Happy Chinese Moo Moo Year!

Wishing each and every one of the Cina people out there a very happy and auspicious new year. Whether you're full Chinese, half Chinese, quarter Chinese, 33% Chinese, 68% Chinese or 78% Chinese. We all come as one. Enjoy this special day and hope you had a great reunion dinner.

This year, I had an especially special reunion dinner. A lil too bad that I didn't get the chance to snap some photos. [Especially of the beautifully decorated ingredients for the steamboat. Of course by me =D ]
Anyhow, being able to go through it is special enough. Having so many people celebrating it with us is extra special. Having had the dinner in our very new home adds on to the best of the night.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow and all the days to come.
[And of course of all the steamboat meals to come. Brrr~]
Ooo, not to forget what my evil-half told me to say. I'm totally looking forward to all the ang pows to be received. *e-bil laugh* [Pardon my nonsense]

Happy Chinese Moo-Moo New Year !!!
Cheerios~!

p/s: My advise - Don't wear red.
You wouldn't want to get chased by a bull/ox/cow now, do you? *winks*

Happy 22nd To Me!

And so another year gone, another birthday celebrated. Another day of receiving greetings for getting old. Oh, the irony! =p

In the midst of studying and in the midst of all that stress, I still managed to have a blast last night. But I have to say, I didn't expect the turnout.
Thank you all so so much for making it to my house for that big surprise despite exam the very next morning to the Nanotech Gkai and Karen and paper in the afternoon for Juin Hau, and exams on the following day for the rest of you! Love ya all loads!

I thought I knew a surprise was coming along, but credits had to be given to Chee Wei and Yamunah. Okay, so according to my watch you guys weren't exactly on time when midnight strikes. *sobz* [It did made me wonder you know.. =( Hehehe.]
Gosh~! Yam, you're such a drama queen! *ahakz* For a moment there, I did believe that the electricity was shorted, or cut, or whatever. Bottomline, blackout. I did believe it was your "Yamunah's touch". Haha!
For you Chee Wei, good one on the empty cake box. Probably next time you'd like to fill it up with something heavy so it wouldn't seemed so erm...empty? Haha~!

30 Minutes To 22.

Gosh~!

Last One Out.

Here we go now. My last blog post of the year, so I really don't wanna be filling it with rant or curse or whatsoever of the sort. But hey, proves my life is full of shits. And shits do happen, right? So be it.
Because no matter what, it had to be so-called "endured" and as the positive ones would say, "Take it as another challenge from God".

I wonder to what extent of an optimistic that I am.
Am I a person who faces a "challenge" in life and smiles and says, "Oh yes God, I'm enjoying this. Gimme more!"? [Bah~ That would be so unrealistic.]
So, am I a person who when given a "challenge", finds hard for the reason of it happening and laughs on hard when I found one possible reason and then overcomes it [if it is overcome-able] and then takes pride on it and then, and then.....? [Bah~ That would be so self-fool.]
Well, if that's the case, I guess I'm never the optimistic one. Because it's a lie to say optimism has never disappoint me. But one thing for sure, it had never bluffed me. Because when it doesn't work, it doesn't work. So, I guess it's a good thing (?). [*ding* One point for optimism.]

Bah~ If this is how it's gonna be. Praise to the Gods up there. Praise to the fools down here. May the year ahead be full of optimism, and if luck abides you to it, may it be empty of disappointment.

To the optimistic ones out there, have a great time overcoming your "challenges". I mean it.
To the pessimist, have a great time hiding yourself from your "challenges".
To the ones like me, let's have a swell [pun intended] being in the way just how we are. Bah~

Happy New Year! *winks*

Internet At Last.

After so blardy-freaking long [pardon the language], I finally get my own Streamyx connection in my own homie! Gosh~! Don't make me start on why it took so long. You'll know the right person to ask it to. =p

All these while without internet connection is such a kill. So what if you can get online someplace out there. It's just so different not to be able to get connected from home. My laptop just felt so boring and spiders were near to building it's cobwebs around the desktop. =p

Truly, this is serious case!! Did you even know, almost half of the ladies out there would give up sex for internet?! Haha. If at all you don't believe it, just go on and Google about it. Betcha gonna get a whole bunch of hits.

But seriously, it was almost a double kill when you finally get your own house, own room [after such disaster] and the internet connection is still taking so long to get connected. We can do nothing, we can't download our notes, can't do our assignments, can't check anything at all. So yes, it would be way too much to actually ask for chats on MSN/YM or just plain surfing the net.
What more to update my blog. *rolls eyes*

Yes, I know my blog is dead [as a fren would call it] and nothing's been updated.
But I would just say my poor blog had just gone into a coma, and is now reviving. =D Give it some time to recover. I'll be by it's side. Don't worry. Hahaha.
I've so much to blog about but I was just plain lazy considering I couldn't blog about anything at times when I felt like it.
I didn't have a comfy position, comfy timing, comfy this, comfy that.
I'll try to update about whatever I wanted to soon and post it up. I don't want my past three months not immortalized anyway. Hahaha. Ok, this IS exaggerative.

