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Defragmenting OS X

2011-11-17T00:15:00.006+08:00

I love Macs, and people around me will find the occasional evangelistic aura oozing from my pores. However, unlike ~~evangelists~~ Mac Fanboys who ~~do not recognise flaws in their beliefs~~ are annoying as fuck, I recognise flaws to the OS X, with high memory usage (thus reducing available physical memory) being one of its drawbacks, amongst others. One of the supposed advantages of OS X is the much (one-sided) discussed efficiency of the entire system's design, thus negating the need to defrag the system. This view that Apple goes along with.

"You probably won't need to optimize at all if you use Mac OS X. Here's why: [redacted]
...
For these reasons, there is little benefit to defragmenting.
...

If you think you might need to defragment

Try restarting first. It might help, and it's easy to do.

... there's a chance the disks could be fragmented¹. In this case, you might benefit from defragmentation, which can be performed with some third-party disk utilities.

Another option is to back up your important files, erase the hard disk, then reinstall Mac OS X and your backed up files²."

In a typical Apple-isque communication, one can basically sum it up as 'the problem is there, we don't recommend you fixing it but if you want to, go ahead and sort it out yourself, its not our problem'.

With my MacBook (late 2008 Aluminium Unibody, 2.0GHz) maxxed out (7,200rpm HDD and RAM at the officially supported 4.0GB), I was satisfied but was always picking up interesting articles which could potentially enhance my computing experience.***
During one of my usual tech-blog crawling sessions, I stumbled upon a Lifehacker discussing various defragmenting utilities for Windows, with a number of comments beating an already dead-horse on Mac defragging when someone mentioned iDefrag.

iDefrag is thus far the only Mac defrag utility that I know of, and offers several defragmentation algorthms such as compact, metadata, optimise, quick defrag (online) and full-defrag.

While I won't go into all the different algorhythms, one mention worthy method which allows you to imagine its effect would be 'compact', where it shifts all files to the beginning of the volume, freeing up space. This is possibly due to files occupying half-blocks similar to FAT32 structures. I'm not a programmer or an expert in storage so I'll just leave this as it is to use your imagination to further expand on such concepts.

The problem with running most defragmentation programs is that your main disk would be mounted / online, reducing the ability of the defrag tool to defrag certain system files in use. The only defrag-algorhythm available to online users would be quick-defrag, which didn't provide much gains on personal observation.

Certain Windows utilities like O&O Defrag permits offline defragmentation, but the problem with iDefrag was that there was no user-friendly method to initiate offline defragmentation, so I had to resort to installing a fresh copy of OS X on a portable USB disk and booting to it. This kept my main disk unmounted and open to defragmenting access, and allowed me to run a full-defrag.

***After defragmenting my computer, there was a slight but noticeable increase in performance. General things that cannot be reliably measured like the time it takes to load certain programs³ were noticeably smoother. Unfortunately, in the excitement and anticipation of testing the application, I forgot to do pre-defrag tests. I am seriously a fail-blogger.

Fortunately, I found a friend who was willing to let me have a go at her computer (early 2009 MacBook 2.0GHz, 120GB Hitachi with 2GB RAM).

Pre-defragmentation. Not much you can see from the main window as it is zoomed up far too much, but do note the lower bar which indicates fragmentation. Boot up time (easiest metric to measure reliably) was about 1 minute 4 seconds.

Post defragmentation. Fragmentation is low, with only 11 files left fragmented. For some reason they could not be further defragmented, but trying to defrag those files would be just chasing marginal gains. Boot up time reduced to 54 seconds.

She later reported that her computer is now very fast, and that I am very sai lei.
***

A round up of iDefrag's pros and cons.
Pros
1. Improved load times.
2. It has a very fun GUI that shows the copy and write process, similar to Windows 98⁴. A simply and yet surprisingly and annoyingly addictive process to watch.

Cons:
1. It costs £19.95. That's a shit load of money there.
2. No user-friendly way to run a full defrag.
3. Quick defrag (only option available to general users) does not provide noticeable results.

Notes:
1. Bad Apple, going back on your words.
2. Backing up and restoring your entire hard disk probably allows the system to rewrite all files in a structured manner, permitting better file contiguity.
3. Being a student, the 3 most frequently used programs would be Excel, PowerPoint and Word from the Office Suite. These programs take excruciatingly long times to load, but has since improved noticeably.
4. Windows 98 Defragmentation Video

Boys are dirty

2011-10-05T23:06:00.002+08:00

I was talking to Joanna one fine day, and referring to Secret Garden's plot (I swear to you, I don't watch that stuff), I wondered what would it be like if I were to swap bodies with a girl.

Being a stereotypical vulgar male, the things that I listed included, but were not limited to:
1. Play with my (new!!) boobs
2. Have sex
3. Pee squatting down

I was getting really excited blabbering on about what I would do if I had a girl's body, and realised I never asked what would she do.

"Shower, wash properly and all first".

WTF.

How to choose a boy/girl-friend

2011-08-02T00:11:00.005+08:00

I was having a conversation with Cheryl, ~~a fatass who stays near my place~~ my neighbour, where I discussed the drawbacks of getting married to a naggy spouse.

[redacted]
C: Wow, say until like you're going to get married to her.
H: Yeah, I'm 6 years older than you and any relationship goals at this point of my life are long term. Now imagine if you get married to someone who goes "dear don't do this, don't do that, don't cum so fast" I WILL shoot my own ears off.

The conversation steered away from naggy spouses, to my perceived age vs. my actual age peppered with with a large amount of teenage exclamation along the lines of "omg I can't believe you're 24!"

H: At this stage, my idea of 'seeing girlfriend' sitting in the garden in the evening talking, and later dinner with parents. No clubbing, and I aim to buy a house within the next 3 - 4 years.
***
Interestingly enough, I encountered a woman who seemed to be a very active henpecker. Thus began my conversation with Joanna. Joanna is a former client of mine way back from my Nuffnang days, she is also very cute.

H: Wow, I just saw this bitchy looking woman at the bank. One look you know she dominates her husband in the relationship.
J: Isn't this usually the case, one person will dominate the other?
H: Well, I'm sure there's one person in the relationship with a stronger personality but I think outright dominance is just plain mean.
***
Here are some points to prevent / mitigate poor decision making while choosing spouses, with the basic assumption that your spouse is the perfect person.

1. If (s)he nags a little, ask he(r) to stop. Explaining what's wrong with nagging (i.e. its fucking annoying).
1.1. If (s)he doesn't stop, screaming at him/her won't help because its built in them to tell people what to do all their lives. Revel in the fact that they will be excellent JKR foremen, and your marriage will enjoy income via pencen upon his/her retirement.

2. Subject to #1, if (s)he doesn't stop, it's going to get worse after you get married. Bail the fuck out or you'll be living a sad married life, seriously. I've been in a naggy relationship and it wasn't fun because
2.1. If you're free spirited like me, I didn't enjoy being bossed around and I rebelled to show that I could do things my own way. I'm sure she didn't enjoy the fact that I didn't want to listen to her as it went against the basic rules programmed in her. This step is counter-productive, as you'll probably be doing things the wrong way to spite him/her.
2.2. If you're spineless, you'll be living the rest of your life knowing that there'll be someone telling you: (a) how to fly a kite, (b) how much Milo powder to put in your drink, (c) how to take care of your dog, how to be careful when attending a debaucherious house-party.

3.1. Something that most people are aware of already but I'll just state it: you date his/her friends in your relationship.
3.2. Something that most people would never have thought of: In-laws. I'm not saying that anyone's family is bad, but given how each family operates in a different manner, there are bound to be different paradigms. If you think the conflicts are manageable (read: tolerable; NOT mendable), by all means go ahead. If you think that they're a bunch of bad motherfuckers who deserve to die a horrible death, imagine your life with a similar outcome to Pt. 2- 2.2. The only difference is that it'll be the in-laws ruining your life and you probably can't do anything about it.
3.2.1. If you really really really want to spend the rest of your life with him/her, revel in the fact that your parents-in-laws are easily 30 years older than the both of you. Combine that knowledge with statistics on mean life-expectancy available via your local ministries of health, you can revel in the fact that the final x-years will be in-laws free.
3.3. How well does (s)he coexist with your family.

Fire off more points in the comments section.

WTS iPod Touch 32GB

2011-04-28T12:01:00.010+08:00

An iPod Touch 32GB for sale.

Purchased on 2nd of January 2010 from Apple.com

Just a quick rundown of the specs.

3rd Generation 32GB iPod Touch
600MHz processor
256MB RAM
320 * 480px resolution
Nike+ enabled

Battery life is rated at 30 hours (audio) and 6 hours (video) at new. Battery life is still good as I only use it for some light web browsing and playing music when I'm driving.

Item is engraved with my name, however...

...with the bundled casings (one Griffin, the other unknown) it shouldn't be a problem.

If there is ever a worry that someone would accuse you of stealing it from, I will provide a lifetime worth of moral consultation to 3rd parties. This service is provided by default, with the sale of this item.

It also comes with a complimentary dock with lineout. Lineout is great if you enjoy playing music on a home theatre system, which means you don't have to manually max out the volume every time you plug it in.

I am asking for a reasonable RM650 for this well taken-cared of unit. There are some light scratches on the stainless steel backing, but it is mainly from inserting and removing it from the casing. I am willing to try to buff it out if you indicate serious interest.

The item also comes with its original packaging and accessories. The headphone is a new and unused unit from my iPhone 4 as I gave the old one away.

Interested parties may contact me at tanyeehou@gmail.com, or call/SMS at 017 - 366 0933.

BBM Conversation with Chris Tock

2011-01-11T00:44:00.003+08:00

A little bit of history behind this: Chris and myself call each other 'baby'. In spite of that, I am slightly homophobic.

Me: Baby I'm having bacon+cheese omelette
Him: Ya I know I saw (on twitter)
Me: Are you jealous?
If yes you can come over
I put chicken eggs in your backside then you sit down and you can feel it crack
Then after that I'll eat it when it flows back out.

Something tells me that my mind hasn't recovered from my 2 girls 1 cup adventure, which incidentally I have yet to finish.

Trauma sial.

Boogers

2011-01-08T02:37:00.003+08:00

I was having lunch with Royal Gold when I discovered an annoying booger stuck up my right nostril. It wasn't the normal sort of boogers you would nonchalantly discard, but rather it was the flat kind which held on to your nasal hairs like a Jew assigned to Auschwitz. It just simply refused to come out. What made things worse was that it was strategically placed on the roof of the nasal canal, making it harder for me to remove it.

After some forceful and acrobatic digging, I finally removed the offending booger and left it on the floor of McDonalds SS15. The conversation turned to eating boogers when we were younger.

