A Place for my Head: September 2005

Thursday, September 22, 2005

the HIATUS

hey people, i might be taking a short hiatus from blogging. dont get me wrong, it's not like i hate blogging or something.... i LOVE blogging.. but sadly, time is not on my side.... having only 24 hours a day is definitely not enough...and it's the biggest factor for my decided break from the blogging world. and the reason for my limited time is because of the new project that i'm currently working on.

just so you know, i've extended my working hours from 7.55a.m. till 8.3op.m. , mondays to fridays, definitely, and it's all thanks to the RoHS project. The project is one hell of a tedious project i tell you.... and the first stage of the project is due next month!!! and i'm so freaking dead because i've just started on that project. bless me! and do you know what's worse, if time is still running against me, i might have to do the project at home as well... bloody hell.... bye bye... t.v., bye bye.. internet, goodbye EVERYTHING!! and my life has just gotten lamer....
and i cannot focus 100% on that RoHS project alone because i still have to issue Incoming Reports and offset the purchase orders against the incoming reports as well... and trust me those damn incoming reports come in truckloads.... ahaa... just kidding......

The Rohs project has just started and it's already draining the life out of me!! most of my friends who have known me for a very, very long time, know that i dont have a single pimple on my face before. not ONE!! i do not even have a single pimple when my hormones ravaged through my body during puberty.. i'm not kidding! and all of a sudden, right now, pimples are popping out on my face like bloody mushrooms, ever since i started working on that Rohs project... that project is damn bloody confusing, complicated and stressful... i've like 100 part numbers to do research on and i've only completed 3 of them!!...my job is to search through the internet on these parts' maximum heating temperature, the heating time limit, amount of moisture that these parts are allowed to be exposed to, what are they coated with..what are the structures and components for each and every part...... yadaa yada yada...... . it took me a whole 3 hours to find the information for the 3 parts... means i'll need about 97 freaking hours more to complete the first stage of that project. my most frequently visited websites are not friendster, yahoo,msn...etc anymore... guess what they are?...... www.diodes.com , http://www.fischerconnectors.com/, and etc....... and many other sites with the same theme... ELECTRICAL PARTS!!!! ARGH!!!! maybe these sites may not be that bad for the diodes, capacitors..... enthusiasts... and i'm definitely NOT one of them.. thanks goodness for that.

on the bright side, this project aint that bad. i have learned alot of new things and gained alot of new and useful information... and i'm still learning as there are lots of things that are yet to be learned. KNOWLEDGE is power right?? and i'm still sucking in alot of new information about those diodes and stuff....
those technical jargons were kinda foreign to me at first, but i think i'm getting a hang of it now.. at least.... some of them..... ahahhaha...

well, i'll TRY to post some new stuff once in a while, that's if i HAVE the TIME......

ok.. that's all for now....

busy days ahead....

adios...

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

a sum of everything

i just had my long needed haircut not too long ago....about 3 weeks ago to be exact. just so you know, my once below the shoulder length hair has been transformed into a very, very short, almost boyish hairdo and to tell you the truth, i'm not regretting it at all. in my opinion, having long hair is a drag, you have to de-entagle your hair, whenever you washed it and you have to tie up your hair every morning before you depart for work.....i'm a very lazy person, so to do all that is really a chore for me.... aahhahaha....plus, i've gotten quite a few positive remarks on my new look. my family and almost everyone in my department, and people in other departments said that i look much better with a short hairdo..and they actually told me that i looked untidy and dull with my long hair... the truth has been revealed.. haha... They said that i looked cute with the new look.... well please bear in mind that, the definition of "cute" is ugly but adorable... haha... it's still a compliment though....

here's the best part.... there were a few guys or middle-aged men in my company, who did not even bat an eyelash at me before when i had my long hair, and all of a sudden, with a change of a hairdo, they came flooding in. They approached me to have a chat and to find out more about me and stuff and they treated me with the utmost gentlemanly manner... as in, they opened the doors for me... you know.. those kind of stuff... well, if my memory serves me right, they used to just sort of let the swinging doors, slammed shut right in my face!! fcuk! well a haircut sure made a whole world of difference eyy... haha... there was even this one guy who came and asked me this, " has anyone told you that you look cute"........??!! weird huh? i guess i must have looked atrocious with my long hairdo.... with all those "compliments", i however, feel that there's not very much difference in the way i look.... i still look like well.. ME...
What’s with the sudden surge of compliments?.. the truth is, i, myself have yet to find out...

