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Bye bye..

2007-08-04T16:54:00.000+10:00

Wow - I'm surprised with how long I have not been blogging, I guess that tells me how not bothered I am these days with writing stuff...

*sigh*

Well, I don't see myself continuing or setting up another blog website but Facebook is kinda interesting to use - so I think I'm abandoning this place....

See you in Facebook! ;-))

I was this close....to submit my resignation...

2007-06-01T14:36:00.000+10:00

My employment agency has been very patient with me since the first POTENTIAL role I applied through them. When I didn't get much out of the first application, they have been quite persistent with introducing new vacancies to me which suit my criteria of skills, experience and qualifications. Within the last 3 weeks, I've been put through to 3 different new jobs applications but I wasn't up for jobs when they needed someone to travel across Regional Victoria.

This time around, he got me a phone interview at Invizage as they are recruiting a new team for their Remote Desktop Support department. I even used 8 hours to prepared for a 15mins brief interview but it was all worthwhile when the OM liked the way I communicated with him and he put me through the next stage where my second face-to-face panel interview with 2 other managers.

That was the first time I didn't feel much of the nervousness rushing through my body that would cause my mouth dry, lips trembling and clammy palms. The worst thing was to try really really hard to look good and smile infront of my interviewer but the more I tried to exaggerate my smiley face the more my facial muscle\lips would tremble followed by shaky words because my thoughts were all over the place in my head. Fortunately, I was all the opposite, I felt cool, calm and collected because they friggin made me wait for 15 minutes!

They asked me pretty much everything and anything e.g. How would I cope working in a male dominant environment, pressured situation and how well I can play badminton..hmmm...I confidently answered all of them as well as technical questions they prepared...it went on and on for 1 and a half hours. They started to feel very comfortable infront of me and we even joked about how the company is gonna be like when a girl suddenly appears in a male dominant company, about getting badminton coaching from me...WTH?! Anyway, everything went just as expected :-) brilliant!

2 hours later, my agency rang me and passed on the feedback Invizage had for me during the interview, they were impressed with my performance and would like to push me through to another stage but.....BUT...he declined the offer on behalf of me because they suddenly had a change of mind with the salary package they put with the role before the interview...how shitty poop! I can't believe it! I don't know why they changed their mind...seriously...so they suddenly decided that I do not have enough qualifications? not appealing enough? NOT BLONDE or BUSTY?! JEEEZz...I don't know...I'm baffled, I'm disappointed - Invizage is quite a reputable company to start with...I think they are so prestigious company, they require their employees to be up to the right standard I suppose *sigh* at least I've achieved something, it's my first time passed my Interview with flying colours...hehe..

Oh well, back to where I started...keep trying, keeping working, and keeping looking....

Dog owners 'fleeced' in poodle scam

2007-05-02T13:28:00.000+10:00

Is it a lamb? Is it a poodle? Can you spot the difference?

Thousands of people have been 'fleeced' into buying neatly coiffured lambs they thought were poodles.

Entire flocks of lambs were shipped over from the UK and Australia to Japan by an internet company and marketed as the latest 'must have' accessory.

But the scam was only spotted after a leading Japanese actress said her 'poodle' didn't bark and refused to eat dog food.

Like hundreds of Metro.co.uk readers, we also think this has a whiff of the 'urban myth' about it - but hey, it's a good story.

Maiko Kawakami, who starred in the Japanese thriller Violent Cop, showed photographs of her pet on a television talk show only to be told it wasn't a dog - but was in fact a lamb.

The discovery prompted hundreds of women to contact the police with similar problems and the authorities believe as many as 2,000 people have been conned.

'We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company was selling sheep as poodles,' a police spokesman told The Sun.

'Sadly, we think there is more than one company operating in this way.

'The sheep are believed to have been imported from overseas - Britain and Australia.'

Poodles are famously used by the rich and glamourous on the continent but are extremely rare in Japan, with many people having little idea what they look like.

The company, which translates as Poodles as Pets, sold the 'poodles' for £630, about half the cost of a normal poodle but is now understood to have been shut down.

Good Partnership dude!

2007-04-30T15:17:00.000+10:00

Ballarat Open, JTUltra Graded and the recent Melbourne Central Open - Leong K and I have managed to defend our A mixed title for 3 competitions in a roll, which is quite a great achievement which I've never thought it was possible cause I've never trained to play Mixed or like playing Mixed whatsoever. With Xue (my old double partner) almost retired from the badminton scene, Mixed would be my only strong event I could play in competitions. We even tested our ability in the Open grade for the first time in the Melbourne Central which we battled through to the Quarter Finals after defeating F and V then we had the chance to play against one of Australia's seeded mixed pair Erin C and Ben W. We realised we would be facing elimination at this round but we did give them a rather interesting match that lasted more than 15mins! LOL!! We even once led the game by 5-3 for about few seconds - I know Leong would be happier if I mentioned this! LOL! Anyhow, we lost to them 21-10, 21-12. So you see, it wasn't that bad! I was quite happy that we had the opportunity to play some Australian players, we shall try again in tournaments to come :-))

Ladies Doubles with D Koh was not really a success this time, we only managed to grab Runner-up losing to J and J quite embarrassingly. Just didn't know what was wrong, D was having alil tummy discomfort and both J and J had a pretty good partnership - so I wasn't surprised that we lost miserably. I guess we will wait till our 3rd partnership and see whether it was our partnership that has affected our game last week.

Oh well, back to work I guess...It's been awhile that I haven't really concentrated at work for more than 4 hours, just keep getting distracted by other things *sigh* plus I should be studying at the same time, my first Microsoft exam is this Friday and then Party throughout the weekend!

Never hold your farts in

2007-04-20T11:53:00.000+10:00

Never hold your farts in

They travel up your spine, into your brain,

and that is where shitty ideas come from.

Having a bad day?

2007-03-27T16:22:00.000+10:00

If you are having a bad day dealing with people around you, remember this,

The world is not entirely made up of chocolate coated people with soft chocolate fillings but of bastard coated bastards full of bastard fillings - Scrubs season 4

Anthrax Thread?!

2007-03-27T15:24:00.000+10:00

Another b*llsh*t Connex train service, I just can't believe delays have become so often now that passengers will have to get use to it. As I walked towards the office, traffic cones have completely blocked the junction and nearby traffic was assisted by 2 cops. Further ahead, I saw all Decipha staff standing impatiently outside the building...hmm...tapes surrounded the building entrance allowing only authorised officers within the parameter. First thought in mind was some homicide must have taken place, I've always wanted to see some Crime Scene Investigation!! Except that there weren't people terrified or in trauma... Then I saw the Scientific Unit and Response Unit squads, we were told they are still waiting for another special unit to arrive.

A few minutes after, I only found out that some mail sorters found themselves in a International terror biological attack situation. They found white powder in a couple of sealed envelopes and the next thing was people have been evacuated from the building except 10 of the staff whom may be contaminated by the suspicious powder which had assumed to be Anthrax.

An hour has gone by before 3 of the special unit officers dressed up as the "bubble men" and completed with the oxygen mask, 2 layers of safety suits and gloves just like you see on the telly! cool! Already a few people taking out their camera phones capturing the action (included myself) LOL!!

After a couple hours of wait, we were finally allowed to go back in the building...the authority had confirmed that the powder is not the infamous Anthrax but yet another unidentified contaminated substance. They were soon sealed and taken to the labs for further investigation.

Others with little concern about the whole incident finally came back after 3 rounds of coffee breaks! Nice one!

Something is wrong with this forecast display..hmm

2007-03-23T15:38:00.000+11:00

Not that it makes much difference but.....hmm....

Crappy Connex

2007-03-22T14:06:00.000+11:00

Connex transportation service is getting worse every single day, I've been whinging so much I have to hate myself for not getting a license soon or being inherited with a million dollars so I could have some jet all to myself.

It's so obvious that 80% of the people here travel to work every single friggin morning and they meant to run as many train as possible in the peak hours BUT NOOOO...!! They arrive only every 15-20 mins for the last two days and the first thing I see at the station is a sea of people waiting for the train, when the train arrives it's already packed. You see people squeezing out the door, anyone who has an inch wider butt could have had a free snip and tuck! The strange thing is that everyone wants to get to work on time and push themselves into the train..I mean WTF?! Are you blind??? OK fine! I will wait for the next one but the people who didn't manage to get on the train already knew there will be more people coming and there are still heaps more waiting from 30mins ago...So frustrating, the more the wait is - the more people arrived to the station and the unlucky ones will probably wait for another hour just to get on an emptier train.

Once I got on the train, I was already feeling the skin to skin contact. 5 more stations and others were pushing and cramming hard into the train...and this woman had her chest in front of me...What the! Come on..you are lucky that I'm not a guy but still..don't stuff them on my face..I don't think I need that :-P

An hour or squishy ordeal! Not happy! I quickly jumped on the net and hope to make a complaint and compensation on Connex website. I thought I could apply for a compensation for the consistent delays with trains BUT I HAVE TO BE ON A MONTHLY/YEARLY TICKET!!!!@$#^#%#$@!&*^#!!! Even I had a monthly, I need to be successful with the application before I am eligible for compensation....but it is only a free daily ticket is given for all the fuss! How ridiculous! *sigh*

I am soon speechless till I get myself a car.....

Take deep breaths...

2007-03-06T16:18:00.000+11:00

90 minutes to my first job interview after 5 months of job hunting effort.

*DEEP BREATH*

*Summoning the Spirit of Confidence* "............AAHHHHMMMmmmmmmmmmm"

R GTI-licious (Click here for specs)

2007-02-19T16:50:00.000+11:00

I love the R32 and GTI but what if cars mate? :-P
Oh yeahhhh babeeee....!!!!!

eBay SCAM? BEWARE eBAYERS!

2007-02-19T10:56:00.000+11:00

I'm not sure whether I'm being a paranoid. If you are a frequent eBayer, have you ever received this without any reasons? First thing I noticed is that I didn't put up anything to sell on eBay, so why is this Roy dude striking a deal with me?

So OK, I'll have a look what item I'm "selling" OR maybe I should checkout his details! Strange, it prompt me to open some dll crap! Oh well, what do you know...some sneaky hackers trying to trick little girls like me :-))

Anyhow, atleast Gmail picked it up as a SPAM. So beware eBayers! OR is it just me :-P

My Frustration

2007-02-08T13:26:00.000+11:00

I woke up this morning with a stiffed right ankle, I guess I had a very good hit last night at Henderson. I've never felt this in the last couple of months and I blame it all at my hours at work and the constance interstate travelling and yes, myself as well for not turning up at training for almost 3 months or maybe more.

Until I put my feet down and started walking and felt a sharp pain in my ankle ** no good** I think my sprained ankle isn't quite fixed yet since I have been doing constant minor damage to it from badminton and sometimes walking on uneven surface that causes the twisting motion...and those stupid heels on my work shoes, I should have known. I have to put on my trainers when doing most of the walking to and from work and only slip into my work shoes while at work. I'm impressed with women who are always on 3-inch heels no matter where they go..uhmm..something I won't be doing until it's necessary. For this, I've been playing poorly at badminton because my concern is all on my ankle while in the court and losing my concentration in playing when I'm too afraid to hurt it again. For a change, I put back on my ankle brace for a support and that really helps to take my mind off while in the court and I actually did quite well playing against the boys last night.

State Pennant has been a hot topic at Henderson last night as LP and KB were there, LP had this big grin on his face when he saw me coming through the door unfortunately, I've been "taken" though it would be nice playing for Monash since Jun, my first ever State Pennant partner is back playing for Monash and it's funny how they called me a traitor now :-P LOL! Then came KB crashing into the crowd and commenting how strong Melbourne Uni will be...I was like...yeah whatever KB,you knew that your youngsters are better **damn you** :-P LOL!!

Oh well, I just hope my ankle won't be in too much stress before the comp and I should be able to maintain my fitness or going back to training with Hung could possibly help but I don't wanna whinge half way through training because I got a broken ankle :-P I tend to do that I don't know why....LOL! Maybe I should take up another sport like cycling or swimming...hmmmm

Anyway, guys if you think you have an ankle injury and you aren't sure what caused it or how to identify the problem - then check out this website: Ankle Problems?

Mac vs. PC

2007-01-30T11:22:00.000+11:00

People have seen the Wii vs. PS3 ad, well here is the link to the Mac vs. PC adverts. They are awesome! I love the Home Movie (Better Results) one! LOL

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

Bluetooth Handsfree for iPod+mobile!

2007-01-23T17:23:00.000+11:00

Hey iPod fans!
If you haven't heard of the bluetooth handsfree that they have designed for heavy iPod and mobile users then CHECK THIS OUT!

