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Last night, chet made a RM 100 contribution (approximately USD 26.32) to me with the message:

Hope it’s enough for one bottle of good wine. Merry Christmas.

Thanks chet, I’ll try my very best not to spend it on booze

… was at tsewei’s house last night. Yeap, I was invited over, so I felt that I should get a bottle of wine over for the dinner. Since they have bottles of red wines at home already, I figured I’ll get a bottle of Port wine instead.

So we went down to SS2’s Denise wine shop but they were out of Ports, but the guy volunteered to check if their 1Utama branch had any left, no luck either. So we drove down to Desa Sri Hartamas to check out the Denise branch there. Not surprisingly, they’re out of Ports as well. When we asked both the shopkeepers if there are any wine shops nearby in the area, they both answered “no idea” in a very reluctant manner. And guess what? There’s another wine shop, El Vino, just right opposite Denise! WTF?

This is so unethical. It’s not like I purposely do not want to buy wines from that Denise branch, it’s just that they don’t have any of the particular wine that I wanted. Cmon, if you’re out of what I wanted, and if I asked if I can get any nearby, you’d help right? No… at least not them! Both tsewei and myself got rather pissed at them, and managed to get a bottle of Taylor’s tawny port from El Vino and rushed back to her home for dinner.

The dinner at her home was excellent. Food was great, and we had a nice time. And they’re gonna have turkey leftovers for the next few days to come (tse mei, no I’m not gonna come over for your leftover lunches )

Just as I was about to leave for home, her mom gave me a small xmas gift How sweet of her, thanks Mrs. Ng!

Oh yeah, my own xmas gift to myself is here! Well not quite, but it’s sitting in the nearby post office since it only arrived yesterday after I ordered it close to 3 weeks back. International shipping, highly unreliable on the schedule… so I’ll get to collect my prezzie on Boxing Day!
Curious of what it is? Stay tuned…

… sorry for not blogging as often as I could. Just wanted to wish all of you out there Merry Xmas, Happy Hannukah, and season greetings!

Oh yeah, got a good news and a bad news as well… I’ll start with the bad: I just got tsewei hooked to blogging, so yeah, the Internet will be filled with more rants from her, all thanks to me *gulp*

And the good news: She’s having her own blog now, so you poor readers don’t have to suffer thru her rants while visiting my blog. However if you feel like reading her rants (are you nuts?!), please check out her site at http://tsewei.theuseless.com/

Can’t wait to pick tsewei up at the KL Sentral train station early next morning… oh yeah, we’re dating now

Hehe, I’ll pull a Jeff Ooi since he’s not around: Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) finally broke silence on the issues of Maybank (and possibly other commercial banks following suit) trying to impose fees for online banking access. More details can be found here at The Star Online.

Now all 16,332 (and growing) Maybank account holders can rejoice and be rest assured that even if Maybank charges online banking fees, it’s moderated by BNM

Yay!

Coz the mahjong session at home just started, and I can’t blardy concentrate on my PHP development, so I decided to drive out and go wireless. And then on my way out, my dad saw me lugging my pool cue case along my laptop case and asked “playing pool again? how many times a week you go play pool lah?”

I didn’t quite answer him - it’s not like I really wanna go out and shoot pool. Heck, I really wanted to stay home for dinner as well. But it’s just noisy as hell everytime they play mahjong, all the more when one of my maternal grand aunt is here to play - she talks like a blardy PA system. And later I don’t feel like going home for dinner coz there’ll be a night market/pasar malam on the street just below my house - so entrance to my carpark is blocked, and parking elsewhere is hell - with the crowd drawn in by the market. So I’ve no choice but to opt to play pool to kill some time until 11pm..

Sigh.. if only my dad understands… ok ok, I gotta calm down and then get productive and not rant further…

I really really REALLY can’t wait to move out… bleah!

