Random update of life....

My German Chick, also known as my 1969 VW Beetle is sick. On the highway the engine started smoking...so i got scared and stoppped. Was stuck on the highway in the rain for 2 hours. Dad eventually came wqith I was already staring at the "Ayer Keroh 2km" sign when the car died. As you read, it is undergoing an engine transplant (too much Grey's Anatomy). Lowering it frm a 1.6L to a 1.2L but there will be some nice modifications, twin cam and electronic fuel injection....i think thats what the dude said haha...

Back at beloved house in Bkt Beruang...total freedom, no one to answer but the phone, thats even if i am awake.

While Beetle is in the workshop, I am back using old trustee VW Kombi. More comfortable, feels like a bus hehe compared to a small Beetle, but somewhat still nice to drive...

Revenge bitch!!

SkyBar Traders Hotel Kuala Lumpur

Zdzislaw Beksinski's Interpretation of Hell..

Found this kinda eerie and also interesting. Paintings by Zdzislaw Beksinski.

Truth about Myspace and Friendster

just when you think you are having a bad day...

LRT...

Dear blog,

The LRT is really getting to me. Every morning I wake up early not to get to work early but to get a decent summon-free parking spot and when I do, someone idiot inconsiderate driver, just has to block me in, double parking and what not. Had to wait 1hour+ for the idiot to move his car.

When he finally came, I just said out loud "Motherfu*ker" and I know he heard me cos he looked at me, I didnt even look away. Damn I am so bitchy lol....

Other than the Morning Race for Parking, the LRT ride is a very challenging experience for my Nose. I have a big Nose and it works pretty well LOL and on the LRT I bumped into people who doesn't know the existence of DEODORANT!!!! Some are just plain rude, step on your shoes, without even a sorry, one fucking aunty hustled past me, at the same time, ripping my watch strip apart (this was sometime back actually, but worth a mention).

So....I have adopted a stone cold attitude while on the LRT. Never give anyone a chance. Except for the blind, pregnant ladies and all that fit those categories. There was this uncle, sweating like a pig, just pushed right in front of me, I just "kindly" used my size lol and just pushed him back, pretending that the LRT did it heheh.

Yesterday there was this Chinese guy started coughing like mad and he didn't even cover his mouth, I just stared at him and he stared back. I just shook my head in disgust. He saw me shaking my head at him then he smiled!WTF? Funny is it and just continued with my disgusted look on his face, finally he got it.

Fucking awesome.....

awesomenes........

The real life Doctor Who who believes he can build a time machine

Taken from: Here.

Suppose it were possible to go back in time and meet the dead. To say all the things you never got a chance to tell a loved one who died before there was a chance to make your peace.

Just think if you could go back and warn someone that their lifestyle, their smoking or heavy drinking was driving them into an early grave.

You would not only be able to meet the dead - but to save them as well.

A new book tells the story of an extraordinary man whose life work is inspired by a longing to do just that.

It was the devastating sudden death of Ronald Mallett's beloved father which sparked his obsession with time-travel.

In pursuit of his seemingly impossible goal, he has overcome poverty and prejudice to become one of only a handful of top-flight black physicists in the United States.

He has enjoyed a glittering career as a professor at one of the country's leading universities - an achievement in itself.

But there has been only one motivation: to build a time machine. And, after years of painstaking research, Mallett is sure he's cracked it.

His journey began in the early 1950s, when this intelligent and inquisitive boy was ten years old.

He lived with his parents Boyd and Dorothy in a working-class Jewish area of the Bronx, in New York city. The Malletts were happy there, having escaped the terrible racism of the Deep South.

Boyd Mallett was a gadget freak, and a talented, respected electronic technician - one of his jobs was to wire up the new United Nations building being constructed in Manhattan.

His son worshipped him, and the pair would spend many hours in the evenings experimenting with capacitors and circuits, building crystal radios and other gadgets.

Then, the night after his parents' 11th wedding anniversary, Boyd died suddenly of a heart attack.

"For me, the sun rose and set on him," Ron Mallett said later. "It completely devastated me."

Boyd Mallett's death was probably preventable. He had always been a heavy smoker and workaholic and had started drinking too much.

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The Dr Who on telly: Already has a time machine

His son sank into a despair that would not lift; indeed, he became severely depressed. Ronald simply could not accept that he would never see his father again. And he began to wonder if there was a way they could be reunited.

Mallett devoured the pulp sci-fi comics of the time, and began to realise that time travel was, at least in fiction, a possibility. Then he read what is one of the finest science-fiction stories ever written, HG Wells's The Time Machine.

In the novel, the time-travelling hero explains: "Scientific people know very well that time is only a kind of space. We can move forward and backward in time, just as we can move forward and backward in space."

Mallett was dumbfounded. If he could build a time machine, he could go back and change history and prevent his father's death.