Last Sunday, I cleaned and vaccumed my car inside out. It took me a whole 3 freaking hours! Well, I’m proud to say that, all the scrubbing and vaccuming has paid off. My car is now squeaky clean.. haha… I, unlike most of my friends, couldn’t just dump my car to the car wash center as my parents do not believe in sending our cars to car wash centers. It’s not that they do not trust the service of car wash attendants. It’s just that they believe that, my car is my own responsibility. so, they told me that since they gave the car to me, it's my responsibility and not that of others to wash, vaccum, and care for my car’s well being and it's my duty to take good care of my car. I guess they're right, in a way. So, ever since the day that I got the car from my parents, i washed and vaccumed the car all by myself, with the occasional assistance from my maid of course. so, if you people who have sat in my car before and noticed that my car was filthy, hey dont blame me ok, i'm not as fortunate as you guys ok, i've to clean my own car and ensure it's well being and stuff. it was because i didnt have the time or was too lazy to clean it. ahha.... I do believe in the term that if you care for your car, your car will serve you well, well kinda….... hahaha...

Just for the record, IL DIVO ROCKS!!!!!!

Adios…

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

yeay.. an update!

last friday was just another boring and monotonous working day. Oh wait, actually there’s a newbie in my department. The newbie is a she, she’s in her thirties, she has urm three kids, I think, she was working in a Chinese electrical company, God-knows-what name, for approximately 6 years before she decided to join us here in contraves…. Yeay..and she drives to work.. and she sends her kids to a day care center.. oh well, this is about as much that i managed to dig from her….hahaaa…. she's quite a nice and pleasant person to have around... at least, for now.

Oh well, on a very shocking move, my boss asked me to coach the newbie. of all person, why did he choose me to carry such a big responsibility, is still a mystery to me. Because, I, myself is quite new to the company. i've worked there for only approximately 2 months. It was quite a weird thing to do really, because, i was coaching someone who is fifteen years older than me..... Basically, that was what I had been doing for the entire last week and i still will be coaching her this week as well. I had to coach her from the very beginning... oh well, the plus side was that, i was able to refresh myself on what i've learned in the past. She's quite a good leaner, i think. the downside was that, all my work assignments were brought to a standstill but the workload still keeps increasing day by day. Freaking hell…. thank goodness that, i'll resume my normal work tasks by next monday... whew......

I'm currently co-handling the RoHS project. RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances. The RoHS Directive aims to protect human health and the environment through the restricted use of certain hazardous substances. RoHS is an European legislation that bans cadmium, hexavalent chromium, lead, mercury, PBBs (polybrominated biphenyls), and PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers) by July 2006. i'm co-handling this project with a cute bachelor guy who is in his thirties. *hint.. hint*... he's a very nice and friendly guy, he was from pay fong high school, he loves Man United, he loves dogs.. i think i better stop here... haha...
i foresee more workload lying ahead.... damn...
but it's kinda cool in a way, as i will be spending ample amount of time with the bachelor guy.... haha....

