22.01.2011 - 2 Trips in a week?

Travelling twice a week to the same state is very tiring. I was in the thoughts of staying over the whole week in kuala lumpur but the second meeting date is not being concluded until the day I was in KL for the first meeting. I was frustrated knowingly that I need to be there again for second time for the same week. Catching for the earliest flight is the most tedious thing I hate most. Monday was nightmare; I have to wake up at 430am in order to catch 7am flight. Miserable! We have to stay a night there and returned on the following day by catching the last flight at 10pm. I just can’t bear with the second trip anymore since the first is so tiring.
Friday, I was like again cursing the whole night and day. It was management meeting. Just to make me there for 3 hours, I have to suffer myself with day trip flight. It was another miserable day. I have to catch 8am flight and returning at 730 flight since the meeting is not really involve me that long hours. Lunch was not bad as regular as every year’s meeting, where we have ‘lou sang’ and other Chinese cuisine from 1 of the famous Chinese restaurant ‘Friend’ in Shah Alam, Kota Kemuning. Just these 2 meeting and training, I am now totally weak, tired and sick! My fever is getting worst today and in the plan to sleep whole day. Lets see if I can get up tomorrow for CNY pre-planned cleaning program . Anyway take a look at the ‘Lou Sang’ we took on my second trip.

18.01.2011 - VOLVO = I Roll

From all the cars makers industries, we heard and see a lot of advertisement, promotions, offers, etc. everywhere in the fast moving medias as part of marketing strategy to sell their cars. In Malaysia, Toyota, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, Naza, Citroen, Peugeot and Proton are the main market players monopolizing the automotive market. But when it comes to branding, quality, reliability and good resale value; Toyota and Honda are the main choice compared to others makers. But when we talked about prestige, Mercedez, BMW, VW and Lexus will always be the one that appears in everyone's thoughts including me, except these 2 days where I started to learn there is another brand that have being maintaining low profile, produces good quality cars, known as world safest cars, reliable, good resale value, etc. - VOLVO. I was given the privilege to participate in their 2 days in house training due to some projects that subjected to run by mid of the year, where we were given the full introduction of their systems, car features, their premium class service and quality, vision and lots of information where no one knows beyond their real brand. Unlikely others makers, VOLVO whom has being well known in the world of their strong and reliable car chassis, have different concepts of getting their brand competitive to others premium car makers without extreme publicity and advertisement. Unlikely other premium car makers, including Toyotas and Hondas, brands and quality have being their benchmarks and key to make everyone attracted to them. Unlikely VOLVO; although design, quality and performance plays an important role in their car making and R&D, safety is always being placed as their main core during the R&D phase; to achieve their vision 'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo". I am not an extreme car lovers but I do know what people choice are during the past and present and VOLVO have never being a topic to talk about when we talked about cars. I was impressed and fell in love with VOLVO when the National Team introduce their cars to us. Just the safety feature itself is more than enough to impressed me to choose VOLVO than others such as Merz, BMW, LEXUS who carries brands and looks rather than standard safety features that everyone have. ABS, EBD, etc. have being common nowadays, but have you heard about platooning system? pedestrian safety collision/pedestrian detection system? corner traction control? multiple side air bags? side mirror camera and sensors for blind spot? anti sleep drive (preventing the car staying away from the track due to sleep driving)? Advance Stability Control? etc. Well, it might have it to those expensive glamorous cars makers but will they have reasonable price as VOLVO? Chassis as strong and stiff as VOLVO? Trust me... go to VOLVO sales room and take a test drive of all their models demo cars. U will never regret to own 1.

17.01.2011 - KL 2 days 1 night

Ah... I am again in KL for 2 days. Training for some new program that going to kick off soon probably by May (pilot) and September. What really bothers me is the early flight. I woke up at 430am, out from the house at 530am just to catch for 7am flight. Imagine with the sleepy mode, I have to sit in the training class for 8 hours. We have to pull over a night there and then resume on the training the next day and to catch the last flight back to Penang. Just think and think if I really need to station permanently in KL. Seriously I don't like it.