From that day, Mallet became obsessed with time travel, despite having no clear idea of how it could be accomplished.

Wells's book was, of course, entirely fictional, and yet, just a few years after it was written, a German-Jewish physicist called Albert Einstein blew the science community apart. Einstein showed that time and space were indeed different aspects of the same thing - a concept called spacetime - which is at the heart of how physicists understand the way the universe is.

Mallett became obsessed with the German scientist - who had died in 1955, the same year as his father. Most importantly, Mallett realised - as Einstein had himself - that the new way of thinking about gravity, space and time contained in the physicist's Special and General theories of relativity meant that a time machine was at least possible in theory.

Einstein's equations showed that by twisting spacetime around, it is possible in theory to make a connection from future to past. Step into this timeloop, and you could emerge years later or earlier.

This idea would form the basis of Mallett's putative time machine. But, back in 1950s New York, he was a long way from his goal. Growing up poor and black, one of four children raised by a widowed mother who made ends meet by window-cleaning, is not an ideal recipe for academic success.

Undaunted, he studied hard at school and achieved good grades, particularly in the sciences. However, a university education was out of the question - there was simply no way his family could afford to pay for it.

So Ron Mallett joined the U.S. Air Force, in the hope of being granted a military scholarship so that he could later study physics. His test grades were so good that he was fast-tracked into the USAF's electronics school.

Despite his success, the past still intruded in the most horrible ways. Mallett's first tour of duty was in Biloxi, in the Deep South. There, for the first time in his life, he encountered the soul-destroying racism that had driven his grandparents north 40 years before.

"The first thing I noticed," he writes, "were the signs, the likes of which I had never seen before. 'Whites only'. 'No Colored'."

There was talk of beatings and worse for black servicemen who strayed off base. Mallett made a vow to remain on base for the entire duration of his training, which included courses in electronics and computing. He also spent hours in the well-equipped library, devouring everything he could both by and about Einstein.

His studies paid off. After he was discharged, he won a place at Pennsylvania State University, and began a degree in physics.

Eventually, in 1973, he won his doctorate, only the 79th black American ever to do so in this subject. Part of his thesis was an investigation into the theoretical possibility of using gravity to reverse the passage of time. In 1975, he was awarded a job as a professor of physics at Connecticut University - where he has worked ever since.

He remains the only black physics professor in America.

Despite the respectability of his CV, he still felt he couldn't discuss his ideas openly. "I feared professional suicide," he says now.

But, as his work continued, the story got out. Mallett's time machine went public in 2001, when New Scientist magazine ran an article about his design, and TV appearances followed.

"Mallett isn't mad," the New Scientist article said. "None of the known laws of physics forbids time-travel.

"In theory, shunting matter back and forth through time shouldn't be that difficult."

So, how do you build a machine which will take you back into the past - or forward to the future?

In fact, there have been several plans for a time machine devised by physicists since Einstein's mind-blowing discovery that reverse timetravel should be possible.

In 1974, Frank Tipler, a physicist at Tulane University in New Orleans, calculated that by constructing a huge cylinder in space and setting it spinning, it would be possible to drag spacetime into loops, creating lots of backwards time portals into which you could leap and then emerge in the past.

But he calculated that the cylinder would have to weigh about as much as the sun, and be compressed into a tube 60 miles long and 40 miles across.

Alternatively, as physicist Kip Thorn proposed in the 1980s, you simply need to create a 'wormhole' - a tear in the fabric of spacetime, using perhaps a tame black hole or dozens of nuclear bombs.

These ideas, while scientifically correct, were hardly practical. Squashing the sun into something the size of Dorset is likely to be beyond our ken for some time, and harnessing the power of a black hole sounds even harder.

Mallett's solution is much simpler. He thinks he can reverse time by using just a circulating beam of light. Light is energy, and energy can cause spacetime to warp and bend, just like gigantic spinning cylinders, he explains.

In 2000, he published a paper showing how a circulating beam of laser light could create a vortex in spacetime. It was, he says, his eureka moment.

The details are complex, to say the least. But, in essence, Mallett believes it is possible to use a series of four circulating laser light beams swirling spacetime around like "a spoon stirring milk into coffee".

If you were to walk into this 'timetunnel' - which would resemble a large vortex of light a few feet across - you could emerge at some point in the past. He thinks he can build a prototype machine in the lab, using today's technology, with funds of just $250,000 (£120,000).

However, Prof Mallett is fussy about who gives him the money. "We want non-military sources. I don't want to get to a certain point and get 'top secret' slapped over the project and have it taken away from us."

There are several important things to realise about Mallett's time machine. For a start, it would only be possible to travel back in time to a point after the machine was first switched on.

If you turned on the machine, on January 1 say, and left it running for three months, you could enter the machine in March and only travel back as far as January 1.

So no trips back to the Middle Ages or to Ancient Rome.

