Room Hunting... part1

As I have a few more days before I move out, that afternoon, I spent most of my time browsing thru the online ads for the available rooms. Found a few and that’s when my headache start coz I have too many decisions to make. Should I go for the classy place to stay in like a condo or a lavish apartment or somewhere more convenient in term of the distance and the rental?

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After the office hour I have this appointment with one fella who owns this place in Pantai Hill Park Condominium. The problem was that I didn’t quite know how to get there on my own. Gotta to find a way. I was so pleased when a colleague of mine, Aiesas offered to drive me there as she knows the place. How grateful I was I must say.

We kinda a few minutes late for the appointment when the guy called me up whether I’ll be coming to check the room. Hell yeah what a good first impression that was… anyway as we strolled round place, it was quite a perfect place for me. Love the neighborhood, the surrounding with it soothing ambience, the tennis court and even the swimming pool…yeah!

But still, all of this worth nothing if I don’t like the room that I was about to see. When the guy finally showed the room to me, I felt a bit disappointed as it didn’t live up to my expectation. It was too small and worst it doesn’t even have a window. Oh great I don’t think I would like to suffocate myself in there…no! no!

The final verdict? Definitely a no no.

ATM Card...where are thou?

Saturday, if I wish to reflect it, was not as good as I have anticipated. Why? Firstly, my ATM card has made its ‘home’ in the ATM machine for the rest of the weekends coz apparently the machine has ‘telan’-ed my card. Ominously f*ck! But that’s ok since I managed to withdraw a few hundreds to spend for my weekends.

(Yeah I spent my whole day in the office) Wandering around the office like a restless soul…not even close of being myself - the enchanted spirit. From hours of pool games with those Philippine colleagues, endless practice session on dart and watching football match between Liverpool against forgot liao what team thru Astro (yup it was finally installed in the R&R room last Saturday)… doesn’t really matter you know…

Secondly, there’s going to be no second…so that’s it

Anyway…I could care less of that ATM Card…come this Monday, I hope someone will returns it to me or Zairul the MO guy who’s in charge of that ATM machine, would retrieve it for me…one way or another, it should be in my wallet eventually…

down with flu...

Feel a bit unwell today in the office. Yup I’m down with flu. So I just cant stop sneezing every now and then given that I’m in that poor condition. So during lunch I went to a panel clinic to get my medicine and a half-day MC with Rudy. Half way there, I decided that we better go for makan first rather than going straight to the clinic. And it’s mamak restaurant serving Nasi Kamdar…

The place that we had our lunch was a bit crowded and yet the foods are not cheap either. Never mind that coz all that I was thinking was to fill my empty stomach. I think it’s quite normal that whenever I’m down with flu, I could feel my hands shaking from time to time. I guess I’ve consumed too much energy oledi wheneverI sneeze…that’s why I always craving for foods…

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Nel, my colleague called me up and said “I’m gonna kick you!” (oh no…it was just a friendly threat). What trigger her to say that? Hmmm… so she mentioned this photo which has been submitted for our ISCM Photo Contest. In that photo, I was caught doing silly face as Nel was seated beside me. errr…as far as she is concerned, that’s not the reason she called me up. Okay…. maybe I missed out some of the photo details here…actually in that photo, I was caught as if I was about to kiss her (and with my silly face perfectly intact)… hehehe…

Don’t worry Nel, it’s a work of art anyway… I was just there to spice up the photo that’s all… and oh..btw, do u want me to post the photo here in my blog? :-P

It’s here… finally!

Went to the pantry after lunch hour and was a bit curious when I bumped into my colleagues, standing there with their eyes affixed at the entrance door as if they were anticipating something coming thru. Some of them were seen moving a number of tables out of the room. Hmm… must be something big eh? So I asked them “Eh, What’s going on?” Without even moving his head, Zairul simply reply “ Pool Table…”

Woohoo!…Pool Table wor!…finally! I guess from time to time, if I ever find the time to wander around the office…let’s just say that I’ll be in the pantry… :-) …anyway let’s not get over-excited over it coz the dartboards are coming soon… just about time…

******

Went to the pantry around 3 something and played my first pool game after such a long time didn’t play. And you know what, I‘ve beaten this guy from Philippines. Whoa! Not to say that I’m that good but it’s always like that. Don’t know why but I played the game without trying to make it any complicated just a simple debut game in the office…if you know what I mean…

BTW, later Nurul had asked me to buy more dart sets coz she said that the management office is about to organize a dart competition sometimes this month… hmm one good thing after another I must say…

careless whisper?

