What is a watch?

Recently my brilliantly bright mind figured out some similiarities of a Watch, and a Woman.
It is not necessarily correct or accurate, and will probably get some flak.
Its a very simple note I jotted down and can be considered incomplete.
Here's what I think
A watch (mechanical one, mind you)is like a woman,
Can look simple on the outside but complicated on the inside (minute repeaters-naggy, perpetual calanders-remembers dates, tourbillons-pretty but a high maintanance etc :p)
Both require gentle handling and lots of care, otherwise any kind of hurt feelings will be carried like a scar.
Treat her nice and she'll be by your side forever (this is subjective, if there isn't an auction, divorce etc)
She'll (if you want to call you watch a "she") be keeping you company, recording every moment in time and every occasion you spend together.

There should be more to add but I've been too busy to think, being a watchmaker that can't arrange time properly, this isn't really a suprise. Isn't it?

Nothing better to do

Tmn Aman Bball Team in Carlsberg cup 2008 ended with less than a fizzle. 2 weeks ago we lost to a team named "Waterboy" 46-61. I scored a fluke ass 3-pointed that didn't mean a thing. We had lousy movement, no aggresiveness. Once again out-rebounded by a shorter team cos our tall players don't know how to box out or see the floor well. We don't have training, so with a losing record, we did think it was expected. Maybe that's why we don't play that hard. Next match against Kepong Bball team was to be on 27th Dec, after X'mas.

23rd Dec, had buffet dinner with my watch-school mates and Sir at Jogoya Starhill. Honestly, it wasn't worth the money we paid. We did had a fun night tho. The blardy line to Haagen Daaz ice-cream was long. Some peaple scoop ice-cream for their whole table, hence holding up the line. Was a bit of a waste of time lining up, felt that New Zealands ice cream was tastier. Haagen Daaz is just overpriced and promoted better, thats why they have a better market. We went back to hostel all bloated,full and sleepy. Been a long day. Bathe, talk cock with Alvin then sleep.

24th Dec - Half day at N.G. Hayek Watchmaking School, suppose to be 8.30am-12pm. Clean up day. Took apart my lathe to clean the rust out with rust-removing liquid. The liquid smells like the loo, probably has some ammonia in it. After that was done we vacuumed, mopped,wipe everything that potentially had dust on. That done, hands hurt and sweating we waited for Sir to say "go home". Had a pep-talk, QnA session and then its off for a 10day holiday. 25th Dec 2008 til 4th Jan 2009. Had a feeling of sadness leaving the workshop for 10 days, and its just 10 days. Maybe I realised I have nothing to do at all, but it is fun in the workshop. The day before i just made my Winding Stem, altho not a good one in my eyes, I'm happy i made one.
After that it was back to the hostel for a shower and suppose to go watch movie, but Sorpor was lazy, so just end up playing with Mika Chuah Mikmik the Toy Puddle.
Christmas Dinner was at Aunty Alice's place, she makes good lamb stew. Had a nice dinner there, some wine that made me dizzy real fast. Then it was time to dish out the gifts. Seeing i was wearing red, (the same shirt i wore for a 2 Christmases), I became the choice for Santa Claus. Minus the white beard,round tummy, kit, hot young elf lady, I still enjoyed being Santa. Was thinking bout getting real Santa Claus outfit for the next Xmas, but think the heat,stuffiness and humidity in KL will kill me.

25th - had lunch with SorPors family n aunty, quite filling. then it was buffet dinner while i was still not feeling hungry. Ended up with indigestion, lost 2kgs in weight due to lack of appetite. Still feeling the effects of it and appetite hastn't really returned yet.

26th, Went shopping in KLCC and Capsquare. Capsquare has cool auto doors that open outwards instead of sliding. Still wasn't feeling well, went back at 8pm and slept from 8.30pm to the next day.

27th- suppose to play the last match of Carlsberg cup, but wasn't feeling good, so told captain i'm out. Found out the team lost 56-99 to Kepong Bball team. Everyone expected a loss, so... i guess there wasn't much fighting spirit as usual. It takes more than one player to make a diffrence, if the team doesn't function properly, your hopes are all gone.
While the team was playing, i was watching Ip Man, it is a kickass show, R-E-S-T-E-C-P to the man, Ip Man, but duno was Miura actually beaten like shit like that. Hopefully more la. Kudos to Donnie Yen for a good performance. I'd watch it again.

