The Driver's Seat

Will be back

2008-07-16T13:56:00.002+08:00

Watch this space, i'll be back to active updates with the blog after a long hiatus.

I feel there is something extra that I can do to make things better?
And not always excuses. I guess i'm on the right track if I set my mind to it. There ain't always gonna be rainbow's but then there could be many other things that can be better than rainbow's.

On a side note with my progress in gym, i'm working out regularly now, very regular and i've never felt better hittin the weights and coming to my best physique ever but I just hurt my toe on Sunday, errrr, wasn't pleasant. It kind split the toe nail when a 20kg weight dropped on it. Yeah it was dumb to stop the weight from falling but it was kinda like falling on my phone, so I had to break the fall.

Aint No Difference

2008-02-26T23:28:00.003+08:00

Well, well, well it's those time again. It ain't no fun nor should I say no difference if you already know the outcome.
Still same old, same old.........morons repairing a freeway (oops i forgot, it's a PAYWAY)during the morning rush hour, a very "honest" business culture that tends to sway *ahem* to one end .... that is just a host of whats in store folks ........Till the day we can have the fun of pondering the outcome of something like this.

Heading back here again, end of March

2008-02-24T14:32:00.003+08:00

Back to Japan end of next month. Will be looking forward to get some pictures of the cherry blossoms then. Time for loads of sake again.

I want the keys to this..........

2008-02-13T18:49:00.004+08:00

Picture explains it all... I know this car has been out for quite some time - it bloody ranks on top of my wish list.

This Sucks

2007-09-27T23:52:00.000+08:00

Long time since i've posted up. Anyways, its some rants over here....
Rapes, Murder, Unsolved cases, judges being hooked up, corruption, unfair justice, racial issues,dead fishes.........what the heck is wrong with the nation dude.

Liverpool are FA 2006 Champions

2006-05-15T03:08:00.000+08:00

Well lets see, Liverpool are FA Cup Champions as expected but it was with a big twist to the story. What was supposed to be an easy match turned out to be one of the greatest FA Cup matches in history. West Ham had the upper hand in the whole match, Liverpool had to come up with the goods to equalize 3 times. Thx to Captain Marvel, a 35 yard rocket propelled Liverpool to extra time and penalties in similar style to last years Champs League victory.

On a side note, my sister got a PSP for herself, the white one and it looks kinda cool. I was never a fan of handheld anyways, but it looked kinda cool and I wish I could have gotten myself one when I was stopping by Taipei airport during my flight back from LA, coz it was priced much cheaper there. Anyways, amen to that.

Apart from that, it's pretty much like the weekend that i've been having, some drinks with friends and some short road trips to just enjoy the out of city scene.

Oh yeah,gonna be expecting calls from all those firms and companies that I have been applying for job at, so wish me luck.

1 month back

2006-05-11T12:56:00.000+08:00

It's been approximately a month back here in Kuala Lumpur. What are my feelings about it, well if you ask me, it's about half and half I would say. Some things went the right way, some went haywire and some even exploded out of orbit as I would put it. Though, I do know I cant let setbacks pull me back behind to rot away, gotta push thru it all the way. Hopefully soon I would be filling my blog with a more positive note.

On the job front, i'm awaiting calls from Deloitte and Canon respectively, landing a job in either would be good, but it would be a long road ahead to prepare for, that I would expect the least. Gonna cross my fingers it'll happen soon as I'm bored outta my skin.

Confusion

2006-05-09T09:33:00.000+08:00

Confusion.......so whats confusion.
Confusion is something that bloody clouds your mind when it isnt suppose to be clouded at all. Thats why you call it a bloody confusion.

Are you confused by this post, baffled by it....well dont be, the author of this post, thats me......I've got no bloody idea whats happening as well. Woke up and felt rubbish about everything. Demotivation in gym, lost of intention and kinda lost my bloody pointer in life or something.

Just wish this damn stint of confusion will be cleared off soon or i'm gonna be drawing close to insanity......dang.

Gym Workout Blues

2006-05-06T16:06:00.000+08:00

So, I've found myself a gym to go to back here in KL but i'm ranting about the lack of training partners over here.

