wait, i can do this.... sorry what was i supposed to do again?

Monday, September 01, 2008

It's that time of year again....

it's that time of year again and i would like to remind people its also the time for them to do their best to give and do better for themselves for Him. we usually only fall on our hands for prayers to Him when we are in dire need, but most of the time, when we're happy, when things aren't difficult, we usually tend to forget. And worse thing is... sometimes, the good things are also but mere challenges from Him to see how strong and thankful you are of His rewards... the air we breathe, the muscles that enable us to move, our sight that shows us the best and worse of the world, the sounds that enables us to listen and make us better, our minds that can be the strongest weapon and also the library that can never be much better than your latest laptop running on Windows Vista, with Microsoft office 2006. All his rewards... and demands only one thing... our loyalty....

Happy Ramadhan guys... and for the non muslims... happy buying Ramadhan food from the Ramadhan stalls...

Sunday, August 24, 2008

flat lined.....

im just really super tired... like super super tired. i cant even think straight. need help of input or any randomness from anyone who's reading this. help....

mock interview....

i was reading FHM like god knows when... basically the multilingual Janet Hsieh was interviewed... she's not only super hot, but super bright as well. suddenly i wondered... what would an interview me look like? am i, 'The Edge' type? 'FHM' type? 'Men's Health' type? or some weird cosmo sci fi type?

im just gonna base the interviews from different interview questions in magz.

So you studied in the States? how does it feel studying back in the country you were born in?
hahaha (laughing while he sips his favorite lipton green tea). well... honestly it didnt feel like much. i went back home to malaysia after i was 2-3 ish, and been there since. so i was actually bred in Malaysia... and honestly... damn proud of it.

So i understand you went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, first of all... can you please spell Rensselaer for me?
oh damn... i never get to figure that one out properly. R.E... double N? no no no... R.E.N double S, E double L.A.E.R? im always confused on the spelling.

i'm sorry, that's wrong.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA.

So were you a big geek when you were studying?
well, i wont consider myself a big geek, but i was a bit geeky. studied engineering, but i was never really good at it. i was ok, sure... but not good. i excelled in my electives though, language classes and psych classes.

now you're back in Malaysia, do you still keep in touch with you homeboys there?
honestly i dont have ma homeboys back in Nu York... yo yo! (flashing the east coast sign). hahahahahah. snort snort. i'm so not gangsta. most of my friends were still malaysians, and things didnt change much coming back here. they're still my friends and my rock and we chill out, make fun of each other, and laugh till our heads blow up. honestly one time, i think i laughed so hard that i think i almost got a hernia.

what's the coolest thing you've done this year?
oh man... this is difficult... hmmm i didnt do any crazy things and all. oh yes, i remember. i went scuba diving. it was actually cool coz i managed to cross something on my list. hehe. and like dude, one time, when i was diving, there were like 10 - 15 stingrays that were swimming around me. now if that's not cool enough, wait till i dive in Sipadan one day.

a list? what do u mean by list? can u share?
laughs... well i cant remember much of the list, but one of them has to be doing my Haj, bungee jumping, watch bull fighting in Spain, eat croissant in Paris, dive in Sipadan, open a coffee shop... well there's more but i cant remember it on top of my head right now. its a to do list before i'm 55. i think it's important for everyone to have it, kinda reminds you of things you've yet to accomplish in life.

who would you want to be with? Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Connelly??
Oh man, that's difficult. Angelina Jolie would be my first choice, but she's just way too hot and sexy and wild. i would wanna settle down with Jennifer Connelly. her cute mole on the top of her lip, caring motherly look. Jennifer, if you're reading this... yes... i want you to have my baby.

what's on the top of your playlist these days?
I'd say Yuna's Deeper Conversation and Dan Sebenarnya. Also Colbie Caillat's realize. and finally... Gavan... or as us malaysians know... Gaban. it's amazing to know our old anime tv shows had like super cool soundtrack.

Well thank you so much for joining us in our magazine Wira Tunggal. Our readers would be fairly delighted with reading about you.

if that doesnt spell wannabe... i dont know what does....

Monday, August 18, 2008

The Stripper.....

Okay, so yes... i know i have not been updating for so long. i truly apologize for that. just getting way too caught up with work. i'm currently working on shift, struggling to understand every operational process in my work since i've left teh engineering field for roughly 2 years. i work 2 days, 2 nights and i got 4 days off. as of today, the only day off i got since 3 weeks ago was half a day. interesting.

just to show you how a major nerd and dork i can be, i've been reading through this equipment called The Stripper. in my head, as i was writing an email in how to troubleshoot our stripper, i cant help how damn hilarious would this sound to most of my friends and my readers. and believe me... i'm so damn serious.