This would be staggering enough. Just think: a time-traveller could go back and meet himself. Or he could send back information into the past - including the results of horse races, stock market movements.

But consider, too, all the weird paradoxes that the time machine would create. You could come face-to-face with your past self, causing untold confusion. What, for example, would happen if you killed your past self? Would both versions of 'you' die at the same time?

Mallet believes these paradoxes would not in themselves prevent the construction of such a machine. But there are plenty of sceptics.

Some physicists think that the laser upon which his machine depends would need to be impossibly large or powerful. Others point to Stephen Hawking's 'chronology protection conjecture', which says that quantum effects may conspire to prevent the possibility of a time machine.

But, while some physicists have questioned Mallett's approach, no one has yet proved with absolute certainty that the machine would not work.

Mallett is now 62 years old. He still believes he will live to see the creation of the first time machine.

Sadly, the way it works means that he will never be able to fulfil his original wish - to warn his father about his deteriorating health. "My solace is that if this works, future generations will be able to use this technology to prevent the tragedy that I went through," he says.

If he is right, the little boy from the Bronx who lost his beloved father all those years ago will end up being the most famous inventor in history.

Your Windows XP Running Slow?

My laptop was running a little slow so as I was looking thru the Internet for possible solutions, this particular article helped a lot and my laptop is much faster now.

Taken from:
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/12/03/10-simple-ways-to-speed-up-windows-xp/

1. Disable Indexing Services

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

• Go to Start
• Click Settings
• Click Control Panel
• Double-click Add/Remove Programs
• Click the Add/Remove Window Components
• Uncheck the Indexing services
• Click Next

2. Optimise Display Settings

Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimise:

• Go to Start
• Click Settings
• Click Control Panel
• Click System
• Click Advanced tab
• In the Performance tab click Settings
• Leave only the following ticked:

• Show shadows under menus
• Show shadows under mouse pointer
• Show translucent selection rectangle
• Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
• Use visual styles on windows and buttons

3. Speedup Folder Browsing

You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

• Open My Computer
• Click on Tools menu
• Click on Folder Options
• Click on the View tab.
• Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
• Click Apply
• Click Ok
• Reboot your computer

4. Disable Performance Counters

Windows XP has a performance monitor utility which monitors several areas of your PC’s performance. These utilities take up system resources so disabling is a good idea.

To disable:

• download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List
• Then select each counter in turn in the ‘Extensible performance counters’ window and clear the ‘performance counters enabled’ checkbox at the bottom.button below

5. Improve Memory Usage

Cacheman Improves the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings.

Once Installed:

• Go to Show Wizard and select All
• Run all the wizards by selecting Next or Finished until you are back to the main menu. Use the defaults unless you know exactly what you are doing
• Exit and Save Cacheman
• Restart Windows

6. Optimise your internet connection

There are lots of ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP/IP Optimizer.

• Download and install
• Click the General Settings tab and select your Connection Speed (Kbps)
• Click Network Adapter and choose the interface you use to connect to the Internet
• Check Optimal Settings then Apply
• Reboot

7. Optimise Your Pagefile

If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the operating system from needing to resize the page file.

• Right click on My Computer and select Properties
• Select the Advanced tab
• Under Performance choose the Settings button
• Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change
• Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.

Update: If are feeling more adventurous I have also posted 10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows and also More Ways to Speed Up Windows XP

8. Run BootVis - Improve Boot Times

BootVis will significantly improve boot times

• Download and Run
• Select Trace
• Select Next Boot and Driver Trace
• A Trace Repetitions screen will appear, select Ok and Reboot
• Upon reboot, BootVis will automatically start, analyze and log your system’s boot process. When it’s done, in the menu go to Trace and select Optimize System
• Reboot.
• When your machine has rebooted wait until you see the Optimizing System box appear. Be patient and wait for the process to complete

9. Remove the Desktop Picture

Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can slow the loading time of your system. Removing it will improve performance.

• Right click on Desktop and select Properties
• Select the Desktop tab
• In the Background window select None
• Click Ok

10. Remove Fonts for Speed

Fonts, especially TrueType fonts, use quite a bit of system resources. For optimal performance, trim your fonts down to just those that you need to use on a daily basis and fonts that applications may require.

• Open Control Panel
• Open Fonts folder
• Move fonts you don’t need to a temporary directory (e.g. C:\FONTBKUP?) just in case you need or want to bring a few of them back. The more fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you will gain.

Hope you find these 10 tips useful please leave a comment below and please share any other tips you may have with other readers.

Joke of the Week

Three Little Pigs


One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of the Three
Little
Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where the first
pig
was trying to accumulate the building materials for his home. She
read,
"...and so the pig went up to the man with the wheel barrow full of
straw
and said, "Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build
my
house?" The teacher paused then asked the class, "And what do you
think
that man said?"

One little boy raised his hand and said, "I think he said
'Holy Sh*t! A talking pig!'"

