Credit Card

I’m shocked to receive a phone call on a Sunday evening from the credit card company, asking if I have just purchased a RM2.3k air ticket from MAS. I don’t usually pick up a call whilst driving, but fortunately I did for this case. I wonder which idiotic credit card thief would illegally use it to buy airline ticket, as the passenger name shown in the ticket would no doubt be implicated.



An advise to the credit card thief, you can run but you can never run far enough.

Expectations

If someone is heading for a movie with a very low expectation amid discouragement from acquaintance, the outcome could often be surprisingly satisfactory. On the other hand, if someone attended a show with high prospect, the expectations are often difficult to fulfill. I wonder if the same principle applies to relationship and marriages.

In order to assist you to have greatest possible entertainment in theatres, I shall provide false rating on all the movies I have watched, thus don’t blame me for any false recommendations.


Don't watch Presto - the cartoon before Wall-E. Its no good (if you know what I'm saying).

Upgrade

Sometimes an upgrade is not necessary for the better but instead inevitable as the previous version is simply not sustainable.

This new garden layout is neither cheaper nor exquisite. Its simply a necessary upgrade as portion of the grass simply cannot survive under the old design.

I wonder how often have I made advancement amid necessity rather than improvisation.


Old and New version of the garden

Shocker

Today’s schedule is to apply multiple entry visas to China in Chinese Embassy. I was totally shocked when I arrive the premises. It is so crowded that I couldn’t even get out of the lift. There are no less than fifty people at the lift area trying to get into the office and there are in excess of couple of thousand of people inside. What a shocker!

Does everybody just trying to get out of the country amid Sept-16th or are they just so impress with the Olympic that they couldn’t resist to visit the nation immediately? Nonetheless, I’ll make another attempt tomorrow morning. I realize most aunties generally know the ‘technique’ of queing and able to squeeze through the crowd to get things done quicker than others. For once I could really use an aunty.


I could really use a magic hat to avoid the crowd

Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes, my number one enemy of all time. I remember my childhood days when I was constantly harassed by mosquitoes on all part of the body, frequently on my two ears.

A quick mosquitoes cure and prevention guide for everyone:
Two best methods to cure mosquitoes’ bites- apply boiling hot water (my mum’s traditional secret method) and apply freezing ice (my dad’s formula). The best way to steer clear of getting targeted by mosquitoes – stand next to Johnny, an obvious preferred choice among the mosquitoes sisterhood.

My nightmare continues up till today, as I haven’t installed mosquitoes nets on the windows. My attempt to install the net has been pretty frustrating and not quite the results I anticipated. Volunteers needed. Anyone?


Alas mosquitoes! Kill kill kill!!

Search Engines

Someone just told me that if I were to search for “Johnny Koo” under google search engine, my facebook account would appear in the first search results. If I were to search under yahoo search engine, then my friendster account will appear on the 4th search results. That’s pretty interesting. Problem is, however, would there be anybody searching for me through online portals.

I am generally pretty good in keeping contacts with people I have alias with in the past. The few people that I am still trying to locate are from my high school days when Internet and email account are not available. Mr. Sang Tat Yuen and Liu Zi Hao from Chong Hwa, where are you? I couldn’t find you through any means that I can think of. If you can hear me, please search for me in yahoo or google.


Here’s some of the ‘souvenirs’ I received lately. Aren’t they adorable?

Good bye

Today marks the last day of employment with the company. It has been almost four years, my longest employment with any company. I could never imagine myself working here for that long when I first join and I still can’t believe it now. I do admit that the first year of service has been rather enjoying but the feeling has been lost long ago. It is considered pretty long for this company and still relatively lengthy for any employment nowadays as employees these days preferred to choose the path of self-advancement via hopping jobs.

I choose an employment based on the opportunity for self-development. The day that opportunity diminishes is the day I should walk away.


P.S. Someone has used this pic for her blog. Sorry for the lack of originality.

Count down

Count down to leave the company has commenced with 3 days left to go. What do you celebrates in a count down? Celebrating a new beginning or an end? Aren’t they the same one may ask? Celebrating an end is to cheer for a good year or rejoicing an end to a disaster; whilst cheering for a new beginning comprises of hope and anticipation. Most people celebrate for the later I suppose, as everyone is too busy looking forward than reviewing the past.

I don’t usually go to count down party, whether it is New Year, Christmas, National Day or other self invented special day. Everybody loves celebrating and all these so call countdowns are just an excuse for them to have one.

P.S. We are also heading towards the count down stage for the opening of ‘Poppy Talk’. I heard they make good fake muffins. Lets go party at Poppy Talk.


Muffin for sale at Puppy Talk

Server down

The office's server has gone completely haywire today. The Internet connection could not consistently maintain functioning. As a result, I constantly log in and out of msn messenger, which brought as much irritation to myself as everybody else with me in their friend list.

Similar to the server, my soar throat is also not feeling all that great recently amid moving of offices and lack of water consumption. Would be great if someone could deliver a “24 taste cooling tea with super Chinese medicine powder”.
(Now available at nearest Gong-He-Tang or Hua-Tuo-Guang at only RM 7!)


Need to consume 24 taste cooling tea with super Chinese medicine powder

Relocation IV

This blog is written by an author who is hidden in a corner, with laptop on top of boxes yet to be unpacked. We are still in midst of relocation, which has been taking place for days, yet no tables, chairs or cabinets are available for anyone. Some silly bugger forecasts a ‘one-day’ plan for actual moving of furniture, yet we are not even close to fifty percent after a day and a half. Every other employees in the offices have master the technique of disappearing as their presence are not locatable in either of the two offices. I wonder who they learn the technique from?


Where's everbody else in the office?

Injuries II

I re-injured the same ankle that I did some two and a half months ago. This time it’s a genuine sports injury, rather than stepping on uneven ground whilst walking on the street. Lets pray that this rehabitation takes shorter time than the previous injuries.

The accident came from basketball yesterday amid a bad landing. Talking about basketball, brief scarce yesterday on USA Redeem Team that almost lost to Spain, a team they beat more than 30 points a week earlier. On the Olympic front, it’s finally over yesterday and I bet many including myself feeling sudden emptiness particularly after working hours.


Feeling emptiness after Olympic