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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Between needs and wants

Accompanied some friends to do CNY shopping last weekend in KL. Yes yes I know with all the last minute shopping and traffic jam plus the fact that some of the roads were closed due to Tour De Langkawi made it all even more tempting to just stay at home and hide under the blankets but I just wanted to go for heck of it and torture myself ... and I got more than I bargained for ... ended up walking around Sg Wang, Low Yat and Times Square for almost 8 hours .. my legs going to drop off alreadyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ...

In between all that walking and shopping and waiting I got a chance to have a look at some new gadgets and it's really temptinggggg .. grrrrrr .. I've wanted to get a camera for the longest time so decided to check some out. The prices of a digital slr is really tempting with prices as low as RM 2.5k for a Canon 350D which is more than adequate for me to play around with it until I learn the basics of good photography .. on the other hand if I were to get a slr I would definately not be bringing it along with me everywhere I go hence defeating the purpose of getting a camera in the first place .. so I shifted my focus to compact cameras with some degree of manual control and saw two models that particularly attracted my attention were

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2

Canon PowerShot G7

Both the camera have enough manual control and costs roughly around the same price with the Canon being slightly more expensive. The Canon also has a hotshoe for an external flash which is also compatible with it's digital slr brother which makes it all the more interesting. Have still not decided which one I should get or should I even get one in the first place or just jump straight to a digital SLR. Do I even need a digital camera in the first place or is just another spur of the moment kinda thing .. but one thing for sure photography is something I've always been interested in but just didn't have the time to really get involved .. we shall see how it goes ..

My mp3 player is also giving me problems and the headphone connection is not so good. Sometimes only one side of the headphone works and sometimes it has static sound. So a new mp3 player sounds feasible and what better player to get than the Ipod video .. 80gb of pure uncompressed music loving ... plus I can get to load up some movies as well to watch while I'm sitting around somewhere doing nothing and just waiting .. hmmmm now where and when would I do that ... never mind I still want one !!! hahaah

My headphones are also giving me problems ... I have 3 .. the Senn HD497 which one speaker doesn't work .. a Senn PX100 which sounds distorted at high volumes ... the Koss KSC75 which the volume control knob doesn't work properly causing distortion and sometimes only one side to work .. which boils down to me needing a new headphones for my new player ... hahahaahh .. I've boiled it down to two choices .. one is the shure earbuds .. whichs I've heard before paired up with the ipod and it sounds awesomeeeeeeeee !!! plus it's able to isolate most of the outside sound without using any weird frequencies allowing me to enjoy the music so much more

Shure E2c

I've also got my eye on the Senn HD600 or HD650 .. both of which are almost the top of the range audiophile grade headphones from Sennheiser so both of them costs a bomb .. I've only heard the HD600 before but it was paired with an amp so it was unfair for me to make a decision but oh boy do they sound awesome and I could tell the difference between an mp3 file and an uncompress version of it playing from the ipod ... it just sound awesome .. OMG drooling already thinking about it ... grrrrrrrrrrrrr ..

HD600

HD650

Last but not least .. no money no talk ... hahahahaha

The hyped up day

So the big V day is approaching and you can't help but notice people around you getting all worried and hyper trying to make plans for tomorrow. Isn't it funny how a single day can release so much stress especially for guys since the girls will be expecting something.

So who died and decided that we need a day to shower our love for our loved ones ? He must have been a genius, because of him florist prosper on this day and not to mention restaurants and gift shops and greeting card companies and a whole other range of opportunists who try to squeeze as much money as possible from us. Buying flowers on Valentines day is just ridiculous, you probably can get a whole bouquet of roses for the price of a single stalk on this auspicious day. Oh well who am I to complaint as I've also been trapped in the whole Valentines day thing and end up spending more on things that costs a lot lesser on any other day. Maybe this year I should be the one walking around with roses and selling them to couples and instantly becoming slightly richer.... muahahahahaha ..

Since I will be spending V day all alone I did some searching on google and stumbled upon this page on wikipedia. Let all the single people unite and celebrate Singles Awareness Day (SAD) hahahahahhaaha. You can read more about it here

So to all those who have plans for tomorrow have fun and even though V day will come and go cherish the company of your loved one throughout the year and not just one day. To all my single friends HAPPY SAD yooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :D

My trip to China (Shanghai & Beijing)

Just managed to upload some pictures to Flickr from my trip to China (Shanghai & Beijing). Here's a slideshow of the pictures. Will update the post again later. In the meantime enjoy.

Flash Slideshow

Saturday, February 10, 2007

The Holiday

Was feeling a little down today and didn't want to go back and stare at the walls or in front of the computer so decided to make a trip to the movies. So with the last minute planning manage to get 5 people to follow me watch The Holiday.

The movie stars Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black and others. Okay I'm a hopeless romantic and love to watch this type of movies even though the plot is predictable and more often than not it involes either a sad or happy ending.

The movie is basically about Cameron Diaz (Amanda) and Kate Winslet (Iris) who have issues with the love life and decide that moving to a different country will give them the space and time to forget about everything and move on with their lives. Little did they know that no matter how far they run they magically find a man and somehow fall in love again.

Well I enjoyed the movie and it has it's funny moments. Although it did jog back some bitter memories but at least it left me leaving the cinema with a smile on my face. Plus Cameron's smile is extremely intoxicating. REALLY !!!

