Smart goal for 2012

Sigh. This be the 2nd time I’m writing this because I may have accidentally discarded the previous draft and I guess the iPad app was made too easy to do it without an undo. Oh well.

So, in summary. I was talking about my milestones and setting new year resolutions using the smart formula – specific, measurable, attainable, rewards and timed. Something I learned from a friend in my business network group.

2011 milestones:

  1. My girlfriend of 8 years is now my fiancé
  2. I started reading books again

What I’ve decided as my 2012 goals:

  1. Finish reading 1 book a month
  2. Publish 1 blogpost either on this blog or Websites Made Simple every 2 days
  3. Join a Mandarin course
  4. Refresh the design of Websites Made Simple before May
  5. Cleanup my workspace and room before Chinese New Year
  6. Do something nice everyday

Making sure I do what I set out to do

One thing I’ve learned from the smart goals is to measure myself and know how I’m performing. So I’ll firstly include my list as a widget on my blog to know everyone is holding me accountable. Then, I’m going to printout an A4-A3 so I can include what rewards I’d be giving myself for completing these goals.

While this is going to be really new to me and though it sounds scary, there’s always a first for everything. And I’m very sure I’ll come out more proud knowing what I can achieve especially when I do.

So all the best to everyone in 2012. And do tell me about one of your resolutions this 2012. I want to do something nice for you. 🙂

Readjusting fate and having friends with benefits

Well, it’s Christmas eve and I hope everyone has gotten their gifts under the tree, cookies and milk on the table along with the booby trap to snag you a Santa Claus for the morning tomorrow. 😉

Readjusting your fate

Me and Ariel pretty much spent our afternoon indulging in movies with not watched. The first of it was The Adjustment Bureau which is your modern day story about fate and bringing to reality the plan which God has for all of us.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHVU3fKhsjI]

The storyline made it very much believable. Even if it was fate, chance wasn’t controllable and it could happen because we as humans did things on impulse. Quite a clever movie if you ask me.

Bonking the friend because you can

I don’t believe it’s a common thing in our Asian culture. The phrase friends with benefits relates to the non-committing relationship you may have with a partner. And I don’t recall this movie being in Malaysia. I guess it could be due to the scenes of sex and excessive nudity in a portion of the movie. Now, before you go looking for it, consider if you’d like to see Justin Timberlake’s ass.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34xfcoRceeU]

I’d consider this movie your classic romance comedy where boy meets girl, they start feeling for each other, breakup and then later officiate their relationship.

Overall, it’s just a nice movie to be enjoying over the long weekend.

Merry Christmas everyone. 🙂

Story of ribs and Selangor tourism

Procrastination can be a really bad thing. When you’ve something to blog, the moment you set it aside, you end up losing its motivation and consider the decision whether to post it or not. So, what the heck – here’s my week’s life summary.

Run-in with Chicago Rib House

It’s a new eatery in 1Utama and my friend gave a good recommendation on the food. So, we normally take our friends’ word, right?

Half-rack of pork ribs

The meat was tender that it peeled off the bone without trouble. As happy as I’d have love to be, I wasn’t. Because it took more than 30 minutes before me and Ariel were served our food. My belief after reminding 2 waiters of our orders and witnessing the kitchen manager look our way  – twice, was that our servings got delivered to the wrong tables.

No doubt their system tracks orders keyed all the way to the food being cooked, but because of human error somewhere our food wasn’t delivered until much much much later. In addition, my side order was also wrong but at this point, I just couldn’t give a damn. It was a very bad experience and I won’t be paying the Chicago Rib House a second visit.

My friends suggested me to complain on their Facebook page but here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to publish this here, on Twitter and on my Facebook, if they’ve a decent team monitoring their brand online, I’d be more than happy for them to talk to me – if not comp me.

Rediscovering Selangor

If you’re active on Twitter and stay in Selangor, you may have bumped into the Tourism Selangor social media team. They’re really doing a pretty good job engaging the Selangor residents and recently, I learnt about the forest reserves – thanks to a contest by Alam Sekitar Selangor.

Contest goodies

The contest prizes wasn’t an iPad2 or new computer or new car but I didn’t really bother. It was a spur of the moment that I thought to just join the contest for the fun of it. And from that experience, I learned that 1 of the forest reserves in Selangor is Bukit Gasing. In addition, I actually visited the Tourism Selangor website to scour for my answer.

What surprised me most was when their package arrived. Apparently, it was sent from the office of the Adun Bukit Lanjan; Elizabeth Wong!

Well, thanks again for the calendars and I hope to see Selangor do much better with technology. Next step maybe to give real credit where it’s due to those who really created something for the state using technology. And I’m not talking about some 1email accounts.

Tapping feet too

As a kid, parents called me a penguin for liking to walk like one. I’m not sure why myself but I think it was because I was mimicking Charlie Chaplin. And if you didn’t know who’s he, you can go jump off a cliff now. Seriously.

Rowan Atkinson's role model

Okay. So talking about penguins, last night I watched Happy Feet 2 with Ariel and her learning Japanese classmates. Their teacher has been only in Malaysia for less than 6 months so as hospitable Malaysians, we’ve made it our conquest to show her around including the cinema here. 😛

So how was Happy Feet 2?!

Right, coming back to Happy Feet 2. The first movie was about Mumble finding himself and returning with his identity. This continuation still focuses on Mumble, but from a fatherly figure.

And in this second movie, they’ve introduced side characters to the story. I suppose it’s to fill in for the gaps of not really focusing on Mumble’s kid. Then again, you’d want to just keep watching the little furball and want to squeeze the life out of him cause he so cute!!! 😉

Overall, it was entertaining for a family movie. It’s a movie kids should learn to appreciate from the moral lessons in it.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKWNUyTGqss]

What was the recent movie you watched?

Evil intentions

While on the road today heading down to KL, I was driving behind this silver Toyota Vios on the fast lane. Out of the blue, I noticed the car drifting to the left. Judging by her leaning head to the left, it looked like she was reaching for something on the left. Well, her car maintained a straight course later. Though not for long.

Excuse my french. But the bitch started drifting to the left again. More than 3 times. I was seriously “WTF” man!!!

Her excuse

Not wanting to trust my life to her, I decided to cut her from the left and yes, she was on the fast lane! Upon passing her, I finally found out the excuse she was drifting – SMSing or fingering her mobile phone’s keypad. Fuck!!!!! Lady, if you ain’t got skills to keep your car straight while pressing the damn buttons, don’t do it-lah!

Millionaire me

If I were a millionaire, I’d bump her car backside rather than horn her. Then, when she came out of the car screaming, I’ll just hand her a cheque to fix her bumper with the message written behind:

Stop fucking using your phone while driving!

Seriously don’t get why she continued messing with her phone. I bet she even knew she was already drifting. Sigh. -.-!