Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Jen's Convocation @ Equatorial Hotel

congrats buddy! :)

group photo

another one with Iris and Lin Fah too! congrats Lin Fah :)


The Ex-Georgians - me, Siew Wun (congrats girl!), Michelle and Angeline


Bryan CAN ALREADY! Finally huh?! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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Freedom

I should be spamming, in elation, with capital letters:

EXAMS are OVER!! Whoo-hoo!

Anyway, there was a hell lot of spamming in Business Law which, contrary to popular belief, is not as hard as ppl think it is. In fact, it rocked! Mwahaha! I managed to finish on time, sacrificing my finger health for a noble goal.

If everything turns well and the examiner doesn't rule my untidy writing (scrawled under threat of finger cramps) as unintelligible, i should be able to score a high credit. Or even a distinction. Whee. What a fantastic way to end exams and start off holidays!

To tell the truth i sorta spent wayyy too much time on Cassie and the Kangaroos (am naming the questions as if they were fairy tales) and on Will's Painting. I took 1 look at the omnipresent clocks in 9608, started panicking and increased my writing speed.

So anyway after the three and a half agonizing hours of parking my ass on the ass-tremely uncomfy seats of the exam hall, me Wingie and Danny (who has recently decided to purge the knee-deep layer of dust caked upon his blog and resume blogging in a princezz-celia come back) went off to Pyramid to catch a movie. Shoot 'em up. V. much like Sin City, same actor, same producer, same gruesome scenes, same invincibility of main character. Wasn't half bad.

And on the way home i bought half a gallon of *omg* Baskin Robbins! Nyahaha! Yeah this is how i spent my last day of exams! After much fist-clenching anticipation, 31st of October didn't turn out like i expected it to be, in terms of joy felt after exams.

Y'know it's like climbing up a tedious obstacle-laden mountain, and while you're traversing the perilous mountain path you are driven by the thought that, once you reach the mountain peak and you're on top of the world, you will have your breath taken away by the sheer magnificence of the views: the expansive horizon, the foggy wisps of cloud and the awe-inspiring sunrise (assuming you're climbing to see the freakin sunrise la)!

Then you actually reach the peak and suddenly feel like it's nothing much special actually. Instead of savouring your conquering of the mountain and bask in the natural beauty of the peak, you just feel exhausted and want to lay down for a good night's rest.

That, is pretty much what am feeling right now. Now, i have to say i have never attempted to ascend any mountains (a 500m staircase crawl upwards at FRIM was horrible enough), and will never think of doing anything like that. The above example is what you call an analogy to illustrate my thoughts.

Hmm. But i suppose that when you eventually crawl down limp and nyawa-nyawa-ikan-ly lifeless at the mountain base and have regained enough sleep and feel of legs, you will eventually look back and be happy that you climbed the mountain and survived it.

Which also means that, after i get out of exam-mode and overcome the sudden compulsions to grab at a book and stuff myself with facts, i will be happy as a sandboy again!

Pardon me. I'm going a little insane. I blame it on overdose of Baskin Robbins.

***
Anyway, Happy Halloween people! Smile!

p.s. Baskin Robbins has this new flavour in conjunction with Halloween: pumpkin cheesecake. Give it a try if you wish. =)

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

I promise...

Have you ever thought that we make promises and they were meant to be broken sometimes? Sure you do. People often say such and we often hear them. Promises, or rather resolutions, we always make at the start of the new year remind us of what we need to change in order to make ourselves better. But, mind you, many of us tend to go back to our old ways as the year goes by. Many of us do. Serious. Now I am no exception to this. I know I have been making promises to myself, yet old habits just die hard. **SIGH**...

Anyway, here are my 10 promises for the year, albeit coming near to the end of the year. Hopefully, I don't go back to my old habits again.

(1) I promise not to spend like a rich man. More often than not, at month's end, I am often broke.

(2) I promise not to "goyang kaki" and procrastinate at the office.

(3) I promise to save as much money as possible so that I can retire rich.

(4) I promise myself to go to gym as often as possible, which is good because I am practising this now.

(5) I promise to often update my blog, as frequently as possible, and should not back-dating posts anymore. Bad habit, indeed. First, it is a dishonest man's work. Second, you have to put in effort to catch up.

(6) I promise to often clean my rented room as often as possible. Now, take a look at these mess!

Househusbandry, you say?


Oh what a mess!

Mom's gonna kill you! Go clean it up, kid!

(7) I promise I will not keep pestering my fellow bloggers with somewhat irritating comments. Hope you all can forgive me if I do so. Thousands of apologies.

