off to india...

Whoopie! The time has come. I'm off to India for the first time for about 15 days tomorrow mornin'. Hopefully it'll be a good adventure/experience. Going back to my roots so to speak. Maybe find myself a bride or something. LOL. Will post about the trip once I return. Wish me well folks!! =)

woof woof...

Phew. Just got back from University Putra Malaysia in Serdang. Was there from 8am till about 2pm. They had their annual Dogathon whereby this year's theme was Pirates: All Paws on Deck! It was their 10th Anniversary as well. I've always wanted to check out a dog show and have missed a few held in 1Utama. This time I decided to head along with my mates Devan and Raj who brought along their pooches. I don't really have any pics of em though. Hopefully will be able to upload some later in the week.

It was a good outing. Got to check out all sorta breeds like Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds, Saint Bernards and even Siberian Huskies and Pit Bull Terriers. But the best of all was my favourite, Jack Russell Terriers. They are the ones used in the movie The Mask as well as the comedy serial Frasier. They are so cute, playful and active. Suits my character. Hehe. Well at least the playful part. =P

Sigh. Wish I could have a dog again. Owner of the house says no way. Guess I'll only be able to get one once I move out and live on my own. God only knows when that will happen. Oh well, at least I got mates who have lovely doggies. Get to play with em' every now and then. Come to think of it, one of them is gonna turn 2 soon. Hopefully I'll be around then to celebrate with the gang.

Alrighty. I better be off. Really tired and in need of a good shower. Take care folks!

vacation time!

Ahhh after some time I'm soon to be off again for a long vacation. This time I'm heading to India with my dad. Will be concentrating on the North. Will be following a tour organised by a family friend. Think its gonna be about 16 of us out of which we personally know 6 of em'. Hope the group will be good. Not some typical old bags. Hehe. The tour will visit about 3 hillstations, the city of Delhi, Agra for the Taj Mahal and Jaipur for all the majestic castles. Am praying it won't be raining since its the tail end of the of monsoon season in India. Also am praying I won't get any tummy problems as I've been advised by many to be careful over there. Gotta pay attention to what I drink and eat.

Hmmm its gonna be about 1 week plus before I'm off. Getting all excited di. Can't wait. Hope this week goes by quick! =)

slap in the face...

How would you react if you got a slap in the face from a person whom you thought was close to you? When I say slap I do not mean literally as in the physical action but more of being backstabbed in terms of wordplay or gossips and what not. I'm sure you get what I mean. This has not happened to me before until recently. I mean I have gotten flack from people I don't care much about but from a friend. It was the first time for me. From then I started re evaluating my perception on what a friend really is or more of whom I should regard as a friend.

How would one mix friend and work? How about friend and boss? Its interesting really to see from a 3rd party's point of view of the whole thing. I spoke to about 4 ppl on this and surprisingly they don't blame me for how I feel and have the same thoughts. Hmmm. Now how would one move on from such an incident? Do you brush it off and thread lightly in the future? Do you take it with a pinch of salt and just forget about it? I was always told not to be close with my collegues as issues will always arise due to the difference in position. I was told to not mix with them too much. Sadly that isn't my nature. In my view I am able to separate work and outside and hence I try to build relationships with my colleagues. Sadly I'm starting to realise that just because I can do it doesn't mean others can. And when a relationship does turn sour, things get complicated. I mean I don't start bullying them at work or something but the whole relationship changes. It becomes more of a colleague than a friend. More of an Employee ID than a name. Sigh. Its tough.

Oh well I think I'll stop rambling on this topic. Its rather sensitive and I might say something to offend the wrong people. Anyhoo I just wanted to let it out. Even if it was just a lil' bit. There is only so much a person can hold inside right. Anyways you take care folks while I pack up to head home. Gd' nite!

bloggin' blues...