The teacher was unable to teach for the next
10 minutes.

Harry Potter.....

After 9 years of following the series, it has finally ended.

The book is awesome, just finished it the day the book got released. hehe.

I only stopped for meals/nap/bathroom matters. haha. Other than that I was locked in my room with book in hand.

Trader's had a special 50% discount on the books which is kinda awesome since original price is RM109+. So far work is great, I am beginning to detest Arab guests as they are very bossy, rude and at times, extremely impossible to work with.

Its been raining almost every morning while I am going to work which is sorta welcomed, as during the day it can get pretty hot.

Was browsing through J.K Rowling's website and read that she isnt going to stop writing, she is working on something else, two projects, one for Adults one for Children, which is also funnily enough how Harry Potter came about. Maybe she will continue with the Harry Potter series? haha

I am dreading the last two movies of the Harry Potter sequel since Order of the Phoenix was a downer. What a waste of time really, I couldnt stop yawning in the cinema. Parts when it wasn't funny people laughed, when it was funny no one did - I looked like a fool when I laughed at the little amusing bits; I dont care.

They should'nt have changed directors and also drastically change the storyline. Original story is much better as it is, why the silly changes here and there? I just have a feeling they are going to spoil the last two movies.

Finally Photos...

Porsche Turbo S 2005

Where I Think i am supposed to do work :p

The Office

Ma Cubicle

A String of bad luck.....

...Bring it on LIFE!! Man just when I thought my bad luck streak disappeared, it sneaks up and bites me in the ass. I got another summons from stupid Majlis Bandaraya PJ....FARRRKKK another RM100, but thanks to my aunt, she says she can get it down to RM30 per summon.

What the freak sial...what a great start to the already fucked up week. Everyone keeps telling me to chill, take it easy, relax, start telling their own personal stories and what not, thinking that it would make me feel better but, I just dont give a rat's ass. Then yesterday I was with this long stay guest, Mr Habib "the Con-man" Shahid, who wanted me to update his laptop drivers, install new software, update his Office 2007 (which I dont usually bother and also I dont know how, so i just winged it) etc etc. I was attending to him and his wife for more than an hour while trying to suppress this boiling anger because my friend smsed me saying that I got another summon.

I was really faking the "helpful attitude, cheery smile" when actually deep inside I wanted to scream "FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK".

I have to see that idiot Habib later and I am so dreading this. How do you tell a guest to fuck off when you are supposed to attend to him....? any ideas anyone?

MMU NOW OFFICIALLY FUCKING SUCKS.

I just got an email from the Dean of FIST saying that my case for appeal marks for my Final Year Project, which I unfairly got a C when another USELESS INTERNATIONAL GROUP MATE didn't do MUCH got a B. How is this fair ? Just because he pays more than us locals, he gets "special" treatment.


FUCK MMU and this is my blog and I can write whatever I feel like writing. I don't know what to tell my parents because I know I am going to get a screwing of my life. So now its a blanket hatred I am having towards Arabs in general, oh yeah my group mate is an Arab, biggest fucking mistake of my life!!!! except for a few, i mean very little that made the cut.

Call me a racist, bigot, whatever, i just don't care anymore. This is who I am, you don't like me? Fuck off.

ohhh man I am sooo angry with the stupid Majlis Bandaraya PJ!!!! FIRST i kena saman RM100!!! for parking illegally....where got! i have been parking there for a month now, and there is no sign saying "No Parking" no yellow line also. Haaaaaaaiiiiiiiiihhhhhhhhhhhhhh

hhhhhhhhh. AND TO TOP IT OFF, someone DENTED MY CAR!!!! aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh what bad luck!!!! I hope that guy/girl/lady/makcik/pakcik/bangla/indon etc crashes into a tree/longkang or something along those lines. I only realised when I came back and showed K.Nipah my saman then she wanted to see where I parked, as getting out of the driveway i just pandang my car and saw the dent! i am just so furious!!!

what the helll

*readreallyfast*and relevant pictures will come later.

What a Woman Really Wants

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What a Woman Really Wants
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King Arthur was ambushed and imprisoned by the monarch of a neighboring
kingdom. The monarch could have killed him but was moved by Arthur's
youth and ideals. So, the monarch offered him his freedom, as long as he
could answer a very difficult question. Arthur would have a year to
figure out the answer and, if after a year, he still had no answer; he
would be put to death.

The question? . . . What do women really want? Such a question would
perplex even the most knowledgeable man, and to young Arthur, it seemed
an impossible query. But, since it was better than death, he accepted
the monarch's proposition to have an answer by year's end.

He returned to his kingdom and began to poll everyone: the princess,
the priests, the wise men and even the court jester. He spoke with every
one, but no one could give him a satisfactory answer.

Many people advised him to consult the old witch, for only she would
have the answer.

