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Daily Trip 5: Liverpool

2011-07-24T05:04:00.004+08:00

Saturday, 23 July 2011

Slept at 1am and woke up 4.20am for the long awaited Liverpool trip, can you imagine that? Prepared my breakfast and make some sandwiches to bring with me and head out to the rail station to catch the 6.20am train to Liverpool. The journey takes about 2 hours, passing by some interesting place such as Old Trafford, Manchester.

Onboard, and online!

The weather report says we should be expecting heavy rain at Liverpool, but thank God, we got a sunny day!! We arrived about 8.30am, the weather there was considerably colder than the weather in Sheffield, sort of the weather of Sheffield when I just got there, maybe it was just too early.

We headed straight to Albert Dock because the shops are still closed, thats about 20 minutes walk from the rail station.

Echo Wheel at Albert Dock

And taking some pictures by the sea with 2 Liverpool-twins

After that we went searching for the famous Super Lamb Banana, which took us long enough. I called my dear so many times to confirm the location, I thought it was at the Albert Dock area initially. After 30minutes of searching we found that it was relocated from somewhere else due to the opening of Museum of Liverpool, it is now surrounding the museum!

The first one we found

And a weird one

And some Super Lamb Banana souvenirs I bought, £3 each (ouch!)

Still thinking either to give those to Suok Baos or Cell Group..hmm..

After that we did not visit any attraction points, and head straight to Liverpool One the shopping destination!

Liverpool One

It was not quite what I expected, I thought it will be like Manchester, like there are shopping streets surrounding an big indoor shopping mall. Liverpool One is more like a shopping area made from 2 shopping streets - South John Street and Paradise Street, no indoors. The place is quite small, like alot smaller than Meadowhall, which is a more traditional style of indoor shopping haven.

Fred Perry shot!

Last but not least, the spendings.

Zara, Blue Inc, Fred Perry, Primark

Zara "Glossy" Jeans, looks superb when wearing a shirt, £17

3 Zara formal shirts, 2 of them was £16, one of them £10

Winter coat from Blue Inc, a whopping £10 instead of the original price of £60

Shirt-Vest Fusion style from Blue Inc, I bought this because I know my dear will love it. £10

Fred Perry Cardigan, £33

Apart from those still bought a pack of boxer and a singlet style jersey from Primark for casual wear. £4 & £2 respectively. Total Spending: £142

Left for Sheffield at 6.50pm train.

P/S: Overall Liverpool is really a nice place to live (I always wanted to study LJMU before), but actually not really that entertaining for me as compared to Sheffield because I dont enjoy night clubs, and Sheffield has meadowhall also. But ouch, Sheffield's casino don't offer free drinks since last year.

But Liverpool is a good and enjoyable experience, the place where my dear live for 3 months, quite interesting to be there! Comparably fun but tired trip, maybe not as fun as Whitby and York, but Liverpool have shops!

Day Trip 4: Bicester Outlet Village

2011-07-18T09:56:00.002+08:00

Monday, 18 July 2011

Went to Bicester Outlet Village today. Similar to Cheshire Oaks, but not too similar. There is more than 150 outlets here, the arrangement of the shops is really in a 'village' style, like how you enter a village and walk until the end, just replace the houses with the outlets and you got the idea.

While not having major sports brand such as Nike, Adidas, Sportsdirect, however, there is a larger choice of branded outlets here, namely Gucci, Burberry, Fendi, Dior, D&G, Prada, and alot more expensive outlets.

It took 3 hours to travel there from Sheffield, its located near London, and its quite far. And again I walked all by myself to do a swift swipe on what shops are there and what I wanted to get over there. And the results:

Kipling, Lacoste and Fred Perry

Went into Ralph Lauren first and notice its a super crowded shop despite its large store with 2 storeys. Cant even walk properly in the crowd, saw some really nice shirts but did not have my size.

Recently I'm quite obsessed with bags, and I don't really know why. I loved Kipling's design style since some time ago when I saw people posted one of the bag on Lowyat forum, Kipling in Malaysia seems to sell quite expensive there. 4 of us went into Kipling and walked out with 6 bags.

Bag from Kipling, £61, the monkey's name is Willy

Went to Radley too, this time for woman bag. Saw a nice bag, thought to buy for my pretty dear.

Radley bag, £44

But I did not, at least not yet.

Then I went to Lacoste to get my brother a pair of his long wanted Lacoste shoes.

Lacoste shoes, £40.50

Then to enhance my sexiness I bought a semi transparent Fred!

Doesn't look anything special here

See it? Fred Perry polo, £37

I failed to resist the temptation, this is the 3rd black Fred polo I have bought. Need to stop buying the same thing again and again and again. Its actually not too "transparent", haha. I got it because the printed logo is special in this edition. This polo cost a fortune on the internet.

Total Spending: £61 + £40.50 + £37 = £138.50

Next stop: Liverpool !

Mail is here! Again :D

2011-07-18T09:33:00.008+08:00

Monday, 18 July 2011

Mail is here again, this time, its the bag I mentioned earlier, ordered from Ted Baker official webstore!

Beautifully packed

As said before the bag I saw was defective so I went to search for the bag, and saw it on the webstore, and its on sale too! Original RRP was £59, sales price was £35 plus another £5 for delivery, next day delivery - just one day to reach me!

The bag

Something funny that they emailed me after I make my payment.

"Ted Baker

Confirmation of your order ref: 213270

We've got your order and you have impeccable taste.

Our team will now check your details and get your order ready. You'll receive another email to let you know when your order has been despatched. "

Apparently if you order from them, you have impeccable taste! They rub their customers' shoes too :D

The bag and a beautifully printed receipt

Mini Shopping Trip: MeadowHall

2011-07-14T05:52:00.003+08:00

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Took a train to MeadowHall today, everyone around has been there except us, took us long enough! One month plus here in the UK yet have not visit the nearest shopping center, its the 6th largest shopping centre in the UK with more than 250 stores.

Did not have much plans here, just want to get some clothes for Jason there. However I got sucked into Ted Baker as I reach and I saw a bag~ I'm in love with it. Its something similar with a Calvin Klein bag I saw few months ago which cost RM300++, and it cost that less because its defective ~_~.

Ted Baker Bag

Its on sale now at £35, original at £59, however, this is the last of its kind in that store, and the most important thing is, its defective, once again :( the handle is worn off, and to compensate that the manager only offer a 10% discount on top of the sales price, how sad.

Compared a few shops and finally got a pair of shoes for myself.

Fred Perry!

£35 for that pair, not too bad there. Walked in all sports stores to find a Lacoste for my brother, and a Nike/Adidas for Jason and end up failing miserably. Nice pair of Lacoste cost too much there, cheap ones are ugly, I did saw a pair of decent Lacoste before I left, its consider cheap at £48.

Went to put on a Ralph Lauren also to make sure I can fit in so that I confidently order online :D Nevertheless got some clothes for Jason at a few stores. Must treat him well because I love his sister! haha :P

Primark singlet + shirt set

Primark polo with hoodie

H&M junior tee

I found out that I can fit it those Junior tee's aged 10-12 years..LOL. okay the white one was abit tight. Makes me wonder why the same age from the same brand are different in sizes.

P/S: Can't help looking for bags when I came home, and I found the Ted Baker bag! Gonna order it soon! Shopping continues this weekend at Bicester Outlet Village!

Mail is here!

2011-07-14T05:27:00.000+08:00

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

After waiting for 2 weeks, finally my mail is here! The office staff nearly overlooked my mailbox, luckily he took one more peek and saw that's a parcel notice in it.

Tada! My Fred~

And the second parcel, my wallet and belt!

In the UK we deal with coins too much, can't use the wallet here, it will spoil it too fast..haha, its in my storage now!

Day Trip 4: Cheshire Oaks

2011-07-10T07:18:00.002+08:00

Saturday, 9 July 2011

This time, its not about getting good views and visit nice place, its very straight forward - ITS SHOPPING TIME!!

There is more than 150 fashion outlets in Cheshire Oaks, outlet price + summer sales = huge bargain! Lots of cheap (Okay, cheap as in cheaper than Malaysia, not "low price") stuff to hunt for :D How excited to spend money eh?

My original plan was to get a Fred Perry shoes, a pair of Lacoste for my brother, a pair of Nike for Jason and a bag for myself. Guess what, I did not get any of those in the end. Some shops I am interested are like Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Fred Perry, Gap, CK and..well really nothing much else.

Results:

Tada!

Tees from FCUK, 3 for £25

Polo-ish Tee from Ted Baker, £27

Levis! £20 each, super cheap

From GAP, Shirt £17 and Short £10

Last but not least, perfume for my dear, FCUK for Her £15

Total Spending: £125 (Approximately RM625)

Meet up with those who went to Blackpool after that back in Sheffield, went to a local Chinese restaurant for dinner, really great dinner there! About £6.30 per head after dividing, not much chance to eat outside anyways.

Next Stop: Bicester Shopping Village!

Day Trip 3: Whitby

2011-07-10T06:10:00.001+08:00

Saturday, 9 July 2011

Whitby is a small seaside town, peaceful yet crowded with tourist from all over the UK at the weekends. It was a sunny and windy day, and we were excited to visit Whitby!

However, we were greeted by an exploded tyre on our way there, took us near to 2 hours to get it replaced, had to wait for the tyre company and police to come.

Its not punctured, it exploded, seriously

This is a very different trip compared to the last few trips, there are not many places to visit really, Whitby is just a small town, and yet we have a whole day. Surprisingly this is the trip I enjoyed the most, the atmosphere, the view makes you so relax, such a nice place to live in!

Seaside!

Whitby Abbey

Such a beautiful place

Whitby is famous for its Fish & Chips and also Ice Cream, I din't try the Ice Cream, but the Fish & Chips there are awesome! Tried 2 shops there, Mister Chips, and also arguably the best Fish & Chips in UK - Magpie Cafe.

Everyone is starving, the first shop - Mister Chips

A closer look!

Huge crowd queuing for their Fish & Chips in front of Magpie Cafe

We spent our last few hours relaxing, walking around, enjoying the view of the sea, and of course to take photos! I doubt I'll enjoy any other trips in the UK as much as this, LOVE WHITBY!

What Do We Eat: Week 2

2011-06-21T00:59:00.003+08:00

Monday, 13 June 2011

The picture up there is me testing the spaghetti =_=

Week 2 is quite an improved method, we don't go out to get our ingredients everyday..haha, we discussed the menu for the whole week and try to do all the shopping on Monday.

Monday:

Peanut Soup, Brocolli with Oyster Sauce, Carrot Egg

Tuesday:

Western Food! Fish Fillet, Fries, Egg, Hash Brown, Baked Beans

Wednesday:

The Sweet & Sour Chicken I cooked! Taste and Look so great! :D

Vegetable soup, Fried Egg with Long Bean, Sweet & Sour Chicken

Thursday:

We have class from 9am to 6pm every Thursday, what an exhausting day, luckily its only once a week :( So we try to keep it simple. The original plan was to cook spaghetti, but the others wanted to have Shin instant noodle, so..

Shin Kimchi Instant Noodle with Iceberg

Friday:

Fried Vege, ABC Soup, Steamed Egg

Saturday:

Went for Manchester trip, so prepared something simple, just throw everything in and ta-da!

Chicken BahKutTeh

P/S: Normally I eat instant noodle / rice for breakfast and lunch, on schooling days I prepare my own sandwich, Egg mayo & ham, Strawberry jam & Peanut butter sandwich are my favourites! Just bought a quarter pounder burger steak, so I'm gonna try something new tomorrow :D

Day Trip 2: Manchester

2011-06-20T05:04:00.005+08:00

Sunday, 19 June 2011

Same as the week before, same old crowded place at the meet up spot. However we manage to grab a minibus this time. Arrived in Manchester City about 1 and a half hours after departure, that is when nightmare starts.

We arrived at about 10.30am, we are required to leave at 1.40pm. We thought we would've gone to Old Trafford before going to the city centre, turns out that 3 coaches went to the city first while the others went to Old Trafford, the main point is, we only have 3 hours, they recommended 6 spots. WTH.

We walked right to the town hall, wasn't too interested, just a beautiful building. But its not even close to York Minster. We saw something quite interesting though on our way there!

Interesting isn't it? :D

Then we went to John Rylands Library. The guide told us that its similar to Hogwarts, I was then abit excited about that when I heard that, and as I went in the library, I see nothing but disappointment. Well..it is a beautiful library with beautiful books and art, they even have the pieces of the first Bible. However, the interior is incomparable with Hogwarts.

The logo feels Hogwart-ish though!

Knowing that we don't have enough time, we decided to skip the other spots and head to the main point, SHOPPING! Went in to quite a few shops like Burberry, LV, Gucci, Sports Direct, Esprit, Fred Perry, too bad that either theres nothing special or its too expensive or I don't have enough time to get what I want.

After a rush evening, we continued on to Old Trafford, the home of MUFC. I'm not a football fan, I don't even like Manchester United, but still, it feels special to be there.

Our guide from MUFC

Old Trafford, The Theater of Dreams

Tickets!

The player's lounge, where David Beckham met his wife Victoria

P/S: Still, I did not spend a single penny, I thought I would spend quite abit in Manchester so I brought alot of money (Ok, not alot, like £120). This is a really poorly organised trip, we don't have enough time to enjoy Manchester, even the York trip was way better than this, sigh. Might visit Manchester again one day, maybe just me myself :D

Day Trip 1: York

2011-06-20T04:33:00.007+08:00

Sunday, 19 June 2011

I'm going to be really honest. I didn't plan to join this trip. I joined it because it was the first trip organised. It feels boring as a city itself, yet their own citizens are really proud of York city, and I know why after I went there. I've been to a few cities in the UK now (Ok, just three - Manchester, Sheffield and York), and York is like 3 times more beautiful than Manchester & Sheffield.

