More defections to come?

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/16884-more-defections-i-dont-think-so-says-najib

When I heard Mr. Nassarudin crossover to Pakatan Rakyat, I felt like clapping my hands, now BN government has one seat less in the Parliment, smart move for Mr. Nassarudin who is joining the right team, let the UMNO goons to rot by itself! At least there are still some good guys in UMNO that are not tempted by $$$ and personal interests.

UMNO goons has been dominated for over 50 years and the seriousness of corruptions has got into its' core, destroying such a long dominated party is not an easy job. Suddenly there are two ways that I think of taking them down. First one is like attacking the mighty "Death Star". In case you forgot how Luke Skywalker manage to take down the Death Star:

1. You lower down the shields surrounding the Death Stars (If any).

2. Get your fighter ship into the trench, something small and fast like X-Wings, Y-Wings, A-Wings, forget about B-Wings because they will never make it in the trench run due to it is too bulky.

3. Dodge all the TIE fighers, TIE Interceptors, and laser turrets, keep youself alive while you are on your way to the CORE.

4. Fire all torpedoes to the CORE when it is within targeting range.

5. Get the hell out of it!!

Second method, send a Trojan Horse into UMNO like how the Greeks send a Trojan Horse into the city of Troy. Sometimes I wondered is the right hand man of Anwar who went back to join UMNO is actually the Trojan Horse sent by Anwar himself? If you can't take out your opponent in a head-to-head fight, then you will have to send in your probe so it will explode it inside and damage your opponents, or at least, open the gate for your allies. :)

Charlie Yeung look-alike?

During my trip to Melaka few weeks ago, I met a new friend called, "碧兰”(I always forgot the last word of her name, so I am writing it down). She is the Ex of my uni mate, she said she saw me in Utah before，I used to play basketball with her ex back then, but I totally forgot that I have seen her in Utah. Well, I think she is quite a looker cuz she looks a bit like 杨采妮。 Not sure if you agree with me? :)
The real 杨采妮

"山寨版杨采妮“？Hahahah，it is a compliment ok?

I took this photo for her, I should have increase the shutter a bit so it doesn't look so dark.

Tangkak Beef Noodle

The next day after Kyvin's wedding, we went to try out the Tangkak's Beef Noodle.

My review: The soup is a bit salty and I can feel the MSG in it. Value wise is still ok, I give it a 'B-' for the noodle. Throw up at 5am morning due to drank too much of wine, so that might affect my appetite and affect the rating that I gave to them. I think maximum I can give is a 'B'.

I was half drunk already when I took this photo, feel like falling asleep.. Zzzz

Orange Level Alert

Air con Servicing

Today I received a call in Cantonese:

Operator: Hi Mr Choong, would you like to service your air con?

Me: How much will that cost?

Operator: RM40 for 'normal wash', RM100 for 'chemical wash'.

Me: (Inside my heart... Wah... F&$(!*(&@!!)

Calmly I said: Wah, so expensive la, one of my neighbors also wash air con woh.

Operator: (Paused a second) So Mr. Choong, would you like us to wash it for you or you prefer your neighbor to do the job?

Me: Economy is not good now. Both I also don't want la!

Operator: Ok, never mind, thank you ya!

Last year, I received the same call from this company, and I let them service the air con for me, because they told me that they might revise the price later due to the petrol price increase. We have 5 air con at home and that actually cost me more than Rm200 even for a normal cleaning. Reason? You need to top up the gas and that will cost you extra. When it comes to those bigger horse power air con, it will cost you more to wash it.

Ok, now let's do the math... next time if they call me again, I will have to ask them to revise their pricing structure.

Let say they call me again next year, here is what I will tell them:

Operator: Hi Mr. Choong, would you like to service your air con.

Me: How much?

Operator: Rm40 for normal wash, RM100 for chemical wash....

Me: Let me ask you, can you tell me how much is the market rate for a 1 horse power air con?

Operator: I think around RM800?

Me: So if I do 8 times of chemical wash, I could have buy a new air con right?

Operator: Errr...Servicing air con will prolong the life of your air con mah, sir.

Me: By then if my air con died, I just go and install a new air con, why bother servicing it since it is so expensive? I can just do my manual filter wash. The money I save on service will allow me to buy a new air con unit after 8-10 years. I got new feature on my new air con at that time, it comes with latest technology, more power efficient and more powerful ionizer or may be with purifier, etc. Now can you tell me, how does it worth my RM40 on servicing the air con?

I think the pricing structure you guys are charging is not right and it is outdated. Many years ago, air con is a luxury item, I remember at that time, only the master bedroom in my house got air con, sometimes I sleep inside my dad's room because that is the only room with air con. At that time, one 1.5hp air con can cost up to RM2-3k if I am not mistaken, might be a month or two of a executive's salary at that time. Now the air con prices has dropped significantly after 'Made in China' came into picture, so please don't charge ppl RM40 on servicing air con. I think this will gradually turn away more people like me, who prefer to buy a new air con after 8 yrs when the air con broke or doesn't feel cooling anymore. I am not good in math, but this kind of simple calculation I think I can handle it!

Operator: Ok lor, thank you sir.

