Mr. Borat

I woke up at before 6am today. After few failed attempts to get back to my dream world, I started to switch on ASTRO to watch.

In the early like this, I like to watch news. Just to have a glance of what happenings around the earth. Nothing really new though. Later I found myself laughing away watching CNN news. Strange? but is true.

The news channel was showing a clip of the movie trailer by Borat. Borat? Never heard of? It is really hilarious. It is a movie about this guy, named Borat from Kazakhstan, who went to US. The culture shock that he experienced is so hilarious...

I really hope I could get hold of a copy of the movie. It will be so funny la...

Don't believe me? try this... http://www.borat.tv/trailer.html

my 100th Post

Congratulations!!! I have reached a new milestone today. This is my 100th post. Hopefuly there will be 100 more to come.

Clueless...

I can still remember how my uni-mates converted their bedroom to one big game room so that they could play games all day long. My colleagues also talk about games at work, during lunch break, during dinner time. It seems like you could hardly survive in the world out there if you are not computer games savvy.

Well, I guess I am among the minority when it comes to computer games. I used to play Sim City. That's about the only game that I truly like. I always like to build my own city. A city with my own vision. A city with balance, the ying and the young. A city with high rise building together with great national parks.

Besides Sim City, I am completely clueless with any other games. Few weeks back, my colleagues asked me to try a new game called spacecowboy. The game sounds simple enough. It is a game of shooting airplanes. Well, after installing the game, I tried a few clicks and decided not to pursue it anymore. So boring can.

Today, knowing how bad I am with my gaming skill, my dog fren insists on coming to my place not only to install the game but also to teach me how to play. How to reject lar you tell me.

So in order not to make a fool of myself again, please excuse me as I need to start my warcraft III tutorial game.

The Amazing Race of my own

I have a sever hang over yesterday. Whole morning, I was in Zombie mood. Right about lunch hour, I got a call from my brother. And he, has a mission for me...

Listen carefully he said, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to get the following items to me before 3pm today at a hotel in Subang Jaya:
1. 3 watermelons
2. 3 bunches of bananas
3. 8 pieces of moon cakes
4. 6 packages of rolled cakes
5. 8 bottles of cokes
6. 1 old putter

I think I completed my mission pretty well despite the hang over. I was at the hotel around 2.30pm.

Bravo to me!!! Maybe I should consider joining the Amazing Race...

Rabbit got drunk...

My internet connect at home was completely destroyed over the weekend. I was not able to update my blog. Luckily I am a Astro person and not a Internet person...

Anyway, Friday started off usual. First I went to my client site to visit my makcik makcik and pakcik pakcik. After that it was back to office and continued with the work. In the evening, my x-project team was having a departmental meeting cum birthday bash.

The departmental talk was rather interesting. My superior is always able to put things in perspective. She was able to twist the words in such a way that everything seems alright. To be frank, I felt much better after the talk.

That night, me and my pig frens dog frens went for dinner at One-U. That place was alright. It was rather cramp for me but the environment was nice. The music was nice as well. However, the dinner somehow turned up to be rather nasty after few jags of beer. We started to play dice. As simple as the game sounds, I was not very good at it I supposed. I got so drunk that night that I couldn't drive at all.

The way I got drunk was so not cool. I think when girls see me drunk like that sure run far far away lor... how sad...

The zombie in me

"I wanted to see the starvation. I needed to remind myself of its reality. I worry that if I get too comfortable, too complacent, I'll lose all feeling, all sensation." ~ Cooper.

Human is a funny being, when we are too comfortable with the moment, we tend to forget a lot of things. We are self-engrossed. As long as I am ok, my family is ok, my friends are ok, then my life is a-o-k.

Maybe that's not the way it supposed to be. When we are comfortable with our way of life, I do feel bore with the life. Everything is just so normal, so predictable, so dry. Maybe that's when you start losing all the feels and all the sensations.

Losing all sensation will be like a living zombie. Lately I am feeling like a zombie myself. Well, not entirely true. I think I am suppressing my emotions more than usual lately. Many people have left or are leaving the company and many more have gone for interviews (gossip gossip) do not particularly make you feel good about the place you are working... yet I find myself able to carry out my work as usual... maybe that's not true also... unusual, definitely unusual... yet I find myself able to carry out my work in an unusual way. Besides that dealing with unusual events cum people also can take a lot out of you. But again I am able to ignore all these people in an unusual way. Is this the new me? I am not sure...

