Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Play hard now, sick later!

Oh yeah, sick again, when was it I last sick? Ya, approximate 1 month ago! Wow, what a weakling I am!

I guess last few days of late night fun and joy has finally see its affect, total immune system collapsed! The body was too weak to "refuse" any bacterias or viruses?

Hhmm... think again, it was all started after I ate that pile of big plate mee goreng, which was suppose to be indomee goreng, which that mamak guy outside of my house misheard and placed order. Then 2 half boiled eggs, and an ice lemon tea. Then my stomach was starting to feel upset. After 2 hours of resting, 1+ hour of workout, and further few hours of DotA-ing, my head was started to crack. Ya, and my stomach upset was never gone away. Part of the reason, been having this running nose, swelling inside, and stuck all the way till hard to breathe through nose.

The next day went to office was almost a zombie, my head was warm, headache, nose totally unbreathable, lost of appetite, tired, eyes pain, you name it! Somehow I was still able to hold it till off work and straight went to clinic. Oh man, I really hate seeing the doctor in the evening, it's sure damn crowded. Especially when you are half dead!

The doctor look at my nose and shocked with the swelling, and she also shocked me with that facial expression. If it doesn't subside the next few days, she would like to refer me to a specialist! Wow, izzit that serious? Anyway, I got my medicine and my pass to a whole day rest - a MC!!

So, here I am, resting at home, my stomach is still like many air inside, and can't really swallow many food, flu and fever and others were not that severe now. I guess bread for whole day... Think again, was I food poisoned? Dang, I remembered I was once had a similar case after I ate at the same old mamak stall last time! Go figure!

Sunday, December 24, 2006

A waste of time.

After hours of editing a post in Blogger, finally satisfied with the Preview layout, and published it, only to find out it was totally different from what I saw in the Preview page. Craps! Editing the post with image already a headache, need to adjust here and there, preview again and again to confirm the layout is correct, and now ended like this, shit, this is definitely not user friendly at all!!

Sigh, I have to edit the post again, what the hell, do it after I get back from shopping and later Christmas party! DUUUHH!

Monday, December 18, 2006

What troubles you today?

Let me ask you a question, what troubles you the most? Izzit your low salary that makes you always worry every bits of spending? Or izzit your another half, girlfriend/boyfriend, wife/husband that keeps on nagging you everyday? Or that pile of works which almost choke you to death? Whatever the reason, it's your life, be glad that you have something to trouble with.

Eerrr, enough talk, and what troubles me the most recently? Guess what, FOOD! Yupe, our essential surviving fuel! Even now I'm working I'm thinking about this. OK, OK, I know it's pathetic to be troubled by something this minor, but because mum is not around, no one cooks for me, "What for dinner?" has become my number one question of the day! Why it troubles me so much? Frankly speaking, I'm quite a choosy guy, I mean in terms of eating, in my pathetic mind, eating is not only to fill your tummy and chase away the hunger, but it's a way of enjoying too. Of course I can still stuck anything in my mouth just to fulfill my hunger, but when you have the choice, aahh, yes, the keyword, CHOICE. Choices are the most troubling thing in our life, you love it, you hate it, you wanna make the right choice, you scare you make the wrong one, blah blah blah, it's all in one decision.

Previously, I only need to think where to have our lunch, now even dinner I have to crack my head! It's already 3 days in a row I settled my dinner by packing from the restaurant near my house, ya, I don't like to eat alone, somehow you will feel pity and lonely, so I rather order take away and eat along with my TV show, hahaha! Hhhmmm... today I think I will just settle with KFC!

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Home Alone

Theoretically I am home alone for the next 2 weeks. Mum, dad, sis and my niece is taking the 130am flight to Shanghai. Mum and dad is on a vacation tour to visit Shanghai and other surrounding cities, for 1 week. And later meet up with my sis and bro in law in Shanghai city, for another week, then only come back. Although my bro is still here, but you can't really see him before 12am, coz he always back home late.

I am not joining due to the fact that I just came back from my Hong Kong trip, which is kinda impossible for me to take another 10 days leave, and most of all, kinda short of cash now after the holiday frenzy in Hong Kong.

Now practically I have to do everything by myself, hope I won't starve till death in this 2 weeks, hahaha!

Monday, December 11, 2006

Dog shit luck!

Today is Selangor holiday, went to pasar with mum and my niece, had my favorite meehoon soup there, and went back around 11am something.

My internet was still in that half working condition, unable to access some web sites, and can't login to MSN. Damn, by that time, I was certain it's my router modem fault, which caused by the new firmware I updated. With nothing better to do, again, I started to working on all the settings in the web interface of my router, hoping to solve the problem.

After an hour of trials and errors, it seemed nothing much I can do with this firmware, I have to accept the fact that it's not working, at least for me. With no other choice, I turned to the Solwise's router firmware. After flashed, the familiar web interface displayed once again when login to the router. I tried to load the websites that I was not able to get in when using the RouterTech's firmware. Great, everything seemed back to normal, I can access them as well as login to MSN messenger. Suddenly, this stubborn and greedy thought came to my mine: "Probably now if I flashed back to the RouterTech's firmware, it will work too?" Thinking of if it couldn't work also, I can still use back this working Solwise's firmware, I flashed my router, again.

Did I succeed? No, I still can't access some websites and can't login using that stupid MSN messenger. So, I guess that's bye bye to this great firmware. For the 3rd time today, I updated my router's firmware again. Hhmmm... why the login page still the orange, yellowish RouterTech's layout? Dang, why was it still remained the same firmware? I was sure the flashing process was successful! OK, OK, maybe some glitches, flash again should clear things up, so I flashed, and flashed, and flashed! 3 times in a row, but I still getting this bugger page! I was started to get frustrated, I turned to an application that is found on the RouterTech forum, developed by the router chip maker, Texas Instrument, the TI Remote Application, a Windows program that interacts directly to the router, which has options to update the router's firmware, settings, etc.

This app has quite confusing UI, I tried to setup the environment again, but nothing happened. Without any info and help, I was on trials and errors again. My frustration had reached a new high, with clouded mind, I just simply chose a firmware file that came along with this app, which I was not exactly sure whether it's working for my router or not. And suddenly the program collapsed, showing the Windows exception message. My heart dropped along with it, I went to check the router, all lights were on, OMFG! I screwed the damn router! I tried to switch off and on again, same. Fortunately I can still access the router with that TI Remote Application, but now I was getting this "Flash erase failed" message! Wow, did I somehow screwed the flash memory?? I tried and tried and tried, the switch network function was still there coz I can access my sis's PC, just that the router and modem function totally gone due to corrupted firmware.

"I screwed up, now no choice but to buy a new router and modem. The Linksys combo Chean just bought is my first choice. But dang, gonna spend few hundred bucks again!" This was what in my mind over and over again at that time. I was tired and frustrated, I just stopped everything and went to play a few hours game. Hahaha! After that, I decided to try one more time. First, I accidentally uploaded the settings I backup when I first tried to flash the firmware, then I was like what the heck, try the RouterTech firmware and see. To my surprise, I didn't get the
"Flash erase failed" message, it proceeded with the erase and flashing process. Successful! My eyes almost popped out when I saw this, and quickly went to check the modem, restart it, oh yeah, everything back to normal!