"Eh, you know arr? Earwax is bitter one."

I am liking Royal Gold alot more, really. I think we should start dating or something.

Old Photos (Nuffies) Pt. 2

2010-11-16T03:09:00.009+08:00

Look at the size of that ass! Mummy Goon and Doria (owner of said ass) went down to tapau mee sua, soul food that kept us going.

A picture of a prepaid berry. Guess the user!

I think by the time this photo was taken it Waffle and Carol's relationship were in the open already. See! Sit so close somemore!

Patrick put on his baju melayu and we would all head to a Halal place for lunch on Fridays. We would always go late because we had to wait for him to return...ahaha fuck you if you believed that! This particular incident saw him buying boxberries because he liked the flavour. It was a cute image.

Uhhh, this took me out of work for close to two weeks so I guess it fits in here hehee.

Doria (large rear in first pic) tapau-ed kolo mee for us when she went back. It was nice.

KY calling for the waiter during one of our many Friday Halal lunches at Shanghai 10.

Err wtf, Wobb-Wobb letting me trim his kalatai mou. "You gay shit!!" I used to yell that at him all the time. Sexual discrimination lawsuit coming my way T___T

Old Photos (Nuffies) Pt. 1

2010-11-16T02:13:00.027+08:00

Am supposed to be studying right now for my paper which starts in about 5 hours time, but fuck that.

Was digging through my cobweb encrusted *sneeze* camera folder on my phone and found a collection of memories, presented in the order they were taken. I'll start with the Nuffies first.

Hui Wen on one of the trips up from Singapore in Feb 09. She looks constipated. I just bought the phone the day she arrived and this was the 3rd picture I took.

One of Waffle's trips down to KL before he shifted here. I remember his relationship with Carol was hush hush at that point, so Carol chose to stay back at the office while the 3 of us went down for dinner.

One of Carol, where we went as judges for TGIF's Mardi Gras decoration contest. It was fun as we had free dinner and wrapped up the night with free (keyword ok?) drinks. The downside was that I was hit on by a gay man, which made me inch closer to Carol for some XX protection.

Andrea, who interned with us. This photo was posed, but if you click on it you'll see her taking out a bottle of Tabasco, because she's a Tabasco junkie like that.

Myself failing badly at the gangsta look. Went shopping at Sg. Wang with Hui Wen and Nic before the Maxis Music Bash.

Unrelated to work, but this was during a little break I took at Cameron Highlands, where Mummy Goon was incidentally there as well. Was supposed to drag her lazy ass up the mountain to look at the sunrise but because ~~she was lazy~~ her parents thought I looked liked a perverted fucker, so yeah. Well thankfully she didn't go up lah cos I wanted to miang her up there one wtf.

One of Penton sleeping. He used to be (secretly) the butt of our (Nic and myself) jokes because of his name. Penton Penton panti....oops. We later made things abit more open and I would call him things like 底褲 wtf

Breakfast with Nic before a morning meeting. Wahh like gahmen servant like that, eat before we work wtf. This was on the day before Carol's birthday, and we bought her a bra for her birthday. Here's my side of the story

After finishing the meeting with the client who owns a dingy rundown mall, Nic and myself were heading back to the car when we spotted this pasar malam-ish lingerie shop and the idea was hatched. The point where I got really embarrassed and decided to let Nic continue with the purchase was when he pointed out at the particular bra that we bought and told the sales girl "我要這個" (I want this one).

I went out and stood guard in case the client happened to walk past and saw these two horny fuckers buying bras. We later discussed this and wondered what would happen if the client said "I also like to play these kind of things" if he actually came across us mid-transaction.

Read up on what Carol had to say about it here. Go read it, I feel so mean on being reminded that I teased her mercilessly on buying flowers for herself to up her market value. I'm sorry Carol.
Total cost: RM4
Memories: Priceless lah even Mastercard can go fuck off

Mell being a total bimbo, the way we love her.

I don't know why were there cake, it must have been Tim's birthday or something?

Well, that's all for now. Time to hit the books.

What do I love about the Blackberry Torch 9800

2010-10-20T10:57:00.011+08:00

This is THE Blackberry Torch

And this is my mobile set up. A Sony Ericsson P1i, and an iPod Touch.

Looking at their combined features they aren't too bad. One has a physical keypad, which is helpful for typing, and a small touchscreen; while the other has a large(ish) screen, which is good for browsing in bed before I fall asleep at night.

Now, what if you were told that you could combine both of these, to get the best of both worlds?

Well there's a Blackberry Torch if you want to give the rubberband/velcro option a miss.

Why do I want a Blackberry Torch 9800 from Celcom?
Hardware
I have a (semi)smart phone, released in 2007, based on a dead OS (UIQ3) that nobody uses anymore.

The problem doesn't come with connectivity, but rather, the lack of apps that I can use on this platform.

Twitter, check. But it uses Fring so I cannot get my mentions/DM stream.
Foursquare? On UIQ3? Haahaa abit funny hor?
Facebook will probably crash on this little thing. Either that or I won't see any pictures.

It does come email, but I've been using this phone for close to 2 years and I've yet to successfully get it to work. As far as smartphones go, mine's in the dumbphone territory, sans the no-crash guarantees.***
The iPod Touch has lots more compared to my phone, but lacks a physical keypad (try typing on glass, its honestly quite annoying), and proper connectivity. Try searching for a free WiFi channel to hook on to each time you're out.

Not having a camera annoys me too.

The BB Torch sorts all the earlier mentioned problems out.

BBM, so I get to sext people like gRobb teehee without anyone knowing because its all encrypted!

Endorsement
I never looked very highly upon past US presidents, but Obama has this certain draw to him.

PacMac

He uses a Mac, he's black, he's cool... and he refused to give up his Blackberry for this ugly piece of thing the Secret Service calls a phone.

No wonder why the previous presidents were technologically inept, because they did not want to be seen in public with this ugly thing! Seriously I'll rather use a public phone than to carry this thing around with me.

Oops, because presidents do leave their phones on their laps too.

Now, if I managed to lay my hands on the Blackberry Torch 9800, I can BBM Obama and tell him "yo bebeh sorry can't make it for dinner tonight. see you tmrw cool?"

Now, if this doesn't convince you that you need a BB, I don't know what else will. He doesn't want to give it up!!

Data & connectivity
One of the things preventing me from moving to a Blackberry is the insane charges my current carrier (I'm on a family plan here) would impose upon me for its BIS services.

Celcom Exec 50 starts from RM50 (as the name suggests). Its fairly easy in terms of its calculations because all calls are at 15cents/min. No more worrying about calling a friend on another carrier costing you more, and fretting until your phone bill comes along at the end of the month.

Of course, the more you use the better rates you get. It sounds vanilla and all, but considering the low 15cents you are already paying, a further 30% off does sweeten the deal alot more.

Free 1 month's broadband access with every sign up. Again, this kills the WiFi search problem.

Now Celcom & Nuffnang, gimme my BB Torch so I can be one of the Crackberry users out there. Thanks love you.

You can also pre-register for the BB Torch here

Lorong Selamat CKT

2010-09-27T00:31:00.005+08:00

I was tempted to start this post by saying "The Lorong Selamat char koay teow stall that needs no introduction", intending very well not to introduce anything but then I realised that I would probably have to introduce the Underling who stands beside the Overlord who does the actual frying.

This brings me to something slightly off topic here. Why does everyone write so-and-so needs no introduction, perhaps as a passe way of spicing up press releases, before proceeding to introduce that said so-and-so. Not sien one meh? In all seriousness, if it doesn't need introduction you won't be writing about it. Information asymmetry yo.***

I was in Penang over the weekend visiting Michelle with a couple of friends, and we vowed to have a go at cafe Heng Huat which was a subject of a call-to-boycott (seriously, fuck you). We arrived about 1030 in the morning on Saturday to an empty shop and placed our order (5 big, 3 medium for 6 people) with the tanned underling who stands beside Red-Hat helping her fry. Being the only person who speaks reasonably fluent Chinese, the ordering was left to me and I was the only point of contact with Underling.

Underling is the one in black in the background. Regulars would probably recognise her.

She later asked me: 你的朋友，个个都不会讲华语？ (Your friends, none of them can speak Chinese?)
H: 只有我一个人读堂书 (I'm the only Chinese educated one here.)
U: *pointing at my chick friend* “她很美哦!" (She's very pretty.)
H: 美啊？韩国来得，你要吗？（PRetty hor? She's from Korea, you want arr?)
U: Aiyerr 女子我不要！ (Aiyerr, girls I don't want)

A friend observed her reaction as being knee-jerk in nature. Perhaps she's not entirely accustomed to cracking lesbian jokes.

Now, does anyone know if she's related to the Overlord or is she just a worker or something? Her proximity to overlord (thus potentially enabling some scrubbing of knowledge) indicates that she MIGHT be related.

Nah, my Gook friend, 美吗？你要吗？

***
Amongst the more memorable meals of the 2d1n trip include 芽菜鸡 in Ipoh, double char koay teow and assam laksa, some cendol and some other food not worthy of my mentioning.

We also tapau-ed 28 packets of laksa, of which 14 packets were allocated for consumption in this glorified household.

1 billion smackers.

2010-05-02T21:07:00.002+08:00

I'm doing a research on PKFZ and how did the cost of developing a port escalate from RM1.9b to RM4.9b, and I started wondering what would I actually do if I had a billion bucks in my pocket.

Well the thing is that, I had no idea how much one billion is prior to actually writing it down and seeing 9 zeros.

This is one billion for you. 1,000,000,000. To put things in perspective, one billion would actually get you 113,351 17" Macbook Pros.

Now on to the list, we'll start of with the 'alot makes more' bit of things first.

Investments
1. Set up a really high end cybercafe that aims to reach out to the non ah-beng crowds. Think English speaking counter staff heh. This should not cost me more than a million.

2. Buy some property. I'll hire an agent to do it for me.

3. Donate a little to all previous schools that I was in. This, of course depends on the demographics in the school. ahbeng ≠ money.

4. Do something about the local political scene. I'll probably hire someone like @timothyteoh to sort that out for me.

5. Buy over the majority of Malaysia's largest English daily, The Star and ensure it is free from political bias. Ad revenues bebeh.

6. Buy a hospital

7. Start a bus company, a timely bus company. My buses will be...pink!

8. Start a taxi company. An honest taxi company. Pink taxis!

9. Start a cinema.

On to the hedonistics!
1. Lots of fast cars. Won't be buying things like Ferraris because... Well you see, a Ferrari's great but people love it because its a Ferrari, not because of an in depth appreciation of the technicalities and the passion behind the brand.

For this a couple of cheap Porsches, Lotuses would suffice.

