Here I am at the office, at my desk, being largely incoherent and half asleep but somewhat thrilled that it's Friday and boss isn't here. Although being just 7am, the dreary thought of being trapped here for a good 10 hours plus a late meeting in KL at 4'ish send shivers... and spurs more sleepiness. Oh pillow where for art thou?

Company has an ad out in the Star today for an MBA preview we're conducting tomorrow (oh woe) so I'm all set for a deluge of phone calls (we hope). The last ad we had had our phones ringing for 3 days non-stop. I am so wishing I could be in bed right about now.

A small home dinner became a social event when Chun and Saw joined me and Rick for a simple tomyam. Chun now owes me dinner big time! Muahahahahaha.... by the way, anyone has simple recipes to share please do. I need to stop depending on Maggi and Knorrs. Help?

(have a good weekend everyone!)

Gah... another meeting today... and another one tomorrow which I'm going solo... gah!

I'm so sleepy these few days, no thanks to the TV and late night sitcoms. TV is evil... but I'm too hooked. Hehehehe...

A little brain dead this few days. CSI was smashing last night... great episode. Long though.

Disjointed blog this but so's the author.

Ahbooga.

It's been a long while since I've been so grumpy. I feel like Oscar in a clean trash can.

Anyways, was absent yesterday because I had to go to UITM Shah Alam in the morning (of which I got lost as usual), then rushed to Jln. Sultan Ismail with boss for another meeting, then to Jln. Gurney for an incredible record breaking 3 hr initial discussion (basically all niceties and little substance). I spent enough time on the road, no thanks to incredibly bad traffic, to reach Penang with ample time. Traffic was so bad I saw a driver leaving his car to pee by a billboard.

Anyways, TourGuide Dan bids a warm thank you for compliments though he is still waiting for his bill to be settled. :)

(on the plus side, I got a TV! woohoo! 21inch excitement... pleasure guaranteed... thx Dad!)

OogaBooga all over again. And after an exhausting weekend taking on my new job as tourguide Dan plus having to attend the horridly planned convocation... I'm just drop dead tired.

First up, convo was as expected. Congested, pointless but thankfully quick. It was good to meet old friends but once you have to park your car over a km away and walk in the scorching heat and queue for hours and then enter the hall and queue again and then exit the hall and queue again, well... tis enough reason to be grumpy. I really can't fathom how MMU can't count the students graduating, multiply that by an estimate of guests each student will bring and compare that number to the parking lots available.

Anyways, I don't want to dig through an event that's gone and done with. Happy Graduation, albeit belated! :)

First up, happy convocation one and all. Being a cheap tightwad I am, here's my virtual flowers to appease this strange need for gifts on convo day. (and please, dun anyone give me anything especially flowers otherwise i'll be guilt-ridden.) See you all tomorrow and Saturday!

For Meng


For Chun


For Jacq


For Aimo


For Clara


For Sing Yee


And here's one for anyone I've missed



A little Friday update. Those that wants to meet for Sate Celup, gather at Meng's house at about 7'ish. Let either me, Meng or Chun know if you're coming so we will wait for you (only as long as our stomachs hold out.)

Once again, happy convo everyone. I'm off to Melaka tonight. See you guys tomorrow. Ciaos!

Ode To The Fizzy Drink
by Dan

Oh fizzy drink,
How I love thee,
A dash of lemon,
All bubble-y,
So sickly sweet,
And icy cold,
I love you,
So many fold,
A belch, a burp,
You tickle me,
For all you are,
How I love thee.

You are Professor X!

You are a very effective teacher, and you are very
committed to those who learn from you. You put
your all into everything you do, to some extent
because you fear failure more than anything
else. You are always seeking self-improvement,
even in areas where there is nothing you can do
to improve.


Which X-Men character are you most like?
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There should be a swap-your-job day where we all can trade jobs for 1 day and see how it's like being in someone else's shoes. Will definitely be fun and eye opening I thinks. Routine can really get to you.

I have a packed lunch today of salami chicken sandwiches. I hope they last till lunch. It's hard to resist food when it's sitting temptingly beside you.

Convocation is this weekend. Am a little mixed up about it. Somewhat intrigued yet the thought of the entire ceremonialistic process just tires me. At least there's a dinner to look forward to Friday night. Sate celup!

You are Cypher, a back-stabbing, pain-in-the-ass,
whiny, useless (ever see him fire a gun even
once?) bastard. Nobody likes you, not even the
new guy, and especially not the chick you have
a crush on. You're just the SOB that takes up
screen time.

"You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I
know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix
is telling my brain that it is juicy and
delicious. After nine years, you know what I
realize? Ignorance is bliss."


What Character From The Matrix Are You?
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Does this flower resemble a fish bone in any way?

Argh... Ooga Booga already? Darn...