Sigh. Its getting tougher and tougher to update my blog. Not sure if its cos I'm blank or cos I'm at a point in my life where I just couldn't be bothered. I did have stuff to blog but before I got down to it, the incident or story had passed. Hopefully this is just a phase and I'll be back. Although its not like I have tonnes of avid readers left behind. LOL. Or maybe I should just leave it be. Blog whenever possible. Screw timing and frequency. Hehe. After all its my rant zone.

Anyways I gotta get ready soon. Time for a night out with the mates. Cheers folks!

we need ppl!!

Arrgghhh. Why in hell isn't Sir Alex getting anyone in?! We need ppl dammit. The squad is depleting ever so slowly. We've lost Keane and soon Ruud (not like he was any help anyways). Plus the others left behind are getting old, too young or totally useless. If we wanna make an impact this year we gotta beef up. Every other top team in EPL have bought handful of players. Not sure if any of them will make an impact but at least they are getting ppl in.

We at least need 1 striker and 1 midfield. If possible another defender. The more options we have the better since the current squad seem to be injury prone. Sigh. Its depressing waiting on Alex to decide who to get while so many are being snapped up. Pray that we don't end up with an expensive asswipe like the few we've had in the past.

Oh well, all I can do is whine about it. After all its not my money that is being spent and it ain't my job on the line. Hehe. But I bought a jersey dammit. I should have at least 0.00000000001% say right?? =(

jokes...

Some funny stuff received via email. Enjoy...

Squirrel who runs up woman's leg does not find nuts.

When I was born, I got a choice- A big dick or a good memory. I am
not able to remember, what did I choose.

My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.

Impotence: Nature's way of saying "No hard feelings".

There are only two four letter words that are offensive to men -
don't and stop, unless they are used together.

Panties not the best thing on earth, but next to the best thing on
earth.

There are three stages to sex in a person's life: Tri Weekly, Try
Weekly, and Try Weakly.

Virginity can be cured.

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good
partner, you'd better have a good hand.

I tried phone sex once, but the holes in the dialer were too small.

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Marriage is the only war where you get to sleep with the enemy.

Q: What's an Australian kiss?
A: The same thing as a French kiss, only down under.

A couple just married were happy with the whole thing. He was happy
with the Hole and She was happy with the Thing......

Q: What are the three biggest tragedies in a mans life?
A: Life sucks, job sucks and the wife doesn't.

Teacher: Use "harassment" in a sentence.
Johnny: Her mouth said 'no', but her ass meant 'yes'.

Q: What's the difference between a bitch and a whore?
A: A whore sleeps with everyone at the party and a bitch sleeps
with everyone except you.

Q: Why do men find it difficult to make eye contact ?
A: Breasts don't have eyes.

Of course you've heard about the Viagra computer virus, it turns
your 3 1/2 inch floppy into a hard disk.

Despite the old saying, "Don't take your troubles to bed", many men
still sleep with their wives !!!

i'm 27 already!!

Sigh. Another year just went by in a flash. I turned 27 three days ago and I still haven't got what I hoped to achieve. Nothing much has changed in the past year. No new assets, no girlfriend, nothing. Same old crap, day in and day out. Even in the workplace I'm doing the same role. Sigh. I was hoping to at least get a house but so far nothing. Coming up with the downpayment has been a BIG issue. Only thing I can say I did this past year was to go on a cruise. Which was great I must add but it isn't much to shout about. Fun and games are great but the progress in life seem to be at a standstill. I know I know, most of you would say I should be happy with what I got and how far I have come and better to be alive than dead and all those positive stuff. But personally, shouldn't I have a goal to reach. An expectation. Maybe I am expecting too much. Hmmm, maybe its just my aunty visiting. LOL.

Oh well, think I'll end my rant here. Happy Birthday to me and hope I can accomplish more this coming year. Toodles folks!

go shorty, its my birthday...

