College BooBoo Again

I was in the company the other day, just before penning the signature the work there as a trainee(even though I am not a very qualified programmer) for 3 months before plunging into the degree course in E & E Engineering(Electrical and Electrical)(told you I am not a qualified programmer) when this call came from "000";

000: Hello this is Jimmy from Informatics.

Me: Hello Jimmy, anything??

000: Yes Jacob right? I just received your offer letter from USQ and I am SO SHOCKED!!!!

Me: They rejected me??(Sarcasticly)

000: NONO(laughing) But I am still very shocked!(Obviously he was) You've got offer letter for semester 3 starting third of November.

Me: WHAT!!!! But I CAN'T!!!! I THOUGHT YOU SAY THAT REGISTRATION FOR SEMESTER 3 IS OVER ALREADY!!!!!

000: YES YES YES!!! That is why I am so shocked. So do you want to take semester 3??

Me: Obviously I can't! So can you please register me for sem 1?

000: Errr, so do you want to start semester 3??

Me: No I can't!

000: But why not?

(stories continue for about 4-5 minutes with him trying to explain to me about semester 3, coaxing me to take it up)

Me: Would it be ok if you resubmit so that I can take semester 1 instead?

000: No no problem at all...

Me: Aha, so I guess I'll register for Semester 1 2005 OK??

000: Okay shouldn't be a problem I guess

Me: Then can you do it?

000: Sure thank you.......

Darn, almost 10 minutes of talk for NOTHING!!!

Everyday

I have this weird feeling nowadays, can't seem to wake up feeling utterly fresh. Well woke up with a splitting headache today, and that took away half my day. Went to Hesper to try and continue the things, met a new colleague, Albert, who so happen to be from the same line as me, Computer and Electronics Engineering! ALRITE!! I certainly learnt a few things from him, yeah I was doing the wrong thing all this while, so took the opportunity for him to explain to me what I should do. To be frank, today was one of the most productive day building CSP pages.

Ok enough about work, felt like I've not been updating this web for quite sometime now, have been busy trying to catch up with sleep hehehehe. By the way, something interesting happened on Saturday, a small group of us discovered that Indians indeed don't like pork, and we found a very interesting way they will come to eat.

It all happened at a wedding dinner located at Ampang Park shopping complex (can't remember the name of the restaurant). A group of us, 6 adults, 2 teenagers including me, and 2 children. One of the children happen to be an Indian boy, who claims he doesn't like pork. OK fine here's a picture of what we ate;



Okay, the taste was pretty good, you know, as usual meat and stuff, and the indian boy whacked whole heartedly exclaiming, "WAHH VERY NICE!!!" every 5 seconds.

Of course we were all shocked by his reaction and gave him a round of applause. Our first thought was of course, this young lad knows how to enjoy pork, that was until the very last moment when he once again exclaim, "This is the best duck I have ever tasted!"

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Friendly Malaysians

Was on my way back to college after registering for the degree course, inside the LRT(Light Rail Transit) when I bumped into and Indian couple(I assume the are from India, maybe Bangladesh) with their son. They were asking all the Indians around how to go to MidValley, too bad those people whom they approach gave them a pretty cold and useless responds and directions! So being a nice fellah, what more he was just standing beside me, I looked at him, smiled and asked, "Are you going to MidValley?"

He turned back at me and replied, "Yes but I think I'm lost."

So I pointed to the map and told him, "Stop at Bangsar, and take a feeder bus to Midvalley, it's only 50 cents if I'm not mistaken."

At that moment, the Indian guy whom he earlier asked turned and hurried away and the lost man was like trying to stop him. Nevermind that.

So in the end, he stopped our conversation, without even an expression of appreciation! In fact, he just turned away, mumbled a few words to his I presume, wife, and then looked away. That's it!! NO MORE BEING FRIENDLY!!!

Suemi's Bday II

Note: Sorry for that face of Wes, apparently he doesn't want his picture to be posted. He thinks that that picture doesn't look good enough, I think. As you can see, I had to edit it 2 times to avoid confrontation hehehehe....enjoy

15th October 2005, at Burger King, Megamall. Slept after coming back from badminton about 3 that day, and woke up at 4.30 waiting for sleeping queen, SimYing to arrive. She was suppose to arrive about 4.35 but due to her overexertion during the badminton game, coupled with loud snore and a sister who was too busy to wake her up, she was late, lets say for about 1 hour. Anyway, we weren't late, so its ok. Bump into a slight incident on the way there, it seems Sim Teng's car was a reluctant worker as the engine started to shake violently and the car came to a halt midway, causing people to honk really loud and with SY pressuring ST all the way, it is nowonder she is so blur!!! Anyway, everything went on smooth after that, she started her car again and WHOALA!!! It worked! Of course SY was asking her why she would drive if such thing occured before in the past, ST just replied, she had it fixed already few days back.....

