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2007-10-22T00:22:00.000+08:00

HELLOooooOOooOoooOOOoooo....!!!!!??!!?

Thank you / Sieh Sieh / Arigato gozaimasu

2007-04-11T13:16:00.000+08:00

Had a little time between work and thought of dropping a note to all suckpagers....

A BIG THANK YOU to all of you for attending the wedding dinner and ang pows. There is too many things and people to handle that day that does't permit me enough time to catch up much. But hope you guys and gals had some good gathering time. For those who can't make it, too bad ler. Only one time. But thank you for your contribution also.

And thank you to kenny, yee, paul and tan for being the heng dai. I think the task is way to easy for you guys....

TQ again.....

20070303 - CNY Gathering @ Yee's place.

2007-03-04T18:05:00.000+08:00

Joyce and Chee Ming's wedding dinner - 18/06/06

2006-06-22T20:24:00.000+08:00

Walao, nobody posts here for so long. Btw, I got some pics of Joyce and Chee Ming's wedding dinner. Enjoy.

yoohooo.....

2006-04-25T17:11:00.000+08:00

wow, we stopped posting here since Jan!!! can't believe this, this is another dead community, AGAIN!!!

just a little update, our dearest JOYce & Ho are getting married on 18th June this year... whoever got the notification/wedding card... you know you are being invited... if you are not, may be you just accidentally give her a call to remind her, if you want to join, badly... :p

Congrates to J&H!!!

See ya...

Wow Wow. Happy Year of DOG!!!

2006-01-27T18:52:00.000+08:00

last blog for 2005

2005-12-29T18:42:00.000+08:00

I bet this is the last blog entry at SucksPage for 2005, and I'll be the one doing this entry. Decided not to write long story of what happen on 2005, but rather penned down a few remarks of my impression on several suckspagers that i last saw them.... hope i can recall... but probably can't write each and everyone. The arrangement is from the most recent to the time that i can remember.....

1) kenny Gan - last saw him today (29 Dec). people title now Director liao leh. Dun pray pray. Got cosy room and wear jacket some more. Veli the Urban Pro- Look. Keep it up !

2) Paul - still healthy look. more composed. more mature. and title holder of Project Manager. Hope he will hook up with some lady doctor or nurse since he spends most of his time in hospitals.

3) sAndy WOoooo - still pro look though married. driving big 4 wheel liao. very up to date with gadgets (am refering to hphone, not Intermec handheld)

4) simon chin - met at an event modestos but we end up makan only. IBM IBM IBM... thats his image now. still the go getter attitute which perhaps is his success formula...

5) kailit aka stanley - met him at Rush, i go there to makan minum. was my last day at MSTi but still kacau at JOSD event. More sociable now, more PR skills.... but still like to look see look see.....

6) joanne hooo - very surprise leh she appear as No 5. I was at Singapore and manage to catch her. Slim.... actually skinny. probably still dunno how to cook proper meal.... :p... hairstyle wise.. trying hard not to be aunty

7) Thong - this person also dun expect to meet one, but happen to eat mee suah together. Apart from the thinning hair... his face still the same... meaty and tempting-to-pinch. Face wont grow old also.

8) janice - also one of the eat-mee-suah participant. Btw, the mee suah session is initiated by Sandy. She ah.... sometimes see her put on weight, sometimes see her less weight. Still cheerful and wt trademark laughter but much lesser...... probably she is not laughing at everything nowadays.

who else before janice ah?.......aarrgghh.... can't recall liao. Oh yah.... a few of them at Sandy's big day. Siew wai, joyce, ho, echo, ...... siew wai didnt change, but tends to talk lesser when hubby around. Joyce getting prettier and prettier, mayb because marriage on the way. Ho, still the same, probably Joyce not instilling any changes to him. Echo, well that nite she sick... so muka masam saja, like wana kill the whole village people.

hmm..... guess thats all i remember. Too bad i didnt attend the Christmas gathering at Uptown. If not will probably cover more people....

anyway, Happy New Year to all......All the best.