I was so glad!

Somemore with bonus, now I am using the RouterTech 3rd party firmware with enhanced features + I was able to access all websites and MSN again, everything is working fine now! HOORAY!!

P/S: Probably I will write a step by step firmware upgrade guide for the Aztech 600ER router modem later...

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Upgrading my Aztech 600ER router modem firmware

On Saturday, because all alone at home and nothing better to do, I went to google and searched for any firmware update for my router modem, the Aztech 600ER. This bugger has giving me nothing but disappointment, slow auto connection, sluggish web interface, sometimes can't even load the page out after switch it on for few days. All these even makes me wondering my BT so slow whether because its uneffective routing/load balancing or the damn TMnut!

This was not the first time I tried to search the firmware, but this time, I decided to be more patient, and browsed those results one by one. To my surprise, I found something in Lowyat.NET forum that has something about this modem firmware. It appears that there's a company known as Solwise, has a router modem, with the same model code, as my Aztech, the Solwise SAR-600ER. Both of them using the same chipset, technologies, specs, even the design is exactly the same! Damn you Aztech, can't even come out an unique model of your own?!

One of the forumer suggested to upgrade the Solwise's firmware, which is exactly same as the Aztech, except it's newer and should be better. OK, sounds good, when trying to download the firmware, there's a link to another website, it turns out to be a 3rd party made firmware! Wow, 3rd party firmware always provides more features and frequent bug fixes! Without hesitation, I ventured to RouterTech.com, a site that provides updates, infos and self made firmwares for the AR7WRD and AR7RD type router. It appears that many company is using 2 of these chips for their router modem, including my Aztech 600ER, which is an AR7RD type, and the firmware should be suitable for routers of these types.

So I read through some related articles and posts, until I think I have enough knowledge to flash the firmware and rescue infos in case anything went wrong. OK, the deciding moment, I started the flashing procedure... Well, so far so good. After rebooting the router, it showed the RouterTech screen at the login page! And this was the starting of my nightmare. I continued to struggle at guessing the username and password, both in the web interface, and telnet terminal, it was really a frustrating process! The environment settings that suppose to be there were not there, I need to telnet to the router back and forth, restarting again and again to make things work!

With hours of struggling, finally everything seemed to be what it supposed to be. Now time to MSN and report my successful adventure to my friends... WTF?! I can't login to MSN messenger, try MSN.com, it just forever waiting, and some of the websites too, including RouterTech.com, which means I can't get any further info for my problem. I can connect using GAIM, but not MSN Messenger. Probably TMnut issue? Coz I did experience similar case before. So I decided to wait for another day...

Whole day has passed, and I yet to able to load those websites, nor login to MSN using MSN Messenger, this doesn't look good...

Friday, December 08, 2006

Traffics

I'm really have enough of Klang valley traffics, I can't stand it anymore! It's a hell experience whenever I drive to work or drive back home, no matter it's 8am in the morning or 8pm at night, one word describes it best: JAM! No no, it's FUCKING JAM!

Traffic jam is not really a true factor of annoyance, the attitude of drivers shown in traffic jam that really pisses me off, because of their selfish attitude, the jam even get worsen.

God dammit, you really think taking the emergency lane can get you faster? Or cut any line that seems moving faster will make you ahead of everyone? And if you decided to take the fast lane, please, step on your paddle and drive FAST! It's not like you own the road for god sake! Brake when necessary, don't step on the damn thing as if the more you do the faster you can go!

Yeah, yeah, I'm a whinner, I'm a loser that complains, but I think I'm gonna loose my mind if I continue to suffer this without some place to release it!

There... feeling better now, I think I'm gonna die faster coz going through this process everyday.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Seafood at Sekinchan

Today is Hari Raya, new year for fellow muslim, holiday for everyone else, so is tommorow.

My sis had this planning to have seafood at Sekinchan, since last week, on today. So it's a family day for me, where as the guys, had their own activities, movie, shopping for stuffs that needed for our HK trip 2 weeks later, etc. Frankly, I'm not happy they ditched me to shop themselves, but you can't make everyone wait for you and go along with you, can you? So I guess I have to learn up the shopping alone skill now.

Anyway, we move out around 12pm, traffics were smooth, except, when we reached Jalan Istana, cars were piling up beside the road, and police officers were there to direct the traffics. Oh ya, this time every year, during Hari Raya, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong will have open house for fellow citizen and guests in the palace. So a little bit jam there.
Other than that, upon arrived at Kuala Selangor, the traffics started to go bad. Apparently the traffic lights installed along the main road were more favor to red color, only like 3 or 4 cars can go through everytime green light. For each traffic light we encountered, we have to spend at least 10 minutes to get passed. I think the local authority really have to look into this issue.

After passing Kuala Selangor, we were now heading to Sekinchan. There were Padi fields along the road, it's been quite some time since I last saw it, when I was still a child perhaps?





























Some photos I took when we walked to the restaurant.


We took a turn at the traffic light,
where there's sign board showing Bagan at that direction, after drive a little further, we were at a small fishing village, and the restaurant was already crowded. We managed to find a parking space a bit far from the restaurant.




























There you g
o, Restaurant Guan Seng Loong.

Ginny, my niece was getting moody cause it's way passed her nap time. We quickly settle down and ordered some dishes. With so many people dining here, slow service was expected, but we never thought it would that SLOW! We waited like 1 hour to get our food ready! Gosh, and frankly, the food is not that tasty too! We were charged around RM65+, doesn't look cheap to me.




























Inside the restaurant
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Tofu stew with fish.















Fried
oyster with egg.















Meehoon with crab.















Chili shrimp.

Filled up the tummy, we began our long journey home. Once again, we passed the padi field, dad stopped by a fruit stalk beside the road infront of the padi field, I quickly took the chance to snap some photos. We bought some mangoes. Little rain drops began to fall down.















Nice padi field sceneries.


And soon, the rain gone very heavy, until the view ahead was blur and hard to see even with the help of wiper. We had to drive slowly and it took quite a while got home.














Padi field with coconut trees.















It's quite a good holiday getaway for the family!


Monday, October 23, 2006

Bah, I've got another summon!

My 3rd summons today! Hooah!

1st one was in Ipoh, during our Penang trip last time, while we stopped at Ipoh for some dim sum feats, was illegal parking, this one thanks to the local municipal council.

2nd one was speeding violation, doing 95km/h on a 80km/h at East West Link, caught red handed by a speed trap camera, and stopped at a road block. As usual, was indirectly asked for a bribe by our respectful policeman, nah, I was too proud to give in like that, so I just asked him to issue the summon. But this one still yet to confirm, the policeman didn't give the summon to me on the spot, and just asked me to go. According to Kong's experience, they will issue to me later, but it has been a while after the incident, and everytime I check online, it gives me 0 result, bah, fuck it, only worry about it when I renew my road tax.

