Listening to : Daddy’s Little Girl – Jesse McCartney

Today is pretty much a day I’m gonna slack off. Well, maybe I’ll consider to do some extra fine-tuning on the system later. I can’t just leave my work like that. In fact I don’t feel OK with the current release. Boo huhuhuhu…

So, around 2 weeks more before Raya. I received few catalogs especially from Isetan for the past few weeks. I was planning to go shopping-spree earlier this month but due to overloading works and ailment I got for almost 2 weeks, I had to pass it. Still not too late now I guess.

This year, I’m gonna expand my cake-giveaway tradition. On previous years, I’d usually bake cakes and give ‘em to my neighbors. But I think 2007 was slightly different. I gave cakes, ketupat and lemang to my ex Japanese lecturer. :D Felt like it was pretty awesome if we could introduce our not-everyday food. He later commented the food was nice. LOL. I have figured already what to bake this time. Another cheese cake maybe but with a twist. :D Last year I made coffee cheese cake (my own invention) which I purposely named it as Caffeinated Cheese Gone Nuts (my ex-colleagues’ favourite. Haha…) Talking about cakes. This is pretty ironic because I’m not gonna make kuih raya this year. Hohoho…

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Not really my first flow chart though. Haha. Felt kinda bored and wanted to do something ‘productive’ (was it?) I deal with flow charts (and all sorts of funny funny diagrams) every single day so don’t be surprised if one day I post a post full of charts. Haha…

Have the urge to do something else. Don’t know why but I feel more… ‘collaborative’ nowadays (compared to months ago. Waaaay months ago). Signing out now. Peace out ! Adios muchachos ! ;)

P/S : Last week, our neighbor shared their kerabu with us. OMG. It was super yummilicious ! It was a new twist actually. FYI, I cracked the code. Hot dogs ! Yay ! XD Gonna make it when I have time. (Read: It’s normally the other way round).

It’s been more than a month since my last post. Been busy with one-day trip to Penang, final exams, lalala with friends before saying byebye to them, works, planning…….. etc. It’ll take one whole day to list everything down now.

[ The Northam All Suite Hotel ]

Right now, I’m in Penang for another trip. This trip is a little bit special ‘coz I have time to walk along the beach, chit-chat with the anglers around there, go for shopping-spree at Gurney Plaza twice (ngeh hehehe..) etc. But at night, I can’t clear off my mind from my works. I reached here yesterday morning. Here, I stayed at The Northam All Suite Hotel. Really like my suite.

[ The Northam All Suite Hotel ]

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I like burger.. A LOT. But, street burger sold at road side hasn’t been my favourite. With the over-flooding mayonnaise and chilli ketchup, it doesn’t attract me at all. Whenever I feel like to burger, my mouth and stomach will whisper “DO NOT BUY BURGER AT THAT STALL“. The burger is too messy with.. almost everything.

Last week, Key told me about McDonald’s Big N’ Tasty burger. So that night, we went to McDonald’s in Equine, Seri Kembangan. The burger was great and tasty but that won’t change anything. McD’s Beef Burger is still my favourite.

That was last week and it was great. This week, I tried this unique burger called Burger Mat Salai. You’ll know why later. The stall was newly opened this week at HB3 food court. My comment? It was the most scrumptious and unique street burger I have ever tried . I’d never seen any burger closely like this one before. I don’t mind having dinner with this burger only.

[ The mini stall ]

[ Tada ~ ! ]

[ Can you see the floss and the smoked beef? ]

Last week has been a very terrible and exhaustive week. I had to complete my slideshow (created using xHTML, CSS and AJAX) for my Final Year Project (FYP) presentation. My presentation went terrible because I couldn’t write anything on the whiteboard. The projector screen blocked the entire whiteboard. So, I freezed because I didn’t know how to explain Math in plain words. In other words, to make them understand. For Part 2 of my FYP, all I did was research to improve the system. I did A LOT of Maths studies. I had done almost everything during Part 1. So for Part 2, I was more focused on improving the system by studying A LOT of Maths. I was like a Mathematician this trimester. *sighs*

This weekend, I’ll be off to Penang for a business trip. The project has been confirmed and I’ll be the key/ important role in this project. Ever since I was told about this news, I can’t stop thinking about it. I even dream about it. Another busy week is coming.. *sighs, sighs and more sighs..”