Guess what!… I met Debbie in the bus – a jammed packed one. She was sitting somewhere at the back and waving lightly at me. I was a bit surprised but managed to keep myself under control… so there I was standing beside her, with such a silly grin on my face, and said “Heyyyy…What are u doing here?…I thought your on leave today…” “Yeah I am but went out with my friends…the (beauty) salon is closed today so…” we kept on talking but I find it a bit awkward talking while standing beside her, I didn’t mind that.

Hmmm… she’s wearing mini skirt today eh? Niccceee… coz I never saw her wearing one before… and that’s when some of the passengers got off the bus leaving a few empty seats at the back - way back…damn! Looks like I have to sit myself there…sigh… never mind…

As the bus kept on hitting the bumps on the road, suddenly I heard a cracking sound…WTF…so I looked around… nothing ler… so I readjusted myself on the seat, placing my bumps gently back on the cushion-less seat, suddenly the seat started to crack from the side. Shit! I got to move my cute ass fast…hell yeah…what a heroic thinking… ‘The Save of The Day’? yeah…

Anyway, my stop was next and as I walked toward the exit, she looked up and said “Ok..see yaaaa!” smiling…hmmm… I stop and turned around and whispered SOMETHING (...) in her ear… she was definitely please… and so I guess that’s how I made my grand exit…

seafood restaurant?

I skip the evening mass yet again – for the third consecutive week now…

That night my housemates and me went for a grand outing again – to a seafood restaurant somewhere in Kelana Jaya, I think it’s called Kelana Jaya Seafood Center :-). A lot of choices of course. One of the dishes that I like most – Szechuan-something2-I-forgot-liao-what-they-call-it soup… not bad…not bad…

this is how Saturday Night should be...

I think I’ve forgotten that today is Ady’s birthday too (my elder brother Andrison’s falls today) if it wasn’t for Marina to remind me about it. I was a bit surprised when she greeted me by saying “eh, kau sik wish Ady Happy Birthday?” in cheerful tone of hers. I guess that’s when everything started to look better between us.

To be honest, on our way to KL, I feel a bit awkward because Marina and I haven’t really spoken to each other for weeks now due to our silly ‘Cold War’ thingy. And now there I was – with them, treating them out for the birthday celebration. I guess this was the best moment to end it all and to mend the friendship back to the way it was…

Well off we go making our way to the city and decided to have the celebration at Kenny Rogers, the one in Bintang Walk. As we were seated facing each other, I could still feel the irony of all these. But we managed to break the ice as we slowly picking up the pace of our conversation. And just like that we started to talk to each other like we used to. I was happy of course.

Since the night was still young, we decided to go to Planet Hollywood and this time the bill was on Marina. Have couple of beers while watching my team, Chelsea whoopin’ Charlton to win the match 2-0… how wrong I was when I thought that this was going to be our last stop for the night when later Ady suggested that we would go to Bangsar.

Like we have well expected, Bangsar was jammed with cars desperately looking for parking spots. We stopped by a bistro called Modesto. The music was blaringly loud that it kinda impossible for us to talk. A few more jugs on the table, a few more drinks, we were definitely on our way to get ourselves wasted :-)…

You know all the time we were there, how I wish I’d brought Debbie along. But with the alcohol started to mess my brain, I just didn’t know why all that I could think of was to plant a sensuous kiss precisely on her neck… sigh… what’s was I thinking eh?... (so i guess it’s best that i didn't bring her)

Oh ya… there was this girl – a waitress in skin-tight outfit standing a distance away from us and the thing that caught my attention was her alarming breast size. I think that’s the biggest size in Bangsar tonight or if not KL…whoa… and my housemates couldn’t agree more…damn…what a sight... haha…

And I wonder why we had stop going to places like these as it has been a couple of years now and being here at these nightspot again, with girls doing their things – shaking those boobies and booties, inevitably reminded me of myself when we were at the Hard Rock Café, Emporium, Novou and all of those places. The good memories worth remember and of course the shameful bad ones too…

The good ones? Err…there’s one time when Rollie, our sexy and well liberated friend, made a sexy move behind me, rubbing her inner thigh against my back and eventually my ‘cheeks’… arrrregghh…such an ‘illicit’ body friction here and there; a guy came up to me and kiss me on my very lip… that f*cking dyke Sobri!… traumatized…err no… :-x… anyway that’s the bad one!