But the price would be high; as the witch was famous throughout the
kingdom for the exorbitant prices she charged.

The last day of the year arrived and Arthur had no choice but to talk
to the witch. She agreed to answer the question, but he would have to
agree to her price first.

The old witch wanted to marry Sir Lancelot, the most noble of the
Knights of the Round Table and Arthur's closest friend!

Young Arthur was horrified. She was hunchbacked and hideous, had only
one tooth, smelled like sewage, made obscene noises, etc. He had never
encountered such a repugnant creature in all his life.

He refused to force his friend to marry her and endure such a terrible
burden; but Lancelot, learning of the proposal, spoke with Arthur. He
said nothing was too big of a sacrifice, compared to Arthur's life and
the preservation of the Round Table.

Hence, a wedding was proclaimed and the witch answered Arthur's
question thus:

What a woman really wants, she answered . . . is to be in charge of her
own life.

Everyone in the kingdom instantly knew that the witch had uttered a
great truth and that Arthur's life would be spared.

And so it was, the neighboring monarch granted Arthur his freedom and
Lancelot and the witch had a wonderful wedding.

The honeymoon hour approached and Lancelot, steeling himself for a
horrific experience, entered the bedroom. But, what a sight awaited him.
The most beautiful woman he had ever seen lay before him on the bed. The
astounded Lancelot asked what had happened

The beauty replied that since he had been so kind to her when she
appeared as a witch, she would henceforth be her horrible, deformed self
only half-the-time and the beautiful maiden the other half.

Which would he prefer? Beautiful during the day . . . or night?

Lancelot pondered the predicament. During the day, a beautiful woman to
show off to his friends, but at night, in the privacy of his castle,
an old witch? Or, would he prefer having a hideous witch during the day,
but by night, a beautiful woman for him to enjoy wondrous intimate
moments?

What would YOU do?

What Lancelot chose is below. BUT . . . make YOUR choice before you
scroll down below. OKAY?

Noble Lancelot said that he would allow HER to make the choice herself.

Upon hearing this, she announced that she would be beautiful all the
time because he had respected her enough to let her be in charge of her
own life.

Now . . . what is the moral to this story?

The moral is . . .

If you don't let a woman have her own way . . .

Things are going to get ugly!

What i listen on the LRT...

My MP3 player has become my Best Friend. The boring LRT rides finally doesnt seem to take so long anymore.

Beyonce - BDay Album:

- Freakum Dress
- Green Light
- Resentment

Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad

- Push Up On Me
- Don’t Stop The Music
- Breakin’ Dishes

LRT Stories

haha nearly a month I have been taking the LRT to work and by far yesterday was the funniest and the most unpleasant.

At KLCC, after work, LRT was packed like sardines, then there was this Indian guy and boy did he smell bad!! Really teruk, I was TEARING up cos the smell radiating from him was just fantastically STRONG. Then at the next stop, I managed to move away from him but the ladies around him didnt get to and they were pinching their noses cos they cannot tahan his smell hahahahaha. When he looked around they put their hands down, when he wasnt looking the nose pinching began again la. So i think it was at Abdullah Hukum station he got off, the ladies began frantically fanning the area with whatever paper they have HAHAHAHAHAH i couldnt stop laughing cos it was soo funny...the ladies just gave me a look hehe i guess they were friends la....

Starting a new chapter.....

First blog post since err....dunno la, all i know it was quite sometime ago lolz. Now doing my training at Trader's Hotel KLCC and the place is like a spaceship; big, luxurious, trendy, modern and niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

My training:

My supervisor is a cool guy, easy going and very informative.
Never seems irritated when i ask him questions lol....and i ask a lot of questions hehe.
This hotel has a lot of servers.
I am slowly learning about how to manage them. Very tricky. But lots of fun too.

Pictures:

Coming soon, a small cubicle where i sit and use the computer, more like surf net (things i am not supposed to la :p heh heh)

I have sorta gotten used to the routine of waking up every morning at 6.45am, take a shower+get dressed+breakfast=7.25am. Then get on the LRT to KLCC. Simple. then Breakfast 2 at the staff cafeteria LOL. Meals are free here, dinner/lunch/tea/breakfast/supper.

