Archive for February, 2006

28
Feb

::: petrol hike :::

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: Complaints

**NOTE: This post is back-dated due to lack of time for update.

The night before (February 27), a friend of mine called me to inform me that petrol price is going to increase 30 cents per liter (from RM1.62 to RM1.92). I scuffed at the idea even thought she informed me that the source of information was from a Shell manager.

The reason? Because 30 cents is just too steep and normally the government is trying to increase the petrol price slowly, like 5 or 10 cents, and increase it over a span of time. So 30 cents sounds ridiculous to me.

Obviously, as all of you should know by now, how wrong was I.

Today the petrol price is RM1.92/liter!!!

!@#!@#$@!@!#%#

I used to pump around RM51 for my SLK, but this morning (Yes, I was an ass because I thought that was impossible and my fuel tank was at a dangerously empty last night) it came out to be RM62!!!! Damn it! The lady next to me was bewildered to see her bill at RM100 for her Waja and later her eyes almost popped out after she read the bill carefully. She told me that she used to pump around RM80.

Inflation at 3.5%? Over my beautiful, round and perky ass! That’s definitely higher than 3.5% as claimed! The method of calculation is totally wrong because they took those items not really affected our daily life. If they want to do a true calculation, they should look at food and beverages, petrol and household items that we buy all the time! For my own calculation (don’t ask me how I calculate), the real inflation rate should be around 7.23%.

Ok, I didn’t calculate it. I made that part up. But I can be certain that the inflation is much higher than 3.5%.

The bad news is, our annual salary has not increase for more than 3% so every year our pay is getting lesser and lesser. So its time for the companies to review our salaries and the fucking mileage claim!

!@W@$%@#$@!

25
Feb

::: stupid corporate hierarchy :::

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: work

The other day I just joined a pointless meeting. It is one of those meeting that has nothing to do with me, whatsoever.

The person hosting the meeting? Well, you guess it right… Someone who was promoted recently and the history is that this person was kept in the “fridge” by the management for years and now that he is out of the “fridge”, he wanted to make his presence felt. On the first day he was promoted, he has made shitload of changes in the corporation side and practically shaked the whole department.

I won’t get into the details of those changes, but the meeting he held was really pointless in a sense that it has nothing to do with our department. But he wanted to have the meeting anyway and was questioning me (I was the most junior in the whole room) and tried to bully me. Fortunately, I defended myself quite nicely and at the end, it was a peaceful ending.

Of course, I was imagining how I torture him, using a spoon to pry open his nose, using my Swiss Army Knife to cut his butt, and all the bloody stuff. But again, that’s another story which I won’t get into because I don’t want to make this blog too “graphic” and make myself look so evil.

Sometimes I just can’t imagine why people do stupid things like this. Don’t they understand that the best way is to let keep the whole hierarchy intact and let those people who can do their job best to continue to do their job? I wonder if they ever heard of Warren Buffet way’s or whatsoever. But no, they step in, and want to be in charge of everything eventhough those are out of his/her job scope and out of his range. He just want to have a say in everything.

Furthermore, during the meeting, he was talking to me so loud that people outside the conference room can hear the roaring inside the room. And then after the meeting, I went into the manager room for discussion but he was already there, so I excused myself and closed the door. While I was closing the door, he yelled “Close the door!”

What the fuck?

Anyway, I didn’t give a fuck and I was planning to close the door anyway, but I changed my mind; I left the door opened.

Later, the CEO, Managing Director, and all the big shots were in town and had a discussion. Well? During the whole meeting, that dude became a kitty cat and we couldn’t hear what the hell he was saying. Now talk about ass-licking…

Oh well, there are shitloads of stupid people in the planet. If we kill them all, the whole population might left 2% and the competition to get laid will be too great. So let’s not kill them all.

14
Feb

::: st. valentine’s day :::

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: about me and guide

Last night Maria was asking me if I will be giving her flowers during the Valentine’s day. I told her No. Its not because those greedy fuckers are overcharging roses for more than 500% but because I am not a flower kind of guy.

Well, I can almost hear some of you are shouting that I am a cheapo and a totally unromantic pig. I admit I am not romantic (well, most of the time), but I am definitely not cheap!