2. Education. No point buying fast cars when you don't know how to drive them.

3. Education, 2. Finish up my degree.

4. Start an MME team, and slowly progress up the ranks if we make it.

5. Houses?

6. Driver for the Bentley I have not spoken of yet.

7. Bentley.

You know what? At the end of the day, with that one billion in my hands, I'll just suffer from delusions of grandeur and I won't abide by this list.

Back to work now. Pray that the money will be in the bank when I wake up tomorrow wtf.

Girl Don't Look Like Girl

2010-03-15T15:58:00.002+08:00

Honestly, I'm a damn mean fuck you see.

Every so often when I'm driving around with @amcheong I'll pass a snide remark, something along the lines of "Wahhhh so fat the motorbike can carry arr?"

Other remarks may run along the line of "If I run my own business next time I won't hire fat people."

Hehe.***
I recently brought it to an all new level.

I had a very mean conversation with @zhisheng_chow and @lyfedancer. Here's what happened. He rang me up while I was in class to pass me some glorious Ipoh heong peng and got me to excuse myself.

I collected the biscuits and started ranting about some girl in my class who don't look like a girl. I further elaborated to the point where they both wanted to have a look at the said girls.

"Nah, she sits behind me, grey shirt one. Go see!"

They followed me as I walked to class and got their fill of eye candy.

"So how? Pass mou? Would you stim stim looking at her? I know her name too if you wnt it wtf. Don't ask me to get number later she salah faham when the first ever guy asks for her number wtf. Ugghhh"

"Stim mau cabut. haha you can have them!"

"hmmm imagine waking up and seeing her. Puke arrh mahai wtf. Then your kids look like her *shudder shudder*

Fuck we're damn mean arrrgghhh ahahhahahahahahaha"

"What the fark."

"I am awesome."***
Fuck lah one day I'm so going to get it. My kids will be fat ah bengs with bad English who will probably turn out gay, they will also drive along in locally produced Milo tins with loud exhaust pipes, who will also retire to some small town like Sekinchan or Kuala Pilah or Sabak Bernam.

hehe.

Accident - Waja vs. Kenari

2009-11-29T00:33:00.006+08:00

So hello, if you follow me on Twitter you'll probably knew that I got into an accident about a week back, my third this year. Hat trick wtf.

So this is what happened. I was driving The Borrowed Kenari (TBK) along Jln. Yong Shook Lin (MPPJ situ) when this car in front of my came to an abrupt halt. I stopped in time but the Waja behind me rear ended me.

Going by @amcheong's observations, there was a black car that was probably working in tandem with a tow truck guy which braked abruptly. Tow truck guys appeared immediately on the scene as they were parked on one of the smaller service roads waiting for us to come out.

I should have told him "Wah you manyak cepat sampai:-
a) mata ada banyak!"
b) Kaki banyak panjang.
c) Sangat baik hati.
d) Kerja sangat kuat isteri tentu suka.
e) Banyak pandai rancang kemalangan.

We (the other party and myself) insisted that we would be working with our own tow truck guys. Guy was pretty persistent and stood there till Waja Lady's tow truck actually came to drag her car away, while I drove to the police station to get things sorted out.

Went home to realise that my back and head were aching like a mofo.

Some photos to show you guys.

Both cars also 3 digits so no Toto for us T___T

Something I also just realised is that whenever an accident happens, the other party usually comes out of the car screaming like a rape case just took place. Look, nobody wants an accident to happen.

The only time you ought to shout the fuck out of someone is when the other person is speeding in a residential area/car park/driving recklessly.

Luckily it wasn't my nice little SX8 (which I haven't written about yet) that the girl ran into otherwise I would have screamed murder at her heehee wtf. Poor girl was shivering at the ordeal.

Endnote: Drove a W209 CLK 200 today. Was nice and sweet, with my only major complain being that the shift buttons are mounted like a rocker switch not unlike your typical power window buttons.

打磟

2009-10-21T23:44:00.004+08:00

打磟 (daa luk, wheel spin): To spin the driving wheels on one's vehicle via its power plant, either accidentally or deliberately.

The resulting noise would be a squeal of tyres, with some dissipation of white smoke. Prolonged 打磟s will result in a thick cloud of smoke surrounding / trailing the driving wheel and a strong rubbery stench.

Also worthy to note is a trail which usually marks the path of the slipped driving wheel(s).

Typical ah beng¹ reaction:

1. 啝,打磟哦!! (wo, daa luk o!)

Wow! Wheel spin!!

This usually follows a quick squeal which the speaker overhears, while sipping Milo Dinosaur at the local mamak.

2. 哇妈閪²打磟哦! (wa ma hai daa luk o!)

Wah your mom's vagina (does not necessary indicate offense, but merely as a condiment to up the level of vulgarity of the sentence) a wheel spin!

This follows a rather prolonged squeal which the speaker overhears, while sipping Milo Dinosaur at the local mamak.

3. 哇吊你老母的臭閪，看到吗？打磟到几烂多烟(wah diu lei lou mou keh chao hai, kin dou mou? daa luk dou kei lan doh yin!)

Wah fuck your mother's pungent vagina, did you see that? That wheel spin generated a dick load of smoke!

One of the less common things in life. At point of composing this article, the author has yet to witnessed an actual exclamation. However, an in depth understanding of French allows him to extrapolate the swear graph and produce accurate simulations.

Notes:
1. An ah beng typically refers to an uncultured, Chinese youth with Far East fashion tastes. ah bengs are stereotypically rude and unpleasant characters. cf lala: A colloquial reference to any Chinese youth whose fashion tastes are very much inline with those of the Far East. lalas are possibly nice individuals.

2. A reliable online dictionary indicates 2 entries for 'vagina', with the first being ’肹‘ and the second being ’閪‘. The author chose the latter as ‘西’ seems to carry the 'ai' intonation better. In other words, he does not know how to read the first one.

Today's lesson was brought to you by Tan Yee Hou.

Ong Yi Ching

2009-10-07T01:03:00.003+08:00

This is Yi Ching, 17y/o (ooo!), 5'3" and fucking funny.

I told her that the bloggers would be put 4 to a room as we would be bunking them in budget hotels, 4 to a room.

Click to embiggen.

Kids nowadays arr, so young learn these kind of things already tsk tsk tsk.

Gowwei

2009-09-13T23:03:00.002+08:00

I was quite hoping that she would actually not go away so I could have more to say.

Mac Boost

2009-08-31T01:45:00.004+08:00

Ran some apps the other day which boosted the speed of my com significantly. While they were hell to run (computer basically ground to a halt), the end results are simply marvelous.

*endorses*

I will run them down in the order of ease-of-use, which also dictates how well does it work for your computer.

iStat Pro

An add on to your Dashboard that enables you to monitor certain parameters like CPU, memory and disk usage, network speeds and temperature of various components.

Other important functions would include fan speed and processes. Useful for monitoring unnecessary apps; though its something you can do via Activity Monitor, it just takes effort to open another program just to monitor your 'puter.

iStat Pro, completely FOC.

Fan Control (iMac version

iStat Pro indicated that an idling CPU had a steady core temp of 56˚C (room temperature dependant) with a fan speed of 1998rpm.

While this was sufficient for normal use, it tended to create abit of discomfort as the heat transfers itself to the entire chassis, which is also where I place my palms on.

I downloaded Fan Control, which was an add on to System Preferences.

Linear graph to control your fan speeds.

My uneducated guesses tell me that the graph should taper off gently at the top as the efficiency of heat transfer increases with the increase of temperature differences; though I'm slightly inclined to believe that the same would apply to the heatsink - chassis relationship.

Core temperature is 48˚C (earlier 56˚C) while the fan is running at 2106rpm (1998rpm). I would definitely expect a drop in battery performance but the palm rests are alot more comfortable now, besides I'm on AC power most of the time except when I'm out for meetings which rarely last anything more than 2 hours.

Xslimmer

~~Perfect for the fat ladies!~~

I'm unsure if this is a placebo effect but I noticed that after running Xslimmer, the computer seems to boot up alot faster. Its a pity I did not run pre- and post modification tests.

A little bit of background on this whole new thing.

Macs have traditionally been running on Power PCs (I used to own an iBook G4), and only recently were the new Intel Macs taking over the scene.

Programs were (and still are) written to run both off PPC and Intel processes, both of them requiring different kind of codings. These programs are written with universal codings.

Unfortunately, running Universal means you have alot of junk in your HDD.

What Xslimmer serves to do is to strip of whatever unnecessary codings and languages a particular App has stored in its codes. Eg: Your name is !xobile so it only retains the African language in your apps for menus etc.

Do take care if you're running Xslimmer as it is known that App could potentially be screwed so it is best practice to back those apps up. I had some problem playing videos on VLC player.

Savings of 2.45GB. Think of it as 2.45GB of codes less to sift through. Click to embiggen.

Unfortunately, good things don't come for free and a small investment is required. Nothing big and nothing I won't fork money out for but with me being an innovative person, I now have a cracked version here.

Contact me for a copy if you wish to.***
I am a little disappointed that I forgot to run benchmark tests (yeah I could have googled an App for this) for pre- and post clean up, I am definitely happy as this gives you real world performance/comfort as opposed to just burning chips in a lab environment.

This definitely beats being just a measure-bator.

Another thing that I am on right now is to read up on Apple scripts whoot

Toothpaste

2009-08-24T11:44:00.000+08:00

This was what I used to do when I woke up last time.

1. Drink water
2. Eat breakfast
3. Shower
4. Brush teeth

Drinking water serves to give me my morning shot of liquids, and also clear my mouth of whatever horrid tastes before consuming my breakfast.***
Things have changed a little nowadays since my room's on the 2nd floor and it'll be a little bit troublesome to eat before coming up for my shower so this is what I do now.

1. Shower
2. Brush my teeth
3. Eat breakfast

Unfortunately, having brush my teeth before eating breakfast kinda fucks up the taste of everything so I tend to brush my teeth in the shower, finishing up with a high pressure spray into my mouth to clear up the residual flavours.

***
Sometimes it just happens that you get a piece of toothpaste doesn't disintegrate and comes out in a small chunk along with the foam that the other bits have become.

Earlier this week while I was going through my teeth brushing procedure, I spat out the foam and proceeded with gargling my mouth... and I felt a sting on my peewee.

Oh noes a stray piece of toothpaste landed on it and the mint burned through my sensitive nether regions.

Not fun, I'm alot more careful now heehee.

Arg Trauma!!!

2009-08-21T13:20:00.004+08:00

Here are somethings that make some people scream.

1. Opening the door to see a guy with a cocktail tail heehee, and opening your fridge to find out that you have to share beer with your colleagues.

