Karōshi attack!!

A story of mine before year ends..

Christmas just departed and a new year is arriving soon. At that moment, a project was rushing to meet its date.. dateline, and by doing so.. a bunch of programmers have evolved into zombies.

Though the dateline stayed nearby, the project manager was deeply terrified. What if the project couldn't make its way through?

Karōshi arrows were shot out to all the zombies to make way for the project to run. Project manager managed to escape. Two of the zombies survived from the attack. Dateline was pronounced utterly dead meat. But the project was still running without any doubt.

The project was indeed very tough.

End of story.

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A msn chat with a friend of mine before year ends..

Me says:
hey why dont u have a balance life?

My friend says:
i dun think i can

My friend says:
7 mths.. but it's like 7 years already

Me says:
thts good u have a longer life than everyone else

My friend says:
lols i dun think so

My friend says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi

My friend says:
google is my friend but wikipedia is my cousin, so read my cousin, haha

Me says:
there's a similar case happened in a bank..

My friend says:
i think it's quite common

Me says:
well only happen in Asian countries

My friend says:
yea look at how Australians work man

My friend says:
5pm all the bars are full

My friend says:
happy hour

Me says:
overdose of alcohol instead of work

My friend says:
instead of heart attack, get liver cancer

Me says:
which do u prefer then?

Me says:
lols

My friend says:
well

My friend says:
rather enjoy before dying than suffer before dying right

Me says:
perhaps u r right but still need to suffer the sickness b4 die, it makes no difference.. suffer still in the picture..

My friend says:
hm

My friend says:
heart attack will be quicker and less painful i guess

Me says:
erm... i guess u are right (!!-.-)

I guess my first 2008's resolution would be.. To drink more beer and be less STRESSful in any situations! Tell me what you think..

"What Ifs" On Christmas Eve

I hate to say this, but you know what, there’re just too many “what ifs” popped out on Christmas Eve.

What if I misspelled something in those Christmas cards that I sent out? What if being under or over dressed on the upcoming fabulous Christmas party? What if I bought the wrong sizes for my family and friends? What if Santa Claus couldn’t make it to our house? What if there’s no what if..? lol

Good news if you can convince your child that there’s no Santa this year. Probably you can save some money for New Year celebration. But hey some kids don’t care anymore - all they want is to find their gifts waiting for them under their Christmas tree on every 25th December morning.

Like what most people said, it has becomes the “gimme gimme” holiday.

Guess, Amber Chia and Christmas?

This is Pavilion - located at Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, West Malaysia. I would say both Pavilion and Suria KLCC are identical in terms of their color scheme.. except for the white Christmas tree.


Is Pavilion dreaming of a white Christmas..

As you can see there are lights on the tree, and stairs are situated along the tree, all the way to the top. For certain hour, the stairs will be occupied with a group singing Christmas carol. How lovely.

Wait a sec, the title of this post will not able to meet its content if I proceed to crap about tree and shopping malls.

So let's meet Amber Chia to make more sense.


Hot Guess boutique. Amber's here..


Slizzing hot. But looks cool to me..


Double doze of heat..


Woman or shoes? Shoe or women?


Hello and hi, please move your head away..


Marry me Merry Christmas Amber..

White Christmas? Well, some people prefer black here.

I Love Twelve Days of Christmas

I love listening to music. Who doesn't.

I love Christmas and since Christmas is coming, I'm hearing English Christmas carol every now and then. Eventually I became an avid listener of Christmas carols. My favorite is definitely "The Twelve Days of Christmas".

I love that cumulative song, as it reminds me of those days where I used to repeat myself (just like the way the song is sang) in order to recall my memories before exams. Lols~

I hate Monday, oops.. but to start off a beautiful Monday instead, here's a different version of my favorite Christmas song.

I love it because I do think it's hilarious!

Somehow, it reminds me of my previous lecturer who talks in heavy Indian accent.

And yes, I love listening to his lecture. Hehe..

Ho, Ho, Ho, It's Christmas Cult

Just around the corner, you can tell Christmas is near.

Sure, Christmas is cool and all, but the mentality about Christmas perplexed me a lot as I get along with different individuals.

