Christmas Mood~

Hi all,

As most of you know (most here cause there might be someone out there who does not know) Christmas (Xmas) is just around the corner. I see most of us getting into the holiday spirit now.

Some of you might have already visited a couple of shopping malls and seen some xmas decorations. For me, I've visited The Curve, One Utama, Midvalley Megamall, Tropicana City Mall and Berjaya Times Square (TS). As you can see on your right, it's at the concourse of TS. Actually there's a stage further right in the picture with a bigger structure on top (house/barn like).

After entering through the front entrance of TS, you will definitely notice a humongous rotating xmas tree. Yes, it's the tree used every year for xmas but this time with a twist... it's rotating. Below the huge tree is a hut/shack, S&J had the honor (or money) to be selling their stuffs below the tree. As you can see from the xmas tree picture, you will notice there's an S&J signboard. Upon entering, you will get to listen to the creaking rotating sound of the tree above, if your ears are sensitive enough. TS also prepare some pictured board there with faces cut-off so you could put your face there and get the body of Santa... and take pictures. You will get to see roaming Santa and his... errrr... wife?

While for 1U, it's more of a classy xmas. Look at the glass like structure, the top part is rotating. This is the only part that i felt xmas spirited, elsewhere was just simple deco. Even though it's with the classy look, it's free for anyone to take picture.

Tropicana City Mall got all the xmas stuffs put up for sale on the concourse but not much xmas decorations. Maybe they are still preparing.

While for Curve, they've prepared a place for you to take pictures. It's a nicely decorated xmas stage like place. I forgot to take picture of that place and it's really hard to describe.

Me myself? My family has setup a Xmas tree in our living room. Not a big one, it's height is up to my torso. It's nice, very nice. It's the tree me and my friends bought for xmas few years back... can't remember exactly which year. I still remembered how we celebrated the 1st xmas we had that tree. BBQ + Steamboat dinner... at my house.

So... what are you planning for your xmas? In the mood already? I hope all of you are...

Joe out~

Long long update~

Good morning/afternoon/evening/whenever you may be reading this,

It's been some time... really some time since I last update. Look at the chat box... see how many people flaming me.

Recently been really hooked up at an old game, couldn't stop playing it. Even some of the reviewers said that this game can easily accumulate up to 500 hours of playing time. I'm almost there, now being close to 200 hours playing time. What game is this you might ask? It's Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (MHFU) for PSP.

Besides doing solo quest, this game encourages the spirit of hunterhood. You may play this game with 3 other hunter friends. Totaling up to 4 players cooperating taking on some quests. And there's even something like Garena to make the game fun playing called XLink Kai (Kai).

Been playing on Kai from morning till late night, but until recently. Not sure what happened but Kai could no longer detect my PSP. Been trying to figure out what had happened but to no avail. Hopefully someone out there could help me.

OK... back to real life, it's been some time since I last played futsal too. If any of you wanted a noob player to play with, do not hesitate to gimme a call. I'd be happy to join you guys for futsal or field football.

Nevertheless, my holiday is quite nice. My girl is back in town. Planning stuffs and things with her. Hehehehee... preparing for my steamboat buffet this Thursday night also and then another Broga Hill hike on Friday. This is gonna be super fun... although exhausting I must say.

I think that's all for now... see ya in the next update

Joe out~

A trip to HP Tower~

Hey all,

Today came home early due to some work outside office. What may that be? Sending 2 laptops and a freakishly heavy printer to HP tower service center.

Left office around 2:30 pm, relying on my handy N78's Garmin XMobile. I am able to get there safe and sound. Parked my car at B2 and then i noticed something... there are no elevator on that floor. The trolley i brought along to drag the heavy printer seems to be of no use since... all i see is stairs. Either you carry all your stuffs to B1 or roll them down to B4. I chose to carry them with my bare hands. Got heavily influenced by those barbarian in FCSIT UM.

Got to Ground floor, put my stuffs aside and i proceed to ask the security there, where is the service center. The one of the best news of the day "Just a short walk, you see the elevator there... turn left". Carried all the stuffs and myself there to find a door... and i thought to myself, "I wonder if i can push the door using my shoulder." and luckily, there's another guy wanting to enter to. A big thanks to him.

Got my queue number and rest. While resting... i could feel my hands trembling like some earthquake. Overuse them i guess.

Checked in all the items just to find out the printer is obsolete and couldn't be repaired. That could only mean carrying it back to the car which is SICK!!! Settling all the stuffs and carried the printer to the elevator. Bad news... i forgot to take notice which floor i parked at. Took the elevator down to B4 just to climb stairs back to B2. Carrying the heavy printer all the while. Lucky that i magically transform the 2 laptops into 2 pieces of paper (repair receipt) earlier.

Got into my car pay the parking token and left heading home. Reached home at 5:15pm and start blogging. And here... you have my story of the day.

Joe out~

Outing War; the return of the Broga~

Long long ago... in a galaxy far far away... Joe and his army of... friends... organized trips to many of the local places in Galaxy Malaysia...