Friday, February 09, 2007

Hp Interactions - 5 countries 1 night 1 event

Got an invite to attend the event and since I had nothing else to do and was suppose to meet Tyler and gang in Maison later I decided I had nothing to loose plus they did promise free flow drinks. Arrived around 8pm and the media briefing just ended so I was one of the first ones in and immediately the kind waiter approached me with a tray of drinks. My new favourite drink vodka lime. Hahhahaha I think I had .. wait a minute I lost count how many I had ... LOL The new notebook from HP is also awesome with loads of features .. how I wish I could have one ..

Tyler arrived slightly later and since he didn't have dinner yet and the actual event of broadcasing live to 4 other coutries was starting only at 9pm. Went to have dinner and when we got back the place was already pack and suddenly we found ourselves surrounded by alot of technical people .. haahahahah and some of them were really funny .. :D

We were suppose to go live around 9pm but Taiwan was having some difficulties with the line and the live broadcast was delayed. DJ Kentaro performing in Singapore was awesome ... though it sounded more like drum and bass compared to hip hop .. Too Phat were also there to represent Malaysia. By the time the event was over most of the people that were actually there for the HP event were gone and the Maison crowd starting pouring in and before midnight the place was packed once more.

Left the place slightly earlier compared to before since I had a meeting today. It's amazing what technology allows us to do nowdays even though we were oceans apart. Too bad I didn't have a camera to take some pics. Will try getting some from those who were around.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Sadness ....

Yesterday was such a heart wrenching experience for me. I got home from work around 8pm and the house was empty and I headed up to my room and while I was just lazing around the room I got a phone call from my dad saying that he's in the clinic now and our dog got injured badly because of a fight with another dog. At that exact moment I could feel my heart just skip a beat. He's been with us for almost 10 years now and is a part of the family and hearing such news is devastating.

I quickly drove to the clinic and when I saw him on the table with his tongue sticking out and trying his hardest to move his head to acknowledge my presence I felt my heart just dropping to the floor. He looked so helpless and I felt so useless not being able to do anything other than hold his little head in my hands. The doctor said he has tried his best to save him and because of the internal damage and his age the doctor asked us to keep him as comfortable as possible and pray for him.

Today as I was leaving for work I just gave him a gentle pat on the head and hope that he will recover soon from his injuries. Really saddens me to see the active little bugger sitting in the corner so helpless with his wounds and stitches.

Update - My dad just called me and said that he's more serious than we thought. His back bone is broken and so is his legs and he's now in the hospital under going surgery and will need to spend the night in the hospital. I feel so helpless ......

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Monday, February 05, 2007

I bought a pendrive from China and I copied the pictures I took so I could come to the office and upload them but it stopped working when I tried plugging it in the office pc. It can't even detect it to format the damn thing. It worked perfectly fine yesterday night when I copied the pics into it. Stupid made in china products made to last for just one day ?? Will try it again tonight at home .. hopefully it works or else ... to the trash bin it flies

Saturday, February 03, 2007

I'm back !!!

Finally back in KL after almost a week in China ... have tonnes of photos to go through and will do a post on my trip to China soon ... :D for now .. it's good to be back though I do miss the coldness !!! hahahahah

Friday, January 26, 2007

Free hugs - sometimes a hug is all we need

Was feeling a bit bored today in the office and went youtubing looking for anything interesting and stumbled across this video and immediately wanted to post about it ... makes me feel all fuzzy and warm inside just watching it .. how much does a hug cost anyway ? Get your free hugs hereeeeeeeeeeeeee ... *hugggiessssssssssssssss*

This video shows the story of Juan Mann who wanted to share the joy of hugging and turn frowns into smiles. The music is by SickPuppies titled All The Same which is freaking awesome and definately made a different in the free hugs campaign video.

I wan my huggiessssssssssssssssssssssss also ......

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Finally decided

After thinking about it long and hard I have decided not to take the classes this time around due to some reasons mainly the fact that I will be missing quite a few classes and I will be overseas for work which doesn't leave me with much time to study. Emailed the college to inform them that I will be dropping the subject this time around and I got back a reply saying that I had to pay admnistration fee of RM 200, what a load of crap the last time during the briefing they did not mention anything about it and now suddenly asking to pay. Grrrrr will need to go and check what's going on

~~6th Jan - Exam~~
~~10th Jan - PMD post inten~~
~~12th Jan - MKT pre inten start~~
~~12th Jan - Post new year party~~
~~15th Jan - PMD Assignment due~~
~~19th Jan - MKT pre inten~~
28th Jan - Company trip leave KLIA
2nd Feb - Reach back KL
11th Feb - Leave KLIA
15th Feb - Reach KLIA

So my trip to China is confirmed and will be leaving this Sunday. It's below 0 now and lingering somewhere around -10 or so. Apparently it's the worst time of the year to visit Beijing hahahaha I'm going to freeze my butt off. Hope I can get a digicam also to take some pictures la. Looking forward to the trip, it's been a while I've been out of the country. Haven't even started packing, haven't changed money, haven't collected my passport, haven't know the details of the flight, I don't even have a freaking idea what time I'm suppose to be in the airport hahahahah .. die standing

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The lovely weekend

Weekend came and went in such a hurry that I didn't even feel it. It's good to go out and hang out with friends after such a long hiatus.