I heard about it a few months ago on a tech program show called "Cybershack" on telly, it defnitely fits my lifestyle as I always listen to my iPods when I travel to work but often missed some calls on my phone as I cranked it so loud and vibration mode doesn't really work for me :-P

Anyway, if you found any out there - please give me a yell! At the moment I only can find one from online stores...

Don't mess with me...

2007-01-17T13:58:00.000+11:00

This is what you get on your screen if you mess with me *humf*!

.............Which is not really a big deal :-P

Trials Riding

2007-01-09T17:04:00.001+11:00

HEY...that's not fair...I can't even jump a curb.....*sigh*

2006 came and went...

2007-01-09T17:01:00.000+11:00

...all I had done was worked and played badminton..

On the bright side, I have achieved all things which I thought impossible when I first stepped onto a foreign soil - a student and no money, as much as my parents wanted me to start my career in Malaysia I was adamant to start a new life in Australia and never look back.

First 4 years had been tough, graduating in IT was my gateway to settle in Australia. Working 2 odd jobs, getting paid $8/hr just to save $3000 for my residency application. Being such an impatient person, I almost broke down and quit - struggling with debts and rude people wasn't that easy..and other unfortunates..well, reality is absolutely no fairy tale.

My 5th and 6th year have been a blessing, left the unfriendly bunch of housemates in Footscray and residency in Australia approved plus got a much much better job was a bonus - a highlight of my life really...

BUT what the hell...I've been complaining about work since last year....frustrated, it's good that 2006 came and went because I didn’t achieve much...lets hope 2007 will create me a fresh and exciting chapter of life.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL...

PS3 vs. Wii

2006-12-21T14:08:00.001+11:00

Hey.....not fair! How about an add for the ladies?!! We play Wii too!
I think I still prefer the MAC Vs PC ad...

I was dozing off at 3pm and then....toilet seat popped in my mind

2006-12-14T09:20:00.000+11:00

After I have developed a skin condition last summer, the doctor diagnosed it as Eczema. I do not know when I ever had that before in my life but I surely got it here in Australia's warmest season.

It has returned after winter, my ankle started itching so badly I had to bath it in salt water, lotsa antihistamines tablets and the worse of all, waking up several times in the middle of the night dying for a scratch...and thus reduces my sleeping hours.

I had to work more to stay awake or drown myself with caffeine just to keep my eyes opened. This is not as easy as I would have thought cause my brain wasn't coping with all the stress and I felt it tumbling over in my skull..OMG so sleepy, not even eBay could keep me motivated. I had to make a dash, go for a walk or jump into a pool, but I really needed a power nap...I went to the ladies, sat down inside a cubical and dozed off. Surprisingly, I realised I fell asleep within 5 mins. Just both of my palms supporting my face with my elbows on my lap...I was actually dreaming without falling off the toilet seat.

I opened my eyes, looked at the clock...and I thought that was the shortest power nap I ever had...10mins seemed like 2 hour deep sleep. Thanks god for clean toilets...back to work again....

POOOPER

2006-12-11T15:54:00.000+11:00

OMG! I can NOT believe I'm over-qualified for a job application. ME? Over-qualified? LMAO! That wasn't even a junior role...and they were impressed by my background and experience BUT I wasn't successful for that role... What a pooper! YOU ARE MISSING OUT!! Though Network Support Officer sounds cooler than Systems Administrator...3 versus 2 words! MUahahaha!

Why only senior specialists or juniors are needed, why not me from the average crowd :-P
WHY! WHY! WHY................................

Hey..Holden wants an IT Support....but I'm a Ford fan....hmmmmmm.....

Cricket Attack

2006-12-04T13:26:00.000+11:00

Cricket! I've seen them being food to birds and scorpions. The only time I heard of the sport version was when I first arrived in Australia. I have never understood the sport not a bit - scoring wise, I've bowled and batted it with the boys at Uni, in fact I was quite OK doing a few bowls :-))

Despite all that I still think Cricket will be in the bottom of my Most Boring Sport list. One day test match is OK though I never ever watched it anyway but a 5-day test match is abit mad and now the Ashes LOL! Why would they wanna play the same people for 25 days and spend 8 hours in the sun and showing off the big white patches on their face thinking they could beat women in make-up and I'm sure whatever sun-

screen they use, with that amount - I have no doubt they are well-protected.

So I was sitting infront of the telly on Sunday, still not motivated to go to hung's training. I was actually watching the Ashes and the strangest thing happened! I asked Carl questions about how it works, why this why that....OH what's wrong with me! :-P

I think I'm infected with the hype of the Cricket season!
Hope I don't get myself a set of cricket gear next week...

Moral of this story is....

2006-11-20T17:14:00.000+11:00

I think I need to take a break from eBay now, got too excited about my new external hard drive that I got from eBay then got a little greedy and bided two more items which are on my Christmas list for the year: The Logitech Z5450 5.1 Speakers and a Corsair RAM.

Retail price for these awesome speakers is $799, I've been wanting to get them because the rear speakers are wireless and a cool digital control center along with a wireless remote control so there won't be cables going around the room with the rear speakers *ugly* I bided $400 for these but it managed to get to $420 - $430, oh well - not really worth it until I bid one just under $400. Since I already spent a fair bit on my ext. HD, I'll try to take it easy and bid a little for the fun of it until my next pay day. Anyway, I bided the last set of speakers on Friday for $325.25 but it went up to $350 and so I thought, why not just put my max bid at $400...I won't get it so who cares...it probably goes up to $450 though I won't know the result till Monday despite it ends on the Sat.

Sunday comes along, Carl was doing his usual bidding for his BMX parts I suddenly had the urge to check my bid...then...OH! I've got another won item sitting in my inbox?! and *BAM* I won it for $397!! Wow, that was easy...geeesss...I CAN NOT BELIEVE! Luckily I stopped bidding for my Corsair RAM otherwise I have to pay another $100 for it...damn...Good thing is that my Desire list (on the left pane) is getting shorter hehehehee....

Moral of this story: If you already signed up for eBay, make sure you already have a savings account opened :-P

I won the BID!

2006-11-14T16:30:00.000+11:00

I heard about eBay years ago but didn't really know what it was and what purpose it serves but everyone seems to talk about it and spending time online bidding for stuff sold across the planet.

Well, now that I know - in fact, Carl is a eBay junkie himself I get to more about things you get to buy on eBay. Though I did sign up for an eBay account 12 months ago, I never ever place any bid for anything because I really prefer looking and examine them before paying a decent price to own them.

Then, I thought about getting some extra RAM and an external hard drive to do backups on my work laptop. I started bidding for a 320GB Seagate ext. hard drive. I didn't really get the chance to wait till the bidding time ends cause I don't have Internet at home but luckily I found an item ending later this afternoon and so I started bidding for this sleek looking Ventac Seagate 320GB HD and I did have time to stick around till the bidding time ends.

No one was bidding in the last acouple of hours and then the bidding frenzy started within the last 30mins. $175! $180.57! $185.90! $190.50.........$193.50!! I was like...OH OH! suckers! 10mins left....I put in $195.55!! then I realised I should have checked the retail price that the other seller put up....$185?!!! OMG! OMG!! COME ON PEOPLE...OUTBID ME NOW!! NOW!! 50sec, 40,.....,30,....NOW damn it! I don't want it..!!! NO NO NO!! 20 sec!!....finger getting sore from hitting the refresh button....OUTBID ME!!! 10, 9, 8, REFRESH!! still me! 3,2,1....DING!! CONGRATS, YOU GOT THE HIGHEST BID :-) OH crap, now I have to pay another $25 for the postage...nice one! I can see those people laughing at me "SUCKER!" :-P

Oh well, why the negative thinking....

HEY PEOPLE I GOT a 320GB HD for 200 bucks! YAY!!

Why is it the women's fault??

2006-10-27T17:26:00.000+10:00

Islamic Dispute in Australia

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat," the sheik asked.

" Muslim leaders decided last night not to sack Sheik Alhilali, the mufti of Australia, for comparing women to "uncovered meat" and suggesting women who did not wear the hijab invited sexual assault. "

It's absurd, ridiculous and disgraceful to the human race! Politics? Not even wanna go there!

A similar rape and murder case happened in Malaysia years ago but the convicted rapist was released because he claimed that it was the victim's fault because of the same reason. How inhumane...

They need proper education.

I am...

2006-10-23T16:06:00.000+10:00

Procrastinating...

So much to do at work,
So not motivated at all.

In two minds...

24/7 - 7 days a week never been at my place but still paying the rent and flatmates have so much to say about this,
to find myself a apartment?
to stick with what I'm doing now?

Nossy

I'm told I need to leave someone alone,
I think I'm intruding this person's personal life, or am I just protecting myself?
Maybe this person had enough of me, but not telling me the truth.
You think I'm being nossy? I'll stay away. I'm just protecting myself from getting hurt.
It's really not me being nossy, don't know why I do that but there's a reason.

Weight Loss

ME? Lost weight?!!
Wow - thanks!
Don't think my salad diet has to do with this.
Maybe it's the stress, frustration and exhaustion.

Random Thoughts

2006-10-07T15:36:00.000+10:00

One of our backups failed again at verify, why it failed even during the time when the processor wasn't fully utilised? We don't know, it’s been a nut cracker. This means we have to come in on weekends to upgrade the Veritas Backup. Sooo NOT exciting...

So wanted to watch that best martial artists footage again this morning but held back. Laughing out loud in a quiet office isn't really a good idea and so I tried covering my mouth to contain the laughter in the throat but then my face went puffy red and my body would shake horribly from it...

Hmm, I've been having salads for lunch during the week...my baby fat still refuses to go away - just can't believe it!

We walked out to the Milk bar to grab some lunch, while waiting R spotted the magazines for men's entertainment - oiled, tanned, voluptuous women with their skanky post comparing to the other normal people mags. Roneel locked his stare like any other red blooded men but he said, "These girls need more clothes" I was surprised by the comment. The first male who thinks like a logical person. I like his thinking...a big grin on my face.

I was told to install new CDMA phone modems for 3 executive managers. They are so lucky to have my boss as the IT Manager cos they always get treated so well with the latest gadgets which are supposed to make their life easier. Little funky USB device that allows you to dial, SMS and connect to VPN, a cross between a CDMA card and a dial-up modem. Hmm - so my goal is to work my butt off and one day sit in an executive position so I get pampered with new stuff..hehehe

Quit or not to Quit

2006-09-26T11:49:00.000+10:00

*YAWN*

Since Eric left, we started our morning shift roster 3 weeks ago. I'm on 6am again this week. The dragging my heavy sleepy limbs and fat a$$ out of the bed is just the hardest thing to do before dawn. If it isn't Carl willing to give me a lift to work, I could be doing this an hour earlier to catch the train and I'm talking about 4am! Maybe I should get a car, then I will think about going through the driving lessons and tests again and then...excuses tend to flush my motivation away....

ANYWAY, the only thing I can look forward to is the quiet morning when I can use 100% of my brain and laugh out loud at some jokes on emails cause that really makes time flies then the early finish at 2-ish, if I managed to avoid bumping into my boss, phone calls and having my call logging system opened on my screen.

These two days have been quite fun and productive with just having to manage logged calls, monitor backup processes and still trying to finish the annoying induction. I think I want to make this as my career prospects planning - having already equipped myself a fairly solid IT background of 16 months I'd like to think I'm capable of going a step further, maybe changing jobs. I want to get involved in more administering role and now looking at now vacant positions in Australia and in the UK. Only applied 7 jobs for the last month, one unsuccessful feeback though so far. Well, I can't complain with what I'm doing at the moment and I don't really have a great reason to change jobs so soon (just the money really :-P) but if there was a great offer out there, I would move on....

Skipped badminton training for about a month now, strangely I've kept my good form throughout the Graded Comps season. Skipped training again last Sunday still worried that I might hurt my shoulder again but needed the exercise so I went to a social in MSAC last night with Carl, probably resume my Wednesday social in Henderson too depends on how sore my shoulder is but lucky Thursday CBA comp won't start till next week. I'm really looking forward to this comp now since I left the one in Springers, no point staying when I didn't even enjoy playing there. YAY!

I feel snorty today

2006-09-20T16:25:00.000+10:00

It's Tax Return period again, I got it sorted out with Kitty's generous help but haven't really get the chance to mail it. Can't remember whether I need to include my Group Certificates despite this is the second time I'm doing it....*sigh*

Haven't even sat down at my desk, I was already being asked to fix the 'malfunction' SQL Server running on our test environment. It said file path couldn't be specified, must have been a dodgy installation but found out they didn't use a cross-over cable to hook up both server and client *DOH*

Quickly jumped to a higher priority job, to immediately build a standard PC to replace a severely infected machine in Perth and refused to populate data to XMLs and shuts down system abruptly. Must be that Strip Poker Game she installed on her system...fast solution is to blow away the drive and put in a fresh system. This takes time but she's already complaining. PC built, chucked on latest security patches and packed then shipped to Perth. Well, time for coffee and emails.

