The CSI effect?

Was reading yesterday's newspaper when one particular post cought my eyes;


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I have to admit though, I do watch CSI alot, and yeah, pretty facinating show. It was such a success they had to produce another two series, CSI:Miami and CSI:NY. In my opinion, CSI:Miami is a flop whereas CSI:NY is by far the best amongst those three. Just a short note about one of my favourite TV series.

After reading the newspaper report, and how the speculate that the murderer might have watch CSI, my first thought is, why in the world would they do that? I mean, isn't it true that if you watch CSI, 99% of all cases will be solved no matter how good or professional the killer is! I mean, LOOK AT THOSE GUYS!!!


I don't know why I just had to put up CSI:Miami

They are cool aren't they?? Anyway, its just sad to see another murder in Malaysia, not a very nice spot for our country's image.

Well, was just thinking for a while when I notice how my brothers like to be CSI too, well we do need a Crime Scene Investigator at home you know, our food seems to go missing (yes stealing food is a crime too!!). Here I'll provide you some graphical example of how my bros go to work

Ah Ho: I wonder who Spill this drink?

Ah Jun: Aiyah that wan not important lar, someone ate my Maggie Mee!!!

Ah Ho & Jun: ..........(ah mun laughing at the background)

Well, as for our case, its always the culprit doing the research, how to solve lar! Nevermind though, with enough episodes of CSI, I'm sure they'll improve.

By the way, this post is for those who don't read newspaper, if you want to find out more on the current happenings, go buy one and read lar! Be it Malay Mail, or Star, or New Straits Times, or whatevery la. Oh yeah, this post was taken from the Malay Mail, since I get free papers of it everyday..

Makan Bash

Lazy to edit the post so I'll just add a disclaimer here:
The black chicken is actually called Guiness Chicken. Just found out from Jeremy, thanks alot

Just for this post, I will decline to add visual evidence as I do not want to reveal the efficiency of my fellow makan friends, namely, Mr.W3s(thanks alot for the transport, really appriciated it), Mr.Bruce(quiet yet efficient), Mr.YMeng(Okay just a picture of him), Jeremy Liew, Kim Kim, Ms.Joyce, Ms.Simying(maybe another picture) and Aunty Sharon. We headed for Venicia restaurant, situated in Casa Venicia Condominium in Selayang, yeah I know so far right?



Here's the list of the food we ordered:-

1. Sweet and Sour Crab


2. Hamtan Crab


3. Their special prawn called "Kong Nam Ha"


4. Salad Prawn


5. Fried Lingau


6. Vege with some meat la


7. Rojak Taufu


8. Some nice black chicken "Hak Phei Kai"

Yeap a total of 8 dishes that made my day. Of course it was pretty fun, the group was kinda funny, they like to joke alot, they like to distract others from the food, and of course that played to my advantage. Will not describe how we gobble up the food, but maybe the end result, as I said, will not provide visual evidence of the food itself.



By the way, did mention that will provide pictures of fellow makan members, and here goes,



That's Mr.Ymeng on the far left, Jeremy in the middle (notice how serious he looks?) and Kim keeping a close eye on Ymeng. Notice him reading the book? Its just a trick to derail the rest.

Or course the scariest person of all, who hammered the crap out of the crab while trying to get to the juicy meat,



No that is not her, it's only the leftover from the hammered crab



This is her. Notice how every picture that tries to point to her doesn't turn out nice?? Wonder why...

New Mouse

Geesh, was just telling my dad the other day, more like 2 weeks back, "Dad, better get a new mouse(pc mouse la) coz this wan really irritating, the scroll button not working, the rollerball is not sensitive, and it dirty fast!"

That happened after our trusty logitech decided to die and didn't want to revive nomatter how much I tried to meddle with it. So after 2 weeks or so, suddenly dad came back with a surprise,



Yeap, he bought a very flashy mouse, one that is not only optical, but in literal sense, "Flashy". The light will change colour, red, blue, white, green....



Cool eh?? Thanks dad, love it, even though it is not any branded mouse or what, but its cool and its working fine! By the way, I can't even figure out what brand it is!

MALAY!!!!

Don't know what got into me, was chatting with a friend in Malay yesterday! Used to be quite proud with the command of Malay, you know, scoring a distinction in SPM, but after a while, I realize how much I was stuttering and brain storming to find the correct word to use! Because of that, I'll have to post in Malay today.