Friday
Went to Zouk on Friday night for Seb Fontaine and met up with the usual people. Finally metup with Perry and El after not seing him for ages. The music was awesome and Seb Fontaine definately kept the crowd moving with his mixes. The drinks were flowing and people were dancing and having a good time.

Saturday
Was practically sleeping the whole day and I woken up with a very disturbing phone call. Somebody's mom called me asking who I was. It was damn confusing .. and me still groggy and half asleep just could grunt and be polite coz I had no idea who was that and what she wanted and the best part was she was talking in Malay .. oh oh... bahhhhhhhhh .. whatever !!!

So anyways it was Sheryl's birthday party today and Maison and I decided to go and was joined by Ah Wai and Kelvin. First time being in Maison and the place doesn't look too bad. In fact it's my first time seeing Heritage Row and it seems to be more happening than Jln P Ramlee. Must go explore there more next time.

The music there was totally out. I mean it's not really my type, either that or I'm starting to get old. OMG shiverssssssssssss .. nevahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Sheryl was celebrating the birthday with another guy friend of hers and by the time I got there he was already a bit out. Must have had one too many hahahahah.

Sunday
Was suppose to meetup Estee, Daniel and Sylvia at Time Square but somehow the plan changed to meeting up in KLCC because Estee was meeting with Eelyn and Mitch for lunch in California Pizza. They were suppose to meet around 2+ but Estee arrived around 3+pm and I arrived around 4+pm. Had lunch there and it was raining quite heavily outside, when we were done Daniel and Sylvia joined us while Eelyn and Mitch went shopping. With nothing to do we somehow ended up at the cinema and watched Pathfinder.

Sent some to the lrt station and some home and Estee wanted to go to Eelyns place to collect her digicam and at the same time have a look at Eelyn's dogs. Reached home around 12am and immediately fell asleep. It's been a long and tiring weeekend and it came and went without a warning. Looking forward to the next one :D

Monday, January 22, 2007

Happy Belated Birthday

Arloesssssssss Cynthia ... so sorry bout last night. I tried calling you no answer and the signal at the place I was at is quite bad. Only got the missed call notification this morning. Wishing you a very happy belated birthday. Hope you find what you're looking for and spread your wings and fly and enjoy life to the fullest. Life's too short as it is !!!! hugssssssssssssssssssssss

Friday, January 19, 2007

Night off

Was suppose to join Tyler and gang in Maison yesterday but I was too freaking tired and wanted to have an early night. Instead I went to have Kajang satay for dinner. Metup with Joey, Estee and Christina. We just sat around and chit chatted while enjoying our satay. Estee almost cried when we told her we wanted to try the rabbit satay. Hahahahahah

My internet at home is still not working hence the slow updates. So much for our great service provider Telekom.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Hey Mambo

Finally I've arrivedddddddddddddd !!! It's been awhile since I've step foot into Zouk especially with the Tyler and the gang. Headed into Velvet and since it Wednesday it was Mambo night.

I was suprised when I arrived as I thought it would just be a few as us like usual but there were two tables full of people and obviously I didn't recognise most of them. Joachim, Andre, Jason, Anthony,Mel, Stel, Tini and a whole bunch of people who I forgot their names. Most of Tyler's colleagues were around as well.

The music was okay but the company made it even better. It's been a while since I've been out with them and it's good to be around familiar faces once again. We left Mambo around 3am and headed over to the mamak to get some food and reached home happy and contented. It's been a hell of a great day yesterday !!!

Alexis Bangsar - The dinner

So plans were made to head out to Mambo tonight and it's been awhile since I've been out with the gang. In fact it's been too long to even remember and the last time I've been to a club was last year. Hahahahha sounds like sooooooo long ago.

Got a call from Jerry saying that they will be meeting up for dinner tonight, I decided to join since I'll only be meeting Tyler and the gang much later at night. They were in Alexis Bangsar because Estee wanted to meet Monica there to have some cakes. I reached there around 8:30pm and by the time I actually got a parking almost 1/2 hour had passed. Getting a parking around Telawi area is madness and the bandaraya people were there towing cars and issuing summons.

So I joined Estee,Jerry and Monica and was suprised to meet Sheryl there as well. I've talked to her a few times but this the first time I'm meeting her. Had some food and the plan initially was to just meet for drinks and meetup with some other people in SS2 mamak for dinner but because both me and Jerry were freaking hungry after seeing the ladies enjoy their lovely cakes.

Had our dinner and I had a glass of white wine as well. Did I mention I love white wine !!! hahahah ... I think around 10pm or so we decided to leave to head to SS2 because we were suppose to meet the rest of the guys around 9pm and we were already late.

Ah Wai and Cody were already there when we arrived and we just had a couple of drinks since I was suppose to meet Tyler around 11pm. Sheryl will be celebrating her birthday in Maison on Saturday and she asked us to join if we're free. A short while later I got a call from Estee saying that Monica's car has been towed away and apparently they parked at the side of the road and there were a lot of car parked there. Upon further investigation I found out that they parked the car at the side of the road where there was a yellow line and Estee didn't know that you can't park your car along the yellow line ... duhhhhhhhhhh ... anyway they manage to resolve the problem so I left around 11+pm and drove over to Zouk to finally partayyyyyyyyyyy.