I watched scary movie 2 yesterday. That movie is one heck of a funny movie man, i tell you! It was just so goddamn hilarious. Judging from the movie title itself, one might assume that "scary movie 2"should be a scary movie and it should be frightening and not funny right? haha.. the movie has parts of the movie " exorcist" in it. how should i put it?ok, to make things simple, let's just say that the movie is "exorcist" but it's the comical version of it. But be forewarned that the movie has lots and lots of "parental advisory and discretion needed" scenes in it. you guys should get the idea... well.. more or less... it's like watching the funny side of porn.. but it's not like i watch porn though.... honest.. ask my pals....
overall, I like scary movie 2 better if i were to compare it with scary movie3. scary movie 3 centres around the movie "ring", but it's not as funny as the 2nd. i'm yet to watch scary movie 1 though....

i suffered a bad cramp when i was jogging yesterday... it happened out of the blues. at first i felt the muscles on my right leg tightening a little, and i just shook it off, thinking that it was just because i was getting tired, and i pushed myself harder to jog faster, because i planned to jog nonstop for at least an hour, then suddenly, the muscles on my right leg just tightened completely and the pain was so overwhelming that i just collapsed to the ground. and because of that fall, my left knee has a gash. damn... both legs injured haha... mind you, it was just a muscle cramp, i couldnt imagine if i suffered muscle tear or something more severe... and luckily my dad was around. after a few moments, after some massaging from my dad, that is, i was able to walk again but the pain was still there.. and till today, i still can feel the stinging pain. THe pain is no joke man... it was frightfully painful. luckily i didnt pull a muscle or tear a hamstring or something.... as i dread not being able to do sports again......

ok, that's all for now till then...

adios...

Thursday, September 15, 2005

THE SUNDAY

last sunday was just like any other ordinary sunday, except for the fact that it was actually not so ordinary because it was my youngest bro, A.J.'s 15th birthday. yups, it is on the 11th of September, definitely a very significant date. That date certainly do bring back memories of terrorist attacks on the pentagon and the World Trade Center, in the year 2001, which killed so many innocent lives. ok, since he couldnt decide on where to celebrate his birthday, and hey presto, in came a very smart suggestion by my another bro, that we should have a BBQ dinner. that suggestion was very good indeed and we had all the necessary ingredients to make the BBQ dinner a success.. EXCEPT.... FOOD!! that was the greatest joke of the century. We have the BBQ pit, the utensils to BBQ our food, charcoals, fire starters, matchsticks but no FOOD! and that suggestion came in a very timely manner indeed. the dinner was supposed to be at 7.30p.m. and that suggestion came in at 4pm.... great! so like any other last minute pro, we hurriedly dashed to TESCO and bought the necessary food stuff. for example, sausages, hash browns, corns, etc. so by the time we finished shopping and reached home, it was already 6p.m. so, we started preparing and marinating all those raw chicken, beef and prawns, and we shucked the corns. it was indeed fun. we had trouble starting the fire in the beginning, but after a few minutes, we had trouble keeping the fire under control instead. haha...the fire was too damn big, that whatever food that was placed on the BBQ pit was burned to crips, ok maybe i am exagerrating a little,but the food was so damn burned beyond recognition, and black that it was so totally not edible. get the picture? It was a very candid scene as all the food on the pit were on fire as in really burning and all of us were screaming "the food is on fire, the food is on fire!"ahhaha.. but after awhile, we managed to keep the fire under control and BBQ our food to feed our starving selves. By the time the food was ready to be eaten, it was already close to 9p.m. we BBQ-ued basically everything and anything that could be BBQ-ued, such as, sausages, prawns, potatoes, onions, chickens, beef, hash browns, crabs, squids, er that's all i guess, o right, and Marshmallows of course......The dinner was a humble affair as there were only the 7 of us, including my grandpa that is... Have you guys tried BBQ-ing marshmallows before?? trust me, you guys SHOULD do just that. it's the most heavenly thing that i've ever eaten man... Just a tip: when you're BBQ-ing your marshmallows, bear in mind to not put your marshmallows to close to the fire as your marshmallows will burn at an alarming speed. so just make sure that there's a sensible distance between the fire and your marshmallows. hehe. then just let it burn for a while, that is till you can see a slight tinge of brown on your marshmallows... and after that you can savor it. the taste is... well..... HEAVENLY!! it's crispy on the outside and soft and gooey on the inside.... YUMMY!! The birthday cake was excellent too. i think i ate too many marshmallows that night, as i was pretty energetic after that and i couldnt sleep till around 3 freaking a.m. and i had to be awake at 6a.m.... damn... i guess my entire system was overloaded with sugar....

well, it was an awesome night. everybody enjoyed the food, and everybody had a great time. I know i had a great time.

that's all for now.

till then....

