Operation Job Hunt

I am trying to bombard companies with my job application. There is no place and time to be picky.... anything will do. After the first job is obtained, then I can see more options. So far... I think there are not so much opportunities in Kuching, but less competition I think. Weh Hakam.... jom apply shell---> shell.com.

As an ME graduate, the dream job for me, and I think for any ME student is to be involved in anything Formula 1. That would be beyond cool. Doesnt matter what it is, even something in hapless Minardi is absolutely welcome. Even to be only the lollipop man is cool enough. I think they want at least a masters.... but the lollipop man or fuel man dont need masters degree.... do they.

Malaysia weekend review

Last few days, been doing nothing but eat and watch football and enjoying the high humidity and the equinoks. If you were in KL last weekend.... sure happening gila.... so much thing going on there, with the F1 and stuff. Last weekend whole family was here because of the school holidays... so much supply of keropok lekor and keropok of many varieties and bbq for my sisters bday and things of that nature.... my sister and aunt got some authentic keropok stuff from Kuantan or something.... Damn.... keropok lekor is my faveret thing.... keropok lekor and football.... now that everyone has left or leaving or going somewhere.... it is my job to eat them all.

The thing about AirAsia... they advertise about 29.99 flights KL-Kuching.... but if you go and look online.... there is no such thing. Rip off gila.... maybe if you go book very much further in advance.... like 6 months before.... you can find such thing.... but still it is 1 in a thousand thing. Still.... I think it is a rip-off..... iklan macam banyak je.... "travel in march to may at 29.99" and stuff..... tapi mahal je sampai 200+. I think you are better off using MAS.... if you can find super saver flights, you are better off using super saver at all times..... save you the delays, bad food and stuff. I have heard stories of Air Asia delaying flights because the plane is not full... so they combine the flight with a later flight.... ghetto gila.

P/s: Wann.... barang kitak dah kamek berik ngan adik kitak....

Back in Mesia

Biar betul KLIA nye wireless nih... bagi free je connect. Anyway, I have another 3 hours before my final flight to Kuching. By now, I could not feel any filthier. One remarkable thing on my flight... according to the girl who was at one time sitting next to me, who also happened to be in Hill's "posse", Lauryn Hill was on my flight... but in the first class of course. But her "posse" were all over the place... guitars and musical instruments everywhere. Lauryn Hill is going to KL to perform in some Tsunami aid concert. I was lurking around... during transits, maybe I could snap a pictture or something... but of course the singer was nowhere to be seen. Maybe she was at some golden lounge or something.

My flight was alright, despite the pilot repeatedly saying that he was expecting major turbulences. Yes not once, many times he announced that. Which was very strange, because you dont want to hear that. But strange enough.... no turbulences whatsoever... only common shakiness, very strange pilot indeed.

That was the first time I go the Atlantic way, and strange enough, we stopped at Stockholm. What is MAS doing there, I have no idea... the airport is as big as Kuching's.... maybe small landing fees. I have no idea that many Swedes go to Malaysia. So there were vikings and blond bombshells all over the plane and also Lauryn Hill's posse.

And so this swedish dude was talking to me about how huge winning eleven is in Sweden/europe... yes I was still talking about W11, something in common. So much easier talking to europeans. Apparently he got second place in a tournament.... the first place prize according to him is a ticket around Europe and some cash. His favourite formation is 4-3-2-1, using Argentina, which according to him is the best team, with the backline defending further up the pitch, and applying pressure to the ball. Very interesting. I dont think so, I think their defence is very bad. I prefer England, absorb pressure, throw some long balls, lightning quick counter attack, utilize heskey to head balls and owen to run around hehe.

Excerpts from a mesian newspaper

"The day before yesterday, the SMK Durian Daun boy could not sleep well after learning that his name was not among the top scorers listed in the newspapers."

"Then it's off to school for half the day. After returning from school, he cooks lunch and dinner for his mother and younger sister before finishing his homework and revising his lessons."