Finding something to do in my free time. But without money, can't even go out for coffee, anyone wants to treat me?

Chemistry??

I got an SMS recently from my uni lecturer, saying that my paper has been accepted and will be published soon. Thinking he sent the wrong person a message i called him to find out. Turns out my Final Year Project report was submitted to some Chemistry research body and it was accepted. Wonder what kinda ammendments were done to it. As far as I know I wrote a really crappy report.
So now I get mentioned in a journal, does that qualify me for a chance at pursuing a Masters in Chemistry? Wonder if my ex-uni has part-time Masters program for busy people like me.
oh yeah btw i almost forgot what my FYP title was, something along the lines like umm...Electro-analysis of Zinc Sulphide Thin Films in Varying pH ranges...or something, could actually be a longer title if I remember correctly...nuts...
again...yippie yay yay! It feels good altho not as good as finding out I got accepted into watch-making months ago...that was more exciting.

Carlsberg Cup Dec 2008-report

Last night i played in the Carlsberg cup basketball competition in USJ something, court 8 i think. My team was from Tmn Aman, i was an import to fill up the bench :) Bench warmer la, with all my gas coming out, sure the bench is warm.
We got the early for warm up shots. had a pep/team talk then the game started. Up against a team name "Friends", we had a height advantage over them. 6-4 Franklinstein and 6-3 Vinod. and a host of other players. For the first 5 minutes of the game we looked like a very organized team. Positions were being played well on offence but still lacking on defence. We had the opening basket with a lay in by Vinod, his hoisting the ball high and letting defenders smell his armpits, or bump into his big belly. What happened after that was anyones guess. "Friends" got the lead with a 3-point shot, and stretched that lead to 6 points up to the half time.
After the half time break, we manage to keep within 10 points of the opponents, but at the 4th quarter, it all went downhill, two 3 point attempts (i think) by the opponents stretched their lead over us to 10. And they maintained it til the end.
Physically we were the bigger team, but with lack of game knowledge and proper movement we were screwed over by a smaller sized team. They should be laughing at us by now. Guess we have to buck up and prepare ourselves better for the next game on Saturday 8pm.
I intended to scare them with my superior quickness (yeah right) and jumping ability, but i was running too much that my team-mates couldn't find me to pass. And i made bad plays. Out of 40 mins, i play about 5mins. So much for that. Will try to play better on Sat. sorry no pics. bleh

What do i do in a watch-making school?

The other day, Alvin made a comment that started my rubbish thinking engine running on overdrive. He said, there was ice on the polar side of Mars to which i said, we also have polar ice caps, does that make us aliens too? What I said to stress the rest of them out is as follows

Me: Humans actually came from Mars, does to pollution and wasting all resources of Mars, and practically driving Mars to destruction, the Human race built huge ass space-ships to haul (evacuate) the people of Mars out of the doom planet. The destination would be earth.
Due to the rush in designing the space-ships, proper QAQC was not done and most of the space-ships were destroyed along the journey to Earth.
Then the landing systems were screwed and the space-ships that arrive at Earth crash landed in various continents. The White ship in Europe, Red ship in North America, Brown ship in South America, Black Ship in Africa,Australia, and the Yellow ship in central Asia.

The Cyprus opens his mouth and calls me a whacko, which makes him my next target. Cyprus has that weird hand coordination where both his hands can do diffrent motions relative to the other. something like the pat-head-rub-tummy-then change orientation experiment/game.

Me conts: Cyprus was one of the pilots of themothership with  his superior skill in hand eye coordination, but being arrogant he started wanking and shot his load onto the control panel, short-circuiting the ships electrical systems and causing most ships to crash land and destroy everyone on board.
The crash was so traumatising to everyone that no one could remember a thing. The great people of our times are those alien intellectuals who have sort of flashbacks that give them ground breaking theories and inventions to help develope the human race into an advanced race, Its just that they don't realise they have previous experiences in another life.

I don't know where i was going with this story but basically we are Martians, and we are destroying Earth and also trying to get back to our home planet, Mars. Just do a proper QAQC the next time we have to evac and don't let Cyprus drive, or keep him under strict supervision at all times.