If your an avid gym enthusiast, i'm sure you've faced this situation i'm in now. When I get to the gym I usually have to train alone or don't train at all, main problem of mine isn't about demotivation thru the lack of a training partner but more like i'm bored with training, I can't push the envelope higher as there is no one there to push me harder. It was easy over back in LA and in England where people there are usually huge and getting someone to spot for you or help you out is simple. Over here in KL, I find the average size of the people here in the gym is about 2 size smaller than me and to find someone that suits my training regime is a tough task. The only workout partners I have here is one gay dude who is a steward and flies around too often to be present all the time and another dude who knows all about workouts but then he jumps around the branches of the gym I go to.

I just got back from the gym about 10 mins ago when I decided to post this entry, it's just something thats been bugging me, i've been stuck on a plateau and I wanna make a breakthru but sometimes to no avail as I need to make sure my workout are in the safety zone so I don't drop the weights on myself haha. Hopefully in the days coming i'll be able to find a more regular gym partner like those I have back in LA and England and thus being able to get more out of my workouts.

Job Hunting

2006-04-23T13:06:00.000+08:00

Since i'm back here in Kuala Lumpur, it has been kinda hectic. Job hunting is one of em things i've been busy with for the past week and 1/2. Meeting contacts to discuss any opportunities available over here. So far so good, sounds promising and i've pretty much decided to go into the marketing field or so, probably technical programming aint my cuppa tea. I'm scheduled for another meeting with this bigwig of some multinational company this friday in a posh hotel for discussions again, hopefully things will be promising for me.

As i've been back, i've been itchin to get a solid workout at the gym and the prices of gym memberships here are ridiculous, its just well......to be frank there are a lot of gyms around over here, all over town, competition is steep but prices are still that steep and furthermore, their free weights section always, i mean always get neglected - hence a small area for free weights. But anyways, i've joined this gym called Fitness First, it has about 10 branches around town which is good if I travel around during my job or so. I've also located a place I can get my supplements for cheaps, the price is better than GNC definitely, it's http://www.EgoNutritions.com , the staff and all is helpful too. I was also asked to try out the job as a Personal Trainer in one of those burgeoning fitness centers around town. Well lets see how it goes, if I dont get a job soon I might just do personal training for a bit till I get a proper job.

The weather over here has been.....WET!!....dont recall seeing that much rain in the last 4 years LOL. Haha, maybe coz I was away for that long, its pretty normal here in KL - thunderstorms I mean. I've also been out drinking with friends n my dad quite a bit.....man, the prices of alcohol here is ridiculous compared to what people are earning so one way to put it......to have a decent bank balance - dont drink LOL. Lucky for me, i've cut down tons on drinkin, it helps when i'm back here in KL.

I gotta find out whats happening with my dvd burner, its burning coasters LOL, maybe its just the media, gonna go out after this to get some new ones and test it out again. So thats it for today, i shall be posting again soon.

Back home

2006-04-12T11:42:00.000+08:00

Woah, after a long 19 hour of flying across the pacific i'm finally back home. Well its been a pleasant stay in the states and the homecomin can be said to be a bag of mixed feelings. Anyways i'm headin to meet up this Senior Partner of a consulting firm tonite at one of the clubs downtown in KL. I've touched down less than 24 hours and i'm scheduled for an interview that soon....man, life down the next few months will be hectic as hell as i view it.

Woah , havent been postin in a while

2006-04-03T04:36:00.000+08:00

Well, some updates, due to having some job offers back at home, i've decided to put hold my plans for an MBA till a later date. So for now, its back home for me on April 10th.
Will try to keep posting on this blog when i get things sorted.

Happy New Year to all

2006-01-03T16:22:00.000+08:00

A happy new year to everyone.

Liverpool blew their chances and i'm bz preparing for an exam

2005-12-19T12:48:00.000+08:00

Well Liverpool blew their chances to be World Champs for the 3rd bloody time playing second fiddle to Brazilian clubs. No comment on that.

I'm busy preparing for an exam that is due on the 21st of December. Shall return here to blog more often when it is done.

Can't Help myself to add this

2005-12-09T15:58:00.000+08:00

MANCHESTER UNITED CRASHED OUT OF THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGES!!!!

Another post for today

2005-12-08T08:43:00.000+08:00

I forgot to add this, i'm now currently running on Windows XP 64, since Daemon Tools x64 was released, i've jumped onto the 64 bit bandwagon (was waitin for them to release DT x64 for 5 months). Performance wise its not bad, kinda same with XP 32, games fps drops by around 2-3 fps, thats negligible. Media encoding actually performed better, i'm using HCenc which gives very high quality mpeg2 encoding and running with lanczos4 resizing......it's faster than my XP 32 installation by about 20 mins or so for the same file. My new Pioneer 110D drive is also workin flawlessly on my system as well......thank god, I've had a bad time with my SONY DW22A back in England until I RMA-ed it and the replacement drive work good as well - gave it to my sis anyways. As it is now, my system specs are as follow.....

