Steve Job arrived..

When it comes to online shopping, i am quite skeptical about it.
Reason?

1. I wouldn't have any information on the seller just in case they cheat me of my money, and i will be grabbing my own balls by then.

2. I always worried that the "unknown" person who might use my credit card to purchase some kind of internet porn related stuffs.

However, recently i made an exception due to the fact that i am a very "impatient" person. I came to know that Steve Job's autobiography has been released, and the only way is to get it is only via Amazon.com since i couldn't wait for another 2 more months. (Or so i was informed).

So, i signed up for an account from Amazon.com, and there she is! I found the book.
Key in my credit card number without a glitch and purchased it. Piece of cake, compared to a the pain in the arse of booking Air-Asia zero fare tickets.

Amazon.com has provided the buyer with a parcel-tracking facilities. My book was expected to arrive on Nov 21. But nothing came through. I started to think of all kind of possibilities on why the item is not arriving.

1. Maybe the custom officer wanted to read it first before releasing it to me.
2. Maybe the ship delivering my parcel has sunk.
3. Maybe my money has gone to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network funding.

But, another week has passed. It arrived finally.

Safe and sound.

The image of Steve Job looking at me upon opening up the parcel was just..brilliant.

As if he is looking into my eyes and says: "You like my beard, don't ya little boy?"

Well, it is worthwhile for all the waitings. But not when a friend rang me up and told me.

"Hung Yew, you know what? The Steve Job's book has been displayed on TESCO rack few weeks ago. And the price in Popular bookstore is much cheaper if you have the member card compared to yours via Amazon. com".

What the F??? TESCO!!!

How do i feel?

You tell me about it lo!!

Kena Con by Reader's Digest

While waiting for my girlfriend i stopped by at the Popular bookstore to do some readings.

It has been a habit ever since, that if i have nothing to do to occupy myself while waiting for someone, it is best doing it in a bookstore.

The popular bookstore does not offer any interesting books for me on that particular day. Then i saw this Reader's Digest for the December 2011 issue. The title just managed to grab my attention.

"The science behind emptying your wallet...and how to resist it!"

That sounds cool. So i bought it home and immediately start to read on that particular subject.

Could science actually help us on saving money from shoppings?

Then again, the conclusion for this subject is kind of....ridiculous.

It says:

"Leave your wallet at home".

F**k my life.

And oh yeah, i am a moron who had just spent RM15 for this piece of shit.

The Unexpected

My dad flew to KL a couple of days ago to attend a friend's wedding.

Since he and his friend planned to go up to Genting, we decided to meet there on Saturday night to have dinner.


So if go Genting only means one thing lo. Gambling is primary and dinner is secondary.

Go to genting but not visiting the casino?

To us it is like visiting a gorgeous and lonely woman's home and ended up playing monopoly.

So, there we go. We have the cash, we wore our long pants and smart suits, enter the casino lounge only to be stopped by the security guards.

The very first few thing that came to my mind:

1. I need to surrender my camera phone OR

2. It is just a random body check, just in case i carried a bomb with me OR

3. I looked like a Muslim who pray 5 times a day OR

4. I have been blacklisted by Genting because i have lose so much that the Casino is sympathy with me.

But i am wrong.



Guard: "Can i have a look at your ic please?"

Me: "*&&^%%$, bang, i am almost 30 yrs old already ler!!"

Guard: "Umur you berapa??Macam bawah umur saja?"

So needless to say, my dad was laughing so hard.

So hard that as if i have the face of a 30 yr old and a body of 5 yrs old.

I don't blame him.

But whether it is good or bad, i wouldn't know.

Unexpected things happened once in a while, like this moment.

Max-Sucks

For the past two years, it has been a real pain in the arse...

by subscribing to Maxis boradband plan. (Above picture shows 0.00 kbps for downloading and uploading speed).

It is ridiculous and totally unacceptable matter of fact for being one of the biggest Telco in Malaysia.

(Sorry the picture is not really clear due to some technical problem, i will try to illustrate as well as i can).

Here it says "Go online at speed 15 times faster than dial up"??
Yeah right, my dial up can kick their ass and let them smell my smoke.

Something like this.
Smell it.

As an engineer myself, i understand that there are actually few major factors that normally effect the speed of the wireless internet like your locations, weathers, and etc.

But as a consumer, i don't give a furk.

When i signed up two years ago, Maxis staffs used to tell me that "our coverage is everywhere and so don't you worry".

Yeah right! Of course i don't have to worry when:

1. I still have to pay RM 88 per month iregardless of the speed of the internet. For one page to finish loading, i basically need to go toilet to take a pee, wash my plates and collect my laundry before i can register into Facebook. (At least 50% of the time!!)



2. I have a one year commitment to Maxis, and in case i wish to terminate the service within a year, i need to pay Maxis the Penalty fee. (It is like i still have to pay the doctor even when they mistakenly amputated my hand when i complained about my headache and flu).



3. I called to the service center trying to find solution on the issue, all they said was "Technicians are still looking into this matter" for the 17th times. "Is there anything else i can assist you?" - I want my money back, can?



This is a really dissapointing situation whereby i have been a loyal customer to Maxis for my entire life, ever since i know how to use a mobile phone.



But the experience of using a Maxis broadband almost cost me dearly, when i threw my laptop once (luckily it fell on the sofa) when obviously the problem does not lie with the laptop itself.

So, i have decided. Terminate Maxis, change to Unifi.

Even it is more expensive, i don't give a furk also.

Since i can make free calls back to my home in Sarawak.

