Bibik

I just came back from sending Bibik to Port Klang. Her name is Boniati, but the kids calls her Bibik, which mean 'Aunty' in Indonesian, and so we all called Bibik as well.

It felt like just yesterday when I went to fetch her form the maid agency, she looked so frightened that time, crying for every question asked. She still has not recovered from the sea sick after spending 3.5 hours in ferry from Tanjung Balai (Sumatera) to Malaysia. She even felt sick when I drove her to Bentong, to send her to my mum house, since I took her as a maid for my sis. After that she never left Bentong for 2 years afraid the she will feel sick again!!! Only last month she followed my sis and the kids to Sunway Lagoon.

She is very hardworking, it is not easy to take care of 6 kids, doing house work, laundry, look after shop occasionally and helping my mum in her muruku business. She has done a lot!

Anyway, Aisha wa only 2 month old when Bibik arrived, she practically raised her. When we were leaving Bentong on Monday night, she starts crying, some how she realized that Bibik is leaving. And Bibik was hugging everyone, crying, she was so attached to my mum...... My mum just consoled her, So sad......
Even this morning she woke up and was looking for Bibik and start crying when she couldn't find her.

It is very ironic, when she arrived here, she cried that she left her family (her hubby passed away, she has 3 daughters, the youngest in 1 yrs old then). An now she is crying that she is leaving us.
I wish all the best in her life and may she live happily with her family...

p/s: This is NOT the same maid form "Maid from Hell !!! " This one work with my parents, not my parents in laws.

Maid from Hell !!!

My day started as usual, I woke up, showered, dressed up and went downstairs as usual. I prepared breakfast, normal stuffs, sausages and fried with toasted bread, made my coffee and enjoying my breakfast.

The maid bedroom was closed, no light was on, and my wife was making noise upstairs that the maid did not iron her clothes.

Then we realize that the maid, had left a good bye note and run away.

My wife panicked.... BIG TIME. There were no else home. My parents in law already in Singapore, only me, my wife and the her sis in home.


We checked the drawer where my father in law (FIL) keep the maid passport and the bank book. IT IS NOT THERE, more reason to panic. Checked the jewelry, all intact. RELIEVED. But we still would not know if she has taken anything. Only can confirmed that after the inlaws comes back.

The drawer we not break in, just locked and the key tucked nicely inder my FIL clothes.

Me and my wife took the day off to settle the mess (which we find later on that it was completely unnecessary, what a way to waste annual leave).
Made police report, stating that he maid run away with her passport, bank book and house key.


Policeman said, we need to go to immigration to cancel her passport. Ahhhh need towards my office after all.

Then, SHE called, the maid, crying................... saying that she has no where to go to and that she wanna come back............... (never ...Ever buy your maid handphone...EVER!)

She said that she run away because she was confused because her boyfriend forced her to get married fast because his mother is very sick and want to see her son get married before she die.

To cut things short, she got a long lecture from everybody, personally I wanted to send her back, no point keeping here, she might pull the same stunt again, but since she been here only few month, rugi only bayar mahal-mahal for her, tak balik modal pun.

She is ok now, she said she just want some one to talk too...............

NEVER EVER BUY YOUR MAID A HANDPHONE.

RM330 Flushed down the toilet!

Tensionnye, but what to do, it all my fault, a flaw in design, and RM330 Flushed down the toilet!

The story....

I memang beria-ria design the plaster ceiling layout, I tried to be as specific as possible, including every tiny weeny detail, siap buat macam blue print gitu. Siap the contractor also puji my design, cakap he want to learn form me to draw pakai computer, padahal I pakai Word jer lukis.

Planning punye planning, I overlooked a major factor. After the contractor pasang the frame for plaster ceiling baru nampak the flaw in the design...... The whole dining area nye light box is sticking out to the walking area, kiranya kalau letak dining table memang tak leh nak lalu ke dapur.

Contractor was pissed off, as it wasn't their fault, my stupid mistake. Talk punye talk, they agree to redo, but with extra cost of RM400, nego and nego , agreed on the Rm330.

That the story la...... Otherwise everything looks fine, but I am so nervous, tomorrow taking leave to see the progress, I have to finish off my time-off this year, 5 days!

Updates Updates Updates...........

It has been so long since I have update that I actually paused for a while trying to recall my ID and password.....

New House
Renovation work has finally started on my new house. I had a hate-egg (head ache) choosing the contractor. But just tawakal and choose one at the end, hopefully he will do a good job. Since my house is the first house he is doing in S.Kayangan, he said he will make it as show unit so he promise that he will pay extra attention to details.
It is not a major renovation I am doing, just:-

grills
plaster ceiling
electrical work
Wet kitchen
Awning

Even this small renovation cost so much!

I am very excite now about the outcome of the renovation but I feel nervous even more.....

Work
Work has been hell, not because the volume of it, but of the stupid managment.
I was moved to Normal shift so that when the post of ATL opened up I can fill up that post, so there I was working in normal shift, doing what an ATL was suppose to do.
Suddenly my TL announced that he is resigning, that was a shock to me. And the managment decided that the best person to replace him was some one who joined tha team 2 months back!
I was dissapointed. Not because of the new TL, but because of my position, it seems that there is no ATL position for this team.

I have stayed for 2 month in this position (what position?!!!!) on verbal agreement that I will be promoted to either TS or ATL, it is not my TL fault, I guess he had fight for me to get the post, but the management does not agree and the fact that he is leaving, left him with no voice to managment.

This morning I email the new TL that I'll resemu my shift since my position is still a big question mark. Without any black and white on paper, I would not consider any more proposal. Shift is not that bad, at least I have my rest days and only need to worry about cases, not the other stuffs.


Chandramukhi - not related to the post, but feel like posting it anyway!!!!

Enough said!

Back Stabbed............

Sadly, there are definately people like this out there, who really black hearted and can't see other people being successfull or happy.
It is just too much for them..... They are the only one who should have everything in life, if others outperform them, they feel treaten and start acting all defensive.

I am so hurt and dissapointed even to express myself properly. But I believe in God.
I did not do anything wrong. I am sticking to basic, as I promised when I started here. Just do your job....... don'y bother about politics..... but politic seems to be following everywhere I go.........

I DON'T want to dwell on negetivity........................

I am being a bigger person y forgiving others, it takes alot to forgive and forget rather than carrying vengence!

I am out for now...........................

Selamat Hari Raya AidilFitri 2005

Raya is next thursday, but I don't think I'll be blogging after this, and I guess it is not too early to wish any way.
I rarely blog nowadays, it is not that I do not have the time, it is just too many thing in my mind right now.
I am not the person who worry about money usually, since I am not a big spender, and I don't have expensive taste in anything. I cares very less about my preveious evaluation in my ex-company, is didn't matter, ada ker takder ker increment, did not mean much back then.

But now.......man........ I am suffocating. I need money! So much to do for the house. Of course my father and parents in law hepled, but I can't count on them entirely!

Headache thinking about money! Raya pun ala kadar jer, my anak buah's duit raya this year will be cut to maybe RM10 only I guess.

Maybe next year I would beb able to give them more...........

I have no mood to write anything anymore..........


Selamat Hari Raya............... Maaf Zahir Batin.

Sigh......................

It is my second day of normal shift and I am already wondering whether I made the right decision. The work load is just so and so, but the responsibility seems to be too heavy.
I used to have these kinda responsibilities, in my previous job, and it is nothing new now, but it seems that really enjoyed the shift work. Of course there will tonnes and tonnes of tickets coming in any given day, but you finished your day....and you finished with it. You don't have to worry about it.
Is this position any different?
I don't want to be depsressed about work, I don't want to be THAT person again.
It is clear, work is just work, nothing more, it does not define the person you are, no matter what your position is.
We are what we do. I worked for money, simple as that, forget about job satisfaction, do your job, get you pay and enjoy your life.
What happening to me? I am talking as though I end up with the worse job, this is still heaven compared to my last job...
Well..... think positively, I just got promoted, be happy for that now, maybe things seems to be overwhelming right now, for God's sake, it is only been my second day! Cheer up.......
Maybe I wont feel the same after few more weeks.
Help me God!

Anyway......Ramadzan al Mubarak to all!!!

Surprising Hits.........

