I forgot somethin important & Bike Accident: The Return of Lousy Biker.

Our brain is a complex thing. It's a gift that God gave us with such complexity, we barely know everythin about it. Our brain have many function, be it to compute, memorise and such. Not to forget, another gift to us human, the ability to forget.

God created everythin not without any use. Everythin has it's own purpose. Be it the smallest cell, or the big ol dinosaur. It's just with our limited capabilities, we failed to know why it's created. The same goes to our ability to forget. Imagine our live without it. We will forever be burdened by sorrows and grieves we had in life. Forever troubled by our past mistakes & errors. That's one of the reason we can forget. It's so that we can live, learn and go on with our lives. It's miraculously a usefull ability and sometime, can be the exact opposite.

Ok let's cut the story short huh. I misplaced my car's grant, and now I can't find it. I basically fergot where I put it before. To make it worst, the roadtax will expire next month. Great. Just great. Just in time fer my next roadtax renewal. I've been havin hard times tryin to recall the place where I put it. I've been searchin my home fer gazillion time, my bags, my files, even tryin to shred my pillows apart if that can help but still, the grant is nowhere to be found. And all I have in my mind is a simple clip of me holdin that grant somewhere in the house. *sigh*.

To replace it, is a major pain in the arse. The Police report, Puspakom's inspection, JPJ approval, Finance issues bla bla bla... Arghhh! It's just time and patience consumin. The tense is unbearable. If I still can't find it by the middle of this month, I have no other choice than to replace it and hope that I can live to tell you more about it.

Speakin bout life. I had an accident a few days ago. I was on my way to Klang and a bike rammed mine in Shah Alam. In the middle of a daily traffic jam. The bike hit my right side sendin us both to the ground. Lucky fer me my reflexes is good enough to stop me from slammin my body to the ground.

So what happens after that? Well, my bike have a scratch, the side mirror shattered and ironically, the bike's allignment was better than factory's default. And I have a few scratches on my left leg. That's all. The guy who hit my bike got no serious injury too. But his bike weren't sharin the same luck as he did. The fork's bent and to make it worst, he's asked me fer a compensation. Great.

So the next day, I took him and his bike to a place where a friend of mine is a regular. I got a discount and the guy buggered the 'taukeh' fer a receipt until the garage owner told him to bug off because he only give the receipt to the person who'll pay fer it, which is me.

Notice that I didn't put much details bout the accident here eh. Well, that's because I need to find my darn car's grant and that's more important! Later.

Shocked at my father's health state..

I got a call this mornin, from my kid sister. It seems that she was tryin to contact me since I lost my mobile. She said that my father went fer medical checkup and the test result is shockin. My father have a brain tumor.

That explains the current situation he's in. I'm still in shock. I just don't know what to think. But I do know that my father is strong. I wish I could say somethin that will make him comfortable. But, damn, I just don't know how to react with him. I guess all those time we're separated made me like what I am now. I do care. It's just that I don't know how to show it. So am I guilty fer that?

Enough with me whinin bout my past. I pray fer my father's safety. I'll try to be there when he need me. I'm bein honest and realistic. I'm his son.

Later.

What a week...

What a week. I lost my mobile, waited to replace it until my boss gave 1 to me 2 days ago. Can't use my old sim card because Celcom blocked it. I already paid the dues and still they need me to go to the nearest Center to reactivate the darn line. The good news is, there's none in Puchong. How bout that huh? So I have to choose between PJ and Klang. Because Klang is my work area, I don't have to think twice.

Got 2 appointment last Friday, 1 in Klang and 1 in Puchong. But then I have to follow a new guy to USJ because he's not that confident to install Streamyx. Ok fine as long as I can do my work later after that. I was thinkin bout replacin my missin sim card and reactivatin another before or after I'm done with the installation in Klang, which I've set at 4.00pm. Guess what, it was 5.15pm and I'm still stuck in USJ. It was rainin so I was soaked through the jacket I wore. Fine, I can still rush to Klang to catch up with the jobs. But no I was stuck in Shah Alam because it was rainin like crazy. After waitin fer a long while, I choose to cancel the plan and head back to Puchong. So I lost 2 plans just like that. Nice.

Tried to catch my other appointment in Puchong, but it's rained heavily there too. So I was drenched, water drippin on my pants. My shoe was like a lake. So I had that appointment canceled too. So I can't use the old sim card yet.

Called up the 2 people I supposed to do the installation fer today, tryin to set up another appointment. Got it, the earliest was at 6.00pm. So I waited, it's started to rain. Bad news. But it was still ok. So I head up to Klang, to Celcom Center. Great, it's closed already. My bad, it's Saturday and it's already 5 somethin. It rained in Shah Alam but I got my raincoat. It was ok. Called up the Klang customer then she said that she can't, need to change the appointment to Monday. Wow. Fine. Still can't use the damn sim card.

Went back to Puchong, got reappointed to do the installation at the Puchong's customer somewhere after Mahgrib. Waited in front of his house until Isyak. Called him but went to voicemail. 20cents gone just like that. Great. Went home and open up the work order, heck somebody installed Streamyx fer that Puchong's guy already. I wanted to call my boss to see if any of my teammate is appointed to do that. But hey, I can't use the sim card.

So here I am. Whinin my arse's off fer you stranger's readin pleasure. Yeah so it sucks to be alone. No one who I can spill my problems with, and seein her reaction at the same time. To hear her voice tellin me it's ok, those things I've been through, just to make me feel better. Sittin next to me when I've regained my senses, enjoyin dinner with me. And after I went home, she'll ring just to make sure I'm ok. *sigh*.. Ah wait, I can't use my damn sim card..

Later.

Another new song ready.

Satisfaction. It feels so good. Me and Fractured had a jam session 2 days ago and we filled the whole hour practicin one of our new song. I named the song 'Death Zone' and the session went great. The song changed from the last time I practice it and now the song is longer. Anyway, the song is still as intense as I wanted it to be.

I wrote the lyrics the 1st time I practice it and because it's been a long while since the song was completed, I kinda get the lyrics on and off. Haha. Well can't blame me fer that. Fer me, it's easier to memorise a lyrics when I play it with the band. Play it with my TR Series. In that situation, I can see which part is hard fer me to play and sing and focus more on practicin that specific part harder.

Fer me, this is my favourite song. Why? Because it has the tempo I wanted in a song. Fast but not rushin, catchy but technical and most of all, it's a challenge to sing and play bass with this song. Not to say that this song is very hard or I'm a great bassplayer. I'm just sayin that it's challengin because I need to improve more.

Now it's just 2 more songs until we're ready fer recordin. The original planned date fer recordin has slipped to early of June. Can't help it. Hey, we're not a full-time musician and we all have a day job to live with! And I can't wait to release the new album too damnit!

I'm still waitin fer Udin's version of Langsuyr's My Oath For Thee cover. I have the permission to change the lyrics so I need to hear the new version before I can write it. Fahmi has completed the next new song and there's a few tweak here and there. I personally hope we can practice all the songs soon because I can't wait to get in a studio.

Darn, I still have this song echoin in my head. So it must be good. Eh? Later.

JPJ: The power to arrest(?) & puppy gone.

It was a nice slumber. My mind was blank, thinkin bout nothin. Just sleeps. Oh it's so great so sleep. Until I heard a news on the TV. Yeah I sleep with the TV on. The story? The Department of Road & Transport (JPJ) wants the power to arrest people like the police. All of the sudden, I lost appetite of sleepin. What the bull are they thinkin?

It's not the 1st time JPJ has make nonsensical demands before. Remember when they say they need firearms? What the.. They lost their minds already? What in hell do they need the firearms fer anyway? Shoot a granpa on C70 fer wearin 'kopiah' instead of safety helmet? JPJ's reason: they're always in constant danger when on duty. Pfft. And now it's a bit of the same. Some people smack a JPJ officer but the officer don't have any power to arrest the brats. Am I missin somethin here? Do you? That's why we have *hint* POLICE *hint* you morons!

To me, it's more like the lust for more unnescessary power. And we all know that 'from the great power, comes a great responsibility'. Eh, the reality is 'from the great power, comes more corruptable people'. Instead of demandin nonsenses, why don't they cooperate with police or somethin. Or perhaps, they can learn how to use the 999 number when in trouble.

Seriously, I sense disaster in this excess of power if given. You don't have to think hard to imagine what's to expect from this. JPJ with firearm, with the power to arrest and detain people. Insane. Purely insane. I can imagine a brat pointin a gun to my head, askin fer my drivin license.

Imagine that. Remember the MyKad case? Where the poor fella received a summon just because he showed his MyKad when asked fer a drivin license. The guy have all his drivin licenses and God knows what else conveniently stored in the most advance Identification Card made available to the public and yet, he was punished because JPJ don't have the tool to read the data, or perhaps they just want to see the plain ol drivin license instead. It made me laugh, but it didn't last long enough to sway my mind off the ironies. We're troubled by the conveniences provided to us. Different departments of the government sector have different views on policies/technologies/laws our government has ruled.

What about the 'tinted window' issue? Can or can't we tint our window? Yeah sure there's a 'JPJ specification' for tintin window but seriously, do you think they even follow that? How many people with 'JPJ approved' window tint happily got their window's tintin ripped off and/or tickets here and there to come with the humiliation? Ok maybe Proton cars aren't allowed to have any window tintin. Not like those Japanese or European cars. 1 points fer foreign cars, 0 fer local made.

How bout the 'car modification' issue? I heard the specification was published before but now the infos is a rare sight. The reality is the same, we don't exactly know what we can or can't do to our car. Some people lives happily with their turbo-charged-2Fast2Furious-makeover car with nothin to worry about but many get a lousy ticket fer puttin a Mitsubishi logo as a decal. Funny huh? Wait until you get a ticket. Last time I heard, it's ok to modify a foreign car to our heart's content but it's a no no to Proton or Perodua's. Great. One of the great thing of ownin a car is to make it a pleasure sight and drivin experience. And so it seems that our laws are the one killin our local car industries. Stop puttin all the blames to foreign's make because if you look closer, it's our own people killin our local industries. Why the heck I want to 'own' a Proton if I can get a Hyundai and modify it to look gorgeous instead of lookin like the gazillions of other same model, not because I can't afford it, but because the law says so. I know it's like I'm swayin off topic but my man point is, the details of the law/policy and the enforcements.