Its a historical city by itself, quite interesting that it is once ruled by the vikings, and was their capital city named Jorvik (pronounced "Yorvik"), don't ask me why. It is quite crowded at the assembly point, before 8am the Hubs were packed with students, there were 9 coaches, each filling about 45 of us, do the math. Feels like York will be flooded with Msians.

Very Crowded

At arrival after 1 hour+, we were greeted by the Clifford's Tower. Nothing much, basically a tower approximately 3 storey tall, and its really really small, its a shame that they charge entrance fee to enter the really small space and to climb up the tower, and we as poor Malaysians that are very very good in maths, especially money did not pay any shit. Some of them climbed all the way up from the cliff bank so that they can take picture up high without paying.

Clifford's Tower

Then we entered the shopping streets, the shops are nothing too special, road are very pack during the weekends, luckily no vehicles are allowed to enter the inner city during morning and noon, making York a perfect tourist spot. One thing that bothered me is my temptation for coffee. Everytime I pass by Costa and Starbucks my hands feel like grabbing my wallet out and get a coffee. Self-Control won though!

Streets

Something that is worth paying attention in York is the York Minster. It is a really really old and beautiful church (and also one of the largest in Europe), or more like a cathedral, beautifully constructed with awesome architecture, however they too, charge a fee of £8 to enter the inner part, but nevermind, the exterior itself is so beautiful that we don't actually need to go in. Let the picture do the talking:

In front of the York Minster

Dean Park, located right next to the York Minster, nothing special itself, however, it is really special on that really special day. There's a couple getting married! They are Chinese couple from HK/China, beautifully dressed.

Flower banquet up high!

Before we left York, we went for a 3.5miles walk on the city wall, basically its a mini version of the great wall of China, dubbed the not-so-great wall of York.

P/S: I did not spent a single penny at York, Bravo for that! Ate own made egg mayo sandwich. If feels really bad having my egg mayo sandwich while watching some people having their cheese sausages or fish and chips..oh well.

Living in the UK

2011-06-16T03:52:00.002+08:00

Wednesday, 16 June 2011

Have you ever wonder what is life outside Malaysia? Going into 2nd week in the UK I realise how good is UK to work and live in compared to Malaysia. Yeah it is cold, might not have that much food like what we used to enjoy back in Malaysia, but the life here is so easy that you people from KL can never imagine.

A typical fresh graduate in Malaysia will at most, and in super rare occasions, get about RM3000 salary per month. Is that enough? Many struggles to even live, not to mention if they can really afford cars and houses. In the UK, fresh graduate earn an average of £1700 per month, that is about RM8500. You might say that the living expenses here is way way higher than Malaysia. Well, guess what, that's not so true.

£200 is more than enough to feed one person, alot more than enough indeed. The market I used to go, Sainsbury's has a meal plan to feed your whole family, for £50 per week, that is £200 for one family for one month, 3 meals a day. The plans include shopping lists, menu and recipes (don't expect steak and seafood of course). The whole point is, a fresh graduate here in the UK can easily feed one or two families without difficulties, while the same person might suffer to survive in Malaysia.

Lets compare:

You can get a T shirt in the UK, cheapest at £2 at Primark, famous chain clothing store.

A low quality T shirt cost about RM10 in Malaysia's pasar malam.

If you cook your own food, I would say it will be 0-20% more expensive here in the UK, depending on what you cook. However, chain outlets outside such as subway, starbucks cost just as much, or lower than what we see back in Malaysia (Restaurant here are pretty expensive though, if you do not consider how much the people here earn). Anyway, £3 - £5 is more than enough for a really decent meal here (eating out).

One of the meals (actually the only meal I ate outside), Kebab. Theres fried chicken, mutton and chicken kebab, fries and salad in there, cost only £2.50.

A cup of latte in Starbucks cost £2.30 in the UK, which is cheaper than Malaysia after conversion. However, people here don't really fancy Starbucks, any cafe's coffee is as good as theirs.

Accomodation however is uncomparable. Hotels and rentals are really expensive here in the UK, again, if you earn British pound here, you wouldn't give a damn anyway (because everything is cheap to you if you earn here). Same case to transportation.

What a dream place to live in eh? I actually enjoy the weather here alot more than the sunny and hot weather back in Malaysia, if only my dear is with me here, I would've wish that I can live here forever. Who knows, maybe I can have such a chance in the future. I recall once my father told me, if I have any chance to work overseas, especially western countries e.g. UK, I can then pick my parents over and enjoy life. What a nice dream.

P/S: To Malaysians working in the UK, I envy you!

What Do We Eat: Week 1

2011-06-12T20:11:00.007+08:00

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Things are not always like people always dreamed, we don't really pay our attention on enjoying in the UK, yet. The first task to achieve in the UK is, to survive e.g. eat. Eating at the cafes and restaurants outside is so pricey here that it is practically impossible for us Malaysian students to eat outside everyday, so we had to cook.

Surprisingly most of my friends don't really know how to cook, and most of them are girls..haha, how to find husband har? Nevermind, I'm an expert chef! Long word short say, stuff that we actually cooked!

Day 1:

Already missing Malaysian food?

Rice, Chicken Bah Kut Teh

Day 2:

Porridge, Fried Egg, Potatoes and Iceberg

Day 3:

Rice, Steamed Egg, Pan Fried Chicken and Egg, ABC Soup (with and without chicken)

Day 4:

Rice, Soy Sauce Chicken, Boiled Iceberg with Oyster Sauce & Fried Garlic, Baked Beans with Egg

Day 5:

Busy day! Not much time to cook, bought 3 £1 Pizzas, tasted okay though! Still experiencing with the oven :D

Pork Pepperoni and Grilled Veg

Day 6:

Went to the Market, something like the pasar we see in Malaysia, bought some marinated chicken drumsticks to be cooked in the oven. It wasn't too successful though, we took it out and in out and in and in the end its still not fully cooked.

Rice, Fried Potatoes, Boiled Broccoli with Oyster Sauce, Egg & Veg Soup

Hot & Spicy Chicken Drumstick

Day 7:

I cooked curry chicken myself! wahahaha, I think I can cook better than my mum :D

Rice, Fried Egg, Boiled Iceberg with Oyster Sauce & Fried Garlic, CURRY CHICKEN!

Looked great and taste awesome!

P/S: I tried to avoid spending money on food outside though, even during the trips we ate our own made egg mayo sandwiches, craving for coffee badly in the cold weather ~~

So far I only ate 1 meal outside, its a supper, Turkish food - Kebab!

Fried Chicken, Lamb & Chicken Kebab with Fries and Salad

Relatively cheap in the UK, this large meal cost about £2.50. Not too great if you ask me, but its a good choice if there is no choice but to eat outside, kebab won't fail in keeping your stomach full for an affordable price!

The Differences

2011-06-11T03:26:00.008+08:00

Friday, 10 June 2011

It has been a week away from Malaysia now, I think I am actually adapting quite well, however there are really some significant differences between Malaysia and here in the UK.

Apart from the sunrise and sunset time mentioned in earlier posts, one thing that is quite interesting is the weather. Normally, it would be pretty cold in the morning and night with really strong wind, nothing too fancy. The tricky part is at noon. The weather is so weird, this minute the rain starts pouring down, the next minute the rain stops, sun comes out and its as hot as hell. Yes, the key word is NEXT MINUTE, I did not exaggerate it. This minute its raining, the next minute a hot and sunny one, the then suddenly the rain comes again. Imagine just taking out my umbrella and the rain stops, just when im about to keep it it starts raining again, CRAP.

While being a little fed up with the neverending weather activity, I actually loved the weather here. Most of the time its cold and windy, close to 10 degree celcius in the morning and night.

In average, we walk at least 1 hour non-stop everyday, my legs are so tired every night, still cant resist it, gonna head out and feel the breeze of the cool air before we got too busy with the assignments.

Crossing lots of streets everyday

One more obvious differences is that the people here are so friendly to us, theres endless examples and scenarios that I could write a whole page of blog. The drivers will let you pass the road even the traffic light is on green, the drivers behind would not even honk, they are so patient! I came out with a conclusion why is that so. They does not work too hard, and they do party hard! Shops are closed so early that we struggle to buy stuff after class. After 7pm the streets starts to be empty, save the pub and club street of course.

P/S: I actually love this place and hope that I would be able to come back for longer studies with my dear Chaoe for our MSc next time, maybe not in Sheffield, experience something different again!

PP/S: Although it seems like my dear doesn't want to come back and stay for a year, she wants to come back to have a trip..haha, UK for me is more like a good place to live rather than a travel destination :|

Arriving in Sheffield

2011-06-07T04:26:00.005+08:00

Monday, 6 June 2011

After the flight, we made our first step on the land of United Kingdom entering the Manchester International Airport. And we were greeted with...a loooooooooooooooooooooong queue to proceed through the custom. Took us about 1 hour plus just to wait for our turn, to my surprise the officer just checked my offer letter and passport, nothing else. I was worried that they might check my laptop or phone.

What a long queue at Manchester Airport!

We then met the university staff and brought to the coach after reclaiming our luggage. We waiting for more than 1 hour on the bus before it started moving. The bus is so packed and the seats are so small compared to the buses in Malaysia, when it is filled with people and the air con is not on, I can barely breath.

Basically the room is quite spacious, more than enough for a single room, feels like a master room back in Malaysian condo. Did some shopping in the first two days, of course mainly food and also some living essentials.

Laptop

Food!!

Bed

P/S: It feels really weird that the sky is still bright at 9.30pm, the same feeling I got when I went to China and the sky became dark at 4.30pm. Miss everyone in Msia !

The Flight

2011-06-04T18:07:00.001+08:00

Monday, 6 June 2011

After a rush preparation and a not-so-wonderful flight journey, im now sitting in my own room in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Summer has never been so different in my life, afterall we never had any seasons other than summer in Malaysia.

Lets talk about the not-so-wonderful flight. It was separated into 2 parts. My journey started from KLIA to Abu Dhabi, then from Abu Dhabi to Manchester. People are excited boarding the plane, well, I was greeting by a cacat-ed monitor and I was thinking "How am I going to survive 7 hours flight without the monitor?", come on I need movies!! Somehow it became normal again after the flight took off, I watched some movies, namely I am Number Four, Rango, and I Love Hong Kong. Yes, I Love Hong Kong, I watched it before but the movie list is so boring that I had to watch it again, and the worst thing is I am still flying with the same airway on the next flight, so still same shit.

Flight meals, nothing much to expect. Thats exactly what you should be expecting. When you expect nothing, things will somehow turn out to be great, and my first flight meal was quite good. And when you start expecting more because of a good first meal, your nightmare comes after. Heard anything about Hardrock Cafe? I suppose they dont serve Hardrock breads, because the Hardrock breads are on the flights, they can easily kill someone if the bread hit their head from a distance.

I know it doesnt look very nice, but its the first and best meal I had on the flight, beef curry with sambal

After the first part, we basically sat down and wait for about 3 hours before we board our next flight to Manchester, it is so tiring and boring to wait for transit. The second part of the flight is kinda straight forward, I did not get any sleep during the first flight so I kinda slept.

Chilling at Abu Dhabi waiting for transit

I wanted to sleep, but she wants autograph

The good thing was however, many people came to sent me off at KLIA, felt pretty good, ahem. Miss my dear, and hopefully she will be able to survive without me, hopefully she don't get any food poisoning from my mum's cooking.

P/S: I flew on Etihad Airways, if you plan to fly with one of those middle east airline, try to bare with the Arabian subtitles of the movies. Seriously, fuck that shit.

Luck? Or just pure Blur

2009-12-07T11:30:00.007+08:00

Monday, 7 December 2009

Just when I thought everything is getting better, bad luck never fails to stalk me. Yesterday I caught the flu again, 3 days after I recovered from the previous one. Nevermind, I'm okay now. Then I realise that I lost my sweater which I just bought 2 months ago. I don't know how people can actually lost their sweater? (In this case me)

It sounds like such a small case compared to me losing my phone earlier, but for me this is the worst thing possible to happen right now.

I will be going to Genting 5 days later
I couldn't afford another one now
It's not even about the money, it's about getting something you really like.
I don't know how to survive this week's lectures
Can anyone sabotage the aircons?

I guess I left it in the lecture hall, after the Friday lecture. And I only realise today, It's Monday now. By now it should be with some Indian cleaner auntie's son or something. Damn.

And I paid RM10 for a U-turn outside the toll. RM5 out and another RM5 in. WTF. Cant even blame luck for all these, I'm the blur king living in my own fantasy land. DAMN

Living in Poverty

2009-12-03T03:13:00.010+08:00

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Quoting from my beloved sister Joanne's blog

Another problem. his credit card bill is RM10000+
"seriously,i dont know how to pay it"
"that Edward ah buy what again"
THE NEXT VICTIM: TADA! EDWARD YAP! CONGRATULATIONS! =D

The post was at June (Sorry I just discovered the blog), the good news is, It's December, and I'm still alive :D and the fact is, it's not possible for me to spent 10k alone, and I was in Kuantan at June. So it's not me (the bill combines), but I still spend alot mainly because of petrol though.

Due to some really interesting incidents now I'm down to RM50, its 3rd of December. R-O-F-L, what a financial crisis. I'm looking forward to upcoming weeks though, I'm interested to see how I can survive in KL with RM50 XD

In worst case scenario, I might not be able to fight monsters, but I can dress as a mascot (Power Ranger)

I do realise I'm always overspending here. Year end sales is coming, I promise no shopping unless I got a go ahead and get your CNY clothes sign by my parents. Ok 50% spendings cut down from now on, and I don't want an iPhone anymore.

