Buddy characterization

Do you associate your friend with your surrounding? I do.
Lets put some case study into this...

I have a high school friend, let say for anonymousity purpose I would call him Neebs. He is also one of my college time housemate and right now we still hang around during the weekend for a chat or two. Now how do I view this Neebs?
Passive: Straight to the point
Active ability: Honest, brave
Occupation: Engineer
Should-be occupation: Interest free loan shark
Part time job: World peace ambassador, leader of Save-the-dog campaign
Associated song: Nelly - It's getting hot in here
An idealist, won't regret going any holiday with him, yup, a good friend to have

Now lets move over to Jeebs, also a high school friend, disconnected during college time but reconnected during working life. How about him?
Passive: BS hater
Active ability: Smart ass, sacarstic, impatient, condemner, bicycle guy
Occupation: Engineer
Should-be occupation: Ice cream seller
Part time job: leader of save-the-cat campaign
Associated song: Gwen Stefani - Wind it up
Also a perfectionist, can go the extra mile to achieve complete domination, but must endure his merciless insults. Must able to cast 'heal' while he continuously chew your health and armour bits by bits.

Alvino is another from the fellowship, knew since high school during scouts activity. One of the few to climb the path of management. What's his tale?
Passive: Sleeper, Sinister smile
Active ability: Complainer, job hater, licker
Occupation: Technical support manager
Should-be occupation: Insurance agent, DJ
Part time job: Tow truck operator
Associated song: Akon - Smack that
Funny and wealthy, one of your must-have friends to have around.

And lets end this with another friend that I will call him Daud. Chinese name is molest. So what about him?
Passive: Believer, music fanatic
Active ability: Sacarstic, criticizer
Occupation: All rounder
Should-be occupation: Street performer, circus jester
Part time job: Guitar repairman
Associated song: Def Leppard - When love and hate collides
Overly big size giant who have a good sense of humour, and also comes with a little pinch of sacarstism. Had an evil laugh and despite his size, is actually harmless than a rabbit.

How bout that for friendship!

TiBuN is a fruit, not a vegetable!!!

TiBuN = Hokkien for cucumber.

" The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon. - Quote wiki"

"Q: Is a cucumber a fruit or a vegetable?
A: It is technically a fruit. From a botanical perspective, a fruit is the mature ovary of a plant, such as an apple, melon, cucumber, or tomato. From the common, every day "grocery store perspective," we tend to use the word fruit with respect to fruits eaten fresh as desserts - apples, peaches, cherries, etc. - and not to items cooked or used in salads. So, cucumbers tend to be lumped in with vegetables because of the way they are used (cooked and in salads), but botanists will call them fruits because they develop from the reproductive structures of plants. - Quote Cucumber facts by Cornell Department of Horticulture"

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bcohen/cucumbers/faq.html

So this topic has been reiterated for the gazillion times and will be remain the controversial until the global ministry of education include this statement inside all national syllabus. Having said that, the reason I wish tibun to be classify as fruit because generically fruit will enjoy a better reputation than vegetable.

Why?

Because fruit is a luxury, vegetable is a common item and therefore is cheaper. Fruit enjoy the status of king's snack while vegetable is just a culinary you eat along with your main dish. Having said that, I just want cucumber to be on par with strawberry and lychi, instead of crap brocolli and cabbage :)

Financial deadlock

The most important education that I believe we should receive during school and college time is 'finance study' or 'money and you'. How often do people earn a $1000 dollar, only to find out that his/her expenditure is $980 at the end of the month? This is mainly due to bad planning and poor financial grasp of reality, which again attributed to the lack of course and lessons we had in school in our early days.

As bad as it can be, a poor planning would virtully mean you've screwed your whole month activities, and waiting for a turnaround next month. This kind of thinking and scenario plagued alot of new entry employees around the world and as most of the motivation book mentioned "the rich will not teach everyone the secret towards wealth", hence we have alot of these people around.

So how to save money? If you earn RM1K and spent RM999 type of guy, when only you will save enough for that Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R V-SPEC NurII? When only will you have enough money to run your marriage ceremony at E&O hotel with 100 tables? Guess the answer to this question is breakthrough...

One will need good discipline, high amount of trust, and strong commitment to make the leap of faith.... one which I'm not prepared to do just yet.

So it's back to Maggie mee and 60km/h kind of lifestyle for now.

It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes

eather had been ridiculously hot lately, with temperature reported at 37degC and humidity at 52% RH on the afternoon on this part of the world, I don't know how can one survive without air conditioning. Can't really go out that much under this condition, the only thing good is that wax and polishing of your car will be pretty effective.

I hate hot days on weekends.

Bad guys in the world today...

27th January 4am, 2 unknown personel intrude my next door neighbour's perimeter and attempted to steal their wira's JRD rim which look seriously resemble my old rims. Can't believe my all-time peaceful area is subjected to this kind of violation.

Anyway, the attempt was foiled because one of my other neighbour's dog bark like he saw a pussy and this woke up the owner and upon seeing the incident live, she proceed and call the police. Cops arrived 10 minutes later, but the thieves saw them coming, and 1 run away with the motorbike, while the other run into the opposite foliage. Both were not found....

Morale of the story: Don't buy rims that look expensive, get a dog that can bark against stranger and it's wise to invest on auto-turret defend system

Christmas and New Year celebration

Lately alot of holidays, WW51 and WW52 were great in terms of vacation and relaxation. Well, not exactly but it sure beat the 5 days working week. Had cleared up most part of my mind, and prepare to project myself over to the new year. Technically only 1 resolution which is to increase my job prospect this year. The plans were generally ready and will wait for end February / Early March to initialize.
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Lately my financial is reseting back to my early working days... sad. In few months time, I may no longer live my outrageous life :) Guess this is the price to pay when you grow older *crap*

Here's some of the holiday pictures I took during our shopping trip during Christmas time with my gal.

Duo picture at Mid Valley if I'm not mistaken.

New year time at Kek Lok Si.

Happy New Year everyone!

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....