Saturday, December 19, 2009

Phew!

What a night!


The night's beautiful. As with the pic, there were a lot of subtle things that made the night wonderful. Of course there were some bumps and hiccups, like that overexposed patch from the highway, but overall the sky's nicely lit, and buildings, well are buildings.

Weird that nobody went out to look at the night view just outside the hall, coz it's one of the most beautiful views of the night.

For noobs, it's around 10.30pm when that pic was taken. If it doesn't look like 10.30, it's coz it's taken with that intention. Hehe.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Hrmmm....

Shit am I the last person to blog that I'VE COMPLETED STPM? Woohooo~~!!!!

Weird that it doesn't feel as euphoric as right after Maths 2. Maths 2 felt more like THE last paper than Chem 1.

Gotta get my bum out more often. Been sitting for hours in front of the computer playing games. Never realised my computer is capable of running so many games. I think is driver problem la previously. Hahaha. DiRT2 rocks. The soundtrack rocks even harder (ok maybe one or 2 tracks that I love, yes love, hardly use that word). Borderlands sien la play until wanna fight Sledge liao. Stupid Badasses hardly take any damage. L4D 1 & 2 juz waiting for LAN party. Hehehe

And I never knew torrenting could be so convenient. Latest season of The Simpsons done in around 2 hours. D'oh!


It seems if I link my pictures from Picasa instead, the pics look clearer. The original upload was so blur I thought my eyes were blurry. If only this was a Rm50 note.
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

LOL Now I know why...

The blog's been receiving unusually high traffic these few days. And all of them point towards my P1 WiMax W1MAX Wimax blog post (yes that's 3 key words for google to direct to my blog. Hehehe...). Got TONS of comments about it too. Some are for P1, some against P1, some for Streamyx, some against Streamyx. I investigated a bit and found out it's the #2 result when you type in "P1 W1MAX review". I guess a share of the traffic comes from those who clicked the first link as well.

Then sometimes I see links from adsense. I never knew how it came to that, until today:



LOL. That's free advertisement. Now I gotta buck up the contents of the blog.

Not that I'm complaining :-D

Shit I juz realised I do not have an Ads program for the blog. Anybody kind enough to help out?

LOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOL

Wait, I do. Now if you're kind enough pleaseclickonthempleasethankyouverymuchitsmuchappreciated.

UPDATE:
Oh shit this is very unexpected. The free ad appeared below The Star's report today about P1 getting a contract from MCMC. LOL report about P1, the ad below said 'gave up after day 3'. Summore the title reads 'P1 Review'.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Strategic ads placement?



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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

I dreamt about frogs...

Not getting sleep for 2 days straight is a bad thing. It wasn't that I was nervous or wut. Juz couldn't get any sleep. No joke. The more you realise you're unable to sleep, the more panicked you get.

Then it happened. I finally got my eyes to shut yesterday night. It was weird how alert you were during the course of entering your first REM. Any noise will bounce you right up.

And when the REM kicks in, oh boy it was so wonderful you thought you've overslept, just to know you've only slept for 2 hours.

I dreamt about some frogs I keep as pets. They were frogs that get angry damn fast, and when they do, they won't move but grow these bright yellow weird horns or thick long pricks from it's head. The frogs were of course, bright dark green. They won't move one bit even when you push them or attempt to scrape them off the surface of your aquarium thing. And there's one stage where they'll evolve into some higher stage frogs that do exactly the same thing as before. And there's some weird mysterious ancient codes that were associated with the frogs' existence. Some fat parrots have to do wit it, with a shooting star sign thing on it's right eye.

The frogs dun even have super powers.

WTF, right?
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

I have done the unthinkable


All these years of whining have done no damage to TM Net's CEO's balls. If it ever had to do wit his balls, it sure did made it glory-er than ever. Why?

