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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Yo!

I went to a fish & chips shop(oh man, I told you I am crazy over it !) and bought my dinner before I got back to my apartment. There was an Indian worker serving me. Below are our conversation...
Yientau :Can I have fish & chips, take away, please.
Indian :5 minutes, is that ok ?
Yientau :sure, no problem

...after 10 minutes of deep frying fresh fish & chips(stomach start making noise) - I thought he said 5 minutes ?? @.@ !?
Indian :Sir, you want salt or vinegar ?
Yientau :Salt, please
Indian :Salt only ?
Yientau :Yeah, please...(didn't I just say it ? hhmm, he wasn't paying attention)
Indian :So, where are you from ?
Yientau :Malaysia ! (proudly shamefully announced)
Indian :Malaysia !?

...both hesitate for 60 2 seconds...
Yientau :...(did I say anything wrong? Oh man, I think he hates Malaysian)
Indian :I am also from Malaysia...
Yientau :*shocked - What !?* Oh! really ?(eye brows raised). How long have you been here ?
Indian :Yeah, I settled down here with a Scottish woman and I work here(obviously!).
Yientau :That's great ! So how do you find Aberdeen ?
Indian :Arrhh, I don't like the food here. They are all fattening, not healthy(pointing to my food - what the...) and expensive. So, what are you doing here? working ? or studying ?
Yientau :Yeah, basically the food here is expensive and I didn't ask you about the food !. I am actually having my business trip here, am working as a programmer for an Oil industry. Anyway, nice to meet you here. Alright, $4.10 pounds here.
Indian :Cheers man, hope you enjoy your trip !
Yientau :Yeah, sure. Cheers man !

Went back to Apartment but not so happy caused by "the impact" of his words saying the food that I bought is fat and unhealthy...(Yeah I know, I don't take it everyday what) when I am about to start to enjoy my food, I just realized that I had forgotten to take my receipt ! Oh my...I can't claim from my company if I don't have the receipt :( It's all that Indian's fault ! @#$%&*\@#&$#~!! Anyway, that Indian makes me feel like I am one step nearer to my country ;p I am not alone ! I wonder how many Malaysian actually settled down at UK - should be a lot.

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Monday, November 27, 2006

What's good about oversea ?

Did you ever wonder if overseas moon is always rounder than what you can see from your hometown ? Well, from what I had learned so far; the answer is "Yes !" Still don't believe ? Look at the picture after the jump...

Wooooo...it's so much rounder and brighter ! What's went wrong ? Isn't it the same moon from the same Universe ? I know you still can't believe it but I just took a photo of it as a prove ! Yeah, I know it sounds crap :p Take it easy, dude ! Hhhmmm...some food review from Aberdeen, show time !
This is Italian B.M.T and I bought 'em from a food store called SubWay. It cost me $3.79 pounds(~RM26.53) and don't ask me what is B.M.T cause I have no idea what it is ! It comes with Italian ham, cheese, and salad with mayonnaise. I accompanied 'em with brown bread and it tastes so nice. I feel like I am floating on the sky during my first bite of it. Sorry, a bit too exaggerate. How nice if we have this at Kuching, Sarawak ! SubWay is a regular place where students at Aberdeen comes in to buy their own lunch after school. Btw, I have just learned that at Aberdeen, there is no such thing as Lunch. They have only Breakfast, Dinner and Supper which is no different with our Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Just that they use a different "terminology". So, every time my colleague asked me "what do you want for your dinner ?" I would give them a strange face ---> (._.?) since it's still GMT 12:00pm. Then at later on, I realized that they are trying to say "Lunch". They won't be saying, "What are you doing ?" but they say "What are you doing just now ?". I thought they meant "just now" and I were asking them back "Just now ? (._.?) oohh, there are a lot of things I did just now, which one ?" What the...I mean it's so freaking confusing ! I can tell you, their pronunciations are very different from how we actually pronounce. Take for example the word "man". We used to pronounce as "men"(am I not right ?) but they pronounce as "man". @.@! what !?

Hey hey hey !!! Mr. KFC, how come Aberdeen's zinger burger is larger and tastier than Malaysia's zinger !? This is so...not fair ! Their bun has more sesame seeds on top ! and it's more spongy ! You need to visit Malaysia's KFC and do some QC ! uurrrgghh...
Oooohh...this is a nice one. How can I resist ?! It's called cheese and chip doner. Did you see the cheese in the middle of the food ? Yum ! I bought it from a kebab shop and it cost me $3 pounds(~RM21). It was very filling and tasty ! The doner is so fresh and juicy. Doner basically is a grilled lamb.

