Narrations

Outdatedness

2007-12-12T20:43:00.000+08:00

This post will be unbelievingly outdated. Still posting for filler content. Hah.
Went for 2 birthday parties last 2 weeks.

1. Mark Choo's farewell/bday

We got him a freakishly good Tickle Him ~~Emo~~Elmo

Food was gone before I got there, ended up with KFC. No worries I love Hot & Spicy anyway.

Too bad we didn't have the chance to know each other moar.

2. Alan's 21st

Alan's the chocolaty middle guy

Good macaroni and cheese by his mom. Rendang and all that too. Happy being an adult dude!

Happy belated both of you. On this blog anyway.

On other stuff......

ACT practice is intense, good thing I'll be working in the background

The biggest props project EVAR...find out next week

Anyway, Stef and Vijay asked me over to teach them my mom's secret Sheppard's Pie

Some miscalculation means we had to bake the pie twice, each rotation.

Final product, only mistake I made was not enough MEAT!!

Still...happy faces I see...

Yes this post is very rushed...because I'm suppose to get to the cinema now....

Off to the movies me goes

Kiwen says

2007-12-03T01:28:00.000+08:00

"I control, act the humble bee."

~Kiwen

Weird analogy, no? He goes on to explain humble bee rhymes with bumble bee.
Sorry lar. I not Snoop Dog la...

Off-topic

Thank Siang and Chuin Liu for the all black t-shirt. Wore it the day after to church. Haha thanks.

Melaka Camp 2007

2007-11-24T13:53:00.000+08:00

Late post! About camp! Last holiday!

Still loved last IF t-shirt the best

Last holiday I attended the my seconded Melaka camp. Another sun, beach and sea camp, my fav.

For this camp, no dorms, no air-cond, no canteen, no hall even. We slept in tents and had meetings under a canopy. Ah~The great outdoors.

Having arrived at campsite in the afternoon, we spent the rest of the day lazying and lepaking.

Youth!

The guys dug a 4-feet hole...for fun...we thought of dunking someone in but there wasn't time

For the next 2 days, we had sessions and meditated on the Bible and what verses meant.

the morning jog where everyone walked

Lounging at the "hall" after lunch. This was where my mouth worked faster than my brain and...let's not talk about it...

lazy evenings

We had night hunts

treasure hunt at night

Debbie does yoga every morning

clues searching

The committee did a great job but most of us were spent and ended up just sitting somewhere....

they call my camera flashbang

guys pillow talking..in a tent...sweaty...mm hmm

the last of the sessions

the group pic

Glad I signed up for the camp...learned a couple of stuff, got closer to a couple of people. All good. This camp was one of the most lepak I've been to. Had lot's of spare time..This is my kinda camp haha. Best way to start the holidays.

P.S

The pink quiksilvers I got from my sis was STOLEDZ last night at Mark's farewell...T_T RIP Quiks...I'll miss you..

Off-topic
Where do I keep all these pics? On my 160gb hd. Thanks Ay Lai for it.

I'm Modeling

2007-11-17T12:47:00.001+08:00

I've been a fan of robots or mecha anime since I was young. I think I was influenced by Macross or Robotech when I was young and so Macross(not Robotech) remains my favorite. I always wanted my own model and about two weeks ago I was given my own at last. A 1/144 HG Chaos Gundam from Gundam Seed series.
Eddy, my classmate is an avid collector and possesses the tools to make a good model. To keep it simple I'll just show you some pics.

Eddy placed his collection in front of me to inspire me....

The little bits on the ground are the stuff I'm working on.

Chaos wears a Spartan helm!!

Basically the parts come in pieces like..

...this

We need to pry them out, cement them together, put in the joints, sand-paper and then...

...spray

Parts with the first undercoat, another layer of the actual colour needs to be sprayed

Even the paints have a special brand

Vijay busy snipping the parts and reading the manual

Despite of all that, I'm only 70% done with it, most probably be completing it the next two weeks. Here's a showcase of...

Eddy's 1/100 NG Astray Red Frame..note the huge ass katana

And his 1/100 NG Gold Frame Amatu Custom that he completed yesterday...shiny

Gundam 00, this year's Gundam series is currently airing. Also modeling means modeling Gundam models, I'm in no way strutting any catwalk :D For more into the intricate world of Gundam modeling, see this Danny Choo post.

Off-topic
All pics this post was taken with a 1.3mp cam from the Nokia 5300. Thanks sis for this gift.

Vertigo

2007-11-14T23:33:00.000+08:00

Taken from Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary

ver·ti·go
Pronunciation: 'v&rt-i-"gO
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -goes or -gos
1 : a disordered state which is associated with various disorders (as of the inner ear) and in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily —see OBJECTIVE VERTIGO, SUBJECTIVE VERTIGO; —compare DIZZINESS
2 : disordered vertiginous movement as a symptom of disease in lower animals; also : a disease (as gid) causing this

For the first time in my life I was affected by vertigo. This is a feeling I hope I never suffer from the rest of my life. With 6 hours of sleep, I went to the gym and then the pool. When I was out of the pool the world tilted its axis and I was spinning around and puking all over the place. Fun huh?
Symptoms include

Sweating
Erratic eye movement
Blur visions
Nausea and vomitting

Uh-huh all check. Whatever I ate from thereon ended up on the sidewalks. That's 2 days ago. Now I still feel slight dizziness. Mild vertigo the doctor tells me. Gotta imagine what severe cases are like...ughh.

Off-topic
Thanks for the HG Chaos guys. I'm now 30% into completion and when I do I'll post it here. For those of you who don't know what that is...here's a pic

Why only 30%? It's not as easy to make as you think if you wanna do it the right and professional way. I'll do a post about it next time.

A Christmas Thingy

2007-11-10T13:20:00.000+08:00

A Christmas Thingy (AcT) will be this year's CF musical and it replaces NoC if any of you still remember. I've been given 2 roles this time around; Assistant Props Director or something like that and I'll be acting as a bartender. A dancing bartender D: But no dialog. Should work out fine I guess. Being the bartender means I'll be involved in a STOMP scene as well. I got offered a SINGING role but I declined. I can't sing for nuts. Much more comfortable being in the background. The stage need filler characters, no?

Bottles filled with rice means Cha Cha rythm

Vijay and Stef, grand overlords of the STOMP scene

doing some choreography work

I know a lot people actually look forward to our yearly musical plays. These things take a lot of effort and practice. And I've got carpentry work for the props as well.
It's slated tentatively for the 19th of December. So come see it. Hopefully we'll be as good as the years before. For more posts on AcT go to Andrew's because he's the guitarist for the play.

Off-topic

Beautiful controller. Thanks to the 19 people who got me this. I'll boom it till the neighbours complain. Haha.

Back

2007-11-06T17:45:00.000+08:00

Schools back, vacation over, party over, midterms next week, AcT next month, movie submission next year. Cold hard truth. At least I've got new gadgets to play with.

Thanks! for the 2kgboombox,chaos,SM kit,XpressMusic,NXGT,160SATA and the tshirtgelap. Iloveyouguys D:

Next post will be something that makes sense.

Pfft.

6th Fort Anniversary Campfire, rethinked

2007-10-22T23:54:00.000+08:00

I'll take this time to do a little apology. I hereby apologise for my past unscrupulous post about Mr. P that offended him or any of his friends. I admit there are comments and thoughts that I should have kept to myself. Sorry that these comments have reached your sights. My humble apologies again. Don't sue me T_T.
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On the night of CF Tenth Anniversary, a campfire was held back at my old secondary school which I think was meant to celebrate some kind of anniversary. I think. So I was hopping from one event to another. It was also to welcome Mr. Horace back. Mr. Horace is a respected old guy who currently resides in Australia. He used to be in a band that was famous during the 60's. So anyway, whatever the reason be, campfires should be fun, or so I thought again.(Pardon all the blurry pics. I refuse to use flash!)

Kids in uniform

Mr. Horace and the VIPs

The event preceded with the formalities such as speeches and memento giving. Later the traditional fireball was lit.

Great balls of flame, Batman!

[cheese]Great firey balls of flame give birth to enduring pillars of flame[/cheese]

Fireballs go through an intricate wired path before lighting the main pyre. It's really a complicated and I know this because I used to be part of the fireball team back then.
After that the current scouts presented their sketch. Basically a bunch of kids in spandex and provocative outfits frolicking with each other, making the crowd squirm. I know...I was one of them.

See what I mean...()()

New friend found

The people from my year

The people one year older than me

The people two years older than me

Handmade "Gadgets"

The most lepak English teacher

Mr. Yong is the Scout Master and also my English teacher. Me and Nick used to make fun of his mistakes in class and he would laugh with us. Told us the infamous camel jokes too. One of the few teachers we still keep in contact with.

Fyi, the cleanest school toilet, ever! Really!