The same goes with motorbike. I guess JPJ somehow think that when we buy a motorbike, after all the years ridin the bike through all the terrains and weather conditions we have here in Malaysia, the motorbike will stay in tune, performs and sounds the same like the first time we rode it. I'm in no mood to even giggle here. My friend got a summon because JPJ said that his bike was modified and the 'exhaust didn't sound like the factory default'. Go and find the funny bits there yourself. Trust me, you will lose the funny mood too. How do you expect an engine or exhaust or any machinery to sound the same after all those years? Ok, my bad, you actually can. Buy a motorbike and don't ride it ever again. Do you know that puttin a sticker on your precious bike is also illegal? Just because you didn't get a ticket fer it doesn't mean that it's legal. Some day, maybe havin a rust on your bike will make you eligible fer a ticket or two. Why? Because it's not a 'factory default'.

My words. Clear up the blurry details of the current laws/policies we have first, before makin more unnescessary and nonsensical demand. Where's the REAL specification for window tintin, car modification and many other? I know there's many other issues and those things are the main things that needed a clear and effective solution. Not a Glock or Baretta pistols. Not the power to arrest, handcuff and detain people. JPJ is goin to make an army or what? Leave the dangerous jobs to the more effective enforcement agencies like the police. Stop makin more dumb demands. I can't stand losin my precious sleeps anymore.

Ah, the puppies is gone. I called Syah and he said that the cute brats is nowhere to be found. I hope a responsible person has adopt it. Maybe the mother has come to the rescue. Gonna miss that barkin brats. Woof Woof! Later.

I got meself 2 puppies. ;) . Read on!

I unofficially adopted 2 puppies. Wait wait, before you starts thinkin bout negative things, lemme explain. It's unofficial. The poor puppies was abandoned by their mother. Me and Syah was movin his things from his old house to his new place when we saw the puppies sleepin in his parkin lot. We tried to get the puppies out of the place but as we can't touch it, it's hard. Most of the time it's us who was runnin out of the parkin lot. So, I wrapped my hand with a plastic bag and I lift the puppies, one by one and put them on the parkin lot next door which is empty.

It's my 1st time ever, holdin a puppy and I was a bit nervous. After I transfered em all, the poor creatures can't stop barkin. Sure they are hungry or somethin, but we don't have any dog food around. Might as well try givin em cat food. And so they enjoyed Whiskers. As they're eatin, I rubs their heads, tryin to make em comfortable. Although shielded with a plastic bag, I can feel their skins. It's like holdin a cat but you know it's a puppy.

To make sure them puppies don't tresspass into my friend's parkin lot again, we made a barricade out of boxes on the main gate. So the main gate was invulnerable. We know those puppies can't get through it. Except that they don't use the main gate to enter. They're small enough to squeeze through the fences. So the next mornin the puppies sleeps just outside Syah's cat cage. So I had to pick em up again and put em next door. They look happy after I gave em more Whiskers. Damn cute while they're wigglin their tails. I know the puppies is happy.

So Syah bought additional fence with smaller hole to cover up every fence we think the puppies can get through. We still give food to the puppies. And I regularly went next door to pat em and see their tails wiggle. Somehow they think of me as their guardian or master or somethin. They even rush towards me as I'm startin my bike to get back home. Cute, but it was a heck of a time to get the puppies behave and stay inside the neighbour's lot.

1 of the puppies has been taken, by an unknown person. I wonder why the person didn't take em all. The puppies is still very young, and they're clean. If nobody wants em, maybe in a few more days we have to take em to a pet shop or somethin. Or we might as well be the unofficial adopter, until they can live by themselves or until someone moved next door.

Although we muslim aren't allowed to touch dog, we don't have the rights to abuse em. Dogs are still God's creation. Animal knows about pain, so don't hurt em. I don't like dogs, but I don't hate em. And honestly I enjoyed pattin em heads, watchin em wigglin their tails and walkin towards me when they see me. I wish someone would adopt those puppies. And until that time comes, I'll be back to feed em and play with those cute puppies. Later.

I lost my mobile... DAMNIT!

*Sigh*. What a day. It's amazin how a good mood can change in a day. What happened? My mobile phone got stolen. I was enjoyin a bowl of 'cendol' in Klang and I have a feelin that my phone somehow slipped there unnoticed. After the cendol, I went to the place I want to install the Streamyx, which is more than 10km from that place. The time I arrived is the time I notice my phone is gone. So I quickly went to the cendol stall thinkin that maybe I can safely get my phone back before someone else do. Or maybe someone would be honest enough to return the phone to the cendol's stall owner.

Such a wishfull thinkin. I was hopin fer too much. Honest people are a rarity nowadays. Hey but I'd return someone else's belongin if I found it in a public place. It's not that hard if you can make someone in charge of a popular place nearby like food stall, shop or etc cooperate to make sure the real owner of the lost good can have his/her belongin back. But heck, those kind of people can only be found in movies. They don't care if the things is important or what.

So I know it's supposed to be my day anyway, the phone is nowhere to be found. I asked the stall owner if he had seen the mobile but luck is not on my side. Without my mobile, I feel like I've lost contact with the rest of the world. All the important numbers are gone. Kapuf!. Just like that. Not to mention I added another RM10 worth of airtime fer the phone while I was enjoyin the cendol. Yeah that was the last time I saw my mobile. Great. Just great. This is not how I want my day to start. I was frustrated then, and I still am now.

I went to the nearest public phone, hopin that someone would answer my mobile and givin me direction on how to get it back. Yeah, dream on. It ringed fer a few times until it went to voicemail. Great. The lucky brat turned off my phone. So be it. If he can crack my pin code when he turn on the mobile next time, he'll have a 10 bucks worth of airtime to waste. Bastard.

I went to the customer's place again, with a down feelin. Great, a customer with Windows ME, stone age CPU and no network card. What a day. After more than an hour to make the WinME behave properly after I've installed a new NIC, it rained cats and dogs. I just feel numbed. Thinkin bout my newly lost mobile. All the others just don't matter much.

So I went to the stall fer the 3rd time but the place is already closed. I stop thinkin bout anythin. So I went back home, shiftin all the other appointments to tomorrow. Damn it I'm in no mood to work. So now I'm actually out of reach. I have a few plans made and now I don't know how the hell my buddies can contact me. It's too late to train a pigeon.

This made me think 'Hell if ever I found someone else's mobile, I'll do the same like what I've experienced'. No, that's not the right thing to do. Hell no. Yeah the temptation to do bad things is somewhat hard to resist, but then, the proud feelin after you know that you done a honest deed beats em all in the end.

So, the next time you found someone else's belongin, do what you can to contact the real owner. At least pass the good to a trustworthy person who you think would be the 1st person the real owner would ask about the missin thing. Because, that person, in this case like me, would have many important numbers in the phone, saved bank account numbers etc, important reminders that can never be replace in a brief. This is far worst than havin your ex to delete some important phone number without your permission.

I'm still hopin that someone would return my mobile to that cendol stall. I know I'll go to the place again tomorrow. I know I should just forget bout it but there's too much important data inside. Fuck it, some people just sucks at honesty. Later.

DIY car project gettin better! & my dad.

Woohoo! Somethin I never expected. Well, I got a very great bargain from the owner of a food stall near my place. No I didn't get discount fer Nasi Lemak but I got a Fully Synthetic oil and 4 new NGK +3 spark plugs (equivalent of Bosch +3, yeah the thing with 3 pins or whatever the name is.) fer RM 100! I mean, well, a Full Synthetic oil alone will be more than RM200 dude! Weird huh? Bought those from a food stall. Well, not quite. His wife runs the stall and he works, uhm, I'm not sure where he works but he knows Karamjit Singh (The Malaysian rally driver.) and he's well versed in engine etc. He'll introduce me to his fav workshop where I can get genuine services / parts fer much much less. Great. He can even renew my insurance and road tax (Wow, to think that I used to do those things as a career.. Well it's not Seremban now and I don't know where's where here in Puchong.)

Eh, fergot to mention that I paid fer the oil only. So it's just 50 bucks. I told him to hold the spark plugs first until my next pay but he insisted that I use it first and pay him when I have the money. Only if my workmate pay up his debt.. I'm puttin a change of the car's timing belt as my main priority now. The car's nearly 1 years old since I bought it and I don't know if the previous owner changed the timing belt before I got it. It's better to be safe than sorry. Faulty timing belt is a disaster. So I was told.

My friend Syah has already moved to his new house. So I'll most probably be busy this weekend fer my DIY car project. Top overhaul will be the motto this week and I can't wait to get my hands dirty. I flushed the radiator today and the leftover is sure messy. Heh. Been a long time since I done that. Eh, wait, I never clean my radiator before. So that's why it's so dirty. Hmmm. Wonder what'll happens when I done the top overhaul, put in the new oil and the spark plugs. Ahhhh! It'll be good. No. It'll be superb! I'm rebuildin my car tools so I don't have much yet. I still need to buy oil filter's opener. Call me a cheapskate but I just love to do those easy things meself. Hope I don't have much appointments this weekend.

Enough with my engine fetish. This is the longest holiday I had since I first work here. Well, there's no appointment until today. But then Bobby is usin my helmet because his was stolen so I can ride my bike. I had to shift the appointments fer tomorrow, err, today (It's already Thursday today).

I went to my dad's house last weekend and he didn't remember who I am until my big sister told him. Then he slowly regains his memories bout me. He got a problem with his right eyes so now he covers it with cloth. We talked.

I'm off to sleep now. Ah, just fer the info, actually this place me and Bobby rented, is a bit haunted. More on that later.

My dad is not well & when is the pay up?

Got a phone call from my sis, sayin that I'm needed in Seremban as soon as possible. My dad is not well. He got thinner, and he doesn't even remember why my kid sister went to Penang. So I'm goin back this weekend. It's been a while though.

A colleague of mine borrowed 110 bucks and said he'll pay up on the next thursday. Well 8 thursdays has passed and still nothin. Is he hopin fer me to forget bout it? I don't know but I can't afford to forget that amount of money. I even have to delay my Carcass CD just so that he can use the money. Now my buddy who's sellin the CD is askin me if I really want the CD. *sigh*. Oh yeah the guy who borrowed my money is the same guy who borrowed my car too. Nice eh? Such a headache. I'll probably understand it if he can tell some reason fer delayin the return money, but then he just keep a close lips. Later.

Aircond and electrical problem solved.

Oh about the problem I had with the aircond, interior lightin etc. It's solved after I changed the main fuse. So the old fuse was roasted. Probably after the wrong battery installation previously. So now (almost) everythin is ok. Cool. Later.

My car is jerkin on low RPM! Sounds of trouble? Hey since when I'm a mechanic?

