I am not really a lampoonist towards those who have genuine compassions to fix the faults and blunders of the society. But dont you need to get your intention unmistakenly spelt out first?
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I am not really a lampoonist towards those who have genuine compassions to fix the faults and blunders of the society. But dont you need to get your intention unmistakenly spelt out first?
Monday, August 21, 2006
My Ixus II
How long does a Canon Ixus II last, to technically serve as an operating apparatus for locking the present you and what you experience before brewing them into memories for you to reminisce, joyously or sorrowfully?
Mine lasted two years. I don’t know about yours. But I bet the images and memories they brought into being are just undying.
My little companion I bought just before I made my maiden (well, second is probably still way away) trip to the US, dated back to May 2004, was showing symptoms of fatigue when I brought it along to Cambodia. Who wouldn’t be so weary? Making three visits to Las Vegas, three visits to Anaheim’s Disneyland, and three visits to Universal Studio? These, not to mention those 6-flag Marine Park visits, Grand Canyon visits, San Franscisco visits, Yosemite visits, Rohnert Park now-closed Agilent site and Vintage Pointe visits and ONE Death Valley visit (this is the only significant place it went only ONCE in US! J), are definitely a marathon and harsh environmental tests for my beloved photo-capturing buddy!
But it still does goods in some short trips to KL and around Penang. So I don’t think I am going to repair it. I just love it as it is. Although I will be getting a new one, I don’t mind using it yet spending a little extra time warming it up before hand.
It’s just like your memories. The only difference is that you don’t have an option to thrash the latter if they’re so excruciating.
Sometimes something just becomes so a part of yourself that even without looking at them you know how to use them properly.
Mine lasted two years. I don’t know about yours. But I bet the images and memories they brought into being are just undying.
My little companion I bought just before I made my maiden (well, second is probably still way away) trip to the US, dated back to May 2004, was showing symptoms of fatigue when I brought it along to Cambodia. Who wouldn’t be so weary? Making three visits to Las Vegas, three visits to Anaheim’s Disneyland, and three visits to Universal Studio? These, not to mention those 6-flag Marine Park visits, Grand Canyon visits, San Franscisco visits, Yosemite visits, Rohnert Park now-closed Agilent site and Vintage Pointe visits and ONE Death Valley visit (this is the only significant place it went only ONCE in US! J), are definitely a marathon and harsh environmental tests for my beloved photo-capturing buddy!
But it still does goods in some short trips to KL and around Penang. So I don’t think I am going to repair it. I just love it as it is. Although I will be getting a new one, I don’t mind using it yet spending a little extra time warming it up before hand.
It’s just like your memories. The only difference is that you don’t have an option to thrash the latter if they’re so excruciating.
Sometimes something just becomes so a part of yourself that even without looking at them you know how to use them properly.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Superman return online game
I got this site from a friend last week. The first time I played I scored 80 plus... the second time I played it's about 130 something. (I was actually a little doubtful then)
Ok, that's how the story goes. I was trying to check if I was really getting 130 something. So I clicked, clicked and clicked but it wouldn't even get near to 130. On and off I tried for the week and when I was going to give up, either blaming my eyes for sending the wrong pulses of signal (ie 130 something) to my brain, or blaming the miss-time as I always encounter in my life, I scored 148 all out of a sudden.
Then I realized that this game teaches you a lot about "timing". Be it at work, in life, and well, you know what it is.
check your impromptu-ness quotient
Ok, that's how the story goes. I was trying to check if I was really getting 130 something. So I clicked, clicked and clicked but it wouldn't even get near to 130. On and off I tried for the week and when I was going to give up, either blaming my eyes for sending the wrong pulses of signal (ie 130 something) to my brain, or blaming the miss-time as I always encounter in my life, I scored 148 all out of a sudden.
Then I realized that this game teaches you a lot about "timing". Be it at work, in life, and well, you know what it is.
check your impromptu-ness quotient
Monday, August 14, 2006
monday night shopping
It’s not Chinese New Year. No declaration of emergency. Sunshine was not having its sales. No freebies. The fridge wasn’t really that empty.
