New Place, New Me

I recently spreaded a rumours that there is going to be a new 'me' in March 2007. In fact, the process is going on to 'morph' myself into a new 'Me'.

Last Friday, my room mate and I had move from our old place - Bukit Damasara to a new place - Segambut. We are now staying in our friend's condominium while waiting for the right timing to move another lot in the same condominium area - Sri Putramas.

So, we are at level 19 and the wind is just marvellous... No need of air conditioner, no mosquitoes and no insect, cause insects cant fly that high. But there is one draw back, the dust is still here.... Muahaha... moving things from the ground floor to leel 19 has never been that easy. The place that we stay is just beside the lift.

Hope my stay here will change a little bit of my lifestyle... going out to the town is so difficult as taxi only come here once in a while or else you would need to call for them (that means extra charge).

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I just received a news about a death of a young Taiwanese artist "Hsu Wei Lun". She died after 2 days of hospitalization after a car accident.

She is only 28 years old... in the midst of popularity... but too bad she has lost her life.Most of her fans are sad. It has definitely changed the part of the showbiz in Taiwan.

But the most important thing is, the incident has taught us to be strong and also to cherish every moment that we are going through.

Rest In Peace Hsu~!

The Inconvenient Truth

Go to YouTube and search for the title above and you will get to see the most terrifying movie in the world. It shows how the earth is going to 'die'...

The tag line "Is Earth Betraying Us, or Are We Betraying The Earth...". It talked about Global Warming and how our land will be all covered with water as high as 20 feet in a few years when the ice starts to melt at the poles.

Very much has been said about how to take care of the earth and such, still we are using things like Air Conditioner, Aerosol Sprays and such. Inevitably, the devices are all compulsory in our daily life. Without a fridge, food might get spoilt easily. Without Air Conditioner, we will all be hot till death... so on and so forth.

So how? We can only wait for "The Time" to come...

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I talked about my work when I was 16, as a Display Artist. I learnt how to use the pen knife, the artistic way. I also learnt the type of tools and materials used to make structures, built up and such.

I was also working as Display Artist when I was 17, that was after my SPM. I was also the Santa Claus of the shopping complex at that time. It was fun being Santa as I like to see the laughter of children running around trying to get my attention so that I can giveaway the sweets in my bag.
I also get to give away balloons, I pumped those balloons myself (Display Artist's work too)

Then I went to college, so I didnt get to work as long period as before. I had 2 weeks holiday and I went back to work for the last year. In year 2002, I enrolled in my 1st year of bachelors degree course - Network Computing. During my college time, I was very active in extra curricular activities.

I was firstly given a chance to go on stage to perform as dancer with my group of modern dance members. I was also an emcee for the same event that night. Standing in front of thousands of people is really a scary experience for me but I was cool and calm as this is not the first time for me. I do not have stage fright too~!

After that, more and more events asked me to become their emcee because of my talent in cracking jokes as well as the way I talk. I was also the emcee for a bi-lingual event. In total, I have hosted more than 40 big and small events and functions in my 3 years of college life.

I have also discover a talent of myself - Come up with new and original jokes during conversation. I have 'managed' to crack jokes during a Gathering Night until one of the participants threw up as he was laughing so hard at my jokes...

I do not wish to waste my talent and skill of public appearance. I do hope I can host events again to entertain people.

Is the world coming to an end?

Type that in Google and you will find many answers, articles as well as forums that are discussing this topic.

It is scary enough to be the one readinig about all these in the news every morning. One day there will be floods, then the other day there will be earthquake, so on and so forth.

I am not sure how many earthquakes had happened these few months but it has been disturbing my thought wondering how long do we have left to live!

I recently had a deep thought of what I want to do and what I am doing now. It's all because of the movie "Click" that made me think deep enough of my future as well as my present. In another words, what I want to do in short term and long term.

The thing about having my own business has always been in my mind since I started my first sale back in secondary school. I started selling face mask at school the time when haze struck Malaysia (1997). Then I started to sell things like photos, custom made calendars with images from the movie Titanic (1998). The time I learn to get profit without having to invest on any capital. Along then I started by "Reference Books Sales" as my father has lots of sample books for me to sell at schoool, to offset my pocket money.

I earn my own pocket money when I was about 16 years old. Spending the money that I earn is even better than spending money from my parents. I felt the satisfaction and I feel proud of myself. I worked for my uncle in his book store back when I was 10 years old. There, I learn how to talk to customers, I learn how to NOT give discounts and most importantly, I learn how to speak English!

It was time to "leave" my uncle and I decided to work with a management company at the age of 16. I worked as a Display Artist in Meda Inc. I am in charged of decorating the shopping complex according to themes and festive seasons. I also learn office politics and I learnt how to interact with people from other races.

