Sunday, September 27, 2009

Korek LaLa @ CK & Wendy Beach

趁着上个星期开斋节假期,江边鸟带着小老鼠跨海拜访朋友,另一个目的就是为了这个 -- 蚬 (aka 拉拉)!

还记得江边鸟小的时候,鸟爸鸟妈就常常带着鸟哥鸟姐还有小鸟到海边去挖拉拉。

然而现在北海的海边都消失得七七八八了,而家人也各有各的忙,很久没有一家人去海边了。

所以当我听到朋友说他的家附近有拉拉,想象着鲜拉拉的甜美,我们这就去了~

位于Batu Ferringhi 的一个海边

可能是天阴阴的关系,没有人的海边格外宁静,除了海浪声,剩下的就只有我们的嬉戏声了。

刚刚到步,当大家都在跑来跑去玩闹的时候...

CK 说他要堆建一个城堡!


而我们就开始挖拉拉!毕竟是今天的目的嘛!


问题:什么样的海边会让吸引人来拍婚纱照?


答案:宁静,清洁,人潮少的海边


Sam (拉拉王?) 说拉拉只出没在粗沙的地区。

由于大家都不怎么专业,都没有带什么“家伙”来,赤手空拳外加徒脚的我们,挖得手脚都好痛。


突然间看到了 CK 也来和我们凑热闹,一起挖 lala, 因为...


... CK 的城堡完成了!!呵呵


我们 8 个大人,4 +2个小孩,玩水的玩水,照顾小孩的照顾小孩,丢石头的丢石头,拍照的拍照,走来走去的走来走去,就这样过了将近一个小时后...


战利品!


Zoom out 来看,很可怜的“多”!

“拉拉王”说潮汐对的时候,随便在沙滩表面上一拨就可以看到很多拉拉。看来今天是不对时候啦~

但没关系,我们志在过程,收成的是留在脑海里的回忆~ (这是酸葡萄的说法~很啊Q!)



临走的时候,江边鸟不忘了看一看这个海滩的名字...

噢,原来是 CK & Wendy Beach!



Sunday, September 13, 2009

最近我都作了什么2?

继续写写最近围绕在我身边的事情...

1. 牛一日牛一日牛一日牛一日
踏入九月份,第一个要庆祝的就是小老鼠的牛一日啦~

作为我们一起度过的第一个生日,江边鸟不断不断不断不断再不断的提醒自己一定要紧记和严守江边鸟的送礼原则!因为江边鸟深信这一起步的错将会造成今生无法弥补的悔恨!

所以在千选万选之下...

还是做出了可能会让我后悔的选择 -- Lenova IdeaPad 10-2

但是现在还没有觉得后悔啦~

很喜欢 netbook 的轻盈娇小 :)


你用小的,我用大的 ~

(那我玩电脑的时候就可以专心一点了,呵呵呵呵呵呵呵~)



2. 半聋半聋半聋半聋半聋
上个月的耳塞事件再次发生,原因依然不明,耳朵依旧蜂鸣!

这绝对绝对影响了江边鸟的听力,也干扰了江边鸟的集中力。

所以...
如果你看到江边鸟突然失神白目口水留不停,那绝对是因为江边鸟看到了美女耳朵的关系!
如果你看到江边鸟突然头倒颈歪鼻鼾呼不停,那绝对是因为江边鸟不小心睡着耳朵的关系!

见怪莫怪~


3. 居林居林居林居林居林
去年,江边鸟工作的部门决定搬到居林工业区。经过了一整年的准备,我们终于在090909正式在居林上班!

对于槟城办公室里,江边鸟一呆就呆了三年的“旧箱子”,说要离开当然会有点舍不得,但其实更头痛的是...

From 鸟言鸟语
...一堆垃圾不知该如何搬!

From 鸟言鸟语
很漂亮的收藏品,是不是?呵呵...

From 鸟言鸟语
“hoi,CK,搬“家”咯!不要假假扮勤劳~”

From 鸟言鸟语
搬“家”也不忘记 Yeah一下 ~ 这就是江边鸟 ~

以下几张就是居林的“新箱子”了...
荧幕摆放在自认最舒服的位置,荧幕后面的电线就不管啦~





总的来说,“新箱子”是属于个人的,所以空间比较大(可以堆放更多的垃圾);比较多私人空间(看youtube,打屯没人看到);也比较可以专心(因为CK没有坐在对面?呵呵)

当然不会忘了重新安放江边鸟的 -- “福禄寿” 和 “左右护法” ~


4. 喜喜喜喜喜喜喜喜喜
恭喜虫虫小姐被别人booked掉了~~~


5. 鬼鬼鬼鬼鬼鬼鬼鬼鬼
农历七月,盂兰盆节,中元节,鬼节,哪一个名都可以...
小老鼠和江边鸟决定看一套鬼戏,应一应节~

我们的选择是 --
《吓到笑》

... 好笑也还好啦,但是一点都不恐怖。梁志强的失败之作?


