happy anniversary

Today is a special day, because a year back today, I decided to forfeit my seniority, take a little bit of risk and a simple way out of my misery, and I joined my current company =)

Time flies, and it has been a year I am here. I am still me, just that I am much much more happier now than I was a year back, because I spent less time at work, and enjoy life the fullest, that is really a good thing =)

just a bit sleepy

Not really sleepy, just a little sleepy, therefore posting some posts over here, with this last one with a little bit of random thought =)

Well, I have been reading about other blogger who literally don't need to sleep at night, because they have such habit, and when they cant sleep, they blogs. Well, am trying to be one temporarily for tonight. Hmm... or maybe not, because I am not a season late night blogger, hehe =)

Me just want to pen down the quiet, calm and peaceful night feeling, with happy feeling of thoughts here and there. Love the feeling. Well, gotta sleep now. Tomorrow still a mystery, yet it will be a fulfill one =)

Oyasumi!

she says yes =)

Fishing My Way To Made Of Honor

Here, I present you, the fishing game, which I have been playing A LOT recently, trading lots of my blogging time (not to mention working time, eating time, basketball time etc etc =), hoping and trying my humble luck in winning a chance to an extraordinary experience in life, which I truly believe it will.

Although the chance does look very very slim now after googling other blogger high scores, am still wanting to submit my score just for the sake of submitting. Why not? Because I tried my best at least =)

lock out

Today, my car auto lock system gone nut and lock me out from my car with my car key still at ignition and engine still running. I almost gone crazy at that time *_*

Luckily, I approached the hotel staff nearby and they help me called a mechanic. Well, all I can say is, it is really an eye opening to see how to open the car without key.

In less than 10 seconds, with a small screw driver, a simple thing that usually people throw away, and a little bit of practice, my wira car can be opened easily. How easy to jack a car!

So, reminder to all, DONT ever trust the car lock.

Btw, I paid RM20 for the "jack" service.

quote

Steal this from a friend's blog "p

Appearance wins over the eyes,

but personality wins over the heart.

second opinion

When you are troubled, and you don't really know what to do by yourself, it is always good to ask for a 2nd opinion, and I totally agree with it. However, if the person you ask doesn't really know everything that are happening around you, under awkward circumstances, the opinion given may not be correct or incorrect. Opinion is still always an opinion. You still have to process everything given, take your time and think things through.

lost

When you got used to doing something, but all of the sudden you totally lost it, the initial knee jerk reaction is, you are in the state of shock. You don't know what to do, and it is out of your control. You then try to find the cause. You later found out that you lost it because of something you did, intentionally or unintentionally, that will haunt you forever, and there is no way to make amend. Guilt started to creep in, sadness followed not long later, and all you can feel now is lost and helpless, for a period of time. I hope that my friend will find the resolution and peace of mind. Because it is unbearable to watch misery consuming a person up and you cant really do anything about it.

been a while

Halo everyone, it has been a while since I last regularly update my blog. Sorry about that.

For starter, above is a photo that I took a few days back, when I just reach home in the evening and walking towards the lift. Notice this "swoosh" cloud striking through the moon on the sky. Found that it is very interesting and a rare sight. Like it a lot =)

Recently, work started to pick up a little, since one project dateline is drawing near. But I still kept the work for 9-5. Therefore still fine =)

After work, spend lots of time with friends. It is great to have the companionship.

And as days goes by, Ah Beng & jlaw farewell is drawing near as well. A bit lost of what to do for them when they do leave. Farewell plan still doesn't really take shape and is considering keeping it simple or maybe a 1:1 farewell.

ex-company friends are extremely occupied with work, therefore, didnt really get to gather with them or have a meal with them. That has been a while already.

2 days back, I went back to ex-company and busy body a little with one of the annual sport event that they are having there. There was this ping pong competition between departments. I signed in as a visitor for "meeting" officially with Jules as escort "p

Taking a walk from the lobby until the cafeteria, notice there are some changes, physically or the feel or the atmosphere, yet still not a lot in certain way. There are still some familiar faces there, and there are also those who I am not so familiar with. 

