Dang ....

Just as I was about to start blogging the clock is nearing 5.30....
Hahahah ....
Maybe tomorrow la ...


Cheers ...

Testing Testing ....

Could this be that I am back ???

Aloof....

Yowza !

Just back from a break, you see my colleague and I had to work through CNY but in return we were able to apply leave on a different day. So I spent a few days chilling, did not do much though then again a holiday is a holiday.

Last week before I took leave we watched Sepet. Hahaha … well honestly I was quite apprehensive about it. It’s a malay love story plus there was no hot chick in it so what do you expect right? I heard it was quite good but really the idea of spending my movie money on a malay movie seems a bit odd. I guess the last time I watched a malay movie was …… gosh I cant remember. Seriously but I have to confess back in the days when I was young and quite dumb I was guilty of watching Sembilu. Aaaarrgghhh! I cant believe Im admitting to it! Well it did happen my mates will crack up every time we talked about this. We can still remember after the movie where people were crying but the funniest part was when we realize a dude at the seat behind us shedding some tears too hahahah to rub it in his friends were making fun of him. Heheheh those were the days man.

Anyway we did catch Sepet, luckily there was not any good movie that I wanted to watch cause we might not have been able to watch it. Then again since my fiancée wanted to catch it what the heck she deserves to watch what she wants to right. So we bought tickets and went into the cinema, the first thing that strike me was the fact that the audience in the cinema did not comprise of only malays. Ok I am not trying to think stereotypically but it’s a fact, if it’s a malay movie the majority of the viewers would be malay. Not this movie though, there was Chinese, Mat Saleh and Indians I was quite impressed. Not that the movie had a big budget marketing drive, probably just a simple one through Bata (no wonder in the movie Orkid is wearing baju kurung and Bata shoes all the time) so the interest it managed to generate was also notable. By the way Ida Nerina and Ning was sitting in front of us in the cinema.

Ok something just happened ….
I can not continue … I need time for myself …
Enjoy the weekend …

May your days be better then mine …

Save Carey Island..

Carey Island to turn into a landfill area???!!! This is outrageous! Those who know me will understand why I am being so sentimental about Carey Island. My family was very fortunate enough to be there for a couple of years. If you bought yourself a copy of today’s Malay Mail you will see a map in the front page. In the map you ll see a heritage bungalow under item number 3. One of the bungalows is actually the bungalow house for the West Estate manager. That is where we used to live. If you turn inside you ll see the type of bungalows they had. The one pictured was the Haters Castle. Among all the bungalows that was the most special of all. If I am not mistaken its usually reserved for the Golden Plantation CEO or summtin like that. From what I understand, we were the last family to ever lived in the West Estate’s managers bungalow, as right now the company does not put the manager in that bungalow anymore. This is all the more reason why I feel so sentimental about it. We were truly blessed to be able to live there, especially now since we live in the city. With the cut throat hustle and bustle of city life, remembering our time in Carey Island never fails to pinch a nerve. I hope they maintain Carey Island. Even though it’s mostly a plantation island it has something that we currently have less and less of. All in the name of development….yeah right.

Ruckin Again

FYI this was Mondays Blog which I didn’t post. So you might wanna come back later cause I m gonna post something new again.

I am currently frigging bored. One of my pc just went kaput so I had to reinstall the Windows. No surprises there huh. To make it worse my Windows update on my machine is taking forever to complete. MOFO.Since I have not been making a lot of updates on this blog I tought why not update it. Seems like I have been getting some traffic from UiTM, seems like the person or persons seem to click on my site for Malaysian Rugby stuff. Huurrrm currently I am contemplating the idea of making a blog specifically for Rugby in particular Malaysian Rugby.If you are a Malaysian Rugby fan you would realize that there not that many local rugby resources on the net. So for those who are interested watch out for this space soon.