*DOH* Got a reminder to do a company induction which I meant to do when I first got employed but managed to avoid it. It's about learning Equal Employment Opportunity and Occupational Health and Safety that include how to protect employees from Discrimination, Harassment and "If I use the chair all the time, how do I prevent injury (trip over chair and fall on my face) when using it?" OH here is a good one, "I see smoke coming from my screen. It's still working though!" what would you do? A. Ignore it (nah, common sense) B. Turn off power source (best answer) C. Look inside the screen (yeah sounds like you need a sexy fireman to put it out for you...LOL) So I have to answer questions to complete this induction...big distraction from my daily tasks but lucky not much to do today.

Our helpdesk is managed using Remedy Console now, issue and scope lists have grown so huge we need a better handling and job distribution process so I'm stuck here to understand every sentence of instructions of this 13-page manual...hate reading manuals *sigh*

It was more a flamming lamboghini party than a cocktail party to me smiles

2006-09-19T16:56:00.000+10:00

Never thought of a cocktail party could be that fun :-) I'd always bailed out whenever I was invited to formal parties like this. First, never interested. Second, never had the money or time to find a formal dress. I wish I wasn't that ill, I was having a flu over the week after the Melbourne graded but lucky enough to be able to attend Gloria's otherwise the time I spent looking for the dress would be wasted. Carl and I didn't stay up too late, Kitty+Alice+Andrew+Zel left fairly early before I could have a drink with Alice though Alice, GUESS what...we dragged Shze Lee along and had Flamming Lamboghini *smiles* you missed out! I think I would have a few more if there were a couple more people to drink with. Anyway, we left about 12am - I think I managed to walk, I even pretended to know where I was by putting on my glasses but obviously I was abit wasted lucky Carl was there to make sure I didn't fall on my face :-)

*HEADACHE* Massive hangover the next day, thinking I did alright last night for not embarrassing myself but Carl couldn't resist to tell me how silly I could be when I got abit too drunk *DOH* but no doubt had a great time.

My cold got worse on late Sunday, missed training since the annual graded games ended officially on Saturday. Ohh..do you really have to know...ok ok...well, Zel and I lost the mixed. The loss wasn't as bad as not giving my best in the Finals, disappointed because it ended within minutes *sigh* didn't even manage to give the opponents a good game.

The Sexes Magazines

2006-09-11T12:41:00.000+10:00

Women Mags

The women's mags are crammed with gleefully judgemental and detailed stories of celebs marrying, breeding, behaving badly, binge eating, binge dieting, wearing dresses and having botched plastic surgery - and ads for diet products and psychic hotlines. Women have always been positioned as custodians of the emotions. Health, babies, family, that's women's turf, and more and more women are in the workforce, and it's an increasingly stressful role to be a guardian of the hearth.

Fallen Angel says: Life is already stressful, why make it worse. Only for housewives who have nothing better to do.

Men Mags

The men's mags are bursting with buxom, pretty ladies in their underwear (and, in the case of Zoo Weekly and its parent mag, FHM, at least three faintly disturbing pin-ups of a barely post-pubescent Nikki Webster), jokes, pranks, interviews with sporting heroes, test-drives of expensive cars and futuristic mobile phones, JPEGs of vegetables that look as though they have sexual organs, and ads for downloadable saucy minxes who will strip on your mobile phone. Men's magazines are aimed at cashed-up bogans. They're stripped of anything that might come remotely close to an inner world - the closest is how to pick up a chick effectively.

Fallen Angel says: can not agree more - men can be crashed up bogans even the well-educated ones.

THE BOTTOM LINE

"For the male reader it's analogous to sexual conquest. You might not be able to pick her up in a bar and have sex with her, but if you can get her in the pages of a magazine it's like owning her sexually. These magazines are the ultimate form of objectifying women. They're just lying around in their underwear saying 'Look at me'; it's so passive. At the end of the day, Ralph and Zoo do nothing positive for women in any way. The fact that the mass-market magazines are so out-and-out sexist makes me pessimistic about the goals that feminism has kicked."

............Lucky enough, I only like to read Computer/Gadgets/Technologies/Sports Related Mags.

Search STILL in progress.....tick tock tick tock

2006-09-08T07:59:00.000+10:00

Nooo...too long
Nooo...too skanky
NooO...too sparkly
Nooo...that makes my boobs look deflated
Nooo...that makes me look like I have an elephant waist
NOOO...I'm not a hooker
Geees...you call that bare-back? I call it bare-crack...
Ohhh...I think I like that, sexy yet unrevealing...YES! Ooo..price tag looks nice, FRENCH make...ooo I Like...er what..$689?!?!?!?! *DOH*

Another unsuccessful cocktail hunting day *sigh*

Do I soak my dress in a cocktail to make a cocktail dress?

2006-09-06T12:52:00.000+10:00

It's party time!!

It's been ages since the last craziest party I've been to, despite being asked to be the Barmaid of the night I was able to drink at the same time *smiles* talking about multitasking which I'm good at in this case.

Received a party invitation notice from Alice for Gloria's 21st, that's the girl playing for Melbourne Uni Black in State Pennant I think HA! of cause I know who she is, just joshing. Lotus Bar - I like that place, it has the bar in the middle of the floor though that may have taken up the dance floor space quite abit but people can get access to the bar easily.

Got the official invitation from Gloria, nice! Er...dress code - cocktail!? Uh OH...what?! Oh dear, never ever had a cocktail dress, only a couple of skirts which I rarely wear and when I do it's only for certain occasions. I hardly come across dresses I like because I'm extremely fussy with the design, the material and how it'll look on me. *sigh* too much effort, well it'll be nice to find one within the fortnight. I wish I was a guy and just put on a nice suit and an awesome hair-do though it would be interesting to see the others dress up as well! I'll just make sure I don't get too ridiculously drunk and fall on my face especially when I'm in those clumsy heels!! LOL

Medical Info Alert!

2006-08-31T14:44:00.000+10:00

Did you know that in the human body there is a nerve that connects
the eyeball to the anus?

It's called the Anal Optic Nerve, and it is responsible for giving
People a shitty outlook on life.

If you don't believe it, try to pull a hair from your ass and see
if it doesn't bring a tear to your eye.

Australian Performance Car Championship

2006-08-21T17:02:00.000+10:00

Yay! Finally we had a chance to get out of the city during the weekend. Carl had volunteered to assist one of the Performance car race team during the 4th Round Australian Performance Car Championships in Phillip Island and I was invited as a guest. Although the event was not as big as F1 Racing but I was able to be 'part' of the team - Yeah! exciting isn't it?! I actually got to carry Andrew Moffat's helmet! YAY.............NOT *sigh* Neverteless, I did have the privilege to do some mowing using their special lawn mower machine!

Andrew Moffat, the driver of the FPV F6 Typhoon - all geared up for the race. I think he was too shy to turn around...hmm..

Carl, assisting the engine support. He tried very hard to tell Andrew not to smash up the car which he'd previously put alot of work on otherwise he'll get his bum kicked :-P

"Hmmm...wonder anyone would notice if I'd jump in and take off..."

"..Gentlemen! START YOUR ENGINE!"

*phew* it's only a scratch though Andrew came 3rd in the final race!

The Super-Dupa Cars and F3s

You sure I can find my file on here??

2006-08-17T16:19:00.000+10:00

I'm not sure whether people are getting lazier these days or rather making their life easier and more convenient when they start using short keys and shortcuts on their computers. From my perspective, the short key convention absolutely helps me to do things quicker.

I came across a 60+ year old who doesn't seem to like using the organised-folder-structured Windows file system which the system is designed to do instead he saved all his files and programs shortcuts that he accesses daily on the desktop, and the result of a year's work shown in this picture. The desktop is apparently crowded with atleast 90 icons - now I wonder how he could find his way to look for the stuff he needs with his vision of a 60yo...hmm...

Ten Dumps Yasmin

2006-08-07T16:39:00.000+10:00

"Yasmin's Getting Married" is off the air! THANK God!
Yay! Go the the Futurama! Now I have more reason to stay home! LOL

Curse of Diablo

2006-08-02T12:19:00.000+10:00

CHEAT CODES NEEDED!!!

Ohhh...stupid Baba the Diablo character I named after Barbarian, spend atleast 2 hours a day playing the game, I can't believe I'm stuck at Act2 trying to defeat Duriel in the Tal Rasha's Burial chamber. I'm not sure what difficulty level I've chosen but this Prince of PAIN in the butt sure is hard to kill and the hardest part is that there isn't an exit to escape for a breather so I have to have several Town Portal scrolls standing by to get me out when I'm low in energy. I died several times and lost most of my money...crap...Fiona, the Mercenary is hopeless - she died painfully after just a slash by Duriel...damn it...oh well...no point fighting with chick's weapons...so I stopped, exit the game - thinking, oh no Carl is still away..OHHH..another week and a half before he returns *arrrghh* *miserable* alright, ALRIGHT...restarted Diablo and chose Necromancer, I can summon followers! Another week for me to explore this character...cool!

UH ha! Zelman wants a copy of my Diable 2...surprised to know there are people still pretty keen on this game. I think this is the best RPG I've ever played! For an exchange, he will give me a copy of his CIV4, hope it's good! Ohh..all this game playing, I'm being pretty much a snob but on the other hand, I could probably shed a few pounds when all my time has spend on gaming and not food...hmm...excellent!

Me? Trouphy hunter?! Get out of it....

2006-07-31T12:53:00.000+10:00

First time playing mixed with Leong in C Grade in the Victoria International...WHAT?! you playing C Grade!? Damn you Trophy hunter!...everyone was astounded. Well, I'd never thought I was a trophy hunter - trophies are useless, piece of fake gold you can't even do a trade-in with :-P awards are meant to be like either prize money or certifications...something valuable. Finished first in the pool but got trashed in semi against Brian and Vera. Brian was full-on attacking and Vera was too good at the front...then didn't regret to play finals in D grade cause we would be in the hall of shame if we lost lol! Losing to them in Grade C category was something everyone laughs about really but the reason of losing was more hilarious. I understood Leong was exhausted after playing several tough singles and doubles but he came up to me in the end and told me there was endless distraction in the court that made him lose his concentration...guess what...yes, it was Vera's tight pants *sigh* Atleast I laughed my head off about it....

Redeemed myself in our A grade Doubles with Xue, at last we broke our curse of always losing in the finals - twice against Shan & Eugenia and once against Sherise and Jeyers. We defeated Tanya & Hong, they played really well together but we thought we could have a crack at them when we reached 19 all, still feeling nervous towards the last 2 points but a couple of lucky roll-over shots at the net gave us alil boost and confidence and won the Finals for the first time.

Ahh! time to celebrate! Diablo 2, maybe a couple of Bellevue...here I come!

All By Myself..

2006-07-26T12:56:00.000+10:00

Special scissors to open the rib cage?! For all these years I thought they rip them with some small version chain-saw...and so it begins - The Anatomy for Beginners is available for the public television, so COOL! This week's episode was on Circulation, to convey a better understanding to how lungs and the blood circulation work, this German professor performed a dissection on a fresh corpse when the flesh is still moist and tender...then he inflated the lungs..wow....then pumped in some blood-like liquid to show how blood flows in the body.......that actually turned the pale guts "alive"...interesting...I'd bet my sister would die to watch this...

Anyway, work has been keeping me occupied lately for a change. A few new IT projects have started and they've got me on my toes despite I'm only responsible for a few small tasks and everything other technical issue happens with in the company.

Badminton has been up and down for me, played pretty bad last Thursday in Springers Season Comp - lost one of my mixed. I didn't seem to have the energy or concentration though we still managed to win by 2 aces. Must be one of those hairy days but I played like a total dork on Saturday social...lol! Don't think Leong was too impressed with the way, hope that I do well in this week's comp.

Last week of preparation for the Victoria Internationals, I urged myself to attend Hung's training on Sunday but preferred spending some more time alone with Carl while he packed for his 3-week trip in the snow...everyone thought he is going on holiday without me :-P lol! Well, he's on his work trip - he'd probably treat it as his semi vacation in the snow when he's been provided with nice, comfortable accommodation, allowances and he got his snow-board standing by when the snow arrives. Anyway, I don't think I was excited about him going away infact I will be feeling abit miserable while his gone, hope he doesn't have too much fun without me around!..hmmm...well yeah...I can tell it's kickin in! *sob sob* Atleast I've got myself my favourite PC game - Diablo 2 The Lord of Destruction to play though I've finished it with Paladin and Druid, I can still explore the skills on the other characters BUT I sometimes get bored with some stages. It'll hopefully keep me accupied for the next 3 weeks.