Well, what I want to say is, ex-company is still doing well, life there still goes on, with or without me. I must say that the visit there does really open me up a little, at least I do find major closure now for my hatred to my ex-manager as well as ex-company. I finally can lay down some of the burden and sigh relief. I decided to move on now. One thing for sure, ex-manger will still always be the person whom I hate the most in my whole life, but it has become insignificant. There are more things in life for me that are more important, now and future =) thanks to jules for signing me in =)

1st June is coming soon. That day will mark my 1st anniversary in my current company. Time flies, but my life is great and still improving =)

I am an avid blogger (not pro-blogger) nowadays when I can spare the time =)

I am also addicted to this fishing game online, and if i do get high score, like maybe around 15000-20000 pounds (which i still haven't but target and working hard to), I really want to win the invitation to a special event for "Made of Honor" early preview =)

Then there is this reno planning, shopping and chores that keep me occupied for a while too =)

I am also participating in a basketball tournament in Butterworth which require me travel there in an average of twice a week. So far the game going well, though I know that I am not performing as good as I used to be. But I enjoy the game and had a good exercise =)

There are many wedding dinners coming soon too =)

And there is this one thing that I will leave for other future post =)

It is just a random posting here. This is just a piece of recent me =) I hope you all are doing fine as well. Take care.

duchess

source dunlopillo

I bought myself a mattress yesterday at Arredo, in its final sales day.

It is a Dunlopillo Duchess mattress, and I like the comfort of it while still within my budget.

I myself actually didn't do much survey this time, and I just hitch-hiked a friend research and got myself the same matress as my friend =)

lomo loma

Read about this term in a chinese newspaper today =)

So, what is LOMO?

Leningradskoye Optiko-Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie

And what is LOMA?

Leningrad Optical Mechanical Amalgamation

quite a mouthful "p

biohazard

I did something smart and stupid at the same time in the spring cleaning ordeal weeks back.

How? Let me explain.

My general contractor (whom is my friend as well) did remind me before to be careful when moving my old stuff to my new place, especially the risk of bringing along some "unwanted residents" as well.

These "unwanted residents" are not those creepy ghost kinda thing, but they are termites, geckos, spiders, cockroaches, ants etc. Insects to be exact. And you really don't want them to move in with you for sure.

So, smart smart me come out with a countermeasure. I bought myself 5 packets of mothballs, and put some in each and every boxes that I packed, as well as in each and every cupboard corners and corners in my room.

The end result, my room now is virtually insects free. But at the same time, it is human free as well, because the mothballs smell is so strong that you need to wear a mask to be in the room.

So, there you have it. My smart move has made my room a biohazard area, forcing me having to sleep in another room yesterday +_+

mayday

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small talk:-
Just notice something wrong with my right knee while doing room cleaning last weekend. When I squat down for a while, my right knee got numb and become weak, making me barely can stand up again. I suspected the motorcycle accident got to do with this, only to realize it until yesterday. Guess I am gonna pay the regular chinese sensei a
visit again later *_*

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~ May 2008 ~
I think this month is not really a good month.

1st May, I met with an accident. And last week, I got a nightmare (I think this count gua, because I seldom have nightmare one, hehe "p)

We also have this Typhoon Nargis in Myanmar, then we have this 8.0 Richter scale (revised) earthquake in Sichuan China, lots of life were lost in these 2 major tragedies.

Weather is very hot, and may people got sick recently too. And yesterday, a friend of mine had a very sad sad day. Bad news everywhere =(

Well, we still have 12 more days to go in the month of May. Hope that no more bad things anymore.

And in this very day of Wesak Day, I pray for WORLD PEACE =)

HAPPY WESAK DAY!

movies

hehe, when I dont watch movies, I will be parting with cinemas for quite a long time.

But when I do watch movies, it will be too frequent.

