Random Rants

I like the evening wind these days. I'm here in KL, physically, but that kind of wind reminds me how it feels like back home. Felt like Chinese New Year, but its months to come.

Reading the daily news only pisses me off more, all those fantastic things our ministers have to say.

"Liar Liar! Pants on fire!"

This morning, I was asked if I ever heard about the Elephant Sanctuary.

Me: (!!@#$%#$% WTF was that?) Never heard of that. Where's that?

Coll: "Well, elephants, a sanctuary for them in Temerloh, Pahang."
"We should be really ashamed of ourselves, I actually heard this from an Australian friend who works as a tour guide, bringing people from Australia on tours and that Elephant Sanctuary was one of the places he brought them to. So katak di bawah tempurung!"

Me: That's his job. Locals don't visit tourist traps. I'm not very much an elephant person, so it didn't matter. We did not even hear nor read about it because the media are busy cooking up lies. *Sigh*

Coll: -.-"

I've been wondering what flamed my anger for whatever is going on around this country had gone from bad to worse. It's beyond help. Vacate your post, you bloody hypocritical leech.

This is a personal blog which gets no more than 5 hits per day. Readers of my blog are people that I know personally. Chances are little that this blog is ever going to be discovered by other readers, by word of mouth or stumbled upon by chance.

This post is so disorganized. No particular topic. Random thoughts.

I did a 100/100 for my appraisal. Shall wait and see what Boss have to say. Looking forward to talk to him soon.

Away

KL is such a depressing place to be in, when every other day, there'll be road closures, roadblocks, and manyak tiup tiup; it created such a tense environment to live in. I jumped at the chance to escape that for one day.

I am now 2 hours away from KL, up north.

Putting myself in some place where no one knows me, and neither do I the rest felt oddly serene. Even embarrassing things you do doesn't feel that bad when you don't know anyone here. I get 2 hours to spend on my own.

Things like walking up to the escalator, only to realize before you put your foot forth that you were heading in the wrong direction, I just laughed it off. People behind me were smiling at my silliness, and I found it funny too. The escalators here operates in a different direction. I got so used to life in KL and the arrangements there, and that little incident kicked some sense into me that life does not always follow well laid plans. Even the best plans have flaws.

I'm going for some red wine with the rest. Til then, adios.

Boss, is this a Joke?

Work takes a huge chunk of my time, daily. Things get interesting when I get to work on problems and solve them. You just spent hours and hours and hours, pouring over search results and typing away on your keyboard to make things work the way you want.

Concentrating for hours on a go does at time leaves me with double visions. It's like you were so focused on one thing, and when you suddenly look up, everything is a blur, and I see worms in my eyes. Mata rosak lar tu.

Since I work on my own, I keep (the Boss) informed through email. Likewise him. (duH!)
But sometimes,

I needed to do a double take. I thought my blurring eye sight is brought to a whole new level. I start seeing obscene stuff? Turns out...
Boss, take a break.

What?

Sorry to hear that England didn't make it to Euro 2008. And I pity Mr McClaren. The whole world is giving him a hard time.

Australians are a bunch of happy people. Aye? Don't you agree? I ask them how they liked KL, the only thing they managed to point out was that it's always jammed everywhere they go and all the time. People here seemed to always be in Rush mode. And with the clogged streets, comes pollution.

Potholes. Landslides. Collapsed buildings. Angkasawan joke. Why don't you, Minister, try wearing your wig reverse? Maybe that will kick some sense into your bloody little brain.

Don't look at me as if I owe you 100 ban. I'm Cindy Crawford's alter ego. Even my trademark mole is on the other side. (I don't have 9 lives)

Virtual Help

What I like about Facebook:
1) You get to see pictures of people you know (and don't know)
2) You get to be in touch with people, by just looking through their pictures and descriptions.
3) It lessens the effort needed to be effectionate (and also to do physical harm to other people)
4) I can smack your head as if I'm standing next to you.
5) I can buy you drinks (without paying), and you don't have to fall out of a club drunk.
6) It prepares you mentally for what you're about to see in real life.

As of today, Friendster did more help than Facebook. Facebook is 1Mx more complicated that Friendster is, but the fact that it takes time to get Facebook organized means Friendster is much more simple and needed less time to maintain.