Okayyy... let's come back to reality. Haha... this time round, guess i should post one up earlier than usual. This is a post is about the second trip to Broga Hill, this time with my Uni friends. This trip starts as early as the other one but we're late for the sunrise for this one time. Tried to wake at 4am but unable to this time. I was late to get all of them. First, went to get KaiSien from his place and from there FanSheng and PeiLing.

Attendees:
Me
KaiSien
FanSheng
PeiLing

My new phone played good role in guiding us to our destination and that includes to KaiSien's house. As we got there (Broga) and parked my car. We started our climb around 7am roughly. As i am used to the hill hike... i was trying to get to top quickly... really sorry PeiLing, I'll remember to check on every members' condition before continuing like a mad fella.

Here comes the picture part of my blog

And we're at the top... somewhere near peak

Yea... i know... funny cap i got there

Conquering top... 1Malaysia style

Me and Kai

The guys in the trip... PeiLing not included, not guy ma

After the photo taking session, it's already about 12pm. That's when the sun is directly above our head. It's that bad and hot, we rush ourselves to my car. After getting our asses down... of course i'd brought them to a nice dim sum place in Taman Connaught, Cheras. Nice dim sum, ask PeiLing, KaiSien and FanSheng about the dim sum.

I guess that's all for this time, this is quite a simple one.

Joe out~

Berjaya Hill a.k.a. Bukit Tinggi~

Hi,

It's yet another late post. But as promised this one will be about Bukit Tinggi. Some of you may have already been there but some of you might not have even heard of this place. It's as the title says Berjaya Hill also known as Bukit Tinggi (we'll just call it Bukit Tinggi as it is more familiar to the locals). To tell you the truth... i was having a tough time looking for these photos.

Here we go~

These are the people involved in this lunacy
From left: Kai, Auntie, Me, Mama Ling, FanSheng

The above 2 are what I thought out and thanks to FanSheng for making it happen

Me having nothing better to do

Let's take photo... JAPAN STYLE!!! BANZAI!!!

Me trying to get myself a nice picture

Too many pictures to share, so... maybe i should just crap something in the middle. Towards the top of Bukit Tinggi, you'll notice there's 2 road both leading to a place with unique culture/environment. One to the Japanese Village while the other to Colmar Tropicale, a French-themed resort. First, we got ourselves to Japanese Village just to satisfy the heart of the girls in my car (so that they don't torture me and the teddy, this is so that they let both of us go).

There's a parking lot before getting there. It is advised to park here and wait for the shuttle to get you there. We didn't figure there's a shuttle service and yes... you guess it right, we walked up the hill. It's somewhat a healthy exercise and well worth it.

There's plenty of green here, there's even a Japanese style restaurant just to feed some hungry soul. We have yet to give it a try and to honestly tell, there really isn't any hungry soul in there besides the employees. Leaving the restaurant and heading further away from the entrance will lead you to some garden and to some rest huts (see picture on left).

The further you get from the entrance, the more exciting it becomes as you will see more and more Japanese style houses. These houses are there to serve as spa house. If you had successfully follow what i'm writing until now, you would end up at two old wooden Japanese style shacks. Here is where the ladies go crazy. These shacks provide kimono renting service and also serene environment for photo taking. See how our girls become Japanese beauties.

We really spent most our time taking photos in Japanese Village. Next up, the French neighbourhood. You'd have to drive back to the forked road and take the other way now. It will take a short drive there and sheltered parking spots are provided. The place wasn't as huge as I expected and it only took us about 10 minutes walk from the entrance to the very back of the village where the clock tower is located.

Climbing up the tower is no problem, but when we got up there. Wind gets stronger and rain starts to fall though not a heavy one but you can see how the condition is (<--). As things get a lil dangerous, we decided to leave the clock tower and get ourselves to safety. Honestly the foods and beverages there doesn't impress me. The options are quite limited, we've chosen a restaurant in the middle of the village which serves food similar to Kenny Roger's Roaster but in a larger portion. Quite delicious i would say, I enjoy the mashed potato and chicken of course ( I love eating chicken).

One thing that i'm not quite satisfy with Colmar Tropicale is that you will have to listen to loud hip hop music as they have hip hop, break dance performance on the stage in the middle of the village. That's really a little out of place, i was expecting soothing music away in a beautiful photo taking location like this. Even the clown is a little disturbing to me. But none the less we still enjoy our photo taking around Colmar.

It is a truly enjoyable place for photo taking session. Overall, I enjoy this place very much with my bunch of crazy friends. Would be happy to do this crazy thing again but not so soon. We've still got many more place to visit and enjoy. I still have a lot of places that I'd visited that i wanted to post up. It'll take some time, hope all my friends who still visit my blog could bear with me.

By the way, if you enjoy this post and wanted to see more photo of this trip. Please do check them out at facebook. They should be posted up by KaiSien and PeiLing. Hope this post tempted you to do outing with your friends. Make it happen and make them happy.

