Quick Update : Bidor

Dry season is back, again! Every year, the dry spell will be made worse by fog and dusts from forest fire in the neighboring country. People fall sick easily. Drink lots of fluid. Take care, everybody! (It's final examination season~)

I took this photo with my lousy hand phone camera nearby Malim Nawar.

Not Bad for A RM500 Purchase, After All

It has been a while since I last updated my blog. Been busy for my final semester in UTP. I can't wait to start a new life in KL!

Passed by Ipoh just now on the way back to Bidor. So I got my youngest brother a new phone, replacing his old Nokia-duno-wat-model that still looks fine. The old phone is having some trouble with the LCD screen. Surprisingly, the technician at the hand phone shop said that the old Nokia works fine on a post-paid SIM card, but not pre-paid SIM card. Anybody having the same problem before? Please share the remedial measure.

Not bad for a RM500 purchase, including 1GB M2 memory card. The sound quality is good, and picture captured by the 2.0MP camera is clear.

Maybe it's time to get myself a new phone too! :)

Cai Shen (God of Prosperity)

Five of us were on the way back from Ipoh hours ago when Kah Ling suddenly blurted out "2305 lagi..mesti strike today!" And we continued talking about lottery and 4-D for about 5 minutes before we stopped at Kg Bali traffic light. Maybe my data collection interupted the conversation, but never mind. 

I took a long shower after Ipoh trip because I am a self-declared germophobic guy. It's time to check my email for today's Pan Malaysia Pool draw result.

And this is what I got..

Though it's not the exact set of numbers (permutation bet can be made FYI), she might be the modern day, female version of Cai Shen!

Hunting For Teluk Intan Chee Cheong Fun

Bidor is just another transitory town for KL dwellers. During the day, Bidor is quite a busy town where the traffic jam can be quite terrible, especially during festive seasons. At night, few would go out and only the Chinese kopitiam will be lively. Mamak? Oh no...I have had enough of mamak food at Tronoh.

Both me and Joanna felt so bored that we decided to travel to Teluk Intan to meet up with our mutual friend there. And we wish to try the famous "Chee Cheong Fun" too. (<==== This is our real motive, actually. Shhhhhhh! )

The famous Teluk Intan Leaning Tower

Thanks to our local Teluk Intan boy, Seang Yik, we had the best Chee Cheong Fun ever. Too bad, no pictures taken as I do not fancy taking pictures of food. I rather help myself with the good food served hot on the table.

However, don't pass the guilty verdict on me for not "tapao" for you. Let's go together next time! Don't worry coz' I know Teluk Intan road quite well.

p/s : Rojak Ah Chai is quite famous too.

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Tonight, it feels just..
Empty.


Be that as it may..
What do I want?

Perhaps a job posting that will bring me thousands of miles away from here.

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Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Selamat Hari Raya to all, especially my old friends from Sekolah Menengah Sains Teluk Intan (Batch 16 : 99-03), my UTP college mate, fellow #camborians, #civilpower, #sipilyahoo and lecturers.

Drive safely!

OMG I Bangs!

Sigh...I sucks in parking car. This is the first injury (28th Sept 2008) I had caused to my younger brother's little baby Wira. The front bumper skirting is torn and I have to tie it temporarily with plastic string. Else it will drop down while I drive the car home. He will grunt, ad nauseam because he LOVE his car a lotttt!

And this is the injury to my own Iswara (some time ago during internship in KL). This is even more embarrassing. I banged the guard house of my previous rented unit in Bdr Sri Permaisuri. Sorry Mr-Cengal-Condominium.

Lesson learned:

1. Be careful while parking. Both injuries are on the driver's front side.
   
2. Do not touch brother's car.
3. Do not drive under nicotine deprivation. (Wira case)
   
4. Do not drive if you feel sleepy. (Iswara case)

Simple (Tagged by Shern Shiou)

People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any questions that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.

Tag 8 people to do this quiz and those who are tagged cannot refuse.These people must state who they were tagged by and cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

1) If your lover betrayed you, what would your reaction be?

