Long abandon blog

Its time to brush up on my creative writing again, and what better place to do it then on an online podium where you don't have an idea who I am nor me you.

Well, looking at the current World Cup Fever 2014, it is with heavy heart to tell you that I dislike soccer/football or whatever you call it. But, without a doubt it is a very successful Marketing campaign! There are always sports, championships etc, but to be able to make it an international event, and at the same time capitalize on this huge event, all marketers' mind are practically on overdrive.

How to catch on this heat, we must do something about it, we need to have this out by xx xx xx, all the deadlines, all the pressure! And worst of all, all the ideas seems stale, dull, dead, repetitive, or worst, your competitor's idea. My question is pretty simple, why follow the heat? As a marketer, you should always catch the wave before it even builds up, where you have everything prepared before hand, but sometimes, the best way to catch on this World Cup Fever, might be to kill it? Where everyone is hyping about winning, why not prepare the way out for the losers? You are satisfying 2 markets at once!! Literally hitting 2 birds with one stone.

You will be seen as the compassionate and caring entity by the losing team/supporters, and pride of the winner. To make it more bluntly and less marketing like, I will host an event, at the pub, gather 2 teams, and at the end of it, treat the losing team to a free-flow buffet while the winning team will have only FOC 1 pint.

Now the scenario is open, and how do you fly with this and make it successful? Make it your case study and associate it to your industry or simply throw it back to me, let's dissect it and see how we could make it interesting! Its all about making an impact, making your presence felt!

(ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)

Falling Action

Things should always be seen in different perspective, hence there are no wrong nor are there any right. What is left, is just not right.What is done is done, nothing more nothing less.

Perhaps, this is what I've been wishing for as well, just that life has a way to fulfill it with some spices. Add a bunch of pepper for the heat and effect, add a considerable amount of salt to where it hurts, sugarcoat it for all its lovely bits, fire up the grill for all the sizzles.
I can't complain as I have not been the best as well, but the best I can do is wishing you all the best!

Thank you for setting me free, now I can finally return to who I actually am. I have no complaint, that would be pathetic of me, lets just silently part ways, peacefully.

MAY RIVERS COLLIDE, BUT NEVER SO OUR PATHS,

IN HERE LET ME DIE, OR ELSE THERE'LL BE AFTERMATH.

Source, source, source

For the correct sequence of this story, you should read:

Preview

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

The End (might or might not have)

Climax

I've thought of posting this tomorrow, but..... The timing would be better off today. 

I have always believe that ignorance is bliss. A lot of time its actually better for us not to know, where truth will really hurt us. Of course, we would like to have the truth, and nothing but the truth, but truth is, do you really need the truth? Does the truth really worth sacrificing your comfort, your happiness?

Sometimes, its just an accident, the lie that we try to protect, it was so perfect until that little slip up.

More often then not, when caught red-handed or in this case sufficient proof, its like waving your big fat hand goodbye to the person you are lying to.


Source, source, source

For the correct sequence of this story, you should read:

Preview

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

The End (might or might not have)

Rising Action

Sometimes, well, most (all) of the time (at least me), we wish that we are a character of some series/movies. Well, sometimes, all I wish is that I am a Pokemon trainer, reason behind is I can grow stronger everyday with my partner. Of course the bottom line is they will be loyal to me, but at least we have trust towards each other.

Still remember how Pikachu and the gang trust and grow together with its trainer, from a very rascal little pokemon to one of the best buddies ever. 

Sometimes we wish life could be as simple as the movies that we like. But truth is........

Source, source.

For the correct sequence of this story, you should read:

Preview

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

The End (might or might not have)

Left hanging

The feeling of pride is something everyone cherishes and values a lot. We also sometime make ourselves humble in order to feed other's pride because they do the same for us. 