UPDATE @ 6.31pm: I so need to pee now, but I’m alone here with the laptop and all… argh! ops:
UPDATE @ 6.55pm: tsewei just came by to keep me company till her dinnertime, how sweet of her, my bladder thanks her for eternity

a song by Travis

When I first held you I was cold
A melting snowman I was told
That there was no one there to hold
Before, I swore, that I would be alone forever more

So now we’re here and now is fine
So far away from there and there is time, time, time
To plant new seeds and watch them grow
So there’ll be flowers in the window when we go

This morning, I experienced a refresher course reminding me why I’ll never want to work in this city of Kuala Lumpur. Let me relate it to you…

1) Queueing (or rather, the lack of it) at public transportation
So it seems, that there are stickers on the floor at the Putra LRT platform in KL Sentral (and definitely elsewhere too). So early in the morning, next train is just 3-5 minutes away. So I happily stand at the footprint markings to queue up. Train approaches, and then people started cutting queues, standing at the yellow box, in which to allow people to alight from the train… geez… from the 2nd in the queue, I became last, and I gave up on that train since it was so packed. The next train promptly arrived minutes later. Just before the train stops, some of those useless people who were sitting casually at the benches behind the queue, stood up, and cut the queues… blardy hell, I was fuming when I was this bitch in orange dress walk up nonchalantly without a care for the queue and went into the train first. All these never happen when I was commuting in Tokyo (speaking of which, I miss that place already… ). Indeed, we have first world facilities, but third world mentality. No wonder Moral Education syllabus has to be extended from Primary to Secondary Schools, and now to tertiary education as well… not like it helps anyway…

2) There is no good coffee served at early hours in the morning (and by that I mean 8am, not 4am!)
So what if we see Coffee Bean, Dome and Starfcuks everywhere we look in the city when one can’t even get a decent cup of vanilla latte at 8am on a Monday morning?! I really cannot believe it, is it really true that nobody drinks good coffee in the morning to jumpstart the workday?! But only drink coffee at these outlets during pose sessions with friends?! Gosh, this is crazy, we can brag how many outlets of Coffee Bean and Starfcuks we have in Kuala Lumpur, but none of them open until at least 9-10am! What’s the point?!
BTW, ice blended coffee drinks are for wimps

There you have it, 2 lessons I learned today…

If you haven’t read Paul Tan’s China Pirates blog post, please do so. How can we, in Bolehland, lose out to the people in Taikorland on piracy? ??:

Geez, in an attempt to outdo the Chinese, we’ve come up with our own multi-talented team to startup a local blatant ripoff automotive company, aptly called Potong. We’ll soon be ripping off the country’s first and foremost automotive company’s car designs!

Paul Tan and I, proudly presents a sneak preview of what’s in store, we’ll first begin with our newly ripped-off logo:

See, we even blatantly ripped-off another cartoon logo to use for our design.
Now, we’re back to the drawing board, brainstorming on how to rip-off the design of our flagship car model - stay tuned!

As of now, the main reason I can’t stand staying here:

MAHJONG SESSIONS people here have with either some relatives or the stupid neighbour *who’s supposed to be babysitting a rugrat that must cry and yell at least 10 times in a day!*

ARGHH! MUST….. WAIT….. TILL…. I….. GRADUATE….. GRRRR!

Sigh, feels so crappy now. Can’t go around telling them not to play *or play elsewhere*. Didn’t help that I stay up late these days and sleep in the day. How to sleep like this?! Didn’t help too that the walls are too thin and the door’s flaky

Only thing I can do is blast my speakers loud just to cancel out the mahjong noise….

Yeap, Microsoft is gonna sell the half-priced, half-featured, but-not-half-as-buggy-and-vulnerable Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition here in Malaysia next month (according to The Register).

How many of you would buy it, install it, and be compliant to the software licensing requirements? Or would you still embrace the RM 5 el-cheapo Full Professional (with extras!) version you got from *insert your favourite games/software/VCD/DVD/pr0n supplier here*?

According to The Register as well (in another story):
“Users can have up to three programs and three windows per program running concurrently. Further simplification of the operating system includes the display resolution set to 800×600 maximum and no support for PC-to-PC home networking, sharing printers across a network or more advanced features such as the ability to establish multiple user accounts on a single PC.”