(8) I promise not to lose my temper so easily and not to be too sensitive over weenie little matters.

(9) I promise to get my future lover and my loved ones at home the best I can give. All my life, all my soul and all my heart to the ones I most dearly love.

(10) Last, but not least, I promise not to drive my car fast like it is a racing car. Look at what had happened to me! Serve me right! Now, that's the reason why I can't go to Starbucks those few days ago to blog my stuff on the net. Damn me!


Skidded on a wet road during a rainy weather and "kissed" the "ass" of the car in front.

The other car that I knocked into. Notice the exhaust pipe was out of place.


SURPRISE!!! Now, this is exactly a meme. Got caught on with the meme virus, thanks to my fellow bloggers. Time for tagging... hehehe... *smiles evilly*... OK, these are the people to be tagged (except for myself, of course!)... TADAAA!!!... here is the list...

Having said all that, will I ever learn from these mistakes? Hopefully I will. And, will I break those promises? Hopefully, I won't.

Now, go and do your meme and write down your own 10 promises you have made for yourself!

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Homemade Herbal Apple Soup @ The Workplace


a kickass bowl of soup @ RM2.50

The Puppy

A few of us went over to PC's workplace to helped out for her ISO thingy. we spotted a tiny puppy outside the factory. so cute can die :)

So when we were out for lunch, we bought Alpo Puppy's for the cutie pie. I even bought a cup ice cream to store clean H2O for her.

i assumed it's a she cos i dont see any balls. opss XD


yep. skin infection :(

:)))

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Birthday

So it was mum's birthday yesterday.

Dad got her a bouquet of roses after sis called countless times to remind him. Dad is those type. No reminder, no flowers.


Yes. Roses. If you notice properly the wrapping paper has a flowery rose motif. "I not only got u these roses. The wrapping paper is filled with roses too!" Ha. Anyway the roses don't look all too perky as they were kinda drooping already when i snapped the pic.

Few years ago Dad made a colossal mistake of getting Mum a basket of flowers. Like a basket. Y'know those pathetic ones you bring to hospitals, with the flowers attached to metal wires and prodded decoratively into a piece of crumbly sponge. Mum got seriously pissed off. LoL.

My role was to get them cards, which i did. One for me and sis. One for dad. Unfortunately my eyes were getting card-blur and i bought a wedding card instead. -_-" I was flipping through cards and the wedding card was most romantic saying "For a Long and Happy Life Together. Happy Birthday Wedding", and i thought wow! Mum and Dad. Happy life together. It just sounded so right, and there was a "Happy" there so i assumed it was followed by Birthday, not wedding.


So to replace the wedding card, i drew 1 for dad instead, cut into a heart shape. Haha. Was running out of creativity then, and there wasn't much time. I initially wanted to do some curly rose vines but i didn't think i could pull it off so i settled for a simple heart. Good to be drawing again! Was surprised my yellow and orange colours have yet to dry up.


Card debacle aside, we got mum this fexpensive ice-cream cake from *wince* Haagen Dazs. V. pretty. Macadamia Nut. Haagen Dazs's macadamia nut is v. good.


Gorgeous cake!

We haven't officially celebrated since Thur is outstation. We'll celebrate once he gets back.

p.s. This post is way outdated. I tried posting the day b4 but freakin blogger had some fucked up problems and refused to let me upload pics.

p.p.s. Pardon the low-quality photos. I took them with my handphone camera. :D

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So anyway more random pictures:


An interesting car number plate i caught from Brown Bear's car. "Waaaaaa! 8888!"


Triple-iPod. Wingie's nano on top. My large bulky video at the bottom. Mojojoseph's latest nano (which he likes v. much and is v. smug about) on top of mine!


Approx. 900 ml of bandung cincau from Penang Mari, in a pink bottle.


Purple faggotty hair. Hoho! Just posting it since no one has really seen it now that it has faded.

***
By the way. Exams ending soon! Hurrah. 3 down. Business law to go. Marketing was quite alright apart from the disastrous question 1 which accounts for 40% of the overall exam. It didn't come out the way MarkeTingDingHooi said it would be. There were ppl crying around after the exams.

When i went to see my tutor Ms Izian to retrive my last assignment there were a whole bunch of fucked up people doing really fucked up things. For example "Ms Izian! My participation got 0.9/1. Can you upgrade it to 1?", "My participation got 0.7/1... can upgrade to 1?"

Like what the fuck is your problem la? As if the measly little zero-point-something percent can save you from failing. Skin flint fuckers. Wanted to slap them. There was this indon girl who was all hot and bothered because... She was worried that her 29.9% internal marks might not be converted to 30%. I didn't know such people exist in the world. Not even 1% you know. They are squabbling over marks less than 1%. S'just inconceivable.

