Everyday is a winding road

Sweet November

2005-11-21T21:18:00.000+13:00

I'm happy that my air ticket is ready, and I've just paid off a huge debt off my card. Muahaha. Need to plan my holiday properly as I have a limited amount of time. Possibly need to get a compact digital camera. What's travelling without photos right? Lol.

Work is kinda alright. One of my colleague is leaving soon. So smart! I think his next job is great too. Designing stuff. At least a brighter future than reading standards and hearing customers' complaints. Hehe. God bless John.

I was appointed to be the health and safety rep for the company. I must say that the HS course I attended really worth it. Widen my knowledge on HS role. Brought lots of suggestions on how to make it a safer workplace, but all of the ideas were turned down by boss. $ this $ that. Lol. Some might say I'm not taking this role seriously but what am I suppose to do? I can't exactly argue with my boss as that might lead to sour relationship and eventually firing me. Crazy. It's like fighting a losing battle. But hey at least I've tried.

Bought this HYPED UP book called Da Vinci Code just because the deal was sweet. 1/2 price for the 4 books by the dude. I must say it's kinda boring lol. After reading the first few pages it's like telling a bed time story. Maybe I'm really not a book person. I hope Angels and Demons is better.

Watched abit of Seinfeld in the weekend. A show about nothing. The best comedy show ever. IMO alot better than Friends. Even though it is old and no matter how many times I have seen it, I still enjoyed it. Hehe.

I realise my music taste changes every month or so. It was rap, then jazz, classical, indie, rock, easy listening, euro beat. Was going to put them into my pod but I was too lazy to organise them. Haha. One gripe about my pod is it lacks gapless playback. Oh well nothing is perfect.

I'm glad that Sanitta is finally taking her cast off after months of tortured pain and suffering. Hahaha no need to thank me :) It would so funny if the skin colour will be different from the other leg, possibly alot paler. Hehe. Happy for you anyway.

This is nuts

2005-10-27T21:30:00.000+13:00

Bad luck? or bad month?

Boss gone psycho about $. Money money money.... money!
Friend broke ankle in front of me during squash. I felt so guilty after that. Get well soon.
Damaged friend's car. Luckily no ones injured.
Short attention span, nothing excites me really.
Short memory. Not only me who has this problem at work. I guess there's this magical aura in the room that makes you forget stuff.
Weak ankle and shoulder from sports probably?
Haven't been to squash for a while now. I think squash and tennis are similar.
Basketball is boring without teamplay. Too many wannabe hereos.
Tennis on the other hand is fun. I sense my backhand has gotten stronger than my forehand. Serving still need improvement.

Nearly end of the month, rock and roll!

I'm still here

2005-10-13T22:31:00.000+13:00

Doc said not a big problem with my chest pain. Turns out its just some random ribcage inflammation. Might take some time to heal, but hey its all good. I thank the big guy up there watching over me.

*Rant begin*
So many crazy shits happened recently. Work is kinda going downhill, especially when theres money involved. Also getting blamed for doing nothing. Passing shitty jobs around that nobody wanna do. Someone has to do it said the boss. I bet most of us express the same views as I do.

Some customers are just monkeys. Not sure how they run their business. So stupid.

At least I get to release some of these anger / stress / crazy shit in squash and tennis. Just imagine they are the ball. Smash the shit out of it.
*Rant end*

At the end of the day, I'm still here.

Tired

2005-09-16T20:33:00.000+12:00

Last night squash session was tiring. 1 hour of squash should not be any problem and yet I was sweating profusely and my leg felt tired. I was lazy to chase the ball and missed some easy shots as well. Quite inactive I must say. Thus I have come to a conclusion that I'm unfit or maybe that I was working before the squash session. Either way, time to get fit. Bike to work, go for a run before / after work, hit the gym. Go nuts.

TC called about the foam party, but I didn't realise it was on thursday night. Luckily both of us were knackered. Heh.

Went to play some tennis today afterwork and about 15 mins later I broke my racket. So sad. I guess I can't play with my brother anymore until I get a replacement. Oh well. I was kind of looking for a new racket anyway.

Uh.

Vent post

2005-09-14T21:40:00.000+12:00

Stupid bond and bond. I brought my antique cellphone for a trade-in just after work. There was this sales rep who doesn't know shit, saw me and ignored me until I asked him questions. He must have thought that we asians don't speak english and dont pay retail price stuff. Stupid. Anyway, so I whooped out this one of a kind ancient phone, he started cracking up and showed to his colleagues. I expected that to happen anyway. Instead of serving me, this bum played with the phone. Urgh. Plus he wanted my sim card as part of the trade-in deal as well. I think that's just absolute bollocks. Why would I wanna give him my sim card that contains all my contacts? Why would they want sim card as part of the deal anyway? It's stupid if you ask me. In the end, I didn't get what I wanted. Oh well.