I guess I should stop here now and I shall write more about my "working experience" in my next post.

Till then, may all of you cherish every moment and do what you want to do fast...

Click to Get Married

Now, turn back time with one "click"... book flight ticket online... make friends online.... now there is "e-Marriage system" in Kelantan!

They call it the "e-nikah" system.... read on...

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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/17/nation/16587788&sec=nation

KOTA BARU: The state religious authorities will soon be able to verify Muslim marriages on-line. The system would help state religious authorities keep tabs on marriages performed by licensed kadi here, State religious development committee chairman Hassan Mohamood said.
Hassan said this in response to a case where a couple was charged in the state Syariah High Court here with forging a marriage certificate.
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Now, everyone can get married~!
(Quoted from Air Asia's - Now, Everyone Can Fly~!)

Acceptance with just a Click

Sherman Schrader: Hey, "Acceptance is just a click away" was your idea.
Bartleby Gaines: Yeah, but I didn't want you to make it clickable!

That were the lines from the movie "Accepted". It's a movie whereby a high school burnout discovers he's been rejected from every college he's applied to. Then he creates a fake university in order to fool his overzealous parents.

It was a very touching movie especially when we see that students in South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.) are given a chance to express themselves and to explore the world on their own, during their 4 years college life. It's inspiring enough when Bartleby Gaines (the lead actor) said (something like this)," We dont give a shit whether you approve or not, we will not stop learning~!"

"Listen guys, there are plenty of successful people who didn't go to college. Albert Einstein. You know? Pocahontas never went to college. Corey Feldman and Corey Haim; they had a great run. Both Lewis and Clark. Suzanne Somers. Bono. "

The moral of the movie is not to stop learning no matter what obstacles you face!

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Another touching and inspiring movie was "Click" with Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale as husband and wife.

It's a movie that focuses on a workaholic architect who finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices. He missed years of his life... many precious moments... One day he woke up to find out that Donna (Kate Beckinsale) was not his wife anymore and he was not there when his father died. All this while, he has been working so hard that he neglected his family... worst, his life~!

Michael (Adam Sandler) ended up old in just a few seconds and was sick and lying on the hospital bed. He ran out looking for his son when his son said he was going to skip honeymoon for a business trip. Michael last word to Ben (Michael's son) was "Ben... Family... Family comes first". He did not want Ben to end up like him.

Many atimes we missed a lot of precious moments, opportunities and also people around us when we are busy working, or concentrate on things that we thought were VERY important. If only we could turn back time and look back on the things that we missed, we actually missed a hell lots of them!

So my fellow readers, give yourself a break and think of the things that you have done and moments that you have missed. If you have always thought of doing something but do not have the chance to do it, plan now and make sure you do it before the time comes. Yes, before the Angel of Death says "It's time..."

Learn English Year - Malaysia 2007

I was pretty busy for the past one week. Events are coming up and much paperwork need to be done and im kinda lazy too because I still cant get rid with the festive seasons thingy.. muahahaha...

I went to the Malaysia Tourism Centre (MTC) to get some brochures. Yes, it is Visit Malaysia Year this year.... there are tonnes of brochures that introduce wonderful places to visit in Malaysia~! They even categorized the places according to states and genre. Everything is so fine except for one thing - Customer Service!

Their staff are just sitting behind the counters waiting for people to approach them. I mean, I dont mind them sitting there doing nothing (some are actually chit chatting with their colleagues) but at least greet the people that comes in, especially foreign visitors. I saw a few foreign visitors reading brochures on their own and no one attend to them.

Actually, they did not display ALL the brochures out at the lobby area. I had to ask them for more and guess what?! They have it and they took it out from their store!

You expect the foreign visitors to get information just by reading the brochures?! Ridiculous~!

Now comes the funny part. KL Sentral is the central station whereby more than 10,000 people coming in and out every hour! There are many services such as cummuters, LRTs and also bus and taxi services. KL Sentral is the place that I always visited (at least once a week) as I need to take public transport to go around.

Earlier this afternoon, I went to KL Sentral for some business appointment. It was time to go back and I went to the taxi counter to get myself a taxi coupon. Yes, we cannot board onto a taxi just like that, we have to purchase the coupon and then board the taxi. The trip cost me RM9 from KL Sentral to Bukit Damansara. Nevermind the money, as long as I get home safe.

The thing that made me embarassed was the incident whereby the staff serving at the counter is actually eating her meal while talking to customers! She was eating fruits while talking to some customers, foreign customers!!!! Nevermind, as long as the customers were not offended (in many countries, it is consider rude to talk when you have food in your mouth, not to mention when you are serving customers).