3rd and fresh, hot, new one, courtesy of Majilis Perbandaraan Petaling Jaya (MPPJ), which is the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council! Today was supposingly a holiday for our government servant, which usually day like this, we need not pay the parking machine anywhere in the country. But I still tried to make sure by checking out the machine, hhhmm, it shows the normal message, not the "Tidak perlu dibayar" (Not required to pay) message. I was sceptical, and told this to my collegue, what I got in return was a laugh and jeer from her. OK, since she was so confident, I will just follow along.
But when we was having lunch, and almost done, at the food stall near by, we saw a coucil enforcer inspecting the cars. "Bummer" was what I had in mind. We went back to check out our cars, yupe, there it was, a fresh summon, at a fine of RM100, happily secured on windshield by the wiper.

I think I'm gonna start a collection of all the country municipal/city coucils' summon! I have 2 now, still... errr... many more to go!

P/S: Oh ya, start to blog again, I feel like it's easier to talk to myself than others. Am I sick or what?!

Saturday, June 10, 2006

2nd Car Service - Done

Woke up quite early, and wondering around till half an hour before the car service appointment time. Mum told me she was having fever early morning, this sudden fever made her kinda worry because there's dengue cases in our area recently, but I think probably due to the hot weather and drank not enough water. So I drove her to the clinic first, and dad will pick her up after doctor check up.

Wow, almost 9pm! I quickly rushed to the service center, well, speeding again... Although it's quite near, but I still arrived 5 minutes late. I registered myself on my appointment time, and waited there. Aisks, and I was starting to get hungry. Did not eat anything the whole morning, coz planning to eat my favourite soup fish ball meehoon at the pasar near my place, after I finish this. And now started to feel weak and no energy...

"WNU XXXX" The receptionist shouted. That's my car plate number, so I went up to meet with her, and she showed me the things they gonna change in this 2nd service. From the lesson I learnt in last service, these people will generally assume your car has no other problem if you didn't tell them, duuhh! Yupe, there's some problems I wanna report.
First and most important, the clutch. Sometimes when I clutch out, or release clutch, I can't do it smoothly, as in slowly and constantly release the pedal. Because at certain point, you can feel as if it got stuck, and needs to release more force then it will only bulge, and this will cause a sudden jerk when you clutch in and clutch out. I don't think this is natural because other manual transmission car I drove before never has this problem!
Second, the audio player. This bugger starting to act weird for the past month. The buttons do not function properly, and gone haywire! When I press on, nothing happens, but have to press play to activate it. Sometimes the on off button will becomes the mute button instead, where the mute button strangely becomes the audio setting buttons, and also other werid cases. It's totally short circuited! But the problem is, once in a while, it will back to normal...
Third, the windshield. My car has this resistant watermarks that can't even get it off during my car wash, or even using glass cleaner material. My collegue told me her car was having this too, and the workshop people told her it can't be removed! WTF?! You kidding me?! New car like mine already had this problem?! This I must ask them to confirm!
Forth, of course is the fuel consumption. I can't really get the optimum fuel consumption as reported by most MyVians as they mentioned in the forum. Full tank 31L can only run around 420KM, where most can reach around 450+KM. No no no, I am comparing this with the records before I changed my rims. The FC is far more higher after I changed my rims, I have lost around 20-30KM due to this larger rim size! Hahaha, sacrifice performance for beauty, that's the price you have to pay!

But I had just reported the first 3 problems. Because new car FC will slowly improve after a few services, so I might just wait and see how first. For my windshield problem, she told me I could do it on weekdays, where there's not much workload like the weekends and they will check for me and it's probably the oily stuffs on it. So, there's still chances to get it fixed? Baaahh, like I'm always free on weekdays!

So I waited again, and my hungriness was getting stronger and stronger, fortunately I do not have gastric problem, otherwise I was really gonna suffer...

"WNU XXXX", my car plate number again? This time was the mechanic, and I followed him to the work floor. He asked me about the problems I reported, the audio player first. Dang! Just as I afraid, the bugger worked complete fine now! I explained several times again to him what's the problems, he seemed puzzled and didn't really believe what I said, and asked whether I know each button functions. Hahaha! Great... Then the clutch problem, just as I expected, he told me he can't feel any difference and it looked fine, but if I felt the clutch is positioned too high, he can adjust it for me. Once again, I explained to him but he seemed can't get it, was it my explanation that bad? Finally I asked him to do a test drive to check. Then I back to waiting again.

And guess what, after a few minutes, I was led to the cashier already! Dang! WTF?! These people don't even care what we reported, not even try to simulate and help us! I was really dissapointed, probably they were out of hand, fully scheduled, or anyhting, I dunno, but they gave me another bad impression about their service!

So I just drove away and went to ate my breakfast...

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Learn to swim - Day 2

Today we were a bit late, furthermore, I accidentally missed the entrance of the center, so have to do 2 U turns to get to the place. Arrived at the diving center around 210pm, Mr. Lim was already there waiting.

We parked the car and went meet up with him, as usual, we head into the center to change. This time, there were already 3 scuba divers, 2 were the trainees, probably preparing to start their lesson. Me and Kong went together in a fitting room to change, then we took out the sunblock we bought yesterday in Watson at Leisure Mall. It's not that I scare to get dark, but the killing sun is really unbearable, you probably won't feel anything while in the water, but when you get out, and the time after, you will start to get burning feeling from your skin, sometimes even pain. So applying sunblock is a must under this burning sun! Then we took a little water shower, did some warm up, and straight to the pool.

"Splash!" All of us jumped into the pool. The water was warm, great! With no delay, I quickly tried to get myself ready, by submerging into the water! Of course, the first time you will sure breath in water and drink some. This is what I meant by get ready, to get usual of the painfulness first! Hahaha!

Then Mr. Lim approached me, wow, I'm the first one this time? He asked me to do the floating again, oh man, I was still not yet ready! No choice, just had to force myself now... Float... gooloo.. gooloo... dang! Again,
gooloo.. gooloo... great... The 3rd time, I finally can hold on a bit, and float while splashing the water. I think Mr. Lim also noticed I had problem to do it straight like that, so he led me to the staircase, and asked me to practice floating and flapping my legs there. Phew~ Now I can relax a bit and do it step by step.

Ya, I know I'm a slow learner, and not even a regular sportman, but I believe determination is everything! So I started to practice there, 1 time... 2 times... 3 times..., and counting, until I almost out of breathe, wow, now I finally realize how swimming can build up your stamina! With only splashing water with my legs, I already felt tired and out of breathe! Probably I was doing it too frequent, so I just slowly catch my breathe first before the next go, into the water and flap.

Mr. Lim finally had done teaching both Kong and Chean for the moment, and came back to me. I was told to swim across the swallow pool, this should be OK, and I did a few rounds just as he asked. Then he told me to swing my hand and try to use both hands and legs, the beginning of free style swimming. Whenever I tried to swing my hands, I lost control of my legs, hahaha! I had a weak hands legs co-ordination! "Try to raise your hand like riding a bicycle!" Mr. Lim instructed, eerrr... Huh? Frankly, most of the time I can't really interprete what he wants me to do, probably I was still felt overwhelmed by the water, trying to adjust myself to it... But not that sporting genie Chean, he can catch up very fast and knew what to do from Mr. Lim's words. I am kinda like a pictorial message receiver guy, I prefer demonstrations than words, hahaha!