Had a decent weekend, especially since I couldn't go back and had no TV. Saturday was activity day with shopping work dinner and movie. And what movie you ask? No surprise lar that I watched Matrix Reloaded. I have a compulsion to watch every movie that intrigues me within the first week of screening. Otherwise I just lose interest simply because of the flood of reviews and movie talk between friends. Anyways, here's my two cents on Matrix Reloaded.

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Matrix Reloaded

First up, I am a fan of Matrix. And sci-fi. And sfx. And crass commercial hollywood. But also, in order to have a good movie, I believe you need the following two ingredients. A good story, and characters you can relate to. Outside of numbing (and incredibly repetitious) effects particularly in lengthy fight scenes that can fit an entire episode of Friends, Matrix Reloaded is largely disappointing.

Matrix was released years ago and having a sequel that followed through without the slightest of background introduction is not just pretentious but exhaustive. That may be forgiven considering the hype but seriously, no movie, not even the Matrix can ride on effects alone. Even Trinity's trademark float-in-the-air-and-kick-ass-pose failed to excite. Thanks to their success, I'm just numb from Matrix style effects, no matter how good.

Story wise, Matrix Reloaded seems to have none. The premise is the same but this time the prophecy seems close to fulfilment. Trouble is, after seeing Zion with all it's crappiness and bureaucracy, I really rather live in the Matrix. And once you feel that way, the movie has no purpose already. I couldn't be bothered if wood stick surfer boy Neo succeeds or otherwise. The movie never tries to convince or show how Zion is truly the place to be when life in the Matrix is exactly how we're living our lives now. And what's so bad about that? So what if we're powering machines, it's not like real life is any better than virtual life in the Matrix?

Character wise, the movie has so many characters, they all remain superficial, cardboardy and with certain 'key' characters, just lame. I cringe everytime Morpheus appears. Having him talk like Yoda on drugs in the first movie is cool. Having him talk like that ALL the time makes you realise why Nirobe (Jada Pinkett) is no more his wife.

I know lots of people like the movie and at expense of treading on toes, I think Matrix Reloaded borders on B-ratings if it weren't for the effects. Tis too bad coz I had really hoped the movie will rock. Just goes to show that all hype and no substance will still rake in big box office bucks.

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Back to work on a Friday and for a brief 10 minutes, I was exuberant and raring to go. Until boss came in and loaded me with incredulous and incredibly redundant work. You know the saying once bitten twice shy? Well, my boss obviously doesn't because after explaining how spamming via emails and faxes will just irritate people and really sell nothing, he insists on it. Even after the attempts 1 to 4 has failed miserably and wasted so much employee time. We're now hacking at number 5 and I have at least 1000 emails, and 2000 faxes to tackle. I am so peeved. Being boss obviously is no guarantee for common sense.

Had a good midweek break. Though it was chock-fill with errands particularly with Jin there. First up, room cleaning. With fish dead, I cleared the aquarium from the room. Then mom declared my room a rabbit-free zone so dad had to build a cage outside for Wallaby and Wombat. Then I chucked my old sofa bed and creaky set of drawers. My room has suddenly turned spacious and empty, but more importantly animal free and clean.

Next order of the day is getting a hotel booked for Jin and his parents for the convo. I think it's his messy hair and scruffy look coz most hotels didn't even give him the time of day! Hahahaha... we finally settled on Century Mahkota since the others are surprisingly pricier considering they're hardly that great. Last order of the day, get a haircut. :D I now have super short hair and look like a kid finishing highschool. I hope it grows quick enough for the convo next week. Darn.

Anyways, here's a slighty convulted joke that I find so amusing. Hehehehe...

Mike picked up an attractive woman, named Linda,
who flagged down his car in a seedy part of town.
As they rode, he asked her what she did for a living.

Linda winked at Mike and said, "I'm a magician."

"No way," Mike scoffed. 'Prove it."

So Linda touched him on the thigh, and "Poof"

Mike turned into a hotel.

Woohoo... Survivor 6 was great! :D Can't wait for the next one... 3 hours of late tv on a monday does have it's consequence though... incredibly late for work this morning and grins from colleague means that they obviously know why. Ah well... Survivor is too important to miss. :)

Gonna keep this short. Loads of work to do and less time to do it! :) Have a good holiday everyone... catch some of you back on Friday and the rest on Monday. Adios!

OogaBooga OogaBooga... Monday really isn't so bad after having to work on a Sunday. Sigh...

First up... SURVIVOR FINALE is today!!! No one call me then, no one bug me then and I hope all electrical appliances behave. Woohoo... 3 hours of crass commercialised reality bliss... I'm a happy happy boy.

