Snake vs Masked Man

Or Alien vs Predator and that was the movie Winnie (the Poo) and I went to check out at GSC in 1 Utama earlier today. When we got in to the waiting lounge, there was this awful burning smell in the air as we saw the bar counter's microwave was smoking like a BBQ stove! Needless to say, we went out to get some fresh air as well some fresh juice.

The movie was overall entertaining, but again the storyline is predictable and quite similar to the first episode. Alien escapes and breeds, Predator gets trigger happy and the earth is once again safe from Aliens. After watching the movie for a while, the Aliens are starting to look more like snakes to me and the Predator looks more like a masked man with a laser gun mounted on his shoulder. I was wondering maybe the producers of this movie probably got the idea off some documentary show from National Geographic or something.

After the movie we had dinner at Just Thai Restaurant, nothing fancy but the dishes are quite authentic. Pandan Leaves Chicken would be my favorite, although Winnie fancies the lime sour fish she ordered.

I've known Winnie since primary school, she was sitting the same school bus as me. It's funny that although we're both Malaysian, most of the time where we actually hooked up was in Indonesia rather then Malaysia! Whenever I'm in Jakarta, I would get a call from her out of the blue telling me she's in town. So I asked her what is she doing in Jakarta so often and she'll answer me that she's here to party. Winnie, you memang deserve the to carry the title of Hardcore Party Queen :P

Winnie playing with her PDA

While waiting for the movie to start at the GSC lounge


Miss Poo took this for me


Winnie digging her coconut


She's happy to see the pandan leaves chicken to arrive


Bon appetit!

Later towards the night, I called Angie to check up on her and see how is she doing. I'm glad she managed to overcome all her problems now and she'll be on a holiday trip with her boyfriend on Monday. Women, no more "suet yu" for you :P

Kevin came over to my place to burn some CDs and he also needed to his fender fixed as we're going street racing later. We went to chill out later at After 5 in Damansara Perdana and Michael came over to join us. Needless to say, as usual after a few rounds of beer Kevin cranked up his engine and started bull shitting Michael while he listens to him attentively.

Honestly, I think in this world it'll be probably me & Michael alone who would only listen to his BS & crap *haha*

Kevin checking his fender


Kevin fixing his fender


17 inch all the way




Drunk


Stoned face after the race


Kevin telling Michael he was doing 190 km/h on 4th gear


And Michael listens with full attention

See what I mean?

Finally

Yes finally! Our MobiCharge demo server is up and running! I would like to thank my core team for putting in all the hard work and effort, I promise you guys we will sweep Chunghwa Telecom off their feet when I'm there for our presentation next month.

And I finally get to meet Loong's girlfriend Annie tonight! I was chilling out with Angie at Cinnamon located inside One World Hotel in Bandar Utama and Annie just got off the bus from Singapore, and later on both of them came over to meet up with us.

I'm lazy to write today, so I'm going to put up a lot of pictures to make up for it.

Cinnamon Sign

The outdoor side of Cinnamon

Mini bridge to outdoor

I forgotten what I'm drinking


Angie in a fairly good mood


I'm not sure what she's thinking, but I don't want to find out


Angie enjoying her Long Island Tea


Only a few sips and she's drunk


She's a natural poser *grin*

Alright, with so many of Angie's pictures posted here some of you might be thinking she seems like a nice girl and yada yada.........Well, yes she is a nice girl indeed. In fact, she's probably one of the nicest I've ever known. In fact, back in the past I always have to save her monkey ass from her mom every time she hangs out late. You owe me your life Angie :P

Yeah and I know some of you crocodiles out there might already be wondering what her status is like. Well, I've got no comments. Go check her out yourself :P

Again, looks can be deceiving. Sometimes, she can be so gross that she got me stunned and I really don't know what to say.

Don't believe me?

