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Disclaimer: I do not claim authorship for the following ‘7 “Wonders” of the World’. All articles posted under category “Email Forwards” are email forwards that I received from time to time.

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The awards should have gone to :

1. THE ZAKARIA ‘PALACE’
The only building built with no approval and unpaid assessment fees that is not demolished and sealed. The owner is the first bankrupt to be able to own a palace. An UMNO Klang MP was once a railway gate-keeper! A good friend of Close-one-Eye UMNO
Jasin MP who was caught smuggling timbers from Sumatra to Melaka. No case against him!

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Just installed a Word Press gallery plugin, testing it out!

[mygal=lastday_dlsjubm]

Okay, finished testing. Looks all right to me, I think I will use this gallery plugin after all.

EDIT:
Decided to use NextGEN Gallery instead of myGallery:
http://ahkong.net/test-new-gallery-again/

31 October 2007

Morning - Woke up 7:00am, drank lots of water as usual, went to toilet to unload my morning crap as normal, daily morning routine. Finished crapping, turn off Bit Comet downloads, proceed to turn on Enemy Territory : Quake Wars to relieve my morning fraggin’ kicks. Then I realized that a new version was out, time to update! No fraggin’ this morning, boo hoo! >_<

Visit the Enemy Territory : Quake Wars Official Community Site for the official change log as well as a list of mirrors to download the huge 283MB patch. I am getting mine from fileplanet as usual, maybe I am just used to using it, after using it for all these years.

There is also a developer blog update posted a few days earlier, apparently on 25 October 2007. Guess I would known earlier if I frequented the official community site often, duh. >_<

Other than the above, I am ranked 7k~8k now! Wohoo! Let the fraggi’ continue!

27 October 2007, Saturday

Morning - Wei Lee came over last night, started up Super Mario 3 for her before I left. Drove darling to Menara SBB to meet up with Siew Ching, darling went up to get the fax for the Dermatologist at Pantai Hospital, Bangsar. After darling got into Siew Ching’s car, I headed off to the office. I decided to work on the company’s website upon, and started to find some suitable Word Press themes for it as I installed Word Press yesterday. Chatted with some old friends, namely Nick Liew and Siew Teng. Nick became quite an animal, I thought to myself. Siew Teng is doing okay in Singapore, he suggested to me to do an IPO, hah! Maybe later, when the opportunity arises.

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26 October 2007, Friday

Morning - Nothing much interesting.

Afternoon - During lunch, I talked with Ah Fai about Pulau Redang, actually Ah Fai did most of the talking, I listened and asked questions. Apparently his company organizes annual company trips, Ah Fai already been to Pulau Redang twice, and this year they went to Pulau Langkawi. How Li suggested our company to organize company trips too, haha!

Late Afternoon - Master Guo came back with the “Business Charm” or “Fu”, got 2 of ‘em. One to put inside Dad’s wallet, the other to stick onto the wall on top of the door outside our office. He also brought some biscuits, looks yummy.

25 October 2007, Thursday

Morning - Reached office about 10 minutes before 9.00am, checked my TITUS watch, the time seem to be incorrect, way too slow, I corrected it to match the current time. Back pain slightly better today, hopefully it get wells soon.

Afternoon - Lunch with Ah Fai and How Li, found out that his car’s rear end got smacked by a Mat Saleh. That Mat Saleh is quite a generous fellow, gave Ah Fai RM700.00 for repairs upon request. I then shared with them about my darling’s brother’s encounter with local Tamils in Kepong, that time, Woei Lun’s (my darling Weon Chee’s brother) car got hit by some Tamil dudes in Kepong, those fools did not apologize or offer to Click here to read the rest of this article …

24 October 2007, Wednesday

The pain in my back seem to have intensified when I woke up this morning, perhaps a mild case of flu plus inherent back pain problem caused some implications. Must observe proper sitting postures now, or else I dread to think of what terrible things would befall me.

Today is the day, for the first time in my life that a beta game client actually killed my RAM! In the past, I have experienced a situation before where I fried my graphic card by flashing the wrong bios. This time, however, is the first time where after I experience ultra cool graphics, the PC started to have problems.

For example, Enemy Territory : Quake Wars started to crash to desktop for no good reason, same goes to Guild Wars. Guild Wars was so nice and even suggested that my processor could be faulty.

After discussing with bro, I suspect that the RAM could have died. Bro commented that the heat from the processor and graphics card probably cooked the RAM. After taking out the RAMs piece by piece, and experimenting with individual RAM pieces, I came to the conclusion that the pair of 256MB mushkin RAMS that me bro bought for it is faulty.