My 27th birthday is today and a few mates of mine got together on Saturday to have a lil' celebration. We started out with dinner at Chilis in KLCC. Just a small gathering, about 6 of us. Food was the usual. My favourite Fajitas. Yummy. The surprise of the day was a Almond Brittle cheesecake baked by my lovely colleagues. Their first effort in baking and it was SERIOUSLY GOOD. Super duper rich and tasty. It cost them RM138!! Can you imagine? Thats like 2 Secret Recipe cakes la. Found out it was because they used really good ingredients. I'm touched and really grateful. Best part of the cake was the top. Its actually one whole bar of melted Lindt swiss chocolate. Ooooh. So orgasmic I tell ya. =)

After the scrumptious dinner, we adjourned to Bar Savannah located along Heritage Row in KL. There we met up with another group of fellas. Got a nice couch facing a plasma screen. Y'all should know why that is. Portugal was playing England. World Cup quaterfinals. Can't miss that can we. Bless us all cos Portugal won! Woo Hoo. Screw England! Muahahahaha. It was a pretty decent game. Well at least the environment and excitement made it great. Once the game ended, all hell broke lose. Two bottles of Chivas were emptied by then. Someone bought me 2 flaming lamborghinis after that. And then another bottle of Chivas was opened, and finished. I barely remember anything since then. I knew one part which I ranted below. I knew I vomited out of my mates car. Three times! LOL. Poor fella. He spent about 30 minutes outside my house washing up. Thankfully I was sober enuff to open the windows and project it outside. Hehe. Sorry dude. Really feel bad about it. =(

All in all it was a pretty fulfilling night. Good food and drinks and great fun with my mates. Its been awhile. Especially getting drunk. Haven't done that in a loooooooong time. I'm not saying I should but its ok to release once in awhile. Isn't it not? Hehe...

bye bye hot shots...

Boy am I pleased with the way the World Cup is playing out. As of today all favourites have been kicked out. None of which I was supporting except for England (mainly due to the English Premier League) until I saw how the stank during the group stages. I then focused my support to Germany and Portugal. Now Portugal is a team I feel deserves to win the Cup of Life this time around. They have played amazingly in every single game with or without their first 11. Now that is an accomplisment. Plus they have played some really good football. Unlike Brazil who sing and praise about beautiful futbal but was far from it! It was nice to see them crash out to France again. Good for you for being too cocky and confident.

I think the last 3 games is going to be pretty interesting. I'm rooting for a Germany vs. Portugal final. I think it would be a real cracker of a game. Hopefully both team will be able to field their top 11 as well but I doubt it as this World Cup has been really colorful. Red and yellow cards flying about like nobodies business. A lot of wrong calls and bad fouls which in turn destroyed the hopes of many teams from progressing further. Hopefully the last 3 games (4 if you count third and fouth placing tie) will be marshalled properly. Don't want the wrong team to win out of trickery.

Before I go, three CHEERS for the ousting of the favorites... =)

Hip Hip, Hooray!!
Hip Hip, Hooray!!
Hip Hip, Hooray!!

shall we dance...

Last night I was chilling with some mates of mine at Bar Savannah watching the England vs. Portugal game as well as having an early birthday celebration of sorts. After many pecks of Chivas, my mate decided to chat up this 2 ladies nearby to dance with me. Now the only main reason he did that was because I don't dance. Yes it has to do with me not knowing how to dance but its also because I couldn't give 2 hoots about it and never found any interest after years and years of persuasion by girlfriends and mates. Anyhoo these gals come up and coherse me into dancing with em. Its supposed to be my luck it seems to have 2 girls wanting to dance with me. By then I was wasted and coudn't care much and decided to join them. As expected I was dancing like an ass and one of the gals was telling me I should learn how to dance and so on. But you know what ticked me off the most. She said to get a gal I should be able to dance. Bitch please?!

What the fuck has dancing got to do with getting a date? I've had a handful of girlfriends and I don't recall them being bothered about me not dancing. Yes they did try to coherse me into dancing, which fails all the time, but it didn't stop us from having a relationship. Jeeez. What has dancing got to do with anything? Except for maybe some short term fun during the weekends. There is many other ways to loosen up ya know. Anyways I just wanted to share my rant. Better hit the showers now. Cheers folks.

i'm a malaysian!!

