Mclaren... Slowly but surely...

After 5 months of racing, my favorite team and driver Kimi finally gets his first ever pole position in F1 qualifying.

Although sensing that it was too good to be true... I was still happy. I was still thrill. I was still excited.

Well, true enough, due to low fuel, Kimi was able to run a very good lap during the qualifying. During the race day,however, the strategy proved to be not very wise as he was dropped to third placing after the two red scarlet.

Nonetheless, It was a good showing overall. Kimi is back on the podium and Mclaren gets valuable points for the championship.

Go Kimi! Go Mclaren!!

Flu flu go away can...

I sick again. Yes I am. Somehow it seems like I am always sick.

But after looking through my blog, I am quite amazed. Guess what? I last MC due to flu or fever was way back in early March. That's 5 months worth of healthy living. I must not complaint.

I used to sick like at least every 3 months. 5-month is a rather good number for me. I used to get sick when friends around me got sick. Yea it was (hm... maybe still is) that bad. I wonder why. Maybe is the work stress. Maybe is the irregular meal intake. Maybe is the lack of exercise. Maybe is the filter apartment.

It is always time like this make me feel like I need to change my style living. Exercise 30 minutes daily. Eat healthy food. Sleep early. Learn to de-stress. And clean my apartment everyday.

Somehow I believe these thoughts will vanish once I get back to my own feet again. How I wish I could really have a healthy life style...

Life without Astro

I woke up considerably early (09:30) today after working until the wee hours the day before (technically is this morning la). I knew I have about two and a half hours to kill before I heading to the office again. I was happy. I can unwind a little I told myself.

The first thing I did was to switch on my small small old old cheap cheap but square sqaure silver box to watch Astro. Sunday morning means more cartoons for me. To my shock, there was nothing on in my small small old old cheap cheap but square square silver box! I was panic. Then I tried to check the configuration and found out that there's no signal coming in! This was like Paris Hilton having a bad hair day. Life without Astro is unthinkable to me. I am doomed.

After being stoned and stunned for about 15 minutes I gave up and started to read the newspaper. Although feeling empty, I read the newspaper as slowly as I could. After another 45 minutes though, I felt lost again. So I decided to go and take a dip in the swimming pool. After that, I found myself starring in front of my small small old old cheap cheap but square square silver box which read "Services Currently No Available".

I miss my Astro can...

The service industry...

It started well. I woke up fresh after hectic work in the office the day before. I went on the pick up the Java Guru to play Malaysia most popular sport and in the same time send my small small old old cheap cheap but tough tough vehicle for servicing. I have not sent her for servicing for a long long time... way over due if you ask me.

I had some good games today. I don't play pretty well this so call Malaysia most popular sport. Maybe is my height. Maybe is the old racket. Maybe is just not in my blood. I don't know. But I do enjoy playing this so call Malaysia most popular sport. After two hours of running, hitting and jumping, I was very very tired. My shirt was soaked with my sweat. But it does feel good. At least I felt I have done something healthy.

Then I went on to have sumptuous lunch - porridge fire wok with my Malaysia most popular sport kaki. Yeap, nothing beat a good meal after exercising I tell you. I ate and I ate. All of us are so full that we felt guilty right after that. It seems like the hard work of running, hitting and jumping has gone down the drain.

After the sumptuous lunch, I went to pick up my small small old old cheap cheap but tough tough vehicle. To my shock, the mechanics still have not serviced my small small old old cheap cheap but tough tough vehicle. This is like after 5 hours can. This is so unacceptable. I have to cancel the service as I need to go back to the office. This really spoiled everything and I have to make another appointment. I am not happy. My small small old old cheap cheap but tough tough vehicle is not happy either.

relax? ticklish

After we have completed our assignment on our oversea trip, few of us decided to relax and unwind at this looks 5 star spa hotel.

After negotiating for time and package, we all went our separate room for the massage service. This is my second massage. I did once like 5 years ago when I went to our neighbor country up north for a short holiday.

Compare this time and the last time I went for massage, I was definitely more prepared this time. I was determined not to get embarrassed again this time because of the ticklish sensation. I couldn't help but giggling every time I was being "touch", the tights, the stomach, the neck, well it was really embarrassing. It was more embarrassing when I was called "baby" and the masseur kept saying "Baby don't laugh, baby don't laugh"

Having that experience in mind, I went in the small chamber with a. The masseur was a sweet girl... I was happy. After I changed to this disposable undy, and pretty much see through, I let the masseur does her thing. She started with the right leg. She started with the toes and started to move upward. I was lucky I think. Oi... not that kind of lucky can. I was lucky because my face was facing downward. When she massaged my right tight, I started to chuckle laaaa. Luckily I was able to control it and I am sure she didn't notice that I was giggling. Steady I must say!