IF by Rudyard Kipling

2005-11-30T17:55:00.000+08:00

The following poem made me ponder and I must say, I have yet to be a true man =)

IF - Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

BlogHop...toingtoingtoing

2005-11-29T11:39:00.000+08:00

Writing blog or reading blog, which is more fun? For me reading blogs is more fun. I term it as BlogHop. It is just like flipping through a magazine written by your friends, and it has lots of contents of all sorts of things. Let me do a synopsis about this :

You can start off with Fay's blog (fay0108.blogspot.com) and you will often see many crazy things and funny remarks bout her and friends especially bitches, learn a bit about coffee but very the bias towards Starbucks, and some of her 'hates' which she normally put it straight and taruh kao kao style. Good page as a starter...

Hopping to a guy's blog, I normally go to Kenny's (kennygmw.blogspot.com) and then breeze through Kailit's aka Stanley. Guys don't write much, thats the theory. At Kenny's you will at times come across heavy stuff, very philosophical statements. Put you in deep thoughts but as usual, I can't figure out what some statement means. And this fella read a lot it seems, based on his collection of Books Review. Whether he actually finish reading the book and write the review, I have doubts. Got time to read so many books meh? Not to mention CD review but all are 'gwai lo' related.

Next page at Kailit's (kailit.blogspot.com) , you get more Cina related stuff, the "Hok Yao" the "Gu Gui Gei". And a lot about Rave Party and some happening places in town. If you wana check out latest concert, kailit blog can be a good update. But then again, he only update singer he likes la, I don't see Andy Lau concert as upcoming event......

Had enough of guys blog, flip to Janice's (cmjanice.blogspot.com) and the title says it all. Reading this blog is like following the tvb series, with sad and happy drama. Now its like episode 230 liao........Gonna be in running to beat TVB long running "Gai Dai Foon Hei". Normally TVB series title has its logo kinda thing and you can find it here too... check out the chinese character title on top left corner :p

When I have enough of reading, I will flip to picture blog done by this Art director lady. (toxicado.blogspot.com). A picture says a thousand words and I must applause her for her original work. Simple, interesting, funny and thought provoking. No need to write long long also. I will always flip to this page to check out latest, just like checking the Lat comics in NST...

Next up, xiaxue.blogspot.com by this singaporean whom the blog won many awards wor.... Why ah? I also dunno leh, mayb a lots of singapore story gua...... or mayb popular because a lot of vulgar words gua...... in english and hokkien somemore in BOLD. Not much of intellectual content, just for the sake of fun reading and looking at pictures...... yah, lots of pictures inside.

Occassionally will flip through the pages offered in the link by some of the blogs above like loomice, pekbee, samlulu, etc etc......Not sure any other interesting blogs to add to my BlogHop activity...... but has been flipping through the above for a few months and its rather entertaining.

- The End -

p/s : for my effort to promote and do publisity of the blogs above, the owner of the blog, please pay royalty fee through cheque to me. Thanks...

X'mas Kris Kringle... HoHoHO!!!

2005-11-28T10:43:00.000+08:00

Hi fellow suckspageans... season greetings......

Since we have not meet each other in any big gathering lately, let's make ourselves available on the coming 16th Dec, Friday night. Proceed to Uptown on that night at 7pm and we shall have dinner and after that, we will meet at Starbucks for gift exchange among ourselves there.

Everyone must prepare a gift worth at least RM30. More expensive gifts are more than welcome there.

Attendance are compulsory for everyone.

Btw, pls RSVP latest by 2nd Dec.

Following are the confirmed list:-
1) Janice
2) Siew Wai
3) Sandy
4) Stanley
5) Tan
6) Garry
7) Paul
8) Donkey
9) Jacky
10) Thong

For those that will bring partners, pls RSVP as well.

Do IC within 30 minutes

2005-11-24T10:39:00.000+08:00

Been such lucky to get this whole new smart card IC thingy sorted out within 30 minutes. Yup, u read it correct 30 minutes. The entire process from taking pictures, thumbprint (2 months back) and at last collect when ready which is today. Was lucky enough to drop by at JPN Bandar Tun Razak at 4pm, intially to check what time they operate. Surprisingly the office is empty, not a single person waiting. The kak over there also say : " Wah lu banyak lucky ah, tak payah tunggu pun, ambik nombor pun tak payah". Some more take my picture 3 times since she has ample time. All done within 10 minutes. Today collect new IC, also fast. Was 2nd in the waiting line and picked it up within 25 minutes. Now thats what I called "Improvement in productivity in government service"..... (only if you are lucky)

blog haei mut yeh lei gor?