I think I need to change the spark plugs of my car. Or probably it's time to clean the carburator. Yeah definitely the time to clean the radiator. Hmm can't forget bout the engine oil too. ARGHHH! My friend borrowed the car fer a day then now the engine is jerkin on low rpm, on every damn gear. ARGHHH!!!!! Not to mention he nailed the 15 bucks worth of petrol without even refuelin a single cent. Great. Just great. Now I have to do all the above because the jerkin is tickin my senses off. Oh I nearly forgot somethin. My tools is lost too. So I have to buy a new one. And plus the new battery I bought before. Hooray! I should make a book bout "How to empty your pocket in 2 weeks".

Yeah well it's time to do the checkups fer the car. I know. But then I can't stand it bout the new jerkin problem after my friend borrowed the car. Sheesh. At least refuel the darn car la woi! Ok enough with my angst. As long as he didn't scratch the car. I hope he didn't scratch the pistons. Called up my friends and suggestions I get is, clean/change the spark plugs and if it's still jerkin, clean the carburator. I can do the former meself (theorically, hey it's not rocket science is it? is it?) but I will have to let the workshop to do the latter. So I bought a tool to screw/unscrew spark plugs. Bought somethin to clean the radiator too. Oh yeah I'm tryin to do the minor work by meself as long as it doesn't involve complicated things. What is complicated things you might ask. Well, it is, hmm.. I dunno yet. Maybe somethin like tearin the engine apart and not knowin how to assemble it back. Hah!.

Seriously, I helped my friend Alon when he changed the engine oil, check my spark plugs before and (I think) I can manage that. Maybe I'll post somethin bout it here later. Some sort of simple howto. I'll start off with cleanin or changin the spark plugs, then with cleanin the radiator.

Guess what, I found the original manual fer the car. And I just knew that I have a jack in a compartment inside the boot. So I actually have 2 jack, 1 is missin after my car was repo-ed. Yeah cool. So I only have to buy the tool to use the jack with.

One of the issue regardin the DIY car-care project I'm tryin to do is *drum rolls*.. space! I live in an apartment now. I fergot I'm not in my sister's house anymore. Back then it's quite easy to do car works. Got a few friends cum mechanic nearby and a spacey parkin lot in front of the house to do all the dirty works. Now all I have is a dynamic parkin lot. Yeah you know the drills, nobody own a parkin spot and if you came back late and the parkin lots is full, say hi to the roadside parkin outside.

Another thing is the accessibilities of water. I live on the 4th floor and I'm not goin to transfer buckets after buckets of water am I? Not when there's not even any elevator here. But then, minor works like cleanin / changin the spark plugs, changin the engine oil will go smoothly. So I might have to wait fer the 'cleanin the radiator' project a bit. My 'kampung' (hometown) friend Shah (you'll know him if you read my Bio in my homepage)
who's also an experienced mechanic will be movin in to Puncak Jalil somewhere in February so his terrace house's parkin lot will be suitable fer medium car works *evil laughs plus some coughin*.

DIY car works is fun eventhough I don't know much bout engine, transmition bla bla. It's just fun to learn a bit bout how to take care of the engine and so on. I have to confess though, most of the time I'll be leavin the dirty work to my buddies because engine (and other mechanical things car have) to me is not like a computer to me. It's way different. So it's best to leave the hard works to the more experienced. Fer now *grins*. Later!

Got my car back hah!

My car was scheduled fer auction today. Yeah so I got it back. I took it yesterday and the condition is, well, not so healthy. No rust whatsoever. But then there's a few scratches here and there. Better do some checklist thing.

1) Visual condition: Ok. But there's a bit of a dent and scratch on the rear left of the car's body (I don't know if 8cm++ is "a bit". That's quite long. *sigh*.). Shit. I can ignore it if the door is scratched but the body! Arghhh. There's also a a long scratch on the right door. *raise middle fingers on the air*.

2) Battery: Basically dead. Dried to the bone. So I had to buy a new battery. Roasted 90 bucks fer that new batt. Damn. Then because I accidently connected the wrong wiring fer the new battery (is there any standard fer the battery?) it made the fuses burnt too. Got the light workin but the stereo, interior light is all kaput. I hope it's just the fuse(s).

3) Air-condition: No fan now. Nice. The gas has run out too I guess. It was full before they took the car. Just fucken great. I have to send the car to air-cond shop.

4) Engine: It's ok. But the sound is pretty much harsher than before. Might be the engine oil. So I have to change it too. It was a new oil.

3) Misc: They took the gear lock out and didn't bother to even place it back properly. Nice job. Oh my boots is missin too. When I got the car, the back panel (where some car woofer is installed. I don't know the proper name in car terminology.) was disassembled so I had to install it myself. Somebody opened the panel behind the rear light (in the car's boot) and didn't bother to assemble it back.

Fer now, there's all I can think of. Well, can't expect these guy to take a good care of the cars aye? Thankfully all of the most important documents is still there. My cassettes too is still safe. Next time, if I don't have the money to pay the car, I'll make sure it'll not get repossessed easily. The car might not be as drivable as it was the next time it's park in that place. Anger aside, it's good to drive that bugger again. *smile*. Later.

p/s: oopsie. I accidently posted this on my FreeBSD & Me's blog. My bad.

Ridin in the flood, car auctionin & no "balik kampung" this weekend.. again..

Phew. I was stuck in Klang this evenin, after doin some installation. The it rained heavily before I get the chance to leave Klang. So I have to take shelter at a nasi lemak shop at Jalan Meru. Sat there fer more than 1 hour before I decided to ride in the rain. So I rode my bike and after I finally reached Shah Alam, there was this major traffic jam. You know what? The section after the flyover is flooded! Ouch. So I waited until I had to make a choice. I have to ride in the flood. So I wait fer any motorbike to be the pacemaker but none on my side did. But then there was a guy who shove his bike (he doesn't want to have the engine runnin in the flood? Weird.) from the opposite. I watched his trail carefully and then I quickly went to the next side of the road facing the incomin guy. After he made it across, I hold my breath and hope that the engine won't go dead in the center of the flood. Liftin my legs a bit, I tried to balance the bike as I rode in the flood, makin a wave in the flood, controllin the acceleration; makin sure that it's not too fast (or I'll lose balance) and not too slow (the cool engine will go dead quickly and that's a no no.). At the same time rammin the engine once in a while to make sure the water won't get into the exhaust. A few seconds after that, I made it! I made it across without possibly damagin the bike! But then there was people who cheered like I made a show or somethin. Damn.

If I waited fer the flood to clear, it'll take ages as it's still rainin now. I'm glad I made it back home safely without harm to me and my bike. Be carefull when you're ridin in the rain.

I called the finance today. Guess what? My car has been listed fer auction this comin 15th January. Yeow! So the personnel said that I must pay the overdue before 12:00pm on the 14th January. Yikes. And she said that if I don't have enough money to pay all overdue at once, I have to negotiate with the auction department fer that. Ouch. I'm not puttin much hope about that. So I'm left with the option of borrowin some money from my boss and payin him later. This is gettin harder and harder. Come on Karl, you must get the car back!

Hangah is not goin back to Seremban this weekend so that'll make the two of us. *sigh*. It's been a while since Fractured's last jammin session and I miss the feelin of playin bass and singin with the guys. Still no update on the proposed Indonesian gigs though. I even have to delay the new strings of my bass because of my car's situation now. Later.

Homepage saved, pressure & new year.

Ah. I finally saved all the current files of my homepage into my hard disk. Yeah I lost all the page in progress, new designs and minor tweaks of the webby after a disastrous XP corruption I had a few weeks ago. I think I told you bout the XP re-installation huh? No need fer me to rewrite the tragedy again.

I'm still thinkin bout what other important file(s) that I've lost after the wacko XP incidents. Sheesh. Can't really recall all the files but slowly it's recoverin. That's why I saved all my web pages in my hard disk, because I just remembered that my local backup of the files is lost. What can I recall later..

The thoughts of my car parked in the garage, lonely without me, sunburned, soaked in rain, is puttin a pressure on my head. Sheesh. I can't wait to bail it out soon. I hope nothin got stolen because heck, there's no tellin what happened between the pickup and parkin of that poor car. Hope it doesn't have any rust because I will surely feel sad about it. 2 month is long enough.

Hey, what did you do fer new year? Me, just sittin in my room readin some FreeBSD stuff, watchin some online biddin, readin game news. It's 2006 now huh. Yeah. The year Fractured will hopefully go fer recordin. Still haven't had the chance to practice the new songs and I still haven't change the strings of my TR. One by one Karl, be patient. You can't have all the things at once. Slowly dude. Okay. Yessir.

Hah. I wrote somethin about my Ibanez TR Series which I still haven't got the chance to finish fer my homepage. When will I start writin it again? Ideas.. Ideas.. Enjoy the new year. Make it a better year huh! Later.

Waitin to do my work, 5 years online & new Metalterus forum.

Bah! The earliest appointment is at 3.00pm. Hey, I've been thinkin bout somethin just now. It's about my homepage. Wow, it's nearly 5 years since I published that webby-o-mine. Unfortunately, the old website design I made is lost in a bad XP error I stumbled recently which have left me with no choice but to reformat and cleanly install a new XP. Damn. I don't know if I have another copy of the old design. Even my new design is lost! Oww I nearly fergot I wrote a half page of new rants and I'm sure I didn't burn it into CD. Damn!

Anyway, thinkin about this few years my website has been around the net and stayed in a free home at Graffiti.Net, words can't do justice on how excellent my web hostin is. I tried a few and since my personal preference is a host without any popup etc, Graffiti.Net got my attention. Now I don't care much bout popups and still Graffiti.Net have none. Excellent. Yeah this sounds more and more like a lame advertisement I know. But heck, my site is still up fer more than 5 years and countin! Are yours? :P.

Okay here's the news. There's a new Metaterus forum online. The old one will have a limited period of life left until it'll be totally disbanded. You'll have to register a new account fer the new forum though. No, you still don't have to be a 'trve'/'tr00' or whatever lame bullshit you underage kiddies wants to call yourself to join the forum. But keep in mind that this is a metal forum. You can talk bout your fav hiphop singer on the other gazillion forum out there.

I heard there's a rumour that TV3 is goin to organise a metal gig soon? Later.

Where's my shirt?, get my car back & 2006 emotions.

Oh my! This is makin me crazy. I think I lost the T-shirt. It's THE Gegaran Metal 2005 T-shirt! Ahhhhh! I knew somethin is missin. But I don't know where I've lost it. My sister has moved to Melaka now and I have this feelin that the tee was in the old house. I hope she brought it with her to Melaka because that t-shirt is a very valuable thing to me. Sheesh. I really wish I accidently left it at the old house while I was movin my things to this apartment.