I'm the big sohai there heh.

2. Seeing a cockroach fly close to me:

Damn I fucking hate cockroaches and I especially hate it when they fly.

3. Seeing budding man boobies.

I was on company business in Lowyat when I passed through Sg. Wang and terserempak with this tall Malay guy.

It wasn't tall and spindly, but rather tall and well built in a manner that he could have beaten the shit out of me if he wanted to.

It wasn't particularly well done up. Face was devoid of make up and its hair looked like it hurriedly brushed its hair just to get pass the regulations.

It was wearing a button up V-neck cardigan, tight jeans, wedges and sported 2 budding work-in-progress boobs.

Left: Normal boob; Right: WIP boob.

And the nipples stood out proudly in the chill of Sg. Wang's aircon.

Arrgghhhh. Fucking ah-kuas.

Sebastian's Voodoo

2009-07-26T21:38:00.000+08:00

Sebastian's Voodoo from Joaquin Baldwin on Vimeo.

Good short. I always like shorts, even better if they're hot!

Accident Recollection

2009-07-26T01:28:00.002+08:00

This was written a couple of days ago. Suitable edits have been made as some things are clarified.

Thanks everyone for the enquiries. In case I miss out on replying anyone, I'm fine here. Not.... well, not dead.

~~I'm still wondering how will the girlfriend take this bit of news. I'll be seeing her in about 20 hours, and as much as an ass kicking I would probably get from her, I still want a hug now! : (~~ She wasn't happy***
Allow me to briefly describe the events from that night, so that I can refer this link to anyone who asks as well.

What happened was that we were post yam cha, going about 70-80 along this road. Admittedly it was a little faster than usual on a small road.

Click for fullsize.

At the point where the road was marked with the green line (not the green cross), a cat ran out from the right into my path. Car was already turning into the corner and I prodded the brakes quite heavily and simultaneously applying a little more lock, resulting in a terrible oversteer which I couldn't catch. Car started to point into the corner and I went full throttle while counter steering(in an attempt to catch the oversteer; in an oversteer always go full throttle, NEVER brake) but it was too late as the car was pointing at about 75-90˚, perpendicular to the direction of travel already.

Funny thing was that at this point the thought going through my head was 'oh shit need to buy new bumper'

Front lip clipped the curb (about 6 inches high), ~~resulting in the car flipping,~~ landing on the driver's side A-pillar, resulting in a deformation of the car's structure. (Further inspection of the car revealed that the car perhaps flipped not as a result of contact with the said curb, but because of friction from my rather grippy Yokohamas.)

Car continued spinning another 180', coming to a stop pointing towards the little road where the red 'x' is. Path where it was dragged is the red line. Estimates based on scattering of glass shards.

Front windows were shattered and my head was dragged along the road a little, resulting in the multiple lacerations you all see.

Graphic image. Click to view

Crawled out of the car from the passenger's side, only to have my friend run in to turn off the engine which I previously did not.

Was bleeding from the head and I was advised to sit down but I foolishly went about picking up my possessions which were thrown out of the car.

Was very conscious and I knew I wasn't damaged in the brain as I had thoughts such as "ATM card cannot leave behind, credit card also. Radio they might steal but not worth the risk going in"

Ran some logic tests, counting up and down from 10, remembering the dates, important people et cetera.

I decided to sit around abit to ensure that things were being sorted out. Some tow truck people came and asked me to tow, saying that they're panel approved people. I signed it but mentioned that they can only tow it under the condition that they are panel.

A lady offered to send me to the hospital, funny thing was that she's in the media industry, and she knows Robb and Nick! Took the longest drive ever and got admitted.

Removed some glass fragments from my head, did a CT and X-Ray scan and found that there were about 6 more pieces in the head which required a surgery. Checked in and couldn't sleep as I kept having flashbacks about the accident. Asked for a sedative which was very helpful : )

Had a surgery the next morning. Was injected with what I presume is Propofol as the anesthetic. Interesting thing was that I could feel it going up my arm as it was cold, but was groggy before the whole syringe was emptied. Now I know what do we use to kidnap people heh.

Recalled waking up and wanting to vomit, tried to get off the operating table but the doctor pushed me back down.

Went to the police station to make a report. I will have to go to court to sort this out, and I stand to lose my license.

My finances are now really really fucked. Need a sugar daddy here : (

I still think cats are cute.

Gravity

2009-07-23T18:05:00.005+08:00

Went to look at the car, and then only did I realise the gravity of the situation.

I could have been killed, I could have killed my friend. Mom said that I must have been really kind and that is why I managed to come out relatively unscath.

Front view. Note collapsed driver's side A-Pillar

Rear view - Roof crumpled

Rear quarter view. Rear right door could be opened though. It is a good indication of a car's structural strength when the doors can still be opened after a major accident.

Note collapsed A-Pillar. It looks bad, but taking into consideration that the whole car's weight landed on the pillar, I'm lucky to be here blogging this now.

That's Kenneth, who was in the car with me at the time of the accident. He came out with some light scratches.

Good and economical engine : (

Asked for the car to be written off. I will miss it.

I broke down at this point. : (

2009-07-22T10:41:00.003+08:00

Been getting quite abit of enquiries about my condition, thank you. I'm fine, and I won't be dying anytime soon.

In fact I'm quite anxious waiting for tomorrow because I am dead bored here.

Amongst the weirder conversations would be these:

Hospitalised

2009-07-21T21:54:00.005+08:00

Hello I am here blogging from Damansara Specialist Hospital.

Flipped my car last night and here I am. Got a slight head wound when my windscreen broke and I got dragged over the road abit.

I'm fine because of my seatbelt, so always wear your seatbelt. Put it on before your car moves and only take it off after you stop your car; NOT WHEN YOU ARE TURNING INTO THE ROAD IN FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE.

Anyway here's a picture of my head for you guys.

According to the lady who sent me to the hospital (she's in the same industry BTW!!) this year is a bad year for me, makes sense since I just had an accident less than a month ago.

Amcheong is so going to kill me : ( She doesn't know yet.

Roller Coasters

2009-07-15T16:09:00.004+08:00

Was walking around with a client observing roller coasters when she offered me a free ride.

I declined politely with a sheepish smile, she laughed at me.

Not cool man, not cool.

My friend used to always scold me, saying "you drive like that but you're afraid of roller coasters."

pfft.

Still busy, 10 meetings this week omg.

First of a Kind

2009-07-06T09:33:00.002+08:00

Spotted: A Prepaid Berry User

Happy Monday everyone. Had 2 packets of really hot nasi lemak and I feel a little queasy now.

Cold and Sorethroat

2009-06-24T10:23:00.005+08:00

So I actually have a cold and sore throat at the moment. While I'm not all panicky, the risk of having caught the Selesema Babi is still pretty high and its being locked up in my room is not something I would really want to go through.

Being the idiot who makes a joke out of everything, I told my brother that by the time he's reading this (MSN convo) I would be dead and it is my wishes that my photographic equipment be liquidated and the monies invested in relevant securities.

The assets are then allowed to snowball into a sizeable sum, at that point it would be allowed to snowball even further to a scale where I can actually (posthumously) tie up entire economies.

"You have a fetish for macroeconomic-scale bondage! I tell mummy!"

"Tell lah!"

"Clearly that threat is not working"

"Actually it is but I am playing poker with you.

"I don't want to play poker with you. Its improper."

"wtf"***
I am actually shivering at the moment, its not good.

This is awesum stuff

2009-06-01T14:29:00.007+08:00

So my tyres were really bald and I needed to get them changed, and the brother wisely came along and prodded me in the right way.

Tada!!

Woke up and left at 630 in the morning, guided by the great GPS, I got there a little past 845 (I like to drive slow)

Was one of the earlier ones into the track and was enjoying the clear track, building up the momentum. Found out from videos that my lap time's in the region of 59s.

Experienced my first off track moment as my tail started sliding. Counter-steered too aggressively and the car did a 180˚. Took Jeremy along with me when he tried to avoid me. Ate some grass along the way.

Sorry mate.

Video is NOT where I spun. I only did it once.

This is the result of my little jaunt. I suspect the tyre threads separated separated easily from the belt due to the age of the tyre. Tyres are something like DOTxx03

The insides represent my pre-track tyre conditions; while the outside, well go figure. A large proportion of the damage can be attributed to the very few times where I locked my tyres. In spite of my greater than usual braking skillz, I managed to lock it a few times; and I found it tremendously difficult to unlock them.

TK***
Drove home on my metal belts and got my tyres changed.

I have new tyres whee.

Carol Koh

2009-05-27T11:24:00.003+08:00

Carol's one of the funnier Nuffies around. While her humour is not brash and crude like Pinky, she still pulls off something of her own class.

This is me, annoying the shit out of her while...I was shitting.

2 punnies!

Toiletries Shopping

2009-05-21T16:33:00.010+08:00

Nicholas called me an aunty yesterday for what I discussing what I am about to write about.***

I was once sending someone home when I mentioned some fuel optimising strategies.

Take the below illustrated route for example, and my aim is to head from point A to B.

I described the advantages of taking route 1 over route 2

Route 1 has 3 braking/acceleration points, as opposed to Route 2 which has only 1 braking/acceleration point. This should save a fair bit of $$$ over time; and to top that off I have the right of way as I pass by the last junction before Point B.

Route 2

Downside is that I would need a stop at the traffic lights, but that is acceptable as the waiting time is negligible (only if you are familar with the location).

Said associate asked me why am I so calculative. Its not being calculative, its called stretching your dollar.***

My toothpaste and bar soap supplies were running low at home so I dropped by Cold Storage to resupply my stockpile.

In case some of you think I am being penny wise pound foolish by shopping at Cold Storage, I went there because I was in the area (travelling to Tesco = time + petrol; both of which are money)

Here are some general rules of purchasing most goods.

1. Big is cheap

1 tube of Darlie toothpaste, 250g costs me RM8.59, while a smaller one at 175g costs me RM6.59 (est).

Cost per volume is lower with larger packages.

2. Check for freebies

Purchased a packet of Dettol soap (found out that its abit too drying FML) in a 'Buy 3 Free 1' shrink wrap.

That's 25% off per bar; or a 33% gain. These items are very often displayed side by side with similar products with no attached freebies. Either item could be expired promotions, but are still available for sale as it is more cost effective to liquidate them rather than to repackage.

3. There are exceptions to rule #1.
Sometimes its good to take your calculator out.

1 bottle of Sunsilk 375ml costs RM12.99 (or RM12.69, I forgot), while a 700ml bottle costs RM26.99; bringing their cost per volume to RM34.64/litre RM38.55/litre respectively.