Star Trek has been my favourite sci-fi movie ever since I was a kid. That movie started my obsession on Physics and Astronomy. I even study wormhole, warp speed, the superstring theory etc. I even adore Stephen Hawking’s works. Well, not everything. Physics amaze me in many ways. So, I watched Star Trek last Thursday with Key. It was AWESOME × AWESOME = AWESOME². Or most likely, AWESOME FOR ETERNITY !. One more thing, Spock’s hot.

[ I thought the kitten was shy ]

I don’t feel to talk a lot right now. I really want to turn my brain off for a long period of time. It’s been a rough week. So, the pictures will do the talk most of the time.

[ Something's going on there but..  ]

[ Asam Laksa @ Peranakan Place, 1 Utama ]

[ Kerabu pucuk paku, honey sotong and Ayam Pong Teh @ Peranakan Place ]

[ Theobroma Chocolate Lounge @ 1 Utama (sorry Iss. I cut off your head ) ]

[ Princess of Iceland @ Theobroma Chocolate Lounge  ]

[ Belgian Waffle @ Theobroma Chocolate Lounge ]

[ Finally, though it's a third-party only.. ]

All I’m saying, I’m going to bring my 360 over anytime soon (my original VGA cable is spoilt already), playing Gears of War again and laugh until the day I can really get out of sucky student life. Peace out~

short note: XBox 360′s upcoming game called Damnation looks awesome !

Listening to : David Archuleta (He’s AWESOME !)
Thing to think about : Do we really care about the environmental  issue (say, global warming) as a whole ?

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I was pretty bored so I experimented the picture using Photoshop. Playing around with few filters and effects, and applied to it and.. TADA ~ ! Quite surprised because I made it while my brain was half-empty.

[ During Earth Hour 2009, taken from my pitch-dark room ]

During the Earth Hour, lemme recall back what I did. I switched off all switches at 8PM (one hour advanced), just let my laptop powered by battery. I even turned my 19″ LCD monitor off. Opened windows widely. So, the only light source was from my laptop monitor. Watching news, in the same time, playing Habbo. Just wanted to test the thing out. Guess I was just totally bored that time. Haha.. Got few friends from Phillipines, Japan, USA (moved from Italy) as well locals (one of them could speak Japanese). The local guy, Japanese (a lady) and I were the only persons who could talk in Japanese in the room. The rest were full of questions what we were talking about. Some of them were quite rude. It was quite fun actually. So, I joined the room for almost an hour. Before the Earth hour ended, I started to get eye-strain. I’m not used to staring at monitor in the dark place.

[ Taken from afar. Students playing cricket. ]

I wanted to take picture of these guys playing cricket but I was quite slothful that time, so instead, I just shot it from my room. It seemed like it was a competition ‘coz normally, there wouldn’t be many spectators.

[ The spectators ]

I’ve never seen cricket game anywhere in Malaysia LIVE. So, that was a perfect time to have a record that I’ve already seen now.

[ UPDATE : March 22nd, 2009, 10.30AM ] Going back to my hometown shortly. I’ll post my trip later after I return to Cyberjaya. Peace out !

Really miss to put stupid post title direct-translated from a name. Wah hahahaha..!

So many unexpected things happened this week. Last weekend, I went to Melaka with Key without proper planning. Last Thursday, I didn’t plan to watch ‘Love Matter’ movie again after watching it for the first time in Seremban last weekend. Today, I originally planned to watch ‘Race to Witch Mountain’ alone. I’d been so enthusiastic to watch the movie for weeks, so I didn’t mind if I had to watch it all by myself. I did send a text to Key and several other friends, but I didn’t expect them to be free or bother to reply my message. Surpisingly, Key replied, so we went to Alamanda at 1.30PM.

[ 'Race to Witch Mountain' movie tickets ]

I thought there’d be no available seats for the movie, so we went to buy tickets first before we went to find a place for our lunch. Our movie started at 5.50PM, so we had around 3 hours.

[ 3 awesome dipping sauces for our lunch ]

We had our lunch at Manhattan Fish Market. I’d never tried this place before. The grilled salmon picture on the menu really brainwashed me to try out.

[ Jaaaang~! ]

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After I came back from Melaka, my life had been quite overloaded. I think it was the torture I needed to endure for escaping from works for the entire weekend.

I had a test last Tuesday at night. I wasn’t aware about it until last Monday. Luckily, it wasn’t really tough. Right away after the test, my group had a 2-hour discussion about our mock meeting which were held the next day in the afternoon. We discussed on what topic we should talk about during the mock meeting.

[ Jeng jeng jeng~ ]

At 3.15PM, my friend from Muar, Mike picked me up and we went to 1 Utama. He wanted to go to Times Square in the first place. But then I told him about this peranakan restaurant in 1 Utama. He changed his mind and we went to 1 Utama.

