Many new happenings
Yes I know I haven’t blogged in a while but things have been very busy since I came back from Sri Lanka and I’ve been trying up to finish my personal projects along with scanning film. So let’s begin each item.
Going off to Sri Lanka!
Yeah! Something to blog about! It’s been some while since I made any blog entries but there just hasn’t been any really important or completed to blog about at this point in time. Until now, I’ll be heading off to Sri Lanka today for a 2 week on site assignment. I hardly doubt I’ll have any time to do any photography but I’ll take any chances I can get. After all, I don’t know if I’ll ever get to go anywhere for free with such an economy for a while again.
While I’m not complaining but I have a lot of my own things to do rather than go onsite for an assignment. I have a number of personal photography project actually entering the last few phases and this trip delays their completion date but I have no choice since this is my paying job that funds everything so it take priority over everything else. Hopefully things will go smoothly onsite which is one of my biggest concern since the company started to cut back cost by not sending a senior engineer on site to train and monitor the junior engineer’s work and instead have opt to just throw us into the water and hope we swim…….shitty I know.
Happy Chinese New Year 2012!
Here’s to another Chinese New year! To top it off! It’s the year of the Dragon! That is right! The freaking dragon! Which means either good news or bad news. Either way, we cannot let our guard down, les we be eaten by those of the dragon or we lose sight of our prey for those of the dragon!
So what have I been doing? Oh the usual, flying home to my hometown in the middle of my work and since it’s like a big steaming pile of dung, it’ll be stinkier by the time I get back and actually work on it. Sleeping, and more sleeping. Once can never have too much sleep.
I hope everyone is having a a great time as they usher in the Chinese New Year, besides it’s a good reason to drunk and be happy about without breaking any new year resolution.
My journey home this time was actually pretty good! No screaming babies this time! Either everyone decided to hold off having kids during the year of the rabbit or they already went back by the time I took the late flight home to Labuan. Though I predict nightmare next year as people bring back the “dragon babies” to their hometowns.
Anyway, to all my Chinese friends,
GONG XI FATT CHOI!!!!!!! (Angpow gia lai! for those who are married!) hahaahahaahahah!
To those who are single, “See? Being single ain’t so bad! You still get ang pow! While married people have to start dishing it out!”.
Happy New year 2012!
Now I know I’m late in posting this but I was just sleeping off 2011 and kinda overdid it. So once again, another year comes to a close and as we welcome another new one 2012. I bet everyone had a fun night on the end of 2011? Me? Zip, just stayed in and had dinner with my family. So let’s recap with 2011
January to April
Was jobless from November 2010 till March 2011. It was pretty boring except for a CNY and a Rei figure shooting. In March I had finally found another job. At first it felt like another mundane desk monkey duty, I spent most of it rewriting manuals and doing minor tests. But surprisingly, they were willing to invest in their employees and so I was sent off to Cyprus for a 2 weeks training course though that didn’t mean it was a cakewalk as I had exams and tests to complete and I literally hit the ground running when I came back. But as a result, I had to cancel all my plans to go to Bangkok for the Motorshow with studio rojak.
May to July
Now this period was rough, I remember spending most of my bloody time carrying out even more tiresome regression tests by hand instead of using some sort of test harness. Had I thought the assignments been tough with their short 3 days period for each of the 3 assignments, this was nausea inducing at best.
But fortunately, I had my own things to do by scanning in all my film while at the same time reworking how I stored data on my imac .
Then in June, it was that time of the year again, Super GT 2011! And this year we managed to score a media pass! Finally, after all these years! But sadly, at the same time, the quality of the queens were evidently in much great decline.
Then after coming back from that, it was back to newer assignments! I had the chance to work on…..(drumroll!)…..tech support (crap!) and the company ban all non-essential company internet activity (the only thing we could access was the major news websites). But fortunately, one caveat was discovered initially, while personal notebooks or netbooks were banned but tablets were not yet included so lo and behold! I went and got one. Although a month after that, the company banned tablets in the end XD.
During that time, I only reviewed 1/7 Rin Tohsaka figure.
August to December
Now August was really dry, it was right after Super GT and Bon odori 2011 which I didn’t go because of work. I think all I did was just work, this lasted until October as if to re-state itself as the month of Halloween, the world lost great men, Steve Jobs and Dennis M. Ritchie.
After that, something happen at work. There was a major restructuring, as a result I was literally shifted around teams and groups every few weeks as management were trying ideas. As a result, I spent October till December doing absolutely nothing. I kept pestering my manager about this and I must have annoyed her so much that she sent me and a friend again to Cyprus for advance security training since no one had the knowledge here. Luckily this time, there wouldn’t be any assignments nor exams.
