For A Better Life

Joining Sony Ericsson Family

2009-01-11T03:20:00.004+08:00

Yet, another spending spree that amount up to 4 digits this time, welcoming me into the family of Sony Ericsson users. Ladies and gentlemen, first time ever, I'm introducing Sony Ericsson handphone into my life.

I was in search for a good handphone to replace my faulty Nokia 1100 about few weeks. Changing hp had never came into my mind. For hp, I'm staying put on this philosophy : Use it until it is spoilt. You can name me stingy, outdated or old-fashioned but that won't move me even an inch to withdraw money from ATM machine for a new hp. As long as my hp is still functional and fulfill my daily needs, then it should stay.

My "antique" Nokia 1100 (which my boss said it's supposed to belongs to trash bin -.-") automatically and frequently change to handsfree mode and did not allow me to undo it. Due to this problem, sometimes I could not answer to a call and the hp alarm clock wouldn't ring. So, my new hp should have alarm clock, camera and radio. These requirements are too basic that almost every camera phone can provide them. So I guess quality does matters, and of course, value for money too.

Only two brands which I took into account during my search , they are Nokia and Sony Ericsson. I can consider myself as a Nokia fans cause Nokia has been with me since the era of 3310. Sony Ericsson were added into my consideration because of the camera quality it's famous for.

I went to Lowyat Plaza 3 times to do my window shopping, asking about prices and even tested out handphones at one of the booth. I seldom do that kind of window shopping, maybe it's the first time lol. After listening to recommendations from sales person, Sony Ericsson's Cyber-shot™ camera phone should be the best answer. After browing through internet, the options are further narrowed down to either K850 or C902.

It's a tough decision I made to take C902 instead of K850 because both of the phones are 5 Megapixcels Cyber-shot™. The price that I can get for K850 is RM780* while C902 is RM1130* (* = price for AP set), so it made K850 more appealling to me. But, K850 is quite bulky compared to C902, not to mention when it's in my pants. Also, C902's camera is well hidden inside its casing when unused while K850 does not have any cover for its lens.

I think and think and think.... in the end, I choosed to ignore the RM350 price difference and pamper myself for once. It's kinda heartache when I handed over the stack of RM50 notes to the sales person, I'm just not used to buy any item priced more than RM1000 in cash form. Thinking back now... I can still feel the heartache. =(

Until now, I still haven't explore all the functions of C902. I'm waiting Wen to come back and teach me how to use some of the functions. Reading the manual is boring. =P Basically, I'm satisfied with the camera's function. No regrets!!

The day the car locked me out

2009-01-05T00:58:00.006+08:00

I was stopping by 7-Eleven for Sunday Star with rainbow in the car. Knowing it wouldn't take long before I return to car, so I left the car engine running. I wanted to let rainbow enjoy air-cond in car while waiting for me. Shell Fuel Saving Tips also taught us not to stop the engine if we are just stopping by for awhile. So I just take out the car lock remote control and leaving car key in the ignition, then I manually locked the car before closing the door.

It only took me less than 2 minutes to buy the newspaper. Upon returning to the car, I tried to use the car lock remote control to open up the door lock. Guess wat...! The door lock wouldn't open!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~!@#$%^&*(*&^%$#@!~

It was so shitty because Rainbow was inside the car!!!!! I can't leave her too long in the car as car air-cond will produce alot of carbon monoxide when the car is not moving. Rainbow looked at me innocently from within the car while I was panic at outside, I knew I had to act fast.

I took a taxi back to home and get the spare key before returning to the car. The taxi cost me RM8 back and forth. Grrrr RM8...... there goes my ice-blended mocha....

Lesson learned:
1) If you are leaving the car, never lock the car door when the key is left in egnition and engine is still running. Unless you have the spare key with you, cause lock remote control will not work.
2) Open the window a little bit and stop the engine if you are leaving your pet in the car. Just forget about the fuel saving tips cause you wouldn't know what might happen next.
3) Never pamper your pet and get yourself into deep shit.

Crazs & Cravs 4 Crocs

2008-11-24T00:04:00.000+08:00

My old Asadi sandals accompanied me for more than 2 years. It was my one and only sandals which worked fine for me until recently, I noticed the reason for my stinky feet is due to the sandals. Also, I started to build up phobia of slipping when walking on watery floor. I still keep on wearing the old Asadi for about 2 months then I finally made up my mind that I had enough of it. It's time to change a pair of sandals.

I still wonder why the word "Crocs" came into my mind. Originally, I hate the Crocs design which looks like a clown shoe (the design of Ronald McDonald's shoe).

But anyhow, I still google it and found out that Crocs does have sandals!! It was like "OMG... Crocs has good designers after all".

Actually, Crocs has two damn good reasons accurately hit the bullseye for quality of new sandals I'm looking for. These two reasons are good enough for me to fork out more than RM100 for a pair of sandals:-

1) Crocs are slip-resistant
2) Crocs material are anti-microbial and odor resistant

After browsing for more than 2 days, I decided to buy Scutes. I was hoping that I can become cute after wearing Scutes. LOL kidding.