I work saturdays.......................half day.................... :( huhuhuhuhuhhuhu

Last Sunday I just automatically woke up at 7am, turned on TV and spent the rest of my day watching TV, with breaks for meals and showers and surf net. Other than that, I was watching TV :)

My aunty, Khala Nipah asked me "Why don't you read a book?"
My reply "Books require reading, TV is more entertaining :P"
I spent my Sunday watching shows after shows from 8am till abt 11pm. :)

I still have to do my weekly reports. Very lazy to do. Don't know where to start. Working here is always fun, my aunty juliana forever keeps me on my toes, constantly aware of where I should be, what I should be doing, who I should see, what to wear, what not to wear...etc...its like having a very cool, fun secretary :p

Walking. This is what 15% of the time I am in KL doing, WALKING and I am starting to think that I need more comfortable shoes because my feet are screaming. In Melaka, I rarely do any walking, RARELY, only to my car to the classroom and back. HAHA. Now: LRT station - Trader's Hotel KLCC - Convention Center but thank God its an air conditioned walkway. :p

Favorite Quote of the Week

This time my favorite quote comes from 3rd Rock from the Sun - Sally and Don's First Kiss s3ep24. This is a guide on how to do an MCQ based question paper! LOLZ:

"Harry said thank you to Tommi for teaching him the method, :

a couple of "all the above"
not to many of "B"
easy on the "c"'s , Heavy on the "D"'s
and dont be stingy with the "A"s.

Birthday blues....

Birthdays ooooh Birthdays.....I think birthdays should only be celebrated if you are getting YOUNGER :p I know its stupid lol...yeah Its my Birthday, 23.......damn........23...........

Child Prodigies

Was browsing through Youtube , from a special place, I found this video and just had to embed it in my blog.

Scientists May Have Cancer Cure-No one notices..

After my two scary papers Last Tuesday and Wednesday, I just decided to declare a holiday for maybe 2-3 days till my next paper, on the 25th, I found this article on http://www.spikedhumor.com

Just shows you how mean the Cooperate World can be. Aren't we getting ready to enter that kind of world?

Current Craze!!~!!

This is more than just a comedy. I has hidden messages , probably subliminal, about Humans in general, People, Americans, American Government, People's Sensibility, Love, Friendship, Global Awareness, Perspective on Life and the Day to Day Grind. My favorite character is played by French Stewart

Currently watching Season 3 episode 3. Extremely funny and currently at the top of my list of things to watch everyday, it even helps me fall asleep.

One more paper to go, Technology Transfer. Transferring of Technology through everyday life it seems.......or something along those lines.

Lost Masquarade

Here are some pictures, these are the only ones that I have that i look good HAHAHA :p more to come.....KUNA I WANT PHOTOS!!!

From Yahoo!
bob forwarded this link to me and it was just too delicious to pass up

VIENNA (AFP) - What may be the world's most celebrated chocolate cake, Vienna's Sacher-Torte, is feting 175 years since its creator produced a recipe that still remains as closely guarded as a state secret. Aside from me, only my pastry chef and his assistant know the recipe, which is kept in a safe," said Elisabeth Gurtler, the dynamic 57-year-old businesswoman who took over the reins of the Hotel Sacher group in 1990, following the death of her husband. "All that I can say is that we use butter, sugar, eggs, flour, chocolate and jam," she said coyly, adding that ingredients are "all natural" and all from Austria -- except for the chocolate that comes from Belgium and Germany.

The story started in 1832 when the Austrian chancellor at the time, Count Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, asked for a new desert that would impress his guests. His requirement: "don´t make me look a fool tonight!"

When the master chef took ill, a 16-year-old apprentice, Franz Sacher, was entrusted with the task. "He came up with a recipe that would make his job easier," said Gurtler.

The demands of Metternich's daily banquets meant that large quantities of desserts had to be prepared in advance - in the days when there were no refrigerators and no preservatives.

"Even then, we could make Sacher-Torte that would keep for at least a fortnight," said Gurtler.

The dessert consists of two layers of dense chocolate cake with a fine spreading of apricot jam in between. Rich, dark chocolate icing coats the top and sides.

From the few details offered by pastry chef Alfred Buxbaum, it seems the icing makes all the difference. "I use three types of chocolate and we work with about 2,000 litres (quarts) of liquid chocolate on hand at all times," he said, adding he'll be slapped with a "six-figure fine if I say more."

Buxbaum and his partner are the only ones who know the exact proportions for the icing.

Thanks to the success of Franz' creation, his son Eduard opened the Hotel Sacher behind the Viennese opera house in 1876 - not only a showcase for the city's best-known culinary speciality but a landmark in its own right whose notable guests once included John Lennon and Yoko Ono who gave one of their "bed-in" press conferences here on their 1969 peace tour.

Today the Sacher group owns four five-star hotels and produces 360,000 cakes a year, though only the 13 pastry chefs in Vienna are allowed to whip up the "Original Sacher-Torte," now a registered trademark.

Despite others' attempts to tap into the cake's fame, the Sacher group, which was bought by the Gurtler family in 1934, "has won every single copyright infringement case ever brought to trial," 40 to date, according to Gurtler.

The latest incident occurred this month when Irene Sacher, the great-great-granddaughter of Franz Sacher, published what she asserted to be the original recipe in the Austrian newspaper, Kurier.

Gurtler remains unperturbed. "There is only one original Sacher-Torte," she said. "In fact, this is going to be our new advertising slogan."

"No one ever knew the recipe for Coca-Cola and for us it is the same thing."