"While waiting for the SPM results, he baked cookies..... and painted the house."

"....who was the president of the Red Crescent Society and chairman of the chess club, also bagged the best student and model student awards in his school last year."


I just cant help it. I am just not in a good state of mind. The first excerpt is just it. It just shows a pure moment of patheticness(hmm such word?). What freaks. 16AI's...17A1's.... I hope the ministry of education make the limit of number of subjects infinite... haha amik ko. Go chase the records... make the sky the limit.

Dont get me wrong. What good and noble deeds... studying hard and getting results. I am not hating nor am I jealous. Maybe I am... but that is not the point here. I have long accepted the fact that I am dumb by umich standard. Come on..... it is just pathetic. But children.... I am not sending any kind of message. This is not an excuse for you to not study. There is a thin fine line between studying hard with dignity, and studying hard and losing all of it.

Mail business in NW

You are pissed off... stressed out... it is cold and snowing, then you open the mailbox and there they are.... a huge stack of mails... all spam. Do you know how annoying that is..... if you live in NW you know exactly what I am talking about. Those spammers should be shot. Just install some secret cameras and catch these people .... and just hurt them. That is what I feel like doing. Or get their addresses.... collect the spams from the whole of NW.... and send them to their address. That will teach them a lesson.

If you are not pissed by these spams.... there is something wrong with you. It is annoying enough that we get spam emails.... now we get spam snail mails too. Then there is the issue of no trash can... or things of that nature around the vicinity of the mailboxes.... what are we going to do with the spams. I who actually care about the environment.... find it hard to just litter NW with spams. Most of the times... I would end up bringing them back to my apartment... which makes the situation worse.....most of the times it make me feel like crap and used.

You know what.... if you are those people who dont care... and just leave the spam mails where they belong.... on the green lawns of NW.... just go ahead. We have no business dealing with this crap.

Shenanigans volume 2

It is not hard at all to send me an email..... time of flight, transits, departure/arrival times. 50 words at most, if the author is abnormally wordy. And this travel agent.... "I will send u an email with your itinerary soon"... what is soon... never?.... soon my ass. I have to bombard the JPA bahagian Latihan with emails and calls, just to get this freaking email. And you know what, after that bombardment.... it only took like 5 minits for them to send the email.

The email was sent by a JPA person... where was the agent.... freaking coming soon email. And the ticket had been couriered to my address. I just hope it gets here soon enough. If it doesnt, wat the hel am I gonna do. Only two days left before the weekend... fingers crossed. I would rather go claim the ticket at the travel agent myself.

And I have no idea what is going on at the financial office. The Malaysians say one thing... the freaking midwesterners say something of total oposite. Wat the hell is going on down there. Freaking stupid retneks. Orang nak kasi duit pon tanak. Skema cam cipan. I feel like kidnapping the makcik at the sfo and dump her at the tsunami ravaged aceh. Nah amik ko nak ke tanak duit. Go rot in hell with ur skemakism.

Today I cancelled my International Health Insurance. Alan Benard is a pundek. I was charged 67 a month for that. When the hell did I sign up for that crap. Never did I sign for anything. Maybe I did not knowingly lol.... but I am very sure I did not sign anything. wtf is this... auto enroll or what.... I am so not over this... paying for crap.

Maxi Lopez and shampoo commercials

When Maxi Lopez came into the game yesterday, the first words out of one of the commentator's mouth was "Maxi Lopez could do a good shampoo commercial"..... or something like that. I am not the only one.

What a man to have the guts to wear his hair like that. That was beyond metro. I dont even know what that was... unclassified. Not only it was long, shiny and full of life... it was cascading. Maxi Lopez was doing layers to his hair. I wonder if he brushes his hair.... using a hair brush.... normal combs have no place in such gorgeous wonder. What could have happened if Lopez was tackled.... risking bodily injury to protect his hair from hitting dirt is utterly believable.