This is Chee Ki Shen, brother to your friendly neighborhood shy-guy

Being in Scouts back during high school was one of the best times and one heck of a learning experience. I learned how to be unafraid of ghosts and graveyard areas(we had night hikes into graveyards at 1am during camps), how to start a fire with 3 matchsticks(don't think I can do that now), and a lot of other life skills. Cooking was one of the best skills I learned. One of the reasons I got interested in cooking was cooking tests at camp.

I got to know that 6th Fort now isn't going as well as before. The standards seem to be falling and internal strife has weaken the group as a whole. Too bad for the present generation, for 6th Fort was strong and the bond was strong during our time back at school. I blame the sepet who took over the school from the Brothers *koff. Another long story for another time.
However, I guess when you're a scout you forever will be. Forever Forward.

Top 5 Wants of 2007. Sessy.

2007-10-20T15:29:00.000+08:00

I'm back from camp burnt and bruised. Even got an ant-bite on my left eyelid which is now swollen, make me look like I just got sucker-punched. Hopefully it'll go away by this weekend.
Two more months till our favourite time of the year; starts with a C and ends with an S. Probably the best time of the year when the temperature falls and daylight gets shorter. I compiled a list "Wants" from this whole year as the coming season is a season of giving. Of course I'm not expecting any of you to get me these, they're just what I would get if I had so much money I could wipe my ass with RM50 bills. Here it is:

1. Nokia N81

After that incident which my 6131 was taken away from me, I was left with using Kiwen's old SE phone, which is laggy but weirdly has bluetooth. So anyway time to hunt for a new phone. Looking throught GSMArena.com, I found this little thinga majigga. This nifty phone had 2mp camera, 2.4in 16mil colour screen, 8gigs of internal storage, is wifi-enabled, and best of all plays like an N-Gage. That's right, it supports N-Gage games and the bar on the top of the phone is actually a gaming button. The silver ring around the controls is touch sensitive and you can scroll through pictures simply by brushing your fingers along the ring. It isn't released yet in Malaysia but when it does, it'll probably cost above RM2xxx. Sure the iPhone looks really good with it's flashy interface and all, but I'm not too keen to jump on the Apple bandwagon just yet.

Read more about it at GSMArena. Sessy phone.

2. Creative Zen

As you know from my previous post, my Zen Micro is dying as we know it. What better player to replace it than this new player from Creative. The Zen is a flash-based player with 4gb, 8gb and 16gb variants. It also supports SDHC memory cards, expending the memory to over 32gb. It supports almost all the audio formats known to man, but how many of us actually have songs encoded in AAC, Audible or even WAV? We all know we should just stick to mp3 lossless. The Zen plays videos as well but only in avi and wmv format. It also displays multiple format pictures on its glorious 2.5" 16mil colour TFT screen (notice my fetish for big 16mil colour screens?) The interface looks good and sound quality has always been above average for Creative players. Once again, people would probably compare this to iPod Touch. Yep iPod touch is the iPhone without the phone thus boasts revolutionary interface and Wifi. The Zen surely loses out on these fronts but sound quality has always been on Creative's side and that's what is important to me most in a DAP.

Lengthy review here. Sessy player.

3. Chuck Taylor Converse All-Star Double Upper Low

Funky name for a pair of shoes but seriously, they look really good. On me. Okay so I've never tried them on but I can imagine how perfectly they would fit on me. These totally fit a pair of jeans or dark slacks or even three-quarters. Nothing much to say about these. Too bad Mahkota Parade's store closed down before I was into Converse and I don't think outlets in KL sell models like these. Tell me if you spot them kay.

Visit Converse for more shoes. Sessy shoes.

4. Nintendo Wii

When I saw the ingame screenies from the Sony PlayStation 3 Sony 2 years ago, I thought it would totally own all other consoles on it's release. It seems that didn't come true as it's trailing in sales behind both Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. So at no.4 of my wanted list is Nintendo Wii. This cool little gadget boasts a motion sensitive controller and innovative ways to play games. People who own this are swinging their arms all over the place looking at the screen. If you don't know how good this console is you must have been living under a stone. It falls short of super advance graphics but has innovative games and is very much cheaper than the other consoles. At the moment, Nintendo > Microsoft > Sony. I would consider getting the Wii if only them China Pirate Bengs would pirate games for it.

Just google Wii and click on any link for more info. Sessy console.

5. Sony HDR-SR8E HandyCam

At no.5 is a Sony HandyCam. This baby records at 1080pi HD format and has 4.3 megapixel recording. Recording moving images is different from still images and 4.3 mp is very big for moving images. It has 60gb internal memory for 38hours of recording. The LCD screen is touchscreen and has SteadyShot to counter shaky hands. Got some other features but these are what I care about most. The question why would I want a camcorder? I shoot movies from time to time with some friends and equipment is really a headache when we wanna start shooting. Having this baby around will make things so much easier.

Head on over to Sony for all the jizz. Sessy camcorder.

That's all the sessyness I have for this post. These are all really cool stuff and like I said, I'd get them if I had the money to wipe my ass with. Reality is so harsh. Did I mention my b'day was around the corner?HUhuahuahua

Autumn Vacation

2007-10-11T21:47:00.000+08:00

Finally done with finals. Summary? Three good papers, one really bad one. We studied the tutorials and also the past-year papers but the lecturer chose to center on a puny part of the notes. GG. I smell supp. maybe D: Oh well might as well make the most of my 3 week vacation.
Was at Ah Kit's birthday yesterday. Going to Eddie's tomorrow. So many. Mine coming up *koff*

Gonna take this opportunity to wish both Ah Kit and Eddie, Happy 21st! Wishing you wisdom befitting your age~

Oh and this blog celebrates 1000 clicks. Yay. Another milestone achieved. This blog is 4+10 months old and has 50 posts. This makes an average of 300 visitors a month and 20 visitors per post. Like you'd care. Ahaks. Sorry la exam mode still hasn't rub off.

Vacation this time will begin with Melaka camp @ Kuantan. Beach-side camping it is. Time to practice what scouting has thought me! Uh huh. Then off to Sunway Lagoon with a bunch of nubs that can't swim (including me). It then ends with a week of training for Christmas Act, which I will elaborate next time, at the CF center. Another fulfilling holiday.

So Selamat Hari Raya and drive safe if you're on the road. Play safely is you're not. I leave you now with a video I made for my Robotics assignment. It features a three-degree-freedom robotic arm, a nekkid azian hunk, a sleeping uncle, and tons of weird angles. Enjoy and enjoy.

Weekends and jumpings

2007-10-03T18:58:00.000+08:00

Last weekend was a short break from the cram that is the study week. Sis came back from Hong Kong with goodies. Mid Autumn festival just passed but fret not, those calorie packed parcels are still out there if you look at the right places. Sis brought home a bunch of them from the land of Dim Sum and Wantan Mee.

mooncake with nuts and meat

mini mooncake

some mooncake-ish kuih with century egg...yea those black eggs you get with your porridge

Then there's this huge mooncake that cost her RM50 for a piece. Contains 9 salted yolks. 9!

The granddaddy of mooncakes..somewhere on it says 9 yolks

yolk in every slice

and all that other mooncakes

egg rolls

and egg tards.

There's this donut mania around the local blogosphere. Why get all obsessed with candy-coated fried dough that makes you fat when you can have bread-coated...

...fried biscuits that makes you fat? uh no

...fried chicken that makes you fat. Booyah!

Popped a few into the oven and yeh! baby! Prefer them over donuts any day. Add...

...mom's milky mashed taters and you got a smiling fat ass - me!

Of course food wasn't all she packed home.

Quiksilvers~! I got the blue pink ones...ghey~

Didn't get to study much last weekend cause I had to do a video recording of our robotic arm for our assignment. ugghh~ Ah Kiong better have some good marks for me...maybe I'll post the video here once I'm done :D One more week to celebrations and festivities !

then let's go jumping!

It's Crunch Time Again

2007-09-26T01:06:00.000+08:00

It's week 14 of our semester which usually means blood, sweat, tears, dark eye circles and weight loss all cramped into 2-3 weeks. Nice. This is my schedule.

Starts at the end of the the first week of exams meaning I still have approximately two more weeks to study. That still isn't very comforting. Anyway I did notice something about the exam slip. They added extra reminder at the bottom.

Read d) with caps. Very guilt inducing indeed.

Anyway I started a countdown to the time I can finally breathe easiER, hopefully. The countdown counts to the 10th of October, 11.10pm. 11.10 because the lecturers need to count the papers bla bla bla and they normally release you 10 minutes later. Fair enough.

I know..very tacky and dodgy this thing. What to do...free things ma.
Pray for my soul to stay sane during this time. Amen.

Another b'day and some funny picshurs

2007-09-22T20:50:00.000+08:00

10 days since I last posted. Weirdly the visitor count increased more during this duration. Anyway the studio pics from my bro's graduation finally came back. Here's some:

The usual family pic

The usual family pic with me looking sleepy..