After a few tries, and so was Kong, Mr. Lim probably felt that we were still quite stiff and tense, not relax enough. So he pointed at me and told me to relax and tried sleep on the water, where his hand holding my head. Gosh, I did what he told, and slowly flap my legs, with relax body, due to the sun was directly shinning from above, I just closed my eyes, and flapped myself away. "Hold on on the wall" Mr. Lim told me. Eerr.. where am I? When I opened my eyes and checked around, WTF?! He led me swim across the 8 feet area!! I almost stunned at this point! What he was trying to tell us, if we calm and relax our body, we can actually float naturally and swim like that...

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Saturday

Woke up at 10+am, and still didn't feel like getting up, yesterday slept really late, because we went for movies, 845pm, The Da Vinci Code, and 1220am, X-Men: The Last Stand. Ya, 2 shows, it's really one after another, but at different places. We travelled to Sunway Pyramid for The Vinci Code, then rushed back to Mid Valley for X-Men, damn tired! Fortunately the 1220am show was an action movie, if it was DVC, I think I'm gonna fall at sleep in the cinema...

Cut my hair
Planning to get my hair cut, so was Kong and Chean. Called Kong up, he was ready and Chean gonna bring his sister along, so might be late. 11am, time to move, suddenly my sis called. Today is her birthday, so his hubby sent her a bouquet of flower, and the flourist gonna be here any moment, dduuhh.. good timing! OK, wait a few minutes doesn't hurt. But as the time ticking away, no one came. After a few calls back and forth with my sis, found out that the flourist gone to the wrong place, darn! It's 1230pm, and I was hungry and yet to know need to wait how long. Just as I was starting to get dark face, my dad came back! Phew~ I quickly told him about the situation, and rushed out to fetch Kong.

I had my brunch at Maideen, nasi lemak ayam goreng, dunno why, it looked much larger compare to usual one where we ate at night. After that, we just drove to Leisure Mall, parked my car there, and walked to the hair saloon opposite of the building. Aisks, it's crowded, but we still get to the queue right after we sat down.

After some hassle with the hair, it's done. Dang, my scalp was almost numb due to the excessive hair blowing, with hot air and too close to the scalp! I let the hair stylist did the decision, I just told her "short and easy to take care". Hahaha, ditched the old hair style that has been with me like 10+ years, to this, common among teenagers, those hair standing kind. Looks better? I dunno, just some hairstyle to me, nothing special...

Swimmng at Yanny's place
That day yum cha, Yanny invited us to his place for some swimming fun, Chean seemed quite interested, so we called him up to see whether today wanna go, and asked him to arrange with Yanny. The time was set on 4pm. Me and Kong went loitering a bit in Leisure Mall after the hair cut, and then only went back home.

We arrived Yanny's place around 5pm, changed, warmed up a bit then straight to the water. Gosh, the water was quite cold, probably due to weather was quite cloudy and windy too. Fuck, at that moment, I really didn't feel like wanna swim at all, trying to get myself ready by submerge and hold my breath in the water, goolooo... goolooo... fuck, drinking water with my nose again, at this point, I was really no mood already. Probably scared, probably doesn't want the bad feeling of stuffing my whole nose till throat with water, I dunno... So I just flapped around the pool side and watched 3 of them have fun. Hahaha, they were funny, trying to do backstroke, butterfly, etc. and ended up with whale like splashing. There was a guy, seems quite expert, doing all sort of swimming styles there. We were very amazed and impressed! But the most funny part was, he did some tai chi movements in the water, what the? Kung fu master or something? Hahaha!

We played in the water till around 730pm, where the darkness came. After cleaned up ourselves, we went back. Before that, I called Loong to check whether OK to have a movie party in his house later, no problem from him, great, then we head back.

Movies at Loong's house
Mum was not cooking coz she and sis went out, and had a sort of birthday lunch for my sis, and they were still full. So I will just settle by eating at the restaurant near my house. Before that, I was quite dissapointed with what I did in the pool at Yanny's place, which was exactly did nothing at all! I filled up the bath tub with water, and pushed myself in it to practice my breath holding! Hahaha, stupid me!

Ate my dinner with mum outside, hokkien mee and canto fried mee, 2 of my favourite! Yummy! Went home and it was almost time to go Loong's place, but I was damn tired! Called up Kong and Chean to check whether they were ready to go, no problem. So I moved out. About this movie party at Loong's place, it's almost a weekly activity for us last time! Last time? Yupe, Loong went to US furthering his study and he is now back for summer break. So it's like back to the old time, great and fun!

Cheely was already there at Loong's house, as usual, playing PS2 Winning Eleven with him, dduuhh... After a few game, I interupted them and said wanna play my favourite boxing game, Fight Night! And wow, it turns out episode 3 was out and Loong already bought it! Great! We played a few rounds and it was exciting and satisfying! Finally, Chean came, all members ready, so we started the show. First movie, Shinobi, hhhmmm... some story about hidden clans in the Japan's samurai age, which possesed the art of shinobi, eerrr, beats me what the hell is that.. hahaha! That Kong and Chean looked very tired and almost half sleep half awake through out the shows. Had another movie, canto movie, Bet of Basic. A comedy with lowclass funny storylines and acts, still OK for killing time.

We went back around 330am with zombie like mind and body, another great Saturday, right?

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Car service

The sound of my baby's engine is getting rougher and noisier, gear shifting also not as smooth as usual, sometimes can even hear the sound of gear clutching, all this only leads to one conclusion: It's time for a car service!

Frankly, I have been pushing my baby quite hard, dragging her in high rev, rough gear shifting, speeding, went through potholes and bumps like there are not there. Almost torturing her to every bit, my poor baby...

Last week was planning to go for my 2nd car service on Saturday, which is at 5K mileage. During my 1st service, I was so n00b that didn't even know an appointment is needed with the service center for any car repairings and services, luckily that time the receptionist was kind enough to slot me in!

So this time, I called the service center on Thursday, 2 days before my planned service date, and thought that this should secure me a nice morning slot. Well, I was wrong! I made the call after lunch, with several tries, finally someone picked up the phone. So I told her I wanna make an appointment for car service on Saturday, she just blah blah blah away, asking me my details, "10th of June ya, right?" She asked again, and I said yes and hung up after that. Then I was like what the?! I wanted on that coming Saturday, which is 27th May, not 2 weeks after! So I called again and told her she got it wrong, and I wanna book on
27th May. "Oh, fully booked, 2 weekends also fully booked." She replied me. I was really shocked! What the fuck with this high service demands? And I was told if I want to have any business with the service center on weekends, better make appointment 2 weeks advance! Darn!

So, what should I do? Wait for 2 weeks? By then my mileage will be around 6K, 1K over, will there be any problem? Try other service center? It just like trying luck, I bet most of them are the same. Take one day leave and do it on weekdays? Although I have many leaves left, but wasting it like this is really not something I want... Sigh, after thinking a bit, finally I choose to wait for 2 more weeks...

This recent rough engine sound really get me worried, although most probably won't really kill my baby, but who knows what impact it will cause? Lets cross my finger and hope that 10th of June will come faster!

