Nonsense but forgiven

A few days ago I was quite disturbed. I keep on having the thought where this World has nothing worth for me to move on or stay on. Everyone around me seems to criticise about me. They seems not to understand me though they said they do. They backfire me with no reason. They even curse me with joy and teased me. Some are taking me for granted. Some doesn't show respect to me. They thought I am telling lies. Some even twisted what I have said(in order to protect themselves) and causes me becoming telling lies. They thought I am ego and selfish. They said I am the type of "Kacang lupakan kulit". They said I had changed a lot. They said I am no longer who I was.

I am quite sad of all those comments. Although it's not something that they said directly to me. But someone was passing the message to me and some of them I just overheard it. The worst thing is they can act like they are very nice to me. As if nothing happen. I know this is how life is. Seriously can't think of a reason why they would say all these though I have no bad intention towards them nor hurt them before. I just couldn't understand why they exist.

I was driving very fast and couldn't find a solution to calm myself down. Suddenly there is one voice spoke to me. He said "forgive..." - straight away I slowed down my car and was calmed. Then I start to think again, yeah...why couldn't I forgive? I have uncounted sins that Jesus had forgiven me! Why I can't forgive them? I also realised I am so sinful that sometimes I had repeated my sins but God still forgive me. Yeah, perhaps I should forgive them as well as myself.

Disclaimer: Whatever is said above, I have no intention for any suicide activity. I am not that stupid ;)


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Coffee and Bones

People of today really takes coffee for the start of their day. Many of us really think that's a good thing and what's wrong about it, since it boosts our energy and keep us awake. Most of the time we never realize in other hand it has already affecting our life instead of giving us a bonus to our life. Coffee -> Bones, Coffee -> Bones ... yeah, I am talking about Coffee that affects our bones everyday if you do take coffee everyday. Still remember my previous post on my ridiculous result of my bone scanning ? I was at the border of osteoporosis, just imagine this at the age of 26. I have to admit that this is the effect of taking too much coffee. I was a heavy coffee-drinker, starting when I was at University.

Anyway, I went to my cousin's pharmacy and had my free bone scanning for another time during last month. Before it was my turn for the scanning, I was so nervous and worried that my reading will still be so negative. I was trying so hard to improve my bone stiffness - I quit drinking coffee and ends up drinking green tea, which is good and I started taking calcium tablet for my calcium supplementary.

...Tik Tok Tik Tok, its my turn
...start scanning...
...and result as below...

Yes, the result shows that I am back to normal! But my cousin told me that it's still not impressive as for the age of 26. You see the graph that separated with clear and dotted area ? Yeah, I was at the bottom of the dotted area last time. Now I am at the clear area~ the Z Score reads -0.0 ! Hurrayyy...

Anyway, I still need to continue to take my calcium until I reach the satisfactory level. The moral of the day is, do not take coffee every morning especially. It will wash away your calcium gradually. Try to replace it with green tea or something else. Don't take red tea(lipton, Tie Kwan Ing and so on) - it has the same effect as the coffee.

Alright, that's all folks.

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The Mask

Did you smile today ? Well, I did, though I might not willing to. You might ask why would you want to smile if you wouldn't want to ? It's the most appropriate way, like it or not. We meet people everyday and everywhere. Sometimes we might have bad feeling toward that person, or even feel like want to give him a big slap on his face, but I chose to wear a mask so that it won't looks so obvious. The worst thing is, that person never realized that his face looks so sick to me!, and to tell you the truth - he will not realized and never. But, I still choose to wear my mask and smile at him. Because, I still believe we can't survive without the mask. The mask is the truth. Some even delight the lies on the mask rather than the reality.

Many of us might choose the other mask, the "show faces" Mask, which is the mask that rejects everything. This doesn't mean it's bad, it might helps the person at some points. Again, it's your own choice. Some people, they will choose to go, or do it or agree with it, although they might not. They will do, but not doing it wholeheartedly. They will go, but not going with wholeheartedly. They will agree, but doesn't agree with wholeheartedly. Then they might eventually ends up with depression and keep asking, why would I need to keep doing something that I would not want to !?

