Customers Are Right?

"Customers are always right". The infamous phrase a buyer would always abuse to assert their imaginary "rights". Surely for those who have been on the working field for some time would able to relate it to their nightmare experience so quick, they can list down a couple of scenarios before you can finish saying that stupid phrase.

Take my case. I have been working in the services field for some time; it is my job to solve our clients' problems. A mundane Tuesday will just be mundane without this strange caller needed answers why her system doesn't work the way it always does. I had some history with this client and know damn well of their hopelessness when it comes to computers. Quickly, I pointed out to the client the instructions to configure the system to make it work.

It was a good, user-friendly instruction. Matter of fact, I was providing them a guide to configure a system which we don't provide support to begin with. I was expecting at least a "thank you for your help" from them, but I got an email with the shortest reply I ever saw: "cannot." Are they implying that my instructions didn't work, or that my instructions didn't work and now want me to face full responsibility in fixing their crop up shit which we're not suppose to?

Imagine you're operating a shop selling jeans, and this faggot came into your shop with a torn shirt and asking you to fix it. You would kindly direct him to the nearest tailor; You might even give him some tips of the sewing skills, but all give back to you is "doesn't work... now you need to fix my shirt and I expect it to be done as soon as possible.". That is how the story is.

Obviously I had a nice conversation with them on the things we can help them, and the things they should seek someone else's help. They start to whine on why I don't want to offer help even though they're our clients... bla bla bla and then the "customer is always right" phrase comes in to play. To cut the story short, I had to sacrifice my time to search for a solution to fix their problem, and when everything is complete, I STILL didn't get a "thank you".

Seriously, whomever use this phrase again should shove the "always right" statement back up their ass. In this world there is no such thing as "Customers are always right". This whole controversial shit resolves down to a single element. Money. So to them, it may be "Customers are always right, and deserves whatever they fancy.", but to us, it is "Customer always have the MONEY". We only did it because it pays us, so stop acting like spoilt prick and expect us to perform miracles.

..and learn to say "thank you".

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X vs Y

During one of my holidays, I manager to get together with one of my college mate and friend from KL to have a drink at OverTime. As usual for a graduate, the hot topics we would talk about was our working life. He told me a story that the department he works at has a manager who always checks out of the office late at night, even when the working hours is from 9 to 6. When someone decides to leave the office at 7:30pm, the manager will remark "Going home early today, eh?"

So in the working life, when your contract stated the working hours is 9 to 6, it means you have to work from 9 to 10?

It is quite often you hear your parents telling you the nightmares of the working life, how much stress they have to cope in the office and etc. For us, the young and fresh generation, we walk into the working life hoping to meet a bunch of lively people, (of course sexy OL girls), people whom we can communicate and connect, a place we can call our 2nd home. The last one sounds exaggerated, but what would you call a desk/cubicle where you hide there for 1/3 of your day, and hide your personal stuff under the drawers there.

What we thought of the office people would be...

..Alas, we got greet by bunch of aunties at their grumpy, complaining age. (obviously not sexy, not worth a second glance), maybe a few seniors who thought they know everything. But your worst nightmare has yet to come if you haven't had a manager who is old-school, believes micro-managing is the only way to gain productivity... (just to name a few traits)

What (most) actual office would be...

After listening to many of my friends' stories of their working life, can't disagree that in any office, there will always be someone from the Generation X who thinks work is always the higher priority than personal lives, conservative, works for loyalty, always believes that he/she makes the correct decisions and no one else can defy him... How often do you hear people say "You think that work is stressful? Wait till you get into <insert job here>", "Of course I'm right, because I'm working longer than you do." ...and the all-time favorite: "..That's working life. Suck it up."

So what happens if we don't "suck it up" every damn thing in work? People ain't fools; we know when we first step into the office, we are bound to hardship and countless challenge which we'll struggle to overcome, but we ain't so dumb to treat everything as part of the challenge, forcefully and blindly swallowing it down.

This is why people do job-hopping. We don't leave the company because our main objective to do the usual 9 to 5 is for the paycheck. If there is another opportunity that provides more $$$, we are cocksure to take it. When we decide to leave the company, we often hear "Young people are always like that, job hopping around. You think you can get very far doing that?", "You young people are not even loyal to the company, what makes you think other employers would hire you?". Trust me. There are still people being so conservative to say that. (Thankfully, my current company isn't like that.)

