Starting a new computer

Received a new (very old model) laptop,
BUT its got better specs then my old desktop.
Proves just how really old my desktop is.

In light of my current situation of furnishing the new laptop with the relevant softwares.

I thought it'd be a good idea to share it with you guys and girls.

Adobe Reader
To read the oh-so-universal PDF files.

AVG anti-virus
To keep those nasty viruses out

Bitcomet
For downloading ... stuff.

Firefox
For browsing the web.
*I honestly prefer Opera, but Firefox doesn't have those irritating ads.

Live Messenger/Yahoo Messenger/Google Talk
To keep in-touch with your friends

Spybot
To keep those malicious spyware out

VLC Player
To play all your videos
*It even plays broken files ^^

Winamp
To play your music

WinRAR
For zipping and unzipping of your files
*File Compression Software

Good thing about the list is that you can get all of em for free.
Most of them can be found at Download.com

Lightning Crashes

Lightning struck pretty close by the day before yesterday (13/12/006).

Knocked out my access to the internet.
Initially I thought only my network card had fried,
but upon further inspection,
I found out that my modem had partially fried too.

Funny thing.
I can see that it detects the DSL connection but
I can't seem to get it to connect through its ethernet port.

The lightning didn't just knock out my modem and NiC.
It also took out the outside router and even the DVD player.

Of all the expenses I had considered,
natural disasters were one that I overlooked.
It show that you cant really be perfect,
no matter how hard you try.

BUT sometimes ...
just sometimes ...
I believe we do get lucky.

Lamka and the Sexy Bar Girl

Lamka is a very shy guy.
One day he went into a bar
and saw a beautiful woman sitting at the bar.
After an hour of gathering up his courage
he finally went over to her
and asked,
tentatively,
"Would you mind if I buy you a drink?"

She responded by yelling, at the top of her lungs,
"No, I won't sleep with you tonight!"

Everyone in the bar is now staring at them.
Naturally, Lamka was hopelessly dejected
and completely embarrassed
and he sank back to his table.

After a few minutes,
the woman walked over to him and apologized.
She smiled at him and explained,
"I'm sorry if I've embarrassed you.
You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology
and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations."

To which Lamka responded,
at the top of his lungs,
"What do you mean 500 Ringgit?"

p.s. Happy Birthday Najwa !
p.s.s. Happy Birthday Winston !

World AIDS Day

Watched the Brit Music Awards earlier.
They had really good performances.
Watching some of these preformances,
I realised something.

Unlike the MTV Awards which had
good shows,
the Brit Music Awards had
good performances.

And you can really see the energy,
if you've been in a concert or
played on stage infront of a supporting audience
then you'd know what i'm talking about.

The exchange of energy between
the performer and the audience,
back and forth,
off and on the stage.
Kind of like sex.
(NOT that i'd know anything much about it)

Yes there I said it, sex.
Its not a vulgar word,
but it IS generally considered a taboo subject,
to most people.
(NO i'm not talking about you perverted people I call my friends)

What I DO know about sex is that safe sex is important.

Officially the World AIDS Day is on
the 1st of December.

A few basic things to know about AIDS,
not that my readers don't already know it,
since you're all so smart and shit.
So this is more of a reminder to myself since I tend to be forgetful.

AIDS
Stands for :
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

HIV
Stands for :
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

HIV causes AIDS.
AIDS is the collection of symptoms.


p.s. Happy Birthday Davina!

Joyce's Get-Together.

Went to Joyce's get together a few days back.25/11/06
Had fun, met up with some old friends,
made some new ones and got to check out a new place.

Somo in Mont Kiara, (next to Coffee Bean)
which is apparently a Japanese Restaurant and Bar.
I saw the bar, but I didn't see the restaurant part.
The place was also kind of small.
All in all it had a nice ambiance to it.

p.s. Happy Birthday Roy!
p.s.s. Happy Birthday Ded!
p.s.s.s. Pics updated.

Casino Royale

Personal Unprofessional Rating : 5/5
Good story-line.
Good acting.
New bond has the walk and the talk , but unfortunately doesn't have the look.
Well thats my opinion.

All in all I enjoyed the movie.
Though I haven't seen all the bond films,
i'd say that Casino Royale is the best so far.

To quote a good friend of mine,
"Bond bad ass gile doh".

OH and how can I forget to mention Eva Green.
She's SOOOOO hot !

Raya Open Houses

Been to a few raya open houses the past couple of weeks.
Not going to mention any names, cause then some of you might think
"Hey why didn't I get invited ?".
Now that I think of it I probably shouldn't even mention anything about it.

What I can say though is that Saturday was probably one of the worst nights i've had in awhile.

Since i've been especially busy these couple of weeks,
I guess it wasn't that surprising that something gave out.
In this case it was my stomach.