But too many time there are people who like to send you up high, not because they love you, not because of who you are or what you have contributed, they just lead you to the highest peak, let you settle in while they humbly back down to the base, as if lowering themselves to you, the next thing you know, a noose drops in-front of your head. You can't back away, because it’s the point of no return, so forward you go, knowingly walking into a trap and can't do much about it but pray for the best.

The best thing to happen is everything will work out for the best, if its success, of course we would like to savor every last bit of it, enjoying the moment and living it to the fullest, but if it’s for the worst, many of us would wish that we never even followed them to the top in the first place. But damage was done, trap entered, the only thing I could ever wish for is for it to end quickly and quietly. 

But many times, the best moment for those who like to set the traps is the time we suffer. The agonizing moment of knowing we have failed, our prides crushed, nothing we can do about it. They tend to savor it as slowly as possible, heck, I did mentioned if it’s my success, I will enjoy every bit of it, I guess these bastards are not much different from me too, well, everyone. To end the agony fast is what’s left in my mind, but since it’s a trap, we are definitely being treated like a god during the start initial process. While we are enjoying ourselves, that is when the noose caught on, tightens like the first real hug of couples, where it could almost or very well suffocate you. And then it springs up, trap activated, and we are left hanging……

[Source: Pic1, Pic2, Pic3, Pic4, Pic5]

Bersih Kotor Kaya Jam

Well, am pretty sure most of you guys knows what going on with the Bersih gig. And only a tiny portion of you people don't know shit about it, or just heard the word Bersih recently. Well, for that tiny portion of you, fret not, as me here, will tell you something about me and Bersih. Just like you all, I don't know shit of what its about. All I know is anyone with yellow is a suspect and that made me think twice of wearing my yellow T out that day. And the worse part is I also have a yellow umbrella in my car!!!

Well all that aside, in my mind, BERSIH is not related to RIOT, well, not yet at least. But it BERSIH does relate to JAM!! Hate the jam last week, but lucky enough was away during the whole commotion on work related stuff, thank you boss!!

Anyways, no pictures this time, cause I don't know shit about it and don't give 2 cent about it, wait, I can't give 2 cent anymore, okay, can't give 5 cent about it. HAHAHA

Dog dragged from home and brutally shot dead in-front of owner's wife and son while on the way to school!

This news hit me with a little extra kick primarily because of a Black stray came to our house not too long ago. It is very obedient, well, he plays with my dad etc. Though the only thing about him is that he will chew on our shoes now (after he got used to us), and on occasion he will bring some carcass home (perhaps he was a stray for too long).

Another thing that made the news a little bit personal for me is that sometimes when I take the motorcycle to go for basketball, he will run along side of me until the busy junction before heading off elsewhere, just like how the black dog trailed its owner to school!

An extract of the news:

A landscape supervisor is upset and disappointed with the Central Johor Baru Municipal Council workers they shot his dog in the street and when the dog ran back into his house compound, the workers entered the compound, looped the injured animal and dragged it onto the road.
The MBJBT workers then shot the dog a second time and killed it.
Taman Johor Jaya resident Tan Sek Khang, 51, said when the MBJBT workers shot the dog a second time, they did it in front of his protesting wife and son.

The cruelty displayed to animals, I do understand that they are doing their jobs, but if no one is defending the poor thing, fine, but how can they shoot it infront of the kid when they are pleading that its theirs, and the fact that they dragged the already wounded dog from the owner's house is definitely unforgivable, shooting it dead infront of the family is just plain satanic!!

[Source: Pic1, News - The Star]

Being at the easy place! Great work!!

Why is it that at places such as malfunctioning traffic light, road repair/construction etc, you can't seem to find the  traffic police?

But when you pass that place, they seem to be standing at the usual highway, that particular long stretch of road, directing the cars which are all travelling the same direction.

Yeah, that is our 1Malaysia, Malaysia Boleh. Gotta say, smart! Directing a congested straight road is definitely better then directing a place where it would help.

