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  • 911 Math Call

    This is very funny, enjoy!!! Hahahaa....

  • Coding Problem Is Rectified

    At last it's rectified. If it's not done yet, I will have sleepless night, cause it's something that I have been working hard on it, it's my effort. :)

    After I had a short talk with her on the phone, we would have lunch on the next day, it had made my day. :) I shifted my notebook on my bed, to the living hall, continue with my work again, I just couldn't believe it. And finally... It's done. Now I can get back to sleep.

  • Today...

    Today, is not my day, not a bad day but it's just that... Whaaat am i doing, Whereee... am I heading...

    I woke up in the morning, washed up and got ready to work as usual, reached at a place named Sri Hartamas that is not far away from my office, settled my breakfast, had a cup of nice, warm tea, and I went into my office, got back to my work. Things were moving on smoothly until lunch time, I faced a problem with my coding, I just couldn't get it done until the end of my working hour.

    While troubleshooting on it, I was feeling not myself, asked myself "Take a break...", there I started with some songs in English and Chinese. Sentimental? Hard rock? New age? Just tried to calm down myself, but it's helpless. What again? Mmm... Since I was alone, just take a nap, MAYBE??? Ya... But then I had a dream, my car got into accident!!! Ohhh... Not again... I woke up and phewww... It's a dream. I sit there quietly until 5:35pm and decided to leave for badminton, since I couldn't get rid of it.

    I reached at the hall, strengthened my body, guessed I would have the momentum ready for my game, but it's not, I was trashed by some players, lost RM75 to the members. That was not my game, usually I earned some money from the games. Arrgghhh... That's it!

    Next, I was going for dinner alone. I took the express way back, that I didn't take it at all, cause I needed to pay RM4.40 for the 2 stupid tolls. First I reached at a restaurant, I stepped out from my car, looked at the food stores, there was nothing I felt like to eat, there I got back to my car and went for another restaurant, I had no choice and sit down, looked at the stores again, I ordered a big bowl of noodle, 2 glasses of cold herbal tea. I looked at the noodle, I had no appetite already, but I got to finished them.

    I am home now writing this, thinking about what a unusual day I have had. Yeah... Just because I miss her deeply.

  • BWF World Championships 2007

    What a disappointment. World Championships tournament was over after a week, from 13rd August - 19th August. Malaysia players were not performing very well in the game, lack of fighting spirit, underestimate the opponents, it's really pretty sad. Months earlier, my badminton member, Lee, asked me about this, to go or not to go for this event, I was so happy and asked him to get me 4 tickets for Saturday (18th Aug) and Sunday (19th Aug) games, of cause these tickets counted my dearest too.

    This game gathers all the top-ranking players from the world, they are from Denmark, England, Indonesia, China, India, Malaysia and others. Playing badminton is not easy, just knowing how to smash powerfully will not bring you success if you don’t have a game plan. You have to use some badminton tactics and badminton strategies to outwit your opponent. Trying to make your opponent play a weak shot in which you will be able to make a ‘kill’. That's why I love badminton so much, while having the game, it helps my brain to exercise, think, judge and determine, communicate well with my partner, cover and set up for each others.

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    These are the tickets, RM103 each, and I've spent RM412, silly huh???

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    Famous players are put on banners at the entrance.

    WCS 03
    Huge and spoiled shuttlecock, haha...

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    She looks good huh? Taken at the car park area of Kompleks Sukan Negara (National Sports Complex).

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    Inside the hall. We have 2 courts ready set up for semi-final.

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    GaoLing and ZhengBo, Limpele Flandy and Marissa Vita were warming up, get ready for their mixed-doubles.

    GaoLing is a sweet girl, no matter she is playing well or not, she will still gives you a charming smile.

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    Choong TanFook and Lee WanWah against Kido Markis and Setiawan Hendra.

    Malaysian were hoping this pair of mens-doubles could make a different but they had disappointed us, they made a lot of mistakes, but we couldn't put blame on them, moreover they were facing a pair of energetic players from Indonesia, they had tried their best, I believe... :)

    I wish Malaysia players can do much more better in the future.

  • OMG!!! Unacceptable...