*Speechlesss*

Jingle Bells (Balls)

Woo hoo~~!! Couldn't find a better day then Christmas Eve to get drunk and totally wasted! Was counting down in After 5 at Damansara Perdana with Kevin, Michael and lots and lots of cute bar chicks as well. Courtesy of Kevin and Michael, I think they're really well connected with all the chicks hanging out at the pubs nearby. Every time I chill out with them, they don't seem to have any problems having girls hanging around them. Annie came and joined us later on, I think the alcohol only went up her head after she reached home because she called me after that telling me she's actually holding the toilet bowl while talking to me, I could still hear the echo over the phone! *LOL*

Drunk

The best way to overcome a hangover is always food, so the guys and I went over to SS2 to have steamboat for supper. Man, this Kevin really knows how to eat. He has such a thin frame but he actually wallop more meat balls then I could possibly imagine. He's never fat, I mean even when he's fat he still looks thin. Can anyone understand me? I'm sounding like a mental now :P

Earlier in the evening Alicia and I was attending Kim Geok's wedding dinner at Sunway Hotel. My, the ballroom was really grand, and they have such nice decorations. I've known Kim Geok for 20 years, her husband Vincent is like 3 years elder then her whom I think is a match made in heaven. Not everyone can tolerate Kim Geok's temper, I sure hope she's not reading this or else she's definitely going to skin me alive! *grin*

Kim Geok & Vincent, congratulations. I love you guys :)

Oh yeah, by the way my sister looked smoking hot last night! I'm not sure whether did she upload her pictures to her Friendster / Facebook but I sure hope she did. And on the plus side, she's single too! So crocodiles out there, start your engines! *Sorry muiz, I can't help it :P*

Take a look for yourself

Hmn, come to think of it perhaps my next blog entry should be titled Single Girls so I can slowly introduce some of the single girls that I know. Who knows, some nice guys might just stumble over this blog and end up getting interested in one of them eh? *really really evil grin*

I had such a blast last night during Christmas Eve, I was so tired and wasted that I actually slept through the entire day. Woke up about 4 in the afternoon, and I suddenly remembered I'm suppose to attend church in the morning with Michael and his girlfriend Madeline! I hope she's not crossed at me for missing it. I'm sorry Madeline! I mean, with what happened last night 10 AM seems like an impossible task for me! You would have understood right? *guilty*

Although it's like another 45 minutes to Boxing Day, and it might sounded a bit late but I still would like to wish all family and friends Merry Christmas. New Year is just around the corner, so keep your party mood warm and don't let it die off as we're about to sail through the year to 2008.

Jingle bells and jingle balls folks! *I've always wanted to say that*

Wallop

Went to check out the National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets with Loong yesterday and since I was the one buying the tickets, I figured out that I would treat this young friend of mine a Gold Class seating in GSC. I really enjoy the excitement, pleasure and surprise that shows up on their faces if it's their first time. I know it's really nothing for those whose frequent GSC Gold Class, but it never fails to brighten up their day if it's their first time *grin* and I couldn't help but feeling happy too.

Well yeah I know some might argue that RM 40 for a ticket might be a bit expensive, but again it really depends on the individual itself. To me, I don't mind forking out a little bit more for the luxurious over sized leather seat that allows you to stretch your leg straight all the way, the luxury of placing an order anytime for a drink halfway during the movie and of course the nice and comfy waiting lounge. Gold Class theaters only accommodates a maximum of 30 persons, so audiences are given much more privacy as there is a very huge gap of spaces between the seatings.

Spent the whole evening over at Alicia's house together with Ken Lee, Wei Yi, Wern, Nexus & John for a BBQ session. Best part of the entire night was the dessert, cheese cake made by my precious sister Alicia. I even get to bring home half of it! Of course, I did enjoy myself throughout the night. Felt a little bit embarrassed though at first because I'm the eldest there, but luckily we all could click and crack jokes on each other so the funny feeling went away shortly. Hmn, can't help but feeling that I'm getting old already *grin*. I think I really ate a lot tonight, I lost count on how many hot dogs I've swallowed and the pieces of chicken wings that I walloped.