[Source: Pic1, Pic2, Pic3]

F&B: [COMPLAIN] Kenny

Recently been dining out a lot. And this also happened recently which is the service is getting lousier as the days go by, well, this excludes those really nice dining places like tony and etc. But I mean Pizza Hut and Kenny, they also suppose to have great floor staff. You can check the PIZZA rant if you want, but this is about KENNY. 

I mean intial service was good, though this time we weren't given a choice of seat, we wanted 'that' clean side table, instead we were brought to the middle table, well, no complaints. The real issue arise when I noticed the table opposite of us receive their Muffin after they almost finish their plates, and the Muffin only arrive after the soup. Well, I just thought maybe they requested for the muffin to come in like that. But on our side, imagine what we were served first, NOT MUFFIN, NOT DRINKS, its the main course that came first. Then we asked where are our drinks and muffin, hence we had to wait, though not long, but enough for the not hot meal to turn even cooler. Now I was thinking is there much difference from those Ayamas or those chicken sold at Jusco. 

Well, other things were all below average, but at least they were a lot better than PIZZA HUT!

I know I have been complaining a lot, but at least don't you think we deserve a better service when we are paying that much, heck, I even get my drinks first when I eat at hawker center, sometimes even if I opt for the economy rice, the drinks will be there before me getting to the table.

F&B: [COMPLAIN] Pizza Hut

Well, me and Elmo likes to dine in Pizza Hut, my meal always vary from salad to pizza to pasta. But faithful Elmo only orders Pizza, occasionally pasta.We dine at Pizza Hut at least once a fortnight, but its more to like once or twice in a week. So the nearest and most convenient outlet is the one in Giant Kinrara, which is not too far from BUKIT JALIL POLICE STATION, if you know where the Mercedes Benz in Kinrara, or the Indian Temple, its around that area, you can't miss this Giant, its a 'giant'.

Well, the issue is that we have been eating here for like two months, meaning our visits are totaling up to 10 visits, until we can even recognize the floor staff.

Well, there shouldn't be much of a problem since Pizza Hut is a chain and the service should be more or less the same as other outlets, and the services we receive should be the same. Having a regular patron of PIZZA HUT since we were in MMU, we went to so many outlets before, nearly every Pizza Hut outlet in Malacca, the one in Port Dickson, Klang Valley etc. We came to understanding that not all outlet has the same quality of food, example is that Pizza Hut in Aeon (Jusco) Equine Park has the worst Pasta, but the one outlet in Malacca (now closed) serves the best pasta! The taste is just perfect and we like the meatball, there are meatball!!! But the one in Equine Park don't serve with meatballs, even after we made a complain to the floor staff. Well although they serve terrible pasta, at least their service is good and the salad bar is always filled.

Now the main purpose of this PIZZA HUT post is to rant about the outlet in Giant Kinrara. I have yet to see more than 4 floor staff on the night shift (we always dine there for dinner), its usually the Indian lady (who seems qualified to be Manager), the malay guy, and two Bangla (where one always goes missing and the other one handles problems, when order screw up, they send the Bangla to talk, not cause he is tough, but mainly for the communication barrier.). They are virtually understaffed, I've never experienced a clean table, they never have enough time to clean up, although the only good part is that we only need to sit for about 2-5 minutes before we are given the menu and wait another few minutes when we signal them for order. We grew accustomed to it already.

But yesterday, was the limit, I mean this is not the first time it happened, I got my breadsticks last, after almost finishing up my PIZZA!! And you guess what happened to the soup, Elmo finished hers, and mine became cold, we like to dip the breadsticks into the hot soup! We even had to hunt for sauces in the outlet, and some of the patrons are racing with each other to get to that bottle of Tabasco! Our pizza was also charred, not just a little, I can even taste it, even the onion and chicken was kind of black already. And no, its not the sauce, its burnt and I can be sure of it, as I always did that while cooking myself. I found a strand of hair on my slice of Pizza, its way too long to be my hair, and its way too short to be Elmo's. The table around us are all empty, not because there are no customers, but its due to the lack of clean table, I can still see the leftover pasta and the table next to us. There were also complain from the other patrons, and how they (Pizza Hut's floor staff) settle it, send the Bangla and give him a menu, the one responsible will be charged with cleaning the table while being out of view. All I remember was the war was won by the patron and I saw the Bangla took back one of their pizza.