She also refuses to disclose the company's turnover, saying only one-third of annual production is sold abroad with 40 percent going to neighboring Germany, a hefty 18 percent to the United States and four percent as far away as Japan. Britain also imports seven percent and France five.

In 1998, the Sacher-Torte even made it into the Guinness World Records when Hotel Sacher produced a cake measuring 2.5 metres (just over eight feet) in diameter.

WHAT IF a caller had called MMU for directions..

I suggest that rather than close off the entrance to EP, just add the divider, in that case, cars lining up behind wouldn't cut queues by trying to sneak in from behind, well, come to think of it, that would just make the waiting process longer.

SOMEHOW i think it is MMU's responsibility into ensuring that the UNIVERSITY has a proper ENTRANCE rather than a confusing labyrinth of confusing lanes and turns.

Imagine this:

Caller: Hello, I was wondering how to get to MMU?
MMU Official: Hello, okay sure. Follow this very simple steps. As you reach Melaka and pass Jaya Jusco, follow the signboard and take a right turn at the traffic lights. Then go straight ahead into Bkt Beruang, then now here is where you must give me your utmost and undivided attention. After the traffic lights opposite Petronas, go in front a little, till you see Emerald Park, the hostels, THEN you keep on going straight. You should be able to see MMU from here. THEN you go straight for about 200meters or so, till you see a very very small turning to the right, opposite some restaurants going towards MMU. Take the turn in. OK here is the twist in your panties part, you cannot enter the gate which you so logically assume is one of the entrances of MMU, but no, only after 5pm, you can enter. Instead you have to go just a little bit more heading towards Emerald Park, then you see MMU's OTHER entrance. NOW this is the entrance. Got it?
Caller: errr......*in the background*sayang dont lar, getting directions here...* err can you please repeat that please?

and yes......i am bored.

LOST MASQUARADE DRAMA

This is my blog and I can right what ever the hell I want.

First and foremost,

JUNIORS: (You damn well know who you are, TWO in particular, WELL MORE TO ONE ASSWIPE..)

Dear pre-pubescent juniors of SPARC,

Before you mouth of unjustified comments and your little fairy tale complains which have no base of integrity, THINK THINK THINK THINK. As you go to sleep soundly each night, YOUR IGNORANT COMMENTS, had a GREAT EFFECT on the people who you offended, whether you notice or care to know about.

With ALL THE BULLSHIT the committee of Lost Masquarade had to PUT UP WITH, I thoroughly ENJOYED the Prom and this is coming from a person who has been to MANY MANY PROMS.

IF, God help me if this happens, we cross path ANYWHERE & ANYTIME, you'd do yourself a favor by IGNORING ME, because if you don't, I wouldn't hesitate to put you in your place. Every little COMMENT that was made on the Yahoo Groups, is being REPEATED with every single message. Only retards repeat.........and morons.....and dumbasses....and fuckwits.


HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.........

I feel much better :) Have a great end of semester.

Summary of the past 1 month and 8 days.

• Me is getting fat - comments from Friends while on CNY visit has sparked a new health and fitness plan. When does it start? I don't know.
• My Beetle needs rewiring, brake lights not working again.
  
• Drove up to KL with Merp Premo at 4am. Highway all the way. Reached KL 6.45am. Not bad for a 40year old car :)
• My CNY was spent, watching Ghost Rider, Iron Lady Chef (Don't ask why), Protege. Went Karaoke-ing at Sg Wang, most of the time out of tune anyway. Dota: total of 12 hours+/- of Dota pleasure at CC with friends.
  
• Washed my darling Beetle and waxed it summore before going up to KL, only to find out the next day, where I parked at a friends house, freaking birds crapped all over it. The rain(something MELAKA is desperately lacking) later paid a visit and washed the bird crap away.
• When reached KL, found out my sense of direction is somewhat "tak boleh guna". Need a HELL OF A LOT OF PRACTISE :p
  
• Several weeks ago, we all had an outing to town to eat or something la can't remember. THEN Bob and Desmond enthusiastically suggested that we shall "woo" some bapuks, and we decided that we really didnt have anything else to do, so off we went. BUT MUCH to Prems, NIcks and my dismay, when we reached, Desmond and Bob chickened out:
• D: wheeeeyyy what you doing lar, dont want lar, eh dont want la dont want
• B: eh guys, no need lar, dont want can or not?
• By this time i was already HIGH (note: Burn's gets high when sleepy. Symptoms: uncontrollable laughter, laugh at things that are definitely not funny and tends to mouth off whatever is on his mind). I told them to move it, I'll talk to the bapoks and it went something like this:
• Burn: "Kak!! Kawan saya ni(pointing to GIRI), belum kene tebuk dengan belum pernah tebuk. Hari ni hari jadi dia, ader DISCOUNT TAK??"
• Bapok1:"Ohhh bollleehhhhh yang maner satu ek?? Saya RM30"
• Bapok2: "Saya RM90! Umur die braper?
• Burn: "Die 21 dah!"
• Bapok1: "ooh sorry la ye, saye hanya service 19tahun dan 20tahun sahaja"
• Burn: "Amenede nyer double standard nih? yang ko tu mude sangat la ni ek"
• By that time, Prem already drove off, fearing a car bashing by the bapok clan, clanswoman, clansmen, clanspimp, clansbapoks etc. I think Giri, Bob and Desmond werent really thrilled by my outburst at the bapoks on their behalf.
• FYP is driving my up the wall, and so is my supervisor.
• Pretty sad when I passed by SPARC's bazaar and the so called vendors. Only delifrance and UPG reps were there vending stuff......sigh.....