Confusing English

2005-09-14T18:58:00.000+12:00

If FedEx and UPS were to merge, would they call it FedUP?

Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?

If olive oil comes from olives, where does! baby oil come from?

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Why the man who invests all your money called a broker?

If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?

Why is it called building when it is already built?

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

If you're not supposed to drink and drive, then why do bars have parking lots?

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat? Human

If working hours are meant for working, then why are you reading this!!!

Fun filled con't

2005-09-14T18:31:00.000+12:00

I had my first lesson in squash on Thursday with Sanitta the queen of squash and Jengis the loudest mouth on the court. It was fun even though my leg hurt for a few days. Oh ya, I've got trashed big time.

Friday was cool, had some more toasts for testing and played with fire as shown . Heh, this was part of the testing, I thought I should capture some photos just in case shit happens. Whole lab was filled with smoke and fumes. As if that was not enough, the fire alarm went off while I was still testing the toaster. Crap, thought the alarm might have dispatched the fire truck to the lab. Later found out the fire alarm was disconnected. Lucky. By the way how's my photographing skill?

Bought a bag of those chicken nuggets thing for Tee Chek's engagement thing on Saturday. The cheesy chicken nuggets ain't cheesy at all. Stupid false advertising worked on me all the time. Wanna make your own chicken nuggets?
You need: Chicken skin; chicken carcass; bread crumbs
1) Blend chicken skin and carcass.
2) After blending, make them into small patties and roll them in bread crumbs.
3) Fry them.

Hehe. Nuggets are bad but they taste so good.

Anyway engagement thing was fun. Lots of food, moon cakes, egg tarts, some cream puffs, dumplings were my favourites.... the cheesy chicken nuggets as well.. lol. The party ended with Jengis and I dueling on singstar and we were NOT DRUNK. Anyway, we started off with Jamiroquai's crazy girl song and some more old songs. His loud mouth did well on that Jamiroquai song. Then a few people came to witness our amazing duel, well I think they came mainly for my heavenly voice anyway. Hehe. No standing ovation nor applause though. Perhaps next time. Had loads of fun on that singstar.

Fun filled adventurous week

2005-09-11T18:20:00.000+12:00

Shall I start off with cheesy storyline like ‘Friday morning, a light shone through the dark vortex and suddenly a voice called for me “wake up”. Maybe not? I’m not good with big words so I’ll keep it as simple as possible.

I’ll try to remember as much as possible from the beginning of this month.

Let’s begin this from last Friday that was 2/9/05.

So I was given a toaster to play with at work, something I use very often but no intention on destroying it. Yeah, I get paid for destroying stuff, nice isn’t it? I also helped a colleague to smash customer’s products into smithereens with an impact hammer thing. I’m not sure what 30 Joules will be like on a human head, pain? possibly brain damage? but smashing stuff is always fun.

We went to Coyotes on Saturday night, same group of people on the same dance floor ALL THE TIME. It’s funny how the pathway to the toilet segregates the yellows and the miscellaneous i.e. the islanders, blacks and whites. Not many yellows dare to cross to the other side. One main reason is that you will be viewed as the outcast. Another reason is you’re a banana. Whatever the reason.

That particular night, one white monkey came to the yellow island and discovered some pretty yellow female monkeys. While he was displaying his masculinity in front of these females, a jealous drunken yellow monkey joined in and challenged him to a death match. Try picturing the monkey knife fight in ‘the simpsons’. But luckily fight was not fought and no one was injured.

I had a bottle of Hein that night; it was so gassy that I couldn’t eat properly or anything for a while. On Sunday morning, I had to pick up my brother from the airport and he treated me to McD for breakfast. I also bought myself a pair of trainers. Went to basketball later that night thinking if I do some exercise I might feel better. Wrong, I felt even more tired than before.

Then come Monday, the first day of work on a new week. Nobody likes Monday. It’s a day where you would use a ‘sicky’ to extend your weekend. Not so sure what happened on Monday.

On Tuesday, we had toasts for morning break at work. About three loaves of bread was used for the toaster I’m testing. Yummy toasts. Heh, you get to eat while you’re testing. How good is that? A queue was formed just to get some free toasts.

