成也Astro,败也Astro

有看Astro的朋友大概都有看过以下的Ad,男生坐在母亲与女友中间透过一台电视机同观看Astro节目，后来因为争看不同节目，另添加了一台电视及Astro解码器,同时满足母亲，女友，解决抢看的难题。

最近，我也遇上这一个问题，我爸妈竟然也为了Astro搞得“面左左”。妈妈超爱煲剧，爸爸热爱新闻，不管任何时段，两人都争个你死我活。

例如当妈妈做家务，视线离开屏幕时，老爸立即把遥控器紧握在手，选他爱看的凤凰台；或又当老爸小睡片刻，妈妈也不甘示弱，将遥控器主权夺回，‘叹’韩剧。

那天，斗争升级，妈妈尽然跑来向我投诉，说老爸变本加厉，从前至少会让妈妈看一套韩剧，现在半套未完，已吵着要转台了，妈妈说看得好没‘瘾’，不如罢看，叫我停止订购Astro好了。

原本以为有了Astro,爸妈有多些消遣，晚上没那么闷，现在为了Astro弄得不欢而散，我实在头大了！！

四脚朝天

写了一段日子，鲜少提到我的办公生涯，这一次，终于扯上一点点的关系了。

椅子，一件办公室所不能缺少的家具，却是让我们都头疼的问题。缘由办公椅的品质实在太差了，不能支撑人体的重量，椅脚易断。几个月来，好几位同事都经历了这心惊胆跳的时刻。坐在椅子上，突然感觉身体有些倾斜，还未来得及反应，“啪”一声，整个人已跌的四脚朝天，爬起来后，哭笑不得，不知该庆幸只是虚惊一场，还是该咒骂为何那么当黑。

连坐着都不安稳，又如何能全心全意地投入工作呢？我想该是时候向公司反映一下了。

后话：有同事做了统计，发现遭殃的同事都是属于体重超标的。哈哈！你们觉得我有那么“好运”吗？

FaceBook

大约两星期前，阅读友人的文章，知道有个网站叫FaceBook。当时，并不晓得是什么东东，未有留意。直到Samantha邀我加入，才发现其诱人之处。

里头不只有像Friendster般联系功能，另有各式各样，成千上万的应用程式让你选择,只要你能想到的，应该都能找到（中文程式除外）。

用了好几天，对惯用的程式已了如指掌，挥洒自如；一些可爱，有趣的小程式成了我打发时间的方法。闲来无事，或忙得头昏脑胀时，我会载入Facebook,发送一些小玩意给朋友，阅读一下今天的星座运程，借此轻松一下。

个人认为其中有好多程式都是无聊之极，完全不知道有什么用处，其中有如僵尸，吸血鬼，海盗等玩意儿，一味按键，完全不需用脑，纯粹为无聊人士设计的游戏。有些惭愧，其实在下也是无聊人士的佼佼者。我竟然花了好多小时在海盗游戏，实在不知所谓。

无论如何，我还是很佩服这些网站的发起人，在虚拟的空间，他们能有如此多的创意，天马行空，让一些完全没有交点的人联系起来，亦让一些久违的朋友有个交流的平台，实在敬佩敬佩。

女人小心

某天，在健身中心的桑那浴室听到以下对话，无言。

甲：如何？搞定了没有？上了吗？
乙：上了，不过有“手尾”，短讯不小心被女友读了，知道我跟她有路，现在很生气！
甲：哎哟！有什么好烦？，上了就好了，两个都上了，你没有亏啊！有赚！让她们去烦，你看那个比较好啰，就和那个啰。
乙：听来也蛮对喔，就这样啦

See Ya Next Year!

I guess F1 has already replaced NBA, and become my favourite sport.

It has been hours after the final race of the year finished, I am still exciting about it. Almost every race has surprises, and you can't keep your eyes off for one single minute. When everyone thought Hamilton might be the World Champion in Shanghai, his car went off before entered the pit stop; when he grabbed 2nd position at qualifying in Brazil, he still own the largest chance to be World Champion, but what happen at last, he has gear box problem, and finished 7th position. Nevertheless, the excitement not only on the track, off the race, you still have McLaren obtains Ferrari's technical documents case, Alonso complaints about not being fairly treated by Mclaren issue, and etc.

Last year, I was so miserable after my favourite driver, Schumacher retired from F1 race, I was worry there might not be any excitement in the race. However, I guess I was so WRONG. This year is really a great year for F1 lover, maybe exception for McLaren fans out there.

I am really looking forward for 2008, Could Hamilton fight back? Will Alonso remains in McLaren? What role that Massa plays in Ferrari? Will Renault claim back the glory year in 2005-2006? Tonnes of question raise, and the answer will be reveal in upcoming year - 2008.

See ya next year!

RM 559.70 Interest

Today I am really piss, and I don't know who to blame, myself, the developer, the lawyer, or the financier.