Anyway, they had their meal in Burger King. Suemi was sad because none of us wanted to eat vegetarian food, don't ask why. Of course after explaining abit, she was happy and jolly again. After the meal, Danl suggested that we terrorize the whole of Megamall before converging at top floor food court to sing birthday song and of course to eat Kim's homemade cake. So nice of her. During that time, I bumped into Junbo while Danny was stalking someone, and we decided to visit the pet shop located on the top floor. To be frank, I don't think they really keep the animals fresh, I see the poor golden retriver scratching his butt off.

Anyway, we gathered about 8.30 on the top floor.


Suemi(left) and cake maker, Kim(right)

Well, she was really happy, so much so she stuffed the whole piece(NOTE: not the whole cake) into her mouth just like that!!!!



Alright, talking about brotherhood, lets just say, Suemi has got a great brother, why? Because....



Because they cant both do almost similar things!

Of course Mr. Wes was there as well, and as usual, he attracted much attention...



this time, attention from kids. It seems this kid was so attached to him, Wes had no place to hide at all!!! Anyway, his facial expression was just made up to attract attention make the picture stand out more. You can ignore the other surrouding people and atmosphere, especially the corners, felt lazy to crop the picture.

By the way, talking about sibblings....



Believe it or not, They are related!! GEEESHHH!!!!

Headache

Woke up this morning with a slight headache, either it is too much sleep or not enough sleep! Has been in the office the past 2 days, trying to learn CSP. Danl is very helpful though, answering my questions and asking me whenever I needed him.

Its kinda hard for someone without programming background to do that, but by Grace, kinda enjoy it. After learning CSP, it kinda broaden my perspective abit, but since my javascripting still sucks, geesh!!! Yesterday, September 13, Thursday, was a fun filled day. Started off by waking up early and waiting for Danl at Bangsar for a ride. Then switch on the comp and got stuck with it until we went out for KFC!! YAY!!! Quite fun, its been a long time since I makan KFC. Ate a Zinger burger and another Fillet Burger(which by the way is the size of a peanut).

Was suppose to buy stamps from the post office, but some lazy officers la, can't even reach out a helping hand, COME ON LAR!!! STAMPS ONLY!!! That also they make me wait at the stupid counter 3 for this lady who ran away. After waiting about 5-10 minutes at a stupid empty counter for stamps, I finally showed my displeasure and left. Finally got the stamps for him when I went home and stopped by another post office at my area.

Went over to Healthyway at night to do data entry. Was quite fast so after 2 hours or so, went out for a short meal. Ended up that meal took a while longer because of the rain and I had to buy a zinger burger for Moses to satisfy him abit, since he waited so long hehe

What a Week

Yeap this is the building I'm studying in, Informatics KL. Just finnished my advance diploma in Computer Engineering. With my last semester's result finally out, went to college to request for diploma cert and oso result letter. As usual, when I ask, "When can it be ready?" the reply swiftly came;

"Come next week la, sure ready."

True enough, a week later, which was this Monday,went to the college and guess what? For whatever reason, the person who is suppose to sign my result letter, Mr something took MC thus leaving me speechless again. And for this reason, a simple enrollment for my degree has to be delayed another week, weird rite?

Yeah weird..

Remember the post about my badminton racquet?? How fast the string broke and so forth? Well I think I've broken the record once again, string broke two times in a week. This totally sucks but thank God my game did improve after that long layoff spell.

Hrm, I'm actually in an office now, no not to work, but to disturb the staffs here and try to complete some things. Just completed the second "thing" and felt lazy plus a little bit of urge for big business. Wanted to polute the toilet here, but after doing some calculations, I rather not. Hrm, two toilets for about 15 people, bad bad, moreover I don't want them to blame me for lack of productivity.

Hrmmm, since I'm totally free now, waiting for Daniel to finnish his work and then will follow him to club for badminton...again without my racquet...