I'm currently workin my arse's off this few months. If I can achieve my personal target, I'll bail my car out from the horrible finance's garage in less than a month startin from next January. I really miss my car. I have to hold my urge to buy new clothes, computer parts, new boot, mp3 player and so on, so that I can get my car back. Anyway, I have to pay about RM3,000 to get the darn 4 wheel back. Yeow. I guess the towin distance from my place to the garage is expensive. Yeah great. Fucken waste of money. If I didn't have to pay the towin expenses, I probably have to pay about less than 2K. Shitty.

Now I'm coverin about 3 installer's area which is, whoa, big. I needed the cold cash so I have to cope with it. It's very tirin mind you. Puchong + Meru/Sementa + Bukit Kemuning. Sometime the appointments was so scrambled I have to rush between those places which is far. Ah, anythin to get my car back. Hope the finance won't sell my car off to somebody before I get the chance to bail it.

The work has slowly eatin my band's life. I missed my practice session last week because I have this 1 customer who just have no patient to wait fer another 2 days. Sheesh. And guess what? When I was there he said the line got no dial tone since early in the mornin. ARGHH! I purposedly waited the whole night while Fractured had to practice without me so that I could go early in the mornin to entertain the customer just to know that the line had a problem? Where's my railgun? Shitty.

Fahmi has been buggin me about 3 new songs which I still haven't had the chance to practice. Hey my Ibanez TR Series is with me now hehe. But there's only 1 string left, the 1 I bought to replaced the snapped string before. Read my previous blog and you'll know (I was waitin to write somethin like this..). Oh yeah while you're at it, why don't you read my blog from the beginnin. Ok ok back to the story. I still have 3 more new songs left to practice and then we can start our recordin session. Yay! I want the full-length album to be out in the early quarter of 2006. I'll write bout our upcomin recordin when the time comes.

Speakin of 2006. Wow. I'll be 28 soon. A few blinks of an eye and, wallah! I'll be 28. Some say it's the age fer men to find his companion or soulmate or whatever in life. How bout me? Maybe, or maybe not. I don't know. Time will tell. The times like this, when the increment of the year is near, is quite sentimental to me. It's the time when my mind wander back to the old days. My childhood, my young teenage life (wah after this I'm no more eligible fer the "teen" title huh? Dagnammit!) and so on. We all gone through so much huh? Yessirree. This is why bein a human is great. We have memories. We can virtually relive our past within our mind. My thought goes to those who left me, my lovely mother (I'm still a bit emotional when I think about her, love you mom...), my grandparents (atuk, uwan. Hey my Raya's always a blast when they're around. Ah, there's dust in my eyes..) who made my childhood's life great, my uncles and aunties, I really miss you all. Sorry fer the emotions. I know, I have a soft heart inside. Listenin to The Police - Englishman In New York is the suitable sound my mood wants to hear..

Keep your eyes open few birthday announcement shamelessly written by me, in not-so-distant future. Oh yeah Isman, yours will be 1st, I know. Love and appreciate those who you have and remember those who left. Later.

And then a happy story. *Yeah I can change my mood quickly ;)*

As said by Fahmi, the venue fer our upcomin gig is Indonesia! Woohoo! From what I heard, Indonesian metal crowd are one of the best in Asia. This is somethin Fractured cannot simply miss. I'll update you guys on this later.

Textual bash on the black metal issue. Yeah I'm moody.

*sigh*. I wanted to refrain meself from makin any comment whatsoever. But I just can't. The issue keep pushin my limit more and more everyday. It's the hot-from-the-oven (Again? Sheesh, it's more like a reheat of yesterday's instant noodle) issue of Black Metal. I actually don't want to make a comment out of this (I will tell why later) but then I personally think that I should voice out my stand. Biased or not.

First of all. Let me clear some things up front. I'm not a black metaller nor I'm a fan of such genre. Black metal is just not my type of soup. Sorry BM fans, I like what I like and BM is just not my taste. Your preferences is yours and I respect that. Hey I know *many* of you guys is just the fan of the music and nothin more. But then, not all people have the advantage of usin self-rational thinkin when it comes to issue like this. And now this issue is gettin hotter as the day goes by.

I have a mixed feelin fer the BM scene here. Let's be honest, most of the people I know who's into BM is because, as dumb as it sounds; BM is anti-Christian. Well, as far as I know, BM is not picky when it comes to religion bashin and sort. So practically, it's dumb to say that you're a BM and then bablin about how muslim you are at the same time. It's (sadly) plain ridiculous. That's not the only reason why I've never like any BM bands whatsoever. I can start sayin somethin like how too physolopical BM scene is (not to mention the "We're trve black metaller" kinda BS) and honestly, the music just doesn't suit my taste like I've stated before. This is strictly MY opinion so whatever you want to say to me, my stand will always be the same. Hey it's not you are evil or somethin (although ironically, fer you trve BM fans, evil is a good thing) and I totally respect your choice of music. Anyway, no worries because I got my flamesuit on.

"So why bother with the issue" you might ask. Good question. To be honest, if the issue is strictly within the BM community, I won't waste my time writin somethin least thinkin bout it. But then the current situation shows that it's not. The other metal community in general is also somewhat unwillingly dragged into the mess that's not totally ours to start with.

Take an example of a recent incident. A few friends of mine who's not a BM-er was busted because they're in a metal gig fer supportin their friend's band who happened to be in a gig that have maybe 1 or 2 BM band. Now tell me that is not suck at all. They have to sleep in lockup fer a few days and eat God knows what type of food suit fer an arm-robber. And then after that a few of the trve BM-er starts a rethoric like "we must let the masses know the truth that we're not evil". I agree that the masses don't have the sufficient knowledge about the underground music scene but then it's not totally their fault. Come on and take look at yourself! Most of you have personality problems. Your stand s is inconsistent (read my opinion above) and oh please don't even let me start with those corpse-paint stuff.

Your claims that BM is harmless make no sense. To me, disrespect fer other religion is just plain racist. Most of you hate Jesus and yet the same BM ideology you praise makes mockery out of your own God. Then you brag about how faithfull you are in your religion. I can't think of another suitable word but 'dumb'. Hey, like I've said before, your taste in music is yours. But please don't do dumb shit to make yourself look extreme or cool or somethin without thinkin about the consequences. Oh and try startin to be consistent in your stand. There's more choices of better metal genres out there, many are free of dumb agenda. And 1 more thing, you don't nescessarily need to do/say stupid things even if you listen to lousy music.

Enough with BM-er flamin. Now to the media. The more I read about those "thorough research" about the BM movement, the more my stomach ache. It'll be just a few more paragraph of those bull nonsense till I vomit my stomach out. I know your publication desperately in need of high rating/share or whatever, but I didn't expect the writings to be so, well, low.

Until now neither me or my friends have encountered those "JIT" group. Never. Are they fer real? I don't know. I have doubts and all the "confessions/investigations" the media are doin just won't wipe my doubts away. I do think that some people will do crazy stuff like ritual or somethin like that but I don't think metal has anythin to do with it. Remember Ayah Pin? I doubt he ever listen to any sort of even rock music but he topped satan himself by claimin to have create many current religion. It's the same as sayin he's God Himself!! (if I'm not mistaken, he actually said that..).

Now everybody knows that the media is biased when it comes to almost anythin. Tabloids are the worst. And it's sad to see that some publication who used to be credible and informative to read now opted fer the latter. Less fact, more probabilities. Remember the "naked chinese prisoner" case? You should. It's still fresh. Can you see what the whole "assume first, investigate later" media (and some of the parliament seater) mentality has done to the image of our country? That sort of mentality stinks like a dead rat in this BM issue too. They'll shamelessly assume everythin they can think of and will try to make it a fact by feedin it to us day by day. Most of the accusation is nonsense and all is ridiculous. Things like "BM-er will wear black and drink goat's blood". I mean, come on, this is Malaysia! Not Sweden! I doubt there's any local band who drank any goat blood ever! Gimmick is another thing. Hey kids wants to have a little bit of fun too ya know. I saw many black Cypress Hill t-shirts, mostly black color and they have skull printed up front. So, is Cypress Hill a trve BM-er? Thanks to the irrelevantly biased media those found wearin one will surely have a nice spot at the nearest lockup but just fer information, Cypress Hill is some sort of rap band! Do a REAL research damnit!

Yeah sure BM is bad but please make sure you educate people on the differences of BM to the other *insert-your-fav*-metals. Not all metal like satan. There's many more metal who are more to write about the dumbness of war and such to even bother about the whole satan thingy. Why wearin black t-shirt is such an issue anyway? I wear white, blue, red and yeah my favorite color is black but that doesn't mean I'm worshippin lucifer in my free time! At least we're wearin somethin decently. Take a look at the hiphop scene locally. With girls wearin skimpy dresses fer local hiphop/rap/whatevershitthereis video which mostly promotes a too-social lifestyle. Pfft. But media doll such things because that sort of lifestyle is much more accepted in the masses. They don't want to upset their main consumers. Just pathetic. Don't let me start with the poppy-ballard-rock scene locally. The eardrums-bleedin songs of don't-leave-me-for-him-or-I'll-cry and gazillions of other mind numbin triangle-love/near-to-lovemakin/self-whinin bands/songs that's almost like they have rented a frequent special spot in the local newspaper/magazine. What are we goin to do about that? Oh no there's many other but I'm too tired to think.

One of the media used this issue before and the sale skyrocketed. Don't you think you owe a "thanks" to the BM community (specially) because they made it possible fer you to finally get a fat paycheck (or even a big bonus). Now the readers are more mature as the internet brings new (even true) meanin of "research" fer them. Anyway, fer the media, I hope this time you guys can buy your dream *insert-the-stuff-you-want-to-buy* when this issue is hot again. Ouch, my bad, this issue is already hot.

Off Topic but relevant: I was thinkin bout gettin a cool FreeBSD black T or a sweatshirt but because of this current heat on BM issue, I don't want people to say I worship a demon (daemon is good, demon is bad) and spendin the night in detention. *sigh*. So much fer a 3rd world mindset in a "developin" country.

New bike!, Fractured show oversea? & metalheads busted.

Haha. I bought a bike. Now it's easier to go places. No more dependin on Bobby to take me places now. Yeahhh. It's a 4-stroke bike and it's a brand new. Still shiny but I dunno fer how long. Heh. Livin in an apartment is hard when it comes to washin own transport etc. Ah well. I'm still learnin my way round here. I'm gettin the hang of this place though. But my work area is includin Meru/Kapar and the place is still unknown to me. No I went there a few times but with Bobby. To go there by meself is another thing. Soon baby, soon.

I'm on a flu now. Got it yesterday so I didn't go to work today. *sigh*. I missed a few appointments. I'm on medication so I hope tomorrow I'll be fine. Got somethin important to do tomorrow.