And i can download high quality porn within an hour.

An Engineer who doesn't want to become an Engineer

There was this one evening my mum called me on my mobile.


"Seems like you little brother's SPM result does not qualify him for the engineering degree course. What should we do?"


My immediate reply was:


"Kill him".





Luckily tak jadi macam sin-chan.

In today's world, it seems like a common thing that a proud parent will always wanted their child to study and eventually ended up working in a technology-related field. Anything differs, is considered as failure.



As a freshman in university, it is common that engineering students seems to be able to attract more attention compared to those from business or admin sector. Tell the girls you are going for the calculus class, you will ended up with dates. Tell them you are going for business ethnic class, prepare for a gay-boy group discussion instead.


Well what i say is in general and it is based on my experience. It doesn't mean it is the same perception for everyone, but mostly, yes. I once changed my course from IT into Electrical Engineering course and ended up every ex-coursemate labelled me as "traitors" and "Show off" for being carrying a "Electromechanical devices" books instead of "C Programming".

But none of them knew how heartbreaking i was when i got my first ever "0" (zero) marks in my first ever calculus quiz. (The lecturer told me i got the right answer by using the wrong method, that is really bullshit man).

Ok back to the topic.

Well now that i am an engineer myself, the real thing isn't "taste" anywhere like the thing that we "think" it should be. In the early 80s' and 90s' engineers are making handsome sum of money. Back to reality, the one who stay in big bungalows and driving big fat German cars are those people who are in business sector, insurance, property market, to name a few.

So, the main question is, if the real motive of the parents is that they wanted their kid to get a steady job and earning a handsome salary in their job, why it has to be engineering? It is not end of the world when my brother failed to get into engineering course. It will only be disaster if my brother tell me that he has no direction in his career path.

If he want to become an engineer, let him be!

If he want to become a singer, don't worry!

If he want to become a teacher, go ahead!

If he want to become a gigolo, of course cannot lah!

Too often at times, the engineers who spent lots of effort and time into a certain project was not rewarded as they should be getting. Take an example, everyone wants a piece of Steve Jobs autobiography, mourned on the losses of the genius, without realizing that they forgotten about one of his main right hand man - the engineer, Steve Wozniak. It is the people who have done the presentation receive the fame, but the one behind the scene remained as mystery.

You look at KLCC, you think about Petronas but not Cesar Pelli, the architect.

When you look at your phone, you remembered maxis, celcom or digi, but not Alexandre-G. the Bell.

When you look at Air Asia, you remembered Tony Fernandes, but not the Wright brothers.

To conclude, in the ideal world, when you are able to wire up a microwave oven all by yourself does not actually guarantee success on your behalf. Even if you do not have a university degree, it is not going to be the "Oh my Motherf*&^king god! I am gonna get so screwed!"

Some people even said, it is even worst if you became a writer. Because writers write nonsense in their free time and got peanuts or even nothing in return. But what if the writer himself is the engineer, a part time property negotiator, and a part time writer?

I will leave it for you to judge.

Last but not least, before a friend of mine passed away he told me this.

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

Rest in peace, my friend. May god always be with you.

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"The Auditor-General 2010 Report said the department paid 2,805% more or RM56,350 for a night vision marine binocular which has an estimated market price of RM1,940."




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"No corruption was involved in the Marine Department's exorbitant purchase of two night vision binoculars, said the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission"

What the furk?

RM56,350 WORRR!!!

It is like what? You can actually buy a Myvi car and all we get is the freaking binocular???

The best thing is.

"MACC deputy commissioner, said the department was found to have ignored a Treasury order by not conducting a market survey to find out the actual price of the equipment."

Now i understand.

The government think we, the Malaysian, has not evolve and posses a human brain just yet.

I think it is all common sense right?

When you are buying something everyday, in supermarket, you compared the price apple to apple.

Lets say if you see a pack of maggie mee of fives, cost you at RM 95.37 (approx 2800%) more than the normal price at RM3.40, wouldn't you start to question about the intergrity fo the supermarket?

It is all common sense right?

It is not because of the "ignorance of the treasury order by not conducting the market survey".

It is the principle of "Jum, mari makan sama sama..."

You can blacklist all the vendor you want. But if is is purchased at the agreed price, it should not be the problem on the vendor, it is the purchaser's responsibility to buy something with proper judgement especially when they are using the income tax money from the rakyat.

I dun know what MACC is thinking, but please, you guys are not really convincing.

My balls are getting bigger...

When i started out this blog, it is purely just for the fun side out of it.

People told me one of the easiest way to make money is via blog advertising such as Google Adsense and well, as you can see on my blog right now is from Nuffnang.

My blog reader has since grew from 2 readers, which is me and my dog, to now average 20 person/day and i am proud to say that i am earning quite well, about RM 2.60 since the last 1 year plus.

Why the hell you are laughing?

But recently, i think my pair of balls just grew bigger. It is always flattering for me when i get feedback from my readers. I feel happy when after a long hard day at work, people log on to their internet and read my blog just to have a laugh, or passing their time.

I am not a big joker like Kenny Sia, but i think my blog is still capable to accomodate your free time while you take a "poo poo" in your toilet.

As why my pair of balls is growing bigger...This is why.

No no, i am not in the running to win this "Asia Pacific Blog Awards". No one voted for me anyway.

But who say you can't nominate yourself?

Under the "Hidden Gem" category.

Ma de.

Why look at me liddattt??

If i won, i'll put my balls on a bbq set.

You hear me.