Michael

MALAYSIA AIRLINES SUCKS BIG TIME

2006-12-01T17:06:00.000+08:00

to everyone who will read this..don't take malaysia airlines if you have other options like singapore airlines, silk air etc. It's a bunch of absolute crap. well okay it begins with my flight back to malaysia from singapore. I'm sitting in economy class row 5 of a Boeing 737 which is a row behind the First Class section. I'm sitting along the aisle and I noticed a rich family boarding, young parents with about 3 kids. The father is going to sit in economy class with me while the wife, carrying a LV suitcase and LV handbag, going to sit in First class with the 3 other kids. Okay, that's the introduction. Here's the main part. Let's call this air stewardess, Miss A. Since I've nothing to do, I tend to observe my surroundings with great detail. THat A is like sucking up to the rich lady and pretend to ask about the kids etc etc WITH A BIG SMILE. When it's meal time and she serves the economy section (that includes me), she serves with that asshole attitude face. okay..i don't mind that much. Upon arrival, air crews need to greet passengers farewell at the exit. That A is there again..what the hell..and she say thank you with that 'chieng bien' face again.

Fine with the air service. Ground service sucks big time too. THere's something like a KrisFlyer or Frequent Flyer programme called Enrich for M'sia AIrlines which you can trade your points for exclusive services. Since my family is going to CHina, we wanted to change our points for voucher to go to their golden club lounge when we transit in KL. The monthly letter sent to us notified us that the online system is up but not running in full capacity which meant we need to go to the MAS office in town to change for the voucher. I even went online myself to confirm that the online system is not up fully yet. So here we go to the MAS office.

Okay..now about the office. It is two stories high, ground floor handling ticketing and the top floor handling the enrich stuff. The ground floor ticketing section has queue numbers to be followed. Some bloody people who acted dumb went to the top floor and do their ticketing there. What the hell. okay fine..they don't want to get the queue number. BUT the ground floor has 3 counters and it's bloody empty!!!! the top floor only has one working counter while the rest of people are in office chatting away. Some even try to jump queue at the top floor, which is already very congested. Assholes.

Seeing so many people, they reluctantly open another counter. One man and one woman. The man is serving me. I said I wanted to change the enrich points for lounge vouchers. The man acted blur and don't know anything. THe lady overheard and pass me a small paper and asked me to call that 1300 bla bla bla number. I asked why? SHe say need booking to trade for voucher. HAhA funny..first time I hear that we need to BOOK to change for voucher. It's not a flight ticket damnit! That number is supposedly the main Malaysia Airlines toll-free line. Okay fine..I call at the spot.

A woman picked up and say go online and do it. WHAT THE HELL! I TRIED ONLINE!!!! (scroll up and read again if u missed that part of me going online). She say..ohh then try the MAS office. -__- I'm here already and they asked me to call u, u dumbass. okay..she asked me to hold on.. and off she go..after waiting liek 5 minutes, she asked me to call someone with the name miss puntati or smth like with a KL contact number. DANG..Malaysia's airlines main line doesnt know what to do???? OKAY FINE..i call the number that she gave me. After trying like 5 times, it's still engaged.

So we go back to the lady at the office, telling her our DEEP SHIT situation. Guess what she said? FINALLY SHE SAID..OHHH THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF ENRICH STUFF IS NOT HERE. COME BACK NEXT MONDAY.

MALAYSIA AIRLINES..GO AND EAT SHIT..

Countdown

2006-11-25T21:51:00.000+08:00

87 more days to go..I've survived a week of extremely boring holiday. PLus my 56kbps dial up internet is killing me. Opening even hotmail need at least a few minutes, that's IF the line is stable. Most of the time it just timed out. Seriously getting on my nerves. And the weather isn't helping either. Cloudy but no rain, so the heat is being trapped near the ground..haih.. I wanna go to the beachhhh! haha

Due to my boredom, my mind started wandering around again. Will I repeat the same thing or not..I really wonder..Without much effort, I always get myself into such deep shit thats so hard to clean up lol okay let's do an analogy here. Let's say my life is a stage. I'm just some useless backstage crew who spend his time daydreaming of the lead actress. I can't help but to think what if I'm the lead actor. But what a pity, the lead actor is someone else and there's a very high possibility that he doesn't cherish her. He may even be fooling around behind her back. It's my rough guess that the lead actress knew it but she just kept a blind eye on it. How about the Director? Why can't He do something??? Maybe that's His plan and I can't complain. or Maybe the time is not rite for the Director to let me be the lead actor. Guess I should just be contented that I got a backstage job. Don't wanna worry about things I can't control and I'm just glad that I can spend time with her. ANd thank you for listening to my lousy story lol

Greetings from changi

2006-11-20T02:14:00.000+08:00

It's 2.07 am in changi international and i still have'nt sleep haha i plan to stay up whole night and explore every corner of changi airport. I think now there's about only 1 person per 5 metre square but before midnite there's about 5 people per metre square..dang! make my photo taking so hard..now it's so so so much easier..no people appear in my pictures haha

I've been busy with exams for the past 3 weeks but i think i was even busier for the past 3 days haha exam is fine..i think i've worked harder this 3 months than for the 2 years in my A levels years. So i hope can get at least 3 HDs..argh..hoepfully haha On wednesday after my last paper i went to Cottlesloe beach. The beach is so so so nice..but the waves are a bit disappointing. Then thursday, I went to the city in morning, afternoon went to 3 suburbs..Harbourtown, Garden City and Carousel. Spent like ermmm nearly 3 hours for all the bus trips lol. Friday! Went to Scarobrough (if i spell it wrongly, u won't notice it anyway haha) beach which is connected to the Cottlesloe but its roughly an hour ride away. I guess can walk from one beach to the other by foot..maybe 5 hours? =P

i think i'm falling asleep soon haha but i don't wanna sleep! once in a lifetime opportunity to be alone in changi airport at night, observing the night time operations. Xmas decorators and cleaners are up in full gear doing their job. I feel like going over and chat with them haha argh..body so sticky..haven't bathe for the whole day, well that includes brushing teeth and washing my face =P

3 months of hols! hope i can make full use of it. I think i've left my heart somewhere. Feeling kinda empty hehe okay that's it for now..hope i've the mood to upload my recent pics! =)

Kangaroo hop hop hop

2006-07-19T23:52:00.000+08:00

News from down under! I bet 90% of the people in my hostel are already sleeping soundly by now. Seriously. There's no night life in Perth! I'm all alone in the whole comp lab in resource centre ( A double storey building consists of a computer lab, mini library and many study rooms..24hrs btw). It's not that scary in the building as it is well lit and u need special keys to enter..both through the main door and the computer lab door. What i worry most is the way back to my room. It's dark, cold and kinda far..argh..

okay back to blogging..Perth is a very nice place, especially for the senior citizens. Things are much slower and relaxing here than in Singapore. Everyone is friendly. As in strangers will greet you on the streets and super friendly&helpful bus drivers! It is a norm here to say thank you to the bus driver before alighting the bus! And the driver will give you a nod through the rear mirror..so nice! Shopping is not as bad as i thought. Shopping is good. Theres a huge shopping corridor between Murray and Hay Street. Most of the shops are small and cute looking. Very few big departmental stores like OG, Metro and Takashimaya considering the size of the city.

well on the downside, the orientation here is boring! the only game we play among group members is wacko. let me describe my O in detail. 1st day, attend welcome speech by international services centre. then the wacko game and followed by tour around the campus and meeting with the officer in charge of each faculty. 2nd day..optional talk on visa and tax stuff (if you go for any part time work, u must declare your salary and it will be imposed with government tax..not sure how it works though). 3rd day welcome tea by vice chancellor or someone and tour around faculty again! 4th day which is tomorrow..the climax..tour around places of interest around perth..it is optional again..but surprisingly all my OG members sign up for it..Other groups have only one person signing up for it haha and by the way, there are many many singaporeans here! 7 out of 12 in my OG are s'poreans and all OGLs are singaporeans..so unexpected! i thought there will be more PRCs and msians&s'poreans normally choose melb and sdyney over perth..well and lastly 5th day enrolment of my course units and get computer access stuff done. -end of orientation- weird right? and its totally diff from orientation in singapore whereby there will be staying over or dragging late into the night..here's absolutely NO..everything will end at the very most 4pm..

okay..that's it for now..will blog again as soon as i get my own personal LAN in my room! weee!

Eight ways to kill someone using nano

2006-07-09T16:02:00.000+08:00

EIGHT WAYS
TO KILL SOMEONE
BY USING AN IPOD NANO,
ACCORDING TO
EX-MARINE
BRAD COLLUM.

BY KEVIN FLEMING

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1. Break it in half with your hands (very easy to do) and use the glass viewing screen's broken edge as a razorblade to slice the jugular when they are looking the other way.

2. Take off one sock (a dress or tube sock; pantyhose will work in a pinch), place the Nano in the sock, swing it around as fast as you can (being careful to not hit yourself), and whack the intended target right on the temple.

3. Take the reflective shiny part and catch the sun's ray and shine it in a vehicle driver's eyes, or if you are at a rock concert and the lead singer is prancing around on a center stage that protrudes into the audience like a phallus, you can use the same technique.

4. The cord on the earbud headphones can be used to strangle someone. A knee in the back can give extra leverage.

5. Dig a pit about 5 feet deep, then take about 15 3-foot-long stakes 2 inches in diameter and sharpen one end to a fine point, like a very sharp pencil. Jam the sticks at least a foot into the ground, with the sharp ends pointing up. Cover the hole with pine boughs, grass, and leaves. Treat the Nano like a slice of cheese pizza in a deep, hot oven and place it gently in the middle.

6. Carefully unstaple a tea bag and pour the contents on a plate. Break into the lithium-ion battery pack and saturate the tea with the battery's poison, then dry the tea in the sun (or with a hair dryer if you are in a hurry). Put tea back in tea bag and bend the staple back to its original position. Put the tea bag back where you got it.

7. Download to the Nano "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters. Tell someone you will give him or her your Nano if they listen to that song a hundred times in a row.

8. Hide the Nano in a bowl of lutefisk, then take it to the annual Norsefest Lutefisk Eating Competition in Madison, Minnesota.

Scolari wins the battle of benches

2006-07-08T00:13:00.000+08:00

Interesting and funny =)

Portugal may have lost Wednesday's World Cup semi-final 1-0 to France but they ran out the clear winners in the battle of the benches. The respective coaches could not be more different. While Luiz Fleipe Scolari - who saw his record run of 12 successive wins in the World Cup Finals come to an end- prowls up and down like a caged lion in Munich zoo, his Gallic counterpart Raymond Domenech stands stock still, sphinx-like, reflective, thumb and finger joined as if he's contemplating a work of art back home in the Louvre.

Being Scolari- whose likeness to Hollywood great Gene Hackman is unreal- must be an exhausting business, just watching him leaves you short of breath. THe Brazilian, who could have auctioned his seat on e-bay such was the little use he made of it, would lose a fortune on the poker table, his feelings as transparent as a sheet of cling film.

On the 28th minute Domenech was the target of his ire. Big Phil, his moustache twitching in the warm night, pointed and shouted in his direction after the Frenchman made diving gestures following a fine piece of theatrics from Cristiano Ronaldo band smack in front of the French dug-out. Nine minutes later the master motivator was barking at referee Jorge Larrionda for not awarding a foul in Portugal's favour. His mood darkened when Zinedine Zidane slotted home the 33rd minute penalty, thrusting his hands angrily into his pockets as former France legend Michel Platini raised his aloft in the stands.

And Scolari humour hardly improved when a member of the French bench executed the international 'up yours' sign at him when Portugal's claims for a penalty were denied three minutes later. If he ever gets tired of the day job, Scolari should consider the metier of traffic policeman such is the skill with which he directs his men left and right, front and back. Little wonder that as well as Big Phil, he's known as the Sergeant Major.

But the tough guy has a softer side, as he was seen with tears in his eyes when Portugal qualified for the knockout stages, although he moved quickly to dent and Ronaldesque display of emotions. "Maybe my eye colour changed, but that's it," insisted the man who once told a referee after a row over a decision: " I'll wait for you outside."

On 75 minutes Scolari did something completely out of character. He sat down. But it was only a temporary lapse and seconds later he was back up on his feet, his face dripping with frustation as a Figo header flies high after a messy clearance from Fabian Barthez. As the clock ticked and Portugal's hopes of reaching their first ever World CUp FInal slipped away he turned on his bench who are up in arms over something, ordering them to sit down. Sportingly he had greeted Domenech before the kick-off but he wasn't feeling so charitable towards Larrionda, storming up to the Uruguayan after the final whistle and jabbing his finger at him.

Ergo Proxy

2006-05-01T16:40:00.000+08:00

4 months of slacking and now I'm back to blogging! At the time of writing this post, I'm already halfway to my grave..touch wood hehe five monthssss! about 150 daysssss of same old dull routine : sleeping at 4 am, waking up at 12pm, bathe then eat lunch then watch tv from 2 to 4 then online then watch Shaman King and Naruto at 6pm then dinner at 7pm then online or watch tv till 4am..i'm like a robot..and btw all the slouching on the sofa makes me heavier by about 8 kg since december..i'm 58kg now..2 kg shy of my 60kg target! yipeee! haha

okay time for weather report..for the past four months, it's like a desert here. Hot and wet weather at the equator? Fat hope..the average temperature here ffrom dec to april averages about 30 celcius with negligible rainfall..Rain only fell once a week for like less than 30 mins and that did little to lower the HOTTTT weather..the lowest temp recorded is still a HIGH 28 celcius! Highest so far is 33.5 celcius..Well the only exception is today and yesterday, it rains like every 5 hours..Global warming huh? Why can't the world invest on a super mega structure like a giant aircon that can benefit all people? hehe

And wells as you know election is coming..both in Singapore and my state X. Let's talk about the politics of my state X. Okay I'll leave out names and I hope ISA won't arrest me hehe..The helm of the government is held by a person about 70 yrs old(current age) since like 25 years ago..Thats long huh? And i can seriously say that He will win this election and no one will say anything about it..well this is either He is such a goooood leader or otherwise. Oh before you make any judgement, this are few interesting information. This is not related to Him directly but His relatives. Let's name them A and B. In order to expand his mansion, A demolished a government quarters next to his house and build another villa on it..Thats only less than a km away from my house. Wow..government quarters mind you..Then another case which I only found out just a week ago. There's a so-called exclusive housing estate on a reclaimed island about 3 km away from town. My friend and I went for a housing survey and we saw a hugeeee 3 storey mansion. There's a helicopter pad and a 24hrs guard house. The back of the house is linked to the river and whats astonishing is the land..It's as big as ACJC itself, well minus the sports complex hehe..later i learnt from my aunt that there are no stairs in the mansion, only elevators..cool rite? Well thats B's property. Then recently I heard that a timber boss was evoked of his license and kicked out of his 'private company' after having argument with another relative of our dear leader. Wow so called Privatisation huh.

Okay back to the question : What has He done for my state? Yes there are more traffic lights replacing roundabouts now but is that really development? The 'highway' linking every single town in the state is only 10% of the quality of the western states. Seriously, you will know what i mean if you come and see it yourself. And the most terrible excuse is that..Ooh sorry there're too many mountains and swamps to build highways and railroads. Yea rite..Jurong East and West are not swamps previously? The buildings there are still so stable and the roads don't sink! And how come the Swiss can build railroads over mountains in the Alps and the Chinese in Xinjiang? Well they did reclaim land from swamps as my town is originally a swamp. But the quality is really terrible. The roads sink every month and the authorities turn blind on them. They are reluctant to patch them immediately or find a solution to it. It've been like this for 20 yearssss!!! Ever since I'm born..If they don't have the PROPER technology to reclaim land or build roads over swamps then DON'T do so on their own! Why put the road users at risk? There's holes and lumps everywhere. Everytime it rains, the whole place is flooded. Adding to this scenario is the drainage system. I learnt from my uncle's friend that it's impossible for flooding to happen in my town althought it's a swampy area. This is because there're two big rivers discharging their contents into the sea at a very fast rate. So the problem lies with the drainssss! Why can't they build a huge drain like those in Bukit Timah? argh! They really should hire me as state developer man hehe

Okay quit my whining..but I really hope PAP will come to my state and rule man..seriously..I don't mind sacrificing freedom of speech to efficiency of service and real development AND most importantly NO CORRUPTION! =P

Prom nite room

2006-01-07T15:05:00.000+08:00

Our hotel room in Ritz Carlton during prom nite..Oopssss lovers got caught red handed..Prince Charming and Sleeping beauty on the bed together! wow haha i guess i'll get killed when i go back singapore next time hehe

My cousin's wedding

2006-01-06T01:51:00.000+08:00

My cousin's wedding pictures on the 26th December 2005
1st row from left to right :
Wedding ceremony in Wesley Methodist Church, My little cousin and my aunt's friend's daughter as flower boy and girl, Candid camera in church
2nd row from left to right :
The wedding car, Exhange of rings, My cousin (bridegroom's sister and also the bridesmaid) and I
3rd row from left to right :
My cool hairstyle for the wedding dinner, My cousin (bridegroom) and I, Wedding couple with my aunt,uncle and grandmother

