Thank God its Friday!

Sick is a very bad word in my dictionary. I hate being sick and unfortunately, I often get sick during times I wish I didnt, especially when nearing exams and during holidays. And again unfortunately, I've been sick for a the past few days. It all started with a minor sore throat and I didnt give it much of a thought. Until it became a major one together with running nose, I went to the clinic. But three days later, the antibiotics had only cured the sore throat but not the flu! Damn. And later a bad ulser on my tongue didn't help the situation either.

I was forced to take my meals in pain, or otherwise I cant take those medicine. The flu was annoying for the past few days, until I overdosed myself last night and it did made me feel a little better. But the problem now is the ulcer.. Ish.. I hope it'll be gone by this weekend with the help of them mighty Bonjela.. hehe

Tonight, my mum had decided that we have our dinner out, since the whole companion is back including my lil bro back for the weekend from UPM. We went to the Ayam Penyet (AP) branch in Puchong. I've heard about it all this while, but I had no idea what all the rave was about. Until I tried it, damn, the sambal was exceptionally good! And the chicken was crispy and tender too, just nice to my liking. The pricing is a little on the high side, but it was a good experience. Even though I had to eat with absolute pain due to the ulcer, I will definitely return again!

Tomorrow is Saturday. And we're going to Batu Pahat. The idea of the trip is simple, to visit grandma's newly renovated house, and to indulge in those great Batu Pahat dishes. Carrot Kueh, the morning nasi lemak, and the original Batu Pahat nasi bariani gam. Mmmmmm... Can't wait!!

Hoobastank - The Reason

This song suddenly popped up into my mind while I was doing some spring cleaning in my room. I cant help it but it was probably due to some stuff which I found that could be linked to past memories. The past is still the past, and all we can do is try to move as there's no use clinging on when the other wouldn't want you back. :(

All I could do is to learn from my mistakes, and I guess its the best way for us. She seems happy, and I should be happy for her as well....

Hoobastank - The Reason

I'm not a perfect person,
There's many things I wish I didn't do,
But I continue learning,
I never meant to do those things to you,
And so I have to say before I go,
That I just want you to know,

I've found a reason for me,
To change who I used to be,
A reason to start over new,
and the reason is you.

The search for the light

The holidays had been rather boring for me. I spent my days staying up late, sleeping most of the time and waking up at almost in the afternoon, just in time for lunch. Its a bad routine I know, but with the exception of weekends, where all of us are forced to wake up early to do chores. Its less than 2 weeks more till the starting of my last semester so I should enjoy while I can, which is to sleep and eat at home! :p

Today I did a couple of things, after waking up almost in the afternoon as usual. Brushed up and drove to a place called Motorsport Playground in Sunway. It might sound like a kiddie thingy, but its a shop which specialises in making and supplying car stickers, and they're quite professional from what I observe. Its not a small business either, you often see cars like Porsches and Lambos parked over there to get their cars sticked up with custom fake carbon fibers and vinyls.

I am currently a member of the BLM Club, which is a club for Proton Saga BLM owners. Few days earlier, they have opened the application for unclaimed club numbers, and I was fast enough to grab mine. Motorsport Playground supplies the club stickers and I was required to go there for installation.

The owner (or Boss) of the place, Remus is a friendly chap. The place was indeed like a playground, with racing simulators all around for guests to play, and the lounge was comfortable enough with a large TV playing Top Gear. While I was there to stick up the club sticker, I asked them to stick some carbon fiber sticker on the car grille. Initially I plan to cover a few places with stickers, but the prices they quoted are not cheap. So I decided to do the other parts later.

Sticking work in progress at MSP, Sunway...

Ta-da! The carbon fiber look.

The result, while maintaining the stock look.

My official BLM Club number. Do honk me if you see me!

About more than an hour later, it was done so I head towards Ikea in Mutiara Damansara to get replacement lights for my room. Since the house is under renovation, I could ask the 'mat kontraktor' to help me replace my faulty lights on my computer desk, since one of the bad cats disturbed and broke the plug connector. It was my fastest Ikea trip ever made, since I knew what I wanted to buy, so I got in, got the lights and paid. It was a breeze to park in there on a weekday, as compared to weekends.

