Lim Birthday Gathering at Look Out Point

Ah Lim birthday is not there yet, but we decided to have it celebrated early today. We went to Gasoline @ Look Up Point in Ulu Langat.

As I expected, it wasn't easy to go to that place -_- We're lost for once, but in the end we finally found our way there.

Lucky :D *fingers crossed*

And I'm so damn lucky that I could even find my way home all alone without any map. To your horror, I was totally lost on my way back. A miracle? No?

"Stupid people are luckier"

That statement is kaneh true leh :D [at least in my case]


Anyway, I felt really great during the dinner. I'm glad to see the people are still there and the friendship is still there. Just that I don't know when would be the last time we met :(
[It's sad to think like that but things really are unpredictable right]



Can we continue like that for the coming 5 years? Hmm...



... It's naive to say, but I really hope it'll last forever :)


More pictures on my flickr

p.s.: Can't believe they actually bought a Hello Kitty handkerchief to the birthday boy Ah-Lim -_-'''
p.p.s.: Didn't and Couldn't [in other words it means limitation in my snapping skills -_- *oops*] take much nice pictures this time. So thanks to Mei Mei for her pictures [especially the super-panorama! Damn professional :D]

In front of everybody [including strangers], 12-year-old cousin: "Hey bro! When are you going to make baby with your girlfriend? :D"


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What's going on with the kids nowadays???

Ya lo I'm angry

Ok. We had a fight, and I'm now in a bad mood for doing anything (-_-)
That's just so not me. I think I don't get angry easily. You know.

The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.

Very true. At least it's scientifically true.
[When wind blows, of course the lamp will go off ma]


Again, I'm seeing evidences that prove my theory of "mere human" is in fact a universally applicable one.

I'm actually stuck inside an endless circle, like the iteration of conflict > fight > aftermath > rebond and again starting from conflict and it goes on and on, and I realised the only thing that can make me feel better is to start believing that the problem is part of my world, and I can't escape from this kinda problem because I'm not a monk who doesn't need nice chocolate, other living and lively humans and the Internet -_-


Hmm...
Does believing in that make me a loser or a wiser?

Grace & Jian How [Birthday & Christmas]

It's Grace's and Jian How's birthday, and it's also Christmas day. We had lunch at Station 1 restaurant situated right in front of UTAR Sungai Long branch.

I was kinda excited to see them because the last time I saw them [especially Grace] was like... hm... a year ago? Don't remember -_- Anyway, they are all still good, and it seems like everybody's still studying and I'm the only one who's graduated and started working :(
[Shouldn't put a sad smiley. I'm supposed to be happy for that, right? :D]

And when people know you've started working, questions about salary would flow in naturally


Hmm... why they never asked me about my girlfriend?

maxmayo.com

I didn't get any Christmas gift other than the chocolate. So sad :(

So I decided to buy myself a gift :D
That's right - I've just got a new domain name!

maxmayo.com

Cameron Highlands : Chocolate Strawberry Fondue :D

Last Wednesday and Thursday I was in Cameron Highlands for a mission to complete one of the top-priority items in my wish list.

So here it is: -

Chocolate strawberry fondue

And I made it! :D

Muahaha you can't escape from my mouth :D

Meanwhile, I found out one very mysterious fruit:

It's called Love Fruit.

I wanted to buy it but the guy selling that fruits said they are only selling to couples and those who're falling in love. So I gave him a long weird stare before I moved to my favourite fondue stall because there's nothing much I could do -_- Damn it.


p.s. : Ok la I made up the last part about the Love Fruit. Hehe. So NO, it's not only for couples. I didn't buy it because I just felt embarrassed lo Dono why.


More pictures on flickr

My Christmas Gift

muaha It's chocolate :D :D :D

p.s.: Couldn't take picture in its complete wrapped form because I've already excitedly opened it in the office this afternoon. I think I flung the wrapping paper somewhere in my office. Oops. [Should still be on my desk]

I saw dead people

Shit man. I saw a dead human on my way home today (o_0)
He's the victim of the accident happened in front of the driving school.



Oh my god.



It's raining, and it's all wet, and I still could see him lying on a big pool of blood at the middle of the road, with half of his face gone.



Yes you're reading it right -
half of his face, gone.


FACE. GONE.



And the other half was smashed into some kinda lump of meat.
And the worst part was, I stared right into his face! (x_x)


Kaneh! I can't get it out of my head until this moment!
It's damn don't-know-how-to-describe!!



When I reached home after sending Fay to station, I immediately received a message from her asking me to wash my car tomorrow, which puzzled me for awhile before I finally realised why she asked me to do so.


Ya maybe she's right. I think I drove passed that blood pool. Dono if there's any blood trail in front of my house or not (0_0)




Tamade~


I just sent shivers down my own spine (o_0)

Shaving is dangerous. I repeat: DANGEROUS

Dear Chay,

Ok. I'm sorry for laughing at you every time you cut yourself shaving -_-

To be frank, I just got a shaving nick 24 hours ago -_-
And since then I couldn't even concentrate on drinking my favourite hot tea because the cut is just right above my lip
And to make it worst, the recovering wound's opening will break and split again every time I yawn


So irritating right!!
Damn it.


