Bar-hopping was not my interest before, but last nite i just cant resist it.... was at Lola (previous pic) and then Rum Jungle, a very happening place!!! frankly i like it here than Beach Club... here outside cooling down and drinking some water to wash down the alcohol in my gut... can u see my red cheek? Even mineral water cost a bomb last nite,but heck, it's Merdeka Eve la!!! By the way that's my girl's fingertips, if u're wondering...

Merdeka Eve Party!!!

Watching the fireworks from afar coz of damn stupid traffic jam... 

11pm dinner at Station One Cafe before the outing...

How much is ur Value?

"If we know that God made us and because of that, He loves us deeply - then our value or self-worth comes not from ourselves but from the "Ultimate Being". That is like getting an endorsement from the only Person who can really value us. So when you feel down and feel like nobody loves and understands you - imagine this, if you can

'A RM100 bill, dirty and stepped on by many people - is still valued at RM100; the value of it is not determined by how people treat or mistreat it, how nice or horrible its life experiences were - but it's value is determined by the Maker'

"I love myself, There is a purpose for me in this world, I will do my best to live this life I have, I will love others as I love myself".

- Quoted from Hustler (SleekBlackMercedes)

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However i'd like to add something here... as per the first saying, still, we too as a human being need to make effort to place our self-worth in a respectable position.

"A RM100 bill, dirty and stepped on by many people - is still valued at RM100"

There may be ring of truth there, but allow me to present a different angle to this? It is still valued at RM100 bcoz there are people who accepted its perceived value. Perhaps instead of RM100, why not we substitute it with a RM0.01 coin?

Well, from here onwards, does anybody care about it's value? Often i saw alot of ppl who just ignores the fallen 1 cent coins by the road side, unwanted. When we received 1 cent coins in changes, often we'd just dump it into the donation boxes, or leaving it on the counter, disgusted at its very presence among ur money, don't u?

U may say bcoz The Maker has made its value so low, but isn't it still, money, a form of currency, trade and exchange? Doesn't it deserve the very same place as the RM100 bill? After all RM100 is the totalled amount of 100,000 1 cent coins!

Alas, how can we compare between value of money and value of human beings together? Though it sounds logical, the very use of this analogy is already incorrect as both values sits on a different plane and platform altogether!

Now back to my statement to placing our self-worth, our value at a respectable level... Shouldn't we at least have respect for ourselves? Though from the quote, our value are determined by The Maker, doesn't mean we can do whatever and however we liked, thinking that we'll still be the same... Havent we heard of the saying, "Fallen out of grace", or more specifically, "Fallen out of Our Lord's Grace"? Look at what happened to Adam and Eve!? (Casted out from Heaven after committing Sin)

Are we so desperate to gain someone's attention, or to please somebody, be it yourself or anyone else, that u'd stoop so low doing and giving just about anything?

Well, my friends... these are the conducts of a person who no longer has any value, regardless of how much value The Maker has set out in the beginning. He/She has used up/last out his/her values. We cant go on committing foolish acts, thinking that after the deed is done, if we are really sincere and honest, Lord will absolutely forgive us... and reinstate our value (or self-worth) back to before... surely there is a record, a scar somewhere that can never be erased...

Hello? Adam and Eve never got back into Heaven, see?

Eventually it falls back not on whether how much value u are made of, but rather how much value u are putting urself as and in return, how much value other people would perceive u are worth, based on ur own values (or self-worth, if u want) .So tell me, how much do u value urself?




Remember this;

"I love myself, There is a purpose for me in this world, I will do my best to live this life I have, I will love others as I love myself".

Today, i woke up to see the most beautiful sky i had ever seen in Sg Long... the clearest view, up till now... while the photo here doesn't do justice to what i see in my eyes, but i cant stop from sharing the joy with u all... The sky is so blue, the clouds and mists are so clear... everything looks so vivid and beautiful... without any trace of haze at all! hehe, why not? it has been raining the whole morning since yesterday nite! Definitely this is the most beautiful morning i had in Sg Long!