Shuttle SN95G5 (with some moddin done on airflow)
AMD 64 3500+ @ 2.4ghz, 240fsb x 10
1 gig OCZ Platinum Rev. 2 RAM (Samsung TCCD)
ATI Radeon 9800 pro, OCed like hell too
2 x 160gb Maxtors
Pioneer DVR 110D (8.37 Buffalo firmware with bitsetting)
SONY SDM HS75P/S LCD

Apart from some problems tryin to get some software to work with XP64, it was all goin on smoothly after 3 days of installing it. You'll run into some headaches trying to get the ASPI layers to work with XP64, heres a hint, look for FrogAspi on the net and replace it with the winaspi32.dll file on ur installation of XP64 and it'll work like a charm. Photoshop runs flawlessly using the 5.11 ATI drivers for XP64, anything other than that will give you a stupid lagging menus problem. I have yet to try Firefox 64 yet, but so far the 32 bit Firefox 1.5 is adequate, fast and zippy. As usual, torrents works fine.

I've also got myself like 6 albums from differing artistes.......Dido, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Velvet Revolver and Gwen Stefani. Loads of differing music styles to listen to......well I usually dont listen to those artistes....but i'll give it a try since i'm running out of stuffs to listen to as i'm pretty much accustomed to all the old school rock bands now. Still hoping to be able to get the B'z album - Love & B'z, probably will check it out somewhere in J-Town to get it soon. Haha i've also forgot to add that I watched Harry Potter back in November on the night it was released......very nice, liked it alot.......and loads of peeps were dressed up for the occasion on that nite as well haha, more so than it was back in England (a surprise).

Whaddayaknow

2005-12-08T08:33:00.000+08:00

Well well well, finally at long last.......after 24 hours and 70+ mins that Peter Crouch has been playing football, since May the 7th, he finally scored and against Wigan.......thank god you broke the duck. Liverpool is up to 3rd now and thats 8 games without conceeding a goal as well. On the up we go.

I caught the Chelsea vs Liverpool at Stamford Bridge yesterday afternoon on cable TV over here on ESPN2, that was the first soccer match i've got to watch in about 2 months. It was kinda dull of a game but of course there was some nice tempo goin on in the game, nonetheless entertaining watching my team churn out a solid performance against the southern fairies.

The weather over where I am is dippin into the freeze zone during the night......frost and frozen pavements galore haha. Luckily there is a room heater to heat us up. It's still pleasant weather in the daytime with good sunshine and all, its just all the opposite when the sun swings down at 5pm.

Sidenote, i've finally managed 75 pounds single dumbbell incline bench press on each hand, hoping to get up to 80 pounds next week. Did a 245 pounds benchpress as well......hopefully i'll get to work up more weight really soon.....feels good to be in shape.

Long drive home........

2005-12-03T03:53:00.000+08:00

The trip to vegas was pretty nice, except for the losing money part at the craps table and the drive home. Vegas, what can I say, if any of you watch CSI, thats how it looks like, a city that pops out of nowhere while you're crossing the Mojave desert, hotels galore, shoppin galore........oops I left out......casino's galore.

The drive there was pleasant, left at around 7am ++ and got there about 10:15am or so, 3 hour drive for a 260 mile journey not too bad. There was absolutely nothing to see except for the fact you'll pass by Edward's Air Force base which is gigantic I must add, other than that it was just deserts the whole way. The drive back was another matter, should have stayed one more night to avoid the congestion, guess what, drove back at 4pm, got home at around 11pm or so. There was about 100,000,000 cars on the bloody road, 6-7 pile up along the way and a bloody freezing desert cold outside and the fact that my legs went numb hitting on the accelerator and brakes.

All in all it was fun, will definitely head there again but not on a busy weekend.

Sidenote, Liverpool raked up their 6th win in the premiership, heading into 7th heaven, we're at 4th place now.

Big Turkey on thanksgiving

2005-11-26T06:25:00.000+08:00

Took a drive down to Ventura State Beach yesterday for dinner with my friend's family. Very lively bunch of em, the best turkey i've tasted, it's tender n juicy. The food was amazing , the drinks was adequate, too bad I had to drive as we didn't felt like putting up a tent there.