Thanks to Estee for the pics ... :D

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Some updates

So finally I managed to finish my assignment and hand it in yesterday. Reached college earlier as well because it was raining and I needed to go through the slides for the presentation to the lecturer. Was so damn worried about what he was going to ask and what we are suppose to present cause no one in the group had any idea. The only tip we got from the other group was to think of a reason why we choose that topic and why we choose that company. Ok we got that covered. The presentation went through without much issues and I guess he's quite satisfied with our work. Hope it goes well.

Went for my classes on Friday as well and got a new schedule from the lecturer. So now I have to rethink if I should go for this module or give it a miss hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ...

~~6th Jan - Exam~~
~~10th Jan - PMD post inten~~
~~12th Jan - MKT pre inten start~~
~~12th Jan - Post new year party~~
~~15th Jan - PMD Assignment due~~
19th Jan - MKT pre inten
21st Jan - MKT inten
23rd Jan - MKT inten
25th Jan - MKT inten
27th Jan - MKT inten
28th Jan - Company trip leave KLIA
28th Jan - MKT inten
30th Jan - MKT inten
2nd Feb - Reach back KL
5th Feb - MKT inten
12th Feb - MKT inten
22nd Feb - MKT inten
26th Feb - MKT inten
11th Feb - Leave KLIA
15th Feb - Reach KLIA

With the schedule I would only be missing 2 classes instead of 3 but because the subject is totally new to me it's going to require quite a bit of effort on my part to ensure that I understand what is going on. Plus the lecturer already scared us on the first day of class saying that she can differentiate between a 48 hrs, 72hrs or 3 weeks old assignment. Plus there's a in class test as well for this module which requires even more time to study for it.

Pros

Will be able to sit for my RMP in November
Will have more breaks between modules giving me more time to think about my desertation
Only one module left if I sit for RMP in November

Cons

Will be behind by two modules compared to those who started at the same time as me
RMP only can be done somewhere in the middle of 2008
Two modules left if I sit for RMP in November

Will think about it more before coming up with a decision ..........

Monday, January 15, 2007

Eye on Malaysia

This is old news for some but I just wanted to post about it because the pictures are so awesome :D 2007 is Visit Malaysia Year and in conjuction with that there's an Eye on Malaysia which basically is a large ferris wheel similiar to the London Eye held in Tasik Titiwangsa throughout the whole year. I tried visiting the official website to get more information and I was presented with a blank page with a Coming Soon tag. They should at least have some basic information up on the site even though it might not be the most beautiful site at least an image or two would have done some justice. Here's an article in The Star about the event. Even wikipedia has an entry about it.

I haven't seen the London Eye in real life and our very own Eye on Malaysia provides us a similiar feeling overseeing the beautiful landscape of KL. Apparently during the launch of the event there was spectacular fireworks that lasted for a week. Definately would love to go there and have a look and ride the eye !!! But RM 15 per ride .. hmmmmmmm

BTW I got the pictures from an email so kudos to whoever the photographers were. The place looks awesome !!

Some other blogs about the Eye on Malaysia

Sunday, January 14, 2007

I heart Starbucks !!!

Was at home doing my assignment the whole day yesterday and got bored and decided to head out for a drink. Got a SMS from Ah Wai asking to meet for dinner at Centrepoint so with nothing to do I went there to join Ah Wai and Joey for dinner. I forgot which shop we went to it was behind Pizza Uno, I ordered the curry mee and it's totally not what I expected. Totally not hot/spicy and I had to add in lotsa chilli to get it to taste. Later we were joined by Estee and her friend ermmm .. Audrey I think. Cody and Ricky came much later.

After having dinner Audrey had to go back and Estee decided to join us for a drink at the mamak in centrepoint. After a while sitting there and having a drink the guys were busy with watching football and since I haven't had a chance to get online the whole day thanks to the wonderful service that streamyx is providing I decided to head over to Starbucks to have a cuppa and surf the net.

Estee decided to join me because her pc at home is also not working and before I knew it she kidnapped my notebook and was busy chatting online while I resorted to reading a book I brought along. The sofa in Starbucks can be quite comfy also .. hahahahah ... somebody suddenly felt hungry and the mention of the blueberry cheese cake and suddenly it appeared on our table .. hahahaha and it was awesome !!! Left Starbucks around 2m and sent Estee back .. I was in Centrepoint from 8pm till 2am .. that's like almost going to work .. hahahahahaha

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Attitudes of some people

Was in the government office the whole day trying to ensure that everything works before the team flies off on Sunday for the implementation overseas. It's so frustrating working with them. They don't seem to have the sense of urgency and don't want to take responsibility for any of their action.

We had some issues on our side in the morning and was resolved in less than an hour and everything was working from our side. Then it was up to their database person to ensure that all the data appears in their system but they had some problems with the replication process and needed some time to find the fault.

So here I was sitting around just waiting for them to resolve the issue and because it was Friday and we have a longer lunch break I was afraid that they might not be able to resolve the issue before lunch so I went to look for the person in charge and they we still trying to fix the problem. As it reached their lunch time they just got up and with a happy face smile to me and said lunch time, going to eat first hungry. I was like WTF there was a problem that requires your immediate attention, why can't you resolve it and make sure it works before thinking of food !!!!!

So went for lunch and head back to office to clear up some stuff. Went back to the site later in the evening to join a colleague of mine who I have asked to go there earlier to ensure that they work on their part and not just laze around the office after lunch. Lucky when I got there most of the work was done or else I think I would have started screaming at someone.