One eye big one eye small...but still looking smart

With the robe she stoled..not really but she didn't give it back...and she graduated in 2001

Mom looking cool

Pops and me didn't have our individual pics.

This leaves only me..

A visit to the studio wouldn't be complete with a weird pose pic..
Uh-huh

Oh well and I thought they were suppose to photoshop me to look better.

Best pic evar

Moar pics for those who give a damn.

Off-topic

Here's a quickie for a friend. Happy b'day to Desmond Keo, another pilot of the many pilots at Crew and also AirAsia. I would post a pic of us but since guys don't take pics together..I'm forced to steal pics from other blogs.

If you were an autobot, then you would transform into an Airbus

When you're back we can do this again...don't you love how Kiwen looks..

You currently appear on:
Van's blog
Aya's blog
Sue's blog
and now mine since the others don't keep a blog. And also a blog which I can't speak of here.

Happy 21st and enjoy piloting. Wishing you ever more prosperity.

Nick r Confucius

2007-09-10T22:18:00.000+08:00

He who rushes in life produces shit work

~NickChoo

Told me this when I said I didn't wanna extend my studies. He later says... "I R Confucius".

Speaking of Confucius, I am reminded of a Sejarah essay that a friend of mine wrote for one of his exams. (warning:reading this may cause you laugh until tergolek. And don't take it too seriously)

Excerpts include:-

Setelah Agama Islam dipupoh Pengarut Agama Islam mengenal sistem tenaga nasional. Iaitu sebuah penjana kuasa elektrik yang memberikan masyarakat Melayu lampu. Dengan adanya cahaya dari lampu, masyarakat Melayu tidak akan hidup dalam kegelapan. Pertahuan seperti zina, riba, judi dan sebagainya tidak dilakukan lagi kerana mereka malu adanya tiang lampu di merata rata yang menyalah tingkah lalu mereka. In English, they are too shy to do tat stuff in the light. Scared people see ma. Stupid.

Mereka akhirnya dapat belajar kerana menpunyai lampu meja dan ini menjadikan mereka bijak. Mula mula mereka mengambil UPSR kemudian PMR, SPM dan akhrinya STPM. Banyak telah pergi ke Universiti cahaya langgit kerana di sana terdapat lampu untuk pelajaran mereka.

Perempuan tidak lagi di pandang hina kerana setelah ada cahaya, men felt shy because their body part are different. 1 bolt 1 nut. Really tiu lo. Adanya elektrik, mereka tengok filem cerita pokemon dan digimon.

Akhirnya mereka berjaya membina buah ampangan yang besar dengan jentera yang berkuasa tinggi.

Ajaran Shinto pula datang dari Tom Cruise. Dia ini seorang askar, generallah dunno not pangkatlah. 4get liau. Dia mahu kill all the stupid Japanese because they samurai all so lazy stuff. Tetapi kena tangkap dan diberi fahaman samurai. Selepas dilepaskan dia tak mau balik pula kerana ada anak cantik ma. Lepas itu dia pun fang kuat chai lo. His people went to kill him pun tak jadi. Ini telah tersebabnya Shinto.

And the best line of all : Agama confucius ini memang "confusing" entah bila masa mau makan dan entah bila masa bertapa...

It may be old but it still makes me tergolek. This guy was my classmate and he went to form 6 after secondary. He's not and idiot, mind you...well sometimes he is but realize that he wrote this on purpose. It's funny when I read other bloggers reading this saying "what has happen to the kids now""what is wrong with the education system" bla bla bla when everything was meant to be joke. Adults are so uptight sometimes :D

Life has so many presents for me

2007-09-07T20:45:00.000+08:00

I woke up today to rush my assignment which is due at 5.00pm. I've done the important part so I just need to finish up the report. My groupmates have a weird way of doing things. We take the same subjects so each of us pick one assignment and do it alone. That means I'm doing this assignment alone while the others work on other subject's assignment. Each person get to do one. How lovely.

So ok, I there's one segment of my assignment codes that I need to verify with my lecturer. So off I went to campus and parked right outside of campus. Went to see him and went to a one hour class. Got out and saw this on my windscreen.

I laughed...hard

So now the police is saman-ing students who park at Emerald Park for "Traffic Obstruction". I mean we have parked there for like the last 4 years with no problem and now.... If you come to Melaka campus you will understand..........

Got home to finish off the assignment and I got a mail from the bank.

Huh?

Seems to me like they entered money into my account but the money isn't mine. Those bumbling buffons over at the bank entered the wrong account number and transferred it into mine. So now they are taking out money from my account. Yay. And I thought I was a millionaire.

Handed in the assignment and went home in the evening. Powered up the computer to find out that there is something wrong with my graphic card. -__-

The fan came off. No attempts to self-fix here

The card still works but I can't play games because it will overheat and make my comp crazy. Gonna have to get a replacement fan which will most probably set me back about RM80 minimum. Hurray. So for now the immediate solution would be...

...get a bigger fan

Had to sacrifice the speakers so I can plug this in. Games with no sound is weird. Seriously.

Then it started to rain. Heavily. Making it...

...flood

starring my cute blue fake Crocs

Construction is going on opposite my house and that most probably sumbat-ed the longkang. The floodwaters brought in dirt and smelled funky. Mmm hmm.

I also bought..or attempted to buy a good headphone for my pretty player off lelong.com.my I banked in the money yesterday and the dude still hasn't reply me. Scammer?!~@#!@~

The best thing is my player is starting to act up again. This time it freezes after a few minute of playing and I can't boot it up. Maybe I GG-ed the harddisk from my self-fix. Another round of applause please. >.<

Help me......

...please...

Wow today was so much FUN. Life is sooo much FUN. Looking forward to tomorrow then.

shiru's top 5 Firefox plug-ins

2007-09-06T14:50:00.000+08:00

Thought I'd share the love since I've got a friend who's a nub at Firefox.
I'm not using Firefox by the way; I'm on Wyzo, a browser based on Firefox and still in development. So anyway the top 5 plug-ins are suppose to make surfing easier. So let's start.

1. Cooliris Previews

This plug-in lets you preview a website from its link before actually going in the website alone. Just hover over the link. Great for previewing Google search results.

Here I'm previewing Heidi's blog from mine

2. Download Status Bar

Put's your download status at the bottom of your browser for more organized monitoring. You can also clear access controls for the downloads by right clicking on the bar.

3. Mouse Gestures

I use the Opera browser as well so mouse gestures have become a necessity for quick browsing. Holding right click and moving it left brings you back to the page before this. Lot's more controls for stuff like a new tab, closing tab, new window, etc.

Notice the bottom of the status bar

And when I'm bored I indulge in a little practice of MS Paint doodles

My leet MS paint skews and notice the status bar going crazy

4. English Dictionary and Spell Checker

Don't wanna screw up with your English while blogging? This plug-in works like your MS Word spell check and checks every word you type. Correct mistakes by right clicking the word and select the corrections. Impeccable English every time.

5. Update Scanner

The plug-in I use the most. I use it to scan friend's blogs for updates and also because I don't wanna use an independent feed reader. I set this plug-in to scan once a day through a list of blogs I wanna read. That's how I know when you people update your blogs :D It even highlights the changes in the blogs.

The purple arrows on the left are updated blogs

There are a few other stuff but that's not so important. Hopefully you'll benefit from these plug-ins if you haven't already. Enjoy.

Merdeka?

2007-09-01T16:58:00.000+08:00

Malaysia celebrates it's 50th birthday this weekend. Celebrations are everywhere and lot's of hu-ha in the newspapers about. Am I suppose to be super proud about this?

For all the achievements Malaysia raked up over the years, you would think that people of this country would have wizened up a bit and be more mature about matters at stake. But you know it's not really there yet when Parliment holds a meeting to discuss a Chinese youth who raps about stuff that's real and happening in society, albeit using the wrong background song when they could have used the time to come out with solutions with REAL problems like getting Mat Rempits off the road and the increasing crime rate in Melaka.

My sis was in Putrajaya for the fireworks competition last week and she was awed by the big government buildings at the administrative island(all the government buildings are on a island).
For a moment there she was quite proud but then later thought "did Malaysians design the buildings?" Achievements are not about giant buildings and skyscrapers and weird multimillion dollar roundabouts. All that just induces enlarged e-peens.

Reality is, it's hard being a minority in this country. Can't ignore the fact that racism is rampant on all levels of society. We hear stories of people getting beat up because of their race or how there are no non-bumiputras holding positions in government and all that.
It's hard to be non-bumiputra here.
It's hard to be a non-Muslim here.

I'm not out to bash or to put Malaysia down or anything like that. These are what people talk about out in the streets and everyone knows it although some of it ends up being untrue. Count your blessings and know that there are far worse fates. Malaysia without it's problem is a damn nice place to live in. It's beautiful, it's peaceful, it's safe and the people are most a nice bunch. We have freedom, though restricted in certain aspects, and we ought to be thankful for that.