How? In the past 24 hours, I have watched 2 movies - Narnia & The Forbidden Kingdom =)

Narnia is good, better than the first one, I personally think.

For The Forbidden Kingdom, just average. The only scene that I would give a thumb-up would be the fighting scene between Jet Li and Jacky Chan, hehe =)

Oh ya, today has been a busy day as well. Been driving here and there, but spent a lot of quality times with many friends, just regret that those moment were too short.

Lastly, the swimming pool at my future place to live in is ready. Got to know about it when I went there today. A very big and nice pool. Guess in the future, I will learn how to swim there =)

extortion

Phew...

Today is the busiest day in the whole month for me. Therefore, almost couldn't make time to make a post today.

Well, since I am a blog addict, how could I not blog at least one post if I can spare a little time from the day? =) But unfortunately this gonna be a quick one (hopefully). Because after this, I still need do some work, as well as I need to attend a meeting at 11pm later, will be dialing in from home.

Let's not waste time. What I want to talk about in this post?

Actually a couple of things. But before I go into the main topic, let me do an advertisement here for the secondary topic, hehe =)

I actually learnt something new today, and I think by sharing it out may benefit some of you =)

Well, to all future brides and bridegrooms, when you all are getting into the detail preparation for the traditional chinese wedding ceremony, some of you newbies who wants to do it all by your own may be wondering where to get all the "things" that required for the ceremony, right?

I too was puzzled when a friend of mine asked my help to search for  the BIG BIG chinese character 喜喜 stickers

Well, fear not! Me, the resourceful jasonlou (after asking around) has found a place in the heart of Georgetown, where you can get everything under the sun for Chinese traditional wedding ceremony =)

The place is located at Lebuh Nordin. Too vague? not really helpful? Okok, let me point you the direction.

From Pragin Mall, where Traders Hotel is on your right and you can see traffic light ahead, turn left after passing the traffic light at the junction near Gama. After passing Gama, turn left on the first junction on your left. That road is Lebuh Nordin. Drive along the road for about 200m, you will notice a couple of shops on your right which is selling these stuff. You couldn't miss the place because they have very attractive red color sign

Hopefully this helps =)

Ok, done with my community service message, and is about time for the main topic. However, the tone gonna be a bit harsher already, because it is going to be something that jasonlou gonna write negative review about, and probably curse a little "p

"extortion" a.k.a "daylight robbery"

Well, you all know that I am doing renovation for my condo, right? Have been planning for that for about more than a month. Many details there, but I will just write randomly here.

Even before the condo I bought complete its construction, I had heard about triads in Penang who venture into the lucrative renovation services, "taking care" of the area that under their "care", and through many ways, earn big by charging higher than market price for their "services". Here, I term these people as "internal contractor"

For my condo renovation, I am using my friend's renovation service. My friend has been dong renovation as a general contractor for many many years, and I had seen many of his works, and very satisfied and want to use his service. So, my friend here is termed as "external contractor"

Well, me at first was quite annoyed about this "internal contractor" thing, trying to think of loopholes to avoid them completely? But there isn't anything much that I can do after some thought. I began to think, "Well, is a society where both sides need each other to survive. Is about equilibrium, balancing, yin yang, symbiotic, love and hate etc etc"

So, I began to accept a little about using some of their services that is unavoidable, like hacking work. Legally speaking or unofficially speaking, the hacking task has to be done by the "internal contractor".

So, for my little kitchen that need some hacking away the wall tiles for built in cabinets, which can be done in a few hours, "internal contractor" charged me exorbitant RM800. I did survey around, for such kitchen hacking if using "external contractor", it only cost you max RM200, and the "external contractor" still makes profit. FINE!!! I am still ok with it.

For a pile of hacked tiles that need disposal, which virtually just cart away through lift to the dustbin truck at the ground floor, "internal contractor" charge me RM300. FINE, I will still use them.

But today while finalizing the deal for the hacking and disposal, the "internal contractor" got to know that I am also using "external contractor" for the grill and awning, and not using theirs.