Speaking about the word wallop, you may want to check out Microsoft's latest 13 million USD investment, a social networking site called Wallop and it is targeting directly at major social networking sites such as Friendster, Facebook and MySpace. Wallop adopts an approach that Facebook abandoned back in October 2006 which new users are able to sign up only via an invitation by its current members only. Wallop is still in beta stage now, so I guess this approach allows them to have control over its user base size. This is the same approach that Gmail adopted back then when it was in beta stage too.

Well guess what? Ich werde auch eingeladen, which means I'm invited too in German :P

Why all of a sudden German? Yes yes, I'm asked to fly in to Germany after my trip back from Taiwan next month. My parent company where all my fundings are coming from now is located in Germany, Nuremberg to be specific. So I guess sooner or later I'll have to make trip over there to meet up with the rest of the Board of Directors.

I have the utmost respect for Germans actually, they have one of best car manufacturers in the world. Porsche, Mercedes, BMW and Audi to name a few. Germany has one of the best R&D facilities in the world, namely Fraunhofer Institute. Fraunhofer Institute consists of 58 institutes ranging from Algorithms and Scientific Computing to Biomedical Engineering to Molecular Biology. Did you know that the MP3 technology was developed in Fraunhofer Institute back in 1992? Well, my parent company HumanScan AG's current flagship technology in multi-modal biometrics was also incubated in Fraunhofer Institute back then.

Guess I better be getting some shut eye soon, I've got attend Kim Geok's wedding dinner tomorrow evening and I have lots of errands to follow up in the morning.

By the way, how many people do you actually come across in life that has their wedding dinner planned during Christmas eve nowadays? Ever wonder why would they choose such a day?

Beats me.

Whatever

There'll be times where you really feel like rolling your eyes upward and put your hands up in the air and just say "whatever......." and today is definitely one of the days.

Why? Because no matter what, you still won't feel good if you found out someone out there is bad mouthing you, regardless whether is it true or not. Especially if it is someone who barely even knows you, but of course everyone is entitled to their own opinions so I should not care too much about it.

Well, with that in mind I stumbled across this posting in YouTube which comes in just handy for me to express how I really feel now.

Ain't she cute? OK that really brightened up my day. I feel so much better now. She's probably the only reason I can think of now if I ever want to get married and have babies *LOL*

In case you don't know, thats the famous Baby Ally doing the "Whatever" that generated almost 2 million hits to YouTube alone. Yes, thats 2 million hits. Now you know how powerful consumer generated contents can be.

Now that I felt so much better after letting go all the air, I got nothing much to brag about. Might as well just shutdown and go to sleep then.

One last time. Uh, *roll eyes* whatever.

Taking life for granted

What a rainy day, doesn't it feel good to wake up to a nice cool morning hearing the drizzling raindrops outside the window? I had a marathon of drinking session yesterday, first it was high school friends. Followed by Loong. Next it was Annie. Lastly, Jason, Alicia and my brother James. When I got home, it's almost 4 in the morning.

I would probably stay in and slept the whole day if it wasn't for Bong. Bong used to be my VP of Engineering back in the NexusEdge days, I respected him a lot. But thanks and no thanks to Esmond Goei, NexusEdge went through a slow and painful die. Yes, that's you Esmond. You know what you did. Your greediness together with your bunch of useless cronies from the States has single handily brought down the company. I hope you burn in hell, wherever you are and please bring along your bunch of cronies together with you too.

MSCVC was all good before Sarina Karim left, and then they hired Datuk Arif Nun who brought in the biggest asshole I ever met, Esmond Goei. MSCVC was destined to go to hell since then, not to mention the shame they brought to the entire VC arena. With Badlisham Gazali taking over as the CEO of MDC, I really hope he's able to revive MSCVC and at least for once make us proud.

Alright, enough of history. Karma is a bitch. What goes around comes around.

I managed to catch up with Pui Yee today, she had an emotional breakdown 2 days earlier. Lucky for her, she has friends like Amelia and Ginny to take care of her and support her. All I could do is just sit down, buy her a cup of coffee in Starbucks and listen to her story. Out of respect for her privacy I shall not write what happened. But I guess you would have probably figured out.