Money pays. Loyalty doesn't. Nobody would pick a candidate just because they have big loyalty to offer on their resume. It is the skills that pays us, not loyalty. If I was given a choice, I would rather find a way to channel a stable income to my bank account (legally), and not work at all. Only conservative, "frog-in-the-well" people would say that is impossible. It's Generation Y world now; we do what pleases us. If that is working out for you, then sorry to say this: "This is working life. Suck it up" 

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Arsenal FAIL again (not surprisingly)

17th September. Blackburn 4 - 3 Arsenal.

Seems like Arsenal has finally found their goal-scoring frenzy mood again; out of 5 goals, 2 goes into our own net. That's 3 own goals in the last 3 games, and 14 goals conceded for the last 5 games. If I'm not being a harsh judge, I would say that my team would still have long ways before they can even consider themselves a real contender of the silverware.

I was having my usual dinner in the food court and they're airing the match. Too bad I didn't bring my glasses with me, else I would get to see what was going on in the 1st half rather than staring blankly, waiting for some noise from the crowd to alert me that a goal was scored.

Would die to know how they fared against Blackburn on the first half, because the second was total nightmare when I watch it at home (after dinner). Other than the 2 own goals nightmare, the whole team looks lost during the last 45 minutes. No direction, and lack of will. (especially 1-2 young players in the team).

Initially I thought we're pretty good with the new signings (Mertersacker, Arteta, Santos, Benayoun) and at least witness some solid defending from our team, but I learnt yesterday that even if you have a promising team, it still takes one or two players to fuck up the entire game.

Mistakes are mistakes, but how would you feel during the press conference when your team manager just shrug to the match results and answer "shit happens.".. Shit happens all the time in our lives, but what makes the difference between professionals and losers is we don't put all our the responsibilities of our mistakes on the "shit happens" excuse. I know you didn't say that during the conference, but how long are we gonna continue see this sort of shit from our team?

At least the Tottemham - Liverpool match today provides a little comfort for me.

Anyone who wants the match highlights can get it here. Source by Arsenalist. Next week, time to write something about work.

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Office Ladies II

I'm finally back in my hometown, and will start going back to the office life after just a few more hours of rest. Having all those nasty thoughts and the nightmares streaming though my mind really kills the mood of a quiet Sunday night. So, how do you keep yourself in the mood for the Monday blues? The answer is... office ladies. 

Here are more collection of how we dream of having someone like them in our office. Enjoy, but keep your thoughts to yourself (and whatever horny little fantasies you wanna have...)

Also note, this pictures don't belong to me. I merely upload it from another source, which is also stated in some of the pictures.

I like the full black outfit (black is always my favorite color), and the glasses will definitely hit the weak spot for some guys. I don't always fancy the glasses but it does look cute, especially for this model.

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September KL Trip

Today is actually gonna be my last day in KL; was here since Wednesday as a holiday trip to meet up some old friends here. All the while I have been missing my life in KL and often reminiscent about it, so it's time that I get some rest and do some travelling alone.

Initially I thought I could crash at my friends house, but they were all on college holidays and back when September ends. However I manage to contact someone I knew and got the keys, so now I have the entire house all to myself. :D

From Wednesday till today, I have been going out non-stop. Midvalley, Sg. Wang (twice), Lowyat, only coming back home for 6 hours sleeps, at the same time meeting friends of old and new. I don't really brag it as a hardcore outing but I'm seriously tired each time I'm back home, still it was worth it.

I see what you did there, Nandos. ;)

As a summary, the outings made me realize how much the things I missed doing back in college; back to the time where there is no responsibilities for a mere college student. Just 3 years of fun. Living alone in a small house gave me the taste of careless bachelor as well. I can do whatever I want, whenever I want and nobody is there to say 'NO' to me.

Another interesting part was the people I'm exposed are all musicians. WTF?! Yet another feeling of guilt which reminded me why I quit holding a guitar over a year ago. Why are you doing this to me, GOD? Why do you eagerly giving me hints to pick up guitar skills again?

Squier Stagemaster. Recommended by Vince.

So after this trip. Am I mentally relaxed from all the stress I accumulated in the hells of office life? Have I re-ignite my new born passion for music again? That all really depends. If only the skills of holding a guitar would  assert myself banging a hot chick. But this trip did assert me on one thing: there is so many things I can do with myself, so why do I tie myself down with working life only?

I'm gonna leave this here. Don't have much time to re-edit the stuff as I have to rush to meet another friend again. Next week, back to the hells... gonna get slaughter by my superiors.