To my surprise, the "internal contractor" burp out a cost of RM600 for using "external contractor" grill and awning.

I puzzled! I then ask why? Then the "internal contractor" told me that there are some past cases there, where "some contractors" (dunno internal or external) moved the grill and awning through the lift, damaged some stuff in the lift, cost some money for repair it and the "building management" charged the "internal contractor" because no culprit where caught, forcing "internal contractor" to come out with this RM600 policy to cover their lost.

WTF!! I am not the person who damaged your lift, why should I be charged for something that I didn't do?

Of course I didn't say that in front of the "internal contractor". I calmly asked back. "Is this RM600 a deposit? Where I can claim it back if no damage was found to the lift after my contractors move the grill and awning?"

WTF, the fella "internal contractor" said a BIG NO!

Cool down, I still cool down... I told the fella "internal contractor" that I will check with my "external contractor" first. I then walk away.

Well, you know what I am going to do?

I will wait until the "internal contractor" finished the work they suppose to do about the hacking in my kitchen. Only after that, I will take my action.

I will walk to the "building management", asked them in the face what is this RM600 all about? And do they know anything about it!

Btw, "building management" is a company who temporarily in charge of the condo management, who foresee the "internal contractor" as well. But so far dealing with them, all they do are legally stuff. But when talk about reno term and conditions with them, they PUSH everything to "internal contractor", where I have to deal with these "none sense" and "building management" just turn their deaf ears. Bloody hell!

If things doesn't really goes well with the "building management" about the RM600, where they play dumb again, I am going to make a police report, because I REFUSE to pay RM600! I already "give face" by letting them "suck my blood" for the kitchen hacking, now they had gone overboard!!! Daylight Robbery indeed! RM600 for DOING NOTHING AT ALL!!!

Of course, I do understand that filing a police report sometimes doesn't really help (you know why), and may just cost me some more money for just filing the report. I dont really give a damn, I just want to exercise my right legally, and show my protest. Probably I would rally some of the residents there too about this issue.

Let's shall see how the things take it's course. Ending the post with a little feeling of "piss"

*blerk* "p

Oh my, is 10:35pm already, gotta prepare for the meeting now. Till then.

nightmare

Yeah, I had nightmare yesterday, which totally seems so surreal and woke me up in fright.

So, the story goes like this...

On a one fine working day, the IT guy come to me and said

"I need your macbook"

Without any much thinking, I gave him my Myra.

A while later, the IT guy came back to me and gave me this - Macbook Air

I was like

"WOW!"

I then asked

"Where is my Myra?"

The IT guy replied

"I configure it for the new employee. This is your new one!"

* time out: you must be thinking - hey, where got nightmare, you are having a spanking new kick-ass macbook air what! And should be calling me liar by now. Well, please continue reading this *

I then happily accepted the Macbook Air and started to play around with it.

But then hor, something seems not right. I cant find some files and folders.

By then only I recalled that Macbook Air only has 80G of hard disk space, while my Myra has 160G with 100G++ of data in it.

So, do the math, where is the rest of my 20G++ data?

OMG, some of my data is missing!!! Arrrrgh!!!

By that time, it was already after office hour, and the IT guy already gone.

Freaking out, I called the IT guy at his mobile. Waited a while before he answered, but the line was blur, and couldn't get heads or tails of what he is saying.

I was like double "Arrrggghhh" by then *_* Super duper freaking out!!!

Until I woke up in fright, just to realized that it was just a dream, and released a relief "ahh..."

But hor, looking at the wall clock, I AM LATE FOR WORK!

"ARRGGHHH!!!" again

- the end -

p/s: in actual life, the IT guy in my company is a very a nice guy. It was just a weird dream =)

breakfast today

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small talk:-

I just had a chat with a friend whom I haven't met for a long long time. And guess what, she still kept my letters as I do =)

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Hehe, this is my breakfast, very nice!