I would consider myself from the generation X, where these 3 feisty little foxes would be from the generation Y. Definition of generation X and generation Y can be found here and here. Hmn, if that's the case according to Wikipedia then we're all from generation Y! Alright, that is beside the point.

I'm 27, and they're all 21. And yet, I'm amazed by how much affection and care they've shown about our country. Not to mention anger too. I mean, I don't too often come across females my age that gives a damn about what is happening around us, and with all these injustice and nonsense going on in our country I dare to say most probably they don't even have a political stand.

Right, some say they're just being neutral. Some say they don't trust the voting system in our country so why vote anyway. My fellow citizens, voting is your right. When you don't vote, you have no right to bitch and whine about all the injustice, unfairness going on in our country. I want to quote what Pui Yee said (although I know she quoted someone else hehe) "Can you afford not to vote?"

Sometimes, I just feel that we're all really taking life for granted. With friends, with family, in work, in relationships. Don't agree with me? Well, read this and if you don't feel anything at all, it's either your situation is worst then his (which I doubt so) or you're just a heartless bastard that is taking life for granted.

I'm not a saint and I've done my fair share of evil deeds. Yes, I do have times where I'll remorse some of the things that I've done in the past and it doesn't mean after that I'll be free from all the guilt and sin. At least, I would constantly remind myself not to repeat it again. We're human beings after all made of flesh and blood. We're supposed to make mistakes and learn from it.

Food for thought. So before you start thinking how miserable your life is or how bad your boyfriend/girlfriend is treating you, you might want to ask yourselves this.

Have I been taking things for granted?

Nice things don't last

Logged on to Facebook this morning and this Angie got nothing better to do then to poke me. I pinged her in MSN and I said to her "If you wanna poke me, you can do it to me in real life!" and we end up bursting in laughters. It seems like everyone is in to Facebook nowadays, and you would look like a total freak if you tell people you don't know what is Facebook. Remember the good old Friendster days? Yeah it does ring a bell huh.

We were talking about linking each other's blog and I shared with her that I got a few comments from friends regarding our blogs. They're asking how come our blogs are lacking of pictures? Well, honestly who the f*ck cares whether your blog has any pictures because it's your blog! We honestly don't give a flying f*ck who reads our blog, so why would I give a damn about posting pictures in it? I could very well write whatever I felt like writing, and we think that a blog is just a place where we can write to our heart's content and a place where we can pour our feelings and convey them in to words. Do you see any ads? Nooo....Any product endorsements? Nooo.....So yes, call us selfish snobs if you want to. We can't very well please everyone in this world. So if we can't even write what we like and how we liked it to be, you might as well just shoot us :P

Anyway, I didn't realize it was almost lunch time and we have been bitching about this issue the whole morning and I realized I actually had a lunch appointment with Kim Geok. Damn, she's getting married! Yeah, that's her wedding dinner I need to attend during Christmas Eve. She's getting thinner and thinner, I hope she's not trying to lose weight for the wedding dinner. I've known her for like 15 years, and she hasn't change a bit. Still the princess she used to be, of course she has matured over the years and yes she's a career woman now! We talked about a lot of stuffs and suddenly she tells me she's having cold feet last minute. WTF?!

Man, did she get some nice buttering from me. I mean, I don't blame her for not wanting to have kids, but hell marrying the guy doesn't mean you need to have kids with him immediately aye? Perhaps she's under some pressure that the guy's family might interfere, well I told her end of the day she has to learn how to mingle with his family. After all, marriage is not entirely about you and him alone, it's about the union of both families. I hope she'll feel better after our little chat, I'm probably not going to see her until her wedding night as she's gonna be pretty tied up with the wedding preparation.