I noticed recently that my blogs has been getting a lot of hits, since I have installed the 'netmeter' I could check the reffereing website to my blog, these are my findings,

Listed below are the few keywords, that if you searched in yahoo (or other search engine), my blog would be included in the search result, which is quite weird though, anyway I am happy that my blog getting alot of hits, hopefully those who are unfortunate to be redirected to my blog, will spend few min reading and leaving some comments. (and could find what they are looking for and find my entries beneficial)

1. contoh surat rayuan - (the most hits are from these keywords..wow I am so proud hahah)
2. majlis daerah bentong
3. anakin - (if you searched the image in google)
4. what do you know about the nephews of victoria gotti - (this is so weird !!!!)
5. desparate hosewives - (if you searched the blogspot)
6. gov.my
7. majlis Daerah Bentong Pahang Darul Makmur
8. polis saman.my
9. Casa Impian
10. Anjung Seri

Good Tidings..............

I got a letter from Sunway saying that the house is completed and the house key is ready to be collected. I couldn't believe it at first. So fast? but I was overjoyed, really really was happy. Sometimes we wouldn't realize how happy we would be about matters like this. When I booked the house, I was like, yeah..a house, where am I going to find money to pay and all those things, but as the house builds up and taking up shapes, it all turns into excitement.
And when you finally receive a letter requesting to collect the key, the financial problems seems too small, it worth every damn penny I am paying, if owning a own house feels like this!

Well, apart from that, when I came to office at the evening (nite shift), my team lead told me another good news. Hmmmm seems like my career going one right path after all. I can't disclose the proposition here as it is not confirmed yet, but I am happy nevertheless. I was worried after I left my previous job to this one. I was wondering whether I am making a right decision. Leaving a 8-5 job to a shift work. And I was wondering until when I need to do shift work, it seems SO routine, same old thing over and over again. And don't have to wonder no more I guess. I am happier here, away from "Mount Doom" (that's what we call the dept in my previous company, away from evil Souron...) any place other than Mount Doom is a better place.

Well back to the house, we have booked for the kitchen cabinet, and got a quotation for plaster ceiling and there are tones of works to be done................. yipppy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obsessions...

I have problem with obsessions, when I am interested in something, I really becomes obsessed with it until that's all I'll be thinking about. Gym, cooking, gardening... to name a few. The latest addition to the list would be house interior design. It is started when I and wife found out that our house is completed, and only waiting for CF and the key. We are not sure when we will get the key, the agreement says it is before Feb 06, but the house was launched on Oct, so I guess it must be sooner than later.

It's time. We need to start acting, no more empty 'surveying' in the shopping complex, it is time to put all our knowledge we gather in the form of quotations. My wife is the one so 'beria-ria' doing all this. But now I have taken her place. She complained a lot that I don't care so much about the house thing, but she has created a monster!!! And there is no stopping me now.

But the house is ALL I could think about now. Every page I turned in the newspaper, my eyes will scan for any furniture, kitchen cabinet or bathroom or anything related to house promotion adverts. Anjung Seri suddenly seems like a very good magazine to read.

I think this is a good obsession; at least I am spending time (and money) in something useful and long term. And it really gives a fulfillment investing in real estate. I really really can't wait to move in to our new house. I have SO many ideas now that I need to write down everything or else I'll forget everything.

Well, we first is to do Kitchen Cabinet first. We got few quotations already. And one seems really promising. We bought a hood and a hob for our kitchen cabinet, since we got a really good offer from Home One and Maybank, a real bargain that I am really happy. We also bough light for dining room since it was so gorgeous, even we haven't figure out the lighting scheme at that moment.

We are thinking of Modern /Cosmopolitan /Contemporary concept with a little (tiny) touch of Oriental taste. Well lets see how's that turns out, well, it mainly depends on one thing...budget. Wish that Casa Impian will throw me a free house make over…. Well one can always wish right?

Hero Generator

This is how I would look like If I am a super hero.
I got this from hero generator site. Its cool, give it a try.
I wonder what my superpowers would be?

That was 6 years ago?!!!!!

10th August 1999. That was the day I actually confess my feeling to my wife. I remembered the day clearly as it was yesterday.

We were doing our Industrial Training (IT) then in Motorola KL (now known as Freescale). It was stormy rainy thunderous Tuesday. We all (my wife, Iza, emma and me) went out for lunch, and we something came up and Iza had to take half day and I send her straight home after lunch. 3 of us were late to office due to heavy rain.

We were sitting at our "Trainee Corner", a place by the window facing Federal Highway where we lepak when we have nothing to do (which were often the case, most of the time we would be counting the number cars passing by the fed hi-way).

It was about 3pm, only I and my wife were there at that time and we were talking and talking and talking, one topic lead to another and I gather enough courage to tell her what I felt towards here. I know there were no turning back. I was committed, even though she said she needed more time to think about it, but I knew, it was fate that we were doing the industrial training at the same place, I knew that I will marry thus girl one day. I just knew. She only said yes after 1 year and 20 days (on 30th August 2000). But again, I didn't matter for me (even her) as we knew we would end up together one day.

But that was 6 years ago! I really couldn't believe it when my wife reminded me about our little anniversary recently. 6 years?!!! My God, has it been that long ago? I still feel like it happened yesterday. Time sure flies.

Usually on every August 10th we will go out for dinner, but this year we had to cancel our plan due to haze. But is doesn't matter, we have dinner together all the time and it is always special.

P/S: I knew a couple who celebrate their special date EVERY month. That is just plain bulls%$&*. I wonder if they still do that?

Majlis Perbandaran Bentong

My hometown is changing. The town council use to be called MDB (Majlis Daerah Bentong) and now it is known as MPB (Majlis Perbandaran Bentong), effective 16th July 2005. The 'Upacara pengistiharaan was really grand. Text of the opening ceremony is available here What's the different? My sis said, the parking fees are higher, the Cukai Pintu also higher and the real estate value shoot up. Well I think the upgrade got something to do with population growth.

The new Majlis Perbandaran Bentong Town Council Building.

I heard Siti Nurhaliza suppose to show up to perform that night, but it seemed that the MPB was unable to afford her fee (after all she is from Pahang, no discount ar......) so Dayang Nurfaizah performed instead. I didn't go for the show. But I managed to view the magnificent firework from my parents’ house. It was beautiful. This was my first time watching live firework show..... I know... I am pathetic.

Talking about Bentong, recently I was forced by a friend to buy a book by her family friend, Ted Miles. 'A Tree to Remember' is a wonderful and refreshing book to read, but I guess it is even special if you are from Bentong. It is amazing to read about Bentong from a white guy point of view....wait a minute, it is interesting to read about Bentong from ANYONE'S point of view! I have learned so much of Bentong history form this simple book. I couldn't find much about this book from Google, I only found this.
It is felt sad that I need to find out about the history of my good old town from a foreigner. No local sees the simple beauty of our small quite mountain town.

Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle

It has been awhile since I last update regarding my fitness regime. But, just because I don't write about it doesn't mean that I still don't follow my fitness regime. I followed the "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" program by Tom Venuto. Even the programmed title makes a lot of sense doesn't it? I think I mentioned all about it in my very first post. This is the only way to burn fat and keep it OFF forever and gain muscle at the same time. My wife on contrary belief that applying 'fat burner lotion' on target area will do trick. It does work, but only temporary. Nothing that I can say that that will makes her change her mind.

I started my gym membership in December 2004. These are the stats when I started:
Weight: 75KG.
Waist: 35"
Sadly, only these stats I'd recorded. I have however the 'before' picture, but noway I am gonna post ANYWHERE on earth!

These are my stats now:
Weight: 69KG
Waist: 32" ( I can fit into my jeans from my college time again! Yeahhaaaa)

I can see changes in my body now, it seems more defined, but not that defined, still needs a lot of improvements. But I am really really happy about my arms and shoulder. If last time I would not be caught dead wearing sleeveless, now I am kinda proud showing off my arms. Well I am happy, my wife is happy too, but no so happy if I wear sleeveless, she said she don't want other girls to look at me. Hahaha but I seldom wear sleeveless outside the house, only on my way home from gym. And she did buy me a 'muscle shirt' as a gift, I am just wondering on what occassion I should wear that shirt........

I am just hoping that I could be consistent about the number of the days I hit the gym. My target is at least 3 days a week (every alternate days, since I can do cardio home). But shift works makes it really difficult. But now at least I am hitting gym twice a week. On my rest days, I tried to work out in home.

In my opinion, if you are serious about keeping fit, there are 3 major factor that you need to take care. WEIGHT TRAINING, CARDIO and DIET. Exercise contributes about 40% and Diet contribute 60%. You can bust your ass 5 times per week in the gym, but if you don't look after you diet, you are wasting your time.