Anyway those were the years… alright?

Now back to the present… I went to the washroom but have to wait a little bit longer since there’s this girl throwing up in the basin while a guy was comforting her by giving a her a comforting light pad on the back… either she ate too much before coming over or she had drink her booze wrongly… what a typical (but pity) sight… seeing them in that condition made my head spin a little faster too…sigh

To end the night, we went to mamak stall and had our last drink – had to be Limau Ais - to make us sober a bit of course. The time was already three in the morning…haiya…

So I guess tonight was the best Saturday Night I ever had since last year. It was indeed a night to savor for weeks to come. We’re back to what we were, close friends and to top it all Chelsea won their sixth consecutive matches without even conceding a single goal…what a night… ^___ . ^…

what a pleasant evening with her...

So there I was again, waiting for Debbie at the Starbuck, reading ‘Armadillo’ novel while puffing my Marboro Light cigarettes one after another. She finally standing there and helped herself seated opposite me. Do I like what I see? Well, I was… err… I mean I am… err… whatever. This time around she’s wearing light green body hugging shirt and I love the way she wears it – unbuttoned almost down to her errr… hmmm…

We had our dinner near my place. We talked and this time I shouldn’t forget to ask her more about herself. Yes, although we’ve known each other for almost a year now, I barely knew her personally because she seldom talked about herself. I don’t think the language is any much the reason that makes it hard for her to express herself. And the thing is that I find it odds coz if I converse in Mandarin, it’s kinda uneasy for her unless she speaks in Cantonese…which I can’t speak. What a trade-off that is… but the moment that we shared was great. I really enjoyed her company. And I couldn’t remember the last time I really opened up myself to anyone except for that one special person Rebecca. Coz 6 years was a very long time I must say…

Lost my fav dart but found myself date(s)

I was a bit upset when I learned that one of my fav 'silver-coated' darts has been stolen. It was there at the office pantry during lunch time but was gone when I returned to the pantry that evening. Damn bast*rd, penyapu, broomstick, babi! Cilaka punya mangkuk hayun! Ci ci ko nek! @#!%@!!...now say wooossaaaaahhhh!!!

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You see there’s nothing much I can do for such an imperceptible stupid little crime in the office, so to avenge my frustration, on my way back from the office that evening, I bought myself a PC game - Half-life. Once installed, my sweet little vengeance didn’t live up to that of my expectation (yet) by killing any unwanted characters in it. So I called Debbie and got myself a date tomorrow evening. Was it enough to make me at ease? Nope! And so once again I picked my phone and called Pamela and ended up for a date by the end of November…sigh…

Dart? What have I got so far?

I really think that I’ve finally improved my consistency with each dart I throw. I kinda comfortable with the new throwing method I learned for the last couple of days. Although it requires me to exert a little bit more force as not to lose its momentum and to negate the g-force as it reaches the dartboard, the ratio of inconsistency for a set of three throw is quite insignificant. It’s good enough for now coz I believe at this stage, precision and consistency are the two most important skills to learn. Hence with one already mastered, there is only one left to learn – precision…

What’s there for us, Software Engineers?

As I was on my out of the station, a familiar face was walking up the stairs.
It must be my old housemate back in the uni years. So I grabbed him by the arm and exclaim "Peter...err Alex! Is it you?" (Hell yeah...what a way to stop someone who might not be the person I’ve expected to and second-guess their names too). Still surprised of me being a bit physical, it took him a few seconds to recognize me and finally said "...hey! …Ooh!…hey!" Haha…Looks like I wasn’t the only one who forgotten the name...phew...

Anyway we had a brief chat as we were in the morning rush still, but managed to know that he's now working with a firm in KLCC and yup...doing what he loves best - Microsoft .NET programmer...whoa! Cool! Well compare that to what I’m working on - the ancient lingo - COBOL. What a blatant difference it is for both of us. Both well scrutinized to be the ever-versatile Software Engineer and so here we are working on different platform.

