Back from Penang

Good and bad news,

Good news was, Penang was fun, eat sleep enjoy relax, run around the island.

Bad news, came back home hear of my sis's house got broken into. SIEN. Hope the police can do something but highly doubt their capability. Last time my friend's house got broken into nothing was done other than come look see only.

Glad to be going for a break this Weekend

Yay, going to Penang this weekend, hopefully it wouldn't be too hot, will take a leisurely drive up there, and have a free and easy time dozing around the island.

Wanted to see how to train your dragon, but don't think can make it on time. Oh Well

Note to self : Charge all camera batteries b4 going, clear all camera memory cards b4 going too ^^

Haven't felt it this short before

Wahaha, don't think on the slanted side.

Well i don't know why, but i have nose hairs growing thick and long, which is very irritating to my nostrils. Makes me sneeze and itch in the nose, People think i always dig my nose, but no, i was just scratching the itch.

When they get too long, I have had this irritating painful habit of 'pulling' my nose hairs by gripping them with my fingers and giving them a sudden pull. Pain, but it's just a short while. Trust me, i've tried with tweezers those girls use for their eyebrows, and the pain is damn unbearable until tears also come to my eyes.

Until i found, a nose hair trimmer from a certain pharmacy. Cuts and trims and even have some nifty things for you to trim your sideburns if needed. First unit i got was faulty though. Luckily they were great to exchange my unit for a nice working thing.

The experience.

No Pain Yay, but don't go squeezing your nose, the stubs will poke into you like a day growth of beard/moustache stubs. Try not to breathe when you trim, unless you want to sneeze alot.. Use tissue to clean up the small particles of shaven hair and you're good to go :)

Only 20++ Ringgit, worth it, works on 1 AA Battery

Minor Minor Minor Tech Problems

I wonder why these things happen, nobody can touch the servers other than us, but when we setup the servers, it all works fine, after afew weeks some things start to go awry. Drivers go missing on their own.

X Files. Unknown reason

Cracking your head over quirky stuff

Have you ever had something happen to you which you thought would not happen, but it happens anyhow, and that something actually shouldn't act like that, but it's acting that way which you have never encountered before.

Well, today is one of those days which made me waste tons of time dwelling on these small little problems.

No Solution yet, luckily it's just a PC still can format. ^^

Hoping the plan falls into place properly

Here's to hope that everything gets running at the same time and falls into place perfectly, hope hope hope

Do you have one of these nosey relatives?

It's funny how some people act to want to help, but doesn't go out of their way to help.

Saying things like "if i hit the lottery tonite, then i can help so and so" in front of everyone is like trying to show off how compassionate they are. These people are so fake.

If someone is down with critical illness, you don't come to tell them your insurance coverage is not good enough, you come to offer compassionate, and suggestions, not saying their this not good, that not good etc etc etc.

Please do reflect on yourself before doing this to others.

And stop being such a cheapskate

Tip Toe Tip Toe Tip Toe

Been working my arse off and it's been a good time, loads to work to do ^^

And then there was a win

And a win it was, although it doesn't matter to where i stay, but still it is a good thing for them to have won, the lesser of 2 evils?

people just want a change, and the bigger powers are being sore losers, maybe because of being too well used to being fed and fat.

oh well congrats to the PR

And then there was a trip, and a leak, and another leak

Time after time, the shoddy workmanship of the apartment i'm staying in is starting to surface, firstly the fuse box, one of the fuses which don't usually fail, failed, it keep tripping and i thought that it was my computers which were giving the trouble.


Well long story cut short, after removing one after another appliance from the sockets leading to the fuse box, it still trip, so concluded that it was the stupid fuse thingy which is spoilt being too sensitive. Luckily my Father in law bought some spares to keep in the house, he's a TNB engineer so he knows these stuff, had to call him in Malacca to get directions on how to remove the fuse from the fuse box.

There's a catch in the circled place, just have to use a flat screw driver to pull it down before removing/installing into the fuse box

LOL it isn't as easy as i thought, at first i tried to do it myself (after turning off the main power of course) and i was pulling tugging and all, but i can't get it out, hahaha this was actually my first try at doing something to the fuse box. Called my Father in Law and he told me that there's a catch at the bottom which needs to be pulled down to release the fuse.

Well after doing that, till today, there was no more problems no more trips to the computers, and to think i almost threw away my PK Auto Voltage Regulator because i thought it was spoilt. :P

Well after that, was over, i think after another week, a leak sprung under my sink, it was actually the draining part which was leaking, the plasticky thing under the sink wasn't holding in place and the screw to hold it in place has lost it's gear "wat nga"(cantonese), i went to carrefour to get a set back, and it didn't match.