So yea I'm kinda proud. One of the many good things coming out from this multiracial community is the rich food and culture. I love it here and Ican't imagine living anywhere else. 50 years is short and the country is still young, still much to learn. So count your blessings and say a prayer for our dear country and it's leaders.

Happy 50th Malaysia.

(sensitive stuff i speak of here. the good thing about small readership is I get to post this without all the over-sensitive hoes raining down crap on me. :D)

Double quotes

2007-08-31T01:15:00.000+08:00

I'm so cheesy, I make the French and Italians cry.

~NickChoo

Right you do....

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Learning to hold a conversation is like learning to breath; once you know, you just do it!

~Vijay giving me counseling sessions

Haha but the hard part is getting there, no?

LOL at Creative

2007-08-29T22:40:00.000+08:00

Today I got my Creative Zen Micro back from RMA. Vijay knows a guy who knows a guy who's in the Creative company. My Micro has been experiencing head jack problems, the audio only appeared on one side of the earphones and becomes heavily distorted with heavy static noise. I searched thru forums and found out that Creative had problems with the early batches of Micros and this was one of them.

So excited I was to get it back thinking I had my "study companion" back but sitting down and powering up the gadget, I found that the problem was still there! Heck, this unit was there for about a week and the problems is still not fixed. Ugghh...so "putus stim" man...

Then I got home and searched for a solution and to my delight found some guides to repair my unit. So being an engineer...ahem...and trying to act macho...ahem....I chose to take the risk and do it myself.

Ingredients:
Creative Zen Micro mp3 player
Micro philips screwdriver
Tesco flyer
Soldering iron (optional)
Good amount balls to pry the player open
Now let's get started.

First thing I had to do was to pry open the player. I was trying to be really careful so that I don't destroy any last hopes of fixing me player. Getting the interface and casing apart was a bitch, had to exert some force to push it out. My palms was sweaty and fear of screwing up is in the air~

Done! My player disrobed :D

The mainboard...naked..and we don't need that

This is what I'll be fixing

Or more precisely, screw the board off the casing and this is what I'll be fixing

Next step, tear a small piece of paper from a Tesco flyer and fold it to six layers..

....and place it on the metal casing of the headjack and screw it back on

Another guide says to solder the points connecting the headjack port to the board but I was lazy and went with the folded paper solution. If ever the problem resurface, I'll probably solder it then.

And that's it. Reassembled the player and tested the player. Worked like magic. The audio was clear on both channels and no static distortion present.

I officially fixed my own player!

Wohoo! Now that was self empowering :D I'm listening to it while I construct this post. It only took 30mins for me to fix this while the dudes at Creative held on to my player for a
week without getting it fixed...another example of "if you want it done, do it yourself". Now I'm thinking of getting some good IEMs or in-ear-phones, like this.

I referred to these sites for the guides to doing this right, in case anyone else is facing the same problem.

Now that it's fixed time to head to the library with a new set of songs and study! Hopefully :x

The only thing is, these 2 clips fell out...any I have no idea where they belong. Hopefully the player doesn't die on me later D:

Interesting

2007-08-27T23:33:00.000+08:00

Basically testing out the new blogger video function.

Two videos pops sent me. Kinda interesting I suppose. Oh well have fun.

Parrot Fish

2007-08-26T17:23:00.000+08:00

Last Sunday I a call from Ah Hua, one of my classmates asking "wan eat fish?". Ah Hua is a fishing enthusiast and is currently an invited writer for a chinese fishing magazine and gets paid RM500 per article. That's how good he is. While studying for the last finals he's been telling us how good the parrot fish is, and this semester he took a whole cooler box of that down from Kuantan. I'm surprised this fish is edible but fish sounds good to me~
So Calvin "baba" Chow, Ah Hua and his girlfriend Amy, and Addy Chan all went over to Addy's girlfriend, Yen's house because her kitchen is the best equipped.

The parrot fish I've been told wonderful stories about

Parrot fish is a reef fish and comes in many colours, including purple and green. Really different from your average market fish. I was told it's even more colourful when alive. I think I've seen this fish while vacationing in Redang before.

Baba told me to start taking pics and this is almost everyone

Girls doing their thing..Amy on the left, Yen on the right

The girls told us to leave the kitchen and let them handle everything. So what did the guys do?
Watch tv and camwhore.

Macam old men talking business while their wives toil in the kitchen

Then we camwhored for abit

And the food was ready!

Better view of our beloved fish

We ate and ate until there was nothing left

A little souvenir of the parrot's beak haha

The fish was great, flaky and is best stimmed. The meat is extraordinarily white. Certainly different.
Some stuff about this group of people. The guys are all my classmates in the same major. The all have girlfriends and the girlfriends all know each other and they hang out together. I call them the couple club. Whenever they get together they would call me along, sometimes I feel like "tiang lampu" haha but their girlfriends are also very friendly. They all know me by name. See, why can't some girlfriends be like them *cough*

Off-topic

My autumn desktop set up. Mighty smexy (smelly+sexy) I must say~

Click 501

2007-08-25T03:47:00.000+08:00

It's 4 in the morning and I would like to announce the site counter has hit 501.
Weee. Thanks people!

Goodnight.

CF Tenth Anniversary

2007-08-24T20:40:00.000+08:00

Two exams this week. Pardon the slow updates.

MMU turns 10 and so does Christian Fellowship(CF) of MMU. The committees from both campuses worked hard to organise this event cum reunion with the theme WE ARE ONE. They invited the pioneer batch of MMU who started the CF itself. Also present were the other nine batch of students for every year including my year. Note MMUCF is CF Malacca campus and CFMMU is CF Cyberjaya campus.

The ticket

The anniversary magazine

The whole event was held at Mahkota Century Hotel and stretched from 3pm till 9pm. CFMMU from Cyberjaya campus were among the people there.

Lot's of faces I've never seen before

Very lavish

There were a few performances by both campuses that included a dance, a musical presentation and two band performances.

CFMMU's opening dance

CFMMU's Oneted

MMUCF's PG165

Didn't get to take a pic of the MMUCF's musical presentation but think of it as STOMP with Amazing Grace as it's central theme. After that food was served for hi-tea. Good food I must say.
No pics because I was busy eating. Later the seniors and pastors gave testimonies about the forming of CF and also how it was like back then.
Then we had photo sessions for each batch.

The pioneer batch, from 1997. Notice they have kids and most of them are married

Class of '01

Class of '02

Vijay and Lenard attention whoring

Class of '03

Class of '04. Spot me pls...

Pic for '05 came out too blurry.

Class of '06

Class of '07. The babies of CF

The group pic of EVERYBODY...a sea of people...and where was I?

Playing the fool with other fools behind everyone :D

All the Cyberjaya peeps. No pics for Malacca cause I was in the pic

After that was praise and worship session and it was already around 7pm. I left at 8 to rush to St. Francis Institution, my alma mater for yet another reunion. Lot's of pics this post. For even moar! pics go to Andrew's blog.
CF has a quite an interesting history. MMU disallows any society that is religion based so for a few years CF operated underground. As some of the seniors would tell you, CF today is somewhat illegal as well D: So that means I'm in a member of an underground movement? Expedacious!

Yu Char Kueh Uncle says

2007-08-18T10:51:00.001+08:00

When a boy holds a girl's hand and her hands are rough then he is a happy man.
When a girl holds a boy's hand and his hands are smooth and soft then she is a happy woman

~Yu Char Kueh uncle

Told me this when I was buying fritters from him. You get it,right?

The Moral Movie

2007-08-17T00:47:00.000+08:00

This is a movie I made with my Moral assignment group. We were suppose to choose a topic and do a video presentation about it. We ended up meshing all the moral values we know. Took about 3 days to complete after we brainstormed about the theme and concept.

I directed one scene and edited two and also helped with the flow of the whole movie. Anyways enjoy our little movie.

MoralTV from shiru and Vimeo.

I laughed when I watched my acting part of the movie. So cheesy~ The movie received rousing ovations when we presented it to the class. Felt really good~
I just noticed some editting error at the end of the movie.Sorry for that.
Hope you guys leave some comments about this so I know how good this is.

Another funny?

2007-08-13T23:09:00.002+08:00

I got this e-mail from pops with "IQ question" as the header.

Here is a puzzle for you

Imagine you are in Africa. You have been tied hanging on a tree with
a rope anchored on the ground, a candle is slowly burning the rope,
and the lion is waiting for you to drop and be his lunch.

Your survival hinges on the rope staying intact, there is no one
around to help you. What to do now ..........

Sing a Happy Birthday song.

And I was like "what the...."
LOL

Off-topic
Configuring this new template. Will get all the usuals up and running soon. Hope you like~

Graduation

2007-08-13T21:38:00.000+08:00

Last weekend was my brother's graduation/convocation. I'm gonna refer to it as graduation because it's cooler.

I was already in KL on Friday because we needed to take family photos and stuff at a wedding studio in SS/dunno what. Sis had to get to the Terengganu that night. Anyway I'll post some photos of that once I get them.