Joe out~

Broga Hill Hike; First Trip~

Hi,

This post will be about the first trip to Broga Hill on 23rd of August. At first, I was thinking of putting both trips in this one post but i noticed the post got a little bit too long when i haven't even finish talking bout the first trip. So... let's split them in two ya. This is the trip that starts it all, my liking to adventure and healthy type of outing. So... let the story begins~

It was a sudden trip for trip 1, as we got our plan finalize just the night before or more accurately 2 hours before we set off. The trip was planned in a yum cha session we had prior to the trip. After the yum cha session i got my butt home at 2am and went to sleep with intention of waking at 4am so we would be able to make it for sunrise. And so, i set my alarm up and got myself wake on time. Start driving at 4:30am, and the first person i picked up is Timberson. After getting him on my car and we went to get PoE. This trip is really funny as we mistaken where this Broga Hill might be at and rushed ourselves towards the wrong direction. Just halfway then we asked each other again where this place is at, then we knew something is wrong.

Luckily we are able to get ourselves there on time before sunrise. When we reached the place, i was a little surprised to see so many cars parked in the palm oil farm. I too got myself a parking there. When i turn off the headlights of my car, what i see is pitch black. And so, we got ourselves ready (with flashlights). Started our hike in pitch black condition following some other hikers there. The hike is quite dangerous as the condition of the hill is wet and slippery. But none the less, we managed to drag ourselves up to the resting place up top (still not the peak). When up there, the only logical thing to do is PHOTO SESSION!!! We are crazy enough to do all senseless photo shot including some jumping shot (dang tired still need to jump a few dozen times to capture the perfect jumping moment). Here are some other shots taken by PoE, i don't think i have the rest yet.
This is how it looks up there, calm and serene, away from the urban jungle

We've conquered the TOP!!!
With a cloudy blue sky behind us. Even sky can't be a limit to what we want to do in our lifes
My shoes... T-T... they were very clean

The conquerors!

As you can see from some of the pictures, the view is spectacular. You gotta come visit here with your friends, love ones, family or whoever you want. I highly recommend this place for those adventure seeking newbies as it is an easy climb to the top. Took approximately 30-60 minutes

After we're done with our photo shots, got ourselves to our ride. After a climb, nothing can be more satisfying than a delicious dim sum at the famous dim sum restaurant in Connaught with your bunch of friends after a good climb. The day turn out to be a sunny day and lucky us to be able to get ourselves off the hill before the sun scorches us.

Overall the whole trip is really fun and we did enjoy ourselves to the fullest. Got there on time before sunrise but too bad the cloudy weather is not suitable for us to catch the sunrise. We only managed to see the sky turning bright and an orange gleam of light behind the clouds rising. It's a good spot for photography fans too as the hill is good for scenery shots. Once again, recommended place for adventure lovers.

The next post will most probably be about the trip to Bukit Tinggi, Broga second trip, Malacca trip or even on a picture i'm working on using GIMP. So... stay tuned.

Joe out~

When NBTD~

Hi,

Some of you might be wondering what is NBTD... it simply stands for Nothing Better To Do. Some of you maybe gaming, watching tv, day dreaming, sleeping, etc etc. When i have nothing better to do. I'll just grab myself a piece of paper and draw. But recently, i found out that Microsoft has improved their MS Paint. And so, i drew using MS Paint and my trusty mouse.

The outcome? here you go...

The drawing is very rough i say... Hope to get myself a tablet for drawing but... maybe later. Hahahahaaa. It's not like it's a necessity. Hope you enjoy my short post and feel free to drop a comment.

Joe out~

Futsal Competition?~

Hi,

As the title says, I participated in a Futsal competition which me myself did not register for. It was a competition between churches and I'm representing one of them. How things turn to be?

At Saturday night, like usual, I ask Ken if we're playing Futsal on Sunday (16th August) and he replied, "Oh, they are having competition" and I was like... "Oh... ok...". But then comes the shocking news, "Oh, you're in too" and I was like OMGWTFBBQ??!! Perhaps this is the first Futsal competition that i have been in. I was shocked and at the same time very excited.

When Sunday came, me, my family, my aunt and uncle went to have our brunch at Taman Paramount (we had our loh pan mee there) and after that I just went home and prepare myself for the game. What I did before we get there is... I slept the whole journey. Haks haks haks. When we got there, we were given our jerseys. I was hunting for the number 5 since it is my favorite number. Too bad it's in XL which is a little too big for me. And so, i opt for number 3, which comes next in my mind (Paolo Maldini wore that number too).

After getting ourselves in jerseys and so start our training session. I'll let some comic strip tell you what happened during the training session.
Click on the picture to enlarge. And it's true, that's what happened. There's still blood stain on the lace of my right shoe to-date. I just went to toilet and clean the blood with tap water then apply bandage and continue a short training.