Crunchy biscuit on the outside, but melting strawberry flavor cream in the inside, yummy!!! And super duper cute panda, muahahaha =)

I heard the milk flavor taste even nicer, will try that next time =)

this is sad

Read a news report about the China earthquake yesterday, just realized that so many dead in that earthquake.

Not too long ago, Myanmar was hit by the typhoon nargis, and claimed even more lives, and many are still dying. Really a lot of disasters happening recently. This is sad.

freak

source: photobucket

FREAK!!! That stupid idiot smoking monkey is back from business trip.

How do I know? Because the lift lobby outside my company and not forgetting the toilet are now filled with cigarette smell! That is after smoke free for almost a week.

HATE THE IGNORANT BASTARD MONKEY!!!

scare

recent quote

"Is ok to be scare, because being scare means that you actually have something to lose"

- GA4 EP10 -

cut out

I found this old newspaper cut out in a file full of newspaper cut outs while doing spring cleaning last weekend.

I remembered that I was greatly touched by the article, especially the photo, therefore cut it down for keeping until this very day.

I know that I am not a kind person, and will not always be a kind person, but I kept the article to remind myself to be kind as often as I can.

Kindness from many people out there is the only thing that makes the world/me filled with hope. Thank you! 

knight rider

Since there are so many things found in my Part 2 spring cleaning, I decided not to post everything in one post. Instead, I will make it many many post topics =)

For introductory, this is my childhood's Knight Rider.

Okok, it has nothing resembling a Knight Rider screened on TV long time ago, but it is still look like one for me, me indulging in my own childhood imagination "p

source: wikipedia

I am not  really sure since when I had it already, but I can still remember that it was a present from one of my uncle, probably when I was still in primary school. AND having a remote control electronic car at that time was really such a cool and best thing ever =)

I also remember I played with it a lot until the antenna fall off, but I stick it back myself =)

I also remember that the headlights can open up if you bang it head-on to an obstacle like a wall at full speed, and it wont spoil either, such a tough car, like Knight Rider, hehehe =)

Surprisingly that I found it still kept in one of my cupboard last weekend. Sentimental stuff!

I haven't put on new batteries and check whether it is still working. But no worry, I have plenty of time to do so, because am going to keep it for many years to come =)

Also looking forward to the coming soon Knight Rider movie too =)

gathering

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small talk:-

Got another new hire joined the company today. Had a great and filling lunch, and the best part is, it is FREE, hehehe =)

Hope that my company keep on hiring people in the coming days "p

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oh ya, almost forgotten. Yesterday, I took the below photos in front of Pacific Megamall Perai while waiting for my friend.

Apparently, it is a gathering by a group of people to show their support for the 5 Hindraf detainees under Malaysia one and only ISA.

It was a peaceful gathering as far as I was there, but lots of police started to show up later, and I wasn't there anymore after that. Not sure how was the ending.

watermark

have you notice something different on the photos that I posted tonight?

hehe =)

I added watermark on the photos, using a newly found apple OS software - Jetphoto Studio.

It resized and added watermark for me automatically and nicely on top right corner of every photos.

Just a little drawback, the watermark is somewhat a bit smaller, anyhow, still livable =)

This is jasonlou watermark =)

foodgasm

Yup, you heard me right. One of my friend whom I brought out for food sampling around Seberang Perai to Lunas today taught me this self-created term of "foodgasm".

Is like when you just ate something extraordinary delicious, that makes you so high and disconnect from the reality for a while, or something like that, synonym to under 18SX term of... (don't want too further into that here "p)

So, from afternoon to the evening, we tasted the Raja Uda corner coffee shop famous curry fish head (i dont remember the shop name, coz im quite bad with names "p), tasted the delicious pig intestine sour vege soup in the same coffee shop, went to Lunas for the famous roast duck (this time ate with porridge, felt the authentic teow chew style =) and lastly finish the trip with a bowl of saliva drooling ice kacang with sarsi syrup, yummy... muahahaha =)

Out of the 3 places for 4 dishes, we had 2 times of foodgasm.

