Power of status messaging.

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The inventors of status messaging is truly a genius or could it just be a possible fluke after all? Nevertheless, it may not be of our realization a year to a decade back then, that status messages possess such significance in notifying others your current mood. Even more surprising was the amount of attention one gets if a status like "I was fucked" was put up. In fact, never in my conscious mind that a status (picture below) would affect reactions in putting not only a bar of soap, but with a bottle of hand washing liquid be a reality within 72 hours. Surprise again, it did! A salute to the power of status messaging.

My Bali Trip 2005

Someone was waiting for my post on my BALI break and here it is. I was planning to do some work initially because there is heaps of it. Instead, I find myself blogging. In which I guess at this moment, that someone has already been highly anticipating, awaiting for this article to appear. Strangely our bond is so close, is that as I was typing the last sentence that person IM me, complaining bout me being a slow blogger. Well my answer is babe, I have gather my thoughts to imagine the 4 days I spent there eating, sleeping, swimming, eating, drinking, eating and shopping and of course eating.

Packed with so many activities, I totally forgot sight see. In fact here is a graphical representation of me exploring Bali, Legian Rd and Seminyak Rd to be precise.

Oh, did I mention eating? Do you know Bali is one letter away from ‘BABI’ which mean pig and it’s a pork heaven there. They have pork sate,

porky soup,

even a salon babi

For less than Rph400.000 you can eat all these and the winner for that day was a 0.8Kg lobster.

That meal made me perspire. In fact every meal I perspired which MondayBluer was disgusted but yet cannot deny the reality of human are able to do so.

Top Five things I like about Bali;

5) Friendly people.
4) Furniture

3) Value for money food.
2) Pork

and ….

1) Bintang

Lastly, something to look forward in my next visit,

I like this short visit and wish to come back for a longer stay. Bali you rock.

It didn't feel like a holiday.

Got back from a break, not holiday but a break. Wish it would longer like 6 months or 1 year. However, such lifestyle cannot happen without substantial finance backup. Anyway, I got back yesterday and was fascinated with a tiny portion of Bali.

Tiny as in just Legian Rd & Seminyak Rd in which me an MondayBluer walked up and down 6 times. Kuta & Legian Beach in which I was soaked up with 3 feet high waves and local girls playing happily together wearing see thru t-shirts and exposing their balinese titties! Even more exciting, Adi Dharma Hotel swimming pool like 3 times and finally Ngurah Rai Airport 2 times (arrival and departure). Limited to 2 full days, I just relaxed, walked, swam, beer and of course my favourite EAT, EAT and eat.

Souvenirs anyone?

Selling myself

Two months ago I have posted a blog entry on Have We Got It?
Recently, that question emerge again. After conducting the company's workshop with the new hires, I realized there are many other opportunities within the structure of this organization. Coincidentally, all the senior managers I met seems to be open to my contribution. Strangely I find that relationship with senior managers especially those who reports direct to GM do provide advantage. Leveraging on the corporate ladder they say.

Now sales is something I have never thought of jumping into since graduate. I felt and agree with those who consider sales as selling one person's soul. However, those who are on sale seems to have progress and getting larger accounts. Truly, my personal objective now is to be rich, wealthy and able to afford a jetset lifestyle, i hope. In selling as I know, it's not a pretty picture all the time. Sometimes, we may be facing the worst in kind potential leads. Preparation for failure is a must.

Well, need to update my biography and start sending.

Consider them good.

When retrieving luggages from airport conveyor, walk against the direction of the belt.
That would give you a better advantage in spotting your bag[s].

Good toilet bowls must be able to use less water and can flush out as many shit as possible. The water in the bowl must be completely drawn out before it is filled back. Of course the price has to be reasonably affordable.

Young teen adult elderly.

I have to admit my I am seriously in need help. Faced the computer since I woke up, except for time I went out to eat and fetching arriving colleagues from KL.

Here was a thought that hid inside me for sometime. Every time during when I am not facing le computer, this thought resurface automatically. With no aid of a recording tool, I will rely on my memory that doesn't serve very well at times. Anyway, the following paragraphs were the thought I had during one morning breakfast at a 'mamak' shop nearby.

Sitting at the table having my morning 'nes-lo or mi-cafe or nescafemixmilo', I noticed an elderly couple sitting directly across me. The old woman was quietly nibbling her toast "Roti Kahwin - Bread with kaya and butter toast" while the elderly man was about to light a cigarette. The thing that caught my attention was the speed they do things, to me, I find they are steadily slow in motion. What about to them?

Many at times when we were younger, we find that the days were hard to go by. One day seemed to be quite long. It felt like ages for the school bell to ring end of day. As we grow older, we may find that a day passes out pretty fast, especially the weekends. That would mean a year will be felt brief for the elderly I saw, wouldn't it?

