Got this tag from Ponytales. I know I have a few tags outstanding (like from God’s Little Angel), so bear with me, I’ll get to it… The question is, what will I be doing on 08/08/08? The more important question is – What is this UNHEALTHY preoccupation that we CHINESE have with the number 8?! Oh never mind, there are just some things that are better left be. What am i going to do one year from now? No idea, but i would think it’ll be something like this. Wake up. Look at clock. Go back to sleep, after convincing myself that i can squeeze in a few more minutes…

If you are looking for a good cause to contribute your money to, there are a bunch of bloggers participating in a 24-hour Blogathon to raise cash and awareness for a particular foundation or cause of their choosing. This Blogathon has been around for a few years, and it started this year at 9pm last night local time. There are a few local bloggers involved this year: pelf for the Eden Handicap Service Center [Pledge] Edrei for the Association for International Cancer Research [Pledge] Serge Norguard for UNICEF [Pledge] Yee Pei for the Malaysian Mental Health Association [Pledge] Ja Mustapha for MERCY Malaysia [Pledge] Kelwin for MAKNA Malaysia [Pledge] What…

During the infamous Weekend Without Internet â„¢, I visited a place I had not gone to in a very long, long time – my backyard. The first thing I notice is that almost all the homes in my row had renovated their backyard, except mine that is. Mine is the only one I can see that is in the original state – not by some stand on architectural integrity, mind you, probably it’s because we’re the only family in the area too broke to do anything with the house. But anyway – I found something else of interest in my backyard. A new addition, judging from the looks of it.…

Tagged by both 2ann and ponytales… It’s all about fours. Let’s get on with it, shall we? Four jobs I have had in my life : 1) Working in a T-shirt printing factory – my very first job waiting for SPM results. I joined with my then best pal Kit, i lasted 3 months, he quit after 2 days. It was hot, tiring, and strenuous work. Hated every minute of it. Worse of all, at that time my Hokkien was really bad, and everybody spoke it, so i had no one to talk to. 2) Cashier – Needed to get pocket money in university, so I signed up to be…

Last Saturday afternoon, while I was doing some work on the Internet, out of nowhere I heard a loud explosion coming from the direction of my PC. After a few milliseconds of confusion, I realized that the power in my house had tripped and I just been hit by the scourge of millions of computer users all over the world… My PC had just been struck by lightning. I quickly snapped the DB switch back on downstairs, check the phone line (dead like MPH’s reputation) and turned back on my PC to assess the damage. Anyway, after some time, I found my network card damaged, and at least my PC…

Took me awhile to figure this one out… but after reading a bit i got the hang of it. I first came to meet mott online, when i she commented on my blog and I visited her blog. The first thing that struck me is that her blog used the same template as my *other* blog (yeah most of you will know which one). The only time i met her in real life was at the Together Gather Blogger Bash held recently, when i sat down to chat with James and Mae. i stayed a little longer than expected, and was finally introduced to her sitting across the table. And…

How Malaysia Can Beat China, Uzbekistan and Iran at Football? I have an idea. Bring back the bomoh, lah. That one dem popular back in the Eighties one. This guy will come and fling air jampi on the field to make sure it rains 2 hours before the games starts. How do you make sure you can beat teams from the desert-dry Middle East? Play in water-logged becak pitch la. Players should also wear tangkal (amulets) to make sure they are kebal and cannot be tackled by opposing players, unless they are women. The bomoh will also merenjis sacrificial animal blood on the goalpost to make sure our goal is…

We just came back from a 3-day holiday from that esotoric historical city to the south – Melaka. Yeah i know everybody has been to Melaka a gazillion times, eaten everything that worth eating and seen everything worth snapping your brand new Sony Cybershot at… i get it. But we needed a holiday, and Melaka seemed a good place enough. For those who do not know – Melaka is the hometown of my forefathers. My father was born there, went to school there. I didn’t grow up there, but spent almost all my childhood holidays there. So there, now you know. Melaka has really grown up that much over the…

Got this from mott… How naughty was i in secondary school? Not very, but very a goody-goody kid either. I came from a racially mixed government school – with boys and girls. So i suppose it was kind of boring most of the time and a little fun at times. Let me see what naughty stuff did me and my friends do? You know those string of firecrackers that popped loudly when you pulled them with both hands? We tied them to the girls’ bicycles – one end to the spoke of the wheels, one end to the body of the bike. Some bikes we tied a FEW together. Too…

We bought an air cooler the other for my daughter’s room. What’s an air cooler? This is an air cooler. Wah, pretty buttons! Comes with remote control some more! As you can see, it is manufactured by Malaysia’s 36th largest electronics exporting company, Yamada. Read carefully, it’s Yamada, not Yamaha. Some more got filter, just like your air-conditioning. The model we got came with two icepacks that makes the air to be slightly cooler, although not as cool as an air-conditioner. The icepacks are the same as the ones for coolers used for camping. This is where you put the frozen icepacks. Lasts for a few hours. So now you…