it rather than drinking it.

After all, Gavin and Jeremy went for night fishing as the boatman agreed to bring them out for free. The others were just like me, sleep all the way to morning.

Jeremy's catch, at last.

To Be Continued......

Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 2

Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 1

Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 2

2008-08-08T09:51:00.032+08:00

Day 1 - 10/7/08

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We gathered at Gavin’s house until 2 something, and here we go. The first stop, McD. Yeah. To fill up four empty stomachs. After that, we picked up Jeremy at 3am and straightaway march towards our first destination.

How fast can we go on this trip?

The top speed of our machine. This is why I said how far can we go is really depends on it.

Our first stop was Bentong Hotspring. Yes, it doesn’t have any fancy name. It’s really call Bentong Hotspring. The place was totally in darkness with only lights from stars and moon only. We have to make our ways to the pool with our torchlights. It was very quiet since it already 4 something in the morning and no one else beside us. The water was surprisingly not so warm, more like a pool of muddy leftover warm water. ~~I guess they turned off the heater during nighttime.~~ Not much pictures were taken over there, maybe we scared of capturing "others" unintentionally.

Being squeezed while changing inside the van.

So we carried on our journey to Kuantan to get some food. Really not much time spent over in Kuantan since we have no idea what can do there.

We stopped by at the Pantai Temasik in Terengganu to refuel us and get some legs stretching. The water over here is quite clean and clear unlike those on West Coast and some shampoo advertisement.

The weather is so lovely.

Posers wei!

Some group pictures before we leave.

We reach the haunted Tasik Kenyir in noon time and starting to look for accommodation. Wi, Daren and me went to the Information Center for more info, while others bargaining with the boat operators. However, the lady at the counter was not too helpful. She straightaway introduced one of the resorts to me, I’m wondering whether she got any commission for that or not. Since some of the resorts were closed for “renovation”, so we left with a few options in this haunted lakeside.

1. Expensive resort which contained a ‘spa’ word, how cheap can it be?

2. Camping. We have no cooking equipment at all, so this option is out.

3. Boathouse. You have to book this in advance, so out too.

4. Cheap resort that can fit 6 of us in one room. Yeah, this is suitable to our theme.

Unpacking at the Kenyir Lake entrance.

The Information Center

Where the boat operators are.

The only transportation inside the lake.

The journey to our resort and also entering from the lake!

The one of the right is ours for 2 nights.
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When we checked in, OMG. There were only 3 double beds which barely can fit 2 gentlemen in one of them. Its not even queen sized too. Lets check out the toilet, no lights, the lock is gone case. WTF. They don’t even provide 6 pillows to us, we have to request and take it ourselves. The room is huge, and it has Astro with 14” TV. How cool was that! The greatest resort I even had! P/S: We made fully use of the torchlights inside the toilet.

The first place that we went was the fish farm, lots of Tilapia and some catfish. The purpose we went there was to get some live bait to fish Toman tomorrow. Hohoho, my first experience in “watching” people fishing.

Picture taken at the nearest to the platform, so lesser fishes.

The always sinchan-ed Daren TLW

Kim is so gay!

Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!

The scenery is so lovely, and you can get it in Malaysia too.

The next stop, waterfall. The sky was dark and it dribbled for some while. I always have the feeling of being flush down by sudden water. Too bad I couldn’t join them 100% as my wrist was still in cast, and that was the greatest regret in that trip.

Nothing much interesting after that, as some of the gang went fish but came back emptied hands.

Dinner in such haunted places were always the main problem. The resort doesn't have any convenient store at all, so no way you can get any maggi mee or biscuits from that island. Basically you will need to pay RM40 one way to take a boat ride to the opposite mainland to get them. Eat inside the resort? It's even more expensive, look at the rate for tilapia fish! All of us had nasi goreng and fried chicken as those are the cheapest main, and it's more than RM6.00

RM 2.50 for 1 freaking gramme wei!!!

That's nothing much worth mentioning about the dinner's quality. Let’s fast forward to nighttime. Our great going-to-be doctor got us 2 bottles of sinful liquid. Remember, this is the first doctor I ever met who promotes alcohol drinking. The first night was Turkish Raki. Everyone gone sleeping very fast right after the drinking session since this was the first proper night in our trip. I was secretly modifying my cast in the middle of the night while others sleep and snore like their first sleep in ten years.

Left to right: Raki for the first night, Absinthe for the second.

To Be Continued....

Road Trip 10~13/07/2008 - Part 1

Current Internet Speed

2008-07-30T17:01:00.003+08:00

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However speed throttling does happen when xunlei-ing.
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