First, lemme tell you. I went to this restaurant, called ‘Restoran Peranakan Place‘, for the first time with my bosses and colleague for lunch. I didn’t post anything about this restaurant last time because I left my cellphone in the office. This peranakan restaurant is one of my Number-1 restaurants in Malaysia.

At the Information Centre, I found something interesting, so I just took it. It looked like a small magazine, actually it wasn’t a magazine. That small magazine called ’Durian Navi’ and it was in Japanese. One of the articles in the magazine talked about a restaurant in Bali, Indonesia. The restaurant’s sign board had a picture of suckling pig on it and at the bottom, I noticed something that made me burst into laughter; Babi Guling. We (especially me) laughed like idiots.

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Thing to think today : Who’s the biggest spender? Man or woman?

[ Pergi ke pasar sambil membawa 'binatang' kesayangan. Lalala~ ]

Seems like internet connection’s getting worst by day. *sighs*

Few weeks ago were like a total ‘summer’ here. From wearing long pants changed to short pants due to blazing temperature. But this week, the rainy season has come. It’s a good thing anyway. But yesterday was slightly different. Iss planned to go cycling at Taman Botani, Putrajaya. We didn’t expect it’d be raining in the evening. Our plan changed unfortunately. We instead went to Alamanda, Putrajaya. It was the second time I went there in one whole day yesterday. From keeping fit plan to keeping flabby plan. Haha..!

[ Guess who are they ! ]

Before we go into deep, there’s one thing I want to point out. For the first time in my life history, I yelled “BABI !!!!” pretty loud. For people who didn’t know why I yelled that (say, Iss), they might think I was cursing someone, but actually, I wasn’t.  I yelled that because I saw a baby boar running across the road to the other side in the middle of Putrajaya. Lalala~

We’re in recession period and it’s not a good time to be a big spender. So, we spent on something worth more to our money; FOODS ! Sien to Iss. Wah hahaha..! It was a food marathon for me. We tried at 3 different places. Our first attack was a waffle stall in the food court.

[ Peach Treat Waffle ]

The Peach Treat was my second time. I think their waffles are the best so far. I like waffle A LOT. I’ve tried many places and most places I tried, their waffle weren’t good. I mean in a sense of its softness. This one wasn’t too soft yet too rock-like. Iss tried Chocolate Banana waffle. Looked nice but I didn’t feel like to eat banana. *grins*

[ Picking a soft toy to be my photo-session clown ]

Then, we took a walk around Alamanda. Window-shopping here and there. We even had our own posing-without-shame session in Parkson as well as other places. Our next food stop was Sushi King. It was just a light tea break (was it?) after strolling for 1 hour. Our very last stop was their humble food court. To be frankly, I got diarrhea right after eating their sizzling yee mee. I think I’d never eat there after this. In the end of the day, I felt sooo burnt out that I couldn’t sit properly any more. The things I bought yesterday are still in the plastic bags today. Ngah hahahaha..

Photo-session for graduates/ final year students will start tomorrow. It’s for MMU Yearbook. Feeling like to go and take with several friends. Luckily I have formal dress right now. Want to join? Wah hahahaha..!

What’s with the title? There was a talkshow I watched this morning talking about ‘male menopause’. So, for guys outside there, do you believe it? Answer yourself. Hehe..

[ WAAAAHH..! ]

[ Spaghetti with meatballs. ]

Yesterday, Thoreq the Anak Tan Sri, Iss the Cat and I (the panda?) went to.. err.. KL. There’s this Chinese plus Peranakan restaurant at One Utama we wanted to try out yesterday but in the end, we found that we were wandering around Puchong, Bandar Kinrara, etc for almost 2 hours. Heh.. I totally forgot how to get to One Utama from Cyberjaya. So, we decided to go other place; a (very cramped) restaurant in KL. I chose to try Spaghetti with meatballs. Believe it or not, it was the worst, almost awful spaghetti ever. Imagine this way; (more…)

[ Too many drugs.. Haih.. ]

Second day in MMU, I don’t feel really well and starting to feel bored. You know why? I only have 4 subjects this trimester. One of the four is Final Year Project Part 2, which hasn’t started yet. I think my supervisor’s busy with ITP stuffs. My schedule is almost empty. Huhu.. So, what I do to fill in the ‘blank’? Watch TV, read analysis books, browse, sleep, eat.. yada, yada, yada..