Just an eleventh hour grocery shopping with housemates and another Relau new “flock”er and… doom! we were back with plastic bags that might last us for a month as garbage bags. (as if all of us having unlimited sunshine vouchers)
Heheehehehee….I miss the tv show Supermarket Sweep! That non-reality-tv show!
ps: I've gotten myself a /7\ new water tumbler for the broken one. Look, my cubical mate said it must be at least /7\ for above that number the polymer that dissolves into the water is still safe. :O (check the bottom of your bottle!)
Just an eleventh hour grocery shopping with housemates and another Relau new “flock”er and… doom! we were back with plastic bags that might last us for a month as garbage bags. (as if all of us having unlimited sunshine vouchers)
Heheehehehee….I miss the tv show Supermarket Sweep! That non-reality-tv show!
ps: I've gotten myself a /7\ new water tumbler for the broken one. Look, my cubical mate said it must be at least /7\ for above that number the polymer that dissolves into the water is still safe. :O (check the bottom of your bottle!)
Two crazy weekends
Since working motivation is rather vague and daily life is rather dreamy, it’s definitely more sensible for me to take every weekend off for some laid-back activities. Yet another one last week, for a 3-day makan-makan trip to Ipoh, as well as paying a visit to the Lost World in Tambun to make the most out of the pitiable remaining bits of my childhood reverie. Well, if they were still there for me at this age.
Food consumed
Bean Sprout Chicken + Pork Meatball (Luckily got the bean sprout and the pork; eating white chicken is so not me :P!
Meng Kok Dim Sum (Delicate and small yet delicious, can eat different types without feeling too full!)
Tambun Lost World Café Fried Chicken. (Not bad not bad!)
Kopitiam Toast (Not bad not bad!)
Man Chong Restaurant (Yin Yong Fish is just outstanding, imagine one side is fried while another side is steamed!)
I think they steamed it first. No?
Chu Cheong Fan and toasts from the jam-packed authentic Ipoh Old Town White Coffee kopitiam (erm, it’s a branch :P)
Bee Yuk Restaurant (Sliced Pork Meat with Yam is one of the best I have taken so far)
This curry from that Bee Yuk Restaurant is just a class above the others.
And... Biscuit Sat Kei Ma! (ma ma ma ma ma... echoing....)
I was searching for the one which is very sweet, very oily, very soft... erm... only the cheapest is near!
Activities
I took 6 slides with SQ till the guard said : “Wah cepatnya you two datang!” for the fourth time and “Wah, datang lagi!” for the fifth time. The slides are much better compared to Sunway’s. The distance is longer and more thrilling yet you don’t need to climb up so high up probably because they made the sliders sway sideway much more.
Captain ball in the pool with artificial waves. It was damn fun.
Category 5 not to be missed.
Hahahahahaha!
Too lazy (sang too much and too loud??) to write on MY's BD, some pictures here in Irene's blog.
So Long Leatherback
'Leatherback turtles not extinct in Malaysia'
Kuala Lumpur, Aug 10 : The endangered leatherback turtle population has declined drastically but the turtle is not exinct in Malaysia, the Turtle and Marine Ecosystem Centre (Tumec) said here, refuting a UN environment Programme report which said the species was effectively exinct in this country.
The leatherback turtles could still be seen landing and nesting on the shores of Malaysia's coastal Terengganu area, Kamaruddin Ibrahim, who heads Tumec said adding that "It is correct when one says the population of the leatherback has declined drastically... But the turtle has not become exinct," Bernama news agency quoted him as saying.
The UNEP report from Bangkok had said that the leatherback was effectively exinct in Malaysia where it used to nest in thousands a few years ago. Consumption of turtle eggs by humans and fishing nets in the turtle's nesting areas were blamed for decrease in turtle population in Terengganu.
Kamaruddin said in 2003, 14 leatherback nesting places with 1083 eggs were detected. In 2004, five nesting places with 295 eggs were found and last year one nesting place with 90 eggs was seen.
"This year, we found five nesting places with 336 eggs of two leatherback turtles," he said adding that this proved the leatherback was not exinct in Malaysia.
Tumec is planning to conduct patrols along the coast and sea including ensuring that the turtles are not trapped in the fishing nets. The Terengganu state governement had indicated its commitment to ensure the survival of leatherback with a 200,000 ringet allocation to Tumec this year for conservation of tutles in Terengganu.