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Learn to swim - The beginning

Breath in water from your nose is not something you wanna do everyday...

Finally, we started our first swimming class with Mr. Lim today, 2pm just now.

As usual, I fetched both Kong and Chean to the designated swimming pool, it is actually a scuba diving learning pool, where one side is a 5 feet deep area, and another side is 8 feet deep. We arrived there half an hour early, so we were joking and talking nonsense, while waiting, probably to chase away the nervousness, at least for me it was.

Waited for a while, Mr. Lim shown up, and we went meet up with him, and followed him into the diving learning center. The pool was just next to the gate, well, it's really just a tiny swimming pool, if you are good enough, one breaststroke you can swim across the bugger already. We changed our clothes and prepared to take a warm up shower, where Mr. Lim shown up again ready. Chean asked him how about a warm up excercise, this really hit his button and started to talk all kind of things! He led us to a open space behind the center, and started teaching us his so called warm up excercise. Practically just repeating what he shown us in his house last time, we followed his act, hahaha, and we can't stop laughing, not the obvious one, but it's really funny!

Phew~ finally, to the pool. The water is quite warm due to the hot sun. I was still wondering what would install for me in this lesson. First, Mr. Lim asked both Kong and Chean to perform the swimming style they know, Kong is freestyle, whereas Chean is breaststroke. He spent some time with them to correct their style and gave them some tips, and I was just waiting there, wondering...

"Come", Mr. Lim said. My time had arrived!
Beginner lesson one: Hold your breath in the water!
Well, looks easy enough, but no, not really. You are wearing goggle, and when you submerge into the water, all your senses become numb and silence to the world, but you still can see ahead, that pale blue water sight, and this is where panic strikes! Although you still holding your breath, your lung would tell you to breathe, with this move, eventhough you have closed your nose, the sucking power of the lung still somehow suck water from your nose, and there you go, water from the nose! This painfulness struck me several times, and finally I can calm myself down a bit.

Beginner lesson two: Float!
After overcome your fear of holding breath in the water, it's time to float, make yourself float horizontal on the water. This part was the easy one, as long as your head look down on the floor and relax your body, voila, there you go, floating. But at this point, if panic struck, you will have a hell time sucking water from your nose again, and dunno how to stand straight up without help, and yeah, took me a few time to get myself used to the position.

Beginner lesson three: Move out soldier! Flap like you never flap before!
Flap your legs until you are moving forward! If floating has no problem for you, flapping forward will be as easy as that. As least you can move slowly, and don't expect you can swim like you can really swim.

And the problem comes, what if half way, panic strikes or out of breath, and nothing and no one for you to hold, how would you stand up?

Safety swimming lesson one: Stand up in the water!
When in horizontal position, flap your hand hard down to the water, and bend your abs and knees, hold your head up, straighten up your leg, and there you go, standing position, at least at the depth where you still can stand and your head is outside of the water...

There were many other tips and guides shown by Mr. Lim, how you flap correctly with your legs with using thighs only, the hand position, body movement, etc. Well, my head and nose and mouth was really overwhelmed by pool water, untill I can't really absorb what he said, I dunno about Chean and Kong, they probably also felt fatique due to practice to correct their style back and forth.

And the finale, swim across the 8 feet area, Kong and Chean did that without any problem, whereas me, a bit nervous from the beginning, still managed to pull it out, at least with a helping hand pull from Mr. Lim, hahaha, useless shit...
Only 1+ hour, our skin already has burning dark sign, and the weather was still cloudy, imagine what will happen if under a shinning hot sun! Kong had fully paid the fees, where Chean half, I wanted to pay half first, coz didn't bring much, but Mr. Lim insisted me to pay 200 first coz I have it there, dang, is this guy so desparate for money? We wonder...

And there ended our first swimming lesson. Not bad, something has been learnt, if you ask me is this consider swimming at the first class, well, not entire true, but it's still quite an achievement I can say. I think conquering fear and panic is very important here, coz that's what cause you to loose control in both your breathing and movement, which is lethal in water...

Friday, May 26, 2006

I've screwed my new rim!

2 weeks ago I bought a new set of rims, 2 weeks later, just now, I screwed it by hitting the side of the road. Dammit!

The place where I usually park my car is a parking space next to a shop lot beside the main road, so I have to turn left and drive into the parking space there. But just right ahead of the turn, there's a drain like pothole, not deep, but you still can feel the bumpiness when drive through.

The deepest part was at the right side, so me, the smart ass was trying to avoid it, to reduce much impact by turn closely at the left side. Then "bump"! A thundering sound of hitting something from my left rear tyre. "Fuck, I've done it", that's the first thing came into my mind! I quickly park my car and went to check it out.

OMFG! If it's a small scratch I still can accept it, but it is a small crack off at the ring side of the rim! The size of the crack is around 0.5cm wide, 0.1cm deep! And the tyre also peeled off a bit! Darn it! From far probably can't notice it, but when you come near, it's quite clear and noticeable! Oh gosh, heart ache pain! I'm gonna hate myself for a long time coz of this! Stupid mistake! I'm indeed a moron!

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Tonsillitis - My dead spot

What is Tonsillitis? Info From KidsHealth:

Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the tonsils, the fleshy clusters of tissue on both sides of the back of the throat that fight off germs that enter the body through the mouth. The tonsils become enlarged and red, and can be coated with a yellow, gray, or white substance. An affected child typically has a sore throat, fever, swollen glands in the neck, and trouble swallowing. Read it more.

I get this very often, I guess it's in the gene, my dad, at his younger age, also had this troubling him now and then.

The cause of it, most info you found will say infection of bacterial, and the best prevention is to follow basic health and hygiene precautions, etc. You can read some prevention guide here. But for my case, cold, is the cause. Cold drinks, bath in cold water, etc. I guess the immune system becomes weak in this condition, and hence, the
bacterial has a better chance. But how can one don't drink any cold water, take cold shower at all? So this is truely my dead spot, when the body is in its lowest form, and with this as catalyst, that's it, bingo!

Got this 6 days ago, lying dead on bed for 2 days, till today, the fever is gone, the pain is getting worse. Eating is really a suffering process for me, especially solid food, you are not only feeling painful when swallowing, but also chewing! It's a nightmare!

Probably the medicine, typically just anti-biotic, was not prescribed at a frequent rate by the doctor. So I went to see the doctor again yesterday night, coz the medicine almost finish, but the pain is the other way around, increasingly painful. Got myself somemore
anti-biotic, well, hope it will heal fast, at least for now.

P/S: Some scary facts here

Monday, May 15, 2006

Drag

From Wikipedia:

Drag racing is a form of auto racing in which cars or motorcycles attempt to complete a fairly short, straight and level course in the shortest amount of time, starting from a dead stop. Read it more

Don't get me wrong, I'm not into any kind of racing, yet. But dragging, yes, I'm doing it, very often, and loving it! Driving alone in this long distance back and forth from working is really boring and dull, music alone can't always help, so I have to find a little excitement, to chase away the sleepiness, to kill time, to stir some joy in my boring life, and yes, to get some satisfaction!

