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| New Year Eve |
| 12.31.05 (3:17 am) |
It's new year's eve and the family is going out for dinner. I like to take this chance to wish all my buddies a great new year. Hope you guys have a great 2006.
Cheers!
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| Last working day for 2005 |
| 12.30.05 (1:28 am) |
Yes it is the last working day for 2005 and I'm still in the office. My mates have all gone off. I'm just here enjoying the bandwidth...
It will be a long weekend with Monday being a holiday since New Year falls on a Sunday. I'm looking forward to a restful weekend but still got some business to attend to. I owe my church a report which I better finish by tomorrow.
For those of you who are crazy about ringtones and whatever bling you can install on your handphone, hop over to Zing! Mobile Tunes or objectzero Mobile Jukebox. A little startup that I am putting together. Ya, you can help out a struggling writer like me finance my up-coming book.
Was introduced to this startup by someone in KL. It can handle transactions for 64 countries. Meaning you can purchase in your own currency. So what are you waiting for, pimp that mobile!
Cheers folks!
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| Forget the resolutions. |
| 12.28.05 (4:46 pm) |
Back again from a short family holiday. Met up with Wifey and Ryan. My little Ryan has grown slightly taller since last I saw him. Wifey coming along fine, her bump is now quite visible, the little one is getting really active this time round. We're keeping our fingers cross that it'll be a girl.
The whole clan went up to Genting - a highland holiday resort. Genting is known for its casinos; the only place in Malaysia where it is legal. I attempted to enter one with Wifey but my attempt remained an attempt since I was not properly dressed for the occasion.
The rest of the time was spent walking around window shopping. This time trip to KL was basically spent window shopping. I've done all my shopping during my trip back to Penang so no point spending again this trip. I will now need a whole year to save up and recover from this years round of holidays (financially).
I did manage to pick up God of War for the PS2 while in KL. Played a round last night and my take on the game?
Wack to the max!
This game rocks like no other game. No wonder people are putting this game as one of the best for 2005 (2nd after Resident Evil 4). It's just fun...of course my advice is that you should be of a legal age to play since it has massive use of blood spurting about and the occasional Greek nudity.
Its year end.
Forget the resolutions. Well, if you can't live without resolutions then make some that are near insanely-impossible to keep. That way if you don't keep them, you can rasionalize that they were impossible to keep in the first place. Makes you feel good.
Why not have a resolution which states that you'll make them up as the year goes by or one that states you'll have milestones instead of resolutions. Little victories that you can aim for as the year progresses. Probably the most basic resolution you can keep is to keep eating, breathing, living happily and to be nice to everybody.
So forget the resolutions and just be nice to people.
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| Cables no more - personal wireless network |
| 12.19.05 (1:44 am) |
After one foul-up and a hard reset I have now managed to set up my own wireless network. Images of surfing the net for recipes while in the kitchen, writing my blog entries in my bedroom or reading the paper in the toilet are flouting in my mind. Ah, total freedom from wires.
Being the industrious Malaysian that I am, once the neighbours move in I might set-up my own paid-for internet service. Yup, charge the neighbours a monthly fee to gain access to the net. Let's make money while we can. The possibilities are endless.
The setting up of my wireless network is the highlight of my day. In short, today has been a crappy day. I sat through a meeting where my work was criticised by those that have no idea what I actually do. Yup, fools who think that they are the most intelligent beings on this planet. If they are so smart then I'll offer the task over to them on a golden platter.
As it stands, its all talk but no work. So to my critics (I'm so popular) "Show me the works!" then we'll talk.
So nice just to clear your chest from all this negative energy.
A friend pointed out to me yesterday that in the state that I live, 95% of all CDs and DVDs sold were pirated. Embarassing but I applaud the consumer grass-roots. Any product on the open market is subjected to market forces. The consumer can choose what they want at what price they want. Unless prices of authentic CDs and DVDs are lowered to a level that is attractive to the consumer, 95% might just become 100%.
No point appealling to the masses mindset. Appeal to the masses wallets. Thats why I think this idea is the most silliest idea I've heard this year.
Production houses should lower their cut of the album, lower the entertainment taxes, produce limited edition albums (lower copies), seriously look at lower production costs and throw the glamourous artist lifestyle image out the window. Hence = cheaper CDs and DVDs.
Have a nice day.
