Too much demand

Human is a very bitchy species, you give them 10 cents, they ask for 1 dollar, you give them tiger prawn, they ask for abalone... the chinese got a proverb called "得寸进尺", which literally means give them an inch and they ask for a feet (measurement).

Lets start a story of company "M", it's a pioneer company, set in the peaceful Industrial Area, overseeing a tranquil river lake. Company initially subsidizing RM1.50 per meal but the employee complaint that the food sux (because these people previously had the luxury of choosing 8 different caterer, now it's down to 1 and they complain the food is monotonous and sux).

OK loh, management understand the plight, requested a reformation of caterer...

1 month later, a new caterer came in, it's from an established source and the food is 2 fold better than previous caterer. And yet employees complain that despite the good food, it's expensive and lack depth (whatever that means). Management listen to them, discussed with big big boss and reform the caterer again....

This time in the form of FREE food from morning till afternoon, all the way until the night. Give a special instruction to the caterer to serve only 'nutritious food'. It's by far the best food benefit in the region, and yet today, I heard this complaint...

"Aiyo, today I didn't finish my food... give so much to eat, sure will get fat 1 lahh, die loh, will die of diabetes and heart disease loh..."
"This Marigold juice drink no good 1, less vitamins compare to xxx...."

I don't know really how is it to feed human and to make them happy, if so bad then just go OUT and eat lah, yet these bunch of stingy kiasu people eat EVERYDAY inside the cafeteria, and they won't stop complaining....

How lah you tell me?

1st Bad Encounter with my neighbour

Tonite mark the night of my first encounter with a bastard neighbour. To make it short it was 10:30pm at night and my parents are driving my car back to BM, along with KY who joined us for dinner. While on the way out of my residential compound, there was a tight road where cars parked both sides and only 1 car is allowed to pass (no problem to me cause I understand we indeed have not many places to park our cars).

So KY move out first, with my dad driving behind, I was about to walk back and then I saw another car coming from the opposite direction, causing a deadlock where no car could move either way, thought of help smoothen the traffic flow, I asked the opposing car (Camry) to goto the side so that my dad can pass through.

Picture paint a thousand words

I politely ask him to goto the side so that the deto can overtake KY's car and lead the way back, but that fellow wind down the window, and said:

"Eh, that guy goto the side lah, I have no problem waiting here the whole night, as I already reached my house d (made some finger movement which I could not identify due to the night)"

This I quote 100%, no added spice or whatsoever. Then my dad, tired of the commotion, squeeze into the small space on the left to let that sunnavabiatch CB PKM KNS KLK Camry passed. Just so to prove his victory, he wind down his window while passing the red charade... Nia ma, what he try to do? If he say or threaten my dad, I don't know what I'll do to that bastard (or his car)...

Then I go home, pondering the incident, which I concluded that BOTH sides can actually give way and we can live a muhibbah life. But what I despise is the fucking way the bastard act. Like he drive a bloody Camry he can own the world like that. I dowan to disclose his race or ethic group here cause I dowan to be charge with discrimination, but what I can say is his skin is massively darker in colour compare to malay, and have foul body odour.

Dei macha, if you think you can be lansi and own the road because u're rich and drive a big car, then you're wrong! Fucking bastard. Your 16" Goodyear tyre will still cost you RM180 per piece you fricking moron.

Having said that, I remember Jeebs told me b4 the *ahem*Indian*cough* in our residential area are pretty similar in style. I wonder whether I will see more of these....

My webdota no more banned :)

Phew, luckily after some luck my account was released from the banned list. So no more hoo-haa over the incident. The morale of the story is be a good boy, ignorant is bliss and it's OK if you multi but don't use the same password for both accounts.

My webdota got banned

I have been wasting my precious brain power to overcome some of the hardest online web game for the past few days, thanks to my friend Jeebs who introduced me this game and Neebs who play along and we joint a clan and was happily wasting turns and mana....

[10:30am] I was happily playing my ranked 160 webdota using my beloved Ogre Mage.

[10:31am] Need to goto production line to show the vendor the piece of equipment to be fabricated.

[10:46am] After hastily show the vendor the site, wanted to quickly return to office coz I may have died after leaving my hero alone for so long

[10:48am] On the way to office, colleague pull me in for spec. update

[11:45am] Time off, check webdota from the lab...

o.o WTF!

It means either I kena ban, or someone had banned me from the game (if you can read english it basically meant that). Not sure whether this is a dream or not, I go and check out the ban list as the page suggested, what I saw sealed my doom and any hope within it.

Shit, my account, my FirstLove... gone, forever imprinted in the banned list. Then I scrolled down in hope for... confirmation

Life can not get anymore shitter than this.

Basically no web-dota for me for the rest of my life as both my email has been banned.
Cannot believe my luck, apparently the reason I got ban is because I multi (whatever that means)

Invisible oppression

Continue from the sci-fi Zchi civilization story, due to the complacent way of the Zchi's life, the Tenbo's no longer respect the status-quo of the original treaty and now they comploit for more possession. There had been occasional racist remarks which undermine the lifestyle and way of the Zchi's population, which includes the questioning on why certain regions Zchi is living well while conveniently forget that 90% of the total region of Alysiam were in fact controlled by the Tenbo clan.