It's our turn to play, as usual, i start as a Goalkeeper. In the 1st game i let in around 5 goals. Can't risk hurting my knee anymore but still we won 7-6. Our second game was a better one, winning 8-1 and our last game was a draw 4-4. Our team proves to be the strongest and toughest to beat. I was hoping to play striker or winger on all of these games but it was lucky of me to be playing full all three games. Being the one of the few that play full all games, i was happy the team relied on me but also sad to not able to contribute much due to knee injury.

This post was suppose to be up long time ago but due to some recent dispute, it's put on hold. Lucky it got publish today. There's more to come, including Broga Hill expedition, Berjaya Hill trip and many more (which most i had forgotten, pictures will remind me).

Adios~

Joe out~

Insulting~

The above writes :
When your friend ask you if you know how to write your name in chinese
Positive answer : No wor..No one taught me about that.
You can answer :" What the F*** does it has to do with you? Do you F**King enjoy looking down on people?"

Hi, does the above picture ring a bell or make you feel like you've seen it somewhere? Yes correct, it's in my previous post. It's an exact copy too.

Let me inject all of you with more details shall I. It happened one day when someone asked me if i know how to write my own name in Chinese and so I replied like normal, "if you asked me this years ago, I'll be able to. Now... no way i forget". But, does she has to rub salt on the wound by following up with insulting stuffs like "hey... you're the 1st i knew... come on... try write your own name... really you're the only one i know among all my friends.". It may sound nothing to the person who said that but it's insulting to me. I replied her with "yea right... go grab someone on the street. I bet many more is like me". And still the same... she repeated the above. I have decided to distance myself to calm down. It's ok to ask me if i know how to write, but don't continue the insult.

And so, after a few days have past and I'm in my blogging mood but nothing to blog about. I wrote about this bad experience i have had. She came back to me, saying it was a joke (but not apologizing). Recently, I visited her blog and she's written something like that. She's trying to bring up this after saying it was a joke. Oh yeah, I'll remember to give worse reply in the future.

When someone is not in a good mood, don't try to make insulting jokes. It will only anger someone more.

Joe out~

Getting Lazy, Busy and Explosive~

Hi guys,

Back again with a simple post here. Recently been quite busy with stuffs around me. A better reason would be... me being more lazy and hanging in lowyat.net forum. I would just open some threads and keep spamming and talking crap there.

Recently also got myself hung up to a game, Maple Story. Blame Fan Sheng, blame Fan Sheng... how the voices resounded in my head. But I'm happy to enjoy the fun time i have. Don't want to stress myself too much.

Lately... i notice I'm easily angered. I'm trying my best to be honest with all my friends. Like this morning, I wanted to say something like "what if i don't know how to write my own Chinese name... What the F*** does it has to do with you? Do you F**KING enjoy looking down on people?". But I could refrain myself from doing so. Friends, I'm usually not that easily angered but bear with me too ya. Maybe this is due to some stress, sadness and the down time I'm suffering from recently. A lot had happened and I'm doing my best to cope with all the stuffs. I be doing my very best to control myself so rest assured, my beloved friends.

Enough with all the bad and ugly stuffs... thinking of a short getaway this weekend. To Broga Hill, Semenyih perhaps? Anyone knows how to get there or is interested? Do contact me ya.

Joe out~

Dilemma~

Hi guys,

Those who're close to me will probably know I'm looking at buying a new cellphone. This is due to my phone, O2 Atom Life just decided to die on me. Now repairing the poor gal, and when I get it back, I'll sell it.

Even though my W550c is up and running after i sent it in for a repair, I don't think it will operate long enough due to the weak battery power. Even the LCD screen of this gal is kinda faded. She will serve as a back up cause i'm planning to get a Maxis prepaid, youth club for the youthful me.

Now the dilemma is that I can't seem to choose from these phones, Nokia N78, Nokia N79 and Nokia N82. How do they fare against each other? Click here to check out their specs. Ok, for those of you who may not understand or is too lazy to look at that. it's like this:

N78

• Cheapest, est. RM 790
• Weakest in terms of specs, 3.2MP camera, no accelerometer, no camera cover, the most value for money.
  

N79

• More expensive, est. RM990
• In terms of specs, this babe is in the middle, 5.0MP camera, with accelerometer, camera cover, xpress-on cover, design wise is more trendy, comes with 4GB memory stick, the latest phone among the 3.
  

N82

• Priced around the same price as N79 but there's difference in price for different color, i wonder why. White: RM955, black: RM1005
• The most powerful in terms of specs, 5.0MP camera with Xenon flash, with accelerometer & camera cover, faster processor, has 3D accelerator
• The bad: design is ugly, it's oldest among the 3, no FM transmitter, lowest operating time

I think that's about all, all of these are very tempting and it's hard to choose only one out of the 3. Maybe i'll have my decision next week or so but until then i'll be thinking hard on which to choose. My budget allows me to get N78 while N79 and N82 is kinda out of my budget a little.

So... anyone of you want to sponsor me? You can choose to bank in to my account or just pass me the cash... Hahaha.