    This morning I was having a tea with my colleague, flipping the newspaper on the table, a news caught my attention, said "Bride raped by cousin-in-law while groom still at ‘kenduri’", what a terrible case.

    An 18-year-old bride was raped on the night of her wedding by her husband’s cousin who was drunk! Yiaks... It's so terrible to have such incident. Make the people feel like to punch his head...

    Read more : Source

  • Good FengShui huh???

    I found out this with my colleague, we were talking about the houses, far behind from my seat. The houses are bungalow, specially situated at this place, are rich families. I was telling her that I had never worry about this, cause I'll be getting rich too, because I was having 靠山 (kào shān), persons for political or financial backing. With having backing here, my seat was considered the best FengShui ever in my office, hahaa...

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    My seat.

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    Bungalow houses at there.

  • Complicated Family Problem

    Two men, one American and an Indian were sitting in a bar drinking shot after shot.

    The Indian man said to the American, 'You know my parents are forcing me to get married to this so
    called homely girl from a village whom I haven't even met once.' We call this arranged marriage.

    I don't want to marry a woman whom I don't love... I told them that openly and now have a hell lot of family problems.'

    The American said, Talking about love marriages... I'll tell you my story.

    I married a widow whom I deeply loved and dated for 3 years. 'After a couple of years, my father fell in love with my step-daughter and so my father became my son-in-law and I became my father's father-in-law. Legally now my step-daughter is my step-mother and my wife is my grandmother.

    More problems occurred when I had a son. My son is my father's brother and so he is my uncle. Situations turned worse when my father had a son. Now my father's son i.e. my brother is my grandson.

    Ultimately, I have become my own grand father and I am my own grandson.

    And you say you have family problems.. Give me a break !!

  • AE86 (ToFu Car) Possible Revival

    I love autocars, as well as my dear, Queenny, but she is a beemer. :)

    I'm a software developer, but all my friends don't think so, because I am a part time mechanic as well. Beside following up the computer technologies, I read car tech., home decoration/renovation often too, to learn some skills, fix the car by myself, it's really challenging and with satisfaction, feel proud of it.

    Today I come across this, Possible revival of the Toyota AE86 in 2010, it looks so silly to me. 1st! The shape has not much different with Celica, 2-doors with almost the same top and body design. 2ndly, I think that Toyota is having this to gain more profit in the market. AE86 used to be a famous model among the 2-doors cars. I got to know this ToFu car in this cartoon show Initial D.

    Initial D is an anime about street car racing and is based on a very popular manga by Shigeno Shuichi. The story is focused on Takumi Fujiwara, a 18 year old high school student who works part time at a gas station with his best friend, Itsuki. Their co-worker, Iketani, is a member of the Akina SpeedStar racers at Mt. Akina and while Itsuki is hyped learning about street racing, Takumi is disinterested.

    One day, the Takahashi brothers Ryousuke and Keisuke of the RedSuns team challenge the Akina SpeedStars to a race on Mt. Akina. After seeing them in practice, Iketani realizes that no one in the SpeedStars are in the same league. His boss tells him that a mysterious driver driving an old Trueno 86 (Toyota) car has been seen every late night at Mt. Akina and that its skills are unbelievably fast.

    This racer turns out to be Takumi. Takumi's father owns a tofu shop and has made Takumi deliver tofu at night in their Trueno 86 car ever since he was in middle school. Unknown to the unenthusiastic Takumi, his father has been training him to become a highly skilled drift technique driver. Takumi only agrees to race for the SpeedStars when his father promises him a full tank of gas the next day for his date with Natsuki Mogi, a girl he has feelings for. This is the mark of Takumi's racing days.

    Initial D is definitely catered for car lovers, as a lot of the technical terms can be confusing. However, the racer's excitement is contagious and you'll find yourself watching along at each race with a similar excitement at the outcome.

    Takumi is our typical Japanese hero though, he doesn't like to talk much, seems stoned out most of the time, and disinterested, yet has excellent potential and skills. There is also not much character development, except maybe with Takumi, Mogi, Iketani and Itsuki.

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    Characters in the cartoon.

    Later, HongKong firm makers came out this show, base on the story of Initial D, made popular by some famous actors.
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    This is the AE86.
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    Revival?
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  • World's Shortest Essay Competition

    Very well done! This is a story of a 16 year old boy from New Hampshire who won the World's shortest essay competition.