My my my~~ This is so comfortable. I finally get to get to surf the net on my comfy lil bed. Just the way I like it. [Oops... Yes, lazy I know. =p]
Seriously, my God... So comfy~~ Aight aight, lotsa catching up to do online. Haha. Till the next post. Toodles~~


p/s:
What is this about everyone catching the blogging bug suddenly? I'm surprised. Here we go, keep it up people! *winks*

Special Day.

Two months and a birthday. Yeap. You got it right. It is a special day. =D

Good Deed Done.

Had quite a funny evening. As we were off for dinner in Dengkil, one cab was in front of us. Being the noisy and crappy ones that we were, I just pointlessly pointed out to how long the aerial at the back of the car is. [It was meant to connect the walkie-talkies of the taxi station anyway.] Instead of looking at the aerial, all Chee Wei saw was a cellphone. On top of the trunk of the car! And all of us starting shouting. Soon Ming even honked the fella in front. But c'mon, for real, who would be much bothered about you honking? Especially in Malaysia. =D

Round the corner at the Fire Station there, and the phone was on it's way off from the trunk right to the tarred road. Ouch~ Pretty amazing how tough Nokia phones are huh? =p Everything was stil intact, and as a matter of fact, it is still functioning. Or at least, as we see it.
Obviously stated, we stopped the car and got down to save the phone. At least you'd know the phone is in good hands. *bats eyelashes* Hehe. And well, it did. No worries. We're good people. =p

The owner called quite a number of times. I can imagine the anxiousness of the fella. Had a couple of such experience myself, and it is so not fun. Imagine worrying and wishing that you hadn't been such a forgetful that you were. So many times you just wanna kick yourself in the head. *sigh*

But there's also this one time that I am so frigging lucky. Thanks to this one man. That night I lost my wallet. Well, I actually drop it at the carpark at my Penang home, when we just came home from dinner. I actually realized it hours later, which was already near midnight. Omigosh! And I would be going back to Cyberjaya the next day! My bus ticket, identity card, everything in that wallet. Now how do you suppose that I'm gonna be safe from my parents? =_=

Worrified, I went downstairs and started looking all over for it. I went down thrice, I think. And the third time was the time my 'angel', at that moment, came along. He asked if I lost a wallet. Imagine the shock I had!! Handing me the wallet, he asked to check if I lost any important documents. Of course, the money is gone, but who cares?! All I wanted was the important documents just to be safe. That includes my identification card and all. Can't bear to go through the trouble to make a report and all.

He told my Dad that he actually came around a couple of times already hoping to see the owner coming back to look for it. Boy was I glad that he did. And boy was I glad that I never stop looking for it at the carpark, even though it was pretty obvious already that there's no wallet lying around anywhere. =__=
Thank God!!!!
The relief was so overwhelming. That's why I totally understand the feeling to lose something important. Grrr~ Still hate those who stole from me before though! >=P

Final One Week.

Final one week to complete my mini project. To create an Mp3 player~~!!
Surely it ain't gonna be anything like an iPod nor a Sony player, but at least it's way more meaningful and precious. *winks*

After a whole 12 weeks on the course, we've finally come down to the final stage. To access data from the SD card and send it over to the decoder and walla~ The Mp3 is ready to go.
But, sadly...after a couple weeks of putting things on hold for midterm tests and assignments, progress on the project had been slow. To be frank, this 'last' stage should have been over and done with by now. Hence, we're all pretty much struggling to race against the time now. However, I do believe we'd be able to complete it on time. No doubt! [Fingers crossed. ;)]

Fixing the hardware was kinda fun, and being exposed to the "Engineers' Haven" was one experience I'll cherish. Haha! The haven is non other than the Jalan Pasar. A place where you can find just about any electronics component. A place where you would shop more crazily than you would in a shopping mall. No kidding, we practically went in to every single electronics shop there. Some of us were even so obsessed of the place that they went over really often. Haha.
You'll be amazed with all the collection of components they have in every shop, and of how crowded the whole place is. I was personally amazed with the racks they have in each shop, and the little components inside them. Seriously looked like sampah. Haha! But then again, you know, I still like to see many, many little things all piled up together. =D Somehow, they looked cute. Just like this....a lil.

[Looked familiar this place? =D]

Since, wosiew [pronounced Wo-Siew, meaning Master Wo] mentioned that packaging doesn't contribute much to the final marks, we've decided to transfer everything to the veroboard only after the software part is done. So, this is how our lil product looks like for now.