Victoria Internationals starts this weekend, would be fantastic to watch the International players swapping skills in the court live! Hope Xue would forgive me if I play like a dud :-P but I won't forgive myself if I play like a poo in C/D Grade mixed...lol

So you think you can handle PICKLES?!

2006-07-14T12:19:00.000+10:00

Dailymotion blogged video
Pickle Phobia
Video sent by shetli_c

Check out the phobia list

http://phobialist.com/#A-

Another Training Week for Shet Li :-))

2006-07-05T13:25:00.000+10:00

Speaking of women finding their place in the IT industry, what is it so hard for the male community to accept that there are females like me who are interested to get their hands dirty in the server room, so don't you dare stare at me through your thick glasses and wondered why a girl like me turned up at a Microsoft training course. Frankly there is still a handful of women attend the courses.

I think this dude next to me has the entire Microsoft Knowledge Database downloaded into his head or something and a chatterbox mouth. He'd probably speak more than the instructor. I think he would be the geekiest person I've ever met...hmm...no wedding band...fair enough, he probably dedicates most of his time conquering the WWW instead of speaking to some random baeutiful strangers about how a motherboard can do amazing things.Come on dude, let the instrustor get on with it...You may have the skills, you may have all the knowledge and experience but this is not your stage! I'm telling you, he is like a hijacked box broadcasting a gazillion of requests to the server, despite the instructor knew him as a friend - he sometimes ignores him because he is just elaborating whatever the instructor says..well, it's good that sometimes I could get out of the room with some good tips unfortunately most of the information was alil useless dude...get a life will ya.

Badminton - still playing the socials, can't explain why I'm not too keen on graded comps anymore since I hurt my ankle but been asked to play in Central Graded. I guess it's great timing since I will be playing season comp in Springers on Thursday nights now plus 2xsocials and training on Sundays. Maybe I should get back to swimming to fix my ankle...

Keep up with the good service dude!

2006-06-28T13:43:00.000+10:00

I've realised I pay the same amount for the Daily 5 Pack Metlink tickets as I paid for the Weekly ticket, but I could probably save about $8 if I get the Monthly ticket for $98.90 but I don't travel by public transport too often to spend a hundred bucks on that piece of card when I'm the sort of person who loses small objects easily.

For those who are public transport regulars, do you buy the monthly instead?

By the time I found out the dude from the shop has been charging the price of Zone 2 tickets for the Zone 1 Daily pack, they have actually run out of the tickets for 3 weeks, maybe they have figured out that they've been ripped off by people like myself for the last few months. Oh well, luck will eventually run out anyway...so I tried my luck again this morning, the dude greeted me with a big grin and pulled out the Daily 5 Pack, gave its barcode a good swap - COOL! still the same price! I guess it's just a technical issue after all...LOL! NO - I didn't LOL, I kept quiet ofcos...then he pulled out another Daily 5 Pack and said, "Why don't you get 2 incase we ran out again the following week?" That's really thoughtful of him, I even got some Sucks Squirts gummies from him NICE! Hmm...must be one of my lucky day, spotted some Ford GTs and F6 Typhoon - can't explain why they all appeared at the same time. I reckon the FPVs beat HSVs anytime despite that Holden still dominate Ford in V8 Supercars...hmmmm....

Mr Sissy Mouth

2006-06-20T17:00:00.000+10:00

AArrghh! Why do I always get into trouble with people who are absolute knob heads! I do my job as I normally do, no-one has ever complained but this dude who apparently being labelled the most arrogant prick in the company, who's always suits-down like a Hitler, speaks like his everyone's boss and always at people's arse.

I was kind enough to arrange a time with him to troubleshoot his problem laptop - which he complains that there are too much junk running on it. Well, I hijacked his PC at the time he said he would be out having lunch and it will be ready for me BUT NOOO...he complained to my boss that I was intruding his system! PRICK! arrghh...he was obviously throwing the policy book straight at my face! If I could find any illegal downloads on his laptop, I swear I'm gonna stuff everything straight up his rear so far that they over-flow out from his big fat sissy mouth...damn you loser! you have no idea what I could do to your AWD..like painting it in pink! Just had a really bad morning with trams breaking down and running late for work to start with...and now this poo..now I'll have to make up a good explanation.

...Lunch time...

A cup of coffee could possibly make me feel better, so I went to the fridge, got the milk and gave it a good shake...*splat*...what do you know, some mumpet didn't screw the top after using it! I had to do 10 mins of cleaner's work...ahhh....!!

Oh well, talked to boss was cool with my action so no dramas on that...

Hmmm...atleast I could go home with a smile on my face...BUT I'm stil intended to get a raise!

Flat out.....

2006-06-14T17:19:00.000+10:00

Wow - can't believe the workload that has been dumped on me since R left...can't believe all these shit he got away with...lol! I have been so busy I forgot my morning coffee session, cause I'm normally too snoozy to start the day..yeah..I can hear my kidneys thanking me for that...hehehe *peace!*

I was in my boss's office more than 2 times today, reporting...STUFF...but only the last visit was the best cause he was telling me company business plans! COOL! It's really exciting cause he wants me to get involved with more technical planning stuff and he would get someone new to work FOR ME...uhmm...I mean work under me :-P LOL!! Yay! Well, fingers crossed that I stay for another 24 months! So he said R is missing out on these new projects...that's funny...yeah..good to know :-))

Guess what?! I've added Nanospeed9000x to my racquet collection! Thanks sweetie..you are great! I know he is tempted to get one as well...so we are kinda sharing the racquet for now. A few people were thrilled to see it first hand...Hung snatched it away from me first thing I got it out from my bag to have a go...haha...I think it's a rather good racquet, alil stiffed compared to the rest well...its Nanospeed extra stiffed *doh* and controls the shuttle well...I find it rather good for defending, clearing and net playing...

Like......................whaaaatever

2006-06-09T11:31:00.000+10:00

Kaylene got me curious about these comics: HA HA HA HA HA..........er...what the.........like.......I don't get it...........

....this will get rid of it...
Anyway, what do you think about my new jacket? :-D

Feeling alittle slobbish

2006-06-06T11:30:00.000+10:00

First day back from training, I wasn't really looking forward to work - work that has been already sitting on my desk since I left and work that has been accumulating throughout the week. It's like finishing High School, missing my friends (Not that I had many back then :-P) well, most of all missing the lovely lunch they prepared and oh OH, end of course celebration with a couple pints of beer...and and a trainer who was so kind to reprint my name on the certificate because they missed out a hyphen... *sigh*

I didn't even get the chance to have a decent lunch, been out and about on the floor fixing dodgy firewire card. Alittle card already had me opening up two ATXs to troubleshoot what's wrong. So by the time I figured out the issue it was already 4pm.

Carl played Juan W (Ruby filled-in) and Danny L tonight in CBA - B special, didn't really wanna miss that and took off early without any lunch still...sooo hungry, I went to get Hungry Cracks...I mean Hungry Jacks on the way home. I finished the fries within 2 minutes then the tram arrived, too tempted to eat the mouth-watering Bacon Deluxe and in my status of extreme hunger, I actually scoffed the lot without realising I had forgotten napkins! My fingers were covered in sauce, I didn't know whether it got on my face.....I got dribble on my bag too! Geeeeess..I got an onion sitting on my bag! Looked away quickly and it's time to GO onion *flick!* regained my posture! 3 gentlemen sitting next and across me, wonder what they were thinking...ohhhh my dignity....down the drain....

Yay! I'm in Heaven...

2006-05-31T16:02:00.000+10:00

Oh thank goodness to finaly put down my vanilla ice-cream tub to write down some words for my blog :-P

Started my MCSA training this week - doing a course on Windows server 2003 for starters. It's great not to be at work for a while and still get paid! Great to be feeling like a student again, what's better than uni is that daily meals are provided and I'm talking about proper food and snacks! plus there's a cafe machine available! PerFECT!! Oh oh...forgot to mention the ice cream freezer! *drool* It's alil too much to have all the IT geeks sitting together and talk about work all day...well, it's pretty easy to tell them apart from the ordinary people like me ;-) cos I tend to go for really healthy diet and they do have excellent salads...and there are the geeks with rice and noodles on one side of the plate and a whole heap of fries on the other! IT geeks = junkies hehehe...

Geeees - can't believe our instructor couldn't get some Croup policies working the way he wanted and messed up the entire process and worse...he didn't know what went wrong...*ppffft* zsk zsk zsk...Alright - I better get back to my lab work...hehehe...oh another hour and I'm goin HOME....with another FREE cuppa!

Snap Shots

2006-05-24T09:33:00.000+10:00

Oh so bored, I'm staring at the same screen, with all the same windows openned since Monday. Sometimes blogging for me is an interest but today, I take it as a task since I've been slacking. Not that my blog is any interesting than the others but atleast there will be someone checking out my posts. I've finally made an effort to extract some snap shots I took at the Lobster Banquet dinner in Springvale. I thought these photos could make out a blog for the day :-)) Thanks to Kay who invited us to the lovely dinner though I'm still uncertain which dish was served with lobster, I reckon it's the first dish - lobster salad (appetiser). It was sensational!

Jen - about to get her tongue pulled out
Ray (& his rubber face again) with kaylene
Jen with the finger?! Please BEHAVE!
Adrian the man with his cool gangster top, or did he just got it inside-out?
Myself and Rose
Chuan and myself
Rubberface Ray, Shet-Li and Kaylene

Virgin Blue Stinks?

2006-05-19T12:14:00.000+10:00

My flight was 90mins delayed last night because of some idiots left rotten egg stink bomb in the cabin. Thought it was a joke but could see the exits doorways were all wide opened for air flow...fortunately we didn't get to smell it :-P it's just CRAZY!!

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Rotten egg stink bomb released on Virgin flight

Police are hoping to interview passengers from a Virgin flight to Melbourne from Hobart after a stink bomb smelling of rotten eggs was set off in the cabin.

The ``innocuous substance'' was released as the jet was approaching Melbourne Airport, a spokeswoman for the airport said today.

``The airline alerted authorities and they responded,'' she said. ``There were no evacuations required.''

Detectives believe the odour came from a broken glass vial containing a clear clear liquid giving off a `rotten egg' smell, Victoria Police spokeswoman Stacey Mair said.

She said the plane landed about 8pm (AEST) and police were alerted to the incident about 9.30pm.

Police were last night considering whether to lay charges over the incident, but have so far been unable to speak to passengers onboard the flight. They are hoping to do this today.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are now assisting them with their investigation.

Too Loud For YOU?! Geeeeees

2006-05-17T14:31:00.000+10:00

I can't believe I was being asked to turn down my iPod volume on the train?! How could a little noise affect his reading concentration when the train was already making 80% of the noise?!Why didn't he just ask the train to stop till he finishes his reading! OMG OMG OMG!

I have my volume turn up to the max sometimes till everyone else can actually listen from my ear-phones and it isn't good for the ears...ok, agreed...it's my concern but it's HIS now..but it's no fun without cranking up your favourite tunes on your iPod! Agree everyone?! Though fair enough, this fella was nice and I won't refuse to turn it down, in fact I even apologised for creating the noise disturbance..geeees..how nice of me,but in the back of my head - "WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?! MAYBE YOU SHOULD BRING SOME EAR-PLUGS WITH YOU!" Aarrgh ok, maybe I should respect the elderly (but quietly - OLD FELLA YOU!)

My Downside

2006-05-15T16:55:00.000+10:00

The other day, I came to realise there are some obvious differences between the Golf GTis and the Polo GTIs since I've got the interests on the Golf version but for someone who has no knowledge of these cars, it's impossible to tell them apart. Well, I did a comparison and I was confident to tell one from the other. I thought I did my homework, I even saved a copy of the specs not knowing I renamed them correctly. Being a smart-bum, I brought the topic up with Senior Vehicle Engineer. It was just a normal discussion while he disagreed with my facts but I'd never thought I could be so ignorant and competitive at the same time. I made the discussion to a pointless argument, though I had to admit to myself I've switched the file names hence the wrong idea I had in mind and yet I was adamant to end it with an apology, I refused to accept the truth because I wanted me to be right for this time I continued to make a fool out of myself...ahh so frustrating, I realised I haven't let go of my bad behaviour from childhood. I used to find myself standing in a group of talented people and I tried to be one of them but I just can't, in the end - I've got only myself to blame...and I don't want other's pity, they only make me feel lower and helpless. I tend to have the same attitude towards badminton, the more you try to being a smart-arse at court (I've met some really arrogant competitors) they make you wanna smack their heads :-P but it's me who needs to be patient and focus.