Such gorgeous strands of protein deserve a better body.... a woman. Men don't belong here.... we have no business meddling with fine long locks. One Fabio is crazy enough. Long messy crazy metal hair is one thing... long, cascading, gorgeous blonde hair is definitely another thing. Maxi Lopez was not even trying to look messy.... you know maybe leave his face unshaven... or messy hair just to look more mean and edgy. No.... it is all pretty in the world of Maxi Lopez.

Apu playing football pundit

As I expected, Mourinho got it done, Man U out of the competition. I dont think Frank Rijkaard have the goods to win the champions league. Yes it seems crazy, lookin at how great they are playing, and winning the Spanish League. But Barcelona have been playing like that since forever, they only lacked the killer instinct. Now that they have Ronaldinho, they can win the Spanish League. Chelsea's winning goal: from a header off a corner. The way Chelsea were winning headers averywhere was a joke.

How about that Ronaldinho goal. Ronaldinho is superhuman. I am not even sure if Zidane could do that. If only ManU bought Peter Cech/a good TALL keeper.... I think Ferguson could have won another champions League after that 1999 miracle. I recalled many mistakes by Barthez in latter stages. Crespo again scoring.... good to see he proved Chelsea wrong. Samuel Etoo missed a sitter.... he is the reason why Barca lost.

However, a person who could have been a factor was Maxi Lopez. He came in at 85.... big mistake by rijkaard. Should have been sooner. He is the designated saviour of Barca. The shine off his flowing cascading blonde locks alone could stun the whole Chelsea defence. What the heck was Rijkard thinking....

But most importantly, tomorrow Liverpool is playing, as I said, they will go through to the quarters. Again like I said, I know Liverpool suck big time, but they have every chance to win the cup. Leverkusen are no pushovers, I tell you Liverpool have always played with a swagger and confidence in the champions League. This is where they belong, they have the european cup champions' blood running in them.

My last words: Zidane handing off his mantle to Ronaldinho, gigi buffon doing the same thing to Cech, Arsenal will go out tomorrow, Liverpool will go through.

Ahpu the bookmaker

Chelsea vs Barcelona at espn2. 230 pm tuesday, dont want to miss this one. I think Arjen Robben is not playing, never seen him played before.... but Ronaldinho is going to be there... so no shortage of stars at all. But the player that caught my eyes is the new Barcelona player who scored their first goal in the first tie. Whats his name again... something Lopez, I read somewhere that barca just bought him last month. Flowing and cascading blonde locks, with a distinctive mystical swagger, scored a goal and provided an assist, he looked like a biblical saviour, reborn to save barca.

As much as I want Barca to win everything, I believe Mr mourinho will get the job done. I also think Liverpool can win the Champs League. They sort of know how to play in this thing. So my prediction: Liverpool and Chelsea will go through... ManU and Arsenal kalah.

Shenanigans

Why is it so hard to to book me a plane ticket? They dont surf around the net looking for deals... do they? Mine was supposed to be on the 15th, but they said that it might be delayed, or it could be on later days. (this is the travel agent talking)

That does not make any sense. If it is on the 15th, then that is it. You can't say "It is on the 15th, but it could also be on the 16th, 17th bla bla because it might be delayed". Who talks like that? What does it even mean? Are they predicting delays for my flight? Then... what would happen to my connection flights.. my luggages.. everything would be a complete mess.

Maybe what they meant was they have no idea when my flight is going to be. They requested for my flight to be on the 15th, then this so called agent would pass this request to her office boy, office boy pass it to another person... and so on. And no one really knows when the flight is.

To make it more amusing, I was asked to check my email regularly. "Just to make sure that you have enough time to pack you belongings and head to the airport". That is not good at all.

Of sushi, taco, oyster, PTI and Travolta's hair

Sushi and taco do not make any sense whatsoever to me. There is just no connection. Maybe the semi circle shape of the taco. But it still depends on the stuff you put inside the taco. If its plain taco with no fillings... I dont think so. Sushi just left me dumbfounded... no idea at all. Who came out with these things?