If you ask me to race with others on the street, no, sorry, I'm a chicken, I'm afraid, I'm scared. It's probably the side effect from last year accident, not lethal, but the front of the car was almost a goner, although no significant injuries, only some bruises, but the mental impact was huge.
Whereas dragging, safer on the other hand, it's not only about speed and boldness, but skill and concentration. The driver has to be very accurate with gear shift and throttle modulation. Perfect shift as we always say, shifting without (or slightly) dropping of RPM, and no jerking in the process, is a very satisfying style to perform, and this is what makes me attracted to it.

My usual dragging place, hahaha, shame to say, mostly at tolls and traffic lights. The feeling is great when you start from stationary, gaining up and dropped those cars behind you one by one! Sweeeeeeet~!

Of course, safety is still my top priority, there's so many things waiting for me to do, and I have not yet done, I wouldn't risk my life in this momentary satisfaction and proud.


Sunday, May 14, 2006

Happy mother's day!

2 days ago, Friday, mum and sis already started to plan how we gonna celebrate mother's day. Our term of celebration, is usually having a big feast, good food for lunch or dinner, although it's nothing special, but we do enjoy this kind of gathering around and eat together, it makes the family closer. Their conclusion, dinner outside on both Saturday and Sunday. I was planning to get my new rim and tyre on Saturday, and probably have a Klang 1 day trip till night and have a seafood feast with friends. So I told them I might not be available on Saturday, and I got shot by them straight, hahaha, no choice, so my Klang trip was short.

We ate at the usual restaurant, doesn't seem to be crowded that night, probably most families were waiting for the big Sunday night. We ordered all our favourite foods and it was a delighted dinner!

Then this morning, as suggested by dad yesterday night, we went to the dim sum restaurant near the housing area below ours. It was newly opened, so attracted many people to check it out. The dim sums are OK, service was not that good probably the waiters/waitresses are new or temporary staffs. One of them was so clumsy and poured all the dim sums on the floor right next to me! Hahaha! Poor guy...

And just now, we brought mum to Leisure Mall's Vietnam Kitchen for dinner, as suggested by mum. It's a rare case that she would give suggestion, so no matter what we will fulfill her wish! Hehehe! There were a few mother's day dinner sets, and we ordered one of them, 1 set with 4 dishes. Then we ordered another dunno what beef varieties meal, it let us boil the raw beef in a steamboat style, and also it has some already cooked beef dishes too. Looks vietnamese to me.
We underestimated the size of all these foods, and over estimate our stomach capacity from not having lunch, ended up we were all extremely full! Phew~! Now I know pure vietnamese foods were not really my cup of tea...

2 days of feasts and they were wonderful. Although it's small, but I'm really thankful for your kindness and taking care of me all these years, I love you mum!

The shoes

Here's some photos of my new rims and tyres.



Front to back view.


Another closer front to back view.


Front rim and tyre.


Back rim and tyre.


Close-up view of the rim and tyre. Mugen GP huh, was thinking to get rid of the Mugen logo cap coz I don't like having things that is not intended for the car, in this case, Mugen is not for Perodua lah, it's Honda stuffs. Hhmm.. probably do it later.

Finally, the spare tyre! I was really stunned when took it out from the car's boot, pulling my baby with this tiny sucka? NO WAY!!


Look at the size compare to my new rim! Dang!


WTF?! It's almost like a motorcycle tyre thickness!


Gosh, I'm gonna faint...


"Temporary use only"
Duuhh.. Like I'm really gonna use this sucka on my baby for a long time...

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Learn to swim - The preparation

It has been a while since our met up with Mr. Lim, and the class starting date was being delayed and delayed again due to many unexpected incidence.

Nonetheless, we still need to buy our equipments for the class, swimming goggles and pants. So we went to Mid Valley right after we came back from Klang.

After having lunch, we went to Studio R to check out those swimming equipments. Me and Kong each bought an optical swimming goggles and pants. "Look at those fats!" I fucked myself with these words when trying on the swimming pants, dang, I really needed some exercise! I'm a fat ugly ass! Sigh...
Frankly, I never expected them to be so expensive. Fortunately DIGI has this promotion thingy going on, which offer 20% discount on Speedo items, and Kong is using a DIGI line! Lucky or not, we still paid a hefty amount for these items. After that, as usual, we strolled around Mid Valley and checking the chics out! Muahahahahaha!

We have now equiped ourselves with the necessaries, there's no turning back, and it's gonna happen next week...

P/S:
It's not end of the story yet, after fetched Chean back home, I brought Kong to see the regular doctor I always see when I am sick. This kid was sick since last night, flu and sorethroat, he claimed that the Ah Yip restaurant foods causing the sickness, but I think it was because his unhealthy life in the past few weeks which he usually slept around 3-4am. He didn't go for his regular clinic at Taman Segar there cause he wanted to use his company given ING employee benefit card, and the clinic doesn't included this panel.
Hope this kid get well soon!

My mistress's new shoes

My PC is my beloved wife, and my cutie mistress is my car, a Perodua MyVi 1.3 SXi.

This model is by far the hottest in the country for middle-lower range class car, and the number of people owning it is growing at an incredible rate, you can see lots of it cruising around the streets now.
So to make a difference, you need to mod it. Was thinking to do alot of modifications on her when I bought the car, well, think is think, to really do it is another question. The easiest mod is changing the shoes - the rim and tyre. Has been talking/thinking to change it from day 1, and today I finally did it.

This early morning, me, Kong and Chean, after took our breakfast at Chean's area, we straight cruised up to Klang, to a well known shop for rims, tyres and other lower body parts related, Hin Leong Tyre Services, aka Kedai Papan (wooden shop). This shop is famous among local car forums of all kinds, its fame probably came from its varieties of rim selections, which also at an affordable and reasonable price. Chean previously bought his rim there, so he's like a guide for this whole expedition. Hehehe!

We reached there around 10am+. It was really an amazing view when you step into the shop, it has 2 shop lots, in each lot, 1 side of the wall, is fill with all kind of rims! It's over 100 kinds of rim for you to choose! I was planning to get a 16" one, so we went to the 16" section. Oh man, the hardest thing in life is to choose, and it's even harder when you have so many choices! I spent around 1 hour trying to choose among these goodies, I guess I'm really suck at this, and came out with no conclusion, but still managed to filter most of them, and left a few to choose. Then we decided to ask whether we could drive my car inside for a direct rim to car comparison, and we've got a yes. Hahaha! This made things easier, we just grabbed those we like and place them over my car's rim to check how it "looks" when it is installed.

Finally, one was chosen, and now of course proceed to the price negotiation. The trade in price for my original rim and tyre was way below expected, dang, they sure know how to use your disadvantages for their advantage. Because it's quite impossible for me to not trade in my original rim and tyre, and bring it back to KL and ask for better price. I have no choice but to agree with his offer.