We're in the Star

Extracted from "The Star" newspaper

In the nick of time

By VIVIENNE PAL
vivienne@thestar.com.my
Photos by BRIAN MOH

The Swatch Group comes to the rescue of the Swiss watch industry in the face of increasing global demand for Swiss timepieces and limited watch specialists.

AT THE risk of sounding ironic, it looks like time could be running out for the watch!

Findings by the Swatch Group have revealed a critical shortage of watchmakers and skilled technicians in the face of a rise in the demand for mechanised timepieces in more recent times.


On the dot: Precision is required in watchmaking.

“We realised that there was a global shortage of watchmakers more than 10 years ago,” Swatch Group Malaysia general manager Bernard Yong revealed recently.

“The entire market has changed. Watchmaking is no longer a trade passed from father to son, and not many people are interested in repairing watches although more people are acquiring mechanised watches – Swatch Group’s global sales alone increased from 1.85 billion Swiss francs (RM5.7bil) to 5.94 billion Swiss francs (RM18.3bil) last year.”

Statistics reveal that the number of watch specialists employed in the Swiss watch industry has been fluctuating since before the 1970s.

In an article by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH in 2004, it was reported that during the 1970s and early 1980s, technological upheavals, i.e. the appearance of quartz technology (see story on P6) and difficult economic situations resulted in a reduction in the size of the industry, causing the number of employees to fall from some 90,000 in 1970 to a little over 30,000 in 1984, while the number of companies decreased from about 1,600 to about 600.

The decline, says Yong, was also the result of competition by Asian countries banking on the quartz technology invented – though ironically, not highly regarded – by the Swiss.

He adds that following the formation of the Swatch Group in 1983 and the success of the Swatch revolution, the number of people working in the Swiss watch industry increased to about 50,000 presently.


Steady does it: Repairing a watch is tricky business, requiring patience and steady hands. The more complications the watch has, the trickier it is to remain accurate. Note the minuscule-sized watch parts at the left background.

Yet, the situation remains rather precarious.

“Even if the number of watch technicians or watchmakers do not drop, it is still not enough to service the increased number of watches. We are in need of more of these specialists to support the market,” says Yong.

To illustrate the direness of the situation, let’s assume that the 25.9 million timepieces exported out of Switzerland in 2007 are representative of the total number of watches sold in a year.

“If 1% is returned within the year for repairs and half of this percentage requires the attention of skilled watch technicians, we are then talking about 1.295 million watches. Let’s assume that 80% of these watches can be repaired at service centres located outside Switzerland, which would then mean that 259,000 pieces need to be sent back to factories in Switzerland for servicing,” says Yong.


Class in session: At the recently opened Nicholas G. Hayek Watchmaking School located within the Asia Pacific University College of Technology & Innovation (UCTI, formerly known as APIIT) premises at Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil.

“We further assume that the same estimate applies to watches sold over the last five years – this means as many as 1.295 million watches may have to be sent back to Switzerland for repair, and this assumption does not include watches which are more than five years old!”

Swiss watch owners, particularly those within this region, who have suffered the misfortune of a watch malfunction can only understand the frustration of waiting for their watches to be repaired.

“The more complications in a watch, the more chances the watch would not be so accurate,” acknowledges Swatch Group SEA country manager David Ponzo. “And so repairs would generally entail a long wait because the watches need to be sent back to Switzerland or Germany. That can be frustrating.”

Crisis management

Something had to be done to avert a potential crisis in the horlogerie industry.

Enter the Swatch Group and its noble (though admittedly profitable in the long run) move in setting up watchmaking institutions to arrest the situation. Its active endeavours to “save” the Swiss watch industry saw the setting-up of five Nicholas G. Hayek Watchmaking Schools in the world: Shanghai, China; Glashutte, Germany; Secaucus, the United States; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and, in the very near future, Pforzheim, Germany.


Trusty: Some of the tools used in the watchmaking trade.

Nicholas G. Hayek, incidentally, is the chairman of the Swatch Group.

Overall, the company has spent an estimated 1.5 million Swiss francs (RM4.57mil) to set up of each school, says Yong.

Thanks to the support of the Sapura group and partnership with the Watchmaker of Switzerland Training and Educational Programme (Wostep), the school in Malaysia was finally set up barely three months ago with a total of eight pioneering students supervised by technical training director Jacky Wong from Hong Kong.