Being honest in my ptptn application really turns me down, I din't expect to get such a low loan, basically they only offer me enough instant noodles for the rest of my course. Sure I'd start packing up instant noodles now, I don't like instant noodles but it doesn't seem like I have other choice now.

Thank you Joanne (the other one, not my sister), Huimun, Phinn, Yee Chin for worrying/telling me about instant noodle, Thank you xx xxxx for your vegetables (hopefully not those in your country story/famville), Thank you YY for offering me your kidney, Thank you san san jie jie for being kind say want belanja me makan XD Thanks alot and love all of you!

CW just offered me a job in upcoming pc fair this weekend, too bad I'm really busy at the moment (2 tests, 2 presentations and 1 assignment submission next week, WTF?)

Looks like I'm gonna sum up year 2009 in poverty, no problem. I can bear with it, very big bear :D Not a good year for me, but it's already December, Christmas is coming, New year is coming too, having a really busy period now but who cares, I'm gonna beat those assignments in no time.

P/S:
*Don't ask me out in KL please, I'm weak against temptations :(
*The sacred word to save money: Maggi
*I'm not writing this because I need financial help, please don't come to me for donations

Life is good, and meant to be good

2009-11-27T01:57:00.006+08:00

Friday, 27 November 2009

So it seems that the Paypal thingy won't work out after all, kinda having all kinds of shit over me lately, maybe I din't work hard enough to get what I want. People tends to see me relaxing all the time, it wasn't my intention to create an image of a lazy dude, but I really plan for myself, what to do on Monday, Tuesday, even what I want in the future. When I rest, I play hard, and when I really work, I can do my stuff real fast, and nice.

I dont take serious stuff easy, assignments for example, is really giving me alot of stress. One thing I found interesting is that I have no worries on upcoming presentations at all, I'm completely confident on those, even I've done nothing, right at the starting point, is this good or bad? Overconfidence? I don't know, but time will tell.

Speaking of my future, I see myself working over at Singapore, as a stepping stone for my carrier in Dubai. Yes I wanna work in Dubai, I guess every single young QS, especially males, will want a job there. Highest pay, latest technology, largest projects, there is no limit what we can learn there, and it's a dream that must be fulfilled for us in the construction industry, perhaps it's the most happening place for us.

Personally I've came across to alot of people, broken up or always single ones lately, alot of them are starting to feel lonely. Is this a phenomenom? Single life is still great but something is always missing, really really feeling empty sometimes I guess? Maybe problems of people around me affected me day by day driving me crazy.

Seems like it has been quite long ago since I wrote something this personal, everyone is acting strange lately, even the weather is strange. I've got emails saying that we can see snow in Malaysia? I hope it's real, but it turns out to be the biggest joke of the month. 4 hours of sleep last night, 4 hours of class, 4 hours of driving, must be those, everything is going out of order today.

A longer weekend this week, clear up my mind and finish up my assignments. And to all my dear friends, life is good, only if you know how to live it good, treat yourselves better, everyone deserves a good life, and life are meant to be enjoyed, that is what I've been telling myself at least. Cheers, good day for those who successfully read up this post up to this point.

P/S: Thanks to my lecturer that taught me success is not necessary dificult to achieve, and there's always a shortcut to it, if you know how, and if you do it right. Quoting Mr. Gopala, "People always say that success is a long way, nonsense"

PayPal WishList, $100 up for grabs

2009-11-24T11:17:00.014+08:00

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Want a Christmas present up to USD$100 that actually cost you nothing? Here is a really easy way to earn you that money. Big present from Mr.Santa Paypal Singapore.

Here is a tutorial of what you have to do:

1st step: Create a paypal account HERE is you don't have one (I registered using a debit card, you're not using it anyway), or skip this step if you already have one.

2nd step: Login to facebook and join the application PayPal Wishlist HERE

3rd step: Make a wishlist (What you choose doesn't really matters)

Share it!

4th step: Save your wishlist and publish it on your wall. Share it to your friends and ask them to share it too!

Share the link above anywhere, or ask your friends to add the program with your link

Every friend that adds the application with your link will add $1 to your paypal wishlist, with a maximum capacity of $100.

How Prizes will be Awarded
You will be notified by PayPal no later than February 28th, 2010, via email or any other method as PayPal may from time to time determine, of how much you have earned.

This is only eligible to people residing in India, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia or Singapore. Definitely not a scam.

Post up your links and grab the free cash :D

Any Vacancies?

2009-11-18T03:01:00.007+08:00

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

As a result of unluckiness as stated in my previous post, I've decide to search for part time jobs, preferable freelance job, to avoid class clashes. I'm in need of cash, and lots of em. I've already posted my profile on some of the websites, hopefully getting news soon.

I'll post it here too, who knows, any CEO reading this? Hello hire me.

Personal contact details :
Phone: 0199864040(Temporary)
MSN: miraclelh@hotmail.com

1. Freelance: Content writer / Editor / Translator

Portfolio/sample of work : http://www.mymym.com/en/profile/TheLH.html (news and articles written by me)

Description:

Can write good English and Chinese, worked for a Denmark e-Sport website for duration of 1 year, publishing more than 60 news, articles and interviews (Can also write on different topics). Also did translation work (from Chinese to English and vice versa) - (Salary based on number and words of articles)

2. Freelance: Quantity Surveyor

Portfolio/sample of work : Contact for details

Description:

Diploma holder (Quantity Surveying) and currently Advanced Diploma (QS) Student. Able to do taking-off for buildings, external roadworks, steelbars, BRC, inclusive of description, BQ and more. (Salary based on drawing and element)

3. Tuition Tutor (Chinese/English)

Description:
SPM : A2 Chinese, A2 Chinese Literature, A1 English, A1 English 1119
Can speak fluent Chinese and English, able to write well in both languages and translate in between. Preferable primary standard 1-5 students (essays, homework etc). Kepong / Setapak area, currently TARC Advanced Diploma student. (Salary based on hour of class)

K thats it, considering to apply for a tuition tutor job at Kepong, just that I'm not that confident in Bahasa Malaysia, the student need BM and Chinese essay aids =/ Saw some really funny vacancies online, employing writer to write up to 100 articles with the rate of RM3/article of 350words. WTF RM3 one article, buy pen to write also not enough, somemore first payment after first 100 articles, how to ensure you can get your money?! =_=
ALSO LOOKING FOR DECEMBER PC FAIR JOBS (and I'm not wearing mini skirts!)
Ciao.

Getting unlucky

2009-11-18T02:55:00.003+08:00

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

"Long story short say", I got 1% Luck on the facebook application today (yesterday night) :|

Despite getting such a low luck percentage, I never really cared, for me it's just an entertainment. Throughout the day everything was going fine, classes up to 7pm, everything going good, assignments all planned, happy chatting in the class, learn stuffs from lecturers, everything was perfect.

Then on my way to dinner with some friends I lost my phone, I thought it was in the car, but apparently it was not. At first I cant reach the phone, 30mins later the phone was switched on, but nobody picked up the phone.

After dinner I drove back home, then I wanted to check my car again for the last time, while trying to reach Digi Customer Service. I head to my car, spamming my remote control button but my car didn't respond, so I unlocked the door using the key directly, arming the alarm. As the siren rang I search for the button to stop the siren, it didn't work. Then I realise why, the button got loose, and fell out.

I called my father, he was with his friend somewhere near Batu Caves, so he came over while I waited for him there, everyone was looking at me, even the security guard came to ask. After sometime he manage to hot wire and bypass the system, then I told him I lost my phone. My original plan was to inform my mum first instead of my dad, but I never expect to see him, so no choice and as expected He's not happy with that.

He asked me to get a new phone at the weekends when I'm back in Kuantan but I rejected :( I've already lost 2 phones in 4 years :| and they've already spent enough for my brother's laptop. So he asked me to get my old phone back, currently owned by my uncle's maid (OMFG?!) T_T

I guess most of my friends know my "secretly desired" phone is an expensive one, so I'd have to rely on my PTPTN (shame, I know) if I really want to get it. PTPTN is dissapointing me again again and again, no news after one month wtf. Really unlucky lately, hopefully everything will get better.

Thanks Pon for sharing your luck, thanks YY for the encouraging comments, thanks Da Jie and Chaoe for walking 391932191 km with me to search for my phone.

P/S: I got 93% one day before the 1%, then I got 83% now :|

Birthday, again?

2009-11-18T02:32:00.001+08:00

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Celebrated my birthday again with my TARC sei dongs at Look Out Point Ampang, as another fine day of our usual Tuesday routine! Met up with each other after our classes at 7pm then drive to Ampang.

As we arrived we climbed up on the stairs, it's pretty dark over there, some girls were afraid of lizards, LOL. Then as we got up we were busy choosing which restaurant to go, theres about 4-5 restaurants up there, non of them was packed with people, maybe because it's weekday. Since we couldn't determine by the crowd, some of them start making phone calls to ask around.

Then we walked to this restaurant called "Haven". As we were reading the menu, the waiter was promoting their restaurant non-stop, showing us their article on the papers and pro-claiming "No charges if it's not delicious." and so we went in.

Haven

Grilled Lamb Chop

Ordered grilled lamb, Below RM20, taste was above average, so we did paid XD and they took out the birthday cake, eh...not cake again, the birthday mutton pies they got from secret recipe. I think they want to eat only buy =_= the waiters even microwaved the pies before they took it out, so caring.

Edit by Chaoe

Group

Birthday pies

Waili

Chaoe and Ying Ying

As it gets later many couples came to enjoy their dinner while having a great view of the city of Kuala Lumpur. Although it was raining a lil bit, but the scenery there is really a blast!

Thanks alot guys :)

P/S: Outing was on 3rd November

I'm an adult now!

2009-11-05T17:29:00.017+08:00

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Thought I'll be at Kuantan this year's birthday, then my parents suddenly ffk me go go back themselves ;(, so came up with some plans to pass my 21st. Drove all the way to Genting around 3 and arrived at 4 something 1 day before my birthday. Went for brief video gaming first, because the kids wanna play :P I wanted to shop instead, LOL.

See, happy photo-hunting

So cheat 4 people play, bluff money one

Okay lah, I'm the real KID, muahahhaaha, mama help put money, why no move de?

GG Pwned hostage Juno

Paktor oso play so wolf water de game, haih

Night liao lu, go out blow wind~

At first our plan was to get the RM8 one ride ticket for the motion master, but we realised something - They never collect it at all!

From left Juno, Winnie, me and sY P/s: Winnie yeng ar

Then we walked around and shop abit, as usual I din't see any good stuff, except the ones in my favourite brand! - ESPRIT

While waiting for Juno to try his clothes

Chon Wai posing with his darling's bag, haha

After hours of walking around and playing, we decided to try the steamboat buffet in First World Plaza for dinner, it's quite cheap considering that we are at Genting, costing RM19.90++. We were hesitated because we only had time for dinner at 9pm and the buffet ends at 10, anyway we still went in, and we ate alot!

Stroke Mushrooms

Stars ^_^

Ta Da, balls and crab

And everything else.

The variety of food is OK, chicken and fish, prawns, mushrooms, vegetables, and large variety of meat balls. The food freshness are acceptable but if you decide to try up, don't take too many types of meat balls though, that's what we did and regretted, they basically taste the same, better save up your stomach for other stuff. We had a hard time finishing the balls, as they charge for wastage. They have also free flow Chinese tea and iced sirap, acceptable for it's price lar, remember it's in First World Plaza neh!

After dinner theres still quite some time until 12am, so we went for Bumper car, we played 3 rounds (or more?) all free of charge. They never check our tickets at all, all you have to do is cover your wrist with your sweater, and you play everything for free! Provided that you never get caught, I don't think the staff give a damn even. While queuing we met a few little kids around standard 3-4, their dad is waiting outside of the queue yet Chon Wai approached them to buaya, at last he manage to get their facebook addresses, LOL, typical gold fish guy.

Waiting to ride the Ferris Wheel

The boat with the singing guy behind

Winnie

While riding the boat thingy everyone tried to make a wish by throwing a coin to the bell, everyone missed except Winnie, she sure use 50 cent coin one ;(

After 12am we went in to First World's Casino, with Juno, he's not 21 yet, LOL. CW and sY went in first, then the other of us walked in. The security guards wanted to check all 3 of us, when I showed my IC he refused to let me in, WTF, it's already after 12am, and he insist that it's not the 2nd day yet. Then when I decided to leave, another guy who are suppose to be his superior came to me, asked if it's my birthday, he checked my IC and then let me in, he wished me Happy Birthday too, I was wondering why not "win more?" haha. With all of them concentrating on me Juno sneaked in happily.

When we met up with the couples they were ready with their cake, wait..I mean bread.

Bread, with Choki-Choki chocolate spread on it, CW's work so ugly,
it says Happy 21 Bday, if you guys can't read

They were singing, all uncle aunties looking at me, so paiseh =/

Yeah posing, and that's the bag I wanted to buy at Esprit, which became a present from my friends, lots of them din't came to celebrate but still love you guys~

Group, sY Juno CW me

They bought the bread earlier when we were having lunch at Wangsa Maju, 7-11 I guess? LOL. It was so funny and I like the "cake" very much. Some of you might not know, I don't eat cakes =/ very kind of them to prepare this, haha. Celebrating inside the casino is special too.

Taking a bite, din't want to, but no choice

After that we walked abit in the casino then head to the other casino at Genting Hotel. After 2 trials Juno failed to get in, so I went back to First World with him and sat at Starbucks while waiting for the other to gamble. They spent like 2 hours there while we waited, walked from bottom to top and then walk back down in a empty mall (it's 2-3am), then waited again and finally they called.

Everyone of them lost, LOL. Okay worth the wait :P Then we head back to KL. Quite special as a birthday celebration, I myself have not been to Genting for quite some time already, first time in the casino. I'm glad that I hate gambling, but it's quite interesting to be there, with lots and lots of expressions and new stuff to see and experience. Welcome to the world.