Source from kerela.com
Gloomy news, with bluntly shocking numbers of decline. Must be a tragic downturn in Malaysians' conservation effort.
And, it says “Tumec is planning to conduct patrols along the coast and sea including ensuring that the turtles are not trapped in the fishing nets.”
Huh? Now? (Next week izzit?)
Don't you feel that we are useless?
Kuala Lumpur, Aug 10 : The endangered leatherback turtle population has declined drastically but the turtle is not exinct in Malaysia, the Turtle and Marine Ecosystem Centre (Tumec) said here, refuting a UN environment Programme report which said the species was effectively exinct in this country.
The leatherback turtles could still be seen landing and nesting on the shores of Malaysia's coastal Terengganu area, Kamaruddin Ibrahim, who heads Tumec said adding that "It is correct when one says the population of the leatherback has declined drastically... But the turtle has not become exinct," Bernama news agency quoted him as saying.
The UNEP report from Bangkok had said that the leatherback was effectively exinct in Malaysia where it used to nest in thousands a few years ago. Consumption of turtle eggs by humans and fishing nets in the turtle's nesting areas were blamed for decrease in turtle population in Terengganu.
Kamaruddin said in 2003, 14 leatherback nesting places with 1083 eggs were detected. In 2004, five nesting places with 295 eggs were found and last year one nesting place with 90 eggs was seen.
"This year, we found five nesting places with 336 eggs of two leatherback turtles," he said adding that this proved the leatherback was not exinct in Malaysia.
Tumec is planning to conduct patrols along the coast and sea including ensuring that the turtles are not trapped in the fishing nets. The Terengganu state governement had indicated its commitment to ensure the survival of leatherback with a 200,000 ringet allocation to Tumec this year for conservation of tutles in Terengganu.
Source from kerela.com
Gloomy news, with bluntly shocking numbers of decline. Must be a tragic downturn in Malaysians' conservation effort.
And, it says “Tumec is planning to conduct patrols along the coast and sea including ensuring that the turtles are not trapped in the fishing nets.”
Huh? Now? (Next week izzit?)
Don't you feel that we are useless?
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
7 Types of drivers that I hate most.
7 It’s-my-grandpa’s-road motorbikers
Venue: A road. Commonly observed in a single-lane country road.
Selfishness: “Quite lor I think”
Conscience: Don’t want to say so much. Too many of them on the road.
Allegation: As the theme suggests, he was fantasizing that his grandpa built the road.
Potential/Typical Convicts: Honda Cup
Cure: Memorize this and say sarcastically 1000 times to yourself. “You 500cc ar?”
The biker on top might be trying to overtake another one in front of him. (But he didn't do that till the next traffic light stop, trust me)
6 Turtle-turner
Venue: Left-turning corner
Selfishness: Nil
Conscience: Not known
Direction: Left-turning
Allegation: Nearly stop before turning at the junction
Potential/Typical Convicts: Inept driver
Cure: Go watch Initial D for at least 1000 times and learn 1% of the “float-shifting” skill.
5 Fast lane Leisurer
Venue: Spacious or Multiple-Lane Highway
Selfishness: Serious
Conscience: Acceptable if unconscious, Terrible if conscious
Direction: As others, on the same chunk of lanes.
Allegation: Drive at fast lane at 10km/h below speed limit for more than 10 seconds with apparent chances to move into slow lane.
Potential/Typical Convicts: Ladies that drive so cautiously, desperately holding the steering, and ignorant of what’s behind. Or pakcik-pakcik that drive at 60km/h and thought they are driving at 120km/h
Cure: Bear in mind that the fast lane is not for you. Keep left unless overtaking a 10km/h 10-wheel truck.
4 Indecisive Fence Sitter
Venue: Multiple-Lane road
Selfishness: Serious
Conscience: Below average
Direction: As others on the same chunk of lanes.
Allegation: Driving indecisively for >5 seconds with confused mind undergoing state of uncompromising difficulty to decide which lane to take. OR
Bizarrely stop at the lane dividers without any blockage at the front or urge from behind.
Potential/Typical Convicts: Bewildered as in life?
Cure: Papa says: Time to change your spectacles if you can’t distinguish the lanes properly.