At the moment, the school is situated within the premises of the Asia Pacific University College of Technology & Innovation (UCTI, formerly known as APIIT) at Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil.

The school, says Yong, ensures that the maintenance of the Swatch Group watches in the Asian market will continue, particularly at a time when watchmaker services in Malaysia are below expectation (there are only six qualified watch technicians under the Swatch Group in Malaysia).

“Our objective is to recruit Asian youngsters who are determined to join the watchmaker profession and to train them adequately in the face of the increasing complexity of mechanical watches,” he says, adding that the Swatch Group is the most active organisation in establishing watchmaking schools.

The programme, thanks to Wostep, currently the only independent watchmaking institution in Switzerland offering a watchmaking curriculum in English, takes about 3,200 training hours, or two years.

The collaboration between UCTI and the Swatch Group is the first and only one in South-East Asia and promotes watchmaking as an alternative career path.

“We want to recruit locally to lessen repair time for our watches,” says Ponzo.

The course commenced last month, and is spread out over three training modules which will enable graduates to repair all mechanical watches, including chronograph.

“Upon completion of the course, the student qualifies as a level 3 watchmaker. Repairing a simple mechanical watch can cost about RM2,000. A level 3 watchmaker can fetch about RM2,500 to RM5,000 a month, depending on experience,” says Yong.


Close supervision: Nicholas G. Hayek Watchmaking School Technical Training watchmaking industry. director Jacky Wong supervises as 22-year-old Cyprus Choy performs a delicate manoeuvre. Wong is currently the only teacher and principal of the school.

Ponzo adds: “A master or chief watchmaker can get a basic package of RM300,000, besides starting their own timepiece brand. There is long career development in this path.”

Here’s the best part: the course – inclusive of meal allowances, accommodation, tuition fees, repair tools and insurance – is fully sponsored by the Swatch Group. Scholarship applicants need only have Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) level education and basic English communication skills; no watchmaking experience is required.

What’s more, successful applicants are guaranteed of a job due to a four-year bond with the Swatch Group at selected areas in the region.

A quick note to future applicants, though: the selection process is more stringent than you think. Although the basic criteria are rather loose, applicants are selected based on the success of their interview, patience and steadiness of hand.

There is no stipulated age limit although 40 years seems to be the unspoken ceiling; the current batch of students from Malaysia (2), Singapore (2) and Hong Kong (4) range from 21 to 30 years old.

For the moment, classes will remain small.

“We were overwhelmed by the unexpected number of applications, especially since the art of watchmaking is still not known here. Nonetheless, it’s tough to increase our intake from the present eight because finding teachers is tough! Our capacity for expansion depends on how many teachers we can find. Right now we are in the process of finding a second teacher,” quips Ponzo.

Come to think of it, the future is looking brighter after all, on all counts. Swiss watch owners – in this region, at least – need no longer endure a lengthy wait for their watches to be repaired once the current crop of Nicholas Hayek Watchmaking Schools students graduate.

And if they stick it out, graduates can look forward to plenty of dough and, perhaps, their own name on a timepiece in future.

Swatch on hand

THE quartz technology was invented by the Swiss to be used mainly in vehicles which rely on very accurate time-keeping, such as airplanes, trains and ships. A vast majority of prestigious Swiss watch manufacturers refused to venture into mass production using the quartz technology as they felt that wrist watches should remain hand-crafted, thus creating an opportunity for Japanese firms such as Seiko, Citizen, Casio and a variety of unknown Asian brands manufactured in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

By 1978, quartz watches overtook mechanical watches in popularity, plunging the Swiss watch industry into crisis. It reached a critical point in 1981.

And then the Swatch Group (it was called SMH Group until 1998) stepped in: 1982 saw the launch of the first Swatch prototypes. Swatch was instrumental in reviving the Swiss watch industry, mass producing quartz watches and popularising them through creative marketing concepts.


Saving time: Nicholas G. Hayek played a key role in the revival of the Swiss Close supervision: Nicholas G. Hayek Watchmaking School Technical Training watchmaking industry

In 1983, Nicholas G. Hayek (chairman of the Swatch Group) merged ailing Swiss watchmakers SSIH and ASUAG, giving a clean bill of health to the timepieces under both labels (which included Omega, Longines and Tissot), as well as propelling the development of the Swatch Group to what it is today.

