I'm looking forward for tomorrow. Hopefully the cheque (or check if you prefer North American spelling) won't bounce. You see, I'm work for a small company and so they (the almighty management) would give my payment in cheque (or check). Unlike others which their company would pay them by transfering the money into their account. Hmmm... The  bad thing about my situation is that I don't get the money instantaneously, I'll get it a few days after. The good thing is, I can choose which ever bank I want because most of the time a company that transfer money into their staff's account, would need to be in the same bank otherwise the company would have more administrative work and cost. So if you happen to have the account of the same bank that your company is having, then you're in luck otherwise you have to find time to open another account (time is money).

Anyway,  that's my grumbling for the day.

Today is seven of ten. I've done most of the stuff and trying to pound the things that I needed to remember into my brain (not very big you know). I've also sent my badminton racquet for repair and I'll be able to wreck havoc and cause fear into my foes in badminton....bwahahahahha (evil laugh). But first I got to cough out 40 bucks to repair it. Then I'll be able to play on next Tuesday.

Oh yeah, my nutritionist/dietition (a.k.a. Esther), told me that the reason why I gained weight is I have too much carbohydrate in my diet and so I need to cut down on my carbo intake. Hmmm....does this means that I should be on Atkins diet program? So no potatoes, bread, etc. Nah....I still love pau (steamed bun) in the morning with a cup of hot coffee. That doesn't mean that I forego all carbo food just reduce my consumption. This also means reducing ice-cream and such. Sigh. I'm crazy about ice-cream eh. So I'll eat less rice too (hmmm...and rice is THE staple food for Malaysia). Sigh. No pain, no gain.

Till next blog session. Over and out.

It is really, really a good day for me. I manage to track down my ol' friends from Canada. Nancy, if you manage to read this, I want to say "Hallelulia". I manage to track down Carolyn Minor too but have yet to get a reply from her though. Anyway, today is good. I rate it about 8 of ten. Okay 8 and a half of ten. Got my things done, objective met. Pay is in the account. What more do I need (besides a million bucks for me to fix my car, etc)?

Back to my ol' grumblings. Sigh. For those people in Malaysia and still unaware of the gas hike, well...shame on you. Petrol price rose 30 cents per liter(Malaysian currency to those non-Malaysian readers). This means I got to cough out about 12 RM bucks just to maintain the same amount of petrol into my car. Sigh. This stinks. It vexes me. Sigh. SSSIIIGGGHHHH. I guess I won't be turning on my air-conditioning in my car now. Do you know that air-conditioning takes up a fair amount of petrol? Sigh. Either that or I need to buy a new belt, preferably with more holes for me to tighten when things gets worse. Yup. Petrol increase means transportation cost increase this, in turn, would cause EVERYTHING else go to up. So we got to brace ourselves for the inflation of everyday items. This situation reminded me of the joke I saw in a cartoon ad once. It went like this:

"I had it all. A beautiful wife. A nice big house at the sub-urbs. Insurance. Three kids, all planning to go to college. Two great cars....then I went to pump gas at the gas station. All gone."

Another one.

"Hey! I could increase the value of my car just by filling my tank to full!"

Sigh(one last time). Till next blog folks. Till next blog.

A few announcement before I continue my blog.

1. Happy Belated B'day to Gemi Yap (I hope you're reading this)
2. Happy B'day to Andrew Peh (I don't think you're reading this)

Okay. On with my blog.

Where shall I begin? I'll begin by what happened during the weekend and how come I have no entries for both the weekend. Well, first and foremost, I did wished a 'Happy Birthday' to Gemi who is all the way in Preston, England, via e-mail. It's just that I didn't put it up on the blog site. Where was I? I was in a cafe playing computer games with William, yup, I was there until about two in the morning. I went home and I crashed. Didn't know what time it was when I woke up, and I really feel old. I can't get up like I use to. My mind is not willing and so is my body. When I was a little younger (and probably more in shape) I could get up and be alert in moments. The past few months I've come to a conclusion, I'm getting old and me being unfit doesn't help in having a "up-and-at 'em" vigor.

The day went on where I need to help with cleaning of the house, shopping with my ball-and-chain, doesn't leave me with very much energy to go on-line and post some entries. Then it was Sunday.

Sunday was fun. Met with a dear friend, sister Vernie. I wish I have a picture of her but I don't so I can show you what a marvellous person she is. Esther and I went with Vernie to a Presbyterian Church and it was a good. The sermon was short, preached by a pastor (can't remember the name) from Minnesota. The sermon was only 20 minutes long. I was expecting more but it was still good. Met some new people there, and manage to rekindled an old lecturer of mine. Now I know where to contact her. Oh well. The sharing with Vernie was good too, oh yes, before I forget... Vernie's driving a new car. This is for all you folks who knows Vernie. She ditched the old car and now driving a new MyVi.

