about me A loner, although do enjoy the occasional companionship, if you can handle it. Enjoys long term friendships, sensitive, ponders a lot about life and people. Thursday, February 26, 2009
No, I don't want to.
[ 2:20 am ] I woke up with another weird dream this morning. There seems to be a theme in my dreams ... anyways, this was how it went and it was pretty vivid. I found myself walking around a large tent, you know those they use for kenduri? What do you call those? Yeah, that one. Anyways, it was fairly large and had a lot of tables arranged underneath it. The ground was a little soft and muddy. I could see high walls around the garden compound. The tables were decorated ... can't remember the details to it, but on each table were purple favours, that had words embroidered on it. Inside was a ticket to watch some guitarist perform ... and I heard someone saying "At least we didn't get cakes or chocolates". I continued walking around as people start to fill up the place. I remembered it was drizzling. Hmmm ... not a good idea to walk out wearing a nice suit I thought to myself. Someone told me to hurry up or else I'll be late. Hmm ... late for what? I was asked to wait for the car to arrive. Arrive? Who's arriving? A dark coloured Bentley drove through the gates and stopped at the entrance of the tent (still can't find the right word for it). I opened the door, inside the vehicle was a really old Japanese man and woman ... and a woman dressed in white. Oh great, it's THAT kind of dream again. Great, just great I thought to myself. Who is this person? Ha Ha ... joke's on me. Is this some kind of wedding that I'm not aware of? Immediately, I could feel the fear in my heart. No no ... I'm not gonna go through this. I don't even know this person. It's that kind of feeling like you're making one of the biggest mistake of your life. So I told the old woman that I'm not gonna marry her granddaughter. She got angry and I got slapped. "Do you know how far we had to travel?" I remember running away. Daniel took me into his Pajero (what happened to his City?) and we went to an old kopitiam shop house with marble tables. It was an end unit, the ground outside was dusty with laterite soil. He asked, "What's wrong with you?". I didn't really had an answer, all I knew was, I don't want to be married to a stranger. Dreams, they don't have to make sense. Just like this one. 2 comments Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Go.
[ 1:15 am ] My aircond is dripping ... I guess the pipe is stuck. There's a large basin underneath it now ... drip drip drip. Strangely, I could sleep through the sound ... reminds me of the rain. Yeah, it's dripping like a pipe ... major blockage. I've been rather annoyed with myself lately. I hate it when things don't look right. I spent the better part of the evening fixing a webpage that I felt was too 'noisy'. I am wasting valuable time. At least, I think it looks alright now ... that's until it starts to bug me again. Anal, huh? I was contemplating whether to go to prayer service today. I left the office around 8pm and was feeling really, well, to be honest ... lazy. It's one of those battles that your head and your heart goes through. Head is telling you, "Man ... you're tired, why don't you rest at home and chill out.", heart tells you, "Go". See, heart usually speaks in single word. He can't seem to go beyond that, lol. Anyways, I told myself I'll see how I feel about it when I reach Subang. So much to think about, huh? So I drove as slow as I possibly could. Damn it, traffic was so clear that it took me less than 15 minutes to reach Subang. Finally ... I took a turn into my housing area ... and told myself, that's it, I'm tired and I want to sit in front of the TV and watch some AFC, Discovery and History Channel. I drove past my house and went straight to Summit for prayer service instead. *slaps forehead* I think my walk has been a little side tracked. Can't seem to walk straight with Him sometimes ... always end up straying and lepaking at the side of the road and wondering about 'this walk' that we have to go through. So, often I find myself sitting at the side of the road not wanting to walk. I don't like the journey sometimes, but, I might say something else tomorrow heh. Hey! How are you today? I've seen better days, thank you. Arghhh ... I'm whining to God in my head. I need to constantly remind myself not to close open doors ... or idly watch opportunities pass me by. There was a job opportunity that presented itself last week, but I kinda put it on hold because I didn't know if I was interested in it. So I didn't think much about it. Besides, I know the working hours there can be crazy. It came knocking again today. I told myself ... ok, fine ... I'm not really thrill with this, but we'll see where it leads. Cheh ... talking like some bigshot only :D On to better things. I've taken a liking to green tea lately. I don't know why. Don't ask me why. I love green tea now, been drinking at least 2 teabags a day. I think old age is starting to manifest haha. But I find that it really helps me to relax. Supposedly it's not a relaxant, so must be a placebo effect my mind is having :P 0 comments Monday, February 23, 2009