Wake me up from the sleep after you have packed all your stuffs. Do not leave without a word or just with a note. Take all with you but my heart.

2) If you have a dream to come true, what would it be?

Enough cash to build my own Victorian house.

3) Are u sleepy now?

Yes. I deprived myself of niccotine.

4) Are u confused with what lies ahead of you?

I know what I want, what I need and what I have.

5) What’s your ideal lover like?

I will not hide this. I want someone who knows how to cook, how to manage the household well and "can handle a manual transmission car without power steering". She need not be a graduate; can teach our children ABC & 123 is good enough.

6) Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?

Loving someone.

7) What is the one thing that pisses you off about the opposite sex?

Girls who have no confidence about themselves.

8)How far will you go for the one you love the most?

As far as she is willing, for me.

9) Is there anything that makes you unhappy these days?

No.

10)What is your favorite fairytale of all time and why?

I can't recall my favorite fairytale.

I wanna tag.

Joanna, Aishah AR, Chin Li, Ming Sum, Sik, Nadia Amena, Nicole, Hui Yi

MSDS

Kinda old (repostaaa~), but still enough to draw a laughter from myself, especially after a long tiring day.

Five Factors

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have high extroversion. You are outgoing and engaging, with both strangers and friends. You truly enjoy being with people and bring energy into any situation. Enthusiastic and fun, you're the first to say "let's go!" Conscientiousness: You have high conscientiousness. Intelligent and reliable, you tend to succeed in life. Most things in your life are organized and planned well. But you borderline on being a total perfectionist. Agreeableness: You have high agreeableness. You are easy to get along with, and you value harmony highly. Helpful and generous, you are willing to compromise with almost anyone. You give people the benefit of the doubt and don't mind giving someone a second chance. Neuroticism: You have low neuroticism. You are very emotionally stable and mentally together. Only the greatest setbacks upset you, and you bounce back quickly. Overall, you are typically calm and relaxed - making others feel secure. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is high. In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas. You'll try almost anything interesting, and you're constantly pushing your own limits. A great admirer of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.

The Five Factor Personality Test

Why Is It Wrong To Believe That I Am Right?

WARNING : This is an emotionally-charged posting. Do not proceed if you are a racist.

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President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America once said,

"...teaching morality doesn't mean imposing my moral values on others. It means sharing wisdom, giving reasons for believing as I do - and then trusting others to think and judge for themselves."

An incident of moral policing in UTP campus compound prompted me to blog about morality. Although my ramblings will be not as informatic as your Moral Studies textbook, I hope by putting this up, people will be aware of this.

I was merely putting up a new car sticker onto a friend's front windscreen when two (2) men on a bike approaches us and asked "Er..tengah buat apa nih?" (It means : What are you doing here")

My instantaneous answer is "Tak buat apa-apa pon. Tampal sticker kereta saja." (Meaning : I'm just putting up the new car sticker!)

"Jangan lama-lama sangat." (Meaning : Don't be here for too long)

The two men on the bike took another two round-turning at the parking lot before feeling contented to leave.

For your information, every vehicle in UTP will be provided with a sticker with a minimal fee of RM2.o0. We will be granted easy access provided we exhibit the sticker on our vehicle. We are now given a period of 2 weeks to renew our car sticker for the year July 2009.

Why is it wrong to believe that I am right? I believe that I am right for helping my friend putting up her car sticker. I believe I am right for doing it and I do no offense by abiding to UTP's rule and regulation on vehicle access. Why suspect me for close proximity? Why suspect me? By sitting inside the car at night, nothing supervenes. We are not going to do anything in it.

And am I wrong for close proximity at the first place? 

My dear Rakan Masjid friends, thank you for being so caring, but I am not bound to Syariah Laws. Please do not advance beyond the usual limit (READ : proper limit) of privacy. Please do not impose your moral values on me. Please do not paint a dirty perception that sitting inside the car at the car park at night will lead to sex. You will not suspect other people unless you yourself has a dirty and filthy mind.

