Nobody's Home

This is supposed to be a long-time-ago-post..its been in the draft way too long...but oh well...
just gotta finish it...

The festive season is just around...they called it Deeparaya...combination of Hari Raya and Deepavali...whatever...nothing major to do with me anyway.

So, I am, yet again, condemned to rot in the crampy hostel room. Sounds like deja vu to me...

But it turned out to be not thhaat bad...

It happens that one of my floormates is moving on...to MMU...and we gave him a farewell party before we have to release him. Nice guy. So worth the farewell. Time Square seems an appropriate place and so is the cinema. Watched the hillarious yet touching Jackie's movie...Rob-B-Hood. And i mean seriously touching...not that I cried....but the whole hall was full of sobs and sniffs and soft whinning.















The crew of Code H.GrdFlr.

Anyway, the best part is of course the CC session. Conquered almost every game we had there. Dota, Counter-Strike and even Call of Duty 2. The latter is something fresh and it kick-started the craze...at least in us. It drove us into a 7-day streak of COD.

And boy, I mean we are hooked. The 7-day-streak(and still counting, for some cases) can prove that.

And in that 7 night, 35 bucks, 21 hours and tons of energy and concentration is dedicated to COD2. Not that I am complaining. In fact, it helps to kill time. Effectively.

And because some particular samaritan leaves his car here in the hostel, we can say we took full advantage of it. Have to. For excitement's sake. Paid the petrols la of course.

And so the car took us - or we took the car, whatever la - to BRJ for footie session, Jusco for a window shopping or just simply exploring Setapak. The car really adds a lot of colours in our life for those days.

Note that it only left 5 survivors on my floor. The hostel was a dull sandy and hazy desert. Sometimes i wondered if I really heard the ants talking. Ocassionally, I can hear other "survivors" shouting "Sien ah!!!' or "Want to die liao la!!" hysterically. My friend even tried knocking on an empty room's door and shouted "Anybody's home?"

Well, nobody's home.

Kinda funny, come to think again. Boredom really drives you to nuts. And it was these nutty things that make us happy. Once in a while.

Mobile Recharge Machine

Jz came back from an exhausting trip from Times Square. And while we are jz about to ride the KL Monorial back home in the Imbi Station, I came across this can-be-termed "hi-tech" piece of machine.















This is called a Mobile Recharge Machine, or that is what we called it. It charges all types of phones, ranging from Motorola, Nokia, Alcatel, Sony Erricsson to Siemens. And you know wht? It can even charge iPod MP3. Hi-tech lo.
















Motorola takes the most slots, containing 4 types of charges. Judging by the length, my friend assumes that the longer the wire is, the more it is used. So, Nokia receives the prize of Most Used Chargers in the fray.

Notice the 3rd slot, which indicates Blackberry. I was like black...what? And thus, I browse the web and found that it is a brand that produces mostly business-functioned phones and handhelds.












Blackberry Phones

Well, unheard of.

Anyway, back to the Recharge Machine. Besides the rechargefunction, it also provides the sterializing function.











How do you actually sterialize your phone? What is the actual function? I mean, after you "sterialize" it, you take it out and the next thing you know, trillions of bacteria and micro-beings will eventually return to stick at your phone's surface.
















Now you can sterilize your phone. How amazing is that?

Malaysia is really moving into Wawasan 2020, huh? Hi-tech sial.

Prison? What Prison?

Filmaker make films into 3 parts and called it a "trilogy". And the trend of doing trilogies spreaded like wild fire. Ever since started by Lucas' Star Wars, both the original and the prequel and popularized by Jackson's, or rather Tolkien's, Lord of the Rings, trilogies has been very common.










Star Wars prequel Trilogy














LOTR Trilogy


So they made an impact on the concept and you get trilogies such as:













And spawn to games such as:








Warcraft Trilogies


But enough of this.

The main point here is that the trilogies concept spread to even TV series. Say Prison Break.
The producers are planning, yeah, hear that, planning to do a trilogy of it. Currently, its on its 2nd season.

















Prison Break

Its a freaking hot and exciting series with an interesting chronological plot on how a man gets in the jail and wants to get out. On purpose.

Yeap, he gets in on purpose.

Reason? Save his supposed-to-be-innocent big bro.

The desperate plan was set into 22 episodes on the first season as Scofield(the dude's name) unleash his genious plan of escape.