Drove back home and started spring clean my room a little. My computer table was in a mess, and to enable the 'mat kontraktor' to install my lights tomorrow, it should be neat enough for him to do the job. During the cleaning, I found several CDs and stuff which I thought I've lost many years ago, and the best part is I found unopened ang pow packets with money inside! hahaha. Its like a mini jackpot! I have always had this habit of keeping unopened ang pow packets with the intention of opening it later, which of course I would forget soon and only open it months or years later. This morning I thought I was a little broke after paying for the car stickers, but my wallet now thicker by a hundred bucks more to spend later.. :D

The aftermath of what used to be a bathroom.

Looks like a scene from the Counter Strike. haha!

New year resolutions

Happy new year!

I guess its a trend for most people nowadays to set a new year resolution as we go into a new year. It can be said as a personal goal to be achieved by yourself, or just for sake of making yourself feeling better. This the year of the rabbit, and it is my year, so I hope its good for me. I was born before the CNY in 1988, which makes me a rabbit baby, rather than others in the same year which was born in the year of Dragon.

When you set a rather unachievable goal in life, you will feel miserable when you do not achieve it.

Mine this year is rather simple: All I want is to be a better myself, a better man, a better student, as well as a better graduate. :)

Bye 2010, hello 2011!

2010 is coming to an end very soon. So what have 2010 done to you? To me, it was filled with joy and bitterness. I've learnt many things this year but somehow I cant let go of certain things in the past. They are pulling me back at times, but hopefully time would dilute those bitter memories. As they say, cherish the good memories, an forget the bad ones. Learn to forgive and forget, rather to live in regret.

January is coming, which acts as the beginning of a new year and it had always been my favourite month of the calendar. Why? It is because the month somehow brings happy memories to me, not forgetting my birthday falls in it as well. Gosh, I'm becoming 23 real soon, and I cant believe how fast time flies. We cant hope much, but hopefully the month of January will do some good to me. :)

Have a happy new year!

The holidays and the surgery

The holidays had started off being quite slow and boring, as my mum and bro have to work until the end of the year, which means no holidays. *sigh* Nevermind that. As usual, being so free at home, I was tasked to do chores around, catch up with sleep, more sleep, stuck on the internet and brought out a little gaming in me.

Last weekend, I did hang out with my buddies Julian and Raja, since Raja came back from the UK for a couple of weeks here. Like the old days, we roamed around town searching for places to have lunch but most of them are closed since its Boxing day after Christmas. We somehow ended up with dim sum at the Quality hotel. We then proceeded to Subang Parade to do Julian's iPhone jailbreak mission, and man it was hard! The 2-hour process was complicated, but with the help of Mr. Google and the internet connection at the Coffee Bean, solutions were found. The result: a happy face and a phone that's working fine, which otherwise would have been bricked and serves no purpose other than an iPod. :p

Being so outdated in the gaming arena, I updated myself with a couple of new titles. Mafia 2 and NFS: Hot Pursuit 2010. While at the Gamers Hideout, I've pre-ordered the Test Drive Unlimited 2, which is soo gonna be the game of 2011!

Then comes Adnan's sugical procedure (or we know as a small operation) yesterday. He was scheduled to be admitted to the IJN on Monday, and his surgery was done on Tuesday morning. The Tuanku Sultan Perak came to visit him, but Tuanku was late by a bit after Adnan had went in for his surgery around 8.45. After years of not meeting Tuanku in person, it felt awkward if not weird, utterly full of protocol, but was a great honour. We had a simple breakfast and chat and I had to sit next to the Tuanku.