In November though, there was AFA11! My friend and I had a good time especially at the Miku concert. The events were great and the cosplay were beautiful! I also wanted to attend the final event of the year Comic Fiesta 2011 but it fell on the very weekend I came back from my overseas training, I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it.
So what did I do after that? Well because I still had a lot of leave left, I decided to take them till the new year which brings us to this entry. I’ll be heading back to work on the 3rd of January and hopefully to a better year.
Happy new year!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry christmas and to all, a Happy new year!! Another year is almost gone and soon we will begin 2012. May your tree be err.....something and your figures all shiny and rare! Meanwhile I'll be here in working on my plan for next year!
Return to normality with a twist.
I’m finally back from Cyprus. It was rather uneventful since it was only a week long training. I barely shot off 3 rolls of film and didn’t go anywhere this time.
I’ll upload the photos tonight (the ones I took digitally) which reminds me, I need to look into getting an iPad to compact flash connection to avoid the same problem of forgetting the USB to mini USB cable.
I’ve got heaps of things to work on before the end of the year and the fact I have to take all my annual leave before 2012 since I can’t carry over it means I have even less time it finish all my work as a result.
On the bright side while I was away a certain package arrived from Tokyo and I have a nice long holiday week coming up so I’ll be using the time to catchup on some figure reviews as well as my new project.
Undesirable turn of events
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I do try to make an update when possible but recently I have been busy with work. So to answer the question, yes I’m still alive.
What is it about with this entry? What tragic event has befallen me this time? Well nothing serious actually but because of my new work, I would have to miss this year’s annual trip to Bangkok International Motor Show with Rojak Studio to attend company training at the end of this month. This training is essential to my work and cannot be defer……this was my reaction….
Alright enough melodrama! Sadly the company would not reimburse my flight tickets to Bangkok nor would Airasia entertain any request for even a partial refund of my money. Oh woe is me. I guess that’s how the cookie crumbles.
So that only leaves me with Super GT and AFA this year. After those I can consider the year over already,.
So yeah. Boring crappy shit.
Happy New Year 2011!
Good bye 2010! You were such a lousy prick and I hope to never see you again! Well maybe in the obituary but we’ll save that for another day~~~.
Yeah! Like Alice here let’s all hope for a better year and etc as we travel down a VERY dark rabbit hole into the year of the Rabbit though technically it won’t be the year of the rabbit til Chinese New Year but technical-smenical.
Instead of making resolutions we will never keep (you all know what I am talking about.) I think we instead make a list of things we look forward to
1. Going to Bangkok again this year
2. Going to Super GT 2011 againa
3. Going to Singapore again for AFA
But like always, we should also make a list of things we don’t look forward in the new year to come.
1. Dealing with life
2. Malaysian way of life which is crappy
3. Dealing with everything else. Boo whoo…
So anyway, Happy new year!
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year!
Merry Christmas and may all your stockings be filled with goodies and loot. What will I be doing? Eating, sleeping and playing PS3 (in no particular order. Preferably all at once. ). Hopefully Santa brought for me some nice goodies, if there are anything nice. I'll do a review though if he brings me a lump of coal I would still be happy with the skyrocketing price of coal today, I bet I could sell it off for a quick buck! XD. Anyway, here we have the girls of Toradora as Santarinas~~~~~~ droollllll
Happy Halloween 2010!!
Its that time of the year where the ghouls and fiends come out to play.
Where witches chant and brew with whatever they find and need.
Bored at work.
I know I only started working at my new job but already they have nothing for me to work on. I mean I managed to complete my previous program in time for testing and all but already after that they seem to have nothing else to give me except more boring reading.
“Here read up on something regarding memory debuggers”. They tell me.
“Valgrind.” Was my reply, best memory debugger I’ve seen so far and its Open Source. “If you don’t like that, then use mpatrol but be warned it requires we insert special codes throughout the program while Valgrind doesn’t and works with debugger information instead.”
and what was their reply? “Research memory debugger nonetheless….”
Aside from that they also want me to look at some codes regarding IPC made by their China branch. Which sadly has no documentation nor comments and the function names are no better. What’s worse I only have the header files and compiled library, in short I’m flying blind here………. >_<
I’m so bored…..no actual coding work to do……only reading source codes……..
I’m still alive~~
I seem to get into this very often...
So what have I’ve been up to lately? Well getting my life in order I guess. The reason why I haven’t been posting much lately was because my whole group was retrenched, right after Super GT (At least I managed to use the company’s T1 line to upload all my photos before they made the group redundant).
Hence my lack of posts, though that’s not to say I was inactive. I did go to Bon Odori 2010 just to relax and forget my worries for a while.
It’s funny, 2 years in this company and I get retrenched again. Damn just my luck. At least they gave quite a nice severance package (a few months even though I only worked for 2 years) as compared to my last employer who basically didn’t give shit but what do you expect from an MNC operating in a free-trade zone?