I was again embarassed when the staff was not able to converse in English well~! There was a customer who comes from India (I know as I can recognise his accent and he doesn't understand Bahasa Malaysia). He was asking how to get to a place, and the staff (the same female staff) said, "KTM..." The Indian was confused then she said again, "Down there, keretapi...(while moving her hands front and back)"... How on earth does a man from India knows what is "keretapi" and "KTM"??? Don't the staff knows how to say "Train"? Very embarassing indeed!

Luckily the Indian guy went to another staff that was sitting at the Information Counter. I did not know what the staff told him but the Indian guy was indeed a happy man (he was smiling while he walked away with his friends) after a few seconds of conversation.

It is definitely sad seeing how hard our country is promoting the tourism industry and yet many servicing staff are not competent enough to at least "help" in making this country a better and comfortable place for foreign visitors to visit.

Visit Malaysia Year you say? I'd say Learn English (and Customer Services) Year - Malaysia 2007!

English in Malaysian Daily Life

Malaysians are a bunch of patriotic people. They support our government by speaking English because if you dont speak English, you will be considered as 'low class' (some say...)

So I overheard a group of people talking in English while I was walking to the taxi station earlier just now...

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A: "Eh, wanna go makan dinner?"
B: "Dun want lah..."

C: "That side got promotion for their buffet, Rm15 all you can eat wor"
B "Like that I go makan lah... cannot tahan already"

A & C: "You ar...kedekut lah"

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New Year 2007

It's 7 days late.. haha... but it's ok i guess...

Went to celebrate new year at KLCC with my friends... tonnes of human there... i wonder where are they from... it's like the huge-est crowd i have ever seen in real life...

The fireworks were displayed at 12.00am, 1 January 2007. They were beautiful... at least the most beautiful one that I have ever seen...

Continue working after a one week break was such a wonderful experience... most of the people in my office were saying that they too do not want to come back to work... haha... but all still deligently working till late hours ^_^

Guess I gotta sleep now... tomorrow is another Monday and it's a working day.

My Cat - Tiger

I have a cat. His name is Tiger because he look like tiger.

He is very active and healthy. He has clean fur.

He eats when he is hungry. He sleeps when he is sleepy.

Below are his pictures.



Sitting at my living room



Lying lazily



On the back of my mom's car

First Blog Posting in Bahasa Malaysia

Blog terulung kalinya dalam Bahasa Malaysia

bertajuk Mengapa kami suka restoran mamak...

Apakah istimewanya restoran mamak? Lazat sangatkah masakannya hingga ramai yang 'ketagih’ dengan roti canai, kari kepala ikan serta teh tariknya. Atau ada aspek lain yang menambat hati pelanggan untuk terus menerus mengunjunginya selama 24 jam?

Ada yang mengatakan...

- Teh tariknya ‘umph’
- Pelayan tidak sombong

Apa kata awak? Sila beri komen.

Disappointment...

Well, whenever we feel disappointed, it must be something bad that happened without us expecting it or at least it didnt went as well as we wanted it to be...

Same thing happened to my youngest sis' secondary school application. According to my house address, my sis is suppose to be enrolled into a secondary school that is less than 500m away. Instead, the officer that is in charge of the allocation has assigned my sis to a school that is far away (and not to mention it's a "lower grade" school). Of course my parents are not happy with the decision especially when we found out that there are a group of new students from "somewhere-more-than-20km" school came and enrol.

Is money involved in the process? Hmm... I would not doubt the possibility... At the end, my parents had to use some mild "political power" to get my sis in (legally of course). Those officers are so timid that they only dare to "bully" people with "less power" and but bow down like a dog to people that are more influencial... Damn, I really look down on these people...

Well, enough said of what had happened. Tomorrow is going to be a working day, first working day of 2007. Pray hard that it's gonna be a good one.

Can't surf the net...

Local Internet access to overseas websites came to a crawl Wednesday after international links were disrupted by the earthquake in southern Taiwan.

Internet service provider TM Net said the earthquake caused a fault on Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 links between Shantou, China and Tanshui, Taiwan, and between Lantau in Hong Kong and Chongming, China.

Well, that was 4 days ago... Internet connection is back online but then very very unstable...

And today, TheStar Online has the headline that reads "It's 1997 all over again for Net users"

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"We may have just entered 2007, but it will feel like 1997 for most Internet users in Malaysia. Back then, slow dialup connections were the only kind available.
No one dreamed of downloading large files; modem speeds were too slow. "

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It's been long since I waited so long for a page to load... seriously, I hope the authority can fix things up FAST.... (praying hard)