Fahmi called and spewed a good news. If it's true. Next year Fractured will probably be playin oversea. We are confirmed as one of the band listed but the venue is still in discussion. Probably Thailand or Indonesia. Woohoo! I'll update you guys on this matter frequently.

Last week nearly a hundred of gig goer, bandmembers etc got busted in a metal gigs. Got my friends in the lockup too but when I was in Seremban, it's already Sunday and we can't bail em out. So it's certain that there will be no metal gigs this year. *sigh*. I'm not into black metal but why does I have to suffer because of this? WHY!! Later.

Ridin a Kawasaki & gettin used to Puchong

Whoa. Today is somethin. It's my 1st time ridin bike doin installation. One of my boss who have this Kawasaki KRZ went back home and asked me if I want to use his bike to do installation. Ouch. I don't quite know how to ride bikes with clutch. But then there's many places to go so I had to take the offer. Guess what? It ain't that bad after all! I have bad experiences with Yamaha RXZ fer bein unforgivin when it comes to take the 1st and 2nd gear but this Kawasaki is pretty much easy. I'm startin to like ridin it. So no more missed installation's appointment. Hurrah! I have a few days to use the bike though and after that, it's back to ridin on that back of Bobby's bike. Well, it's fun!

I'm gettin used to Puchong's area now. I had a few wrong turns but I'm gettin a hang of this place. It's not that hard but there's more shortcuts I have to learn. Not bad fer a Seremban guy in Puchong. To be honest, Puchong's road are not as messy as Klang's. Later.

Care to Care2? & my sister will move out.

I was searchin fer some birthday E-cards when I stumbled on Care2 Website. If you are into human rights, animal rights, earth rights sorta things; this site is good. The registration is free and you'll have a free email address if you want to. They have loads of non-profit activities which you can join.

I know I haven't update my personal homepage fer quite some time now. Well, I don't quite sure what I want to update. I'm waitin fer my new desktop PC and Bobby said that he wanted to register a phone line & Streamyx (yay!) fer our new place. It'll be a few months more I guess. Ah well.

My big sister will be movin to Malacca by the end of this month. Yikes!. I still have loads of stuff back there in Seremban and I don't know how the heck I can get those stuff here with my car is no longer mine now. Yeah my Ibanez is on the top of my rescue list. Later then.

Internet hogged & love after breakup.

Urghhh. I'm in a Internet Cafe near my place and the line is horrible. Sheesh. Gazillion of people hoggin the line with webcams, online RPGs etc and it took me nearly 15 bloody minutes to read a single email in Yahoo!. Great. Oh, and I have to wait fer ages to open up Blogger to write this blog. *sigh*. I'm not the only one payin fer this service so there's not much I can do. Except fer whinin here on the net haha!.

How would you feel if you really love somebody but at the same time, you know you will never be together. Fer me, I'll be sad fer sure, but at the same time, I'll be happy because I know I get the love I longed fer from her although she will not be mine. You know who I'm talkin about. Yeah we can't be together, but whatever happens, I know that I love her and she'll love me. The feelin won't change even after she's with somebody else and me with another person. Ask yourself, how many of you will be friends with the person who's no longer your couple or such. Breakin up doesn't always mean that you need to be that person's enemy or somethin like that. In this case, breakin up means that we both will always care fer each other even if we can only be lovin friends.

I wonder how long it'll take fer this blog to get published after I hit the 'Publish' button. Wanna experiment? Here goes. Later.

P/s: I will always care fer you Momoe. We will always have our memories.

Woooohoooooo!

Ho Ho Ho! I bursted out in brief but loud laughter this mornin. Guess what. Come on. Sorry but no you guessed the wrong thing. The lady I told you about finally accepted the fact that she can't do the Streamyx installation by herself. HAHAHAHAHA! But anyway you were right about me bein cuter. Thanks.

Ok here's the story. This mornin, I saw the women's Work Order changed to "New Order" when I was darn sure I returned her appointment yesterday and changed the status to "Customer request self installation". I smirked fer a while before I asked the secretary to call her up and asked her what really happened.

So then, in the phone conversation, the lady's tone lighten. Lighter than before. Such a sweet talker. *giggles*. So she confess that she can't do the self installation. Because she wasn't allowed to. So she wanted me to go and do the installation. Although she didn't specifically say that she wanted me to go, but then, it's my area so I'll be the one who'll go and do it.

The sweet smell of victory. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Drats!

Ahh. I have a bad mood. I'm kinda pissed off right now. Arghhh "customer is always right"? MY ASS! Most of the time they're abusin that mantra just to piss someone off. Yesterday I was supposed to do an installation at this premise, so I call up the person so set an appointment. So what did this woman says?

"I never asked fer any installation because I want to install it myself" and another gazillion blabberin that get on my nerves. So? It's totally fine if she wants to install it herself. So I told her that I have to change her 'Work Order' status to 'Self Installation' which means that my company can no longer be held responsible fer the Streamyx installation. Then I told her that she will have to go to the nearest TMNet center to collect her free modem. She said ok and things are fine. Every lives happily ever after. Heh. Tough luck.

The woman called this mornin, burstin out in rage askin me to send her the modem. So I asked my boss about it and that's when I knew that we're not authorised to give any modem fer 'self-installation' cases. I understand that perfectly but then, the woman refuses to rationally accept it. I called her again to brief the situation to her, and what did I get? She spew somethin offensive like "What rubbish are you talkin", "I don't care" and even threatenin to "Make a report" about the matter. What the hell? I was still in the Raya mood and all of the sudden, this person voluntered to spoil it. Great, just great.

She just won't accept the fact that us; Streamyx Installers are just, well, installers. We do the installation. We give modem to OUR customer where we successfully did the installation at. We can't give modems to just anybody who wants it. Self installation is different. Sigh. She wanted to do the self installation because she don't want to pay the installation fee. But she didn't realise that if I give her the modem, she have to sign a form and by signin that specific form, she will still have to pay the installation fees whether I do the installation or not and I'm pretty sure that even though the modem is given, she can never do the activation because her Streamyx package specifically stated that we, the Streamyx Installer have to be there to activate the line. I was this close on makin a verbal attack to that woman. This close. Thankfully I remembered that I'm just workin here, not the owner of the company. Damn.

The problem is simple. She didn't say specifically about her preferences on the package she opted fer to her Streamyx sale person. If she said that she wanted to do the installation herself when she registered fer the Streamyx, my company will never get a Work Order with her name on it. Simple as that. But then, Customer is always right. Yeah right. Later.

No more car but I'm good & ex-boss issue.

Last night, when I finally arrived at my new apartment after a whole day of exhaustin Streamyx installation; I noticed somethin was not right. My car which I previously parked near the apartment's staircase was not there. Strange, I don't feel that surprised at all. It's like I knew what happened. Yeah you got it. My car was towed in the finance's garage. *sigh*. There goes my 1st car.

Funny I'm not that disappointed. Maybe because lately I consider the car as my biggest liability. It was. I'm still strugglin in my financial state and the car is not much of a help. But still I am a bit disappointed thinkin that the car is just 3 month overdued. Sheesh. Ah well, DeepaRaya is comin and everybody is rushin to collect money. Heh. I'm gonna miss that four-wheeler-o-mine but I know it'll find a suitable new owner soon. Why don't I bail it out? Because I don't see the need. In my current situation, I realise I can't afford it. Maybe a little longer, when my little economy is more stabilised I can grab a cheap R19. Oh yeah R19 will always be my fav four-wheeler.

I still don't know my detail address of this new place of mine. I just don't have the time to remember it. The work is tirin enough.

My ex-boss (the insurance+used car company I used to work previously.) wanted to see me about some debt in the insurance department. To be honest, I'm tired of that bull. He is just not interested in findin who owe him but he just wanted somebody to blame. The heck. It has been month since I left and why the heck he want me to explain somethin I fergot now? Im frustrated in that. It stings my eardrums to hear him askin if I 'honestly didn't took the money'. Darn. If I took it, my car wouldn't get towed yesterday. Shitty. Just shitty. I'll go and meet him this 4th of Raya and end this sillyness fer good.

To all, Selamat Hari Raya and happy Deepavali. Enjoy it. Later.

Alsemo's Diary

Arghhhh! It's hear again. Like an auto-rewindin sissy pop song, the 'hottest' news is here again. It's about the 'Black Metal' issue. *sigh*. And I'm practically feelin happy with our upcomin November gig. Darn!

Movin in to Puchong.

Ho ho. Now my butt can be spared from the torment of continuos bike ridin. I found a place near my company's HQ. It's in Puchong. Tomorrow me and Bobby will move in there. Phew. A much better solution. But what about my studies? Hmmm. I'll have to quit, change college fer KL branch and change class to part time. I had to. Oh, I'm tryin to make a record fer the shortest blog entry. So this is it fer now. Later.

Spam is here & I changed work

Holy crap. Read the comments on my blog yet? Not yet? Go and take a peek. Done? Yeah, the thing that's most annoyin has arrived. SPAM. Sheesh. Now they're spammin blog too. Shitty. Yeah I know ID that starts with an "A" will have the most chance to be spammed. Yeah well Blogger will need to do somethin bout this soon because if spam is hauntin me, I know they're hauntin many others too.

I got the broadband installer job. Actually I was workin since Tuesday so that's why I'm not on the net this past few days. Oh yeah I skipped college fer a few days too. What to do? The work is around Shah Alam area and it'll take almost the whole day to finish a few jobs. Not to mention that ridin bike from Seremban, to Puchong, to Klang everyday is tirin. Very very tirin. Can't drive the car because of toll charges, petrol etc is a luxurious liability. Ridin bike at night is dangerous. Although the highway is a 3 lane road, bikers only can safely use the emergency lane. At night, even lorries will cruise at more than 120km/h. Yeah it's crazy. I hate travellin long distance by bike. But what can I do? I've been searchin fer a room to rent but my overhead is not enough so I have to travel all the way from Seremban to Puchong and vice versa everyday.

I have a few more paragraph of rants I wanna write but I'm totally beaten. I'm so tired. Momoe called just now but I was in the bathroom. How unlucky of me. Later then.

Boots + workmate is killin me, missed calls & new job?

Urh. This boots is killin me. My feet are achin arrrghhh!. More than 12 hours wearin this boots fer 2 days and it's startin to kill my foot. Only if I can wear sandal.