2005-11-10T13:59:00.000+08:00

Been asked this question by my dad when he read bout this word in Computimes. And has some difficulty answering him, did attempt to explain but not sure whether he get the idea..... perhaps some time in the future i might ask my kid : "xythenophonic haei mut yeh lei gor?"....

what if i can decide again?

2005-11-07T13:35:00.000+08:00

Sometimes a person's life is decided by what the person decides. Decision needs to be made everyday as one gets older. When you are a baby, parents decide everything for you. When you start growing older, the amount of decision making you need to make daily grows. There are always certain decision points that one had made that at the end of the day leads you to so much negative impact, and that you regret it so so much...... a decision that impacts your life in many years to come...

And that gets me wondering what would life be if one could decide again and choose the other options. Would that lead me to a better position in life, or eventually it will still lead you to the same issue. There is a movie (not sure released or in production) starring Julia Roberts that talks about her life as she made the first decision, and later tells the story of what will happen if she made another decision. Personally I am very curious to know what will happen to my life if I did not make one of the worst decision in my entire life..... Anyone has a magic crystal ball that can tell me that?

D-te-lem

2005-10-28T18:12:00.000+08:00

Ever experience visiting a place you frequent almost everyday and revisit there again after more than 3 years. Well, thats my encounter when I went diethelm again. Was so familiar with that place yet at the same time felt so distant. Used to walk in like nobody's business, bypassing their reception without the need to sign anything. Used to walk into the IT place cubicles without anyone staring at you and asking "eh.. who are you looking for" as we are like part of their IT team. Anyway, had lunch wt Jenn and btw, she is quitting after 6 years there. And you wonder her boss is there? Yes, she is still there but retiring soon.

Suckers Parking

2005-10-24T08:50:00.000+08:00

What is sucks about city life ? Its about getting stuck in a jam on weekends trying to get into shopping malls and complexes; showing the worse side of human trying to get a parking; tailing shoppers who carries shopping bags walking to their car and praying that he will reach his car soon and not crossing to another row; and worse still even if you manage to tail him all the way to his car, he just wave a "No" sign to you; have this anger and envy feeling looking at those happy faces who found a nice spot and yet you have spent more than 20 minutes in the parking lot. Anyway, when eventually you manage to identify a car coming out, you simple have to cleverly position your car so that you gave out the signal to other cars : "Yo suckers, look at my signal lights, head lamp and lastly look at my face ; THAT PLACE IS MINE!!!!"What a sucking activity and effort....

But of course there is something to cherish when you finally got a spot..... you can show your 'lan si' face to people in the cars that you recognise that were part of the 'parking seeking mission' and yet they are still in the search.....

happy city parking suckers.....

More funny company names...

2005-10-04T11:11:00.000+08:00

Another one to add to the collection...

Kam Fatt revisited

2005-10-03T00:22:00.000+08:00

After more than 3 years, finally I had the chance to revisit Kam Fatt last week, my favourite mee stall in Summit USJ. Obviously Kam Fatt had gone through some renovation:

Although the restaurant is larger now, but there're more tables and chairs in the shop, which makes it feels quite cramped while eating there, and besides that, the lighting is too dark for me. The daughter of the boss is still there, not much changes with her heavy make up. But the best thing is what I ordered that day:

Good old dry curry mee, the curry chicken portion is served in larger portion, I wondered if it's because it's the last bowl of the day. The quality is still maintained after all these years. Hahaha. I wondered if we can organize a gathering there one day.

Another funny company name... Saw this at the ACM event at Mines...

2005-09-30T16:37:00.000+08:00

Brainstorming

2005-09-28T21:40:00.000+08:00

Being able to be one of the 'ji mui' for Sandy on this Sunday morning, may be our fellow suckspageans can come out with some simple yet ultimate tricks for the bridegroom. We won't want to 'give away' our beloved sandwitch so easily rite! Muahahaha!!!