The leak sprung from the top of this thing, the connection to the sink was bad, and the rubber piece was brittle

Luckily my aunt, who's a hoarder of loads of stuffs for Just In Case situations had a few sets of these stuff at her home, so i took some from her to try out, and well i managed to get it fixed back in, and i fixed the leak, yay DIY again.

Lastly, yesterday, i was in my Brother in Law's room, and chit chatting with him about his Apple notebook, when i suddenly looked up, and i was shocked that there was watermark on the ceiling abestos. ARGHHHHH!!!, i immediately took the huge step ladder and climbed up into the raftings to take a look, and found out where it was leaking.

Note : Not as extensive as this pic which i took from google images :) LUCKILY

The pipe between the two bathrooms which leads over my brother in law's room sprung a leak, and the water was slowly dripping and it was dripping directly into his Air Conditioning unit. Well i made them all quickly take their baths, and turned off the mains and released all the water from the pipes so that there's no pressure there.

Asked wifey if i can fix it or not, she say leave it to the pro's, so i took half day leave, called the plumbers, and got it fixed in a jiffy, cost 180 bucks and half a day's leave. They changed a stretch of 12 feet pipe with a pvc pipe which they brought along. They showed me the original pipe and the one which they changed in, the quality is double the thickness.

ABS Pipe, blue colour, but the developer used one which was way thinner than this, the pvc pipe i changed to was grey colour and the thickness of the walls of the pipe was like this pipe pic.

The pipes which the developer used was very lousy, brittle, thin walls and CHEAP. All these fixes i had to do was because the stupid developer's quality is damn lousy. If you want to know, the developer is Zeus.

Although this is a low/medium cost apartment, i still feel that they should at least make it better. The lifts are different shapes, i wonder which second hand shop they got the lifts from. :(

Add On 21/08/08 : I forgot, the toilet flush lever broke too in one of the two toilets, talk about lousy quality stuff. I bought a metal one at ACE hardware and replaced the lever for 9 bucks.

12 Boxes of Doughnuts please

We just had a small company meeting, well not exactly small, i think around 50-60 ppl. Went out for an earlier lunch to tapao stuff for the meeting, and we went to get some vegetarian po-piah and karipap for the vegetarians in the company.

Then we went to Big Apple Donuts, (I fancy them more than J-CO), wahahaha, they went in and told the counter staff, 12 dozen please, and the staff was like...uhh, O.O 12 dozen? 12 big boxes? LOL, anyhow they bought it at Low Yat Plaza the main entrance.

We enjoyed our donuts after the meeting, YAY, and the karipap were quite nice if you like your currypuffs with only potatoes. ^^ no pics, i wanted to snap 12 boxes of 12 doughnuts but, no camera :( Oh well, very full now. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I got rewarded for my loyalty

LOL, Ok, i'm sorry for taking so long to post another post, my friends/readers have been telling me, post la, waiting to read your posts.

Here is what the title of this post is about, I went back to Malacca last Saturday, and before that i was telling my wife that i wanted to reload my TnG card at the Add Value lane at the Plus highway, well, wifey said that if there's alot of cars at that lane, then can use her card and go thru first, then come back only reload from Malacca side, since that's less people loading there.

When we reached the lane there was like 10 cars in front of me, so i was like oh ok, nevermind la wait a bit. When it reached my turn, i haded the girl 100 bucks and the card. Then like normal the operator reloaded it, beeped at the machine and gave the card back to me with the receipt. I drove off.

I then passed the card and the receipt to my wife and she say OMG why so much de? I was like what so much, she say the receipt said 400 bucks. I was like is it the printer problem, not clear printing. She say 'No' it's 400 bucks. My bro in law who was sitting at the back seat also said he say 400+ on the display board when the operator beeped my card and was wondering why i reloaded so much.

Oh well, i didn't turn back as there's no way to turn back, and i'm still not sure if it's 100 or 400 as i didn't see the board and the receipt, driving on the highway must be alert cannot simply look anywhere else. So by the time we reached Malacca, i beeped thru the machine and it really showed 400 bucks ++ WOW. Bonus ^^

Trying to get healthier

I admit, i'm addicted to the internet, to computers and the works, the second i reach home, first thing i do is i turn on the computer, be it to surf facebook or play my online games.