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Absolute Fitness: Queensbay Mall

You know you need to start workout when you stared at the bathroom mirror of your half-naked self, and start counting your rib-cage bones. What makes things worst is when you putting on your usual clothing, and it still look like you're wearing +1 size.

can't see shit, captain!

I wasn't born with the average body however I hate to see myself being skinny; which is why I had signup for gym. When I was in college, I shared a one-year contract with a friend (6 months each) at a nearby gym so I could start doing some exercise instead of rotting at home. Initially all I was good at is on the treadmill, but after some time I got exposed to lifting weights and it took about 2 months when I clearly see some body shape.

Now that I'm back in Penang, I'm still serious on signing up for a local gym and continue my routine workout, but greedily want a spacious, fancy gymnasium like the one in KL. Took me quite a while to do some research, but I'm glad I waited long enough to witness the opening of Absolute Fitness in Queensbay Mall, Penang.

Grand Opening was on July 2011 (if not mistaken). I had saw the renovation progress every time I passed by that area, but had no idea how its gonna turn out. How spacious is it? What are the equipment they gonna bring in? Any special facilities? I was concern about all this but when some of my friends had registered for it, I decided to take the opportunity to have a look myself.

Here are some pictures of the interior (quietly took during workout session).

2-storey. hall upstairs, machines downstairs

another shot of the machines available... this time clearer abit.

treadmills and.. um... bicycles. (lol I never know what are these called)... with sea view.

rest and relax here... also sea view.

gents only. sure i wish i got the chance to snap the ladies'

 I'm quite impress with the interior design, but that alone doesn't make it a great gym. Equipment wise, there is sufficient for everyone even on peak hours, but you don't get to be picky on the machines you wanna play with.

The machines are slightly different than the ones I play with back in KL: they're designed with 2 individual handles (left and right) that carries its separate weights, instead of both handles carrying the same weights. At first I struggled with my less dominant left hand but it takes a while to get use to it. Perhaps the good thing about it is you're definitely working with both sides, instead of relying on your dominant side to lift most of the weights.

As for the gents, it still need some finishing touches on the bathroom. Maybe some hooks would help abit instead of hanging my underwear on the bar. There is a steam room (coming soon) as well. Overall, the place is clean, neat, spacious and I'm very satisfied with it. If you feel like wanting to know the place more, the staff would gladly show you around. Quite friendly too.

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Worst Drivers

I have been wondering for some time when people say that Penang drivers are the worst drivers they known. Are we really that bad? From the looks of it, I'm willing to bet that the people say that are people most probably from KL, since there are many from KL often visit the island during the weekends and get a taste of Penang-style drivers.

Still, when we talk about 'worst drivers', there are may factors that contribute depending in each individual's point of view.. was it the quality of driving skills? or was it the driving etiquette? These are two different things in my opinion, and shouldn't be too generalize into one.

For driving skills.. well, you can't deny that there are people in Penang who totally lack of skills when it comes to being behind the wheel. But I think this actually existed everywhere else, and not just Penang alone. You'll be a harsh judge to say that you'll find the most people of poor quality driving skill only in Penang.

On the other hand, driving etiquette is quite influence by how the people are brought up, and there is no straightforward way to 'teach' a driver on etiquette itself; it is more likely to be trained and turn to a habit.

Another thing to consider is the roads layout in Penang is very different comparing to KL. Just to name the simple difference, it is not difficult to get to a random place in Penang, since all the roads are deeply 'connected', it doesn't matter if you miss the first turning as there is always another path ahead, whereas in KL, you're pretty much screwed if you miss a turning.

As a local, there are actually few types of drivers that you may find only in Penang and can really pisses you..

1. Old drivers who have a habit of driving 50-60 kmph on the fast lane. Even old people loves trolling others on the road
2. Motorcyclists who swerve on the road like they own the road... For fuck sake, you just came out from the right junction and you wanna swerve all the way to the left like there's no cars on the road.
3. Cars with number plates that start with 'B' or 'W'. You may be double parking like a boss in KL, but it doesn't work for you here.

The list goes on, but I think the last shows pretty clearly the cause of all these fusses. KL and Penang are different cities with different layouts. Sorry, but bringing our own style here and then telling us we're doing it wrong is going to make you sound retarded.  