Joe out~

An Eventful Sunday~

Yo.... the continue to the last post...

The Sunday in this post refers to 19th July 2009. Let's try reversing back to the part where my mom called me up. Haha... need refresh refresh awhile.

Oh... me and my family went to my aunt's house for breakfast... it's already lunch for my aunt's side, Haha. We went opposite Kopitiam for a starter, I ate some chicken rice. After the chicken rice, we head straight to SS2 for DURIAN!!! At first we thought that it's all you can eat, but it's not served during the weekend. I'm amazed by their service. They have people catering to each table, checking the quality of the durian meat, replacing which ever that is not up to standard. I iz the amaze.

After the durian makan'ing session, me and my sister's boyfriend went for a futsal session. Same thing after such a long while, still can't sync with my shoes (getting used to it the week after, i can feel my shot power is already 90% full power). Not a good performance from me.

After the futsal session went back to my aunt's house and preparing ourselves for dinner. We went to 118 Food Court for our dinner. Wow... the environment is quite nice and pleasant. The lighting is ok, using yellowish light looks calm and romantic but kinda out of place. There are a lot of stalls there and variety of different dishes ranging from satay, chicken wings to delicacies from the foreign land. I walked around two rounds cause it's hard to make decision on which i want. End up choosing Cantonese Fried Mee (yin yong) and even ordered a plate of hou jin (fried oyster). yum yum.

It's a nice family day out for me.

I will update again very soon and sorry for the delay.

Joe out~

An Eventful Saturday~

Hi,

A late post from me, sorry to all my readers/followers. It's a really tiring weekend for me as I did not even get enough rest. Feeling drowsy from yesterday till now but I'm loving my weekend.

All of you must be wondering what had happened during the weekend, where I went? What I did? Guess my title and introduction kinda attracts you eh. Haha... let's not waste anytime.

Friday after work, I played a good game of table tennis till 9pm if i'm not mistaken, work end at 5:30 pm by the way. I always enjoy a good sport although not really good in it. When I finally realized it was that late, I get myself home as fast as I could. Why you ask? Hehe... to contact my friends for outing on Saturday. We planned and planned and finally we got ourselves an outing to Taman Bukit Cahaya.

Due to sleeping late... wake also late la, woke 1 hour later than scheduled. Drove myself like a jet to Li Theen's place and get her to Fan Sheng's place. Halfway there, the fuel warning light starts blinking. Picked up Fan Sheng and lead the pack (Pei Ling is in another car) to a refuel station nearby. After refueling, we head directly to Bukit Cahaya. Nice place to get good fresh air and view. Got ourselves a bicycle each and wee hoo... cycling we go. Up the hill and down the hill, pass some paddy fields with huge yield (our pictures). Enjoyed ourselves in the Seasonal House, Got ourselves to the top of Menara Pandang Jauh. Oh... and not to forget... the animal park.

After the cycling session, we got ourselves good lunch at KFC, Giant, Kelana Jaya. Not long before we leave KFC, I got a message from Poh Yee asking if I wanted to go to the 33rd Bon Odori in Shah Alam. I was like... "FUN!!... eh... didn't i just came back from Shah Alam?" but who cares and I replied with a YES. Then I asked if Fan Sheng wanna tag along and guess what... he too said YES. Apa lagi (what more?), we prepared ourselves, send Li Theen home and head over to the gathering point which is in Miharja. The 8 of us, me, Fan Sheng, Poh Yee, Kok Hong, Lum, She Yen, Ah Hung and his friend sped off to Panasonic Stadium, Shah Alam. We got some souvenirs, ate some ice (cream) and we DANCE to the MUSIC. Ok... it's not some kinda Rave party, disco or dangdut. It's cultural Japanese dance. You see Fan Sheng dances too, a rare sight.

After that, we drove off to Millennium Square in PJ for dinner. Dine in Piccadilly and got myself a good lamb chop for a reasonably cheap price (RM14.90). We chat and chat and even share our food. By the end of the day, I just sent Fan Sheng, Poh Yee home and got into bed. Got myself a good slumber sleep as soon as I'm in contact with the bed as it was already 2am in the morning or 3. Haha... can't really remember.

Suddenly, I was awoken by the calling of my mom... what happened?

To be continue... in An Eventful Sunday~

Thanks to Fan Sheng... More pictures to come for each individual event.

Joe out~

Clear Blue Sky?

As time goes by since that very sad day, piece by piece starts to fall like an autumn leaf. How long can this tree stay green full of leaves and happiness?

The very earth which form the foundation to this tree starts to dry up and crack, waterless and growing old.

How long can these tears douse the tree? How long can this lifeless tree stand?

Is the sky still blue? Is the sky still clear? as I question myself sitting under this very tree.

The ugly drawing that is me and the tree

In a journey to gather myself, I ask again, will I be able to make it? Will there be a clear blue sky?

As memory of the clear blue sky I once knew fade slowly into the abyss.