I need to justify, sometimes its not just the floor staff at fault, sometimes the kitchen staff is at responsibility, we even faced getting wrong pizza (kitchen mistake, not wrong table mistake), our pizza somehow ended up missing and had to wait more than 40 minutes. I mean if floor staff key in the order, the kitchen staff should just follow it, and they shouldn't miss a thing, like our late breadsticks for example. 

I guess I have written too much text, so lets just let bygone be bygones.

Darren Ng of SG (The following contains some graphics so please don't read if you cant take it)

As some of you might have heard the staring incident, a lot were arguing that why stare and such. Well, sometimes you just can't help but take a slightly longer peek, lets just say Darren here was just unfortunate.

If you have been following this news, 369 won't sound off to you, but for those who don't know, when the incident of 10 vs 1 (Darren) was concluded with his death, one guy shouted in Hokkien 369 something, can't really remember the exact words though, but what most assume is that 369 is a clan thing hence the gangster like attitude! Come on la, people stare and you kill. WTF!

Anyways, RIP

Double parking bad?

How many times has we seen people double parking, I mean if sometime you ter-park out of line a little is ok la, sometimes its cause you didn't notice, sometimes its due to certain reasons, but no forgiveness to those who double park like no ones business, I mean if it is at a place where there are plenty of car parks, and not much people parks there, by all mean, triple park and no one cares, but at certain place where car park is limited, please park properly, or at least leave some space so that a normal sedan car can park!

Double and triple park is bad enough for us, but the worst thing is to do it at the handicapped area, I know that most of the time these car parks are free and most likely no handicapped will park there, but what if you did that and then some poor handicapped fellow is frantically searching for a car park?

Picture stolen from fast and furious forum, google if you don't know where this forum belongs to

PISSED!!!!!

Allow me to rant, I am going to kill anyone who pisses me off now, people in my department or at least my team, knows that I'm pissed, not sure whether they know the reason or not. But sooner or later, I'm gonna have to let off some steam else my hand will be gleam, gleaming with the glistering colour of red!!!

Movie Review: Piranha

Definitely a good movie, or at least because I was so sick and tired of croc movies. Everytime you see some water creature terrorizing, its either snake or crocs, the later dominates the scene for the past few years.

Apart from the usual sex appeal, I like the gory part very, very much, at least that explain why I laughed when others are covering their eyes or screaming.

Just to take your mind off the previous picture

The thing about these kind of movies is you can actually predict whats going to happen. But at least I like the part where 'they are just babies'.

If anything is for sure, please do not watch this in cinema, they cut so much, I mean its one thing you cut those sexy stuff, but the bloody!! I want to watch that even more! So please blame me for supporting TPB so I can enjoy more women splitting in half and gushing bloods and bones.

Shoe-Peed Fart Up Idol-et follow up

This post is a follow up of my previous rant post on Shoe Peed Fart Up Idol-et.

One more thing I can't understand is why park at other people's parking bay, unless you are sure there is no one parking there, even so, some of the visitor's car park have roofs, and its not that far from my parking bay.

Well, this is the visitor car park!

I know this picture is a little blur, but you can actually see the car which parked at my bay from where I was standing, that my friend, proves that it is not very far away from the visitor's bay

After complaining, I assume the guards gave the owner some grace period, they only came and clamp the vehicle in the morning, which was more than 6 hours later. But that car is still there.

You can see the guards there after the sun is quite high in the sky.

And the result of parking at someone else's parking bay without permission nor a sticky note asking to call you or something like that.

Shoe-Peed Fart Up Idol-et

After getting back home, feeling kind of tired, I found this car parked in my parking bay (Cyberia D-23A-A), its ok if you park there for awhile, but at least when you park at someone else's parking bay, please be alert, especially when you hear people honking! When you hear it, the least you could do is come out, say sorry, and move your car as fast as you can. But NO, the owner of this car, has disappeared, and it is almost midnight now and no one has yet to come and drive the car away. 

If you are not going to be able to pay attention when people's honk, or you simply do not plan to care, please park at the designated VISITORS' CAR PARK!! It is not actually very far from my parking bay anyway! I really don't understand why people like to park at someone's parking bay and just go away like it is his/hers. I swear, if I was not so civilised, I would puncture three of his tyre and make sure I empty his engine oil, all I need to do is get a container, large enough to contain about 4litres of liquid, and unbolt the nut which is accessible to anyone if you would just bend down and look under the engine bay of most car. 

But being the person I am, I am giving this person a grace period, if he/she don't move it away by the time I finish this post, I would have no choice but to go and get the security and clamp his/her car. And those who hold a the VISITOR PASS, are not even allowed to be in Cyberia after MIDNIGHT!

I took the liberty of getting an insurance if anything were to happen to my car in the coming future if the car below is clamped for parking in my parking area (they can just come and have their sweet revenge at my car since my car would be naked to their attacks), by snapping the following pictures. 

As you can see the parking bay next to mine is D-23-B

And so, the end, I am going to ask the security to clamp his car now. Though it will pose a problem to me as I have to WALK to the guard house which is at the front, but at least it will cure my rage for now!

You can read the follow up at Shoe-Peed Fart Up Idol-et follow up 

PISSED!! Workshop at TTDI Jaya!!!

My car has been overhauled for about 4 times now, an engine's threshold is only 3, and mine has gone pass that. First overhaul was due to the old engine, another time is due to my mistake, then the remainders are due to the stupid mechanic's lousy job on the engine!! 

Though one time was due to my mistake, I still want to play the blame card, I already told the mechanic my car's problem since more than months prior to the failure of my engine. Instead of really looking into things, what he did was sent me home, then went again, this time he bypass the fan, so now when I just turn the keys, both fan in the engine compartment start running, where one of it should only run when the temperature reaches a certain degree, and after that, it was even worse, I went back to him and complain again, this time, he changed the whole radiator, the worse is, mine is a Manual, but that radiator was meant for Auto Transmission. Fine, then not long after that, the evident happen, and then Overhaul!

Well, after the last overhaul, now my engine's internal is starting to make some noise, could be a bearing or something, I just don't know. Went there again today and the best thing he said to me was: "Sure you rev high high." I was like WTF, you want to die!! You did a fking poor job and now you blame it on me, I never rev more than 4000rpm, I even rarely reach 3500rpm!! And when I accelerate, I do it gradually!! So tell me, how is it that I 'rev high high'!! Don't play the blame game on me la WTF! In the end, I ended up with an engine oil change and was charged RM105 and the oil he used isn't those good ones I think, and its not even semi syn.

These are the pictures from the workshop

Got too bored so stated snapping away

The stuff that went into my engine this time

Oil Filter

The engine oil

The typical workshop stuff

They mainly sell rims I think

They have a good assortment of rims, I don't recommend their service at all, don't get me wrong, for the normal service/balancing/rim, they are ok, if they can't even do these, they would have been long gone, but I just don't recommend it to send to them when you have some specific troubles, its better to send to someone who has better knowledge, it would be even better to send it to the proper service centres.

The shop opposite of them

Address

Normally I would like to go Wah Chai's workshop in PUCHONG, but according to my dad, he charges a little too expensive, but he is more like an expert thus the price. The reason why I keep on going back to the lousy son of a b!tch is because my dad is the one who ask me to go there, and most of all, he is the one paying