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A day in Working Life

A new day at work always begins with my alarm screaming to get my lazy ass of my bed. Have to resist my body pulling myself towards my laptop and start Facebook and force myself into the shower. Fast forward to driving myself to work and found myself a nice parking lot that fits my car perfectly. After getting out of the car, I noticed a lady that is staring at me for a while, then proceed back to her car to get something.. it didn't bother me much so I walk away LIKE A BOSS.. If you don't like me getting the good spot, then you should change your car to MyVi or something small.

Continue walking to my office LIKE A BOSS, turn on my PC and ready to proceed for some Facebook... and then all the office lights went out. Surely enough, I was caught off-guard that a power failure would happen so early in the morning.. and as the next few seconds slowly tick by, I then remember something important. Did anything happen to the servers?


I rush to the server room and found almost half of the devices.. dead and offline. What the f*** I should do now... was what I was thinking. I had analyze the situation, checking every server status and then conclude that I have to bring about 10 servers back online via the backup power supply.. alone. That wasn't the end, because pretty soon, customer calls are flooding into our office, and later I found out that changing the power supply isn't going to solve the issue, as I need to worry about the Internet connection that was also offline during the power failure.

Using two hands to do my job, while one ear to listen to my customer long nagging complaints. That is all the load I can take. To handle a shit this BIG, I need extra pair of hands. I need reinforcements, not extra nagging from people I don't wanna hear from. Your nagging won't speed up my work, goddamnit.

After that, the 'finger-pointing' game starts. I really enjoy the typical lazy management people desperately pushing out all the blame from themselves. "It's not my fault that the power is out. If you really want to get your hands into this shit, why don't you ask TNB??" was my first response I got from them. After that, I am unable to reach any of them for further comments. When there is a problem, they will have a half-day leave, running away from trouble.

Finally when most of the restoration done (alone in the office), I drove back home for a late dinner, then noticing a green parking receipt on my wipers, only that the paper is abit bigger than the normal receipt. Surely it can't be that?!! But sadly it is...

I bet that it was that bitch this morning who can't stand small cars able to fit into tight places.

One of my college lecturers always mention this: "Today is a good day. You know why? Because EVERYDAY is a good day..". 4 years later, I have been thinking to myself "Today is a bad day. You know why? Because EVERYDAY there is someone trying to screw my life up.."

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Office Ladies

Always stuck in the office full of sausages? Having nightmares of your boss who is in her 50s with boobs like kiwi fruits? Ever regret or hating your job for having an old, unattractive lady who probably has a secret fetish of bossing people around like her own minions?

The Japanese foresee that long ago, and had introduce the working world a profession, nicknamed the "Office Flower" that have kept a balance of eye candy in the office. Most commonly known as "Office Ladies", these girls are usually hired after they completed high school to assist office workers in routine tasks. Now the term "OL" often refers to beautiful young ladies in office attires, disregarding the working position. It is definitely nice to have hot OL in the office, but you can't deny having wild imagination with them before.

Here are some pictures of hot OL we would die to have her sitting near our desk. Enjoy! :)

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Empty Thoughts

I really miss writing 'thoughts' in here, like how Vincent writes on his blog. Those were really good days... it was like the only site you can hope that it will get updated and you get to spend around 20 minutes of your life reading it, and getting back 20 minutes worth... Those were good reads.

To be honest I haven't had any serious thoughts recently, nothing I can really ponder about. All I get this whole week was empty thoughts, like my body is living while my brain is dead; floating through the entire week without giving a damn.

But here are the summarized 'mini-thoughts' I had this week:

Work
Got into some uninteresting shit and nearly putting my ass on fire on occasional times. Many problems coming in, I did my best to serve as many as I can, and in the end I get was 'I'm not satisfied with the results' instead of 'Thanks..' from the customers. What can I do? The job in services line is to force yourself to swallow down the customer's shit, and then giving them a huge smile.

Leisure
I seriously wish I have more time to hangout outdoors. Maybe I have it all along and just didn't realize until the time is gone. There are plenty of stuff I really want to do: overseas travelling, pick up guitar skills, workout in gym, clubbing... things that I should do when I'm young instead of waiting till my early 30s.

It's funny when people say "you're young, you should spend more time in your working life and work hard, so you will be successful early" and then telling you "I'm old now, I don't get to do the stuff I wanted to do"... all the while I believe in my principle, which is "you're young, you should do all the crazy stuff you want to do before you reach old age."

Harry Potter
I'll be watching this movie soon... and not because I'm a fan of the whole series. Since I had already watched the 1st part of the movie last year, I will feel cheated on my RM10 if I didn't spend another RM10 to finish the movie. Seriously mindfucked, right?