6. 无言无言无言无言
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也许是我没有尽力劝说,只能祝福做出选择的朋友下次小心点咯~


*******************************************************************

这一篇其实写了两个星期了,每每要 post 的时候又想到有新的东西该写下来,结果就拖啊拖,拖到现在... 这就是没有定时 update 的后果~ 呵呵

所以决定先 post 了,尽管还有一些东西想写下来,只能留待下篇咯~



Wednesday, August 19, 2009

最近我都作了什么?

只想写写最近发生于我身边的事...


1. 书书书书书

经过了>6个月的时间,终于看完了这本书。

这一套 4 本书长度的小说,讲述的是一个视科学为禁忌的魔法世界。当科学导致世界灭亡后,生还的人们渐渐依靠魔法为生,并把科学视为妖魔邪道。科学家们都躲了起来,也因为严酷的生存环境,科学渐渐失传... 直到...

只看了 4 本中的第一本,现在继续追着第二本,希望不会又在是另一个6个月...

由于这一套戏的到来,使我看书的脚步被打乱了...


... 我又重看 Harry Potter 6 & 7 的书了一遍,呵呵...

才发现自己早已把故事内容忘得一干二净,所以这一次重看就有如看了一本新书 :)

看书最值得的地方就在看后立刻忘记内容然后下次重看又可当新书来看~



2. 病病病病病
两个月以前感冒了将近两个星期, 搞到家人都以为我中了 AH1N1,虽然那时候的病疫并没有今天那么严重。我还笑说这病是因为“婚前压力”过大, 呵呵。

拿了好几天的病假在家里休息,但到了大日子的当天,江边鸟还是“带病上场”!

两个月后的某一天,感冒都不知道好到哪里去了,但左边耳朵不知道为什么塞着了。一塞就塞了两个星期,搞到我睡不安,寝不宁的,最严重的时候左耳还可以听到嗡嗡的响声。

这时轮到朋友笑说这是我“婚后忧郁症”的其中一个病兆 :)

看了专科,吃了药,终于在昨天医生宣布我的耳塞痊愈!



3. 亲戚亲戚亲戚亲戚亲戚
结婚后,亲戚变多了是理所当然的事情。

但没想到现在我也变成了大马著名歌星的“面线亲” ~

所谓的“面线亲”就是指毫无血缘关系,某啦啦因为联姻而沾上一点儿边的亲戚。

由于前几个礼拜娱乐版上刊登的一起白事,我才知道小老鼠的姨丈的堂弟就是 - 黄品冠 (真的是远远远亲吧!)

虽然我们都没能去奔丧,小老鼠的表妹回来后还是丢了一张品冠的亲笔签名给我们;

我手中拿着签名照的时候,不禁想到在丧礼上讨或被讨签名,这种感觉很奇怪吧!



4. 工作生活工作生活工作生活
工作虽然累,但不知何时开始觉得再多的“大便”也可以哽~ 工作上被“轮奸”当享受~ 放工回家后就一概不管。

才发现我已达到了 “见山不是山” 的境界了~ 也许这只是我回家懒散不想做工的借口 :)




Sunday, July 19, 2009

兄弟

兄弟
  • (闽)Hia Di
  • (粤)Heng Dai
  • (中)Xiong1 Di4
  • (英)Brother
  • (马)Abang-adik

意义:
1. 兄弟是...
...会请你喝酒的人!因为要把你灌醉...


2. 兄弟是...

...就算是喝“火酒”也会陪你的人!用心良苦,就是要把你灌醉...


3. 兄弟是...
...在你醉倒街头,吐到七彩的时候,还是会自得其乐的人!


4. 兄弟是...
...在你继续抱头呕吐的时候,给你看隐形鸟鸟的人!(另一个还在沾沾自喜)


5. 兄弟是...
...在你只有和你的呕吐包作好朋友,流落在人来人往的街头的时候,还在很开心的和女朋友“煲粥”当背景!