First of all... how does a Stripper work (i'll tell you in a very simple way... hopefully)? Well a stripper is a tall column that's full of packing that looks like a manual hair curler roughly 20 meters. It is utilized to reduce some concentration of our plant discharge by spraying our high pH (alkali level) discharge from the top of the column. with high pH the discharge is unstable in ionic form. The discharge is evenly distributed throughout the packing in the column to add surface area. simultaneously, external air is pushed from the bottom of the column and goes up. this way, the air STRIPS the desired unstable ion, absorbs it, and goes up and out through a stack, while the discharge goes down and further treated by other process that all of you might find boring. heck, i bet most of you are already confused. go google up 'Ammonia Stripper' for further detailed explanation. hehe.

okay so anyway, it was in maintenance, so i had to write an email on the process to troubleshoot the stripper.

Our Ammonia Stripper (sadly, Ammonia is not a hot actual Stripper name huh?) is currently having very low flow. we need to troubleshoot the stripper and figure out what is the cause of the problem. we've opened the manhole (yeaaaaaah) and saw only two nozzles discharging (eeeewww). next, we've proceeded in shutting down and discharging the stripper. then we connected the 5" diameter hydrant into the stripper (yeeepssss) via the drain valve. when the hydrant valve was on full blast, we immediately saw white precipitates coming out of the line (doesnt get any more coincidental than that). this may have been the cause of initial low performance.

so yepss.... just a brief explanation of what the email roughly looks like. and believe me, as kinky or sick as it may sound, it's all technical, and my correspondents took it seriously. yeeepsss. Ammonia Stripper, low efficiency. maybe she's made in china. heheh. snort snort snort. this is where you can call me a dork.

E! Channel's major poyoness.....

i dont know why some people still watch E!. i honestly cant take it as much anymore. what makes them so good to comment on other people's fashion & style, and most of all mock the people who dont have it? sure sure, it's a boost to make the person they're mocking to improve, but these are the kinds of degrading shows that makes the generation behind us conscious on how they look, how others look, and insults them quietly, laugh at them at the cafeteria while the person walks with their shoulders slouched to the table that says 'Rejects'.

and they wonder why suicide rates gone up, depression rates gone up, and scandalous rate creeps slowly into our culture. Don't they realize it? i'd say just block the channel from our satellite receiver and boost everyone's morale. they shouldnt be judged on how they look, what's their size, what's in and what's not. the hell with it. the hell with it, i say. you make what you are, your personality matters more. of course, it doesnt hurt to clean yourself up. that's obviously important. its hard to concentrate talking to a person with bad BO. Dont listen to everything what E! says.

but of course, there are times, while you're browsing through, suddenly you find yourself stopping at E! and next thing you know, it's been two hours and you're glued. it definitely is a guilty pleasure. (like i said though, let's just block it on our receivers).

Olympics... is a shouting competition....

in the light of the Olympics... i've realized one thing... besides the fact that Michael Phelps is a ROBOT... i've realized that humans get stronger & faster everyday. Take Michael Phelps, the current faster swimmer alive has been breaking world records (others AND his own) for like six or seven times? dude... how fast can you go? maybe he tested negative for drugs... BUT have they tested his urine for motoroil?? like i said... he is a Robot.

It really makes you wonder how far can the human push themselves to their highest capacity. how would the olympics be by then? will they be running just so super fast for us to even cheer? will the 100 m run by then be humans running on their arms and legs? will the swimmers then have fin like fingers and gills? will the weightlifters have biceps like an elephants leg? it really makes you wonder.

on another note, what's really so cool is that most people on the Track & Fields events scream after they finish their turn. excluding the Runners where they scream when they finish first and celebrate while the losers weep and cry or congratulate the other when in their heart they actually wanna say (i sooo wanna break your hands now). so, when people jump, they scream. when they throw a javelin, they scream. when they throw their shot put, they scream. the longer and louder they scream the further they go... at least that's what they want to think.

here's what went through my mind when they do that.

1. after they throw that away, they turn into a complete retard, and only groan and moan when interviewed, like 'Garrr, AArrrr, blarfgg, gargle' and all that shit. and his name's actually kronk, Plank or something.

2. screaming is how they actually are. like 'Dude, can you pass me the keys please?' and the guy threw the keys from him and suddenly screamed as much as they can, and suddenly the next housemate just runs up from behind and made a measurement. that'd be so freaking cool.

Read While Waiting Project....