Talking about diet, I am on low carb diet. I tried to spread my meal evenly to 5-6 times a day. I make sure that I take more protein source compared to carb. And I only take complex carb like vegetables and oats and the like. I only eat rice on my 'cheat day' on weekends.

I can go on talking about proper diet and exercise technique, but I am no expert, I am afraid that I would post wrong things about work out, but all the things I written WORKS for me. Maybe I'll keep on posting about new tips on workouts and such in the future. My wife said maybe I should change my career to be a fitnes instructor, maybe I will one day AFTER I achieved my target which is single digit body fat percentage.

Padan Muka

What can I say, he deserved it, who ask to go around and pinching strange women's back side?
What surprises me and delight me is that, the two women actually started attacking this guy and drag him to the police station! Wow.... impressive.

I got one question for the guy though,
If he is charged, it will carry a jail term of up to 10 years and a possible fine or whipping upon conviction.

DOES IT WORTH IT?

Added 3/8/05

I was discussing this with my wife and she related to me the similar experience of on of her colleagues. Her colleague, Miss N use to take LRT in her previous job. So one day the LRT was really-really crowded, like packed like sardine can la. So she noticed that this on guy was standing right behind her and really rubbing himself on her back. She felt something on her behind, but she was unable to do anything. So when most passengers get down at KLCC station, she checked her back..... be prepared this going to get really disgusting. She notices that some kind of sticky liquid on the back of her baju kurung (you should know what is it). She was terrified, and felt like throwing up already, so she immediately got off the train and wash herself in toilet ( I don't even want to imagine how she washed).
I pity her, since she is my friend also, what kind of sick person was this guy who did this to her? I wished he was beaten up and dragged to the Police Station as well.

Tables turned on bottom pincher
BY BERNARD SEE
PENANG: An amorous man who fondled the buttocks of a woman was slapped, beaten up by the victim and her friend and then dragged to a nearby police station.
The two women were at a shop in Carnavon Street looking at some kitchen utensils at 1pm yesterday when one of them felt a pair of hands rubbing her buttocks.
The woman, in her 20s, quickly turned around and grabbed the man by his shirt collar.
She and her friend then pushed him outside and started slapping, pinching and beating him up.
By that time, the commotion had attracted a small crowd.
The two gutsy women, who work in a nearby hair salon, dragged the man, said to be a Sabahan, to the Central police station about a kilometre away.
Several passers-by, who later escorted the women to the police station, gave the man a few tight slaps when told about the incident.
The victim lodged a report after handing over the man to the police.
Both women declined to be interviewed when approached at the police station.
The case has been classified as outraging modesty under Section 354 of the Penal Code, which carries a jail term of up to 10 years and a possible fine or whipping upon conviction.
from http://www.thestar.com.my/

2nd August 2005

Observation in LRT

I have become a LRT regular since I change to this new job. I am so glad that I could take public transport,and also glad that my house and office is nearby LRT station adn even more 'gladder' that my company provided free feeder bus service from KLS to the office. These are few of my observations, I'll keep on adding this list as time goes (latest entries will be in different colour)

1. Sometimes while I am waiting for LRT, I am so tempted to hail the LRT (like we hail taxi)
2. I wonder why some people prefer to stand in LRT when there are plenty of unoccupied seats available.
3. I wonder how certain people managed to read while standing in a sardine packed LRT.
4. I wonder why there is longer queue at the counter while ticket machines are working fine.
5. What the different between "single manual ticket" and the normal magnetic ticket they sell at the counter?
6. It is really awkward when sometimes you just enjoying the view opposite your seat and suddenly the person sitting infornt of you thinking that we are staring at them.
7. And for the young couples who 'get it going' in LRT , why don't you all go get a cheap motel room somewhere..... please, this is public transport, and there are students here.
8. Kelana Jaya to Bangsar RM1.40, Kelana Jaya to KL Sentral RM2.10, but bangsar to KL Sentral is RM1.00!!!
9. I always wonder while looking at the people in LRT, 'hmmm maybe this person is a blogger that I always visit".
10. It really pisses me off when people starts 'fanning' themself using their hands, supposely because of the stuufiness of the LRT, please la....... This is Malaysian Public Transport, what do you expect?
11. How come nobody gets in gets out in the Abdullah Hukum Station.
12. Universiti to Taman Jaya or vice versa, seems to take forever, and I think it is the longest distance, if you travel from KJ to KL Sentral.

Contoh Surat Rayuan Saman.

My father said I recceived a love letter back home. Obviously it was surat saman. It seems that I exceed speed limit somewhere in Jalan Mahameru on 30th August last year!!! I really don't remember what I was doing there.
Anyway, I went to the Police Station to pay saman, my father said they will have the 'borang rayuan' for us to fill up to reduce the saman. But they DIDN'T.
They posted a sample appeal letter at the counter, requesting us to follow the format. Handwritten also accepted they said. Below is the format, more or else that I could recall from memory.
I also found out that I have another 2 more summons that I didn't pay. What the hell just pay everything one shot la. All with one surat rayuan. RM270 gone and a lesson learnt.



Nama,
Alamat sendiri.
__________________________________________________________

Ketua Polis Daerah Bentong,
Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah,
28700 Bentong,
Pahang Darul Makmur. 28hb Julai 2005

Tuan,
Rayuan Mengurangkan Kadar Saman, No Saman XXXXX, No Kenderaan ABC XXX.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Murujuk kepada perkara di atasm saya ingin memohon jasa baik pihak tuan untuk mengurangkan kadar saman yang dikenakan ke atas saya.

2. Saya merayu agar kadar saman yang dikenakan ke atas saya dikurangkan kerana:-
i) Masalah keewangan, bebanan keluarga yang tinggi.
ii) Saya berjanji tidak akan mengulangi kesalahan saya di masa hadapan.

3. Saya mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih di atas jasa baik pihak tuan.


Sekian Terima Kasih.

Yang Benar,

______________
(Nama Penuh)

Revelation in Putra Feeder Bus

Today was my legs day in gym, for the first time I did the squad and my legs are screaming with pain with every step. But it is a 'good pain' that I enjoy, meant that my workout worked and my muscle is tearing apart and rebuilding....bigger.

So I was in the bus, heading home after a good workout and tiring night shift, a saw an elderly man getting into the bus, he was not that old maybe at his 50s or 60s, maybe he just retired and was in PBD for some official work. The bus was quite empty, I was sitting at the back of the bus, he got in and right before sitting down he looked at me......just for a while, I sensed sadness and regret in his stare. I didn't react, I just stared back at him, and before I could smile or anything he sat down. The whole thing happened in fraction of a second, but it had me thinking.... all the way to the LRT station.

What was in his mind when he was staring at me?
I can imagine, that maybe he was thinking that, once he was as young...as that guy sitting in at the back of the bus, and maybe he felt that he could have accomplished so many thing in his life when he still in his youth. Maybe he think that he wasted his life on wrong things, maybe he worked too hard until he neglected his friends and family or maybe he was thinking that he should have spend his youth more productively so that he can enjoy his retirement more. Or maybe I reminded him of his son, or maybe he was thinking, look at that young man, so young, at the prime of his age, and he is wasting all his time on things that really does not matter at the end (what ever is that!)
I don't know what the hell in his mind, but there is certainly a lot going on in my mind. I was thinking too much. I was sad.

I always wondered, if there is ONE advice the senior citizen wanted to give younger generation, what that would be?

I always wanted to approach my father and just talk to him about his younger days, the know all his hardship, all the suffering that he went to to bring up his life. But the thing is ,I am not that close to my father, I always wanted to be close, to break that thick wall of ice block between us, but to no avail.
I knew my father is a very hard working man. I am 30 now, and only now I knew that my dad started out as a 'Roti Man', you know, those men that sell bread house to house in motorbike. But in my father's case, it was a bicycle, imagine that! My mum said, my father will come back home roasted in sun, skin dried and darkened, all to support his loving family, and here we are complaining right after we reached home that we had the worse day because the office air cond was too cold.

How things has changed! If my father hadn't work that hard during his youth, will I be sitting here and writing this blog? I really don't think so.

I am just wondering, if my son, one day would write the same thing about me in his blog?

If there is only one advice that I wanted to hear from my father about our youth, what that would be?

Home Sweet Home.

Today for the first time me and wife stepped into the house we bought. Well hopefully it IS our house, we counted (the odd numbers only) and yes, that is house number 9 ( I love number 9, but my favorite is 7, but it was taken).