Anyway, Emma Watson isn't that hot as I thought it would.

Bersih 2.0
After that massive number of attendance, they think they can do better by summoning more of their own people to the streets.. anytime. easily.

Could you kindly grow up, please.. Mr. Chua?

iPhone4 vs Samsung Galaxy S2
This battle will be never-ending, but in the end who gives a damn about which phone is better?

The thing that pisses me most is how people label it as "iPhone fags" and "Android fags".. watching both of these people pointing out how the other's phone sucks is like watching two nerds trying to show whose virtual dick is bigger. I don't care about your topics, but I do like a seal of approval to punch you in the balls for it.

..I think that will be all. Time to shut up and go back to bed.

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Aftermath

We have been living about 11 days after the 709 event in KL, and what was the outcome? I seriously laugh at the superstitious people who stock up instant noodles and drinks thinking that the historic May 13 will repeat itself, and the people who make amazing stories of what supposed to be a peaceful demo, turning out to be a cold, violent battlefield.

Firstly, we have the ones who fully supports the yellow shirts rally, demand that it's about goddamn time for a fairer elections, but we all know what was the main course everyone was looking forward - a goddamn time for a change.

Then, we have the people who believes every word from the mainstream media, every stories told by our beloved leaders, that the rally was a plot to turn another country into chaos, therefore it is illegal and they have the right to abuse the yellow shirts. Kick them. Smite them hard. Don't go saving up on the tear gas and then kick them again while they're choking for fresh air... and then mock them getting all cowardly when it was a little bit of tear gas.

And then, there are those who rightfully claim they chose neither sides. Sitting on the fence, agreeing that action must taken for fair elections, yet criticizing it for causing innocents to close down their business for the day. "Do it someplace else la!! Why take it out on the streets.. causing many shops to close, causing so many traffic jams..." I never knew that a day-off would affect greatly on the local economy.

So where do I sit? Which sides do I take?

This isn't a multiple choice question where I can randomly pick one and pray for my 25% chance that I got it correct. Time to think. If it was just a small gathering of 50-100 people marching around, who would really give a damn. To make people around the whole world to watch, you have to make it BIG, and when it is BIG, there will definitely be sacrifices. Like it or not, you cannot please everyone in the world, but the least you can do is the get everyone attention.

I would say from this rally, even if we don't get the immediate fair election, but at least it got the attention around the world. While our beloved leaders are squeezing their brain juice to come out another award winning story, twisting the plot to their liking... but there are people who watch and listen to the truth, and the whole world is watching now.

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Sunday, a random article with no title.

Spent the day listening to one song only:

Other than fondling my memories of my old childhood hero, this song gives the 'ooomph' I need for the next few days of work. Oh, the hells of corporate world... but I need not to be afraid now that I got Mebius behind me.. BANZAIII!!!!!!!

For the past week, I was spending a well-earned vacation in Redang Island. I really promise some photos but still being lazy to figure out how to copy those pictures out from my iPhone to my PC, not like those days where you can drag-and-drop images from my Nokia. Shit this iPhone for making simple things more... more... ah, just fuck this iPhone.

And fuck those ifags. 

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..Yet Another Hacking

Going through my usual routine work in the office, and then I receive an email that some hackers will be going rampant on all .gov.my (government agency websites) at 15 June - 17 June, starting from 3:30am. So this is what a group of people call 'retaliation' towards the governments movement to block the 10 file-sharing websites on Malaysian network.

It took me a few seconds to digest the fact that some people now still crazy, before I skip to reading my other emails. Seriously, how the fuck is this a retaliation? You may sound like an anonymous hero trying to fight against the government, but you're waging war on the wrong people.

At 3:30am, assuming all government agency websites are being compromised, who are the ones responsible to restore? Who are the ones that will stay in the office 24 hours trying to fix the mess someone else had created. In the end, it is still the people that are also against the file-sharing website blocking who will be suffering from this attack, while they are busy drinking tea in their 50 million dollar mansion, acting like nothing happen.

Do you seriously think that they are responsible for their own websites? Why the hell do they pay RM1.8 million just for a goddamn Facebook page?

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Victim of Hacking

Everyone knows the meaning of "hacking" by now, thanks to our friendly company Sony who has been the victim for hackers again and again for the past 2-3 months. The first attack was on April which millions of their customers details have been compromised, and has become a big issue. Nowadays there is still news on them being hacked again by some nerd and many people are starting to laugh at them.

