More work coming my way. Busy day. A bit of a headache now. Some stuff over the weekend:

1. Spurs won 4-3 over Portsmouth. At least a win.... phew... almost blew it again
2. Saw the new Proton, GEN-2 .... great design and price ... a real WOW .... never thought I say that about a Proton
3. Tried the crab place at UK heights.... not too bad
4. Bak Kut Teh with mel, my cousin and Syn Hun.... I never realised Bak Kut Teh was so expensive till now
5. Why pay > RM100 for an original PS DVD remote when you can get a multitap, DVD remote and wireless headphone all in a vertical stand for RM95 in Sungei Wang? Unbelievable. Havent bought it though.
6. Fake PS2 controllers are useless.

MEL

Mel, baby... 10 things I love about you....

1. You always make me laugh
2. You simplify my needless complicated life until I realise what the heck was the fuss I was making about
3. Your ability to know whats cool and whats tacky, even when the lines are dangerously close
4. Dining with you - always want to try new things and seek out new favourite places
5. How well you take care of ur stuff and how precious they are to you
6. We can be kids when the whole world wants to be old and adult
7. Always affectionate
8. Your love for family and friends is real and always hopeful
9. You are afraid of some things that I am not yet not afraid of some things that I am.
10. You are a 10 out of 10.

Although you are not into football and curry obsessively like I am.... im glad we are different in many ways yet so together.

How can how can how can how can how can how can how can how can ...... Spurs got knocked out of the FA cup DESPITE leading 3-0, DESPITE man city having 1 man down DESPITE anelka not playing. .... its unbelievable.

Nevermind I will always stand by my team. Anyway a public holiday for me yesterday. Kit bunked over and we and my dad had breakfast in Imbi Road. If you drop by, go to the chinese makan stalls opposite plaza rakyat and try the sang mee... its da bomb.

Tried to tidy up my room a bit last nite.... this afternoon I'm thinking WHY BOTHER. I was planning a major tidy up this week but WHY BOTHER when my new place in cyberjaya is getting ready.

Other than all the above blog crap.... i have many many personal decisions to make this week. Today also I feel good about my relationship with my dad. We didnt even argue today. Wow.

Had lunch with Kim, minus kenny (off to Hong Kong).

Got lotsa work coming up the next few weeks. Getting geared for it.

Yawwnnnnnnnnnnnn. Feeling sleeping. As usual after lunch. Had lunch with an old friend. Good lunch.

Checked the status of my cyberjaya condo. 21st this month, the sales guy told me is when i would get the keys.

Arsenal got knocked out of the League cup. Ha ha.

A WEEKEND WITH FRIENDS

Was a good weekend catching up with friends. Saturday, Mel and I had dim sum with Jimmy and Hoe. Hoe showed us his new condo upon our request at Cheras Utama. Not bad. We checked out the facilities too. After that, we headed for Jimmy's place. Bought marinated steaks and lamb (no chicken please - bird flu scare) at Carrefore Sri Petaling and had a nice dinner. Jimmy bought a nice semi-acoustic to add to his collection of guitars. It is good to note hear that our band WIRED (now changed to wyred) will be reborn soon. We gonna have a jam session this week, compile and record our old stuff.

Sunday. Spent about 8 hours on my PS2 on Pro Evolution Soccer. I think thats too much considering I got so much to do. I guess I cant just NOT have any fun. I need my video gaming fix. For the past few years I have hardly spent any time on videogames. Ah well. Anyway spent the evening shifting stuff out of Mel's rented placed coz it was broken in the week earlier and she lost her G4 powerbook. She is very sad. So we have to look for a new place to rent for her.

Yesterday - public holiday. What a long day. A gruelling and tiring futsal session at 3-5pm at Pan-Global building, Jalan Tandang. Right after that, dinner at 1 Utama at my favourite fish-in-a-pan place. Yummy. Nice dinner with Mel, Kit, Chern, Lin Poh and CK. And Kit and I were still in our smelly jerseys.

Headed home, showered, and headed to Breakers Sri Hartamas for pool, fussball and drinks. Got back at 2pm. Dead tired. Back to work today, fresh and ready to face the world again.

I tought I smile more today and be more positive and feel closer to God.

MY LOVE FOR APPLE COMPUTER

Yes, I am a rabid Steve Jobs fan and love Apple Computer. The weird thing is, I don't even own a Mac. I'm waiting to get my first Mac middle of this year. Anyway, Steve Jobs is the greatest presenter in the whole world.