Came back, did more chores and yes, physically tired out too. Then the good news came, I have a chance to get my butt into shape (I still believe round is still a shape). I am going to play badminton again. Starting next month. This gives me time to restring my racquet. I broke the strings last time I played it (somewhere end of last year September if I'm not mistaken). So whoohooo.

As for today, it's a seven and a half out of ten. It's not bad today. Manage to accomplish what I had set out to do and will continue tomorrow from there. Till then. Bye.

It's the weekend folks, I hope to enjoy mine and hope you would enjoy yours too. Today is a good day. I finished my class early, and I mean very early. It suppose to be a five day class but I did it in four and half day. No point for me to drag the class unnecessarily and the participants have learned something from my class (at least that's what I would assume), I gotten good evaluation from the course and they have the whole half day to themselves. Which is good for one of them, he is sick and having fever. So he's really happy about it. Next week, boy, oh boy. More time for myself. I don't have classes for next week but I do need the tiime to brush up on whatever technology that I need to do and research. Probably I would do just that: research. To show of good faith in my work and to my boss. Oh well, I'm going home now for dinner and see how it goes from there.

Hey you people out there, check this link out eh? It's another person's blog that shows celebrities when they were kids.

 Young Celeb

Okay, nothing is going on today that is worth a title. I'm now coaching one of the two green horns and it's promising. I'm just coaching the best I can although I'm not good but this young chap is shoing some promises. Is he going to take over my position? Why do some seniors believe that the juniors are out to get their position? Now looking at my junior, I am not afraid that he would take over me by force but by his character where he would be good and the boss would lose faith in me and I would be like yesterday's newspaper.

I'm afraid. Not.

I guess most seniors would feel good if they have a good surbordinate and they feel that the surbordinate happens to be on the winning team (yours). But will the seniors feel threatened and may sour the relationship? The obvious answer is, depends. I was from a similar situation. I went in there with good promises and begin to learn and my immediate boss was good towards me and then find ways to pin-point faults later in my working career in the company. It seemed that he, my immediate supervisor, was afraid that I would take over his position. So to make the story short, before long, I was pressured out of the company.

Now, looking at this youngster, I guess I am not afraid and would give myself some comfort zone. If it is to be, then it needs to be. As Rico (from Starship Troopers) would say, "I'll take this job...till I'm dead or you find someone better". So I'm coaching two rookies now and see how it goes from there.

Today is Rachel's birthday. So wishing her a happy birthday and hope you can share some of your spoils with us.




Last night I had a dream. No. Make it a nightmare. I dreamt that I was half-bald. Yup. I lost most of my beloved hair. I remembered bits and pieces and it was like I went and wash my hair, dried it with my towel and started to comb it. Then I was shocked, very shocked to find out that my hair lost most of it from the inner section, the section that is hardly seen. So I quickly brushed my hair but softly so that I won't frighten the rest of my hair off and try to cover the balding part. Sigh. I then try not to stand any place where there's wind. I sighed to myself.

I woke up, keep going through my hair and yup, most of it still here. A sigh of relief. I've notice that I actually put something of value to my hair and I'd never done that before. Probably I got lots of it and so I took my hair for granted (if you want to call it that) and it's probably a good thing too so that I would be reminded of the little, little things that I've taken for granted. Sounds familiar? Here's the problem, there are just too many things that you and I have taken things for granted and too many things for us to take a check list to figure out what we have missed. So how do we keep abreast of the little other things that we've taken for granted? How do we follow up too? The answer? Reality check.

You cannot remember all those you've taken for granted. Not even your love ones, not even your shoe and not even the chair that you're sitting on. All these things to most of us have taken it for granted and it seems endless with our limited ability to remember things. So how do you avoid this problem then? Since you can't, then make lemon-aid. Learn how to accept failures but keep your chin up. Learn to avoid and sometimes remind yourself that you are but human (to err is human). If things have taken for granted, and something bad did happened. Make sure you are not doing out of malice and try to fix it. Fixing things with honesty means alot. Even those people who taken friendship for granted, with honesty and sincerity, friendship could be mend but not without scars. It's like a favourite cup once broken, it could be mend but the seams could still be seen. Friendship, however, could ignore the seams totally. Betrayal, works of malice and other dishonest acts however, would not be able to be mend so nicely. My moral of my blog? If you want to mess things, make sure it's not because of dishonesty and other bad stuff. It would be an easier life to live and carry on living.

You know, if my title is actually the date I write, I would be either zoned out or I just don't know what to write for the title for my post.