P/S: I can vote now, BN can start bribing me.

Fullhouse NZX

2009-11-05T13:33:00.009+08:00

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Went to the famous Fullhouse cafe near Kelana Jaya for dinner to celebrate my dear leng lui classmates' birthday earlier, it was on Tuesday, as we promised to gather every Tuesday night. Was quite a long journey from Setapak, picking up everyone as usual then travel all the way, and went to the wrong route, 2 times. However we arrived at NZX (牛车水) around 9pm, almost every store are closed, with Fullhouse being an exception. NZX is like a dead city by 9pm, with unrented stores, closed boutiques (WTF everything closed before 9pm).

I expected a crowd there, however nobody was inside the cafe, except Lewis and Lili, who arrived earlier. The waiter said the upper floor was full so we sat outside, 3mins later then the waiter came again and told us that there's an empty table upstairs. Surprise to see that only 1 table of customer when we went up, so we thought, who sat here earlier? Nobody went downstairs, creepy! LOL

Then it's the typical order eat and crap, only this time alot of camwhoring and window shopping, Fullhouse sells lots of products of their own, from spectacles, T-shirts, dresses, bags, accessories, mugs, clocks, and more, and most of all, you can borrow them to take pictures there! Everyone was forbidden to wear T-shirts that day, so formal =/

Deep fried soft shell crab

Hmm..ok Heineken

The guys, Lewis Eugene and me at the back and CK Choon Seng and MC in front

Then the crowd, with the birthday girls in front

The waiter was surprise when he saw 4 big candles and 2 small candles, representing 42 years old (meant to be 2 x 21 years old), after reconfirming with us he prepared everything and bring out the cake. Like what Choon Seng predicted, he placed the cake right in front of Lewis, thinking that he's actually 42 years old, he got teased so hard, haha.

Hua Hua + Li Li, note 42 years old candles

The specs there, Ying Ying MC and me with my own spec

Chaoe doing mirror trick

Ying Ying

Winter sonata style, HuaHua: Wah Yingying like Lee Hyori, hahaha

Before we went downstairs to take more pictures they already closed up the cafe downstairs, so we missed the Fullhouse mini cooper :( Overall the environment and food was Ok, price at the high side, not up to my expectations, no wonder no customer at all, bad location, normal food, high price, sad :(

After that we went to Kepong to continue the yam cha spree, some of them wanna get some beers, but I'm driving and trying to be responsible driver, so I only drink Jasmine tea =/ Took some pictures there too but I don't have those, and got back home at 2am.

P/S: This was on somewhere around 20th++ October, took some time to get the pictures and some time to gather up my writing mood and then the time :P

The Blogging Philosophy

2009-10-20T02:58:00.008+08:00

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

I'm writing this from the point of view of blog readers, your readers. If you are writing for yourself to read in the future, feel free to skip this, but if you are writing to share, this is something from your reader (me at least) you should know.

First thing first,

Not everyone enjoyed listening the same prelude music of the same song every single time he or she refreshes your blog e.g. clicking into your posts. And your favourite music might not be the other's favourite too, mind that. So if you're writing to share, try not to include music players in your blogs, the readers can play their own song while enjoying your words if they feels like listening, and if they are doing so, and you embedded another player in your blog, gogo remix? Sorry if I offended you because I'm just fed up, as a reader I loved reading blogs but I hate searching for the stop button every time I click into every blog. Not to mention the streaming of musics eats up your internet bandwidth (not too much, but still, it does).

OK. Have you guys seen people post things like "IM SO FUCKING EMO", chop, end of the post. WTF is that considered a blog posts even? If your blog acts as a diary, do you actually write such posts, or should I say statements in your diary? Every time I see these single sentence blog post the first thought in my mind is always "yeah right nice blog". Come on bloggers, you're emo, thats cool, but why are you emo? Don't feel like sharing? Don't write a thing then, if you wanna let people know that you're really emo but not elaborate more, try TWITTER, twitter is really cool, like a simplified version of facebook status, write anything short on it, works as good.

Twitter, simple and nice

I've came across to alot of "I'm tagged by XXX" blog posts. I can understand people circulating it on facebook notes, sometimes it's fun to read even, but why on your blog? Totally meaningless. Because the blog isn't meant to be used that way (someone must be flaming me by this point screaming THATS MY FUCKING BLOG I WRITE ANY FUCKING THING I WANT WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE ME, IF YOU'RE NOT HAPPY DONT FUCKING READ) OK, I'm just posting what readers want to read and what nobody really cares.

Interesting posts are always cool, but copy pasted jokes from random websites on your blog is not really that cool anymore. As you know most of these jokes are circulated for years on the net, 70% of internet users have already heard about those and some bloggers still posting these on their own blog. Sometimes it's OK to left your blog empty if you have nothing to update, don't update for the sake of update.

There's alot more I can go on and on but I guess I'll stop before everyone start taking me as a bullseye and start cursing me and my mother :P

Last but not least, something to share:

1.Become famous -> Become a blogger -> Become a famous blogger, e.g. Politicians

2.Become a blogger -> Become famous -> Become a famous blogger, e.g. Kenny Sia

Politicians etc, make your own stories and tell it to the reporters, blogging is like mars to you, leave it for cool dudes in the other group (I'm not referring to myself).

Just my own opinion, I'm not a pro blogger, no offence, flames and comments are welcomed. Chill.

P/S: Almost one month since last post, me cool :D have lots to write but I dint because I can't manage to get the pictures.

Spot the difference

2009-09-21T21:16:00.009+08:00

Monday, 22 September 2009

Do you know how fast time past when nobody actually realise? Eugene posted a series of pictures taken years ago on facebook earlier while he's at India missing everyone else, then I realised how different is everyone in just a few years time, good and no good. With everyone studying at different places, we tend to meet each other much lesser, unlike back in the secondary school where we met almost everyday. Somehow that was years ago, everyone grown older and mature, while me still being childish, jajajajaja :P

Present to you, Me, 2004/2005

Right side lar

Dec 2006

Year 2007/2008

June 2009

I din't really aware of the huge difference before because I din't keep old photos, thanks to facebook I've saw some of my old photo again. This pictures make me feel confident to start on my diet plan again, and I'm writing this post for some motivation. I'm abit fatter than the 2nd picture now, that was taken like 3 months ago T.T, was out of control recently, hope I can control myself and get used to the diet life quickly again! I need another 10kg's off my body!

And shoutouts to miss WhyWhy, you are slim! Don't keep say you fat lor

Homealone Blackout In The Midnight

2009-09-04T12:38:00.006+08:00

Friday, 4 September 2009

Earlier I got abit suspicious because somewhere in the early-July (Lunar calendar) there was a blackout at my house, at 5am!? I was alone at house, online youtubing as usual then boom, the next second I was covered in darkness.

The first thought that goes through my mind wasn't about the "July-thingy", I was afraid of thieves because my neighbour just got robbed few days before that happened. The first thing I do was plug in my laptop's battery, and turn it on again, for the lights, then reach to my handphone, using it as a torch light to check the main electric box because I have no idea where's the freaking torch light.

After confirming that there's nothing wrong with the electric box, I opened the door and check outside. I relieved abit when I saw no lights everywhere, because it means there is no thieves, no ghosts, its the weaklings from TNB causing trouble. Some of their crew must have been smoking and blow up the transformer or something, haha.

It was so hot then, I cant really sleep, and there's nothing I can do in the dark without electricity, so I grabbed my keys and head to a nearby 24hours mamak stall, stayed in the car and online using their wireless :D, well I did bought a drink there also, so it's not consider stealing I guess?

The first thing I did: Wake up and get my msn back online!

I was watching drama online unti l my battery went dead, then head home when the sun is almost up, lied down and tried to sleep, and when I was just about to fall sleep, the electricity came back, and I was awaken by the my neighbour's alarm, great, yet sucks.

Love Will Find It's Way

2009-09-04T12:15:00.020+08:00

Friday, 4 September 2009

I remember where I sat there,
And you sat right behind me,
Gossiping with the others really loud,
I felt annoyed back then,
While trying to concentrate and fight the sleepiness.

But then I saw you,
Everything became so worth it,
I hope you were there for me,
Seems like you never notice me.

Then we met again in another room after a few hours,
But it's no longer the same,
I couldn't concentrate,
Because I was looking at you.

You look so special among the others,
Not beautiful,
Just pure special,
Maybe just for me.

But that was the 2nd,
and the last time that we met,
but not for long.
I believe we will meet again someday,
We have too many things in common,
Like you said,
What's meant to be will find it's way.

I don't wanna meet you now,
It's just not the right timing,
But someday,
And somehow,
We'll meet after all,
Then I'll introduce myself, Hi.

Till we meet again, bye :)
"What's meant to be will find it's way"
If it's meant to be, love will find it's way.

Just a little story,
and I know the ending is yet to come!

P/S: Just read the words in red, It's the main point that I want everyone to know, I seldom read long blog posts by others (But sometimes, I do read, especially close friends), so I don't expect too many of you to read every words, :P

My Life As A Malaysian

2009-08-31T06:25:00.008+08:00

Monday, 31 August 2009

Once again Malaysia's n-th birthday is here, which I believe to many (but not most) Malaysians like me, it's just a holiday. For the last 10 years living in Malaysia (I din't give a damn about what country I was in before 10), I'd say it's a very, very disappointing.

As a Malaysian Chinese, I have no problem living in a Muslim country like Malaysia, but I do think that the country system sucks, and it's as childish as Najib playing barbie dolls.

Unity is always one of Malaysia's top priority aim, for good relationship between all different races, there were slogans like, "No Malays, Chinese, and Indians, Just Malaysians." And my comment? Bullshit. If you want unity, why forming some unfair rules, that cause hatred between races? The most obvious one would be education, why bumiputras can get into local universities easily with bad result but non-bumiputras had to work like a cow, to secure a position for themselves? Why the so callled "short-cut school", matriculation college have a student ratio of 3 bumiputras to 1 non bumiputra?

When problems appear because of dissatisfaction of non-bumiputras to the government, who should be blamed?

Same goes to the fact that 90% of low-cost houses built must be sold to bumiputras only. I used to work in a developer's office, it's almost impossible for non-bumiputras to buy such cheap properties, unless they know someone from the government housing department, even the developers themselves are not allowed to sell these "low-mid cost houses", constructed by themselves.

The childishness continue in our politics and the politicians, first we have Badawi vs Mahathir show, then we have Najib's criminal accuse. And what's the problem with a MCA leaders got taped while having sex with another woman, does that have anything to do with politics? It's his own life, so why politicians abused the news, and corrupts the once crystal clear Malaysian politic?

I like to have sex with people cannot meh? You blow ar?

With Malaysians so eager for advancement, creating modules like 1Malaysia, Multimedia Super Corridor, Wawasan 2020, Malaysia is suppose to develop alot better. As time goes, I can only see the fact that the country is failing, failing and continue to fail.

But on the other hand, bribery in the royal police force are at a point that almost every single traffic police accept bribes, and 99% of Malaysians know that they have to pay "duit kopi" to the police when caught breaching traffic laws. Sometimes we do see things like "kempen anti rasuah", but to me it's nothing but another monkey show to trick the tax-payer that they are actually doing something, something that will never work.

"Nah, ignore the batch, bribe me bribe me :D"

I do hope that one day, I can live in a clean and civilized Malaysia, and good enough to cancel my decision to migrate ASAP. Happy birthday Malaysia, Happy Merdeka guys, and most of all, enjoy your holidays!

P/S: This posts was meant to criticize, but with the intention to make Malaysia a better country, although it's obvious that most likely it won't happen. No hard feelings to bumiputra readers (if there are any :P), and if you do, I'm sorry, but this is my blog. Do comment if you agree/disagree, flames are welcomed.

Rest In Peace, Little Cat

2009-08-29T00:49:00.008+08:00

Friday, 28 August 2009

It's July in the lunar calendar now, a.k.a Ghost month, where most Chinese believe that ghosts are free to wander around in human's world. So things often get abit spooky~

Well I went to dinner with my family, and there's a cat around, then my sister got stunned, she got this furryanimal-phobia, a rather serious one. Whenever cats or dogs appear in her sight, she will stop eating, start complaining, and keep watching so that they don't come to close, and if they do, she starts screaming and run. So as usual she did what I said, and we had our dinner in her screamings (Even the boss asked what is happening)

Later at midnight, I received a call from my dad, he want me to pick up my sister from her friend's place. So I went out, got into my car, and realise that I din't bring my gate remote, so I went back in and get it, just before I open the gate, I saw a cat stucked between the gate, I thought I opened the gate earlier, which I din't. I quickly opened the gate, thinking that it's nothing serious. The cat fell down as the gate opened. I walked closer to investigate, the cat is dead, with blood all over the floor.

I felt so bad because I murdered a cat, but I was in hurry, so I quickly pack it into a plastic bag and threw it away, the cat's eyes never close, I felt so bad. I really wanted to bury the cat, but there's no soil around outside my house. After flushing away the blood, I went to pick up my sister, and told her how "precise" was her timing to call me at that moment so I can avenge her, as she got frightened by another cat earlier.

When I got home, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Then I figured out something. How can a cat stucked in between my gate, if I was opening it? The gate must be closing, in order to do so. So I texted my bro, who went out earlier.

"Did you see a cat around when you left just now?"
"Yes y?"
"U close door tersempit the cat, the cat died, u wan come pay white gold?"
"I going back now"
"Nvm, I settle d"
"What you did? Wash?"
"Throw lo, where got place to bury, the cat no close eyes, sei em ngan bai"
"Not me not me, the door fault"
"U la din't see properly"
"No la, nw july, tin yi, cat did bad tings, door tai tin hang dou ny"

I din't reply after the last message, I felt so sorry for the cat, but I felt abit better that I'm not the murderer, rest in peace little cat, I'm sorry, and I'm sorry for my brother, and I would've bury you if i could. Rest in peace.