Back to the blog, having to work on Sunday kinda really ruins the weekend. Anyhow, highlight of the weekend will be cooking dinner last night. A little planning makes a world of a difference in the kitchen and having properly thawed meats makes for so much convenience! Hahaha... A quick trip to the minimart at a cost of RM 9 resulted in chicken garlic soup with potatoes and onions, fried sambal chicken, spicy kangkong with prawns and mushroom omelette. New housemate Rick and I ate till we could almost explode. Kinda cooked expecting Saw to be there but since he wasn't, we reverted to pig mode and ate everything up! Hehehehe.... Anyways, will I cook dinner again? Not too soon... even though it turned out alrite... it took me a good 2.5 hours... cooking is tough.

Came to work today and found a marmalade cat lazing about in my usual parking space. I eased the car in, gave the kitty a fright and got the worst glare ever... from the cat. Cat's are freaky... times like this, I wish I had a cat-eating dog.

It's finally a Friday again. Not so gung-ho though since I have to work on Sunday and subsequently cannot make my traditional trip home for pigging out sessions in front of the TV. Darn...

Woohoo... Survivor tonight. We're getting close to the final survivor and this time, it looks set to be a battle of ethics. Jerk boy Rob will never win the million dollars but he'll probably be there till the final two. Interesting though the people I would have liked to win have all been butted out. Wonder what'll happen tonight, especially when the camp go ablaze. Muahahahahaha!

Here's a slight diversion. Today, I proclaim on this blog that I, as you all know me, loves the new flavours of 100Plus... all of them. If they ever pull the drink out, I'll cry. It's so bloody darn good. Thank you. We now return to our regular blog.

I saw stray dogs being captured today, probably to be sent to death by the MPSJ people. Sad but there really isn't any place for them. Irresponsible and ignorant dog owners who let their pets loose without spaying or neutering are really to blame. Sad sad sad...

Before I go, quotes from the N. Korean news network on a play by the military... (makes you wonder doesn't it).

'light comedy spiced with scenes making one laugh and bringing tears to one's eyes'

'another excellent work great in cognitional and educational significance and flawless in ideological content and artistry'

'The creators and artistes of the studio truthfully represented the great vitality of the songun leadership of the WPK and the philosophical truth that one can live only when one remains true to the WPK's songun leadership'

I can just barely control my laughter, (and worry) that such dominant publicly accepted idealogical dogma still exist.

Anyways, I'm officially wishy washy today. And thanks to Meng, I crave blueberry muffins. Happy Friday y'all...

How evil are you?

Yesterday was the first Wednesday in a long time that I did not get to watch Charmed. I feel inadequate today. Junkie TV boy needs a fix. Darn the lightning that struck the house and coursed through the cables to the Astro decoder that belongs to my aunt. Couldn't it have zapped the VCD player instead? Oh woe oh woe.

It's Thursday and I'm not looking forward to the weekend since I have to work full day on Sunday. Darn. Plus side, it's more of a field trip than work. Down side, if it's something I have to do that I didn't volunteer for, it's work.

Woohoo... 2 public holidays next week! At least that's something to look forward to. :)

My featherback died. If you're asking what it is, it's a fish... also called the Knife Fish or ikan Belida though it's not a local varient. After 3 years, RM 600+ on food alone, and a growth spurt from 5cm to 40cm in length... it's sad that it happened. All my pets seem to die when I'm not at home. Though after going through so many pet deaths, you do get a better grip on things. Worst hit was when my first pet, a rabbit named Lopey passed on. Sigh...

I'm major mondo fed up with work. I'm so stressed I feel like screaming at the next phone caller. (don't you dare...) I've also been having very troubling dreams since Sunday... all involving me going to work in the most extreme of circumstances with my boss constantly there. I so need a break (or a new job). On Sunday I dreamt I was at work in my underwear, Monday I was at work AND fighting demons and yesterday had me in a boat in rough seas trying to get to clients who live on islands surrounded by giant sea monsters. ARGH!

I am doing marketing non-stop, fielding phone calls, answering emails and sending out flyers to post boxes aplenty. Bengang!

Company's in a marketing frenzy promoting an MBA program. Response is good so although that's good news for the company, it's bad news when there are only two people handling calls and only myself handling mails. Can't wait till June when the application closes. Phew... on that note, anyone want's to take an MBA? Hehehehe...

Argh... argh... argh...

After a heavent sent 4 day weekend... coming to work is such a torture. Sigh... it's gonna take a few days to get back in the groove. Work work work!

Some updates, rabbits have been sent to Melaka permanently under the care of my mom. Reasons being, I simply am not home often enough to keep them company and bringing them to and fro whenever I go home is too much a hassle. Plus I'm a little tight financially and the rental for the extra room is burning a hole. It's a little sad not having them around but it does gives me extra time especially in the mornings since I don't have to clean them up.

I'm also starting tuition classes again. For the same reasons as the rabbits. Must make money and being pay cheque dependant is crappy.

NEWS UPDATE! My McD robocat has been kidnapped by nefarious underhanded evil blogger lady Jacq! Evil!