11.01.2011 - Again Dilemma

I have being watching movie for the past few days despite knowing I am freaking packed with my office work and reports. Yes I need to have my own quality time too not only for work and work. I wish my dad is rich at least I don’t have to struggle badly to survive in life. Before that my wages is extremely low and just wonder how I manage to overcome it day by day. Now I am not really well paid but considered averagely paid, considering my qualification in Diploma only at Degree pay. I do have in mind to quit and sit in the house for months before getting myself an easy going job. Well, this is just another dream that never came true. Who want to hire someone like me? Aiya.. I never satisfy with what I have and what I want. Generally I am a bit pissed off with myself as I don’t know what I want and how can I survive till the day I die. When I go around I want a lot of things; luckily I am still single if I am married I just don’t know what am I going to do with myself. I wan to upgrade my current 3G iPhone to iPhone4, I want to have DSLR camera, I want to have a GP Bike, I want to have 40’ LCD FHD, I want to change my HIFI set, I want iPad, I wan this and I want that; but end of day I get nothing because I prohibit myself from spending unnecessarily. What is human for? I am not single and lonely in the house. Despite having girl friend, I still feel life is full of emptiness. I just can’t imagine what life is going to be when we got married. Mom is not around, sister is even worst migrated to Singapore, leaving me behind without any relatives behind. Yeah all relatives are sucks! They look good in front of you but poke you like shit behind you. Hmm… Seriously life is really sucks!

09.01.2011 - Lion Dance Competition

Wow, this is my first time seeing lion dance competition. I really salute to Sunway Carnival and to those who initiative toorganize this event as it attract more people and prevail the true Asian. I was on my date that day hoping so much to grab some CNY feel with the crowd and decoration in the mall. It was an extra bonanza for me to have the lion dance competition as I never expect to have that privilege to see the state competition. I love seeing lion dance especially the drumming that beat my heart deeply. I stood there for a moment and was so amazing with those teams that I seen. They are so determined, strong and energetic. It was a grand event but I can see number of audience is not that impressive at all as most people are busy shopping for the forth coming CNY. Me? I was there watching movie. Man.. Seriously I would rather stand there seeing the competition, unfortunately I have bought the 3D ticket which cost me damn MYR16 per head. Back on Lion dance....

When I was a kid, there are these lion dance groups that travel with small truck running around during CNY trying their lucks to grabs few bucks by performing the lion dance house to house. Some Chinese believes, lion dance helps to chase away the bad things and welcoming good fortune and wealth. Well, to me it is superstitious. Anyway I was just a kid that time; I enjoyed seeing the lion costume with the lion head controlled by 2 trained person performing to their best following the rhythm of the drums. Now, this is getting lesser and lesser. We are now in a new millennium where IT is the main attraction to human leaving behind cultures, believes and traditions. If you throw a notebook on the street with facebook interface on the web agent and lion dance at the other end, I bet everyone will probably standing staring or waiting for their turn to browse, surf and cultivating with facebook. I just wish that everything turns back to old days where everyone enjoy and feels the real things we have rather than surfing and ignoring where we from.

09.01.2011 - Unthinkable

"Somewhere in the United States, three nuclear weapons are about to detonate. Younger (Michael Sheen) has hidden the devices and the authorities lead by FBI agent Brody (Carrie-Anne Moss) with the help of H (Samuel L. Jackson), an interrogation specialist, must find them before time runs out. How far will they go to get the information they need and will they do the unthinkable?"

Cast: Michael Sheen as an American Muslim man claiming to have nuclear bombs planted in three U.S. cities. Samuel L. Jackson as a black-ops agent assigned to interrogate him. Carrie-Anne Moss as the leader of an FBI anti-terrorism team assigned to interrogate him. Brandon Routh as a member of the team. Gil Bellows as a member of the team. Martin Donovan as an FBI director who assigns the interrogation

Initially I thought it was an action pack movie; something like shooting with rifle and guns chasing after a terrorist, but I am totally wrong. When the movie started, I start to have that feel of 'gosh so slow' like about to make me sleep. After 10 minutes running, I started to feel the kicks. Although there are no shooting and killing scene like 'Repo Man' style, the story line was superb and unpredictable. Samuel is at his best in every movie he acted. Overall, I would say this is a nice suspense and unthinkable movie. You wont expect what will happen until the last of it. What we always see and predict doesn't seems to be be correct. We also think that terrorist torturing is cruel and inhumane but when it comes to the stage of killing a person to save millions, I think it is worth doing it!. If I am not mistaken this movie is banned in our country but believe me it is worth watching after all. Just watch it with open mind; it is just a movie, a story!

08.01.2011 - SUBWAY? Should be $UCKWAY!