Stayed the night at a condo in Bukit Jalil courtesy of my bro's boss. Nice dude. Stayed with Ay Lai; my bro's gf and her family

6.30 am

Had to make our way there early because the graduates have to be at the hall at 7.30am.

The flowers me and sis got for them both..habis la my one month gaji :O

Looking nice in graduation garb

Knowing the ceremony is gonna last around 4 hours, I made plans with Vijay who was staying at some cf dudes at Cyberia.
So after dropping them off I accompanied them to the hall and made off after they went in. I called Vijay who sleepily led me in the apartments and I crashed on the couch for the next 5 hours haha.

Meanwhile...

The graduates making their way in.

The Chancellor forgot-her-title Siti Hasmah

List of graduates from his major

Then the speeches were given by the Chancellor and other big shots.

I think this is displayed when the graduate is called up to receive their empty degree. This is my bro's. Can't really see what he wrote. And yes when they go up to receive their degrees, it's just an empty box and you have to collect the real thing after the whole ceremony. Love MMU.

When it was all done..and I was still sleeping on the couch

Bro and Ay Lai

Throwing their rented hats around...so graduation eih

The robes are colour-coded for each faculty. If only engineering got the silver ones...

Bro and his friends camwhored for the next 3 hours while I hung out with the cf dudes who were also graduating. Then we left for Alamanda Putrajaya for lunch.

Manhattan Fish Market ~

Bro's treat of course

This really cool bamboo forest in Alamanda. Have I told you I love bamboo forests?

Guess mom was so happy she got me White Chocolate and Macadamia Cake from Secret Recipe. Sinfully sweet. I mean the cake of course.

Bro's working in Penang now in the same engineering firm as Ay Lai. For me it's already like she's my sister-in-law haha since my mom and pops both approves. Her parents also approves. So next time I've got a place to stay if I visit Penang :D

Got a little lecture on the way back to Malacca after that; "must study harder so I can graduate too." Both my brother and sister have graduated and have started working. I'm the only bum left at home that is leeching their money

>.< Mom didn't say that haha I was just thinking.

But I'm not in a hurry to graduate and start working, I wanna spend this 2 years of sanctioned unemployment to the max.

Off-topic

Saw these people in Malim after reaching Malacca. Weird modified tall bikes dangling with performing items like hula hoops and a guitar. Travelling performers I guess. They attracted a lot of attention too as motorists was stopping by the roadside to take pictures of them. So if you see them anywhere in Malacca please tell me. I'm curious :D

sh|ru visits Siem Reap, Day 4

2007-08-09T23:29:00.001+08:00

The last day and the flight was at 12pm. In order to shop more they forced me up at 8.30am...

This is what you get for watching 8 Mile till 2am

So last minute shopping and I was looking for souvenirs for the guys back home.

Hanging meat

Vegetables and stuff

This is a girl we met at the central market. She's Chinese and speaks teow chiew too. I think she's an immigrant and she's married to a local and speaks fluent Khmer, the Cambodian language. So lot's of cheap stuff from her :D

After some recommendations we stopped by for local beef noodles. It was ok and the soup was sweet. Nice balls of meat though D:

When that's done it's time to go home. The last pic with David at the airport. And then it was goodbye Cambodia

This is not voyeur! Just something I thought was "interesting" . All the air stewardess of AirAsia are very well endowed~ But they wear too heavy of makeup. Yerr

Passing immigrations with the new passport is a breeze now

Slot in your passport and put your thumb on the sensor and you're done

Home greets us with showers

That's the end of my little trip to humble Cambodia. I would go back there again if there's a chance and I would really like to spend at least two days at the temples. Those are really beautiful places.

Here are most of the pics for this trip. Here are the pick of the crop, my fav pics.

Vijay says

2007-08-09T23:27:00.000+08:00

Boys don't cry but men do

~Vijay

Sniff~

sh|ru visits Siem Reap, Day 3

2007-08-06T20:45:00.000+08:00

It's the last day of my three day trip in Siem Reap. Got up at about 8 and today we are visiting Angkor Wat. Actually I'm only looking forward to this part of the trip. You will understand why at the end of this post. Nothing much I can say to describe what I saw so I'll let the pictures tell the story.

Entrance into the temple area

The first temple we visited was Banteay Srei. Claimed to be one of the most beautiful temple and filled with intricate carved motifs.

Banteay Srei

Imagine beautiful sculptures like this in every corner of the temple

Then we went to Bayon, temple of many faces.

Bayon

With the family outside Bayon

Everywhere was faces like these staring down at you

Then we stopped by for lunch at a local hawker and proceeded to Angkor Wat.

Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat is huge. We walked the span of two causeways and went thru two gateways just to reach the inner temple. That's about almost a kilometre of walking. The whole place is surrounded by a moat almost a football field wide.

My fav pic the whole trip. Monks leaving the temple as I entered

These are called apsaras. Heavenly maidens sent down as rewards for kings and warriors

There are apsaras everywhere along the walls of the temple. The interesting thing is every apsara is different to one another, being the hair, the pose, the facial expression. Everyone of them is different. In the middle of everything is the inner temple. You need to climb a steep set of stairs to get up. The steps are worn and slippery. Luckily they installed a railing to the sides but that doesn't make it any scarier.

Sis climbing up to the inner temple(sorry bout the sideway pic)

While up there we saw a Korean filming crew

The actor and actress

What a weird place to do a Korean serial in. Couldn't recognise anyone there so must be not famous one la..

I forgot the name of this temple but they called it Tomb Raider temple

Yes this is where they filmed the Tomb Raider movie starring Angelina Jolie. The temple is being reclaimed by the forest and giant trees eat away at the walls. Looks adventurous.

A tree outside the temple. Got female counterpart ah?

The pics I took are really not the best so you can't really see the beauty of the places. But believe me the places are really beautiful and you will wonder how they built them over 800 years ago.

Angkor at night

It's evening and we had to track up a hill to a hilltop temple to look at the sunset.

A huge crowd like this gathers everday on the top

Voyeur hehe~ chun Japanese tourist

The sun is going down

There are plenty more temples but we managed to cover only the more famous ones. David says you can stay here for a week and not finish exploring everything.

So back to the hotel we go and dinner at another hawker stall.

Ikan amok

The kangkung you see is called morning glory here in Cambodia. We were expecting to eat purple flowers when we ordered it. And it turns out that Cambodians only eat the stalk and not the leaves. So we had a plateful of kangkung stalks. They feed the leaves to pigs (they rear pigs in villages) because the stalks can be kept longer. So what about here in Malaysia? Total opposites.
Finished we dinner we went for traditional massage. My first.

Quite painful...

The day is done and we stopped by a convenience shop before going back to the hotel. Got some Angkor Beer...

So cheap...and tastes like Tiger

Back at the hotel I got a gentle reminder....

That's right don't do it you bastards. haha.

postings 4 am

2007-08-05T03:53:00.000+08:00

It's 4am and I'm not asleep. I must be crazy but it is the holidays albeit for a week and I have a flood of four mid-terms when term reopens. One week to study and to play the fool. Hot springs are slated, Korean steamboats are on their way and to hit 90 on my character in PT. Lots of stuff to do and I'm only beginning to feel the college lifestyle haha. After three years.
So to MMU crappers have fun and don't get owned by mid-terms when the week ends. Have a nice holiday people!

July Condensed

2007-08-03T13:18:00.000+08:00

The past few nights have been busy: with CF, CG, being with friends and gaming...haha. I returned to Priston Tale, a Korean mmorpg that I used to play back in secondary. But I'm on a private server now and if you ever play there pm me :D

So July is over and bulan patriotik is here. The past month was quite happenin' with every weekend spent with friends on outings and parties. All 21 years old ma..sure got lots of parties.
Here are some other less significant stuff that happened to me.

TAYAR PANCITS

On the day of Sue's party I went to church alone; pops was away on retreat. So being late I rushed there and I noticed my front right tire was really bumpy and I thought was some mud that caked on it since it was a rainy day. At church when I stepped out of the car I heard air escaping from that tire. Yay. Some screw got stuck deep in it. I probed the screw and managed to stop air from coming out. So in to the church for service I went. After the service, my tangan gatal I got a screw driver from the bunk and tried to get the damned thing out. And because it is a screw I literally screwed it out. Then air rushed out full force. Being smart I screwed it back in the hole but the damage was done. The tire was all floppy. So in the rain I decided to do the manly thing. Change the tires!. I've never done it before mind you.
So to the trunk I got everything that I needed and jacked the car up and replaced the tires and I was done in 5 minutes.
Woah! I just did something I've never done before in 5minutes. I guess changing tires are a mans thing hahaha.

The dastardly evil little prick..and it isn't even sharp!