Oops, excuse me *_* (shy shy a bit "p)

The Lunas roast duck wasn't really a kick but stuff, probably good roast duck is aplenty.

Anyhow, that aside, we were blasted out of the world for that evening, muahahaha =)

foodgasm metric (I improvised and self created this, kekekeke "p)

Level 1: acceptable stuff

Level 2: got your attention stuff

Level 3: butt kicking stuff

Level 4: head spinning delicious kinda stuff

Level 5: out of the world extraordinary stuff

enjoy!!! =)

dish: curry fish head

foodgasm level: LEVEL 5

dish: pig intestine sour vege soup

foodgasm level: LEVEL 4

dish: Lunas roast duck with porridge

foodgasm level: Level 2

dish: ice kacang with sarsi syrup

foodgasm level: LEVEL 5

spring cleaning gear

uh ah, so much to blog about, but so little time *_*

So, for tonight, I am going to make a few short short posts only, k? =)

Remember my part 1 Spring Cleaning?

Well, this weekend am able to finish my Spring Cleaning Part 2, and discovered every more interesting stuffs, muahahaha =)

But as I told you beforehand, tonight am not able to go into posting all those "discoveries" *-* gomen nasai!

Well, don't be disappointed. As a snippet, am going to show you how I look like with my spring cleaning gear =)

And...

This is jasonlou with The Mask, reminiscing my childhood hero The Mask Rider "p Muahaha

And this is how I look like after finding a rain coat hat "p

Okok, never thought that jasonlou also have the moment of camwhoring "p

Stay tune for the upcoming "discoveries" posting in the coming days =)

debut

Hi everyone! How was the weekend? =)

I spend mine at home, as well as going out, and the most special of all, I played my first basketball tournament (3on3 aside) just now tonight, that is after stop playing since August last year sport's injury that caused starvation and my face bloated like this before.

Anyhow, no worry. Am now still got the "hand" and "some" as ever, and the most happy thing of all, enjoyed the first tournament game just now, without any injury, and sweat rigorously *big big smile* =)

Btw, my team won too *another big big smile* =)

speaking up

When read the first few paragraphs of this article from sun2surf without really noticing who is the author, the article did give me the impression of being written by someone who is not so pro-government, was thinking probably either Citizen Nades or Terence Fernandez.

But as I read along, Mukhriz was brought up and was said to be "my son"!

???

The article is written by Chedet himself. I was like OMG!

You do the rest of the thinking.

medal

These medals captivated me with all my guards down, oooo...

but am not "qualified" to have one, just can have the photo for admiration "p

karma

Karma just struck me.

All of a sudden, my used-to-be-quiet department initiated a global meeting today, involving everyone from big tiger to small cat like me, and Malaysia meeting time will be at 11pm every Thursday *_*

Is it just because I just posted this very recently? *_* 

karma karma *_*

I just finish attending the first of that meeting, blerk!!! =p

template

I created an email template for a specific issue for my friends at "ex-company" today, not that they requested me to do so, but I did it voluntary, probably a bit busy-body "p

Well, I think beside benefitting my friends, sharing it here in case you need one is not a bad idea as well. So, here you are, the template of the day =)

Hi "recipient name" ,

This is purely a friendly soft reminder for a better and more conducive working environment, nothing hostile or what so ever, and I hope that it is not taken in a negative way.

I am sitting a few cubicles not far from you, and I couldn't help not notice/hearing conversations that coming form your cubicle from time to time. At times, the volume level can be above medium and at worst case scenario, it can be quite uncomfortable up to the level of irritation and affecting me at work.

As we understand, "department name" is a big department with many people around us, and at times, what ever we do inevitably can affect the people around us. I hope by making you aware of this situation, you would understand how we actually felt, and take remedies gradually (not abruptly), because I do understand it would take times to adapt to a new situation.

For a simple example, probably you could take a walk-in discussion to a small meeting room or cafeteria if you feel that it would take a while.

Thank you for your attention.

regards,

"your name"