The achievements of Hayek have been widely recognised in Switzerland and beyond, and his innovative strategies have served as an important model for the Swiss watchmaking industry as a whole and played a key role in the revival of the industry. – Source: Swatch Group Malaysia and www.swatch.com

Watch-making is my thing

Oh yeah, I've been studying watch-making a month now, under Swatch. Which is cool. The program is called WOSTEP (Watchmakers  of Switzerland Training and Education Program). Of Switzerland, the syllabus is from Switzerland, but I'm stuying in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
My classmates comprise of 2 Malaysians (inculding meh), 2 Singaporeans, and 4 Hong Kong-ers. All of us being guys, we do talk crazy stuff, most of them coming from me. I think i'm getting on their nerves tho. Or they may think I've a loose screw in my head.
No pictures yet, i can't seem to find the time to steal my dads camera. As soon as i get some pics I'll post some up here. Dunno how much is confidential, but will try to post the same things Mags and newpapers do. General stuff.
Things are interesting, getting cooler by the day. There's so much to learn in this field, I would probably take at least 6 years to learn the basics of everything, and even longer to become a kick ass pro in the field.

Proton Sucks!

Right after my 2 years warranty on my car expired, things started going wrong. The power window motor broke (2nd time in 2 years), air con relay was burnt (so i get hot air). Cheap quality car, don't expect much.
Just recently I notice my tail-pipe was hanging low. Wondering what was up I gave it a shove with my foot. It was loose. Turns out the nut and whatever metal tubes the tail-pipe was welded to had rusted out. After a few shakes the tail-pipe came out. So now i drive around with a rusted exhaust pipe sticking out. I feel like its a leper car...stupid crap
The only thing Proton engineered well was to have it break apart right after the warranty is over. So that they don't have to replace anything for free. Evil shits.

Work or study?

Few weeks ago I was deciding on my future and thought that when I had enough cash, I could get some books bout watch-making and maybe somehow learn to repair watches or even make my own watch. Couple of weeks after that thought came into my mind I saw an ad for a scholarship in watch-making from Swatch, I thought that was a stroke of luck so Icrammed my head thinking of a nice attention grabbing cover letter to send to Swatch.
I sent the letter on a Wednesday evening, and got a call the next day, asking me to go for an interview with Swatch. I was so damn excited I was smiling non-stop, i think my face was twitching the next day. muscle spasms (don't smile too much, its bad for your face muscles)
Day of the interview arrived, I got there before time but there was no parking at the building, so i had to search for parking in other buildins adjacent to Swatch. Made the interview and was too excited to think clearly.I knew its just a first interview and had to proove i was worth it, I was even thinking to myself what I needed to say if the interviewers asked me why should I deserve it. When that question came, I was just stunned and went abit blank, and said a stupid thing. "Because I really want the scholarship" when all the time I was preparing myself to say "I will be hardworking, and if I get the chance to create my own watch I draw inspirations from everything I see and encounter" but I choked and didn't say it.
This is the first time the scholarship is being offered in Malaysia. There will be 8 students for this intake, they are only looking for 2 local students, 3 from China and 3 from USA. I don't know what my chances are, but I really hope that I get this scholarship. Just a few people have applied for it, thats what I was told.
The second interview will be in June, they will call me in March '08 if I make the cut, then there is also a test in the June interview. If I impress them enough, I'll be accepted for the intake which starts in September, which is a long wait and also a lot of anxiety to deal with.
In the mean while I need to get a job and I'm still applying. :)
Hope my luck is good this year...

2008, its a new year, a new leaf? Leaf Monkey perhaps...

I graduated in Dec 2007, finally after all those failures in Natural Products and Industrial Organic Chemistry i managed to pass my subject. Failed that subject 2 times, then the third time the syllabus was reduced by half and it became somewhat easier to memorise. Only the Industrial Organic part though, Natural Products part remained the same (which is enough of a killer, damn it!). The exam was still terrifying, considering the parts i could answer were mostly Industrial Organic which makes up 65% of the paper, the remaining 35% was Nat.Products and i still find it overwhelmingly difficult to answer it. (Improper preparation and laziness is the answer, which is also why i failed the other 2 times).
Waited a week for the results to come out, so i went online and saw that i passed. Didn't really have any particular feelings going through me then, probably more of relief that i didnt fail. No elation, happiness, excitement etc. Probably bcos i was having an argument with my GF then.
Then the next few weeks i would be in Sarawak for a family reunion and Christmas too.
This isn't really updated, but quite backdated. Lets see when i have the time to post those pic from Sarawak.