Two vehicles side by side moving at the same speed when see from either of the vehicle, none of them seems to be moving at all. Driven by the example above supporting the “Theory of Relativity” (Albert Einstein) for me here I explain.

When we were a kid, we were smaller and can move faster, do things hastily quick and without worries. As a result, that renders the young looking at world slower. Thus, reminiscence of our childhood seems so fantastic as an adult when we tend to tell the young to enjoy it while it lasted. "Days were much longer in those days. Now everything is fast moving." one might say.

As we grow older and larger, the activities we do may require more planning and risk assessment. In turn that may render us slightly slower but much bigger in achievement than a kid. Therefore, this may hit us to wonder how fast the day passes or even the weeks because we are bigger and slower by comparison.

Ultimately, for elders with most of their muscles degenerating, movement may seem to be slower and same goes to their brain. Rendering them slow may cause them to see the world as faster and quicker. This may mean a year will be very short for an elderly, will it not?

I am referring to the most likely specimens but not entirely all. In fact my thoughts may not be even true but I state my perception as we all may become elderly ourselves one day, so brace yourselves everyone.

What can that buy you now?

AcerNoteLight-1997s
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It costed about RM5019.00 to purchase the unit of laptop with the following configuration and accessories.
1) Acernote Light 370PC
- Pentium 120Mhz (wah!!!) with
- 16MB RAM
- 1GigaBytes of HDD space
- Hot plug 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive
- 10x CD-ROM drive
- DSTN Screen (pre-TFT)
- 1 NiMH Battery
- Windows 95 Preinclude
Cost RM4250.00
2) 100MB Iomega Zip Drive (parellel) RM349.00
3) Xircom credit card modem 56K RM390.00
4) 1 Zip disk 100MB RM30.00

Picture has nothing to do with this.

Reading some of those extremely popular blog entries rang my springs, of the creativity harnessed in each and every single living soul can recreate. Just as the profoundness of their English vocabulary allow their very thoughts to be conjugated into properly written blogs.

Puppy Dog
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Imminently, teasing me to open a 'web-tionary'€™ in hope of typing out a paragraph to describe my mood only after studying other famous blogs. Unofficially I renounce this creativity in me. Even though I know the words by sound and spelling, the meaning somehow I don't. Mixing and arranging words are certainly not my forte. As a result I shall resolute to simple English in which resonate many paragraphs in explain the simplest of thought, or I shall not? At this moment, I don't understand the exact meaning of what I just wrote, an metaphor in describing me typing furiously on the computer keyboard and taping many times the backspace button, or by in large it just comes naturally. Can you imagine I just found out about the word 'latter' 25 minutes ago? Sad sad me.

An excerpt of "WHAT THE..."

Two fella fighting
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Karam and Macy were together for 8 years but broke off due Karam'€™s overly obsessed in controlling her. She then started to go out with Joseph. Many nights Macy received short messages (SMS) from Karam wanting to get back together.

One day Karam appeared when Macy and Joseph were arriving home. Karam begged and cried for Macy in hope she will return to him. Karam grab Macy's arm and pulled her away from Joseph. Macy struggled. Joseph quiet and non compulsive "€˜fella"€™ stepped out to remove Karam's threatening grip. Karam fought back by launching a punch at Joseph in which he immediately reacted to avoid the blow. Within a second, Joseph grab hold of Karam's fist and pulled him towards the direction of his attack. As Karam launches forward, Joseph uses his elbow and force it in front of Karam's face. Karam bled badly and were on fours.

The police arrived and questioned Macy. "Who hit first?" Macy answered, "It was Joseph who hit Karam, first"€. Joseph overheard the answer and exclaimed "What the..."

The End.

Chocolate and Milk

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I have a different story to why Cadbury associate milk to their bars of chocolate. Not because it's part of the ingredient, which actually it is, but it's about the taste. I was about to cook dinner and while waiting for the beef to defrost, I was hungry.

Pull open the fridge, took the bottle of Dutch Lady Full Cream Milk and pour into a semi tall transparent glass. I then reached back into the fridge to take out my favorite bar of Cadbury Nut Break. Pluck out 3 squares. Yes! They are 3 cm squares.

Take one square at a time. Leave it to melt slowly in your mouth and chewing is not recommended but just let it soften. Once you feel there is a substantial amount of chocolate melted, wash it down with the cool glass of milk you poured.

Somehow, as you sip the milk, it intensifies the chocolaty taste. It is totally different from putting the chocolate into the milk then drink. The chemical reaction happening inside your mouth is certainly to me extraordinary.

Yeh, right! You might say. Don't take my word go try it yourself. I don't really know about other chocolates but the combination is Nut Break + Dutch Lady Full Cream chilled.

Pornography for a better world.