Finally after much effort from our side to ensure that they themselves talk to each other between department, we concluded our testing at 7pm and I had classes today at 7pm. I truly wasn't happy with the whole event today. Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .... our "Tidak Apa" attitude at it's best !!!!!

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Why bother ?

Sometimes I wonder why do I even bother if others can't even make an effort in the first place !!!! Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Green eyed monster

This morning my colleague came running in my dept and saying she got something interesting and I was wondering what on earth that made her so joyfull early in the morning and she whipped this out !!! Arrrrghhhhhh how come I don't haveeeee .. jealousssssssssss

2007 organiser from Starbucks

Labour Day yippieeeee

Mothers day

Just a random page

I wan my Americano !!!

Happy Deepavali

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

The end

Monday, January 08, 2007

Enough is enough

Boss finally came into the office today after such a long break from Christmas/New Year. Have been updating on the progress of our integration between our system and the government agency via email and phone so he basically knew what has been going on. Finally today after seeing him and updating on the status of the progress we setup a meeting to meet the government people later in the afternoon.

Somehow everyone seems to cooperate and try their best to get things done especially after mentioning all those big names who are waiting for the project to be launched and they will also be heading to the first launch site to have a look at the system. Wow you should have seen the expression on their faces when they finally realise the seriousness of the project and how much it will affect them as well if everything does not go according to the schedule.

Manage to get most of the work done and will be heading there for final testing tomorrow. Will be having a meeting to inform the user group over in my office as well on the progress of the integration. Hope everything runs smoothly tomorrow and here I am still in the office doing some preparation for tomorrows meeting and testing. I don't know how long more I can take all of this ... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Was suppose to meet my group members today to discuss about the assignment as well but they text me and said they will handle the rest of the assignment since I got most of the information to write the assignment ready, just need to put them in words. We will be meeting again on Wednesday. Hope they can get most of it done by then. You guys ROCK !!!! Really save me man !!!

Saturday, January 06, 2007

I have survived !!!!

Finally it's over. Now I can relax a bit, well at least for tonight as I have an assignment due next week that has not even been started yet. Need to put some pressure on my other group members to do their part as well.

This morning I was doing some last minute revision and as it got closer to 12pm I started panicking and getting butterflies and I could feel my heart skipping a beat every once in a while. I haven't sat for exam in such a long time and it somehow feels strange cramming info into my already aging brains. Definately not fun.

Reached college before 1pm but not before grabbing some lunch so I don't faint or die out of hunger in the exam hall. The exam was suppose to start at 2pm but there was some delay and we only got into the hall around 2:10pm. Was given 10 mins to read the questions and exam started at 2:20pm and ended at 4:20pm. Manage to answer most of the questions and hopefully it's good enough to get me through the module. Will just have to wait and see.

Also thanks to Beverly,Cody,Cynthia and Estee for their support and best wishes for my exams. You all made a difference. At least you all made sure I didn't panic and leave my brains at home !!! hahahhhaa

The view from the top of the college

Waiting for exams to begin

More waiting

Two hours of my life spent here today

Thursday, January 04, 2007

The year just started but then ...

The year has just begun and somehow I'm finding myself swamped with work and deadlines .. really going to die this time ...

6th Jan - Exam
10th Jan - PMD post inten
12th Jan - MKT pre inten start
12th Jan - Post new year party
15th Jan - PMD Assignment due
19th Jan - MKT pre inten
27th Jan - MKT inten
28th Jan - MKT Inten
28th Jan - Company trip leave KLIA
30th Jan - MKT Inten
31st Jan - MKT Inten
1st Feb - MKT Inten
2nd Feb - Reach back KL
3rd Feb - MKT Inten
4th Feb - MKT Inten
11th Feb - Leave KLIA
15th Feb - Reach KLIA

I've no idea if I should sign up for the next module because I would be missing almost half of the course but if I don't take the module then I can start on my thesis by end of this year which will cause me to only finish everything up in 2008 but that wasn't the plan as I wanted to finish all the classes by this year and start on my thesis by end of the year ... DAMNIT !!!!!

To top it all off my car was giving problems yesterday so I had to leave it at the mechanic and lucky he borrowed me a car to use first. 2007 ..... so far it's the same shit .. different year ...

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

The Guardian - Movie HOORAAAHHHH !!!

The second movie I watched for the year and what more it was free :D Cynthia called me yesterday saying she had preview tickets for The Guardian and I jumped at the opportunity to watch yet another movie after watching Sinking of Japan which left me sinking in disappointment.

*Spoiler alerts*

The movie had the likes of Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher starring in it and I had high hopes for it. Kevin Costner plays Ben Randall an aging USCG Senior Chief. After an unfortunate incident with his rescue team he was forced to teach at the academy where he meets the young hot blooded Hoorah !! Jake Fischer who is a former high school swimming champion who is out to proove he's the best of best.

The show that immediately got me comparing The Guardian to was Men of Honor. The film potrays the classic mentor/student movie where the trainer in this case Ben Randall coming in to the training camp with his tough methods and failing students right on the first day of training and Jake Fischer being the cocky rescue trainee wants to be better than Randall and break every record Randall has ever set in the camp which he does eventually.

I was hoping for a lot more rescue action especially after watching the trailer but the film focusses more on building the two character up and how both Randall and Fischer learnt from each other and bonded and in how the Fischer had to come to Randall rescue during a rescue mission.