No karan
[ 4:12 pm ] Working from home this afternoon 'coz the power supply in Plaza Damas went off. So unreliable. It's a good thing I'm home early today, it's pouring cats and dogs. What a bad day to be stuck on the road. I am crippled. I can't work from effectively at this moment ... no way for me to VPN in unless someone manually switch the server on. Tried to install ASP on my local server, but it doesn't list down ASP 3.5. How weird ... it should appear. Arghgghghhhhhghhgghhhh Oh yeah, if I never did mentioned it, our Pacmee video is done. I'll put it up when it's officially up on the site next month. It's cute :) 1 comments Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sky Juice
[ 11:06 pm ] Yesterday was David's bachelor outing and of course an opportunity for some guy bonding. The few of us went to catch Valkyrie, based on a true story about a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler. This is just one of those movies that while walking into the cinema you kinda know the ending already? They failed, that's it. End of movie. Later on we had dinner at Dave's, the place where I celebrated my birthday back in 2004. Now, that was quite a while back. Pretty nice place, but I think they might have changed the menu. Got no complains about the food, it's still good. We ordered two 1/2 meter pizzas ... I was actually expecting it to be 1/2 meter in diameter ... but it wasn't, so it was 1/2 meter long. Though it would be a crazy huge pizza if it was 1/2 in diameter. The pizza was great. I got to know the guys a little better now, kinda break the ice a little more as well. I've always found it amusing to observe how people from different churches interact, and what values they hold. Our conversations somehow suddenly centered around how different churches were ran, as well as some ... ummm ... 'sensational topics' about their problems. Dirty laundry basically. At some point, I was flabbergasted ... if anything were true, I am damn glad to be in Acts lol. There are just some things that just boggles your mind. I don't believe in churches that 'dismisses' members because they fall short of their standards. Isn't the church suppose to accept people with their short-comings and be the moral lighthouse? Anyways, we try not to talk about other churches or how sesat they are. Who are we to judge? After dinner the whole lot of us rendezvous at Sky Bar, a little chic swanky place at Trader's Hotel. That's where the birthday ladies will be at as well, killing 2 birds with one stone :P I thought the place was quite ok, not sleazy but brightly lit and nicely deco ... as for the music, I wish I could turn it off. You'd think a place like this they will be playing some laid back chill out music, but it was some house music. There's a large swimming pool at the center of the place, I wonder how many people ever fell into it. It was really humid and we were sweating ... and no, there's no aircond as it was 'almost' opened air. Must had been the weather and the hot air from the streets below. We were at the 33th floor, I'd expected it to be cooling. Anyways, the ladies joined us later ... kinda conned the both of them into this, so I guess they didn't realise that it was planned. I spotted CY and YF as they were walking in, so I joined them for a little while, had to swap groups a few times that night. Totally different bunch of people but enjoyable company nevertheless. Got to know the both of them better as well, perhaps some of my initial impressions just weren't true after all. I need to stop profiling people and fitting them into molds. We left the place around 1am, and I had the best opportunity to use the phone's GPS system hahahaha. I LOVE THIS THING! I was driving through lorongs I never knew existed and got back home following the instruction, it's quite fun really. Though it's not a perfect system, you just need to fine tune the route sometimes. Ahhh ... the joys of having a GPS capable phone. Oh yeah, while driving to Sky Bar, David was kinda sharing about the difficulties that he had to go through for the wedding. Once again, this is about another church and I don't want to talk about how things are run in other churches, but again, I am quite glad to be in ACTS. There's too much nonsense out there. I just hope that our leadership will still be forward thinking even when their hair turn white. So, what do I think of the whole night? I don't think I want to be out in these places unless I really have to. I rather enjoy the company over a meal at a nice restaurant or even a cheapo place. It's the company that counts, not the place sometimes. Wasn't there a saying, 'Good food accompany good company'? Or did I just made that up .... maybe I did. Hang on, Google time. Ok, I