Anyways now i'm preparing all the things I need for the trip to Vegas. Will be back on with some description of my trip to Vegas on Sunday.

Another side note, Liverpool are through to the Champions League proper last 16. It'll be amazing if they could emulate the same success this year again.

Been a while

2005-11-21T06:48:00.000+08:00

Woah, been a while since i posted. But anyways, in the past week, what had happened. Firstly I was at the LA Zoo last weekend for a day and the usual routine down to Santa Monica for shopping and to hang out. Then it was back to our town to enjoy a nice pound of steak at the local bar/grill - cheap and good.

Some weird things happens and in a good way. Sometimes we call this a miracle and the person who does it will be proclaimed as a saviour. One night, on a cold Wednesday evening as I was running out of alcohol........my weary eyed neighbour popped up and asked if I would want 12 cans of Bud and what the hell, I said "Yes". I was in a bit of shocked at what hit me and then 5 mins later he came back and dropped me a fresh 1 ltr bottle of Bacardi Superior and 2 bottles of Tequila's....Jose Cuervo's. Man....I was like dropping my jaw in awe for the 2nd time on the same nite......I don't know what hit that dude, but his officially a saviour for a cold Wednesday night LOL.

This week was pretty good as far as working out at the gym was concerned....I finally pulled out my full 3 day routine in a week for the first time ever since I've stepped foot in the U.S. It's been busy with this and that the weeks before and i've only managed to work out like the 1-2 days at most in a week - it feels shitty to be working out that little.

Thanksgivin weekend is coming along, Vegas is on my plans, taking a drive up there on the 26th and will be lodging at the Mirage Las Vegas, hope to have a blast there, maybe rake up some cold hard cash in the casino LOL - I don't gamble anyways, but i'll just do a bit of it.

On a side note, Liverpool raked up 4th win in a row and i'm sure this is the way up for the Anfield side - and those forwards at Liverpool are finally firing goals, cept for Crouch. I got myself a copy of Need For Speed : Most Wanted - wicked, good game.....should try it out. I've also been downloading some old TVB series, the 1982 version of Legend of Condor Heroes.......woah, it's good to be watchin it again after like 21 years since i've seen it for the first time.

Flamin Lamborghini's & the fall of Stamford Bridge Fairies

2005-11-07T10:06:00.000+08:00

LOL, last weekend was heck of a crazy nite. 100 bucks worth of liquors, I made Flamin Lamborghini's for the friends here at a small house party. I had 5 of those and a couple more beers and later on, it was just all blurry and a welcome party to short term amnesia again haha. Man I'm gonna stay off drinks for a bit at the moment, the taste is still there and it's not good haha.

I have to take this opportunity to say something about the Blue Fairies from Stamford Bridge have faltered again, 2 losses in a row. I'm gonna make a toast to that. Liverpool went back on the winning track with an away win and again, not conceeding a goal. Hopefully we're going on the right side of the track. All the best to the Kop.

Man, 25gb's of Stephen Chow

2005-11-05T11:47:00.000+08:00

Haha, I just came across this 25gb torrent of Stephen Chow movies, way back from 1990 to the latest KungFu Hustle one. Man this is gonna be a laughin trip down memory lane once I get it all downloaded, it's goin for like 130k/sec and i'm at around 15% now. I'm just waitin to watch Curry N Pepper and the Chinese Odyssey , been wanting to watch those again for quite some time. Anyways, it'll take another 2 days perhaps to finish the download.

Alrite here it goes...

2005-11-02T08:24:00.000+08:00

Good news from Anfield again, finally the misfiring forwards are not misfiring like a mile off target. Morientes got back on the scoresheet, Luis Garcia did some good with the 2nd and Cisse added another third from a (OMG whaddaya know) Kewell's pass. But anyways it was a 3-0 home victory against Anderlecht and on another high note........CHELSEA LOST TO BETIS 1-0 hahahaha. That must be the best result this whole season thus far. Anyways, Mourinho, eat ur words and hope this will burst the bubble and make this bunch of southern fairy's at Stamford Bridge realize that money won't take them all the way.