There was also this girl who has obviously not given much effort in her assignments. So she got a 12/20, which serves her right. She wants Izian to raise her marks, her reason being "question 1 gone already!" Walao.. I cannot tahan these kinda ppl la. Before the exam they din't give a shit about these small little marks. Once they screw up in the exam they freak out and think they can salvage something with an increase of 0.3% in marks. Sighs.

Am off to sleep. Will wake up to study Business Law tomorrow.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Nothing...

Errr... Don't know what to write today... I will leave my, oh so many, thoughts for tomorrow. Now running out of time. Got to blog as fast as possible. Nevermind if it is not interesting or if it doesn't attract any attentions or whatever, as long as I take this precious time to blog, blog and blog. That's why it is call NOTHING for today... exactly nothing. Nothing to blog. Not gonna write any "surprises" for now, but will have it written the next few days... most likely tomorrow. I will let all of you know what "surprises" there are in store. For now, just stay tuned.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Pearl of Orient



breathtaking views of Penang and Georgetown ;)





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Exams

After much valiant effort i managed to survive today's double exam combo.

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Ooof. Anyway, Macro was completely divine. I mean, divine! I knew how to do each question. Although i did rush question 5 due to bad time management, and i didn't manage to write out arguments against zero inflation but i think i did fairly well. A definite credit. Who knows i might even scrape a D!

Trade finance on the other hand... Was nothing short of disastrous. I didn't know how to do. Like holy fuck. I sat there staring at the paper. Sighs. Exact opposite of macro. Such polar opposites in one day. I hope i can pass the paper. pls pls lemme pass!

Anyway speaking of neck-aches, the exam halls have the same annoying seats as last semester. Low tables, high chairs and i had to hunch like the hunchback of notre dame until my shoulder seized up. Illustration of the seats can be seen at my old post

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Mad

I think i can say that i'm pretty much mad right now. I keep having these insane mood alternations.

Suddenly i feel overwhelming elation as i have managed to revise how to draw the freaking Balance of Payments graphs;

next thing i know i get completely freaked out when i think of the impending doom i will face tomorrow: two exams! fuck;

and then i get really depressed and i listen to Chopin's tremendously depressing compositions.

Maybe this is the result of eating more than 10 pieces of mini Dunkin Donuts with custard. Am going to die of obesity!

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Flash Flood

flash flood in frontta my workplace @ 22 Oct 2007, 5pm.

luckily i parked my car far far away from the main road...

if not... i can rear fishes in my car wei. yay!





gone case lah these cars :(

Monday, October 22, 2007

A small step... little food for thought

"A journey of a thousand miles starts with a small step"
"A big step begins with a small step"
"A small step preludes everything big"

So start with a small step first.
Don't give up if you fail taking a small step.
Get up and try again.

Panic

Yes. It's time to panic. Spread the exam hysteria! Aaaaaargh!!

Exams in 2 days. 2 exams in 1 day.

How bloodily funtastic is that?

Nyahaha! Just checked out Macro's past years and all the questions are similar, just a little tweaks and changes here and there, replace increase with decrease those sorta stuff. If the exact same 2006 paper comes out, i will be able to pass (couldn't do the Philips curve and aggregate D & S yet coz i haven't read those parts). Yes. Pass! Isn't that a wonderful though?

Anyway i think i'm going to fail trade finance.

I don't wanna fail!

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Writing blogs...

**Sigh** So much thoughts yet so little time. Sheesh...

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Love hurts

- curi-ed this paragraph from Ms Feline's site -



“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”




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Saturday, October 20, 2007

XD

[йee]`* says:i go bathe sin..
[йee]`* says:den go play badminton
aL says:yer i wan leh
aL says:kanehhhhhhhhhh
[йee]`* says:^^Y
[йee]`* says:rofl!!
[йee]`* says:kia kia..i go fetch u..
[йee]`* says:u submit unpaid leave..
[йee]`* says:go play badminton..
aL says:HAHAHHAHHAA
aL says:remarks/reason: TULAN
[йee]`* says:ROFL!!!
[йee]`* says:*nods*
aL says:go lah go lah
aL says:sobx
aL says:no1 sembang with me liao


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[йee]`* says:sembang wad la..
[йee]`* says:talking are for retards..
[йee]`* says:tonite go Glo..bring one home..
[йee]`* says:eh knot..bring one into car..
[йee]`* says:cut the talking..Just Do It!!
aL says:alright.. u go bathe u freaking retard
[йee]`* says:ROFL!!!
[йee]`* says:i go lor..
[йee]`* says:dun miss me ya..
aL says:tolong
[йee]`* says:dun think of me oso pls..
aL says:gimme a sex
[йee]`* says:later u get wet..
[йee]`* says:chauhai! rofl
aL says:hahaha
aL says:kaneh
aL says:i think i gotta publish tis conversations liao
[йee]`* says:=|
aL says:title: conversations of 2 retards in the morning
[йee]`* says:rofl!
[йee]`* says:chaoz..i wanna go bathe my hai.
aL says:u die liao tis time...
aL says:u'll see tis first in alcheong.blogspot.com

So, what's next?

