Category: Life

Wannabe my super sweet 16

It’s about 5-10 minutes before my first meeting of the day. So thought about stealing the time to drop a quick blog post. 🙂

While driving over after dropping Ariel, there was this old Mercedes S-class at the turn. You know, the huge tank-like S-class instead of the more classy and smooth edged model now. So yeah, the vehicle caught my eyes because there was some dude sticking half his body out from the car’s sky roof.

And, it wasn’t no kid. He looked like he was in his teens or someone who either came back from overseas. Why in particular I’m mentioning this is because, you don’t see this behaviour in Malaysia.

It may be me. But I was thinking, what a spoiled rich brat. While his driver was manning the wheel, there he was out at the sky roof on his phone. As though he was trying hard to be part of the MTV series; my super sweet 16.

Well, sorry bud. It’s in the day time and there ain’t no hos or sluts to look at you.

Sorry if it sounded offensive. This isn’t Vegas and it was just done at the wrong time of the day.

Party with the Dead

Had to get up at 7:00am today because parents scheduled one of our cheng beng (ching ming) visits on this fine day of morning rain. Argh, I can only imagine what it would’ve felt sleeping in the weather under my warm blanky. Oh well.

We had to drive to Nirvana Memorial Park in Semenyih. My mama’s (Dad’s mother) ashes is placed there. It was quite a distance making our way there from Petaling Jaya, although we took the Balakong highway and headed on to the LEKAS highway.

Besides the good in paying respects to the passed relatives during this season, I’ve found this period the time when families will get together. Other than, Chinese New Year.

We’ll be praying, burning papers (forgive us, Mum) and later, sitting around talking to one another. The talking is to pass the time while our passed relatives get to spiritually eat the offerings we’ve made for them at the altar.

Seriously, I felt it was a time of bonding. Though my Dad and brother (Gary) were talking about buying and selling of cars. How to get bang for your buck, so to speak.

After we got back, we were saying “we partied with the dead”. Hence, the title.

Then, I followed up with the line “introducing a new scent; Death”. LOL!

Well, this season doesn’t have to be all gloom, right? 😉

I want to be a Ninja photographer!

Watcha!

Sensei, please teach me how to photograph lovely women and sharp smiles with hidden presence from the shadows.

red ninja

And also, I hear you have good mojo. Will that be taught too at Got Mojo?seminar. Please sensei, I need your blessing.

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010

Time: 8pm

Venue: P1 Auditorium, Packet Hub, 159 Jalan Templer, 46050 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Seminar details can be found at RedNinja. Watcha!

P.S.: If you too want win free passes to sensei’s mojo, details here.

A Geek’s Nightmare

Seriously, this morning’s dream was weird. Now thinking if I’ve been spending way too much time at the computer or in my work. Because I had a dream of falling victim to some stupid email scam, accidentally! WTF?!

Stress is distracting

In my dream, I was in the flow of doing my work and it was something I had to rush. Previously, the email marketing company I used did an exercise of requesting members to change their passwords. And, password change verifiers will be sent via email.

Because I was expecting to receive that email, I saw another email which was formatted pretty similar. Not in design but layout. It was a 1-column with text and a text link at the bottom. Now, I think here’s where I made my boo-boo. I didn’t read the text link and assumed it was for me to click and verify my password change.

Nightmare starts

I was suddenly involved in some dispute. My parents contacted me saying there was this person who said I owed them a huge sum of money. Reason being I had subscribed or purchased something from them. Obviously being spaced out, I denied it was true.

Until they asked me if I clicked the link an email. Uh oh!

Thankfully it ended

By the end of my subconsciousness, my parents said it was resolved. Though I vaguely recall in my dream, I told a friend I could sue the other party for having misled and not confirming my purchase first.

Nonetheless, it was quite scary being caught up in such a weird predicament. And do hope it doesn’t come about as a deja vu, ever.

Plus, to make sure I read all my emails before clicking ANY links!

The real Earth Hour

I was sitting in Starbucks at Sunway Pyramid. They too were in support of Earth Hour. Or at least, doing their best to support it. But then, I was pondering.

Is this how you really support Earth Hour?

Let me share with you the real story of how Earth Hour came about from the official website.

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change.

This might sound cynical or from a hypocrite but though it’s not mentioned you have to turn off all the lights in your home or business, shouldn’t that be the ideal action for all Earth Hour supporters?

While sitting in Starbucks, I could still see the mall corridors and stores brightly lit. So I thought again, how much energy would they really save by only turning off the outdoor lights?

Is this communicating the wrong message about Earth Hour? Or, even if I switched off the lamp beside my bed, I can say I support Earth Hour?