And they started to install my new rim and tyre. While they are doing it, items which were not in the purchase list were added, wow, hidden cost huh, we were all thinking. So I ended up getting these:
1. 4 Mugen GP rims (eerr... imitation of course, hehehe)
2. 4 Bridgestone MY01 205/45/R16 tyres.
3. 1 set 16 pieces nuts.
4. 1 set 4
pieces unique key nuts.
5. 1 set 4
pieces tyre air pump hose.
6. 1 set 4
pieces center cone hub holder (for holding the rim tider to provide more stability)

Got my baby a pair of new shoes sure have to test it out. Hahaha! I was doing 120km/h on the way back to KL (dang, hard to pass over that, really have to complain to Perodua service center when doing my 2nd car service!). Compare to the time we came to Klang, this time it was way more stable, good result, and I'm satisfied with it. Although you do feel the power lost when you try to accelerate. I will post some photos of my new rims later.

And ya, heard MyVi's spare tyre is a bloody small and thin 13" bugger, I am gonna check it out tomorrow and post some photos too. Can't imagine how am I gonna run my baby on this fucker...

Monday, May 08, 2006

Here goes my weekends...

I'm so tired, worked until 1130pm+, sleepy, hungry, exhausted and can't think much anymore...

No matter how energetic you are, working till this late is absolutely torment to your mind and soul. Your mind is blank and you will start talking/thinking in slow-mo, nonsense. Unless your work is routine job or doesn't require to crack much of the juice in your head, productivity is a total drop down in this kind of situation. I wonder how others do it? I would just sit there and blank, null, empty...

Baahh... Going to sleep, once again, no life is good life huh?

Saturday, May 06, 2006

A Bug's Life

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!
For weeks, or months, I can't even recall, I am only doing bugs fixing, nothing more. Fix this, break the other one, fix the other one, after merging, it breaks again, I'm really tired of this
.

Why it's so buggy you asked?

We are maintaining and developing a ready made product, those that already there, most of the time, we assume it works correctly, well, at least in the usual ways. But when the unexpected strikes, you are gonna have a hell lot of time to trace, debug, fix, patch data! Why wasn't it tested thoroughly in the first place? First of all, time, schedule, it's all packed, you just can't say I'm wasting few days to test the bugs I've fixed, even QAs are at hands full. You delay, clients shoot you, it's all about time to market, and you sacrifice the stability of your system. Second, it's already there, and was working fine, who still gonna bother to test it again? When the bugs finally discovered, you are eating your old and dirty shits!

Bugs fixing is nothing more than changing some codes, data patching is the actual main course, from incorrect to correct, corrupted to fixed, without affecting the others problem-free one, arrrggghhh!! I hate doing this! All of these are really killing my morale, my confidence, my mood, everything!

Tomorrow gonna work again, damn it! No life is really good life!

Friday, April 28, 2006

Learn to swim - The prelude

We were planning to learn swimming like months ago, Chean even did some digging around online advertisements and called a few to ask about it. Among all of them, he seemed quite interested in one instructor known as Mr. Lim, due to his quite detailed explanations over the phone and his enthusiasm to teach. He even asked Chean to go over his house and take some brochures and testimonials.

Well, we did, last night.

After picking up Yanny, we, Chean, CK and me went straight to Mr. Lim's house, it is located around Yanny's place, sort of, don't ask me where it is, coz I'm definitely a road blind. With Mr. Lim's instructions over the phone, we managed to find his house and we finally met him.

First impression, OMFG! We knew he is an aged elder, and thought he's around 40 or a bit more, but not at that age! In front of us, was a definitely over 50s elder, looked almost reaching his 60s, you gotta be kidding! Frankly, I was stunned, and lost myself in stiff smile, and for sure, I was indeed sceptical.

Without much choice, we went into his house. His TV was on, and he handed over a pile of papers put inside a plastic holder, with a name card pinned at the upper corner. Then he started to talk, introducing himself, and other stuffs along. We didn't even have the chance to check out the documents, testimonials he gave us. "Wei, stop reading first, this is important, pay attention a bit ah". This was what he shot at Yanny when he caught him reading the documents, hahaha, damn funny! He talked alot, about his past students, his experience, yadda, yadda, he had begun to convincing us. Sometimes I just turned to the TV shows and pulled myself away from his talks, coz his words almost repeating over and over again.

Then all of the sudden, he stood up, placing his hands on the button of his shirt, I was like WTF?! Then he took off his clothes, stunned again, I was. Not because of his muscles of course, coz he has none, but this sudden moves are really out of our comprehension! "Look at me, my body is so flexible and soft" He was doing some silat-like moves to demonstrate his "flexible" body!! Oh god, just kill me already! I was trying so hard to hold my laugh! So did others! Hahahahahahaha!
But honestly, at his age of 65, he still has a young-looking body, although not fit like a body builder, with dark color skin tone, proves that he is a regular swimmer.

Believe it or not, he started asking us to test on his body. First, we were asked to poke his fore arm, before and after style! Before, when his muscle was relaxed, after, when he pumped up his muscle. Poor CK was sitting next to him, and he became Mr. Lim's body strength tester! CK was asked to punch at him, hold his fist to feel Mr. Lim's strength force, pushed here and there by him, oh man, we almost laugh the hell out of it!! Hahaha! Then Mr. Lim came up with yet another weird move and stunned all of us again. He searched through his drawer, guess what, he took out a chain and told us that's the item he uses for training! Oh brother! Then he began to whack his body with the big pile of chain! This had really made my day!

Despite of Mr. Lim's weird acts. His words and experience seemed convincing. And his "Mother of all exercise" method is somewhat interesting (hopefully not required us to dance in his silat-like moves, oh man...) We probably would give it a go and try it out, Yanny and others wouldn't be any problem coz they already know some basics of swimming, but for me, I'm a total n00b, and they are looking forward to see me learn to swim across a 8 feet deep pool on the first day of the lessons, as advertised by Mr. Lim... Dang!

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Lunch - The aftermath

Guess what, we went to eat bakuteh today!

It's probably due to the incident yesterday, was I acting childish? Until they feel like need to somehow fulfill my wish? I did complain to 2 of my collegues though... Baahhh, I knew I have bad attitude and temper, spoiled kid...

Anyway, great lunch guys! Thanks!

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Lunch

Just came back from lunch, and my stomach is not only filled with food, but also fire!

Before we went out office, some of us was discussing what and where to eat, and I suggested bakuteh, don't know why but just suddenly thought of this, probably the tasty soup and meat. Do understand that the restaurant is not near our office, it's one of the collegue's parents store, and we will need to drive there. For this kind of lunch planning, we will need at least 1 1/2 hours, which way over our 1 hour lunch time. Some of them seemed interested, and we decided to go earlier for lunch since the boss just left for lunch too.

I was preparing to drive and slowly walked to my car which is quite far down a slope from our office. But 1 car is not enough for around 10 persons right? Soon after I walked a while, notice there's no second driver coming, I walked back to check who's gonna drive, other than me. Then suddenly this fuss going around, talking about the bosses are here, not too good to spend such long hour lunch time, yadda yadda... Hhmm... a sudden change huh, so I asked aren't we already
decided to go there? Well, as usual, silence. Great, no need to ask second time, nobody dare to say anything coz probably most of them afraid to bear the blame if we were to blame for long lunch hour. I dunno.