Speaking about rugby, I played my first ‘superleague’ game against NSW. Not New South Wales Waratah yea but Negeri Sembilan Wanderers. Well its been donkey years since we last played against them in a 15 a side game. So I needed to adjust myself to the new level. Well we re never going to win that game, ok honestly even without their 2 Fijians we would have lost. I just can’t fault anyone for that, its not that I am willing to lose a game but we could not have expected a miracle to happen. Our players were young and inexperienced and obviously we lacked the proper preparation for such tournament. However I think with a couple more games we might be able to improve. I made a huge mistake of wearing my long studs for the game. The pitch was dry and it really made walking painful let alone running. Hahaha I know some might be saying that that is an excuse by me for doing some power walk in the game. But it was true, right now I am having a case of bad blisters. Damn it I really hate it when that happens. I saw an ex team mate in that game. Well when we were in the same team we had our differences, but I didn’t realized he switched to another team. Cause if I knew before hand then it would have been extra motivation for me. Heheheh. These things happen so there is nothing to it. Funny thing about the game though is that I got a gift from my team for being among the ones who played well. Is hard to be happy when the result of the game was bad, then again I was humbled to just be recognized. I m just happy to be playing with the guys.

England Lost … Again!

Hah hah hah seems like the Chariot aint swinging to well at the moment aight? Well to be fair to them they did play decent rugby. Luck did evade them as there were times I feel that they were a bit hard done by the referee’s decision. Then again what about the try they got? The number 8 had a really good path to the try line aided of course by an American Football style blocking. England’s solution? Easy get Johnny to the best specialist and get him back on the pitch ASAP. Without him England are hopeless. You can’t expect the team to get points by relying on mauls. The backs are hopeless and not that slick as compared to others. Their passing was not accurate at crucial times. Something which I believe England is frequently guilty of. The forwards are good no doubt about that, had their backs been more clinical they would have won the match. But don’t take credit away from the Irish team, they played brilliantly to deny England the match. They had the temperament and the defensive qualities to edge out England. All in all I do think England didn’t deserve to lose the match but shit happens hahahahah ….

Calming Down,Crap Service and England Losing ...

Calm Down

Have you ever been told by your boss to calm down???

Well I know how. Holly crap, imagine how I felt when my boss had to tell me that. Well it’s like this; we have an office where the whole team is sitting together, so we share our phone lines, so when you are talking to someone on the phone others would notice. So when I was talking to the client and for some reason I just lost my cool. I just did not realize how ballistic I was at that time, so my boss had to tell me to calm down. I was like OMG what happened to me? My boss had to tell me to calm down aisey…I was so embarrassed and ashamed about it…Wait Im actually quite scared when he said that… I was telling myself …OMG! I m going to get tapaued by my boss after this…So far he has said nothing…But if he does say anything its fully understandable and totally right… I should not have done that …No question about it…

I just hoped I do not do it again….

Damn it, the thing really had an affect on me, which is why I blogged it straight away…Just needed to let it out… I got to get pass this so that I can focus back on my work. Focus, focus and focus …

By the way I have been shit busy lately so blogging is taking a back seat at the moment…

Still I need to get away from some of the stuff before it really gets to me. Today I learned a really valuable lesson. Never lose your cool and try to net let your passion screw up your actions.

K nuff of that ….

There is a lot of stuff that I wanted to post about but since you guys are aware, I cant seem to find the time at the moment. Well here some stuff that’s happened since

Restaurant De Cheingmai (2 out 5)