I used to know one guy in college who is a total nerd who likes hacking. Recently he has been posting some stuff about hacking on his blog (can't remember), showing people how hacking techniques like the famous e-mail phishing scam is done. When he talks about hacking stuff, he is the GOD.. but when it comes to talk about girls, he still sound like another nerd. I will always remember his favorite gesture: two hands on the table doing 'typing' motion. That is the only thing he do after eat and sleep.

Back to hacking, he mention something about some company got hacked and saying how stupid they are to fall victim of hacking. It may sound funny to him, to the hackers, to the people observing this incident... until they themselves fall victim of being hacked.

There was one incident at my work, one of our clients website was hacked. I didn't record down the exact details, but the next 2-3 hours was chaos in the office. People were running in the office, rushing to re-build new backup servers. Another group of people were busy looking for that loophole which let the hacker to come in the mess up the website. There was lots of shouting, some people were really pissed, some people were about to cry. A backup server was brought online and everything to redirect to the new server, but the problem was not over. It took them 2-3 weeks to compile the reports and schedule the meetings with our clients. All this because one website was defaced.

Imagine that you all of your company's client personal details were compromised, because some no-life nerd who probably couldn't woo a female donkey woke up one morning and decides to destroy someone else's life. Unfortunately he picked you. Security is a serious issue, boy.. not something to laugh.

..But for another case, which the hacker cracks a program for the benefit of many many people, like the iPhone jailbreak..

Although it is still hacking, but this is something which we're not losing our personal details, but having access to free apps. Now THIS is something to be happy about. FUCK YOU Uncle Steve, we want their long overdue free apps, and we got what we wanted!! Let's hope these hackers isn't screwing us with the jailbreaks.

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Kiss Ass

Got into an accident on the street yesterday. Was driving to client's place for on-site support and didn't realize that the Honda in front was stopping, couldn't brake in time and kissed its ass. I was sure that I did not see any red lights when it stops.. no way I would do such a "hand-gun" job.

The driver turn out to be 20-something chick, still busy talking to her friends on her iPhone4 when she came out of her car and make me wait for her to finish so we can assess the situation. Was she doing on purpose just to show me she had an iPhone?

When I look at it, there is any major issues on the crash impact, just some small scratches. What was weird is there was something like a Perodua-shaped stain mark. I told her that it's no big deal, and there's no point jamming the street so let's just forget it and move on, but she wanted her "hubby" to check on this.

Wasn't in the mood to wait any longer, but I don't have any choice either. Luckily her "hubby" came by in few minutes, did a quick check and let me off since there was no big issue. A big relief for me, but I drove off with a bit of guilt since I forgot to apologize to them for what happened.

..And it took me for some time to figure out that the mysterious "Perodua stamp" on her ass was mine. So now that black Honda's ass is (officially stamped and certified) kissed by me. Wish I could sign on it too. :)

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Being Irresponsible

I haven't been visiting my own blog for weeks!! Guess there is no point giving excuses that I was busy with my own stuff, but now is the perfect excuse to be here - it's 6.45am, work starts at 9 and I haven't slept.

Spent whole night turning around the bed, trying not to think about project assignments, about computers, about shitty on-call customers, in the end it gets difficult trying to think of not thinking about it and gets me nervous. I can sense that I have been breathing unnaturally heavy, and making my stomach full of air which in makes me sick.

How do I stop this as I would LOVE to quit my job and go back being irresponsible. Back to the days where I sleep 3am and wake up 12pm, nothing to worry about, nothing to pressure about while I eat, shit and sleep of my parents money they transfer me every month. Maybe I'm still not used to working life or maybe I need a break, but I can't lie to myself that my term of 'break' now would indirectly mean a retirement plan.

7am already. 30 minutes left for rest before pulling myself to the bathroom and restarting my whole week again.

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Season Over

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Game over. Goodbye.

Not a goodnight's sleep tonight, while imagining random people on Facebook already celebrating MU 19th BPL title since we have shot ourselves again and giving them a helping hand to the cup.

How the fuck can these things go wrong? If the goddamn ref wants to hold his goddamn whistle in his goddamn mouth, I'd rather keep the ball out of play rather than hugging someone, giving them nasty ideas and this is what you get: a late late 101th minute penalty.

The ref himself is also the star of the show. 8 minutes of extra time, and you fucking keep it until the 11 minute.

Gahh....