The upside was that the larger bottle had a pump, but pumps are a waste because we tend to squish too much out anyway. YOU ARE PAYING FOR THE FUCKING PUMP!

I went back to the office feeling better that I saved a few ringgit, especially with the shampoo.

For brainless stingeing, Carrefour often displays the cost per volume/weight information on their rack labels.

4. Recycle
Not exactly related to shopping but a habit that we all should have.

I tend to wear my soap down to really thin slices before getting a new one, and I usually stick it onto the newer bar.

If you don't stick it on you'll probably throw it away anyway right?***

Now on to something that is REALLY stingy but serves no achievements.

This is how I usually fill up my petrol. I'll wait till the tank is really really empty before I fill it up. I'll pass my RM70.00 and my Bonuslink, and tell the nice lady (or the ugly guy) at the counter and say "Pam tigabelas (or whatever), penuh thankyou"

I'll bear in mind the rounding adjectives and fill my car with that extra 2 cents (i.e. RM63.02, today's fill) to stinge on that bloody 2 cents.

Really serves no purpose but I do it just for my own satisfaction.

Rounding figures rock!

Coming soon: ah beng fuel saving techniques.

Horny Bastard

2009-05-15T19:36:00.003+08:00

The Bitch is back from Australia. Met up with her for lunch a couple of weeks ago and she's still the same.

Cheeky Bugger

2009-05-10T02:01:00.004+08:00

Anyone familiar with the roads of KL will know that the road beside Phoenix Plaza at Cheras is undergoing some form of road widening / construction / misc. project, and is in a terrible state, with abrupt elevation and direction changes.

Throw in bad patches of repairs into the mix and what could potentially happen is WRC-style jumps, or a badass accident.

So I was driving along that stretch and being the impatient driver I was, I attempted an overtaking maneuver of dubious legality, but pulled out last minute, stomping on the brakes (threshold of course; Yee Hou NEVER locks his tyres) to pull up a little over a metre behind the car in front of me.

"Hoi ~~cheebye~~ isn't that abit dangerous?" my friend yells at me. "Luckily your brakes are good"

I drop her home, relatively disheveled from the shock I gave her over the little stunt.

"Don't drive so fast ok?" I grunt.
"You let me know when you're home ok?" I grunt again.
"Drive carefully arr!!" "hnnggkkk"

A smile spreads over my face. "Actually what you should have said was 'luckily your braking skills are good' instead of 'luckily your brakes are good' heehee."

Spotted

2009-05-07T18:01:00.003+08:00

Spotted a Lotus Esprit, rare indeed; while Elises are more common, I would prefer that to the heavy cumbersome Esprit.

Edited post title.

Malaysian Government Trained Assassin

2009-04-21T18:28:00.010+08:00

Today, I went with Team Alpha leader Shiny Snake on a mission to silence a mark.

Before we got to the venue we decided to have some half boiled eggs and Milo-O 冰。

Best-nye Milo 冰 on government time. Can claim somemore!

I later went to the toilet to get the gun out of the cistern tank, but it was tied down. 您老媽的臭。。。 I'm one of the very few who swears colourfully in Cantonese.

Malaysian Intelligence FTW!!

Nevermind lah, let the next person take care of it.

So back to the mamak we went to, before proceeding to the LZ (cold, of course) to pick up the package.

p/s: I realised that it could be Malaysian trained government assassin as well wtf; I also realised that '您老媽' doesn't seem too right, '你老媽' would be more appropriate.

Camerons Trip

2009-04-12T17:49:00.005+08:00

Just got home about 2 hours ago.

Wicked good trip, perfect for unwinding all the cranky springs in my bottom.

Drove up late Friday afternoon alone, as my friends went ahead earlier. The Good Thing about driving alone was that I didn't have to worry about anyone getting car sick. Heel-and-toe, balance throttle, WOT at apex.

The shitty part was that it started raining halfway up the mountain and since I didn't want to die I slowed down a little. I slowed down further more halfway as the fog was just terrible.

Took me about 1.5 hours to reach Tanah Rata from Simpang Pulai, by then I was quite tired wet and hungry.

Woke up the next day at freaking 545am to catch the sunrise at Gunung Brinchang, which is the highest point of the whole mountain. Damn, it was worth the early rise and the chill. The second morning's (Sunday) sunrise was even more awesome because we didn't have to wake up.

Proceeded to Mt. Irau trail for a hike. I initially thought it would be normal soil but it turned out that the whole trail was mud and peat FTS I fucking hate mud. Take a look at this, and picture 4 hours of this shit. I avoided stepping into mud only with a combination of steady feet, awesome balance, luck and some internal energy. My feet were the cleanest.

I'm not going back there again.

But quite fun lah, and I love tree roots. It was also a very technologically advanced trip as I was on MSN the whole time wtf.

FYI, Jo's doing some research, with some sites in the trail. He seems to relish the mud though.

Hello, guess who did I bump into up there.

KY, which one you want?

Took the Tanah Rata route home, but traffic was too heavy to enjoy the drive.

The rest of you, your absence was not unnoticed nor missed.

Soul Food

2009-03-25T23:15:00.001+08:00

Soul food.

Oh nom nom nom.

∆ Mind

2009-03-22T00:01:00.001+08:00

Of late I surprise myself by reflecting on some of the recent changes in my life, after answering two questions on a friend's blog.

I surprise myself as to how quickly I change; for the better, just to conform to circumstances.

The following has also changed: The people I hang out with, the people I care for; because...well, I'll answer this as politically correct as I can: I love all of you.

I also surprise myself with my ability to push myself pretty hard; because I used to be a lazy bum.

Equal amount of credit to how easily I accept these changes; because I used to be stubborn, non-conforming and never accepting changes.

I compensate for all the difficult times by indulging in a movie each Saturday; good movies are damn hard to find nowadays fuck you film makers.

I hate the recent iteration of Facebook though.

The Great Angpow Review

2009-02-23T01:22:00.015+08:00

I have never the kind of person who got to brag about how much I've gotten from my angpow haul, simply because my yearly revenues were just on par with the average joe; but this doesn't stop me from writing a nice post about this year's haul : )

Admittedly this year's revenue was quite an all time high in spite of the anticipated recession, however this is not the factor which motivated me to write this post.

Cheeserland.com

At last count, I've gotten about RM1050 from a total of 33 packets, which comes up to an average of RM31.81 per packet. The larger chunk of the pie came from my parents, a couple of aunts and Nuffnang to come up to [undisclosed amount].

Surprisingly, I'm seeing more red notes compared to last year. Even the number of RM1s & 5s received seem to have dropped dramatically. Perhaps people are taking inflation into account, or the Malaysian economy has very low correlation to the global economic scene, or simply because people are understanding that spending money increases market liquidity.

This trait seems to be consistent in all packets received from relatives and family members; with the exception of my grandmother who has been traditionally giving RM6, of which the figure's significance I am unsure of.
***
I have been always the kind who would pay attention to the design of the packets and I noticed an increase in packets which are difficult to acquire, with sufficient attention paid to the details and design of the packet itself.

From my parents, I got a matching pair of dark red packets from Citibank Private Banking; I also got another matching pair from my cousin and his spouse from Standard Chartered Private Bank. Some sources indicate that private banks are only for individuals with high nett worth (asset - liabilities; not just plainly assets). Should these packets have been acquired from the givers' respective bank officers, it would be a Good Thing™

The other two packets falling within the class of having desirable designs would be from UEM Renong and McDonalds.

Both packets are printed on a peach background, with very subtle hues indicating that it is actually the Chinese New Year. While the McDonald's packet (surprising considering the nature of their business is all focused on volume) has been seen last year, it still retains a spot in me. The reverse side of the packet from UEM Renong is of similar hue as the 2 former packets.

The paper on which the four aforementioned designs are printed on are of high mass to surface area ratio, with unconventional matte finishing and semi-matte gold print. This exudes an aura of class not existant in many other packets distributed by lesser companies, which are usually printed with minimal costs in mind.
***
Local companies tend to be rather overenthusiastic in their designs of the packets and, well...honestly many of these packets just lack class either by the sheer gloss of their paper, or simply by carrying designs which we pretentious cultured people would deem as being very ah beng or kampung.

CW from left: recycled rat angpow, Private Standard Chartered vs. Standard Standard Chartered (heeeheee), crumpled CIMB due to uneven distribution of forces along the plane, out of fashion square packets.

One of most distastefully done packets would be one from a church which an uncle of mine attends. It flushes in with the surface of my aluminium notebook, making it silver which is as good as white. While the front has touches of distastefully reflective gold, the text at the back are written in black. Hardly fitting as a Chinese New Year element.

At the risk of sounding like I have something against churches, the said church should look into retrenching their design team with the looming economic uncertainties. What good would it do your revenues if your congregations' pockets are empty? Or if the size of your congregation reduces owing to the unprosperous / unhealthy colour of the packet.

There is actually a story behind this packet, I'll share it with you some other time.
***
One final trait noticed amongst packets in recent years are that printers are shying away from using traditional self adhesive packets. While this might be more of a hassle for the person wrapping the packets, it could be an environmentally friendly move to save penguins. For that I laud their initiatives because penguins fucking rock!

While I cannot cite any sources for variations in cost of production, using slits as opposed to adhesive seals exude an elegance which seems to marginally improve the ratings of the packets produced by local companies.
***
One difference between this particular Chinese New Year and the ones of the past is that, I have started working and thus have started distributing angpows to my parents, brothers and grandparents.

Nuffie packet FTW!

Big boy already!!!

Moo

2009-01-25T13:55:00.001+08:00

For tonight is when the gluttony starts.

恭喜發財，新年快樂！

Hihi ^^

2009-01-16T12:06:00.007+08:00

Oh haiz iz me on ur interwebs stealing ur bandwiffs.

Today is a good day for me because the sun is shining and the birds are chirping so kiutttttt ^^

wtf, srsly.

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 ahhh so cute!!

With my face cuter kan??

DiGi duck horr conflict of interest because this Dell thingie ermm whatmachacallit is from Maxis wtf.

Got cute bag somemore!!

CSC style wtf.

Old T-shirt: Hand-me-downs from cousin
Skirt: White towel stolen from hotel wtf.
Bag: Funky Golla stuff yo

I still love my Mac more. Macs FTW all you tetingkaps bow down to me now for I am your king.

Just gotta love my bug-eyed sunnies keeps my eyes cool when the going gets tough.

Aaaahhhh bimbo buddiesssss <3

Fuck I'm so stupid.

One less friend

2008-11-30T17:34:00.002+08:00

Bye, its been nice having you around for the past 10 years.

The cycle of life continues.

:'(

And today's supposed to stay good; guess my weeks starts on Mondays.