...and this is Aberdeen nation favored takeaway food. It's the undeniable fresh and juicy fish & chips ! The cost for a fish & chips ranges from $3.50 ~ $4.50 pounds. Alright, this is chips and not fries. French fries is slightly thinner and longer than chips. Most of the time I can't finish it by myself but I let the dustbin to have a bit since they are so hungry outside the cold weather(insane). You must have it while they are still hot, trust me. You can have 'em together with some lime on it. Fooohhh...it makes my day. Lately I am crazy over fish & chips and hope to have it almost everyday. Did I just said everyday ? *puke* My colleague told me there is one shop that actually show you the fish before they deep fry the fish for your order. Just imagine how fresh the fish is and I am sure you are swallowing your saliva ! Muahahhaa ! !
There is one more food I haven't try yet. It's called haggis. I have had to try this before I fly back to Malaysia ! Hahaha...my face is as round as the moon now. That's the whole purpose I put that moon picture in this post ! Kekeke...

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Saturday, November 25, 2006

London or Edinburgh ?

It's GMT 10:30 pm and I am suppose to sleep by then. Anyway, feel like want to blog something. This would be my third week at Aberdeen, UK. So far so good and quite happy with the life here. I cook by myself, I wash my own dish, I wash my own clothes, I walk to office every morning and had a good time with my colleagues here. They can be so serious and they can joke with you without boundary. Sometimes I find it hard to get their joke. Probably overseas joke is much more harsher than Asian's joke. I would say quite different from the way I used to joke(obviously). At times, I felt offended when they joke with me by saying "Go back to Malaysia", "Your cheap and nasty Malaysian code". I am fine with the first few times when they speak about it. But, too much of it might just spoiled a cup of coffee in the morning !

Work here is always busy and changes here and there. I always believe a program or simply a software, can only written by one person. If you ask me why, I will tell you - "too many cook spoiled the soup" ! Too many opinions and too many disagreement on everything. This might just slow down the software development cycle. Oh man, I was wondering how "efficient" it was during my University whenever I had a group assignment ! Geeezzz...that won't work out, trust me ! It always turn out to be only one person doing codings, the other one do documentation and the rest of it waiting for the marks to be announced from Lecturer. But, did you ever wonder why we need to have at least 2 person writing a software ? Well, simply because if that freak or geek quit, there is at least another backup. So, in the context of an IT Company, you just can't have only one programmer doing a development.

Anyway, too much of craps. My manager were asking me for a favor to stay another one more extra week. Well, just one week and I think this is fair enough for both party. Still waiting for his reply. So my return is not being confirmed yet. My colleagues planned to visit Edinburgh together with me next week. I was wondering shall I just spend on Edinburgh and forget about the London trip or do it next time. They said it would be expensive to spend in London and advise me to visit Edinburgh instead. Not too sure of how things would turn out to be but they tried to convince me by all mean. Will see how then ;p

Last Friday was my disastrous week, was it a Friday the 13th ? It was about GMT 7:00 o'clock in the evening. I was so tired and stressed out . I went to my colleague's room(Paul) to have a short chit chat. My another colleague(Jackey) who actually work at the same room with me, came in to Paul's room 5 minutes after me. We were planning to watch movie after this and all of us agreed. When Jackey and I planned to go back to our room, we found out the door locked by itself ! noob, eh ! All of my stuff was inside the room, my laptop, my clothes, office key and same goes to Jackey. He is even worst, his handphone, wallet, and house key were inside the room. I was d*mn lucky where my apartment key was with me inside my jean. I would be sleeping in the office if I don't have that key ! There is nothing we can do because none of us has the key and not even our manager. Cool stuff ! So, at the end we went for a movie and went home.

I was supposed to be in the office to do support over the weekend(which mean next day) and yet my key was inside the room. My manager was so angry over this matter and he was so freaking furious ! He was at Spain at that time and scolded my colleague for not doing anything since I need to be in for support over the weekend. I felt so sorry to my colleague since they got scolded because of me :( I would again, take this opportunity to extend my apologies and hope you guys don't put 'em in heart, cheers guys ! I also hope this matter won't affect our manager's impression towards you guys.

Anyway, those are the past tense ! My main concern now is to visit London or Edinburgh ! Suggestions please ~! Let's plan together for this coming trip and chill it out loud ! oweoweo !

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Monday, November 20, 2006

Just my 2 pounds

At UK, they have 2 pounds in the form of coin and it comes to my surprise that their 2 pounds is so unique ! It's silver in the middle but gold at the edge of the coin. The "main page"(probably too much into computers stuff) or simply the face of the coin is the image of Queen Elizabeth II and it's written on the coin's edge "ELIZABETH II DEI GRA REG FID DEF". I need someone to decode it ! What's that mean !?

The back of the coin is printed with symbols and I need a decoder as well. Probably those symbols do really mean something. Da Vinci Code ? Ok, I had gone too far.


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Sunday, November 19, 2006

YiEnt@u can cook ?