6. 兄弟是...
...在你出其不意的时候,突然扮起路边可爱小花的人!(路边的阿桑花,你不要“睬”,也不要“踩”~)


7. 兄弟是...
...当着 >350 人的面前上台献唱两首歌的人!(Forever Love & 你那么爱她~)

8. 兄弟是...
...为了你会和别人玩亲亲游戏的人,不论是女的... (大头你就好啦~~~~)

...还是男的!


9. 兄弟是...
...有蕉吃蕉 (就算里面满是芥末)...

...有皮蛋吃皮蛋 (一人一整粒放进嘴里) 的人!


10. 兄弟是...
...愿意为你当众脱衣,在肚皮上涂满辣椒酱... (辛苦了)

...然后又愿意在肚皮上舔尽辣椒酱的人! (真的辛苦了^^)


11. 兄弟是...
...愿意为你一口气喝下一大支温啤酒的人!(虽然他平时很爱喝~)


12. 兄弟(姐妹)是...
...不论多远,也赶来出席你的婚礼的人!(感激感激!)


13. 兄弟是...
...灌酒也灌到最大声最豪气,祝福也最大声的人!


14. 兄弟是...

...要说,一辈子也说不完的人!因为兄弟 (姐妹),就是一辈子的朋友嘛!



**其实还有好多好多朋友 (尤其是小学的那一班,还有中学的那一堆,也没忘了大学里那一群,还有还有,工作上的那一批!) 的照片没有被 po 上来,待我慢慢整理,呵呵~



Saturday, July 11, 2009

Shit = Sai sai ~


Shit a.k.a. Sai Sai

Definition:
Organic waste from human or animal body, commonly depicted as helical shape in drawing (see above). You will hope to see your own daily; You will hope it's in good long shape, with appropriate viscosity and hardness, and in healthy yellowish-brownish color.



After the vacation, there are many shits left in workplace...

My own shit + colleague1's shit + colleagues2's shit ... and end up becoming rojak shit!

In personal life, there are shits too! Thanks to someone who just know how to speak but don't know how to keep his promise ~

Oh yeah ~ Really shit 9 9 recently...


p/s: still writing some happy stuffs which happened recently, stay tuned :)



Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Fall for you...



闷热的六月晚上,
庄严的德教会里,
结婚注册仪式正一场场的进行着,
而我们是编号第 5 号的那一对,
5 aka 五,就是五福临门的那个五...

轻松愉快的气氛下,
友善的证婚人面前,
“我愿意” 第一声来自于我,
“我愿意” 第二声由你说出,
对望几秒,你笑了我也笑了,大家都笑了...

亲戚朋友的祝福中,
还有他们手中照相机的捕捉下,
我就在你右手的无名指上轻轻地套上了一枚戒指...
看,就是那一枚上面有一颗小小的石头的,象征着我的一心一意;
不要看它小小粒,这已经是我在这地球上找到最能代表我对你坚定的石头!=)

而我左手的无名指上也被你套上了另一枚戒指...
围绕着喷沙表面的,是一个既没有开头也没有结尾的沟纹,
你知道这是什么意思的 :)
我们的爱情故事 -- 永不间断。

是的,我将永远记得
今天是我们的结婚注册日~

老鼠爱大米的年代已经过去了
我只是一只深深爱着小老鼠的

江边鸟




p/s:
感谢到场祝福的朋友们 =)



Monday, June 08, 2009

随想

最近发生了很多事,开心的事也有,不开心的事也不少!

心情的起伏高高低低的,但也总算是经历过;而历练过,就会赚了些经验,也开了开眼界,还有一些些新体会。

说不上什么分享,就只是想把想法写下来:



幼小无知的时候以为这个世界上就只有黑和白善与恶好人与坏人之分,就像...

Ultraman 一定会消灭大怪兽!


稍微年长的时候,才发现这个世界其实存在着很多灰色地带;世上大多数的人也并非纯善与纯恶;换句话说你眼里的坏人也许是他人眼中的好人... 就只是观点上的不同。这类题材在电影里层出不穷,就像...

《无间道》里的“警察”刘健明和“黑帮”陈永仁!


近期,发现到你可以对别人抱着灰色的心态,但不代表别人不会对你就只有黑和白的标准。

而人的标准却会因为对着不同的人,处理不同的事,存在于不一样的时间,规划下不一样的完美定义...

if (
point != 100%, then
point = 0% else
point = 100%
);


再一次的提醒自己,不要存有侥幸的心态,以为尽力了,100% 里只要做到40%,60%,或 80% 就至少有个安慰奖!但在不同人的标准上,你所自以为的尽力,往往却因为不完美而不被认同,并完全否定。

“严以待己,宽以待人”

我想,我可以对别人的要求不高,但对自我的要求还是要提高一点比较好。

一些事情上要么就是做到100%,不然就啥都不做(0%)!因为我真的不想经历被否定的心酸,更不想看到期待者眼里的失望!