made that up. Annndddd ... for the few of you that had the surprise of my mom adding you to her Facebook account, aren't you just lucky? Hahahaha ... I'm actually worried about my mom using the Internet. I don't want her to get conned. Anyways, I was quite against my mom using Facebook. Really. How would you feel if your mom added you on Facebook and have access to some of your personal stuff that you keep separate from home? Now, she'll know who you've been going out with, what you've been doing, and the photos! But you know what, after seeing her get connected with her friends, I guess it's not too bad after all. It's kinda fun to see her connecting with her friends ... and now the rest of my uncles and aunties in Australia are connected to her ... and now to me :\ So, this is what I did. You can group your family and set the privacy settings for the group. Now, they don't get to see my full profile :P Mean? Nah ... I don't think so. Would you want MY mom to see what YOU'RE up to? Huh!? p/s: Hi there silent Singaporean reader :) 0 comments Thursday, February 19, 2009
Ho hum
[ 12:39 am ] Just got home from another dance practice. I think it went pretty well today, getting a lot more comfortable now ... though still lacking the confidence and poise. Ah well ... we'll get there eventually. Oh, the song is "We will dance" by Steven Curtis Chapman. Look it up, it's really a beautiful song. Very meaningful lyrics. Different things have been going on my mind lately, haven't the time to blog about it. Not depressing thoughts, of course. I realise that I'm quite drawn to ... happy people. Happy people makes me ... happy. Yes, I like hanging out with chirpy people, 'coz sometimes I really need that. It does take your mind off a lot of things :) It takes a while to regain your old self. I am starting to loathe being around emo people now. Too much negativity about anything does affect my feelings. I just want to be happy. Selfish, yeah? Better to be selfish than to listen to complains :P I have to mention this. I'm quite glad to now know a lot more people who are not from church. A new circle of friends. I really needed that as I felt there wasn't any balance. I can't take it when everyone thinks the same way ... there's nothing new :P While we can share the same vision and purpose, we don't have to share our lingo, culture, jokes, etc. I just needed the variety. I did mentioned earlier this week that David's bachelor night and CY + YL's birthday dinner were on the same day and time, and that I really wanted to go for both. Guess what? Isn't it great when things work out eventually? Technically speaking, I get to attend both. David's after dinner party will be at the same venue as their after dinner party. Better than nothing! I need to get a few new pair of shirts ... I've been wearing the same old thing whenever I need to dress up. It'll start to look dumb when you compare photos and think that they were the same events ... Erin's mom had a disbelief look when I told her I'm turning 30 this year, she thought I looked a lot younger ... hmmm, I'll take that as a compliment. I guess it's the way I dress. I bet I could blend into a college crowd :D As usual, the next question would be why I'm still single, I ran out of answers, so the best thing to avoid this question is to laugh about it. Do you think it's that easy to meet the right person? I don't think I'm picky. You don't want to make another mistake. I think I've made enough mistakes. Perhaps I'm just tired and not motivated. Friendship first ... a solid one. I'm not gonna skip on this, 'coz good things really do take time. 0 comments Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Dirt bag.
[ 9:06 pm ] I got a call from Joel yesterday ... now, usually when I do get a call from him, it's usually either he needs some help or just a listening ear. In this case, it's just someone who's willing to hear him out. Ok, listening, I can do that. A couple of months ago, there was a little 'shakeup' at his dance studio, to cut the long story short, some low life thought he could take over the studio (lol) through some underhanded tactic which resulted in a few of his students and staff leaving for that guy. He eventually opened a studio in Puchong hoping to fleece some of Joel's student by basically ... character assassination, lol. Wow ... just when I thought I've met all kinds of people, but this guy is really something. That's really low. You bad mouth the same person that taught you, guided you, and now, you bit the hand that fed you. Speaks a lot about his character, don't you think? What a dirt bag. Anyways, the studio didn't do really well (as expected) and he decided to open up DIRECTLY in front of Joel's studio. Sigh ... what is he trying to prove? As expected, Joel is worried. After knowing him for more than 15 years now, I've not seen him this bothered before. Well, if your passion and business was threaten, I guess I would be. There were unscrupulous people using