Bangun pagi,
Gosok gigi,
Cuci muka, Minum kopi(air kosong sebenarnya)
(This is suppose to be a song)

Makan sarapan pagi, nasi, ayam dan sayur yang dimasak nenek(ama). Walaupun agak masin, atau masam, adui, lupa pulak maksud masin atau masam (what I mean is the food is abit salty), sedap juga, sebab saya suka masakan nenek! Lepas makan, duduk depan computer, tapi lupa pulak nak buat apa, jadi balik ke "kitchen", I mean "dapur" dan cari makan lagi...

Lepas itu, buka computer(not literally) dan "check" e-mail. Selepas delete semua mail, login ke www.blogger.com dan "sign in" dengan username: jacobkktan dan password:"tak boleh beritahu". Tengok "Template" sekejap tetapi malas nak buat "alteration". Sejurus selepas itu, click butang "Posting" dan "create" untuk menaip "post" ini...

Okay I GIVE UP!!! Its a good thing I gave up at the very end of my post ....Can't let this go on, you know, Malay is an essential language in "Malay"sia, COME ON!! EVEN THE COUNTRY'S NAME IS IN MALAY!!! and contain the letterS "M", "A", "L", "A", "Y". It has been nearly 3 years since I've used proper Malay, even though I do speak Malay with Ijan and Indren, we usually use "rojak" Malay. So now, time to improve, but as the saying goes, where there is the intention, missing shall be the will (my own creation)....it simply means, lazy la

Tyre puncture

Well, it is sort of weird, was just talking about Timo's bike and our little incident when something unexpected happens, yeah was driving my mom's car when BOOM!!! Her rear tyre cought some nails, don't ask me how that happened!

The BOOM sound happened yesterday while coming back from church at Jalan Travis, but upon checking, the tyre wasn't deflated, infact, I couldn't detect anything funny, and the car was working perfectly. The only thing that worried me is the sound the tyre when I move the car. My first thought was, maybe the suspension gave way? Since the tyre was still filled with air, or maybe something wrong with the brakes? But everything seems ok.

Was suppose to go out for a small gathering with a bunch of friends, but due to the problem, I've decided not to take any risk. So the plan was to send my mom to her office, and then send the car for a checkup.

Well, I had a quick look at that tyre again, everything seems ok, so I drove the car out and true enough the sound was still there. I tried to rush things abit when the sound suddenly dissapeared, but the car was hard to handle, felt like the tyre just deflated suddenly. True enough, slowed down, and a nice malay guy in a Waja honked me to warn me of it. At the traffic light, just opened the door to take a peep, AIKS!! Tyre was totally deflated. Wanted to stop there and then for a tyre change but because of the heavy traffic, and because the mechanic shop was just opposite the road, decided to drive slowly there and use their gears for the change.

Well thank God the spare tyre is fairly new, and after the change, just had to pump it up and get going again. Of course I later found out there were some nails INSIDE the tyre which was causing the funny sound.

Gotto be much more careful the next time I drive, you don't know how many nails there are out there...

Hrm, I played Futsal

Hrmmm, quietly went to play futsal today, yeap, ankles are Ok now I guess. Aside from a little bit of numbness here and there, constant fumbling, and making friends with the goal post(story coming up), really feels good to be back running, in literal sense.

Fun it was, with only 11 people at the futsal scene, that means, we get to play full time(almost). Well, needed to catch my breath here and there constantly, you know, almost three weeks of layoff isn't good for your endurance coupled with extras here and there, weaker thigh muscle, etc etc.

Lets see, didn't score any goals today, but did manage to hit 5 shots of which 3 of it hit the post and the other 2 got deflected of a defender. So you see, the post is really my best friend, as we all know, its harder hitting the post than to score! So it wasn't so bad, just that I think I'm holding the all time "kena tiang" record.

Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention about our big and friendly Moses Nathan! Surprise!! He has his own blog, you will be able to find it

Just thought of using button to link him

Long Long Day

It's really the first time in my life getting stucked in an office facing the PC. It was pretty fun, right until after lunch time, when the mood was lost, so after a while, I decided to help Junbo fix the fax machine. Too bad, even with my skills of destroying fixing electrical stuff, this darn fax machine proved to be too ancient(old) and outdated for my mind to comprehend. So we ended up dropping some screws, trying to dismantle it to no avail, knocking it, almost kicking it, pulling it, pushing it, and in the end, Junbo decided, "Tell Aunty Cassandra to call the technician tomorrow, wasting my time here."