The world of depression, yeah - that's the name of this world. Humans, humans, humans...disappointing and deeply depressed. Sigh...Anyway, life still have to move on and remember to wear your own mask everyday. That's life...

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Let's go to Mars!

Lately has been dreaming about Honda's car, especially Honda Civic. SssLLLuuuRRRppp~!!

I think I need to reconsider to buy my new car(picture above) since Kuching's security is real bad. Let's go to Mars ! See below...

Disclaimer :
1) Honda pictures were borrowed by Paul Tan's blog.
2) Statement saying I want to buy the above mentioned car is totally BS!

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Seven Seven Seven

Wow, it's seven seven seven ! Don't get me wrong, this is not a 4D or ToTo numbers ! It's 7th of July 2007...so, it's 070707 for a date format of "ddmmyy"(day month year). A lot of people choose to get married on this day. For Christian, the number seven means a lot to us. You can find the bible mentioned about the number seven and it's everywhere. How nice if I got married on this date :p But next year would be even better, it's eight eight eight ! 080808 (fatt fatt fatt)...oh man, am I too money oriented ?

Well, although yesterday was a special day to a lot of people. In fact, I am just spending my time in front of my laptop...what a waste ! sigh...So, did you make use of this special day ? or you are just like me ? :) (oh well, nothing wrong with that though)

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MAS Online Services Crashed !

Yesterday's news announcing The Malaysia Airlines "Visit Malaysia 2007" promotion of the year introducing low fare packages for everyone. My uncle was enthusiastically asking me to jot down the dates that he wanted to fly. He keep telling me that I must be puncture at 9a.m. in front of my laptop and get ready for the booking. I was telling myself "I don't think you will get it". It is not that I want to curse or talk bad about it. You can just imagine, RM1 to fly around Malaysia. EVERYONE WANTS IT (Ooppss...sounds like Toyota Vios advertisement) !? I can predict that the server would definitely crashed tomorrow *prophesying*.

So, today...went to Malaysia Airlines Online website and it shows up nice page, indeed. Telling the reader what are the prices for flying to places so and so. Looks interesting. Yeah, but...

After clicking my uncle's requested date and "submit"...and here you go ! ...and I've tried so many times and still ends up the same thing. Makes me so "kia su" at that particular moment. haha...keep pressing the Refresh(F5) button... LOL !

Well, this reminds me back to my University where we need to wake up at 7am or 8am to register for our course. Well, as usual the server crashed into pieces and I only manage to register a few "unwanted" or "uninteresting" course where not much of student register. In fact, is this a technology issue or people just couldn't be bother to buy more server to have a multiple server to serve more users ? sigh...

So, did anyone out there successfully booked/buy the ticket from MAS Online services with RM1 ?

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I'm so in love !

I came across this cute Fiat 500 last week. It's so so so so so cuteeeee !! I just can't resist it. It turns out to be my latest dream car ! The all new Fiat 500 is exactly 50 years after the first Fiat 500 is presented. It looks like a cute version of Volkswagen New Beetle and BMW MINI. It were said to be more cheaper than those two cars mentioned. The projected price is around £6000, which is around RM42,000(not yet included government tax). I think plus government tax would be around RM100,000 but hey, still cheaper than Volkswagen New Beetle and BMW MINI !!

It will be so nice if you can drive this kind of car around city with low maintenance. These includes fuel consumption, replacement of engine oil, and even car wash ! Especially when you want to go for shopping just with your loves one. It's light and easy kind of feeling. Here are some photos to share... love it ! It looks sporty too ! Don't you think so ? :p

Start dreaming...hey ! hey ! hey ! Everything starts from dream, ok ? Dare to dream means at least you are one step nearer to your goal !

