I love you for sentimental reasons

Achievement Schedule

I almost forgot that I've made MeiMei a promise yesterday :P
Well, it all started when she told me about the 24 things Kenny did when he was twenty four which has sparkled an idea in her to follow suit on her blog.

I thought it was a great idea until I realised that there actually isn't much things under my belt even at the age of 22 [I mean, do I even need a belt to keep them?].

The same thing goes to her and she sighed while telling me the relative big gap between her and Kenny. I tried to console her saying that we can't actually do this kinda comparison with other people because everybody is different, but I think my words weren't convincing enough as I know I thought the same thing about myself too -_-

Seriously, life is miserable with such kinda comparison.
It makes you feel like you're constantly way behind something. Like you're living your life too slow that you're missing a lot of fun and etc. That kinda thing really makes me feel like I'm behind a schedule. And I'm telling you that there's actually a schedule for that. A schedule which everybody is following without realising it - I call it "the achievement schedule".

Basically it's a self-built schedule that tells you what you're expected to have and own by a certain age.

Like for example, I read about Kenny sponsored a World Vision child at 24, and then my brain will go like "wow he already can sponsor a dono-who at just 24! Look at yourself. What have you done?" and then my brain will automatically adjust the schedule to tell that I should be able to do the same when I turn 24.

Or maybe I read a fashion magazine and then I see this 22-year-old young male model gracing the cover of it, and my brain go like "Wow he's the same age as you and now he's on the cover!" and then my achievement schedule will be adjusted to tell that I'm simply behind the schedule because other people have already done more stuffs than me at the same age.

So, basically the conclusion is that humans are good at making themselves feel miserable -_-

Ok. Back to the list.

Instead of writing about the things I've done [i think I always do that on my blog, right? no?], me and MeiMei finally decided that writing about our targets and goals is a good idea :D

When I told MeiMei my targets and goals are actually in the form of just a wish list, she went (-_-) and I could see she wasn't very impressed. hehe :P

To be honest, I'm actually a person without much motivation except living on a wish list. Well probably the list is just for now, or maybe.... but we don't know what will happen in the future, right?


Oh shit i'm so sleepy.
Wish list? Maybe later...
Good night.

Facade

I don't know what they are thinking.
Personally, I think it's quite sad when you have to rely on other people to help you keeping track of and watching over your sigoth - like how it works between the spy and the suspect in the movies.

With the newspaper high up in your hands, you pretend like you're reading it but in fact, you've already burnt 2 little holes on that newspaper so that you can see through them and keep an eye on what he/she is doing.

When you need something like that, you should know that your relationship with your sigoth has become really really fragile. You don't even trust him/her ok -_-


Is that one of the ways to maintain a relationship?

Baby's Laughter is the best medicine

In the middle of the day, I found this to be very energizing:



It makes me laugh, and it's just contagious!!
I think there must be something special about baby's laughter.

Hmm... at least it's as funny as looking at people get smacked with pieces of char siew.

Bhuaha!

Flirting in your office

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not." - H. L. Mencken

So, that's why women flirt? Hmm...

PizzaHut

After the war, peace finally arrived :D
Like I said, war and peace are always walking side-by-side, and they alternate once in awhile. Just remember that the good will come in time when you're in a bad situation.

So, today is pizza-hut night :)

I'm sure we're still the record-holder for "the highest number of tables occupied by a family client". Ha!

Anyway, with the help of our camera, I think I finally lost it in the car [-_-] :

No. I think we all lost it.

More pictures on my flickr.

When I'm in office...

The coming best thing in the morning is lunch time, and the coming best thing in the afternoon is bed time.

p.s.: I've been getting this drawing bug. I just have to draw :P

It's only 11pm

New Found Interest

Too bad I don't understand even a word :(
Wanna try :D ? Download the song here: เธอจะอยู่กับฉันตลอดไป [Translation: You will be with me forever] by Clash
Hmm... maybe you should watch the MV as well:

p.s.: Secretly i think i look like the vocalist of that band hehe :P

War of our life

There's no Sunday morning session today because a war just took place in my house (-_-)
I mean, it's more than just the Second Gulf War, yet not to the extend of Iraq War.
[Well well... if you understand what I mean]