his name as well for shows, workshops, etc. This led to a few misunderstandings ... imagine la, if someone used Nike's brand and organised an event when they don't hold the rights to that brand. Your reputation is at stake. I suggested that he gets Urban Groove trademarked, that way, it should deter people from using Urban Groove for unauthorised events. At least if he wants, he could sue them for lost of income and damaging his studio's reputation. I gave him the contact of the company where we registered our trademark with, let's see if he'll register Urban Groove. Anyways, hope all will be well. I'll probably drop by and have a look see at the *ahem* competitor's studio :D Street dancing is really, really dirty business. Anything and everything goes. 0 comments
Apple n00b
[ 6:56 pm ] Kanmani says: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH speaking of radio i'm sad.... Ray says: that your radio broke? your itrip spoilt? Kanmani says: no..even worse Ray says: your car radio died! Kanmani says: i think my ipod's dying :( Ray says: oh noes! Kanmani says: :( Ray says: want me to have a look see? Kanmani says: it keeps hanging then going back to the homescreen and still same prob i switched of the wi-fi also just in case all the apps are the same sometimes i'll stay for awhile then go off...othertimes it goes off withing 5 secs Ray says: hmmmm the wifi drops off/ ? Kanmani says: no it's the apps and even when i switch off the wi-fi, it still hangs i couldn't play my music todaaayyy!!! Ray says: hmmmm you have to show me when i see you don't quite get what you mean so any aps that you open it will just crash and go back to homescreen? Kanmani says: yea Ray says: is your ipod with you now? wanna try something? Kanmani says: yea ?? Ray says: hold the power button + home button until it reboots Kanmani says: it's not gonna reset or anything right? Ray says: nah Kanmani says: err it just asks me to slide to power off oh wait...now i got the apple picture Ray says: yeah then it will reboot you can let go now Kanmani says: ok...i did :P otherwise i can't type ;) Ray says: ok now the important step Kanmani says: oh, good timing it just came back on Ray says: the ipod has an accelerometer right Kanmani says: a whatcha meter/ ? Ray says: so this next step requires you to do this the thing that helps it rotate screen rotate Kanmani says: ahhh ya :P Ray says: ok put your ipoh on a flat surface *ipod hehehe ipoh Kanmani says: ipoh's on a flat surface :P Ray says: ok now you need to turn the ipod a full clockwise back into position and then anti clockwise back into position Kanmani says: what?! Ray says: to trigger the accelerometer Kanmani says: it's turned off now Ray says: crap can't spell that Kanmani says: u want me to turn it on? Ray says: eh yeah yeah! Kanmani says: ehhehehe Ray says: switch it on again Kanmani says: and stay on the homescreen? Ray says: yeah then put on a flat surface make sure it's flat then clock wise full spin Kanmani says: oh, so i pick it up turn it around then put it back down? Ray says: and then anti clockwise full spin no ... on the table cannot pick up Kanmani says: hahahahaha okkkaaay Ray says: just imagine it like a turn table lemme know when you're done Kanmani says: but u can't really see it moving when it's on the homescreen done it just remains the same Ray says: well, it's to trigger the accelerometer done the turning thing already? Kanmani says: okkkk...what's next yessss Ray says: anyone gave you a weird look? Kanmani says: now i've to rub my belly and pat my head at the same time? :P hahahahahahahahaha KNEW IT! Ray says: bwahahawhawhawhaw Kanmani says: lousy feelllaaaaaaaaaaaaa ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kinda reminds me the time when I installed Uno on my iPhone and told her you need to shout Uno really loud into the mic when you get Uno ... yeah, I'm mean. BWAHWAHWHAAHA 0 comments Sunday, February 15, 2009
Dance
[ 8:28 pm ] It's been a rather busy week for me ... and finally, I get to sit down here and unwind ... I am so tired. Not the emotional tired, but physically tired. I am drained! Feeling a little lazy, so I'll just summarise. Parting. We sent Eric and Doreen off last Tuesday night. I've not sent anyone that I care about, off to anywhere before, so it was a bittersweet moment for me. I am actually happy and excited for the both of them relocating to London ... well, it's only for 2 years, so that doesn't really feel long. I plan to save up enough for a visit hopefully sometime next year, don't think I'll be able to make it this year. We'll see how that turns out. Steaming. I've been craving ... ok, maybe not craving, ummm ... longing for a steamboat dinner for a while now, so it was good that Amelia suggested we have steamboat this coming Thursday since she was thinking of the same thing. I extended the invite to Kanmani as well. She's good and free entertainment anyways :P New friends. The girls (Doreen's best friends) are having a birthday