Regards,
Buddy Max

I limit myself [which is bad]

And I think I have that same kind of self-esteem problem (o_0)
[Let's call it a problem for it's not healthy]

When I was in university, I never really studied properly. By "properly" I mean making notes nicely, studying all the sections Ms Hoo mentioned [and not only the parts I'm interested], and submitting assignments that comply to all the necessary requirements. To make it worst, I even skipped classes sometimes :P

But funny enough, I've always been getting good results in all the exams :D [please don't curse me for that hehe] So every time when people asked me about it, I'd just tell them that it's just my pure luck, but somehow they wouldn't want to believe me, and they'd take me as a smart person.

Ok. Maybe I happen to be an intelligent one :P

But that's not the whole story (-_-)


You see, if I'd studied and put in all my efforts in studying, and I'd gotten a B or C, I'd have felt less smart, or maybe dumber, and that'd challenged my self-esteem.

"How come I study I still get a C?? Am I really that stupid?"

But then if I never put in effort and I failed the test, the explanation would be a lot easier.

"I didn't study last night so I failed because of that, and not because I'm dumb :P"

So it's that simple - humans naturally tend to avoid failure, and we don't want our self-esteem being challenged. Because I don't wanna take the risk of feeling miserable, I avoid making the effort altogether. And because of that, I've been limiting myself to the simple and the easy things, and avoiding the difficult stuffs all this while. So sometimes I'd just straight away tell people that I'm dumb even before they have any chance to verify that.


Quite bad, isn't it? :(


I'm starting to realise that recently, and that's only after I started to work. And now I understand that totally after reading that post.



That's right -
Life will burst your self-esteem bubble.



So...
I shall start to do something from now on.
Wish me good luck :)

Telling to sleep early routine

I found my myself having a quite peculiar routine -

Everyday, I tell myself to go to bed at 11pm when I am taking my bath at 8pm.
But, I definitely would go to bed later than 1am, and then wake up at 7.30am, and again telling myself that I must go to bed when the next 11pm arrives.


(-_-)



I should somehow get rid of that sort of routines in my life. They are not sustaining my life lo anyway. [*routine = something that helps to sustain our life, right?]


But wait.
What if I can't fall asleep at all without that routine of telling myself to sleep at 11pm???
Hmm...

... bad idea. No good.


Maybe I should just keep that routine :D

Ideal Christmas Gift

Christmas is near, and there's going to be a gift exchanging in my office. So today we did a lucky draw to decide the lucky recipients for our yet-to-be-decided gifts.

But I was ended up with a person I'm not very close with -_-


So, I told myself that if I should fail to come out with a good gift idea, I'd just buy 10 whole stacks of toilet rolls and tissue paper and then wrap them up nicely in a big box donned with striking fluorescent-pink wrapping paper and a super big ribbon.


That's right!

It's not like a bad idea anyway. I think I'm quite clever to come out with such a good idea



I bet toilet paper/tissue paper is the only thing in the world that nobody would find it useless :D

Jimmy Choo said one, not me :P

Jimmy Choo on TV:

...We should prepare ourselves better, and don't rush in terms of attaining our goal. Because if we start too fast, we'd fail more easily...

I somehow feel less bad for my so-called under-achievement when someone with such magnitude said something like that. Haha

Ok. Maybe I interpreted it wrongly :P
But still, not all famous shoe-makers made their first pair of shoes at the tender age of 11, right?
Not all guys, for example, owned their first credit cards at the age of 22, right?

Ok ok. It's not going anywhere -_-
Patience is the key for everything :D
And NO - I'm not going to own a card just yet, and I still haven't start paying my insurance just yet (x_x)

If you dropped your fake teeth

I think the most embarrassing moment in a life of a boss is to accidentally drop your fake teeth on the floor without knowing it [although I have no idea how you'd drop it] and then being found out by your young subordinates who don't know what to do with your fake teeth at the first place, but then finally decided to wrap your fake teeth with a bundle of tissue papers and then leave it on your table nicely, with a piece of note saying "We found this on the floor just now, and we think it belongs to you".


It's not a Christmas gift, sir.


HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

p.s.: OMG it just happened in my office

PC Fair 2007

I went to PC Fair 2007 at KLCC this afternoon.

I saw some great street art from the view on the train.

I wonder if it's part of the government's beautifying plan, or it's just drawn by some super free and creative kids.

But I think noone who's free enough to draw all those things under the burning sun in Malaysia. Siao one meh -_-

Anyway, I bought a headset, a stack of blank CDs, USB extension, and nothing else.
[See. I only bought what I need. I'm such a good personal financial manager :P]

Well I'm not the type of person who'd get analytic and give too much shit on the pricing of the stuffs or the new technologies and all. But being a stupid simple creature as I am, I'd generally group what I've seen into few categories:


Things I'd buy:

Clean and cool looking speakers. Cute webcam.

Things I'd not buy:

I'm referring to the CPU casing. It looks like the head of the aliens in the movie Alien. Eww...

Things I'd not even consider buying:

They are not iPod Nano ok. Imitated ones.