We were trailing this car at a distance of at least 15 meters for a distance of at least 15 meters before he stopped at the middle of two lanes.
Was he trying to cut queue at the very front before decided to give up after sixth-sensing (is your crystal ball not working well that it take him too long?) that there is a traffic police in front?
3 Hump-ohobia
Venue: Over a bum
Selfishness: Nil, probably a little excessive obsession over new toys.
Conscience: Ok
Direction: Ascending and descending a bum
Allegation: Everybody behind is waiting for what seems like an eternity for him/her to get over the bum. It’s as if the driver had made uncountable brakes all the way up and down the bum.
Potential/Typical Convicts: New car owners.
Cure: Time. For the car to age.
2 “I-like-u-like” park-eholic
Venue: In front of shop-houses with side parking lots opposite them.
Selfishness: Much above average
Conscience: Need conscienceherapy class
Allegation: Simply park the car (ie owner had fled somewhere) making the side-parking on the other side so hard and most of the time impossible.
Potential/Typical Convicts: “Car can go through what” cult follower
Cure: Memorize this and say sarcastically 2000 times to yourself. “Brother, you think I can be like Stephan Chow pushing the car in from the side of the lot ar?”
Two of them here. Although it’s difficult for you to find a parking lot, it’s even more grueling for me to spot a parking lot yet can’t go in!
1 Obtuse Road Blocker
Venue: Narrow junction
Selfishness: Critical
Conscience: Miserable
Direction: Turning right, stop at red light
Allegation: Stuff own vehicle into the front left of the queue in pursuit of the very next green light, blocking all others from turning left.
Potential/Typical Convict: Mentally challenged self obsessive drivers.
Cure: Nil. We do not offer chronic conscience or ethics predicament related treatment.
This Kancil was trying to cut queue (and BLOCK others) when everyone was trying to turn left. The Saga was forced into the porch of the house beside the road. Oh, the left-turning queue is supposed to be a single queue as the road they are turning into is extremely narrow even for a single car.
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Which one is your "favorite"? Come join the party to vote!
ps: I start to suspect that I am a traffic system complaining fanatic.
Venue: A road. Commonly observed in a single-lane country road.
Selfishness: “Quite lor I think”
Conscience: Don’t want to say so much. Too many of them on the road.
Allegation: As the theme suggests, he was fantasizing that his grandpa built the road.
Potential/Typical Convicts: Honda Cup
Cure: Memorize this and say sarcastically 1000 times to yourself. “You 500cc ar?”
The biker on top might be trying to overtake another one in front of him. (But he didn't do that till the next traffic light stop, trust me)
6 Turtle-turner
Venue: Left-turning corner
Selfishness: Nil
Conscience: Not known
Direction: Left-turning
Allegation: Nearly stop before turning at the junction
Potential/Typical Convicts: Inept driver
Cure: Go watch Initial D for at least 1000 times and learn 1% of the “float-shifting” skill.
5 Fast lane Leisurer
Venue: Spacious or Multiple-Lane Highway
Selfishness: Serious
Conscience: Acceptable if unconscious, Terrible if conscious
Direction: As others, on the same chunk of lanes.
Allegation: Drive at fast lane at 10km/h below speed limit for more than 10 seconds with apparent chances to move into slow lane.
Potential/Typical Convicts: Ladies that drive so cautiously, desperately holding the steering, and ignorant of what’s behind. Or pakcik-pakcik that drive at 60km/h and thought they are driving at 120km/h
Cure: Bear in mind that the fast lane is not for you. Keep left unless overtaking a 10km/h 10-wheel truck.
4 Indecisive Fence Sitter
Venue: Multiple-Lane road
Selfishness: Serious
Conscience: Below average
Direction: As others on the same chunk of lanes.
Allegation: Driving indecisively for >5 seconds with confused mind undergoing state of uncompromising difficulty to decide which lane to take. OR
Bizarrely stop at the lane dividers without any blockage at the front or urge from behind.
Potential/Typical Convicts: Bewildered as in life?
Cure: Papa says: Time to change your spectacles if you can’t distinguish the lanes properly.
We were trailing this car at a distance of at least 15 meters for a distance of at least 15 meters before he stopped at the middle of two lanes.