Please eliminate those lame ones like push-ups, wasabi, bananas, sing a song, poetry... These ah mao oso know rite... Think of something mischiveous... as mischiveous as possible... gekkekkekeke....

Dinner @ New Paris

2005-09-11T22:58:00.000+08:00

Vege Head Revisited

2005-09-06T08:30:00.000+08:00

Was at Southern Bank 2 weeks back to do some banking work and approached the customer service counter. After being instructed to fill in the form, I sat at one of the table and suddenly heard a familiar voice...... shit!!! Vege head !!! He is sitting just an arms length away and discussing some insurance thingy wt the customer service.

Aiyo... the more I listened his conversation .... the more I recalled the past encounter with this Vege. True enough, his style didn't change.... he still has the 'best solution' for everything, he even wanted to teach them how to do banking. Luckily Kai Loon was not there, if not, he would have pointed his finger to him and ask the staff there to refer to Kai Loon.

I try to peek a bit at the customer service lady face.... she also beh tahan liao. I am not sure whether he saw me or even recognize me, but I can't be bothered to greet him. I know if I greet him, I will be in ackward position, dunno what to talk to him. So, might as well save my breathe. Or perhaps the actual truth is I don't want to smell his breathe......

Well, thats a bit of my short encounter with vege head again.....

3rd Anniversary for TKM (1st Sept)

2005-09-01T10:48:00.000+08:00

Today will be the 3rd Anniversary for TKM for joining Financial Link and 3rd year after left NPM with dramatic style - "Enough is Enough".

A great day to remember where he can celebrate his BIG Day (2 Sept) together.

mobile application......

2005-08-29T19:15:00.000+08:00

Lately I have been on the run selling solutions..... or to be exact selling anything to any company. I am now acting like a broker, seeking out companies who wants to purchase systems and what I do is I will propose internal solutions or if we can't do it, sub the project out. Kinda interesting just doing the broking part.......

Anyway, encountered an opportunity for a total solution which includes mobile application. Need a company to do mobile application and not sure who else is good.... and Newspage keeps popping in my mind. Since I thought of them, just curious to know what's cooking at NPM, surf their website and saw Tim and Serene with their pictures there. Instantly have second thoughts about talking to them. Somehow felt weird talking business with them knowing in the back of my mind what character they are......

Hmmm.... siapa lagi boleh develop mobile application.....????????

Looking inside fr Spore

2005-08-17T14:49:00.000+08:00

Hey all.... was re-introduced into the page by Mr.HKK 2 mths back and was totally intrigued that Suckspage is still bloody alive and kicking!! Kudos to all!!! I mean how totally awesome a dedication and discipline is that??!!

Over here in boring Spore, I have been hearing snippets of news on a new place called The Curve, some jazz festival up in the scene again, the revaluation of good ole Ringgit, the AP drama, horrible haze conquering my home town, and very soon... national day aka a public holiday for all!!! :)

Wht is sizzling news here? Nothing, nothing, nothing!! The island is just too small for huge drama to happen! Sometimes, it all feels like i am living in an incubater called Singapore. Everything is analysed, sterilized and measured... Aiyo! There are some good stuff here of course but still, how will it ever beat the chaotic charm of Klang Valley with its current obsession to have a squeeky clean, picture perfect land? Reality hits... it never will. What... with the risk of having cars making illegal u-turns, vendors selling pirated dvds, teenagers loitering aimlessly about??? No way is Singapore ever gonna want that picture painted of them.... anyway Malaysia is only a drive away so if anyone itches to do such unthinkables, they just head to Malaysia..!! This is a land of irony.

Rainy days may soon be here ....

2005-08-16T09:37:00.000+08:00

It's so good to see the sun again. The haze has definitely made me appreciate the clear skies and the inviting heat of the sun these days.

When the haze struck, down town KL was horrible and being stuck in the jam was really miserable. I'm surprise I was able to maintain my sanity then!

Now that the haze is gone (I hope for good!), I wish I could just sit out under the sun and read a book. Unfortunately, there is work to be done.