Friday, September 09, 2005

imagine...

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people living life in peace...
Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people,
Sharing all the world...
You may say Im a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

Written by: John Lennon© Bag productions inc.

This song is one of the greatest compositions of all times, composed none other by the great JOHN LENNON. For those who dont have a single clue on who JOHN LENNON is, well, he was a member of another great band, called THE BEATLES, where along with his other counterparts, like Sir Paul McCartney, they made hits after hits of great songs.

oh well, what i'm trying to imply here is that, i too am a dreamer and i too dream about the above words. If those simple things can be achieved, than this world would be a better place for all of us to live in. There would be no more wars, no more unnecessary human sacrifices, in the forms of so-called jihad or better known as holy war, where the malays will murder their non-muslim brothers... which they assumed those wars as an act of LOVE for their GOD....
there would be no more cold wars by countries on other countries just for the sake of conquering those weaker countries to obtain resources such as oil, gold, etc etc.. for the financial benefits of those conquering countries. And just for the sake of obtaining those resources, innocent people have to die...
IF ONLY, this song can be realised, all those wars, will come to an end.

that's all for now. till then...

Imagine my fellow friends... and dream.... who knows, maybe one fine day, this song can indeed be realised someday.. somehow.....

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

THE REASON

since i do not have the time to post a long entry now, as i'm currently in my office, and the whole lot of authority figures in my department are away in the conference room having a meeting about some lead-free materials. Lead-free materials are environment friendly materials and it's compulsory for all organisations to comply with the lead-free rule. so, that's the reason why i can blog right now, teehehehehe..... Man, i'm bad.

anyways, since most of you guys wanted so badly to know why i failed to turn up for one of my best bud's birthday celebration, well the anwer is pretty simple.

My mum sort of banned me from going out for a week, quoting the most freaking unreasonable and stupid and senseless and pathetic and f**ked up reason. Her freaking reason was that i've been going out quite frequently for the past week and most of the time she couldnt even see my freaking shadow at home. at least that was what she said... and she told me some shitty stuff about me not being a homely person at all and i dont have a sense of belonging to the family and the house.. yada yada yada.. kind of bullshit.... And i argued that, i didnt hang out with my friends till 11pm everyday.... and i told her that i was out late for the entire freaking week because i had badminton practice sessions..

she ended up saying something like she doesnt give a damn whether i'm out doing charity work or in the church or temple praying, or going for bible studies, the conclusion is that i'm still not at home most of the time and she couldnt accept that fact. what the......??

Well, i do have to agree with the "i'm always not at home part" but i have a bloody good reason for my absence at home. well, between 7.55am till 7pm, Mondays to fridays, i'll be working my ass off in the office and on normal days i'll head straight home after that....
but, for the entire last week, i had badminton practice sessions right after work to gear up for my company's badminton tournament and after those practice sessions with some of my colleagues(the practice sessions were from 7.30pm till 9.30pm), i would normally join them for a quick dinner and by the time i reached home, it'll be around 11p.m...

so you see, my mum hardly sees me at home for almost a week... and she rambled about the family comes first kinda shit. Furthermore i thought that perhaps i could celebrate my victory with my pals during the birthday celebration itself as i promised that i'll get them drinks if i do win something... which i did. sadly i couldnt do that... friggin hell....

personally, i dont see what's so freaking wrong about me celebrating my good friend's birthday, for just a freaking couple of hours....