Was he trying to cut queue at the very front before decided to give up after sixth-sensing (is your crystal ball not working well that it take him too long?) that there is a traffic police in front?
3 Hump-ohobia
Venue: Over a bum
Selfishness: Nil, probably a little excessive obsession over new toys.
Conscience: Ok
Direction: Ascending and descending a bum
Allegation: Everybody behind is waiting for what seems like an eternity for him/her to get over the bum. It’s as if the driver had made uncountable brakes all the way up and down the bum.
Potential/Typical Convicts: New car owners.
Cure: Time. For the car to age.
2 “I-like-u-like” park-eholic
Venue: In front of shop-houses with side parking lots opposite them.
Selfishness: Much above average
Conscience: Need conscienceherapy class
Allegation: Simply park the car (ie owner had fled somewhere) making the side-parking on the other side so hard and most of the time impossible.
Potential/Typical Convicts: “Car can go through what” cult follower
Cure: Memorize this and say sarcastically 2000 times to yourself. “Brother, you think I can be like Stephan Chow pushing the car in from the side of the lot ar?”
Two of them here. Although it’s difficult for you to find a parking lot, it’s even more grueling for me to spot a parking lot yet can’t go in!
1 Obtuse Road Blocker
Venue: Narrow junction
Selfishness: Critical
Conscience: Miserable
Direction: Turning right, stop at red light
Allegation: Stuff own vehicle into the front left of the queue in pursuit of the very next green light, blocking all others from turning left.
Potential/Typical Convict: Mentally challenged self obsessive drivers.
Cure: Nil. We do not offer chronic conscience or ethics predicament related treatment.
This Kancil was trying to cut queue (and BLOCK others) when everyone was trying to turn left. The Saga was forced into the porch of the house beside the road. Oh, the left-turning queue is supposed to be a single queue as the road they are turning into is extremely narrow even for a single car.
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Which one is your "favorite"? Come join the party to vote!
ps: I start to suspect that I am a traffic system complaining fanatic.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Temasek
Probably there were once white sandy beaches (by this I mean no desperately artificial, pathetically fake and terribly wrong landscaping), giant sea turtles disembarkation (by this I mean no sad turtles in colourful captive), and graceful dolphins teeming (alright, that might be a lil’ bit exaggerated) in the sea (by this I mean no well-trained young dolphins in that man-made pool with spectators anticipating something extra but were disappointed).
I must have been thinking that it was still called Temasek then.
**
I made a short trip to the vibrant city state Singapore and received a very hospitable reception from Ciku and the hubby. An expectedly clean city; very well organized, structured and planned.
We paid a visit to Sentosa Island and played the so-claimed most thrilling game, the Luge.
Conclusion: total dismay. Nevertheless I did enjoy admiring the sea creatures in the aquarium. A little obsessive relaxation since I was small. See these cute lazy JellyFish!
I guess something has just gone missing from this tropical island. Some souls of little foulness, little spontaneous, and little untouched. For beauty of imperfection. Thus it’s definitely not my favourite country. No offense, you are still spearheading in many other areas.
Best picture I can get. Still, busy commercial ships dotting the skyline. And derr.. they're near!
Well-trained! But show wasn't exciting!
Ships attack! And leisurely people? Phuh...
Colourful fishes!
Cool!
Sea Angels
Nemo-nemo
Dory:"Hello....~~~" . Don't try to speak in whale language!
Heavenly or hellish?
I must have been thinking that it was still called Temasek then.
**
I made a short trip to the vibrant city state Singapore and received a very hospitable reception from Ciku and the hubby. An expectedly clean city; very well organized, structured and planned.
We paid a visit to Sentosa Island and played the so-claimed most thrilling game, the Luge.
Conclusion: total dismay. Nevertheless I did enjoy admiring the sea creatures in the aquarium. A little obsessive relaxation since I was small. See these cute lazy JellyFish!
I guess something has just gone missing from this tropical island. Some souls of little foulness, little spontaneous, and little untouched. For beauty of imperfection. Thus it’s definitely not my favourite country. No offense, you are still spearheading in many other areas.
Best picture I can get. Still, busy commercial ships dotting the skyline. And derr.. they're near!
