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The scarlet red prancing horses will be nowhere near the top 2 rows for tomorrow’s Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix in Monte Carlo tomorrow as Ralf Schumacher took pole with Kimi Raikonnen beside him. The grid is as follows:

Times:
1. R.SCHUMACHER Williams BMW M 1′15″259
2. RAIKKONEN McLaren Mercedes M 1′15″295
3. MONTOYA Williams BMW M 1′15″415
4. TRULLI Renault M 1′15″500
5. M.SCHUMACHER Ferrari B 1′15″644
6. COULTHARD McLaren Mercedes M 1′15″700
7. BARRICHELLO Ferrari B 1′15″820
8. ALONSO Renault M 1′15″884
9. WEBBER Jaguar Cosworth M 1′16″237
10. DA MATTA Toyota M 1′16″744
11. VILLENEUVE BAR Honda B 1′16″755
12. FISICHELLA Jordan Ford B 1′16″967
13. PIZZONIA Jaguar Cosworth M 1′17″103
14. HEIDFELD Sauber Petronas B 1′17″176
15. FRENTZEN Sauber Petronas B 1′17″402
16. FIRMAN Jordan Ford B 1′17″452
17. PANIS Toyota M 1′17″464
18. VERSTAPPEN Minardi Cosworth B 1′18″706
19. WILSON Minardi Cosworth B 1′20″063

Jenson Button of the BAR Team who qualified 3rd on Thursday did not manage to qualify due to his big accident in the morning practice session. If deemed fit by the medical staff tomorrow, he will begin the race from the pits.

It was clear that Michelin’s got the advantage over Bridgestone in this race track as most Bridgestone runners were struggling for front grip and understeer.

Reporting from Monte Carlo (I wish! ),
Au Yong

More of Gigi!

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The new Sony Ericsson T610… this is what I really want!

arkangel bought his in Penang already at around RM 1,600! OMFG! It’s the successor to T68i with all the existing features PLUS Java, camera, poly ringtones, and a much bigger and brighter screen!

The size and weight is just like a Nokia 8250…. can’t wait to get my hands on one of these…!

From Friday Five:
Answer the following five questions in your weblog or journal.
1. What do you most want to be remembered for?
- My ability to make friends around me laugh or smile again

2. What quotation best fits your outlook on life?
- “Get busy living, or get busy dying” - Andy Dufresne (Shawshank Redemption)

3. What single achievement are you most proud of in the past year?
- Studying and actually doing well in it, not easy to adapt back to studying after working for 3 years, u know…

4. What about the past ten years?
- Managed to get by the teenage decade without the need to abuse drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and leaving any criminal records

5. If you were asked to give a child a single piece of advice to guide them through life, what would you say?
- Success is not to be measured in academic records, so go out and PLAY!

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Yeap.. finally gonna go for paintball after being postponed countless times!

This time around it’s gonna be in the new Sunway Extreme park area… will try to post some pics, hoping that one of the fellow friends will be bringing digital camera…

Haven’t been posting much lately due to the lack of interesting events happening to me… dunno whether good or bad… ?

Got this from eelin in my mailbox today… thought of putting my answers and instead of forwarding to people that I know (I hate forwarding mails), rather put here on my blog instead…

Create a new e-mail that u will send. Change all of the answers so that they apply to you.Then, send this to a whole bunch of people you know INCLUDING the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little known facts about your friends. Remember to send it back to the person who sent it to you.

1. What is your full name?
Au Yong Tien Chee

2. Where do you live?
Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, MALAYSIA

3. When was the last time you showered?
This morning

4. What song are u listening to right now?
None - just came back, haven’t turn on my radio

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I have just about enough of frustration to start ranting about the sorry state of internet access in my college labs…!

And I always thought that colleges and universities (elsewhere, definitely not most Malaysian colleges/universities) have one of the best internet connection with fibre OC3/12/48 kinda speed… after all, some of the better universities around the world actually housed some file mirrors for linux distros and others…

And what the fuck do I get from Inti’s network? A fucking saturated 2mbps line that’s shared among thousands of computers around the entire campus… nice eh? Especially in the college brochures to lure in new students that boasted internet access for campus and separate links for hostels…

Even the hostels have intermittent internet access only, marred by the speed of access, the frequent (daily basis) downtime and the overzealous web monitoring/filtering software that is deployed for the the hostel network… as though the water supply problem is not enough for the hostel dwellers…

Currently, just trying to get ICQ2Go to work is a mission impossible… then I tried to download Miranda-ICQ, an alternative client to run ICQ, at 400kb the file is taking more than 20mins to download…!!!!!!!!

Oh cmon, even my 28.8kbps dial-up line at home can download much faster than that!! Which comes to my next point… since the house I rent in Nilai is of a new housing area, the area is laid with fibre optic cables and I can’t get Streamyx bcoz of that…. keep trying to bug Terrorkom to change my line to the adjacent copper network (which is like only 50m away) but they never respond to my request seriously… got to know from Suan (Bee San’s twin sis) that Terrorkom is starting to deploy pizza boxes to equip FTTC exchanges with ADSL capabilities….. I just hope that she could really help me speed up the painfully slow process that Terrorkom goes around to deploying anything!

Okay rant’s over… gonna go to class now… haih….

Yesterday, came home (in Nilai) from class to find a pink letter from Tenaga Nasional… woopsie, forgot to pay the electric bill since was having 2 weeks sem break and then a long weekend last week…

Thought I could pay online via Maybank2U but they required me to pay at their Kedai Tenaga… sigh, quickly scribbled a cheque while preparing to leave for KL…

Took me 3 rounds to find that elusive building within Bandar Baru Nilai, got the bill sorted out and sped to Subang… reached in merely 30 mins but from the Summit highway exit, took another 20 mins stuck in the jam just to reach SS 15, where I had to pickup Matthew from college lab…

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Managed to get out of my mom’s womb after what it seems like an eternity inside there….

So there I was, born cold, wet, naked, hungry and crying…. and then things got worse…

Everyone, wish me HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Quick - all should spam my mailbox with e-cards and wishes - my mailbox

How lucky of him, managed to survive the scare of a pitstop fire and yet managed to win the Austrian F1 GP yesterday.

It was a good race despite the anti-climax at the start of the race as the race start was aborted twice due to Da Matta’s Toyota failed the launch control sequence twice!

Monty’s BMW engine blew when he was leading the race, Ferrari had a huge scare with their refuelling rigs, to recall a few incidents…

The fire Schumi encountered during his first pitstop was small, compared to what Jos Verstappen experienced when he was driving for Benetton F1 team in 1994, 9 years ago… see for yourself.. I found this link (should be working):

Benetton F1 on pitstop fire

Okay.. can’t write much already, lecturer just came into the lab and gonna start teaching…

P/S - It’s my birthday tomorrow!