Final exams blues

This 2 weeks will be my final final exams, no more exams for me, that is...assuming i pass everything. Knowing my exams are coming, i didn't feel any sense of urgency to study, no feeling of "oh shit....its coming soon..." not the shit, the exam.
basically wasted a whole week bumming in front of the com playing DOTA while sometimes squeezing abit of my thesis in. Thesis was due 23/4, which was the day of my first paper, ended up pulling an all nighter to finish my thesis, left it halfway to go for a 9am paper, with only 5-10 minutes of study time. Exam ended at 11am, rushed back home n took a 1hr nap, then woke up to continue my thesis, was supposed to be due at 12pm, but someone texted me saying it was due 5pm. Confident that i could hav it done by 4, i took a nap. I seem to be overconfident on alot of things, but just dont know when i should be doing work. Ended up panicking, calling my supervisor to tell him i might not make it, called the office to ask, thank goodness the staff were staying til 6pm, i could have it there by then. Printed it, took an hour to print, rushed down to uni to bind it and handed it in. Office lady said i wasnt the lsat one, but i was almost the last one...dunno what she meant. That's one hurdle over.
Have another paper the next day. Went home to study the latest tips i got on SMS, (Thanks to technology) but largely ignored the tutorials and some stuff...
At the next exam, which was super long title "Industrial Organics and Natural Products Chemistry" (hey not that long after all, maybe cos i type it instead of handwriting) , i was basically writing whatever rubbish i could think of, last minute tips did help a tad.but not enough, felt like shite. Might as well prepare to pay rm100 for resitting the paper. Its my bloody final semester man, why aren't I feeling any sense of urgency at all? no drive to study, no initiative, no nothing. I keep telling my self i wont be like this next time, duh! there is no next time, i'd be graduated by then!
monday, tuesday papers done, following thurs' 26/4 paper, Polymer Chemistry. Heavily tipped by our lecturer, we should, or "I" should be doing some good, but no...on Wednesday i slept the day away, only to finally start studying at 8pm. til 3am. Got myself distracted very frequently, some movie, then Heroes, then...Champions league match between Chealse n Liverpool, not that i'm much of a footie fan, just easily distracted. Slept soon after, was planning to wake at 7am, to continue studying, but just couldn't drag myself n pry my heavy eyelids open. Snooze for another 1 hr, woke at 9, did some studying then it was time to go.
Fetched my girlfriend, was contemplating a quick lunch or just some bun while studying abit mroe before the paper, ended up having KFC. reached uni about 145pm, exam to start at 2pm. studied abit then entered the hall late as usual.
With all those tips, I should have made some good. Ended up bombing the thing and writing even more crap. great. must have been a dissapointment to the lecturer. just hope i pass this paper and don'thave to take a supplementary paper for this
Next week is the final paper, the most shittiest one, "Advanced Coordination Chemistry". failed the course work, so i'll have to score like mad to pass this subject, hope all goes well, i have exactly one more week to go.

Some old pics

Was going thru my hard drive, found some interesting pics to post
Anti stress kit at uni


Broken floor in class, just about after 2 years of studying, shoddy work and scrimping on cement somehow allowed gas to build up under the floor tiles. One fine morning the gas decided its time to show, n popped the floor tiles to escape. Gave some classmates a shock, now many parts of my uni hav cracked tiles too. Not because of some fatty bom bom stomping around tho

Cannibal lecture!

