Memoirs Of A SiaoKia

张小娴写：

“和蔡澜吃饭，一晚上换了八个地方。
只要一点上菜来，说：不太好吃。 他马上说走，不好吃的菜就不要勉强自己吃。人活着，吃一餐少一餐。
爱，也是做一次少一次。一个男人这样说。
要到一定的年纪后才有这样的感悟吧。
所以，只和自己喜欢的人做。”

赞同到极点。

我想那男的也有一把年纪吧。
不然怎么会做一次少一次呢?

其实没有喜欢的人时，手跟陌生人还不是大同小异。

Saw this WIkipedia article about Streamyx Broadband Service long time ago.

It’s quoted:

Most Malaysian broadband users subscribe to Streamyx due to the lack of alternative services from other Malaysian Internet service providers, like Jaring, NasionCom and TIME dotNet. Broadband services rolled out by these companies have limited service coverage, because the last mile connections are monopolized by Telekom Malaysia.

You say true or not? True.

Well, even the infamous Mat Rempit article also quite funny.

There were few reason why motorcyclist prefer zigzag during traffic jam beside they want to arrive their destination faster, among the other reason are due to hot weather in Malaysia, smoke from vehicle around them and the hot temperature came from other vehicle. Due to their small size, the underbone motorcycle and scooter is the faster transportation around a heavy traffic city.

Then today I saw another more interesting one here.

Abdullah is a former student of Bukit Mertajam High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies from the University of Malaya in 1964, having originally wished to pursue a degree in Economics but failing to meet the required standard after failing his statistics paper.

Why a person should know Statistic, or at least pass the paper?
Because if you don’t, you probably might mislead the citizen.

Am really looking forward to seeing more interesting articles from Wikipedia.

Saw the following comic in NanYang Newspaper dated Friday, July 18, 2006. Like it so much.

Well, if the comic is translated into English, the bird should become a cock so that it makes sense with the topic. Ok, now the cock is ruling the animal empire. He tells all the animals that their names are all “Cock” and should talk cock together with him because he thinks this is the best solution to stay united.

In case if you don’t have any idea what the picture illustrates, you may wanna read this news.
(Ok, I know it’s an OLD news. So?)

Mainstream media in the country need not compete with websites and “bloggers” on the Internet to publish speculative and sensational materials and news

After trying to control the mainstream media, the cock wanted to control Internet media pula, see this.

The Government will study if the Printing Presses and Publications Act should be amended to include the electronic media and the Internet media.

What are all these news telling us?

I’m worried sooner or later we won’t see any real news anymore. Even worse, we will have no space to voice our opinion too.
Now I know why Tun Dr. M so tulan!

Well, today is already the first day of the nationwide Mega Sales but I’ve almost spent all my budget in the past 3 days.

Wednesday was the first day of Esprit Sales for Esprit members. One of my friends has the member card, so, as a result he asked me to go along to hunt for new clothes in Gurney Plaza. Well, as an entry-level shopaholic I sure go along. At the end, got myself a short sleeve shirt with 60% discount (50% + 10% discount for members) and a FREE blue Esprit luggage tag. Anyway, now it’s too late to go for this Sales as it’s already ended yesterday.

Esprit Luggage Tag

After shopping in Esprit, I went to Padini Concept Store and guess what? They were having sales for Padini Card members as well. Fated Coincidentally, my friend has the card too. Considering my convocation is just around the corner, I got myself a black formal slack pants for 50% discount.

Then on Friday, the same friend asked me to go windows shopping again in the afternoon because he was on MC. As expected, I went again. Haha. This time we went to Island Plaza, where more branded boutiques are located. The discounted prices there were really irresistible, especially in Nike (up to 50%) and Fila boutique (up to 70%). At the end, I bought a pair of Fila shoe for 70%, like the colour and design so much.

Fila Shoe

Before leaving the building, I went to Metrojaya Supermarket to get the highly recommended Belgium beer - Hoegaarden. Have been waiting for so long to taste it actually. The price is only RM10.99. I was actually drinking it while typing this blog entry. Love the strong after-taste, unlike the tasteless Anchor or Tiger beer, the aroma of Hoegaarden stays in the mouth a lot longer. As a side note, Hoegaarden has 8.5% of alcohol, which is slightly higher than the usual 5% for beer. In other words, you’ll get drunk more easily lah.

Hoegaarden Beer

So, like this my budget for this Mega Sales is almost depleted even before the Mega Sales commences. How can I survive throughout this Mega Sales, not to mention PC Fair will be held from 4^th - 6^th August?

EDIT : After finishing the whole bottle, my heart beat is twice faster and feeling a bit dizzy. Guess I’ll have a very good sleep afterwards. Haha. Enjoy the weekend, everyone!

This is the thing that hold me from blogging for almost 2 months! Finally I can put an end to it. I handed up the bind copies of my thesis to Management office on 18^th July, 2006. It was really a relief for closing another chapter of my study life. The moment I stepped out from the office, I felt so much lighter mentally as no more assignment deadline to meet, no more mid-term test and final exam to sit for, and no more thesis writing.

The course was in fact not very tough but I did face difficulties to catch up as a fresh graduate from different majors in my previous studies altogether. My Diploma Degree is in Mico-Electronics and Bachelor Degree is in Computing & Information System. I knew from the beginning of this course I will definitely have hard times to pick up knowledge in Management. That’s why I decided to stretch the course to its maximum 2 years by taking less subjects in each semester. My strategy proved to work pretty well as I have not failed any subject and even scored a CGPA of 3.28. In fact, the goal I set at the beginning of this course was only to obtain a CGPA of 3 (grade B in other words). However, I failed in fulfilling another goal which I hope to at least score an A- in every of the 6 semesters. The last second semester was a bit tougher.

Setting goals and meeting them have become part of my life. Sometimes I manage to fulfill them, sometimes I don’t. Failing in meeting one goal will definitely be part and parcel of the process of fulfilling the next one. So far, I am thankful with what I’ve achieved. We just can’t take all the things we are having for granted, can we?

Well, now one of my life objectives has been realized. It’s time to go for the next one. Wish myself all the best.