(you see, I have seen them done a RM40 job before, basically is nothing special, just that you need to know how to open the air con unit and take out the roller, cleaning is a no brainer work, perhaps after cleaning it, you can spray some stuff on it and after you clean it, just put the roller back. You see, I supply the water for them to clean the roller but I don't get a rebate on supplying energy cost. Such a job only takes twenty minutes to thirty minutes max for a newbie. The fair value for this kind of work I would say is RM20. Damn, if I can make Rm80 per hour cleaning air con, I can quit my job now and be a full time air con service agent.

Anyway, I am a person that believes in maintenance, I will still service my air con but I won't do it that frequent.)

The duty of the Brothers

I have told the groom that my price is RM50 if the ladies ask us to drink soya sauce, Rm100 ang pow to eat wasabi. Hahahah.. Or else I just pretend to be the camera man.. Hahahah
The challenge for the 'Brothers' is rather simple... is start with 50 times of push up, 10 times from the groom and the brothers took the balance, how I love it! Sigh... really a simple task, I volunteer to contribute 20 times...


The rest contribute 10 times each.

Then the ladies force us to finish the soft drink. Man... I rather choose to do another 20 times of push up instead of increasing my risk on diabetes. But then, we found a soft drink lover... Chin Keong drank like 50% of the bottle...Gee...

Mission accomplishedGo home and pray for the ancestors.

Kyvin & Cindy's Wedding at Melaka

After a tiring night sleeping at the service apartment, we woke up early and head to house. Reached there around 9am. The Semi-D is only 3 years old, quite cozy inside. :)


While we were waiting for Kyvin, I played with Eryn as she is the only baby girl there... kekeke
The 'Band of Brothers'

Took a photo with my comrade - Kong Tak

The happiest man on that day... Mr. Kyvin Tan

Gym plan on 2009

Finally I found a gym partner that is willing to accompany me to the company gym. We will go there every Monday and Thursday, 1 hour session each. :) Half hour allocate to bicycling.

My new cubicle

My new cubicle...
I lost my pretty gal view in exchange of car park view, (my previous seat can see any pretty gals that walk by :p ), I don't like my new place that much because when people walked by the aisle, they can see my computer screen, not much privacy at all. Good thing is finally I get my own cabinet after 1 year.

Accident on LDP highway in Puchong

Reach office around 11am today. The accident involved a mini lorry, a big lorry, Satria and a Mercedes. There were like 20+ 'busy bodies' standing along the road side showing their concerns on the accident. Sometimes I wonder where and how these busy bodies appear in a short time.

Counting the stars of Starbucks

Last night after a group dinner with some old friends, we went for a drink at Starbucks. I am aware that I won't be able to sleep if I have coffee at night. So I avoid anything that comes with 'Latte', 'Espresso' and even 'Mocha'. I place my order on something with 'Caramel' with ice, hopefully there is less caffeine in it. I don't know how to spell the last words, and I order the 'Tall' size. which is the smallest one. (Until now, I still have no idea why the 'tall' size is the smallest one, I think they could make things more simple with standard SML size, may be it has to do with my poor English).

I took my first sip of my caramel drink. Just like usual, I think the taste of Starbucks still doesn't fit into my liking compare to Coffee Bean, it is just my personal preferance okay, I don't want to flame by those "Starbucks Lifestylist". For me, I think there are too much of milk inside the coffee, the milk covers the true aroma of the coffee. I can only salute them on their successful marketing strategy, which makes people think that surfing net (except porn) with your Dell XPS and have your Starbucks in the cafe is like an 'in' thing or some sort of 'lifestyle'.

Anyway, after dropping off my friend, it was 2am when I reached home. I feel a bit fresh so I check out my facebook, and read some online news.

At 4am, I am still very fresh, I try to go to bed but I can't sleep at all... and finally, I fell asleep around 6am!!

Damn, all I can say is, Starbucks is another product that the students can consider, if you don't like the taste of chicken essence, you can consider Starbucks. If the 'tall size' can't keep you awake, try 'grande' or whatever size they called it!

我爱腊味！

那天尝了“永州腊味”以后，真的让我念念不忘，今天带我妈去余仁生打算再买一些永州腊味，很可惜，已经卖完了，听销售员说，要等到下周才会有。所以我们只能买一些“信丰”腊味，也是香港出的。味道也Ok，只是没有永州腊味那么好吃。信丰腊味酒味稍微浓一点，而且肉比较肥，油水比较多；永州酒味清淡，肉比较瘦，味道调得恰到好处。本地出产的腊味肯定没那么好吃，我们这里只有东北季候风，没有“北风”。

一位卖腊味的朋友说中国产的腊味会便宜一些，但最近很多人不敢买了。都怪那些黑心商人，搞到大家第一个印象就会想到那些不良商家可能为了赚取暴利，不知道会在腊味里面掺些什么东西进去，搞到人家都怕了。名声和声誉要靠常年累积下来，但也可以在短短几天毁掉。但愿他们不要
急功近利，不然害的是所有商家和整个国家。

永州腊味售价是每100克卖Rm6.50-RM7.00,其实算起来还真不便宜。腊味吃太多不好，可是，实在太好吃了，真的很难抗拒！阁下不妨买一点来试一试。我最近真的吃上瘾了，怎办！？