How in the world I can claim it can be a better world with pornography? Sexual urges are hardwired in us. In a perspective of total private viewing of porn, a person can relief these urges. Thus making her(desperate housewives) or especially him less sexually hostile or pervertly provocative. Sexual offenders won't offend as long as their minds are busy with hormonal excretion by the number of uncountable wanks in front of a wide plasma display. The world will have less rapist who cannot control their desire with the aid of adult material.

I can be totally wrong on this. Pornography may actually contribute to more sexual crimes in the world. It may provoke the sexual perversion well hidden in every human. Remember, humans were once apes and are bound by the very basic of instincts.

What is wrong?

My Hello software does not seem to be able to post pictures into my blog. What is wrong with it? Frust and got to revert back to flickr.com. More reliable.

New Baby Human

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Weighing 5.6lbs lying 48cm at one corner, my new baby nephew!!!

A little about pornography.

Here is a little thought about pornography. Some call it porn, blue film, adult video, hardcore sex video or in cantonese "HARM TIE" or "HARM HEY". I understand it's filthy most of the time, disgusting and degrading to female or even young male gender. The actors are manipulated by financial gain purely generated by the ever increasing demand from the public of young and old.

Despite so many questionable moral implications there are some thing I learnt from 'porn'.
1 - Sex is as good to watch and to perform.
2 - There is more than one position to have intercourse.
3 - Foreplay is important before intercourse. Partners must oral each other before pumping away like rabbits.
4 - Be a spray artist is much safer and fun than putting everything inside. This helps reduce shotgun results even if the individual does not know where babies come from.
5 - There are more than one entry.
6 - Shaven pubic area is cleaner and more visible. Eating or sucking will be less obstructed.

Given these points, porn can be an aide for people to understand Biology-human reproduction with more interests and the world can be a better place!

Job Fair Everyone!

Sometimes I wonder how it was like then? Read this article in Star JOB FAIR today.

Seven years ago, when I graduated. I spent 4 months looking and hunting down jobs. Wait , I arrive 2 days before Commonwealth Games 1998 and started to work with a local software firm in December 1998. I still remember during the negotiation of salary.

Boss : Due to the current economic situation, our company is expanding and we see more opportunities ahead. Therefore, we are willing to offer you a sum of RM1xxx.00.
Me(in my mind now) : What economic situation? Aren't we booming with the DOT com hype revving crazily?
Me(the then me) : Wow Great! When can I start?

Web application was a new thing then in 98/99. IBM's Websphere was still at its infancy where as Netscape Application Server(KIVA then iPlanet) and Weblogic were setting the standards. Amazon was new. ICQ is old story, Yahoo Messenger also was new. MP3 was just 3 years old and WinAMP was great. Ooops got carried away.

Actually the government can only do this much. Based on statistics and feedback they scratch the surface to possible solution to this prblem. However, 95% of the effort must come from those 19 over thousand unemployed / unemployable graduates themselves. Otherwise work at McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut or even wash cars.

Cure for the future

In the future there will be no surgical operations. Our current surgical operations will cause the loss of blood, excessive dependencies on drugs and man power. The cure for the future, as suggested by those BIG THINKERS, will be nano robots that can enter our body and fix specific organs. Monitored from a control booth, control by commands, sit back and let the robots do their mending work. Dream on dream on...trekkie fan!!

Our Memory

Laptop sent for repair and spend days using pen paper for notes taking. In fact, I find life a little bit slower without the laptop. Maybe I had all the time to talk, write, think and reflect. I guess that is good once awhile. It's like detoxing for the eyes and mind. Anyway, this week I departed from KL on Wednesday afternoon. Sitting in the taxi and my mind started to wander again. Below lies the thoughts I had.

There are times we remember things effortlessly. Some other times we attempt to remember something with effort. Most of the time we do not attempt to remember. Probably we assume these things are insignificant.

Sometime we try very very hard to remember but spend a lot of effort to recall. Instead some things are easily recall without much effort to remember. Here is a list to think about;

1) Songs or music - Easily memorize and recall.
2) Lyrics - Effort to memorize and recall. Most likely forget when time passes.
3) Scent / smell - Easily memorize and recall. It can bring you back to the actual mood when u first instance you experienced it.
4) Telephone numbers - No attempt to memorize even important person. Why? See item 5.
5) Phone numbers keystroke(Digit keypads) - Some effort to memorize. After that easily to recall.
6) Bad things your partner did - Easily memorized and can be simply recalled.
7) Colors - Effort to memorize and recalled with or without effort. For example color RED. What is the first thing you remember about red?
8) Instruction to do something - Effort to memorized and effort to recall depending on person and application. For instance a 60 year retired school teacher will take the whole day to setup a DVD player.
9) The last time having voluntary sex with a love one - no effort to remember but can recall generally but not specific. For example like last week / month / year or worst decade.
10) The last time having voluntary sex with a stranger - same as item 9 i think.

I believe there are categories of things, events, people or even formula that our mind/brain selectively remember. Even consciously or unconsciously or subconsciously we select.