Oh dear... seems like I have got to back-date my blog, just like what QR did when he missed those precious days of blogging. In fact, he is the one who gave me this idea of back-dating blogs, but I know it's a dishonest man's job. And you would soon know why this blog is back-dated. Updates soon, coming soon, ok? Anyway, got to be dishonest at times, eh?

Now, what blog info shall we be fed with this time? Aha! Remember wonks ago, we were reading the blog on "What would you do..."? Alright, here are some of my experiences in Celebrity Fitness:

**********

I was doing this cardio exercise on a machine, and in front of me, there was this row of treadmills. Then, one hawt, good-looking guy, with well-built, well-defined toned body (not muscular ar!), was walking in front of me and did some cardio exercises on the treadmill for some 20 minutes or so. Having finished his exercise, he sort of "purposely" turn his head towards my direction and looked at me. Soon after, I sort of "melted". Ah... that was just the beginning, I thought to myself.

Then, I went to the toilet cubicle in the gym restroom to do my business. Having done that, I walked to the basin to wash my hand. In order walk towards the gym locker and then to exit the restroom, I had to walk past a row of 5 urinals that were in front of the three cubicles. That means I had to walk a wide path between the urinals and the cubicles. This same guy was urinating in one of the urinals (the last one, near the gym lockers), and when I was walking past the urinals, he was turning his head to look at me AGAIN! No, he didn't just glance at me momentarily and then focussed on his business. No, not that case. What he did was he started to look at me the moment I finished washing my hands and when I started to leave that area. Even when I was passing the last urinal on which he was urinating, he still looked at me, albeit looking sideways. That was like 10 to 15 seconds long! (errr... do you call that staring, if the look lasted for as long as 10 to 15 seconds?) Oh my gosh! He looked at me AGAIN! My heart was racing faster than that of a train.

Another time, I was eating my favourite CoffeeBean panini chicken sandwich at the rest lounge where drinks are served. This lounge is an open space, where those coming into or leaving the gym can see. This same hawt guy, who was about to leave the gym, looked at my direction where I sat in the lounge. As he was leaving, he kept looking at me (or staring at me, rather), and I, of course, noticed it. I smiled at him and he approvingly smiled back at me. He didn't winked an eye at me, but his smiling back at me is a positive response, and I was glad. Well, you should be able to guess what was my next reactions, eh? It was like, oh... , so Romeo-and-Juliet type of "love at first sight".

What happened next was that I approached him one day and I introduced myself to him and we became friends.

**********

"Hey, he looks gay!"... was the remark I got from some people around me, who also stared at me like I was some kind of alien, or maybe if I looked "delicious". NO, I am not edible, for goodness sake! Honestly speaking, I am not the kind of hottie everyone is drooling at. I don't look like Zac Efron, or Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. But that doesn't mean I am ugly, ok? Instead, to make myself more presentable, I groomed myself rather eloquently or flamboyantly, and I went to gym that way. NO AGAIN, mind you, I wasn't wearing a woman's outfit or anything of that sort. In fact, I was wearing a shirt with vertical-lined flowery patterns. So that they thought I was gay. Anyway, I ignored them. Self-pride mah... isn't it?

**********

So, what's the big deal with being looked at, stared at and remarked as such, anyway? NO big deal... it's just one of my experiences, though, and yes, I admit I really like that hawt guy.

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Friday, October 19, 2007

Funeral

Grandpa passed away peacefully yesterday afternoon at 2.30 p.m. at age 91. I still remember the last time i saw him at the hospital in Penang. It was after his pelvic bone surgery and right after he woke up and saw me he asked about my studies and why i wasn't at class that day.

Yeah. He had always valued education, and that is why i am frantically (in panic!) stuffing myself with information and facts so that i will be able to regurgitate them (stylishly, mind you) onto my exam script. Let's hope i don't fail grandpa.