Is this the calmness you experience before the big wave? Is this the clear sky you get before the hurricane? I don't know. I hope not. I want to be able to feel the sensations again like a 5 years old boy who can't sleep at night, too excited, knowing that his parents are bringing him to the park the very next day...

Experiencing life

"There are no slow-motion falls, no crying out the names of your loved ones. People die, and the world keeps spinning."

It's taking awhile for me to read the book. I am not reading as fast as I like. Somehow you need time to digest what is being said.

Maybe I like to be in the author's shoes. Maybe I should be witnessing the war with my own eyes. Maybe I should be there to capture the moments, to experience the war myself.

Hm... I think life is cruel. Everyone knows that the world keeps spinning regardless what... The world would not go slower or faster because of you. I know this fact well. But I guess without experiencing the reality of war, the statement remains just a statement.

I seriously think that I need to experience life more. You see the funny thing about me is that I know what I want, but I think too much. When you weight the pros and the cons, 9 out of 10 times you would take a step backward. Once you do that, you tend to just get over it by hypnotizing yourself over and over again with all the cons in the head. I think many people have the same tendency as me.

The truth is if i were to die tomorrow, I know I have regrets. And I don't like that. Then, how could I experience the life that I always wanted to?

Let me think it over tonight can…

My Super X-girlfren

She has no wing but she can fly high. She has no big ears but she can hear whispers from 10 blocks down the road. She has no muscle arms but she can easily pick up a giant shark. She is pretty she is cool. Thanks God she is not my x-girl friend.

I went to watch a movie today regarding a girl with extraordinary power. Overall the movie was ok. Not particularly hilarious. Not particularly touching. But it was rather entertaining. It is one of those movies where you would chuckle a little when you remember some bits of the scenes.

I am thinking, why does Hollywood always portray superheroes this way? Look at these comparisons: Clark Kent and Superman, Peter Parker and Spiderman and Nelson and Mr. Incredible. It seems like all superheroes must either have no fashion sense like superman (you know, wearing red underwear outside and all), a nerd like Spiderman or a loser like Mr. Incredible to disguise themselves from being recognized. There must be a better “secret identity” for our superheroes, don’t you think? Maybe not for batman though, Bruce Wayne is pretty cool... hm... but wait, batman doesn't have any superpower... hm... my first conclusion is still valid.

Maybe Hollywood should consider making a cool person a superhero. This person can have great fashion sense, straight As student, successful entrepreneur and save the world all in the same time.

Yeap, I like that idea...

He is now 15 kg and 92 cm

I am not a very good father. Well, I am not really a father yet. Theoretically I should be. But I am not. About one and half years ago, me and my colleague who nowadays fly all over the world decided to do some charity and thus adopted a child each. It is a pretty noble thing to do I thought.

We went to the charity office to acquire more information on the “adopt a child” program and decided to go ahead with it straight away. I picked a child from Xin Jiang, China. The reason was simple, I would like to go there one day. We were given some pictures of the children that were available for adoption. It didn't took me long to choose my current child. I really wish to share his picture here but that would against my blogging principle.

I am not a good father because I have never written a letter and send him any gifts after one and a half year adopting him. I bought some stickers for him but never got the chance to send to him. The envelop containing the stickers is still with me until today.

I checked my mailbox today and got a letter from the charity. It is an annual progress report from the Charity on the development of the area where my adopted child is living. I am really happy to see that the progress is going well.

What makes me really ecstatic was when they sent me a recent photo of my adopted son. He definitely looks different from the only photo I have of him. Definitely taller, in fact he is 92cm and 15kg. Besides that he is also in good health. I am really happy. I promise my self to send the envelop with stickers to him by this month.

Happy living...

The Triangle - The Conclusion

The series Triangle came to a conclusion yesterday. I am not sure if I like the ending. Just wonder why it always comes down to the American Government when dealing with the great mysteries surrounding the unexplained? First you have the cover-up of the UFO crash down at Roswell, 1947 and now you have the Bermuda Triangle. I am not sure if I like that idea at all. Maybe the series try to explain the mystery in a more scientific way or maybe by involving the American Government, in this case the US navy, people could comprehend the subject better. Maybe involving aliens from outer space no longer convincing to the public.