P/S: I'm an animal lover myself, and I really felt sad about this, if only my brother could check if the gate is closed nicely, the cat wouldn't die, he got gripped right in the neck, and if my brother saw it earlier and release the cat, it would've survived. Sorry.

Tenjiiiii

2009-08-18T18:44:00.044+08:00

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Finally, after months and months of planning, went to Tenji already, although the original plan was Jogoya, but nevermind, because Jogoya sucked :P

Kinda sad before we went because some people ffk despite our "months and months of planning". YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! RWARRR.. But we still decide to go ahead, although it's just 4 of us. We decide to go for lunch session 11.30am - 4pm because it's slightly cheaper, so I woke up at like 9am, pick up Kok How at TAR College then drove to Kepong to meet Loon, then parked my car at his place, followed his car to UM to get Ching Ching, woah so complicated.

We arrived abit late at 12.30pm, went into the payment counter and saw the advertisement flyer about their promotion on weekdays, costs Rm39.90++ for dinner and Rm49.90++ for lunch, and it was Saturday, WTF! We paid Rm77.00++ :(

After the payment we were led to our seats and vroom, we went to survey~ there are 6 main sections there, Japanese (Sashimi, Sushi, Mini Steamboat), Chinese, Western, Barbeque, Desert, and Beverage.

Japanese Section:

The first plate I had, Salmon of course!

Salmon Sashimis, really fresh :D

Scallop Sashimi, ate lots of these too!

Oyster! Lots of em~

I din't try the oyster, LOL.

Abalone Sashimi

Tako!

Steamboat with Prawns, Veges, Mushrooms, with a choice of Tomyam or Spicy miso soup

Tada, Tomyam, tasted great!

Chinese Section:

Steam Codfish, we had like 5 plates of these, Kok How's favourite :D

Dimsum

Cawanmushi (steamed egg) and Ginseng Soup

Crab~!

Prawnnnnn

Lala soup, I had a small bowl, tasted OK

Herbal Eggs, we skipped this, for an obvious reason, why eat eggs here? WTF

Western Section:

Lamb and beef

Barbeque Section:

Beverage Section:

Fresh Coconuts, I had 5 of these, all by myself, LOL so nice

Bread sticks, mashmallow etc

For the chocolate fountain!

Desert Section:

Cakes

Cookies and tarts

There were alot more types of great food in every section there, just that I could'nt post all the pictures, and also the ice cream everyone has been craving for, Haagen Dazs! 6 flavours available there. 1 more section will be opened during dinner hours, the Malay food section, but obviously we're not interested in that. More camwhoring!

The first round

Chatting while waiting for the food to digest a lil :P

Chingzz

Full liao, before we left, Loon so formal, I look like I'm going to pasar malam, haha

Really nice food there, and guess what, I'm going again next week, cause somebody behtahan after looking at the photos, muahahahaha, go Tenji~

P/S: Went to Desa Parkcity again after sending Ching2 back to UM, had a walk in the park again, taking pictures of dogs~

Waterfront Desapark City

The Park

One of the dogs :D

Ciao.

Four Happy Seasons <3

2009-08-14T18:01:00.025+08:00

Friday, 14 August 2009

Is it just me or what? It felt like 930290319 people around me are having their birthday in July and August, season to get poor, haha. Went to the famous 4 Happy Seasons restaurant to celebrate Chon Wai's birthday earlier. Such a shame that it's the first time that I went because I live so near, wanted to go for ages =/

As we arrived we rushed upstairs, the Winter restaurant, but it's too packed with customers, it says its 15`c in there, knowing that I still went there with shorts and sandals, LOL. No choice lor so full so we went to the Spring section, which basically have nobody, except us there.

2 words to describe all : Eat and Camwhore!

Shiang Yi's HK Style Mix Grill Volcano Rice, so imba name =/

Kok How's Pineapple Thai Fried Rice

Chon Wai's Rock Lamb Shank

Mix Combo Platter

Grilled Black Pepper Lamb Chop, mine :P

Winnie's Kali Rice from Jail

Juno and his Seasonal Fried Rice

CREAM~

Hide behind slim liao, LOL

Pretending that it's our birthday :D

Again =/ Kok How

Group photo, sY, Juno, CW, Kok How, Winnie, +WAA

Birthday boy + Birthday Cake

Some Spring Scene:

Chon Wai Happy Birthday ^_^

Ciao.

P/S: As I got back to home after the celebration I looked at my msn, there's an offline msg, guess what.

Another birthday guy, same place OMG

Got no iPhone?

2009-08-04T06:36:00.001+08:00

Tuesday, 4 August 2009

As I said in my previous posts I've always wanted an iPhone, now that the new iPhone is out in Malaysia, the old one got cheaper, but still, I can't afford it. To everyone else who loved iPhone but cannot afford it, I'm sharing this awesome song with a flash music video, enjoy! Lyrics below.

Lyrics:

I hate my life and I wanna die
I ain't got no iPhone
My heart is breaking thinkin suicide
I ain't got no iPhone

I hate my life and I wanna die
I ain't got no iPhone
My heart is breaking thinkin suicide
I ain't got no iPhone

(Rap)
Like a butt capsizen
No hoop on the horizon
Got a two year contract
And I'm stuck on verizon

I got no iPhone x 8

I hate my life and I wanna die
I ain't got no iPhone

(Rap)
It's 2009 people and everybody should have an iPhone

This song made my day, hope you had a laugh too :)

A Walk in the Park at Night

2009-07-27T23:58:00.012+08:00

Monday, 27 July 2009

After a tiring convocation morning mentioned in my previous post, my classmates asked me out for dinner, thought it might be fun as a post-convo celebration so I went, but then lots of them ffk =_______= in the end 5 of us went to Waterfront mall, Desa parkcity for dinner.

We dine in a Chinese ramen restaurant, I ordered Seafood ramen, which tasted really great. Their noodles are hand made, and seafood was fresh enough, lovely. Of course the price will be abit higher but acceptable. That bowl of ramen cost me RM16, we also had some Shanghai "xiao long paus", it tasted great too.

Seafood Ramen ~~~

But what made the night so special is the place we went itself, Desa parkcity. Located near Mont Kiara, this place is a paradise to live in. Imagine everything in green, a huge lake in the middle of a beautiful park, illuminated by lights. What a magnificent view in the middle of the city of Kuala Lumpur. While we walk we saw many couples enjoying their romantic night by the side of the lake, sitting, hugging and chatting.

We went round the park, took some pictures, and looked at the houses around. There are several housing gardens there, each with different theme. The price of the houses is however, much higher than normal same sized ones in similar or other areas in KL. It range from 1-5million ringgit to own a house there. Simply brilliant design I must say.

Took some funny photo's before we head off. If you're interested with the place mentioned there are more information and photos HERE

Everyone trying to take picture with the UFO (Light Pole) wahahaha

Lawrence and Waili trying to save planet Earth by destroying the UFO, luckily no securities saw them doing it, LOL

Playing with stones?

Ciao.

Convocation Day

2009-07-27T21:43:00.014+08:00

Recapture from printed photo, me receiving the ultimate blue stick from Datuk I-Don't-Know-Who

Monday, 27 July 2009

Had my diploma convocation earlier. Few days before that I went to do some brief shopping with Juno because I don't have any formal attires at KL. First we went to Jusco Wangsa Maju. It's on sales because of Jusco member day a.k.a old stock clearance day. Parked my car miles away and walked over just to find ourselves stuck in the middle of a battlefield. Basically you can't really walk, it's stuffed full with people. Bought a pair of shoes and slack, then continued our shopping spree the next day at Pavilion. Bought another shirt and tie and good to go!

Woke up at 7am to get prepared on the big day, picked Chaoe and Ying Ying and then headed to college, and we're actually almost late! Everyone already had their gown and mortar board on them already =___= After some messed up dress ups, we entered the hall.

Surprisingly there were no bla bla bla speech after the VIPs entered, they went straight to the main point. Took some pictures while waiting for our turn, did some chit chatting and gossiping. Ying Ying kept spamming that she had a bad feeling that she will fell down on the stage because of her high heels >< and the girls are worried about their cell phones because they had no pockets, wahhahahaa owned.

Taking pictures while waiting for our turn, Left to right Ying, Me, Waili, CK

Then after collecting the stick/cone without the diploma cert inside, we continued chit chatting for an hour or so until the ceremony ends, that we finally got out of the hall for the typical convocation camwhore sessions, which as usual starts from our parents. A big surprise to find out that my photographer ffk me because he wanted to sleep, so I asked sweet Winnie to take picture for me and my parents, with my pathetic handphone camera ):

My parents left shortly after (like after 2 pictures), WTF no give face =_____= grrr... Then I continued our camwhore session with classmates, coursemates, friends, strangers, whoever lar, LOL.

Dad, Me and Mum

Me and Mum

Group photo

CW and me

CW, Me, Winnie

Waili, Me, YeeChin, Chaoe

Mini one

And the horde

Tai Yang Gong Gong's mood damn good that day, he had fun torturing us, note that we're on long sleeves + tie + gown + mortar board, OMFG. Left after 2 hours of camwhoring, had my lunch with Winnie and good noon nap~

School? No?

2009-07-27T21:27:00.005+08:00

Monday, 27 July 2009

One month since my last post. As most of my friends already know, I've withdrawn myself from UTAR QS degree course, and it has been like a month already. I thought I've already blogged about it here until today =_________=

Well not much, basically I paid RM500 as deposit to study there temporarily and during my 1 week there I'm not satisfied with the environment and lecturers. It might not seem that serious at first, especially for UTAR students, but for those from TAR College, they will realise there's a huge gap in between.

So 1 month ago when I first got my bill, I went to pay the next there and their finance department told me that I'm already late. So I got pissed off and decide not to study there anymore, sent a sms to my dad and went straight home, LOL. Paid RM500 for few lessons, but I did not regret though, met some really cool guys and girls there, not for long, but looking forward to meet them again.

As for now my official occupation is Calorie Absorber, hope you get the picture, RWAR. Still wondering which course to take for my Advanced Diploma, Liverpool or Sherffield?? Ops I mean Building or QS. I guess I'll stick to QS :P

Kite day

2009-06-24T06:08:00.020+08:00

Wednesday, 22 June 2009

Went to play kite at this dunno what taman at Kepong few days ago (I really don't know what name, sorry :P), suppose lots of people saw kites flying passing by Kepong, yeah it's there lar. There were like 10 of us who went, whole bunch of people in their 20's went to play kites, with kids flooding the area running around, quite funny.

Took us something to actually figure out the location of main entrance, you know lar KL once you pass the place need to turn one big round only can come back, damn mafan one lor. We arrived around 5.40 I think, supposed to meet there with the others at 5. But surprisingly we were the first ones there =_= everyone insisted to be punctual.

Small pond in the garden

When everyone arrived, we noticed that we had only 1 kite for 10 of us, so we bought another one. Doesn't really matter though, afterall that's not the main reason, just some sort of excuse for us to meet up and have dinner together later on, whahahaa.

Girls mah, likes camwhoring, wait, I meant her, not me

At first few of us tried to fly the kite lor, but still fail after a few tries. The wind was really weak that day. Then I ran a few rounds also, can fly lar, just couldn't maintain the kite up there for long :(.

Eat Icecream also must take picture lar

When everyone started to give up and discuss where to go for dinner, I suddenly feel dizzy, then I headed to the mart alone to get some drinks. Not too long until I realise that I'm starting to lose my consciousness, starting to lose my eye sight. I quickly sit down on a bench, breathed as hard as I could.

I was scared because I haven't experience this in years already. I thought I would need help from my friends so I struggled to stand up, headed to my friends, they were like 20 to 30 metres away. On my way there I couldn't balance myself anymore, I fell down, and had a few seconds blackout. I couldn't see anything, but I heard my friends talking. They came and checked me out, gave me some sodas. I heard somebody meantioned :" I think we should bring him to the hospital" haha.

After 1 tin of 100 Plus and another tin of Coke I slowly regain my consciousness, sat up and rest there. Then I realise I injured both of my knees when I fell down. My friends think it was because of low sugar level. (Okay lar I admit, I was on diet, but I did ate something that day before I went!) P/S: I think my dad is going to lecture me for like 1 hour if he found that I fainted because of diet, LOL.

My left knee after 4 days, small matter lar but this is meant to make you guys vomit :P

I was resting while the others have their meeting/debate, people are shouting "OI GO WHERE EAT??"

With the guys

And everyone else, except YingYing because she failed to get somebody else to take picture for us

So I washed off the blood on my knees, stood up after feeling okay, everyone is relieved and continued their discussion for dinner. We did abit of camwhoring and head for dinner. The conclusion was Korean food!

At first we went to a Korean restaurant, sat down. Then a friend called and suggested us to go to another restaurant, then we did a super pai seh thing. We stood up, told the waiter we came to the wrong place, and left. LOL *cover my face* We went to another Korean Restaurant, DaoRae. Quite famous in Malaysia, because TVXQ / DBSK went there for the opening during their Malaysia tour. (Incase you don't know who are those, congratz, I wish I don't know them too.)

DAORAE, What it means in Korean?

When we arrived we saw a long queue, with lots of people waiting outside the shop. WTF =.= the Korean boss said he had no idea how long that we have to wait. So no choice lar, we gave up, and went to a Steak house style cafe just beside DaoRae. Sad me, I saw so many TV/newspaper food show posters and stuff at that restaurant and was so eager to try out the Korean food there T_T.