RAINBOW CLEANS MY CAR

My friend Baba Calvin Chow is sales representative of the Rainbow Hydro-cleaning system. Basically means he's a salesman selling a vacuum machine. So Eddy Chan and I was invited over to his place to test out this "hydrocleaner".

family car...not MINE

Baba Chow ah beng :)

I haven't really cleaned the insides of my car in weeks but it looks clean.

Doesn't look canggih to me..

So this thing supposedly thoroughly cleans deep into fabric and I was skeptical at first...

this from my car....from clear water to kopi O kau

Isn't this familiar...looks like someone...

Ok I know...not funny...~

It sort of works and I didn't know the car was so dirty. So for the free cleaning services I'm repaying him with this "advertorial". If you're interested, call him for a free demo.

Window Messaging Service

I was leaving the Central Lecture Complex at campus, walking towards my car parked at the lecturers carpark which is closer to classes. From far I could see a piece of paper stuck on my windshield. A WMS or window messaging service(coined by Adrian). So I thought it was from Crew ajak minum or something. But this is what I got.

What the...?

Lecturer? Me? Of course not. Parking in the lecturers carpark? Am I looking for trouble? Of course not. I park there because I have..

..uh huh..my stickers of powaa~!

For those who don't know, these are MMU lecturer car stickers. So I can park anywhere I want!well almost. Don't ask me where I get it because I'm not sharing my powaa with anyone else har har har!! And the person who sent me the WMS?

Our favourite Indian macha~

Thanks Vijay for making me thought I was going to get saman-ed. Joker.

CHEAP INDIAN MEALS

Thanks to Baba Chow again, I was introduced to a really nice Indian stall at Bukit Bruang foodcourt. Tired of a Indian meal that costs about RM5 minimum?

At this Indian stall, everything you see costs a total of RM2.80

Papadam, a curried piece of chicken and two potatoes, two serving of veges and a cup of ais kosong. Winnar! The store owner's a nice dude and speaks a little English. The only downside is that the choices are limited.
And the food isn't really orgasmic-ally nice or anything, but it's good enough to keep me coming back for more.

That's about it. July 2007 was a good month. Off to class now. Bees

sh|ru visits Siem Reap, Day 2

2007-07-30T22:57:00.000+08:00

The computer have been causing me problems lately...also I've been busy hanging out with Crew during the weekend, doing what guys do best; waste time haha..
Anyway here's my second day at Siem Reap.

According to plan we are bound for the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh which is about four hours away from Siem Reap. So we had to get up at 5.30 so we could be there early and spend the whole day there.

This is 6am taken from my hotel. Bright!

On the way we passed through villages and the road was small and bumpy. There are no highways in this country. The driver had to hon at those bikers and smaller cars as a sign to get out of the way so he can overtake them. Seems something of a norm for them. It was quite annoying but I was happily deep in slumber.
The first stop was the royal palace.

The road leading to the palace

Group pic at!behind us is the throne room

The famous silver pagoda

Admin building and some chateau the French gave to the king. Entry restricted

I'm guessing this is the temple. Entry restricted

There were lot's of individual building in a big walled compound but most of them were restricted areas. So basically you're paying 20USD to look at a few buildings that no one lives in anymore(the king lives in another palace). Yay.

Spent almost two hours there and then it was my favourite time, lunch time. We were taken to a local restaurant.

I have a bad feeling about this...so cheat restaurant?

But I wasn't feeling cheated when the food came..!

The food was actually nice. Very typical chinese. But what really stood out were their drinks

Cambodian kopi susu ais. Superb la~ I would go back there for a glass of this, seriously. It's that good. Although a little sweet, but it puts all the mamak kopi we have here to shame. Very kau! I reckon it even tastes better than all those StarBucks frappucino crappucino haha...

They have teh ais too, but not as good as the kopi :D

Pops looking mighty satisfied

The bill came to about 2USD a person. Cheap considering all the stuff we ordered.

Cambodian police

Rich dude's house. The economic divide here is BIG where the rich are really rich and the poor are really poor. If I remember correctly David told us you buy houses here with gold. And houses such as this can go up to about 700 thousand USD in value.

Next was Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

The museum was a school before the war.

Pictures of the dead.

Skulls dug out from mass graves.

If you didn't already know, Cambodia was ravaged by civil war when communist influence was at it's highest. Many were forced to labour and died as a result of overwork and also torture. They were liberated when Vietnam forces marched in and drove out the communists but in return Vietnam also claimed much of their lands resulting in a smaller Cambodia that we know today.

Now for shopping.

Russain Market. Look at all those shoes

Mom looking through stuff

The dude's selling barbecued squids

The place was crowded and it was a steam room in there. I bough two pairs of shoes and a sports t-shirt for a grand total of 30USD. Mm hmm.
It's six in the evening and David was rushing us back because of the notorious traffic jam would take us two hours to get out of the city.

Now I know why...no traffic lights!!

It was dark by the time we got on the road back to Siem Reap. David was driving like crazy honing every bike he sees on the road as a warning to them. Then we stopped by for dinner at an inn. No pics cause it's just another chinese eatery. What was interesting is they sold...

...crickets!Fried and all crispy and juicy

It's their local snack and it's big business for them when they export these stuff to Thailand. They catch them by the tonnes in kampungs with special nets fixed below blue neon lights when the season arrives.

You can see these lights stretching for miles as the villagers cash in on some extra income and also some snack for themselves.
We got back to the hotel at about 10 pm and went straight to bed after another tiring day.
Look out for the third and last day soon :D

Off-topic:
I had to edit and filter some stuff on my previous posts because someone is being over sensitive and I feel sad for the person who has to put up with that burden. So to you-know-who-you-are, I again dedicate this song to you.
Sigh.

Ah Kit says

2007-07-27T12:56:00.000+08:00

Love is not blind,
the lover is blind.

~Chun Kit

Betul ker ni~?

off-topic:

The loneliest thing to do now is to eat lunch out alone. So please please, if you are eating lunch alone think of me! and call me out so I can eat with you. Kesian you and kesian me so let's do each other a favour..can? hahaha maybe I'll skip class just to eat with you! I'm that good of a person :D

Sue's 21st

2007-07-25T22:45:00.000+08:00

Last Saturday was Sue's birthday bash; not really a bash really just friends coming in having food and talking. I was there with half of Crew; Adrian, Kiwen, Han and - . Keo was flying and Edwin was at survival camp. Pilots...
I only got to know her recently because she was part of NFAZ and NFAZ and Crew are good friends. haha

People who came was mostly strangers to me but at least I wasn't alone. Food was great; home-cooked rather than crappy catering stuff. So you can say I was there simply for the food :D
They had homemade satay celup too. There was a dress code for the night : no black and white.
That's why you can see traffic lights everywhere.

Sue getting her golden key. Freedom lo..can seh kia lo

Her cake

NFAZ and passing snails

Sue with half of Crew

The little cupcake you see is something noteworthy. I'm guessing cheese and liquor dough or mixture, chilled then scooped and served on homemade mini pie crust. Good stuff. Now if only I could persuade her mom for the recipe...

The pics I took were really dark because I don't like using flash. So the pics you see now are photoshopped. I mean you can clearly see that right? right!?
Anyway happy birthday Sue! Hope you become wiser every year.

Off-topic:

Having fun with 15 second exposure on my cam after the party. Nice results. Should screw around with it more.

Click for food

2007-07-23T22:10:00.000+08:00

Surfing through torrentspy, I came across a link to a charity site. It says you can help feed a person if you just click the big yellow button.

The Hunger Site

They receive funds every time you click it because of sponsors who advertise on the page. I don't think this is a hoax but if you are not really convinced then by all means, go dig and search about this site. If you ever have proof that this is fake remember to inform me too.

So if you feel like doing charity but too lazy to get your ass of that chair, then this is something for you. So click away and remember to do it everyday.

Off topic:

My new secksi desktop ^^

sh|ru visits Siem Reap, Day 1

2007-07-22T21:23:00.000+08:00

Actually I was there during the semester break with my family. This took so long because I had a ton of pics to upload and was pretty lazy haha. I was there for three days so I'll make my posts short and divide the trip in three posts. And if you didn't know, Siem Reap is in Cambodia, home of Angkor Wat.

Got up at 5.15 am to get ready to drive to LCCT where we'll be flying AirAsia. So off we went with me driving on a dark, spacy, empty highway. Checked in and napped for the next 2 hours waiting for the flight.

Keo's future ride

The plane ride was two hours. I always liked taking off, much like a amusement ride.

My first view of Cambodia

We landed on a strip which for me is like in the middle of paddy fields. The guide from the hotel was already waiting and we bundled up for a 15 minute ride into Siem Reap.

David, our guide/driver for the next 3 days

Then we had to plan our itinerary because we weren't on a package. That done, it was time for lunch. My father has a friend who went to Cambodia the year before. His story is the food here are dirt cheap, somewhere along 0.50-2 USD a meal per person. So eagerly we set out....

