Much Needed Break.

I am looking forward for my UK trip, and this is an understatement.

That's all I am thinking about for weeks, I need break from work. I need to unwind and rethink a lot of things.
Too bad my wife and kids unable to join me this time, as I am going just an escort for my parents, but, I still can have fun.

And I am really hopeful that ash from Iceland doesn't interfere with the flight schedule, or else everything will be ruined!

Where I am Going? - Thats the title for my blog (for now) and its funny, when I look at the header banner for the  blog, it list streets of London, which when I put it up, it thought it was rather suitable picture, very related to the tittle, not in my wildest dream I was thinking that will be going to London this year!

UK (hopefully other countries in Europe too), here I come!

New Year Resolutions 2010

Here goes, another year, another same entry.

1. Wanna blog more (I am serious this time guys)
2. Loose weight (yeap, serious as well)
3. Spend more time with family
4. Organize a family vacation, a big mega outing, definitely!
5. Going green: Reduce electric consumption, recycle more, plant more plants, reduce usage of plastics.
6. Read more books.
7. Work hard and play hard.
8. Share more
9. Talk and Smile more.
10. Save more.

Snippets

• If you recently lost you cellphone contact, New Year is great time to get them updated!
• Feel lonely at work? Buy few packets of kuaci and eat them while work, few minutes later your cubicles will become famous out sudden.
• I old template went bonkers, so here is the new one, 100% downloaded, 0% own creativity.

Imaad Luqman

Assalamualikum WBT. Nama saya Muhammad Imaad Luqman. Memang panjang nama tu, susah jugak masuk sekolah nanti kene tulis nama panjang-panjang ni, tapi takper la, mak bapak bagi nama ni, saya terima jer, lagipun saya suka nama ni. Panggil saya Imaad cukup la, simple.

Saya lahir kat Kelana Jaya Medical Center pada 3 September 2009, pukul 2:28 PM (penting ke time saya lahir ni?), proses kelahiran saya, sama jugak macam kakak saya Daaniya. Jadi tak payah la saya ulang balik kat sini.

Orang cakap muka saya pun lebih kurang akak saya, cuma saya ni slim skit, dan rambut saya jarang sikit banding ngan kakak saya, jadi kalau nak buat mohawk tu susah jugak rasanya, takper la saya tunggu sampai lebat, itu pun kalau bapak saya tak botakkan saya.

Sekarang ni tak der apa nak update sangat, kerja saya tidur, minum susu, tidur, kencing, berak camtu jer. Cuma nak komplen pasak Kak Daaniya sikit, dia ni..... Masya Allah, punyer la jeles ngan saya, padahal saya tak buat apa-apa pun. Kalau bapak saya dukung saya mula la dia meraung-raung, nagis macam kene pukul. Kalau mak dukung saya dia ok jer. Ntah apa-apa la akak saya sorang ni, relax la sis, share the LURVE ok?

Tu je la, nak sambung tido balik.

Wassalam and Ciou!!

Office Toilet

1. Honestly, how hard it is to life the toilet seat, aim and flush? why so many guys messes up the whole place?

2. And do you guys really need to squat on seating type toilet? You are some kinda moron? There is eastern toilet right opposite, why don 't you use that?

3. I noticed many and many guys nowadays bring tooth paste and brush to work. After lunch they rush to rest room and start brushing away. Maybe I should too.

4. I really think they should replace the tissue roller at the sink to hot air hand dryer, we can save lots of tree and help reduce overflowing rubbish bin in toilet.

5. I am spending precious time writing about office toilet, I need to get my head checked!

Chau!

The truth!

You were sitting down, relaxing , and suddenly out of nowhere, someone appear and give you one hard slap on you face. How that would feel?

Thats how I feel when suddenly I realize the truth of the matter.

It always appear when we least expected it and we have to accept the reality of life.

People say you will grow up gradually, but no, life sometimes forced it on us, that we have to grow up and take control whether we are ready or not.

I had enough of this, I am not gonna live like this. I want to be in control.

Sleep? Deprieved...

They are people who will be in dreamland the moment their head touches the pillow, my wife for example. And there are people who will be tossing and turning for few hours before falling asleep, me, for instance.

There is really nothing I can do about this. I have tried everything I can think of. Cutting of caffeine, tire myself in gym before bed, or avoid certain food. Nothing works.

Since I had to life this problem, I need to improvise on the situation. Here is what I do:

1. Imagine that I am in a spaceship that cruising smoothly in outer space. I normally will be USS Enterprise. I know I am such a geek, but this what I have been doing since hmmm my teenage years. It always help me sleeps. It seems that before Captain Picard is disturbed form his peaceful slumber, of an yet another attack of Klingons, he look so peacefully asleep.
2. When I really could'nt sleep, I stopped looking at the time. It is more physcological than anything. If I keep on looking at the time and I realize that I only fall asleep at 4 am for instance, I will feel tired and week next week, because I know the fact that I only fall asleep at 4. But If i hadn't seen the time, I'd never know the time, I might have fallen asleep at 5 or maybe even 12. I will never know! So physologically I still fresh in the morning. Silly, I know.
3. I think about the nicest thing that I did that day that I am proud off. It really helps. It doesn't have to be big, it can be really small stuffs and sometime even silly. It can be something you settle for good at work. Or somehing I did home, like DIY stuffs, or something cute my daughter did. Whatever keeps you in happy thoughts.
4. If all doesn't work, well guys, at the end, you know what the best way to make you tired and sleepy ;)
   

People Don't Change?