Will add more when my memory serves me well, at the moment feeling kinda sleepy.......

Adopt a kitten today!!

Anyone wants to ADOPT 3 kittens? been resuced from being abanddoned on the street... been taken care of, want to give away cause we're allergic to cats.

Contact:
Burn : 017 -3296587
OJ: 012-9350771

OJ just got hired!!

[A blog entry from OJ!]

A few months ago... actually I think about a semester and a half ago, shakir forwarded this "best job in the universe" link...turned up to be a survey for condom testers for durex. I filled it out...i was like, what the hell lets see if this actually is worth while... and....like 5 months later... LOOONG after forgetting about this, i get a POS malaysia card in my postbox... so I go over to burn cause I was expecting some protien supplements I had ordered last month... so he drove me to the Ayer Keroh Post office. This Chinese uncle takes a look at the pink card, then looks at my face...then in like 30 seconds comes back with this envelope..I thought I got screwed over by ordering protien online...Instead, my durex buddies sent over free condoms!!


Who's laughing now? =) I already got a job. Take THAT Engineering Degree.

-OJ-

bURN: But what...wwhhaatt, whattt will you tell your mummy, when she asks you "Beta!, what are you working as now?" LOL

I just HAD to post this one!!!!

Your Daddy Is Darth Vader

What You Call Him: Papi Why You Love Him: He takes you to church

Who's Your Daddy?

What kinf of Meat am I?

You Are Chicken

Bah! You're hardly meat. But you are quite popular, and people aspire to taste like you. You're probably quite skinny and free of vices. Except letting people eat your eggs.

What Kind of Meat Are You?

How Gemini am I?

You are 100% Gemini

How Gemini Are You?

Apparently I am an Ewok....i can live with that....

Star Wars Horoscope for Gemini

Like most Geminis, you are a playful little creature. You tend to be extremely curious, craving knowledge but sometimes having a short attention span. For the most part, you are charming and loveable. But at times, you can seem scattered and high-strung. Star wars character you are most like: Ewoks

What Is Your Star Wars Horoscope?

AVG Antivirus VS PC Tools Antivirus

...............and PC Tools Antivirus WON. Hands down.

The problem I had with AVG is that every single folder I would access, it would detect whatever that was in that folder as a Torjan/Virus and will prompt me to Heal/Quarantine/Ignore. Whenever I click Heal, another alert would pop-up saying that another file is infected. Even though I healed the files repeatedly, it will STILL alert me saying that it is a threat and will lead to the file being corrupt and wont allow the program associated with the file to run.

Surfing forums and antivirus websites, finally it came down to PC Tools Antivirus, and it worked real well. Detected the same virus/trojan AVG did, but it got rid of it. Pretty simple and also it monitors any files being changed illegally by any program/software/tool/etc.

I was using Bob's computer and it had the SAME TROJAN....what the hell? it spread through our network? So i did the same for him and got rid of the trojan. At times I wonder, these idiots who have too much free time creating trojans should really be concentrating on something else!

holiday it seems.....

Things I learn during the holiday.

1. Never eat anything while watching House. Tendency to get put off your food.
2. Never go to Habeeb Sultan. Tendancy to get Diarrhea is imminent.
3. Try to sleep..........just try...........
   

Current Reading:

"The Story of my experiments with truth" by M.K.Ghandi

Not my usual read but it was a gift from my father with a message written:

"Dear Bakar,

Now that your days at MMU is nearing its end, I hope in this book you will find some wisdom which I have failed to impart to you. Your loving father.


M.Dawood
7/1/07"

There's a silver lining somewhere...apparently...

Finished my Testing Plan for my final year project, which is a seriously daunting task.

Photos...of the Xmas disappointment...

Finance Dept

Went to Finance Dept this morning, sharp at 9am i was there, waited for an hour, along with other students, only to find out from the darling Makcik Guard, that today all Dept's are CLOSED. errr Shouldnt they be OPEN ALREADY? how long of a weekend do they WANT? its already the 2nd day of the new year and they are still closed ......... :) i need to pay my feees laaaaa hurry up and OPEN!!!!