By around 9.30 or so, Adnan was out and back to his ward, which was pretty fast. My mum arrived at the hospital from work on time too, and Alhamdulillah, it went well. He felt dizzy at first, but his appetite came later on and he was eating all out. I had to accompany him for 2 days at the hospital and I had to eat hospital food as well, which surprisingly not too bad! The doctors and nurses were praising him for being such a positive character, as he was smiling all the time. I have to admire his braveness. If I would have to undergo a surgical procedure like him, I would probably die in fright! hahaha

Today, he was scheduled to be discharged from the hospital, and hopefully he will be able to go back to his college at UPM for his 4th semester this 4th Jan.

Adnan's ward, after the surgery.

You have a sink, a TV and some chairs, such boredom!

The machine which annoyingly beeps all the time!

Killing the heat

With the weather becoming unbearably hot, it is a painful chore to be driving around during afternoons. The stock tinting which came with the car does not help either, and is of almost no use with almost no tint properties, except being as a security layer of film on the glass as its name suggested; 'safetint'. Getting the car tint replaced with a proper tint had been one of the first projects I'm wanted to do my car.

During the KLIMS '10 exhibition, there were a few exihibits showing off their tint ranges. What attracted me was the brand Cool World, which offered 40% off their RhinePro series. The RhinePro series are their security film range, and range from the XD-3 to XD-7. Didn't want to miss the chance, I was required to place a small deposit to secure the offer, and at the same time I needed time to think whether to splurge my money on these.

CoolWorld's RhinoPro range. I got a huge discount out of the RRP.

A few days later, I've decided to just go for it, as my car would be parked out in the sun up there in Sintok, and I just couldn't stand the heat! I took the highest spec offered, the XD-7, which came to a quite reasonable pricing after the huge discount. It is a security film and the specifications are impressive as well, 95% IRR, 63% VLT and 60% TSER.

It was done 2 Fridays back at CoolWorld Puchong. They promised it could be done in less than 2 hours, but somebody cut the queue and it took 3 hours for all to be done. The place was a little tight, and a bigger and more comfortable lounge room would be appreciated. But their workmanship was good, and the staff was friendly enough, even though I could not understand what they say most of the time until I ask them to speak in English. They think I was a Chinese I guess.. They offered a 15-year warranty for the tint, way longer than V-Kool's, where I don't think I'm even gonna keep the car fr that long. You never know what a Proton could become in 15 years..

Getting ready for the tinting job.

After a week of bedding the tint in, the result was simply awesome. I could say the car is definitely more than 5 times cooler when parked right under the hot sun, and when driving around you won't even feel the heat at all. The windows are darker than hat I expected, but I'm fine with that. I just need to tun the aircond speed to 1 and temperature halfway to be comfortably cool in the afternoon. A good way to save fuel I guess. :D

Overall, I'm one satisfied customer of theirs. I would rate them:
Pricing - 9/10
Service/friendliness - 8/10
Workmanship - 8/10

The result: A little darker than expected, but it does its job well.

Not too dark and still comfortable inside.

At certain angle together with the sun's reflection, you almost can't see through! :D

'Meeer'deka!

Another semester came and passed by. That's how fast time flies..

The exams are over. We had some issues during our Criminal Procedure I paper, but its done. And its holidays time after one and half months of mugging for the finals!

Some of my friends went back as soon as the exams finished (Sha went back straight away after the exam!), and most of them on the 11th night itself (Raymond, Fisa, Nora, Sheng, Ungku, Gajah). We went and accompanied them at the Changloon bus stop, its like a tradition we do every semester!

I chose to return on the 12th morning, because it would be a rush to go back on the last day of exam itself. After a few hours of packing, getting backaches, laughing with Wak, Shukur and others, the boxes were packed away and my journey home started at 5.45 in the morning.

Around 500kms and 5 hour 40 mins later, I arrived home, exactly when my mum called to ask where I am. I told her I was exactly infront of the gate, and she laughed! And lucky enough, it was lunch time, and it was heaven to indulge in a home cooked lunch. Home sweet home at last. Then me and my bro were off again to catch the last bits of KLIMS '10.

After 6 hours of roaming there, our legs got swollen and we called it a day. It was fun though, especially when the KLIMS had been missing for almost 4 years now, with the last show being in 2006.