Archive for June, 2008

30
Jun

Bill Gates Retirement

By Adrian 2 Comments
Categories: Entertaintment

Well, Bill Gates, the richest man on earth (until recently, that is. He was decrowned by Warren Buffet) and the Chairman of Microsoft Corp, has just stepped down from all the official post in Microsoft Corp and announced his retirement.

During the CES Keynote, he compiled a video showing how his last day would be, and how retirement would be. Well, here’s the video:

It’s great to see that some big time CEO has a sense of humor and mocking himself with jokes with a star-studded short film featuring Matthew McConaughey, George Clooney, BONO (of U2), Steven Spielberg, and etc.

You know what? I would create a film like that and be happy, mocking myself, if I have billions and billions of dollars in my personal vault.

30
Jun

Euphoria by Ministry of Sound

By Adrian 2 Comments
Categories: Entertaintment

Euphoria, a new club by Ministry of Sound is slated for opening on July 2nd, from 9pm onwards @ Sunway Resort.

Now, please don’t confuse Ministry of Sound (MOS) with any of our ministry departments in Malaysia. It has nothing to do with those ministry departments or ministers. It is simply one of the best clubbing from the UK. For more information, go to MOS website here.

Jeez, I really feel like going for the opening night, and I am pretty sure it will be crowded. Any taker? Who wants to go with me?

29
Jun

Do We Mean What We Say?

By Adrian 4 Comments
Categories: observation, people and rants and raves

This is the part 2 of the post about my observation here.

The problem with the society and people nowadays is that it is extremely difficult to find someone who will say what’s in their mind. And when we do, we think that person is too direct or something we crown the word “mean” on their foreheads.

What do I mean by “Do we mean what we say?” Let me give you some scenarios to work with.

Scenario #1:
Your girlfriend is cleaning the house, sweeping the floor, and mopping the floor (just assume that you two are living together). You offer help, but she says, “Oh honey, it’s okay. You have been working whole day so you rest.” or “It’s alright baby, I like to do house chores.” or “You enjoy your football game okay? I want to do it alone.”

What happen next? Before you know it, when you two have a fight, and she uses this against you, saying that you had never helped.
You: “But honey! You said you like to do house chores!”
She: “Ya right, as if I am your maid. Do you think everyone is born to like house chores? You sitting on your ass whole day so I got to do it!”
You: “But dear, you said it was okay because I was working whole day.”
She: “Fuck you. You think you are the only one working whole day? I don’t have to work?”
You: “But baby, you always ask me to continue my football game while you were cleaning.”
She: “Oh yeah, bastard. You can enjoy your football game, and what was I doing? Cleaning up your mess!”
You: “Why can’t you just say so? When I offered help, why can’t you just let me do it? Why can’t you speak your mind?”
She: “Guess what asshole! When I declined your help, why can’t you move your ass and take the initiative to help? Now I am speaking my mind!”

I don’t mean to be sexist, but guys normally mean YES when we say YES, and we mean what we say. Unfortunately, most of the time, women speaks some alien language. When they say they are fine, don’t trust them a bit. When they say NO, well, they mean YES most of the time. That’s why most of the time we have our arguments and that’s why sometimes that leads to serious misunderstanding.

Scenario #2:
Imagine that I bring my dog to your house. He poo right in front of your door, and I quickly asked for paper towel, plastic bag, and a mop. You might be kind enough to decline it and says, “Oh that’s fine. He’s just a lovely dog!” But the truth is, when you were cleaning that place up after my dog, you might be complaining to your wife, “that fucking bastard, his dog shit here and now I got to clean up his shit. What the fuck is he thinking?”

Now, this happened before (not to me of course, because I don’t fuck care what they say and I will just clean up whatever mess I made) and this is real life. Some people just try to be nice to the guests, but then inside their mind, they were cursing the guests and the guests’ families to hell and back. Why can’t you be genuine and let the guests clean up their own mess? Why act like a fucking gentleman and then later accuse them for not doing something right?

Of course, there are a few more scenarios that I can create, but let’s not make this post too long and I certainly not writing a thesis for human psychology.

So what’s your take? What do you think? Do you think that people in this society is telling enough truth and mean what they say? Or do you think you have met a lot of fake-face people?

27
Jun

Big Day with VIPs

By Adrian 3 Comments
Categories: observation and work

Yesterday I was at Nikko Hotel since 745am because my company was participating in BioMed 2008. We were busy setting up the booth and all that, and also testing all the audio/visual to ensure that our presentation (just showing some media files on a projector) is running smoothly.

Then we wait…

Yes, the featured guest of the day was YAB Dato’ Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, our Prime Minister of Malaysia. As usual, the stated time of arrival was 8:55am, and guess what! We waited until 9:15am, and he didn’t show up! He sent one of the representatives from the Prime Minister Department to represent him because he got the Parliament meeting on the 9th Malaysia Plan. Oh well, at least we could kick start the ceremonial thing to get the event officiated.