Ah well, so how has everyone been? I haven't been updating the blog that much and I apologise but I would like to affirm its faithful contributors that I still regularly visit the visit and enjoy your postings.

So when are we meeting up again?

dry.....drying blog....

2005-08-11T17:34:00.000+08:00

It has been a long silence at sucksblog, I guess the main contributors are too busy with their personal ones with all the fancy colour, pictures etc... thus leaving this space empty, dry and lonely. Pity Suckspage blog. Thus prompting me to write something here.... at least keeping it alive....

I guess the blog craze has caught up several active suckspagers and besides busy writing, uploading pics/charts and updating, they will be also busy reading other people's blog, pen down some comments and even link what they write to another blog. Its all about connecting people isn't it......Since the birth of internet... the craze of email starts.....then later everyone has mobile phone... then comes sms..... MSN messenger and Yahoo next.... then sporadically you have some in thing like Friendster and Hi5. I guess blogging is the new thing now..... very curious what will be the next??

Ok Ok.... back to sucksblog... i am not sure how many still open this blog, ... i do open it everyday, hoping to see any updates about suckpagers or any crazy stuff. I'll just wait........ meantime if the silence kicks in again.... i'll chip in and put some water to this drying sucksblog...

Another company's name to ponder about... kekeke...

2005-08-02T15:46:00.000+08:00

Got this company name as I was searching for some companies information on the web. (I know it's not right to laugh at people's name and I didn't, really...)

Tiew Brothers Company started doing business in 1977. However it has been recording tapes since 1972. At the present moment it is employing 61 singers.

The founder and the managing director Mr Mathew Tiew Sii Hock used to work as a salesman in various shops dealing with different things such as electrical equipment, watches and cassettes. In his youth he went to Singapore to study mechanical engineering which provided him skills in electrical matters and recording techniques. After attending a large exhibition on audio equipment he strongly felt like building his own studio. He invited two of his brothers, Mr Michael Tiew Sii Cheng and Mr Steven Tiew Siik Nieng to join him. A new company was formed by the name of Tiew Brothers Company (TBC).

Just for TAN TIONG YONG

2005-07-31T23:38:00.000+08:00

Tan, here is the ang pau to congratulate you on breaking your virginity. Don't ever say that I owe you this anymore k?! HAHA!

CHEERS!!!

Suckspage Updates

2005-07-28T15:12:00.000+08:00

I believe most of the suckspagers would have known some of these news, but as a secretary, I think I had the responsibility to send a memo out, in case someone still out-dated:-

1) One Tan is in the single's guy competition
2) Another Tan is out of the competition with a girl named Kelly
3) Kelly is also a name for KK's partner

Nope, both Tan are not the same person neither are both Kelly.

C H E E R S!!!

K.N.S Associates

2005-07-22T09:31:00.000+08:00

K.N.S what is the first thing appears in your mind? My hokkien buddies and those who know hokkien? =)

Dream Job

2005-07-13T11:15:00.000+08:00

Met up at a Uni fren of mine and he was telling me he got a Reagional Sales position, flying Asia Pacific region. My DREAM JOB !!. And apparently he is taking over this position from a lady whom eventually will start working in a company that entitles her to fly and service company in Europe and US. WOW WOW... DREAM DREAM job !!

I guess the world is getting smaller and people are flying all over places to sell across geographical areas. Btw, my uni fren was in the pesticide industry for many many years, thus he is so called experience in this niche field. And you know what, he carries only 20 items related to pesticide equipment to sell, and in each country, he only need to service ONE company who is the main distributor. Imagine flying to ONE country for 3 -4 days and only service ONE customer. Pay wise, no need to say ler.... good pay. Quite disheartening to hear your kinda dream job but end up in the hands of your fren. But anyhow, bravo and congratulate him. He did get his hands dirty in the first place.

Haih... should have started off my career involve in those lang mun and niche industry - pesticide la, shit dissolve chemical la, sewerage system la.... etc etc where once you are an expert, it carries high value and high entry barrier.

Hmm,.... never mind... still stick to this IT + Sales combination, hope can bring me far .....