Guess what? After 6 months of waiting I am finally a Malaysian again. My freaking replacement IC (MyKad) got made and I picked it up earlier at the PJ branch. Phew. No more using my temp IC and explaining to the bank why my MyKad isn't ready. I still can't believe it took freaking 6 months!!

Now I gotta check using Astro if I'm still a Hindu male. Never know how much further they could have phucked it up. I'm just happy I finally got it. =)

ouch...

Damn I just slammed into my bathroom door. Arrgggh. It fucking hurts. Now I got a bump in my forehead. Freaking door. I closed it after spraying some mosquito spray. Forgot all about it and it was dark. Went to pee and bang. Hit the damn door. *Mumble*

are we really a city?!

As of today the 20th of June 2006, Petaling Jaya will be known as a city, no more a town. Whoop di fucking doo. Something the council seem to be very proud of. Even organised a celebration costing around RM2 million. How in the world did we get the title is beyond me. Most of the roads are buggered with potholes and cracks everywhere. Traffic lights still faulty. Many streetlights not even working. Sigh.

Why bother about a title when you can't even do your job right?! And to think we are one of the richest councils in Malaysia. Bah....

world cup 2006...

Finally after months and months of anticipation, speculations and predictions, the Cup of Life has started. First game between Germany and Costa Rica just finished about 2 hours ago and it was one hell of a first game. Germany of course heading up tops with 4 goals to 2. Think I'm going to have multiple sleepless nights and drowsy mornings. Thankfully the games are played at 9pm, 12am and 3am. So most of them I will be able to catch without affecting my life cycle. Sometimes its good to work according to UK hours. =)

Below are some pics to enjoy...

the unity...

the goals...

the pain...

last but not least...the FANS!

so is it good or bad??

Hmmm. Today's date is 6/6/06. Once in a lifetime coincidence. On one part of the world its supposed to be an auspicious day. This is because the number 6 in Hokkien sounds like 'luck' (correct me if I'm wrong on this). And we all know saying luck 3 times in a row is always a good thing. Then you have the other part of the world who believe that 666 is the mark of the beast, the Antichrist. Hence the nicely planned release of The Omen (a remake of course) today.

So which is it? Do we take it as a good auspicious day and paint the town red, get hitched, buy a lottery ticket or take a chance in something. Or do we shy away from it since it related to the Antichrist which would mean bad luck, hell, evil and all that dark stuff. Its weird right how 2 cultures can view the same day in 2 extremes. Good vs Evil. Right vs Wrong.

I for one couldn't care less. Its just another day in our life. You don't need the damn date to be a special number to do something. How can we waste our time using numerology to control our views, actions and life. Don't we already have enough shit in our plate to trouble us already. The only numbers we should be worried about is how much is coming in at the end of the month and how much we gotta take out to survive!

new babe in the house...

I've been bugging my old man for years now to change his car. He currently drives a 1997 Peugeot 406 with about 70 odd thousand KMs on it. It was a babe when it came out but as years went by and with all the new cars coming out every other month, it was only obvious for our attention to divert. As he was retired and also does not use the car much, he didn't really want to waste money. I'm not sure how but I guess all the bugging must have worked because he just made a booking for the 2006 Honda Civic 2.0 Sport.

Woo hoo. It'll be ready in maximum 6 months time but expected to be much sooner. We decided on the Pearl Red Habanero (pictured above) which surprisingly is the least liked color. Good in the sense the car will come delivered faster plus there won't be many around. Hehe. Although thats what I thought with my car but before I knew it, the color became the most popular. Sigh. Guess people are reluctant till its seen on the roads.

Now I'm all excited and its not even mine. Can't wait to get the new babe in the house. Think I might just give my old man my car. Its smaller after all and better for him to handle. LOL. Alright I better get back to work. Toodles folks!

new toy...

