Simplicity, for Men

I've been in this world for near to 24 years. I have met so many people, and i'm yet to meet more. There's so much in life that we have not see. The education in Malaysia is a truly fucked up one i would say because they have no proper system, even the language is still an issue to prevent the people from improving.

And people might ask me, if the education system is a fucked up one, then how supposedly could I be scoring straight As and excelling in my studies all along? I would be pleased to say that, yes, the education given to me was "just enough", and it was all my effort and intelligence that brought me all those academic success. It was the abundant amount of information available that i sourced on my own gave me education at a "more than enough" level.

If i were asked to rate our education, I'd give a "pass" instead of a "distinction". That's how much feel.

Despite the education given to us, some even had the chance to study overseas, there's one thing ultimately separates us from each other - Attitude. Which includes the perception and emotional stability of a person. When a person is highly educated, they should behave like an educated person and they should be strong mentally, emotionally.

Emotional people tend to make life difficult, for themselves, and for others. That's why this world is in a mess. Everything's negative for them, everything's black in their filter. How to be a man you tell me?

Why not make life simple? Keep things simple, think positively, and stop those "what if" mind boggling questions that will affect the surroundings. And when i meant by keeping things simple, means to be humble as well.

Arrogant attitude will only lead to mishaps and people running away from you - that is if you don't have the quality to be arrogant.

Think.

Quote

The most common question asked:


"What Motivates you?"




My answer:


"The curiosity to know how good I will be in the future motivates me."




Asked again:

"What about on a day to day basis?"




And I answer:

"The urge to know what will my achievements be tomorrow keeps me going."

Dancing In The Moonlight

This is BAD.

His life made a Thriller.

Michael Jackson finally laid to rest.

His death and memorial overshadowed that of any other kings and presidents or artists the world has ever known. Not even Diana's death touched the whole world for a long time.

Despite his troubled life, the ups and downs of his career, Michael would live forever, even though we know he's never going to perform live again. But his work, his legacy, his dance moves, his ability, his talent, and his fame will forever be with us. No one's going to forget his songs for the entire human race and for the world. I believe, in 100, 200, 400 years to come, he would be a big name to be remembered like we had in history books. Just like Isaac Newton, after so many centuries, his name is still everywhere.

And I still believe that he's innocent on those child molestation accusations. And I have a feeling that someone who knows him very well who's trying to ruin him and his wealth.

It's just like all superhero movies - whenever there's a hero, the will be a villain to make his life hard. And the difference is, this time the Hero dies.

It's hard, even for me to accept the fact that he's dead. But live goes on for all of us.

And You Are Not Alone. Just Beat It.

Long live the King of Pop

New

Being in university, one thing for me is, after being on semester breaks, exciting. The beginning of every semester would be exciting for me. And i now no longer get to experience anything like that.

Reading today's The Star Education, titled "Moving In", brought back so many memories of my first day enrolling into Kolej Keris Mas, UKM, Bangi. I still remember what i wore, how short my hair was, and the people i first met. Everything was new, and seeing some familiar faces during orientation week lightened up my day. People were looking weird, some looked like freaks, and some looked at me like i'm a freak.

Orientation week was lousy, where facilitators acted like hooligans, instead of looking like an educated person. The food, seriously sucked. And my room, was certainly not a good one, although i had a whole double room on my own, all the spaces for myself. I couldn't believe that I really did shift up and down 4 flight of stairs mutiple times every week.

It took time to wander around, before I found clickable friends, who introduced me into the late nights sleep and computer games and football. Without them, i guess i would be bored till death because i'm a hyper kind of guy and i can't sit still. Every now and then i hadda find things to do. And these friends later became housemates. And i was lucky enough to have cincai housemates who are not calculative and there were no problems between all of us like everyone else did.

First year was the year, that i truly hated yet i missed it. The subsequent years was filled with ups and downs, friends came and went, events occured without noticing, results dropped and regained its momentum, morale went high and low, motivation lost and found, etc etc...

I kept wondering how fast can 4 years go by, I even started blogging while in university. And it's 3 years plus by now. I'm still sitting here writing about my life and feelings i had years back.

The only different thing is, i'm no longer a student, and i'm working already. I no longer feel excited about starting a new semester even though i want to.

And to all those who are still goin to be in university for quite some time:

Happy New Semester people!