I am not exactly fond of writing the software that goes with the whole project. Well, I do find C-programming interesting at times [bah~] but to an extent of this, it isn't such a good idea. Especially not with so many datasheets to refer to, so many points to be taken care of, so many unknown errors. The worst part of it all would be troubleshooting!
Especially when you think that everything is successfully coded and then suddenly you notice something wrong and the next thing you know, you panicken. You can no longer stay rational and all you do is blame the 'mysterious' display for acting weird.
Being the one who wrote the code, you will never [I repeat, NEVER] are able to pinpoint which line, or which command, is wrong. You would even look down at the obvious mistake and say, "There is nothing wrong so why won't the frigging thing works?!". And then, you'll get so pissed of, not able to think straight and waste most of the next hours just hoping to find error you don't think exists. Haha.
Ever worse was when you finally found out the SIMPLE mistake in the code. Cause that's when you feel like hiding yourself away for being so silly.

Well, no matter how silly I shall be, I will be. I just so gotta get this thing up and running. Wish me luck people! Shall resume FAT16-ing. Here we go!

Fragility Of Life.

Since I forgot to turn my cellphone on again after it turns itself off yesternight with its battery totally flat, I missed two important calls from my Dad this morning. They were on their way down to KL again. And this time it wasn't for some holiday, nor was it planned beforehand. Knowing the reason to why they are rushing their way down south really gave me the shock.
I truthfully, seriously never ever expected this. At least not so suddenly, at least not without much warning.
And I'm reminded of the time I got the news of my maternal grandmother. Then two years later, my paternal grandfather's. All of which came to me as the news of the day, came to me as the first thing in the morning when I woke up. I would wish that it all are just dreams, that I would wake up the very next moment kicking myself in the head for dreaming such nonsensical dream. But it all never happen, I never woke up from that "dream". I had to mourn instead.

Death had always given me the fear of losing my loved ones, given me the fear of not being able to see them again. I hoped death never exists, and I still do. Ever since I was young, I had imagined my family to stay as it was that day till the day I am a hundred. Just addition, no subtraction. I never liked to relate death with my ever-loved ones.
And I felt the sharpest pain of losing with my grandmother's passing.

It wasn't that often that I met her when she was alive, but I remember the days when I see her. And who could forget the days when we had to say goodbye. Every goodbye, I was tearful and I long for the next trip when I would be seeing her again. But at least, I get to say goodbye.
Call me silly, but I did wished that I would see the ghost of my grandmother just so I could bid her goodbye one last time. Every turn of my head, I wished to see her face looking back at me. Her sweet smile, her gentle eyes. Just one last time. Just one last goodbye.

Life is so fragile, that you'd not know whether you'd still be here the next second. Life is so fragile, sometimes it's just so scary to miss a single minute of it. Life is so fragile, I never want to think of it ending.
Life should be about living and the process of it, not fearing for it's ending.
For if you do, then you would be looking forward to dying.
Cherish your loved ones, cherish your life. =)

My Comeback.

It' been a frigging long time since I blogged for real. Every post had not been written on that very day, or on the very moment the idea comes to me. Rather, it all very much piled up like my assignments and when the day comes that I am free and in the mood, I will blast them all out. This of which I really am not quite liking it. It's true that I know what I want to write and all, and that I just need the extra time to think how to put them in words. But to have so many unwritten posts all written and posted at one go, it pretty much loses its touch [or rather, I lost MY touch].

Life hasn't been much of a rant lately, except for the fact that I am still homeless in Cyberjaya now. Life has been filled with one rush after another, leaving me not much of a room to rant about anything anyway. Life has been so busy and tiring that blogging stayed miserably at the end of my head. For everytime that I clicked on the 'New Post' button, my mind would miraculously be blanked of words, and thought I'd better finish off whatever I have to finish off now, I'd continue finishing this post later. And that is how they all piled up. Writer's block, people call it? Nah, I don't think so. Maybe sometimes, but not everytime...I think. But most of the, all I need was very much the long, undisturbed time for me to be on my own. But a few times that when the free time comes along, I'd end up doing something else or just laze around like it's nobody's business. Well, of which is really true as it IS none of anybody else's business. =D

Logging in today, I saw that someone actually came over to my blog [when I have sadly abandon it for awhile] and rate it! Er, shall I be proud? Not considering the result of the rating, but the fact that someone actually wants to rate my blog? Haha! I don't know, I just thought of it to be weird. Well, for one, it isn't like I'm commercializing my blog. Furthermore, I'm just writing how I feel like writing. So, no pressure. Please. Haha.

Ah well, I guess this should mark my determination to post up blogposts again. =D
....hopefully. *bluek*