Was skeptical of it when it first popped up in my network place. I mean, breaking a prison? What so fun bout that? Mz be some typical break-run-and-get-caught kinda procedure.

How wrong I am.

I gave it a shot on Saturday. And bingo, I am hooked. I finished 22 episodes in within ONE day.
















The inmates















" Hey, are we supposed to make you up or what? No time liao."

The interesting concept of this series is apart from breaking the prison's brilliant tactics, it also covers government conspiracy, family ties and basically the strategy to framing people. And by the way, the inmates are just hunky mascular dudes, most of them. And no, I'm straight. Its jsut that I am amazed how they keep their skin so smooth and fair in prison.

Really, its an abolute thriller.















"You crazy ah? You aren't suppose to smear the blood on your head, dumbass!"

Season 2 starts with their escape and the cat-and-mouse chase with the puhlize. Am trying hard to get Season 2 ASAP.

Anyone has one?

Slow

Everything has been going sooo slow since the return to KL. Have been awaiting the days to go to classes...erm...not really....i mean, the days that classes will start and all my friends will be back soon to their crampy lil' old hostel room. It wasn't sweet to be alone, well, almost alone for the whole freaking week, speaking say, less then 7 sentences in a day.

And thanks to the ill-timed(sorry Jo) meeting which happpens to make ma hols came to an abrupt end. The thing is it wasn't the length of the hols, is the timing. This week, I got sooo many things to do at once. Like celebrating, lets see, 3 of my friends' birthday and my cousin from Singapore came home. Damn. Haven't seen him like 5 freaking years.

But now I am happily tucked in my deflated chair, staring at the monotonous screen in front of me. Missed home.

The only thing fast is me reading 2 novels in 2 days. Grisham's The Broker and a CSI:Miami novel. Both are great and interesting, tho Grisham's will be a lil' bit draggy and full of law jargons. Anyway, it really speed up the days that went by. Will be starting on Mystic River soon.

The haze has, thankfully, reduced. Fresher air. Mood lightens up a bit....

And the always problematic internet connection somehow gets to make my mood swings. It went berserk and for 2 days it was in no mood to service the clients. The lazy asshole in the office took a self-proclaimed holiday on Wednesday.

Ok. Now I duno what to write. Having blog blocks.

Packed and gone.

New Cam

After the absence of a digi cam for a whole of 6 months(the last one spoiled due to dislocated lens), finally I am back with a digi cam. So, lets hope if I am enthusiastic enough, my blog will be, once again, flourished with lots of pictures.

And, erhem, introducing Kodak EasyShare C643.















Sleek, ain't it?

Bought it with a bargain price of RM699, which due to promotion period in that particular shop, came with a free 512mb memory card, a free dull blue cover and 2 regular alkaline battery that only last for 2 days. But really, the bargain part is of course the memory card, which cost around RM180.

It comes with these features:
• 6.1 MP for prints up to 20 × 30 in. (50 × 75 cm)
• 3X optical zoom lens, 5X digital zoom
• 2.4 in. (6.1 cm) indoor/outdoor color display
• VGA video (640 × 480 at 30 fps) with sound
• Picture enhancing features
• On-camera Share button
• Internal memory plus
• SD/MMC card storage (32MB internal)
• ISO 80-400

Kinda cool.

It is a point-and-shoot cam with quite a traditional camera look. Light, sleek and compact. The buttons are easy to use and not confusing. You don't really need a guidebook to understand how to use it.

The pics it took were quite awesome. It comes with a blur warning function, which is not really useful, coz its judgement of so-called clear pictures is poor. Nonetheless, a guide. It also has scene mode , self timer, burst, exposure compensation(which I don't quite really understand) functions.















The cam also come with a movie mode function which can last for 20 minutes with a 512mb memory card. With sound. Something the precious cam do not have. Thrilled me of course.

The 6.1 mp feature is an obvious feature that excites me esp when it came with a bargain price. Plus, it also gives the option of adjusting its picture size, meaning I can reduce it to smaller mps to take more pictures.

This is one of the pics that is taken by the cam.










Some freaky plant in the porch


As for the EasyShare feature, it is quite useless to me, as i don't acquire the pinter and docks. So the cam name doesn't really applies in my case.
















Out of curiosity, I checked the reviews for the cam. The result is mixed. Some say it was incredibly awesome while others lamented its quality. The most common complain is its inability to switch on properly and the blur pic function.