Wednesday: Went to visit Tak at his booth in the mall on Wednesday, he made me a big rice ball. That thing was so big and filling. Hehe, caught an asian cashier digging her nose in pak n save while purchasing some more bread. So uncool.

I’ll continue later with my squash game, toasty, the engagement party crasher and more.

Update

2005-08-23T20:00:00.000+12:00

I'm updating for the sake of updating.

Anime I'm currently watching:

One Piece - Funny but slow distribution (eng sub)
Naruto - Long and draggy
Bleach - Action pack fun anime
Prince of Tennis - Awesome tennis show with super shots

Obtained an ipod skin recently. A picture is worth 1000 words. Taken with a webcam. Quality is as good as a 4MP digicam. What do you think?

Cool bananas

2005-06-29T17:45:00.000+12:00

Here you go, my banana hanger replacement.

Some would wonder that I have really gone bananas. What is it purpose anyway? Well to me, I bought it to hang my headphone instead of lying them on the table.

Hehe.

Dark cloud hanging over my head

2005-06-28T19:39:00.000+12:00

Man.
- I bought this banana hanger. I was playing with it a while and the metal hanger snapped. In case you're wondering what's a banana hanger, I'll get a snapshot of it when I get a replacement.
- Somehow misplaced my credit card. Can't recall where I put it after I bought some stuff last night. Sigh, guess I have to call the bank to get a replacement.
- The queue at the bank was so long that the bank teller asked me to come back another day. The bank was basically flooded with Chinese.
- At work, tripping test won't trip. Freaking me out, wasted more time fixing it than tripping.
- At work, some 'genius' shorted the phase and neutral connection on the variac and me being unlucky used the variac and blown 3 main fuses.
- At work, some company wanted me to take more photos of their product. What! They should know their own product more than I do.

Well, every cloud has a silver lining.

Supa Karts

2005-06-21T22:15:00.000+12:00

Hisashiburi ne. 3 months + of blog inactivity. This is super rock.

This morning when I was driving to work, I did not realise I was being stalked by a stranger called Tee Chek until I arrived at my place. So I whipped out my wheel brace from my car and chase him away. What a stalker. Hehe.

This afternoon was supa kart day (go cart). Me and colleagues were dreaming of this day since months ago. We were talking about it whos gonna beat who etc etc. Friendly competition. It was my first time and it was fun. Wouldn't have thought going round a small track could be this much fun.

We were split into groups of 3. 8 teams in total. We then had to put on this 'cool' team colour uniform. Black, yellow, lime, green, orange, pink, blue and the gayest team, purple with triangles.

The track consisted of two 180 degree hairpin which you will need to slow down or you will be slamming to the wall and most of them are straight lines or big long curves. We began with some test driving around the track. Awesome. I believe that cart can go faster than my car. In fact most car can go faster than mine. Anyway, after some test drive, we watched some video about rules and safety. Uh.

Action time. 120 laps of fun, i.e. 40 laps per person, interchange every 10 lap. 1 lap is around 20 seconds. Me being in the slow and steady team with one Indian ah pek and one kiwi girl which of course made us the bottom team. At lap 40, we were already 10 laps behind the leader and 5 laps behind the 2nd last team. A huge let down. When it was my turn, it was show time. On my first lap, I planted my foot down on the accelerator pedal all the way and sort of drifted around the hair pin. The drifting caused me to slow down and spun out. Not good. I learned the track slowly and it was all cool. It was all good until around lap 70 when the pizza arrived which I could smell it all the way from the track causing me to lose focus. Lol. Spun a few times but no biggie we were still at the bottom of the leaderboard anyway. Oh, Chris was driving like a crazy maniac, he was fast and furious. I bet he watched that show on TV last night.

Show's over. We finished last on the track but we were the second cleanest team on the track. Lol no doubt about that. After all those penalties and etc we managed to snatch 7th place. Hahaha ahead of none other than team purple which have been talking it all week about 'the asian is going down' i.e. me. They can talk the talk, but they can't walk the walk. I'm going to rub it in their face tomorrow again. Hehe.

Good night.

Ah....

2005-03-05T20:55:00.000+13:00

Lets update the month of February
1st week: It was a quiet week, nothing exciting, nothing blew up at work.
2nd week: CNY comes, CNY goes just like that, la di da.
3rd week: Dont remember what happened, if I dont know, then its not worth remembering
4th week: see 3rd week

Started playing tennis again, love it. The ball comes to you, you whack it back across. FUN eh? Golfing is on hold at the moment, wasnt as fun as tennis.

