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!"

...............

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.

The CSI effect?

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


Please click image to read the story

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??