What's a movie without a love story and in The Guardian, Fiscsher gets involved with school teacher Emily Thomas played by Melissa Sagemiller who definately stole the spotlight whenever she appeared on screen. Both of them meet at a bar and from there began their "casual" relationship knowing very well that Randall will only be at the training camp for a limited time only.

The show has many funny moments that left me laughing hysterically and a few touchy moments but not enough to move me to tears like how Men of Honor could. I like how Fischer kept asking how many people has Randall rescued so far and Randall replied 22. 22 is the amount of people Randall failed to rescue and it's the only number he has ever kept track off.

Overall I enjoy the show until the last 10-15 mins of it because it has a fairy tale ending that left me rolling my eyes and no wonder they can come up with a line like There is a legend of a man under the sea. A fisher of men. He is called the Guardian especially with such an ending.

For a more indepth review see here

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Sinking of Japan Movie

The first ever movie I saw in 2007 and after watching the trailer of the show I was indeed excited and hopes of it offering the same excitement and sorrow like Day After Tomorrow.

*Spoiler Alert*

Sinking of Japan is yet another disaster related movie on how earthquakes and tsunamis are threatening to wipe out Japan from the face of the earth. With a cast such as Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Kou Shibasaki I was expecting to walk out of the cinema in tears and I actually did but not because I was moved by the show because I kept yawning my silly head off from all the excitement on screen leaving me teary eyed.

After watching the trailer I was in awe with all the special effects and seeing Japan being washed away and sinking bit by bit and when I finished watching the movie I realised that the trailer basically showed 80% of the action scenes from the movie. The movie was moving at such a slow pace I was tossing and turning in my seat and the movie has too many ups and downs. It builds up the anticipation and then just drops it like a bomb.

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Kou Shibasaki provided the romantic love story in the movie of a deep sea explorer and a rescue worker. It was a total let down as well and their supposedly love scene in the camp area was a total let down. I mean if the girl has to ask the guy for sex there's gotta be something wrong somewhere. Shouldn't stuff like this just happen especially in the movies ??

The scene where the scientist just found out that Japan will sink in about a year is also damn dramatic. He punches the damn monitor and starts shouting and then picks up the monitor and suprisingly it still works and the next day he went to brief the minister's about his discovery with bandages covering his hand and forehead which was damn funny lor .. hahaha

The solution provided by the scientist to save Japan is also rather unbelieveable and what's even more unbelievable is to pull it off they need to get help of drillers from all over the world to come and help drill holes into the earth so they can detonate the part of the crust that is dragging Japan down. Okay if they can get the help of drillers all over the world and have this high tech bomb that is able to generate enough nuclear power to do the required job, why on earth they only have 2 submarines to try to detonate the bomb.

The first one got destroyed and the second one was some antique submarine that only could go down to 2000 meters ?? I think where else the detonation device was close to 4000 meters this shows how good stuff made in Japan are. Hahahhahhaa and then can't they have a remote detonation device ?? I mean like OMG the second submarine was loosing power and was about to implode and he dropped the ballast and went flying through the sea towards the surface and just as he passed by the bomb device he switched on the power and navigate his way just to land right in front of the device so he could drop the detonation device in ??? What kind of crap is that ??

The Sinking of Japan is not only a movie about disaster but it turned out to be a disaster on it's own. Definately movie of the year... NOT !!!

What a way to start the new year ...

The Night after New Year

Obviously woke up late yesterday and tried to do some reading because exams are approaching. Manage to get online and before I knew it plans were made to watch Sinking of Japan at night. Estee who is in charge of getting the tickets ended up getting us couple seats because the cinema was packed. Joey, myself, Estee and Sze Mei will be watching the show. After what happened during New Year Eve I'm suprised that Sze Mei agreed to come out in the first place .. hahahah

The plan was to go collect the tickets and go have dinner after that. Initially was suppose to go steamboat but Joey doesn't like steamboat so we planned to go eat crab and once again Joey doesn't eat crab ... WTH !!! So we decided to go have dinner without Joey and then around 6pm got a call from Estee saying change of plans ... huh .. again ?? Apparently Estee and Sze Mei were in SS2 and they decided to go pasar malam ... aduiiii ... women .. bahhhhh ...

So I stayed at home catching up on some work and decided to leave the house aroun 9pm because we had to collect the ticket before 10:30pm since the movie was at 11:20pm. As I was leaving the house got another SMS from Estee saying Cody want's to join us for the movie also .. I was like alamak .. how go there see got ticket or not la then ... and also since I was already on the way and needed to pick the ticket up <-- how I ended with this task also I don't know because Joey stays in BU and is the nearest to Cineleisure where else I had to pick Estee and Sze Mei up before going to collect the tickets. Weirdness ...

So reached Cineleisure around 10pm and collected our tickets, the only avalaible seat as 2nd row from the screen and Cody said he will try his luck later when the reserved seats were released. Since we had nothing to do and I haven't had dinner we ended up in Dome where I ordered some food and the girls had a drink. Joey and Cody joined us for a while and left to go see if they could get extra ticket for Cody so I finished up dinner and we joined them at the cinema few mins before the show started.