Today, I think Ive shot almost 300 bballs, most of them from 3pt. Arms and legs are aching. Feels so heavy right now... uh.

Alexander the Great Fag

2005-01-30T10:33:00.000+13:00

I thought I would know why Alexander became great in this movie, instead all I got was some fags staring at each others, hugging and kissing, and probably ass poking scenes in the director's cut version too. There were lots of fillers in the movie, namely the belly dancing scenes, the drinking and lots more kissing and hugging. "Oh I love you Alexander" "Oh I can't live without you (Insert Alexander's friend's name here)"...One question.. why was the persian woman black? with big tits somemore! The war scene wasn't that great either, I can say Ive seen better. Some enjoyed it (probably the guys on Queer Eye), but I guess most people hated it. So confusing and messy that it made me slept half the show.

I would say this Alexander deserves 1 out of 10. Good effort on the war scene especially where the axe or sword hit the guy in the nuts, that made me laugh. This was the first time that I actually wanna get out from a movie to end my suffering, also the seats in Hoyts 8 are utterly crap that I kept rolling left and right. In the end, I endured the whole 2.5 hrs of misery, and I think Hoyts 8 should refund my money back.

I thought Ocean's 12 was gay with bunch of all-star fags trying to steal some golden eggs, but this Alexander tops it all.

Law of conservation

2005-01-16T14:10:00.000+13:00

Okay, today's weather is much better than yesterday's scorching hot day and it could have been at least 30 degrees easily. Furthermore I had to help my relatives move house under the hot sun for few hours. No heatstroke no whatsoever. Which was good. Just tired.

Law of conservation states that "People cannot gain anything without sacrificing something. You must present something of equal value to gain something....". A quote from FMA. The world has done so much for us, it's time to give something back. $20 per person to the asia tsunami is not much, but if a million of NZers donate $20 each that equates to $20 mil. Without the cheap labour of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, who's going to make the fake branded clothes you're wearing, the fake LV handbag that you sport, the electronics that break easily, and much more? (Apart from China of course). Come on, let's rock and roll.

Hot hot hot

2005-01-15T09:30:00.000+13:00

I hereby declare today to be the hottest day of 2004-2005 summer season yet.

Work has been keeping me busy, which is good in some ways and bad some more ways.

Good - shows that im active, not idling thus my brain is functioning properly, I think. Money in bank, which is always a good thing.

Bad - tiredness sets in round about afternoon, usually after my lunch which leads to a sloth like movement. With the awkward feeling that im stuck in a time chamber. Unproductive work leads to worry, stress and sleepless nights. B-A-D.

"Do you think NZ is helping the tsunami victims enough?" That was the survey question in the newspaper few days ago. most of them answered with "they should've...", my english is no perfect but I think "could have" is a better word here dont you think? Do not worry if you dont understand, thats probably because youre not me.

Every year i want to learn something new. Last year was trying to learn Flash but it was too complicated for me, wahahaha. This year i will learn how to play golf and improve my japanese.

To learn something, one needs the theory, the practical, a teacher, and time. I bought this cool theory book the other week hehe, me think $10 is a steal. Putting the theory into practice, I've got some clubs from my teacher DC and the range will my practical work. Time: Unknown as of now.

I will try to keep a weekly journal on my training. Maybe not. lol

Happy New Year

2005-01-01T15:57:00.000+13:00

Happy 2005.

I seemed to recall almost everything I did last night, eventhough I got owned. Here are some of them:

DC with his 90% Jim Beam and a hint of Coke cocktail. Urghh.
IC the loudspeaker.
TC, with the quote "21% je" referring to the midori.

From that spectacular waterfall event, I have learned a very good lesson. Never messed with drinks again. It left a bad taste in my mouth, literally. Never ever. Thinking of it makes me wanna throw up. Which is good, so I will not spend money on drinks, eventhough I usually dont.

New year resolution?
Alcohol-free
Smoke-free
Do not open the door to temptation. Nothing comes for free. If its too good to be true, its too good to be true.

Now go and enjoy a healthy and happy life.

New Year Eve's Spectacular Waterfall

2005-01-01T15:29:00.000+13:00

5 Bottles of beer
2 shots of tequila
unknown amount of jim beam coke
unknown amount of midori sprite
unknown amount of unknown liquor
Mix well together
Wait 20-30 minutes to produce a spectacular waterfall.
Once waterfall is stopped, proceed to drain the excess water manually by placing two fingers down the blocked pipe.