Really don't know how to tell you how bad it went. (o_0)
Maybe some pictures will help:

They were trying to beat the shit out of each other

Our neighbors saw it and were freaked out and they ran away

Sigh~
The rest I don't even bother to tell...

p.s.: check out Doodie because it's damn disgustingly funny aha!
By the way, just ignore those porn ads at the sides
[but I bet you won't :P]

Helicopter

A helicopter dropped by my house this morning. Elly was freaked out thinking that our house was under some kinda terrorist attack or something. Seriously I thought it's sent by my boss to come and fetch me to work. Buahaha :D

Ok -_-

*Snapping out of it*

7 Random Facts about Max

1 I don't really like buttons. Yes, I mean those small buttons on clothes. Too many of them just make me feel... uncomfortable. Especially those lady handbags with button ornaments all over them -_- Eww... don't know why

2 I've NEVER completed any sudoku puzzle. Not even one.
My IQ is 115, so I think I'm just lazy and not dumb. hehe.

3 I've... hmmm..... never anybody *blush*

4 I enjoy killing mosquitoes
Especially with electric zapper. Muahaha *devilish laugh*

5 Dammit. Why everybody says I eat too slow?


6 I always had constipation problem when I was a kid.
And I hate to drop my pants in front of nurses because of constipation.



7 I fall asleep easily in air-conditioned places. That includes air-conditioned cars.
Lucky nobody caught me sleeping when I was driving last night :D



p.s.: Ok ok. I swear I wasn't sleeping last night.

National Blog Posting Month

NaBloPoMo?

"NA" - "BLO" - "PO" - "MO"?


Hmm... Not too sure how to spell that short-form. The closest related word I could think of is Napoleon [Not really related actually hehe :P].

Anyway, do you know that this month [November] is National Blog Posting Month?
It's an annual exercise started in US, and it has grown into quite a huge community. Right now, there's a fun viral tagging stuff running in the community. And I'm being tagged by Julie :D

This is how the game works:
When you get tagged by someone, you will have to tell 7 random facts about yourself on your blog. You'll then have to link back to the one who tagged you, and tag another 7 random bloggers you find using the Randomiser. Leave comments on their blog to inform them and tell them about these rules.

So here goes my random facts.

Solution for iPod Nano 3rd Gen Hang Problem

Dear Udayan,

Glad to hear from you :D
I'm surprised to realise that there's quite a number of people out there who have the same problem as mine. So here's how I solved my iPod's problem:

1. Firstly, plug you iPod to your computer, and remember, DON'T open your iTunes. Go to "My Computer" and make sure your iPod appears in it as a removable drive.
   
   
   In my case, my iPod is assigned with drive letter "C"


2. Go to "Start" Menu, right-click on "My Computer" menu item and look for "Manage" and then click on it.
   
   


3. A program called "Computer Management" will be opened. Click on "Disk Management" and you'll see your iPod listed in the Volume list.
   
   


4. Right-click on your iPod in the list, and click "Change Drive Letter and Paths..."
   
   


5. A dialog will prompt up right after. You select your iPod default drive letter [as assigned automatically by the computer] and click "Change..." button.
   
   


6. A new dialog will appear to ask for a new driver letter. Just select any drive letter [except letter C and other letters already exist in your computer].
   
   I select X for my iPod [You know, I tend to get as far as I can from the things that I know can cause problems. Haha. Human nature?]
   


7. A confirmation dialog will prompt out. Just click "Yes".
   
   



8. Now, just eject your iPod and then plug it to your computer again. You iPod will be assigned the letter you specified just now.
   
   

Voila!

Now you can run iTunes to test it out.
p.s.: hopefully my solution can solve your problem :) *fingers crossed*

Over and over again is Insane. so Let's READ

I just read about this -

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.

Hmm...

I drive to office, push the buttons on my keyboards, have lunch, drive back home after work, take bath, have dinner, watch TV, read and write blog, watch YouTube, download songs, chat with friends and finally get on to bed at midnight like... almost everyday, and I'm repeating them while hoping that one day that cold Mr Bangi Postman [I have never seen him smiling -_-] will drop a RM5000-cheque in my mailbox. [I'm not asking for too much with RM5000, right?]