Today I was pissed off at work. You see, although I'm just a part timer, I'm also a senior. So my colleague who's goin fer a full time staff doesn't know how to respect that. Damn. I think she's so desperately in need of sale because she kept hoggin possible customer who's I attended. That's plain lame. She did that fer more than 5 time on her 1st day workin. I, bein a patient guy, was able to tolerate that fer a few days until today. I feel like I just want to shout the 'F' word outta my mouth when she did that again and again today. Plain lame. Ah well, I'm just a part timer.

The place I'm workin have the worst mobile reception ever. Damn. I got 2 missed call from Momoe. 1 yesterday evenin and the other one was this afternoon. Ahh. The phone didn't ring at all because the line was zero and 'kablam!', the screen says that I have a missed call. Dagnamnit. I really wanted to hear Momoe's voice. It's too long already. *sigh*.

A new job might get me soon. No I'm not drunk. I have another unofficial interview to go before I'll know if I got the job or not. It's a Streamyx Reseller thingy. Yeah so if you're applyin fer Streamyx broadband, I might be the one doin all the setups fer you, in your home, in bikini. Ok the bikini part was a pathetic attempt to cheer my mood. But the rest is serious. I might get the Bangi & Kajang area though. Ah it's better than nothin.

Actually, this keyboard I'm usin have some sort of problem with the 'F' key. I have to recheck what I wrote because most of the time, the 'F' is not there. Huh. Later.

Cycle, Metalterus compilation, Fractured's vidz? & sweet Ramadhan.

Emptiness. Such emptiness. I just feel empty. I currently don't know why exactly am I feelin that way but I do feel it. Somethin is not right. I don't what. Hmm. Maybe because I'm spendin my life with studies and work everyday and I'm losin the life I'm tryin to regain. I left the house in the mornin and I'll come back late at night. Wow. I'm startin to feel like a robot. The only time I'm enjoyin meself is at the 'mapley', sippin a lime tea or such. And when it's gettin really late, it's off to bed and in the mornin, it's the same old cycle again and again. Sheesh.

It's not that bad I guess. Well, hey, I'm studyin now. Somethin I've been wantin to do fer quite some time. Anyway. Sometime I got so flatted out I skipped a class or two. Heck this work is tirin. But the pay is good considerin that I can keep my hair and goatee. And I got paid weekly too!. There's another job opportunity I'm tryin to grab which has a lot more flexible workin hour and a hell lot of pay but the pace is slow so I have to work my current job until the time comes.

I did tell you bout my work. Did I? No? Oh. You see, there's a new shoppin mall opened in Seremban 2. It's Jusco. So, I got a job at Primavera. A shoe boutique / shop whatever you want to call it. The story on how I managed to get the job is lengthy so I'll keep it to meself fer now. To make it short, a friend of mine said that the owner of that shop wanted 2 person to unload some boxes. So we were assigned to the job and while we're doin that, the owner asked if we're interested in workin with her in that shop. I said I'm currently studyin so I can't be a permanent staff but she said it'll be just fine if I want to be a part-timer. So I was in.

You heard about Metalterus debut compilation album? Yeah it's the one Fractured wanted to be in but didn't manage to. Well the compilation album will be out soon, featurin many new and unknown local metal bands so it's a good thing. Or I guess it's out already? Ah well, better check out your favourite underground music store and see if they got any. Give some support to our local scene if you can spare the money.

Speakin about local scene. We now have all the songs required to make a debut full length album. 9 original songs and 1 cover song. So our next album will have 10 songs in it. Cool aye? I sure hope so. This time, we're goin to be very carefull about the sound. If you heard our demo album you'll know why. Our plan now is to practice all the songs, do some changes if nescessary, make sure I wrote all the lyrics and if we're satisfied, only then we'll record it. This time the budget fer our recordin is higher so that we can (hopefully) have a good sound.

We have plan bout doin an official video clip too. It'll be a DIY vidz so you'll not see anythin like the european bands have though. I've picked a song to make the video clip for and it's a new song. If the plan goes out well, maybe we'll include that video in our debut CDs. I'm not quite sure if it'll be a limited copy or what but I'll tell you guys more bout it.

Still bout video clip (Uh I'm soundin more like a newscaster aye?). I think I want to upload our Gegaran Metal 2005 video. What do you think about it? Maybe I'll just serve it in Emule or Ares somethin. Ah it'll be more fun I think if I serve the new song we played. Wow. Good aye? Eh. Wait. My NIC is still kaput. Damn. Just ignore this one. Dagnammit.

The details about the November gig is still blurry but the organiser said that we're the confirmed band featured. So, it's cool. More about this later. Hey, wanna know what? Now I'm the only person who have a long hair in Fractured. Hah. Udin has snipped his hair short. Now his helicopter headbang will not be the same again. Hah. I don't do helicopter because I don't think I'm able to do it haha.

A few more bomb blast in Bali. Insane. Human are like that. Some are good but many are insane. What do this people gain by killin others? A piece of land? Dignity? This kind of thing makes me sick. No matter how much protest we make, how many signatures we collected, there will always be some people who can't just see others live peacefully. It scares me a lot. And the muslims are currently the one who's sufferin from the consequences. Now there's a widespread of racism towards the muslims. Pity them you warmonger bast*rds! Stop this madness! See Thailand? See now that the southern part is unstable and it's military law out there. Many are fleein and seekin refuge in our country now. Many countries are lookin at muslims as an image of brutality and insanity. We're not. I'm sad about this. I'm just out of words.

I want to wish all the muslims out there a barakah Ramadhan. So Ramadhan is here again. I guess many of us really missed the last sweet Ramadhan aye? Yeah it's good to be in Ramadhan again. The month where we can purify our souls. The month when we can not just help the poor and the needy, but we can feel how they feel too. Sweet sweet Ramadhan. Enjoy it. I will. One more thing. Give peace a chance. Later.

I'm not dead yet, Kreator's a blast! & another gig slot fer us?

Kawabunga dude! It's me again. Just when you thought I'm gone fer good huh? Ah well I've been busy with re-stabilizin my life and there's none I can do with the blowout NIC in my laptop so my internet life has been reduced drastically. But I'm writin somethin now so you can be sure I'm not gone fer good.

Anyone went to Kreator's gig held recently? I didn't but the other Fractured's members had a blast time there. Fahmi said that over 3,000 Kreator fans was there. I saw the video he took and wow, it's so happenin! Sheesh. RM70 per person and 3,000 turn out is somethin man. Well it's Kreator!

Hear ye, hear ye. The Gegaran Metal 2005 gig might not be the last Fractured show fer this year. Talks with Fadzil from MusikBox exposed that we might be playin in November. Yeoowww. Am I happy? You can be damn sure I am. We've been practicin our new songs and we're plannin on doin a full-lenght album early next year. So, you guys can hear a few more of our new songs this November. This time, make sure you come! Yeah this goes to you too Isman.

I'm in the middle of the class right now so I better stop right here. Expect more rantings from me again. Later!

Howdy?

Dagnammit. I fergot to bring my diskette. Yeah that diskette which I always use to transfer my blog I wrote. Ah. So do you miss me? No? Ah well. I'm currently busy with preparin to study, my upcomin work, my new career path etc. New career path? Yup. I'm not goin to write it here because I wrote about it yesterday and it's quite a lengthy one too. So you'll have to wait fer a few more days.

How's my work? None currently. I have a job offer but the problem is, the job is in Ipoh and I have to travel every weekend if I took that job. Yeah I had to do the job on weekend because I'll be a student remember? Anyway, I won't write anythin long now and today I have quite a bunch of things to write. So, I'm goin. Later.

Me & MLM

"There's no guarantee". At long last, I can now accept that word. Now I can surely accept that just by workin in other person's company, employed no matter how hardworkin I am, how smart I am, there's no guarantee that my position, my job in the company is secured. It's a bitter reality I'm willin to swallow now. To think of it, I'm kind of fed up with workin in someone else's company. Workin my arse off fer someone else. Ah! It's such a relief to spit that out. What got into me you might ask? Well, now I found a way to earn my own income without botherin meself to wake up dead early in the mornin, to make sure my punch card isn't red everyday, to hear any complaints from my peer whatsoever. Yeah it got somethin to do with my-own-business. Ironically, it was somethin that I hated fer 27 years. It's a Multi Level Marketing (MLM) and the company is Gano Excel.

Wait! Don't skip readin just yet. Like I've stated before, I used to hate all MLM companies. Even direct sellin companies. Not a "I want to kill them" kind of hate but the "I will never get meself involved in it" kind of hate. And now, a few month ago to be exact; I changed my perspective. Firstly, I'm more informed about MLM (MLM is not the same as Direct Selling.) and the main point is, I can see the way to achieve somethin in it. Beware, this post today will most probably get on your nerves like mosquitoes because I won't spare any biased (but factual) informations about my new money-makin path, the MLM and the company I'm gettin meself into, Gano Excel.

I'm just tired of goin fer interviews, workin 8++hours per day, gettin a so-so paycheck and bein dumped when I needed the cold hard cash the most. Like the state I'm in. It's a bitter experience and I've it's not my 1st time. To find a replacement job, quein to get an interview and hopin that the cycle will start again rollin at the same place. Pfft. Not to mention competin with the fresh graduates, SPM holders and such which is increasin every year unlike jobs opportunities which is, uhm, maybe 60++ people competin fer 1 job. Yeah not every person who left the unis, school, colleges will have a job. It's so true. That is reality. Even if you have a good job right now, who can guarantee that joy ride is reserved fer you fer as long as you want? It's just a matter of time fer your boss to give you the resignation letter and give your seat to someone fresh, energetic fer whatever reason he can think of. I'm experiencin that. Again and again. So, if I can help somebody else's business with such uncertainty why can't I make my own business and put the same effort and hope that the outcome will be better? The answer is yes, I can. And it's not impossible to receive more from the same effort!

Take this fer an example. I work in a company with a RM1000 pay per month. All the workin habits aside like punch card, long workin hours aside, I might be happy workin with a stable increment of my salary every year. Sounds good eh? It's a mixed feelin now considerin that the normal increment pay would be around RM50. Per year!. So I work my arse's off fer 5 years and all of the sudden, the company can't keep me anymore. So I got about RM1250 until I was told to 'make room fer changes' or 'make a career change fer the best' and boom!, I was left with zero. ZERO! It'll be great if I can have a new job, with the same workin preference and a startup pay the same amount as the last amount I got. But that'll be a modern fairy tales. In reality, I will have to accept any offer without any objection about the amount the new company are willin to pay me because, like what I've wrote earlier, it's either me grabbin that job no question asked or I can let another 59 eligible person to take it. So what if I took the job. How long will the company keep me this time? 1 year? 2?