Thursday, May 28, 2009

眼睛打鸟了

最近眼睛有点朦。

看东西都朦朦的,尤其是晚上开夜车的时候,眼睛尤其吃力~

突然间脑海里浮现出一个念头 -- 难道是老鸟老了?眼睛开始老化不中用了?毕竟老鸟年已过“四分之一”百!

所以这一天放工以后来到了家附近的一间眼镜店找验眼师检查检查。

翻了翻以往的纪录,才知道距离上一次来检查已经是四年前的事了。

那时的度数是 --

左眼远视(是的,远视不是老花)50 度,没有闪光。
右眼近视 25 度,闪光 25 度。


好得很!那时的我就很神气,远的用左眼看,近的就用右眼看!

这一天老鸟战战兢兢的坐在验眼台上,担心接下来的验眼成绩,担心自己要戴眼镜了。

结果是...

左眼什么都没有,一切零度。
右眼依然是近视 25 度,闪光 25 度。


“那我要戴眼镜吗?”

[如果会头痛就戴吧!每个人对眼镜的需要都不一样的。]

“暂时没有头痛的现象,那我就不带咯!真的很庆幸自己的度数还能保留。”

[当然咯,以你的年龄来看,很难会增加度数了]

“... ... ... ...”

虽然被验眼师亏了一下,但江边鸟还是很神气的回家了!

但说回来,现在眼睛还是有点朦朦的,真的还是需要顾一顾。

所以没什么必要的时候我的眼睛是尽量闭上休息的,就好像这个时候。

所以不要以为我在偷懒吃蛇,其实我在保护我的眼睛,毕竟老鸟年已过“四分之一”百!



Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Cat's hair

Dr. Chandra Suresh (sounds familiar, right?) had spent his entire life in researching the genetic code of a cat. (Yes, cat, don't ask me why he researched cat, out of so many animals out there)

After 48 years of tireless research he found out that cat's hair of a side is always more than the other side. (don't ask me how he carried out the experiment, may be he counted the hairs...)

It's believed to be inherited from cat's great great great grandparents - the hairless Sphynx

Now, make a guess, which side of a cat has more hair than the other side?


**heard this from Fly FM while I was driving to work this morning =)



Sunday, April 26, 2009

3 is a facinating number

If I were to choose a favorite number out of 0 - 9, I would say "3"

I'm not sure since when I have developed such affection to this number, but I believe it's very much to do with my high school badge number which ended with 33

Since then, be it coincident or on purpose, I'm always aware that my life is full of this digit -- 3

I think of an example, when I created my email, I would normally try to put an alphabetical string as the sign in name... As you may experience, most of the time the alphabetical string has been registered by others, somehow there is always people earlier than us.

Then we would need to add some numbers behind the log-in name and the common practice is to add one's born year. For example, I'm born in 1991, so I may use RiverBird_91@riverbird.com as my email address.

Or one might use one's age at that time of email registration. For example, I'm born in 1991 and I just turn 18 this year. So my email address shall spell as RiverBird_18@riverbird.com :)

However, as the results of strong affection to digit '3', I always choose 33 instead of my age or my born year!

I think '3' is just too cool not to be chosen!

And lately there are some random figures around me too... coincidentally...

0.3 mm
13 mm


which... I shall reveal the true meaning of them sooner or later.

Stay tuned =)


Monday, April 06, 2009

这个周末看过的电影

这个周末看了两套戏。

很巧的,两套都是以暴力血腥为主,但是看后的感想截然不同。

第一套:


我知道这不是刚刚上映的,但就是因为看了第一集的精彩,所以就下载了这套 Ong Bak 2 来过一过武打瘾。

比起上一集,这一集可算是大手笔,又一大群大象又各国武术的;Tony Jaa 打完泰拳,再打虎拳,然后转回蛇拳,再来咏春;同时也多了武器的演绎 -- 大刀,日本武士刀,三截棍等等的,看到我眼花缭乱!