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Worst Case

March 2007

I miss the days when I spend my mornings in front of PS2 or my PC playing games everyday. I still go out occasionally, but if it is not movies/exercise, then it is just going out playing games with friends at cyber cafe. That was when I had completed my STPM and it was holidays for 4-5 months.

Those days, even if I didn't get into my preferred university, worst case is there's always college.

March 2010
I miss the days when I have only 2 days of class every week, and all I have to worry about was my FYP. Then on those days with no class I would go to gym at 9am to workout for an hour, then have breakfast at Old Town, back home at by 11, Facebook while waiting for my roommate to get up and go for lunch and then spend the rest of the day sleep/Facebook/PC games.

Those days, even if I screw up my FYP or my finals, worst case is there's always another year.



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March 2011
I am working in office 8.30am to 7pm. There were several big cases, things didn't work the way it should, which customers are chasing my ass when I will complete, at the same time I have no idea what to do. No lunch break. No tea break. No shitting break. If I'm not at my workstation trying to solve a goddamn 'mystery' issue, I'm busy answering calls while new cases keeps coming up and if I don't get it done in 30 minutes, I'm screwed.

Had to go back to office on Saturday for 'shit-clearing session'. Too many shit pop up last week, and I have to get it done yesterday even though it's not a working day. If I don't clear out some shit yesterday, then I'll have more shit to clear on Monday, and I'm screwed.

Last week, if I didn't get anything done right, I'm screwed. No worst case scenario. No backup. When I'm screwed, it's over.

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Hopefully this week I don't get screwed.

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iPhone

After months of waiting, it is finally here!!! MINE!!!

It's still very hard for me to believe that I'm switching over to iPhone, knowing pretty well that I use to dislike anything with i in front, makes me remember there was one time I made a comment on the Switch fanpage on Facebook, which some people didn't take it nicely and start calling me a "Micro$oft" supporter. It still makes me laugh when I think about it: an Apple user saying Bill Gates is a money sucking bastard.

Even though I always wanted a smartphone, and I keep telling myself that I'll taking nothing but only Android, but the biggest factor that made me decide to get the iPhone instead is that I have no one to ask for support if I use Android since everyone is using iPhone. So last week was judgement day, and made a decision to take the Maxis plan which I regret a little, but it's the only provider that gives me 12 months contract.

After bringing back the iPhone to my home, there is one thing that needs to settle which I can think of..

Yea baby, my first message to Uncle Steve. YOUR IPHONE IS NOTHING WHEN I BREAK YOUR SHIT!!! Was easy to do the jailbreak, and just in case anyone needs a good link on how to jailbreak their i device. Maybe for this one time only, I appreciate hackers :) After jailbreaking, everything becomes crazy. Few minutes later I got myself stuck with cutting ropes and shooting birds into bunch of wood and pigs.

After a week of owning an iPhone4, I'm really satisfied with the things I get to do with it. Maybe it is because it is less as a phone, and more as a gadget. In football, there is a guy who people regard him as god, and his name is Messi. Perhaps iPhone is the same Messi in gadget world. Can't wait to see what this shit can do more.

The one thing that I'm against it is the tight control when doing everything on my phone. First, I need iTunes on my laptop to sync my songs and apps with my phone, and for some reason if Apple finds out that you've been downloading apps for free, they'll do what they think is the right thing to do. Delete it. With that, 1 of my apps got deleted when I was trying to sync it with my laptop.

Thank you, Steve. Thank you again that you've cheated my RM1800 to get a piece of empty phone, and the extra RM15 each time I want to add something into it. Who is the money sucking bastard now???? 

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Monayyyy!!!

THAT.. is the best smell in the world. The smell of money. The only smell of happiness. Who says money can't buy happiness?? Because money IS happiness! Hard earned money from blood, sweat, less hours of sleep, frustration and endurance, only to have your boss walking to your desk to personally hand you the white envelope. Got my new salary this month HELL YEAAAA!!!!

The next happiest thing of getting money, is spending it. Although I keep telling myself to remain a portion in my bank account and let it grow, it is still hard to control myself because for the first few times in my life to receive that much money. Getting my salary naturally means I have to start relying less on my parents and feed myself and my own addiction. Good time to list down my spending needs here..

Food:

Obviously I have to pay my own food now, would be stupid to beg for lunch money from my parents. But food is always the best place to consider saving up. Since I just need to keep myself alive and healthy, and food in my hometown costs like peanuts, it is possible to spend around RM4 per day on food only. That one requires alot of patience, and it also means eating the same thing everyday, like eating chicken rice in college everyday.

