my first award

**************** Congratulations ! *****************
Thank you for yr team participation in the Q3'04 Technical Excellence Award recently and
the committee would like to congratulate for receiving Bronze award with the project title -

"Phase I of Advance Test Equipment Traceability "

Pls submit grp photo to me for the T.E.A. board.

Thank you again for your participation

* yay for me! and also for rizal

in pain and agony

My back pain gone worst last weekend. Spent most of the time in bed. But it's getting better. I managed to gather enough strength to go to the office today. Doctor appointment at 3pm today at the in-facility clinic. My brother is arranging for an appointment with a traditional masseur this week. I'm getting better, don't worry.

stiff back & streamyx

I done it again, got a stiff back .. bedroom accident :P actually it's more of a sofa-livingroom accident.. a joke gone wrong all the same.. my back is hurting like hell.. I'm limping .. but it's getting better after 3 days.. missed 2 days of exercise due to the back pain..

I have STREAMYX!!!!! yes after long wait, I finally called a friend who I knew could help.. segan from asking him to pull some strings in telekom but I cannot tahan already.. Well he worked his magic so now desa petaling has 40 ADSL ports free. First come first served. And according to the installer, I'm customer #1 for my area. Thanks arif, I owe you big time.

Funny thing is, I have sort of given up waiting that when teh installer came, I realized I no longer have my ADSL modem. Embarressing.. luckily he bought extra modem to test my line... all is well.. 512Kbps , yippie! now to buy a new modem..

* adoi... sakit belakang la...

song stuck in my head..

Song: Acidentally In Love
Artist : The Counting Crows

So she said what's the problem baby
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm in love (love)
Think about it every time
I think about it
Can't stop thinking 'bout it

How much longer will it take to cure this
Just to cure it cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love)
Makes me wanna turn around and face me but I don't know nothing 'bout love

Come on, come on
Turn a little faster
Come on, come on
The world will follow after
Come on, come on
Cause everybody's after love

So I said I'm a snowball running
Running down into the spring that's coming all this love
Melting under blue skies
Belting out sunlight
Shimmering love

Well baby I surrender
To the strawberry ice cream
Never ever end of all this love
Well I didn't mean to do it
But there's no escaping your love

These lines of lightning
Mean we're never alone,
Never alone, no, no

Come on, Come on
Move a little closer
Come on, Come on
I want to hear you whisper
Come on, Come on
Settle down inside my love

Come on, come on
Jump a little higher
Come on, come on
If you feel a little lighter
Come on, come on
We were once
Upon a time in love

We're accidentally in love
Accidentally in love (x7)

Accidentally

I'm In Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
Accidentally (X 2)

Come on, come on
Spin a little tighter
Come on, come on
And the world's a little brighter
Come on, come on
Just get yourself inside her

Love ...I'm in love

Snakes.. yikes...

The boss sent this to the whole team.. hmm I don't think I did good this year... too many slacking off...

In our daily working on issue or project, the result is either the following 1,2,3 :

1. Keep bitting around the bushes
- lots of activities but issue remains unresolved, days after days, weeks after weeks, months after months. Just like the famous song " blame it on the star, blame it on the moon, blame it on the rain, but whatever it is, don't put the blame on me". Smart supervisor will not buy this song.

2. Caught the snake
- you got the containment action, but since you don't kill the snake, it will come back again.

3, Kill the snake
- you implement the permanent solution. It has never been easy. Smart supervisor know this and reward is yours.

You are equipped with the appropriate skill-set. It is yr own choice to behave as either 1, 2 or 3. Smart supervisor can judge accurately based on the evidence on seeing the dead snake. Today, pls take 15 mins to reflect/review yr past and present issue/project, tick them against 1,2,3. I am doing the same for mine. Thanks.

puasa is here, yay!

Ramadhan finally here, yay! been waiting all year long. and then hari raya, double yay! can't wait.. this year I'll be wearing brown... went to tailor to make my baju melayu from kain hantaran..