dinner/outing for Chir Yuen and Yuen Lai this coming Saturday. I was pleasantly surprised to get the invitation ... I said I'll go, so I confirmed my attendance with them. Quite a nice bunch of people to hang around with. Can't believe they've been sticking together since primary 1. That's 20 over years man. Now, that's friendship. I'm still a little uncomfortable around them, some are very easy to warm up to while some needs some working on, though I won't mention who. All in all, I'm just hope to build something out of this. Newer friends. David's bachelor party is ... this Saturday night as well. Yes, it's a clash. Honestly, I want to go for both ... I hate having to choose. As much as I REALLY want to go for the birthday dinner with a bunch of lovely girls, I think I'll have to settle for a bachelor night dinner with a bunch of guys -_- *sigh* Well, you only marry once while birthdays are every year ... now, I need to come up with a really tactful way of telling them I can't make it now. Haih ... Two left feet. We had dance lessons for David and Erin's wedding over her place earlier in the afternoon (I just got back from there). Dancing, huh? Not something I'd do often ... or at all. But I guess when your friend is getting married, you just gotta do what you gotta do. So, how did it went? I think both Yee See and I aren't really comfortable with each other yet ... you can tell, heck I can tell I'm not comfortable, duh. But, we got better later on :) She's a sweet girl around my height ... you could stare her straight at eye level, that's how tall she is. Either that or I'm short. Anyways, it was embarrassing la. The rest of the couples had chemistry since they are all from the same church and knew each other for a long time ... while the both of us hardly knew each other and not from the same circle of friends. It was awkward at best ... haha. The dance wasn't that difficult, simple box step with twirls here and there ... it's having to move together that we're having problems with. We're not suppose to look at the floor while we dance ... 'coz that looks silly :P I'm hoping with the next few practices perhaps the both of us will loosen up a little. But we got the hang of it. I'm still not comfortable having to hold someone ... uhhh ... nmind. David you owe me! This is really out of my comfort zone. Encouraged. I've been really critical of my guitar playing for a while now, always trying to improve myself as I've faced criticisms over how I play from certain quarters over the past year. While some were out of the goodness of their heart and some out of pure fun (mean). I do get discouraged some days when what I felt was good just weren't up to 'their' standards. Point to take note, not 'their' standards that I should be concerned with, so as long I give my best to God, that's all that matters. Anyways, today was different. I thought my playing was lackluster ... but I guess I was wrong and focused too much on getting things right. I was deeply encouraged with the compliments from a few people that I looked up to and whom I know were very particular musicians, and that boosted the confidence a little :P And these were some of the people that I kena bamboo from before. Consistency is great. So that's my short update, looking forward to another packed week. 0 comments Thursday, February 12, 2009
When I'm down
[ 10:47 am ] I watch this ... ... and it makes me happy :D Edit: Better with subtitles :P 0 comments Monday, February 09, 2009
You're late.
[ 12:35 pm ] I had a bad dream yesterday morning. Remember I mentioned that David's wedding, he wants the bridal party to be on the dance floor? In this dream, I was late for the wedding and they started the dance without me ... while my dance partner was frantically looking for me. When I finally ran to her, it was all over. Hahaha ... ok, this is not a laughing matter. Later on, everyone seem to be ignoring me because I was late on his special day. Boycott! Do you know how that feels? Of course you do, if you don't, I think you're missing this valuable experience in life. I was woken up by a call from Wee Liem at 7:35 this morning. OH CRAP!! My alarm clock didn't go off, I set it to 6pm instead (stupid me). The church van is suppose to be in Summit before 7.30 with the instruments loaded up. Great ... just great. I reached church at 7:45, and we managed to get back on time ... somehow. Thank God. Maybe my dream was kinda telling me ... I needed to wake up. Anyways, back to real life. I'm still thinking about what I should be doing after April. Should I diligently scout around for a job? Look for freelance work? Take a break (I WISH!!!). My brilliant sister said, I should consider studying Masters ... I asked, is she going to sponsor me? Said I should try for a scholorship instead. I really don't know, at this point in time a lot of things aren't certain. All I know is, I need to get some form of income every month. Somehow, someway. 0 comments Friday, February 06, 2009
Who knew?