Instead of potong-ing, I went the other way: I upgraded my screamyx package. Part of the reason is that my current landline + streamyx package is too expensive and the new combo package is def cheaper. So opted for it and it came with a wireless modem.


It looks like a freakin toy! It certainly feels like one. The finishing are so bad the rough edges can be used to grate cheese, or chop trees. The reason behind it? It's made by some TM subsidiary I think. The modem UI is TM branded. Go figure.


It makes a good christmas tree substitute huh? Look..At..Those..Colorful..Flashing..Lights!!!!! Almost looks like candies!

As far as routing goes, there's only one Ethernet port so no way of using this to do LAN party, unless it's WLAN party. LOL.

This is the speed indicator within the modem. Kind of to trick you into believing something is happening:


This is your actual speed:




I guess TM has yet to 'activate' my line yet. I thought everything's 'online' when the fella came and 'activate' it from my house?

I'll give it until after Maths 2 for them to give me my full speed. Or not I'll shout POTONG TM CEO'S BALLS again.

So for you guys who clicked to my site coz my review of P1 post appearing in google, here you go. The verdict is: I have no choice but to go wit screamyx. P1's too unstable and expensive lerrrr

EDIT:
So the system takes overnight to update my speed? LOL. I wished for more stability, that's all...


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Saturday, October 31, 2009

This only Amazes me coz I study chemistry

Ever wondered how would a Carbon atam compare in size to a coffee bean?

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Colors

Give this test a shot to see how well your eyes differentiate color hues.

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

Juz arrange the squares in the order of increasing hue.

For the record, I scored a 12.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

LOL Poems from the F4 anthology keep popping up in my brain whenever I become sober.

The road not taken. Sure you're gonna look back and say 'damn I'll leave it for another day', but you noe you won't be able to.

But where would the United States be on the world map if it was not for a sailor named Chistopher Columbus?



Which route to take? The road taken by everyone, said to be full of bumps and potholes but a pot of gold awaits at the end of the route? Or the one full of a mystery you've always wanted to discover and explore, with the risk of it ending with no pot of gold and leaving you with nothing and nothing only?

Too bad Google Earth doesn't have this place on it's map.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

You rock!

In this context it's a little confusing.


'You rock!' normally means that someone is awesome and you wanna convey your appreciation towards that person.

But wut if 'rock' is just a name for another object? Like in the context of 'You pig!'

Now, all of a sudden, 'You rock!' sounds like you're saying that someone is like a rock, either
as stubborn as a rock, or as cold-hearted as a rock.

"...I guess words are a mothafucka they can be great,
Or they can degrade, or even worse they can teach hate...."

- Sing For The Moment - Eminem

Fuck'ed up, ain't it?

Feels like piggy-back riding someone all of a sudden.

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Got milk?

Was bored today (when am I not bored?) morning. NBTD:

Ever looked at a cup that way?

Got Milk? Actually it's soy bean. Sweet ma...



I wanna start a 365 project. But heck commitment issues...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

It isn't this easy.

See the problem about the food channel is that it makes making food look so easy. It looks so darn easy that it makes you think you're doing something entirely different.

The way they cut through foodstuff look so easy. It's like all food are made of butter.

Their workflow is millimeter perfect that you'll think your cutting board is too small. Yes indeed...


Tried making this steamed fish thingy Jamie Oliver on The Naked Chef kept making (repeats, lol).

The heat:time ratio thing never got to me. I never got a hang of how long to cook stuff at what level of heat.

I thought: hrmm 100 C is boiling point, I'll put it at 150 for 25 minutes. Fish should cook that fast.

Fark. I took it out when the thing rings. The thin parts were cooked, the thicker parts were still fckin stiff and transparent. By the time I wanna put the package back in the oven has cooled off (it's a pretty small version). And I dun wanna wait 25 more minutes for the oven to heat up water to evaporate and cook the fish that way (latent heat, anyone? takes time...). Dumped it into the big frying pan and juz finished it off.