I love giving presentations too .... and Steve Jobs is the inspiration. Thats what I call selling. Apple is the only company innovating and designing good and user friendly computers. I wish all of you would understand WHY USING A MAC IS BETTER.

Standard and ignorant excuses to why people don't want to buy a Mac:

1. "TOO EXPENSIVE" - What? An e-Mac is now less than 3K. PC buying is cheap to the average Malaysian because he is too spoilt buying bloody RM5 pirated software disks and not having to pay software to do stuff that comes free with an Apple, like video editing, dvd authoring, mp3 encoding, image cataloging and music loops.

2. "NOT COMPATIBLE" - Ignorance. Don't you know that there is MS OFFICE for Mac and that it is superior to the Windows version (admitted by Microsoft themselves). So what the heck is Mac not compatible with ???? I know -- the ugly furniture you have in your room.

3. "NO GAMES AND SOFTWARE" - Stinking pirates remark. No software? That's a joke. And if you really like games, it should be a PS2.

Ah, well. To each his own. Go ahead and live in your drab and sorry PC world. The same goes for me until I get my Apple. Anyway, head over to Apple and check out their cool products. If you wanna buy apple stuff in Malaysia... go here.

Buahhahaha.

"Josh,... are at the bottom because THEY NEVER BLOG and whats the point of having your own page if you dont update it dammit.".... thats from CHERN's site. HA HA.

Now for my 2 cents worth.... My best thoughts unfortunately are not blogged sometimes. Words can be manipulated and either overhype an incident or not be able to express what someone is truly feeling. I refuse to blog and think about who is gonna read this load of "garbage" and rambling and what that person is going to think.

But CHERN is right. I guess I should blog more. It makes me pause to think. Makes me pause to write. Instead of COMPUTER CODE, write English instead. I must admit my English has deteriorated. Less reading nowadays....

In this computer age, diaries are rare and this is just the best avenue to just recollect and type a piece of your life.

Truly much has happened the past year. Whatever I have blogged.... all standard "life events" .... there were some really interesting moments that I have just not put down. Hmmmph.

Well... welcome to my blog. It's rubbish really. And I think I'll let it remain rubbish.

OK.... Almost 5pm. Getting geared up for that hour-plus drive back home. When will this ordeal be over? WHEN LORD WHEN??? Its gonna be soon I'll get my keys to my new cyberjaya condo. Really, really cant wait. I think its ridiculous to waste 2-3 hours of my life travelling everyday. As it is life is already so short. Hmmm....

This year I will be REALISTICLY ambitious and bolder. Anyway today, my office buddy is 'tumpangin' my car so he's gonna do the driving until his place at Sg. Long.

2nd working day of 2004. Last night I played a bit of Pro Evolution Soccer on my trusty PS2. Tried to buy more players to my "Liverpool" squad. Unsuccessful with few players but managed to buy DJIBRIL CISSE. Amazing. Last time I played version 2 and bought Harry Kewell and next thing you know - the guy is in the REAL liverpool squad. Looks like things that happen in my game is gonna happen in real life ha ha ha ha....

THE MISERABLE STATE OF LIVERPOOL AND SPURS
Houllier - you suck. Spent so much money on lousy players. ANd let good ones go. And spurs - unfortunately for me - you guys suck so bad but I will follow you even to Division 1. Dammit.

Back to work... updated my blog with pictures .... finally this site is more visual. Who gives a crap about cool layout and design.... got no time for that.... hehe.... anyway, it was really good family time this christmas and new year. Spend lotsa $$$ on gifts and travel. Anyway mel and i are enjoying the lomo cam i got her ... dunno how the pics will turn out.

Well another new year. Just got to make the best of it. Spend time wisely, give as much as i can give, love as much as i can love.

Some pictures captured with my crummy zire71 pda-cam: arthurs new sony digital cam, suntec singapore, mel at the "wishing" fountain, jon and fara at new year dinner, christmas at joannes' and a picture of me, which i use to test link and now to even out these bunch of pictures from 5 to 6.... (pictures hosting courtesy of www.mediaaura.com)

It was a quite a memorable christmas. I didnt feel so "christmassy" but it was a good time to spend with mel's family and mine. Lan didnt make it to Joanne's place for the 2nd row running and it was the 2nd time in a row for me (hmmm....). Well, just got our bearings and when we came back we left for singapore. This time met up with Arthur and wife... showed off his new Sony 8-megapixel cam.... Anyway following this blog are some photos.