OK, fine, then lets decide where to eat now. And again, silence. Sorry to say that, I'm not a very good temper human being, and this really hit my button! Fuck! I had enough of this, everytime we are to stand there and decide where to eat, and I will be repeatedly asking again and again, I feel like a moron. What ya all afraid to suggest? Aren't we adult enough to speak out for open discussion?

So from now on, I have decided to just go for lunch with 1 or 2 colleagues. More doesn't always means better, and I realized it again.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Happy birthday CK! Part II

It was around 10pm when I went to fetch CK. The cake was next to me at the front passenger seat, when he opened the door, he was kinda stunned, hahaha, and said: "No need ler gua...". Good surprise huh? I can't remember whether I had this kind of surprise before, probably no, but it's sure fun to make this kind of surprise to others!

Our birthday party was at Station 1 cafe.

We went to fetch Karen, CK's friend, and after arrived there, we asked Yanny and Chean to fetch the other friend of CK, MY, hahaha, we were like pushing the errand to both of them, the 2 shy boys were quite reluctant. It's a good opportunity what! So the attendees include: CK, me, Yanny, Chean, Siong, Elaine (Siong's GF), Jet, Cheely, Karen and MY.
We were just chit chat around, drinking, eating, having fun and waiting the clock to tick till 12 midnight. Right after past 12 midnight, we asked the waitress to take out the cake, to our surprise, the shop was suddenly blackout, the lights were out, and one dude just shouted and sang the birthday song, then all of us followed, hahaha, we were a bit embarassed, but it was fun! CK made his wish, finishing it with a blow of candle, and all of us clapped in joy! For the cake slicing part, I was not really good at it, and clumsily sliced them unevenly, hahaha!

It was a joyful night, we enjoyed ourselves very much, and hope for more similiar happy nights to come!

Happy birthday CK!

Today is CK's birthday, he's my younger cousin buddy. Happy birthday man!

I was aware of the occasion few days back, but was almost slipped through my mind on Sunday. Probably because nobody was saying anything, and the big day is on Monday, we still have sufficient time to plan it out.

At evening, suddenly received a SMS from Teng Teng, asking about this, then I was thinking, probably we can arrange it on Sunday, and Yanny also will be coming to pick up the AC adapter I promised to borrow him later. Aisks, what the heck, lets do it tonight! Then I started making calls. Also met Chean in MSN, I told him about it and we started discussing who should we call, birthday cake... Ya, the cake! It was 8pm and we had not even get the cake yet! Where should we get it? Secret Receipe? This bugger selling all cakes in one single size, which is too big for just the few of us, the one we bought for Yanny's birthday last 2 weeks was way too over for our appetite! King's Bakery? At least it has different sizes of cakes for us to choose. Without delaying more, I hopped in the bathroom, took my shower, and drove straight to King's Bakery.

The first thing that catched my eyes when I stepped into King's was a colourful cake displayed there, a fruit cake, yummy! Huh? Chocolate Mousse cake? A cake with all kinds of fruit toppings, and they called it a
Chocolate Mousse cake, come on, can't you guys be more creative? OK, I'm gonna get this one, with 26 candles.. hhmm.. or izzit 25? I called up Chean to confirm, although I'm quite sure it's 26, but better make sure. That guy just told me to get 27 candles, hahaha, better more than less, right? I bought the cake and went back home. Got a call from CK, and I told him yum cha at 10pm, without telling him the planning, hehe, and now we wait for the big surprise!

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Wonder sponge!




















Here's the photos I promised. Wonder sponge, get it today!

I'm a cleaner today!

After had enough with the blogging thingy, it's time to do some cleaning. I need to clean up the 2nd camping tent that has been in dirty shit for the last 2 weeks. Ya, me and my friends had a little camping trip last 2 weeks, brought 2 tents along, thanks to the rainy weather, both of them in dirt mode. You can read up a little bit on the camping trip here. As usual, camping is the fun part, cleaning up the mess is the shit part. I've already cleaned up the 1st tent the next day we back from camping, and due to the rainy season, ton of job loads and usual hang-outs, today only I'm free to take care of it.

My mum was helping me to clean up the mess, was thinking of asking CK to help, but didn't see him around in MSN, so most probably he already had plan, and not at home. Suddenly the sun fade away and it looks cloudy! Dang! With the help of my great mum, we managed to clean it up in an hour, although the sky was still cloudy.

Next, time to take care my baby - my car. I had not bath her for hhmm.. around 1 month I guess, she was almost cover in dust and dirt all over. Hahaha, poor thing! Again, mum was there to help out, gosh, I am a mummy boy, and I gladly accept it, how many people has this chance huh? Hehehe! After finished washing my car, time to do some thorough cleaning, small dirt spots were gathered around at the lower part of the car body, with normal sponge, it's almost impossible to wipe this suckers off. Thanks to a special kind of sponge, a Japanese made sponge, which my good pal recommended to me, I can easily but still with some work and time, remove those stubborn suckers! I'm not advertising here, but good things are meant to share right? I will upload a photo of this wonder sponge later.
Now I only realized my baby was in bad condition, so, time to do some waxing! My brother bought alot of gadgets for his new Honda City, so I will just, well, borrow some of his stuffs to use, hehehe! Human waxing was not fun at all, I was like doing a full workout! Phew!

All these cleanings took me around 3 1/2 hours, and by the time finished the waxing, my hands were shaking, I was so hungry!! I quickly grabbed some fries and tong yuin prepared by mum, and also some rojak which dad bought. And sis was starting to clean her car too.

I went up stairs to check on the net, nothing special. Feeling tired, so I just hopped on the bed and trying to get some sleep. Nah, I just rolled here and there but couldn't get myself into sleep, really envy CK's ability to sleep anywhere, anytime! Hahaha! Went back outside to check on my sis's progress, she's starting to vaccum her car, aisks, what the hell, I will just vaccum my car as well!

After cleaning all the stuffs, I'm here and blogging today's activities, and that's about it, my Sunday! Probably later gonna ask CK yum cha.

Well, mum's calling, time for dinner!
Later~

About this blog

This is actually my second blog, this will cover what I do, the other one will cover what I think.

What I do as in what I do in my life, my daily activities so on.
What I think is what/how I feel towards my life and the things happen around me, some inner stuffs you may call.

2 blogs? Do I have the time? Of course no, so don't expect this to be daily.

I give up!

OK OK, I have finally given up! Was trying to change my blog address and username to those I preferred, but ended up getting all not available! After few hours of head cracking and server bombarding (coz I kept on submitting requests of all kinds to verify), I felt really fed up and shoot it with my name, and voila, it's available, fuck it! I am done with this! Waste of life indeed!

Originally was using Index Out Of Bounds as blog name and address as well, but found out there's already a blog with the similiar name, nah, I don't wanna confuse people with it, so I just changed to others instead.

But here's what I wrote for my previous description of the blog, I think worth a thought or two, so I will just post it here again:

Index Out Of Bounds


IndexOutOfBoundsException - Thrown to indicate that an index of some sort (such as to an array, to a string, or to a vector) is out of range.

How good if life can be always Index Out Of Bounds, where we are not tide to the boundaries of our limitations, for being poor, weak and every ways that we dislike.