My god the next time I'm cooking fish, pan fry is the way to go. 5 minutes flat the thing's done, both sides.


The only downside is that the skins stick to the pan and strips the fish.

Tastes just like those sour sauce fish you order at restaurants, juz w/o the pickles.

I don't care next time I'm making curry from scratch.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

What's up wit this Mid-Autumn/Moon Cake/Zhong Qiu festival ambiguity shit that's going around?

Had a little MoonCake Festival thingy goin on at hometown last weekend. Steamboat it is.


Uncle fried up some catfish. I gotta say curry powder is the best thing to marinade fish with, esp if ya gonna deep fry it. It's so great i dunno how to describe it. Make sure the fish is fresh though. That one was still alive 30 minutes before it swam it's way into my stomach.

Trials just over. Been wondering about what field to go to post-F6. I dun really want to deal with the sciences anymore. I dun wanna bother understanding energy levels beyond the d-orbitals, I dun wanna learn more about electrical circuits, I dun wanna calculate the volume of an elephant and prove some mind-twisting identities.

Learning about gravitation is satisfying, learning about bonds and elements is fun, learning to solve 3 way simultaneous equations with matrices (juz used one in physics, my calculator rocks) is fun.

Beyond that, uhh it's just plain torture. I planned to write a post about why nobody should deserve the mental torture of studying for STPM. Just a sneak preview: lum-sum examination style is no good.

So, any recommendations for fields of study for someone like me who's done with sciences but has done sciences?
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I Knew It

I knew it I knew it I knew it!

I knew it the moment I watched How To Alienate People and Lose Friends.

I knew it the moment the first shot of her showed in Transformers 2.

I just freakin knew it.

Megan Fox is a snoobish A-list wannabe.

yes she's freakin shot, but if she only she's a decent girls with a decent attitude with some common sense and professionalism, it would have been perfect.

Guess she's a long shot from perfect. And yes I do believe that the following quote holds truth. That mention about her complaining about the working environment is good enough.

Read:

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This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.

Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.

Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses' life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. She was famous! She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina - second thought - she's no Angelina. You see, Angelia is a professional.

We know this quite intimately because we've had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We've spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.

We are in different departments; we can't give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work. One of us touches Megan's panties, the other has the often *$+$*$ job of pulling Ms. Sourpants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.

Megan has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We've traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such the grump of the set?

When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we've had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) - easily another 45 minutes in the chair!

So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to "working with Hitler". We actually don't think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn't realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let's get some facts straight.

Say what you want about Michael - yes at times he can be hard, but he's also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason - he simply wants people to bring their 'A' game. He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors. He's one of the hardest working directors out there.

He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years. And yes, he's loyal, one of the few directors we've encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew.

Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don't insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business! Not one person got hurt!

And who is the real Megan Fox? She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we've all worked around. She's as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom. She shows little interest in the crew members around her. We work to make her look good in every way, but she's absolutely never appreciative of anyone's hard work. Never a thank you. All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.

Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We've heard the A.D's piped over the radio that Megan won't walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John's done seventy-five movies and she's made two!

Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there's the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn't know that one of the grips' daughters wanted to visit their daddy's work to meet Megan, but he wouldn't let them come because he told them "she is not nice."

The press certainly doesn't know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn't let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, "I can't believe Michael is $!!$%#* forcing us to go to the $!!$%#* pyramids!" I guess this is the "Hitler guy" she is referring to.

So this is the Megan Fox you don't get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly $%$##. It's sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they're really looking up to.

But 'fame' is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em' come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!

-Loyal Transformers Crew

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Elisha Cuthbert as the next Mikaela, anyone?

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Friday, October 2, 2009

July 1st, 2011

July 1st, 2011. That's the date to mark on your calenders if you wanna see the next installment of Megan Fox's overused-on-screen eyes. She sure has a pair of beautiful eyes to compliment her gorgeous figure.