Sinking of Japan ... speechless .. more on that later ... We went to Centrepoint after that for mamak and we left around 3+am and I dropped the ladies back at Estee's place and headed back home to sleeeepzzzz ... could hear my bed calling me .. hahahaha

Monday, January 01, 2007

Bye bye 2006 .. Hello 2007

It's the new day of the new year and a lot has happened in this one day. Will post more about it later. For now I can hear my bed calling me :D

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year !!! May 2007 be everything 2006 wasn't

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Night at the Museum Movie

This is the last movie I managed to catch in 2006 and I'm glad I managed to end the year with such a hilarious movie. The movie is starred by Ben Stiller but with people like Robin Williams, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Owen Wilson, and Ricky Gervais also having a role in the show it promises to be loads of fun with never ending laughing moments.

*Spoiler Alerts*

Larry Daley played by Ben Stiller is a divorced parent who hasn't got a job and is forced to move away and leave behind his son Nick Daley (Jake Cherry). So he goes job hunting and lands up as a night security guard in a museum, to replace the 3 retiring guards played by Cecil Fredericks, Gus, and Reginald. On the first day of work Larry is handed an instruction manual and asked to follow it precisely and to ensure that nothing gets in or out of the museum.

Seing how it's the first day of work and no one else is around Larry falls asleep at his desk, only to awaken and find the remains of the t-rex missing. Walking along the corridors he find t-rex drinking water from the water fountain. Being chased by the t-rex he runs and hides under his desk and grabs hold of the instruction and the first instruction was "Throw the bone". Apparently the rex only wants to play fetch and soon acts like a cute little puppy. Hahahahh

The movie goes showing everything in the museum coming to life and how Larry handles all of them. He ends up being chased by Neanderthal men and Attila the Hun; besieged by cowboys , Roman legionnaires ; and befriended by Teddy Roosevelt , Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck) and an Easter Island head.

Jedediah (Owen Wilson) an Old West cowboy and Ovtavious (Steve Coogan) have an exhibit next to each other and are constantly at war with one another. One night Larry left them out of the display, only to return and find them trying to kill each other.

Dexter the monkey tore the instruction manual given to Larry and he had to figure things out with the help of Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams). The part where Dexter and Larry were slapping each other silly was damn hillarious and Teddy had to break them apart.

The Neanderthal men got a lighter from Larry because they were trying to start a fire and one of them ended up setting the hair on fire and Larry had to use a fire extinguisher to put the fire out only to get the fire extinguisher foam thrown at him. There was one part of the movie when Dexter stole Larry's key and left a window open and one of the Neanderthal manage to get out of the museum and Larry was too late to save him and he turned into dust when the sun rose, leaving only two Neanderthal men left. I'm not sure if anyone noticed later on in the movie suddenly there were 3 Neanderthal men again. hahahahah

Larry's encounter with the Easter Island head is damn hillarious, left me laughing everytime it spoke.

Dum Dum ... give me gum gum

Quiet down ... my dum dum has something to say!

The three night guards returned to steal the tablet that got the museum alive at night because they realised that they too become younger and stronger at night. Dexter manage to open the door and let most of the museum display loose and Larry had to get the help of Akhmenrah and the rest of the museum inhabitants to help track down the 3 night guards or else turn to dust when the sun rises and never have the chance to come alive at night again.

Overall it was a damn funny show and the cast did a fantastic job potraying their characters. Definately a worthy watch !!

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Dinner and a movie

Woke up quite late again, it's becoming quite a habit now sleeping late and waking up late. This is definately not a good sign. The internet decided to work today and I did some catching up on emails and trying to access online journals which was damn bloody slow because of some problem with the internet line.

Gave up after a while and went to get some food cause I could hear my tummy growling already. Had lunch and watched some more Greys Anatomy. Definately not a show to be seen when eating especially those who can't stand blood or gory operation scenes.

Before I knew it, I got a phone call from Estee whom I was suppose to meet later last night saying she needs to be in Parade by 7pm to meet a client. Talk about timing, so rushed from my home and reached her place before 6:30pm and I took the highway to Subang and the traffic near Wisma Tractors was heavy but we still made it before 7pm thanks to my superb driving skills ... ahhahahahaha

The best part was after I dropped Estee off to find a parking I got a call from her saying that we were in the wrong place. What the heck ... apparently we are suppose to be in Summit .. OMG of all the places to go to ... so we left Parade and made our way to Summit and once again thanks to my superb driving skills we made it there around 20 mins time.

She met her client while I went to MPH to check out some books. After a while I got bored and went over to the arcade while waiting for Estee to finish. She was done around 8+pm and some phone calls were made because we were suppose to meet Joey in 1U to watch movie. After some confusing phone calls we finally decided to watch Night at the Museum in Summit, more on that at a later time. When we got to the ticket booth there wasn't many seats left and it was 5-10 mins until the reserved seats were released so we decided to wait. Cody also said if there's seat he wanted to join us.

So we finally got tickets and it was pretty good seats right in the middle of the cinema. Since we still had some time and we haven't had dinner me and Estee ended up in Sushi King. First of all the place was freaking warm, haven't they heard of aircond and secondly the variety of food was pathetic. It was basically the same thing going round and round and round. Cody came just as we were about to finish dinner and we left sushi king still feeling hungry so we decided to get some snacks to eat during the movie. Ended up me and Estee finished off Cody's popcorn.

After the movie Joey asked to go for mamak and we ended up in Asia Cafe in SS15. The parking was horrible but when I finally reached the makan place it definately made up for the lack of car park. There were tonnes of people especially SYT ... hahahahah

We ended up leaving around 3am or so I think ... and I got home and tried to get online a while and went to sleep after that ... another holiday down ...