But the cafe not bad lor, I had the cheapest Sirloin in my life. Black pepper sirloin cost RM12.50 only. Not superb taste lar but not bad lor, worth a try for that price. That particular shop got 50% promotion for every steak (include chicken and lamb, but exclude my favourite salmon :( ) you order if you order another glass of drink, consider not bad lor.

Somebody took picture of food afterall, Aloha Chicken

All damn hungry, who took this picture? LOL

We sat like 2-3 hours at the shop just for dinner before we left, too much to chat. I think we'll try out DaoRae next time, Yeah I want to try too ~ Ciao.

Sunday Shoping Day

2009-06-22T04:15:00.029+08:00

Monday, 22 June 2009

Don't know why nowadays wanna go out so much, feeling broke but still spent like crazy, haha. Went to Pavilion with Juno, because both of us have nothing to do in a nice (heavy rain) Sunday afternoon, so we wanna shop lar! You think only gals love shopping meh? I don't think so lor! :P

I woke up at 3pm+ and mo here mo there abit, by the time we reach there its already around 5pm. Bad for us we set nice nice hand hand some some already go out big rain, reach Pavilion that time already look like sakais, LOL.

At 5pm we went to Pavilion food court cari makan, after survey one round I still go back to my favourite stall, the vietnamese! The beef hor fun there really nice lor, but ate before already so I ordered this Saigon Seafood Fried Noodle, Juno also order same thing but he insist wanna try that beef noodle, I keep spam that beef noodle very nice, LOL. So we thought wanna walk until hungry then come back for dinner at the same place.

So we walk around here and there, went into 29318938291312 shops but bought nothing. Then we saw BMW road show, went to "open eye sight" a little, cannot afford to buy also can look see look see mar, haha. There was this new BMW Z4 Sport car, so sexy lor, but cost rm580 k lar, 5 years later sure can afford anyway, confidence! After that went to Coffee Bean to drink my favourite vanila coffee, still nice and owns Starbucks like forever.

Me driving the almighty BMW Z4 sDrive 35, okay lar not driving but still :P

From the rear

Toy BMW car, wonder how much it cost? Ori one not ciplak!

Thought wanna watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at Wednesday, so called some friends to ajak a lil. Then head to GSC to get tickets and I was really shocked. WTF it's sunday but tuesday, wednesday and thursday ticket for 7pm-10pm all sold out. So popular meh Transformers? T_T

Fan made poster obviously, LOL @ Much More Megan Fox, hahaha

The official one

Then no choice lor, watched the trailer and left. The trailer at GSC was longer version than the one I watched on YouTube, nice lar make me feel like wanna watch it immediately. Then head back to my one and only interest shop - Esprit!

After look see look see then I decided to buy a jeans, but then I was high and obssessed to get the Esprit membership card, so bought another T-shirt + Juno's 2 T-shirt to total up until we get over RM300. It was so complicated because of some "normal price items with normal discount" and "discounted item" facts, which I don't wanna explain here. At last we got ourselves a total of like RM400 item, that actually cost RM320 after discount. Finally can get the membership card of my favourite brand jor, yeah :P

Lurve Esprit

And I wanna celebrate lor, I bought my first M size T-shirt in like many many many many years, can wear M size dy, damn happy, LOL.

See or not? M size! Finally T_T

At last we were so broke that we decided not to dine at Pavilion already, ended up eating at mamak stall back at home, so cham T.T Anyway still got few outings this week ler, wanna save for upcoming ones. Juno have one session of Transformers at Wed morning then another one with me and the others at night, nice movie, so double up lar watch 2 times :D

P/S:
Why no picture of me and Juno? Because we don't camwhore like the gals :P
Why no picture of food? Too Hungry Lar!

My Future Wife

2009-06-17T15:40:00.008+08:00

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Yeah after so long the long awaited new iPhone is finally announced - The iPhone 3G S (To those who just bought a new iPhone 3G, R.I.P). What? What's the difference? Got "S" lar, can see or not? Blind ar? LOL

The phone will be released June 2009, it's almost 1 year after the first release of iPhone 3G. This time it comes with a choice of 16/32 gb instead of the 8/16 one. Might expect a few months of delay until it reaches the Malaysian shore, so still got some time to work your ass off for the cash!

Let's take a look on a few major specification changes compared to the iPhone 3G.

Pros:

*Camera : 3.15 mp with auto focus (Previously 2 mp with no auto focus)

*Battery Life: 30 hours music time (Previously 24 hours)

*Bluetooth: Bluetooth v2.1 with data transfer supported (Previously only support earphones)

Cons:

*Almost guranteed that the price will raise when it comes to Malaysia (Compared to existing iPhone 3G), still relatively higher price than same standard smartphones of LG, Samsung, HTC.

*A camera with auto focus but no flash??!!

>>> Full Specifications Here <<<

Yes, the price might be high, you can get a 5mp or even 8mp camera smartphone with better functions out there. But from my opinion, I just love the Mac OS, and if I'm buying the phone, I'd be paying for the OS, not the shitty camera. A brand new iPod touch in Malaysia cost RM1.6k, with 1.6k you can get a iPhone 3G from Maxis with a 1 year contract which contains all the functions of iPod touch and also a nice and stylish phone.

Come on guys before flaming me, this is like what LV, Gucci and Prada did to the girls all around the world! I really wanted to get one myself but I dont think I have money for it, so it remains in my dream :P

First Chapter of my Uni life

2009-06-04T01:19:00.008+08:00

Wednesday, 4 June 2009

Yesterday and today I had been busy settling stuff for my uni application, which turns out to be really tiring and disappointing.

I called them yesterday morning, asked them if I can collect my offer letter. They called me back, and claim that I can collect it so immediately I prepared and went to UTAR PJ from Taman Melati. Took a cab to LRT station, then spent 40minutes on the LRT to reach PJ, take another cab to UTAR.

Right before I step into the admission office, I received another call. It says "UTAR PJ". I was about to say I'm already here, but the ah gua said, actually you have to collect your letter at KL Campus. I was like WTF you asked me to come and now this. I asked politely if I can collect it at PJ and he replied: Your course is at Setapak MAAAA of course you must collect at Setapak LARRRR. OS: "You asked me to come, WTF"

Okay so I accepted the fact, it was to late to collect it back at KL so I went to KL campus the next day. Wasted like RM20 just for transport. I woke up abit late the next day, went to TARC to settle something, then arrived at UTAR at their lunch hour. Actually their staff was inside there but they din't bother to entertain me at all.

At last when I finally get to talk to someone, she said that my offer letter is not here yet. WTF?! PJ asked me to collect here and you told me that it's not here yet? Of course I asked in a polite manner, and the lecture starts.

Communication style between campuses

"That's why lar, you all always wanna apply last minute, then u all come and rush us, we rush PJ, PJ scold us lor, waiting for result also can apply first ma". OS: Apply need pay RM500 if my result not ok I cannot refund the RM500 lar, auntie!

The communication between 2 campus is so poor, the services, the manners are worst than the mamak stall at my place. And I doubt if they used telephone / email, Retarted Uni!

To UTAR:

Bouncing at the end of Holidays

2009-05-29T17:02:00.012+08:00

Friday, 29 May 2009

Hi.

After months of vacations finally I can go back to study already *excited*, just don't feel like wasting time anymore doing nothing.

Got an offer from underminer a few days ago to work as media at several Dota sites ( DA and Garena ) for upcoming Asia Cyber Games because I previously worked for the best eSports site - myMYM before they got screwed by their sponsors. Just decided to reject it because that's really time consuming.

Back in serious stuff, my result is finally out, and surprisingly I got an A-, I expected it to be at the boarder of fail and pass, haha. Thanks to Juno and Xt because they promised to pray for me *touched*, but i know Juno sure blow water only one, haha.

Traveled down to KL yesterday, such a busy schedule. Kuantan -> KL (Titiwangsa) -> Taman Melati. Then continued this morning Taman Melati -> PJ -> Shah Alam. I'm at my home at Shah Alam now, and will leave for Kuala Pilah (Negeri Sembilan) in like few more minutes and then back to Kuantan. Wow faint.

Submitted my Application form at Utar PJ this morning but sadly haven't receive any offer letter or bills yet, not sure if I'll attend Monday classes.

I wanted to watch Monsters vs Aliens, my friends are going to watch it tonight but I can't make it back to Kuantan in time T_T

Ciao.

Redang!!!

2009-05-23T13:28:00.019+08:00

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Went for a 3 days 2 night trip at Redang Island, a really exhausting one, like half of our group fell sick after / during the trip, including myself :(

I went to shop alone for short pants like 4 hours before my bus to Kuala Terengganu, get back to home, packed my stuff in 15 minutes and left. The 1 am bus arrived at KT at 4 am in the morning, we had to wait for 3 hours before someone come and pick us up. Basically we ate abit at the bus station, shopped abit at 7-11, and I played with Pon pon's Ipod Touch while the others slept.

Very concentrated listening to leng lui

Everyone were so tired that they went to sleep right after they got their room keys at Redang, only few of us went for a walk to explore the resort a little bit. We grabbed our snorkeling tools and went snorkeling after our lunch.

It was really a funny experience, despite helping those who can't really get used to the sea and swim, the guides kept frightening them with sea cucumbers and corals. I must say the government did a really good job keeping Redang sea unpoluted, the water is still crystal clear.

Resting beside the boat

Baby Sharks

When we're not out there snorkeling, we'll stick to games like Mahjong, flying darts, Rami, Pool, Ping pong. What? Why did we travel all the way to Redang Island to play table games? Because we just like it that way :P At night our singers went to sing some karaoke, too bad nobody snapped pictures of them singing.

Playing around beside the beach

Volleyball, OMG that guy

See also know red ball go in la, pro pro ^^

Wah nervous, fall down or not?

At the first night I'm already having sorethroat, and it got worst in the 2nd morning. Still there's another snorkeling trip waiting, this time at the famous Redang Marine Park. The park is really awesome, lots and lots of fishes that surrounds you, not afraid of humans. We should've bought a undersea water and take some pictures :(

Inside got ghost @@

Too exhausted after snorkeling

We skipped the last snorkeling trip and went to Redang main beach area sight-seeing. Which we took hell lots of pictures. We also played Beach volleyball and kayak at evening. I was really ill on the second night having headache, slight fever, sorethroat, running nose (OMG H1N1? LOL), so I went to sleep earlier while the others continued their Rami frenzy.

Take leng lui's spec to take photo

Yeah finally, no take this picture cannot say you went to Redang ler

Once again I present to you F.I.R, middle that one is girl

This leng lui stomachache, I go kacau ^^

Had to leave at the 3rd day, our ferry was at 12pm but we had to check out at 9am. We packed, checked out, and continued Mahjong-Rami-ing, took some last moment pictures and say goodbye to Redang Island.

Off-Topic : We took a Transnational bus from Kuala Terengganu to Kuantan, cost an additional 2 Ringgit and like 100 times sucker. The bus looks like some 1970's bus with pampers, rubbish, insects and idiots. Some Malay teens actually molested one of my friend. (Please note that the key word is not "Malay") Worst of all, it took freaking 4 and a half hours to reach Kuantan, that's 1 and a half hour longer than our first ride to KT.

Back from Ipoh!

2009-05-18T12:26:00.025+08:00

Monday, 18 May 2009

I'm on a travel marathon in May because of the college / university holidays, despite the fact that H1N1 is already in Malaysia, everyone seems to have confidence in their beloved government, so here goes.

The first stop is Ipoh, where I actually got played T.T. At first everyone seemed to be excited and wanted to go to Keat Eng's birthday party at Ipoh, surprisingly I found out that only 4 people kept their promises :( Too late to say no, so it's a go! I'll share some interesting pictures of us and the places we went!

The first stop was Sam Poh Cave (I think?), I think most Malaysians know this place, what is in there? I'd say nothing much but turtles! The number of turtle had decreased over the years, but there were still some big ones there. Only a few of us were there, nobody else, I wonder where's all the tourists?

TURTLES!

Cute turtle, it says: Hey they don't want you to feed me, but please do so!

Then we head on to Guan Yin's Cave. I LOL-ed when I see the Japanese style decorations all over the place in a Guan Yin Temple. But the place is really beautiful, we took alot of pictures there.

What is this doing in Guan Yin's place? WTF?

ROFL

Taking picture

Qing Tian Wawa ( Sunny/weather dolls)

Bai-bai-ing, Japanese tradition: wishing to running water

Me and Chaoe

Wish cards, there's alot with phone number looking for a date!

F.I.R lose us lar, Me - Waili - MC

At night we went to Keat Eng's birthday party. It was so crowded, we gave her a Sonic gear speaker as present but she was so busy that she don't even had the time to take a look at it, haha. We ate abit, cheered for the Malaysian badminton team abit, but eventually they got pawned hard by the Chinese.

Keat Eng's dog struggling to run away

The second day was a rush one, we din't have much time. We went for breakfast at the Ipoh Oldtown. I ordered Milo but they gave me White Coffee T.T (Waitress' OS: Walao come Oldtown drink what Milo, give u White Coffee!). Then we went to the 3rd cave, Kek Lok Cave. There's a big garden behind the cave with beautiful plants, lake and scenery. Not as interesting as the previous cave but this one is definitely a place that you would like to spent hours reading a book here.

Keat Eng, Chaoe and me at Kek Lok Cave

Chaoe and Me

The last place we went was Kellie's castle, a castle owned by an English long time ago. There were tales that he built the castle for his wife, but she died in it before the castle was even completed. Some said they saw Kellie's spirit in the castle wandering around, sounds mysterious. There's quite a number of rooms, wine room, guest rooms, storeroom, there's even a lift and a secret basement tunnel to escape in case of emergency.