Water disruption again on sunday, dang, had to drive to mum's place for shower.. so tired.. so sleepy.. so the melekit

tvcard is just great, I now schedule and records tv shows instead of waiting all night for any shows I wanna watch. ie Queer eyes at 12am sunday.. :P

I've decided on the deuter backpack for my kuching holiday. 70 + 10 litre deuter with raincover and minipack for rm 460. Midvalley Tearproof asking for rm690 for it. Luckily I checked out Pertama Complex. When to buy? waiting for my second cheque :)

* back on track.. fuhh lega..
* magazine helps me spend more time on cardio machine. nasib baik, coz I get bored and restless on the machine fast..

recap...

Went for a shooting tournament invitation on sunday.. Had a BLAST! I fired countless rounds of 9mm on semi auto Glocks and 12 gauge on pumpguns... I'm quite handy with pumpgun, hit 25 meters target with ease. Too bad the event I won (team drop plate 25M) was exhibition only.. Sidearm and pistol drop plate I lost, mainly due to the Clocks eyesight fucking up



On training this whole week, IBM AIX at amcorp mall.. wonder what's goign on in the office....



* bored.. yawn... took 2 days free days last weekend.. back on track on tuesday..

* buying pinnacle tv card to turn my pc to tv/ pvr.. yes the olv Singer Telly is going, going and pretty soon gone

october here, where's my jaring broadband?

3 months ago, Jaring told everyone that theya re rolling out wireless broadband with help of SOMA networks from US. With this technology, they need only 10 base stations to cover klang valley, they said. My heart jumped on hearing this as I have been waiting for broadband since I moved to desa petaling in June. Turned out dispite being in the kalng valley, Desa petaling is a broadband black hole. Well much of the country is broadband blackhole.

Next week is going to be the promised mid October that Dr Mohamed Awang Lah promised malaysian jaring broadband. Still no news of this product. I sure hope that this is not going to be another AtlasOne/ NasionCom. Please don't..

I don't understand why it takes tmnet so long to roll out their streamyx to all overthe nation. Ok I'll be satisfied if the whole of klang valley is covered. I knwo a lot of people are waiting for it, demand is high, and no supply would mean heads will roll in many businesses. But not in TMNET.. gosh.. it's so heart breaking to see such model by one of the biggest bumi companies around. Perhaps us bumis are better off as clerks.. simply due to we are hopelessly incompetent?

* roti canai breakfast today, my wholegrain bread gone bad
* cheque finally cleared, now to spend it.. :)

middle of the week..hmm..

I got my Targus Urban II backpack from Central Receiving Area on Monday. Very very pleased with how it looks like. :) Today I brought my new laptop with the new backpack, looking good!. I have yet to bake those Mandrake Linux ISO's to cd. Have yet to exorcist Windows Demons from this laptop. I figured since Evolution comes with Outlook plugin free now (Thanks to Novell), there's no reason why I would need to dual boot to Xp at all.

But then Munchkins need XP to play Sims, etc. And I do like a sesion of Worms 3D once a while. Well I guess I'll wait for my desktop to be up before I remove XP from my laptop.

I'm reading a lot about weight loss on the web. Looking for tips mostly. I'm abit worried about 6 meals a day recommendation. Also with the rumours of mercury poisoning from tuna overconsumption. Am I at risk? coz I love tuna ALOT!

* cardio as usual, but would love to be able to push beyond 30 mins
* set my target BMI numbers at 20. That's 75 Kg/ 160 pound for 193cm/ 6'3". Miles away, I know...

new laptop, everything else blows

yay! got my brand new laptop today. It's an HP nc6000. P4 1.6, wifi & Bluetooth. A day before my beloved PC died on me. Went to lowyatt with munchkins and bought a fortune worth of CDs to "fix" the old hag. We ended up with Sims2 CDs instead. Munchkins loves Sims games.

Me on the other hand feeling a little bit down.

* a lot of cheating due to a lot of outings. Haven't been eating good.
* last weekends just blows..