An empty weekend~

Hi,

It's yet another weekend again. This is gonna be so empty as I do not have much things to do. Most of my friends return to their Universities. Everyone will be busy with their assignments, projects, curricular and their uni social life.

But luckily I have some of my members here in KL too, the obvious would be all my Uni friends and my futsal buddies. Hoping to have some outing with my Uni friends but... let me check my wallet. Shoot... no money dy. T.T sad case. I think I should have a better financial plan which includes a whole lot of miscellaneous spending just so I have enough to pay for all the broken appliances and at the same time enjoy outing.

Hehe... my weekly futsal session will commence later at 4pm. Hopefully my unfit self would do much better this time. There's too much miss-shot last week. Need to fine tune my feet and sync them with my futsal shoes. Hahah, ok... don't mind me.

KICK OFF~

Joe out~

Twittering at my blog III~

Hi guys,

The title means it's gonna be another short post.

Recently a lot of... 'not-so-good' things happened which includes my pda gone auto-shutdown and up till now, no signs of it being able to wake from the long slumber. Hoping it was just software problem but it is highly unlikely. Next I would only hope it's the battery that has gone coo coo. Oh god... please don't let it be that the pda itself is dead, my heart would ache.

Another is that I accidentally erased all the pictures in my pda when i flash it, how can i remember to back up all the songs and notes but not the pictures?

Monday and Tuesday was more of a muscle ache as i ran too much during the futsal session in the weekend.

One good news at least, i found out there's a way to save my old phone, W550. Hope it works but I'll be needing DCU-60 cable for Sony Ericsson. If any of you got it and able to lend it to me by this weekend, I'll be a whole lot happier.

I'll keep you guys updated.

Joe out~

Twittering at my blog II~

Hi again in a short while,

Seems like I'm just posting short post when I should have posted a long one. Haha... I'll most probably be putting up lengthy post during weekend. I try to make up for all the dissatisfaction my readers got from my blog.

Been thinking of getting myself a twitter account but that could cause trouble for my readers to keep up with me. It's already hard updating my blog (due to my laziness) but my post at such length seems kinda out.

Let me confuse myself this week.

Waiting to get my futsal shoes debut pictures.

Joe out~

Twittering at my blog~

Hi...

Just to share a short post since I'm just that bored at work. Waiting for my supervisor to come and give me simple yet tedious work the likes of formatting pc, installing software, look for drivers, set up database and so on.

Been hanging on the hopes of getting tasks related to codes, programming and fixing bugs. Those seems a lil tid bit more challenging than what I am doing now.

Why the title so? Thought of just sharing a short post. Will Keep you guys updated on my status.

Joe out~

Lesson 1: Futsal vs Football vs American Football?

Good morning class,

This post is highly educational. If you find this post boring in anyway, you're not into ball games. Ok let's get into this. The simplest way to differentiate each of these games are the playing area, futsal in a court, football on the pitch, and American football on an even bigger field.


On the left where you see numbering on the field is the American football field, those number shows how near you are to scoring points.



On your right, it's the futsal turf court. Ok, you might be asking what's a turf court? Turf courts are those courts that are carpetted with artificial grass/syntetic grass like the one you see here. There are other kind of courts such as syntetic surface (mainly used for world class tourneys), concrete and parquet floor.


Do you still need me to show you football pitch? Football pitch are those you see in Barclay's Premier League, Spanish La Liga, German BundesLiga, Italian Serie A, French Ligue 1 and Liga Malaysia. And to save you the trouble of searching, here you go, the pitch on your right.

Both American football and football are played 11 players a side while futsal is only played with 5 players a side. Though the numbers can be different when you're playing unofficially. It's all up to your creative mind and there are multitude variance of the sports. During my primary school years, me and my friends played football only on half of the pitch due to insufficient number of players we have. We'll get ourselves into a group of defenders and offensive members. We'll keep defending/attacking the goal depending on which side we're on and we'll get a quick football game.

That's all for lesson 1, have fun getting into the games.

Joe out~

Here comes my new babies~

Hey yo...

This post is all about my new babies. Haha... they are not the ones in the picture that i posted previously (those... i think it's too expensive la). But none the less i love these babies a whole dang lot. Look at how sexy they are.

And they are the ADIDAS SUPER SALA VIII. Just look at their seductive sex appeal, how they make people drool over them. Even when i'm working... i kept wanting to go home fast to look at them. Besides getting myself a nice pair of shoes, I even grab a futsal ball for me to train myself.

Oh... by the way, there are difference between a futsal ball and a football pitch ball. One of which that is quite obvious would be the size. Pitch ball is size 5 while a futsal ball is more like a size 4 ball. Another not so obvious difference is the rebound/bounce off the ground, the futsal ball has a weak bounce as compared to pitch ball due tothe size of the playing area. Even the futsal shoes have different types and are different to pitch boots (notice when i mention futsal, it's shoes and when it's football, it's boots). I'll get into that in my future post... so... keep yourselves updated.