Well, we stepped into the house, thank God it was not locked. I was expecting some kind of life changing experience. You know, like the one in the movies, you do something really special or meaningful and suddenly you have the life changing moment where suddenly there is music at the background, light shining true the roof, leaves starts flying in and such things? Well nothing like that happen to us.
But we were truly happy.... our house, a place to call home, hopefully for the rest of our life (unless off course we moved in to a bungalow house, heheh).

Imagine, this is the place that we will build our life, this would be the foundation of our future. This is the place where we will have our first child, the place our kids will grow, and all the important events of our life will happen here in ..Insya Allah..perhaps our children wedding, and me and my wife will grow old here. Oppsss I am too far ahead in the future. Well, it is nice to let our mind wander once a while.

I have been haunted by the thoughts on how I am going to finance the whole new house things, yeah we bought a house, but it doesn't stop there. Renovation, furniture, bills. A lot to think about.
But when I imagine all the wonderful and magical things this house going to bear, It simply worth it.
So my dear wife, don't burden yourself thinking about the financial problem, just think about all the beautiful thoughts on our house, and we will somehow make it happen.

Desperate Househusband

I am so bored and I got nothing to do. Thats what happened if you have too much of free time at hand. Since I am working shift, I have 3-4 off days per week. I used to do gardening on my free time, but seriously, how much gardening you can actually do? and some more the new maid is taking care of the garden better than I did, so basically now I am jobless at home.

Well, when you are bored, and at edge of loosing your sanity, it is good to do something nice and different. So I took up cooking. Since I started shift work, I have improved my culinary skill.




Jamie Oliver...my hero....hahahahh


These are few of my my specialties,
Baked potato with cream source
Grilled chicken with orangy creamy sourcy thingy or whatever you feel like naming it.
Fettuchini/spaghetti with garlic source
macaroni and Cheese.


Local dishes,
Mee goreng
Ayam Masak Kicap
Khailan/Sawi/any veggie ikan masin
Nasi goreng

(ignore the spelling mistake, I have no idea how to spell the food name correctly)

But I prefer the western dishes, it is easier to cook, less preparation needed and uses the least amount of kitchen utensils (is it?)

And ever since I joined the Gym , I have learned to cook healthy as well. I use least amount of oil, and I only use olive oil, since it is healthier. I Don't fry anything any more, it is all grilled (without oil).

At the moment, my favorite is Tuna sandwich. It is healthy, has right amount of carb and protein needed by body, and oh man, it is easy to make or what?!!!!!

Other than that, I also sometimes (very rarely though) clean the bedroom and redo the furniture, just to surprise my wife, most of the time she will be pleased with the result.

Hmm, can't wait to move in to the new house, there will be a lot of activity for me to do then on my off days.
I am definitely a DIY guy. I love crafts, carpentering, plumbing , hanging wallpaper, gardening, fixing mosquito net around windows, anything that needed to be done aroud the house.
My major client right now is my mother in law, my parents and my sisters.
My sisters will wait till go back on weekend to fix things up in their house. I am doing charity only now, no charges....so far. I have invested a lot in tools also. It is a good investment though, rather than paying handy man for their lousy job.

P/S: Desparate Hosewives is really a good show, and my wife became an instance fan, maybe she felt related to the characters? I don't know.

Ladies, want to know which house wife you are? Well take this quiz to find out !

Weddings..... Indian Muslim Style.

This morning I woke up full with excitement. The day was beautifully, the bird's were chirping more joyously this morning and sun seems to shining brighter. I am just too excited. Why? Well, I got a wedding to attend to!!! That's why....It is not any wedding, it is an Indian Muslim wedding. How exciting!!!! (it should be obvious by now that the I am being SARCASTIC!!!)

Attending any wedding is the one thing that I hated most, for me it a terrible way to waste our precious weekend. I practically have to drag my feet all the way to the wedding hall, put up a smile face, chit chat with who ever sitting beside, eat pay the 'saman' and leave.

It is not that bad actually, but after attending soooo many many many Indian Muslims wedding, I am getting very tired of the monotonousness of the whole wedding/reception functions. All reception seems to be following some kinda unwritten rule (or maybe it is written, IM Wedding 101).

I list down the flow of the event for a typical Indian Muslim wedding reception.

1. Once we reached the hall, we will be greeted by the welcoming committee at the entrance, usually these committee members consists of men or women who are seniors on either side of the brides or the groom.

2. Before we were seated, we should greet and acknowledge everyone we know all the way to our table, even the very very distant relatives, by the time this process is completed, 15-20 mins would have easily gone by.

3. Once we were seated at the noise reception hall, usually a round table that sits 8-10. We would face the dreadful truth. The very very familiar looking menu will be facing us. The food is catered by Syed Restaurant, if it is not, you can be sure that it is not and Indian Muslim wedding and you can safely assume that you have crashed a wrong wedding. The food is the same, Nasi minyak or briyani, mutton, onion chutney, dalcha, spicy fried chicken and dessert is caramel pudding.

4. Bride and groom willl arrive fashionable late. (very late)

5. When they finally arrive, the drink jug on each table would have emptied and the appetizer (usually nuts) would have consumed to the last piece.

6. Brides and groom walks the aisle. Most of the time companied by the "Salawat" by Yusuf Islam (this is a MUST, I remind you)

7. When the newly weds finally settled. The MC starts to welcome the crowd and call an ustaz or maulana with massive beard to recite doa and read verses from Quran.

8. The MC will invites a person of influence in the community (preferable someone with Datokship) to introduce the couples to the guest. While this going on, the crowd continuously ignored the speech and talk loudly among themselves, competing with the PA system.

9. The MC will announce that the food will be served. Crowds get excited.

10. There will be 'food presentation' where the head waiter will makes his grand entrance followed by his follower. This will be accompanied by a very grand music from background, usually form some action movies soundtracks.

11. The crowd fullfills their purpose, they eat.

12. After a while, the MC will call upon the newlyweds to give speech. The newlyweds give speech. The crowd still ignores the speech and minding their own business.

13. MC announce the cake cutting ceremony, couple cut the cake(again accompanied by another background music from movie soundtrack). The crowd is still totally unaware of what happening at the main stage as they busy talking as always)

14. MC announce that guests can wish the couple at the entrance.

15. Another 15-20 mins will pass by waiting in the queue to wish the couple. On the way to queue 'point number 2'repeated here. Another 15 mins gone.

16. When finally arrived at the couple, take couple of minute trying to remember who they are and how we are related to them, if still no idea just say congrats and pay the saman. (anyway it would be impossible to recognize the bride since her face would be transformed into doll-like feature on that day, if they hired a really really bad mak andam).

17. Fuhhh finally out of the hall......wait wait.. there is the auntie you have not met for entire 2 week. She comes running towards you asking how is your health and how is everybody in kampung...no escape.......smile smile...Don't forget that. Another 15 mins flies. (You are lucky if you only encounter only one aunty!)

18. Finally, you are in the car. Oppppssss wait, the wife says, I forget to take the door gift! Run to the hall (it best to enter through the backdoor in order for easy escape) Grab the door gift and run!

19. Ahhh finally in car again!

20. Reach home.... hmmmm another wedding. Heavy food! Time to sleep away the entire Sunday!


My wedding was the exact same!

Tuition

Finally, I got a student. I have been telling everyone since I started my shift work that I am going to teach tuition for kids on my off days. And now after 10 months only I got one.
Well I was not really looking for students seriously, that's the reason I guess, but this one was handed by one of my childhood friend who is a teacher. She was teaching this girl all this while, but due to the unforeseen circumstances, she was unable to continue to teach her.

This is home tuition, means that I have to travel to the student house (all the way to Kota Damansara), the pay is by hour, considered a good pay for a first time tutor (anyway, I used to be a temp teacher while waiting for Uni) I teach this UPSR student, twice a week (4 hrs).

Teaching tuition makes me realize how berkarat my BM has become! I was mostly cluless when it comes to simpulan and peribahasa. But when the student ask, I just ask her to refer to her reference book!

I am no Einstein, but I can teach!

Sorry...

I am not being arrogant or cocky or anything egoistic, but lately, I can't seem to grab the concept of the word 'sorry'. It is not like I never apologies to anyone in my whole life. I do, I do it quite often, that's the word that comes naturally out of my mouth right after I did or say something that I should have not done. Maybe that's my problem, everybody's problem.... We say sorry too easily, without meaning it.

When and why do we say sorry? And what are the implications of the word 'sorry' should be? What is the course of action that should follow right after we utter the word 'sorry'?
These are not rhetorical questions. I am really asking because I have no idea!