Earlier in the evening, I went to pick up Cassandra and we went to check out this Japanese restaurant in One World Hotel, yes I remembered to jot down the name of this restaurant this time. It's called Kura Japanese Restaurant. If you've been to Zen in Pyramid, they're from the same franchise. So anything grand about this restaurant? Well at least for a start the scenery looks fantastic. You get to see the view of the hotel garden and the LDP highway, which looks peculiarly nice seeing the cars passing by. Cassandra and I started counting the numbers of cars passing by while we're waiting for our food to arrive. How lame!

So what else is fantastic? The pricing on the menu of course! Everything is double digit and some even triple digit. Yes, TRIPLE DIGIT. I'm not at all surprised, you're basically paying for the environment and the lifestyle. The food is not too bad though, and the service is of excellence. Well, we were sort of sitting on the furthest corner of the restaurant because it has one of nicest view, given the kind of privacy and yet still see the waiter would come and check on you to see whether is everything okay on a 10 minute basis. And they have this 10 seconds SLA whereby if you need to be attended to, all you need is to press a button and within 10 seconds someone appears! Every single time! Well, I admit we're both being evil for fooling around, but hey.....the customers are always right yeah? Damn, pity the waitress. I think we're definitely going to hell for this.

Call me a hypocrite if you want to, I was bitching earlier about not posting pictures and here I am going to post one. Just one picture, here goes:

*And we're not in any way affiliated with this restaurant*

When I got home, I fired up my email client and as usual I'll be expecting mails which are nothing out of the extraordinary and the last email that came in just made my day. I looked at the header and this is what I saw "Taiwan Trip"! @#$%^&! Dammit! What happened to my honeymoon?! I'm suppose to enjoy my honeymoon! I was still practically happy talking about it 2 days ago and now this?! Arggghhhh.....somebody please stab me with a knife! Life is so unfair!

Well anyway, it's only a few days trip and it hasn't been confirmed yet. I guess the distributor that we recently signed up has already started its marketing activities sooner then I thought. Well, business is business. If I have to go, I have to go then.

Sometimes in life, I guess you just don't get what you wish for. I wonder, is it really true that nice things don't always last?

My little sister

Argh, I woke up feeling a bit dizzy this morning, must be due the rain yesterday. Told the boys I'm not coming in and I went straight back to bed, with 2 aspirins of course. It’s funny when you are having fever, you tend to have all sorts of weird and funny dreams.

Few hours of sleep later and I'm good as new, so I went to meet up with Alicia for lunch in Sunway Pyramid. We went to check out this new Japanese restaurant right next to Zen, I can't really remember what the name was. Well, it’s pretty much your standard Japanese restaurant with all the sushis and noodles when I flipped the menu but like I always say, it’s the company that matters.

Come to think of it, I've known this sister of mine for like....10 years? Whoa, that’s a pretty long time actually! Unlike any other typical friendships, this is something more closely to your heart, the family type of love. The type of love where you know you can always count on them whenever things happen, where you know they will always stand by your side. They will feel upset when you share with them your sad stories, feel happy for you when you're happy. She's probably the only one sister I'll ever have in my life, which is more than enough to me.

I remembered there were times in the past where a few of my exes would get jealous over her when they first get to know her. After a while, this issue was never brought up again and they're all friends with her. Maybe it’s typically uncommon for 2 non blood related individuals to be so close like brothers and sisters, but it’s been like 10 years so I guess action speaks louder than words.

Well, there's going to be a lot more 10 years coming and I hope nothing is going to change what we have between us. I remember when we first met, she's like still the small little girl wearing school uniform, always the nice sweet girl greeting everyone online during the IRC days and bang now she's a lawyer! And when I looked back it was like a blink of an eye. God I'm so damn proud of her now. I'll be her biggest customer ever when she runs her own firm.

I'll probably swing by the mamak stall with my brother James later for supper, hell he can't stop eating ever since he got back from Perth. I think sooner or later he's going to overtake me in terms of weight. You can't find any mamak stalls in Australia, although they do sell Nasi Lemak in the city but its freaking expensive! I once had Nasi Lemak in Sydney at it costs me freaking AUS 10! Yeah I know some of you might be cursing me why the hell on earth would I want to eat Nasi Lemak in Sydney. It’s like you want to know how different would it taste compared to where it came from. Well, to my surprise it actually tasted quite good! I guess the owner must have been a Malaysian LOL!