    He was awarded a scholarship at the University of Harvard for his imagination and humour... Here's an example of absolute brilliance....

    Shortest Essay:
    An English university creative writing class was asked to write a concise essay containing the following elements:
    1) Religion
    2) Royalty
    3) Sex
    4) Mystery

    The prize-winner wrote: "My God," said the Queen, "I'm pregnant. I wonder who the father is."

  • Kan Pei - A Joke...

    Once there was a Chinese wedding dinner. The dinner occupied only half the restaurant. The other half was occupied by some American tourists.

    As the wedding Chinese couples hop from table to table to toast the guests, the cheers of " KAN PEI .. " (happy & joyous drinking) gets louder and louder.

    One American gets more and more irritated as the couple get closer to him. " KAN PEI ...!" " KAN .... PEI "....!!!" The cheers continued.

    Finally, the irritated American couldn't take it anymore. He stood up on his chair and shouted. "IF YOU CAN'T PAY, THEN LET ME PAY FOR YOU...!"

  • New Work Place

    Today is my 3rd day working at new place, was busy setting up the environment for myself, it's done! Manage to have some times to update here. I'm working for MultiPurpose Solutions (MPS) now, as a sister company of MultiPurpose Holding (MPH). By looking at the picture below, there you read "A.A. Anthony Securities (AAA)" ??? Ya, the biggest boss of AAA has bought MPH and he is restructuring the companies, revamp the computer system for better businesses. So I am asked to work at this premise, in the 2nd floor.

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    Main entrance.

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    This is my place, I don't have the 22" wide LCD anymore!!! But downgraded to 19" withOUT WIDE Screen!!! I've choosen this place at a corner because it gives me more privacy, kekee... Again I have better view at my back. When I am tired, I can make 180 degree right turn, take a breath by looking at green leaves, nice houses and the nice cars passing by... Guess what? Here are all the rich residents' houses, over million of Ringgit Malaysia.

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    There is new building coming up sooner at the opposite, it will be shop lots / service apartment.
  • Ellison Claims Richest Man Title

    I listened to the news yesterday, it said... "Ellison claims the richest man in the world", is now a Mexican. What a crappy day for Bill Gates.

    First word gets out that the feds want to bust up his company, then a bunch of analysts downgrade his stock, which tanks, and then .... Then, the capper -- he loses his title as world's richest man to his number one swaggering nemesis, Larry Ellison.

    I still think that, Gates has been doing good, set up a software company, working out his vision, giving more and more of his earnings to charity and thus spread good will across the globe, it's really awesome.

    And.. Something funny is happened to Ellison, there's rumor actually a fiction piece from a satire/humor website, said that he spoke to the graduates of Yale University :

    "Graduates of Yale University, I apologize if you have endured this type of prologue before, but I want you to do something for me. Please, take a good look around you. Look at the classmate on your left. Look at the classmate on your right. Now, consider this: five years from now, 10 years from now, even 30 thirty years from now, odds are the person on your left is going to be a loser. The person on your right, meanwhile, will also be a loser. And you, in the middle? What can you expect? Loser. Loserhood. Loser Cum Laude.

    In fact, as I look out before me today, I don't see a thousand hopes for a bright tomorrow. I don't see a thousand future leaders in a thousand industries. I see a thousand losers. You're upset. That's understandable. After all, how can I, Lawrence "Larry" Ellison, college dropout, have the audacity to spout such heresy to the graduating class of one of the nation's most prestigious institutions? I'll tell you why. Because I, Lawrence "Larry" Ellison, second richest man on the planet, am a college dropout, and you are not. Because Bill Gates, richest man on the planet-for now anyway-is a college dropout, and you are not. Because Paul Allen, the third richest man on the planet, dropped out of college, and you did not. And for good measure, because Michael Dell, No. 9 on the list and moving up fast, is a college dropout, and you, yet again, are not.