However, I do like the idea of Parallel Universe and multiple realities which the series try to explain the whole mystery surrounding the triangle. It is really cool to know that somewhere in another dimension and universe, across the boundary of space an time there is an another me who is doing much better than I am here.

High Tech place

I have to go to my company's sister office located at a so call the most high-tech place in the nation. It was a long day workshop.

This so call the most high-tech place in the nation is pretty "dead" if you ask me. Not much there to see except for the multinational companies buildings. The entire place is pretty dreadful.

Sick of the food being served at our workshop, three of us decided to go out and explore this so call college of creative technology, which is about 5-minute drive from our office.

This was my first trip to this college. The first impression I get when we first reached there was the amount of taxi parking outside the gate. Here we were in the office always thinking how difficult to get hold of a public transport in this area. Now we know where all the taxis are hiding.

There are three separate buildings that I could observe. One admin building, one classroom building and one dormitory building. (I might be dead wrong on these classification though) Anyway, we went to the cafeteria to have our lunch. There were like few hundreds of students there. Mostly black. Yeap, standing behind the line waiting for food bring back memories of my uni days. And in fact you do feel like you are in a foreign country with all the multi-national people around.

As usual, I ordered fish and chips. Pretty good for RM7. As we were chatting, I noticed there are plenty of pretty chicks. Some of them really look like models. Nice. Very nice indeed.

I was inspired by what I saw. So inspired that I decided to take up any part time courses they might offer. After the lunch, we went to the admin building to check out the courses they offer.

Damn... they only have full time classes. Not a very smart strategy if you ask me!

That's the way it is...

Working in IT software house is different from my previous experience. In IT environment, it is rather mobile and dynamic. Unlike working in a manufacturing environment me explain a little further. In a manufacturing environment, your scope of work is pretty defined. The people that you work with are pretty much defined unless you have a turnover. The product that you work on is pretty much defined too. There might be variation on the product but you won't be expected to work with apple one day and durian the other.

I was attached to a project for the past two years. It was in an industry where it involves pretty girls, tight security, high flying and always considered as the gateway to a nation.

Today, I am involved in the industry where it focuses on export and import, enterprises development, grants and always considered as the pillar to continuous economy growth in a nation.

Yeap, my current project is pretty different from what I am used to. Although I am dealing with mostly makcik but it is surely dynamic. It is so dynamic that I find myself meeting different different makcik, talking different different issues, writing different different contents. I know this is just the tip of an iceberg. I should expect more different different things in the future.

It's time to adapt. Luckily I am used to change. I have gone through so many changes in life that this is just another hurdle I have to overcome. Only time will tell if I can succeed.

The Day Uncle Sam Got Wounded

I was doing my assignment during that time and as usual my Astro was on. Once in a while I would do channel surfing. I was rather engrossed with my assignment then but I remember Astro was stopped at channel 90.

Once in awhile I would just lift up my head and watch the report. Then I remembered seeing thick smoke coming out from the famous twin towers, the World Trade Center. At first I thought I was watching HBO or Cinemax. It took me awhile to sink in what I have just seen. Then I stopped everything and started to glue onto the TV. Not long after that, my phone started to ring. Confirmation of what I have just witnessed... It was shocking. It was horrifying. It was horrendous. I was speechless.

The date was 11th September, 2001. Today, after five years have passed, I still wonder. How could such a thing happen? Talking about civilization! I guess something is really wrong with the way the world is heading today. It is bad enough that we have to endure natural disasters such as tsunami, earthquakes and hurricanes. It is bad enough knowing that we might be wiped out abruptly by asteroids or solar storms. It is bad enough that we have to fight against diseases such as bird flu and AIDS. Despite all these, despite knowing how vulnerable we are, we still try to kill each other by plotting attacks and waging wars.

Why are we doing this? Is this God's way? Is this one of the many ways to keep universe equilibrium? I hope not. There must be a better way to control our human population than allowing such barbaric incident to happen.

Sunday Sport Update

Both of them have done it again. Both involve in high speed but in rather different kind of way. Both require high fitness but in rather different kind of way. Both require power but definitely in different kind of way.

One is named Federer and the other Schumacher. One is in the sport of tennis and the other is in the sport of Formula One.