虽然是打到虎虎生风,但 Tony Jaa 打起中国功夫来,还是有点泰拳的影子~

还有的就是看这套戏呢,用眼睛就好了:
不需要用脑,因为故事性不怎么值得一提!
也不需要用耳朵,因为男生说起泰语,真的是有够他X的娘~~

x x x x x

第二套:


基本上香港电影没有什么好题材了,来来去去都是蛊惑仔。

香港的洪兴作到了没什么可以作了就作台湾的台客,台客也没戏唱了就跑到日本拍三和帮 -- 这正是这套戏的概括!

这套戏唯一特别的地方就是成龙没有武打,而大帅哥吴彦祖就毁容断腕,做个十足的倒霉鬼~

但不要以为这套戏好像很烂,其实还真的蛮扣人心铉的。

血淋淋的场面让我们带着沉重的步伐走出戏院...

x x x x x


总的来说,两套都是不值得去戏院看的戏,呵呵~



Sunday, April 05, 2009

09 年 03月尾的某一天早上...








哦!他剪头发了!!!!原来他也是有耳朵的~



Cambodia Trip 2009: Day 3

Fuuuyoooohh ~ 老鸟的这一篇拖了好久啊!!!

都怪自己很懒惰忙啦~~~!!!

结果呢,我自己都把自己的经历忘了一大半啦~哈哈哈!鸟的脑袋不大啦~

就看看我还能记得什么的...

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由于第二天的时候发现了这里的中央市场 (Central Market)有很多很好吃的熟食,所以我们这一天的一大早就来这里找吃了。

不得不提今天老鸟吃的柬埔寨“凉面”。 为什么说它“凉”呢?因为它端出来的时候一点都不热!下面第三张就是这碗“凉面”的照片了。

照片上可能看不清楚,不过吃的时候才知道其实这小小的一碗里藏着很多的配料。

一大口吃下去的时候首先尝到的是虾仁和猪肉碎,然后咬了咬吃到了弹牙的猪肉皮切丝,还有爽脆的花生粒!当然配菜方面就有肥肥的豆芽,鲜菜,还后齿后留香的千层塔!面条则是粗米粉再淋上不只名的酱汁!因为不烫,所以吃的要诀就是要大口大口的吃,才能把所有的配料混在嘴里咀嚼,强!

然后在众多的甜点里面,江边鸟最爱的就是这个 - 椰浆糯米蒸大豆!大豆的清甜,椰浆的浓郁,糯米的饭香,唯有吃过后才可以想象这个简单配方所带来的魅力!



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由于阿车的英文真的没有人听得懂,所以我们决定辞掉他,然后今天自己走,充分享受自由行的乐趣!

但是这对大家而言是问题所在,因为从市中心到 Angkor Wat 的距离是大约 15 公里,一步一步走的话恐怕走到那边的时候就要开始走回家了!

所以我们就到处找脚踏车!

但是这对江边鸟而言又是一个问题所在,因为江边鸟的有生之年其实没有踏过几次的脚车而已!更别说在一个陌生的国度,崎岖不平的道路,踏着这个用 USD 3 租来的 ah pek 脚车!就是那种前面有个篮子,完全没有避震系统,震到我双手发麻,踏到我双脚发软,坐到我屁股发酸的脚车!

这绝对是江边鸟人生中的其中一个经典!



尽管双手发麻,双脚发软,屁股发酸,我们骑了两个小时,终于来到了这里 -- Ta Prom

Angelina Jolie 的 Tomb Raider 曾经到过这里取景的!



其实踏到来这里后已经很累了,但是又不能这样停下来,因为我们还是得踏回市中心,所以就只有慢慢的慢慢的踏回去。

我说的慢真的是很慢的那种,慢到全部人都看不到踪影了剩下江边鸟一只鸟在后面慢慢的踏...



就这样!来回 30km!江边鸟做到了!但是回到市区的时候已经天黑了!

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白天的辛劳是值得的,
因为看到了很漂亮的古迹,永世难忘;
因为这也写下了江边鸟的人生纪录,脚车行;
当然也因为这一杯用来好好犒赏自己的 Margaritas!



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带着少少的醉意回到房间,结束了充实的一天...


Sunday, March 29, 2009

我的新"眼睛" -- Canon IXUS 95 IS

江边鸟很懒惰,真得很懒惰!

懒惰到就连拍一个照也不想多花时间去调整这个那个!

所以呢,就算现在 DSLR 的价钱已经很大众化;就算很多朋友聚会的时候常常都会讨论 DLSR 的拍摄技巧;就算拿着 DSLR 可以吸引很多女孩子...

江边鸟的选择还是坚持 -- 傻瓜相机~ ^^

既然是傻瓜相机,当然就是不管是多么傻的傻瓜也会用的啦~!