First meal in Siem Reap

The guide ended up bringing us to some posh tourist eatery where the price is...electrifying. Imagine the omelet priced at 4USD and the vegetables 3USD a plate. Those two and another 2 dishes was what we ordered.Yay. We told David next time we want local fare, what the locals eat.

Next on the list was to the floating village of Lake Tonle Sap. It's a whole village on boats and houses on stilts. It's a half hour ride out of town and then you take a boat to the lake.

That's me bro's gf infront of me

It was dry season so the rivers are shallow and muddy. Along the river you could see houses on boats and it's residents lounging by the river.

Floating school

Then at the mouth of the river was a church. A floating church at that.

Remember when they say God is everywhere...?

And then we were in the huge lake, stretching as far as the eye can see. A couple of floating restaurants and many locals peddling drinks and beer in boats will approach your boat.

Children of the lake, quite amphibious..

We were taken to the to a boat that sells souvenirs and stuff. Nothing exciting right? Here's something to bat your eyelids at..

They keep their croc pets on the boat itself..on the lower level

If you're feeling touristy, buy some bananas on sale and hurl it at them. The objective is to hit them in the mouth. That's the only thing that will make them move.
The whole thing takes about an hour and a half. As we made our way back to the van, we got mobbed by poor children. Can't help but be moved but we gave them sweets instead, another advice from dad's friend. Another half hour ride back to town and shopping was next.
We were driven to Siem Reap's central market. Lot's of local produce and souvenirs. I was left walking aimlessly around while the others were souvenir hunting. Another 2 hours gone and it's dinner time.
For dinner we went to the Cultural Village. 12USD inclusive of buffet dinner and cultural show. Yay. The food was ok, got some local stuff but nothing outstanding really. The show was...

Cambodians love their mermaids

Interesting, no?

It would have been interesting if not for the tiredness from traveling all over the place.
Japanese tourist that I thought was hawt~(of course the pic doesn't do her justice)
That's right, praise them for all the bak kut teh, char siew and seow bak

We went back to the hotel after that, all eager to get some sleep. So that's all for the first day. I'll do the second day soon so till then, ciaoz.

My father says

2007-07-22T14:19:00.000+08:00

Enjoy yourself, but don't forget yourself ah!

Mr. Joseph Lee while sending his son off for IF camp

My father. Cool when you least expects it :)

Last Saturday...

2007-07-18T23:36:00.001+08:00

What do I do on the weekends in a town as boring as Melaka you may ask. Here's something to give you an idea...

I awoke at 10a.m. last Saturday, got online with Kiwen and Han, and we decided on Malay food. Lot 85 is the name of the place and nasi briani the game. We left at 11.30 determined to beat the lunchtime crowd.

Kiwen's with Ayam Kurma and Bayam

Han had the same.

This is mine with Ayam Goreng Berempah

Whilst eating guess who went and pinch my sides...

Yeap Vijay, in the background with Stef and me. That's Han in the foreground by the way.

What a coincidence. And I was just asking him where to get nice Briani a few days ago at gym. He said he woke up with a craving. A few minutes later another familiar face showed up..

Don with Suling.

Don was fetching her to the bus station and they decided to stop here for lunch. She's going to Johor.
Lot 85 is a very popular place to get Malay food with a lot of curries and rendangs and kurmas to choose from. Don't be surprised that half of the crowd here are non Malays. Muhibah la~ Come early or end up queuing as the crowd builds up during lunch time. So what next?

Rambutans la~

Kiwen's dad is running a printing service somewhere near town. Behind the shophouse is a big field and on that field is three rambutan trees. Whee~. Fruits for dessert. Free flow too.

We got to work straight away...
...taking turns...
...and savored in its sweet delights :D

If you notice the clothes here isn't the same as the ones above. The rambutan pics were taken the week before. We did had rambutan again after Lot 85 but we didn't take any pics. The same stuff happened so I can reuse the pics. I feel so "kampung boy", picking and eating rambutans of the trees. Fresh is the key word.

This is Han on Kiwen's "scrambler maut"

If you happen to see this bike in campus, it's Kiwen on it. Don also came later but he, as Kiwen would put it "no skill makan rambutan". So after awhile we hung out at the band room. What band room? haha I maybe I'll blog about it next time. Then we decided to go eat...

...Tong Sui

There's a nice little hawker at the foot of Bukit Cina, facing the Mitsubishi Showroom. Lot's of tong sui to choose from and some mee goreng and bihun goreng but we weren't hungry.

But that wasn't the end of it. Don bought an Optimus Prime toy for RM286!! And i just had to go play with it for the sake of my poor childhood haha. So over to his place we went. The toy is like as tall as your PC monitor and is a bitch to transform. In the span of 40 minutes we only managed to transform it from truck to robot, then back to truck once. Really complicated procedure and I was afraid of breaking the parts.

Me with a RM286 toy..yay

Went home at 5pm to get ready for church and that was the end of my day. Ahh but nightime brings other nocturnal activities as well. Haha I'll leave it for another time.

That was one of the more happening days really. Usually Saturdays I stay home and play games but sometimes I do get days like this that I feel is so fully used. Pics for this post courtesy of Kiwen and his canggih handphone. Wish I had my nokia 6131 back :(

Phew, long post..hope you enjoy it. Time for me beauty sleeps. Nights.

Kok Wei says

2007-07-18T22:36:00.000+08:00

When clubbing, there are two types of people.
The first is here to look for one night stand.
The second is here to stand whole night.

~See Kok Wei

so true D:

lol

2007-07-18T13:12:00.001+08:00

clipped from
masak-masak.blogspot.com

Whenever I'm around the Imbi area, I'll usually head towards Weng Hing or the Imbi market. As I wanted to try something new, I ended up at this corner coffeeshop I always pass by. The Imbi road system is kinda chaotic at the moment as it's now one way hence if you end up at the wrong side of the road, they divert you at the back streets instead.

This is a test post..hence the lol title. I got to know of a new browser, Wyzo which I'm using now. It's based on Firefox and is still in alpha, hence the similarities. There is a plug in called Clipmarks where you can clip almost anything and instantly blog it. So yea the stuff up there are not mine and I do not claim credit for it. Visit the original blog by clicking the link at the top. Back to playing with all the wonderful plugins :D

The Day After

2007-07-16T23:37:00.000+08:00

I made my way to Tzong Huat's wake yesterday night. It was at the parlor opposite the old Rex cinema. I could see the it was cloudy and the night was cool and breezy. My brother who was back for the weekend also knew Tzong Huat because he was in the prefectorial board. So he came along as well. I arrived to the warm handshake of Yean Shin, another classmate whom I've not met since leaving school.

We talked and did some catching up. Adrian was already there, having caught the bus back from KL, seating beside our old Brother Michael. Must have been a really "nice" journey for him. Anyway, many others arrived awhile later, most of whom I've never really kept in contact. We went in and paid our last respects, then returned our seats.

Most of us sat separately, among our own cliques and talked only among ourselves. Where is the fellowship you ask me? We will never truly feel it until someone is lost. I guess mistakes are not easily avoidable. I wanted to just go and talk to them, but fearing I had not much of a topic I just stuck with my own group the whole night. Once again the irony of humans.

Sigh.

I didn't really feel as sad as I was about Teck Chuen and Edmond. Discussing this with Nick, I came to a conclusion that it was because they both died at the same time and also very tragically. They died in an accident. Vijay also talked about this with me because he also lost two friends this recently; how he hated the way he couldn't really feel sad. I'm starting to feel the same way.

So to end this wall of text, Tzong Huat's cremation will be on this Wednesday. I'm going to go seeing that I missed both Teck Chuen's and Edmond's ceremony. Cremations are daunting because that's when the sadness is at it's maximum. So...yeah.

p/s If you notice I'm starting to post in first-person, feels more natural and I'm not good at words so posting third-person makes it really hard. I'm uploading my Cambodia trip pics so I think the next post will be about that. Later then..

Farewell, old friend

2007-07-15T00:15:00.000+08:00

I returned from church, contemplating what to post cause i felt i should constantly update my blog. A few ideas came to my mind and I even made notes on my phone. I got home at 10.30pm sat down for tv. I got a message from Kiwen at 11.

"Just to inform you, Tzong Huat our head prefect has just passed away due to his back problem."

My heart felt heavy, it pounded hard, resonating all the way to my head. I tried to make meaning of this ill news. Back problems? I had just lost a friend, after losing two the year before. This feeling is all too familiar and I honestly hate it. In a way I was closer to Tzong Huat than either Teck Chuen or Edmond. I grew up with him, known him since primary, attended the same tuition, played badminton with him on alternate evenings. We were close all the way to secondary, only drifting apart during the later secondary years. But I always see him at school, with him being head prefect I was always getting spot-checked by him but he usually lets me free for the pettier offences.

Sigh.

As this is, I'm going to attend my third funeral, the third one for a friend. Seriously I'm getting sick and tired of funerals. We are only 21. I only want to hear about the next one in 50 years time.