My dear Rakan Masjid friends, we are living side-by-side and thus please respect each other. The car park is well lit and no one of sane mind would want to have their "heavenly time" there. I rather book a decent hotel outside.

Period.

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Sightings at Ipoh-Lumut Highway

An unprecedented sighting. An old woman at Simpang Lima intersection, Ipoh-Lumut Highway. She is not the ordinary auntie you can see at markets. Sorry to say, I think she is retarded. But what is so interesting about her?

She walked for approximately 8 km from Simpang Lima to Federal Route 5 old road, leading to Sitiawan town. And that is really far for a woman of her age. I think she is 50 plus of Chinese ethnicity.

Map : The auntie's 8km long walk route

Photo : The auntie at Federal Route 5

Whenever I see neglected old people, I feel very sad for them. I wish I could change the world to be a better place. I can't find good words to construct a sentence now because I feel utterly disgusted by the way certain youngsters treat their parents. Is this how they repay parent's love?

Maybe Jack Neo should produce more films like "Money Not Enough". I remain sanguine that movies can play an effective role in edutainment.

Insecurity

All along my Final Year Project works, I thought of SpringerLink as one journal database for engineering studies. Today, this morning I found one article related to psychology in SpringerLink. Never mind, don't bother about the article. It is just a pre-cursor to my post.

One fine night, somebody posed me a question regarding men's insecurities. It is just irrefutable that man and woman are different in many ways. Man act differently and man think differently. In the rest of my post, the term man and guy are being use interchangeably and practically both of them share the same meaning.

She further asked me to present a few situations where men will feel insecure with a "living example" for each situation. Allow me to put the situations in the language that we use in a daily basis. But a "living example"? Maybe no. Figure it out yourself! :P

Example of situation where men will feel insecure:

1. The guy felt disrespected by the girl.
2. The girl is smarter than the guy. (Performance in study or work, or both)
   
3. The girl is richer than the guy. (Girl kept her savings in FD)
   
4. The guy is fat and ugly compared to his peers, but is in relationship with an attractive girl. Same applies to a skinny guy with an attractive girl.
   
5. The guy is trying hard to be romantic, but is not completely sure of how to be one.
6. The guy is having low sex performance.
   
7. A guy who is in a long term relationship with a girl, suddenly to find out that the girl is very close to another guy.

Although providing solutions is my type of job (I am a proud site-man), I am not Mr-Fix-It than can fix every situation. I myself do feel insecure sometimes. Read more about it here.

Photo : The writer with a Bangladeshi worker that has served him for the past 8 months during internship.

After all, I handle a 7.85 acre construction site better than I handle a single girl.




Arghhh I sucks in that~

JUXTAPOSITION OF 2004 and 2008

I did not have a chance to blog about the recent convocation of my room-mate, Shern Shiou until now. Projects, reports, assignments and all-the-related-hanky-panky came back-to-back in 2 weeks time. Worst thing is that, the due dates coincide with tests.

Mun Yoke was there too, because this is a joint convocation of January 2003, May 2003 , July 2003 and January 2004 (IT students). God knows how long it has been since I met her. Frankly, if not because Shern Shiou and Mun Yoke, I won't be staying back for this convocation. I want to see them in their robes! Smart and pretty~

Of course I won't miss any chance to take pictures with them.

Ban San looks very much "contractor-like" with his serious face. On the right is Jia Ann, my current room mate.

Aizat a.k.a Pervy

One of the HINDRAF5 strongmen on the run, hiding in cowboy town of Tronoh

Note how Shen (far-left) looks like in 2008. I got something for you in the end of this post.

Tsae Y'ng is my latest tease-victim. Her boyfriend, SIZHI has acquired my super-skill of "Press-release-press-release" and is using it against me now. (Sorry for the direct Cantonese-English translation)

Lenglui daikajie in her robes, but why am I standing like a pole?

Note how Shen (far-left) looks like again.

They throw their hat and did not manage to grab it back (sayur siot)

And....

This is what i call nerd.