Well-trained! But show wasn't exciting!
Ships attack! And leisurely people? Phuh...
Colourful fishes!
Cool!
Sea Angels
Nemo-nemo
Dory:"Hello....~~~" . Don't try to speak in whale language!
Heavenly or hellish?
Hello? Happy Birthday!
*Let’s not talk about age. Well, I am 27.
*SMSes have robbed (any positive alternative other than using rob?) me a number of birthday wishes calls that I got only 6 calls (ok, I typed 3 at first, then backspaced for 4, and realized that it should be 5. Oh no, it was 6). And in fact if not for setting my handset into silence mood I would have gotten the first and most anticipated one at 1am in the morning to make it to 7. Should have slapped myself for that. Hahaha.
*Label me kiasuking for counting how many calls I received, after all, I was in Singapore.
*Thank you and thank you. For both calls and hearty SMSes. Lub ya! :) )
*Okok, I got the second most anticipated one just an hour ago. Hahaha. You know if I were talking about you. That long call with many Indian policemen around you must have cost a lot :P)
*Also to my great old buddy who is down with some memory problem but made it 5 minutes late to send me a wish. My heart was then in serious emptiness.
*There were a couple of belated-for-face-to-face wishes. Very heartfelt. Dinners, no? :P
*There were also a couple of friendster-reminded friends who wished. They were very heartfelt too!
*Then I started to recall some absentees. As a vivid reflection, I must be one of them on many of the others’ days. Do you think an ipod will help?
*I got three pieces of Ferrero Rochers from KB. 6 scoops of Swensen's from SS. A secret-recipe mushroom chicken set. A HongKie Kopitiam meal. A cheesecake.
*All about food. Where is my 60-buck Ikea item?
*It's already August. Belated wishes still coming in. La la.
My ice cream sponsor said: Today I am not pretty lar!
Ok, today. :D
It wasn't me the photographer. :D
YK : Why did you finish up the last piece of the cake?
Me : You didnt say you want also!
MH :Damnit... I wanted that piece...
PT : C'mon... Gimme a break!
Andrew : What happened?
MY : Why are these uncles aunties so childish?
Actually the view outside the breakarea is much better off Sentosa's!
HN was busy complaining about heavy lunch and here she is enjoying the last bit of the cheesecake...
*SMSes have robbed (any positive alternative other than using rob?) me a number of birthday wishes calls that I got only 6 calls (ok, I typed 3 at first, then backspaced for 4, and realized that it should be 5. Oh no, it was 6). And in fact if not for setting my handset into silence mood I would have gotten the first and most anticipated one at 1am in the morning to make it to 7. Should have slapped myself for that. Hahaha.
*Label me kiasuking for counting how many calls I received, after all, I was in Singapore.
*Thank you and thank you. For both calls and hearty SMSes. Lub ya! :) )
*Okok, I got the second most anticipated one just an hour ago. Hahaha. You know if I were talking about you. That long call with many Indian policemen around you must have cost a lot :P)
*Also to my great old buddy who is down with some memory problem but made it 5 minutes late to send me a wish. My heart was then in serious emptiness.
*There were a couple of belated-for-face-to-face wishes. Very heartfelt. Dinners, no? :P
*There were also a couple of friendster-reminded friends who wished. They were very heartfelt too!
*Then I started to recall some absentees. As a vivid reflection, I must be one of them on many of the others’ days. Do you think an ipod will help?
*I got three pieces of Ferrero Rochers from KB. 6 scoops of Swensen's from SS. A secret-recipe mushroom chicken set. A HongKie Kopitiam meal. A cheesecake.
*All about food. Where is my 60-buck Ikea item?
*It's already August. Belated wishes still coming in. La la.
My ice cream sponsor said: Today I am not pretty lar!
Ok, today. :D
It wasn't me the photographer. :D
YK : Why did you finish up the last piece of the cake?
Me : You didnt say you want also!
MH :Damnit... I wanted that piece...
PT : C'mon... Gimme a break!
Andrew : What happened?
MY : Why are these uncles aunties so childish?
Actually the view outside the breakarea is much better off Sentosa's!
HN was busy complaining about heavy lunch and here she is enjoying the last bit of the cheesecake...
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