所以趁着 Canon warehouse wholesale 的今天,买下了...



虽然就只是便宜个 RM 80,但还是开心了好半天,因为江边鸟想买一个相机很久了!

全自动的 feature 让我爱不释手,现在真的是不管远的,近的,亮的,暗的地方,相机一拿起来就可以“咔喳”!

实验性拍下我的午餐 -- 槟华中学对面的叻沙


还有小老鼠贪玩拍下我玩游戏时的画面...

"I straight die!!!!!"


是的,买了相机后就真的是 -- 穷死了~~~

接下去的两个月就天天吃 canteen 吧!


Saturday, March 07, 2009

跳上了云顶~



上个星期,江边鸟消失了一个周末。
因为江边鸟特地拿了一天假期,趁着星期五没那么多人潮的时候,一手牵着小老鼠的手就跳上云顶去了~

也没有什么特别的 show 想看,就只是想要出来走走,吹吹冷风 :) 当然还有就是 Hardo Gay 提供了一张让我们住宿超便宜的礼券,呵呵~

其实阔别了这么久没来,云顶还是没变:
  • 雾还是那么大,不然怎么会叫云顶?(这叫自打嘴巴!)
  • 风还是那么的不冷,我们也不须穿件冷衣,会不会是温室效应的缘故?(这叫想太多了!)
  • 主题公园也没什么新玩艺儿,再加上小老鼠胆小如鼠不想玩,所以我们就没去了(这叫做省钱!)
  • 最重要的是,我还是在赌场里输钱!!!! (这叫做 @!#$!@$#@%#^!@$!@#)

其实真得不能怪我输钱的,谁叫我竟然遇到了...

登... 登... 登... 登...
赌神再现!
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难怪我会在三个小时内输 RM20 啦~~~

(二十块而已啦~输太多我会很心痛的)


Thursday, February 26, 2009

Engineer? Why not others?

If we assume the chuck load variation to be a normal distribution with the mean value of 70 lbf and standard deviation of 3 lbf, we can then plot out a distribution load curve where the load is split to the top surface of the die and the substrate peripheral area. According to the package level Finite Element Analysis, an even top loading configuration would balance out the reaction force from the bottom and thus reduce the C4 solder joint stress level below 80% of Temp Cycle condition B. With this the Cpk of 1.33 can be achieved without inducing package reliability concern. (this is totally crap XD)

Huh? Don’t understand? Don’t worry. Neither did my boss!

My lovely readers,

I’m an engineer by profession, and I’ve been working as an engineer for >2.5 year ever since I graduated from University. Overall, being an engineer is... ok lar.

Despite my boss doesn’t understand what I’m trying to tell him most of the time;

Despite engineer actually belongs to medium-income group which we can hardly buy a small house in Penang for shelter after owning a car with 9-year installment;

Despite engineer has extremely long working hour where you can ask Putojin for supper, but he will always tell you that he is busy with his work and he has midnight meeting later.

Then why engineer? Why do I still want to be an engineer while there are so many engineers in Penang that a signboard fells would easily kill 9 engineers out of 10 people beneath?

In order to be the 10th, I’ve been thinking of career change recently. But the problem is what else I can do besides an engineer?

It was a day when I went all the way down south to search for the legendary Laksa in Parit Buntar. After I reached there, I found out that it’s actually located amidst the wooden housing estate, accessible only via a small lane. However, no signboard is needed because we can follow the crowd if we have eyes or led by the fragrance even if we are blind (provided our nose is still functioning).

When I reached there, it’d been a long queue. Because of limited space to sit, everyone was queuing to take away the food. I looked at my queue; I was the lucky number 3. I saw the first person in the queue raised his 2 fingers. Then I looked in the big laksa pot, there was still half pot of laksa soup, meaning I should be able to get my laksa before it’s finish.

However, 15mins later, the first person was still standing there until I saw the hawker passed a big plastic bag which contains 20 packets of laksa to him. Then only I realized that his 2 fingers meant 20 packets! After the first person left, the second person raised... 3 fingers!

So I ended up going home empty handed! The key learning is not about I should have gone there earlier, but it's about how abundance a hawker can earn in a day! Imagine each packet of laksa was sold at RM2, the hawker had earned RM100 within half an hour... terror ~

Furthermore, it’s SOHO concept, small office home office! No advertisement needed as the product would speak for itself when the reputation has been built up. The job has short working hour where you can spend the morning to sell your food while the rest of the day in house chores.