I had a thought yesterday. When you were still in kindergarten, playing with sands or houses, what did you really want to be when you’re grown up? I mean your ambition. During that time, I always wanted to be a surgeon. Not a typical doctor, but a surgeon. For me, it was great job. Of course I didn’t know much about being a surgeon back then. So, that goal really lasted for almost 10 years. Everything changed when I learned Physics. Guess who I wanted to be? A physicist. Yups, that’s true. The reason I ended up in engineering line is actually because, I don’t want to be lecturer or anything related to academic area. Now, everything has changed. I don’t think I have passion to be an engineer anymore because of certain factors. But I still like Maths and Physics. I may be a programmer now but I’d never throw my interest in Physics and Math away forever.

「UPDATE : ２００９年２月１日」 Currently designing a new theme for Meatball. Possibly will be done and uploaded next morning. Have you ever developed or designed something while you’re having high fever? Huhu.. I’m finally done with the theme and I don’t put much AJAX stuffs. I don’t want my system to get slow ‘coz of AJAX.

[ I can hardly doing things with only 1 monitor. Huhu.. ]

I’m finally back to Cyberjaya to continue my final trimester. Yeay~! Reached here around 5PM. I wanted to bring along my hunnie 360 but that thing’s unbelievably heavy. I think it’s as heavy as my not-too-old HP 19″ widescreen LCD monitor. So, I just thougt “maybe I should bring it over next time“. Oh yeah, yesterday I went to Low Yat, had a thought of buying a new 24″ LCD monitor (larger than the current one, with HDMI) specially for gaming purposes. Then, I had a second thought, “How can I carry this heavy thing alone?“. FYI, my left hand can’t hold or carry heavy things. So, bye-bye to it, for now. The 19″ is still fine.

[ Mix of my favorites. Round 1 ]

Last January 23rd (my last day before I go back to MMU), the entire office family (Haha..) had lunch at Shogun, Sunway Pyramid, after a simple visit at Fitness First in Subang. It’s a Japanese buffet restaurant and I’ve never been to any restaurants closely like it before, so it was a great experience. Guess how many rounds I had there? Hehe.. 7 ROUNDS! I didn’t take photo for Round 4 .It’s a breaking record for me! Of all foods I tried, I think I like the raw oyster and salmon. The foods there.. omg.. If only I had more times to indulge everything..

[ This one's free but I didn't try. ]

[ Chawan-mushi. Round 2 ]

[ Mantis prawn and something I don't know. Round 3 ]

[ Mix of veggies and seafoods. Round 5 ]

[ My boss' salmon head. Hoho.. ]

[ Green tea ice cream. Round 6 ]

[ Green tea, tiramisu and sweet-corn cakes. Round 7 ]

After all that, we went to Purple Cane for tea. Oh yeah, I’m a big fan of tea. I got a chance to try out 2 types of tea. Finally, I went back home around 4.45PM. Hehe..

[ Tea @ Purple Cane ]

Listening to : Freeway of Love – Aretha Franklin

This is my last week before leaving for one-week holiday and afterward, going back to MMU *sighs* BTW, I got promoted. I did a research on what kind of responsibilities and skills system analyst or programmer analyst needs to have, since I don’t have IT in background (just.. partially..). Assume me as a total idiot of IT jobs. I only know to do programming, but not other things. So, last Saturday, I went to KLCC and spent almost half a thousand to buy books at Kinokuniya, KLCC that were related to the jobs. Oh yeah, the job really did freak me out, but that’s the thing I’ve always wanted to do. I want something more challenging. I even dream of leading and managing my own team. That is why, my lifetime goal is at least to become a Project Manager. For that reason, I’d changed several plans of mine.

[ my all-time favourite manga, Aaa Megamisama or Ah! My Goddess ]

[ My colleague, Chin's lunch. He said the claypot rice was not that bad. ]

[ My lunch, sizzling noodle. yeay~! ]

[ This thing really put me into sleep ]

[ This one.. Its name did make sense but I was expecting it to be darker, like what's shown on the menu.. not tomyam-like.. However, it was nice, but quite sweet. So, bye-bye. ]

[ CNY Performance @ KLCC on 18 January 2009 ]

[ Lion dance in front of Cold Storage @ KLCC on 18 January 2009 ]

[ UPDATE : 21 January 2009 ] Going to change the theme soon. The UI would be using at least 75% AJAX. The idea popped up while I was developing the commercial system. The system is geared up with keyboard shortcuts feature and several other features which startled me awhile. It’s something I’m proud of.