Ah, I got the point. Workin fer somebody else is ok as long as I feel that I'm secured with it. As long as I feel that my future will be bright and all my financial problems will be at ease because my job will always be mine. Luckily, I don't that way anymore. Workin fer someone else and givin my all to it alone will never guarantee any secure financial solution fer me. Nu uh. So the solution is, make my own business.

As stated in hadith, business is one good duty. The outcome is based on your performance and there's no fixed limit on how much money one person can make out of it. It's because, I will be the one who'll set how much salary I can get and I'll be followin my protocol and mine alone. Sounds fun but the type of business and my capability on doin and runnin the business is the thing that counts. I won't say anythin about risk because if we look at things, everythin have their own risk. Not just in business. Even our love live have risks. It's just the matter of minimisin and cheatin it. So what business should I do? With the current financial situation I'm in, fer sure I can't just open up my own boutique or a resort can I? So I would have to choose a business with a low startup overhead, a business with good products, a business with a clear long term direction and a business which can guarantee my survivality. So fer me, that business is Gano Excel.

I'll not go in detail about the company as you can conveniently browse their website and read about them from there. From what I know, Gano Excel is based in Kedah, Malaysia. Yeah. They are our local MLM company. Fer some of people, the word 'local' is like reserved fer somethin with lack of quality or standard. Pfft. Now read this. This local company is currently havin a strong presence in 31 countries. 31 countries dude! With the latest 2 bein Korea and Japan in the final phase of startin the operation. Now tell me we shouldn't be proud of that. Fer those who live in Kedah or near the place. Go and see Gano Excel's Ganoderma farm fer yourself. It's huge! And currently the farm is expandin fer almost twice it current size. Because of what? Because of the strong demand lah.

I nearly fergot to say anythin about Ganoderma. In chinese, it's called Lingzhi. Yeah it's that red mushroom. Gano Excel, from that name we can be sure that the products will have somethin to do with that Ganoderma plant. That plant is one miracle herb. I'll not lengthen this post with the benefits of that product because you can read it from the official website. In short, it has a great medical value. And by choosin to get involved in medical business, I know I'm walkin in the right path. Why? Because people always neglect their health when they're healthy until they got sick. That's the other truth. And take this fer an example, no matter what, the need fer medical related stuff with continue to grow unlike other things. Have you seen any hospital got closed down, or smallen in size? No. Think about that.

My post is long enough. Heh. It's more like a shameless advertisement huh? Yeah well, like I've said earlier. I'll be biased (as usual). Oh I didn't even write anythin about Gano Excel's marketin plan, the most sought after information fer you MLM people out there. Fer that, you have to find out fer yourself. Gano Excel's seminar are frequent nowadays and it won't hurt anybody to go and listen to it. But from what I've learned so far. It's all about money. So it's good. I was goin to make this MLM as a backup plan and a side income but after I went to my team's meetin today, I'm choosin this as my main income plan. And if I can achieve my secret target, this will be my only source of income. Fer the record, a 19 years old girl got involved with Gano Excel and now she's doin her MLM business with a 5 digits income. Another thing to ponder, some people want health, some people want money, but if you're given a choice, why don't you choose both? Later then. MY205903 signin out ;).

p/s: You might read bout the 'batu karang' I experienced before. Yeah well I drank Gano Cafe and a few days after that I was shown the sign that I have batu karang. It's one the reason why I'm into this thingy now.

Me, Momoe and Pangkor. Unforgettable moments. (Plus a bit of a simple guide fer would-be tourist.)

Pangkor was great. Unspeakably magnificent. Well yes one of the main point of why it's so great is that I'm with someone that I love and that makes it even better. I'm at home right now and I'm missin the experiences so bad. Not to mention I miss Momoe too. 7 days of a total dream getaway. Pangkor is a romantic island. Beautiful and cozy. I feel so sad to leave the place. The sound of the wave is still resoundin in my head continuously. And now I'm back and the torture is unbearable. Such a sweet memories. I feel like the time cheated and jealous of that good moments I was havin back there in Pangkor.

Me and Momoe, we went to Pangkor on 17th of August, takin a direct bus trip from Seremban to Lumut which cost about RM24.00 per person. There's only 2 bus trip from Seremban to Pangkor, 9:45AM and 5:00PM so we took the early trip. The journey is about 6hours. The view isn't that great because it's highway almost all the way but heck Momoe is beside me so there's nothin more that I want. That's more than enough.

Lumut bus station is basically near the jetty area so it's not hard to find the place to get ferry. A ferry trip cost about RM5.00 per person and the trip is not more than 30 minutes. We didn't have time to go around Lumut but I guess the place is not that big. It's a lovely place fer sure. The sight of the open sea is very temptin. There's a TLDM (Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia, Malaysian Royal Navy) port there so seein a few navy is a common sight. From Lumut, the ferry will stop at 2 ports with the last port bein the place which common tourist will disembark. Followin Momoe's Pangkor travel guide, we went to Teluk Nipah by taxi (pink vans!) fer RM10.00 fer both of us.

The trip by taxi from Pangkor's jetty to Teluk Nipah is about 10 minutes with the road bein alongside the sea line so the sight is very beautiful. Simply gorgeous. Teluk Nipah is a popular spot fer beach lovers with many resorts from the luxury type to the budget traveller's choice. We opted fer Havana Beach Resort (the 1st resort after we arrive to Teluk Nipah.) which is located near the beach. We wanted to stay at Palma Beach Resort near the centre of Teluk Nipah, but after encounterin a few problems, Havana was the more suitable choice. Bein less than 20 metres from the beach, Havana is not a bad choice at all. The room is good with workin water heater and electric kettle is provided. Oh theres even a big TV with Astro inside. Simple but very cozy.

Although Havana didn't provide us with breakfast (except fer Saturday onward.) nor there's any cafe inside the resort, it's nothin to worry because there's many place to fill our stomach scattered around Teluk Nipah. It'll take only a brief walk to go to many restaurant. The Havana's receptionist recommended us TJ Restaurant, which is just a few minutes walk from our resort and the food is really good. There's another spot which is also our favourite near the center of the beach but I don't know the name of the restaurant. As fer the price, it's just like the normal price around Malaysia and most of the time, the seafood price is much more cheaper. There's cats at TJ so everytime me and Momoe was there, Momoe would go to the cats and play with them. Yeah Momoe, I think the cats is missin you too dear. As fer tea time, me and Momoe just stick to DIY tea (which she brought with her plus a few sachettes of tea with many flavors her friend gave to me as a present.) and snacks. The weather was fine all around and watchin the sea while sippin tea with the 2 of us is simply superb.

On the 1st day there, we're just fillin out the time with walkin around Teluk Nipah, havin dinner and restin in our room because we're practically tired of the journey. We wanted to go out later that night but the resort's gate was locked and the person in charge was sleepin so we're stuck inside and have to make do with another restin time in the room. Beware though, mosquito are a bunch so you might want to bring along a mosquito repellent or anythin if you don't like the air-conditioner to be too cold fer you. Fer us, Momoe brought a small (as small as a car perfume like Glide's.) mosquito repellent device which uses battery and fer a continuous use, it's a 3 days heaven fer us without mosquito.

The next day was the day of enjoyin the beach. The Teluk Nipah beach is beautiful. Because it's weekday, there's not that many people around and it's great. The beach spot infront of Havana is even better because its located on the side of Teluk Nipah and the popular spot was around the center so there's just a few of people who'll be there.

There's another beautiful beach nearby, the Coral Bay. Coral Bay is just a few minutes walk from Teluk Nipah and the people there is even fewer. The water is beautifully green and it's a romantic place to lay down with Momoe watchin the sea, hearin the wave and smellin the fresh saltwater air. Unlike Teluk Nipah, Coral Bay doesn't have any active shops so we bought all the snacks we needed from Teluk Nipah instead. We had to move our picnic mat a few times though because the water level got high in the evenin. I can remember seein a crab on Coral Bay, who's tryin to get an evenin food and Momoe tried to get near the crab but the crab was too fast fer her. The crab would go out of it's hole and everytime Momoe move, the crab would dash into the hole quickly. It's cute. Both of them ;).

There's 2 small island infront of Teluk Nipah, to the left is Mentangor Island and the other one is uhm.. I don't know. The other island is smaller than Mentangor and it's the favourite spot fer snorkelin. The only way to get there is by usin water transportation like boats (RM20 per person, may get hiked if it's weekend.) and kayak (I don't know the cost because Momoe wouldn't allow me to go kayak, wah! :P). If you take a boat, the boatman will take you to a brief tour around the area and give a bit of informations about the places nearby. Cool. The island is so small that it only have a burger stall on it. But the snorkelin experience there was heaven. We tried snorkelin there and we both fell in love with it. The view is gorgeous. The colorfull fishes just puts us in a trance spell. When we arrived to the snorkelin island, the boatman asked fer the duration of our stay there so he could pick us up and when the time is up, we extended the stay fer another 1 1/2 hour because it's so great to be there. It's recommended if you could bring your own set of snorkelin equipment like goggle, snorkel and others because some of the equipment provided by the boatman might not the in the optimum condition. We went to the small island again on the next day, this time we said that we wanted to stay fer 4 hours and again, we extended the stay to another 1 1/2 hour when the time is up because Ahhhhhhh! we love the place and the fishes so much! I had a few piece of bread and it's magnificent to see the fishes takin a bite at the bread I thrown. If you're at Teluk Nipah, go to the small island and experience that. It's an unspeakable pleasure.

Momoe wanted to see around the island so we rented a motorbike. Yeah you can rent bicycle too fer less cost. A standard 4-stroke cub motorbike is RM30.00 fer 24 hours with scooter bein more expensive. Bein a holiday island, you can ride the motorbike without wearin helmet nearby but it's better to be safe. The road there is not that wide and many of the places have a pretty hilly track so it's better to check if the brakes are workin. Fillin up a RM2 worth of petrol, we travelled around the island and have a few more kilometre's worth of petrol to go. It's good. There's many resorts scattered around Pangkor and the small Pangkor town is nice. There's many seafood-snack shops and souveniers too. There's a police station near the town and firestation there too, but I rarely see any policeman at Teluk Nipah. I guess the island is so safe. And from our experiences, the island is safe. The only bad things there is just mosquitos. While ridin the bike, me and Momoe found many other good beaches and I even had the chance to find some nice seashells fer my present to Momoe. While it's quite hard to get lost in Pangkor, it's good to have a map or a guide book. As fer me, I have Momoe. She have a great sense of direction, even way better than me. It's funny because she's the one who'll tell me which direction to go etc. and I am the one who's a Malaysian. Sheesh.