Pathetic that during the formation of Alysiam.... Tenbo, Zchi and other clan agreed to be all equal, however Tenbo were seen slowly occupying and creeping in to dominate the majority of the power, administration and land, now they wanted to squeeze what's left of the Zchi somemore.

With the recent awareness made by the media, many Zchi politicians begin to voice concern and loud for a move to establish live telecast screening of the politician assembly so that to be fair to every nation of Alysiam and spare the politicians any benefit of doubt. This movement met with opposition stating that whatever discussed in the assembly is within internal affair and do not affect others, and to begin with, the action to broadcast live does not really address the situation...

The actual fact that during the assembly, racist issue is still being discussed time and time again, and there are no significant deterrent to stop these from further happening. People are looking at a way to calm the rage, not fixing the concern.

Oppression will continue, majority of the Zchi clan will continue to suffer slowly, and only time will tell when this will be bring up to the next level.

Singapore business trip

Got a mission which is to check out a demonstration of a machine which my company will be buying soon, so off I go to this small country by SQ in a Boeing 777. To make matter worse I need to complete it in 1 day (not that it's that difficult to perform) but tedious if want to squeeze the whole agenda into 1 day. My friend 'Sak' was kind enough to pick me up from Changi and offered to share his bed (actual fact it's more like I get to hijack his bed).

Changi is a very colourful and nice airport, can say beat our local KLIA coz ours looks pretty much like an oversized airport with less 'meat' in the scenery.

Anyway since I'm slightly 'early' in reaching SG, I decided to pop into the once a year International Motorshow which is happening at SunTec convention center. This is the 2nd time I'm been to SG motorshow and this certainly looks the same as my previous visit, the car list seemed to be updated but basically the booth and placement are more or less the same. The first car that meet the audience is a Mazda RX-8, standard car with alot of hype. Nothing much here so I move on....

Next in the line that caught my attention is the Fiat Punto, new edition !!! This car basically no big deal, cheap crap with lots of electronic gimmick, but this one comes with an electronic SUNROOF !!! For those who are not familiar with sunroof, this is actually god's best invention in the world for human mankind. Coz it's ideal for autumn and spring, romantic during meteor shower, and definately cool during drag race. Fiat goes one step further and gave us the ultimate sunroof that any human had ever seen. The following is the evolution of sunroof from basic till the latest punto's !

The latest Punto's sunroof actually goes beyond the normal civic type and further drag the sunroof all the way back, 2x better than the normal Charade sunroof!!!

Man I want this car ! Dunno when the halfcut will start arrive Malaysia.

Then I continue to walk around, found those normal cars like the Lamborghini Gallardo, Ferrari Fiorano..etc, then I reach Subaru's counter, maybe because I'm too handsome, there's a guy name Russ Swift who wanted to take pictures with me, along with 8 others Subaru gals... after the event I went and check out and then realize that guy is the guy who hold the Guiness World Record for :

• Parallel parking in tightest space
• J turn in tightest space
• Fastest do-nutsOh ok, one of those crazy guy who did those funny stuff around the road....

Continue down the road there are those Nissan 350Z, racing spec, road spec, those different versions, then Honda Civic, Integra.... then a nice chick, so I go and take more pictures with them to make them feel less boring...

Then me and my friend left the motorshow coz the rest of the cars are those Toyota Vios, Altis, Sunny, Imprezza...etc which is nothing much to see. This motorshow major items are alot of concept cars, which won't be making their debut on the road, which technically useless cause I won't be able to smoke them on the road anyway...

Noticed that Honda step actually went backwards and use Charade's back cover design :)

After motorshow, we went for dinner at Tony Roma's steak house just off Orchard road. 8/10 for my baby rib experience. Can say not bad lah.

I think the baked potato tasted the best, but the baby rib also cannot be forgotten, sigh....

Reach home very tired, straight sleep d.

D2, my friend need to go to work OT, don't know why people wanted to work on Sundays, in the end also have to use his hard earn money to treat me dinner and supper anyway :P So early morning 10am I off to take their transport bus and MRT to Orchard ! Yay, shopping time. The street is full of Indons (or is it Philippines maid?). Geli loh, so many of those people hanging around Orchard Road.... very little nice gals to see, maybe all stay at home or go other shopping area :(

They got these street ball for gals going on, watched for a few minutes, no big deal so I cabut, checked out Paragon, Takashimaya, Kinokuniya :P, and those adjecent shopping complexes. Run the whole mile and only landed myself with few shopping clothes only, including some for my gal's. So basically that's it, total shopping duration : 9 hours (11am - 8pm). But of course among there got lunch and 2 hours book reading at Kinokuniya :P

Luckily some of the shops already started to have December Christmas sales in advance, else I will be struck with very expensive goods to look at. Speaking of Christmas, the streets are already decked with santa's magic, it's been long since I celebrated Christmas in Singapore, damn I miss those days.