So that's it, a forgone conclusion, a new fax machine should be purchased by that company as the old wan is, way too old. Later on I found out that this is not the first time the fax machine got Junbo into trouble, which further add concrete to my point, get a new one! hehe

Left to Healthyway for my part time job, data entry. This time, I actually followed Moses, in his very big, AJS(asal jalan sudah) bike. Well good thing the bike managed to carry both of us, if it was Timo's C70, it should be AGS(asal gerak sudah) which reminds me, Timo and I had an incident with his trusty 70cc bike before, yeah, we had a puncture......I'm not sure about it, but I feel like I've posted about it before, anyway won't elaborate on that. Don't know how in the world it can happen, I mean, what is the possibility for such occurance?? LITERALLY NILL!!!! But still, nothing in impossible in this world isn't it??

Oh yeah, I'm abit hyper today, abit gila, in fact, I knocked my monitor so hard for no reason just now it turned out;


Yeap, monitor went crazy, just like me then, took me another hard knock to get it back on track...Phew, thank God it is working again. So the morale of the story for today is, take care of your monitor, don't whack it

New Look

Well, its been pretty frustrating, I don't know why the cache thingy can't work as planned!!!


That's right, darn error keep popping up even though I've followed the instruction to the DOT!

Nevermind that, because I got so worked up, I've decided to do other type of programming, doing things to make my blog look better. Sure enough, a friend commented, "I have only 1 word to describe your blog now, "wood"....."

Thanks alot, and that is my main aim!! WOOD!!!

I Feel Heavy..

Yeap, literally, "heavy". After that unfortunate accident during a futsal game, I was forced to the something all of us do best, eat and sleep. Well, that was before but now I do have a few things to finnish up. Just before typing this, I went on the scale and guess what?


Yeap, I'm still maintaining my weight, even. I can't understand one fact though, why am I feeling heavier?? After thinking for a while, maybe it is because my left ankle is weak, yeap that is why, can't think of any other reasons, and wouldn't want any other illogical reasons either. My eating habit, as usual is the same, so I guess the weight should remain the same, for now. Hopefully my body can cope without exercise for this month, or so.

Everyone seems to be busy the past few days, yeah me including, that is why I can't find time to think of any post. So happen, today I'm at home and, well, I've got nothing better to do now, since having some problems with cache thingy, those instructions are abit outdated, for older versions, so might as well take a break and have fun.

Recap

Well, Kim read my last post and she commented, "How come no picture wan??"

Well, it's pretty embarrasing to display such gluttony. Oh what am I talking about!! I shouldn't be ashamed, since it was Kim who couldn't stop eating right?? So there you go, the prove;



Satisfied Kim??

Sushi...

Hrm, I thought after the ankle injury, I will never get to go out for at least a week or so, but thank God, after a few days, was up and running(walking) and then, something unexpected happens, managed to limp my way to "Sushi King" and gobble up 43 plates worth of sushis!!!! Okay I was exaggerating, it was 6 of us(names will not be disclosed for safety reason). Well you see, there's this offer, RM2 per plate, any plate! So that's it, whack!!!!!

Have to admit though, after my little ankle injury, I'm beginning to be pampared, quite pampered, you know, staying at home, eating, eating, sleeping, eating, and with James using my computer quite often, I revert to eating, sleeping and eating again. It was not till yesterday night when went to work abit, doing data entry with Moses, where he took me out for food again, this time Pizza.

Finnished work about 10+ when daddy called, I must fetch my sister from Danl's place, so off to Danl's place I went, and when I was in, was invited to eat fried rice, so fried rice it is! Reached home, mandi, saw the BKT my granny cooked, was sweating from top to bottom, temptation was pretty strong, and then, decided to heat up the pot when my stomach started growling, not because of hunger, but because the sushi was starting to feel uneasy inside and wanted to come out, apparently only the Unagi wanted to stay in my system, thus all the salmon, and ebikos, and this that all was flushed out in an instant, in short, Pangsai. After that, the urge left me, and thus the leftover BKT was saved! Not till today though...

Was writing this post when Kim messaged me over MSN asking me for another sushi session!!!! WOW!!!! And mind you, she's the one complaining about being fat and so on......

Anyway, I declined to go, even though she offered to pay the bills, conscience kicking in about my eating habits I guess.....

I CAN WALK!!!

After 2 days of suffering, I CAN NOW WALK AGAIN!!!! YES!!! Of course still limping around, still better than hopping around like a jumping jack! Worst of all, have to carry at least 88kg on one leg only while hopping, very sad, very very sad. The swell didn't subside, in fact, it grew bigger! But surprisingly, the pain is very much lesser now. Now I can hope to jump back in action in 2-3 weeks time! Well, its hard to stay at home limping around, munching food and not have any guilt about weight control. You see, I'm not being selfish here, but if my appetite start growing again, people around me will suffer!! So I'm actually more concerned for them.