No Doubt. I'm pretty much insane -_-



Ok. To make me looks like I'm not insane, I'd start doing something different from now on.

I start READING :D

Seriously, the thickest thing I've ever gotten in contact with is my breakfast bread. Oh Seems like I'm creating a new record here :D Reading this book sure do.

Also, I'll try to sleep before midnight everyday.

Good nite :)

p.s: Tell me if you've found something new to do as well

Self-proclaimed project manager

Aunt May has finally decided to bring in some technology into her 2 little hardware and home improvement stores. She's planning to put a computerized inventory system to manage her ever-growing number of products (more specifically, her stock cards).

As an IT graduate that is, I automatically become her advisor and also the executor.
Ok. Now you can call me Mr Project Manager. Aha


p.s.: Do you know how to create a page on Wikipedia? Maybe I should create a wiki page for the store as well. Hmm...

Bangi so small

Bangi is a small town.

It's really small that you'd know exactly what's your neighbour's favourite colour if you were to live here.

Sunday breakfast session isn't really a bad idea even though it has become a family custom which I find quite annoying sometimes [Sigh~ how many Sundays i can get to sleep until noon?]. We'd wake up and get on the car around 9am something to go meet up with other kinfolk for having breakfast somewhere in Semenyih, or occasionally, in Sungai Long or Seremban. [Hell. I guess you don't know where they are]

So, during the session, we'd chat and normally there'd be lots of stories from my aunties' family side. You know... those uncool, idle but interesting [oh shit. I said it hehe] things like gossips, rantings, rumours, discount and people and etc. And since Bangi is so small, story-telling always starts with me like this:

"Hey is that second son of A-Kow your ex primary school classmate a?"
Me: "Hmm.... ya i think so..."
"You know right, he just ran off Bangi to somewhere because of a big shit of debt he's owing to the bank! Somemore he...."
Me: "Oh I see... hmm... maybe it's no like that..."

"Hey how old are you now a?"
Me: "22. Why?"
"Oh I think she's the same old as you. Probably your ex- kindergarten classmate. Loke MiMi, you know her??"
Me: "I guess so... oh ya. I remember her."
"Really? Oh My God... That day I saw her going out with a rather old guy. Apparently that old guy is quite rich one but not good-looking at all, and he's 15 years older than her you know... I wonder why she wanna...bla bla bla"
Me: "Maybe she's serious..."

It's like my aunties know everybody in Bangi. In fact, they do. (o_0) Besides, those are not my imaginary dialogs actually. They are real, because they just took place this morning (-_-)

The point is, it's either Bangi is really that small, or that the rumour about my auntie secretly went to take a degree in Mass Communication and passed with flying colours and then became the chief editor of a paparazzi magazine before she finally settled down with my uncle-in-law and became a full-time auntie, is true.

Speaking of gossips, I realised that I have a tendency of trying to "defend" for my ex- primary school classmates or childhood friends whenever I hear negative stuffs about them. Even though time has passed and they could have not been the same person I used to know, but I always have this kinda "hey they are not that bad ok" mindset. I always think that they are, and will always be the purest creature I've ever met.
[It's just like why you'd never have any sexual thought on your primary school teachers. haha]


I don't know...

Are you like that too?




Hmm... Sometimes I really have to knock myself out of my head.

God damn it!

Official or not, I'm claimed to be a nerd. In fact, I'm not quite a brilliant one as I've just made my laptop died in a rather despicable manner - my laptop just won't start and it keeps throwing me a "Problem looking for Operating System" black-and-white error [or something similar] (o_0)

Last night, I was trying to install a new Linux Operating System named Ubuntu [pardon my nerdiness aha] into my laptop, but then in the end I ended up with a void. The how-it-happened is kinda complicated [I don't remember much actually] and so I'd just jump to the conclusion - Believe it or not, I'm writing this post using my PC in the office right now (-_-)

*kua kua kua*

By the way, It's not really a employee misconduct hor? It's just like a 5-minute kinda stuff, and I think email-checking takes longer time.

NO?