Nite time meet up with Sak, he brought me to Sakae Sushi off Yishun and seeing that this is his treat, I ordered a Sashimi Bento, heheh, sure must hantam him kao kao mah. After the dinner, made a challenge to ourself that we could down a bowl of Swensen's Earthquake volcano 8 scoops ice cream, and so we did. Later we call off the next challenge of finishing a set of burger king coz we might not be able to walk home if we proceed.

After reach home pack up all my stuff and ready to goto 'work' the following day.

The following day is a plain working schedule with machine demonstration, evaluation, data recording, lunch, closure and then leave Singapore. Lunch is nice at Crystal Jade Restaurant which menu similar like 'Kim Gary', 'Wong Kok' (Chinese cuisine style). The total set lunch for 6 person only cost SGD230, which I think consider ok for their food.

This trip let me know alot more on fact in life. Apparently working in Singapore really is getting good for my friend, coz he practically bought himself a flat screen LCD TV, a high end DSLR with complimentary lenses, mobile phone, ipod...etc, maybe I should start looking at other part of the world ;)

Many thanks to you 'Sak' for the hospitality rendered.

Stone age colleague

Cannot tahan lah today, so must blog this down first before I break down and laugh. Talked about a colleague of mine – Porda, the other day regarding the job load allocation technique which pisses me off, and today he made my day again. Time is morning, I’m still experiencing my morning blue and systematically addressing my job work and suddenly he popped out behind my back and ask the one million dollar question

"Eh, you all always play those chatting program.... How you all chat 1 har? My computer doesn't seem to have"

Fooh… I went speechless for like 2 seconds. Then I tell him politely “You download it from the internet”. He ask me how, so because today I’m a very good guy, so I teach him how to use google and what to search for…

Then another one million dollar question

"I want to use our company email to register for MSN should be ok right? They should be able to register all types of email one right?"

Again, speechless for another 2 seconds before courtesy and politeness told me I should answer him again. I say “No lah, you need to have hotmail or yahoo mail to register 1…

The final one million dollar question

"I don't have hotmail or yahoo mail wor, how?"

Nia ma pom pom eh, want me to teach him how to sign up for hotmail and yahoo or not ?! KNN, bugger already 35+ years old d somemore don’t know all these crap! How can these ppl survive I really don’t know, even my technicians and operators also know how to use MSN and yahoo to chat with me, this is a fricking SENIOR engineer. I ought to take over his place, in fact, I think I will just do that, since I kinda like his job. I understand there is a lot of pathetic people in this world, but up to this point is really world record type already.

Nuff said I have enough dosage for today so I will be avoiding him for like 2 hours, these days I have seen kids with serious attitude problem coz they play too much cyber games, but this is like the other side of extreme point.... culture shock to me man. I found the one and only guy in my company who doesn’t know how to use a chatting program. It’s rare but it happens

Ulcer party

Not sure if it's because of the trip to Singapore, but there has been alot of ulcers popping out from my lips... I registered 3 fully riped ulcers (meaning they are the most painful phase). Not because I dowan to drink water but the water price in Singapore is so expensive.... blardy Malaysia government overcharging the water price to Singapore! So there you go, one of the reason I have to suffer, because of my own G.

Really can't believe that, sounds like I slapped myself. And these multiple ulcers also affect my mood, my sleep, my speech, my thinking.... I think I need more sleep. Must be due to the jet lag I experienced from Singapore back to Penang. SIA air stewardess also not pretty 1 this trip.... *sigh*

Blur colleague (Porda)

Everyone that knows me knew that I have a very big tolerance to everything in life, I can tolerate if someone accidently spill coffee at me, I can tolerate if someone mistaken me for someone and beat me up, I can tolerate if you jump queue and drive in front of my car. But I cannot tolerate people that push his/her job to me and somemore demand me a deadline!

Have this colleague who asked me to help him snap a picture of a unit yesterday, so fine....snap picture only ma, what so hard about it, somemore he don't have camera, so I say ok, out of good grace, I will help you take picture and send it to you.

Then he ask since you're at it, can you take the picture, identify the area of defect and then put into Excel spreadsheet and then send to me, wah! Now want me to help him DO his job d, I say "Nope, you do, this is your task, not mine, you can identify your defect yourself", then he argue say since I already open up the package, I can do it lah, I smarter lah, can see defect better lah, all kinds of bullshit (normally I would think it's compliment)... chinese he say "顺便" (Shun bien), shun bien my ass lah, can he pump petrol time "shun bien" pump my car? Can he buy milk powder for me coz he "shun bien" buy for his kids?
CRAP lah these people....

and if it's not enough, he have the AUDACITY to say "Can send me before lunch right?"
CCB, that time already 12:00pm -.-"

OK fine. You know what? I ain't gonna send. I told him "I'll do when I'm free...." (which basically means fuck off and die, but I doubt he catch my drift coz he's a bit blur)
Now I'm free, but I won't do it yet, why? Coz these people pisses me off.
I plan to give him end of this week for things that could be done in 10 minutes.