Waking up very early and getting back home very late
finally took a toll on me.

Now usually i'm able to stay up with very little sleep as long as I keep up with proper consumption of food and water.
Somewhere along the way I messed up my cycle of consumption and BAM it hit me.

*Caution, further material might be disgusting*

I puked my guts out. It was like the food that I ate did a 180 on me.
Everything in there had to go and it had to go NOW.
Puked so much and so fast that some of it went out through my nose.

So you can just imagine, trying to blow your nose and puke comes out
and you're constantly smelling puke.
Freaggin disgusting.

Undoubtedly one of the most uncomfortable moments of my life. Not painful, not miserable, not depressing, but uncomfortable.



*End of disgusting material*

I was pretty much T.K.O for remainder of the night and the whole of next day.
Didn't get much sleep cause I kept dreaming of puzzle that kept repeating itself.
It was like 2 teams with the same strength in a tug-of-war,
pulling against each other but not getting anywhere,
so I couldn't really solve the puzzle cause it went in circles,
and it was driving me nuts,

but thankfully after countless hours of waking up in the middle of the morning,
I somehow managed to come up with a way to solve that particular enigma.
or did I? Whatever it is, at least I found my peace.

p.s. Happy Birthday Mei Yan !

Lamka : Wants up on a Time

Once upon a time;
in a macrocosm not far away;
in a time of uncertainty and turmoil;
lived a young boy.

On the outside; this young boy was like any other.
He had a head upon its shoulder to think and perceive;
2 arms to create and destroy;
2 legs to traverse and scour the lands;
and a body that encased his heart and banded all these parts together.

On the inside however; this boy was one of a kind.
It wasn't that he was born with it.
It wasn't that it was forced upon him.
It was what he accepted to be in the end.

This is the story of how he became what he accepted to be ...

p.s. Happy Birthday Ching Leng !

Lamka and the swimming hero

Last night, in the land known as Zingapohr, an incident took place at a river near where Lamka was adventuring.

What happened was some idiot was trying to show off and declared that he would swim across the Not-so-Great River which spanned roughly a hundred kilometers.
He jumped in and started swimming,
But before he could reach the halfway mark, he started to panic and started to shout for help.

Being typical Zingapohrians, a crowd started to gather to watch and yet no attempt was made by anybody to save that poor chap.

Suddenly there was a splash and the crowd turned to see a guy doing what seemed like a desperate attempt to reach the drowning victim.

BUT it was clear that this hero couldn't swim !

Luckily a small tourist boat filled with tourists was passing by and the operator saw the incident and picked both men from the water.

The crowd soon cheered !

Back on shore, the crowd cheered again as the hero stepped off the boat.

"Steady Lah !"

and

"Awright, man !"

were among the many congratulations shouted.

The hero looked angry and shouted,

"Ka ni na! Siang too wa loh chui?"
(*translation: "%#@! Who pushed me into the water?")

Heheh read this from somewhere can't really remember.

p.s. Happy Birthday Mervyn !

Huey Yee's Birthday Dinner

Had a birthday dinner gathering at The Magical Theater Restaurant in Sunway.
(12/11/2006)

The place was nice, quite well decorated.
The tables were marked by cards from a deck.
We had the privilege of sitting at the Ace of Spades table : )

Most of the guys and birthday girl.

Most of the girls.

The group.

So after the cake cutting and present .. er ... presenting.
AND after everyone had already eaten their cakes,
we hit a small snag in a what have been a smooth evening.
There was only one piece of cake left !
After a wonderful dinner AND a piece of cake, none of us wanted to finish off the last piece.
*though I did suspect that Mr. J secretly wanted it.

So without any hesitation, CC proposed that we play a game to settle this problem.
Now, this is the same CC which proposed the Risk game a couple of months back.

The game was quite simple.
Everyone was to show a number between 0 to 5 with their hands.
The numbers were sum-ed up and beginning from the birthday girl a counter would start clockwise around the table till it reached that number.
Now the unlucky person to have that number land on him/her would have to swallow the cake in one go.

Lucky guy.

Anyway, there we were about ready to leave, and thinking the only 'magical' thing that night was BY's cake disappearing trick, when suddenly a guy in a coat comes up to the table.

Ah, so there was a magician in the house.
Now after watching The Prestige awhile back, I was actually intrigued and was looking forward to see if I can figure out the tricks.

The first trick if I remembered correctly was the balls trick.
Basically transporting the ball in his hand to the hand of the audience.
I could theorize how he did the pledge and the prestige but I wasn't able to figure out the turn of this trick.

Magician : Now hold my balls tightly, ah, not too tight.

Magician : Tada ! My balls ... my red balls.