Bloody Flagship Studios made a beta game client that killed my RAM, brilliant aye?

22 October 2007

Afternoon - Around 3.45pm came Master Guo, this time he took RM210.00, the cost for implementing a “Fu” (Charm) for Dad. Standard rules apply, i.e. cannot come into contact with water, delivery rooms, but can be brought to funeral services without any problem.

Besides that, there is also a “coffin donation” of RM1,250.00 for a old lady who passed away in an old folks home in Melaka. Quite a hefty amount if you ask me. RM105, RM210, RM1250, guess I will be reporting these figures to Master Lim in due time.

20 October 2007, Saturday

Morning - Went to Dentist around 8:30am, waited until 9.0am before we got started, it was around 11.00am when we are finished there, it appeared that I have 7 teeth that needs to be “fixed”, i.e. require “filling”. Anyway, while we were there, Datin told us about this “Toast Masters International”, something like a society for public speaking thingies. Sounds interesting, they hold fortnightly gatherings inside the IEM building on every alternate Thursdays.

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http://www.thesitewizard.com/

http://www.thefreecountry.com/

http://www.howtohaven.com/

Came across these sites while looking for html tutorials, some useful articles to refer to.

18 October 2007, Thursday

Morning - Discussed with Dad about the lawyer’s letter, after a short round of discussion we decided to further discuss it with Mr. Tam when he arrives later. Ah Wa came in around 10am something with a painter and worked on the room at the back, a while later he proceed to discuss with Dad about the Ipoh steel factory issue. I sat in and listened to what they have to talk about, 3 gu called in halfway through the discussion, I answered the call, she asked about if Dad is busy or not, I told her Dad is having a discussion with Ah Wa about the steel factory. Also told her that I am sitting in the discussion, she sounded a bit weird, as if she cried or something, must be my imagination.

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18 October 2007, Thursday

I think I have a bit too much of Enemy Territory : Quake Wars, been playing it everyday since I got my copy from The Software Boutique. Check out the screen shot attached below:

The actual url would be: http://stats.enemyterritory.com/leaders/total/total_xp?page=380

However, the actual ranking would probably fluctuate often, since xp are easily obtainable. Just join any ranked servers and start fraggin’, its fraggin’ time yo!

http://stats.enemyterritory.com/profile/Deimos_Tel_Arin?page=summary

Again, the above url shows all my achievements in Enemy Territory : Quake Wars. I’m a Corporal now, heheh. All new players start off as a Conscript, Private, Private First Class, then Corporal.

Besides being in the top 10,000 now, I am also a rank 4,700++ Icarus pilot! Woot!

Rank 1,200++ Obliterator player! Wohoo!

17 October 2007, Wednesday

Late evening - Around 11:30pm, just finished chatting with bro about our drafted web site http://newteque.com/

He gave me a few web sites of Aussie developers to refer to:

http://www.ironfish.com.au/

http://www.urbanconstruct.com.au/

http://www.theprecinctcbd.com.au/

Also mentioned to use CSS, <div> tag, layers etc. Recommended me to use Dreamweaver or NVU. Must read up some tutorials then get started to revamp the site.

17 October 2007, Wednesday

Morning - About 10 am something, my cousin brother - Ng Kim Aik came to our office. He had some application that needs to be signed by my Dad, after that they proceed to discuss on the reinforced concrete panel design for APARTMEN IMPIAN.

Afternoon - We had lunch together, Kim Aik, How Li, Fai and me. Talked about work and experience, nice lunch outing. Further conversation with cousin bro revealed that his old back pain problem struck again, luckily his mum (My Da gu) helped him out by massaging the correct area, using a chopstick. We came back to the office around 1pm and they (Dad and Kim Aik) continued with their discussion on the panel design.

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17 October 2007, Wednesday

There is this Chinese saying that goes like this : “Trouble does not travel alone” and I must agree that this statement is quite true to some extent, especially if we are unable to manage our fiery emotions and snapped, even if we are alone, damage could still be done.

For example, my darling blew a fuse (She got pissed off at me again because I failed to act within time, i.e. I have yet to move after a few seconds after she told me to do something.) this morning. I was not happy, because I believe I did not did anything wrong, but I received shit treatment from her. I banged the car window again, miraculously the window did not break. Shortly after that, when I feel my finger for the sapphire ring as usual, it felt odd, and so I take a good look at it, oh great, the sapphire stone is gone.

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