Oh well, just for the record, other than my "busy days" , i am most of the time at home. i'm a family person and i'm also homely. but i would say that i too lOVE attending parties and hanging out with friends.. man.. she just doesnt understand me at all...and vice versa.

oh well what the heck!
It doesnt change anything...

I'm still so Freaking GROUNDED!!

and do you guys know, what's so damn weird, when one of my cousins invited me to play badminton with his friends on that same day, my mum blissfully granted me her permission..... what was that all about?? and i agreed to go partly because, so that i could take my mind off the on-going party.... well as long as i'm occupied i should do fine.
oh well, i guess he's part of the family.. it's so damn depressing when you couldnt attend great parties.....

i better stop here as i can hear the loud and deep booming laughters of my swiss bosses....i guess they must be pretty close.

Gotta run.....

bye....

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

is it necessary?

Sometimes I just wonder whether is it just so typical of Malaysians to fake up very, very fake and terrible and heinous slangs whenever and ESPECIALLY when they are communicating with Caucasians. Why can’t Malaysians, yeah people like us, we pure Malaysians, you know, people who were born and bred in Malaysia (MADE IN MALAYSIA), communicate normally without any fake slangs whenever they communicate with caucasions?? Why?? Just tell me why?? Are we just trying to impress those foreigners with our supposedly excellent command of English? Or are we just trying to show those caucasians that we can speak like them? geezz... all these fake slangers better give me a break and better stop slanging around ESPECIALLY when they couldnt even speak a COMPLETE sentence in PROPER english, it's just so goddamn broken. as in " can you please returns my call or as in, is you free?? or " did you got my fax" or "he didnt went out" sentences like that..... What the freaking shit is that??!!

These sentences are just killing my brain cells, amazingly even faster than any deadly disease. I'm not saying that i speak perfect english, BUT at least i dont slang.... trust me, those slangers might assume that by slanging with the caucasians, they might actually sound like the caucasians themselves. trust me, by doing so, these slangers will only humiliate themselves..
whenever i hear some serious fake slangings going on.. in my department, within my hearing range, i would just burst out laughing. I personally think that it would be so much better that we, Malaysians just be our normal selves. So, what if we do not slang like those caucasians do? So, what if we speak with a typical Malaysian slang(minus the lahs, lors, lees... crap and of course with proper grammar)? I, more often than not, can hear the differences in the way my colleagues communicate with the customers via the phone. If they speak with a maLaysian slang, you would definitely know that it's another malaysian on the other end. but once they start communicating with a freaking weird accent and words that are so freaking INDECIPHERABLE...which even that robert langdon guy would fail to comprehend what the hell they were saying, then definitely it is a caucasian on the other end.

an example: A simple sentence of " Thank You very much" can end up sounding like "Tank You very mushhhh...."

more examples: " It's a pleasure doing business with you" can sound something like " it's a pressure doing business wit chooo.."

more examples: " how many people are there in your department?" after slang.... : how maly peoperrrrrr were there in your department?"

all those examples must be added with a friggin' weird accent....let's just say, scottish cum british cum american cum australian accents made into one......

Yups, the slanging syndrome is so freaking bad..... for crying out loud!!

Just be ourselves is the best that we can be! what's up with the sudden change of accent....

can you people just freaking stop that!!

as long as we communicate with proper english, we should do just fine.....

ENOUGH SAID!

p.s. if i ever hear anymore fake slangs.. i swear i'll just kill myself....... LOL....

i so damn goddamn hate it when i hear such terrible slangs......they are such pain in the ass!!!

on the other hand, today is my PAY DAY!!!!! yeay!!! and i'll post some stuff about my company's badminton tournament later.. some interesting stuffs happened on that 2 beautiful days....

HIghlight of the day: I've just discovered that my head of the department could not operate a damn fax machine!!!!! how the hell can he be the head of my department if he couldnt even operate a simple device such as a bloody FAX MACHINE!!.... * ponders* * Only GOd Knows Why-kid rock* is playing in my head right now.... see the irony??

stay tune....