Ong Wei Shen during MAS 2004

Pain that Breathes

歌名 / Name：会呼吸的痛 / Hui Hu Xi de Tong / Pain that Breathes
歌手 / Artist：梁静茹 / Liang Jing Ru / Fish (Jasmine) Leong

zai dong jing tie ta di yi ci tiao wang
在东京铁塔　第一次眺望
at the Tokyo Tower, first time looking out

kan deng huo mo fang zhui luo de xing guang
看灯火模仿　坠落的星光
looking at the lights imitating the fallen star

wo zhong yu dao da dan que geng bei shang
我终於到达　但却更悲伤
I’ve finally arrived but sadder than before

yi ge ren wan cheng wo men de meng xiang
一个人完成　我们的梦想
I‘ve achieved our goal

ni zong shuo shi jian hai hen duo, ni ke yi deng wo
你总说　时间还很多　你可以等我
you’ve always said, there is still lots of time, you can wait for me

yi qian wo bu dong de, wei bi ming tian jiu you yi hou
以前我不懂得　未必明天　就有以后
before I didn’t understand, that there’s a tomorrow, doesn’t mean there’s a future

(***beginning of chorus)
xiang nian shi hui hu xi de tong ,ta huo zai wo shen shang suo you jiao luo
想念是会呼吸的痛　它活在我身上所有角落
missing you is the pain that breathes, it lives on every part of my body

heng ni ai de ge hui tong, kan ni de xin hui tong, lian cheng mo ye tong
哼你爱的歌会痛　看你的信会痛　连沉默也痛
humming the song you loved hurts, looking at your letters hurts, even the silence hurts


yi han shi hui hu xi de tong ,ta liu zai xie yi zhong lai hui gun dong
遗憾是会呼吸的痛　它流在血液中来回滚动
regret is the pain that breathes, it flows back and forth within my blood

hou hui bu tie xin hui tong, hen bu dong ni hui tong ,xiang jian bu neng jian zui tong
后悔不贴心会痛　恨不懂你会痛　想见不能见最痛
regretting not have cared enough hurts, hating not have understood you enough hurts, wanting to see you but can’t hurts the most


（***end of chorus)

mei kan ni lian shang zhang yang guo ai shang
没看你脸上　张扬过哀伤
didn’t see any sadness come across your face

na shi zhong duo me ji mo de jue jiang
那是种多么　寂寞的倔强
that is such a lonely stubbornness

ni chai le cheng qiang ,rang wo qu liu lang
你拆了城墙　让我去流浪
you’ve taken away the safety wall, and let me out on my own

zai yuan di deng ,wo ba zi ji kun bang
在原地等我　把自己捆绑
staying put, I’ve bundled myself up

ni mei shuo ni ye hui ran ruo ,xu yao yi lai wo
你没说　你也会软弱　需要依赖我
you didn’t say, that you may become weak too, needed my support

wo jiu zhuang bu xiao de, zi you yi dong zi wo de guo
我就装不晓得　自由移动　自我地过
I pretended that I didn’t know, moved freely, lived my own life

***chorus

wo fa shi bu zai shuo huang le ,duo ai ni jiu hui bao ni duo jin de
我发誓不再说谎了　多爱你就会抱你多紧的
I promise I won’t lie any more, how tight I hold you means how much I love you

wo de wei xiao dou jia le, ling hun xiang piao fu zhe ni zai jiu hao le
我的微笑都假了　灵魂像飘浮著　你在就好了
my smile is all fake now, my soul seems to be just floating, it’ll be okay if you are here

wo fa shi bu rang ni deng hou ,pei ni xiang zuo de wu lun shen me
我发誓不让你等候　陪你做想做的无论什么
I promise I won’t let you wait, I’ll be with you for whatever you want to do

wo yue lai yue xiang bei ke, pa xin bei ren chu peng ,ni hui lai na jiu hao le
我越来越像贝壳　怕心被人触碰　你回来那就好了
I’m more and more like a shell, afraid of being contacted by people, it’ll be okay if you are back

neng chong lai na jiu hao le
能重来那就好了
it’ll be okay if everything can just start over