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| Writer's Little Helper |
| 12.12.05 (10:41 pm) |
I've finally got to slide in some ideas for a book. My deadline for producing the draft has been stretched. My original intentions for a book on financial planning has instead been replaced with one on life lessons.
In trying to find a way to stay focus, I've called upon the tools that various writers have been using. I settled on a piece of software called CopyWrite which is a writing management software. It helps you organize the writing of documents.
To a certain measure it helps my writing process. I've been struggling with MS Word. MS Word is great for putting make-up on documents but there is no way for you to arrange your thoughts and writings in an organised and systematic way.
CopyWrite does that. It also has a feature where you can write in fullscreen mode. Its a mode where there is nothing else on your screen but the words that you are typing. It takes away the distractions and lets you focus on the writing process.
Will I ever get this book finished? Well, I need to give myself a deadline and hopefully stick to it.
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| Wireless Hotel Room |
| 12.06.05 (3:47 am) |
In the hotel room surfing via FREE wireless network. FREE.
In some Malaysian hotels you have to pay for the access and here I am surfing for free. Education is free in Brunei, FREE. Talk about the state looking after its citizen. But then 80% of the workforce is in the civil service (go figure) and the building code states that your high-rise cannot be higher then a certain religious building.
I'm not complaining, I've got FREE internet access. I'm gonna leave my iBook turned on the whole night. Got a tonne of updates to download for the Mac OS.
Somethings are best left FREE.
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| From the oil nation |
| 12.06.05 (12:44 am) |
Folks, I am now in Brunei, blogging from the office of the group that I am working as a consultant. It has been a long day for me. I slept at 4 am, due to a Taiwan-drama-VCD-marathon that I was watching with Sis and Mum. Ya, I sat through a rerun of Meteor Garden, a sleeper hit-teen-drama from Taiwan. The first Meteor Garden was great but the second was a mix. Some hated it due to emotional stress and some loved it to bits.
So I caught up on my sleep during the hour flight to Miri and the two hour drive into Brunei. I have not seen any of the sights yet since we were driven straight to the office.
One thing that I can say, is that Brunei has great roads and that all the cars here are imported cars. Unlike the roads of Malaysia which are ridden with pot-holes and locally-assembled cars. Brunei has cars that we'll never see on the streets of Malaysia and the cost for a car is a third of the price of cars in Malaysia.
I've done my oart and now waiting for the other team members to finish theres. Dinner and then back to the hotel for an early night.
I need sleep. Sleep.
Worst of all....my handphone does not seem to have international roaming. Is it worth it, to scream at my service provider?
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| Burn the Bridges |
| 12.04.05 (10:37 pm) |
Today, I submitted my work to the job I was quitting. By right my payment claim should proceed from there. It feels like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I can put that sad chapter in the backwaters of my memory. Sad but it was necessary, I've burnt the bridges.
And in the process of exiting that cursed place I rammed my car into a broken cement garbage-can. Ripped my front bumper skirting off and scared the jeepers out of me.
Nuts!
While in Penang I was entertaining the idea of changing my front bumper. I guess someone up there heard my thoughts and place that dumbfounded cement monster in that way of my car. Now, hear this ye in heaven. New bumper will cost me RM700. So will someone actually pass me RM700? I'll be waiting for the answer, my numbers in the book.
Tomorrow, I'll be flying into Brunei for an assignment. I've been offered to provide consultation on a project and will be in Brunei to help in their presentation to the client. A much needed break from the madness that has enveloped me this week.
Maybe this the high that comes after the low. Only the heavens know, I'll be waiting for that calle
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| The Bottom of the Barrel |
| 12.01.05 (3:00 pm) |
Yesterday, I quit on something the I have been slaving at for the past three years. One, the administers of the matter found that I do not comply to their "new" regulations. Two, I cannot work with people like them. Three, I've lost interest in helping them inspite of the fact the money is good. Told a friend that the money is needed but my personal cost in order to obtain it, did not warrant me suffering anymore.
I admitted my failings and told them that to save them all the trouble, I was quitting.
I am partly ok with it but I wish that it could have happened in different conditions
Anyway, depression set in for most of the yesterday afternoon and this morning. Sometimes we have to allow our emotions the space to express themselves. I am allowing that to happen.
So for this weekend, since I am all alone here, I'd be doing some soul-searching. Need to clear my internal accounts and hopefully get some much needed direction for the coming year.
Life does not suck, it's the people who occupy the playing fields of life that suck....
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