Me working on old lingo for a international bank and him perhaps doing some robust software development right about now for his firm don’t know what...but like they say "all well ends well..." or something like that...

my typical Monday biru

Monday biru eh?
Well, maybe it was and maybe not…
Nothing else to post here but these typical mails me and my colleagues had in the office this morning

Money Angel

This is a money angel
Pass it to 6 of your good friends and be rich in 4 Days.
I am not joking. If u delete it u will beg. Trust me!!!


kk: I normally don't forward mel rantai
but now no money liao need to take precaution
hehehe.....
jamie: then i forward it to the same person lor
get rich together-gether lor...
and i forward u 6 times oso....so u get 6 times the result too... (and means u have to send it to another 6x6 persons too)
no need to thanks me... :-)
kk: buggggeeeeerrrrrrr....................
chiang: ahaha.
kwai lan...
nel: wat does kwai lan mean?
btw, jamie, tht was hilarious. tht theory of urs... LOL!
jamie: i think it's some sort of vegetable... taste like kailan i guess....
chiang: LOL....
so if u wanna know what;s kwai lan ...go taste jamie..??
u owe me one buddy ;))
jamie: oh no DUUUUUUDEE!!! i think right about now...u r an endangered species... she'll hunt u down
i hereby declare that i Jamieson, have nothing to do with Chiang watsoever...
hope u survive the day dude...
kk: i think he just became extinct....
chiang: and now here i stand...BEcauseee of YOOuuu....
BeCause of Youuu..i am no longer an agent of this System..
Bcausee Of yoUU...im a new man, so to speak, apparently, like you, freee..
BUT
we are here not because we are free...we are here because we are not free..
kah wei: hey!! u r wrong..
we are here because we have no choice.
we are here because we force to be here.
we are here because of money.
we are here because the world is sux.....
muahahahaaha
jamie: wrong too....
we are here because there's no Astro in my house
we are here because there's no Pool Table in my bathroom
we are here because there's no Dart Board in my washroom
and we are here because we're still dun hv all of the things mentioned above...
:-(
chiang: LOL...
our very own msia version..
Matriks : The Maths Moden
haha


and yup, Chiang was pretty much ‘extinct’ when Nel was really sulking oledi. :-). Well Chiang…it’s happened to me once too many times where I had to broadcast a mail to all our colleagues apologizing to her (for my explicit antics). Dun worry, she’ll get over it dude…

we met...finally...

After office hour, I didn’t feel like going back just as yet. So I went to Sg. Wang to have my dinner in Nando’s (yet again) and maybe buying some more DVDs. And the thing is, right after I finished up my dinner, I suddenly felt the urge to call Debbie. Didn’t know why. I guess it was such a right timing when I call her because she just finished working. So she suggested that we meet up at the Starbuck.

I was a bit anxious that I smoke a few more cigarettes while waiting for her to show up and suddenly there she was standing beside me. I just didn’t know what to say but “Hi’. She looks so radiant and lovely. Wearing a white cardigan and jeans, enough to make me to like what I see. It’s been so long since I saw her, talked to her, joking around with her… now there she was…cheerful face. It seems that all her sadness was gone. That’s something good… really.

Well we talked and how I miss talking to her. At all time, I tried to remind myself that I need to restrain myself from talking about things that would remind her of her relationship. There’s no need to go there. She’s happy, I’m happy. Good enough…

*****

I just don’t know why but a metaphor keep playing in my mind and it goes like this:

A man and his wife, in their little boat found themselves stranded right in the middle of the ocean. But days later, the man saw an island distance away. So the man said to his wife, “Hey Dude, lookie! There’s a f*cking island right over there!”. But the wife was too weak to stand on her own feet and before she could even say a thing the man said “C’mmon Dude! Let’s swim to the shore, It’ll be days before we can even reach the shore just waiting for the waves to wash the boat to the shore…” The wife hesitated. So the man said “So be it…” and he jumped into the water and started to swim to the shore.

Little did he know that beneath the ocean, unknown sea creatures were at large, preying for foods (anything that move)…and the most ferocious of them all…a toothless sea turtle….yeah a vegetarian one called Mr. Turtle. When the man was about to reach the shore, he suddenly felt a sudden surge of pain on his left foot. He lifted his left foot only to find out that he was stung by a jellyfish. Slowly his feet felt numb and eventually drowned himself.