Drink and Truth

2005-07-05T23:33:00.000+08:00

Last friday, Kenny, Paul, Janice, Donkey, me and some other friends gathered at Kenny/Paul's place for gambling cum drinking session. But somehow later, we ended up playing the drink and truth game. I didn't know what happen before I reached Paul's place, but I was asked some questions that I wasn't expecting.
As much as I wasn't prepared, I answered everything bloody honestly, including some of which I should lie or tell the partial truth. But to me, when it comes to certain issues, I will always want to face my own feelings honestly, without lying to myself or to another party. Be it bringing negative effects or making my life miserable, it feels better to be honest to your ownself.
Kenny/Paul, thank you for the session, Donkey, thank you for setting me up, Janice, thank you for bringing the gang along.

Windows SBS 2003

2005-06-27T10:17:00.000+08:00

Do you know that you can't install Windows SBS 2003 and set it in a workgroup instead of a domain? If you really do so, the stupid server will shutdown by itself after 7 days, from the eighth day onwards, it will shutdown itself everyday!
I just kena that recently, make sure you don't do that.

Longest single english word

2005-06-23T17:35:00.000+08:00

FYI, the longest single english word is:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It is a pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust. Or keep it simple: a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust.
Ok, I'm just too bored in office.

May/June 2005, period fulled with good things!!!

2005-06-20T23:53:00.000+08:00

From end of May until now, I'd been hearing quite a number of good news from friends and family. It started of with my parents' success in their elections. Celebrated my grandma's birthday right after the day of announcing on the election's result. Then finally saw my cousins' baby girl and baby boy who borned in the month of March. (same like me) ^_^

After came back from Gopeng, then I found out that 1 of the close friend is expecting, no wonder she was not feeling well like few weeks ago and we are like making jokes of her having baby. And it does ended up that she is really expecting for about 6 weeks and come to the 8th week now. Hope the baby is healthy in mommy's stomach. Can't wait to be the godma liao... haha...

Wen called me when I'm driving my way back to office one day, and told me that 1 of our closest friend in Tokuii actually bought a house together with her boyfriend. Well, both her and her boyfriend are definitely not a spontaneous person, and they won't act emotionally especially speaking about involving a big chunk of money. So we assumed that they must have planned something along the way, like when they are getting married and so on. This means that me and Wen need to start saving up the ang pau money and plan for some trick for the groom. kekekeke....

A secondary schoolmate, called me from Singapore the other day. We haven't been seeing each other since we graduated from Form 5. Almost coming to the 10th years already. But we did catch up quite a lot thru out conversation that day. She told me about her latest relationship which is being with the person that we know and never thought that both of them can actually being together. Anyway, really happy for her. We really need to expect the unexpected at times. =)

A hometown friend is getting married this month as well. Although we are that as close to each other. I would like to wish them happy marriage and congratulations!!!

The next thing is... Someone, who used to be very close to me gave me a good news yesterday. He finally found someone, someone that he can love and be loved again. I will wish both of them happy with each other and hope to hear more good news form them from now on.

Just now, as I was clearing up my yahoo mailbox with 800+ unread emails, only I realised about Joyce's announcement. Yah, I know I'm a bit slow in receiving this news, but well, at least I know it now. ^_^ . A big CONGRATULATIONS to our bride&groom-to-be!!! There comes another suckspage's event to be celebrated next year! Prepare your ang pau everyone!!!

HOPE IS EVERYWHERE!!! BE HAPPY ALWAYS!!!

It just can't get worse

2005-06-15T10:43:00.000+08:00

Nowadays the presales people have to do postsales as well, the company will just squeeze every single drop of juice out of you. So I went to install this bloody IBM server for a client with a colleague on Monday. This baby came with a single processor by default, but then the client purchased an additional processor, IBM said we need to upgrade the BIOS in order for the dual processors to work. So we downloaded the files, copied into a disk, and proceeded to upgrade the BIOS.