Seriously, I've been thinking that being a laksa hawker is indeed not a bad idea ~

Since then, being a laksa hawker had always been planted in my engineer's mind. Until last week I joined the area level international speech contest. I found out another talent that I possess! Which is... I can actually talk nonsense for 7 mins easily, like what I’m doing now, and I have to admit that I can do it quite well because audiences would be attracted and listen to my non-sense, like what you are doing right now. So I started to think what occupation would need this non-sense talking skill the most?

Perhaps you will say Astronaut? No way! RM 8000/hour of lecture fee is way too minute compared to what a... Politician... can earn!! All I have to do is to extend my 7 mins non-sense talking session to a few hours, after that I can sleep in the meeting.

Being a politician is good, other than normal monthly income, government subsidiary in car & housing, politician will also always be fed with “extra income” by doing nothing but simply talking non-sense.

Looking at the job requirement, in Malaysia, this job doesn’t need any higher education background because even a railway gate-keeper can be one (and he owned a palace before he passed away). But the most straight forward method is you can apply the job by simply marrying to another politician’s daughter, it sounds so simple, doesn't it?

Then when we talk about career growth, it’s same like working as an engineer where you can hop to another party when there is an opportunity and immediately... *dang*... you are a millionaire!

But good pay job always comes with drawbacks, else when the signboard falls, it will kill 5 laksa hawkers and 5 politicians out of 10.

If I were a laksa hawker, I might not even sell a bowl of laksa per day! Because I don’t know how to cook laksa, so end up I have to eat all the laksa myself!

If I were a politician, I would be spending one third of my time talking non-sense, another one third of my time to sleep in the meeting, and one third of my time to...
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of course to look for hidden camera lar ~


**Just another speech of mine delivered to complete my humorously speaking manual :)


Friday, February 13, 2009

Valentine's Gift

How I wish I will be paid in writing this article, apparently I’m not a famous columnist, so nobody actually pays me. Therefore I write this in my blog, in the hope that I can grab some attentions then some good readers (like you, you and you) would donate some fund to this blog (because I'm writing it so damn right). I'm desperately needing money lately, due to the coming Valentine's day! (Gosh, it's tomorrow!)

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day! Have you thought of any idea to surprise your love one yet? A romantic candle light dinner which you would feel like you've eaten nothing at the end? An expensive gift wrapped nicely and hid in a secret place and let your love one discover it by surprise? A romance movie in the cinema which both of you would not understand at the end of the show because you will be busy doing "other things" in the dark theater? All and all, need money!

Yes, love is in the air, so does bad news such as factory shut down, retrenchment, bankruptcy and so forth. During this economy down turn period, every cent counts! Therefore in this article, I would like to share with you some economic ways in selecting a suitable valentine's gift for you love one.

Strategy one. Doing the right thing at the very beginning, which is: Never buy him/her any gift during Valentine’s Day.

It is extremely useful especially when you just started a new relationship. Educate, lecture, comfort, persuade, seduce, or even threaten your partner that Valentine’s day is nothing more than a commercial idea that only the florists/ merchants get all the benefits but both of you get nothing but a super duper expensive dinner, or a bouquet of flower which is double or triple than its original price. Of course, be prepared for all sort of bombardment of reasons and questions, resistance, objections, etc. Therefore, I'm strongly encouraging you to join Toastmasters club, then you can apply all your persuasion skills that you learn from the meeting in this situation. (now you know the reason why I join Toastmasters Club)

However, even the most competent toastmasters that I've ever seen (no, I'm not going to tell it's Putojin) would be able to apply strategy 1 for the first year only! For the subsequent year, he just gives in because he couldn't bear one whole year of mumbling and cursing and swearing and...

Therefore, I would suggest you to try Strategy two if you fail the abovementioned strategy. But I would like to put up a disclaimer here that you should only apply strategy 2 if you fail to implement strategy one, because once you start it, there is no turning back to strategy 1. The strategy is start buying things from small value. The theory is rather simple, all men and women are greedy! Today you buy your partner a cat, next year you will have to buy him/her an elephant. And the graph is exponentially increasing per year! (Graph 1)



Some more, don’t forget that Valentine’s day is not the only day that you should give present, there are still birthday, Christmas, Anniversary, Lunar Valentine’s or even pet’s birthday! So your actual spending in gifts should look like Graph 2.



On the contrary, if you buy expensive gifts in the very beginning, then the curve would look like Graph 3.