Well, one time i was browsing through online and bumped into the 'KL Unison Freeze' project. it was superbly cool where everyone just suddenly stands still for 5 minutes and then leave. it was based on the 'Improve website'. The americans did this Improve thing and was just SO awesomely cool. 250 people just froze, and other people just wondered. like the happening, but instead, something is ACTUALLY happening. hehe. everyone just completely Froze and after 5 minutes, they just left like nothing actually happened.

Now here's the comparison with the one in KL, god knows how the press got there, and at the end, instead of freezing, they all clapped, interviews etc. that was a bit of a spoiler there. However, it was cool the fact that everyone froze on queue without any alarm or anything and like the person said... everyone no matter age, color, race froze. unison. coolness.

The only thing that gets me is there's some of the project where it just got waaaaaay to mainstream, with all the countdowns and people winking when freezing and it's no more a statement... it's just trend. blows big time. but anyway.... good step though.

finally, there's another project the malaysian's are doing and i think majorly in KL.

On 23rd of August which is this Sunday at 3pm, currently 6500 people everywhere will just stop and read where they are for 15 minutes.

The major venue has yet to be decided. you can check it out RandomAlphabets website.

why am i supporting this project?

Simple... I love reading... and my only hope that this will instill in our culture the habit of reading. hopefully it goes on, and instead of waiting doing nothing, you'd read and this will not only fill yourself up with so much soul and knowledge, but you might effect other people while doing it... and the best thing is... it's a damn good thing.

I wish i was in KL then and I would definitely do it. sadly i'm working that day. hehehe. so, i wont be waiting and reading. i'd be running around, probably putting my hydrant into a Stripper.

Anyway, here are some interesting links for the improves....









Sigh... sometimes it makes me freakin wonder... why in the world dont these cool things happen when im around?????


When durians attack....

enjoy Some pics....


Durian Rocks.....


abe's office....


when i take these pics, how i wish fera was here.....








Great people, great company... as always....

Saturday, July 26, 2008

tangled up in a web....

finally... internet's up and kicking. cant stop surfing. our new house is almost complete... with one exception... we dont have a stove. yepsss... memang dah cukup bachelor pad abis, but the absence of a stove makes us starving bachelors most of the time.

nevertheless... i get away with making myself my own tossed salad. yes... i'm not attempting to be jamie oliver or something, the best thing im at in the attempt of being the naked chef is probably be naked. and that's only in my own room and toilet. cant imagine doing deep fried fish naked. can you imagine all that sparks on to yourself?? made you imagine didnt i? hahaha. you make me sick.

alrites... i'm all geared up for writing....

you're a lonely muslim brother/sister? i've got just the thing....

So i woke up this morning... logged on to yahoo messenger... and you know when the mini yahoo updates of the week come popping out once you're logged on write?

so today was something that caught my eye on that mini-ad... besides the story about Anwar, and Britney Spears side by side (makes me wonder why). a Muslim Matrimonial website.

still not having a clue what is it about? are you're too religious to go out to pick up girls? or too shy to pick up girls? or just keep ending up with the wrong girls? or still searching endlessly and hopelessly? Well look no further my friend... log on to Muslim Matrimonial website, "marriages are forever". yes... THAT's the tagline. if you have some special preference... may i entice you with the choice of either Sunni or Shia or Other types of Muslim practices? yes brother and sisters of Islam, rejoice, pray and date online. hopefully your prayers and your efforts will take you to the ONE soon.

oh dear god... i was looking through... i know im not supposed to laugh... but check it out...

We are seeking suitable alliance for our daughter. She is slim beautiful and very fair.She is humble and caring.She is pursuing Ph D in Bio-Technology. We have three children, two daughters and one son. She is eldest one, second daughter is also pursuing Ph D in Economics and getting fellowship.My son is pursuing B Tech from AMU.We belong to a very reputed Syed family.

PARENTS!! PARENTS are matchmaking their child online!!!! AMAZING!! it's amazing that there's parents looking for a match for their child, what's more amazing is them advertising them online. yes... the power of internet. i should probably put an ad for my friends

We are seeking suitable alliance for our very good friend. He has a pair of a bit saggy man boobs, but nevertheless he is very stylish with his collection of Tshirts and a very pimped up White four wheel drive. He graduated with bachelors in Computer Engineering (I think), and currently is a very popular radio announcer in Malaysia. been mentioned charming by so many ladies of different ages (and disturbingly enough by some doubtful men). Our friend is humble, caring and a gentleman. He belongs to the very reputed McGiffs clan.