And we never got to catch up about old times. Even when he was alive, chatting with him wasn't even in my mind. Now you wished you had done something with him before...
Haha the irony and melancholy of humans. So say a little prayer, a prayer for your friends, past and present. Say a prayer for my friend, whom I never got to befriend again.

Rest well old, friend. Enjoy heaven.

Isn't it just funnay

2007-07-11T21:31:00.000+08:00

Recently with all that's happening, tension arises and tempers flare. Well here's a song for some of our friends out there that we all can enjoy. Doesn't necessarily mean we all feel the same way though :X

"Siapa makan cili dia yang terasa~"

Nickchoo says

2007-07-06T23:54:00.000+08:00

"Hunter who goes after two rabbits ends up with none."

~NickChoo whilst referring to Kiwen.

Chillies

2007-07-05T18:15:00.000+08:00

Ever got that burning, stinging feeling on your fingers after coming into contact/
chopping/slicing/handling chillies? Here's a simple tip; coat your fingers with
cooking oil before doing anything with the wicked fruit(yes chillies are fruits).
Never really tried it, but it should work according to a cooking show sh|ru saw on tv

:D

off-topic:
sh|ru was recently defeated by the Chau Chii Ma Lak Siang Chang(Damn Super Ma lak Sausage) sold at the new
Newton near Mahkota Parade. He was never defeated by anything spicy though he
almost fell to Nando's Flaming Hot peri-peri. Sambal, raw cili-padi and all the normal
stuff you can get here he could down, no problem..but this ma lak...it's something he
will be staying away from for the moment haha

pic stoled from andrew's blog. Copyrighted

Macross

2007-07-05T17:23:00.000+08:00

This is Super Dimension Fortress Macross. Macross started with a 1970s anime that became the base for future mecha animes, alongside Gundam. The story goes that an alien ship crashlanded on Earth in 1999. The humans then
salvaged the alien technology and in turn mass-produces variable fighters; fighter jets that could transform to Gerwalk mode or soldier mode(robot). Another alien race arrives, begins a pewpew war
and that's where all the nerd-gasm aerial dogfights happen.

From Macross Zero, the latest instalment

Macross spawned five anime series and three OVAs. sh|ru remembers watching this on TV along with Robotech and Genesis Climber Mospeada. Not too be confused with Macross, Robotech is the American rebranding of Macross together with Mospeada with totally different storyline.

So the point of this post is? With the release of Transformers that also focuses on transforming machines, it would be a dream to see this series adapted to the silver screen. Remember Starscream's F-22 Raptor? Macross is the same thing. Think of it as something like Transformers meets Stealth.

Macross+ dogfight(the YF-19 is sh|ru's fav variable fighter; the red-white one)

The chances of it is really slim, probably the fan-base isn't big enough. FF7 got their movie because of the super-huge fanbase. Not many know about Macross. The best bet would be Gundam.

This year will be the 25th anniversary of Macross. Hopefully the pull another anime out of their a$$es.

Happy B'day Choo Siong Ming

2007-06-30T16:44:00.000+08:00

NickChoo turns 21 today. The number of adulthood, but he doesn't really act like one though hahahah. Sh|ru knew him since form 2 in St. Francis Juvenile Detention School. Been playing PC games with him since then. Too bad he isn't the bday party type. We'll see what we can do later at night. This reminds sh|ru of the time he almost killed the Choo family line.

Yeap sh|ru threw that bottle...it was suppose to be a mafia act-up..went kinda awry. Then smartasses remade the clip

Still if anything went wrong that time, there was still Jonathan Choo Siong Beng(forgot his chinese name) to continue doing his family proud.

Happy birthday bish

sh|ru watches : Transformers

2007-06-30T15:16:00.000+08:00

The movie was super cool. If you were born in the 70s-80s and had tv, then you would probably be farmiliar with the whole concept of robots transforming into vehicles. Lot's of action, chun babe and pewpew makes for a nerdgasm treat.

So let's dissect this movie a little.
The good :
guess which are the bad guys

Lot's of action
Real cool transforming moves
Real cool transforming while moving at 80mph moves
Real hawt chick with nice...err...bewbs
Did good modernising the bots
People clapped after the movie (how often do you see that)
The original voice of Optimus Prime

The bad :
yeap this one..no cookie for guessing right

Shia LeBouf was annoying
Frenzy the Boombox was annoying
Language of Decepticons was Chinese-like (wat's up with that ching...)
They had to kill the black dude off..(we all know Jazz was a nigger brotha...opps spoiler)
Decepticons died too easily

Pros outweigh the cons so it easily is worth the nine bucks for premier week.
A friend from IF camp, Siyabonga discussed with his fellow dorm-mates how Hollywood kills the black guy in all their movies. How you could jump in the sea with a black dude in the movie Jaws and the shark would go after the black dude first so you are free to casually backstroke back to shore, provided your skin is lighter in tone. Guess it applies to this movie as well lol.
mm bewbs :D
RottenTomatoes gave it 59%
May not be very high of a rating, as all other mindless action movies. Still worth the watch. It's a guy thing. Not a movie to watch with your gf, but rather with your crew/gang/clique/bunch of guys etc.

off-topic
Transformers meet StarWars. The movie would be so full of win.

Prime gets cranky

sh|ru watches : Hot Fuzz

2007-06-27T14:30:00.002+08:00

Hot Fuzz is about Nicholas Angel, London Metro Police, top of the line, hard nut to crack, follow every line in the book PC who is promoted to Sergeant. All seems well but the catch is he is will be transferred to a quaint little country-side town. Of course it's no fun without conspiracies so expect some twist and turns. Beware the generous use of gore and blood. Not for the squirmish really.

Nicholas Angel: I may not be a religious man Reverend, but I know right and I know wrong and I have the good grace to know which is which.
Reverend Philip Shooter: Oh, f$%@ off, grasshopper.
Angel shoots the Reverend
Reverend Philip Shooter: Jesus Christ!!!

Started of like the usual British comedy, but half way thru become a testosterone filled, adrenaline pumped action movie.

Reminiscent of Keeping Mum, but peppered with cheesy one-liners and lotsa guns.

Danny Butterman: Where's the trolley boy?
Nicholas Angel: In the freezer.
Danny Butterman: Did you say "cool off?"
Nicholas Angel: No I didn't say anything...
Danny Butterman: Shame.
Nicholas Angel: Well, there was the part that you missed where I distracted him with the cuddle monkey then i said "play times over" and I hit him in the head with the peace lily.
Danny Butterman: You're off the f#%kin' chain!

You get the idea that this movie was made purely for fun but with professionalism you expect a well-known director like Edgar Wright who also did the equally entertaining Shaun of the Dead. So it is advised that you don't take this movie seriously. It is British humour at it's best.

Rotten Tomatoes gave it 89%. Yarp.

Kiwen says

2007-06-27T01:46:00.000+08:00

"Where did you cark your par?"

~ Kiwen

Chris Benoit

2007-06-27T01:22:00.000+08:00

sh|ru was at Infrasha Maju, having dinner after the usual CF meeting. While there he found out that WWE wrestler, the rabid wolverine, Chris Benoit was found dead at home along with his wife and . It appears he murdered his wife and child and then commited suicide. And on the projection was a tribute to him. Say a little prayer for him and his family tonight. More info of him at Wikipedia

Are you creative enough fo' a mix ?

2006-03-04T19:45:00.000+08:00

Ok..ok..I know that After Pleasures is kinda passive these days. Here's some thing I would like to share with you guys that keep spamming this blog. Try all the buttons and mix around while After Pleasures will keep posting lots of interesting stuffs for you.Enjoy~

Broken Silence

2006-02-22T10:12:00.000+08:00

Description : 3 students are curious about an abandoned house located near Multimedia University. So they decided to explore that abandoned house together, but before that,they interviewed some of the students that passed by that area. During the exploration, they encounter many unexplainable facts. Is that a sign of something that they shouldn't enter that house? (Turn on your speaker louder to get the better effects of it)
*This movie is not for the faint-hearted or pregnant women

I'd hope enjoyed it. Well, actually it took us 3 days to finish filming this film and 1 day+ for the editing. Kind of a last minute job because we didn't expect that we can't really film it during night time as we planned. We used a normal digicam to film it, so i'd hope you bare the quality of it. Camera is one of the major difficulties that we had during the whole process and also lighting. The yellow torch that we hold,actually there's no batteries in it, just to show the proffesionalism. Last but not least, i would like to thank Justin and Sylv for doing this film together, one of the things that i woudn't forget .

*feedbacks, comments and constructive criticisms are most welcomed

Five Minutes Short Film Awards 2nd prize trophy + RM300

The Production Team

Refurbished

2006-02-16T23:43:00.000+08:00

This blog used to be owned by three nerds and it was kinda cheesy. Then for the lack of interest it was abandoned. Then clever sh|ru salvaged the blog and made it his...though he was unable to change the password and all that. Still with a ready template and settings, all the better for him.Some tweakings will be made. He can now start posting