As a kid, Christmas can be illustrated with words like snowy, white, innocent, fun and exciting. It also means it's time to take a shower of gifts and food. For religious adults, it's time to commemorate the birth of Jesus.

Some might think differently though. Of course, it's an annual splurge for aggressive shopaholics to practice their buying frenzy.

Having said that, Christmas is indeed a very much commercialized holiday. This is just an innocent misrepresentation of mine. I do really hope the real meaning of Christmas still remains.

And this morning I was quite flabbergasted to receive a not-so-innocent Christmas e-card from a friend.

Scroll down and you'll see Santa's willy!

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For God's sake... Act your age...
there is no Santa!

I wanted to curse so much. ~#%$^@*$

Look, My New Look!

Hello everyone,

Previously, I felt happy by putting a mess on others' face. Thus, the old header design was created. Ok, I lied. It's actually my childhood habit - just some itchy fingers and a nasty practice to allow creative juices to flow out.


My previous header.. they will kill me if they see this..

I've changed the design the header of this blog. It is based on.. oh wait, I'd named the theme as "Is Life Awesome or Awful?". Like a question, I frequently use it to determine my life purpose.

What's the meaning of life? Should one appreciate beautiful things around us and one shouldn't allow ugly bad things to bring you down. Yeah, something like that..

Pardon me, I'm not good in describing that sort of stuff and am still searching for the answer.

Messy is the word to describe my current condition. But now, at least my blog looks less cluttered than my life.

Hope you like it.
Thanks for the visit =)

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It's Late and Too Late

It's 2 a.m, and i can't sleep.

Why?

Because there's one particular song trapped in my head. It seems can't find the exit gate. So, like a merry-go-round, it goes over and over again though I've shut off that music around 3 hours ago.

Apologize is the answer, in case you're questioning on the song title.

An unofficial MV produced by Aaron Platt, better than the official one

Sadly, it was a sad song and there're just too many arguments on whether it's a song of Timbaland featuring OneRepublic or the other way round. Some stressed that Timbaland sung nothing much in that song, except for an awesome 'eh' sound. Anyhow, I don't really mind as long as it sounds good to me.

Let's put that aside. Well there are also many versions of this particular song. Created by talented individuals whilst in the process of trying to broadcast themselves in YouTube, here are some of my favorites.

First note, Chester See sings flawlessly using his cellphone.


Then, there's this drama queen, Christine who makes me laugh each time I watch her funny version of that song.


Lastly, it's from the creator of the YouTube song, a creative songwriter and producerDavid Choi.


I must say indeed it's a great song to listen.

~Sorry like the angel heaven let me think was you, but I wanna sleep... It's too late already~

p/s: My friend used to say "Apologize" is the word women use to end an argument when they feel they are right and you need to shut up.

How to Apologize??

I've been missing for quite some time. There's guilt inside me that force me to do something about it.

I guess it's time to apologize. Here's a written apology from me.

~Sorry for being lazy =)

That's short and sweet. But some of you might think it wasn't a sincere apology due to that reason. Ok, fine.

~Please take me seriously, I acknowledged the damage done on the reputation of this blog as a result of abandoning this blog for 2 months and 22 days, and I apologize for any emotional injuries occurred between that period of time.

That might sounds way too serious. I shall try again.

~As a typical homo sapien who tend to make mistakes, as an employee who spend too much time working and as a son who always make his mom mad, I may be young but I won't allow my lazy hormone glades to take over consciousness nor give up this blog. Therefore, I'm truly, madly and deeply sorry that I'm not always there for you and I'm sorry for the fact that I'm always away.

Long, it is. But a lot of excuses good reasons given. And I do know I might sounded like an artist trying to apologize to the whole world. Yes, referring to Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam aka Akon. Sorry, blame it on me.

Well if all of the above doesn't work for you, I'm going to apologize in 10 different languages to you then.

~Ignoscas [Latin]
~Main Hamneeda [Korean]
~Es tut mir Leid (ess toot meer lite) [German]
~Gomen nasai [Japanese]
~Îmi pare rău" (oohm pah-reh RUH-OH) [Romanian]
~Mi dispiace (me dispyachay) [Italian]
~Slihah [Hebrew]
~Af ederim [Turkish]
~Sygnome [Modern Greek]
~Kheily mote'assefam [Persian]


Hope you forgive me. Thank you very much.

