Sunday, October 22, 2006

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.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

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.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

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, October 09, 2006

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.

Friday, October 06, 2006

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

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

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.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

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?