I am done with updating the template. The XML thingy is fun once you got the hang of it. The widgets are cool too, make blogging so much more easier.

While updating the template, I was going through all my older posts in order to label each entries for easier search later on, so I read each and every entry I made since the day I started blogging. It just struck me how much I have changed and how much my life has evolved!

All this while, I thought I never change since the day I was born, I mean, the way I think, who I am, the way I see think. I thought I am pretty much constant through-out. But After finish reading my own blog, I had to disagree. PEOPLE CHANGE OVER TIME.

They are some entries I don't even remember entering and there are some entries seem so alien to me it might as well been written by some0ne else. It is so weird to read them all back. Some entries bring back memories, some entries I just can't seem to relate to anymore. Somehow it give me some degree of perspective in life, where I am from and where I am heading.

Who ever says blogging is waste of time and useless is clueless what they talking about.

Maintenance in progress!

Yeah, my resolution this year was to blog more, but 10 posts in January? and all of them about car, even I feel sick reading it!

I am kinda trying out new template now, so this blog gonna look bit shitty for now. I upgrade to XML, but man, I know nothing about XML, still learning. So I switched back to HTML for now.

Hope I will come up with prototype by weekend ends.

Chau!

Love at first sight Part 2

That's what happened to me. I was so convinced that City is the car for me! But then, there was CIVIC, just parked there in the show room, in it own silence elegance, its already command respect who those who just even looked at it. Once you sat in it and touch the dashboard, you will fall for it.

So at that spur of the moment, me and wife decided it is CIVIC we are getting. Off course I got to fork out more, but it WORTH it!

CIVIC is my true love now ;)

Love at first sight Part 1

Some guys swear that the found their true love or soul mate but only to discover they found 'another' soul mate a week later. Some guy fall in love with but commit to another. So there is no assurance that what we thought as our true love still will be the true love we thought some time later on in our life.
This is what I have learnt recently, things not always what we thought it would be. what we thought as our love might be just infatuation, we just need some time to pass before deciding it if it is for us or not. Never be too sure of your taste, it fluctuate, give it time!

More will be revealed in Part 2.........................

Mawi-Ekin

I couldn't help but feeling rather sorry and a bit embarrassed watching these two's wedding reception on TV.
Wife was watching it, and I felt so sorry for her, wasting her time like that, she justified that she watching it just to see how stupid the whole thing is.
No matter how famous one get, marriage should always should remain private and personal. Gosh, letting themselves to be manipulated for the gain of others like that!!!

I truly feel sorry.

Remember Erra and Yusry anyone?

I hope only the death will do them part, Amin!

2009 Resolutions

I better write something before it is February!

• New Car! -Need suggestion please!
  
• New Baby! - Nope, no suggestion needed ;)
  
• Revamp this blog (damn, is it that difficult?)
• Blog more!
  
• body fat less than 20% or die trying!!!! - I am serious this time!
• Do something about upstairs now empty family room.
• Re-do the landscape in the garden, hmm maybe a fountain?
• Give more charity!
• Be more cheerful

Thats all I can think about, some too personal to be written here!

Money

• Claimed my RM625 yesterday from Cyberjaya Post Office, when to terminal for tea break, and the counter was absolutely empty, filled up the form and the lady handed over to me the cash just like that, it would be nice if they could do this every month! And this going to sound cliche especially at the economic crisis time like now, but the first thing I bought with this money is formula Milk for Daaniya!
  
• Finally got my increment, after being postponed for 6 month due to some "strategic financial planning" by my company, it wasn't as much as I expected, but there is at least increment, I at a crisis time like this and at this point of my life, I don't want to complain about in-flow of cash into my bank account. every cents are appreciated.

Tribute to Aathi.

Every village has one, there is no village without it, a village idiot. In my case, and to the people of Chamang, Bentong, it would be Aathi.

Everyone knows her, a thin small Indian lady, she is famous, everyone knows her name, a very well known household name in Chamang. Kids make fun of her when she walks by, and she is half mental but not a total nut case. She is married, with one son, her husband is working as guard/mandor somewhere.

I remember making fun of her when I was young, she comes to my father's shop for groceries (where we provide 555 book credit card service). She use to beg my dad to give hutang to buy sirih and pinang and while she is in shop, I use to shoot her with kacang hijau in a straw and she complaints to my mum about this all the time. I buat dunne jer.

And when grew up a bit she complained to my mum that I am trying to hit on her (mengorat) ha ha what a joke. My mum just laughed it away.