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Airbus A380

No doubt, the Airbus A380 the world largest airplane took the largest passenger to lift off the runaway few days ago. It consists of four Rolls Royce engines—which each provide about 70,000 lbs. of thrust. Airbus A380 model number 007, is configured to hold 520 passengers, sounds scary eh ? It sounds like the The Unbeatable Titanic that brought such big number of passengers sunk within one night.



The cabin noise level is about 50% less than what you would experience on a 747. It's build in a two deck architecture where business class is designed to be on the top deck and economy class at the bottom deck. The top deck is no doubt more spacious and more comfortable. They promised to give a more than a four-star hotel service for the top deck. In that case, the top deck would definitely much much much more expensive than the bottom deck. They have a bar inside as well ! I was wondering, if in future they will build a swimming pool inside a Airbus...hehehehe...

Watch their video for more detail ... There is also a video showing how it was assembled, very interesting ! A MUST WATCH video !

So, start saving money today so that when they launched this A380 in Malaysia, we will be able to fly together !

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Google Reader simply the best

I've seen a lot RSS Reader and have used them and I found that Google Reader is so far the best. I was using Bloglines before I was introduced by my colleague the almighty Google Reader. This is simply because some of the web pages are not properly displayed in Bloglines, but Google Reader ! I have been using it for a few months and find it very user friendly.

You might be asking why do I need a RSS Reader. Basically it's used to know what are the updates from various sites without visiting the site randomly to check for updates. It can be used in Blog as well. You want to find out if that blogger has any updates, then I would say Google Reader is your best helper. I mean those Google fans out there will definitely loves their interface design. The clean and light-weight design. This is of course provided that the blogger has the feeds subscriber in order for you to subscribe. Blogger.com does provide us with the feeds subscriber. You can turn them on at the "Settings" tab in "Site Feed" tab.

Google Reader

With bloglines, all of the images alignment were running out of its original position. But in Google Reader, it is properly aligned as how it should be in the original post. Btw, the latest Bloglines might have already fixed that bug.

You can find my feed in my blog also. Right-click on the link and choose "copy link location"

...then paste the address here and click "Add". So next time you don't need to keep browsing my blog without any updates ! unless you want to find me in my chatterbox :">

...and of course everything has its Pros and Cons and depending on your needs. Some of us felt bored when visiting a blog and has no updates ! So, to resolve this frustration, you can use Google Reader to check if there is any updates from the sites or blogs. But, some of us prefer their reader to visit their blog even there is no updates of post. This is to make their visit meter to increase day by day or simply making their blog looks more lively with the chatterbox. So, it depends on how you want them to work on.

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Apologies !

I am so sorry for not updating my blog for such a long time. This is due to the photos taken from Nikon D40 are far too large, I am trying a way to minimize the size of the photo without degrading the quality. Anyone out there knows how ? Comments and ideas are very much welcome !

Lover's Day

Some couples treat everyday as their Valentine's Day. Some couples treat Valentine's Day as a very special day. Some couples treat Valentine's Day as just another celebration...and some just treat it as a normal day; especially those who got married.

Anyway, every year couples spend tens and hundreds just to celebrate "The Day". As usual, me and my gf would go out for a special dinner and gift exchange and so on. Usually we have steak and was thinking to have something different this year. Yeah, something real different for Valentine's Day. So...we went for Steamboat at "My House" restaurant ! It's an open space with roof of course(just in case it rains).

"The Pot"

wuahh...got big prawns and fish fillet

We chose asam soup...SsssLLLuuurrRRPppp~!!

Since I said this year's Valentine's Day need to be different, right ? So no flower lor hor? ...different marr... @.@ ! *gf long piak(banging head on the wall)* But then, I still got mine, yeay~!! *opening present excitedly*...and I got this !!!!!

Ok! errr...mai hiam du hor !

Besides that, I still received a Essence of chicken from her for my coming Birthday. Wuahh... *touched*

So, how do you celebrate yours !? :p

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When A Choice Is Not A Choice

Do you own a house ? How do you find it before you owned your very first house ? Those staying with parents no need to say lar...Well, I guess none of us would say it's easy. I think finding "the house" of your dream is kinda nonsense. There are always pros and cons on whichever house you are looking. There is no so-called Ultimate House or Perfect House. Yes, Dream House does exists...it's in your dream !