However on my part, I truly belief that, when we say sorry, it should convey the message that we really regretted what we have done and promise to ourselves that we would not repeat the same mistake intentionally.

But when sorry is simply used as an excused to repeat the same mistake over and over again, it losses its meaning, its power. It is like, "Go ahead, do whatever you liked, if you hurt others, just say sorry and everything would be just fine".

I make mistakes in life; I am not talking big here. I do sometimes repeat the same mistakes and apologies over and over again. I admit.

But I hope, perhaps, by limiting the frequency of uttering the word 'sorry', we could actually improve yourself and our relationship with people around us, because we are no longer using the word 'sorry' merely as an excuse to repeat the same mistake in the future.

There is still sand between my toes.....

Pulau Redang.......

It is beautiful.
The water is crystal clear.
The sand is white and so fine.
The sky is blue.
The breeze is cooling.
The atmosphere is always tranquil and fun.
It is a place you go to unwind.

This picture is taken form the sun bathing bench in the resort I was staying at.

Interesting Facts....

1. My first time to Terengganu

2. My first time in Air Asia.

3. My first time flying towards east in a plane.

4. Terengganu people are friendly.

5. All the makciks there in Kuala Terengganu so awet muda.

6. Bubur (porridge) is called Nasi Air in Terengganu.

7. Even dark skinned people can get sun burn.

8. Things are so cheap in Pasar Payang.

9. The sea look clearer in a very very hot and cloudless day.

10. You tend to eat a lot during vacations.

11. Your testosterone level is very high during vacation. (may be because of no stress).

12. All electricity running on generators in redang.

13. Sea food is still expensive even in an island.

14. Sea fish like to eat dry-bread.

15. It is easier to snorkel with a life jacket.

16. There are few topless foreigners sun bath in Redang.

To be continued........

Don't be such a QUEEN dude!

I meet all kind of people in the gym I go to. Most of them just mind their own business and go there for mainly......working out. Well that the way it suppose to be. You don't go to gym to socialize or chat (hmm maybe except for girls... they really can chat ANYWHERE...even on a treadmill running at quite high speed......... a rather quite gym with 100s of guys suddenly will be noisy after 2 girls join in).

Usually I don't trash people on my blog. But this guy is pushing my limit!

You see... there is this one guy who works out in the same gym with me. I got to tell you, this guy thinks that he is a gift to all womankind. How I know this? Well I haven't seen any guy spend like 30min-1 hour walking in their underwear in locker room, and this guy practically does that and he spend hours admiring himself in the mirror. It makes me wanna puke. It is ok if you trying to flex your muscle for few min infront of the mirror to give you the satisfaction of your workout...it does help I must admit. But this guy, just a bit too much and I must say that other guys in the gym feel the same way towards this guy.
Am I jealous? Please............ let me tell you, his body is not that great, he is not 'cut' and there is still flabs and if I were him I'll be doing more cardio to burn those excess fat than doing weight training, and I got this funny thing that I must share...... I heard Mr I-am-so-hot-everybody-look-at-me talking to on of his 'victim',

Victim: You have tone up a little, why don't you do more cardio....you know.... to look more 'ripped'?
Mr I-am-so-hot-everybody-look-at-me: Oh no... I can't do that, If I do cardio, I'll loose all my muscle..... my body is weird... I loose fat even when I am sleeping...I can't do cardio!

What a bull crap, buddy, if you loose fat while you sleeping....how you explain the flab in your abdomen!!!!

Things can't get worse?!!!
You are wrong. I found that the Mr I-am-so-hot-everybody-look-at-me is working in a same company with me and he just moved on to my floor! I was so taken back..... What this ass**** doing here I was thinking.
Anyway to not be rude, I just give him a respectfully node and simple smile to acknowledge him.....since we have met many time in gym, But what Mr I-am-so-hot-everybody-look-at-me did? He completely walk pass thorough me as though I wasn't there!!!! What a jackass!
On another occasion that really pisses me off is that, I went to collect my printings at the printer. The printer was down for 2 days, but since the status of the documents I was printing was "printing" I went to collect my printings anyway.
Guess who I saw there. There he was, Mr I-am-so-hot-everybody-look-at-me aka Mr I-know-everything-and-I-can-fix-anything was there...Meddling something with the printer.
"Is the printer working now?" I asked him politely...... He just looked at me gave a blank stare, mumbled something and continue with his handy-work.
I felt like really punch him on that spot!!! What an asshole!

The sad part is I have walk pass his cubicle everyday to go to my cubicle. What a torture!!! I have to see the Mr I-am-so-hot-everybody-look-at-me disgusting face everytime.
I am going to ignore him from today onwards, surely someday he will be needing my favor or my team's favor....then see what his fate will be like!!!!

Music of my life...........

If I am only dedicated to blogging, I it will be full of my random thoughts. It just too much going on in my head that I want to write down, kinda reminder to myself on my thoughts on certain things. But by the time I logged in to the blog I wonder where all this ideas fly away.

I am determined today that I will write something.

The way I am feeling at the one particular moment always been influenced by the songs I am currently listening or a really really old song that suddenly playing in my head out of blue and and my mood suddenly changed.......... according to song that is playing at the back of my head (it is like background application that launches in Windows without nobody starting it..... like a spyware!)

My life has been greatly influence by music. I don't have a particular artist that I adore and admire (well ..... actually I have). But the point is I listen to anything that I find interesting, I am not bounded by the artist or the language.

Listening to an old song really will bring you back old memories...... I guess that happen to everyone. But for me, I can feel what was my mental and emotional state at that particular moment of my life and I will be reliving it all over again. Not only that, there are certain song when I am listening, I can remember exactly where I heard it first, where I was driving at that moment and so on..........

It drives me crazy most of the time, it is like a curse, like now.... I am listening to these old songs from 80s and I feel really disturbed. This is what my parents used to listen and I am feeling so sad and disturbed emotionally. I feel like life just rushed past me leaving waaaayyyy back all alone. So much things hopped so fast. It is true what people say.............. Our life span here is just a blink of eye.

But then again........ there are song that really bring joy to me no matter what I am feeling at the moment. I like these songs. But I really can't reveal those songs here ( as though anybody bother to know!!!!) it is like my secret, some more I think people will think that I am weird judging on my music preference.

INSIDE I WAS A CHILD

THAT COULD NOT MEND A BROKEN WING

OUTSIDE I LOOKED FOR A WAY

TO TEACH MY HEART TO SING

RUNNING

Run
Running all the time
Running to the future
with you right by my side

Me
I’m the one you chose
out of all the people
you wanted me the most
I’m so sorry that I’ve fallen
help me up, lets keep on running
don’t let me fall out of love

Running, running
as fast as we can
I really hope you make it
(do you think we'll make it?)
we're running
keep holding my hand
it's so we don't get separated

Be
be the one I need
be the one I trust most
don’t stop inspiring me
sometimes it's hard to keep on running
we work so much to keep it going
don’t make me want to give up

What A Revenge!

I am emotionally disturbed! It has turned my world upside down! And I my perceptions towards Darth Vader has changed completely and I'll never watch the original Trilogy in the same way again.

Revenge of the Sith
In my opinion, this is the best of the prequels and probably best Star Wars (even better than Empire Strikes Back.... in my opinion, but there are many out there who still thinks ESB is still the best) It was the only episode in all prequels that actually moved the audience so emotional.

This movie made me angry, sad and happy all at one time. Even I knew the plot of the story long before, the movie had me at the edge of the seat from start till end (apart from the reason that I really need to piss and no way I am going to leave to toilet, because I wanted to absorb every nano second of that digital marvel).

The first think that I wanted to do right after watching ROTS is go back home and watch A New Hope (ANH), just to make myself feel better and that there is still hope to restore the order of the Galaxy. But too bad I left my previous trilogy back in my hometown, I hope it still be in one piece, knowing how rough my nephews are with CDs.

George Lucas is definitely a genius and I heard that if ROTS becomes the biggest box office of the year, he will most probably continue with Episode 7 (Shadow of the Empire form book by Steve Perry if I am not mistaken) , 8 and 9. And there is also Star Wars TV series to look forward to, the series is about what happen between the period of the ROTS and ANH.

And May the force be with you!

It is official.... I am OLD!

When I was small kid, I thought those who are 30 years old and above are really really old. I just turned 30 about 1 and half an hour ago. So far I am feeling fine, I don't feel old yet, things looking good I guess, but it just has been 1 hour and 3o min, too early to conclude anything.