That's right folks. Transformers 3 now expected to arrive by July 1st 2011. And remember you heard it first on this very blog.

Wan chilli sauce ah?


No actually Micheal Bay blogged about it.

Let's see how much worse they can make of Megan Fox. Transformers 1 was the dime, and that's it. T2 was overdone. Unless Mikaela grows some brain and contributes some maturity/intelligence to the movie, heck this goes straight to my DL list.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Stopping By...

I'm just bored can you tell?



In the midst of all these, what are we finding for (look is a better word here, just trying to link up to the pic)?

Choppy week ahead.
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Bombs away!

Raya to everyone else in the country is just another day off endorsed by the government. To me it's a freakin warning that trials is on a handbrake turn drifting at 120km/h around a hairpin turn coming my way. It's gonna come fast, hit hard and leave me in trail of smoke.

Went back hometown (it still feels weird using this word 'hometown' coz it technically is not my hometown, but juz coz parents have been calling it that, that i've called it that. These technicality issues bother me a lot, a whole damn lot) on Sunday to avoid the insane traffic smoothness malfunction. I was being good and all, brought the books and notes of the 2 subs that i've basically never studied, hoping that I'll read them out of boredom in hometown. Surprise surprise I left the foolscap papers at home. WTF LA... How to do questions?

Typical blogging aside, here's the onslaught of pics.

This bar would empty itself on our return journey back home.

There's this salty fishy smell around the house that no one can source from. Thought the neighbors are cooking salty fish or some sort. Found this at the bedside of my uncle's room. In case you're wondering, it's a dead bird. Species unknown. Looks like a pigeon to me.

Smoking kills. What if smoking actually make people more intelligent and the government is trying to stop these ppl with nicotine-induced-intelligence from taking over the country? Isn't that another conspiracy theory? LOL

Future mobile gamer. I'm still better than them in these things. XD

Model of the day.


Went out for a walk around the area wit lil cousin.

This door is actually some basement exit for some big house. Looks like some dungeon exit. (of coz i've seen this thousands of times already)

Only regret was a little OOF in the middle. Fckin windy wei...

From another angle. Which one looks nicer?

This aunty walked by when takin pics of that flower. Actually thought of taking a pic of her after she've walked so far away. Mad cropped.


The unopened bud of the flower.




God knows where he learnt that hand sign from. Wait was it supposed to imitate ears? LOL

Looking them play made me envy of them. Now this is not some emo-cry-baby-cry shit, but they just do not have the frustrations of grown ups. I personally really do envy them of this coz they could just go to school, come back home finish homework and done deal can go play. I dunno how to say this but their schooling life is so relaxed. Makes me reminisce on Pre-F6 schooling days. Ah well...

Life goes on.
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Lu umm si Family, Lu si Enemy

Went to this BiBi Wok place at Putri for a gathering of some sort. Funny coz dudes were at the ala carte division of the restaurant instead of the previously planned all-you-can-order section. LOL

Basically it's pan-searing-cum-steamboat thai food. I think it's thai coz there're thai buddha ornaments and the meat are marinated hot and spicy.


Basically it comes with one of these platters at first and you can order individual ingredients subsequently. It's basically all-you-can-order from the menu. Basically they are typical steamboat ingredients with marinated chicken, mutton and beef and ham for searing purposes.


As you can see one thing unique is that you sear your food on a piece of banana leaf. It's pre-smeared with some butter so it's non-stick. Has this nice fragrance of banana leaf on your food. Nice. The dipping sauce that comes with it is one sweet sauce and one spicy sauce. The spicy sauce is fiery so beware of it.

There're also pre-cooked side dishes for order to eat if you feel like eating some pre-cooked food. Got fried shui gao and thai salads. It's included in the bill so no worries of extra charges. The beverages are charged separately, though.


It's about 30 per pax if you order plain water. They'll refill you with plain water anyway even if you order other drinks. Dunno if they do the same thing if you order milk shakes coz dudes ordered green tea.