Retards that I know in my life....

Blood test!!!

Did a blood test when I was 23 years old, no abnormality based on that report, but if I remember correctly it takes about 5 minutes to extract what can be done in 1 minute, during that test, the blood froze halfway during the 20cc pick and it had to be resume after I downed a cup of lukewarm water. OK so fine, my blood are naughty little bastard liquid.

On 4-Nov under the influence of my gal, I went for another blood test at a health lab near BJ. Things went well except for the fact that blood refuse to flow out of my body, it took 4 attempts to extract the cute red liquid from my green vein and it still failed. Bloody trainee doctors I presume. This is exactly what happened…

1st attempt
Doc 1: OK Relax
Me: (Look away and pray) …
Doc 1: Hhmm…
Me: (Curious… felt tingling pain on left arm)
Doc 1: ….(about 30 seconds)
Me: (Turn and see the needle)… WAH! No blood come out 1 ?
Doc 1: (Remove the needle) Never mind, you go out there and wait for a while, later we do again.
Me: (thinking… OMG, AGAIN?!?!)

Went out, saw my gal waiting, tell her the bad news, she say never mind, don’t nervous or panic, oi oi me a bit.

2nd attempt
Doc 2: OK, I heard that your previous attempt fail right? OK never mind, relax.
Me: Very relax already (palm sweating, knees weak, arms are heavy)
Doc 2: (plunge needle into right arm)
Me: (Looking at the syringe…. Why my blood didn’t come out 1?)
Doc 2: (Try to suck the blood out… Nothing but pain)
Doc 2: (Try to suck harder)
Me: Sssss (show a pain face)
Doc 2: (Remove the needle) Hhmm, ok, you go out and drink a cup of water first. Then we try again later.

Went out, saw my gal again, tell her bad news, take a cup of water, down it.

3rd attempt
Doc 2: Lets try this again, calm down, and we’ll be fine.
Me: Why my blood didn’t come out har?
Doc 2: Did you drink a lot of water? Maybe your blood too thick cannot come out.
Me: WTF… If like that I need blood thinner
Doc 2: Heheh, ok relax.
Me: (Here we go again….pain, more pain when doctor pump the syringe… still nothing, KK!)
Doc 2: Never mind, I administer you to another doctor, more expert in this blood test
Me: (Got doctor expert or not expert in taking out blood 1 meh? KK!)

Went out, saw my gal again again, tell her the same news, drank 2 cups of water. Prepared to die again.

4th fricking attempt
Doc 3: (Looking at my biodata together with Doc 2) You said earlier you had trouble withdrawing blood samples in your early experience right?
Me: Ya, but not as bad as this, last time at least can extract half vial before it stop, but today langsung tak ada !
Doc 3: It’s ok, sometimes the blood is too thick or flow too slow to be extracted.
Me: Wah, like that mah never will had my blood taken out?
Doc 3: No lah, don’t worry, not that serious one. (Remove the 4th needle I see in a day, and find a nice G-spot at the middle of my arm. I think she is trying to locate one of my big artery which is hidden beneath the green vein coz I see that she just pluck right in the middle without any vein in sight, not really pain, just a bit tingling and numbness until…. )
Doc 2: Want to wait a little while or not before plunging deeper (in Chinese, thought I don’t understand mehhhh)
Me: (WTF does that mean? Doc 3 is not patient enough ? She is doing it too fast so that to be able to leave office soon?)
Doc 3: (plunge about 5cm of needle inside my arm, could be coming out of the other end of my arm anytime soon… then started to perform suction, for the first time I saw my blood !!! About a small pinch, not more than 1 mm, then she try to suck more, and then strangely… ONLY AIR COMES OUT….shit loh, why ?? Why my blood didn’t come out 1?!?!)

My blood decided to rebel and stay united in my body. Only 1mm blood extracted. What I said next really pathetic after I thought of it… I said …
Me: Like that the blood enough or not ?
Both doctors looking at each other…. While not to embarrass me, Doc 3 said…
Doc 3: Never mind, how about you come back later? Say tomorrow?
Me: How about Monday? (Coz tomorrow will be too soon for my blood to be any better IMHO)
Doc 3: OK, Monday, please come again so that we could take your blood sample. Remember to drink a lot of water.
Me: (CB, KLK)
Doc 2: Remember to drink more water har….

Went out, saw my poor gal out there waiting for nearly an hour already, tell her the news, get oi oi a bit then left for lunch (Fasting for 18 hours already!)

Anyway today already extracted the damn blood. Took only 1 minute to get them out, but my palm is sweaty, can see the sweat there, heck, even during management presentation I am not that scared. So this experience taught me few things :
I don’t have the material for being a great man.
Besides roaches, I had identified a new phobia, and it’s not blood.

Now I look like a bloody drug addict with multiple puncture hole at my arm. Count : 5 !!!