Hmm... Oh I see.
*smiling naively while pretending like nothing just happened*


Anyway, hopefully my laptop will be up by today
Wish me good luck

A Need?

"Having a relationship has become something like a need for me. But I don't remember when that started."

I told that to Jen a few days ago.


It's just... wow.
Can't believe I actually said that.






Yea, I think I'm right.

When you go without something long enough, you'll realise it's everything. (o_o)

If you can't get along with your siblings...

"If you can't get along with your siblings, you can't get along well with anybody else."

That's what I've always believe in.

Ok. Maybe it's right, or maybe it's wrong. But from what I've been seeing in these few days, and in retrospect, I really have to praise myself for coming out with such a viable quote :D
[Ok. I'm trying to make my quote sounds like very universal. I know it's kinda subjective, though]

Of course, I'm not talking about me and my sisters. But anyway, for some weird reasons, me and my sisters actually get along very well. Funny enough, it's too well that sometimes no one seems to understand our jokes besides ourselves -_-

The point is, some people just can't get along well with their siblings, even with their own biological sisters or brothers. I have to emphasize the word biological because I think it's explainable if people can't get along well with their non-biological siblings. People just have all kind of excuses to rationalize their hatred you know -_- [I learned a lot of those stuffs from Indonesian dramas. They always like to have these adopted kids appear somewhere in their storyline, and the kids would always be the hated ones].

Very good example, my own aunties -_-
Old a-mah already but still can't get along well among themselves. Weird hor?

"Maybe the culprit is the person's personality," you say.
"Some people or siblings are just born wicked and there's no rule saying that we have to like our wicked brothers," you say.

Well I can totally understand that :|

But having to always be cautious and worry about if you're being used or exploited by your siblings with benefits?

That's just plain awful. As though it's meaningless to have siblings. [well in fact it is if that's the case -_-] I still believe that most of them are not ill-minded and not trying to take advantage or make a fool out of you, and if problems really occur, showing a little bit of compromise won't make you lose an eyeball or dignity [hm... eyeball is a lil too much]


The point is, they are still your very own beloved siblings afterall :|
And I think that's enough for us to give in to them.


By the way, I wonder if you trust 100% your sisters or brothers.
Do you?

Ally McBeal Please come back

Ok. I can't stand it anymore. I have to do something about it -

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.
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Yes! I'll be waiting for the good news :D [or maybe not -_-]

New header maybe can cheer up

Here's a new blog header for a new start :D

Well I myself don't even know what that new start is for.
Maybe a start for a renewed mindset, or standards, or... whatever -_-


Ok. Tell you the truth:
I really hope that I can be cheerful everyday.
It's kinda hard for me to show my dimples when I'm without jokes. In fact, I spend most of my weekdays without jokes. So imagine that - I'm currently breathing the jokes, not the air.

Somebody please come and teach me how to become a cheerful person from the inside out.
There must be something that you do to make yourself wake up every morning with a smile.

Hmm...


The best I could do is to watch some bloopers.

*Sigh* I'm hopeless -_-

It's Friday yo - and it's Birthday :)

It's almost a coincidence - today's Eugenia's birthday, and it's Friday, and we're going to TGI Friday for a dinner.
But too bad, things didn't happen as planned -_-

We went to Eden @ Subang Parade instead.

Hmm... kinda too normal, the posing we made.


Now that's a lot better :D

I'm imaging Dennis singing the song "Rose Rose I love you" with that flower pose.

(o_0)



BHUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*laughing too hard that I'm feeling a lil dizzy *



p.s.: More, and larger pictures on my flickr.
p.p.s.: TGI Friday = Thank God, it's Friday ??

Scott Schuman

What Scott Schuman is doing right now, is exactly what i think I should be doing:-
Randomly snapping pictures of stylish people on the street, posting the pictures on a blog, and then earn a 35th position in the list of Top 49 men in a men magazine, followed by a recognition from Time Magazine saying that you're one of the Top 100 Design Influencers in the world.







I'm serious. It's just like... a dream job to me!!!


He's now officially the person I'm looking up to.
So I shall add him to my blogroll and check his blog everyday.

Who knows? Maybe I'll end up being like him one day. I mean, ONE DAY.