We are seeking the perfect match for our very good friend. He is a bit dark, and short, yet very funny, and sometimes may have an adorable laugh (most of the time a bit scary and to an extent annoying). he is a very gifted person with his hands and makes art sneakers for his past times. he'll undoubtedly make one for you if you decide to marry him. besides that, he has a collection of shoes that i bet your daughter's collection can never surpass his. adding on to that, your daughter will never surpass his tshirt collections. if your daughter isnt able to accept that, maybe you can refer to our previous friend the radio announcer. also, he graduated with a bachelors in Computer Engineering.

We are seeking the perfect match for our very good friend. She is funny, has a bit high pitched voice when she's excited. She is very pretty, witty, and masya Allah brothers, looks very hot in a two piece bikini. but of course you cant see until you marry her or we will bury you neck deep and stone you to death. She is the epitome of a dork and nerd as she graduated in Electrical Engineering AND Minored in Math. she has a very eclectic mix of music that completely blows you off and frankly, she'll dance with you throughout the nite with her songs collection (again brothers, after you're married).

Ferr... Faidz... consider yourselves lucky. hehehe.

skin of an elephant....

i was flipping through a mag and bumped into 'the best insect repellent'. when i read this, i realized one thing... the more modern we get, the pussier people get. yes, i wont deny, being bitten by mosquitoes sucks, and the fact that they keep buzzing around close to your ear doesnt really help. but people, putting insect repellent on will either:-

1. drive them away
2. drive them away and attract weird animals (snakes, tigers, monkeys)
3. attract them more, like a different breed of mosquitoes.
4. give you skin cancer. for real. or some other type of cancer. i bet it says on the bottle, KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN.

one of the best ways to stop the mosquitoes is actually not waving your hands around too much because they are attracted to heat. hence, slapping their friends on your skin only attracts the other coz slapping them generate heat. so people... toughen up. of course, if you're going camping for days, make sure you recognize what malaria/dengue/west nile looks like. hehe.

Now why would you wanna do that for? criminals get confused when you do that....

if you have no watched Dark Knight... get your ass up... and watch it. it's just so damn good. too bad Heath died... the Joker Franchise could probably catapult outside this universe.

nevertheless... one late night, Abe and I were standing at 24hour KFC one late nite and it came upon us... Batman is just like one of us right? see, a lot of people think they know about Batman, like he's Bruce Wayne's alter ego, Joker's his exact opposite and arch nemesis and all. but seriously... how well do we know Batman??

Things we probably dont know about Batman.

1. he probably drives through a fastfood drive through during nights when he is terribly hungry.
2. he probably eats fries while sitting on the edge of a building listening to police radios
3. alfred probably packs him healthy food to keep batman fit which makes batman whine 'aaawww alfred, now why'd u have to do that? i want my red meat! you're my slave bitch!'
4. he probably gets a huge sore throat after doing that weird husky voice and had to pop in lozenges like strepsils endlessly.
5. he definitely needs to pee. i dont think he can easily take off his batsuit. either there's like a diaper in the batsuit or a latch for him to relieve himself
6. he cant stay up late all the time. he probably passes out in one of his night watches and sleep in his batmobile while some innocent grandma robs a liquor store with a shotgun and saying 'Why SO serious??'

there you go... it's a good update.... hehehe. catcha guys next week....

btw guys... enjoy my collection of clips....


This one, storyline isnt that much, but i personally like the camera shots. rasa macam jamie oliver pulak. its basically on behavioral safety


had to promote the green earth. my colleagues loved this one....


Oblivia's first project... viral video for astro. yes, i personally think we need some improvement, but it's a good start....

i know it's very amateurish but it's a pretty good start....

Sunday, June 22, 2008

No net, no update……

So, yeps… I know it’s been so long since I last updated, might be a bit more than a month. Honestly, not that I don’t want to, it’s just that, I do NOT have internet. Seriously, in this new house, it used to be worse, I didn’t even have ASTRO! Like, seriously. But now we do have astro, so it ain’t that bad as much.

Well currently im updating while breathing through my own snot, woke up feeling sick and every time I swallow, I feel like I’m swallowing a rock. But nevertheless, had a great time to sit down alone at home, watch dvd, tv and just relax.

Not that I have not had some interesting thoughts going through my head throughout my ‘no update session’, and a lot had happened since then.

1. Gas increase (I just knew it!!!)
2. My 26th birthday (of which, ATI is the LAST of my closest friends to wish me :P!)
3. Don’t watch ‘The Happening’
4. Malaysian Artists are GETTING BETTER

Gas increase....

Yeps… I think I wrote once when the price of oil per barrel increased for an all time high of USD$100pb, and I mentioned that im not gonna be totally surprised that the government is gonna increase the petrol price throughout the nation again.
This is a heavily sensitive issue in this country and the fact that a majority of people out there aren’t so well informed of the issue, and start blaming other innocent parties for example the Oil & Gas company. They think it’s the local company who raised the fuel subsidy, and the local company are going to get a much high profit from this.