Fried Porridge 炒粥 at Serdang - Kedah

Went to this secluded restaurant to had dinner with family, took about 45 minutes of long winding road without street lights to reach, but the patrons there are amazing, nearly full house in a small place like this, it's already a wonder sight.

The famous dish here is supposedly the fried porridge, basically they use cooked porridge and put into kuali and fried. Taste very nice and good, inside got salty meat somemore.... fooh.
Though I must admit, my first impression to this dish is not really good, looks like some crap cooked by a 5 years old, but I can keep asking for more (even 4 hours ago I just downed a KFC dinner plate !)

Besides the main dish, we ordered additional 5 more dishes which are shit-ham with sauce, kangkung sambal, fried fish karabu, and sauce sotong fillet (鱿鱼）

At the price of RM80 for all include drinks for 5 person, I would say this is value compare to Tambun seafood. But considering the fact that we need 45 minutes of travelling from BM using Sungai Bakap road, then I guess it won't be put on priority list for dining area.

The best drink at that time, similar to our 932 but preserved by the restaurant themself, extra cooling even on a rainy night.


The special guest at the restaurant. A gigantic fish which look similar like a Lorhan.

Overall experience, 8/10 for a dinner. Recommended if you want to something different than a typical Tambun meal.

Sense of sympathy

One of my colleague resigned on Monday, he’s responsible for the tester handler and ESD matters which is currently what I’m taking over. Not really angry of him leaving me a bunch of unfinished business, but was actually felt a sense of sympathy in him. Why? Coz during his last day of work, at 8pm, he sent some forwards to me with a lot of mp3 and wma songs…. Actually those songs were ok, they were all Chinese oldies that I listen during my primary / secondary school time, but on his last forwards, he say something like this “ I like to listen to songs during the night, it reminds me of my young times when I was studying, everyday ride the bike and can flirt with gals everytime, that time everyone have a common goal of passing exams, no backstabbing and politics…. I can’t go back to that life anymore but I never forget what kind of life I want to live. Bye”

I was like wow, his mail struck even on a cold hearted mortal like me.... he always strike me as the type who had endured a lot of storms and weather during factory life, therefore he is like those old wisdom guru who is looking forward on day’s end, but I didn’t know he was thinking like this. Then another part of me so wanted to agree with him, drop all I have and maybe work in some crap workshop, or maybe just go Australia and pluck apple and strawberry…. I’m pretty sure if I have no family or those detos, I might just live that way, probably get me a nice foreign chick who looks like Jessica Alba… OK maybe not.

Everyone knows working sux, especially in fast pace environment where things can go from mundane to turbo speed at a click. They say it’s the price to pay for your salary receive, but I review back my salary… it’s just junior pay. So maybe I’m underpaid, or I’m doing it wrong in my direction at work. Either way I need a change, either myself or my work environment.

Regardless, that currently ex-colleague of mine went to become a staff in a famous college in KL, which happened to be my alma matter. Good luck dude.

Paintball @ Komplex belia Sukan at Batu Uban

Event : Paintball (Speed ball)
Date : October 21st 2006
Time : 9am

Jeebs and his colleagues wanted to have a paintball fun after 1 year of retirement, so I went along coz no other kaki, went and invite Neebs coz he used to be in paintball gang, but then hor he declined my invitation, say this say that, then when Jeebs re-invite him again for the game, he accept straight away. So there you go, 1 additional point for the friendship score.

Waited some time for Jeebs's friend to arrive, apparently they kinda lost around in the area :P Both have a very cool pose while waiting...

So the game started with 6 on each team, with jeebs, neebs, 3 other strangers and myself. The ultimate score I have is 1 kill, 4 death in 6 games :( Can get purple heart medal.
Cilaka Jeebs got Medal of honour coz didn't die in most of the match, and got the most kills. Drats.
Neebs also got quite alot of kills and did some stunt also, my balls shrink when he ask me to go to the MIDDLE of the battlefield and cover and flank the opposition, I ended up staying near the hut hoping for airstrike to arrive.

Most of the matches went without much pressure, mainly the opposition were consisted mainly of newbies, and they don't shoot alot, we also do much of the advancing, taking more than half of the battlefield in most game, hence more coverage. The main idea in paintball is always like this, cover more ground, grab more initiative... although I didn't have high kill, but I am always assigned to take the longest route and captured the furthest point, so I guess I helped the team in a way :P

So there you goes, only 1 battle scar (blue black), quite small if you ask me, and 2 frickin headshots! Pundeks.


The game lost most of its fun coz an expert decided to join the team, that significantly reduced the fun factor as the game lasted quite fast. If there's any future game, remind me not to involve any expert, they really doesn't make the money worth.

Anyway, our team won nearly 5 games out of 7, not bad for a bunch of idiots who played CS for hours last time.

My outfit with the head scarf looks more cool though.

Anyway, I think airsoft is more fun, more runnings, more cover... miss those days, wonder where the hell are those Penang airsofters.