There's 2 lookout points nearby Teluk Nipah if you wanted to see sunset. We haven't had the chance to see sunset but we went to one of the lookout points and the view is splendid. The view when the sun sets must be even way gorgeous. We can see a few fisherman's village on our bike journey and it's cool. Fer me, the bike journey with Momoe is one of the romantic thing. If you're there, rent a bike and go on a bike trip around the island with your loved one. It's an experience.

After extendin our stay in Pangkor fer another day, we left Pangkor on Monday 22nd. I wouldn't go to the details because it's somewhat emotional fer both of us. We fell in love with Pangkor and it's sad to be leavin. Pangkor have all the things we needed fer a nice beach vacation. Boat ride, snorkelin, fishin, kayakin, sun tannin etc. If it's not because of Momoe, I don't know if I'll ever go to Pangkor. And now I've experienced it, I know what Pangkor is truly a nice dream getaway. All made complete with my loved one, Momoe by my side. Such an unforgettable memories. Later.

I'm back & studyin startin from 12th September

Hey. I'm back and sweet dreams are over. Pangkor was absolutely great, me and Momoe had a great time. I'll tell you more bout it later (because I wrote a blog bout it and left it in a diskette at home.) and all I can say is, 8 days date with Momoe felt so fast. I can still hear waves in my head. I can still smell the salty air and I keep on thinkin that everytime I wake up, I'll see Momoe's sweet face again. *sigh*. Now, everythin is empty. I missed Pangkor. And most of all, I miss Momoe.

Looks like I'll be studyin after all. Startin from 12th September, I'll be meltin my braincells again after all this years. It's a good thing and the only thing left fer me to do now is to find a job with a flexible workin hour so that I can focus on my studies while workin at the same time. Well, not literary 'at the same time' but you know what I mean. I'll just be studyin fer 2 hours per day so I might get a deal with the car company I told you before. The company's boss said that he'll ring me after his vacation soon, before September arrive.

I got no more to write now. The Pangkor experience will be posted soon I hope. Ah, I remember that at this hour, me and Momoe will be walkin near the seashore after takin dinner at TJ's. Yeah Momoe, I miss TJ's cats too. Later.

Bad API

How's you API? Yeah it's the "Air Pollution Index". Here it's about 200 somethin I guess. Not quite sure. Klang is lookin pretty bad on the news. Why the heck is Indonesian aren't doin anythin to put out their forest fires? Is it because the wind is blowin to our shore so they won't suffer as bad as us? Sheesh. It's gettin worst everyday. In fact it's gettin so dangerous that some of the worst affected areas will be on 'darurat'. I don't know what 'darurat' in english so don't ask.

I went to the bank and the cheque is not yet cleared. Sheesh. So I can't pay the car yet. I hope tomorrow will bring a good news.

This bad air pollution is makin me coughin. Now where the heck is my ciggy? Ciow!

Kreator in KL! Preparin fer recordin & foggy days.

Yeah I know I'm a bit late on this. But I don't care so I'll write bout it anyhow. Yeah dudes and dudettes, Kreator is comin to town!. This Concert List says that they'll be comin to Kuala Lumpur on 25th September. Fractured will be the openin act. Ok I was jokin bout us bein the openin act. The guys (Fractured) will all be there except fer me. I will most probably be nowhere near that place because I'm broke. :D. But it might change so who knows. Maybe you'll see me on the front row of the headbangers.

Speakin bout music stuff, I guess our (Fractured) last show in KL was the end of our 2005 schedule (pffttt. Sounds like we're on tour or somethin.. 'schedule'. pfftt.). Seems like there's no more offer fer us this year so we might as well concentrate on our new songs and gettin ready to go fer recordin. We currently have 3 new songs (We played 1 of our new songs at the Gegaran Metal gig. So that makes you 'rugi sebab tak datang :P'!). This time around, we've up-the-ante on our recordin budget. Time time we're focusin more on quality sound because that's the most critics we heard from our demo album. Hopefully our next full length album will be released next year.

Foggy. Such a foggy day. The only good thing I can think bout it is that it's not as sunny as most of the hot days. That's where the good things end. Damn it's so hot instead! It's like livin in a microwave. Not to mention that it's bad fer the lungs. Oh yeah ciggy do that too but let's just stick to the fog issue aye? It's worsened by the fact that rain is not that frequent anymore. Includin the ever-goin water ration, it's bloody hot. I miss the time I can just let the tab water runnin and bath meself fer hours. Ever my car didn't get its required shower fer quite a long time. Ah well. Just live it.

Can't wait fer PANGKOR! Later then

Ex-school memories, will PTPTN accept me? & darn, it's a 'AC-Payee Only' cheque...

I went to my ex-school today. Haha. It was funny. I saw 1 of my old teacher. He's still the same like 10 years ago and seems like he haven't aged a bit. The 'text-book' issue was settled because the person incharge fer if started teachin there on 2000 and all the text-book I lost is history. Nobody knows the price or if it's ever will be published anymore and usin her persuasive approach, Kak Ayu won the jackpot and I don't have to pay a penny. Hehe. Still, there's somethin that's botherin me. There's only 1 certificate fer SPVM so the missin 3 subjects is mind bogglin. I still remember I took the 'Lukisan Geometri & Pendawaian' (Geometry & Wiring Plan) test because I took 9/10 of the test time drawin a bungalow house and left me with not enough time to do the wirin plan. Hahaha. Okay funny stories behind. Where the heck is the other 3 subjects? It's stated that any subject with 9 aggregate will not be listed in the certificate but hell I don't think I flunked all 3 Electrical subjects! I passed the Electrical MLVK Level 1 test with flyin colors and it was harder than that. Drats.

But it's somehow very hard to trace back now because the school is no longer a Vokasional (Vokasional was replaced with Teknik now.) and almost all of the old teachers, administration staff and even the Principal is gone now. My bad, I didn't take the result's slip when it was released a few weeks after SPVM exam which list all the details about all the subjects I took so I'm clueless (my ex-teacher, the un-aged guy I told you before was dragged into the issue too. Thanks to me. And his mind boggled too. :D) to what had happen with all the 3 Electrical subjects. I can accept it if I blew the Geometry bla bla test but the other two? Electrical Theory and Wiring? Ho no I don't think I blew that too. But hey, it's a 10 years old stuff, the school is different now and it's not easy to find a decent solution. Fer now, I'm hopin that the certificate I took is enough fer me to get me a seat in Informatic. It's the only chance I get fer studyin again.

Talkin bout studyin. Kak Ayu will call PTPTN soon to ask bout my status. Can PTPTN accept my application? The answer will be known soon. Still, I'll most probably start my studies this September. With or without a study loan. Ah well, PTPTN is not the only loan provider there is. Oh Kak Ayu said that to me so I'm just repeatin it. :D. Ah, such a happy face aye. It's a rarity.

I haven't paid the car yet because I got a cheque which has to be credited into my bank account and not a cash-cheque. *sigh*. So next Monday, BCF staff from KL, the same consistent lady who called me every month to remind me of the car's payment will surely be glad to dial my number again. Ouch. But hey no worries. I have the money but it's not with me right now. Sounds like a good answer? I sure hope so. It sounded more like a drug dealin movie script though. Later then.

Car saved, study again & job that wants me.

Ah. Today is somewhat one of the happiest day of my live. Out of the ordinary, I finally managed to get my car's monthly instalment secured without even borrowin a penny from anybody. The freelance computer job I'm currently doin saved my day. Phew. I need to get a few more bucks and then I can smile in my sleep. The time is quite hard right now but heck, everyone will experience it at least once in their lifetime right?. I'll go and pay the instalment tomorrow.

I had a study opportunity this week. My ex-boss's wife (when I was workin in a computer company a few years ago.) who's a marketin officer fer Informatic called and asked if I could bring my SPVM result and she (along with my ex-boss) will pay the required RM200 fee up-front and apply a PTPTN loan fer me. It's an IT Administration course fer 2 years and 4 months. It's like a dream come true. The problem is that, since I left the Vokasional School and till now, which is 10 years already; I never went to the school to get all my certificates. I lost all the text-book that was lend to me on the final day of school. Somebody stole it. So I never bothered to get the result. So how did I managed to get any jobs you asked? I used the MLVK slip I get. I was an Electrical course student. Not to mention that my 1st real job (in the computer company, the ex-boss's company I mentioned earlier.) opened up a chain of another good job opportunities. I never bothered to get the SPVM result because the result wasn't that great anyway. It's a long and pain story so there's no use fer me to tell it. So, after this whole years of evadin any topics bout my result, I was now forced to get it or suffer the loss of the study opportunity. How?

No worries. It's solved this evenin. My ex-boss's wife (I call her Kak Ayu.) and me went to my ex-school to get my result. It was a very nervous thing because of some wild imagination I had bout me bein scolded in front of everybody fer losin all my text-books. So what happened? I was spared from the humiliation of bein scolded but they (the school administration) have the receipt of all my lost text-books. Drats. I still have to pay fer the loss. Ouch. But I got my SPM result. They have to hold my school certificate until I cleared the debts. Fer now, that's enough. Anyway, as I thought, my English result was way better than my Bahasa Malaysia's. Sigh. My math in the other hand, is pure thrash. Ah well, I was thrown out from my 'kampung' 6 month before SPVM (all I did was standin up fer my big sister. We're both thrown out.), livin in a new house (which took the whole day fer me and my big to find a suitable place to make our new home.) which got electricity only after 3 months we moved in, workin as a trailer co-pilot with my late brother-in-law (who was the driver.) when I should be preparin fer my exam. Ah, the memories. Such pain. Anyway, with all the discouragement I experienced, I'm pretty proud of the SPM result. Below par, but with the state I was when I'm in form 5, it makes me smile. Not because of the result, but because of the story behind it.

I fergot to ask bout my MLVK certificate. The SPM result only have 5 subjects written in it with the other 3 (all electrical subjects) missin. So I think there's another certificate that I fergot to take. So tomorrow, I have to go to the school again, with Kak Ayu (she said she'll sort the text-book thingy fer me. Phew.) and ask bout it. I do hope my PTPTN loan will get approval so I can start the studies in early September.

A car company called me a few days ago, askin me if I'm interested in doin general insurance work (like my last company). The boss was a friend of my last boss, he knew how I work and he have faith in me. If I accept the offer, I will start in September too. I'm still thinkin bout it because I'm puttin priority in my study application. Only if I can demand a flexible workin hour. Still, I still have a few weeks to think it over. If I don't get a spot fer studyin, I'll probably take the job. Didn't ask bout the salary though. I hope it'll be better than the last job.

Oh, the pain I wrote earlier was a false alarm. Phew. I'm still bein cautious bout it.

I'll be goin to Pangkor this month. With Momoe! Now that's somethin to look forward to. Later then.