After she has done with my back, she started to massage the front. Oh no... There's nothing to cover my face already. Everything seemed fine up until my upper body. Aiyooo I tell you... very very ticklish can!!!!! I was no choice but bust out a laugh. Seeing me giggle, she smiled back. So embarrassing I tell you.

The whole session lasted about 1.5 hours. It was really relaxing. Although kind of embarrassing on my part, but I felt rejuvenate after that. Will I be going back there? Well you bet I will. And I am really determined not to embarrass myself!! And who knows, maybe I'll be ready for the Turkish bath one day...

The girls are back

To my surprise, the reality show hosted by Tyra Banks was back on Astro. After season finale of Ghost whisperer, I am glad that my Monday night is back to action. Well, not really action’s action, but I am happy that I will be looking forward to Monday night again.

The great dutch painter

Yesterday marked the 400th birthday of one of the greatest painters of all time, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669).

You must be wondering how come I know this painter. I took the Introduction to Art class in fall 1996. It was one of those classes that you choose to take because you heard from your seniors that you can pass easily.

It turned out to be quite and enlightening class for me. Although I cannot remember much from that class, there are a few names that I am able to remember even now: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rafael and Rembrandt.

I believed the fact that the Rembrandts, the band who sang the Friends' theme song chooses the same name as Rembrandt made me paid extra attention in class.

Queueing

While onboard a plane for my oversea business trip, I came across an interesting article. This article talks about how bad luck keeps falling into you. Particularly the most interesting staff was how he was always queue at the wrong line.

While I was reading it, I keep nodding my head. I can't agree more. In fact I just experienced it again this morning while waiting in line to get my movie ticket. There I was waiting at the cinema ticketing area. I tried to observe a little while before deciding on the line I should join in. After few minutes of scrutinizing the lines, I decided to join this particular line as it seemed to be moving quite reasonably and that the queue seemed to be the shortest. Happy with my decision I waited patiently in line. Just as I joined the queue, the unthinkable thing happened. The line stopped moving!!!! It stopped for at least 10 minutes (seemed eternity). Nothing was moving but the other two lines.

I was getting desperate inside. I was struggling whether I should jump to the other moving lines. As I was thinking, more and more people joined the other lines. Seeing no choice, I stayed put on my line, waited patiently. The decision seemed fatal when I saw people came and went off in front of my eyes.

This really sux can...

Getting bored...

I am always willing to give my all to the work I am doing. Although I might not be the best person for the job, you can be rest assured that I will give my all. A wise bold man once told me, don't just think that you are working for the company, but rather to think that you are working for yourself. That's how you learn and how you grow as an individual.

Well, it make perfection sense. Most of the time. If the situation is not complex and there are no other variables affecting the contents, then everything will be fine. When the money you earned is not enough, the situation gets a bit more complicated. When you do not get along with you colleages, the situation gets more complicated. When your hard work does not follow with appreciation, the situation gets very very complicated.

Sometimes I am wondering whether I have worked too hard? and my best is just not good enough... this is definitely not very motivating.

Rushing...

After returning from my very first business trip, I was flying off again to the same place in a span of less than two weeks.

Before this, I always wonder how it feels like to be able to attend oversea business trip regularly... Now that I am in such situation, I can seriously tell you that it is not as glamorous as I thought.

Everything is in such a rush. I was told about the trip after lunch. Then immediately I have to fix and test a bug. After the bug was fixed and tested successfully, I have to rush out to get a Malaysian copy CD to be brought over to the client site. Then I was expected to go back to the office and test the new deployment. Finally I have to burn CDs with all the necessary information for me to bring over to do my work.

After rushing this and that in the office, I still find myself rushing things at home. I was trying to pay online bills and credit cards debts in order to keep myself away from embarrassment if I need to use my credit cards during the trip. After that I have to do my packing. Now, how do you pack your bag if you do not know how many days you will be away? It was a bit tricky for me. If I packed too few I might find myself wearing the same clothes over and over again. If I packed too many clothing then I might face teasing from my colleague for taking too much. You know, colleagues can be very cruel sometimes ok!!!!

After everything is in placed, I only got about 5 hours of sleep before rushing to the airport to catch the early flight.

Life is strange

Life is strange. Life is unpredictable. Life is perplexing.

Could it be the aura surrounding people that making thing so complicated? Is it due to the birthday date or the position of the planet surrounding your birth that is making life so complicated?