I never learnt that when I was young and stupid ya know but now even worse...old and stupiDER... lol! Anyway, I deserve a big smack in the head...reminded me of faking a stomach ache and walked out of a match playing National Junior Circuit...still feeling bad about it. I mean I bumped into my ex-partner from school the other day in the city, we catch up sometimes just to talk about work and stuff but came to realise she still remembers how I mistreated her in the days when we played comps together when she introduced me to her friend as someone who always told her off when we played badminton...oh I tried to hide my face...*sigh* then she made me felt alil better by adding, though she's really a good player despite that her friend wasn't too interested about it....couldn't imagine how tiny I felt around them...

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Oh so miserable, the moment Rob (working partner) pronounced his resignation and to move on to a better offer - I've started to doubt my abilities of taking over his half of the responsibilities for the next few months. He is the second Infrastructure Support I work with to be quitting the job in less than a year, with the same reasons - throwing me out to the edge once again. No it's not a bad thing to have most of the work hand-balled to me, I'm told to learn things the hard way it's the most effective.

I spent half the day procrastinating and writing this long blog of my self-pitiness, released alil tension then I was told to do some support in Canberra next week out of the blue! Yay! Cool I get to travel for once but Boohoo! for being such ignorant...

You need Firefox to view my page...

2006-05-11T17:32:00.000+10:00

My blog will probably look strange on your IE with the right column located at the right bottom of the page after I've added this nifty network information display on my blog, still haven't found what causes such effect but the website seems fine on Firefox web browser. If you are interested to try Firefox, I've included the link under "Techie's corner"

- Shet Li -

Don't screw up...

2006-05-10T17:42:00.000+10:00

I've been struck with slackness disease (is there a name for this illness?) in for a week and a half while our boss was on holiday. I think it was the most relaxing time of my working days, ya know - do what you needed to do whenever I wanted, pretty relaxed...and then he walked in with a big grin on his face, assigning me to take care of our Chief of Finance's [COF] problem PC. OK....it's just another backup routine I do to all problem PC but I've been given the extra pressure as flawless process is expected, it's better to perform a 101% when it comes to big guns like the COF not that I would impress him with my impeccable, nifty backup solution :-P and perhaps a raise.

It's almost 5:30, it's time to go but for once I've been told to tidy up my desk as some VIP is visiting, perhaps some potential clients. I guess having a small desk is good in a way cos I really can't be bothered with that thick layer of dust that has been accumulating...oh the documents and papers....DVDs, Cds craps...and nothing I can do about that chunky, marked phone taking most of my desk space...and the cleaners never EVER vacuum my desk area, my cookie crumbs and leftovers are still in their original spot since last year OMG! :-P

Ahh...who cares, I'll be in some helpdesk training for the whole day tomorrow...hehehe...see ya later alligator!

Making My First Quarter of a Century :-))

2006-05-04T12:02:00.000+10:00

I was quite out of the loop of the badminton world. Only managed to get bits and pieces of the latest from badminton mates about the Thomas and Uber Cups tournament in Japan. I guess it isn't too late to catch up with it as they have just played the quarter finals yesterday. Not a regular Malaysian fan but glad to know the boys have defeated the Korean hunks 3-2 despite their strong double pairs. Disappointed to hear the girls didn't even manage to get through the qualification round.

It's impossible to catch up with the matches without a payTV, if I was any closer to being a badminton fanatic freak - I could have asked Lok Poh to get me copies of all tournaments videos. He is the only person I know who has a close relation with badminton association and he is able to obtain whatever in regards to world badminton bulletins. I believe he has been doing millions of copies on request.

Ahhh - feeling good after returning to the courts regularly for a hit. 3 times a week is always better than once. I did have a few good matches with the boys in Henderson, straight through from 8:30 to midnight. I didn't feel sore but my ankles feel funny recently after long hours of badminton, it's like they need regular lubrication so they won't go squeaky...didn't realise they would be wearing out so quickly after I had them twisted twice *sob*

12 hours to go before I turn 25, making my first quarter of a century! Yeah! Less than 3 quarters before my great grandchildren hang my bones up for auction...How exciting!!

Moving On

2006-04-29T06:32:00.000+10:00

I'm glad that my work training has been approved and now waiting for the courses to start late next month. Since I'm still pretty much walking in someone's shadow for the past months, it's time for me to move on and search for my own little patch of grass.

Anyway, I took the Monday off after working on some weekend and got myself another long weekend to relax - having someone to rub my feet and enjoy doing nothing...NOT! RELAX in my dictionary should be all party, fun and sports - hmmm, will have heaps of damaging to the body but who cares! Life's short, do the extremes while I'm still able to! YAY!

Bliss Lounge, Queen St (Saturday night) - Carl and I got invited to Rochelle's party. I rocked up with my dancing gear and that door lady said I should dress up..it's just a small night club for crying out loud! I was given an acception since it was my first visit. Another tip: don't rock up with just your girlfriends, bring some boys to even up the stage ;-) if you don't want those usher girls giving you a hard time. Anyway, party went perfectly, the music was ok on the main floor - mainly RnBs/hip-hop/urban and house music on another floor. I didn't think I was too pissed to carry myself after all I only had a few coronas, Johny W with coke and a couple of Chartreuses but surprisingly, I have no memory of the rest of the night. LOL it was awesome!

Training? I think NOT. Hangover kicked in next morning, I had to sit myself up to stop my head from spinning and keeping my all-night 'cocktail' in my stomach...hehehe.

We slept through Sunday and Monday, only to keep our motivation up for training with Hung. I've been in training for most of my badminton years, I still find myself learning and correcting my old habits. The hardest thing is to completely switch my mind to do something I've been doing for the past years differently or even correctly, I'm sure it'll eventually phase-out if enough work was put in! LOL!! Anyway, good work out for the night!

Lysterfield Lake - Mountain biking (cross-country) was held there during the Commonwealth Games, so it should be good! Andrew Lew is one of the advance cyclists, and Carl has someone not from work to do some extreme mountain biking with so it's fantastic that I can come along for a bit of fun. Not too much technical riding like in the You Yangs; it's pretty much all the painful uphills and the fast and furious downhills...plus the fantastic view from the crest! Good cardio workout though Tanya and I got off the bike during most uphills! LOL!!! It was great to have her there with me, otherwise I would feel ashamed for the boys to look out for me. I've included some shots captured during the ride, the boys were fantastic during the entire expedition - well done! You too pumpkin berry! ;-)

Interesting Toilet Poets

2006-04-27T07:27:00.000+10:00

Here I lie in stinky vapor,
Because some bastard stole the toilet paper,
Shall I lie, or shall I linger,
Or shall I be forced to use my finger.

Before he graduated to be a poet, he wrote this...

Here I sit
Broken hearted
Tried to shit
But only farted

Someone who had a different experience wrote,

You're lucky
You had your chance
I tried to fart,
And shit my pants!

Perhaps it's true that people find inspiration in
toilets.

I came here
To shit and stink,
But all I do
Is sit and think.

There are also people who come in for a different
purpose...

Some come here to sit and think,
Some come here to shit and stink,
But I come

here to scratch my balls,
And read the bullshit on the walls...

Toilets walls also double as job advertisement
space.......

(written high upon the wall)
If you can piss above this line, the Singapore Fire
Department wants you.

Ministry of Environment advertisement.

We aim to please!
You aim too! Please

On the inside of a toilet door:

Patrons are requested to remain seated throughout the
entire performance.

And finally, this should teach some a lesson...
Sign seen at a restaurant:

The hands that clean these toilets also make your
food...please aim properly.

BUT.....I DON'T WANNA BE A BATMAN.............................

2006-04-20T09:09:00.000+10:00

EASTER!!

2006-04-19T08:39:00.000+10:00

If you asked me how my easter big weekend went? I say - it's bloody awesome! Carl and I were invited to dinner at Jonathan's on Sunday night, I never had such good Chinese food for ages - no doubt most of the housewives are extremely good cook! The next evening, we had dinner at Hung's, Vietnamese style hot pot and very soothing bamboo & chicken soup! The soup was amazing, plus I never had boiled-bamboo like this before - but that could possibly replace some damaged brain cells after all the drinking! LOL!! .....and a blackforrest we bought for dessert...

Ohhh...a new week again, and the great thing is it started on a Tuesday! A good way to be looking forward to another long weekend! Yay!

Walked out to the tram station and it's time to get myself another weekly Metlink ticket. Well, found that I can save $8.20 for buying the 5-pack daily instead of the weekly after all these years! *Doh - Shet-Li, you fool!*

Bored at work, nothing too important for me to do but some "skanky" documentations to finalise for the Operations - instead I found myself a casual hobby during work - bitching about that stupid boy still spewing infested snorts all over the place creating the most annoying noise disturbance! He's like a walking virus, dispatching his malicious offsprings to the others before it dies. Though life is too short to be hating someone but he is just the one person I dislike, there's no other I know as annoying as him! He's like a pest...

DING! Lunch time, only some fruity cereal and a cheese sandwich for me. we didn't do much shopping over the long weekend as we've been invited over for dinners and since when supermarkets closed for the entire Easter break?! That's absolutely horrendous! So.....I prepared myself with some half-mouldy multi-grained bread , infact I reckon my body could build a better defensive system by eating this little tiny evil spores...hehehehehhe

What a Disgusting Maggot

2006-04-13T05:11:00.000+10:00

Great............got up this morning with a stuffed nose and a sore throat! There goes my long weekend...thanks to that despicable idiot at work.

I know being a contactor has it's good and bad, but he has no rights to spread his disgusting germs in our enclosed office with poor air ventilation, the worse thing is that he cough and spits his infested goo in the tissue and throws in the bin! Nobody said a thing to the management about it...but we definitely bithced about it amongst ourselves when he made it so obvious - blowing and coughing loudly to let everyone know he's sick but he's still working hard.....Most of us have issue with him because he f*cks (excuse my French) things up so often but still gets forgiven. WHY?!

But that's mainly the reason we haven't offered him a full-time position. So why are we still keeping him?? WHY?!

A year ago, we were data entry operators we were friends but I got annoyed by him when he started introducing his life coaching lessons he's been receiving and trying to get people to join the institute. why?! To get appraisal from his superior? So he's formed a little circle of "friends" at work just for this purpose! I know...he picks one with personal issues, asked them whole lot of questions related to what they are facing and how to over-come it, not many people like talking about private affairs with just someone...would you be annoyed? Would you discuss things like your extremely sad childhood, bad parents who neglected you? NO, why is he a counsellor? NO.

Anyway, We got through the first interview out of the 6 candidates despite the long wait, I got the job, now he is remained in the company because we didn't have time to train another person to help out in development, he's been given a full-time position in Operation but rejected cos of low income but willing to stay as a contractor in IT.

SO I can't help myself bitching about it...it's not something I needed but I could never explain why I wanted him out of IT so much.

I came in to work this morning and straight into my boss's office - I'm getting sick and you are responsible for my health! OH GOD..........he just did a goo spit in the bin............

A Slack Blogger

2006-04-12T09:54:00.000+10:00

So.... you guys like the video clips? Hmmm - no comments, guess they aren't as popular as I thought they would be. Ahh, Finally got my paragraph started. I wish I had Internet at home then I won't have to procrastinate half of my time at work thinking of what to write for my blog. The blank notepad had been sitting on my screen for days now before I actually made an afford to typing some words in it...I should be more consistent with my blog update routine, which I have been otherwise procrastination won't be my part time job would it? :-P Could perhaps put on some footage of badminton matches played in the Commonwealth I promised the other day but I've been slacked.

Speaking of badminton, we competed in the Altona Graded Tournament on Sunday. Sadly, players pulled out a day - mainly A and B graders so it wasn't a really long battle for Su Ching and me to get into the finals in A Grade Ladies Doubles - infact we our first match was already the finals, we were lucky when a C grader was requested to fill in for a missing partner. We have our names engraved on the A Grade Winners "Shield" which was cool. Carl and I had a go in B grade mixed..haha..In my mind, couples have minimum chance to establish a great partnership in competative events and so I heard. Despite putting in effort, we didn't do too well - a mind game perhaps? I reckon I've been hypocritical otherwise. Anyhow, Carl had definitely redeemed himself in C Grade Men's Single *welldone!* He was quite pleased to win it for the first time :-)) but didn't do too well with winner's photo shoot moment...lol!

OH! Long weekend up ahead! so 4 day long weekend for 2 consecutive weeks YAY! Exciting! Hmmm - and going out on Thursday night for a farewell party in the City...what is that club called again? Harsh or Hash Club in Melbourne Central....or maybe Ash...er....ANYHOOO..should be good cos Carl is definitely gonna come along.