Friday, December 29, 2006

Lunch, assignment and dinner

So yesterday was the first day of the holiday for me and what better way to start the holidays than by doing my assignments. Hahhahahah

Met up with Debra lunch who so willingly voluntered to help me out with the assignment since it's her expertise anyway. Met her up in Dome KLCC and as soon as she reached there we started to get down to business. We made our order and continued back with work. Lunch arrived and we talked about other stuff like what happened during Christmas and also what's the plan for the new year. After lunch we continued back with work and thanks to her help I think 80% of the assignment is almost done. Now just to get all of it in words and find the proper references for it. We bid our farewells and since I had nothing to do I went walking around KLCC.

Ended up in the cinema and since the only next show available was Cinta which I have heard so much about from my colleagues I decided to watch that. More on the movie in a later post.

Reached back home around 5+ pm and started with my assignments. Was suppose to meetup with some friends last night but that was suppose to be around 10pm or so. So I lazed around at home trying to find resources for my assignment. Around 8+pm got a call from Suresh asking if I would like to meetup for dinner and since I haven't had dinner I said OK. Met him up in OUG for some "bahkuteh" and we were joined by Felix.

We left there around 9+pm and had a slow drive to Ara Damansara to meetup with the rest of the guys and I brought my notebook together cause the mamak has wifi and the internet in my house has been terrible the past few days. After the rest came my notebook suddenly became public property as everyone started looking for stuff on the internet. Hahahhahaa

Sat around chit chatting and finally decided to call it a night at 3am and drove home tired and sleepy. What a way to spend the first day of the holiday :D

Monday, December 25, 2006

The Christmas Eve

After sleeping late last night waking to go gym this morning was somewhat of a challenge and obviously I didn't make it. By the time I woke up it was already lunch time and I was just lazing around at home watching TV and thinking what to do while waiting to go for the Xmas party that I conveniently invited myself to go. Well not really it was an open invitation and since I've nothing to do this Christmas Eve I decided to go and see what it was all about.

I was lazing around in bed when I got a sms around 5+pm from Dennis if I was heading to Mr Sam's place in celebration of his first born son. I totally forgot all about it and if it wasn't for the sms I would have totally missed it. I haven't seen Dennis since his wedding as well. So had some light dinner and a few drinks and before I knew it, it was already 9pm and I was suppose to go for the Xmas party at 8pm and what's worst is I haven't even gotten any gifts yet for the gift exchange that will be happening during the party as well.

Left Sam's place and rushed to Jaya in SS14 to grab some gifts as well as some snacks for the party and called KY on the directions to his place. Reached there around 10pm and as I slowly drove past I noticed quite a few people standing outside the house and loads more inside the house and as I parked my car nearby I started getting butterflies in my tummy and was doubting my decision as this is something that I don't do often, just going and joining a party where I've never even met any of them before. Took a deep breath and started walking to the house and gave him a call when I was outside his place.

As soon as I reached outside his place and hung up the phone I was immediately surrounded by people introducing themselves and obviously I immediately forgot most of their names because just after I finished saying hello and passing over my gift as well as snacks I was given the customary drink from the big ass cup which looked like a liter of pure hell. I have no idea what was mixed in it but it tasted awful like some expired cough mixture. Bleaaaakkkkkkkkkk ...

I met Suanie, Kim, Kelvin or was it Kevin or was it the both of them.. hahhaha I seriously can't really remember all the names because there were like 20+ people there and apparently this year a lot of them are toned down in terms of drinking compared to last year where some people ended up puking and all. They also celebrated Carol's birthday and she ended up drinking another special concoction specially blended just for her and she drank almost 3/4 of it. OMG I think if it was me I would just die trying to drink that shit hahahahaha. Didn't really drink that much also because didn't feel like it but I did get to try the Absolut Karant and Absolut Peach and it didn't taste that bad at all.

As it almost was 12am everyone gathered in the house for the gift exchanging ceremony. The interesting part about the gif exchange was everyone was given a number and the person who got no 1 was considered the most unluckiest and the person having the last number is the luckiest because the bigger number person before they decide to choose their gift have the choice of taking anyone's gift that he/she likes or choose from the gift pool and get something even better. Got a phone call from Tyler as well saying he was heading to Zouk and invited me to join as well and I said I would be there in about 1/2 hours time. Few minutes later he called back and said plan was cancelled so I decided to stay on longer enjoying the party and the companionship of my new friends.

Group pic 1

Group pic 2

The biggest box there

One happy customer

Patrick towel anyone ?

I want that one !!

As we were sitting there talking a few of them started to feel hungry and we headed over to some makan place called William near the old Lim Kok Wing. There were loads of people as well, most of them obviously were there after clubbing and drinking. Didn't really feel like eating but after seeing Kim order the mushroom soup I was tempted as well and ordered one for myself. Must be one of the best mushroom soup I had and the soup was full of mushroom. I think there were like 4-5 different type of mushrooms in the soup and I could not even finish my soup and was practically forcing myself halfway through and gave up and decided to enjoy my sparkling peach drink instead :D

After all the food started to get sleepy and we called it a night and I reached home around 4am and got to bed around 5am. All in all it was a interesting and different Xmas eve for me and I have no idea if I will meet any of them again but we shall just see how it goes :D

Some more stories from those who were there :D

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