And to my cheeky bunny girlfriend-

Have fun while in university and I'll be there for you always. Study hard, we'll be great in years to come! =*

First, the King of Rock n Roll, Then, the King of Pop

You guys must be wondering where the hell i went not being online for 6 days.

Well I was at Penang, yeap, started working and the 3rd day I was already at Penang for conference and exhibition. The people that i worked together with, aka colleagues, including the manager are one whole bunch of funny people who's serious yet knows really well how to destress.

I dare not speculate further if i can do well or i will like it in the future, but at the moment i think that i have found the right job.

In the process I had miss out alot on what's going on in the cyberspace and I hardly had the time to read the papers. And yeah, i'm outdated, OMG Michael Jackson's dead.

Just like Elvis, talented people are weird, and they die young/early, leaving a great legacy behind, where the world would never forget. Not forgetting, Heath Ledger was a talented actor.

Eh, but i'm multitalented, so how does it go for me eyh? haha.

See lah, despite his weirdness and all the negative news about his life and character, he's still very much the icon of the century. Being labeled as the King of Poop Pop, he ended up exactly like his ex-wife's dad, aka the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley.

I'm a fan of Jackson and his songs are all along running through my playlist. I even did the stupid dance moves during my freshman year in University. And that shall all be left as history.

Well, his life could turn out another way hadn't he changed his face. In feng shui, the face is VERY important. His fame went on a downfall ever since he did his nose. I just don't understand, is it so important to be a white than a black?

Rest in peace dude, perhaps he can moonwalk wherever he is at now.

And i'm freaking tired i need a foot massage now. lolx.

Updates soon ya'll.

First-Day-of-Work Eve

Happy Father's Day!

To my Dad and all the dad's out there.

My post graduation vacation will be officially over and i will be on my first day of hand shaking with colleagues tomorrow. For now, I'll be heading to Bukit Jalil for my usual coaching classes. This part time coaching job is an interest, leisure, and working out for me, rather than hitting the gym, paying to slim down, i'm earning money while keeping myself fit. Plus the additional that I'm getting is able to cover my fuel and communications expenses, really motivates me. No stress, no commitment. When i'm not able to coach, there will always be replacements. We replace each other.

Anyway, State of Play was quite a good movie, full of suspense and the length of the movie was just nice. Starring Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams and Helen Mirren.

Rating: 8/10

I personally thinks that State of Play outshines Terminator Salvation. Terminator Salvation kinda disappointed me, nothing new, nothing special, there's no real story content.

Rating: 5/10

Drag me to Hell, this was a real joke, not horror at all, and i brand this as the new Scary Movie (By the Wayans Brothers), and not horror. The whole cinema was laughing the entire time, and i find the movie ridiculous and obviously a low cost production.

Rating: 2/10

Angels and Demons was good, somewhat better than The Da Vinci's Code.

Rating: 8/10

Too bad, i wont be able to watch the Premiere of Transformers, I will be at Penang this whole week. Please wait for me yar bunny.

Book of Life

I don't know, things revolving us are obviously changing rapidly where seeing everyone securing jobs in the engineering field. Perhaps they are not that choosy and they don't mind placed outstation.

Some didn't have to waste time applying for jobs, going for multiple interviews and scratching their heads in selecting offers. Like they say, JUST ONE would do. And they really had that one chance, one interview, and they got the job. That's just so great.

I applied countless of engineering, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals companies (based in KL) but none replied which kinda makes me sad coz there's not one chance for even an interview. Man I've gotta admit that I'm damn good at interviews now. Of course, there are lots more at the outskirts like Port Klang, Gebeng, Kerteh, and East Malaysia, the point is, i'm kinda reluctant to move to those places. I prefer to be based at KL, and to be asked to move around rather than being placed permanently at those places. Places with no life is a no-no.

After so many interviews, so far there's only one that offered me quite a good deal, but not related to my academic background. You know, the ONE, and ONLY ONE? haha. Perhaps it's fate that i have to go that way. And it's also partly my decision. Well, who knows, i might be good at marketing? Damn those marketing people are so gonna kill me.

Some interviewers really want to take advantage of us freshies because they can smell the freshness of us out of University and they THINK, that we are such noobs that will let them play around with that beggar scale salary? I had one, they said to me :

" You know, some people who have better grades than you are getting RM1800 or RM2000, you expectation is way too high."