Chopstick or Bowl?

Am I screwed? I almost got involved in an accident..

Last weekend, I drove to Star Hill, and when I heard my friend said "To the left, to the left", I made myself think he said "To the right, to the right" instead. Yes, I do not listen to Beyonce!

It doesn't take much brain to work out that both directions in Chinese. However, my little typical brain was confused (I don't mean it's tiny anyway) when someone trying their very best to direct me to somewhere using mouth instead of forefinger.

If you tell me in English, my brain can tell the direction at almost instantly. But if you mention it in Mandarin, I'll be like .. oooookay, let's see.. mmm.. alright, you mean right..right! Right? And accidents do happen at any moment by the time you figured that out. It's that serious.. Am I right?

I always have this thought of translate it to chopstick or bowl. Right side for chopstick and left for bowl, or the other way round depending on which side you hold them. That's a food for thought.


No way I can hold that chopstick!

In fact, no matter what language spells out, images certainly load faster in my brain (not sure about yours) compared to tedious texts and numbers. When I imagined a bowl, obviously I will start off by picturing the color, design and texture of a bowl. I will then picture my left hand holding that bowl. And of course, I will then open my mouth while waiting for the food to deliver using chopstick from my right hand.

Left hand, bowl. Right hand, chopstick. That's my version of memorizing left and right.

Talking about the ability to memorize, I'm facing hard time to remember details. There are merely too much things to remember everyday.

No kidding! I have 20 over passwords to remember - 3 ATM pins, a notebook and office workstation logins, 2 development and 6 production servers' passwords, 5 email logins, 7 forum ids and an online bank account. The list can go on, but these are the only ones recovered from my existing memory. Others suffered bad sectors..

Well, it's like each time I need to recall something, my brain will triggered a request for username and password (i mean a clue here) in order to access the celebrum center for information. No memory on that, no problem, no info for me then. Tehe!

As I browse through YouTube, I found this.



I guess it's really possible to map everything in the brain. Let's use our head in a correct way.

Kindly spread the words.

Marriage is a Crazy Thing

Sorry people, I was away for almost a week.
I planned to take a break to have some fun.

But my leave application got rejected without a reason.

I was pissed off and then I saw this on my desk.



Who the hell printed this?

I'm not taking leave to get married.
No worries, boss.. (I think it's him) Tehe!

Actually, I wanted to rest at home and watch some crazy reality shows!

He’s Not a Plastic Bag

My best day to exercise always fall on Saturdays. It's tiring.

First my leg muscles, then it entails work on the muscles of both arms. Not to forget, my back muscles as well.

Before you think further, I was actually describing my once-a-week shopping exercise. Alone, I'm not. I'm with my another half. That's the reason why.


Gentlemen, it's time to test your level of tolerance and patience..

Basically the main physical exercise is to support the weight of shopping bags.

Carrying the bags is easy, but carrying them around for 5 hours non-stop is torture.

One fine Saturday, I was shopping in a mall.. at the same time stretching muscles of my eyes, going through some similar painful physical and mental torture colorful fabrics.


Pro-fashional excuse to buy something expensive..

Branded stuff around, but there was this silly staff.

Standing still near the counter, there was this little sissy pine singing "I'm not a plastic bag la, ella.. ella.. eh eh eh!".

That was his version of Rihanna's Umbrella.


You can stand under my invisible umbrella..ella ella eh eh eh hehe!

With goose bumps all over my back, I wondered why he ruined my favorite song.

I thought to myself. Maybe that's his act of protest against plastic bags. Very creative, I must say.


Goddamn it, I'm not Plastic Bag.. I'm Plastic Man!

Well oh well that's something else we can do to save our environment.


Plastic free, Fantastic action! Bravo to Taiwan, Bangladesh, United States, Korea and South Africa

Just like this well-known designer, Anya Hindmarch who came out with her own success story to save the planet! Buy the bag, save the world. Tehe!

Here's her design of an eco-friendly shopping bag.


Plastic No More! Here comes a bag that saves the world from evil plastic..

Creative..uh?