So i try to get it out of the system. Sometimes i go out with wifey shopping, be it grocery or other stuff, on Wednesdays i go for a badminton session with colleagues, "Great to sweat it out" never knew sweat can be that smelly :P, and yesterday went for a bowling session with some old mates.

I think it's been almost a year since i last bowled, bowling is sooooo expensive nowadays, last time i used to be able to bowl for just 2 to 3 bucks a game (Student card) now it's like 5 bucks a game, and the places are usually packed.

Ah well, i must have not moved this way for so long as it's like creaking in the back and the knees when i'm stooping to release the ball, wahahaha, anyhow i still can reach 130 score, my usual average "Yay" still got my touch i suppose :P, First match 90+ (Ish i always set myself to 100 minimum, maybe this game i was trying too hard, second game 120+, and third game 130, ah well, better than nothing ^^.

After that, go home bathe, surf the net a bit (SEE I CAN'T GET RID OF IT) then zzzz. Peaceful sleep mustabe really tired.

Week 1 Lag, Week 2 Lag, Week 3 Lag and at Week 4 no more lag!!

Stupid Maple Story, they have their third anniversary event in their server for 1 month and they totally lagged out all the players outside Singapore, their people did something to the routers with Starhub and it caused people not using Starhub to have frequent freeze and disconnections.

I was put off, to the point of almost quitting, but then again, have some really nice friends in the game and i've enjoyed the game with my wife, takes off a bit of stress at home when you can just ignore everything and go in to hack and slash. Kill Kill Kill.

I do hope the game provider reimburse the money we spent which went to unproductivity for the entire month, and we didn't even manage to play properly for the anniversary event, they should just extend it to satisfy the players outside Singapore.

1 Month Hiatus

Hmmm my updates tend to be sparse nowadays, maybe there was loads of things to do, maybe i just got lazy, i wonder if i will ever stop this procrasination :P

Anyhow, about my last post, 1 finally got the vouchers 1 month after i won it, i think my mom received the mail yesterday, i forgot if it was registered mail or those courier mail. But they never told me how the prize will be sent to me, all the plans for father's day pizza was dashed, oh well. Still get to have a feast Wahahahah!!!

Leaves and Winnings

Leaves as in taking leave from your office for personal chores
and Winnings as in winning some contest or something good.

Bwahahah this is not the first time it happened, i was on leave yesterday, and was driving when i decided to try my luck with the local radio station Mix FM, to my surprise i got through even though i think i called in a little bit late. And after i gave my answer, i won a RM200 pizza hut voucher ^^.

Yay can bring whole family for feast liao. Bwahahahaha

Like i said this isn't the first time for this to happen. Last time when my wife and i was on leave and on our way back to Malacca, she also called in and managed to win 2 concert tickets to Coldplay concert in Singapore. The bad thing was we weren't able to make it to SG as we had other things to do. :(

But still, 200 bucks can eat until whole family full full, what with now all the prices going up, any winnings is encouraged, more more, money come money come :)

Mothers Day & Catchup

Ahem ahem, i think it's a wee bit late, but anyhow Happy Belated Mother's day ^^ to all mothers out there.

Oh ya, don't think i didn't celebrate it, because i did, celebrated it with my Mom In Law and my Mom one day after the other :) Lots of food and feasting.

Anyhow, thinking back, i think i've had 3 long weekends adding this week to it would be 4, almost every Monday or Friday there would be something going on which i would have to take leave or it is a Public Holiday, this coming Monday is Wesak day, so i'm looking forward to it too, another looong weekend, and another few feasting as we're having another feast at home for my Maternal Granddad's birthday.

Hmm rants now, if you ever go to North Port Klang to eat, do not go to Bagan Hailam Restaurant, FOOD & Service SUX*

*Defination of SUX in this place, we had to take our own utensils, we had to find our own tea cups, the teapot came without the cups, we had to wash our own hammers to use on the crabs, we spent 2 hours there waiting and eating our food, and the food is wayyyy below average.

Why we went there was to bring my uncle who just came back from New Zealand around to have some nice meals. We were actually stopping by the 2nd restaurant there which is air-conditioned (the 1st one which we usually went to has closed down) but one of my uncles said that this stupid Bagan Hailam is better. According to my wife and my other uncle, they have been to the one which we originally wanted to go to, and the food was decent. Ah well, another time maybe.