As i'm gettin used to time over here in the US, it is now a 16 hours difference between me and Malaysia and an 8 hours difference with England. I was out on Halloween nite, in Santa Monica's promenade, grabbed dinner there and watched loads of peeps who are dressed up right down to their underwears haha. Nice sight, will hope to be joinin them in the fun the next All Hallow's Eve.
Apart from that, i'm still awaitin replies and just sitting my ass at home doing nothing for now, except for goin to the gym hahaha.

Some good news from Anfield

2005-10-30T01:25:00.000+08:00

A winning return for Liverpool but then still the forwards are misfiring like a shotgun trying to hit a target 100 feet away. Lets see if order is restored following this weekend. A big thx to Xabi Alonso and Bolo Zenden for the goals, much needed goals but where's the Cisse, Crouch and Morientes .........they're not on the score sheet, bloody hell.

Well just to avoid this blog turning out to be some place where I churn out some Liverpool news, i'll just make a note that at this point there is only this piece of news that caught my attention. Cheerios

One thing I miss

2005-10-29T10:02:00.000+08:00

Well it's now a week since i've got to the U.S. I kinda missed the road side stalls in Malaysia, the pub's crawls in the England and most of all, live telecast of soccer matches. I may have to get cable or satellite tv before i'll be able to watch that again. Too bad no one really record soccer matches and place it on the net. Anyways it's Halloween this weekend and I'll be prepared for all of those trick or treat kiddies comin around your doorsteps. Till the next update...

Crappy day at Anfield!!!!

2005-10-26T23:24:00.000+08:00

Well to put in simple words, the team that Rafa Benitez field at Crystal Palace was appalling, they bloody lost 2-1. Man........I wish I could give those misfiring forwards at Liverpool kick in the butt. With a combined worth of about 30 million pounds upfront, they still fail to bloody score essential goals. I hope they get their act right a.s.a.p.

As for me, life in California so far is great, signed up to a gym yesterday well pending transportation, i'll be heading back to workouts in the gym very soon. I've already missed a week of workouts and i'm feeling crappy, feeling dodgy, out of my element. The PC is working fine now, got myself a fine pair of Logitech speakers and finally I can listen to music and watch videos on my PC again without the assistance of a pair of headphones.

A new chapter in the Sunshine State....

2005-10-25T01:46:00.000+08:00

Well, this is my first forage into the world of bloggin. Well hopefully this could be a way i'll keep in touch with my friends and family members across the globe.
This year alone has been pretty sickening in a way that I have spent almost 72 hours alone on flights and probably only managed to sleep thru about 10 of those hours. Well I can't sleep on flights and that aint a good thing. I arrived in California, to somewhere nearby LA on the 21st of October courtesy of an 18 hour flight and also a sleepin pill that knocked me out for 7 hours or so, pretty good shit I would say.
Anyways, California hasn't changed much , still the same old same old, ermmm big food portions served, cheap delicious grilled steaks and sunshine ( something I was clearly deprived of back in the UK ) though I did had a lot of sunshine back in Malaysia which was just a brief 2 1/2 months back home. More I think of it, the more I miss home, well though I have been away for 3 years before that and was not home for around 2 years but the brief stay back home did remind me about my roots definitely, I mean deep inside, I am still a Malaysian no matter where I am in the world. Well it aint that bad at home, maybe the weather could get a little boring but at I guess the familiarity with places does makes it more pleasant (that's what home is, somewhere familiar to u).
Well, i'll be heading up to the school to check out on my status on the MBA programme and also be typing up a few CV's with some wishful thinking of landing myself a job in LA perhaps. That way i'll be able to manage my monetary funds much more efficiently.
I figured out that a blog isn't one when you dont have rants in it so here is my fair share of rants. I brought my Shuttle XPC over here to the US without a display so I went out to get one nice SONY SDM-HS75P, my first piece of SONY hardware (never ever bought them coz they're bloody expensive). Anyways I got the monitor and went home to have it set up, wanting to watch some movies I've downloaded on my XPC but what the heck, I kinda forgot that the wall sockets here are different, so I ended up with a working monitor but not a workin PC. Gotta wait till the next day to get some adaptors for the wall sockets and the PC worked but I had no sound coz I had no speakers. The Kenwood Hi-Fi I shipped over from UK to here was useless as it does not take any AC input except for 230v and you would not find that in the US. So now, I am basically listening to music and watching movies with headphones till I get out again to purchase myself some bloody speakers.
Apart from that little fracas, everything is pretty cool, hopefully i'll be able to tell myself to update the blog from time to time. Anyways feel free to comment on stuffs and all. Cheers all.