It was a big hit after some celebrities use it while shopping for their grocery. And now it's the public's turn to kill two birds with one stone - help to save the planet and spend money on fancy bag without the feeling of guilt.

The craze is on. Long queue. Bags sold out within days. Riot in KLCC. Aunty and uncle buy for their daughter. It's unbelievable.


The must-be-heavy / must-have bag of the season!

Anyway, here’s my personal suggestion to her.

Dear Anya Hindmarch,

Since guys often involved in carrying shopping bags around during shopping, why don’t you design some bag that sounds practical for them? Well instead of designing for females, kindly consider our feelings as well. You must understand they don't carry their shopping bag as often as us. So forget about the environment, think of our plight in this matter.

Thanks a heap for your understanding.



It might sound silly.

Nevermind.

Having the sense of fashion, but if it makes no sense, it’s often considered as creative.
Okay, fashion does overtake practicality. As always.

Thus, carrying a creative tagline does help fashion befriend with practicality.



So, drop the crap..



Here's my design..







Indeed fashion is unexplainable, but now I can portrait something here. No singing is required. Tehe!

For now, guys are directly involved in carrying shopping bags. And at the mean time, Sunday will be my best day to sleep off my tense muscles.. zzz!

Korean Me, Please!

I simply love Korean instant noodle..



Maybe because its noodle is slightly larger than normal Maggi mee. Or maybe I eat Korean noodle too often?

Which I don't really think so..

I instantly know their noodles are tasty, but the main possible reason might cause by Hallyu, which already scored a direct hit on many countries.

First, the craze hits on girlfriend, then female colleagues, oh well.. then aunties.. and last but not least.. mother.


Please do not scream like school girls!

To be honest, I don't go against those female affection for Korean drama and movies. I guess Korean’s fascinating stories and great acting certainly stir a huge interest among the ladies.

Some love to cry over their sad love story - which always ended with either the male/female actor died towards the end. Some just adores their hot male singers - which always with black colored hair and slit eyes.

Seriously, I don't understand their song lyrics as language becomes a barrier here. Maybe I can just sit back enjoying myself by humming their tunes. Darn it, so it's true that those K-pop virus already polluted the brain cells of most Malaysian, Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese and Hongkie.

That's another part of the rise of Hallyu..


Okay.. to attract female readers make things clearer, I'm going to show the very popular male Korean celebrities here..


Eric Moon or Mun Jeong-hyeok, from Super Rookie.


Hyeon Bin, from My Lovely Sam Soon.


Ji Seong, from Save the Last Dance for Me.


Jae Hee, from Art of Fighting.


Won Bin, from Autumn in My Heart.


Ji Jin-Hee, from Dae Jang Geum.


Jo Hyeon-jae, from Love Letter.


Lee Wan, from Tree in Heaven.


Bae Yong-Joon, from Winter Sonata.


Jang Dong-Gun, from Taegukgi.



Enough? Maybe I put a stop here..
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Kwon Sang-Woo, from Stairway to Heaven.


Kim Rae Won, from Love Story in Harvard.


Kang Dong-Won, from Too Beautiful To Lie.


Jo In-Seong, from Madeleine.


Song II-Gook, from The Art of Seduction.


Rain, from Full House.



Well well well, I guess Korean wave is so powerful.. until it hits..


Doctors as well..!

Somehow a plastic surgeon managed to combine the above 16 Korean faces to create a super perfect male Korean face! So right now a person can have a bit of handsome features from the faces of 16 most popular Korean Wave stars.

Goodness gracious me..!!

Ladies, he looks like this..
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Looks familiar.. like the one i saw in the mirror everyday

Guys.. with this look, you can have all the girls you want!

Tehe! ..Did the Korean wave makes you hungry?
Maybe you need a bowl of Korean noodle..

Sucks-cess

Something to ponder for the day.

Success means knowing the right people, being in the right place at the right time and using the right tools.
- Anthony Robbins


Yes, I do have success!

Obviously, everyone wants to get hold of success and apparently a career, I mean.. a day job is needed. But since 3 years ago, my eyes and ears came across many successful stories on how money is made just by blogging.

In fact, these people can spend time with their love ones and make money at the same time. Still, most people don't consider it as a career.