It was my mums birthday so we all thought of going somewhere to celebrate it. Our home is not far from the Sungai Buluh area and we heard of this neat Thai restaurant there. There seem to be a lot of huuu aahhh about it. Since there was a lot of us the logical food to have that day was of course rice therefore Thai fits nicely to our plan. There is a malay word for it…Muai …Eating rice is muai, meaning the eerrrr …. The food satisfies peoples hunger easier, then say other types of food such as sushi or dim sum where you have to eat a lot if not youre gonna still be hungry. Anyway. This place is quite secluded so getting there requires you to do a bit of exploration and if you are unlucky you ll probably get lost. When you get there you will be quite surprised of the whole place. Its big and to a certain extent looks like a Siam palace. So when we went there we ordered food and at this point we noticed that the guy who took our order (seem like the owner) was a bit snobbish. Well typical melayu I guess, when your place is well known you treat your customer like dirt. We wanted the Tom Yum to not be spicy he didn’t want to entertain, my grand parents wanted to order noodles he said the kitchen is busy and it ll be difficult to entertain the order. WTF ??!! If you can’t why the fork did you put it in the menu in the first place. Heck put a bloody disclaimer on the menu to let us know that these food are not served during peak hours. Fork you k. The arsehole even gave us a look which luckily I didn’t realize. You see we were there to not only eat but we wanted to have fun and have a good experience. The people there are not too accommodating; I doubt we were that particular. Well for the money we paid they could have at least provided a decent service. I do agree that the food is quite nice but due to the bad service I would not recommend people to go there. Plus its frigging expansive. The whole dinner cost us rm390. For that amount we could have gone to Tamarind where the place is wicked and the service is good. Heck if we went to Vichuda we would probably have twice the amount of food we ordered and the service there is waaaay better. True we ordered quite a number of food but anyone who has been there would agree that its expansive and a bit over rated. My fiancée and me manage to chip in a bit, yeah my dad’s retired so a bit unfair if I let him pay for everything. To me good service plays a big part and this place does not have one. So a measly 2 is all Im gonna give you.

England Losing to France

Hahahahah ….

Seems like the silver lining for me last weekend. They really got what they deserved. See I ve said it all along England are a 2 man team and that is Johnny Wilkinson and Martin Johnson. Both are top notch but the England team deserved it for being one dimensional. You should have heard one of the commentator’s comments. One of them, was quite certain that they were winning the game. Praising the team, the no8 on a much improved performance. When the French team clawed their way back he went as far as to say the French didn’t deserved it. Hah…Is that so? Then how the hell did they won the world cup? What the French did to them was exactly what they have been doing all the time even when they won the world cup. So Mr Commentator does this mean the England team did not deserve the World Cup? As painful for me to admit that they deserved it I believe credit should be given to them. So I guess England fans have to swallow the ironic situation they are facing at the moment. But didn’t anyone realize this? During the second half the game was stopped for quite sometime due to substitutions made by the French. I think it was done on purpose to break England rhythm and momentum. If you are aware, after that substitution France took control of the game and never looked back. It ll be interesting to see how Sir Clive Arrogant shapes up his Lions team with England not being able to perform up to his required standard.

Marriage Course

Lastly …I ll be going to the wedding course this weekend. Ekekekekek…I ll blog about it next week. Have a nice weekend.

Cheers….

4-2? Whats up Arseanal? Ekekeke ….

Wow, my last posting was quite a hit. Well based on my counter readings that is. Well I guess when it’s about complaining on Astro everyone would want to read about it.

4-2, Sweet…

What can I say …. Well Wenger you have to admit you were again outfox by the old master once again. Ok first of all I ll have to admit this, I am a Man U fan …. But let me add this, I am not as Hardcore as other Red Devils supporters. I don’t take things way too seriously like some other fans, be it Man U, Chelsea or Aseanal. After all I was born in JB not Manchester.Then again this morning’s victory was sweet. Even sweeter was the fact that it didn’t waste my precious sleep time on a working day like today. Hahahah ….

Ok here are some points why the victory was sweet.

The brickbats …

Yeah the brickbats that was dragging on and on during the season certainly spiced up the game. Imagine, they have not even been on the pitch and yet there was a scuffle. It just shows you the kind of hostility these guys have towards each other. Being a Man U fan obviously I think Arseanal were bad losers during the game at Old Trafford. Plus I think some of the stuff being said about the Red Devils were a bit unfair. Its football and business, so you do what you had to do to win. At the end of the day that’s all that matters. Then again Man U was really physical and rough that day. So today’s game was really the time where all the yapping stops and the action speaks. And guess what for all the talk Arseanal, this morning you were shite.