But, from my 1 hour and 3o min experience as an 30 years OLD guy, I can assume that things are going fine, nothing to be alarmed or to be nervous, I just have to accept the fact that I am 30 years older and wiser (as my darling wife advised).

So I am sitting down here trying to plan out how I should conduct myself as an 30 years old. I am childish, I admit that without shame, my nephews and nieces feel comfortable with me that they take me as their friend because I could totally relate to them. I am totally comfortable the way I am now. I might act childish sometimes, but I am much more better now, at least I think I am matured in my mind even though I don't look it.

So... How an 30 years old should act? anyone?

And May The Force Be With You....

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is opening this week. I am so excited that no words can describes it. It is opening on 19th May, one day after my birthday (May 18th). I wonder why all Star Wars Movies (I am talking about the prequals only) opening very close to my birthday? Is this George Lucas Birthday treat to me? :) Off course no, I heard that his bithday falls somewhere in May (16th if I am not mistaken, and he is 61 this year, unbelieveable!!!).
If somebody really want to get a birthday gift that I would REALLY REALLY appreciate, that would be the opening ticket to the Revenge of the Sith (hints... hints...)

Being a Skywakler clansmen myself(he he he), I am a major Star Wars junky, I dig everything on Star Wars. I still remember back in college when The Phantom Menace opening, I practically watched the trailer everday and collected every magazines that had even a very little TPM articles in it. Since all my buddies that time was a SW fans as well, all we talked about that time was Star Wars, Star Wars and Star Wars.

A friend of mine queued at TGV KLCC for hours to get us the tickets. Not only we were managed to watched the TPM on the opening day, we manage to watched the midnight show the day before as well, and the next day we watched it again... I guess in the period of 48 hrs, we watched it 3 times.... in theatre! At the end I watched TPM 7 times in cinema, that time I was doing industrial training in Motorola KL, and spent the allowance money on Star Wars. It was so crazy then, but now I have slowed down. I still follows and read every production detail, but not as crazy as last time, most probably because I seldom keep in touch with my college friends so much nowadays.....everybody seem so busy!

Let list down all the Jedis in IIUMENGINE96-2000

1. Kyrill - Major fan, he knows everything on SW, no point arguing with him about SW, he's the master.
2. Bajang - A Padawan...even after all this years.....
3. Yan Ya - He still insisted on watching TPM even he had final on 'Graphics' the next day
4. Emma - One of the more knowledgeable female Jedi
5. Chai - Another female Jedi, who travels from Sabah to KL to catch The Attack of the Clones
6. MTLR - Watches all the prequels in pirated VCDs first, much to annoyance of the rest of the Jedis
7. Mahathir - (President of MGS.. hahaha... please dont even bother ask what it is stands for)
I have the strong feeling that I have missed out someone........


We made a pack back then that when E2 releases, we would all gather to watched it together..... but at the end it was just me and Kyrill... due to unavoidable circumstances.......

My Favourites Revenge of the Sith links
SuperShadows :for everything you need to know about the prequels.
Star Wars Revelations : A really cool fan movie, this guy spent US$20K to produce this, it is a fine piece of work, woth the download (248MB)

Surprise Phone Call

Yesterday while I was in office, I received a surprising phone call, from an old old friend. Orhan, he is an Albanian, we studied together in UIA. anyway, I was puzzled, because right after he called me, he start talking about McAfee licensing issues and and how to purchased the upgrades, no "Hi", no "how are you?" no "long time no see old friend...". Although I was so puzzled and clueless why he asking me all this, I tried my best and answered his questions patiently. Then suddenly he paused...for a long time. Then he asked "Are you Guzz from UIA?", "Yeah" I said. Then he started to laugh, after he managed to calm down he explained that he is supposes to call one of his vendor/supplier who has the same name like mine.
Anyway we chatted for about half an hour, talk about old times and what we are up to now. It felt good, talking to a old friend.
But I wonder, why that we are too busy with our career and current affairs that we hardly have time to call old friends just to keep in touch, that we need 'accidential' phone call like to actually catch up with an old friend?

This simple unexpected event makes me realise how precious our old friends are, they are like time machine, talking to them is like travelling back in time...

This makes me wonder......... Maybe I myself might try out this accidential phone call in the future.....

So guys..please be prepared to receive mysterious calls!

Stupid TV Shows...

This has been bugging me for months, I guess I have to get it out of my system!

Who watches 'The Simple Life" and "Growing Up Gotti" anyway? It is so stupid and insults the viewers' intelligent!

This is complete waste of our air time and even more complete waste of viewers' precious time.
Seriously.... Who is Victoria Gotti and why should we care about her life? It is not even remotely interesting. She have this 3 sons who are completely spoilt to the max.... real brats! The TV add says that There is a queen named Victoria lives in a castle with 3 princes!!! It suppose to be how 'hard' she have to work bringing up her spoilt brats and how she struggles with her love life. If you are multimillionaire, I guess it would be really 'hard' waking up before noon (after partying all nite) to prepare breakfast for your own kids. It really make me wanna puke...please.... I watched it once, and that 30 min of my life I am never getting back.

And don't even let me start with Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie. I guess if you are born with not an ounce of talent in your bone, you have to come up with something lame like this stupid 'reality show' to gain popularity (Hmmm I guess the hot steaming sex video Paris' ex-bf releases wasn't enough for her to gain popularity) What is so interesting watching 2 rich and spoilt girls going town to town making fun of other people professions/the way the make their livings? What they know about hard work and actually earning for living? Seriously...somebody please enlighten me... I am so confused...is it considered 'in' nowadays?
No wonder Matt and Trey (South Park creators) dedicated a whole episode for them in "Stupid Spoiled Whore" .......Serve them right if you ask me!

Paris in South Park....isn't she lovely?

On the positive sides..... DON"T even miss the LOST, it is so interesting..... many had tried to produce show about bunch of people stranded in a mysterious island, but this is the best so far!
And American Idol off course....which I didn't miss once this season....... Whatever America voted, Nadia Turner is my Idol, it is sad that such a talented singer have to walk home so early in the show.

Thunder and Lightening Can't Change What I am Feeling

I am sad, my fish is dead.

The electricity went off yesterday after lightening struck. The funny thing is the electricity was back after few hours for the rest of the neighborhood except our my house!!!
It seems that the fuse was blown by lightening. The TNB came around 8pm (as efficient as always) and it took them to about 2-3 min to fix the whole thing...... If only they could have come 1 hour earlier, they could have saved my beautifully white Japanese carp(koi). It was only about 5cm when I bought it, on the day of its departure, it was almost 1 feet long!!!
I was devastated!

p/s: This post has been in my 'draft' for almost a month. I started it when I was actually sad, but now I feel plain stupid, after all it just a fish.

Just Imagine.....

I think John Lennon is the greatest singer ever. PERIOD


Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

-John Lennon

Backmasking (hidden message in songs, if played backwards)

I was skeptical about this until I actually heard the subliminal messages! It is just creepy! Some are definitely intentional but most are pure coincidence.

These are few examples, Well I am not going write those subliminal messages here, check it out yourselves at this site:

http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm

Creepy huh!

Dancing Queen..... Sweeeeeet!

I am a big...huge South Park Fan. I'll eagerly wait for each episodes to be available to be downloaded every week. And I'll watch it over and over it again. I'll even read the transcripts and the voice talents of each episodes.
Many regards SP as a vulgar show, but, I would say, it depend mainly on how you look at it. I think the show have tackled so many current issue, outspoken on most global issues.

For instance, there will be at least one "moral of the story'' at the end of the show.

Sometimes it would very intelligent such as:
"No, no. You know who was right all along? The Mongolians. They knew that you just can't wall yourself off from the outside world. Putting walls up never helps anything. Tearing them down brings us together. "
(When the South Parks parents took an extreme action by building a "Great Wall" around the town, to prevent Child Abduction. The wall, however destroyed by the Mongolians who appeared out of nowhere)
from episodes Episode 611 - Child Abduction is Not Funny.

Or it can be plain stupid, such as:
"Nobody should have the kind of power Barbara Streisand wanted!"
(When Barbara Streisand transformed herself into a giant monster and tried to take over the world)
from Episode 112 - Mecha Streisand.

Both are simple plain truth...nobody can argue with that ;)

What I really want to talk about today is WING, the latest episode from season 9.
I bet my life that nobody heard of Mrs Wing before. She migrated to New Zealand with her family about ten years ago from Hong Kong. She have been learning singing in New Zealand and doing performances in Rest Homes and Hospitals and occasionally promotional concerts.