Yay, just got myself a new gadget. A brand new 'flashed' Ice Blue Nintendo DS Lite. I know I know, I just sold off my Sony PSP. Well after careful consideration I realised this is the right portable thingy for me. I hope this time it lasts as well. One of the most important factors is that most of the games can be downloaded for free. Hehe. If you get my drift. At this moment I have about 400 odd games given with the system. So you can imagine the excitement. Doubt I'll ever need to spend money on this baby anymore except for may more memory cards. LOL.

So far I've played about 5 games and am happy with my selection. Don't think I plan to sell it anytime soon. Hehe. Hope never actually. As long as there is a download available I should be a happy camper. Anyways time to get back to my games. Toodles.

bye bye psp...

Sigh. Its funny how things work out. I was so eager to get my Sony PSP that I took months to research it and went about looking for good deals. Now not only 2 months after purchasing the system I have sold it. With a lost of about RM200. Looks more like I rented a unit for 2 months. LOL. After getting it I realised it just wasn't what I was looking for. The games were too time intensive plus the unit was too fragile. I didn't use it for the movies or music which was a waste. I'm not saying its a useless system but more of it just wasn't right for me. I wanted something portable, light with fun/short/cheesy games that I can play without thinking too much. Plus I wanted it just for the games which sadly was lacking under the PSP. The games rolled out were just ported stuff from Sony PS2. Nothing original came out. I also found it hard to maintain the system. The games were just too freaking expensive. Thankfully I managed to offload it before its value dropped.

It was fun while it lasted...=(

good first run...

Boy was it a tiring day yesterday. We were at the start by 530am and was 3rd in row for the treasure hunt. All 4 of us were pumped with excitement. We looked like drug addicts after a fix. Cars started to trickle in soon after and before you know it, the place was packed. I couldn't believe my eyes as 280 cars lined up. I think there were about 1000 participants in all roaming about munching on some breakfast and drinking coffee. After a short briefing the race was on at 730am.

There were 2 legs. The first was pretty easy. We just had to get to 4 locations of various sponsors and get our form chopped. After that we had to solve 1 riddle for the first treasure. We sped through that as if the cops were on our ass. Manage to accomplish everything within an hour. Then it was Leg 2. Thats when all hell broke loose. We had a total of 30 questions ranging from anagrams to riddles to direct translations. The idea was to drive to certain locations according to our tulip (driver) notes and find signs that are related to our answers. We had to pinpoint the exact sign and right down the full details. Any form of difference is a straight zero. Sounds easy enough but it was no walk in the park. We were breaking down by the 3rd question. The lack of sleep didn't help either. Plus the damn questions were HARD! Many of the questions we just guessed on the answers as it seemed right and there was a sign board on it. Surprisingly we those correct and the ones we thought we nailed we got wrong. LOL. I'm proud to say that for our first ever hunt we only got 6 wrong.

The hunt ended around 2pm. We managed to reach just 7 minutes before the allocated time slot. This too because of one of our crew who forgot to fill in a handful of questions plus spelling a few more wrong. Arrggghh. That pissed me off big time. I would have torn his freaking head off if I could. After all that rushing and ensuring we got it done right, one nut has to spoil it. The delay did cost us a place or 2 as well, so you can imagine the frustration. At the end of it all we were the 54th car out of 260. Something I was rather proud of although I was aiming for Top 50. If we only got one more question right we would have been in that category. Thankfully Top 110 cars got something to take home. We won a Phillips Portable CD Player each. Not something I want but at least something worthwhile.

All in all it was a great adventure. There were excitement, anger, frustration, joy and many other moments. I think it would have made for a great documentary. LOL. Can't wait for the next Treasure Hunt. Hope this time we break into the Top 20s. =)

We got a whole load of pictures taken but none uploaded yet. Will post them once I receive em'. Cheeers.

Update: Sadly out of 260 odd pictures I could only grab the 3 below which was worth posting. Sigh. What a waste of a photographer?!

the 1000 odd participants...

the Gundens!

damn you look familiar??