See the difference? By simply implementing strategy 2, we can chop down the expenses in gifts significantly. Please refer to the shaded area in Graph 3_2 below then you will get what I mean.



Since you can’t avoid giving gifts, why don’t you start from small and save as much as you can. For example, you can start from giving a pencil to your love one... or even better... a box of pencils!!

Well, if you are already in DEEP relationSHITSHIP with your partner and you have been practicing buying expensive gifts all this while (Graph 3). Congratulations and celebrations!! This shows how dump arse loving you are! And you will definitely need strategy 3, which is also the simplest among the 3 -- continuing with it!!! There is no medicine cure for your over-pampered partner. Since you can’t do anything about it, just close your eyes and enjoy being slaughtered every year :)

Truly speaking, I don't think we need a dedicated day to tell our love one how much we love them. In a successful relationship, everyday would be Valentine's Day with only 3 little fundamental principles -- Honesty, Open Communication & Trust. And Honesty always comes first. Therefore being an honest man (and poor) like me, I sincerely hope that this article does entertain you and if you can kindly donate some money to this blog, I'll be more than happy because you know lar... I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... gifts to buy before Valentine's Day ler...


** Disclaimer **

It was the speech I delivered 2 days ago in the club level contest. Here, I would like clarify that I made up all the contents in this speech, especially on Putojin's part, it's totally fake. Believe me, Putojin is still single and up for grab!! Hoho ~

Btw, I'm really broke liao recently, so if you think it's good, kindly click the advertisement at the side bar. After all, I'm digging my own grave by posting this article one ler :p
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Oi ~ at least leave a comment or two lar ~



Sunday, February 08, 2009

Cambodia Trip 2009: Day 2

第二天大清早 530am 就从 The Villa 出发了,为的就是 Angkor Wat 的日出!

说实在的,不是很漂亮而已啦~ 但我们拼的就是那一份在千年古庙前的那份特别~



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像蛋黄般的太阳提醒了我们还没有吃早餐,所以我们来到了中央市场(Central Market)找吃。

这个市场真的不简单,集中了蔬菜,肉类,熟食,衣物,纪念品,首饰,“美金”... 所有你想找的,都会在这里!

我们的目标当然就是 -- 熟食,以填饱肚子为首要任务!!



我们都吃了好多的食物!因为这里的食物的确不错,也因为我们知道待会儿我们会坐两个小时的车到 Kbal Spean

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Kbal Spean 也被称为 The River of Thousand Lingas。

那什么是 Linga 呢?江边鸟是个害羞的鸟,不好意思说,你自己在照片里看吧!~



看到了这么多的 Linga,心中就只有一个字 -- 强!古代的人都很强,一个不满足,要一千个!呵呵~

Trekking 也是很耗力的,所以我们一从 Kbal Spean 出来就随意点了个炒饭来吃,然后由马不停蹄的赶到下一个目的地 -- Banteay Srei



在这里我们看到了完整,没有被河水侵蚀过的 Linga。所以这里的 Linga 都大概有我的一半很雄伟!呵呵。

在这里也跳了两下~~ Puto 说我已经江郎才尽,跳来跳去都是一样的姿势 >_<

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我会飞的关系费用的考量,我没有搭上热气球。

但从朋友的照片上看来,高空下的 Angkor Wat 还是一样的庄严壮观~



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老人家(江老头)说“吃了鱼头就要吃鱼尾,有头有尾才是好男儿!”

所以我们今天看了日出,当然就要看日落!而最美的日落就在 Phnom Bakheng

老鸟就不多说了,你看了就知道~

**特别谢谢 Photojin 拍的美丽日落

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日落后,当然就是天黑了;天黑了,当然就是肚子饿了;肚子饿,当然就是找吃的时候了!!!

回到 The Villa,我们匆匆换洗就出门吃晚餐了。

这里的食物,有点千篇一律,但今晚还是吃了一样很特别的当地食物 -- 鸭蛋!

当然不是普通的鸭蛋,而是受精后即将成型的鸭蛋~

其实我们也很怕的,因为真的不知道会不会习惯那个味道,所以 Hock 和我两条水,决定共享一粒蛋!一人一半,感情不散!

但其实我们的担心是多余的。

虽然你可以看到血丝和羽毛(所以我们选择在比较暗的挡口吃),但其实味道和普通的蛋没什么不同!



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那我们是如何结束第二天的呢?

我们之中一批人跑去按摩了,而另一批(我在内)就回到了 The Villa,灌着当地啤酒,慢慢睡去...