Let's see what's the criteria you need to observe before you can choose the house that really suits you. The criteria here might vary according to your financial background, superstitious, believing, and so on and so forth. Ok, let's have a look.

Top 10 Criteria to be observed for buying a house in Kuching

1. Flood
2. Price
3. Type of house
   
4. Distance from Town/Work
5. Number of years left for land tenure
   
6. Traffic Jam
   
7. Noise
8. Type of soil
9. Superstitious
10. Direction of Sun
    

Flood

For the past few years, Kuching was flooded for a few times. It was during Chinese New Year and it shocked everyone in Kuching. But there are only a few places left that was not flooded. So, they take that opportunity to increase the price of the houses ! Besides that, a lot of Si Bu Kia *cough* *cough* came out and causing the price of the house increased !

Price

Yeah, the price of materials keep increasing and yet nobody can stop this. Newspaper keep saying the price of the house will keep on increasing until the end of September this year. It says 15% more to be increased. That's bad. So, the longer you wait, the more you pay. So, to wait or not to wait ? wait is because we are still saving money ! No money how to buy house !? Another thing is our salary lor, if small salary how to buy ?

Type of house
Double Storey Semi-Detached ? Double Storey Intermediate Terrace ? Double Storey Corner Terrace ? Single Storey Semi-Detached ? Single Storey Intermediate Terrace ? Single Storey Corner Terrace ? Flat ? Apartment ? Condominium or Detached !? @.@!? Depends on your wallet lorr...the thicker wallet you have, the bigger type you choose lor...I think Flat, Apartment and Condominium are not recommended ! alang-alang lih~ I mean if possible don't buy those lar~

Distance from town/work
Distance is quite a problem as well. You just can't afford to pay the petrol and yet the price of the petrol is keep increasing at the same time. Goodness...So, cannot buy too far lor...ok, what's next ?

Number of years left for land tenure
Yes, you can buy a second hand house. Normally it's land tenure left 30 years, the most. By the time you finish paying, your land tenure also ended. duh ?

Traffic Jam
Traffic Jam is not that bad yet as compare to KL(Kuala Lumpur). But there are some places are quite jam in the morning as well as evening. So, are you ready to have KL-liked life at Kuching ? Then might as well go KL ? sigh...

Noise
Noise here represents a couple types of noises. It's either due to your house is too near to shophouses, main road, airport, in the eye of the city...and so on. So, do you mind those sounds ?

Type of soil
Yeah, this would be some group of people's main criteria or vice versa. If the soil is being filled by the developer for not more than 3 years and they started to build your house, you better be careful. Meaning that, it(your house) might cracked after a few years. So, it would be better to buy a hilly land house.

Superstitious
Some people look at "feng shui" and said that your house can not face a church where it's cross actually pointed sharp at your house. Besides this I believe there are more which I never came across. "Pantang this and pantang that". Check if there are cemetery nearby just in case you are scared of "friends" or "companion" during your night sleep.

Direction of Sun
This is quite important as well. As we know Sun rises from east and went down at west. So, make sure your bedroom is not facing west. Otherwise, you will be having an oven room during night time.

So, at the end of the day, NO NEED TO BUY !

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Out of Order

I have been staying together with my aunt(dad's elder sister), I call her "ku ku"; for more than 2 years. I have learned a lot from both my uncle and aunt. They thought me a lot of life philosophies that I might not know. I have been enjoying my life here since they have a housemaid that gave me a lots of conveniences. Making breakfast for me every morning. I don't need to take care of my dishes, clothes, bed sheet, pillow sheet, room, and so on and so forth...

Anyway, we have just changed a new one beginning of this year. She was quite old but hardworking. I kinda like her as she is very cheerful and she can really clean the whole house by her own without complaining ! Though she is not really that good in cooking but still bearable. Though she has conversation problem with us since she is a Jawa~ian(simply Indonesian). Besides that, she is a muslim...No Pork, please ! :( That's not too bad as she always cook fish for herself.