However, oyster is another thing. Being something that excites and QUOTE "exotic in taste" END QUOTE plus posessing remarkable similarities... its is written all over it. If you are lucky... you could find a pearl inside the oyster. It makes perfect sense to me.

Enough talking about food, it makes me hungry. Tony Kornheiser of PTI (PTI on espn 530 weekdays) solved the travolta hair mistery... John Travolta wears a wig. The PTI secret camera captured a picture of Travolta, with a receding hairline, on the highway to baldness. This is in contrast to the short military style hair he sported on Dave Leterman... and the long hair slicked all the way back at the oscars... just a few days later, on both occasions, his hairline was fine.

I must say Travolta's wigs are fine wigs, especially the short military style one. I bet it is ridiculously expensive. I couldn't tell the difference.... it looked real. How could you wear a wig... when your hair is that short like travolta's... freaking unbelievable.

Tiket dan Shipping

Entahlah dinna. Aku tak tefikir lak nak mintak kat MSD. Cuma kalau ko nak mintak dari JPA, kene mintak awal gile lah... lebey kurang sebulan sebelum balik.

Also, sape2 nak shipping barang... JPA peruntukkan 300-400 USD... so kalau nak shipping, a good idea is to ask for the money first.

JPA oh JPA

Flight aku yg diconfirmkan on the 7th rupa2nya tak confirm lagi. Travel agent pulak claim request for that flight baru dihantar arinih.. so takleh on the 7th, earliest on the 15th. WTf?? Poyos macam taik... confirm my ass. Kimaks I am running out of money and sangap tahap cipan... cilakos betul.

Anyway, Jirah... aku dah tau sushi dan taco tuh apa. To tell you the truth, I had no idea. Jirah.. kalau ko tak tau gaks.... gih urbandictionary.com carik. Aku ngan Jirah = pure souls lol.

Regarding Kissing Asses

I think the one promise that I made to myself long long ago is not to meddle in politics/public service. Not that I have any potential whatsoever. I think that you just need to kiss to many asses if you get yourself into those things.

Of course you will kiss asses as long as you are not the boss. But for me, I want to kiss the least number of asses. Maybe I will sell out and start doing just that.. kissing a lot of asses... only time will tell.

However, kissing asses did good things to me. If I wasnt kissing an ass, I could have been fired from my kuli job at M League. I kissed an ass too after I failed my second driving test. Ass kissing combined with sarawakian charm, I luckily got my driver's licence after failing the second time. Omg you know how embarrasing it could have been if I failed to get that licence.

Naughty librarian: Natalie Portman

In the movie "Closer", Natalie Portman is a stripper. Shocking huh? heheh.. No frontal nudity, but top off... I thought this chick was like a nun or something. Never seen her like this. The closest she was to a slut character was in "Beautiful girls". Haa ni zaman tahun alif nye movie.. Natalie Portman dalam movie ni cun gila... tak ranum lagi... like spring time.

But Closer is a piece of crap I think... all the people in the movie are sluts(including male sluts) and when they fight, they are like on steroids. But the crappiest movie(yes crappier than yusof haslam's) is Dogville, starring Nicole Kidman. Punya la aku ingat movie nih pawe, dalam imdb rating pawe gila, so aku pegila download.

It is not even a movie, it is a play on film. Yes, wth?? You do not get any more pretentious than this. Before sunset(or sunrise??) is almost as pretentious. And Ethan Hawk is in it, for some reason I despise him.

Manusia Neanderthal: Silvestre

Did u watch the champs league game last wednesday? Yes it is the same story. Silvestre, Gary Neville, Quinton Fortune, the goalies since Schmeichel, these are all the players that I think should have never been on ManU's first team in the first place. They are very good at screwing up and have been doing so since Ferguson first made them team starters. So what did ferguson see that was so special in these people.