What is life?

2004-12-31T01:23:00.000+13:00

The short guy wants to be tall, the tall guy wants to be big, the big guy wants to be dark, the dark guy wants to be whiter. The single guy wants to have a family, the family guy wants some freedom. When youre young, you want to be old. When youre grow old, you miss your youth time.

You always want to be someone else, while you dont know how ppl admire you. Value who you are now, so why bother about the female friends? I only need them if they have the brains to live a life and think for business. Not the type to spend the money.

After all, life's ultimate reason is a mission. Certainly love of a girl is not a mission, but a co-product. You cant make that a life mission. The past is unchangable, the future is unknown. And now is a gift, that's why its called the present.

Cherish it.

The world is in pain

2004-12-29T20:36:00.000+13:00

I was saddened upon hearing the news about the tsunami that killed 60,000 people and counting in south east asia. My Sri Lankan friend's relatives were washed away, I was speechless. I will probably donate some money to the victims, but unsure of whom I should donate to. My prayer goes out to the victims and their family of this sad event.

Happy Christmas

2004-12-25T11:48:00.000+13:00

Happy Christmas. It is the time to enjoy and gather with family and friends etc etc. Colleague told me that the word "Christ" in Christmas is not allowed to use in USA anymore? As it contains religious meaning etc? huh? Baffled. Do they say "happy mas and new year" now? weirdos Americans.

Yesterday companys bbq was okay, no complaints. The usual bbq that included steak, sausages, patties and wings. Actually I expected a Christmas bonus, probably because the place I worked before I got $50 or $100. Dont remember the exact amount but it was nice.

We had our Christmas eve dinner just like ordinary dinner, nothing special. Munch munch munch. Thats it. We headed off to that asians hangout later that night. Again nothing out of the ordinary until one extreme friendly guai lou chatted us up. He looked queer, acted like one, talked like one. Verdict: Definitely gay or had too much to drink or might be both. Called Jeng and me, Ying and Yang. Thats the first time Ive heard it. WOW. We drink, we talk cock, and we puffed. Thats about it.

Cut the crap short. Im off.

Anime Junkie

2004-12-23T19:39:00.000+13:00

Naruto is like the 21st century of Dragon Ball. The BOMB. I like it even though its long and draggy but your opinion dont count. Chouji was awesome in #114 with butterfly chakra WOAH?! Sorry no picture.. I know it doesnt make any sense, which anime does anyway?All I can say is I hope when those guai lou dub it wont turn the show into a shitty anime. Just look at DBZ, how bad it was dubbed. Maybe due to the excessive violence that they decided to take all of them out. Complete crap. Showing DBZ with no fighting scene like watching porno with no sex scene. No picture no talk? Again your opinion dont count.

Another anime that worth watching is Love Hina. A mixture of comedy and hentai. Laugh your ass off with this anime.

Few lines of anime description isnt really an anime junkie isnt it? sheesh.. Perhaps Ill add some more later

Christmas is coming

2004-12-22T20:10:00.000+13:00

3 more days.. til Christmas rolling. 1.5 more days til my workplace shuts down for the break. Need to finish some work before shut down period. Some important water heater from china. The dude has been pestering me for the past few weeks wanting me to finish the job ASAP. I mean how am i suppose to finish if your product is shitty? Shitty switch, shitty plastic material. A classic example of chinese products. Not hating on chinese as Im a chinese too, but this just bad. Too bad I couldnt show you any pictures how shitty their product is as they are confidential stuff.

Anyway enough of work talk. So lately i have been reading this manga called Yakitate Japan!. Its about a boy who wants to be the best bread maker. So awesome that it literally made me laugh out loud. FANTASTIC. Mr Kurowasan.. hahahaha. Thanks Kiat for introducing me.

Eureka!

2004-12-18T14:20:00.000+13:00

Well I found my old blog here >> mabuk.blogspot.com << but dont remember the password. Memories memories. lol. Woah look at the date i started posting. December 2002!!!!!

Raining heavily heavily at the moment, that means no bbq at Jengs place. Sigh... oh well maybe next week. Got a pandan cake for his bday though.

Hehe, last night met up with Chris who just came back from HK couple of days ago. He hasnt changed much.. hairstyle still the same etc etc. Prolly lost some weights, oh well. He rocks. Went to casino.. eat drink and gamble. What more can you ask for? Roulette was nice. I won some, I lost some. Rock and roll. PS2 time tonight... yeah