I roamed the whole bukit bintang area to search for Scutes to find out that Scutes is out of stock there. The next thing I did was to call up a few branch of Crocs to ask for Scutes, then Mid Valley return me with good news. So, I drove all the way to Mid Valley just to find out that Scutes is not in the production line anymore. You can see how phatetic I am to find Scutes, it's like finding Nemo hahaha... And all these disappointments lead to some unhappy incidents which I would not like to put it here.

When I was in Penang, I ended up buying Athens. After wearing it for about a month now, I'm not regretting it. I LOVE it!

Most of you must be wondering why I had choosen this color. The reason is because of the color of cute animation below :)

Funny Agent M

2008-11-16T10:15:00.000+08:00

If you are a big fan of Maybank and also MSN Messenger, there's something that clicks them both together. It's Agent M!!!

It's an Artificial Intelligent answering service through MSN Messenger provided by Maybank. I added this "guy" like few months ago and it really helped me twice.

So, what Agent M do actually is to let you choose the topic you are interested in and provide you
with some basic answers. The answers are pre-fixed, so you don't expect any clever answers from "him". The conversation will be started when u send "?" to Agent M. After that, it will prompt you a list of questions, you choose from there and type in the question number which you are interested with. You will have to choose a few times, until you reach the answers you wanted.

I played with him quite some time ago when I firstly added "him". Yesterday when I was bored, I played with "him" again ^_^

Agent M is quite a good chatter if you know "the way".

He will never admit he is stupid... =.="

Awww... He don't want to be my pet

Shakespeare said that before???

Agent M is shy. LOL

After a few silly questions, he got annoyed and left the conversation + ignore me... *sob*

But don't worry. The next time you find him again, I'm pretty sure he is friendly as ever before.

If you wanna add him, just add a contact with m.m2u@maybank.com.my. Enjoy!

Definition of "Kiasu"

2008-10-26T10:25:00.000+08:00

Kiasu is made up of two Chinese Hokkien words. "Kia" means fear, while "su" means lose. It is a phrase used to describe a person who has such high ego that he/she afraid or could not stand to lose to others.

In our competitive world, we need to strive so hard to be the best among others. It is actually a good attitude for us to keep up hard in the race to success, in another word is to be "a little bit kiasu". But when it comes to an extend that competition is so extreme, people tend to forget their actual goal and lose their true identity. They will show their high ego-ness without humble and try to pin you down as hard as possible.

A few extreme examples of Kiasu as below:-

1) You know a person is Kiasu when he could not accept others opinions and comments at all.
He thought that what he did was perfectly correct. When he is asking for people's opinion or comments, he is expecting you to agree with. If you did the other way round, that means war. I used to hang out with a bunch of friends, and I can see that one of them is very "Kiasu". When others are giving opinion, he will bump in and object to any opinion. But sometimes, the conclusion he gave is exactly what others was proposing. *Laugh*.

2) You know a person is Kiasu when he keeps on showing off abbreviation one owns.
When I was in college, there was a lecturer who complained to us that a professor from Singapore is very Kiasu. He told us that the professor started his speech by introducing his professional certification and PHD, used up first 20 minutes just to show off his qualification and recognition before he moved into the real subject.

3) You know a person is Kiasu when he uses a lot of personal attack.
He will pin you down by using a lot of personal attacks. He do not look into a matter through logic and facts anymore. Even if he is wrong, he will still condemn you fiercely with personal attacks to cover up his mistakes. He is hoping that by using personal attacks, he can alter the attention from his mistake to your weakness.

4) You know a person is Kiasu when he thought that he is far better than others.
He thought that he is the best and people around him are low level species, idiots or simply ignorable. He might say "you are not qualified to give such comments", "your knowledge level is too low which makes you came up with the bad idea", bla bla bla...

5) You know a person is Kiasu when he starve for positive appraisal.
He is always looking for ways to get people's acknowledgment. If he successfully did something, he will announce it to the world and let other people praise him. I remember when I went camping, a guy successfully started the camp fire, he purposely look at someone close to him and say loudly "Like this mah can liao lor, you don't need to bla bla bla....." as if want to let the whole world knows he is the one successfully did it. He was trying to get girls' attention =.=".

These "Kiasu"s are living among us, *sigh*. But you need not be fearful, do not let them affect your ego and emotions. Set your own target and work hard towards the goal. In the end, you can prove to those "Kiasu" people that they already "su" you no matter how "kia" they are.

Competition is good, but it does not need to go to an extend of extreme "Kiasu" stage.

Hashbrown

2008-10-02T01:23:00.000+08:00

This entry supposed to be posted 2 weeks ago... I'm just too lazy to put it in after all those stress in work. After reading shu-yin's blog (her proclaimed unofficial food blog) about her deep fried fillet, I felt very hungry and went straight to refrigerator and defreeze 3 piece of Hashbrown + nuggets.

Frying Hashbrown may seems easy until I tried it out myself. Anyhow, I managed to get some perfect fried Hashbrown in the end.

This is the first try.... failed. I think should be because of the oil is not hot enough and I acted smart to use the spatula to squeeze the Hashbrown, thought wanna make it slimmer. But the Hashbrown sticked to the spatula and the result.... spoiled Hashbrown ....