Intelligence Quotient

Alvino did an online IQ test and I follow suit, surprisingly I was found to have higher IQ scores than him, haha, now this really made my day, after what happened at paintball session...

Anyway, based on the IQ test analysis, I should be able to excel in my career as : Physicists, Chess player, City planner, Astronomer, Physicists, Mathematician, Researcher.
So I guess Engineer falls around that category.

What's interesting is that the analysis also say that most of my skills are good : eg. my mathematical, visual-spatial, and my logical is keat, except for my linguistic skills!
Cham loh, linguistic skill not good, 70% - 80% only, cilaka punya test.

That might explains why I always have communication problem with nearly everyone I know. It's ok lah but I guess, coz not everyone is perfect, and for someone with IQ result of 131, it's like son of Einstein or Stephen Hawkins already.

My talent based on the analysis really keat :

Can give practical application to abstract thought
Can predict patterns
Are resourceful & practical
Envision the "big picture"

Guess I am really the chosen ones. *Sigh* With great ability comes great responsibility, you can quote me on that. Alvino, you're lucky your IQ is not that high, else you'll feel the pressure also.

You can try take the test and see how far you're behind from the chosen ones, link here.

Working environment #part 1

Most of my friends knew that I am a loyal employee, I work in a place and I will continue to strive to be a better employee because I hope to have a better increment each year and I also believe that if I put myself to a company, they will eventually appreatiate my work and accept me as a family.



Take for example my first working place, "CI". I thought that I will be working there forever, bought my first charade when I was working there and I was set to start off my career there, they promise that I will become an executive after a 3 months probation and I was naive enough to listen to them. 3 months passed, and I am still a trainee with no vision of my future. So I quit the job and ended in other place...



"CS", my 2nd official job. Got the title engineer, wow, thought it was cool. Yeah, it's all basically the name only, the work was fun though, the amount of job load can actually let you forget that you have a car, you have a family, heck! Even you have a name. But I learnt alot of stuff there, and through my good mentor I manage to fix alot of stuff that all engineer was employed to fix in a sub-con world. Then I move on coz my mentor was reassigned to another department and I needed a boost in my income.


Now there's "AT", if you want me to describe "AT" work environment, I would say it's a resort hotel + free snooker center attached. Imagine free breakfast, unlimited lunch hour, free tea break and best of all, 1st world facilities. I don't think there's any other company out there that can beat this, maybe on par but never beat. Everyone is talking about ergonomics, you can't spend all your time working lah, must flex your wrist if you sit down in front of computer too long lah, must circulate your blood by walking around lah.... basically all the things that justify that you can walk to the cafeteria out there at any time. If that's not all, the food they serve must be of standard, found a hair in your dish and the cafeteria operator is in for a rough time. Now due to business model change and some of the global acquisition going around, I am no longer in "AT" but in "MV".




"MV" basically follows all the old rule of "AT" except for the fact that everyone is churning additional workload due to new place, new setup, new style.... hence alot of new crap. To put it mildly it's no longer resort but it's like a coal mine with air conditioning. Everyone likes air conditioning, but everyone agrees that coal mine is not the right place to work. But I will continue to work here, until I became a Saturday night, or I die before reaching TGIF.

Emotion Quotient

Everyone have a certain amount of Emotion Quotient (EQ) or Emotion Intelligence. It is rated in number form just like IQ. Lately I found that my EQ is seriously deteriorating, probably the way I act which didn't give a crap about anything & anyone anymore, or maybe I thought that I am the transcended being and I don't need to know additional info in order to live my life.... There's no more curiosity which killed the cat, it's more like ignorance is bliss, then this is like spanking myself back in the ass cause few weeks ago I blogged about someone who ruined my PS2 GT4 score

One thing funny about EQ is that it's subjective and variable. Today your EQ might be 140 (for example) and tomorrow it can be dead 60. Unlike IQ, which give you a set of questionaires and you answer based on what your mind thinks, EQ can be good today and shit tomorrow because human emotion changes faster than your brain cell shutting down.

So technically some of the crap thing that occured to me lately were :

• I keep reason with J consistently, acting dramatic and argue for the sake of arguing.
• Sending a very long email to my good friend in KL asking about a stupid car modification which ended up he screw me for being stupid in a very long email also.
• N call and scold me upside down for planning a last minute Raya holiday trip. Yes I admit being passive but I did not deserve to be scolded for planning a trip right?
• And many more stupid incident that shouldn't happen in the first place.

Maybe my antenna is damaged, hence the communication got breakdown. Maybe I need ASTRO...

Nevertheless, I am proud to say that my EQ is still one of the best around in town. The type that even prime minister scold bad words in front of my face I can still smile and say thank you. The type that even a dog runs across the road while I'm street racing and manage to keep happy with it, yup, that kind.

Looking forward for days to come (while go and buy myself an EQ book, looks like Neebs punya Introduction to EQ sux).