...and she is now away from us to settle her passport since last Monday. So, every time when the housemaid is not around, my "ku ku" would basically need to do all of the house work *gulp*~ So, as I am staying with her, I just can't sit there looking her doing all the housework by herself. Well, it's a bit tired but it's fun to do housework together ! I would have gave up my time with my gf to do some housework and try to help my uncle as much as possible as he is a busy man ! :p he is a retiree but still a busy man ! He can't find himself sitting down there and doing nothing. He told me that's a waste of time...hahaha, well that's why FooChow are always richer than the rest of the Chinese races. They are just too hardworking.

Alright, today is Saturday but I still need to complete some of my work here(acting as a FooChow). Anyway, my company has three new comers...Welcome on board Benjamin, Adrian and Sim ! Looking forward to work with you guys !

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2007's Master Plan

I think this year is really my year(aaiikss, broken English). Guess what ? My birthday falls on the first day of Chinese New Year ! Is it good or bad ?! Well, I have a lot of resolution this year. Let's see...

Resolution of the year

1. Improve my English both in written and spoken ! (company giving free English course)
2. Consistent in my bible schedule (struggling)
   
3. Clear all of my debts !! Be more discipline in spending money, in fact save more money (save money for what ? ahem...)
4. Improve my relationship with my gf
5. Hoping to travel more countries for business trip (company paying...kekeke!)
6. Learn at least a new technology
7. Go for exercise on Sunday evening !
   
8. Bring at least one person to Christ
9. Improve my relationship with my colleagues
10. Not going to buy any new gadget for myself
    

Ok, that's it...so, what's yours ?!

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Life's getting harder

I have been suffering from flu for a few days already. It caused me headache most of the time where I can't really breathe properly. I hate it when early in the morning I got up from bed and my brain is not giving me a green light for the day.

It has been a while(or all the while) where I do not have my own time. I really feel that my time is always somebody's time ! Sometimes I feel like want to go far away and have my own life without distraction from anyone. sigh ! At times I would want to have social life and at times I want to be alone...I hate people asking me for help at the last minute and yet I am in the middle of something and they just don't care whether you are available or not. They just feel that whatever their stuff is important. This is very inconsiderate ! How to deal with this kind of people hor ? What I mean is not at office ! ggeezzz...

Due to my current given task which is managed/lead by a UK manager, I always need to work at weird hour. Sometimes I need to wait him until 12a.m and yet he didn't reply me. Normally we talk through skype. When I am online, he is busy...when I offline, he online...gggrrr...

Yeah, houses at Kuching is getting more and more expensive. I can get a cheaper one at KL ! Double storey terrace intermmediate reaches RM310K and above...what the hack ! I think those youngster like me if not helped by their parents, don't really think can own a house. The worst thing here is that I am not staying with my parents...lagi jia lat...

hhmmm...maybe I should look for some "night-job"...oooppss ! I mean part time job. aaiihhh...pai miaaa (bad life)...but God always asked me to count the blessings, hhmmm...indeed ! Not need to say if you compare to those who is starving at Africa or somewhere else...Thanks God also that Malaysia don't have any war like other countries...Israel

Not much event lately, so no photos to share...hehehe :D

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Planning ahead

Moving towards the hustle bustle's life everyday really doesn't impressed me at all. Writing more blogs wouldn't be an option to fade away my bored. Watch more movies wouldn't help me either. Even having more "ang ku kueh" can't even cheer me up at the moment. I guess something is bugging me and it has been there for a while. Day after day, weeks after weeks, months after months and years after years ! Ok, I wasn't making any point at the moment.