Somewhere... somewhere.... and that somewhere is a place that not many had the chance of coming.... was there this noon till late evening... boy, i'm so full!!!

Tried executing some Shuffle moves... after learning it barely a week ago... not very easy to do it on the beach sand, but not good enuf to go up a few dancing stages around... sigh... but then again it was fun! Do u know what is Melbourne Shuffle? it's a pretty nifty and quick dance moves that uses quick steps and swirling hand throws. it is basically much better than ppl who show-offs with their weird dance moves and goyang kepala!

Was in Port Dickson Marina Bay for the R3 rave party on Saturday nite! Behind me is one of the 2 stages where ppl dances their body crazy, but this stage did not garner as much patron as much as the other one, where most of the Shufflers are... by the way, have a beer on me! Cheers!

At last! My 3rd PDA! a Tungsten|T5!!! Almost fallen to the dark side by getting a PPC Dell X50v at the same price but better features, but then again, i stil love Palm...sigh... so be it...

Erm,

morning everyone... not exactly morning la... it's already 12.30pm now... just woke up half an hour ago... slept only at 6am this morning... why? bcoz finally i've finished reading a novel after a long time not reading one!!!

i used to be bookworm when i was a kid, from my teenage years up till nowadays, my reading has been quite on and off... heck i havent even finish my Stephen King's The dead Zone after half a year! only finished Riding The Bullet before starting on the former, and there's The Green Mile sitting in my PDA, waiting for its turn...

however due to the hoo-haa surrounding author Dan Brown with his book The Da Vinci Code and lately, Angels and Demons, i took some initiative to go download em off the net (heck, those books are expensive, and even more expensive are my laptop, PDAs and net connection, so why not utilise it appropriately?) and apart from the 2 books mentioned, i downloaded another 2 of his books too.

and last nite, after a few days of format conversion (the original file is in pdf format which i dont like to view on my PDA so i switched it to txt so it can be readable in isilo, that damned software costs me rm75!) and spacing and paragraphing, i started to read the first of the 4, Digital Fortress... it's about deception and a lil bit patriotic sense but overall it does provides suspense and twists, nothing is as it seems to be... no wonder Dan Brown is making big bucks, hehe... started around 6 or 7pm yesterday and only finished it this morning at 6am... so it takes me around 12hours to finish that book. next up, is Deception Pont and then only i'll continue with Da Vinci and A&D.

i guess this is all for now, gotta catch some more sleep to keep my eyes fresh! ciao!

was in a graduation ceremony of some friends in UM last Saturday... This is one of them, HK. 

Negaraku
Tanah tumpahnya jerebu
Rakyat hidup sesak dan layu
Rahmat bahgia, penjual topeng muka
Raja kita kena pakai juga
Rahmat bahgia, penjual topeng muka
Raja kita kena pakai juga!



hahaha.... some friend forwarded this to me and honestly, yes it is funny!!!

aarrgghh!!!!! it's even more worse today!!!! 

I dont know if we are to declare a state of emergency or not, but with a haze like this, should it be like this nearby KLIA, they should close the airport.... as visibility doesnt even reach 500 metres... definitely the worst haze to date... 

Was too tired after dancing and drinking... sitting at the tables with my girl... 

My company decided to throw a party for us employees at Beach Club last Friday in appreciation of completing a project of one huge client... heard the company earned close to RM half a million in profits alone after tax and expenses. No bonus distributed though but it doesnt matter... Brought my girl along for the party... 

Dinner at Kim Gary MidValley... we had twin sauce baked rice with pork and chicken cutlets... 

modelling or PDI? not... our couple shirt only... 