Her songs are funny..... If you think William Hung is funny...well think again!
But unlike William Hung who tries to be funny, Mrs Wing really gives her all for all her album.... (yup, she cut 9 albums already!)
All of her songs are cover versions (of Beatles, Phantom of Opera..etc)

And ever since South Park dedicated an whole episode her, her popularity has grown so much that she is so busy trying to keep up with Radio and TV interviews, not only in New Zealand but in the US and Europe as well.

If you feel down and sad, and need cheering up, listen to her music, it will put smile back to your face.... I SWEAR!!!!

You can download the sample song from http://www.wingtunes.com/public/default.aspx

cd 1 - Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera
listen-Phantom of the Opera

cd 2 - I Could Have Danced All Night
listen-I Could Have Danced All Night

cd 3 - The Sound of Music and the Prayer
listen-My Favourite Things
listen -Do-Re-Mi

cd 4 - Wing Sings the Carpenters
listen-Pokarekare Ana
listen-Don't cry for me Argentina

cd 5 - Wing Sings All Your Favourites
listen -I don't know how to love him
listen -Santa is coming to town

cd 6 - Everyone Sings Christmas Carols with Wing
listen -Joy to the world
listen -Castle on a Cloud

cd 8 - Beatles Classics by Wing
listen -I Want To Hold Your Hand

cd 9 - Dancing Queen by Wing
listen -Dancing Queen
listen -Fernando

Mrs Wing Posing for her latest Album... Dancing Queen.....

Bend it like Beckham....

Life is getting too routine.
I need something to spice up my life,
I need to do something spontaneous,
I need to do something different,
I need to do something that exciting...

What I did?

I shaved my head! It was the most spontaneous thing I have done in a long time.

I guess I look ok with shaved head... Kinda macho.... hahahh, but my wife says that I look like gengster!!!

Boy! was she surprised today when she got back from work to see my new look. She was wondering why on earth I was wearing cap.
"Your mum going to kill you!!!" she said, and she added "Thank God you are working nite shift this whole week....at least I don't have to sleep next to a gengster!!!"

Anyway, my new 'hair' gives me new energy all of sudden. I guess surprising ourselves is a great way to excite our live!!!

Rumours says that I look like Black version of Beckham........ ( I started the rumour... Ahaks..hahah)

Look at me ..look at me..... I DON'T THINK SO!

I tried this blog quiz to find out what kinda blogger I am (which I found out from lion3ss who left a comment in Whitewitch's blog), it turned out that I blog to get more traffic..which I don't think so....

What kinda heavy traffic I am expecting with 2-3 people that actually read my blog!

I DISAGREE !!!

You Are a Look At Me Blogger!

Cute pics, blog drama, whatever it takes to get traffic. You're notorious ... either loved or hated by all!

What kind of blogger are you?

Miseducated...

Recently the SPM result was out. Almost all local newspaper's frontpage filled with pictures of students jumping up and down in happiness. Hey......If I scored 17 A1s, I'll have difficulties controlling myself also I guess. But this is exactly what concerns me... 17 A1s?!!!
'Is it really necessary?'

I am not here to condemn anyone, but in my opinion, is it really necessary to take ALL subject offered in SPM just because we are born smart? It just beat the purpose of the whole thing. I mean...it is good, you will get a place anywhere you want, but you still will get the same place in any Uni if you have taken specialize subject like science, art and such.
I have to blame Malaysian education system for being too exam oriented rather than educating the students with good values. Hey..they have introduce Moral Education... you would refute. I have seen my classmates Moral text book....it is pathetic actually. Till now I really can't accept the fact that Moral Education is taught in Malaysian Classroom as a whole separate subject.

Anyway my congrats to girl who got the 17A1s, I heard she was not a bookworm and enjoyed her life as a normal teenager would. And the fact that she was from ordinary school, not boarding school makes her more special. Kudos!

This is madness....

I am wondering why the hell I am blogging while I have my hands tight with works... Let me explain...
Starting 7th March, JTI KL will go 24x7, which mean we will start to handle ALL calls including the calls from Europe office hour. Let me explain, all this while JTI KL only handled calls outside Europe office hour, all calls during Europe office hour will be handled by Swiss Zurich Team.
But now, we handle everything.... I started my shift at 8 pm and only now (5.44am) I have a bit of free time.
Thank goodness I slept well this afternoon ,I woke up only at 6pm :), or else I think I would have go crazy by now.
Seriously we need more person per shift, right now there is only 2 guys (at least in my shift) and it is definitely not enough.....
I really feeling as though I am drowning in the Tsunami of incoming cases........

My Recent Phone Conversation...

Ring Ring...

Me: Hello..
Caller: I am calling from Citibank Credit Card Centre. Do you have a moment to talk to me sir?
Me: Yes, how can I help you?
Caller: May I verify that Ms. XXX is an employee there?
Me: Yes, she is my colleague.
Caller: May I know what's her position.
Me: She is a xyz.
Caller: Thank you sir, is you company address is 18, Jalan XYZX, 123455 Bukit Damansara?
Me: Yes you are right.
Caller: May I have your name sir?
Me: Ghazali.
Caller: Could you spell that for me sir?
Me: G.H.A.Z.A.L.I.
Caller: You are 'Miss' or 'Mr', sir?
Me: Do I sound like a girl to you?
Caller: Pardon me sir, I couldn't hear you sir, you are 'Miss' or 'Mr', sir?
Me: Do I sound like a girl to you?
Caller: Oh...You are 'Mr.' then....
Me: That's right, you are smart.
Caller: Thank you for your time sir.
Me: Bye!


The funny thing is she been calling me SIR from the very beginning!!! I guess she was just reading from the script. Well it is good if they would use their brain once a while rather than reading from script!!!!
Hello..Citibank....please do something here.....

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like watercolours in the rain....

I don't want my blog to be a dead blog, I want to keep on posting..... but I just running out of idea.... it just nothing interesting happening in my life or life of people around me.
A friend of mine suggested, if there is nothing to write about own life...we can can write some commentaries on recent happenings or headlines. The thing is, it has been a while since I actually sit down to read newspaper properly or watch news on TV. Not that I am busy, it just that I seems to be loosing interest in things happening around me.
I guess I am undergoing some kinda change in my life, I wish I know what it is! And hopefully it is good changes.
Ever since 2005 started, I keep on thinking the meaning of life. Why we are here, is our existence significant? are we making full use of the opportunity given to us? What we have accomplished in our life? what good changes we have caused in others? Are we taking things for granted? Are we really appreciating all the good things we have? and thousand more questions like this keep on playing in my head like a broken record!
Is it because I am going to be 30 soon and start panicking? that I haven't accomplished anything in my life? What I want to accomplish anyway? do I even have a goal in life?... here we go again..... with these annoying series of questions......
Anyway.... I am hoping that whatever I am going through now, will pass eventually....

I used to sing this song whenever I am blue those days, all of sudden I remembered it again....why......

Going trough the motions.
Ending up nowhere at all.
Can't see the sun on my wall.
Going trough emotions.
Ending up on a frozen morning with a heart not even broken.
Seems I've been running all my life all my life.
Seems I've been running all my life all my life like watercolours in the rain.
Find a place to settle down.
Get a job in a city nearby and watch the trains roll on by.
I'll find the falling star.
I'll fall in love with the eyes of a dreamer and a dream worth believing.
Seems I've been running all my life all my life.
Seems I've been running all my life all my life like watercolours in the rain.

The Birdie Part II

Well the birds life span did not last long. On the raya haji day, the cat got the yellow bird, it survived, hardly, unable to fly because the one of the wing is damaged by the cat's claw. The blue one survived. I wonder how on earth the cat (bad...bad kitty !!!) got the cage, according to my mother in law, after the morning shower she gave the birds every morning (yes, she does that every morning), she hang the bird cage on the cloth line, it was a bit lower that he usual position, next minute the cage was on the ground and a cat trying to reach the birdies inside.

Pity the yellow bird. For few days my MIL tried to mend the wound by applying turmeric, and the situation seems to improved for the yellow one, but she still unable to jump around the cage, just sit there at the bottom of the cage silently......

Few days after "The Attack" the blue one escaped mysteriosly, nobody knows what happened. The cage was intacted, but the blue bird was missing...... Mulder and Scully working on the case. The yellow one died few day after that, we found it with her head in the water container in the cage, may be she drown while trying to drink or committed suicide out of loneliness.

Quite a tragic story indeed...............