They thought it was so damn funny, "hahahahahahahahahaha"

Upon that i "hahahahahahahahahahahaED" along with them.

Bloody hell i swear to god i was about to laugh my ass out listening to that statement. Hey, come on, VCD peddlars who does not have a cert can earn more than that.

And i was thinking " You idiot nasi goreng kampung dude, i'm a KL boy man, and i'm no idiot like you who thinks i'm an idiot."

And yes, perhaps there are graduates who earns 1.8k, why, it's because they have no choice but to support their family, and location factor forced them to take up that straining job.

It's just all luck, and the roads taken and not taken that writes the book of life.

Choices are hard to make, even when there's only 1!

blah blah blah!

Ginger Porridge

Still haven't got my wisdom tooth extracted yet. I'm scared wei, suddenly i became a pussy. -_-

Porridge looks simple. But there are many ways of making porridge and there are many types of porridge.

And to make one hell of a good porridge, alot of effort is required. For TeoChew Porridge, the porridge is plain watery with the rice still in its original shape without smashing, served with varieties of side dishes namely fishes, pig intestines, spring rolls, steamed pork with eggs, veggies, peanuts, anchovies, you name it, you get it.

For the other type, the porridge is rather thick, where continuous stirring smashes up the rice into smaller fragments, and you can add in ingredients to give your porridge the flavour. No side dish is required. And it's good especially when you're having difficulties chewing solid food after piercing, visiting the dentist or you lost all your teeth!

I have here a simple yet delicate ginger porridge.

1) Add half a cup of rice to 6-8 cups of water and boil it over heat - Stir from time to time, and stir vigourously towards the end, which roughly takes about 20 mins, or u can use a blender to blend it while boiling. You can add water if it's too thick, because different rice have different absorption abilities, while some evaporates.

2) Put in the sliced ginger 5 minutes before you turn off the fire.

3) Add in half tablespoon of concentrated chicken stock, a pinch of salt 2 minutes before fire's off.

4) For the seasoning, add 2 tablespoons of light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, half tablespoon sesame oil, half tablespoon of peanut oil, fine white pepper, mix it, and just drizzle on your porridge.

5) Serve in the small china bowl for the feel, garnish with coriander.

Just like this

Feel free to add in chicken meat, meat balls, fish fillets, cubed mushrooms, groundnuts, carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic etc. etc. to suit your appetite.

Having a bad sore throat man. I've been popping in alot of antibiotics lately. And that's not funny.

Standard Chartered KL Marathon

Guess what.

I'll be joining the SCB KL Marathon 2009 on the 28 June. Dad registered me under the 10km category and that's enough for someone who hasn't run in ages. Screw that, I'm actually goin to enjoy the crowd, get their goodies bag, and i aint gonna get myself exhausted.

My clever brother signed up for the 48km run, nuts! I 1000% confirm he cannot finish the course. It's like me running from home to UKM and running back.

Veggie dish/pasta sauce
-| Cut/deseed/cube/dice the celery, tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger(optional) |-


...For the oriental veggie dish, stir fry the above, add sesame oil, chicken stock, salt and pepper to taste.

...For pasta sauce, poach the above with butter over low heat, add in half a cup of chicken stock, wait for everything to soften, blend it(optional), salt and pepper to taste.

And add in your pasta - spirals, angel hair, spaghetti, fusilli, farfalle(bow ties), macaroni, linguine etc and toss/mix.

Finally garnish with parsley, coriander, basil, cheese and olive oil.

Tea-Time

I never thought that i will be affected by this wisdom tooth thingy. I had a lil ache at the inner cheek wall and i thought it was some ulcer or what until this morning i suspected it's the wisdom tooth's job. Therefore i went to the dentist, did the x-ray, and confirmed that this bloody tooth isn't making me wiser, instead, it caused me pain. Now I've got inflammation and I'm on medication to reduce the pain and swelling, and a minor surgery in 2-3 more days

:S

Why lah is this happening to me now at this crucial period where i've gotta attend interviews...

I've got an offer which is quite lucrative and it aint engineering job but marketing. It's not a bad job seeing that it's with a well renowned company but i'm considering the possibilities of me U-turning back to engineering if i decide that marketing is not what i'm good at. While still waiting for other offers, guess i've gotta use my logic rather than following my heart. Will see how. This is the real post-graduating syndrome =) But i'm enjoying every part of it although i'm not doing things which i initially intend to do.