[ 11:34 pm ] Ahh ... now that I have the time to myself, perhaps a little update on what's been happening over the past few days. First thing first, we just found out from our boss that he'll have to let us go by end of April. It took a while to sink in lol. I won't go into much detail, as I feel some things should be kept private, though I wish we should had been given the option like ... well, I dunno, a pay cut? But, let's face it, as it is, we can't stay afloat ... as 'wai-tai' as "Ohhhh I don't mind a 30%-40% paycut" sounds, it's not gonna help much. Oddly, I don't feel dissapointed or pissed ... I don't know why, instead I'm feeling really calm and pensive. Flipping out isn't gonna help. We'll still have to finish the best we can before April ends. Anyone with extra cash out there wanna invest in a cutting edge startup that's way ahead of it's time in Malaysia? Hit me up. It suddenly dawn on me that I just lost my job security :) I should be worried about a lot of things ... but, worrying isn't going to produce results man. I need action! This is a strange feeling ... it's a little mix of uncertainty, excitement, hope, dispair all at once. In times like these, it's best to keep calm, huh? I thought it was apt that Eric said my faith would really be tested in the area of relationship and work this year. It doesn't take a genious to realise that. I should start looking for a job now ... but honestly, I don't want to yet. I'm thinking of going freelance again, but it won't be steady income ... bleh ... I'll start with getting some freelance work first, at least it will cover the car loan for the time being. What better time to seriously think about your life and where it's heading. I've been telling myself that it could be worse, for instance, imagine you're in the middle of your wedding plans or you're expecting a baby or you have a young family to feed. I guess I still have it good, a roof over my head and food on my plate. The only thing that I could lose, is probably my car :D Doesn't it suck when you have nothing to blame? Hahahaha ... and I still believe in the potential of the whole system. Anyways, now that I got that out of my chest ... back to more interesting things. Oops, nothing interesting :) In the meantime, I'm gonna spend my nights creating widgets for the competition ... 30 and counting, I should be submitting them soon. I'm targeting at least 50 widget submissions ... that should keep my mind focus and sharp. 0 comments Monday, February 02, 2009
N97 widget design contest & korean BBQ
[ 9:24 pm ] I knew about this competition back in December, but never got around looking at it in detailed. Mainly, I hate programming. I suck at programming. I'm not a programmer. Little did I know, this is actually a graphic design competition with no programming involved. Basically, all you need to do is to design a widget with Photoshop ... think of it as a mock up. Now, that I can do very well. I spent the better part of the afternoon thinking of what widget designs I could come up with, and they all had to be in 360 x 60. I checked out the their gallery (here) just to see what everyone else is doing ... Hmm, interesting stuff. So, the best thing to do is ... design something that no one thought of yet :D I came up with 3 simple designs, because I believe widgets should be simple to begin with. Vnote: Lol ... corny name for voice note. Fairly simple and straight forward function. Hit the record button to record your voice memo, ideas, etc. The pause button will activate when you're recording, while the record button will change into a stop button. Hitting the stop button will finalise the recording. The pause button is on the right because I hate it when your fingers are too big and end up hitting the stop button instead of pause. Simple, anyone could come up with this. Update: wooohooo ... it's on the site now, please vote here! Facebook Status Update: Quite a long name, I couldn't come up with anything clever because ... I'm not good with names, HAH! :) Anyways, another simple design, basically it displays your status feeds from Facebook. I'm not sure how functional the top and down arrows are going to be since it's gonna be really tiny on the phone, but I'm hoping that it would be coded for navigational keys. Click up or down will scroll through your status feeds ... with transitions. I hate how things just suddenly appears without any transitions. Clicking on comment will change the status area into an input box for you to comment. I'm not sure if their API allows that, but since this is a graphic contest, why not go wild? DIGG Updates: Not a smart name, huh? I'm a fan of digg. I go through the feeds every morning in the toilet on my iPhone. Now, naturally you'd want to come up with a widget for Digg. This should auto refresh each time a news is made popular. The little dude with the shovel? Click on it to 'digg' the news. Navigational keys to move in between news. This is not suppose to be a complicated widget, I intended it to be fairly straight forward displaying news only. I submitted