What would it be if we don't plan ahead in our life ? ...yeah, this was the question that had been bugging me all the while. I start to have this question when I realised people around me spend their money during they were still young. Some fly to China, some fly to Korea, some fy to Bangkok and some even fly to New Zealand and this is with their own money ! Ok, the meaning "spend" here can be very subjective. So, it's up to you to define it. No particular measurement for this, I believe. I mean they are still at the early stage of their working life but still manage to spend so freely. Well, it's really ok if they really earn much and has no commitment at all. But I do believe everyone has a commitment unless they went back to heaven earlier as they expected - which is during their old age. Hey, that's a commitment to ourself as well - don't ya think so ?

When I think of it, after we retire(standard is at the age of 55) - we still have another, say 30 years to go. Would our EPF(Employees Provident Fund) enough for us ? How guaranteed are you that your children will actually look after you ? What if we itended to buy luxurious car or house at that time ? What if we itended to travel more at that time ? What if we itended to help our children for their new car or new house or even wedding (you would say to yourself at that time - "luckily I have only one child") ? What if we need some medical guidance for our malfunction's organ or some sweets drugs for our prolonged sickness ? Geeezzz.....that would be a nightmare when finance is a problem during that age. You can't work anymore ! No more income and you can only manage to spend. Even if you still can work, but who the hack would want to hire you with a such high salary ?! They can might as well hire a new young gun with lower salary and have more briliant ideas and good looking somemore ?

I don't know, those are all of my shouts before I can see things happen in front of my eyes. Shall we start to make ourself a habit of saving some money every each day ? If today you are rich, please always remember when the day you are poor ! Life's like that, it will definitely fluctuate throughout our life. So, let's save together today ! As those old folks saying "Save for your rainy days, young man..." - Well, I heard a lot of this in my past, but I never make it into practise. Yeah, I know practise makes perfect but no one is perfect so why practise ? LOL~!!! Just joking. Don't be fooled by devil anyway, we need to start our planning ahead.

My uncle told me a good story quite some time ago which enlighten me a lot. He said in this world, there are three kinds of people.

1. There is a bunch of people who always wait for opportunities (worst)
2. There is a bunch of people who always look for opportunities (better)
3. There is a bunch of people who always create opportunites (best !)

Doesn't it make sense ? well, I do agree with him. So, which category do you belong to ? Alright, that's all folks...

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Yient@u Reloaded

I had joined my new company for at least 2 weeks from now. Hey, thanks for reminding me, Lao Chai! Hehehhee...met my ex-colleague at McD. He said I gained weight ! But guess what, I was also thinking that he gained weight...LOL ! Just joking, anyway.

Time really flies and the world is changing rapidly and technologies are moving forward so fast. The environment changes rapidly and people around changed a lot too(yeah, I gained weight - gulp~ ). I almost can't catch them up anymore. I felt so tired at times. A lot of unexpected things keep happening to me. Something that I can't believe it will ever happened to me, whether it is good or bad. I also believe that everything happened for a reasons - of course for better if possible :p

Well, I choose to count my blessings instead of counting how many bad/sad things happened in my life. Hey... that's how it suppose to be, right ? See, smashpOp can choose to jump as high as possible to cheer himself up. In our life, it's our choice to choose to be happy or the other way round. Some people would choose to complain throughout their life ! or some people even choose to worry in everything throughout their life ! It's not that we are not allowed to complain. Well, as if you complain it and things will get better or so ? Sigh ! Woe to those who keep complaining ! Move your asses and do something ! Not complaining at all times ! I really admire those people who can solve problem in their life rather than those people asking "why me?!?!?"

Ok, I am not going to blog those unhappy things here. Let's see how many blessings I had lately ! :p hehehee...

• New Acer Core 2 Duo Notebook

• New HP iPAQ Pda Phone

• New BELKIN Notebook Bag

• New Sheaffer Pen(from Lao Chai - TQ !)

• New Bank Account
• Old Nikon Camera given by mom - no image available
  
• ...and nevertheless NEW COMPANY ! hahahaha... - no image available
  

Aaarrrhhh....feel like reloaded again ! Uuusshhhh...keep going ! keep going ! I told you, things are moving too fast !

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