Fortunately, I did make myself to get a coaching job, weekends at Bukit Jalil. It's good.

Guitaring? Nah, forget bout it. I've got no company.

Board gaming? Worse, it's like Catan Satan, kononnya lah, coz the name also says it all - "Die Siedler von Catan". To me it sounds like "You'll DIE if you play with Satan". Losing originality.

Cooking has been my passion for a long time. And it still is.

French loaf toasted on bacon oil with streaky bacon and baked garlic-butter
-Roast/bake garlic cloves in oven with a splash of olive/sunflower oil for 10 mins-
-Heat pan, grill the bacon until crisp-
-Remove excess oil, toast the bread on low heat-
-Remove garlic skin, mash it with butter, season with salt and black pepper-

Get yourself a cuppa freshly brewed coffee, and there goes a perfect tea break with mates

Quadruple, Shattered

2-0

Manchester United failed to defend their crown from Barcelona. But it was a good game where Barcelona's brilliance gave Man Utd one hell of a night.

With the magic touches of Eto'o, Messi, Iniesta and Xavi, the Devil's defence was indeed helpless. United with Park, Rooney, Berbatov, Ronaldo and Tevez at the front couldn't break through Barca's wall of Pique and Puyol, seeing Ronaldo's free kick saved by Valdez and few more missed chances into the net.

With Ryan Giggs and Scholes at the verge of retiring, the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez, and the over-rated Berbatov who's not really contributing, Fergie has to come up with a plan for the coming season.

United failed their Quadruple bid for making history.

Anyway, congratulations to both teams for achieving trebles respectively. Both the champions of their country's premier league, domestic and international cups.

Going Up Hill, Going Down the Slope

It's seems like everything is falling apart. Apart from job seeking and waiting for answers and calls and all there's nothing much to be done looking at the situation where people are limited, funds limited, I see that EQs going low as well. High uncertainty.

Our whole life is just full of complaints. This blog was used as a medium to express any unsatisfactory remarks or feelings but now it's not as easy to type thinking that many people would be affected greatly by my remarks. As known, when i start babbling or screwing, nothing can stop me. And to prevent conflicts from occurring and sensitiveness of human emotions, i'd better control they way i express my thoughts. More to say controlling my ego. Hey, fyi, it's because of this ego that i have that brought me to where i am today, be it good or bad. Or else i would have been selling VCDs and DVDs along the night market or running around like a gangsta.

It's not like close friends can talk to each other about the 3rd party. There are so many people with infinite masks. Sometimes we have good intentions of helping friends by giving them an alternative route for them to try instead of seeing things in one way, but most often these kind of advices are turned into something negative and suddenly we become the bad guys. What to do we are not gods who can influence people.

Perhaps some have never had a hard life before or experiencing the best and worst of this world. There's no endurance and agility for the Y generation to strive in the work force. We are the Y-generation. And my brother's the Z-generation. There's a wide difference of attitude between all the X-Y-Z generations in terms of styles.

Generation-X: the typical workaholic working for a living to bring up their Generation-Y descendants;
Generation-Z: Who enjoys life more than anything, with selfishness hiking its way up. And the worst thing is, we are stuck in between.

Environment and family values distinguishes everyone from each other. It's hard to change a person's character, and it's even more interesting to find out their true colours. Well, some have never changed, and every lil bit sums up becomes alot.

I've seen so many who don't know how to treat people, perhaps they were not taught how to treat a person, instead taking advantage of them, it's the environment that forces them to care for themselves than others, which is quite a logical thing to do. Humans are still evolving, from bad to worse, it's nature, the smarter a person is, the worse it will become.

Sooner or later, we are going to be uncivilized creatures, back to square one.

Think.

Oh No!

Shit, beach bug attack!

Good Morning Megan

Megan Fox on Esquire Magazine

God damn she's smokin' hot

Revenge of the Fallen ● June 2009

Rafa Benitez Changed Job

Bloody hell, i didn't know Liverpool's Rafa Benitez sings!

Nah, that's Jamie Pugh from Britains Got Talent and i laughed my ass off when i saw his face. Perhaps the real Benitez should considering changing his occupation since he wants to stay in England for quite some time until he beats Alex Ferguson.

This is the real Rafael Benitez

Who looks more potato-ish

Jamie Pugh is humble.