These shoes may be debutting later tonight and of course I'll be writing about the experience and the joy. Hopefully my weakened and bruised foot would not kill a good debut like this.

Joe out~

My Tough Old Shoes~ They remain a legend

Hoo Hee...

This is a story about my tough battered shoes. It started when my friend bought a futsal shoes which i think is quite cheap, RM70 or around that region. That's when i wanted a pair of my own. And so... i went bargain hunting and manage to get an Umbro futsal shoes at that price. I was very happy and a lil bit a confuse at that time, what was I buying them for? And soon, I joined all my friends for regular futsal sessions.

At first, I was not too familiar with the shoes and miss kicks were one of my top skills. My footing was a lil bit off when i'm with shoes. Sessions after sessions things become better and i regained my usual footy capability.

When i purchased these shoes, my goalkeeping skill was deteriorating. That's the time i adapt my goalkeeping shot stopping skill into a defender's anticipation. Throughout 3/4 years, I'm shifting towards an attacker and a more offensive player. Goalkeeper --> Defender --> Defensive Midfielder --> Winger --> Striker --> Winger. This is about how my position shift. Now... playing generally everywhere on the court. Been enjoying the regular futsal sessions until few weeks back when suddenly my shoes broke apart.

Remember the previous post i had about the futsal game which i scored quite a number. That's the very last game they served me and yes... they served me well. From the condition of my shoes, you will know that my right foot is my dominant foot as there are way less damages on the left shoe. Both pictures are of the inside of my shoes. When they became what they have become, it really hurts my heart. Then... I started playing barefoot again. It was not like the old times, my foot hurt as i take shot. It's like barefoot is something i'm not familiar with although it's something somewhat the way i used to play.

You will all get to see the latest addition in my futsal family in the coming post. I really love them very much. Wait patiently ya.

Joe out~

Uncertainty~

Hi all,

I'd been thinking this or that all the time. I think most of you had been experiencing the same thing at least once in your life time. Sometimes even after making the first decision, you will eventually get yourselves back into the zone of uncertainty. Thinking about "am I making the right choice?" or even "am I doing the right thing?". Yeah... things often happen that way.

After typing this far... Me myself drop into that uncertainty as I am not sure what have I been typing about or what am I gonna type next.

*As I sit in front of my laptop, gazing blankly into the hypnotizing television of mine, things kinda make lil to no sense*

This post is gonna be that pointless, pointless to the point of no return. Guess my mind had gone into THAT state... clear blue sky. It's as clear as a clear blue sky, most of ya might be thinking crystal is clearer. BUT... is it as calm as the sky... with breeze gently touches your skin... it carries your worries away. Haha... some of you might turned oh-god-he's-gonna-crap-again state by now.

Anyway, things above are why I like to look blankly into the sky. Even when I'm driving, playing futsal, walking and practically everything. I sometimes do look up in the office and felt I'm on an operation table in the surgeon room as those lights are quite blinding (as some of you might not know, I have a lengthy record with quite a few hospital. Will get into this in the future).

Ok... back to our title. There are times like that when you have to share it with all your friends, get their opinions. Some might give you things you don't like but it shows that they care. All the uncertainties kept to yourself will be something hard and daunting. As my best friend, Zam always says "sharing is caring". The credit goes to you dude... although the thing you always wanted me to share with you is my moolah. Hope to be seeing you again my friend.

Path crosses in the end

Joe out~

My Birthday~

Hey ya...

As some of you might know, my burfday just went past. Me, my gal and my family went to Dome's cafe... wee, it's food feast. As you see... me and my gal shared this... errr... fish something... shoot... I'm just myself... forgetting the name all the time. the next time i need to directly blog after i had the meal. If i'm not mistaken, it should be fish fillet with butter sauce or something really similar. You guy's just gotta go there and try them. On the left, that's my cup of drink. Chocolate blend with coffee. The sweet scent of chocolate added to the aroma of coffee, can you just smell how lovely that could be. My gal chose Vienna, fresh aromatic coffee with chocolate powder spread on top, the cup behind is it.

On yours, yours and your right is my cute gal that i would like to share everything, my whole life with. Some of you may have seen her before and some have yet to. Let me make a brief introduction to her for few of you. She's Jo Ling, my gal, that's all. Haha... it wouldn't be nice if i write everything about her here. You'll just have to explore into the part of world we shared to the public.

Ok... let's continue with our food. After that scrumptious meal, i got my slice of cake. Don't ask me what it's called... i have no idea as i'm not involved in the selection but this is how it looks like:
Looks nice isn't it? The lower layer is chocolate cake, and the white part is kinda like a mixture of white chocolate and cheesecake and those on top are chocolate chips. Haha... or perhaps i got everything mix up. Shared that slice of cake with everyone. It's just that fun. This is the celebration i got from my family.