Monday blue #part 1

If everytime I feel blue and wanted to tell the world, you can be sure to find it out on this blog every monday. Work is beginning to take its toll on me lately, I felt that I cannot boost like when I'm working last time. It feels like I already know what's going to happen in my field of work and there's no more excitement left. Nobody wants to have a predictable life, neither am I! Everyone wants an explosive event, everybody wants a freaking ironic incident to take his/her life a step further.

Put me for instance, woke up today after a great weekend, preparing to work and tell myself that I will drive slowly on my way, coz I am more or less know what's going to happen on Monday for my job, because weekend there was no phone call, so it's safe to assume that production line will have only some 'minor' incident which requires engineering judgement and disposition, followed by the little report my boss is asking me to pump for him for his weekly update to management today, continue to provide update on the latest progress on all my project and action item, further monitoring on customer issue, more reports to be done this week for the ISO certification... bla bla bla.

I wonder what happened to my thinking process, not sure whether this job is too simple or too difficult to handle. Or maybe I'm lacking one of the few key attributes to achieve job satisfaction. Or maybe I should ask myself, what I really want in life, is it because my company cannot satisfy my needs? Probably true enough, there is always not enough regardless of what you do / what you want.

I think I realized that my current life is far from my ideal dream. Many wondereful things happened but that made me see some other critical things that I'm going to face in life. For example I might have to face the fact that I'll be a slave forever, putting myself to work just to earn enough for the liabilities and assets. Even if my pay is 10K, my standards of living will just increase to suit that level. Very practical indeed, so stupid cycle.

Need to snap out from this and think straight soon or I'll enter the first depression of my life, I think I need more of my REM cycle.

Why so fat ?

Did a simple fat test on the web, looks like technically I should only be having 8% body fat inside me. Not sure if I should be happy or not cause reasonably I should be low risk in getting any cholesterol related disease but 8%?! We know blood consist of 7% of our total body, my fat is 8%, very close leh!!



Now I know I have 4.2kg of fat, that's alot man, it's like 4 small chicken inside me, as fat. Geli lohhhh, cannot imagine. I hope this test is faulty, so that it will spare my nightmare.

I hope I won't suffer from Anorexia Nervosa anytime soon. Now puasa somemore, great... more reason to fast.

Anyway you can try the test yourself here : Fat test

Down of Zchi Civilization

Wanted to tell an interesting story that simulate my situation / thinking.

Once upon a time in a far away galaxy called Neurobian Galaxy, lies a planet called Gimba. This planet houses a lot of separate clan, ranging from :
1) Goak (the higher society order) -population ratio : 40%
2) Zchi (the middle society order) - population ratio : 15%
3) Tenbo (the lower society order) - population ratio : 20%
4) Others - population ratio : 25%

Couple of years back, A fraction of Goak clan themself started a war against the people of Gimba and lost. The rest of the clans went into a dark age and Zchi emerged to be the economic expert, controlling most of the financial and foreign exchange. Goak clan controls most part of Gimba and have established themselves as the standard for the world. Tenbo clan struggle to survive in a fast pacing environment due to the inflation and economic pressure set by Goak and Zchi clan.

There's this country at Gimba, it's called Alysiam. Population was consisted of 70% Tenbo, 25% Zchi and others 5%. The country of Alysiam is politically controlled by Tenbo as they are the main voice of the senate, they virtually placed all benefit to the Tenbo population, reducing Zchi's privilleges on lifestyle and placed themselves on a different standard than the Goak people. Because of this, as world inflation rise, the impact was felt TWICE on Alysiam because of the exchange different.
The administration of the country was also severely hampered by the biasing of Tenbo towards their own population, they voided the Zchi of business monopoly, enacted high taxes scheme for non-Tenbo and encourage Tenbo's population to bloom with great sports facility, superb educational facility, great career oppurtunity and hugh benefits in acquiring assets and properties, while doing the opposite for the remaining non-Tenbo race.

This is not the problem, the biggest problem is, the population of Zchi residing in Alysiam is pretty much contended with themselves, believe everything the zionist Tenbo clan said and live a peaceful life. The only complain that will ever come from them is when the road leading to their work place is too bumpy or when the government choose not to give them a public holiday when one of the Zchi ethnic won a great event.

If one could see that far, one will notice that the Zchi people can actually do so much, but they choose to do so little. No doubt one day this clan will be assimilated by the majority of Tenbo group, but it's sad to see the great population of Zchi would have to face such fate, given the great history established behind...

They say great civilization will always be remembered, like the ancient Babylon, the people of Troy, Roman empire, but none will remember the minor civilization of Zchi living in Alysiam except for the help rendered to the independence of Alysiam from the Goak which would probably be forgotten anyway since the Tenbo people would remove it from the historical book. Sad but true.

Jacqueline's 3rd routine service

Date : September 30th 2006
Time : 9:30am

It's been long since I bring my Charade for service, poor old Jacquline, after the previous hard run in the SSO, there hasn't been any real maintenance work done on her. So now that my pay is in, I decided to bring her to her doctor for a routine check up, also to ask for diagnostic for the recent clutch slipping which occured on every gear during high acceleration (Wide Open Throttle-WOT).
So in this bright saturday, my gal is working, technically I'm free in the morning, lazily driving Jacq to Butterworth, then I relay the problem to my old trusted mechanic and he put things in motion.