Outfox

Arseanal biggest mistake during the game didn’t happen on the pitch and didn’t happen this morning. It started waaaayyy back when they lost the game at Old Trafford. In fact it probably started when the entire team had a go at Van Nistelroy a few seasons back. Anyway, since that lost the master psychologist; Sir Alex went on the offensive to further attack Arseanal. Arseanal’s reaction and action (buffet throwing and stupid public remarks) after that further compounded them. The fact that they reacted to Sir Alex’s comment clearly was a bad move. It clearly affected them more and it showed in this morning’s game. You can see Arseanal players were really tense and really wanted revenge thus causing them to lose focus. Man Utd players on the other hand were more relaxed and more focus on the task at hand. They new they had a job to do and a football game to win. So they won the game through better mental conditioning and concentration. Which evidently, was the deciding factor.

Outplayed

As mentioned, because of their mental state key Arseanal players did nt perform up to expectations. Sol Campbell and Pires to me being the main culprit. Only Henry was as usual, the best of the lot. His overhead kick was short of being a goal. Had it gone in it would have been the goal of the season. Wenger should have played differently and could have sprung a surprise. Instead he went to his usual formation. It was predictable that United would try to outman Viera in midfield as the saying goes, control the middle of the pitch then you control the game. Viera was not as effected as he could be because ManUs midfield closed him down and didn’t give him the space he needed. When he is not enterprising then Arseanal’s attack would be blunted. Only once did he had space and look at the ball he fed to Henry. It was a gem. Then again it was not enough. Another smart move by Man Utd was to play Ronaldo on the left. Man U knew that Cole is tougher to beat so they moved him to Laurens position. Clearly it had the desired impact.Wenger did throw his last card by taking off Lauren but as the results has shown it was a bad move. The whole game that area of the pitch was where United’s goal came from. So when he was substituted, there was no surprise when Heinze broke on the left and set up Osheas goal. Which by the way was exceptional.

Overall

Like the entire EPL headlines you read “It was SWEET” The fact that they came back twice and played with ten man for about 20 minutes and yet came out winners surely was sweet. Still you don’t see any Man U players jumping over another ManU player in celebration right? (Remember Wiltord at Old Trafford?)

Then again its just football guys…
So don’t take it seriously….

Now let’s get back to reality and get cracking on the work you are supposed to be doing

Cheers..

Nice Hair! Ekekekek ...

Astro = Repeats + No service when it rains

I know a lot of people have pointed this shit out countless time. But fork it Im gonna still write about it cause ….that’s all we re able to do. See this is what happens when the consumer has no option. No choice.