3rd Wedding Anniversary...

Tomorrow is 2nd of Feb 05, it is my 3rd wedding anniversary.

What I am feeling? It i kinda mixed actually, I am feeling happy, for my love for my wife still going strong after 3 years. But I can't avoid feeling sad also, for the 1000 milion dollar question that me and my wife really can't avoid. When you guys are planning to have babies?

Its hurt after sometimes, most people just jump to conclusion that we are planning, the truth is we never did, it just God has not given us baby, thats why we still don't have babies.

"Belum ada rezeki lagi" This is my standard answer.

Only God knows whats going on in my wife's and my heart.



Happy 3rd anniversary dear!

The Edge of Reason....

I am bored.... God...please help me. I really have nothing to do and just sitting in front of the PC. There is nothing much to do.......... I think I'll go crazy. So... on a boring day like this..... while sitting idly in office, it good time to write every tid-buts and mundane details of what going on in my life.

We went to Guardian Warehouse Sales last nite in Dewan Civic PJ. The things there not that cheap, mostly there are selling things that you wouldn't anyway if you entered the Guardian Pharmacy, really those of unbranded stuffs or old stocks that they want to get rid of. We bought fruit and vegetable juice, cereal bars, bathroom 4-piece set of soap holder, hand wash, tooth paste holder and cup, really cute!....

It wasn't Guardian Sales only, there were other shops there, mostly selling clothes, se we bought a nice bed sheet. That all la .... quite boring actually.

The day before we went to watch Bridget Jones-Edge of Reason. We wanted to watch Meet the Fockers actually, but it is not showing that day. Well........I find it boring, was not as good as the first part and Renee Zellweger look really awful.... She was cute in Jerry McGuire... Maybe the part wanted her to play fat, but she was just not pleasant to look at, some people look nice even I bit overweight...but not her!



I bought the pirated VCD of Meet the Fockers, of course I can see other people’s head walking around in cinema, but that is not the worse part, the worse part is, the second CD is not playable at all!!!! So tension.. the story was funny and interesting and now I don’t know the ending!!!! I hope the VCD guy masuk lokap for cheating me...........

THE Report !!!!

I managed to complete the Backup report. I was a bit confident yesterday to do the report, but suddenly my team lead, Afif and Chandra made conference call to my HP while I was in Bentong. They want to make sure that I really can do the backup report or not, precisely at that moment, my confident started to shake. My goodness, is that that complicated and critical? (I found out later that Backup report on Tuesday and Thursday IS critilcal since they will be having meeting with client/2nd Level to discuss LINE by LINE on the backup report)
But I assured them I will be able to handle it without problem...... I tried to sound cool, but in reality, I cuak already. I was thinking to myself, sooner or later I have to do the report on my own.
So now... I have completed it.. on time (report have to be sent before 2pm everyday). Now I am praying so that there will be no escalation, if not, dapat 'kereta' sebijik!!!! (kereta=CAR-Corrective Action Request)
. Fenin buat report!!!

Why Why Why am I writing about work in blog? how pathethic I am?

Hopefully I will reduce talking about work in blog, like a person with no life only!

Tomorrow I have to go to pick my wife and family from KLIA. I am so bored all alone. Hopefully she will be buy something nice for me from Sarawak.... hehehhe tak malunye.......

I repaired my power window yesterday, it cost me RM270 to change the whole barcket!!! That foreman also said "Aiya kereta waja punya power window selalu rosak punye la....." Hmm nak buat apa...dah nasib...... just paid him and made his day!
Ahh one more thing, I installed the flashing light at the winscreen shower nozel. It has seven-colours blinking light...Ha hah my car going to look really cool while driving at night! (it cost only RM27-Dear wife, please don't nag that I am spending more on car than on you... you know that's only partially true!!!)

No....I don't decorate my car like this everyday...

Yeah...... Don't know what title to put for this post la...

I am working today, still in office. feel sooooo lazy, if only I don't have to work today, I guess I would spent whole day on bed! I am feeling that lazy. Dah le, during this raya haji period, my diet all gone really messed up, really been loading myself with fatty food.. Arrggghhhhhhhhhh tension only. Nevermindla.. holiday period is is the time to really stuff yourself right, somemore calories taked during festive season can be ignored, hey .... I am not making this up ..... It's true!! (I wish...)

Today I came to work at about 8am, left Bentong at about 7am. Hmmm 1 hr from Bentong to work..... well it is holiday season, no cars, no jam!

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Now I am going to talk about work. Please don't proceed to read, it is boring......
Today for the first time, I did the backup report for the Ericsson. Hmm I am happy that I learned new stuffs, it is not all that complicated actually, it just so tedious that you have to check every job scheduled one by one.. really tiring the eyes...anyway I did it, now I am prying that I didn't do anything wrong..... kalau kena komplen ngan customer, nanti kena escalate tak tentu pasal lak.
Some more, I am swapping with Chandra this Tuesday (he want to go to batu Caves for Thaipusam), its worked out for me as well since he will cover me on 6th Feb, so that I can go to KLIA to fetch my parents returning from Haji..Yahoooooo!!!!!! Wait a minute.. do I have fetch them from KLIA or the Kompleks Tabung Haji in Kelana Jaya? Have to find out la........
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Hmmm.... Today after work nak balik Bentong or to PJ? Hmmm I am in dilemma, if I go boack to PJ, only my Mummy in Law and grandma is there, I would be so bored to death... Hmmm balik Bentong jer la... since Shahril 9th Birthday is this Tuesday............oh God, I am working this Tues...so how......... then maybe I'll come back on Monday la.

Reminder: Sent car to service, the front driver seat window not working, have to send to Muthu Motors, and also have to rotate the tyre, lama tak rotate, nanti botak sebelah.

Tipah Tertipu.
Today, during lunch time I pesan from Zalina (my colleague) to buy me the new KFC burger, you know, the one they promote extensively on TV? Well since there were so much hype (The guy in the advert wanted to complain to the police about his missing car, but more concern about the burger went missing with that car and the add in radio is about a guy wanted to insure his new KFC burger...stupid ain't it), So felt like give it a try. I hadn't had any junk food for a long time, to adhere with my Body For Life programme, but I made exception for this KFC Burger fearing the worse that I might missed it once the promotion is over.

There I was waiting for the burger with empty stomach. I eagerly received the KFC plactic bag from my colleague, but once I saw the burger, I was ... I was.... I had no words to describe what I felt that time, the first phrase that came to my mind was "Tipah Tertipu"...
It was soooooo smaaaaal, tiny, I thought my friend bought the happy meal (or whatever equivalent of it in KFC term). I took 2 bites then its gone...just like that. It tasted just like any other KFC burger.. what the big hype? I don't understand. somebody please tell me what so great about this burger...please I really want to know!!!!
I'd rather have Properity Burger from McD, at least it is filling. I am still wondering how the adverticements and the posters make something so tiny look so BIG!!!

Hari Raya Haji

Wahhhhh........ huwaaaaaaaa.......... huwaaaaaaaa (crying...)

Why?

My wife left me to celebrate Raya Haji alone this year. She went to the family vacations to Sarawak and I am left here all alone. What to do... I can't take leave that long! It is ok, I'll try to make the best of it with my family.

Balik kampung alone this year. Since mak and bapak went to haji this year, it is only us, the children in the house. Kak Mar went to her in laws' kampung, so it is just Kak Jana&Fly, Saba&Fly, my uncle (mom's bro) and me. Kak Jana did all the cooking. She made idli and mutton curry for breakfast. Nasi tomato, rendang ayam for lunch. It was nice la..... but I still misses mom's cooking.......huwaaaaaa!!!!

That nite I tried to do BBQ, I made Whipped Potato (siap dengan chicken gravy sekali) I did cincai only, don't know what the recipe to do the gravy actually, but just bantai only. I put butter, added chicken cube and some flour with a bit of black pepper. It turned out ok, but a bit thick and too much.. Imagine the gravy and the potato was same amount. For the BBQ, I marinated the korban beef with BBQ sauce, then grilled it together with some sausages and the some bread. It turned out ok la, the beef was a bit liat, but it was not my fault, even when I was cutting it it was so liat (daging kerbau kot)!!!! I was so tired after that, since I did it alone, Shahril and Shafiqah helped too..helped to make mess!!!!! Saba made coleslaw, which was nice.

I was so tired after that, I went to bed at about 10. I have to go work next day, have to drive to Bukit Damansara all the way from Bentong. No big deal... done that all the time. For me it is just a stone throw away!