Today is not a bad day. Pretty sunny and not raining every evenings like the past week. So things are pretty good for me too. I ended my class early and I've decided to write a post. I discovered other blogs as well. Some are well maintained and some are not. I stumbled unto my friend's blog and it was a funny thing to read the other person's blog that you know and it's a good funny and not a 'make fun of' funny. It's a blog about this girl's relationship and it seems that she writes her blog regarding her relationship with her boyfriend and I too know her boyfriend. Both are my friends, though they had some rough times together but things are better now. So that's good. Very good and I'm happy for them too. What I didn't know was what he has done and how he has treated her and that's the funny part. It's good to know how your friends' are doing. I wish them well.

So if there are people out there who knows me and wondering if I'm truely happy now, my answer is "I'm fine and doing well". I'm not on top of the world but I'm hanging in some areas. I'm looking forward to have some time for myself a little bit more and do meditation and honest prayer. That is one thing I lack at the moment. Other than that, I'm happy and content. I know that God is waiting for me and I shall not delay any more than I should.

I have a new home now for my blog and I hope not to move anymore cause it took me like forty five minutes to move my old posts from my old blog to my new blog. It would be worse in future when I write more posts. Anyway,

I got two rookies under me right now and I'd guess it was partly my fault. You see, when I join my company I was groping in the dark for answers. So I then said to my boss, "I've had it with you guys leaving me in the dark! So from now on, all green horns pass to me". Well, no so much along the words but yeah, I'm taking initiative to coach two rookies to learn from me. I'm still a rookie but had my share of bumps and bruises so I'll take the lead. Other seniors? Sigh, their philosophy is, "I've made it through the bumps and the bruises I got and so should you". My philosophy is, "I've gone through it, I didn't like it, I'll show the younger ones how to avoid it."

I just hated it. I was wondering in the dark, got shot down at because I was not good enough and all these while my seniors never, ever showed me the path. Except one. He gave me a hand to help me take my first step forward and gave me a reachable target. Wtih each target reached, I moved on to the next. Sigh. After so long, I have finally reached a point of "I can now stand alone". So I'm looking at the rookies when they first came in, then I went to have a chat with my bosun and he said, "that's good" and that was that. I was sure that he also means, "okay, we'll do it your way".

So I have two unofficial padawans. Wait, that's not right. Jedi master's could have only one "student". Hmmm....oh well. Let's see if I can train them right, hopefully they won't learn my bad habits too (or vice versa). They are with me but not in black and white so I'll do my initiation anyway. Hope they'll benefit from my limited experience.

Ah, after some thought, I have decided to move to another blog site where the grass would be greener on the other side with better services such as an archinve (where new readers could find my previous posts right down to my first blog post. When shall I move? I don't know yet. Where shall I move to? I don't know yet either. So I'll let you readers know later on. It would NOT be an easy migration 'cause I'll be moving the entire thing, one post at at time, to the other side and so far I have 22 posts. So I have to do it pretty quick as I update my blog quite frequently. I'll keep this blog site up and will point to the new site but no updates. Oh well, keep you guys posted.

Here I am writing about myself via blog. Hmmm...several things came through my mind (somewhat rare occasion). Writing a blog is akin to a Dee Jay talking through the air waves. The DJ would say some stuff (usually lots of things) and sometimes, people would give feed back. Not often but they do through phone calls and what not. For blogs, you leave comments. So here I am rambling (and sometimes mumbling) about things and I get some response (this means from you William). So my next thing is what on earth do I write about? It's like a DJ asking him/herself, what songs should I pay today. Sigh. The typical answer is "anything" eh. Problem is the writer/DJ would like to write/play something that everyone enjoys too. I mean, I find that I actually enjoy blogging (for now) and I would like to continue that. So I've thought about it and it seemed that people enjoy other people's lives. In other words, my life. Mein Kemf (German). Not so much my philosophy (actually it's part of my life) and my feelings etc. So I'll try to go on that line (can't promise though).

I am very afraid to talk about my work life. Simple reason because one of you (yes, you the reader) may know my boss (my emperor/overlord during the working hours of 9 to 5). And so I do not want to blog about my work and things going on in here (unless I am planning to quit). So I'm a bit reluctant to write stuff on my blog regarding work. Problem is, my hang ups are of work normally. If your boss aka bosun aka kingpin (yeah you know who I'm refering to) asks you a simple (it always sounds simple isn't it?) question: "Can you tell me how to improve things around here?". I'm just wondering how many people actually did tell (and survived). My boss is kinda....sigh... "shudder", "shudder". This reminds me of the show "Lion King" where the scene of the hyena says "mufasa".

Anyway, too long a topic. May break into a few parts, don't know...see how it goes. Oh well, time to do some actual work. Sigh. Time: 4:52pm, over and out.