My mom has passed me a letter from the developer, and it is about claming interest for late progress payment. The amount of money that they claimed is RM559.70.

I guess I am really careless, and inexperience in dealing with all these. All the while, I thought the process is very simple. As long as you proof to the banker that you can afford to pay the loan, they approved your loan application, and you pay the loan according to the statement, that's it. However I guess I am very wrong. Besides paying the montly house loan, I still got to be alert when the developer is claiming the progress payment, and make sure the bank has paid the developer on time. Else, the developer will start claiming interest from the buyer if overdue.

Dear friends, next time when you buying properties through financier, beware of the above, or else you will be wasting money on unnecessary losses. So, I guess I am going to reduce my DREAMHOUSE budget by RM559.70.

Gym Day

After MIA for a year plus, I have finally get back to the gym. I have been given myself excuses for not going to gym for the first few months, however I really can't go after I had my back injury. After months of treatment, my condition is getting better, and got advise from physician, that I can performs some light exercises, like treadmill, cycling, and cross-training.

This morning, I have forced myself to wake up 630 in the morning, by 700 I have reached California Fitness for my gym session. Wow, everything seems so difficult for me, especially during my treamill session. There is this old lady who jogs beside me, she is having Speed 7.5, and manage to jog for 30minutes without slowing down. As for me, after 10mins of jogging at the Speed of 6.5, I have been exhausted, and have to tune to a slower speed for the remaining 20mins.

First day of gym is quite exhausted, yet I felt happy with myself, cause I have confident in myself, I shall be able to keep it up this time. The only fallback - the parking cost is darn expensive, RM6.00 for 2 hours, I really need to find a cheaper place, and I don't mind to walk a distance.

Raya Eve

Today, my office is extremely quiet, especially my project team, 20 over personnel, and now only left Uncle Yaw and myself. Most of our Malay colleagues already balik kampung, getting ready for their Raya day.

Just spoken to Uncle Yaw, and realized this used to happen during CNY time, and now since Malay colleagues have increased over the years, the same conditions happen for Raya, so during the Raya eve, only a few local people still stay back in office.

I actually enjoy working in such environment where no disturbance, no phone call, no distraction. I can concentrate on what I want to do. However, the only problem is lack of a big gang of colleagues accompany me for lunch.

Another 3 hours to go, I guess I should also start buildi up some holiday mood. In fact, I did, I have planned for a few activities for this holiday. I hope everything will go as it is, not expecting any surprises leh.

婚宴

周日晚赴了一场婚宴，与一对新人并不熟，被邀赴会只因为新郎的父亲是我麻将桌上的朋友。
由于是单身赴会，我被安排与新郎的朋友同桌，心情并没有格外兴奋，反而担心这几小时要怎么过，因为同桌的人都认识对方，唯独我是陌生的那一位。

婚宴的铺排大同小异，菜肴也是一般，不过有几项事的确值得一提。
1。 婚宴司仪是我多年老友，也是新郎的大哥。我知道他常被邀担任婚宴司仪，口才出众，这次终于有机会一睹他的风采。说实在，才华是有的，只不过话好像多了点。
2。 新郎的兄弟好有心，一大伙（大约二十多人）上台献唱祝贺一对新人，更与我们分享了新郎一些鲜为人知的事。人生若有那么多的朋友肯为你赴汤蹈火，那的确是件相当不错的事。
3。 新郎的年纪大概才二十五岁，虽不是很年幼，但在这年头，肯那么早负起这一辈子的担子，确实勇气可嘉。

在此，我祝
日升与慧玲在往后的日子里能幸福快乐，白头偕老。

Buka Puasa Dinner

(Aik! I am not in the picture?!)

Damansara Division has been invited to buka puasa buffet dinner in One World Hotel. This is kinda big event for our division. As far as I remember, we haven't been together for such activities since CNY karaoke session. So, everyone seems exciting about it.

At first glance, the place seems well decorated, and the food looks so delicious, everyone started to walk around and plan which dishes is nice to start with. Later, I found out that dinner itself is not really that interesting, they do have variety of foods, however the quality is just normal, nothing to shout about. The good point about this dinner, it manage to gather everybody, because most of the time, we all busy with individual projects, outstation services, though working in the same office, there isn't many chances to catch up with each other. By having such event, all of us really can sit down together, have fun, know each other through conversation, share their experiences of life.

So, I guess I got to thank the host - Our dearest Encik Rahman Jantan to invite us for the dinner. By the way, this is my first Buka Puasa Dinner after so many working years with our Malay colleagues, and customer.

Miss Call

How do you guy treat miss call? Do you return miss call? Or you just ignore it since you might feel that if there is something important, the caller should drop sms instead of expecting the receiver to call back when there is a miss call? Anyway, different people might have different way to approach miss call. So, I guess I shouldn't have the attitude to expect people to call back. SMS should be a better way to communicate instead of calling a number for a few times, and expecting someone to return your call, however at last there is no one returning the call.