Just came back from Penang last night. Been a while since the last trip. Did the typical but meaningful stuff... eating at lorong selamat... buying DVD.... visiting mel's parents and aunty mary...

Oh yah - just dont understand why people would queue up so long to eat char kuey teow. I mean, even how good and different can char kuey teow be????... do u really want to queue up half an hour when u can get about the same opposite? I tell u that lorong selamat lady is making too much $$$. Utter nonsense.

Took 6 hrs to get back to KL last night. Jam.

Coming to that time end of year again. Christmas, friends, family and presents.... My parents, mel and i spent a fair bit of time last nite reminiscing on past christmases ... i guess i was bored from driving... kept me awake though...

We had dinner in Ipoh... and wondered what do people in Ipoh do for fun? It really is a very boring city. The chicken rice is good though.

The Linkin Park concert.... it was cool. 15 October 2003. Linkin Park live in KL. Should have blogged this earlier. Anyway we drove around on the 14th nite... Leech, Jimbo, Mel, S-Anne and myself... had dinner at dome... just tot we try and see if there was anything at Concorde Hotel (thats where the band was staying). Anyways we saw people waiting... we just thought we hand around the lobby for some fun. We met up with their crew... took some snaps with the crew... got free LP guitar picks.... the band finally turned up but was pushed into a service lift by security... Chester waved to both mel and me waving... big deal...

Anyway cool concert... I kept thinking at least the local organizer made some money smartly using an old deserted stadium... hmmm.... the dumb thing was a partition between the stupid CELCOM LIMITED TICKETS and the other crowd... i mean - if u gonna make a partition, dont leave that much space in between.

We we crammed like sardines but had fun. You must understand - we Malaysians are starved of good headbanging rock acts. Anyway... The ones pushing in the crowds near us were Singaporeans (huh!)....

Good stuff although i felt they should have slowed things down midway but they made it fast and loud. Lasted about less than 90 mins.

25,000 crowd turned up. Hats off to our government for letting us have some fun.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS............... I passed my Genesys (www.genesyslab.com) exam.... YIPPPEEEEEEEEE ....

It's been a tense wait. When my colleague called me, he said he passed... I check my e-mail and the first sentence was so scary...

"Thank you for participating in our certification exam program." It's like one of those "thank you for participating BUT you didnt make it e-mails"..... but a few lines down it read:

"Congratulations, you have passed this exam. This now qualifies you as a Certif
ied Genesys Engineer-1 on Genesys 6."

Hehe. So happy. And it happened on my mom's birthday which is today. My family and my girlfriend have been praying hard (or course I have too, hahaha).

Phew. What a relief. I needed to pass this one. Don't feel so tense coming to work anymore.

So, I was this multimedia guy now I'm a CTI guy..... a new beginning.

The trauma of taking another exam again was terrible. It was like back in school again.... and it was a closed book exam.....

Thank you God. Thanks for everything.

Well...lotsa stuff happened since my last blog... anyway - still decided to support Spurs although I like Liverpool. Great - we just sacked our manager...

Played futsal yesterday... i realise some people dont use their brain when playing football....

Enjoying work recently although more hectic. Anyway so much happened - i went to Korea... I never blogged...

Ah well... try to do this more oftern.. The great news is LINKIN PARK is coming to Malaysia... at least we get a class act concert.... FINALLY SOME HEADBANGING .... cant wait... gonna apply for leave...

Back from lunch.... had a nite at Sri Hartamas mamak with with some old friends, my girlfriend and met up some cabin crew people.

Managed to get my hands on a "bootlegged" audio cd. It has all the same packaging and looks as good as the original. Welcome to my country.

I was sending back some consultants from Spore and the first thing they told me was that.... "I wanted to get some DVDs"

Yup - thanks. So glad to know Malaysians are good for something.

Been going back real late recently .... working hard.... at least the waits are more tolerant for jams and public service with my palm zire 71.... been taking tons of photos... can be separated from the thing....

to me... this device allows me to snapshot scenes of daily life.... i'll load them online someday... no time.

Just came back from Singapore. Was a hectic 2-day weekend trip. So happy for my cousin who got married with his girlfriend of 10 years. He's really crazy about Star Wars as I am. He he. Cool, he dressed as Han Solo and the bride as Princess Leia when they changed clothes halfway through the dinner.

It was nice spending time with family.... but eveyone kept asking where's my girlfriend.... when's my turn... haha...

I really miss my baby as usual and so did my parents....

Watch this space for more updates....

Oh yeah - I still haven't bought my zire 71.... Look at it - Sony CLIE beater.... really love it: