ConTemPlaTing Ze LaZy FaCts Of LiFe

17 June 2008

officially a Sei Ngan Chai...四眼仔!!

damm...either my age is really catching up to me, or facing the comp almost 24x7 relli paid off...I am officially wearing specs (at times) from today onwards...

went to the optical shop last week cos my gf needed to change her glasses..instead i end up having to need one myself after taking the eyesight test...apparently both my eyes oso got astig, so its recommended to wear glasses during work and at night while driving...mebe it's not much of a hoohaa to most of u ppl out there, but to me, i am always happy that i have such good eyesight even that i am facing comp all day long n reading books at dim lighting and so on, but probably now is the payoff time...sigh...

well, just got my pair of glasses a while ago, and was wearing it uncomfortably over my face for the last 2 hours...although i can see sharper image now (not that i actually noticed i was seeing things with slight blur before this...), but its painful and annoying to have something hanging over your face for long hours, which is y i seldom even wear sunnies...

oh well, oni lucky thing is that i dun have short/long-sighted problems, else i will prob need them 24x7...now i am just gonna use them sparingly...just need sometime to get use of the irritation on my head n on my ears...sigh...

my new glasses in box...

my new glasses revealed...

my new glasses folded view...

my new glasses full view...

Me without the glasses...sleepy...

Me with the glasses...weirdo...

HsienKee with the new white half-frame...

now there are 8 eyes....

n 8 sleepy eyes....

30 March 2008

Happy Anniversary my luv...

Happy 6th Anniversary, my dear beloved Hsien Kee...

Thanks for all the love, the patience and support that you've given to me. It's been a wonderful 6 years and i know it ain't easy to bear with me and all my needs and flings of mood at times, but yet still here we are together, celebrating this wonderful occasion. I cherish each and every moments that i have shared my life with you. For that, i have to thank you...

Yet 6 years is just a beginning, and i hope there are infinite years to come where we will continue our love for each other, weaving both happiness and sorrows in our journey of life together till the end of time...

I know i always say this to you, and please note that i meant it every time that i've said it...and i will say it here loud and clear again, so that everyone will noe my love for you is true...

Hsien Kee, I LOVE YOU...

29 February 2008

stop n stare...you think you're moving but you go no where...

Recently i've heard this song "Stop and Stare" by One Republic, and somehow the lyrics just caught my attention straight-on...

I been giving in a lot of thought lately, to make a move, to have a change... I've been working in the same company for 3years plus, and i do say i really enjoyed the work here, with all the wonderful colleagues and frens that i've met throughout each and every engagement, be it the client or the financial audit teams...

But somehow things just been stagnant recently...somehow my learning curve is just not curving up anymore, i feel like just working for the sake of completing each task assigned. It used to be where i would enjoy doing it, learning things up as i perform each task, but now, it just plain redundancy day in day out. My career path here is still on-going, with yearly promotion and so, but yet, somehow, i dun think that i am progressing anymore...i feel just like the lyrics "i think i am moving but i go no where"...also due to that alot of my colleagues of similar batch have all moved on to other companies, be it local or abroad...so it makes me think, why am i here n not there or elsewhere...why am i still staying here?? every year i been telling my frens, 'yea, will be quiting soon', but yet every other year i repeat the same answer...probably i am too comfortable here, until i've gotten lazy...abit too lazy...

So its really the time for me to change, i have really made up my mind, to ACTIVELY look for new jobs, new opportunities and a new lifestyle...

Onerepublic - Stop And Stare

This town is colder now
I think it's sick of us
It's time to make our move
I'm shakin' off the rust
I've got my heart set on anywhere but here
I'm starring down myself, counting up the years
Steady hands just take the wheel
Every glance is killing me
Time to make one last appeal for the life I lead

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving, but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see

They're tryin' to come back, all my senses push
Untie the weight tags I never thought I could
Steady feet don't fail me now,
I'm gonna run till you can't walk
But something pulls my focus out, and I'm standing down.

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone get scared
But I've become what I can't be
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, you don't need

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone get scared
But I've become what I can't be
Oh, do you see what I see.

04 February 2008

veli 'suey' month...hopefully to be replaced with a prosperous chinese new year...

sigh, its only 2 more days till chinese new year, yet for the past 2 weeks that i've been through, i really need the new year to arrive asap to wash all the bad luck away...

for some reason, these past 2 weeks, apart from being the bad-enough-extreme-hectic-peak season for my line of work, bad luck just seem to be able to get the better of me...to summ things up:-

1) met an accident on a sat evening 2 weeks ago, with my car bumping into the side of a myvi which was cutting out rather fast from an alley lane to the main road, but due to that the alley lane to main road is still considered a straight road, so i am to be blamed for the fault, although i do admit that its my wrong as well as i was not paying enough attention to the small alley road leading out...thus i have to fork up $$$ for both car's damage repair (am not claiming insurance as its not worth the lowering of the ncb)...sigh, there goes partial of my bonus...

2)my car seems to be acting up as well recently even after all the maintenance n servicing i hav done...the whole car is coughing up weird with noise here n there, even the air con is acting weird, which suddenly the air just wont get cold n the next instance its ok again...as the accident damaged the left side of my headlights, i've gotten it fixed, but somehow the lights angle (or brightness) just seems so wrong n diff from the other side, its like 1 side is shining higher (or brighter) then the other. when i went back to the mechanic, he say tats the best he could do...wtf... now i hav to go search for another mechanic, but as its CNY, looks like my car will hav to stay in this manner till after CNY...sigh...