After the Malaysia anthem (mind you, the real one, not the famous one found on YouTube) and the prayers, the VIPs started to stand at the podium to give speeches and then some ceremonial mock cheque contribution. You know, the common thing, yada-yada and then finally, the VIPs were taking a tour to the event venue for visit. It’s important that the VIPs will spend at least 2 minutes on each booth to talk to the people, to show that they have genuine interest, yada-yada.

Now, I am not interest in telling the show-show thing and all that. The reason why I am writing this post is because I like to observe people and I saw something that pique my interest, hence I am sharing my observation with you.

I think all those VIPs should hire a fashion consultant, or dress consultant or something. I mean, they have the moolah! So might as well dress professionally. Okay, I have to give them the credit as their dress code is right; they wore a suit (meaning coat/blazer) with a properly knotted tie. But the coat is seriously oversized (or in some case, undersized!). I mean, can you imagine a VIP dressing a very loose coat, so oversized until they looked like they have a 48 inch waist instead of 40 inch?

And then some wore a squeeze-fit (note: not tight fit like those Hugo Boss) and the sleeves were like 2 inches short. Can you imagine a full size adult wearing a jacket that looked like he bought it when he was in highschool?

I am not asking everyone to wear a Hugo Boss or even a Armani suit. Well, I know I don’t buy those suit, not at this moment. I will only buy these suit on very special occasion, something once-of-a-life-time special thing, like my wedding (at least I hope its once of a life time). But they are the VIPs, so at least buy something that is fitting instead of super-sizing it like a Mega Mac (the 4 patties double Big Mac) or under-sizing it like Kids Menu. Can they fucking order a regular meal?

I might sound nit-picking, but when a person has to deal with public, being some big shot VIP and there is a need to meet people everyday, the least they could do is to dress properly, as in wearing a fitting suit. I know maybe they try to draw the impression that they are underpaid and being public servant, so they are wearing those lousy jackets. Come on! We are not stupid. Maybe we don’t know the exact amount that you are wearing, but living in a super nice multi-million dollar house, being chauffeured in a luxury limousine, and wearing branded watches like Panerai, JLG, Longines, and etc, don’t tell me you cannot afford a close fitting suit. By the way, they don’t charge extra if you buy the close fitting suit than your super-size-it jacket.

Oh well, that’s just my opinion. My suit is just a normal American brand suit and its not exactly new. At least it fits me well enough (and some even said that I look damn good in my suit!) and I know that the people I met that day won’t think that I look funny.

25
Jun

Jackie @ Hollys Coffee

By Adrian 18 Comments
Categories: General

The other day I took Jackie the Golden Retriever to Hollys Coffee located at Cineleisure, Damansara. (located next to McDonalds)

Now, Hollys Coffee is a Korean coffee joint and they are pet-friendly. The manager (korean girl), the owner (korean guy) and the owner’s wife all met Jackie before and they fell in love with him. Well, who can blame them for Jackie’s innocent and good looking face! What’s more after I have shown them the tricks that Jackie could do (must have treats for that), they were amazed at his ability and fell deeper in love with him!

Anyway, they gave me words that I can bring my dogs to Hollys Coffee anytime I want and I should tell my friends too! So, after the photo-shoot session (yes, our Jackie is the main man in the photo-shot session) with the manager and owners, we finally able to sit down to enjoy our cuppa of java.

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Hehehe. I am smiling!

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Hahaha! I’m having my coffee break!

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Dude! Enough of the photo taking! Gimme cookies!

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Don’t laugh at my short legs. I am super duper popular okay?

Now, this is a new place where you can bring your beloved dogs/cats. The coffee there is of good quality stuff and it is reasonably priced (translation: cheaper than Starbucks). Unfortunately, its ONLY a coffee house and there’s nothing much to eat (besides the cakes and cookies). Fret not, they are opening a new Hollys Restaurant in Sri Hatamas (or Mont Kiara) area soon and they told me that new place is pet-friendly as well!

So spread the words and bring your pets to Hollys Cafe at Cineleisure!

23
Jun

Chocolate and Sex

By Adrian 6 Comments
Categories: about me, conversation and friends

“Adrian, you haven’t had any sex lately, have you?”

A close female friend was asking me that when I was at the cashier counter, paying for my Toffe Viennese at Marks & Spenser.

“Hello! Do I look like I am having hot sex with a super hot model every night?” I replied back while handing out the RM10 notes to the cashier. The cashier threw us a casual look while keying in the amount and counting the change.

“Well.. No…” she said.

“Thank you! After breaking up with you know who, I didn’t bed anyone, for your info. Why did you ask?” I said while taking the change from the cashier.

“I have known you long enough that you are not a sweet person (translation: I don’t like to eat sweet stuff), that I can tell. But suddenly you bought one bag of chocolate,” she took the package from my hand, and read, “topped with soft caramel and coated in smooth milk chocolate, now that’s sweet. And do you know that chocolate is a substitute for sex?”