Subway sandwich is cool and delicious. But why does it cost that expensive? I thought of having some nice and healthy food after hiking, so we ended up at the subway outlet to grab some simple sandwich before we headed home. What really surprise us is, no one in the shop. We we so happy that we don't need to queue up like other shops but when we reach the counter to settle the bill, that really disappoint us. It cost me MYR34 for 2 x 6 inches sandwiches, 2 small bottles of orange juice and 2 chocolate cookies. Why is it cost that much? Is it they think this is international sandwich company so they did direct currency exchange for each ingredients? This is crazy. How much is it going to cost for salads? veges? 1 tiny slides of chicken meat? slices of union? a bit of BBQ and mayonnaise sauce? come on! In Malaysia, this is damn cheap! If you think the shop rental is freaking expensive then get a small stall around the corner; I bet you will get more business than how you are slaughtering our wallets! What we want is healthy food not blood/ money sucking! No wonder people is saying sandwiches in US is cheap but in Malaysia it is damn expensive. I think they should look into this and start figuring out how to make more money and attract more customers. Everyone is looking for healthy food nowadays but of course at the reasonable price. We will pay but not paying something that it is not worth to be paid. Seriously I can get many nice burgers and sandwiches with MYR34!

08.01.2011 - Hike to Fight Fats

After days complaining, finally I have manage to burn few calories of my damn fat on my belly today. Hiking is wonderful but I am going to have the muscle pain later part but that is not going to stop me from doing it. My main concern now is to make my damn belly smaller and smaller. I wish my dream come true. Initially I was in the thought of driving over to Penang Island and took a walk and hike at the Youth Park but with my super laziness, I decided to have it mainland than island. Yeah I am a damn lazy person. So, I was there 4pm start burning my fat for almost several hours. I guess 2 the most. I was there along with my girl friend and for a sudden, my go sister's sister in law called me. She was too lonely and was hoping that I would join her for a jog but I rejected her because I was there hiking. To my surprised, she says she would love to join me. That is tricky aren't they? Well as I expected she will definitely going to talk alot and make lots of complain about her marriage failure. She knew that I know most of her family members so she just want to vent off things and of course making herself looks innocents and others looks bad as they is. To me, I don't really give a damn about it. To me I just listen and throw our if it has nothing relates with me. The main objective I was there of course hiking not getting myself involve in this kind of conflicts. Being a listener is not that tough anyway just that I need to get it out from the other side to be neutral. The hike was great and I enjoy it except descending portion. I hate coming down as it hurts my muscles badly. Well, every things that we do there will always something we dislike. Like it or not, we still need to go through it. I should go there often; just that distance is really a matter; pretty far away from my house and office. But of course not with those that talks alot and complaining none stop.

07.01.2011 - Trotter my Fav

Well, I just talked about getting myself diet and slimming. Of course food is my main concern. Unfortunately it is a bit hard to look after especially having bunch of friends that craving for good foods. Usually we have good food together during end of weekdays just some celebration of upcoming weekends. So, again the thoughts of 'today only' being another good reason for me to enjoy some fattening food. We visited 1 of the nice pig trotter shop somewhere near to Seberang Perai Jetty / Bus station. In general this shop have being operating for years since I was young schooling time majoring in ready cooked food selling in economic style. That means there are lots of dishes place on the table, hot and fresh awaiting for customers to choose what they want. What is so special about the shop is, of course the pig trotter, dried soya bean crackers soup, fried fish stuffed with chili paste, etc. The trotter is superb, but of course I need to run few more rounds just a spoon of the meat and fats. Again, the thoughts of 'eat now decide later' will always beating in my mind encouraging me to eat more and more assuming I am going for some slimming courses. Yeah that's right! That is what I call self-cheating. Well I can't resist of it especially with the thick brownies gravy that makes your plain rice tasty and chili paste that mixed well with the fish and vegetables. That is why I am putting on weight despite knowing I am suppose to loose weight and control my food. Well, see yourself and think if you would Be able to resist?

06.01.2011 – Fattening Am I?