Its nice to see how Wesley exaggurated the situation. Hrm, bear in mind it wasn't that bad, nobody fainted. Well one of the 6yardbox reporters even posted in on the 6yardbox site. Of course the for integrity purposes, the 6yardbox site reporter a much more authentic story.

Hrmm, this injury effected me a little here and there, I'm very lazy to blog now, infact, I'm spending more time thinking how to improve the look of my blog, any ideas???

Ouch.....

Well, I'll be out for at least a couple of month(s), twisted my ankle very badly. Lets just amplify the situation, I can't walk....

Well, it happened during a futsal game yesterday, jumped for the ball, and accidentally hit eric, lost my balance and then, landed awkwardly. Left with a terrible sore left ankle, swollen and all painful.


Well try to guess which is the injured foot? I still could walk abit yesterday, but come today(Sunday), had to hop to move around, not an easy task considering that I'm a little bit overweight. Of course the swelling have subsided abit, but the pain, well its still there, takes time to heal, and I can't go to work.

I do hope that this injury will not cause me to be lazy hehe......

Break...

Well, semester break is here, will be free for almost 2 months, so what to do? Pray lor, see if I can do anything to fill my time. Of course I found something, learn programming hehe, especially Javascript, pretty fun to learn actually! You know, buttons and stuff. Here, simple example;

Hopefully I can get some new things on this blog with more knowledge, so expect me to blog less these few weeks, as I'm trying to learn up new things. Too bad it doesn't support javascript for my post...

Art Of LoOosing

I love playing competetive sports, badminton, football, futsal, and I usually play amongs my close friends. But one thing I've always notice about this type of games, some people cannot stand the taste of defeat, even if it is just a friendly game or so on! I have to admit too, was like this when I started playing football last time, always fighting hard(not literal fist fight) to win a game! Most of the time, I'll end up looking like;


It was years later I picked up badminton(due to encouragement from my dad). I was very very poor with badminton, so much so even aunties don't want to play with me. It was then I learn to humble and accept defeat, you know lar, losing even to aunties, very hurting wan. This made me even more determined to learn up the game, watch more video clips of international games, train hard, do this and that, and in the end, once again, aunties don't want to play with me, they complain they can't play against me, FINE! Must improve mar, play with men lor.

The sad thing is, some people I play with, do have this "I only want to WIN!" attitude, I mean, COME ON LAR! A game is still only a game, there can only be one winner and one loser. We all should learn how to take defeat, and also to take up challenges! I've seen players walking out because they know that they might lose a game(want muka), this is very bad though, try immagining what your counterpart will feel? It doesn't matter if he's better or worst than you, play your very best to enjoy!! You never know what will happen in a game;

And indeed, you never know that your weaker opponent might just beat you that day! So never look down on anyone! And even if you lose, don't show your frustration in an obvious manner(refer to picture above).

In a game, one of the best way to improve is constant practice, and of course, playing with better opponent. Heck, I've lost many games with egg results(15-0), yet the only thing one can do in such situation is to learn, learn, and learn.

I notice that a few of my friends(2 actually) started to pick up badminton lately, so just a piece of advice, play with me lar......PLEASE!!!!!! Like I say lor, it's ok to lose, just learn the ART OF LOOOOOOSING, be a graceful loser hehehe

NOTE: I'M REMINDING MYSELF TOO

Badminton

Played some good badminton last night, at Tmn Sea school in SS2. The reason I decided to go was because I need to play more games in order to improve, and playing with players like Uncle Joel, Uncle Charles, Ah Ming and company, really helps! I really cannot remember the last time I was involve in such high pace game, not much smashing, but very fast shuttle movements and skilfully taken shots(by them of course, I was so rusty I lost all my doubles game). I partner James for each and every of the doubles yesterday, guess we were still adapting to the floor, lightings, even the net is lower than Bukit Jalil's, and that proved a big problem for us. It just shows how much I need to improve..

Went there with another friend too, Wesley(again); He is very enthusiastic about this game after watching the matchup between Bukit Jalil and Sri Petaling last week, thus proclaimed that he will be playing badminton!

Wes, as a beginner, asked me how to hold a badminton racquet, he even posted about it here, I replied that the way you shake someone's hand is the way you hold the racquet. I think he heard wrongly, or was adviced by others to hold a knife to play badminton! Well, no worries, nothing wrong with it!