Because all things good are free

2008-11-20T18:28:00.002+08:00

Time to put some meat on those bones now.

Go forth and embiggen!!

Short Holiday

2008-09-29T01:02:00.003+08:00

On a short holiday with my friends, staying over at the KL Plaza apartments but its a story for another day.

I just got home from dinner with a couple of bloggers and when I was going up into the apartment, I saw a couple of black guys with a bunch of girls, obviously local.

Chaperoning them is an old uncle, who looks like every other guys' uncle. Fuck, he could even pass off as one of my balding uncles.

They huddled together in the lift together and the uncle spoke up "Sir you pay me now ok?" A slight pause followed by "What's your room? C193? Never mind I follow you up."***There were 3 girls; 2 of them butt ugly, the other one barely passable.

Ugh, yucks.

Faster, someone call polis

Male Bonding

2008-09-06T13:40:00.004+08:00

It was one of those days where nothing went wrong, but you feel as though everything went wrong. A dark cloud hung over my head, periodically striking me with little discharges of electrons, contributing towards a slight throbbing in my head.

Oh fuck, I just hate Fridays. Perhaps its the impending weekend; I hate weekends, its so boring. Like any other weekend, I occupy myself pecking away at the computer, which I already see 8 hours a day; perhaps I should get a PS so that I can up my game.***
A quick glance outside tells me that traffic conditions are fucked up. More delays, I thought as I prepped myself for an extended stay in the office. MSN links me to my friends, and I type furiously away at the keyboard; 85wpm when I last checked.***
Light dinner plans were cooked and off we went.

"Lets spend some manly time together," I suggested.

"What manly time? That sounds damn gay! Its called male bonding!"

Walking along the road, we share a few crude jokes and I laugh out Michbaby style.

"Hurr hurr hurr"

By chance a fellow female pedestrian was beside me, turned around to see who was this bastard with a lecherous laugh.

Over sushi, we talk about how fucked up our days were, and how could we make it better.

"Eh, did you notice that girl who turned around when I laughed?"

"Eh yaya! She looked so disgusted!"

"Isn't she the girl who has damn big boobs?" my dinner mate asked loudly; we were talking about different girls. I hide my face in shame, "Dude, not so loud please!"***
"My mommy said cannot mix with Ah neh neh because they got kutu!" A play later told me that.

"Eh, what you want to marry an Ah neh neh next time?

The Ah neh neh in the play was such a funny fucker.***
Perhaps that particular Friday wasn't so bad after all.

Duck Meat

2008-07-30T18:35:00.004+08:00

Bananas was sending me home one day when he realised that he had no dinner. He bought half a duck for the night's consumption at a roadside stall.

Being the nosy person that I am, I tagged along in hopes of finding some hidden food jewels.

"Hey look at the dog," Bananas pointed him out to me "his balls are stuck between his legs"

"Haha what the fuck!"

"Eh go and pinch its balls! Then stand there for 5 seconds."

"No!"

"I'll give you my roast duck."

"No!"

"Three seconds!"

"No!"***

We got into the car.

"Imagine if we shoot his nuts with a BB gun."

"What will happen if the pellet pierces the scrotum? Will it start bleeding?"

"Nah, don't think so. The gun is quite weak."***

Something tells me that I need better friends.

p/s: I won't mind shooting with a rubber band.

iPoh Roadtrip

2008-06-19T17:38:00.004+08:00

Went for a meeting at Ipoh with Pervert Nicky.

Meeting lasted about an hour or so, the balance of the time was spent looking for food with the client. Treated us to lunch, and bought us lots of snacks, which we shall be distributing at the office soon.

Damn good shit, make us shy only.

Speaking of shit.....

I couldn't find any real food this morning so I had a couple of pieces of papayas for breakfast. Bad move. Got cramps in the car.

Lets just say I won't need to use the toilet for the next 2 days.

Lessons learnt today:

1. Papayas are good laxatives.

2. Policemen randomly catch people for speeding. We weren't touching 110, but got pulled aside for doing 122. Fucker was fumbling at his sheets trying to look for us. mahai not going to pay RM300 to clear us for something we didn't do. Settled it for 2 cough drops.

Mau tulis atau kawan?

Karting at USJ

2008-05-25T15:20:00.003+08:00

Finally a usable video.

Tagged along with a couple of friends on Sunday. Nothing spectacular with the video.

While I was pretty consistent with the lines, my best time of 1:01 is far from what the regulars post at 0:54.

More money out, I guess. Pfft.

Anonymous?

2008-03-08T12:57:00.003+08:00

Nicholas voted today.

This picture was taken by him, and the ballot paper shows a serial number. Would there be a way to trace each person's vote?

I am not happy

2008-01-27T08:58:00.000+08:00

        I, like my brother, always think of ourselves as a people who has detached ourselves emotionally from the news published in various forms of media. My brother’s reasoning was that if we were to have an emotional spike for each tragedy that occurs around the world, we would have no emotions left for ourselves. While I do reserve some thought for the victims, that’s usually about as far as I allow my emotions to dwell on such matters.

        As clichéd as it might seem, I’ve also always thought of tragedies as things that happen to people we never know. People around us; our family members, friends and other acquaintances seem to be blessed by having simply having known us, thus made invincible, immune to tragedies and other afflictions.

        Unfortunately, tragedy reared up its ugly head on Friday. A friend of mine was killed in the bus accident.

        You could perhaps argue that with the increased amount of commuters, accident statistics are bound to increase. To paint a clearer picture, allow us to assume that 0.01% of buses will meet in some form of accident, tragic, minor or otherwise. When the number of commuters is low with probably a hundred buses travelling in a day there would probably be a bus a day running into some sort of trouble, be it a puncture, some mild engine trouble or an accident.

        Multiply the accident rate with more buses and the occurrence of accidents would obviously increase. You could let nature take its way by allowing such events to carry on, or form a special committee to intervene and reduce the numbers. Unfortunately, as much talk as there are about arresting drivers with outstanding summons, or not allowing them on the road; one such driver was allowed to drive last Friday and it resulted in the death of my friend; and also the deaths of two other people.

        My question running through my head at the moment is ‘what has the authorities been doing?’ Do we need a high profile person like a minister or some foreign diplomat (touchwood) to be involved in an accident before REAL action is taken? Other questions running through my mind would be ‘how difficult is it to drive a bus safely?’ or perhaps more appropriately ‘how difficult is it not to speed and overtake and drive like a hoodlum?’

        You could perhaps argue that to drive a bus reasonably safe is a difficult task to do. A bus is generally a large metallic monster, and large vehicles are difficult to drive. “You’re not driving a bus,” you could tell me, so stop spewing such brickbats. However, bus drivers are people who are trained to perform such duties in a safe manner, and again, one driver did not do his job properly on Friday.

        Owing to the high possibility that one would be riding in bus with a speed demon, many of my friends have sworn themselves off buses. When are we going to stop reading about such tragedies? When a blanket ban is imposed on the reporting of such events or when tragedies are things of the past. I cannot imagine what state of mind her family and boyfriend is in.

        If you cannot feel it already, I am unhappy and angry.

        Malaysian government's a mofo. Repeat after me.

Related posts:
Jolene Lai - RIP: I Never Knew Her But I Can Just Imagine
Tan Yee Wei - RIP: can consumers make economics work in their favour?
Jolene Lai - Help Nian Ning’s Family, Fight With Them.

Chooi, C., (2008), Bus crash: Driver had 13 outstanding summonses, The Star, 26th January 2008, p.16

Filmer, A., (2008), Family mourns loss of beautiful, intelligent go-getter, The Star, 28th January 2008, p.3

Evelyn Lee

2007-08-05T11:46:00.000+08:00

I call her Evie.***
So I was talking crap with her one fine night where I mentioned cuter girls are preferred over the real hot ones. It would be worthy to note that cute in this case would not fit the clichéd teenage definition of 'ugly but adorable'.

Evie: "You just like girls that look vulnerable so you can shag them silly wtf."

I need better friends.

Previous useless friend found here

Rage Articles

2007-04-18T23:32:00.000+08:00

Published on 13th March 2007. Click for full sized picture. Very large file

Published on 16th March 2007. Click for full sized picture. Very large file.

They removed all my semi-colons though.

Racist Dream

2007-03-28T15:34:00.000+08:00

After reading this you'll probably think that I'm such a mofo for having such kinds of dreams; but I'm not a racist not a racist not a racist.

I had this little dream. I'm not sure whether would it be classified as a nightmare since it was about gays; but then it did not involve me. I was more of a watcher. Well, again you could probably argue that it was a nightmare since I'm a homophobe, though I do act like one sometimes just to irritate my friends.

Well, the dream was really short and goes something like this. Two guys in bondage gear were banging each other, with one being the banger and the other being the banged. Then the picture changed to multiple scenes with an Indian guy banging (and subsequently banged by) 5 different guys. When interviewed, he was asked why does he sleep around. His response was "Its the culture"

When I told Evie about this, she called me 'a racist [something]', with something being that I forgot but having millions of variable fillers, given the fact that Evie is quite adept at swearing. She said that I was so racist that I could even have racist dreams.

Sorry Indian people. It was just a stupid dream. Hey, I've had stupid dreams about Chinese people also ok?

Memories of My Childhood

2007-02-27T11:48:00.000+08:00

Since my brother and cousin are both not around this Chinese New Year, I thought I’ll throw something up which gives a little bit of insight to the life I led when I was still young, naïve and a little bit mischievous. I also figured it’ll be nicer not to screw anyone over the New Year. We did now know that the ‘little we-s’ would turn into larger devils with the passing of time, but that is a story – its contents which I just recalled over a hilarious conversation with The Sister – for another day.

The following composition was written for the first semester exam when I was in Form 5, and it was one of the rare compositions that I derived pleasure from writing. Needless to say, its hilarious and nostalgic value trigged some muffled laughs when I was in the exam hall.

The composition also earned me a 82/100 from my English teacher Ms. Shirley, something which was apparently rather impossible at those times. Perhaps one day I’ll talk about how we tortured her last time. Of course, this was done at a time when my language was less refined, so please pardon the language. Of course I would make some necessary amendments to make it more readable.

You must remember that this is school work so it’ll seem a little corny; and the other devil stories from when we grew up a little more were left unpublished, which I shall do at a later date.

***

When I think about my childhood days, it has always brought a smile to my face. It was interesting, carefree and no doubt exciting. The memories usually revolve around my cousins and my brother. My cousins, brother and I were very close to one another owing to the fact that the age gap between the oldest and the youngest was only 6 years. Even if we sit down together, the topic will eventually stray to our childhood days, bringing much laughter from us.

The times I remember the most were the times spent in my hometown. As we were still very young, we had lots of time on our hands and would return to our hometowns every month to visit relatives.