But then again, what's life without a career, and what's a career without a life? Let's mouth about the real success, shall we?


Lesson no.1
Companies are like robots.



They're things and they don't have feelings. If a company transforms into bulletproof vest and protects you, you must be dreaming. Instead, beware of receiving life bullets when you open your office mailbox everyday.



Seriously, there are no strong bonds between human and the so-called robot. Really.

Nightmare will soon find you if you still don't grasp the truth.. No one cares more about your career than you do!

Hence, don't expect your company to take care of you.


Lesson no.2
Certain jobs fit certain people best.


No such thing as easy job.. those muscle takes a year to build!

Some guys got no problem impressing a girl. It's like their nature to be appealing in the wooing job. On the other hand, some might have a tough time trying, probably due to no dancing genes, no cooking skill or singing talent to win a girl's heart.

No doubt, you do have special gifts that fit you for some and disqualify you for others.

In my humble opinion, we're just typical human who learn as we live, along with slightly unavoidable tendency to hit mistakes. Not everyone is born with a talent in drawing, but some people can draw really well at the very first time.

Kindly kill some time to assess your skills, temperament and aptitude in depth. Then you will know what job suits your skill the best.

Lesson no.3
Careers are short-term.



Although there’s no terrorist attack, your present job can go dead anytime. It definitely will scare the shit out of me if I'm fired without a warning.

Solution? Adopt short term thinking strategy. Don't take your present career for granted.



Someone once described a consultant as a person who wakes up every morning unemployed. Waking up every morning feeling unemployed, certainly makes you wonder.. What're you going to do next?

The answer is.. Always prepare a Plan B!

Lesson no.4
Don't stay in a job you hate.


Better kill your job before it kills you..

Hating your job can kill you. Hunt for a job you love. Your consistent passion will eventually guide you to success.

Final lesson
Success is difficult.


Games are difficult too..

If success were easy, everyone would be successful already. Tehe! It's depends whether you are eager enough to win the game of life and taste the success.

For me, it's only four words to trigger myself to work hard for success.

Life Sucks Without Success! - Matchfingers

How many cats in Los Angeles?

The other day, a friend of mine was summoned to attend an interview in a research marketing company.

Yes, he was quite keen to join that multinational company, but before that, he was required to answer several subjective questions as part of the interview process.

Questions which are subjectively involved are always meant to discover individual ideas or opinions rather than facts. However, he was out of his conscious mind as he stumbled upon this..

• How many cats are there in Los Angeles?

My real question is, how to answer this with no reference books or Internet access? How to calculate? Why cats, not dogs? Is this an IQ question?

My poor friend doesn't even know how many cats in his own neighborhood.. worse, now it's referring to largest city in the state of California.

His brain had absolutely no idea, so eventually the question was skipped. Later at home, he curiously tried to google it and this is what he found..

• Due to lots of rain in LA, there will only be indoor cats, but people in LA are too poor to buy cats. Only people in Beverly Hills part of LA are rich enough to buy cats, but they are too busy working and got no time to take care of the cats. In the end, those rich people have to hire old nannies to take care of the cats, but old people in Beverly Hills are too superstitious and don't like cats.

So based on the assumption, there are no cats in LA.

What a brilliant answer! Tehe!

Personally, I don't think any candidates actually have time cracking jokes like this one during a 30-minute interview test. I suppose when they saw that question for the first time, they already damn stunned.

Anyway, my friend was hired at the end of the interview.

Who's There?

It's a pleasure to welcome you to this tiny little space of mine. Below will fit some of my description.

Born in KL, Malaysia, you could say I am having an idyllic life, privileged to a certain extent. Used to stage combat scenarios with Legos during childhood and currently loves art a lot.

I like unconscious creativity, conscious expression and passionate pursuit of life goals. Anyhow, passion was built in the area of multimedia design but eventually landed in a dark world of database programming.

I work for knowledge and money, whilst I blog whenever I'm in a position of trying to understand something. I strongly believe that comments in a blog or forum do help a heap in making senses, instead of making mistakes. Of course, I believe blogging can be a profession as well.

Feel free to input constructive comments or you may contact me to let me know what you think about my blog.

Thank you for your visit.