Will be taking a train -for the second time in my life- back to my hometown for the funeral. My parents are already there. Grandpa will be buried next to granny at this hilly cemetery that has lots and lots of butterflies fluttering about. Apparently people say the spirits of the people transform into butterflies, which is fascinating.

There are lots of rituals to be done, all the burning of incense and silver paper etc. I think i will rather not be buried when i die, y'know, living with all the insects and worms with no air circulation. And even worse, i might risk having my coffin unceremoniously dug open by graveyard thieves foraging for trinklets and ornaments buried along with me. Hmm.

***
Anyway, just to take my mind off these depressing stuff, i'll go and check out my exam venues and timeslots. Later~

Thursday, October 18, 2007

What would you do...

... when someone smiled at you or even winked an eye at you? What would you do when someone looked at you and kept looking (is that staring?) at you as though you looked "delicious". And what would you do when you overheard someone commented "hey, he looks gay" and looked at your direction? The first 2 incidents happened to me in the gym and didn't exactly know what to do. Got stunned, perhaps. And the last incident happened to me when I was blogging at Starbucks, and also at the gym.

So what would you do then?

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Yesterday...

... was the day a chat was established between me and William. So, nothing much to do all day, only reading some IC datasheets and measurement instructions, go chatting we do, whilst at work. Well, since I have been transferred to a new section within the same department, I must get myself familiarize with the products designed in that new section I am currently assigned to. OK, so, I shouldn't have done that during office hours, but I had the best times chatting with him. Chatting for almost 90% of my working time. Anyway, we had a good time chatting. Nice chatting with you, William.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Oh

S'been pouring in torrents. Sheets and sheets of rain everyday. It's pleasant to be having cool weather for a change, but it does get depressing after staring at cloudy skies for many days in a row.

According to Dad, the rain is brought here by a hotshot deity called the 9th King on his birthday, which falls precisely on September of the lunar calendar (around 2 days ago). Of course the meteorological centre would say it's the Sumatran monsoon season or something that's causing the downpour, but i think it's more fun to believe dad's story though. Such grandeur! Hmm. Imagine that you can summon lots of rain on your birthday. Fascinating. ;)

Not too much rain, though. It rained really fat cats and dogs yesterday, until the turning leading into my housing area became flooded and i had to take 2 long detours (first detour led me to yet another flooded road) home.

***
My parents are supposed to be departing for their long-anticipated holiday to Europe tomorrow. But my eldest uncle just called from Penang saying that grandpa got hospitalized again, and now has to breathe using an oxygen mask. So i think the trip is cancelled. Dad is extremely disappointed, as he has finally managed to get some time off from work to go have some fun.

It's one of those fucked up dilemmas. Go on the trip and ppl think you're the worst kinda son, abandoning your father who's lying on his deathbed to selfishly enjoy a holiday. Then, on the other hand, if you go back to visit your father to possibly see him for one last time, you end up flushing tens of thousands of dollars (actually it's ringgit. but tens of thousands of ringgit sounds horrible) down the drain. The flight tickets, the visas, the time spent driving around the embassies, the money spent on coats and whatnot, the excitement of finally being able to go overseas for a breather.. All forfeited. Talk about opportunity cost.

Being the conscientious and morally sound people they are, my parents are going back to visit grandpa. He is close to having heart failure and is swaying precariously on a tightrope. The doctors actually told my uncle to prepare a funeral. Sigh. Rainy days.

Something to share...

... and again, there's where The Owner's Pride gonna be. At the Starbucks Coffee, as usual. Surfing the net away. So, today, instead of contributing one's own story to tell, there's something to share with all fellow bloggers out there. So, welcome to this blog. And, found this rather funny. Here it is:

"At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

(1) For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

(2) Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.

(3) Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

(4) Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down, and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

(5) Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought"Car95" or "CarNT", but then you would have to buy more seats.

(6) Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only 5% of the roads.

(7) The oil, water temperature and alternator warning light would be replaced by a single "general car fault" warning light.

(8) New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

(9) The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.

(10) Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab hold of the radio antennae.

(11) GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they might never need them or want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.

(12) Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operated in the same manner as the old car.

(13) You'd press the start button to shut off the engine."

Hehehe.. so, this is what happen when the car industry technology goes in the same pace as the computer industry technology. How about buying a Bill Gates car? Any takers out there?

Paintball @ PISA (Finale)



JJ, emily and me!

one more!

again!!! haha XD



After the paintball session, some of them came by my place to freshen up. And they camwhored too.


emily with her selendang pose :P


cedric and minny curang-ing eventho their spouses were there :)


saewei and benjipapa - cool and calm. heh!


minny harassing The Tigger! ahaks!


benjipapa harassing The Tigger! HmmP!