My grandmother’s house was located on the perimeter of a Malay village and her house overlooks the village, given the height advantage of three metres by land. It was this height advantage that instigated us to cause trouble. We would collect stones and pelt the zinc-roofs of the kampong houses, irritating the occupants of the houses. If we were to go down to the village, we would vehemently deny our participation in the stone throwing, though in hindsight it was obvious that we were the culprits.

Occasionally, when we felt the need for more action, we would arm ourselves with slingshots and a large number of stones, go down to the village to ‘hunt’ chickens. We would run around the village, searching for the elusive chickens When we spotted one, we would approach it, hide in the bushes and attempt to shoot it. However, the excitement, coupled with the fear of getting caught, the improper shooting position and the lack of strength, caused us to miss the chickens. We would occasionally land a puny shot on the back of the chicken, achieving nothing more than frightening the chicken and chasing it away.

When we were restless; but not in the mood for mischief, we would go cycling. Not having enough bicycles, some of us would walk; while the others rode, each taking turns to cycle. We would go cycling on the streets, racing each other as well as doing other dangerous things.

Sometimes my family would return without my aunt’s family going due to complications in timing. On these occasions, there were too few of us to cause trouble. We would just sit at home, playing with our toys, talk about our childish endeavours or just sleep. At four o’ clock, the ice cream man would ride past and we would ask our parents for twenty cents for an ice cream.

When Chinese New Year comes, we would all return to our hometown. All my mother’s siblings would return, including an aunt who had migrated to the United States who only returns during the Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year is the climax of the year and in those few days, we would be visiting, gambling as well as watching those corny ‘Chinese New Year’ specials on television. One must not forget fireworks and firecrackers for Chinese New Year. The neighbours would hang out their ‘six feet red crackers’ – a string of crackers six feet long – despite the ban from the government. It would be lit and a loud din would follow it, producing a curtain of smoke and enveloping the ground with pieces of red paper. We truly enjoyed watching these displays of smoke, light and sound. Seated in a row, we would plug our ears with our fingers, feeling the explosions through the shock waves. As we grew older, our parents would often buy an assortment of pyrotechnics for us. However, we did not play with the firecrackers the usual way. Instead, we would do other things such as launching rockets at windows of other peoples’ houses. Once again, the villagers got no peace. An uncle of mine who was still young at heart would lead us in the proceedings, teaching us how to harness the full potential of every type of device we owned. Our parents would just turn a blind eye on us, merely because our uncle was taking care of us.

Another part of my life which I remembered clearly was the time spent in my aunt’s house. As her house was rather nearby my house, my brother and I would regularly visit my cousin. We would watch miscellaneous television programmes, play video games on an ancient video console or fight imaginary battles with little green men with jeeps, helicopters, aeroplanes and several artillery pieces. The ‘casualties’ were often exaggerated and neither of us would win in the end as our armies would have been wiped out.

As we grew older, our interests differed but we still had some common interests. We would also go out for meals once in a while. These are the ways of us having fun as we grow older. Those days are the times that I know each and everyone of us will miss.

Blog Meet!

2006-07-29T19:34:00.000+08:00

Whee! Kick ass!

Well, it was held at KLCC's Burger King. Well, since I am not ready to let my parents know that I blog, I told my mom that I came here to meet some old Std 6 classmates. Well, I didn't lie. I even satisfied the 'some' parameter.

Unfortunately, the person I spoke to when I did the booking didn't take me too seriously and didn't cordon the place off. I had to speak to the manager to get her to close the place off.

Some stupid people do not understand the meaning of "This section is closed". Malaysian attitute lah.

Unfortunately, the heavens did not favour the bloggers and it rained, so the theme of 'Camwhores in a Park' was just 'Camwhores in BK'.

Also, some bloggers left before I had a chance to talk to them or camwhore. I didn't realise they would have went off so soon.

For the Kenny Sia fans, I apologise. I mailed him an invitation but he was in KL on the 25th and the 26th. Well, lets see what did he miss out.

Upon disbanding, I left for home. Took the LRT home with Bryan ~~Boy~~ and Jolin
***

Anyway, here are the pictures. Posted in the order that they were taken. Photos starting with 'IMG' were taken using a Canon PowerShot S45 while pictures starting with 'P' were taken using a Olympus C-740 UZ.

Most unfortunately, both cameras lacks optical stabilisation and pictures tend to be blurry. I'll post the originals so feel free to steal them. Don't try to make any money out of it though, not that you'll be able to.

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The obligatory location shot

Kyels behind Chung Lern's 20D.
I previously fiddled with it, makes the anticipation for my own unit even greater. I was contemplating knocking him out and running home. The camera has a Speedlite 580EX and a EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM lens. Lens diameter 77mm. I got my hard on by handling that camera. If you were to look at Kyels' right finger on the battery grip, it is hovering over the shutter button. There is also a dial near the shutter button which facilitates some controls.

I was fiddling with the Speedlite and discharged it when it was fully charged. The flash was intensely bright and even with the diffuser on it dazed me for several moments. Yes it was that powerful!

Jolene the blog dai kah jie.

Kyels. She was pretty quiet and shy through out the meeting. I'm sorry if you felt bored. Anyway, Kye Lee told me that she had just spent some money on camera accessories. An EF 85mm f/1.8 USM lens as well as a Canon Speedlite 550EX, which is similiar to what Chung Lern has on his item.

Jasiminne had the audacity to actually forget my name. Thankfully she remembers Dr. Tan though.

Chung Lern, the camera is his. His face is here. KO him for me please. Bring the camera to me, unharmed.

Jed, didn't get to talk to him.

Ivan, ditto.

Errr.... Never mind that..

Albert. He did some weird modifications to his Fujifilm camera which meant he could take macro shots with the subject touching the front element. Focusing is terribly slow though.

Rames is a comrade in the sense that he's aiming for a DSLR as well.

Shaz's height makes me feel so short.

Jason Lioh. He just got a new camera. A Panasonic FZ-30 which is similiar to the one that my brother uses. However, Jason's is in silver which is well, lets just say that black is beautiful. Unfortunately for me, Canon 300Ds are only manufactured in silver. Buggers

Joan Chew the food lover. Fortunately for her, the love for food does not show.

Boss Lepton & Boss Stewie Unfortunately, lengmou is shutting down already. We mourn the loss of a wonderful blog.

Calvin and Evelyn having their bonding session.

Clockwise from top left: Cheryl, Kel Li, Cheng Sim, Erin Tan, Jolene, Jasiminne and Smashpop

Calvin Tay

Dr. Tan. Stupid Calvin Tay. Took a nice picture for him but he has to spoil my moment of glory. Nevermind that, I'll get the pictures from other people. Die far far lah Calvin. Die die die... *RAGE!!!*

Just a fraction of what was there.

L-R: Evelyn, Jasiminne, Cheryl, Cheng Sim, Stewie, Lepton, Kel Li, Jolene, sorry and Jen.

Group shot. I don't know how many cameras passed through my hands during that session. I later put down the cameras and joined in for a few shots.

pOp pOp. The lighting makes this picture seem like a glamour portrait. If only the murals were not there.

Cheryl. Nyummm

Kelz studies in Monash. Never saw her in that prison before. Gender segregation perhaps.

Evelyn the classmate, blogmate, swearmate. The only thing lacking is mating.

Jen is also aiming for a DSLR.

Penny, unfortunately I also didn't get to talk to her.

Bryan Chin my old school mate. He has a D70s.

Jen, Slinky and Joan. Damn cute right?

Jolin, my Std 6 classmate. The reason I satisfied the 'some' parameter was because another friend dropped by after spotting us.

Evie. I have been seeing her everyday for ages and I never had a picture with her. A friend of mine mentioned that she's hot. Upon laying eyes on her, the aforementioned set of eyes brightened up. Bloggers nowadays, so horny.

Cheryl.*Sizzle*

Calvin looked different. I was hesitating whether to shout out to him when I first saw him.

Jason Lioh, Ivan, Joan and Rames

Albert and Jason Goh

Bryan, Evelyn and Cheryl

Calvin and Jen

Avril Chan. She has the kind of face that you want to pinch.

These photos belong to Slinky. Please respect his intellectual property. We may have different stands on how we like our pictures used.

Penny and Jason

sei Calvin! He shakes up my photo and goes one step further by touching Sunway/Monash people. Go find Taylor's bloggers lah!

I'm regretting that I never did this with FA.

Group shot

Another one

Chicks. 4 of them! Heaven gave us 4 seasons, but we definitely got more than 4 that day.

Calvin...

...and Evie

The Bosses of Lengmou with the chicks.

Makes you want to be a blogger. The perks you get!

The following were shot by Jen using Bryan's D70s. Inspired by Leech's tutorial. Proves that I can be stupid when neccessity dictates.

Zero

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Damn I look so stupid in there. Memo to self : Never act cute in front of the camera.

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This meet seemed to be rowdier than the previous one. The lighting was better for camwhoring but was more crampy which made walking around more difficult. For those I didn't get to talk to, so sorry. For those I didn't get to camwhore with, I'm even sorrier. I know, no excuse.

I'll steal more pictures and post them up here. Especially the moment of glory shot. Stupid Calvin.. *mumbles*

I'm not forgiving him. Anyway I had my wet dream lah..

The pictures I took using the S45 were not satisfactory as it was not my unit and I am not familiar with it. Looking on the bright side however, the shos turned out pretty decent. Colours were quite natural and pictures were sharp despite the low ambient lighting, apart from those taken using the S45. In short, love thy camera, learn it, sleep with it et cetera.

Anyway, here's my contact details.
Phone number's 017-3660933.
MSN: tandot.yeehou[at]gmail[dot]com

Cameras used for the day: Canon EOS 20D (Chung Lern), Nikon D70S (Bryan), Canon S2 IS (Shaz), Panasonic FZ-5 (smashpOp), Sony DSC P200 (Joan), Canon Powershot Pro 1 (Jasiminne), a heavily modified Fujifilm Digital Q1 (Albert), a large collection of Panasonic, Nikon, Canon and Kodak compacts

Other posts:-

Albert
Avril Chan
Bryan
Calvin Kho
Calvin Tay
Cheng Sim
Cheryl
Chung Lern
Elaine Chow
Erin Tan. (also here)
Evie
eyeris
Ivan
Jason Lioh
Jed
Jen
Joan
Jolene
Josh
Kel Li
LingGheZhi
Miss Scorkes
Penny
Rames (Candid shots)
Slinky (Camgigolo-ism)
Skyler (Picture post)
Shaz now!
smashpOp
Yee Hou
Tim(Stewie)
Yvonne, who also pimps Albert, Jolin and Shaz. She also bought a pair of earrings from April

List of people who went

Bloggers' Gathering - 29/07/2006

2006-07-28T00:01:00.000+08:00

The meeting is over. Go check the main page!