2006-01-06T01:16:00.000+08:00

More prom nite pics..sorry for the delay..I just found out how to use bucketstamps in photobucket haha spent 30 mins learning how to use it by trial and error arghhh..at least my efforts finally paid off =)

2006-01-04T22:01:00.000+08:00

(O_o)

2006-01-03T18:44:00.000+08:00

Sigh..I tend to think a lot of nonsense things when I'm tired and sleepy..flashbacks of ugly memories again. Well the good thing is that it's happening lesser now and I'm trying very hard to contain it but the bad thing is that I'm scared it's growing in me and that it'll explode sooner or later. Sounds like time-bomb ticking away haha From my experience for the last 2 years (which is the worst in my life), i realized that the principle of equal trade very seldom exists in this world. It is said that in order to obtain something, you must first sacrifice something of an equal value. Yea, that's what i learnt from Full Metal Alchemist . It's not necessary true or false. It depends. If you put a great deal of effort in studies (which is more predictive), you'll not get extremely lousy grades. The very least you'll get is a C or better. Maybe an A or B? Thats when the debate whether a hardworking type can match up with a genius type. What if you don't belong to either one? Well time'll tell..another 3 months to go =P

Now, back to the equal trade principle. Does it stand in other areas of life such as in relationships? For the past 1 month, I've learnt a lot from my friends. Should I mention their names? Hmm I better keep them classified haha One said timing is not right or it's just something not meant to be, the other said that leave everything to God and don't worry about anything since He'll prepare someone special for you. Another one said that there are much better ones to choose from. I guess they're all correct. Love must be mutual and happiness must not be obtained at the expense of other people's happiness. You may be the happiest person when you're with that someone but does that someone feels the same? If you call other people selfish for not taking into account your efforts and pain, wouldn't you be putting your words into your own mouth since you're trying to obstruct that someone's happiness with other people? Love is very simple when it's mutual and it becomes super duper complicated when it's moving in just one direction. Hence, it's my belief that equal trade does not exist here. It's more to business environment. The investments you put into may not reap the profits that you want. When someone or something destined not meant to be yours, you can try with all your heart and soul but you'll still not have them. Well that also inlcudes if you sacrifice everything or even ready to die for that particular thing. Sad case right? Well nothing is particularly fair in this world. You gain something and lose something. It's kind of Le Chatelier's Princple. Equilibrium thingy haha

Well maybe what i'm thinking is wrong but thats the most logical conclusion that i can find. A friend of mine said God will not punish people if they took the wrong path. They just have to prepare to face the outcome of their actions. Yeps I think it's true but I still thinks that He will make something happen to wake us up when we're too lost in the path that we've chosen. I was too obsessed with a particular matter that I failed to appreciate and treasure whatever or whoever around me. It was that time that God takes something away from me. Ony then, I see things in a broader perspective now than ever before. I learnt that every little happenings that occur around me is not by chance. It may be so little that I tend to overlook it. Everything happen for a reason and that's my life, my destiny. I always question why it happens and many 'what ifs' come into my mind. I'm like a little kid whining about when a favourite toy is taken away from me. And kids normally stop whining only when that particular toy is given back to them or you give them another toy of superior quality. Guess that's greed right? God gives and takes. However, humans or it's just me that's contented only when things are given to me but not when they're taken away from me.

Okay time to stop my whining haha guess I can whine till cows come home and everything still stays the same. Time to move on =) A piece of advice to all lovers out there. Love is a double-edged sword. It heals and it kills. Oh ya, by the way this is what I've found in wikipedia. Yeps the seven deadly sins of Man and the punishments for each sin and which devil each sin represents. Kinda interesting and thanks for listening to my long long speech haha

Lust Gluttony Greed Sloth Wrath Envy Pride

The punishments
Lust: smothered in brimstone and fire
Gluttony: force-fed rats, toads, and snakes
Greed: boiled in oil
Sloth: thrown into a snake pit
Wrath: dismembered alive
Envy: put in freezing water
Pride: broken on the wheel

Lucifer: Pride
Mammon: Greed
Asmodeus: Lust
Leviathan: Envy
Beelzebub: Gluttony (lord of the flies)
Satan: Wrath
Belphegor: Sloth