See Astro is so synonymous with REPEATING programs right … Its becoming so bad that you can’t even know the stuff your watching is from 2002 or 2005. It happened to me recently; see I’m an avid CSI fan. No not Miami but the original. In case you don’t know I am the rightful owner of the gil.grissom@gmail.com add. Hehe…So when they started to broadcast CSI on Wednesday I just could not be bothered to watch it as I assume it was another rerun. Well there’s no surprise when you’re watching Astro? So when I was flipping through the channel I saw the CSI episode and noticed that I have never seen it before. It was only then did I realize I have missed the new CSI season. Luckily I only missed the first show as the one I saw was the second of the new one. I m not being cynical but Astro just forking do whatever they want and show 2002 programs when it’s actually 2005. So do not blame me for making such assumption. I am not shitting you guys k. Example: I noticed a show that look kinda new to me as I ve never seen it before on channel 13. The name of the show was Blister if I am not mistaken. It’s a game show that reviews the so called latest games on consoles such as the X-box, PS2 etc.. Yeah latest if you lived in 2002 that is…I shit you not man the game that they were reviewing was Dragon’s Lair…Do you know when did the game came out last year. They showcase the game during its development and that game took 2 years to complete. Come on man when you are talking about technology a year is like really old. Technology develops so rapidly that you just can’t afford to read on really old information. What do these guys in Astro take us man, do they think that we re that stupid …Another thing, they did was review a game convention…Yeah sounds cool huh? Again the convention was in 2002. Shit man do you realize that we Malaysians are so used to be given second hand stuff… Seriously man never be proud of the imported stuff we have .. The Starbucks, Marche, Ikea, Burger King, Kenneth Cole, Zara and all that shit. You don’t need to go far to realize this. Just compare all that stuff with Singapore and you will realize they already have it for a looong time. Way before we had it. I still remembered when I was in JB, whenever I went to Kl I will know the latest stuff way before the guys in Kl. Its not something I am proud of as I now live in Kl too. It just makes you realize that it sucks. I don’t know about you but I never for the life of me like it if I am treated secondary. If you are the kind of person who likes to brags about the Kenneth Cole you just bought at KLCC… Well don’t, cause those stuff are actually old designs. I know because when I went to Singapore they had the ones that we re similar to the ones in the Website. Ours are probably unwanted designs from Singapore. I don’t really like Singaporeans (nothing harmful though) but they do have the better stuff and shopping there is way better then in Kl. So it’s the same with the TV programs. We usually get old shite all the time. At least the ones on The AXN channel are quite new. What forks me up is that Astro should be giving us better stuff and not just shoves us with old stuff and making us feels secondary.

To those who live around Damansara area ... And tried to catch the Australian Open Mens final I pity you...For that fateful moment God gave us rain and took away Astro from you ....Hahahah ...

I tought that when it rained you are supposed to stay home and enjoy the telly ...
But not if you have Astro ...
For me when it rained ... Get out or get bored....

Well to be fair to them they are improving…A bit la …
But honestly I still feel they are getting away with being the one and only cable tv in Malaysia…

The Best Mamak ….

What is with we Malaysians and Mamak. We just cant get enough of it. If the Westerners have their McDonalds then we Malaysians have our Mamaks. Maybe it’s the fast service, maybe it’s the open air environment and not forgetting the food of course. But I guess we being Malaysians like it more as you can order one teh tarik and sit there for hours. Me guilty of that too. Hahah but did you know that in Venice where sidewalk cafes are famous you will be charged for just having a seat? Even if you don’t order a single thing form the café, and if I am not mistaken different seats are priced differently. I guess they ll expect you to pay more if you sit at a good location.

Mohsin (Rating:4/5)

Yeah to me the best Mamak at the moment is Mohsin. Well I don’t know about you but based on the mamaks that I go to (ones that are near to my place) it’s the best so far. First of all the food is good and the service is prompt too. The foods that I enjoy most are the Nan and the Tandoori. They have an interesting selection of Nan bread such the Nan Mumtaj which is a Pizza like nan. Most importantly the texture of the bread is soft and not too hard. The tandoori is also well cooked as they are not too dry, often other places make the mistake of over cooking it till its way to dry. The reason I m telling this stuff is cause lately Im trying … yes trying to look after what I eat. While many think that Mamak food is unhealthy I do think there certain food that are in fact healthy. Nan and tandoori being some of em. So hopefully it does help me out there. Another interesting thing about Mohsin is that you can order fruits, such as Jambu Batu with asam boi. Interesting huh. Besides that the place is bright and parking is not that hard.

By the way notice the rating? Well its just something I thought of doing in case you guys want to consider the stuff that I write about ….

Interesting Fact

If you go to MSN’s search engine (crap engine) and search for GUYS SHITING IN GIRLS MOUTH and guess what…The first result is Stomping Ground…Don’t ask me how the MSN search engine comes out with that, for I definitely have never put such article I my blog….I shit you not cause one of my referral was from there…I guess they must have made some mistake cause when I tried to search using the string again it did nt return my page anymore…

Hahahah ….