Was feeling pretty restless, wanted to shout/ scream/ break or throw things around but couldn't. Was up most of the nite preparing for my presentation slides for "Persuasive Speech". A speech less than 5 minutes took me about 4 hours to prepare. Then i slept from 6am to 9am, got myself ready really slowly, arrive just in time for Public Speaking class.At that time, the 1st speaker was jsut about to start, my timing not too bad la. I was the 9th. While sitting there i just wanted to do something. Was sitting with SH, cracking stupid jokes while the speakers change one by one. Sh turn was before me, i think he was number 3. After that i just didn't know what to do, and he's a nice guy to bully, so i bit him, yeah i BIT him, right on top of the shoulder blade. Felt a little good, scared him tho.
After lunch SH had the misfortune of sitting beside me again. I just got back my Final Year Project (FYP)Report. lost of red ink insdie. Supervisor told me to repeat a particular experiment. WAARGGHHHHHH ROOOOARRRRR. couldn't actually do that, was in class. SH saw me report and was laughing away, which led to me biting him on the arm again. this time was harder, n a wee bit longer, had to let go before he started screaming in class and getting the lecturers attention. Felt a little better. The texture and strength of human flesh is interesting, i worry i might become a cannibal just to really taste what human meat is like.
Suprisingly, that 3 hrs of sleep lasted me til 1am the next day. Normally i would be asleep by 2pm...in class.
Semester is ending, exams are coming, reports are due soon, i'm gonna graduate too, anyone volunteer to be bitting by me? Need a place to run away to relax before the exams. I just want straight 8hrs of sleep.cant seem to get that, too much noise at home +  i'm a really light sleeper.

Muse Concert KL

I went to the Muse concert on Sunday 25th Feb 2007. Drove to the Stadium Merdeka, parked my car, walked out with my gf and saw the banners adverstising the concert saying "FOR NON-MUSLIMS AGE 18 AND ABOVE ONLY". Yeah right, as if the people of this country are so abiding. True to what i said, er, can't actually say it straightforward, so its like this, about 90% of the people present for the concert had denounced their religion...
The concert was sponsored by Tiger beer, hence the non-muslims and over 18 suggestion thingy, but how are they going to control the crowd? And if they really did enforce it, there wouldn't be many people going for the concert.
We lined up from 6pm til 730pm before being let into the stadium. Sat inside there trying to entertain ourselves for the next hour or so.
The crowd sitting in front of the stage must have been blind or somewhat, everytime a GWAILO walks onto the stage the would scream and hoot...guess they can't actually remember what the band members look like. Those people walking around were just technicians and stage hands damn it. But it was entertaining watching the crowd. People watching at concert, not too bad. You get to see all sorts of attention seekers walking around in midriff bearing tees, weird hair, Westernized attitudes, speaking of which, this malay girl sitting behind me was somehow so irritated at the clueless screaming crowd infront of the stage she complained loudly to her friend beside her with some accent froman unknown western country : "WHATS THEIR MOTHERFUCKING PROBLEM!". ok, raise eyebrow, whats new eh? next she speaks to her friend in the most erm kampung-ish BM...bet that was about the only thing she could say in english...I just hate people with lost accents
The concert started at about 9pm. There were no warm up bands like the previous INXS concert, thank goodness for that. Muse came up the stage and started their thing immediately to the delight of the crowd. Everyone was soaking it in. A large portion of the crowd knew the lyrics to the songs and were singing along to it like a giant karaoke party. Not even the national anthem was sung with such spirit.
All in all, the concert was entertaining, little problems with the sound system, the music was louder than the voice, so I couldn't hear much. Wasn't such a big fan of Muse anyhow, my gf got me free tickets. So everything they sang was pretty much alien to me. HaHa. Too tirred to continue now...will sleep first and if I want, will continue what I'ved left out of this post.

War ended

Ok, war ended without use of WMD's
Friends came over to gamble, at first i lost, then i went and washed my face n bad luck away to come back with winning RM90, which is good, seeing i lost RM40 at the beginning.
Will be going to Muse concert at Stadium Merdeka this sunday 25 feb. Hope its well.
Deadline for final year project is drawing nearer and nearer, and i stil havent done much, am i having a death wish or what?

Happy Chinse New Year! Year of the PIG!!