3) my brother oso met an accident on a sat evening just last week, with a teenager cutting out from a inner road to the main (straight) road which my bro was driving past. The ignorant teenager was arrogant enough to defy being wrong in the situation no matter wat all the people was saying, saying that he is in the right and refusing to pay for the damage. Thus it all ended up to the police station and the stupid teen was accused of the wrong by the police and have to pay up a RM300 saman apart from having to settle the damage to my brother's car. If he had admitted to the wrong-doing and agree to pay up front, he wont even be landed the saman, thus thats the cost of his arrogant manner...but no-thx to him, now my bros car is still with the mechanics, hopefully he can get it back before CNY...

3) as most would hav known, i am quite a fish hobbist and hav numerous tanks in my house... there is one big tank outside, housing bout 10 big fishes (koi, lampang n others)...yet somehow the aquarium pump got stuck at the middle of the nite, unable to produce air bubbles which helps in providing oxygen to the tank, thus due to the lack of oxygen, most of the big fishes that has been with us for the past few years died...now the tank just seem so empty with the few remaining big fishes, problem is, its hard to add additional fishes as unless i get similar size fish (which are costly), else smaller sized fish cant be added as they will be bullied (mostly till death) by these big fishes...sigh...

4) as i tot that everything is going to be better, another case of mysterious power plug loosening happened to water filter system in my room's planted tank, causing another massive lack of oxygen case and death toll this round are about 30 small fishes, most of them are the cardinal tetras, which are the prized (and costly) fishes of this particular tank...currently my tank is still in the recovering mode, hopefully now with additional oxygen input, the remaining fishes are able to recover by tomolo...

ok, these might not sound as veli 'suey' to most of u ppl out there, but to me, it does feel like it... the only good news i had so far is that my gf is finally transferring back to KL to work at General Hospital after the 1 year plus stint at seremban n kuala pilah...

oh well, CNY is just round the corner n i am counting down the hours till it arrives...hopefully with this joyous festive celebration, i am able to wash away all my bad luck, n mebe get some good luck back again as per the chinese saying 否极泰来 meaning "good things will come after all the bad things has ended"...

16 January 2008

new year, new toys, new gadgets....old celebrations, old resolutions...

its a brand new year...the year 2008...

hav ushered away the old year via the same way as the previous year, having a mini bbq session at JunShann's house. this round the brotherhood is more complete as Yeos is around as with KokHau and Shann, too bad HunYee cant make it back, else it would have been a pretty nice 'quad-pair couple' picture. ZePin n SeeSeong oso came for the fun, with Chongi crashing in after the midnite count to help finish off the remaining food. As the bbq session was quite last minute, we oni did our groceries shopping an hour prior to meeting up at Shann's place. as it was sooo last minute, we had the bbq without the normal chicken wings as it was fully sold out at both tesco n giant...thankfully there were still some prepacked ayamas chicken wings left at the frozen food section. Only problem is tat these wings were already partially cooked and extremely hard to be poked into the bbq stick as the meat keeps coming off...yet all was fun as i managed to cook up some redwine-garlicbutter-steamed prawns, which got the smell but not the taste, nonetheless, it was finished off quite fast, mostly by me though...haha

well, new year have since just arrived, and yet i have already spent a chunk of my bonuses on some new stuff, featuring the CO2 canister injection system to replace my old DIY method and a new desktop with a 19" lcd screen.

The CO2 system cost me a whopping RM520 in total, but its at a cheap rate considering i have bought the 2.5liter aluminium canister at RM250 as compared to market price of RM400 and the rest of the parts with the solenoid which i can use a timer to control the release of gas as the lights is on. I would say i have saved up about RM300 if i am to get these stuff off the normal pet stores. All thx to my mom's fren who is able to help obtain these stuff straight out from the manufacturing plant...although the price to pay is rather steep for a hobby, but at least now i can be assured that my plants are fed with the needed amount of CO2, and apart from seeing my plants growing healthily, i can even see streams of oxygen bubbles being generated by my plants, and trust me, thats something i can sit still n watch for hours..oks, mebe not hours but u get wat i meant.

As for the desktop, i got it off the citibank airasia credit card package, whereby just at RM440, u are given a complete compaq presario desktop set with specs of AMD sempron 3200, 256ram, 80gb hdd with the rest integrated. i've upgrade the normal 17" crt to 19" lcd monitor with an additional 399 thru HP(compaq) as well. But the 'wonderful thing is that, when the pc arrived, i've found out that they've given me the upgraded package of the pc (which by right need to add another RM160 for the upgrade) to sempron 3800+ and 512ram. i've also manually added in another 2gb of ram, and old DVD writer and a new graphic card (Geforce 8600GT which runs on directx10), topping another RM700++ altogether with a new Edifier C2 speaker system in total. So now i've gotten myself an equally steady pc at just RM1600 as compare to market price of proabably RM2000++ for the same things...talk about savings...only headache is that it come preinstalled with windows vista and all drivers are vista based only (unless i go to each manufacturing website to obtain the xp ones), so i have no choice but the give vista a tryout chance even after all the horror stories i've heard about it...

oh, and another thing is tat the sleek lcd screen manage to clear off my desk (as compared to my old bulky-spacehogging-crt), allowing me to finally showcase all of the mini figurines that i've bought or tat were given to me as presents...mostly naruto by the way...haha

oh well, with all these new stuff, i still have most of the old resolutions from past year...lets hope that i can achieve most (if not all) of them in this year...

1) eat healthier n sleep earlier...
2) diet to shape up my flabbiness...
3) injury free from sports...
4) change of working environment or job nature...
5) get a nice property (landed if possible) or look for investment chances...
6) build up better rapport with friends, family and colleagues...

and lastly...
7) not to be soooooo lazy (at times)...

aluminium canister with solenoid regulator...