“Is it?” I put the wallet back into my pocket, “I had no idea. Ya, maybe I had this urge to hump some living objects but it’s socially unacceptable so I am taking chocolate to satisfy my sexual needs.”

“Seriously!” she almost shouted, “don’t you read those research papers?”

I smiled at her, and said, “I only read porno magazines and so far they didn’t mention chocolate as substitute for sex. But they do have lots of chocolate sex and food sex kinda thing.”

She slapped me on my shoulder.

Suddenly, a lightbulb just “ding” and appeared in my mind. “Oh I know!” I exclaimed excitedly, “next time when I go clubbing, I will bring a box of Godiva chocolate and if any girl came to me and asked me for it, I will know it’s on for one night stand!”

She glared at me and then laughed.

23
Jun

Blog was down

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: General

Dear all,

Recently the blog was being migrated to a new host, and as a result, there was a down time and the blog was blank. Due to the limit of the blog Import feature (limit to 2MB file only), so I was doing a lot of manual editing to get things right again.

Anyway, it is back again and there are some features missing. I will need some time to get things restored or maybe I will add new features.

Thanks.

Regards,
Adrian

18
Jun

HTC Touch Diamond

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: Technology

People said pictures worth a thousand words. So this time round, I will let the pictures do the talking.

(Actually I am just lazy to type today)


Processor Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz
Operating System Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Memory ROM: 256 MB
RAM: 192 MB DDR SDRAM
Internal storage: 4 GB
Dimensions 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 11.35 mm (T)
Weight 110 g (with battery)
Display 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
Network HSDPA/WCDMA:

  • Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
  • Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds

Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:

  • Europe/Asia: 900/1800/1900 MHz

(Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)
Device Control TouchFLO™ 3D
Touch-sensitive navigation control
GPS Internal GPS Antenna
Connectivity Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR, A2DP & AVRCP
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
Camera Main camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera
Audio Built-in microphone, speaker and FM radio with RDS
Ring tone supported formats:

  • MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB
  • 40 polyphonic and Standard MIDI format 0 and 1 (SMF)/SP MIDI
Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion or Lithium-ion polymer battery
Capacity: 900 mAh
Talk time:
  • Up to 270 minutes for WCDMA
  • Up to 330 minutes for GSM

Standby time:

  • Up to 396 hours for WCDMA
  • Up to 285 hours for GSM

Video call time: Up to 145 minutes for WCDMA
(The above are subject to network and phone usage.)
AC Adapter Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A

Retail Price: RM 2799 *sighs*

12
Jun

No more petrol price increase until year end?

By Adrian 0 Comments
Categories: observation and rants and raves

Today the The Star reported that Prime Minister announced no more petrol price increase until year end. [Read the report here]

At first, he said no marriage is on the horizon. The next thing we know, he married his current new wife.

At first he said not going to dissolve the parliament. The next thing we know, he set the nomination date to the following week.

At first he said not going to increase petrol price until August. The next thing we know, the price was increased on June 5th.

So why is it that this time round I don’t believe that the petrol price will be capped until year end?

11
Jun

bemused and confused

By Adrian 4 Comments
Categories: about me and people

I am rather confused, and I am rather bemused.

Maybe I have been out of the so-called relationship circle for way too long, so I am not up-to-date on the Gen X (or Y, or Z, or what the fuck you wanna call it) way of relationship. I mean, I broke up 8 months ago, but I was in a relationship for more than 4 years and I had no idea what is happening outside the world I used to live in.

Maybe my dear readers will be able to help me to decipher the following code (imagine that you are living the life of Robert Langdon and you are trying to decipher the Da Vinci Code):

Please don’t treat me so nice. That will only give me pressure.

Of course, in order for you, my dear readers, to decipher, I have to give you some boundary conditions to work on. So please assume the following statements are true;
1. We are in a relationship.
2. I like her a lot.
3. She likes me a lot.

I guess that’s enough boundary conditions for you to work on. So what’s your guess (or your best guess)? Is this some GenX (or Y, or Z, or whatever shit you wanna call it) or some new Zen trend thing?

I dunno. From my generation, when a man is interested in a girl, or likes a girl, or treats the girl as the girlfriend, he will be nice to her, to protect her, to pamper her, to take care of her, and most importantly, to love her. Asking him to be abusive (that girl gotta be one hell of a weirdo) is just not funny. Asking him not to be so nice to her sounds like she feels guilty because either (1) she’s not nice to him, or (2) she doesn’t like him so much.

And that’s just me. When I like someone, I will do whatever in my power to serve, protect and save. Okay, the save part is a bit out of line, and you get the general idea. For me, I will always be there, be supportive, to take care, pamper, and do whatever I can to make her happy. If there’s a real emergency (and I do mean REAL EMERGENCY), I can drop everything down, drive like a fanatic lunatic madman to rush to her. Sorry, you can’t change the strip of a zebra, and that’s just who I am.

Feel free to rip the comment page apart to let me what’s your take on this.

Thank you.

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