Gong Xi Fa Chai rakan sekalian yang sanggup membazirkan masa membaca blog aku...ok that enuf b.m for me, all i can manage is bahasa pasar...
Spent the CNY eve having steamboat dinner with my family at home, while my gf had hers at her place. As usual I sat my ass in front of the com and played DOTA til quite late, about 4am, then went to sleep. Was awoken by my younger bro shouting "NBA ALLSTARS!"  a few times around 9am...there goes my sleep. Since it was ALLSTAR weekend, and a holiday, i drag myself out to the living room and watched NBA. Nothing spectacular tho, skills challenge, 3 point shootout, running race of an old referee against fat Charles Barkley (Barkley so out of shape, tho he won, he was breathless and it was funny watching him wave the interviewer away cos he had no breath to speak...even tho it was a few minutes after he had won...)
Slamdunk competition...bla bla bla, nothing interesting, seems like all the nice stuff has been done by other people already.
After the show was over...back to sleep. From 1pm til 4pm. Was a busybody here n there til dinner time.
Called my gf to see what she was doing, she asked me to go over, i said no, she got unhappy, put down the phone. I didn't give a shit...then after dinner i got a call to go over the a friends house for some gambling. Called my gf to tell her i'm going out, was recieved with mucho hostility...ended up having a SMS fight that lasted until the next day.
Seems like the chemistry we had between us is fading, if not faded already. I study chemistry, but my chemistry is not working....failure...
will call her again, and see how it goes, either we continue now, or its over

Hole in foot

For the psat few weeks, there was a swelling on the sole of my left foot. I sorta assumed it was a corn growing, its was a little irritating and painful if pressure was applied to the spot. Just a moment ago I realised it wasn't bothering me anymore, so i decided to pick at it. The skin came off, so i continued picking at it and using a nail clipper to clip away the skin around it. There was a cavity when the skin was removed, so i looked in and sorta saw something shiny inside the crater. I immediately grabbed the sharpest narrowest thingy nearby, which was a screwdriver from a Jewellers set and poked at it. The flat shiny thing moved, it wasn't a layer of skin on the inside of the crater, i hobbled over to my room and got my tweezers from my Swiss Army Knife out, and picked at it again. Turns out to be some tiny piece of plastic lodged in my skin. Its about 2mm long, and pointy.
I must haved some how stepped onto it and it peirced thru my skin, at that time to deep and small to notice.


Now that it's out, its great, cos i'll be taking part in the Fly.FM - MalayMail BBall challenge this Satruday, Jan 27. Wish my team luck.

Fountain of youths

This fountain at the end of the Curve shopping mall, between the Curve and the Cathay Cineplex has been open for ages, all of a sudden it was bordered up with flower pots.


I used to see little kids playing at the fountain, babies lah, seeing the water shoot out suddenly excites them enough and the go screaming and running back to their parents, Nice to see and brings a smile to my face. So when i saw the fountain close up, no more playing, I was thinking "why close it up? too dirty is it?"
Then I remembered my brother telling us elder siblings about one of his escapades. He had a drink at a bar nearby and was feeling all pukey. So where's the best place to toss up? At the fountain la! Bugger went and puked at the fountain...imagine his puke being recylcled and the shot up into the air again...yucks...
So it wasn't to prevent kids getting dirty, it was to prevent a big kid from dirtying it...stupid fella...

I did a good deed! yay!

Last Friday 6/10/2006, i saw a message on ZTH forum asking members to donate whatever computer parts we have available and not using anymore to an orphanage/home for under previledged children. So i messaged the poster and told him I had an old comp sitting around, and was willing to donate it. "Cool!" he replied.
I got to cleaing up the comp, formating the old hard disk...too many girly pics in there, can't have the kids going through my contents ler. Wana teach them nice thing end up teaching them unwanted things.
At night, we finally met up. Jermaine had a spiffy looking car, Kenari nicely modded. He was so grateful on getting the comp from me he was almost bursting. Jermaine would be helping out the orphanage for about a year, so he'll be sprucing up the place, teaching the kids about computers i guess.
Kudos to him and being so involved in what he is doing.
Coffee tables, carpets, comps, books, and whatever things usable to the kids growing up there are appreciated.
The orphanage/house for underprivilaged kids is in Klang, Jln Kapar area. I haven't been there before but Jermaine says its in a slum area.
I'm in KL, so if anyone would like to donate, give me a message ya?

Snapshot!

The other day i was driving around Tmn Bahagia LRT station looking for a parking spot to wait for my gf when i came upon this nicely done up car, didn't recognize it at first but when i got closer i saw that it was an old Nissan Fairlady.
I checked the rear view mirror to see that no one was behind me, stopped in the middle of the road, took out my K750i and focused and took a pic.
Here it is


Then i drove by it to take a better look and realise the driver was inside on the phone and he saw me taking a pic of his car! MALUNYA......
I gave a sheepish smile and waved, and he smiled n waved back. and continued talking on the phone. malu malu...shy shy...

Whoever you are, thats a nice car you have.