I just cant figure out how am I going to get myself fit again. I tried to minimize my food but my stomach is not listening most of the time. I am a lucky person after all. In absence of mom, my dearly girl friend cook for me almost every day. She usually cooks when she is back home, pack some into Tupperware and delivered it to me when I return home from work. Sometimes I need to take some in office to stop my gastric pain but with her added up delicious dinner I cannot resist. I wallop all the dishes and rice she prepared every day. I am figuring out how to ask her to reduce the amount of food she is cooking. Just hope she don’t mind if I make that kind of request. Woman are so sensitive over comment / request. Well, can't blame much about her. She is not the main contribution to all the fat busty belly. My work is getting me more fat. I am too busy with work until I have not much time for exercise and irregular meal hours. I don't think I need a break; what I really need is a permanent break, I mean new life new job! Incredibly I know the cause but yet I still do nothing but sitting here waiting for some miracle to happen. Silly me.

03.01.2011 - Sleepless

Sleepless night is one of the worst things on earth. I have being having this problem weeks ago and am trying so hard to figure out what is happening to me. One of the reason could be too stressful with work and having too much of back-log in house and office. I stop taking cough syrup and flu tablets sine weeks back but again I am about to consider having it again to avoid falling sick for being sleepless. It might not happen to other but to me, I will fall ill if I have not enough sleeps. I wish I could sleep well again!

01.01.2011 - New Resolution

So what is so special about having new year? This is my 34th new year day and still I don't feel there is any special in this day. I slept until late morning, went for breakfast in Butterworth and back home resting. I sent my bike for some repair and then back home sleeping. I was left alone this week since my dearly baby is not available that night due to her grandma's birthday dinner. I was invited but I refused to join because I hate dinners and parties. I spend my night quietly and had dinner with my colleague somewhere at the Bukit Mertajam. I had my movie day at home and straight on the bed around 2am. Nothing special at all; it is just another beginning of another tough year. Nothing much to wish except mom is healthier, Lucas stay as cute as ever and my work as smooth as possible.

31.12.2010 - New Year Eve

It was a great day. I sleep until 10 something, woke up look for food and then cleaning up my house. I planned to send my bike for some rework since the last service causes some minor engine failure, doing some touch up on mom's garden, wash my cloths, etc. Unfortunately, the bike shop is closed. Well it is Friday and they usually close on Friday. What a silly. I started my day doing some gardening, cutting grasses, and cleaned up some pots that contain dead plants. Yes I drained them up; my bad. Too much busy with work and have left them dried for days. I stopped at 1230 for lunch. I picked up my dearly at her factory and took some simple dinner before sending her back to her factory. I clean up my gardening work and went to bed for about 1 to 2 hours. I did some office work at home by checking emails and running thru some files that I brought back yesterday. Since it is an eve, I decided to go for a date and see if we stand a chance to join the crowd seeing fire works. We took some simple Teow Chiew Moi and then bought ourselves movie tickets. By the time the movie ends, we would probably able to see some fire works rather than hanging around that area wasting time. So, running through the movie chart, it was a bit bored. We ended up watching Thai horror movie - My Ex. The intro posted on the website was pretty impressed but the actual; it sucks! The story started off pretty smooth but after 30 minutes the whole story went haywire. At the end of the movie, everyone seems to kill each other which ended up wondering who is the ghost and who is the killer? Damn that is was 1 of the lousiest horror movie I ever watch. Nevertheless we enjoy wasting our time rather than standing somewhere. So by the time we are out from the Mall, what surprises us is that we see fire works everywhere. The traffic was a mess. Jammed every where. The most attractive fire works comes from Sunway Carnival Seberang Jaya. We we shocked that there are fire works in Perai area, we thought only Penang island have it. If I would to know it I would have bought the movie ticket in Sunway Carnival instead. Anyway we enjoy the day after all. Love that kind of feeling; being having some New Year coming. Thank you GOD for the wonderful day.

30.12.2010 - Go or No Go?

To my surprised, I was told that 31.12.2010 is declared public holiday by our prime minister as celebration of our first time winning over the football Suzuki Cup 2010. Seriously I don't know anything about that cup at all, what I knew is I was told that 31st is our public holiday when I was in my colleague car who fetched me from my house since I have travel to be in KL for meeting. I thought our HR is not going to acknowledge it but this time they did since it affected their state (Selangor) as well. I then received a call from my HQ that the management meeting was called off since it is a public holiday. Man, I am so glad that I can have my sweet time in Penang for the new year celebration.

Since am not going to KL, we (colleagues) decided to held a new year dinner together. We wrapped up our things early and headed to 1 of the regular place we been before somewhere in Chai Leng Park. We have about 7 dishes Ala ca rte dinner and 10 big bottles of Tiger beer. It was a great night. I have a great night and reached home around 1130pm.