Things I hate to hear…..
Sometimes I wish I can just punch their lights out!!
There are many things I hate to hear in my life. They are
1. “You’re good but I think I am way better because I think so.”
2. “No” (while shaking head).
3. “But ancient tradition dictates….(blah blah blah).” (old people ranting of ancient shit with no reason like why use leeches to cure anemia or something baseless.)
I could go on with a 100 more items but today I’ll add another item to my long list of things I hate….
How to avoid working from home.
Look, not even Rei works from home and we know how much of a brown nose she is at Nerv! XD
I remember my first job, they gave me a nice IBM thinkpad T41 to use. I initially thought this was a wonderful perk but then I realized it came with a serious price tag.
This is not how I had planned to spend my weekend……
Being sick......nyorooooooooo
I didn’t planned to get sick last weekend. In fact no one planet Earth should get sick on Weekend but of all the bloody days I had to get sick!
I had such a nice lovely weekend planned out as well, I would have spent Saturday at Starbucks enjoying a latte while working on my photos from Bangkok (Yes there’s still a big backlog work I have yet to complete) while being a pretentious prick with smug look on his face using his macbook!
But oh no!! I had to get sick of all days!!!
Happy Lunar New year 2010! The year of the tiger!
Tiger tiger burning bright~ in the darkness of the night.....
I’ll be heading back to home town for Chinese New Year.
To all my Chinese friends, Gong xi fa chai! (Ang pow gia lai! XD hahaahahahaha- its a common Chinese joke that is usually attached to the end of the usual CNY greeting which means, “Hand over the red packets!” which incidentally seems to rhymes nicely with the greeting). (more…)
Happy new year 2010!
Okay I know this is rather late but I have a good reason! I was too busy recovering from a huge hangover after a new year drinking binge to update my blog. No wait, I’m lying. The real reason why I haven’t updated was because I was too damn lazy! (more…)
The phone wouldn’t stop ringing last night
Ever have one of those surreal events happen to you? Where too many coincidences happen at once triggering a long chain of events? Well I had one of those word stinking events, it all began innocently enough…………..
Happy Birthday you Dork!
Yes I know it’s rather vain to announce my own Birthday. But heck, it’s been rather slow.
A brief run through of Sepang Super GT 2009
Saturday 20th 2009
We departed the hotel and quickly made our way to Sepang in the wee early hours of Saturday so we could get into the pitwalk at 8am.
This is how……
you look to me when you asked for a discount on a job I’ve completed for you……..whether its photography or computer related.
Again my IELTS exam results……
RESULT
Your score
1. Listening 7
2. Reading 9
3. Writing 6.5
4. Speaking 8
5. Overall Band 7.5
Well a surprising improvement, tragically still not enough as I need a 7 for writing! CRAP! My last score was
1.Listening 6.5
2.Reading 6.5
3.Writing 6
4.Speaking 7.5
How I despise censorship in Malaysia
Imagine one day going to a bookstore, you’re an adult with buying power. You want to buy a book or magazine so that you may enjoy the content(hopefully) that you paid (say RM120). Now imagine what you will feel when after paying for the magazine or book, you then proceed home, open the book/magazine and find that its been censored with black marker pen.
The paragraph that is Asia.
I had just finished reading an article at reuters you can find here. For some reason I couldn’t help noticing the incredible similarity that his country was facing. Well not really its just that when I read this paragraph
When I could get a word in edgeways, I asked Mohamed why there weren’t more protests like last year. “I’ll tell you,” he explained. “The people are not united, they are afraid to go out and protest. And, of course, most people are too busy trying to feed and educate their families.”
It struck a cord with me, let’s face it! Malaysia has a lot of shitty problems and yet no one does anything about it. If the government stinks, get rid of them! But Malaysians are just simply contend with maintaining the status quo, not because they are lazy (well partially) but because they are not united, afraid to take risk due to the education system they were raised in schools and at home that non-conformism is shameful and wrong.
We are all the same, regardless of skin color, religion and culture but because we are taught that inconformism is something like communism of haydays people are afraid to go out and make noise about it and those that DO want to make noise but cannot due to their inherent fear of persecution by the government who would be more then glad to crush any small rebellion with their use of ISA will always remain where they are, NO where!
But you might ask why can’t a lone person change anything ? Let’s face it, only those with immense power can singlehandedly change anything alone because power makes change. I guess this is why the Malaysian loves to keep the Malays, Chinese and Indians as segmented as possible, to prevent from creating or forming something the current BN party is afraid of which is all of us coming to the realization that we are being fucked everyday by them while they enjoy the fruits of our labor and they have whores sucking them off (and blowing up anyone with C4 that even looks at them funny!) . They are terrified of the people coming together and getting rid of them either via election or bloodshed.
I hope this article doesn’t get me arrested under ISA.
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