    Hmm ... you're very upset. That's understandable. So let me stroke your egos for a moment by pointing out, quite sincerely, that your diplomas were not attained in vain. Most of you, I imagine, have spent four to five years here, and in many ways what you've learned and endured will serve you well in the years ahead. You've established good work habits. You've established a network of people that will help you down the road. And you've established what will be lifelong relationships with the word "therapy." All that of is good. For in truth, you will need that network. You will need those strong work habits. You will need that therapy. You will need them because you didn't drop out, and so you will never be among the richest people in the world. Oh sure, you may, perhaps, work your way up to #10 or #11, like Steve Ballmer. But then,I don't have to tell you who he really works for, do I? And for the record, he dropped out of grad school. Bit of a late bloomer.

    Finally, I realize that many of you, and hopefully by now most of you,are wondering, "Is there anything I can do? Is there any hope for me at all?" Actually, no. It's too late. You've absorbed too much, think you know too much. You're not 19 anymore. You have a built-in cap, and I'm not referring to the mortarboards on your heads. Hmm ... you're really very upset. That's understandable.

    So perhaps this would be a good time to bring up the silver lining. Not for you, Class of '00. You are a write-off, so I'll let you slink off to your pathetic $200,000-a-year jobs, where your checks will be signed by former classmates who dropped out two years ago.

    Instead, I want to give hope to any underclassmen here today. I say to you, and I can't stress this enough: LEAVE. Pack your things and your ideas and don't come back. Drop out. Start up. For I can tell you that a cap and gown will keep you down just as surely as these security guards dragging me off this stage are keeping me dow..."
    (At this point The Oracle CEO was ushered off stage.)

    耶鲁的毕业生们,我很抱歉--如果你们不喜欢这样的开场。我想请你们为我做一件事。请你---好好看一看周围,看一看站在你左边的同学,看一看站在你右边的同学。请你设想这样的情况:从现在起5年之后,10年之后,或30年之后,今天站在你左边的这个人会是一个失败者;右边的这个人,同样,也是个失败者。而你,站在中间的家伙,你以为会怎样?一样是失败者。失败的经历。失败的优等生。

    说实话,今天我站在这里,并没有看到一千个毕业生的灿烂未来。我没有看到一千个行业的一千名卓越领导者,我只看到了一千个失败者。你们感到沮丧,这是可以理解的。为什么,我,埃里森,一个退学生,竟然在美国最具声望的学府里这样厚颜地散布异端?

    我来告诉你原因。因为,我,埃里森,这个行星上第二富有的人,是个退学生,而你不是。因为比尔盖茨,这个行星上最富有的人---就目前而言---是个退学生,而你不是。因为艾伦,这个行星上第三富有的人,也退了学,而你没有。再来一点证据吧,因为戴尔,这个行星上第九富有的人---他的排位还在不断上升,也是个退学生。而你,不是。……

    你们非常沮丧,这是可以理解的。你们将来需要这些有用的工作习惯。你将来需要这种"治疗"。你需要它们,因为你没辍学,所以你永远不会成为世界上最富有的人。哦,当然,你可以,也许,以你的方式进步到第10位,第11位,就像Steve。但,我没有告诉你他在为谁工作,是吧?根据记载,他是研究生时辍的学,开化得稍晚了些。

    现在,我猜想你们中间很多人,也许是绝大多数人,正在琢磨,"我能做什么?我究竟有没有前途?"当然没有。太晚了,你们已经吸收了太多东西,以为自己懂得太多。你们再也不是19岁了。你们有了"内置"的帽子,哦,我指的可不是你们脑袋上的学位帽。

    嗯……你们已经非常沮丧啦。这是可以理解的。所以,现在可能是讨论实质的时候啦---绝不是为了你们,2000年毕业生。你们已经被报销,不予考虑了。我想,你们就偷偷摸摸去干那年薪20万的可怜工作吧,在那里,工资单是由你两年前辍学的同班同学签字开出来的。

    事实上,我是寄希望于眼下还没有毕业的同学。我要对他们说,离开这里。收拾好你的东西,带着你的点子,别再回来。退学吧,开始行动。

    我要告诉你,一顶帽子一套学位服必然要让你沦落……就像这些保安马上要把我从这个讲台上撵走一样必然……
    (此时,Larry.Ellison被带离了讲台)

    Hahaa... Well well... There are always a lot of agreement and disagreement about someone that is getting famous, what do you think? Great winds blow upon high hills ( 树大招风 )...

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