A lot of people asked me why I don’t give flowers during Valentine’s day, and my answer is simple. I don’t have to wait till Valentine’s day to give out flowers. I can do it everyday. I can treat my love ones like shit everyday, but buy them flowers during Valentine and Christmas. Does that make me a loving dude? I guess not. So I treat it as everyday is a Valentine’s day, except during Valentine’s day. The reason is because it is highly commercialized and people are overcharging all of us for something perishable, like roses!

Besides, during the course of all my relationships, I never sent any flowers to any girls. But I do have something better than flowers, and it will remain a secret until Maria receives it.

For those poor souls who have problems with girlfriends/wife/mistress and don’t know what to give during the St. Valentine’s Day, here are some ideas:

Cook a Meal
Well, you can always make a good meal (by your own standard. For my very own standard, I cook damn good meal. For 8 years I have failed to food poison myself). If you are not a good cook, head down to ColdStorage and buy those spaghetti sauce, buy some good sausages, and some spaghetti and make her a candle light spaghetti. If not, head down to the mamak store and buy some mutton and white rice and say that you cooked it. Instant noodle won’t do because they will know.

Buy a Gift (1)
Here is a great secret. Head to Noel website and choose something within your budget. From my experience, those great guys don’t overcharge the gifts in the systems and the final price plus delivery is ultra reasonable. For those that live outside of Klang Valley, you are fucked.

Buy a Gift (2)
Head down to Perlin-Silver and check out their things. But if you are too cheap, you can always go to the trash can and look for scrap metal. Then try to heat it to 3600 degree Celcius and shape it into anything you like. Oh! You can even try to use those can drinks to… nevermind.

Treat Her Special
I don’t know about you guys, but I do find that sometimes a good sex after all the above is a good way to end the night. Start by giving her a good long massage (use those spiced up massage oil for relaxation purpose), rub her thoroughly and then, slowly… well, you get the idea. Just make sure you are not the only one with a quick orgasm and then fall asleep ontop of her while she’s still wanting more. Make sure she’s totally exhausted! Reason: Then she won’t bug you anymore so you can rest well. If not she’ll nag about how insensitive you are about those gift thing.

Please note that the above list is for guys only.

Girls, you don’t have to worry too much about gifts to your boyfriend/husband/affair. Trust me, we guys are very contended and we do not ask for much from ya’ll. Just make sure you brush your teeth, and give us a mindblowing blowjob will do.

12
Feb

::: another kuay teow man :::

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: Entertaintment and life

I almost forgot about an incident during the CNY. It was yet another story about kuay teow (please refer to the the kuay teow man in my previous post).

After some discussion about the world economy (*Ahem* You know what I mean) with friends until late at night during CNY. We decided to drop by to this kuay teow place to take a late supper because we were exhausted during the 10 hours debate about the world economy. Unfortunately, that place wasn’t opened so we just went off to a mamak store nearby to fill our hunger.

A very lonely old man was sitting next to us and he heard our conversation about wanting to take kuay teow but it wasn’t opened, and he started to tell us stories about kuay teow. The most funny thing is that he was basically talking to himself and told us how good it was to add extra garlic to the fried kuay teow. He ranted and raved for more than 15 minutes, and we practically ignored him. Finally, he went quiet and we went on with our business to harrass the roti canai (local indian bread), nasi lemak (oil yrice?), and teh tarik(pulled tea).

Then one of our idiot friends, Shawn, whispered to Ivan and asked him how can we add ice to a kuay teow. Well, in Cantonese, the pronounciation for garlic and ice are pretty similar. But the uncle overheard the comment and started to tell us it wasn’t ice that make a good kuay teow but extra garlic. Then he said something about not wanting us to get confused or people might laugh at us.

We couldn’t help it but laughed until we had stomach cram. After the laughing, we proceeded with kicking Shawn’s ass and threw him into the drain nearby after the uncle kept ranting and raving about garlic with kuay teow for the next 10 minutes.

The last part is not true, but the uncle did rant about it for 10 minutes…

06
Feb

::: this says it all :::

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: about me

I was reading Ayesha’s blog and found the link. I couldn’t resist it so I took the test. The results? Amazing! Just check it out!