Although we are in the same project team, I do not have much contact with this person. I believe I have never spoken much about this person to any other person I know. In other words, this person is just a colleague and nothing more.

Yet, time after time, I find this person just being plain nasty. I tried to be nice, and this person will give harsh comments. I tried to reason with this person and this person will get frustrated and refused to at least digest what I have to say. I try to start small talk with this person and this person would just give me the "couldn't be bother" attitude.

It is getting more and more frustrated and difficult to work along with this person. I am blaming the star sign, the birth planet and the human aura for this condition I am in... as I can't figure out a single clue of what's going on here...

my first business trip

After working for about a decade, I finally got my first oversea assignment. Although this is not my first business engagement oversea, this time is really about work. It used to be just attending training before this.

Am I excited? Well, to be frank, I wasn't. I was there to interview potential candidate to work in our country and to solve some technical issues on the system I was building. As you can imagine, there are a few things at stake here. One thing for sure I won't have the time to snap around the city.

Fortunately all the anxiety diminishes when my colleague who is one crazy and self-proclaim the world most unpredictable person keep sms me asking me to bring my camera and swimming trunk. I guess sometimes it is good to be less uptight and be more relax. And towards the end, I found myself getting more excited as I was doing my packing.

The trip lasted for 4 days. I am happy that I survived the trip. Another Triumph!!! Thanks to the great accommodation and "nice" colleagues, I must say my first oversea business trip was pretty interesting.

end of a milestone

I have not been updating this blog for about 2 months now. For the past 2 months I have done nothing much but work. I am happy to say that the LAT testing is finally over. Although the project is not yet over, but I am really happy that a milestone has been achieved. As much as I am glad that the systems my team developed is accepted by the client at this point of time, I am even thrilled that I am able to endure the constant critics and harsh comments that I received for the past 4 months.

China won the Uber Cup

Spearheaded by world number player,Zhang Ning and world champion Xie Xing Fang, it is not surprising to see the China Uber cup team eased passed the Netherland to win the bi-annual team event.

Congratulations!!!

Top ten tv series

I have to be back to office in the wee hour of the night to ensure the deployment of our latest application is being send over to our client side.

At this time of the night, I have zero intention to look at my codes or do any office work. My mind is totally blank. Well, blank on work. I was already taken my shower and lying on my sofa bed unwinding and happily watching Charmed... when I was asked to come back to office. In this kind of situation, my mind only having images of that 3 sexy hot babes of the series.

Since I can't think and I can't do much now, I might as well write about my top ten lists of "thing" in my life. I know perfectly well that in every stage of my life, I preference and liking differs. So this might be a good way to write down my top ten list of "thing" at this stage of my life.

hm... as a start, the top ten of my favorite tv series (western):
10. Star trek - Enterprise
9. Stargate
8. Early Edition
7. Quantum Leap
6. Ally McBeal
5. MacGyver
4. LA Law
3. The bionic woman
2. Star trek - The Next generation
1. Star trek - The voyager

The above list came as the top ten series that I could remember. I am sure I might have forgotten some other series that I love watching ages ago, but I am pretty happy with the above list. If you notice it, which I am rather surprised is that these series are either sci-fi or law related. Thinking back, my first ambition was to be a astrophysicist and my second ambition was to be a lawyer. I am not quite sure how I ended getting an engineering degree and now working as a software developer, but I guess life is always unpredictable.

American Next Top Model

These gorgeous girls have the face of angels and the devil's figures. They can walk, they can dance and they can steal your soul away man... I like...

After weeks of following the reality show, which is in its season 4, the day finally arrived to see who actually won the top honor. Like many people, I have my favorite. To me, she is sweet, she is hot, she is plain awesome. Although she was a little bit soft spoken (which led her to lose out in the end, I reckon), to me that actually added some charm to her character. Well, I guess when you like someone, you won't see flaws in them.

Thanks to astro, thanks to the multiple repetition of that show on tv, I was able to watch the series without fail each week. Due to work, I always missed the first episode on Monday, then Thursday then Friday and then Saturday. My last chance was on Sunday. I would insist on watching the Sunday's episode before going back to office if I missed all the earlier shows.

Anyone who is Kahlen look-alike, please contact me can...

work work work

The past few weeks was really hectic. I was really busy doing support work for the airport project that I am involved in. I was so busy and so frustrated that I am not sure whether I can keep on doing what I was doing.

I have been working past midnight almost every day, 7 days a week. So, needless to say I am kind of piss with my current situation.