So what? All that I’m trying to say is that I’ll be the boat! I’ll get her to the shore eventually. As long as she never jump out of the boat, she’ll be there…yes Debbie I’ll get you there…

when December comes...

I got a phone call from my eldest brother, Andrison that morning in the office. Didn’t have the chance to talk to him for quite some time now. I guess he’s been quite occupied with his work in Philly. But I was excited to learn that he plans to come back to Malaysia after been in U.S. for years. And his girlfriend a New Yorker, will make the December trip as well…whoa!

Well, actually that’s been one of the reasons why I decided to move out. So when they do come over to Malaysia, there’s always a place in KL that welcomes them to stay as long as they want to – my new apartment or maybe condominium. But for now, I’ll keep my fingers crossed…

Hyatt Regency...

me n' Rudy...nice view eh?

on the tower (Ah Bee, me, Rudy and Winnie)

a Boat Restaurant...err bar

in the end? not buying anything

Team Building...just about time

It’s Team Building 2005 time. Woohoo! We were in the bus and Rudy was seating on my right when the adorable Nicole decided to sit at the other side. Great! Looks like I was been surrounded with familiar faces. The first two hours of the trip to Kuantan, the bus was filled with conversations. So were we. Well the thing is, I realized that whenever I ended up talking to Nicole, there was no chemistry. I tried, she tried but… . I don’t know why but it’s kinda hard for me to relate to her and vice versa…sigh…

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We didn’t waste any time as we went straight to the beach, snapping some photos here and everywhere…and Winnie and Ah Bee was teasing me as if I wasn’t man enough to walk the beach under such a hot sun…burn baby burn… should have bought myself shades and lotions – couldn’t stand the shimmering light…sigh…


(photo taken from Kuantan.Regency.Hyatt.com)


Anyway we had these team activities that evening. Quite fun. My team won most of the games but only managed to get the second spot overall…don’t know why. As like any other event, the end was a bit ‘chaotic’ when we started to get ourselves the leftover - white powder and eggs. I was quite unlucky when Nicole flashed err...i mean bashed a plateful of white powder right in my face. And I don’t blame her and the rest of them when they stop whatever they have been doing, laughed at what have become of my hair, my face and my shirt for a full 20 seconds…sigh… What a violence world I’m living today.

Gotta have my ‘revenge’…and Nicole…you better watch out coz in a few while…you’ll have protein on your hair…hehe…and so that’s just what I did… when I cracked an egg on her head… oh…her hair never looked any better… :-) …talking about fun eh? Well it lasted for a few while till all of us were too tired to run around… but I decided to swim by the beach to wash off the powders before Rudy and Andy joined in…can’t remember the last time I swim in the salty seawater…

At night, the resort look so panoramic as the light was strategically placed at every corner. Just the ambience that I like. Right after dinner my other colleagues (Rudy was back in the room watching football) and I went for a walk along the beach which stretches a few kilometers long. Found some crabs on the sandy beach, in the holes and even between the gigantic rocks. Managed to catch one of them. Errr… we saw wild boars too…skimming for food at the far end of the beach… hmmm wild boars huh…no wonder this resort have a 5-star rating – they seem to have ‘everything’ here…

still undecided...

The team building is to be held tomorrow at the Hyatt Regency Kuantan somewhere in the east coast. Never been there though. And still I haven’t got anything nice to wear. Got to buy some shirts and a pair of sport shoes. Buying these stuffs never have been that hard for me since I know exactly where I can get them – Sg. Wang mall. Luckily I was there when most of the shops were closing down. I mean it’s much more ‘convenient’ in a way that it leave me with fewer options to choose from. So it’s kinda self-restrained?

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I was at some restaurant having my spaghetti for dinner but my thought was somewhere else. Evaluating my current situation of course. I think it’s best for me to move out from my current house in Cheras. Away from Ady and Marina since my relationship with them was slowly becoming icy cold. The house is pretty much dead to me. No more conversations, no more jokes, no more laughter. It’s like waking up in the morning and the friends that I’ve known for the past 6 years, has become strangers living under the same roof.

So I’ve made up my mind that within 30 days, I should already have found at least an apartment or some condos in PJ. But for now, just leave it at that…so I can finish my spaghetti…