Compilation Car Accidents

2006-04-07T06:57:00.000+10:00

Dailymotion blogged video

This is a series of full-on car crashes. Amazing footage of carnage that you can only see it HERE! :-P

For The Girls...

2006-04-06T05:42:00.000+10:00

Dailymotion blogged video

This is something you won't get in everyday life...

Girls, ENJOY...hehehe

You Yang 13.3.06

2006-03-31T09:40:00.000+11:00

Dailymotion blogged video

Mountain biking in the You Yangs.

2006-03-29T10:38:00.000+11:00

The Inconsiderate Cow

It's unusual for me to read malaysian news column but thought I could get more of the news coverage on the commonwealth games especially in badminton. Despite the effort they put in, the editor has submitted this piece of rubbish commenting on how they failed to accomplish for a Gold...and instead of being supportive - he claimed that the who athletes succumbed in the games should forget the unforgetable. What an idiot! Reading the part where he commented Mew Choo for losing in her Singles which could have been gold, I was furious...disappointed with Malaysian press...I have written a letter to The Star online to express my disappointment.

Click this link...
The Star: A Games to Forget???

2006-03-28T06:07:00.000+11:00

Yonex NanoSpeed 9000X: I really, really WANT ONE..

Review Date : Late Dec 05
Racket Type : Yonex Nanospeed 9000 Type X ( X actually stand for eXtra Stiff )
Specs : 3UG4
Strings: Yonex BG65 Power ( Supplied )
Tension: 29lbs , 1 Piece Stringing
Grip: Original Grip
Technology : Nanoscale Technology, Elastic-Ti , Solid Feel Core , Muscle Power

I'm GONNA get YOU! I'm GONNA get YOU! I'm GONNA get YOU! I'm GONNA get YOU! I'm GONNA get YOU! I'm GONNA get YOU! I'm GONNA get YOU! I'm GONNA get YOU!

2006-03-28T05:21:00.000+11:00

This is WHY I dislike about my OWN country, it's a disgrace! Shame on YOU

List of Racial Discrimination in Malaysia

List of Racial Discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by Gov't as well as Gov't agencies.

This list is an open secret. Best verified by Gov't itself because it got the statistics.

This list is not in the order of importance,. that means the first one on the list is not the most important and the last one on the list does not mean least important.

This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those Non-Malays (Tamils, Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, orang asli, Christians, etc) who were being racially discriminated.

Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only.

Gov't of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is Gov't of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?

This list cover a period of about 47 years since Independence (1957).

List of racial discriminations (Malaysia ):

50 road names (at least) had been change from Chinese names to other names.

10 all public universities Vice chancellors are Malays

99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by Malays

99% of Petronas directors are Malays

2% is what Chinese New Village get compare with 98% of what Malays kampongs (villages) got for rural development budget.

1000 While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a Malay parents with RM2000 salary is eligible.

5% of all new intake for gov't nurses, police, army is Non-Malays.

2.5% is Gov't budget for Chinese primary schools. Tamil school got only 1%, Malay school got 96.5%

15% Discount for a Malay to buy a house, regardless whether the Malay is rich or poor.

5% The gov't universities lecturers of Non-Malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004

2% is the percentage of Non-Malays gov't servants in Putrajaya (the new gov't administrative capital).. But Malays make up. 98%

7% is the percentage of Chinese gov't servants in the whole gov't (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960

2% is the present Chinese staff in RMAF (Royal Malaysian Air Force), drop from 40% in 1960

0 of the gov't TV stations (TV1 , TV2, TV3) are directors of Non-Malays origin

2 million Malaysian Chinese had emigrated oversea since 40 years ago.

0.5 million Tamils Malaysians emigrated oversea

3 million Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with Bumiputra status.

0 Non-bumi are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (Nov 2004)

1 Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, The rest are controlled by Malays.

10% Place for Non-Bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, But, only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% Malays.

1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. but told by Malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004.

10 times, at least, Malays (especially UMNO) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969

50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians are beaten up in the Khidmat Negara (National Service) program in 2003.

8000 B is the total amount (RM 8000 Billion Rnggit) the Gov't channeled to Malays pockets through ASN, ASB, Tabung Haji, privatisation of Gov't agencies, MARA, etc through NEP over 34 years period.

25% is Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957

20 reported cases whereby Malay ambulance attendance treated Chinese patients inhumanely and Malay Gov't hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200.

600,000 are the Tamil and Chinese Malaysians with red IC and was rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60 % of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenship compare with the Chinese and Indians.

95% of Gov't contracts are given to Malays.

3 only 3 out of 12 Human Rights items are ratified by Malaysia Gov't since 1960

0 Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia Gov't. since 1960s

5% Only 5% is given to Non-Malays for Gov't scholarships over 40 years.

0 Chinese or Tamils were sent to Japan & Korea under "Look East Policy".

100% All business licensees are controlled by Malay gov't e.g. Taxi permits, AP permit etc.

2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in JB Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in Oct 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given.

80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to Malay controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers.

10 At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other Malay transport companies due to rejection by Malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses.

1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort ) when it was being officially used for a few days. Gov't try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort.

100% All contractors working under Petronas projects must be Bumiputra status.

3% of Petronas employees are Chinese.

30 gov't produced TV dramas and film always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face and the good guys had Malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency become less.

100 big companies set up, managed and owned by Chinese Malaysians were taken over / bought over by gov't / Malays and later managed by Malays since 1970s e.g. UMBC, MISC, UTC, etc

100 constituencies (states and parliaments) had been racistly re-delineated so that Chinese voters were diluted so that Chinese candidates particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s.

20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from gov't to develop. Or, these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed. Taman got at least one mosque / surau built.

3000 mosques / surau were built in all Taman throughout MalaysiaTaman . since 1970. No temples, no churches are required to be built in

2637 Malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000

48 Chinese primary schools closed. down since 1968 - 2000

144 Tamil primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000

128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired i.e.Medicine (in 2004)

1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002?)

20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down Malays were seriously assaulted or killed by Malays.

50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by Malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise, there will be no record.

7% is the present (2004) Malaysian Indians population, a drop from 12% in 1957

0 percent of Non-Malays staffs is legally required in Malay companies. But there must be 30 % Malays staffs in Chinese companies.

12% Is what ASN / ASB got per annum while banks' fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum.

There are hundreds more racial discriminations in Malaysia to add to this list of "colossal" racism. It is hoped that the victims of racism will write in to expose racism. Malaysian Government should publish statistics showing how much Malays had benefited from the "special rights" of Malays and at the same time tell the statistics of how much other minority races are being discriminated. Hence, the responsibility lies in the Malaysian gov't itself to publish unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination. If the Malaysia gov't hide the statistics above, then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings, sinful doings and shameful doings, like the Nazi, going on onto the Non-Malays of Malaysia.

Civilized nation, unlike evil Nazi, must publish statistics to show its treatment on its minority races, This is what Malaysia must publish...We are asking for the publication of the statistics showing how "implementation of special rights of Malays" had inflicted colossal racial discrimination onto Non-Malays

2006-03-21T09:06:00.000+11:00

The Old Times.....

Ohhh Mad Monday again, wish I could get 2 weeks off during the Commonwealth like all the other high school youngens and be one of the sports junkies.

I'm able to experience the Commonwealth Games atmosphere the second time but don't think I was that keen during the 16th Commonwealth Games back in Malaysia.

Unfortunately I missed out the Opening Ceremony on Wednesday night because I went for a social hit at Henderson after the State Pennant thinking that I probably should start my badminton practice routine and training again.

I managed to snatch 2 tickets to watch Australia vs NZ but missed out the Quarter Finals on Sunday when Australia met Malaysia! I didn't know Australia was that bad despite that the Men's doubles was the only highlight of the entire competition. I was meant to cheer the girls - Tania Luiz and Foong Meng but they didn't even play.

Anyway, missed out the Quarters when old team mate Mew Choo Wong from Malaysia playedTania Luiz in the Singles. She absolutely crushed her under 10 in straight set, I wasn't surprised. Mew Choo has made a troumendous achievement, remember herself still a petite teenager and her elder sister Mew Keng playing for our state back in Malaysia...she wasn't as good while Mew Keng had always been the top seeded Singles player and I was stuck in the 3rd/4th position. We dominated in every single National Circuits when we had to play our own team mates in the Quarter Finals. Well, I never had imagine her lil sister has come this far in her career, just in time to get a taste of her 1st Commonwealth Gold....it's too soon to say but I will definitely support her. Tonight's Finals would be awesome, I only seen Lee Choong Wei played once when I was back home during the summer. I just had to visit my state squad training ground once and lucky enough I got to watch Selangor Open as well as caught up with some old team mates. Lee Choong Wei was too good, better than the ones who were in the squad...no doubt it's a huge challenge for the boys to make it into the top 10 rankings among the 100s. For the girls...haha..I was lucky to be in the squad because there were 8 girls fighting for the place...when 8 were required for the squad...I enjoyed it! But I have no regrets of quitting...

2006-03-17T11:52:00.000+11:00

Just Updating...

Oh it's 2pm the team is still pretty much at lunch at the pub and my boss is away for the rest of the week to work on an on-going job in Sydney and Adelaide *yawn* which is a good news to me to be bumming around the office doing absolutely nothing. This is one good thing about having the office separated from the Operations, cause it's really difficult to predend to work hard - there's no point :-P

So since my last blog which was few days back, I decided to update my boring blog site which I'm quite excited about...

Mountain Biking! I never would imagine myself being involved in extreme sports, guess you have to be interested in it and hang out with the right people. Well, Carl once involved in BMX/mountain biking and I got introduced to the sport. Excellent! I could put my muscular GT Avalanche to the test.

We met Andrew Liu and a few people to go for a pub ride on Saturday, we did more than 40Ks from Port Melbourne to Footscray, had lunch and a few drinks, surprised to hear that cyclists could get fined if found drunk...but I drank for one purpose, to eliminate the pain on butt after a long ride LOL! Andrew is a GT & BMX fanatic , happy Carl found his match and they started exchanging experience. Andrew then invited us to a biking session in You Yangs. I was like "awesome!" after all I did more than 40Ks, I should be alright to have my first mountain biking experience and put my GT into good use!

Cross Country 7 is rated one of the most difficult tracks, very narrow,twisting and bumpy track. I had to go on feet on jumps of few feet high and a few crashes into the bush after doing more than 30K/hr *smartass* disappointed in myself watching those boys having one hell of a time just cruising down hill and flying off cliffs *aarrgghh* I wanna do that too! So this was my first time and couldn't expect too much plus I'm abit of a wuss LOL!! *boohoo* I guess I could have pinched alil testosterone from the boys! Then I chose a slightly easier track Cross Country 5, I guess I did fairly alright with this one time...managed to stay on bike during the ride although I did fall and had a lil graze on my shin but I had a good ride no doubt would do abit more in the near future. Carl was with me - making sure I didn't break myself :-P and missed out some challenging tracks with Andrew unfortunately :-P but we would probably do Cross Country 7 again together without getting off the bike....

2006-03-07T10:05:00.000+11:00

DON'T MESS WITH ME or MY MAN!

Have you guys been to Blvd Bar in Southbank? I would recommend it for a great hangout spot during the evening. It's normally a restaurant by day and a bar/club by night. I reckon the bar is quite alright with a huge range of beers accept Belgium though - I don't think they have hoegaaden on taps, maybe in bottles I guess :-P They have couches in the bar area then a semi-spiral stair to second floor where all the hip-hop/RnB groovers spend the night.

Anyway, Adrian, Rose and I were there last weekend though it would have been better if Carl was with me, however he is pretty much a pub person and he was quite committed to his Saturday's badminton social night :-))

I had a couple of Kronenbourgs (French) before we headed off to the dance floor. We had a fairly good night though I normally would prefer Friday nights because Saturday is Asian night and clubs like this is always swamped with International students, so the dance floor was quite packed and dancing seemed quite awkward when people could only wave their hands in the air and moving your bum without hitting other people was almost impossible.

WARNING to people who are interested in the place, please bring enough cash cos they won't accept cards if it's under $20 which I had to buy a couple more drinks in one go...LOL! One of them was Barcardi 151 which wasn't that bad at all...