Itenary :

1. Change black oil + oil filter
2. Clutch slippin for no apparent reason
3. Strange sound coming out from the air cond belt area
4. Minor improvement for my car?

So for item 1, after draining all the old engine oil out, I noticed the black heavy sludge from my oil sump area, immediately I know I have tortured Jacqueline far beyond normal torment. Then I check back my service slip.... found out that I have over-run 2000km on her, on semi-synth (7000km limit)!!! How can someone who is so fond of cars missed out this point? What am I thinking? Trying for the Guiness World of Record for the longest journey on Semi-Synth?! OK, my fault, promise won't happen again coz I will use the service sticker from now on. (Note : The bubble from the oil indicates the viscousity is critical)

Item 2 is very stupid, all the mechanic do was adjust the manual clutch cable length and end of story! This is because my manual transmission car was running on clutch plate and not pressure plate, hence there is no automated system to re-compensate during clutch expanding -.-" This is the reason I lost to that stupid BMW the other day during full acceleration...

Item 3 solved after 2 hours of replacing the power steering belt and some modification on the 'tapak' of the compressor (due to the unit has a slight bent which cause the belt to came out from the supposed area).

Item 4 was a recommendation of a better spark plug for my car. True enough to the kaki mod spirit, I went ahead and installed Golden Lodge spark plug (the type without spark plating) as my old spark plug had deteriorated into a state of dismal (blowback current and non-equal plate area). Many people do not believe how this spark works, so it's normal when I explain this methodolgy to people out there and they dismiss this as hoax or marketing gimmick.

Technically the spark plug operate by shooting lighting into air (without electro plate), cool if you watch the demo unit.

Just as my luck wasn't bad enough, I saw every car owner's nightmare... The destruction of the perfectly threaded tyre...

Saw anything different ?

Yup, a small crap had punctured my cute Yokohama Advan Neova AD07 in the middle. And additional RM5 gone because of this 3cm small piece of crap!

All in all it's a good thing that it doesn't incur thousands on my clutch slippage, and also less problem from the engine. This way I can have more money for other beneficial things instead of Jacqueline all by herself :P

So who's wanna get smoke by me?

Lesbian stance

Gay and lesbian scene in Malaysia is blooming, everywhere you can see pairs of same sex walking together, holding hands and maybe intimate moment together if you catch the correct timing. It is really disgusting to see these happening, if you're from religion background, I'm pretty sure this is considered non-conventional type of relationship and is condemned by alot of factions.
Ask yourself, do you agree that a society with lesbian and gay is conductive for social pattern?

For me I definately against such act because you're destroying the statistic of the world population.
Imagine if the world total population of girls are 52%, but 10% of them were lesbians. That means only 42% is still available for the 48% of guys out there, the ratio didn't jive right? So how? The guy become gay loh, probably 15% were gays, then the ratio become 42% vs 35% ! Not jive again, so the cycle keeps going on and on. Finally there'll be a vicious cycle when the world is full of gay and lesbians, and the population will becoming LESS because less and less human production is going around.

In the end we will hit a point of no return, together with developed nations preference of marrying late and have less children, we will dwindle down into a population breakdown process. Probably at that time there will be a 3 fractions war, consist of Lesbian group, Gay group and the traditional honour group.

European countries, America and down south countries are seeing more and more of these phenomenon, and I've notice that our local scene is booming as well.
An example of potential lesbian...

R.I.P. san yii

Not sure if it's me or any of my friends feel the same, there are many news associated with death this year. My 三姨 just passed away, due to cervical cancer most probably. Though I am not really that close with that side of relatives, but I'm pretty sure it'll impact my lifestyle indirectly.

The major impact will be my gourment style, I will have less chance to eat her great chai buey (菜尾). Her chai buey is one of the best I've eaten around, mainly coz she did not hold back on her ingredient and taruh it like it's New Year dish. No chai buey can come close to this and I think I will not have a chance to eat this anymore (unless her daughter or son manage to learn this around which I'm doubtful about)
Note : Chai buey is a soup dish made from all sorts of leftovers.

Then I will miss out a big portion of periodical festival foods like the CNY's cakes and biscuits she never fail to make annually.


Other than that, my mum will have 1 less place to hang out during her free time. Hope she won't use shopping to replace this void space.

Besides the food that I'm so selfishly missing, there's also a major change of interaction between me and my mother relative side as this aunt of mine serves as the public relation for my family towards the rest of the relatives. I foresee that in the future the bond will be also more severed and less communication in that sector. I guess not everything can be remain the same, hope her family will get over this and resume a more normal lifestyle soon.

There are many positive things from her which I don't think will mention it here as it's hard to express as it affects internal affair and involve extensive background understanding, most importantly, I believe she is happy for her 50 years of life.

Rest in peace 三姨.