Then there was the "pull your card out of the deck" trick.
You know the the "choose a card any card" trick.
I was picked as the card picker,
I believe I was picked because I made such a racket trying to figure out the trick.
I mean seriously, I was behaving like a child.
Well at least I think I was.
So I think the magician let me pick the card to shut me up.
Which kind of worked ... for awhile.

See ! Its the 10 of diamonds. I'm so glad I can count that high.

For this trick, I figured you need really really fast hands.
He even did the "float your card to the top of the deck" trick which was pretty cool.

On a side note, I have to say that that night was officially my "Chicken-wuss moment #2".
Why ? Oh the same reasons as always.
OMG she was so darn CUTE!
The bad thing about this time is that i'm not so worked up about it.
Which I don't think is such a good thing.
She was really really really cute !
All in all I had a really good time and would like to thank the people who arranged such a wonderful evening.

p.s. Happy Birthday Huey Yee !

The Prestige

Personal Unprofessional Rating : 5/5
Good story-line.
Good acting.
Love the plot twists, though they could've done it a little better.
But then again a little better and it would probably be overkill for most people.

Went home with an uneasy feeling after watching the show,
literally had that uneasy feeling at the pit of my stomach.

p.s. Happy Birthday Michelle !

Purdey's Birthday Dinner

Had a birthday dinner gathering at Purdey's House. (30/10/2006)

*PICS COMING SOON*

It was cool, manage to catch up with many friends whom of which I haven't seen for awhile.
We had huge rombongan/tour guide around the house
and I have to say that SOMEONES room is PINK !
and there were plushie toys !

p.s. Happy Birthday Purdey!

Hari Raya 2006

Pretty much the same as last year.

HAHAHAHAHAH.

Ok, had tons of fun and tons of food and visited places.

Can't really say much about it.

Doubt there were many (or any for that matter) pics of me.

This raya kind of felt like it was rushed for some reason.

*PICS COMING SOON (if there is any)*

p.s. Happy Birthday Rish!

Erwan's Birthday Surprise

Had a surprise birthday buka puasa gathering at this new place called Naili's.

Birthday Boy

Buffet spread was quite good.
Nothing special, but for RM35 (i think) it was reasonable.
Good ambiance.
The place has really nice sections.
A hall like section where you can join the tables and have a large group.
A "outdoor" section where you can chill out and have drinks and snacks.
and a few "pondok" like sections , where i'm assuming would be great for couples.

The Gang.

p.s. Happy Birthday Erwan !

Application - New PC

Application Form

Why ?

1.Cause I i'm unable to install the newer games.
2.Neverwinter Nights 2 is coming out.
3.Supreme Commander is coming out.
4.Running out of Hard Disk space (hmm wonder why) pr0n!

What ?

1. Customized PC - RM 4304 (Rough estimation)

ATHLON AM2 X2 3800+ 2.0GHz
KINGSTON PC 5300 DDR2 1Gig
SEAGATE 16M 250GB
HIS ATI RADEON 1300 PRO 256MB DDR2 HP
DVDRW AOPEN/LITE-ON
CREATIVE SB LIVE ! AUDIGY 4
ALTEC LANSING V4121 / 3 PIECE
19" LG 1952S
LOGITECH EASY DELUXE BLACK KEYBOARD
RAZER KRAIT GAMER MOUSE ( 1600DPI )
ASUS M2N4-SLI
ANTEC 430W TRUEPOWER / II
THERMALTAKE SOPRANO VB1000SWS SWING
D-LINK 10 / 100 T-BASE / PCI

OR

2. Dell Dimension 9200 - RM 4199 (inclusive of RM400 Rebate + Printer)

When ?

Soon, like right after NWN2 come out or maybe right before.

Where ?

Behind some dodgy dark alley somewhere.

How ?

Money well earned.

Why not ?

Well with the recent (or not so recent) acquisition of ATI Technologies Inc. by AMD, AMD has plans to create a new class of x86 processor that integrates both the CPU and GPU together.
The offset is that the first Fussion processors would only be out late of 2008/early 2009.

SO thats gonna be another 2-3 years of waiting.

BUT then I pondered on it some more and thought,

"Heck it, i'll just upgrade it later if and when it comes out la".

Simple : )
Don't know why this was a problem in the first place.

Of course I still haven't decided on whether I should get the Dell or a customised PC
or if i'm getting one at all.

*Adjusted and corrected some specs and quotations.

Dj Buka Puasa 2006

Had buka puasa gathering at Friendster Cafe.


My side of the table

Then some of us went to McD's for some desert.

The other only pic I could find with me in it.


A photo I took.

Seriously thinking of getting a camera of my own.
Why ? ... 2 words.

Ryoko Hirosue

Saw her in Love Collage a.k.a Collage of our Days.
And it was recently brought to my attention (by window guy)
that she was the same cute girl that acted in Wasabi.