Hmm... Why the producing company never felt ashamed of themselves? (o_o)

Things that caught my eyes:

His momo never told him not to pee in the public I guess

And this is most likely his momo. I can tell from her style lo.

More and bigger pictures: my flickr.

p.s.: I guess I'm physically very old now. I got really tired even only after visiting the second hall. And it's not even half of their total 5 halls (-_-)

It Arrived!

See. My free 1GB thumbdrive finally arrived today :D
It's quite a useful consolation prize, albeit with one ugly you-could-tell-it's-fake red diamond -_-

See more and bigger pictures in my flickr.

Privacy

I wonder how much we'd respect other people's privacy when we're left alone in the room with their computers.

(o_o)?

I think we're more tempted to violating their rights when they are politically, hierarchically or biologically inferior to us [e.g. your sons, your employees, younger brothers, or maybe your girlfriend/boyfriend]

Come to think of it - do you really have privacy in your office?

Maybe it's about the degree of trust you give to and gain from the others regardless of your rank in the tree or chart.

But would your mom, roommates, or even your boss read your emails?
Would they scan your MSN conversation?

And I bet they're not that bad to use your IM account to chat with your friends, right? [No?? (o_o)]


Hmm... maybe there's a line in Malaysian Law that says something about that.

Be Patient

We tend to be more patient with our friends and outsiders, but less with our own family members.
Why is it so ha?

Maybe it's because we understand deeply that family members won't leave us no matter what, but friends will leave us if we treat them bad.

Hmm... my own theory or a fact?

Schnappi Mood

A Schnappish* Sunday Morning would be like this:



Last Sunday, I was having a problem to stop that song from playing itself over and over again in my head (o_o)

*Schnappish - A new word of mine. It means cheerful and joyful and... and just Schnappi :P

Secondary Gathering

Yesterday I went to a gathering. Sort of old school gathering with my secondary schoolmates.

I thought old people like us should appear old on photos as well. So I purposely gray-scaled one of them :P
But... well, I think we look more like a group of friends going for vacation who eventually ended up as rock-climbing accident victims just like those reported on the newspaper lately (-_-)

Anyway, the gathering was good :)

I wasn't really keen on chatting or joining any conversation because I felt like all of us are on different channels right now. So I wasn't very interested in what they said, and so unfortunately I felt a lil left out (-_-)

All I can say is that I've become a more realistic [or maybe materialistic?] person today. Hehe. Academic stuffs just.... don't interest me anymore :P

Ok. Maybe I sat with the wrong people :P

I think the most interesting part of the day was this picture that I took on the street:

It looks like a cat's skin... It's like a whole piece of skin of a cat.
Cat's skin??!?

Ewww...

I wonder what happened to that poor cat (o_0)

Compaq Presario abruptly shut off and won't turn back on? SOLUTION

God damn it! I've just found the solution by myself!

So, the solution is to reseat the Memory Module by just taking out the Memory Module on the underside of my laptop [which only cost me effort of opening one screw], and then place it back again???

Gosh. I wonder if it's that simple (-_-)
But it did work anyway. My laptop has resurrected! :D

But still... Why they just can't make the laptops better so that we don't have to do those stupid steps?


I wonder why they always want us to do stupid things (-_-)
And I think only stupid people can figure out those stupid things lo

But since I found the solution by myself without google and asking around, it means that I'm actually quite stupid that I can figure out those stupid solutions


Ok. Let me tell you how I actually found it out:

I was trying to start my laptop again just now, hoping that it could miraclely come back to life. But then again, too bad, NO LUCK at that. So I thought there's nothing much that I could do, except to open up my laptop to see what's going on inside. Well, seriously I've never opened up any laptop before, but I guess it'd bring no harm if things turn ugly since my laptop's already dead anyway [cutting a corpse is not considered as killing, right?] So I got myself a screwdriver to start my autopsy.

I flipped over my laptop to its underside, and then I realised that there's actually quite a lot of screws. Being a lazy person myself (-_-) I got fed up right away, and eventually I decided to open the part with the least number of screws. And that part was the memory cover of the laptop, which only requires me to open one screw. So I opened the memory cover and took out the 2 pieces of memory modules, or the so-called RAM sticks.

Not knowing what to do with the sticks, I looked at them for a good 2 minutes before I finally decided to put them back again [so funny hor~]. And still not knowing what to do after that, I came out with an idea of starting my laptop with only one stick, because I thought it must be interesting to see how people operate with only half of their brain. So I ma took out one of the sticks again, and pressed the power button. To my surprise, it started!! And voila voila voila!!

So basically that's how the story ends :)
I wonder how many people solved this problem by coincident just like me.

p.s.: Conclusion - Stupid people are luckier :D

Please don't leave me Lappie

Terrible thing just happened yesterday.
I was left without anything but the ultimate truth-

My laptop is officially dead!





Well... for a split second I was actually kinda happy, because i thought it's time for me buy a new computer. Yes! iMac!!




But then my bank account said he's not ready (which make me feel bad).





Sigh~
I think I'll just stick with the repairing plan (-_-)

*kua kua kua*