Another celebration was from my Uni friends... they (technically) bought me a pair of futsal shoes that i loved so much. I really do appreciate that but it's really too expensive for me accept them. Push that aside, we celebrated by having a dinner/supper/dinper/supner or whatever you called it, the combination of both realm. Looky at our food :See the food, mine sounded very grand. It's Cheese baked rice with Norwegian Salmon in Danish Cheese. How much more grand can it sound from Kim Gari? It comes together with tasteless dessert, a Bosch soup (my cream soup habis dy) and a cup of cold yin yong. Oh oh... by the way, these are the babies i wanted:
Look at how beautiful it is... i'm looking for the same exact color Nike T-5 sized 7.5UK. It's the rarest of it's kind. Please i beg all souls out there to get me a pair... as i would pay you any amount... i mean ANY AMOUNT... below RM300. It's just that hard to find.

Actually there's another celebration with my school friends, i took no pictures but i would like to mention their names here, teng kiu to Weng Hong, PoE, KokHong, KokHoe, Lum, CheeHung, PeiLing, SooMei and all of you that had given me good wishes. I really appreciate them. Oh... i just remembered i managed to make some of you out there to hutang me present... Hahaha... I'll be waiting for them and i'll keep bugging you till you gimme. Haahahahahahaa

Joe out~

P.S: Ops... forgot to tell the story of my tough old shoes. They'll most prolly be featured in the coming post.

Funny Plate Number~

Haha...

Was thinking of sharing this funny and stupid story with all my friends. Last Saturday after our usual futsal session, one of my friend talk about the customizable car plate number in Hong Kong and America (dan yang sewaktu dengan-nya). He was in Hong Kong and he saw plate number like "HI DUDE". I was wondering how great it was but then me and another 2 friends of mine figures it would be funny when the following few scenarios happen:

BEWARE - Laugh at your own risk, I do not take responsibility if you laugh your guts out/admitted into Hospital Bahagia/burst your stomach/etc. Don't say I don't warn you.

Scenario 1:
A car speeding down the highway with the plate number "YOU GUESS".
Police 1: Hq, a red proton wira seen speeding down the federal highway.
Police 2: got you, what's the plate number
Police 1: YOU GUESS
Police 2: It's no time for joke, please tell me the plate number
Police 1: YOU GUESS *with a slightly higher tone*
Police 2: Eh... stop joking la... want me to slap you is it?
Police 1: Pretend I didn't call =.=
Before you know it, the car already arrived in Penang.

Scenario 2:
A red car speeding down the highway with the plate number "NOT RED"
Police 1: Hq, a red proton wira seen speeding down the federal highway.
Police 2: got you, what's the plate number
Police 1: NOT RED
Police 2: not red? Then, what's the color of the car?
Police 1: red
Police 2: Ok, what's the plate number then?
Police 1: NOT RED
This scenario may repeat/loop for a few hours until
Police 2: are you playing with me?
Police 1: Pretend I didn't call =.=
By the end of this scenario, the car would probably arrived in Beijing

Yeah yeah... kinda lame for some of you. I was just sharing a joke. About the shoes story... maybe in the next post.

Joe out~

Another Late Post~

Haha,

It's another late post again. It's been quite some time for a new post now aight. Ok, here we go. Been to quite some place one of which is Chili in Midvalley. Not quite sure what's the full name of that place so just let's call it Chili. It was friday night, 15/5... I was working back then. Work finished at 5:30, but the gathering was at... 8 i think... can't remember much la... old already ma. After work, i just took a long nap in the office. Woke at the perfect time and start heading to Midvalley Megamall. When i reached that time, the queue was quite long. Took us a long time to get places in there. We had quite a meal. Me as usual, Lamb Chopping all the way all the time.

Ze pictuarrrr below are Ze Lamb Chop, Ze Fish n' Chips, Ze Roti Canai?? (can't remember the name of that roti canai thing) and also Ze Chocolate crust on top of Ze Ice Cream on top of Ze Brownie, Chocolate ice cream brownie thingy that I also forget the name. Looks nice and yummy no? After the filling meal, we went for a movie. That night was the Premiere of Angels and Demons (imagine me flapping wings and then making a horn gesture, that's what i do when i say Angels and Demons). The movie was OK OK la to me but it's very boring to my friend sitting next to me, Lai. He was expecting more action but... as most of you know, this is just not that kind of movie.

After the movie, it's already 3am in the morning. Guess what, the place i parked my car is different from everyone. Haha, I have to walk my way through the dark halls of Midvalley alone. On top of that, my stomach has to ache at such beautiful time. What more can I say... of course look for toilet la. The toilet was so silent and you can hear the water dripping... and the humming of strange song... Oh... the humming was me... hahahaaaa. Kinda in a gila-gila mood now.

That aside... my futsal companion finally broke into pieces T.T... that is my futsal shoes. Got time i'll take a picture for your viewing. Without them, my game wasn't as i wanted. Control is out, braking gone, shot painful, and nothing seems to be right. Barefoot is the way i used to play but now, it's something unfamiliar to me.

I think that's it from me now. One of my future post will be about these lovely shoes that have endured tough times with me.

Joe out~