At 2, everyone I know was gone and no point staying with the other young strangers so I asked Carl for a pick up. While I was walking up to the Exhibition which we agreed to meet up, this extremely annoying stalker+sleazebag trying to chat me up. I kept on walking, ignoring while he kept talking about his ex-misus was from Malaysia and blah blah blah until I saw Carl's car then threaten him that my boyfriend is here and he might be quite intimidating, hoping he would just leave instead he insisted me to go home with him and he would send me home on a cab, and I thought that was annoying enough when I saw a chick approached Carl's car....adrenaline rush wasn't very good for me cos I could be very VERY violent, I didn't manage to get to Carl in time to ask that chic to piss off, just don't care whether she only needed a ride, she COULD leave my Carl ALONE and wait for a cab like EVERYONE ELSE! because I was dealing with this piece of sleazebag, if he tried grabbing me - he could perhaps kiss his balls goodbye! Well, he swore at me and left.....arrgghh! that chic left, lucky her cos she won't be very happy to see me!

2006-03-01T09:03:00.000+11:00

Badminton-less Weekend!

Hmmm...Kaylene's BBQ birthday party or badminton session at Melbourne Uni before our next game this comin Saturday...dilemma....dilemma...

YAY! there was a mountain of food at Kaylene's B'day bash in Ruffey Lake Park, Doncaster :-P though we rocked up rather late cause of our last minute shoppin for Kaylene's pressie...hope she liked it ;-) I definitely give the grilled onion & baby octopus a BIG thumbs up and those variaty of rich cheeses!! Loved the fruit salad but not sure why those green salad still wrapped up nicely in 2 massive bowls...untouched! Oh well, we all LOVE our greasy, fat, juicy, full of MSG and SUGAR and unhealthy food don't we?! lol!! Unfortunately the sky turned ugly and fell heavily with a couple dozen of us crammed under a small roof....

Ohhh..well-fed from the party, sitting in the couch at home, playing xBox with Carl feeling all satisfied then conscience hit me for not turning up for badminton practice for the State Pennant...oops...felt even worse couse already promised Rose that I'll go to Blvd Bar for a boogie! Well, I had a good night - it's been ages since my last groove...hehe..PUFF!

Sunday - initial planning was going to the FPV Family Day event up in Campberfield - where Carl does most of his FPV engines calibrations, to check out some of those awesome GT-Ps and Typhoons then to training at Hung's but had a last minute change of plan since we both slept in and Hung was probably sweating up in Altona Open, we only left house after noon and some supercar racing on xBox...hehehe...exciting! Yay! Took us 50 mins to drive down to Campberfield, heaps of FPV huge fans!!

Checkout their DriF6 Drift Car *awesome wheels!*

More FPV F6
...then we spotted this monster CATS tractor with massive rear wheel

2006-02-21T07:43:00.000+11:00

Sweet Like Chocolate

Thought these images are pretty cool :-))

2006-02-14T17:20:00.000+11:00

Diseased

Could someone tell me what causes this irritation? I had tapes around my wrist during badminton, and I don't normally get such reaction on my wrist, it's red, puffy and itchy. Might be some insect bite.....what do you think? I hope the anti-histemine helps, already took 2 today...... ..........Damn it itches so much I think I'm gonna use an axe......

2006-02-10T08:34:00.000+11:00

Early Start

I got called in to work at 4:30am this morning to fix up Adelaide after power outage last night *damnit* why do they have to start that freakin early! My boss came in at 2:30...hmmm...I think he was trying to wait till later before ringing me. He sounded urgent, so I took a cab straight to work.

We had a few more dramas, boss couldn't bare his on-going headache and headed home to left me out here alone *doh* the biggest issue was some mumpet *hehehehhe, mumpet.....* deleted some important files on the server before a back up even started, so business development people are quite anxious...hmmm...I can feel their pain....but sorry dudes...can't help ya, I don't look after the servers...hehehehe

Oh, time to go home....stuff the day!

2006-02-09T10:17:00.000+11:00

Bored Shitlesssssssss........

Another stress-free day...I hope, as long as they don't come asking for those missing files from me again!

I found myself doing quite a bit of cleaning lately, my room and now my work desk - rearranging stuff. Not an interesting way to start the day, but atleast it's far better than people jamming into our IT department asking for me to solve their problems...then there was nothing, not a phone call - nothing's broken down or stop working or noone screaming "WHY CAN'T I GET ONTO THE INTERNET!!" Keep reminding myself not to fall sleep despite minutes after skulling my second mug of coffee, only found myself day dreaming and playing Solitaire on my new PDA phone - trying to be discreet, seems to work really well.....

............zzzzzzzzzzzzzz............OH *DOH*

Yay! 3pm........2 hours to go..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

*Bitch slap* *OuCH!*

More caffeine...............................................people looking at me funny while I was makin myself some coffee with one foot on the floor doing squats to strengthen my injured ankle.........

I should do some work....seriously..............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2006-02-08T10:28:00.000+11:00

My Encounter with the White-Tailed................

I think I really need to give my room a good hoover! Can't believe my room's been invaded by another 12mm white-tailed *eeeek* I killed one the other day in my flat and Zel found it hard to believe that White-tailed Spiders do lurk around residence area like mine... I guess it's mating season...hehehehe...

It was crawling on the ceiling right on top of my head thinking of grabbing my old racquet just lying inches away from my feet and wacked it like a shuttlecock :-P but decided to get the spray from the kitchen then perhaps capture some images to show Zel! The minute I returned, it disppeared!! IT'S HIDDEN somewhere in my ROOOOM *sob* OH my brand new dark bed sheet! *DOH* damn it....now it's even harder for me to find it! I jumped at everything I stepped onto, I'm just afraid of their nasty bites.

"White-tailed Spider bites can cause initial burning pain followed by swelling and itchiness at the bitten area. Occasionally, weals, blistering or local ulceration have been reported - conditions known medically as necrotising arachnidism. As well as the spider's venom, minor bacterial infection of the wound may be a contributory factor in such cases." *scary*

I made a mess in my room, had my clothes all spreaded out and mattress flipped over....*aarrgghh* damn it, no sign of it! Flatmate was a sleep, couldn't do a hoover - I didn't think I'll be able to sleep in the room tonight. I rang up Carl...with my tearful voice :-P so he let me stayed over at his...*phew* but I missed my bed.....my new bed sheet...

SO GET MOVIN SHETLI! A BIG LATE SPRING CLEANING!! MOVE MOVE MOVE!

2006-01-31T11:36:00.000+11:00

My Good Times and Bad Times

Oh how I felt so unhealthy today after having all meat for lunch from last night's dinner at Patris, a Greek restaurant in Elwood. DON'T get me wrong, the food there was awesome!! We ordered a Platter Banquette with all the dips, greek style sausages, mini fish fries and 2 large meat and seafood platter..yummm...but we only managed 1/3 of them! I'm still munching some lovely lamb kebabs as I blog! yumm....

Day is going fairly slow, I have been emailing our staff up in Canberra all day to explain the third time how our network is separated from their client's so they could stop asking us to create accounts for the new users! They are quite adamant with their thinking....that they are using our fascilities so they assume they are on our network and this issue has been going on for the last few months...

Trying to finish up a proposal for my Boss...no matter how many sentences I added in, I seem to only get a page long...not really impressed with my effort, I really need to finish it off by this week otherwise I won't be getting MCP this year.... :-(

I have bad news, I don't think Melbourne Black will be quite pleased with me :-P *oops* I twisted my ankle at training...yet again! It wasn't a serious one but I've twisted it a couple of times and that has sorta made it worse...I finally booked an appointment with the physio, hope they could get me fixed before State Pennant...so not fair, I feel so broken right now *sob* *sob*

2006-01-26T10:46:00.000+11:00

Bunnies Suicide Pt. 2

2006-01-25T05:17:00.000+11:00

The Weekend..................*HOT HOT HOT*

Warmish weekend! I think it went up from 34 to 46C...chilling out at home should be the way to go but I can't seem to stay home and do nothing so I made an effort to do some bike riding and took Carl along even - it was scotching that day he was alittle reluctant to go but glad that he did....initial plan was to get familiar with the bike trail/route to work from home. Well, I've done 45mins to and from between Elwood beach and Sandringham and I would thought it would take about the same time to go to work and only realised that I was TOTALLY wrong! It took us an hour just to get to the Yarra river and I had to turn around, the heat was absolutely unbearable *so much for the effort* plus the hills! They almost killed me!OMGOMG!*still in denial of my poor fitness*

On the way home was interesting after a can of Red Bull, though it should have been 'BIG' - I'm sure you have seen the ad Think BIG! .....I was riding in full speed, while a bus was 5 meters ahead and followed by a car almost 100meters away, I was determined to overtake the bus as it stopped, it was quite a risk to take cause the road was narrow and won't have space to squeeze myself through if the bus started moving again, and so I went for it - just as I reached the its rear it stirred alil to the right and back to its course I hit the brakes so hard I could hear my tyres sqealed on the burning surface of the road, the worst part of all I realised the car was inching nearer to me and I really had to get out of the road FAST! Then I noticed the narrow divider, quickly - I tuned in and let the car drove passed *phew* I was like..........AWESOoooooome baybe!!
Lesson of the day! Don't ever consume Red Bull while on the road, especially on bikes in a hot weather....

Next day, we cooled off at Edithvale Beach. Thought it's a nice beach for a dip after the trip down there with Melbourne Uni friends. Carl isn't a big fan of the water but dragged him along again...maybe I should ride to the beach...hmmmmm.... *more like a death wish* :-)) lol!

2006-01-24T11:37:00.000+11:00

Cosmo, my little Winter White Russian hamster....

I once got a Sapphire white Dwarf hamster as a gift from Pet's Wonderland pet store I used to work in back in Malaysia. Nobody knew she was pregnant until she gave birth to 2 females and 2 male pups, so I had 5 hamsters out of the blue but had to leave them behind and returned to Uni...hmm...this is a very sad story..... :'-( they all were well-looked after until they were 6 months old, we didn't separate the genders when we supposed to, the males attacked each other - one died :-P from severe injuries the other lost one of its eyes. Not too long after, one lost after taking them out for a walk....my sister's cat ate one of them *my sisters fault!* then the last female went too with desease... *sob* and left Cosmo alone, she died last year of old age because she didn't have teeth to eat and their main food source is nuts....my mum thought she could have died ages ago but she just needed to see me once more *sob* *sob* but it was too late :'-(

Miss ya Cosmo....

2006-01-24T08:52:00.000+11:00

Suicide Bunnies - Pt1

2006-01-20T12:22:00.000+11:00

The 7 Habbits of Highly Effective People

Habit 1 - Be Proactive
Habit 2 - Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3 - Put First Things First
Habit 4 - Think Win-Win
Habit 5 - Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
Habit 6 - Synergize
Habit 7 - Sharpen the Saw

2006-01-19T03:35:00.000+11:00

I believe all (especially females *giggles*) are determined to lose some pounds in this New Year. Some may find it to be a struggle (like me *sigh*) to get out of the couch and do what's good for the body and health...I know......it's terribly hard, when we have to resist all the temptation! BUT why not analyse these health questions FIRST before doing anything that stresses your delicate body *wink*

HEALTH QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true?

A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.

Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?

A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain?Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?

A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain. Bottoms up!

Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?

A: Well, if you have a body and you have fat, your ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc.

Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?

A: Can't think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain...Good!

Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?

A: YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!!!... Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?

Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?

A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.

Q: Is chocolate bad for me?

A: Are you crazy? HELLO . Cocoa beans! Another vegetable!!! It's the best feel-good food around!

Q: Is swimming good for your figure?

A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

Q: Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle?

A: Hey! 'Round' is a shape!

.....so?! take it easy.......life is too short to not ENJOY! *thumbs up*

- cropped from Dana's Blog -

2006-01-17T12:20:00.000+11:00

The WeekEnd...

Pretty good I would say :-)) although I didn't do most of the things I planned to, just felt lazy. I should be doing twice the amount of exercise this year as I need to do some other activities which minimise wrists movements and maybe less of badminton :-(( I was meant to consult a physio about my wrist but I've never made an effort to make an appointment with any, I'm afraid to be told to stop ALL sporting activities for the next 6mths! Which is fair enough...I hope I could pick up the phone sometime this week to do so *fingers crossed*

I decided to have a social hit in Donvale with Kitty and maybe Zel but they were all booked out *sigh* :-P thought about goin to Xue's with Kitty for dinner as I still have Xue's trophy with me.
Anyway, Carl and I went to TGI's Friday at Westfield, Southland instead. Food was excellent, but it was the Cocktail menu that we were after. Carl didn't get to drink *oops* so I ordered this huge luscious red Ultimate Hawaiian Volcano mixed with Smirnoff Vodka *my fav*, Amaretto *better than Midori* and some nice tropical fruit juices....it's VERy very seductive drink! Well, anyone interested and haven't yet been to TGI's - check out the MENU!