all 3 this afternoon. After snooping around the web today, I found out that the gallery hasn't been updated for a while now, and I know Nokia will only select the ones that they like to be on the gallery ... but it's been a few weeks now. How come there aren't any new submissions? Since the competition closing date is on the 27th of this month, I still have plenty of time to come up with different ideas. Maybe something that would make use of the accelerometer, GPS or even the camera. Time to dream, huh? Update: I couldn't sleep, so I came up with this widget and submitted it. MeVid. Yeah yeah ... you come up with some clever name la. Basically this is a video logging widget. Think of it as a ... umm ... video blogging. The N97 has 2 cameras, you get to choose which to use :) But why? Why not ... ? They have a front facing camera, might as well use it to record yourself. Do you know how many camwhores there are out there in this world? When you're sick recording yourself, you can switch to the back camera :P There's an upload button that would upload your video to YouTube, the play button will launch the default media player for you to review. I decided to place the record button right at the edge for usability sake. It's easier to hit that button ;) Anyways, that's that. Oh, had a great birthday dinner yesterday night at Zens, One Bangsar. I was really early ... ended up being the first one there. Doesn't matter, so I told the waiter to get a table of 8 for us. I was kinda worried, what if these dingbats suddenly FFK. Hah ... nah. Eddy came next, then followed by Eric and Doreen, then Yuen Lai and Rod, then the birthday girl came ... and then follows by the rest. The manager of the restaurant, Mr. Kim, was really nice. Why? Here's why :D Looks like pee, huh? According to Mr. Kim this is a very 'special' drink ... just for the birthday girl. So, I'm assuming that they only bring this out on special occasion? What's so special about this? THERE'S FREAKING 24k GOLD DUST IN IT!! First time I'm having something with gold dust in it ... if you leave the cup sitting for a while, you'll see a layer of gold at the bottom :) Here's how the bottle looks like. Even the label is written GOLD. This liquer is made from plum, if I'm not mistaken ... pretty sure it's made from plum since there were 4 biji of plums in the bottle. So, how much would this bottle cost? RM88.88. Not bad, huh? 350ml ... damn expensive. Good thing this was on the house :D Oh, he gave us a bottle of wine that was made from ... sweet potato. As you'd guess it, it's sweet ... and yes, that's on the house too. Didn't I tell you Mr. Kim is awesome? This is by far one of the best service we've ever gotten ... anywhere. The waiters were pretty helpful, though some of them could not converse in english very well (they are all from Korea), except for one dude who spoke pretty good english. If you're female, single and available, he's good looking and probably sings well, look for him at Zens, One Bangsar. The food was ok, I wish I could tell you what I had ... but I'm VERY bad at remembering menu items. We had pork and beef and raw vegetables ... and it was tasty. Helpful? :D Good dinner, nice company, new friends, perhaps a positive sign for the year? I can't wait to get back to work tomorrow, suddenly I'm itching to get back to work. I don't know why. Oh, my mom's back from Cambodia. 2 comments Sunday, February 01, 2009
Social Moth
[ 3:28 pm ] Attended a very non-halal BBQ yesterday over at TL's bachelor pad. Pretty huge house, nice place. I was thinking twice if I should go ... being the ever party pooper that I am, I thought what the heck? Might as well attempt to know some new people, right? If all fails, at least I tried. The guest list were mostly people who were in the entertainment industry, some were friendly while some I could only manage a nod. It's a good thing that Eric, Doreen, Yee Feng and some of the rest were around, so it didn't feel that awkward. I could only imagine how dreadful it would be if I was alone ... haha. The pork ribs were very well barbecued ... I'm pretty inspired to have pork for BBQ one of these days. Gonna be attending a birthday dinner today with the rest of them tonight at some place in Bangsar ... which reminds me, I need to get directions. Oh, went for a little CNY visiting yesterday morning over at Chir Yuen (so hard to pronounce her name), Yee Feng and Yuen Lai's place in Klang. Humble homes, reminded me of my grandma's house back in Kampung Jawa. I was mentioning to one of them, the tar road that cut through laterite reminded me a lot of my grandma's place. Hmmm ... the area was an oil palm estate, that's where you get red laterite soil :) Yuen Lai is an amazing cook, honestly, I never would had guessed that from any first impression I had of her. I guess, there's always more than the first impressions we have. Oh, I saw a skinny cow. I'm gonna go brush up on my guitar now, haven't been spending time with it for a while now. 0 comments Archives nothing |
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