From what I remember, the movie was AWSOME!
So, pending a re-watch i'd give it a
5/5 on the Personal Unprofesional Rating (P.U.R.) scale.

p.s. Happy Birthday Bae !

CherryPoP - Chinese Wedding

My first chinese wedding.
It was awsome, had so much fun
and I only knew one friend there.

Favourite dish : Chinese Pancake
Favourite song : When one of the uncles started singing Pan Yao
Favourite moment : Speech before the final "yam seng"
Favourite reason to go to another wedding : CHIQUES !
Uncle : I've been friends with the father of the bride for a long time now,
and although he has a beautiful wife, lovely children and a happy life
there is one thing that has been somewhat of a void in his life.

He has come up to me before saying that when he looks around at his peers
he sees that most of them already have grandchildren and
wondered if he too will one day see grandkids of his own.

So friend, this is for you.
May you be able to sleep next to a grandmother soon.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam Seng !

Huh, now that i've read back what I wrote, the speech didn't sound funny at all.
Infact its kind of sweet.
But it sure was darn hilarious when I heard it at the wedding.

Also the fact that there were many pretty ladies wearing pretty dresses,
might have contributed to the jolly good time I had ^^.

p.s. Happy Birthday Thomas !

Soo Yee's Birthday Dinner

Had a birthday dinner gathering at San Francisco Steakhouse.

My side of the table

Other side of the table


The only pic I could find with me in it.

The other only pic I could find with me in it.

Had pretty much everything a party should have (besides booze (cause I don't drink));
1.Fun
2.Friends
3.Food
4.and lip gloss smeared all over you ^^

ended up smelling like a girl for the remainder of the night.

A little about the place itself,
the service was ok,
the food was alright (though I was hungry, so I could be bias here)
but the place looked a little tacky for a steakhouse.

p.s. thanks lok for the pics and thanks kev for planning the dinner and not forgetting to invite me along : )

p.s.s My shoulder hurts : (

Chicken-wuss moment 1

I should really freaggin' listen to that little voice inside my head and stop playing it safe.

Blew a perfectly well placed chance.

Things don't get much more "indirectly and subtly" clearer than that.
NEXT TIME JUST OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND ASK FOR HER NUMBER LA !
CERTIFIED chicken-wuss !

Lamka and the Ran People

Once upon a time there was a little boy named Lamka.
He lived in city called PyJamas in a planet called Mya.

So one day Lamka and his grandfather decided to start a trade bazaar in the capital city of his planet called Kelle.
Lamka and his grandfather enlisted a scholar that was travelling by to help out at this bazaar.
The scholars task which was to inform nearby villages about the bazaar failed miserably.
On top of that, the scholar associated himself with a badly reputed poet which made other poets boy cott the bazaar.

Even though there were many upsets during the bazaar, the overall outcome was quite well.

Because in this trade bazaar, Lamka met a few strange aliens from another planet.
These aliens seemed to be of an advanced race.
Their ability in construction is ahead of any that Lamka have seen.

Upon further discussion Lamka found out that the Ran people have come to his planet bringing a new medical breakthrough drug and would like to share it with the people of Lamka's planet.
Knowing very well that Lamka's planet has been plagued by this uncurable disease, he set out to help the Ran people meet various key people of his planet.

The problem however, was that the Ran people could not survive long in Lamka's planet. This is due to the different atmosphere that the Ran people are accustomed to.
So it was basically a race against time.

Firstly Lamka brought the Ran people to meet the ex-Supreme Ruler of the World to seek advice on how to go about doing things and partly to pay respects, you know being in another persons planet you should have the courtesy of saying hello.
The very short notice meeting was only possible because Lamka's grandfather and the ex-Supreme Ruler of the World are good friends.

The next morning Lamka's grandfather was kind enough to introduce the Ran people to the head Shaman of the world whom ministers to the health needs of the people of this planet.

Soon after that meeting, Lamka brought the Ran people to see the mayor of Lamka's city.
The Mayor of PyJamas was a very friendly guy, spent some time with the Ran people disscussing the weather, eating habits and comparing political structures of the 2 planets.

Later in the evening Lamka brought the Ran People to see the Mayor of Mya's capital city, the city of Kelle.
Now as expected, the Mayor of Kelle was very busy, and the Ran people only had time for a courtesy call. In the short session, the Mayor of Kelle was kind enough to refer the Ran people to his head of departments whom might have more time to thoroughly listen to what the Ran people has to offer.

As the day ended, so did the Ran people's stay in Mya.
Though they part ways for now, many key people of Mya are aware of Rans medicine and the Ran people will still keep in touch with the people of Mya through spacE-mail.
Hopefully there will come a day where the Ran people will be able to share their knowledge and experience with the people of Mya and vice versa.