Missing Warrior

Well, I can't believe it myself, just a day of badminton and that's it, the string "putus" already. I thought my best record was good enough last time(1 week) but it is even better now, one day, that's all!!! And the best thing of all, I haven't even played even one set with this new racquet yet.4


Sob Sob, there you go, a car without engine, a war without warrior!


I'm totally speechless now, haven't even get the full feel of the racquet and thats it!!!

Okay enough with the racquet, I wouldn't want to go into technical details "How It Broke"

Next up, Suemitra with her hand in her MOUTH!!! WOOHOO!! anyway, wont elaborate much here. By the way, I think Suemi allows me to post it up right??



Oh Crabby, if you happen to stumble upon this site, note that I forgive you somewhat calling me, "blind" even though you didn't use that word.

New Racquet AT LAST!!

Was just posting on my trusty old racquet hoping my dad would read it and buy me a new one after accepting the fact that I will not get a new racquet. But to my surprise, DAD ACTUALLY GOT ME ONE!!!


WOOHOO!!! LOVE IT MAN!! It is the exact same model I was having my eyes on! The first testing was failure as I forgot to change the grip. But it is now changed and I shall be able to test it again tonite.....

TOTALLY ESTHETIC!!!

Geesh, haven't been free to post anything up lately, but since today I'll be free for some moment, I'm here to share my joy, yeah just got my result last night, not the best! But DEFINATELY VERY VERY SATISFYING!!! Yeah, out of the very few of us from engineering who took up Networks as our major, I PASSED ALL THE FREAKIN SUBJECTS!!! Was quite worried when my coursework and progress test din gather as much points as I would like, but nevertheless, just rely on God, do some studies, YAY I PASS!!!

Ok enough about the exam results.

Wanted to post about badminton the other day when blogger suddenly cut me off for no reason. It was then I had to rush off to do some things for my mom. Wanted to blog about it yesterday but was in Hesper half day for the training, yeah at last, after a struggle with the first module, I FINALLY FINNISHED IT!!! Was quite dissapointed to find out that it wasn't all that important, and there were ready made examples ready, was straining my mind for 2 weeks for that!!!

Thus, I'm a little bit more free today, and I shall tell the story of my trusty old racquet.


Well sorry for leaving the picture here, this was my 3rd racquet. The first was a ProAce something which I broke after hitting my brothers with it(can't remember clearly what happened), second was a Yonex Carbonex 7(I think) which broke after I let my brothers use, and third, this wan lor, another ProAce. In fact, I started to improve alot after using this racquet, maybe because I loved it so MUCH!!!

But now, it belongs to my dad, he claimed it after using and falling in love with it. So because of that, he got me a Wilson Hypercarbon which broke recently and now, I'm racquetless again. Nevermind though, just found out that dad ordered a racquet I wanted after visiting Uncle Tan's shop in Bangsar!

Hrm, I really don't know what happened to me, can't think of what to write about my old racquet.....

Guitar

I like guitar very much, and I guess its an inheritance from my dad, he loves it too! The first ever guitar which I've laid hands on (a very good quality 12 string acoustic Yamaha) ended up in two pieces, literally when my cousin and I sat on the neck and broke it. Can't blame us you know, we were just 3-5 years old then, in fact, I don't even remember that incident.

It was years later when my dad bought his next guitar, a very lovable Hofma which I learn my very first chord;



Dad was very nice, he bought some basic guitar guide for me, and hence, I learn it myself, slowly but surely, got hooked to it. Hrm, I guess the most important think about playing the guitar is the ability to "feel" the song, practice, have a good ear, practice, good hand coordination, more practice and finally even more practice! Not that I'm a good player, but I do enjoy playing it alot, and best thing of all, you can always strife to improve.

One thing for sure, when it comes to taking care of things, I really need to improve. you might not notice it, but, well something is missing, something important!



So, you must be wondering how in the world the guitar is tuned? Hrmmm, too bad my camera is out of battery now, maybe in the next post or two I'll provide some clue.

After a few years of trying things out myself, I notice that maybe I've reached the limit of what one can do without proper guidance, hence I started searching online for some guide to improve. Found a few, but the one that I got stuck to is, guitar.about.com. Of course that helped me abit, not much but still, a little bit more.

I actually would like to learn how to play the classical guitar. Well who knows, in the near future, I'll be able to learn it in a formal manner.