Was on Genting last week Wednesday.... tried the flying coaster behind... it was great!!! Went into the casino later on... won some to cover abit expense lah... but allin all, still have to spend la.... 

woke up at 7.30, and the sky looks dark like it's gonna rain with dark clouds around... i thought, "good..." coz i can continue sleep in with nice weather... this photo is taken one hour after that. no rain, but the haze has cleard up alot.'. received report that strong winds at around 7am this morning has swept alot of places and it seems that the haze has gone with the wind, ahem, pun intended... :) 

The haze worsens.... now even the block across looks blurry, wat more to expect fom looking a bit further? i wonder wat caused this heavy haze... 

the haze is heavy today... i wonder why... woke up at 8 this morning and the skies are clear, i can see smoke billowing somewhere far and i know some place must be on fire. barely 1 hour later, it became like this... i cant see klcc or menara telekom, heck i cant even see the condos somewhere behind the blocks of my condo area... 

Last nite was the third time my laptop is acting up since a couple months ago... i dono wats wrong with it, whether it is my keyboard or the printed circuit board (pcb) inside that is spoilt...

it seems the button "n" is unoperable, while when i push the button "b" the alphabet "n" follows afterwards and kept on stuck to it. once every so often, the "n" will pop up all of a sudden, causing all my typing works to be disturbed and launching of programmes with name starting with "n" (like nokia pcsuite and norton antivirus) when i intended to launch another.

for the previous 2 times, i resolved it by banging hard on the keyboard and opening up the bottom part of my laptop (it is a LAPTOP, mind u) blow into it and replace all the screws... for a while it seems to work... however these tricks failed last nite when i did the same.... did it twice, unscrewing and re-screwing everything together... but the problem still refuse to go...

previously i dared not touch the LCD part coz i know nothing of it, and i feared of spoiling it should i dismantled it wrongly, but alas, my anger got the better of me, so i started poking around and pulling along the plastic lines, and voila! i found the way to take it off correctly, albeit accidentally. ah, whatever the heck lah... managed to wriggle off one side but didnt managed to completely take off the side where the connecting wires are attached, so i left it just like that.

from there, the enclosure panel that encapsulates the keyboard came off, and the keyboard is easily taken out. nothing special, just a flat piece of plastics, quite thin, and connected to the motherboard (i assume) via a thin film of cable ribbon. pulled it off and reattached it, assemble everything back together and switched the laptop back on, keeping my fingers crossed hoping the LCD stil works... lol... well it did work... everything came back to life as it is before.

as i said, BEFORE!!!! the problem is stil there!! i was like @$#%#$@ pissed! thats it... switched it off, and use my roomate's pc, since he's out, i'd have the liberation of using his stuffs... as he did mine. tested it again this morning, same problem... finally i said to myself, thats it... money is flying away and i have no choice, else i cant do my work...

called the service centre, requested to buy a spare keyboard and afternoon went to the service centre near klcc to get it. costs rm90 :( but at least it is better than paying rm150 for them to do it and plus rm90 for the keyboard which totals to rm240!!!) since i already found out the way to disassemble and re-assemble it again, better keep the rm150 for myself.

however, one thing that makes me even fired up is, when i reach back home just now, switch the laptop on, the problem is not there anymore... as even now i'm typing this post up, the "n" button works perfectly fine... wat the fart!!?? why couldn't it just behaves properly??? Today's run has costed me rm90 for the new replacement keyboard, rm4 for petrol, missed my lecture today and wasted my time and energy bcoz of this... AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

so now i'm going out for dinner. i had had enuf and when i come back, i'm gonna make today's effort worthwhile. i'll just replace it no matter what.

moral of the story : sometimes anger will make u do drastic things. but sometimes, ONLY SOMETIMES, those drastic things u do turns out to be the correct thing to do during that hour...

hell, at least now i had an extra skill. instead of just pc repair, i can now do laptop repair, provided that i have the spare parts on hand (which is hard to obtain for laptops...) and some guts and blind faith at my own overconfidence.

this is all for now, let u all know the outcome later, over and out.

Beamfest, held in A&W PJ State, where users of Palm PDA around klang valley gathers and network, beaming contacts all around. This is my 2nd time attending this, after a long hiatus...