You Are an Espresso

At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic

At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung

You drink coffee when: anytime you’re not sleeping

Your caffeine addiction level: high
06
Feb

::: officially back, but reluctantly :::

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: life and work

Finally we are back from the week-long holiday. Unfortunately, coming back is not as easy as going off for the vacation…

First of all, there are shitload of work to be done and shitload of emails to sort through and reply. That’s always the difficult part because there are just so many emails in my inbox!! Anyway, pounding on the keyboard that I was, I managed to reply 99.99% of the junk mails, and still got 99.5% of business mail to reply.

Secondly, there are so many problems during the week long break! There were some delivery issues and also some stock problems, so I have to sort them out accordingly as well!

And then, there are so many conversation in the office! Everyone was asking me how was my break and all that crap, so I have to tell them again and again. Why can’t they just gather in the conference room and ask me all at once, and then I will just answer once and for all? Or rather, I should have tatooed those answers on my palm and when they ask me, I’ll just show them my palm and say “Talk to my hand!”

Oh! Did I forget to mention about collection? The company closing is today and a lot of customers are not able to give me the payment because (1) they just came back so they need to sort through their cash flows, (2) they paid out the bonuses to the staff so they need to collect money themselves, and (3) some really Chinese-chinese companies are reluctant to pay because they see debtors during the CNY period is a sign of bad luck.

Man, I rather just rest a few more days and let other people worry about those problems for me!

06
Feb

::: random conversation (2) :::

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: friends and weird shit

The other day received a call from a friend and the conversation was as follow

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Kenneth: “Yo dude! Can you do something? Must promise ya?”

Me: [hesitate] “Hmmm… what do you want me to do first?”

Kenneth: “You promise first!”

Me: “Huh? How can I promise if I don’t even know what you want me to do?”

Kenneth: “Oh come on! We are brothers, so please promise me!”

Me: [slightly offended] “Well, I cannot promise you if I don’t know what you want me to do. What if you ask me to die? Do I just die like that?”

Kenneth: “Aiya! We are brothers! Do you think I’ll ask you to die?”

Me: [offended] “So…?”

Kenneth: “Come by my house this Tuesday night. We are going to have a gathering.”

Me: “Hmmm… I might have a meeting with an outstation friend. I let you know later?”

Kenneth: “Don’t be like this la. You promised already!”

Me: [very offended] “I didn’t promise you. But I’ll try my best…”

Kenneth: “Don’t act like a big boss and forget about your friends can? Remember to bring one bottle of wine k? No beer please!”

Me: “I will see if I can make it…”

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Well, I don’t like to be forced and basically I was very fierce at him during the conversation. He is already 31 years old and yet acting like a child. Damn…

01
Feb

::: back! not really :::

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: life

Well, I am not officially back from my holiday yet, but just thougth of providing some updates to ya’ll…

Basically this CNY is same as the previous ones, because on the CNY eve, my mom, eldest sis and me were taking reunion lunch together, and right after the lunch, sis dashed back to the husband’s side house to prepare the dinner.

See, in Chinese custom, the married daughter should follow the husband, so on the reunion dinner, the wife should follow the husband back to his home for dinner. As the only son in the family, and ever since my father passed away, we have to make do for just two of us having reunion dinner. Eldest sis joining us was in fact a bit of a surprise to me.

Anyway, on the CNY eve, I went out with some friends for some healthy macro-economic discussion(translation: gamble). On the 1st day, we set off to the relatives house (not the relative-relatives, but it was my granny’s, dad side, place) and then we just spent some time there. Fluffy the Great was dressed in a really cute little red shirt (pictures will be available soon). After that, just a sinful dinner with lots of special-recipie cooked pork and such. And then at night, I was off for my series of healthy macro-economic discussion with my friends.

On the 2nd day, my whole family, including my 2nd sis, set off to Genting, and then to Cherating for vacation. I didn’t join them because Maria was coming back so I didn’t want to rush my family for ending the vacation. It was a pity but then, being a good son that I am, I had to sacrifice my own vacation so that I can company Maria (she has no relatives in Malaysia) and not disrupting my family’s vacation.

The conclusion, so far, is that:

1. I have gained shitload of weight due to those sinful but delicious food.
2. I have some luck this year during the healthy macro-economic discussion, so it isn’t a bad year after all.

 

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