When Silvestre is good, he is up there in the ranks of Sol Campbell and Rio. But he tends to commit the stupidest mistakes at the most crucial of times. Same with Gary Neville, but Neville was never that good. What about the goalkeepers. ManU really need a good one. I think the number one rule to be a good keeper is you have to be tall. Knowing that Tim Howard is short and is from the USA, you just know it is very hard, they dont have the pedigree. A good short keeper comes once in a decade... ManU already had Barthez, I am pretty sure Howard will never be that good.

And Steven Gerrard, I would love him to stay at Liverpool. But I dont know why he said that Liverpool have no chance whatsoever to lift the european cup. He said that before the Leverkusen game, and Liverpool carried on to win 3-1 without him. What is wrong with this guy. Everyone saw Porto won the cup just last year, Porto was no better than Liverpool. In fact, I think Gerrard is the most overrated player right now. I think all the praises have gone to his head.

VH1 Rocks

Asian men and black women are the least married people in the USA, hmm very sad. Found out about this on VH1, I believe they did their research. No wonder lah black women are dating asian men. I think asian men are stereotyped as Jacky Chan-like. We need more macho movie stars. I like Jacky Chan, but one is enough, we need more samurai wielding ken watanabes(of THE LAST SAMURAI) to help us deal with this lol.

Lemah

I read somewhere that someone was fired because something she wrote on her online blog was against her company policy, or something like that. I wonder how her boss found out about her blog. Mesti kes "penyibuk" yg suka menjatuhkan org.

Having said that, it is confirmed that my flight home is on the 7th of March. Just got the confirmation email. Very very hard to get this confirmation. That is after I asked my dad to call this person to find out about this ticket, because my email was never replied. I tried to call, but never got through. Do you know how irritating it is to redial when you are using a calling card? Yes, many numbers must be punched. But my dad was finding it difficult also, so I asked my sister to do the same thing. So I guess she got the job done, thank you sis. It seems like if you graduate and just disappear, who cares?

But a matter of a greater concern to me is the bil$$. It was supposed to be last Friday, but nothing is paid as of now. Mmg poyos.

February Sweeps

I just found out that in February, tv stations give extra effort to try get high ratings. So you have the grammys, oscars, conan is now beyond crazy and also suddenly an outburst of lesbian love on TV. I think all girls, deep down are lesbians. They would counter that by saying they just appreciate the female beauty yada yada.. but all they say is "that chick is so hot". Wilder ones would even say "I would do her". I dont think that is appreciation, that is lust.

But ladies, you do whatever you have to do. After all, that is what the USA is all about, freedom. A friend of mine, as I discovered recently, came out of the closet. Yes, gay as purple. (Since I discovered some girls know about this already, I assume they told the whole world) What do you say to that, you're going to hell or you deserve to be stoned to death? I just wished him good luck.

Takleh tido takleh tido

Usually if I have trouble sleeping, I just go eat something and that would make me sleep easier. This might explain my mid section too. But not this time, i am running out of food. Need to go do groceries, which fucking sucks because I dont own a car. Damn, nearly 4 years without a car, somewhat unbelievable.

Before graduation, people kept on telling me, "..you must be happy now that you are graduating". My answer to that, but I did not say it loud, was " how can I be happy if I am graduating with a not so good CGPA". I felt that I screwed up too much, didnt study hard enough, and things of that nature.

But on the day itself, as soon as I secured a seat in the packed Crisler Arena, it started to happen. I do not know about other people, but I was really happy, like I was on drugs or something. I guess I realized I did work hard, at times, but just was not good enough. Maybe the best feeling is to know that you have nothing due the next day.

But now, I am hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. I know that it is not going to be easy with this kind of GPA. I have never been in this kind of situation before. I think I can only tolerate 6 months of job searching, that is my worst case scenario. And after that, I might want to think of something else like graduate studies maybe.