After sometime, her son grew up and left the family, leaving her and her hubby alone, she worked with my mum as maid for a while, the she stopped (or fired, don't know which one).

She alway very energetic, no one would have believed she is in her fifties. She always seen walking hastily in Chamang, where she goes and what she does, no one knew. She like to collect flowering plant all over Chamang to be planted in her house.

Recently I had a news that he she passes away in Bentong hospital. She had cancer. I felt sad. Sad thinking of her life. Only after she passed away, I was thinking why was I so mean to her? Why I treated her badly? Why did I just followed the trend and made fun of the village idiot? Would it been too hard for me to treat her a bit better? This really got me thinking.

Now that Chamang has lost one, I am hoping that I would treat the next in line for the village idiot with little more respect.

Empty.............

It has been a while since I have updated. I just seems to lose all my passion to blog. Maybe my life is becoming more boring (more than its already been I mean), or I have become boring, or I have become lazy.

(after 10 min pause)

See! I can't come up with anything to blog! My mind is empty! I have become a zombie.

(another 5 min)

Still thinking.........

Nope, nada.... nothing coming up.......

So...

No blog entry for today..... thanks for your patient!

bye!

Dentist from hell!

Whenever I go to do my fillings, she will say, I will put on a temporary filling first, and after the we will 'monitor' how your teeth feels, than you come back here to do a permanent fillings. And this temporary fillings will cost about RM40. It will last one week the most, after that I need to go to see her again for permanent fillings. And that will easily cost me RM50, so to do one cavity fillings, I am spending around RM100 with this dentist! What a blood sucking leech!

And at the most recent visit, she told me, if the amalgam keeps on coming off, we might need to do a 'crowning' for both of your teeth and each crown will cost RM600!!!

That's it, I had enough, never ever I will return to this evil witch doctor, after getting my yet another temporary fillings, I left that damn clinic for good.

When to a dentist in Shah Alam. She was really nice, explain to me what the problem with my teeth, saying that the amalgam might not hold it, because my tooth (or whatever left of it) can support it (only 3 walls of my tooth left)

I was really pleased with the result. It really look neat, and it doesn't even looked like it has been filled. And she was using all the modern equipment unlike the ancient tools used in that witch doctors clinic.

Well, anyone who is interested in dental work (unless you or you wife is a dentist and has free dental treatment for life) drop by at hmmmmm should I advertise?

Lets count the blessings

Life is good when...

1. When you searching for the remote, it is just within reach.
2. You come back from home, tired from work, you switch on the TV, and your favorite show is showing.
3. Your alarm set off, you wake early to get ready to work, only to find out its your off day, and you continue your sleep.
4. Your are really hungry, you open the fridge, and your favorite dish is there waiting for you.
5. You put on a pants, slip your hand inside the pocket and found RM50 note inside.

Resolutions

My 2007 Resolutions.

1. Be a father soon.
2. Pay off all my credit card debt.
3. Be more charitable, at lease once a month I want to donate something to orphanage (this will be easier once resolution no. 2 is fulfilled)
4. Fat percentage below 10% (hmmmm mimpi ler)
5. Give money to parents (again depend on number 2)
6. Go vacation somewhere REALLY nice.
7. Finally put that MIRROR wall at the dining area.
8. Be a nice guy.
9. Do something to the car, it is so boring now.
10. Go to mosque for Maghrib and Isyak prayer.

Tu jer.

I am still here

I didn't go MIA. Here are few updates.

Work.
My schedule is haywire now. I am doing 4 day 10 hours shift, and 3 days off. I need to work on weekend till the Chennai guys are trained by the US guys. The manager said, I might be in this schedule for 3-4 weeks. Thanks God I got leave on Raya Haji.
I suppose to work form home on weekend, but due to the earthquake in Taiwan which wrecked the under sea internet backbone, Streamyx is real pain in the ass. And the office network has been routed straight to US, bypassing internet. So I have no choice but to come to office.

Bonus.
I got prorated bonus (since I just joined this company) The bonus was used to pay credit card, and few things for the house. (FYI, the bonus received was NOT significant compared to the Credit Card loan I accumulated)


Car Stereo.
Yippy! Finally I changed my car player. The original Clarion has gone bonkers. It keep on switching off after few seconds. The guy at the Brothers trade that in for RM170 only. He said, if in working condition, he will give RM250.
I got this cool (in my opinion) JVC (KDG720) with USB port which supports MP3 format of-course. So I don't have to burn all my MP3 to CDs (or convert all my MP3 to audio CDs in previous Clarion). The sound is great and I am happy. And I got a free pen drive as well.

Teh C
You guys know what Teh C is? I just discovered it (as Pizli discovered that Tupperware is actually a Brand).
You can order Teh C in any mamak shop. It is tea with Carnation evaporated milk (not the condensed one) So it it much more healthier, try this instead of Teh tarik kurang manis. Thanks to my bro in law to introduce this.



New Year 2007.
I need to come up with practical resolution that I can actually achieve.


Hmmm that's it? Hmm my life is pretty pathetic.

Happy new year and Selamat Raya Haji to all!