Chk Chng! $24.77 pounds went into ASDA's account and I got these four bags of foods :p Bought some rice, pasta, sauces for pasta, can soup, minced beef, sausages, veggie, low fat ham and eggs. Ok, let's see what I can do with the food here ;)
proof of $24.77 pounds less from my bank account :(

my first project, Ham & Cheese Tortellini with Creamy Carbonara and Heinz Tomato Soup

Tah dah !!
pasta with tomato sauce and minced beef...

aftermath...Buuuurrrppp ! excuse me...
p/s: the pasta doesn't seems to be cooked...mission failed.

this time I tried with sausages and eggs, taste not too bad.

Mmm~ this one not bad. It has veggie, sausages and pasta with Carbonara. Yummie~!!

Breakfast, anyone ? Where is my coffee !
Btw, it's 2 sausages, 2 eggs and low fat ham. A little bit too heavy for my breakfast...ooppss

Hope to learn cooking from my cousin one day :(

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Friday, November 17, 2006

Apartment @ Aberdeen

After a couple days of nomad~ism from one Hotel to another, finally I had settled down in an apartment. It's an apartment that my manager rent for me and I am supposed to stay in this apartment by last Monday. Well, the previous tenant was not able to move out of the apartment on time, so it wasn't my manager's fault. Alright, what is past is past. Let's see what we have here ;)

Let the photos "talk"...
The door where I came in. There's a phone for me to talk if someone pressed my door bell and wanted to talk with me.

Store room...layered rack

There is only one bedroom, master bedroom. There is a radiator beside my bed to keep me warm during night time. So, it's quite warm and comfy during my sleep.

Bed for two person...

A sliding door wardrobe with mirror

Bathroom with bathtub

A place for me to hang my towel, face towel and panties !

There is a radiator underneath it, so my towel and panties get dry easily...

Ok, this is the one that controls my radiator and hot water from tape

radiator in kitchen...and yeah, it's everywhere. There is one also in the living room.

Let's see what I have in the kitchen...a washing machine, sink...

pots, frying pan, kitchen utensils...

erm...don't really know what you call this. Is it something like extractor fan ? I need to turn this on while I am cooking, to let the smoke out from the kitchen.

Toaster, water boiler ...

Food supplies, probably need to go shopping already...

...spoon, fork, knife...

Knife, chopping board...

Big plates, small plates, cups, bowls...

Oven...haven't got a chance to use it...

Fridge ! one of the most important thing in this apartment !

dining table ? it's being folded into half. That's the place where I eat and do my work...

Living room...Hi, come in and have a seat ;)


Yeah, it has almost everything I need; BUT still lack of one thing. Yeah, just one thing. Don't you think so ? Want some clue ? What did I say to kill a programmer(or simply yientau) ? YiEnT@u just can't move on without it !!!! aarrrgghh....

Still can't figure it out ? Ok, fill in the following blanks. If still can't figure that out, please go to the toilet and say "I am retarded" repetitively for 100 times(just joking) :p

characters available are : E T I R N T N E

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enjoy !

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

blogger.getYientau("fatness").now()

Here you go...Those who laugh at me, better be careful. Coz, the earth is round and it will be your turn some day somehow ! hrng !

Well, it's not too bad with this angle, though...BUT

...at the other angle, I looks like a FAT BOY !!!

Bonus : Cool, YiEnT@u !

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Monday, November 13, 2006

This is a test from Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Wow..now I can write something from Google Docs or Spreadsheet and post it to my blog !

Test with some styles...

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog

I can insert photo here...

table (with no border)
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A separator after the table

and some special charaters included £ ¥ĩęŇŦâÚ (°¸º) ...

comment is not really working. or i dont really know how to use

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Cool Cool ~!

Good work Google. Keep up the good work. You're the future ! ;)

Fourth Hotel @ Aberdeen

Ok, reached the fourth one, Athol Hotel(sounds like asshole aduh hotel) and it's the most expensive among all of the hotels I stayed at Aberdeen so far. It cost me $95 pound one night. It has a very antique setup. Everything looks old but well maintained. Maybe that's the reason it's so costly. Breakfast included but not as good as the previous hotels I stayed. They served only croissant and some cereal. If I order ala carte, need to charge to my bill. Aarrgghh...don't want, just call me cheap skate. Btw, it will be paid by my company hor ? aiyor ! I forgot ! Should be ordering some nice food(banging my head on table) :( But it's too late. Think in the way where I help company to save money, probably I will feel better(yeah right !).

Anyway, some photos to share after the jump...

Old lamp...

Spot something ?

I thought it will electrocute me ! So, I was looking closely and find out what the hack is that...

Ooppss...sua ku(ancient people), never know it was a Heated Towel Rail.
*blushed and run away*

Spot something again...

Ooohh...it's called "Pant straighter"

This is toilet lor...(obviously)

Since it's the most expensive hotel, so might as well take away all of their free stuff. Kekeke !

Yeah, that's about it ! Will be revealing my flat soon ! A nice one ohh...so, stay tuned !

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