Half constructed / destroyed

Wanted to go into the basement

We went back to KL straight after we left Kellie's castle. This marks the end of the trip but something else happened that day. I arrived at my Condo at 4.15pm, my bus back to Kuantan was at 5. After a quick pack I rushed down, tried to get a cab to the bus station.

The taxi drivers offered RM15 (double of the actual price). I was mad because the taxi drivers there are so selfish, they wanna earn more, but never thought of understanding the financial problem of students. In fact by refusing to charge by meter, they can be warned and punished by the taxi council. I refused to pay, I took another cab to the LRT station after waiting for 10 minutes, which cost me RM3. I wouldn't even pay RM3 if I had time.

Luckily I found a really nice driver at the station that took me to the bus terminal with a fair price, and he told me that he hated those selfish taxi drivers too! I made it to the terminal 5 minutes before the departure, pretty much sums up the exciting (and frustrating) day.

Really exhausting trip because I traveled from Kuantan -> KL -> Ipoh -> KL -> Kuantan
I'll have one day rest before my next destination
Next Stop: Redang Island!!!!

Exam, the Gathering, and the Phone Call

2009-04-27T22:13:00.017+08:00

Monday, 27 April 2009

Today I had my first resit paper of my life, Building Technology and Practices 1. I prepared for a whole 2 weeks, I spotted the questions correctly, but yet I don't know how to do some questions because the lecturer changed the questions style. I had never seen something like that before, I knew everything in the notes, but it's just like nothing you can do even you have the notes in your hand. Rain falls down pretty heavy after my exam, indeed, just nice and suitable.

After that I went to Bukit Bintang with Juno, headed straight to Sg. Wang to find a hair product that I always wanted to buy and able to find it after looking for it in a few shops. Here is it:

Sebastian Xtah Crude Clay

It cost RM45 for the small bottle (which I bought), it cost rm58 at Saloon. I wanted to try this as my Schwarzkopf wax are finishing. Then we went to Low Yatt because I wanted to check out the price of the mousepad that I planned to buy, Razer eXactmat. It cost RM99 so I decided not to buy it first, then we met up with Ame and her bf, and also xiaoting and Nek (Who came late).

We went to Yaki-yaki buffet restaurant as planned for our dinner and it costs RM50 per head even in promotion period (RM75 normal price). I actually thought it was RM38 and I got to know that that was the price for tea time after. Let the pictures do the talking, din't want to elaborate more on these already ^_^

Large variety of chickens, beefs, chicken bacons, lambs, fishes and more

Grilling Salmons!

Everything was going fine then we fared well to each other after enjoying the dinner. As I stepped out of the restaurant I saw 2 missed calls on my phone, from my dad. I called back while walking to the Monorail, my mum picked up.

Mum: Where are you?
Me : I'm at outside.
Mum: How's your exam ah?
Me : Like that lor, 50-50.

*Dad started to bug mum and took the phone

Dad: What you said again? How's your exam?
Me : 50-50, around that.
Dad: Around that? Means most likely will pass lar?
Me : No, half-half.
Dad: *WTF-ish slang* What? After so long of preparation you tell me you might actually fail?
Me : So? (Already in "beh song" status, please understand that I haven't got any sleep in more than 24 hours)
Dad: @#$%^&*

*As the volume increases, so was the distance between the phone and my left ear, when I finally bring the phone close again, dad continued, I think he realised that he was too over.

Dad: Ok la Ok la.

I hanged up without a word. I don't know what he said, nor that I want to know. Later on I got another phone call from dad's cell which I did not pick up (I din't notice), it must be mum, I think. I switched off my phone, I din't want to talk to them. After a happy gathering, afterall it only takes one phone call to ruined your day.

Yelling is not going to help, Dad.

And yes, I hope you see this.

You was a great dad, but not today.
Happy father's day.
But you're deeds ain't worth a present from me this year.

I thought parents should said something encouraging, rather than yelling and showing no contribution. Fuck This.

Sushi King Member's Day

2009-04-14T02:49:00.026+08:00

Monday, 13 April 2009

Once again the Sushi King Card RM2 Bonanza or Member's day is back in town, for 4 days (13th to 16th April). Despite the disappointment the last member's day where I dined at Sushi King KLCC, I went for another try at Sushi King East Coast Mall this time, with few leng zais and leng luis of course.

We arrived around 3pm, and like what I thought, not many people, it was Monday and lunch hour was over, we don't even need to queue. Our table's location was quite strategic I have to say, like the 3rd table from the sushi bar, means the chances of getting fresh sushi's are better.

When everything is settled, we just couldn't find any nice sushi's there. No Salmon, no Unagi (yet, they appeared after 30-40mins after we sat down), WTF. Sadly, the choices are really limited during member's day. I'll give a review on what I ate:

1. Deep Fried Scallop

It's deep fried, so don't expect fresh scallops, I'd say it's really normal, not that it tasted sucks but you should know what to expect when they fried their scallops (They ain't as fresh as they were before).

2. Ika (Raw Squid)

Ate this because they were nothing to eat, while waiting for the "main courses". Nice to bite, doesn't taste too fresh to me, though. Okay for a RM2 sushi, I guess.

3. Nama Hotate (Raw Scallop)

Served with wasabi inside, I don't like wasabi. Sorry. Thumbs down.

4. Fried Ebi / Tenpura

Finally, we managed to snatch few plates of tenpura's when it's out. Poor aunties who sat at the table beside ours were so frustrated because we took all of it, and they got none, haha. Nice prawn there, but be careful because sushi king really sucks at Nigiri sushi. Don't be surprised if you touch it with your chopsticks and the sushi actually got "demolished", LOL. Despite that it tasted good.

5. Unagi

Waited for a while until we finally saw Unagi, took like 7-8 plates of it. There were 2 types of Unagi sushi, the normal one that was served with unagi sauce and the roasted one. The roasted one is dry and harder (sorry it doesn't deserve the word "crunchy"). If you ask me I'll prefer the normal one though. Definitely a must eat at sushi king member's day, not that it's really delicious, but it's worth it.

6. Raw Salmon

Definitely my favourite. Waited really long for this to finally came out from the sushi bar. We were so excited (Okay maybe just me) when we saw those heading to us! The thickness and freshness somehow disappoints me, but still I ate 2 plates of these. Not superb salmon, but hey, RM2 ! Must try.

7. Smoked Salmon

We took like 5 plates of these, waited for KC (one of the leng zai) to be our white mice. He said Okay but we still insist of putting back 2 plates, and I shared one plate with another leng lui. It tasted really salty, maybe if you prefer salty/smoked food, you might like this, otherwise I don't think it's worth a space in your stomach.

8. Golden Ball

Fried Egg with mayonnaise. I think this is great, but abit costy because it's not sushi, so no promotion on member's day. RM4 each plate (One egg).

Overall I think the food quality and choices are not up to par with other Japanese restaurant. Ingredients are not fresh enough, slow service, limited quantity for certain sushi's (They made salmon sushi like once in an hour). Things like Tamago, Egg Mayo, Inari (and alot more) are not available during member day, but it differs for every branch.

Waiter counting our plates, Chingz on the left and KC on the right

We ate alot, or it was just me?

There were 6 of us, and we ate 37 plates. (Note: Got one leng lui only ate one plate), and me myself ate 10, which basically screws up my diet plan. LOL.

Looking forward to go to Yaki Yaki / Jogoya buffet by end of the month. <3

Ciao.

What's so good about Good Friday?

2009-04-10T18:15:00.010+08:00

Friday, 10 April 2009

Today is Friday. Friday is damn good. So it's Good Friday.

What's so good about Good Friday? Jesus die loh. Why Jesus die people say good? LOL. Yeah I'm a typical guy with no religion concerns. So I have no knowledge about Good Friday so I googled it. And the conclusion, like what I stated, Jesus die lah!

Do Christians celebrate Good Friday? My friend used to have holiday at National Service by pretending to be a Christian, then he went home and party. If Jesus got nailed at Good Friday, Christians should be crying for him every Good Friday instead of having fun, isn't it? Instead I saw people having BBQ sessions, celebrating the holiday, WTF, totally unlogic. Maybe they celebrated it because Jesus actually resurrected? No Idea.

My Good Friday Artwork: Jesus Maro

From what I know they have some ceremonies at Philippines where people nail themselves on the holy cross and claim to feel no pain like how our Indian buddies did during Thaipusam (or Deepavali?), hail the holy power of Hindu gods and Jesus.

You believe meh? They sure eat drug one lar, ask them let me knife them see die or not.

Happy Good Friday, Ciao.

P/S:
I'm not insulting Hindus/Christians/Catholics, if you are pissed, get a life and try to understand jokes.

A Tomb in your Garden?

2009-04-10T15:48:00.012+08:00

Friday, 10 April 2009

The topic today is once again, Tombstone a.k.a Grave. It's Ching Ming season, everyone is busy visiting their ancestors at the weekends, traveling back to hometown and so. Why so troublesome? Go to graveyard early morning under the hot sun, climb up the mountain, do you know how many people fainted every year because of this?

Now I've come out with a brilliant idea to avoid the crowd and the hot sun, this might be quite creepy, but at the same time, genius!

Bury your ancestors in your backyard, build them a stylish tomb!

Advantages:

1. Just 30 seconds walk from your home, no need to travel during Ching Ming!
2. Pray to your ancestors anytime you want, not necessary on Ching Ming only!
3. Have breakfast together with your love ones who had already past away, imagine a garden table beside a tomb, and cheers.
4. I bet no thieves will pick your house as their target.
5. Incase they still do, no fear. You don't need a guard dog, nor an alarm system, you've got yourself a guard ghost!
6. Decorative tombstone also beautify your garden, add some spotlights, plants beside it, cool. Just too cool.
7. Don't need to pay extra charges for that piece of land, or maintenance fees.
8. Go and ask for toto numbers everyday, I'm sure your ancestors will lost patient if you bug them everyday and finally help you.
9. Your garden is haunted, so your neighbours will eventually got disturbed and move away, no more fucking idiotic neighbours who send their disgusting pancakes over on random days.
10. Last but not least, the body gives nutritions to nearby plants so you can grow vegetables, flowers, mushrooms, trees, and you can save money on fertilizers!

Thieves see also scared x_x

This is, obviously a joke. Don't try this at home, in fact I think it's illegal in Malaysia? Don't come back to me when your neighbours report to the police :(

Ching Ming

2009-04-10T02:28:00.015+08:00

Friday, 10 April 2009

Ching Ming basically means 2 different dynasty back in ancient China in Chinese, and in modern words it means something like "tomb-sweeping-day" or whatever for Chinese to erm..."send their regards" to their ancestors, ROFL. Lets check this out, mira's guide to wipe your ancestor's ass:

Step 1: Clean the home of ancestors

Of course, home means the tomb. Either you clean the grasses so that the tomb looks cool, or if you're rich and you believe in Feng Shui you can actually dig out your ancestors and rebury them at some sort of Feng Shui place, reconstruct a handsome tomb. If you need advice, you can contact Mrs. Lilian Too, in case you don't know who is she, this auntie is a famous Singaporean Feng Shui master.

Lilian Too, damn she looks alot like my aunt (JH's mum)

Step 2: Pay your fees

People don't clean the tomb every month or so, so there will be some "authority" who will do this job for them at a fixed rate (I guess). Apparently some bastards out there refuse to pay, and I hope the "authority" got pissed and slam their ancestors tombs with giant hammer. You can save money and also the Earth by turning off your lights and air-con, please do not be stingy on this.

Step 3: Feed your ancestors

Preparing food

Chinese bring all sorts of food for their ancestors, of course you don't expect their spirit appear out of no where and eat lar. Normally steamed whole chicken and roasted pork is their main course and maybe josstick as appetizer? LOL.

The appetizer, josstick!

From what I know some people bring the food home to eat after their ancestors finish "eating". Some said that the food won't have any taste anymore, to be honest I don't believe this shit, I think they are just trying to freak the kids out so that they can have all of the food, who knows.

Step 4: Give pocket money

Burning "money"

You think only you need money meh? Come on, your ancestor need to spend oso lar! Chinese believe that by burning "money" and "gold", or even paper made maid, cars, laptops, houses, their ancestors will receive the actual thing at the afterlife world. Hundred millions of "hell currency" only cost you like few dollars, so don't be stingy, treat your ancestors well, they might repay you with toto first prize numbers!

Basically this is all people do during the big day. But as everywhere is getting crowded people tend to do those troublesome stuff earlier, later or not at all. Ching Ming kinda reminds me about life and death. Have you ever wonder what you want after you die? Maybe I will curse "Oi you burn me laptop for what here hellmyx broadband so fucking slow, no use!".

This Ching Ming I really hope to pray Mr. Laughing from Hong Kong. This guy doesn't really exist in real life but his death in the Hong Kong drama E.U is a boom! If you din't watch the drama, you probably would also know this guy already, because he's everywhere on facebook. Rest in Peace, Laughing 哥.

Laughing, even on Yahoo!

Anyway I think my tombstone should look really cool so that everyone come also laugh and happy, haha, something like this.

MIRA iGrave, get one now at Apple Store

Ciao.

Back to ma Life !

2009-04-09T03:47:00.006+08:00

Thursday, 9 April 2009

I had a really awful year 2008, I failed my exam for the first time, my friend got ditched, and then another friend got ditched, a good friend passed away, and then I got ditched.

This "Suehness" continued in early (1st quarter) of year 2009, I had my worst 6 months in my life from Sept 2008 to March 2009. Got stuck in misery but no longer. I figured myself out of it.

I am hereby to announce that I'm back, healed and as good as new ;) and to reintroduce myself, hi I'm mira, or lh. My Chinese name will remain as a mystery, because I hate it, LOL.

I'm currently starting to prepare for my exam at end of this month / early May, looking forward to continue my student life in Setapak and to meet new friends in a new environment. First of all I need to get a place to stay. Anyone got an empty unit at Genting Kelang / Wangsa Maju / Melati Utama? Contact me please.