Fuel:
After food for myself, now it's food for my car. She needs about RM50 per week, however I can try cutting down to RM40, if I go out less on weekends, and maybe start learning some shortcuts to my office to shorten the distance. Still, not sure how long I can sustain at RM40 per week if the petrol price continues to go up. Damn the government for sucking up my $$$.

Addiction:
I have an addiction yea... addicted to coffee!! I don't care where the coffee comes from: Starbucks, Old Town, small kopitiam but I must have it everyday. When I think about it, I actually need coffee to keep myself alive in the afternoon and awake at the office. This means that coffee now keeps me working, and I'm working for more coffee.. what a bad cycle.

I also have addiction to sleep, but I don't think I need to pay to sleep. Wish that office allow us about 10 minutes of shut eye to keep me alive and awake.

After paying the daily expenses, it's time to spend on the BIG stuff!! Recently bought my football jersey for RM250, and it hurts a little to see that much money from my own wallet instantly vanished. But now I'm ready to spend bigger, and have been aiming for my target for long time...

Yeah... from RM250 to RM2500. Could have buy 10 different jerseys for this shit. Thank you Uncle Steve, you have successfully convert me into an Apple user and cheated my RM2500. You have win the battle this time, but be prepared for the war. Uncle Google is coming with their Android, I'll be back to have my revenge and my moneyyyyyyyyy!!

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Easy Days

A mundane Sunday afternoon's leisure time is spent differently for many people, and it sometimes depends on how deep are your pockets. There was this chubby uncle relaxing at one corner at Starbucks, sipping his RM20+ worth coffee, with his finger making big swipes on his electronic tablet. Apparently he was in the midst of a heavy discussion with his group of friends, with his voice annoyingly loud that I was able to hear it clearly when I was ordering my drink.

"You know the technology is so ADVANCED today, you can even watch videos on the Internet!! It is soooo ADVANCED nowadays..."

"...in our days, we have to cramp together in a room to watch a small TV. And it's only black and white. These days the kids have HD, they have 3D... they had everything easy because it is soooo ADVANCED."

What kids? Does he mean his kids, or people like me in the young generation?

It would seem like he is debating about how fast videos available on YouTube, or maybe how fast we connect to people. Yes, it is the technology that we are enjoying, but kids had it easy?? How the hell I had it easy?? You're mistaken uncle. You must have forgotten that maybe the people in the older generation before you, there weren't any TVs. You must have forgotten of that damn iPad you're clinging tightly!!

You're given the authority to swipe me like you swipe your credit card.

I was thinking that maybe he wasn't criticizing us, the younger generation for "having it easy" with technology, but maybe just talking about how nice he gets to watch YouTube with his iPad. But still, you're in Starbucks, uncle. Everyone in Starbucks has something with i in front.

If I want to talk about us kids having things easy, I would look at other issues like SPM for example.

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Be back soon..

You remember that when I say I will get back to post something soon.. yea well, I WILL post something soon, but not NOW..

My job is much much more 'intense' than I thought.. ._.

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Entry No.1!!

I am back!!!!!!!

Hardly touch this shit for almost 6 months... and now after taking a quick glance at the old places I used to entertain myself, and surprisingly they are still up! Really admire people like canoninpg.blogspot.com who can keep their shit together for years and STILL entertain me. Now I feel guilty of quitting my old blog and makes me want to start again. Fresh new one, and no more nagging about boring shit that people don't give a damn.

Just before I shut down my old blog, I managed to find some interesting statistics in it. It seems that my blog was also viewed in places from United States and some parts of Canada, and the most viewed post was when I wrote something about Castle Age.. hahaha this are quite interesting stuff to know. Those are good times. Too bad I have to clear everything.. including those girls.

Lots of things have change after I throw away my old place. Got a new job, been busy from day to night, meeting new people, sleeping at 10pm.. Yea, everything has changed so much that it is still difficult to digest it down.

After graduating and leaving KL, I still find myself living in a big world in my hometown, like in a fast-paced action movie. No more waking up at 12pm and lazy around Facebook till evening. I still find it funny each time I remember myself promising that I'll leave this forsaken island and build my own life in the city, when I still having difficulties adapting to my new routine at my own hometown.

Still, it's only 6 months. And it took me 6 months to find the guts to pen down my thoughts again. Damn, there's so much happening over here, especially work. Maybe I'll write again regarding that next time, so tune in, 6 months later...

Glad to be back. Hopefully I get to see some old faces visiting my new blog.

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