Thursday, September 27, 2007

Conspiracy theory. Rewinding age legally.

What if I have an offer to rewind my age? Let say, 7 years. For a small fee of RM300, perhaps the glitch of a switch to tweak the MyKAD database binary bits and voila! I am now seven years younger. Would I sanely take it up? What about you? I do know someone, whom didn't know I do, that he is not what his age states in his identity card. For the person-who-shall-not-be-name, is in fact 2-4 year older than official document states. Heck, even my ex-girlfriend's date of birth isn't really hers.

Looks can be deceiving they say. I may look 30 but actually 23 only or vice versa. What benefit lies in rewinding official age back 7 years?

1) Insurance premium cheaper.
2) Less candles on birthday cake.
3) Feel younger? (assume I ensure good healthy life)

Momentarily, can't think of anything else besides the first item above. What about earning power? Would employers take age into account for renumeration? If yes, why must they exploit of a person's age? Take for example, 2 candidates go interview. One (real)30 y.o vs (fake)23 y.o programmer. Same qualification, same 3 years experience in that field and communicates almost the same maturity. I am almost convince management would hire (fake) 23 year old programmer, instead of 30 y.o.

What reasons you think management would bring up to justify that?

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Homebrew

Breaking the spell of silence since April 27. Many blogs I came across contain so much apologies for having a big gap between the last and current post, that's the same goes for yours truly. For instance, Matt's blog, http://jam-page.blogspot.com. Fella has so many "I'm sorry haven't been blogging, busy" entries. Can this leave a misrepresentation that bloggers are non busy people and put it those who apologizes shows they have better things to do than blog? Therefore, no apologies from moi, I just decide not to until today. Why?

Yep, got excited with my first 10 bottles of 'goodness'. (Wickedly laughing). Recently embark on the adventure of home-brew. Practically new to me but theoretically been researching it since 2003. Just like the laziness - more important things to take care off, couldn't get it off the ground. Then met a dive buddy, who is a multi-resourced entrepreneur, introduce me to a "wonder-bucket" that simplifies many of the tedious process in traditional brewing got me on.

Simply add everything into the bucket (must), wait few days, then rack it and store by chilling it. Once placed into the fridge, the fermentation process slows down to a halt and sediment builds at the bottom over a period of 2 weeks.

Filtration is done one more round to get an almost translucent juice of 'goodness'. Fairing between 7% to 7.8% alcohol content and not yet near wine or worst cider state, this fruit juice from my POV, is safe to consume.

Three qualities of discipline must be adhere at all times i.e. patience, sterilization and abstinence. Yep, self control from drooling into the bucket while it ferments, helps by cover mouth when working at it daily. Saliva kills man. It's dangerous.

Therefore, I am proud to present the first 10 bottles of "Can-B-Anything" juice drink. I wonder it'll sell? Only one way to find out. Wish me luck.

Oh yah, I'm back...watch for updates because since April, I 've;
1) Move house
2) Racked up significant amount of debt.
3) Managed an ice-cream business.
4) Successfully close it down on their behalf.
5) Cook more often than usual.
6) Visit Tesco at least 4 times a month.
7) Home maker man.
8) Dove in Sipadan
9) Got my PADI Adv license.

Cheerio!