Before I sign off, Pui Yee if you're reading this please don't set me up again like what you did last night OK! I'm sorry if I called you "basket" but that doesn't mean you got to put me in the same room with 2 of your nut case friends! LOL yeah they're fun but it sure doesn't feel nice to be the ONLY guy! *DUH* Anyway I hope you managed to format your new hard drive and figured out how to do your partition *LMAO*

*Yawn*

Winnie woke me up with a phone call, shit I forgotten I'm suppose to check with the travel agency regarding our CNY trip! Then Kevin called, we're suppose to go Xiamen in China on CNY too! I guess there might be a clash on the schedule, I better start working on it right now. Hopefully no more weddings in February, I already got 4 lined up between now and January.

Talk about weddings, I guess in the next 2 years I would probably see lots of friends around me getting married. At least there are 3 pairs whom already confirmed their weddings with me, I got a funny feeling there is more coming. *Oh pity my wallet*

Was out with Angie the other night to check out the movie I am a Legend, if you like movies such as 28 Days Later or Land of the Dead you'll definitely like this one. We checked out The Golden Compass 2 days earlier, realized there'll be another or more sequel to it which sometimes leave you hanging half way because there's no closure yet.

Don't think she'll be able to fully enjoy normal seatings again after trying out the Gold Class seating! *grin*

I'm almost finished with the cash flow projection for ChilliWire and I need to get it done and sent out ASAP. We still haven't purchase the printer and meeting table yet. Felt damn embarrassed towards Peggy for dragging her on the printer. *Raise up hands* my bad, my bad :P

Geez, I'm still feeling sleepy even when I'm writing this now. The last 2 months of laziness must have gotten the worst out of me. The Starbucks - Book routine every morning sure is enjoying, but I think I better tone down a little and start showing up in the office more often.

*Yawn*, time for a little nap I guess.

A New Chapter

I have decided to resume writing now, putting everything behind and starting a new chapter in life. I have certainly gained a lot of insight in life through some soul searching and self reflection in the past few months, I discovered that there are times in life where one person just does not have control over, no matter how much you tried.

Letting go and forgiving is definitely something that has a new meaning to me, no matter how wrong a person has done you in the past, only by truly forgiving them and letting go would you only be able to move on with life. I could only wish them all the best in life.

I have also accepted the fact that people do change, and throughout the entire incident that has happened in the past few months, I've got many people that I would like to thank. I now truly know who my friends are and who are not, who are the people that would stand by you no matter what. The best thing that could ever happen is that I finally get to see the real colors of certain individuals, something that even money couldn't buy.

My previous jobs requires me to travel so often and spending long business trips overseas that sometimes I don't even have time for myself. I consider myself lucky now to be able to work in an environment where I have so much flexibility and I could minimize traveling, at least for the time being.

With all the deals going on now in Sudan, China, Taiwan and Indonesia, I pray that I could have a few more months of honeymoon before I start my hectic business trips again. Looking at the bright side, at least my frequent flyer points are going to reach new heights again.

I am so much happier now because I could spend more time with my family and friends, and it really feels good getting back in touch with long lost friends. I was having dinner the other day with Angie and she said to me "who you choose to be with defines who you are", well said isn't it?

I would like to pen off this post with the message to the intended person (you know who you are):

"Hey, I know it’s a rough journey in the past. We both did put in our best effort, it lasted a while but too bad it did not work out, no hard feelings alright. We're not meant for each other, we should have ended it 2 years ago.

Right now, what’s most important is that you find your true happiness. Forget about what others think of you, they're not you and they probably wouldn't be able to understand what you're going through. Who cares what’s right and what’s wrong? Life's too short for that.

If you're happy now, go ahead and follow what your heart tells you. I am sure sooner or later people would be able to understand and even accept it.

I am happy now, so should you."