On Sunday, Federer has successfully retaining his US open championship. This is his third win in a row. I am a fan of Federer. Watching him play in the court is spell bounding. Unfortunately, watching him play doesn’t translate into playing the game myself.

On Sunday, Schumacher has successfully winning the Monza GP. That win gave him the 90th career Grand Prix win. He then announced his retirement from the sport during the post race press conference. I am not a fan of Schumacher. Don’t ask me why. But I do respect him as a driver. Winning GP after GP is not easy feat I must say. They even say that he has a heartbeat of a normal person in a resting state while racing. Is human or what?

Perseverance prevail

If you are patient enough, you will be rewarded. If you don't give up easily, you will be rewarded. If you are persistent enough, you will be rewarded. In many ways, God tries to test us. If you can pass His test, sure enough you WILL be rewarded. Unfortunately the reward can come either very soon or very slowly. It is all about persistent and endurance. Then again, it is really unfortunate that we are not living in a parallel universes (at least not that we are aware of). Sometimes after we have given up and decided to change the course of life, new hope arises. Who to say that persistent always triumph at the end?

Well, something told me not to doubt God's way today. About one month ago, I saw this famous CNN anchor being interviewed by Oprah. He was promoting his new book. Something struck me. I think I do take reporters for granted in some ways. When we watch the World news in CNN, we watch it as the audience. We try to absorb the news. We may be stunt when we saw how the airplane crashed into the South tower of the World Trade Center. We may also grief when we witness thousands of life being washed away by the tsunami in Phuket.

If we felt the grief, the frustration, the amazement, the pains when we watch the news on TV, imagine how these events affect the people that actually reporting them?

After the show, I decided to get a copy of the book. Look at these events from a reporter's perspective. It should be interesting I believe. I went to MPH, the Curve to search for it. The sale girl told me that there's only one copy left in the MPH chains, but it is at Midvalley branch. The weekend, I purposely went to the MPH Midvalley to get the book. Sorry to say but the one and only copy was no longer available too.

I was not happy. The worse part was the sale person told me they won't know how long before the new stocks would come. I would have to wait a little longer.

After one month and another 2 trips to MPH Midvalley, I was ready to give up. Waking up early just to go there to ask for the book is not really pleasant if the only answer you get starts with “sorry sir...”.

Today, I have to go to KLCC for a meeting. However, after the meeting was postponed and have a little time on hand, I decided to go to Kinokuniya for a quick check for the book. Guess what? Just as I walked into the bookstore, I can see the book immediately. Yeap, it is the book that I have been searching high and low. This is way too easy and I am happy.

The feeling of getting the book after such a long search is really fantastic. I am still not sure whether the search is worthwhile but I do hope I gain some insights about life after reading this book.

Perseverance and a little help from God do make life more meaningful I think…

End of a legend

HE is one of the greatest tennis players. He is one of the few that managed to capture all four grand slams in the modern era. He is cool, He is bold, He is Andre Agassi.

Tennis is a very time consuming game. For a grand slam event, the men's game can take up more than 5 hours of on court time. To sit on your couch and glue to the TV for that whole entire time is not easy. However, there are a few players that have the ability to do that. For me, Adrea is one of them, along side Federer, Sampras, Becker, Edberf and last but not least my favorite player of all time, Steffi Graf.

Today saw him in action in the US Open. Unfortunately it is also his last time in action. It is really sad that his career does not end in a high note. Being booted out of the tournament like that to a lowly rank player seems unjust.

I believe he deserves better.

The mystery begins

Many ships disappeared mysteriously here. Numerous planes vanished mysteriously here. Countless human lives were loss mysteriously here. Even Christopher Columbus experienced strange occurrence when he sailed through "Here". "Here" covers approximately 500,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean. "Here" forms a triangle which covers Bermuda, San Juan Puerto Rico, and Miami Florida. "Here" is Bermuda Triangle.

Bermuda Triangle is mysterious. I have always intrigued by the mysteries, the stories surrounding this triangle. I am real excited when this mysterious anomaly will be the main plot in the new series "The Triangle".

The series has some pretty strong casting, which include Sam Neil, Eric Stoltz and the beautiful Catherine Bell. I watched the first of the three series tonight and was glued to the TV for the entire time. It is really good. I hope the show will not disappoint me and that it will provide an unexpected and surprising twist at the end.

Lets the mystery begins...