Saturday - Slept in! We spent the day shopping at Westfield AGAIN! lol!! I got some work clothes. Just a couple of nice tops, have been reluctant to get some skirts :-P they aren't really suitable for a working environment like mine, going under desks to work on wall jacks/carrying computers/parts around the building/running up the stairs?! lol!! No thanks!
.....and so we walked passed this gift shop, I giggled - it's the Homer Rotating Eyes clock! LOL!! I don't know why it tickles me that much as I'm not really a BIG fan of The Simpsons despite watching most of the episodes.......hmmmmm....but we got 2 straight after! LOL!! one each...LOL!
Sunday - I'd planned to go training at Hung's and bike riding along Yarra river that can get me familiar with the trail to work and it would be good to do abit more pedelling instead of running and minimise the chances of hurting my achillies, guess I can't get away with long-term sports injuries now that I've hit mid 20s! Remember the time when I had none! NONE! that was 10 years ago :-P *sad*

Later that Sunday ........... *sigh* I meant to go for a bike ride after training at Springers and I've been bumming around and playing xBox.... *hopeless*

2006-01-14T04:38:00.000+11:00

A Special Kitten Called Cy

Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy....

Awwwwwwwwwww...................... :'-((

2006-01-13T09:15:00.000+11:00

Check out the Groove Chic!!

See me groove!!

2006-01-13T06:56:00.000+11:00

I'm just killing time...

8:45am - Arrived at work, printed out the our network layout diagrams I've done with Visio. 5 hours spent staring at switches, routers and servers plus 2 hours tracking down the uplink cables then 2.5 hours struggling with Visio *phew* atleast, these diagrams are good for reference and for on going troubleshooting procedure. I'm all prepared to show these to Graeme, my superior. Feeling rather good cause it's something I always go through after finishing an assignment on time for Uni...hehe

9:30am - We had our weekly review meeting on our IT issues. Nothing much for me to follow up but heaps of issues for the development team....hehehe...suckers...

10am - Graeme is cool with diagrams and we are meant to meet up with a technical support dude from telecom. While waiting for him, I thought I could use the time to transfer the OfficeXP installation file across Canberra network for a user, it took like an hour to move 216MB :-P boring...but it's done! Thank god...

11:17am - He hasn't turned up yet, so I'm just gonna kill some time. Did some emailing and now posting some stuff on my blog...feeling bored, Robert and Shannon have gone interstate to run some jobs and there are just 4 of us in this huge, boring office, staring at Shan's Mac magazine wonder what else I could get for my iPod Nano since Carl got me the AirPlay FM transmitter, thinking iTrip could have been better but all the electronical stores have only iTrips with different connectors. OH! Maybe a OtterBox, a drop-resistant, waterproof and interactive iPod case which was recommended by a friend. It should be good for outdoor use really. So all you iPod freaks out there, check OtterBox out! Unfortunately, I won't know whether they are available in Australia..

Ok *sigh* not happy with this tech dude, still no sign of him...all the effort I put in to do those network layouts.....*pohf* guess I'll make some time to beautify them alil more. It's almost noon and I think I wanna have my bacon and salad pasta *yum yum yum yum* and some Acid Drops for dessert Carl got them from the Apple Garden....hehehe...

Post Time & date?!!!

I realised the posting times are rather odd, and found out I have to set the posting time manually :-P LOL!!!

2006-01-12T05:59:00.000+11:00

Crazy Frog Haters Club!!

If you are absolutely annoyed by this obnoxious crazy green bastard! I'm pretty sure this will make your day....and I just don't understand why does it have human bits hangin off its crotch?!

I GOT YOU................YOU DIE NOW! You.......you lil slimey green ......thing u!

I'm running out of stuff to put on my blog

2006-01-10T16:59:00.000+11:00

....so I took something out of Kaylene's blog and reusing it....ain't that a brilliant idea!! But if you have time to waste, why not answer some of these questions?

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Remember 2005 NYE party in the City, nobody bothered to drink on the second night so I had 4 Flaming Lamboghinis in a role and passed out within 30 min...LOL!!

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Always! Sleep more is always priority on every NY resolution list!!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Errr....no

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yeah, My pop...missed your jokes!

5. What countries did you visit?
Yeah, went back to M'sia to visit my folks...they were good!But M'sia still sucks!

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
More IT industrial experience,improve my people skills,stop stressing out at work

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
March - got my PR after 11 months! May - Being offered a proper IT job as my birthday pressie :-))

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Stopped spending my parent's money and earning my on living.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Didn't get to play professional badminton, lack of dedication.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Injured wrist which probably could cut down the chances to ace in any competitive baddy tournament.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My very own GT Avalanche 1.0 MT Bike, thanks to Carl's support :-*

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Carl - I don't think anyone could put up with my attitude as well as him. Wonder why sometimes I'm so cold to my closest, I have to make a little amendment perhaps it could be one of the first few NY resolutions.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
NONE.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Mostly food and my rent.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Dinner! Carl always volunteers to cook!! he is spoiling me!! but I'm loving it!!

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
I have a couple sad ones, which remind me of whom I used to appreciate alot....but that's in the past now....

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
Happier!!
ii. thinner or fatter?
Yeah, well...fatter :-P
iii. richer or poorer?
Richer and poorer at the same time!!

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
I wish I could be more determine with plannings and decisions, be more productive at work and increase fitness workout (still trying to get my packs...:-P )

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Eating disorientedly.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
We had meat loaf and I thought I had the weirdest roast meat before I knew I had them mixed up! We cooked roast meat the next day and it turned out awesome!

21. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Er...no, but I met Carl with cool english accent.

22. How many one-night stands?
2005? Zero! He he he he

23. What was your favorite TV program?
CSI

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nah, I don't hate this person, just annoyed.

25. What was the best book you read?
The Devil's Number

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
HA HA HA HA HA HA...

27. What did you want and get?
Australian License and a place for my own.

28. What was your favorite film of this year?
I think it was Shutter, a Thai horror film. The male actor is definitely Orlando Bloom's look alike.

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Got all work staff sang me birthday song on my 24th and boss treated us a great meal and heaps of top shelf alco and went out with some friends in the City for more drinks!!

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A new Athlon 64 PC system for only 1600 which I can watch DVD/TV on a 19inch flat screen and listening to radio with 5.1 sound system

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Casual and comfort, fancy clothing is not my area.

32. What kept you sane?
Friends, work and a good sleep!

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Angelina Jolie - all time favourite!

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
I'd like to stay away from politic issues as much as possible

35. Who did you miss?
Someone I'd like to keep to myself :-P

36. Who were the best new people you met?
Adrian, Rose, Kaylene and the gang.

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Well, I learnt not to get too intoxicated when drinking out. Nearly got kidnapped and had to visit the Police joint for several times to identify the crime offender..sucks!

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Ups and Downs by some Korean chic band ;-))

Visitor Count Malfunction!

2006-01-10T14:39:00.000+11:00

I couldn't find a piece of code that does the visitor count so I sorta stole the one from Zel's. So I got the code, did a 'cut and paste' to the script but I don't think it is doing the count...I could be missing something, something really simple :-P I'm so hopeless with this now....hehehe...so if you have any comment on this, please feel free....

It's always fun to have people visiting your site and I really don't mind if they post in silly comments...haha...atleast we have something to laugh about.

Later in the day...............

I finally got it working!! By chuckin away the earlier Web Count I got from Zel's....hehehe....my easy hit counter is better!! PERFECT! I LIKE IT ALOT!!

Blog's on the MOVE...

2006-01-09T19:45:00.000+11:00

I think Blogger is quite popular amongst my friends, not too sure why I would rather move from MSN Space to this when I don't even consider myself as a regular blogger...the only time I have to do this is at work, don't think my boss is gonna appreciate this at all...but I still find time reading others...well, hope you guys enjoy it :-))

What will become of man kind...

2006-01-09T19:41:00.000+11:00

I totally agreed with Dina...so WHAT will become of man kind in years to come...you FIGURE that out yourself...hehehe or you could just LOOK at this picture...

2006-01-09T18:29:00.000+11:00

My Christmas/NY Holiday

Bells Beach

Another 12 months! Another year and a new list of the next 12 months resolution which somehow matches the one last year...maybe I should stop sleeping too much...

Last week before Christmas was somewhat horrible, spending most of the time stressing out at work. Wonder why all problems surfaced right before my long break, network down, email not working, hard drive failure, a few blue screens and dealing with some ignorant people...they all happened at the same time, every single needed priority attention...and we were lacking of support technicians and I guess I'm not really good at handling this sorta situation/emotion. I managed to walk out the office at 2:30pm on the last day and headed towards the pub instead! I had enough of BS lol!!

Christmas was all about drinking, slept throughout the day and did drinking games, had to drink 7 shots in a role cos I sucked at the game...slept throughout after. It was just the best of all Christmas holiday I've ever had!

Carl and I planned a trip down to the Surf Coast (Torquay/Bells Beach/Anglesea/Fairhaven/Lorne/Apollo Bay/12Apostles), I think we missed Jan Jac. Weather was sensational all week so spent 2 days at the surf beach doing bodyboarding, only caught a couple of good waves. Felt good as current running below the board as it carried me to the shore with the rest of the wave, awesome....and it's all hard work to get back out there to catch a decent wave. We played Frisbee on the beach...and bike riding along the coast. We kinda plan to come down here more often during the Summer, it should be good :-))

So returned to Melb before NYE, all brown and tanned just like I wanted! lol!! Loved it! atleast I got to use my bodyboard since I bought it 12 months ago, geeeeeeeeeeeeeez!

My very own GT Avalanche 1.0 2006 MB!

2006-01-09T18:26:00.000+11:00

Hey guys!
you gotto check out my new mountain bike! The 27-speed GT Avalanche 1.0 and got hold of the latest 2006 version which isn't much of a difference from the 2005 version except that it has different colour range, hydraulic disc brakes, stem, better grips and a lock out fork - that's all pretty cool really! I'm quite excited about it, plus I got it with all the other accessories which worth 360 but because I was paying cash they cost less than 250 bucks and plus the discounted price for the bike which was quite a deal! Thanks to Carl, he is such a sweetie :-* - probably had done most of the research and bargaining although he kept persuading me to get Giant instead that has similar tech specs :-P but it sounds so clumsy and cumbersome but GT - it's like a turbo sports car! hehe! Agree?

So we did a bike ride along the beach trail between St Kilda and Brighton right after the purchase last Saturday, it was awesome though my butt cheeks hurt because I didn't bother to buy some padded shorts which I should! lol!!

Well, I can't wait to do a few more rides and maybe get used to the bike trails in Melbourne so I could maybe cycle to work despite those tyres are not too suitable for pavements.
Anyone out there like to go for a bike ride, just drop me a line? COOL?! yay! Promise?

Angel_Garden @};-

Bye bye..

I was this close....to submit my resignation...

Dog owners 'fleeced' in poodle scam

Good Partnership dude!

Never hold your farts in

Having a bad day?

Anthrax Thread?!

Something is wrong with this forecast display..hmm

Crappy Connex

Take deep breaths...

R GTI-licious (Click here for specs)

eBay SCAM? BEWARE eBAYERS!

My Frustration

Mac vs. PC

Bluetooth Handsfree for iPod+mobile!

Don't mess with me...

Trials Riding

2006 came and went...

PS3 vs. Wii

I was dozing off at 3pm and then....toilet seat popped in my mind

POOOPER

Cricket Attack

Moral of this story is....

I won the BID!

Why is it the women's fault??

I am...

Random Thoughts

Quit or not to Quit

I feel snorty today

It was more a flamming lamboghini party than a cocktail party to me *smiles*

The Sexes Magazines

Search STILL in progress.....tick tock tick tock

Do I soak my dress in a cocktail to make a cocktail dress?

Medical Info Alert!

Australian Performance Car Championship

You sure I can find my file on here??

Ten Dumps Yasmin

Curse of Diablo

Me? Trouphy hunter?! Get out of it....

All By Myself..

So you think you can handle PICKLES?!

Another Training Week for Shet Li :-))

Keep up with the good service dude!

Mr Sissy Mouth

Flat out.....

Like......................whaaaatever

Feeling alittle slobbish

Yay! I'm in Heaven...

Snap Shots

Virgin Blue Stinks?

Too Loud For YOU?! Geeeeees

My Downside

You need Firefox to view my page...

Don't screw up...

Making My First Quarter of a Century :-))

Moving On

Interesting Toilet Poets

BUT.....I DON'T WANNA BE A BATMAN.............................

EASTER!!

What a Disgusting Maggot

A Slack Blogger

Compilation Car Accidents

For The Girls...

You Yang 13.3.06

I'm running out of stuff to put on my blog

Visitor Count Malfunction!

Blog's on the MOVE...

What will become of man kind...

My very own GT Avalanche 1.0 2006 MB!

It was more a flamming lamboghini party than a cocktail party to me smiles