Had fun taking pictures.

Jason wants a new facebook picture.

More crazy pics over at Chloe's blog (when she's updated it, of coz)
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Bak Bak Bak Bak Bak Kkkkkkuuuuttttttttt TEH!

Keeping up wit the food blogging spirit, here's some pork.

I can't come up wit a witty name substitute for this dish, so behold:

Bak Kut Teh/ Yuk Kuat Cha/ Rou Gu Cha/ Lei Leih Goh Maeng Zou Mat? Hou Sek Mei Dak Loh!

The thing comes bubbling hot, literally. I dunno if my skills are up to it or not but you should be able to see the bubbling bubbles of the boiling soup.

Just add 'dry' to the names aforementioned above and you have the name for it.

I used to think the restaurant is in Putri but then this time it's deeper into Puchong. Aiyah you all know where it is one lah.

I doubt if the tea helps to 'break down' the lipids but it sure is refreshing.

Was SMH-ing all the time when ppl come near our table to help themselves refilling the teapots. The refilling station was just beside us. Yes you heard it right the ppl in the shop were so busy serving food they left refilling teapots to the customers themselves. Yeah was SMH-ing all the time coz them ppl dunno how to use the electronically-operated kettle. Then my helpful parents tried giving instructions from their seats. And the customers still couldn't operate it.

The dry Bah Kut Teh is just like normal claypot-cooked pork. Maybe a bit drier and more flavourful. The soup one was nice, as always. I dunno but when it comes to chinese food I couldn't tell the difference between the good and the very good. It's just nice. Unless if it sucks like have a cockroach or something then I can tell la.

50+ for these smackers. Not in the photos were a plate of yau mak and some tofu. And tea. And rice.

And now for the classical must-photograph phenomenon in Malaysia:


Travel agencies should make appointments with these motorcyclists to show the tourists how the people is going green with their daily motorcycling routine.

Darwin Award nominee?

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Sunday, September 6, 2009

It seems there's a new pizzaria in town...

Whenever there's a need to order food delivery, it's either McD or the pizzas. And if it's the pizzas, it's either Dominos or Pizza Hut. And although I would prefer Dominos over PH any day, the family tends to order PH coz there's this online order offer that gives you 2 regulars for 32 bucks tax inclusive. If no coupon den will surely order PH.

Few days ago there's this brochure from Canadian Pizza. Never heard of them. I saw the promo 2 pizzas for the price of 1 and thought it might be some final efforts to revive their store of some sort. Never gave it another look.

Yesterday it's time for delivery again. And mom suggested to give Canadian Piza a try. Why not?

Canadian Pizza, certified halal by the International Halal Board. One step ahead of the local halal board. lol

Ordered one chicken and one beef.

Hawaiian Classic.
To be honest, I almost cried when I took the first bite. The tomato sauce HAS THE TASTE OF TOMATOES! Not some vinegar + sugar cocktail.

Meat Lover. Cow head purchased separately.

The cheese of both pizzas were unlike any pizzas out there. It actually tastes like cheese. Not the generic PH chewy bland cheese.

Of course, both pizzas did not look half the way it was advertised. I was promised slices of something (i couldn't tell from the brochure) on the pizzas. All I saw was melted cheese. But when was it that fast food restaurants served food that resembled the advertised version? I remember I wrote a post about how some pita dish from Kenny Rogers had some scale issues wit the brochure.

Anyway, the focus here is taste. It definitely has the tomato-y taste. It definitely has the cheesy taste. Beef taste? Checked. Chicken taste? Checked. Overall taste? I would rate it above PH, but i need to have another go at Dominos and Canadian Pizza before I make a verdict on that.

Definitely gonna order it a 2nd time. Just hope that the offer stays or some coupons come with it's next flyers.

Now where is that Dominos coupons mom collected?

UPDATE: It tasted better when reheated!
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