List of people who came, as well as those who were supposed to come.

MLOB

Albert
April
~~Aprilcherrie~~
Avril Chan
Calvin
Calvin Tay
~~Chee Kiang~~
~~Cheesy~~
Cheng Sim
Chung Lern
~~Dustyhawk~~
~~Elaine~~
Elaine CYL
~~Eliza~~
eyeris
Fireangel
Jasiminne
~~Jason Lioh~~
Jennifer
Jolene
~~Julie Kuan~~
~~Justin Wong~~
~~Karen~~
~~Kimberlycun~~
~~Kurt Low~~
Kyels
~~Lainie~~
~~Lee Cheng~~
~~Mervyn~~
~~Minishorts~~
Sarah
Slinky
~~Smallswong~~
Smashpop/Jason Goh
Suanie
~~Suet Li~~
Tan Yee Hou
~~The Other Kenny~~
~~Vincent~~
~~Weng Lum~~
~~Yee Pei~~
Yvonne Foong

Newcomers. No I'm not trying to be condescending.
~~Andreas~~
~~Asyraf Lee~~
Bodicea
Boss Stewie & Boss Lepton
Bryan Chin
Cheryl
~~Cindy~~
Chloe
~~Cynthia~~
~~Eve~~
Evelyn
Ivan
~~Jacksquare~~
Jed
Jenny Koo (Blogsomethree)
~~Jing~~
Joan Chew
Josh
Kelvin
Kelz
~~Kento (Blogsomethree)~~
~~KinkyBlueFairy~~
LingGheZhi
LingGheZhi's friend
~~Melissa yong~~
~~Natalie~~
~~Pelf~~
Penny
Rames
Scorkes
~~Sew Jin~~
~~Shawn~~
Shaz
~~Simon~~
Skyler
~~Wei Ern~~

Newcomers will be added on. I'll update this post as soon as I get more details.

Other publicists:
Boss Stewie
Cheng Sim
Jolene

This post will be updated frequently.

As promised, this meet will be open. So anyone who requests will have their names added on, unless they're terribly bitchy in the mail.

Remember, cut off date on the 22nd alright?

Bloggers' Meets

2006-07-08T16:12:00.002+08:00

I went out for dinner with Melissa and Cheng Sim. On the 14th of June. Today's the 8th of July. So long ago. I wanted to blog but then things which take precedence (rants) came up and after that Cheng Sim told me not to write anymore. I don't care I'm going to write anyway lah.

I picked Cheng Sim up at her place at USJn. lala chais, want white hair? No you don't have to bleach it. Just look for a house in USJ. After that we picked up Melissa at USJ(n+5). Then we went to Subang Parade. Food choices were pathetic, so we settled for Manhattan Fish Market. I had the fish&chips, Melly(Baked Pacific Dory with Herbs) and CS had baked pacific dory. Food sucks. Don't go there. Enough said.

Food shots. Check out their blogs. Full of food whenever they have gatherings.

Melissa's T5 could do 1cm macro shots. DOF is too shallow though. Sony's compacts would be in my sights should I decide I need a PnS compact.

They just refused to let me take anymore pictures of them.

The two ladies decided to burn off the calories and pulled me to Toys R Us. Its terrible now, that place. I wonder how they survive.

Cheng Sim kept wandering off by herself in Toys R' Us. I notice that the toys there are pretty crappy compared to those yesteryears.

I was pretty tired so we adjourned early. No Melly, Cheng Sim and I did nothing.

They blogged about it here(CS) and here(MY)

***

Today there was a small meet up. I actually intended to meet Matthew but then decided to call more people. Kye Lee who I've talk to so much but never got round to meeting, Cheng Sim, Jason(smashpOp), Skyler, Ivan, Jennihsurf, Jack and Victor.

We (just Kye Lee and me alright?) arrived at Starbucks KLCC at 1pm. We ordered our drinks and sat down. Kye Lee talks so softly. Over the din in the mall it's impossible to hear what was she saying, which explains the number of 'pardon's that I used.

Skyler and Ivan arrived circa 1335. Cheng Sim later called up to say she was lost in KL Sentral. I don't remember what time she arrived. We had adjourned to Burger King by then. We had to survey the place also. Don't know why. Just check that place out. Nice, large, can hold many people. Bright enough to camwhore. Perfect.

I had to leave early. So we had to do what a bloggers' instinct would tell him/her to do. Please scroll sepuluh Q.

Kye Lee

Victor. Unfortunately when he came I had to go already.

Because I was sleepy. So I stole a quick nap on Ivan's shoulder

Jason opened his food and I woke up. Aish, next time pose look abit more loving can or not? Har?

Cheng Sim said I looked too normal. So I made this horny face with Skyler. I need to work on it.

Jack likes my shoulders.

I suddenly decided I like Matthew. Notice the Indian guy staring at us.

Jennihsurf camwhores. My picture with her is in her camera. Will wait for it.

My picture with Cheng Sim was taken with her camera also. So here I present another one. Somehow I think of some ~~old aunty~~ one who has something smelly under her nose.

Fullsized images available. Click on the picture. All pictures taken at ISO400, which explains the grainy composition of it. Which also indicates I need to reach my RM2200 mark real fast.

Today's gathering was a real sombre affair. Everyone felt so awkward and didn't know what to say.

Burger King alright?

Image credited to Jason

Laptop, painted.

2006-06-13T23:12:00.000+08:00

I sprayed my com today. I started around 1430 and finished around 2200 but had to disassemble it again to rectify some problems. It was alot faster than what I had anticipated as some people on Lowyat.net took a few days.

Albert, how's this for geekiness?

I had to disassemble the unit first. The screws were placed in accordance to the holes corresponding to their respective location. The large one in the middle is the Mobo, while the little one connected via a strip of wire is the modem and a 15pin VGA out conection. Clockwise from top left: 2.5" HDD, 40GB. Covers. CD-ROM (I recently replaced my busted CD-RW. Sadly its only a 24x. Thankfully I have a 52x32x52x and a 24x10x40x), heatsink(proc) cover. Middle: PCMCIA slot and USB+P/S2 out.

I removed all the stickers on the bottom part of the computer. Sprayed WD-40 on it, allowing it to sit for 5 minutes before wiping of the glue with a piece of tissue paper. And I'm not worried about losing my CD key. I remember it. PPKYM-4WM6J-99YQD-won't give you the last 10 digits.

There, completed work. Lighting was shitty so I had to present it like this.

It looks very much sleeker compared to when it was silver. Slimmer

Here's an image of it when it was silver.

Now I have matching hardwares. Black amplifier, mouse(the RM60 Logitech, painted), speakers, USB hub, 2.5" external HDD. How nice. Even my phone is black.

Anyone wants to have their laptop painted? Charges apply.

On a separate note, I've applied and gotten a job at [location] at [mall name]. Feel free to drop by and disturb me on Saturdays and Sundays from 1200-2100.

Updated: The thermal paste between the processor and the heatsink was wearing thin yesterday. Core temperature was >60'C. I wasn't happy. Went and got a good tube of thermal paste. Cooler Master PTK-002. Set me back RM28. Damn, there goes my camera fund!

Bloggers' Meet 22/04/06

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Warning : 56k killer. Countless photos. Don't bitch.
Today I attended a blogger's gathering at Dome Cafe in Midvalley. Here are some pictures in the order they were taken. I'll just name whoever the person is in the picture instead of going Elephant-me, cow-me, pig-me, hyena-me unless its a multi person portrait.

Forgive my grainy shots as my camera's ISO400 setting is digitally noisy. Low light and all. And I forgot to change it to ISO100 when we went out. So much for hoping to improve my photography.

Those people who have decent pictures (not blurry, nice) and pictures of me could you send them to me please? Thanks!

Anyway, I'll be hosting my photos for download on Rapidshare. They won't be watermarked. Since I go under the 'share and share alike' principle. ~~The truth is I don't know how to watermark my photos.~~

Mervyn, Suet Lee's boy boy Barry, Suet Lee,Calvin Tay

Serge Norguard, Albert Ng, Lee Ching

Suanie arrives.

Jason Goh(smashpOp) arrives

Mervyn

Julie Kuan, Karen Siah, Weng Lum. They jointlyh run It's A Group Thing

Calvin Tay

Jolene, me, Serge Norguard, Calvin Tay, Lee Ching.

Paul Tan

Suet Lee

Fireangel

Mun Hoong/Slinky

Calvin Tay, me, Jusin Wong

Jolene, Calvin Tay, me.

Jasminne

Jusin Wong

Suet Lee

Cherrie Chan, Jennifer Ooi. Cherrie's the only one I didn't camwhore with.

Calvin

The Other Kenny. He's name's Kenny Ho.

Kurt Low

Suanie

Albert Ng

April Yim

Jason Goh(smashpOp)

Jennihsurf

Jason Lioh

Julie Kuan

Yvonne Foong

Weng Lum

Karen Siah

Cheesy

Elaine Chow

We went to the bridge outside Starbucks.

Then we got ready…

And we jumped!

Jump

A group shot after that

Lee Cheng

We went to McDonald’s after that. Jasminne having some ice cream.

Jolene is force fed.

Cheeser

Fireangel

Fireangel

The people who ffk-ed us are...
1. Avril Chan
2. Chee Kiang
3. Cheng Sim
4. Chung Lern
5. Elaine
6. Eliza
7. Kimberlycun
8. Kyels
9. Lainie
10. Micheal
11. Minishorts
12. Sarah
13. Smallswong
14. Vincent
15. Yee Pei

No worries there. There's talk of another one in July. Hope to see you all then okay?

My MSN is under_score1987@hotmail.com.
Albert I tried commenting on your blog but failed. Bad vibes I have perhaps?

My Chemical Dinner

2005-02-01T00:08:00.000+08:00

08-09-2006

I'm sick.

Bon Appétit

Filed under: Photography

Tachometer.

2005-02-01T00:07:00.001+08:00

19-01-2006

Toyota Prado 2.7 M 1997

Corridor

2005-02-01T00:07:00.000+08:00

D Floor Corridor, Taylors College.

Theatre of Expressions II

2005-02-01T00:04:00.000+08:00

12/12/05, Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Pau

All pictures taken using Canon PowerShot S-45

Theater of Expressions

2005-02-01T00:03:00.000+08:00

20/09/2005, 1200-1300. Maths free period

Pictures taken using Olympus C-740UZ

My cop mohor

2005-02-01T00:02:00.000+08:00

All photos captures with Olympus C-740 UZ.