Preparing you mentally to meet someone usually work fine. Until today. That "babak" is still playing in my mind like an endless loop. Help. So Friendster magic doesn't work all the time. When the Menyampahness melimpah limpah, it just does.

Can I throw a cow at you? *chuckles*

Reverse, you Idiot

Reverse engineering, in non-technical terms, is where you take an end result, then track back the things you have done and what happened in order to get to that stage. Learn-from-your-experience kind of thing. You get my drift.

Round in circles

Likewise mistakes that we make. It's useless to regret and think that you could have done better. Regretting a past incident wouldn't help much, dwelling in it won't help either, but it gives you a learning opportunity. *Sticks mental note* - "Just don't repeat the same mistake twice."

Someone said, "Hey, look at my blue tie!"
I'd say, "Hey, check out my blue hair!!"

-_________-"

Reverse engineering is common, idiot engineering is relatively new, to me.

Confused

Yes. Blue. In this case, reversal of action is not an option. There wasn't any option.
And yes, I've been carrying quite a number of disastrous crazy highlights, and it's still happening. Curiosity killed the cat, but hey, I've got nine lives! Curiosity nailed me this time!

There's this new hair colouring product that came in a tube. Something that resembles uhu glue in a stick. Initially I declined, worrying that I can't get the colour off, but I was told it is temporary - that was the reason I try putting on some crazy colour (but I wasn't told how long was "temporary" gonna be). I was offered to try it, and so I did.

People need not comment or say anything about it. The look on their faces did enough damage. Haha. And I've repeated like a million times why I did it. Curiosity.
I have came to terms with my new colour. Expect it to be there until the next haircut.

Wonder what mum would think about this? *ponders* idiot engineering full fledge

Beware, Predators lurking around every bend

With all the posh malls decorating the city streets these days, it lures people out to discover and visit them. Cos every other people would have already gone there and will sooner or later ask you;

"Have you been there (yet)?"

Been there, so what? Classy as it is, it is still a playground for credit card predators. They'd probably been guilty of spoiling people's day by asking about people's creditworthiness. I was at Robinson's when I overheard a couple "harassed" by a CC predator (CCP) asking;

Pred: Do you have a Platinum card?
Couple: (looks at each other) Er, no.
Pred: Oh, then do you have a gold card?
Couple: Nope.
Pred: Oh, then what is your highest credit limit???
(then he went on and lalallala with the privileges you get with a Platinum card)

What's wrong with these people? It's not like people bring along their EA forms on shopping trips. Ugh. Dong!~ If you really mean fast approval, and that you trust your potential customer then offer one on the spot, instant approval without supporting documents. Dare you to.

Need not peek!

I was harassed at One Utama during lunch break. Some CCP from HSBC I think. She obviously noticed that I had a tag dangling from my neck (that is, I work next door), and asked if I have a credit card.

Me: Yes.
Pred: Oh, from which bank?
Me: Maybank.
Pred: Visa or Master?
Me: Visa and Amex.
Pred: Would you like a HSBC Mastercard since you already had a Visa and Amex?
Me: Thank you but No.
Pred: Why not you just apply because we give fast approval.
Me: How fast is your fast approval, anyway?
(mistake, she thought I have a glint of interest)
Pred: Do you have your pay slip with you?
Me: HAHA - Who would walk around carrying a pay slip? (Siao ar?)
Pred: (chuckles) Your office is next door, right?
Me: I don't keep it in the office. Ok lar.Thanks but I don't need another card.

Kesian that girl. She's probably new. But then, what does fast approval mean? Means you need to spend time filling out forms, and at the end of the day you'll have to fax the signed copy them, along with all other supporting documents. All the hassle. And you dare call that fast approval? Trust me, they'll only go as far as making you submitting your application and they're safe. They'd probably ignore your calls when you ask for status. Haha.

The bank that your company maintains a current account with will probably have rang you. Preapproved - 1 Million times faster than fast approval cos its Pre. They just need a simple Yes or No.

Cosmodome

Wow Factor

I liked the layout. The criss crossing walkways mid air. And the way the play with natural light. However it's suffocating to be at the top floor, the high ceilings heated up and as the crowd gulped in oxygen, not breathe in order to gather view the structures above, it's simply breath taking. Those with their jaws dropped, tend to gulped in more air. Still its a such sight.

Can I study Architecture?