This first hashbrown result reminds me of wen. The first time she cooked me hashbrown, it was exactly the same. I think she did the same thing like me :P

The second try: almost success.
- Oil is quite hot now, I don't dare to use spatula to squeeze it to pan anymore. Just flip it again, again and again. But the color is not nice enough.

Third try: Near to perfect stage. Maybe you can't see the difference between the second and the third one, but the color of third one is more brown and golden color. I think should be because of the oil very hot. To my amaze, the hot hot oil did not over-fried the hashbrown even after I fried it for very long. Hmmm... I tried taking the third one from different angle and all of them seems to have different color.

So, at last.... I had my lunch ready... tadaaaaaaa.......

Hehe... just kidding.... below is the real one.

September 2008

2008-10-02T01:19:00.000+08:00

((19X20)+(1x14))/30=13.13

Speculate VS Justify

2008-09-05T18:16:00.000+08:00

Yesterday I was having my "dinner" at OLD TOWN White Coffee around 11pm with one of my close friend. We always talk about investment when we are out. We came across on discussing how is the share market investing atmosphere now, which is our favorite topic. As a newbie (if compared to him), I told him that the market is going to crumble soon, maybe in coming 2 to 3 years. He asked me whether I was able to justify my answers. I told him that it's was based on my feeling which tells me that market is going to fall. After that, he told me that I was just a mere speculator. I couldn't agree more with what he says, which is true.

However, there is a statement which I strongly believe -- "No body will ever know when or where the share market index has already reached the bottom line". My dad was the first person who told me that, and this close friend of mine was the second. So here comes the logic which I would like to share with everyone.

Statement 1: No body will ever know when or where the KLCI index has already reached the bottom line.
Statement 2: Based on my feeling, I think the market is already almost reaching its bottom line. (speculate)
Statement 3: Based on the past recession experience, a market recession will not drag for over a period of about 1 year and it's already one year since KLCI index has been dropping. So, the KLCI index has already almost reaching its bottom line. (justify)

Statement 1 is basically telling that no one can predict the future. If statement 1 is true, then statement 2 and 3 is false. The reason is when statement 1 is true, how is one able to tell market is near it's bottom line by feeling (statement 2). When statement 1 is true, why is someone still using market cycle chart to predict future market trend(statement 3)?

If we look back to the logic above, the speculative statement 2 and justifiable statement 3 will also be false as long as statement 1 is true. So, does it make any difference whether it's a speculative statement or justifiable statement? In my point of view, both of statement 2 and 3 are not much difference. The only difference is that statement 3 has a concrete proof to support it.

Now let's compare a prediction and a lie. If a person tells lie, the difference is whether he has or he does not has a solid proof to support his lying. Those who are listening to lies will be more likely to believe those lies that have solid proof.

Question to ponder: Warren Buffett says that "If a market goes down, it's more attractive than before". As statement 1 which I strongly believe tells us no one can knows when or where the market hits it's bottom line, how long could a person with RM10k - RM50K investment capital to tahan "attractive" investment atmosphere? Is he talking to you or is he talking to those millionaires? =)

August 2008

2008-09-05T18:14:00.000+08:00

23X20/31=14.83 (ops)

Easily Irritated

2008-08-04T10:02:00.001+08:00

Some say old people get irritated easily. I have to admit that I'm getting older. I got irritated more and more easily...

No idea when it started, but I knew the feeling was there all the time waiting to be triggered.

Well, anyway... just wanna say sorry if I made you felt irritated as well but also a very big thank you my dear for the patience you have shown.

Anyone reading this, don't laugh.... You are OLD too!

July 2008 (18-31)

2008-08-04T09:52:00.000+08:00

9X20/14=12.86

HELL Yeah!

2008-07-18T20:14:00.000+08:00

The journey begins.

Bad start, lost track of 18 days including today.

Tomorrow onwards will start to track down consumption.

Hell journey, here I come :)

BIG Plan For Big Man

2008-06-13T00:20:00.000+08:00

So, basically this is a plan to reduce the amount of cigarette consumption month by month. The reduction is quite lenient, hope it works.

Consideration and assumption:-
1) Amount of money to be spent on cigarette per month. Assuming that the price of cigarette maintains for the next three years.
2)Targeted duration to stop consuming cigarette. Initial target set here is 2 and a half years.

More consideration on it's way.....

Starter --- Kick Off

2008-06-07T09:14:00.000+08:00

This is the first post I'm putting in and I will keep it short.

There are a few reason for me to create this blog:-
1) To keep track of my nicotine consumption until I finally stopped (This is the main reason and I only have less than 3 years to put a full-stop on it).
2) To put in my thoughts of the funds I invested and spotted.
3) To write down interesting events happens in my life, this will be my event diary I guess.

For those who is going to read this blog(friends or accident viewer):-
1) Do forgive me for my poor English.
2) Do not reveal my name if you recognize me in picture (at least until I quited my cigarette).
3) All information from this blog is by my own opinion, use it at your own risk.