About one and half years ago, I was given this opportunity to develop a new system for the airport. I took up the responsibility as I needed the career advancement. It was the beginning of a very busy working life for me. I must say the work was very satisfying and fulfilling. However, it has many ups and downs, well mostly down to be exact. I have to deal with design difficulties, operation issues and technical complexity. However, the things that I learnt most were scheduling and resource management. I think these two items were the most difficult things to grasp.

Here I am now, at the final stages of the project. To give up now is a pretty idiotic thing to do I must say. After going through what I've gone through, I have no choice but to stay strong for that extra few miles and pray really hard.

Regardless, as the end of the project approaching, I think I have come to another cross-road in my life. I am really looking forward to the future and what it has installed for me.

A fruitless night

After whole day working in the office, I was really tired and started to feel restless. So when my photography guru asked me to go for a night outing, I agreed without objection.

Our first stop was Petaling Street then we walked one big circle passing Central Market and Dataran Merdeka. It was really a fruitless night. There was zero artistic juice and we no matter how we tried to scrutinize... high low left right top bottom, neither of us was impressed by what we saw. So after walking for about one and a half hours, we move to our second destination...

Our next destination was the famed lake, Titiwangsa. It was our desperate attempt to get some shots as this location was famous in providing great shots of KL skyline. Not sure what happened but unfortunately some idiots decided to turn on the fountains. That was disastrous for us... the fountain basically created ripple effects that have adverse impact on our photos. chao chao chao... For those who don’t know, what so special about this location is that the lake actually gives a mirror effect of the twin towers. Without the mirror effect, the entire shot just tak boleh jalan can… arghhhhhhhh

So it turned out to be a very disappointing night indeed...

A day of mixed fortunes

The day started on the right note. I woked up fairly early to have breakfast with my bro and my sis-in-law. My bro and I were excited as we were all geared up for the F1 race today. He, a x-Ferrari fan was wearing the F1 polo shirt while me a hardcore McLaren Fan, was wearing Kimi shirt and Kimi cap.

This year was our 7th straight year going to Sepang. It is like an annual event for both us, some sort of a brothers-bonding day.

We didn't go early this year. We figured after so many years, we could afford to go a bit late, just for the race. We managed to reach there at around 1pm. It took us 1 hour this time... which was not too bad. As usual, we would first head to the the merchandize shops and our first pit stop was McLaren store. We were shocked to see many people were gathering there this time.

Just when we were wondering why, the crwod started to cheer "KIMI KIMI KIMI....." I gave the "WTF... It couldn't be..." look to my bro. He then gave me the "Dont dream lar... I don't think so lor" look in return. Not long after, the cheered got louder and louder then suddenly a loud wooooooo and aaahhhhhh... Then I gave the "Well, you better believe it lor" look to my bro...

The crowd started to push and I found myself sandwiched by all these kuai lows... all damn tall and all damn big size lor. It was difficult to get a glimpse of Kimi with all these kuai lows around can... Kimi stayed for about 3 minutes. But it was really cool to be able to see your idol in person I must say... So, one down… and my next target will be either 林志玲 or Stephen Hawking...

After gotten yet another Kimi cap ( I already have 4 caps and 5 shirts) me and bro parted as we were having different seats this year.

The much anticipated race started at 3pm sharp... I can feel my adrenaline rushing my entire body just listening to the engine ro... but guess what? I didn't even get the chance to see Kimi in action as his car was hit by Christian Klien's bloody car on the very first lap... all the adrenaline disappeared to nowhere after that... chao Red Bull!

Arrggghhh... another disappointing day!

Looking forward to Sepang...

Thanks to my very lucky and very good in Java buddy, I got myself the Grandstand ticket to watch F1 in Sepang this weekend.

Talking to about this very lucky and very good in Java buddy, he is really one hell lucky guy. He gets prizes from lucky draws every single time, I tell you. So far he has gotten a watch, a camera, tickets to watch 3D soccer movie and now F1 ticket that worth RM500.

Anyway, thanks God this very lucky and very good in Java buddy has no passion for F1. I haven't bought the ticket for this weekend race so needless to say I was thrilled with the unexpected surprise. I have not missed any of the Sepang races since 2000, and I wasn't ready to miss it this year. My brother already has a free K1 ticket for the weekend. The plan was simple, I was to go down to Sepang this Saturday with the K1 ticket to watch the qualifying race and buy another K1 ticket for the Sunday race. But the hustle of driving all the way down there alone and watch the qualifying alone wasn't my idea of fun. So I just waited, hoping for some kind of miracle to happen. Well, everything seems to fall into place today.

Although I won't be sitting with my bro to watch the race... although I have to watch the race all by myself... although the grandstand sit will not be facing the pit stop... at least I will be there lor...

So 10Q very much to my very lucky and very good in Java buddy...