First choice: Melati Utama

Planned to further my studies at Taylors but things din't went too well. I can skip the first year of degree with my qualifications but they do not offer year one this year because the course is still new so I'll go for UTAR Setapak, get PTPTN loan and go shopping, muahahahaha.

That's all for now, Ciao.

Any Secret Recipe?

2009-03-25T20:45:00.019+08:00

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

I'm now at KL for a one day stay to settle my college stuff so tonight I went for dinner at our so-called local proud franchise store, Secret Recipe at Taman Melati with my heng dai, Juno. I'm not quite a cake lover, I don't eat 99% out of hundreds and hundreds types of cakes I've ever seen, no, not even on my birthday and this includes those from Secret Recipe (I've tried those though). But I do not deny that they serve the best cheese cake in town.

I won't be talking about the cakes today to avoid flames from cake lovers especially girls. But why? Why a cheese cake specialist franchise store like Secret Recipe got "gatal" and start selling main courses like rice, noodles and steak? To be honest, they really sucked on those.

Stewed Aussie Beef Steak (Picture from angelflyz)

Okay, lets get started. I ordered this Stewed Aussie Beef Steak which cost rm18 because it's stated as "must try" on the menu and it looked like its really really delicious (I know everything on every menu have the same effect, don't remind me about my stupidness). The meal is served like, 7-8 minutes after the order was placed. What that means? Pre-cooked. Well okay it still look great so I had a bite. It tasted like this

Yup, a beef that feels and taste like braised pork. I paid RM18 for braised pork and garnishes which I can easily get at RM4 at any local hawker centres, WTF. I bet you won't even realise the sauce was actually black pepper sauce if it wasn't stated there.

Quoting angelflyz "The beef steak was also surprisingly good. At RM18, the dish comes with a thick slice of beef, complete with fats which made EC very, very happy. The meat was not hard to cut as it is flaky after some stewing. The sauce (light black peppery), although simple, goes well with the beef". No offence, I just couldn't agree with this, maybe it's branch problem? I don't know.

Cordon Bleu

Juno ordered a Cordon Bleu (fried chicken with cheese) and a piece of the famous Chocolate Indulgence. I've heard from alot of people that Cordon Bleu at Secret Reciple is worth a try, but in front of Juno this super picky "sik ga", it's just a piece of shyt. After he almost finished the whole thing, he said "No taste one".

Pan Fried Dory with Lobster Sauce

I ordered the Pan Fried Dory with Lobster Sauce the last time I went there before today. The dory, feels really cheap but worst of all, the sauce sucks alot. I meant it.

After the meal Juno said "I finally feel full already," meaning mamak stall meals is never sufficient for him, he also said that he need 1.5 meals to be really satisfied. In his definition, the Cordon Bleu = 1, and the Chocolate Indulgence was the other .5. What about 2 sets of mamak meals? Juno: "That's 1+1=2, and I'll vomit". I then asked him if hot noodle cup = 1 meal? He replied no, 1 cup = 1/4 meal and 4 cups might actually satisfied him. Just another piece of LOL.

Back to the topic, Secret Recipe should stick to their cakes, because there ain't any "secret recipes" added in their main meals, seriously. But I think their Mushroom soup and Garden Salad is worth a try (unless Secret Recipe grow their own lettuces/cucumbers/tomatoes/onions and make their own thousand island dressing,otherwise I think the credits should go to the farmers instead) :) Peace, don't flame.

My Wishlist - The 5 C's

2009-03-21T22:34:00.023+08:00

Saturday, 21 March 2009

Have you guys ever dreamt that you can have anything you want? For free? I bet you did, quite a while ago I actually had this opportunity in the Facebook game Pet Society where I was so wealthy back then I can grab whatever I want in the Luxurious store for my "pet" until Playfish (The company that runs Pet Society) decided to spoil our fun and banned me recently. Fine I'm not going to blog about that, but what you would like to have if you got the money? LV Gucci Prada's? Hey girls, be logical! ;) I'm here today to share what I wanted, not too dificult to guess, just like normal guys.

The 1st C - Connection

I am so frustrated because of the uber slow speed of Streamyx and I seriously need a new connection. And P1 Wimax will be my choice, if you ask me. As I've mentioned earlier in my blog post "Slow internet?", the speed is really awesome. You get 24XX kbps download speed for a 2.4mb package, you get more than you pay? Cool right?

Price: RM150 Installation, RM 99 per month for 1.2Mb line

The 2nd C - Camera

The Sony Cybershot T-Series DSC-T700/N. This is one good looking camera that offers really good specs for amateur like us. I'm not a fan of artistic photographs and I don't camwhore, but I like to take pictures with friends, of friends, to keep every happy moment we had together, and a good camera is what I need!

Specs:

4GB Internal Memory
10.1 Mega Pixels with Super HAD CCD
Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar Lens with 4x Optical Zoom
3.5" Full Wide Touch Screen LCD
BIONZ Image Processing Engine
Double “Anti-blur” Solution: Optical SteadyShot and ISO 3200 High Sensitivity
Improved Face Detection Technology for Children and Adults
Smile Shutter
Intelligent Scene Recognition
Photo Album & Scrapbook
HD Slide Show with Select Music Playback

Price: RM1,500

The 3rd C - Cell Phone

My top priority in my list now - Apple iPhone 3G, ROFL. Okay don't flame me, it's just a dream. Really one expensive sexy babe out there! Like most of Apple product, stylish, cute, sexy, both exterior and the interior. Excellent performance, no-lagging issues. I can watch drama's with it, imagine that, woohoo! Unfortunately I don't own one of these. Perhaps the only turn down would be poor camera but hey, thats why camera is in my wishlist too right? But no doubt, you can get better phones at the cost but who cares, It is the Apple iPhone 3G we are talking about here!

Price: RM2,500

The 4th C - Computer

Not that I'm not satisfied to my Dell laptop now but if I'm moving to KL I would like a desktop. Perhaps a quadcore processor? *saliva* I always wanted those high-end gaming desktop that might cost RM10k and above for the whole set. What a monster, GG. If that's not posible, a Sony VAIO laptop ain't that bad either :P

Price: Super Desktop RM10,000?
Sony VAIO Laptop RM5,000

The 5th C - Car

Currently I'm driving a little Mira (Kancil), and before this I was driving my Hyundai Matrix. Notice the difference? My friend Ms. Cheng laughed for 30minutes at me when I went to fetch her with the "cute" Kancil for the first time. What's so funny? Damn I don't like the Kancil, I miss Matrix but oh well. I'm not talking about dream cars like Sport cars, Ferrari, Merz etc. Lets talk about something you might actually afford to buy in the future (without your lottery prices). To be honest Mini cooper looks really cool to me but then I don't wanna be too "cute" again so my choice would be - Honda Civic.

Price: RM110,000+

Just what any ordinary guys want, don't flame ;) And my birthday is at November if you wanna get me presents. I'm kind and I don't want you to take 20 years and failed to buy a good present so just choose from above. Ciao ^_^v

Slow Internet?

2009-03-18T08:41:00.016+08:00

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

The South Korea government had decided to invest approximately $24.6 billions USD and will have a 1gbps broadband connection in most (if not all) main cities in Korea, and promised at least 100mbps for rural area and towns by year 2012. How fast is 1gbps? Imagine a full 2 hours DVD quality movie downloaded in 15 seconds? Now you got it.

Back in Malaysia, still, our main broadband provider, TM net, which ironically means Telekom Malaysia Not Enough Technology, have their very own and proud, Streamyx broadband. Funniest of all they are still trying to promote their "combo package" with pictures of burgers and sodas, joke.

Streamyx = Burger set?

Lets see what they got. RM168 per month for a 4mb line, only in Cyber Jaya? You must be kidding me. Think that its acceptable? Think again. I've gone through some of the feedback and reviews from 4mb users. They have a maximum speed of 1.7mb-2mb download speed on speedtest.net. Less than 50% efficiency? Give me a break. Many dudes out there who are lame enough to trust TM Net and subscribed the 4mb line quickly find themselves in a disconnection frenzy and unstable speed e.g one moment you can surf the net and 30 seconds later your msn spams "The following message could not be delivered to all recipients" and your web browsers fail to connect to Google.

Despite the speed, their service is however, fast. Their man usually arrive at your place the next day you rang them up, but their superb agility ends here. They will normally blame the problems on "old cables", or tell you that he will go back and check the ports, and left you waiting for a solution until you decided to call them again. Of course, they are strong in some aspects. For example, their skin is so thick that after 3278381273812 complains by customers, they never pay afford to improve.

Why is this happening? Because they had complete monopoly in the business. Users must use their service, even it sucks, because it's better than nothing. Their main competitors, Celcom / Jaring / Maxis broadband never fail to put you on a disconnection frenzy, anytime, anywhere.

But no longer. I just found that this new provider, P1 Wimax which provides a 400kbps/1.2mbps/2.4mbps broadband connection with a price of RM40/99/199 (If not mistaken). So far friends and users thinks that P1 is a much better provider compared to Streamyx in terms of Stability - Same fast speed throughout the day. However for some areas, they are inconsistent and might have some minor problems like disconnections.

Speedtest.net result for 2.4mb line

Price list

Another good addition to their stability would be worthy price. Free modem, and 15 days trial, free delivery. That means nothing to lose as you can always take the trial before you actually subscribe. A minimum of 24 months subscription is however, not good but acceptable. But we never know, what if more and more users subscribes to P1 Wimax and they do not increase their bandwidth? Goodbye fast speed.

Our neighbour, Singapore have a 8mb broadband, and 10mb in Australia. Compared to us, where most Malaysians are having 512kbps - 1mbps internet, sadly. Exactly how far behind is Malaysia, compared to even better countries like Korea and Japan? I'd say at least 20 years, to be honest. If the government are too busy with Politic-Dramas and do not want to improve our facilities, and we do not have a choice, always try to get the best.

P/S:
I know they are like 38921839128 similar articles in 12918391 random blogs,
But this is my own thoughts.
Yes I wrote the whole thing myself.
And no, I don't work for P1 Wimax

Mr. No Luck :(

2009-03-10T09:02:00.013+08:00

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

I actually planned to cook porridge today so since I have an appointment with 1 Handsome + 1 Pretty for breakfast at 7.15am so I decide to buy pork at the pasar to cook. Then when I got home I marinated the pork and put inside the porridge which I cooked during midnight with the almighty rice cooker. Then I throw everything into the Pot and turn on the fire, went to living room and watch tv.

Then something went really wrong when I started to smell this "hangus" smell then I rushed into the kitchen, by that time I already know too late. :( I guess I was overconfidence because I cooked the same thing last week and it tasted really nice.

Pai Guat in the porridge

So I tried to take out the pork see whether can eat or not. Ate a little bit then throw everything because I was really full after the breakfast, so waste! Porridge 100% certified, hangus-ed.

Look OK but smell terrible

So after all this shit nothing I can do so I decide to clean up but things just won't go according to my plan today and I wonder what's wrong!

Walao tap open already, no water one?!

Okay later I remembered that my mum told me there will be no water supply this few days before she left for KL. W-T-F.

It's only 9.20am now and I dont know how many shits like these are waiting for me later, there are unclean plates, knifes, pots in the kitchen, and no water supply. Not much left in the bathroom and I have absolutely no idea how to clean up the mess so far, without water.

Call me Mr. No Luck :( what an unlucky day (so far)

End of my Livealone Life

2009-03-08T10:50:00.009+08:00

Saturday, 8 March 2009

Its already like 2 months since I live alone in my hometown after my family move to KL. I kinda enjoyed it at the same time bored. Yea, you get freedom for the price of loneliness. Okay I admit I am free even if I stay with my family, but still not quite the same.

My brother is returning to the "home sweet home" after 3 months in the "camp bitter camp" National Service and will stay with me for quite a while. So my individual Streamyx line goes bye bye. Duh, the line was never superb good anyway.

I'm going to KL for a day or so next Thursday so if you guys out there wanna date me, here comes the chance! ;)

Its the "White Day" or Japanese version of St.Valentine's day next Saturday, 14th March. Where there will have a holiday in Japan for couples to date each other and single like me to stay at home to cry in their own blanket. So happy and sweet White day for all the couples and for those without someone who loved you, someday it will be your turn right? (Of course I'm trying to tell myself too)

Ciao.

The Banner

2009-03-05T07:29:00.010+08:00

Thursday, 5 March 2009

It was 5am in the morning when I just wanted to sleep something came through my mind
so I decided the make the banner for my blog. Then I began searching, finding any clues or ideas I can use and when the banner is finally done, I found that it clashes with my blog template. Well after 2 hours of hard work I couldn't just delete it, so I'll just post it here I guess.

1st Picture: 2009 @ Kuantan
2nd Picture: 2008 @ Cameron - OI WTF SO FAT
3rd Picture: 2008 @ Home (My work station)
4th Picture: 2009 @ Kuantan
5th Picture: 2007 @ Genting
6th Picture: 2007 @ Home
7th Picture: 2008 @ Tarc KL

Programs used:
Adobe Photoshop
AAA Logo

Yet can't be used! Complete failure, Sad :(

Yet Another Random Blog

2009-03-03T23:53:00.003+08:00

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Thought of never going to do another "I started a new blog post"

But oh well after taking sometime to customize the blog my "mood" to write went off,
and still I need to write something to test out the new blog so here is it.

Loved the blog style of Wretch but too troublesome to login there and such so Blogger it is.
Will try to get a banner up soon when I have ideas.
I will write in both English and Chinese,
I guess this style suits me more and I can write just what I intended to.

So here I come, and the title of the post? Yep I know what are you thinking.
"Oh hell yeah yet another random blog"