Well, lets just hope THOSE problems doesn't apply in mine. My preciousss.

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Hols are bored and dull. To say I enjoyed the hols is way beyond compliment. Relax is a much better word.

Bored? Yes. Very. The things were soo routine. Eat, sleep and watch television, though wouldn't be complaining about food. In fact, the only enjoyment back there is the cuisine. Penang is not called Food Heaven for nothing.

Dull? Most of the time. Activities are so monotonous. Morning-sleep. Afternoon-sleep. Evening-football. Nigh-TV, no astro and was condemned even to watch dull Malay series. Sleep will not come before 3am, thanks to the aftermath of exams. Sigh.

Apart from TV and radio, I am pratically barred from any other multimedia sources. READ: Computer and Internet. The shitty thing is the dialled-up Internet nowadays diconnected every 5 minutes. Was once so fed-up that I banged the modem, tho it was obviously none of its fault. And finally, talked my dad to into installing Streamyx, and initial progress was done. And instead of Warcraft 3, the com is only eligible to play Warcraft 2 with no audio sound due to some defect software program. No games, no browsing, nothin'. Now I am much much much much glad to sit in front of the desktop in my hostel room.

As for the social part, it was like an iron-curtain policy. There was almost zero communication with my ex school mates, save for a visit to the school. Even with those living nearby, it was just some mere hi and bye and long time no see exchange. STPM is really taking the lives out of them. And btw, all my "foreign" friends send me Boeing 747s for their planned trips to Pg. I was practically isolated. I din even touch my feet on the floors of Gurney Plaza. How pathetic is that.

And to be confined to read LOTR novels once again makes life oh-so-dull. It is the sixth time for the first 2 books and 8th time for Return of The King. Din really know how I managed that feat, but boredom might contribute more to pure interest of it.

The good thing here is the makaning part in Penang. I was lucky then. 3 of my cousins celebrate their b'days during my stay in Pg. And we had a feast every Saturday. Whee. Long time coming since dishes like Shark Fin Soup, roasted piglings and tiger prawns are on my menu.

Something special was the trip to Bt. Ferringghi night market. The DVDs there are a bargain. 4 for each and buy 10 free one. But come to think again, the travelling part form Sg. Ara to Bt. Ferringhi already made up the cost to equal the score of buying a 7 buck DVD near my house. So not really some good deal, in a way.

A sunny afternoon at E-gate was not bad too. In fact, it was tantilizing. Sitting by the sea(quite near, not really BY the sea), sipping coffee and gathering memories with my 2 best pals...

Hmm, not that bad afterall.

And by the way, the air back there is waaaaayyy fresher than in Kl. Gosh, the haze is terrible, thanks to our always considerate neighbours.
















KL at its not-so-bad hazy state. Imagine the worse.


And after a 4-hour trip in the North -South Highway and some rest, I am back in my cramped room writing a blog.

Ironically, am now missing home. What the hell.

p/s: Bought a new cam. Will be featuring in my next blog.

Hols Notice

Finally, the killing spree is over. After being a tormented soul for like 3 weeks, its time for a holiday in the Caribbeans…..not. Ok, maybe going back won’t be that bad. And for once, this holiday ain’t gonna be that bad as previous holidays. Why? Cause THIS time, my friends will be free! At least, some of them are going to be after 2 weeks. STPM are torturous compared to our exams. You don’t have a second chance to resit, repeat and stuff. And the exam is a get-results-or-die-tryin’ type. Its only once in a lifetime, consider that you don’t want to take it in another 2 years.. No more no less. So the pressure is waaaaaaay over than college students, like me. Hah. So, I can be empathic if they refuse to come out to chill. Yes, you will be amazed that they can sit in the house for like 24 hours straight starring at the books and not get tired. Elite school students. Salute them, in a way.

By this time, except for most of my friends who are in my secondary school, most of them will be free, consider they are willing, to accompany me. Why not? They aren’t as kiasu as those elite students. They have life. Beat me up if you feel insulted here. Plus, friends from far and away are visiting penang. So as ambassador, I will be farely busy taking them for rides in The Island.

It’s a long time since the last blog. Felt rusted writing one. So, this is going to be a short blog, just to say, I am happy having crossed the Penang Bridge for good.

Updates and some flashbacks will be up soon.

p/s: I won’t blog as much in Penang. The Internet here sucks.