I am not a good player myself, but just enough to teach people how to hold racquet lor. I think the problem faced by new players is that they feel awkward holding the racquet. Wesley got it correctly though, just that his index finger was pointing towards something at the floor, I wonder what it is?? Knowing Wes, maybe a stray viagra pill??

Free...

After three totally trashing days(exams), I can now finally breath easily. It was after the exam, my mind went back to a "state" of "idle". Oh no, exam bug is finally hitting me, even my post are filled with technical terms; What I meant was that my mind was finally in relaxed mode. This is the time I will take notice of the surroundings, people around me, see if there's anything interesting and so forth. I'm a happy person today, one of the very first thing I notice is people around me, parents, friends, and most importantly, I thank God, I have Him.

What a wonderful day, the sight of sunset was totally soothing to my eyes. Was bathing when I turned to look outside, and saw the beautiful colors of sunset. I stood there for a moment, enjoying it, and now, posting it so that others can enjoy it too.



This is nothing significant actually, just that I'm happy my exams are over, and because of that, thought of changing this blogskin, something that carries the theme, "Colors of Nature". Now, please do not expect anything yet, because I might just start looking for a part time job to kill time and thus, will have no time once again.

Roadsaster

I'm not sure about you guys, but after driving for nearly 3 years(I know, I'm very young only lar), I notice that driving around KL or Selangor can be pretty tiring. There are a few reasons for that,

1. Terrible JAMS


2. Traffic lights management sucks, causing MORE JAMS


3. The number of accidents are pretty high, causing EVEN MORE JAMS!!


4. In cases of accidents, we malaysians are pretty caring, we slow down our cars to witness the wreckage, causing EVEN LAGI MORE JAMS!!!


5. ......., causing EVEN LAGI EXTRA MORE JAMS!!!


6. .........., causing EVEN LAGI EXTRA MORE TERUK JAMS!!


7. And last BUT NOT LEAST, careless drivers around.

Yeah, I've notice that young drivers nowadays are pretty impatient; Either they brake too late, or accelerate too fast, I don't know lar, especially "P" drivers. Not that I'm against them or anything, I was once a "P" myself, just that, driving isn't such a leasure with wreckless people around.


Where are your signal my friend?

Okay, that fellah might not be a "P" driver, but just to prove my point about young impatient drivers; This picture was taken at Federal Highway, exact location, just infront of Kerinchi Putra LRT station. He really left his turning late, trying to overtake a few extra cars before joining the jam. Worst thing of all, WHERE'S HIS/HER SIGNAL!!!!

Just a word of advice, always obey the traffic rules, especially traffic lights and speed limits. One thing is for sure, if you happen to see a bright metalic blue Proton Saga, or a dual tone silver colored, year 84 Mitsubishi Super Touring, with a young driver inside, rest assured, HE IS DEFINATELY A SAFE DRIVER!

Busy!!!

Well those 2 ants look like me now, look calm and collected, yet as they say, as busy as an ant!

Well, have to stop blogging for a while now, EXAM LAR!!! Just finnished 2 subjects today and another one to go tomorrow, need lots of grace though..

YAY!! I was the MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN COURT!!!

Went for a badminton matchup between Bukit Jalil and Sri Petaling yesterday. There were 10 matches altogether, 3 men singles, 4 men doubles and 3 ladies doubles; the match was won by Bukit Jalil with a final score of 6-4 and of course, I'm A FAN OF BUKIT JALIL LAR! Because I play there hehe.

It was fun yesterday, watching some really good matches, drops, smashes, drives, chops, slice, anything you can name it! It was like watching a 3rd division international game TOTALLY ESTHETIC!!!



The HIGHLIGHT

Well, my favourite game is of course the 3rd Men doubles, reasons; I was the umpire lar!

Player : Wei!! That shot is out lar!!!
Umpire : No, I trust the linesman and my own 2 eyes(fingers pointing at both the eyes)
Player : Come on lar...dun play play lar, out lar...summore I jump here there like a monkey fight so hard now you say out..(obviously the player is blur liao)
Umpire : Shuddup or I take away your point...Give you straight red card OUT!!!!
Player : ........

WOOT!!! I LOVE THE FEEL OF BEING THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON ON COURT! Geesh, was pretty sad Bukit Jalil lost the game I was umpiring, but nevertheless, cooooooool...Of course I had to be unbias during the game, and be FIRM!!! Of course there were times when the player was trying to overwhelm our umpires and linesmen, but at the end of the day, POWER PREVAILS!!!!