My dear readers, please realize, that is NOT true. Even though if they get a higher profit from this, I bet you big time the employees down there, who work so hard to bleed the earth for her sources & energy, I assure you, that these people do NOT, I repeat, do NOT get a raise. In fact, most of them stay middle class status and if you know the facts, the people who are struggling the most from the fuel hike is actually the middle class rakyat.

Now try to see things in the bigger picture, for example, let’s say the road tax and tax on cars. Now, imported cars are taxed almost 200%, heck, maybe even more. Now, where does ALL the rakyat’s money taxes go? Hmmm I wonder. Maybe, since they reduced to fuel subsidy, what I think is best next, my is REMOVE the tax on cars, or maybe reduce it to a reasonable price. At least with that extra cash, people could actually:

1. Buy fuel efficient vehicle (like the hybrid)
2. Actually complain LESS about the fuel hike

Btw… where in the world does that tax money GO??? Hmmm I wonder.

I’m 26....

Yeps… I’ve turned 26. For those who wished me thank you so much. Not a big fan of birthdays usually. I prefer having just a nice quiet dinner or just chilling out alone listening to my favorite music and eat my favorite cheesecake.

Well… whatever it is, i’m cool with being in this age. I’m just praying for the best for the years to come for me. Btw… my best bday present this year....

Bob marley’s CD LEGEND. It’s a damn awesome album, I’m not kidding you. When you listen to the songs all you feel is like just chilling out beside the beach having an iced tea and reading a book under huts made of coconut tree branches during sunset while you have seashells selling and people dropping by buying them to listen to the ocean waving in the shells. If that’s not elaborate of how I think this CD is awesome, then you really have to go buy it and listen to it.

Thank you so much for the CD sayang.

Latest movies....

Seriously guys, do NOT watch ‘The Happening’. I honestly don’t know what was M Night Shyamalan thinking when he made this movie. I much preferred Lady in the Water even though that movie still sucked.

I don’t care if I spoil it for you guys, mainly because I wanna save you that 10 ringgit and go watch something else, maybe even the HULK the second time. About the movie… NOTHING HAPPENS. I repeat that… NOTHING. Hollywood should consider changing the movie title to ‘The NOT Happening’.

Malaysian Artists are getting MUCH better....

I remember when I was a kid, I am honestly not a big fan of Malaysian songs. Kept thinking it was boring and lame AND it was the same for like almost 15 years!!!!!
But a lot of changed since then. Now you have Malaysians coming up with soulful songs, catchy, deep, and most of all, different and NOT sengau based. You have bands like Hujan, Meet Uncle Hussain, Hunny Madu & the Basics, Yuna, Love me Butch, Seven Collared Tshirt etc. and these are mostly out there, the indie ones that people don’t often talk about are probably much more. So yeah, come on guys, let’s support our local talent. But of course, I’ll support them if they SHOW talent and not start create the same ol genre again.

Well that’s it… im tired… sick, flem, and full of snot and contemplating so much whether I should go to class or not. Hmmm. Thinkin thinking thinking. Oh well… laters guys!

Btw, pictures below mostly are the ones when we went to Sabah's the tip of borneo. if you still dont have a perfect clue, basically Sabah looks like a puppy, facing to the right on the world map. and where we are in this picture, is basically at the tip of the ear of the puppy. hope that helps.


see? the tip of borneo!!get it people??!!


danger can kiss my ass....


spread the love, spread the peace, and no to danger....




sunset at tip of borneo... and yes, do only go there during sunset... during sunrise... it's a bit lame. i thought you could actually enjoy both.... darn it. oh and also make sure you stay in kudat for 1 night. the drive from kk - kudat alone takes 3 hours. from kudat to the tip of borneo aka simpang mengayau takes 1 hour. and you seriously need to go down to the beaches, AND watch the sunset til it's dark. dont swim, but do bring some snacks:)....


i am... herculeeeeess!!


wonder if she's confused... of if it's sunset or sunrise....









it's a long winding road... for a lone wolf... chewah....


the drive is surrounded by coconut tree plantation... kinda amazing coz i've never seen coconut tree plantation. it looks beautiful really....



He sells seashells by the seashore... seriously, im gonna employ this guy when i buy a land there, and make him look for shells for me to sell and for myself.


Tanjung Aru Beach... the sunglight covers out the rubbish... hahaha.


a nerd and her kacang in Tanjung Aru Beach....