December 31st, 2009
Just with the blink of an eye (ok both eyes since eyes never blink alone), more than six months have passed since my move to Kuala Lumpur and here I am sitting at my office desk rushing to complete the deadline for some project on the eve of 2010.
Christmas came and went by without staying for long as well thanks to yet again the same project but luckily I got myself some vacation time back home. One lesson to learn here is to never plan your deadline anywhere near Christmas and New Year because you will the the one cursing at yourself in the end. Everyone else will be in the mood for celebrating and you will be the only one left doing the work till late but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.
So this is the time of the year where you look back and think of your accomplishments (or rather lack of accomplishments) and say, “Hell yeah, that was a good year. Let’s make a next year an even better one” and this is where you start to make your new year resolutions.
When I was younger, I had the tendency to only make up my resolutions as I go along and usually by June I would have finalized my resolutions. By December I would have completed only a part of them and left them for the following year. As I grew older and more mature I found out that it is important to set a goal (or a few) and strive to achieve it within the allocated time frame. My resolutions came earlier and I managed to complete all of them before the year ended.
This time around I aimed to set my resolutions for the year 2010 up front as early as New Year’s Eve (actually I’ve already given some thought to this so it was actually finalized much earlier) so here goes.
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December 22nd, 2009
As the year end draws nearer and nearer,
The winter solstice has decided to appear,
Tong yuen is served as the appetizer,
That’s how the Chinese celebrate the arrival of winter.
A few more days and the skies will clear,
Mark the rainy days off the calendar,
Let’s sing the Christmas songs and stock up on the beer,
As we go ho-ho-ho-ing up until the New Year.
Friends and families gathering together,
Being merry making fun of each other,
Creating moments which all will remember,
Happy Winter Solstice, Merry Chirstmas and a Happy New Year!
Happy Holidays!
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December 1st, 2009
6 years since my last virus infection in university and finally I snagged one. It was just after I installed the latest version of Opera and I hopped on over to the site blogcatalog and bam! the next thing I knew there was a popup coming from an alien icon on my taskbar saying that my computer was infected. The weird thing is I do not remember installing any programs which uses that icon!
an alien icon on my taskbar
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November 21st, 2009
Chill… yeah I’ve been busy with work recently with deadlines coming up close. I’ve missed out on the usual Friday humor and I think I’m still short of at least 2 eatgod posts, especially the Teluk Intan trip and Kapar seafood. Man, if I were working in a publishing company I believe that company would have fired me already! Anyway life is like that, sometimes you have to prioritize some things and let go of some other stuff but definitely I won’t give up blogging here.
I’ll be going back to my hometown this weekend so just to keep myself on track here’s something to lighten up your day :)
These are from a book called ‘Disorder in the American Courts’ and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.
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ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
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November 15th, 2009
Craving for another artery clogging entry guided and fueled by the desire to locate this one undiscovered stall, I found myself and two buddies back in Salak old town hunting down what claims the be the most mouth watering char siew (barbecued pork) anyone could find.
It all started when our friend Win-son was on his wedding shoot in a junkyard nearby and his photographer’s aide bought them char siew rice for lunch. Ever since that day, my friend Win-son has been craving for this particular char siew rice but yet again he does not know the location of the stall. The only information he had was this – Salak old town. So the last weekend on a Saturday afternoon, me and my buddies went around Salak old town hunting for this particular char siew rice.
The place was not hard to find since Salak old town is really a small town and there weren’t many stalls selling char siew rice. We stumbled upon this shop called Kedai Kopi Tian Hong (in direct translation to Cantonese it sounded more like Tin Fook Cha Sat) and they were hanging up these delicious-looking char siew for sale along with some grilled chicken. We stopped by this shop being only half sure that this was the shop until our order arrived and Win-son confirmed that this was the shop with THE mouth watering char siew rice. The shop was just located opposite the 7-11 in Salak old town with the coordinates of 03° 05′1.17″ N, 101° 41′46.65″ E.
kedai kopi tian hong a.k.a. tin fook char sat
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