Anyhow after that silly stupid 1 hour travel to Klang just for some lousy food and another 1 hour travel home, we were too pissed and tired to rant anymore. :P

Ok on my trip back to Melaka(Malacca) fun trip this time, no more stomach aches or food poisoning, maybe because already boycott Oldtown. Bwahahaha!! Went around town the second day, it was hot hot hot, so we went to air cond places, something which i could also get in KL hahaha. Somehow the people in Melaka prefer Tesco to Giant, i went to both on the same day as my Mom in law wanted to get something from Giant after we went to Tesco. And the crowd just wasn't there on a busy Saturday afternoon. Tesco on the other hand is overflowing with people.

We also went to no 81, Jalan Tokong to get the usual pineapple tarts, (YUMMY & Wonderful tarts) Bought back 4 boxes, gave my mom 2 boxes to distribute to my sis and uncle. And took 2 boxes to Office for my colleagues to enjoy. RM11 for a box of 24 tarts. Cheap? But anyhow, it was wonderful, fragrant and very nice tasting. No pics forgot to take :P

Ooo ya next trip back to Melaka 7 & 8 June, any orders? :P, then i'm going to Cameron the weekend after that too ^^ yay, enjoy some more holidays, half a year once is fun, but still trying to save up for a Korea trip in March. I asked my travel agent friend about the tours organized, any English speaking tours, he answered mostly Mandrin and chinese speaking ones.... SIEN de...don't the English speaking ppl go on tours? I duno their language so i dono how to free and easy there. Main aim to go to Korea is to see their Sakura Flowers. Wheeee, never seen them on trees b4, hopefully will have enough money by then to go.

Cheers and until the next time!

Quest for saving more money..Suggestions please...

How do people save money?

Last time when your pay was 500, you managed to save 200

When your pay was 1k you managed to save 150

When your pay was 2k you saved 100?

and now when your pay is 3 to 4k you say not enough of money....

How to save?

Any ideas?

Cook Cook Cook

I've taken into cooking during weekends, first, i get to improve my culinary skills, second i save from eating outside.

Usually wifey and i will go to Midvalley to shop for the fresh stuff on Friday nights so that i can store over the weekend for cooking whatever we fancy. The condiments are getting more and more and more.

Mostly i make meals with chicken breast, since chicken is white meat, and it's better off than pork or beef. Sometimes i cook fish, or prawns with rice.

Tried a few meals over the past 2 weekends, some turned out ok, some didn't turn out so well. Have to tune my recipies a bit more. Hehehehe.

Ah well anyhow this one turned out quite nice, eat liao feel sleepy.

Ehh this is supposed to be red wine chicken. Got this recipe somewhere in the net since i dunno what to cook with the balance chicken. I didn't garnish it. Just me and wife eating nia

Ingredients
2 tablespoon Oil
garlic 2 clovers
chicken
half cup sugar
1 cup red wine (up to you how much u want to put)
pinch of salt
chili powder (i didn't put this as i didn't have it)

How to
-First, heat up the oil
-Put in the garlic and "pao hiong" ehh let it cook a bit for the smell
-Next put in the chicken pieces, depends on how you want to cut it also can
-Cook the chicken until you see no more pink bits, don't over cook as you still have to let it simmer in the red wine for a short while
- Sprinkle in the sugar, and chili powder(i didn't put this, dunno how it will taste if i put it)
- Pour the red wine around the chicken pieces, and slowly baste(use scoop to scoop the wine over the chicken) the chicken.
- Let it simmer together until the sauce thickens a bit, and then you can serve it liao, garnish it with whatever you want
- Warning this dish is a bit sweet, hahaha the sauce turned out like some char siu sauce, but with the red wine inside, :) Yum to me, don't know if anyone will like it ^^

Enjoy

Maple Story Exclusive Watch

Hehehe, i'm still playing Maple Story, after work go home, grind 1 or 2 hours or more if the mood hits me, then i level up and so on and so forth, Just another avenue to unwind from daily work and traffic stresses.

Anyhow, being a supporter of the game, my wife and i buy their cash cards to show them support, these cards can be loaded in game to buy some virtual items which help out in the game.

We collected quite a stack of the cards already, and from time to time, they have events for you to redeem these used cards for gifts. And also other events like last year their birthday event at Cineleisure, (Packed) got some virtual game items which is only available for local market.

This time there was a Hotlink Asiasoft promotion at Sg Wang plaza about a month ago. We went there with our stack of used cards and was thinking of what to get. In the end we got a watch, special edition from Korea and with all the cute stuff in it. "Wife like cute game" i just play with friends inside :P Pics as above