When the upgrading was running, guess what, the power of the whole damn rack failed and came back after a few seconds. We had connected the power for more than 1 hour and nothing happened, but now it failed when we were upgrading the BIOS. As everybody knows, your server will die horribly if the power fails when you're upgrading the BIOS. As if things were not bad enough, the production server that was also in the same rack was rebooted due to this temporary power failure. Within minutes, bosses started to flock into the server room, questioning the IT staff about the downtime. I could foresee our back will be full with arrows in a short while, time to take cover, so we joined in their discussion and explained that we had done nothing at all, in fact, we suffered the most, as the board of the server will need a replacement from IBM.

Their production server came back up after half an hour. The bosses smiled again and left the server room happily. But now we were in trouble, the baby lied there, motionless, lifeless, dead. Fortunately, IBM tech support promised to assign a field engineer for us. The next day, he came in, replaced the board for us and everything works fine again. The job's done, customer's happy, , the bad luck stops. Kudos to IBM tech support for the fast response.

I hate server rooms. I wish I can avoid them.

Do You Rike Yerrow Corour?

2005-06-14T19:52:00.000+08:00

come on kenny-g, you read only alim books? how can?

this movie has been released quite some time back but just couldnt resist blah-ing to you all
F*CK YEAH -- TEAM AMERICA!

http://www.teamamerica.com/

there are memorable scenes that sure turn blatantly shitty, cock-sucky (jantan-pada-jantan) and the rest are just history... well now, that rhymes

not to mention that it is indeed fun to switch all the 'L's into 'R's when u speak-- i call it the korean symptom
try it.... u'll rove it...

p/s kenny, i stirr dun berieve it that u read onry arim books... must share some rear stuff

Philip Wain

2005-06-12T23:24:00.000+08:00

I went to try out Philip Wain with Sandy and Echo on Saturday. The facilities not bad except that the whole area is smaller in compare to Fitness First. There is only 2 room for classes but I gues this is because the centre only serve females. Thus, 2 rooms might be good enough. I went to 2 classes back-to-back; 1st was some kind of martial art called... err... (forgot the name), and the 2nd class was Yoga. The first class was quite tough as the move was bigger and the pace is faster, luckily I still can catch up my breath doing that. Sandy went off just after the first class and we continue with Yoga. Yoga was quite relaxing as most of the steps were slow and most of them were like stretching every inch of your body. I wonder if we can get taller or hands longer doing those stretching frequently... hmm...

After the classes, I went to pay a visit at the gym, it's quite small but the machines are quite new. Without much interest to continue our workout with those machines, we headed to the sauna and then continue with steam bath. Had a good chat with Echo. I think this is the longest conversation between the 2 of us... haha... we suggested to have another round of gathering at Genting or what... anyone got any other suggestion? Interested?

Overall, the day was great, had a good exercise and relaxed all my joint and muscles...

Today, Sunday, was a painful day for me. Almost every move that I made hurts me. So I need to walk carefully and slowly, just like those grannies. :p Went to breakfast with PB, Fei, Darren and Stan. Then we continue the day with karaoke session, Stan's favourite pass time, Paul, Donkey and ZinLu joined us for 'k'. We sang from 3pm to 8 something pm. Had dinner together and everybody went home with tired faces. And I'm here to blog now... haha... I'm tired too, so good nite everyone! ;)

wat unites us??

2005-06-10T00:23:00.000+08:00

hehehe its me again!! tkm..
i m quite relaxed nowadays...
n decided to tokok a bit here lo

feels great to be back! but no topic to write lehh.. tiu lo... running out of idea tim...
out of 32 teams.. 5 already there!!
germany as host
japan, iran, korea, saudi n argentina.. all qualified!! ukraine n brazil should b the next 2!
hoorayyyy!!! schevchenko in germany 2006..!!! finally....
so fast 3 yrs.. last 3 years we all were still in suckspage.. look at now!! all left.. sigh...
but thats life! n life must go on..
world cup in asia... hahaha portugal 2 usa 3 i still remember that, kenny oooi!!
england 1 argentina 0.. both my fav match in 2004 wc

football is my life... for the past ten years lo... its a never ending story.. good to have so many footbal kaki around.. too bad the beautiful is too commercialized.. its not just a game anymore... its an opportunity now.. its business :(
sucks!! bookies spoilt it... to b precise mr sepp blatter spoit it! sometimes i gave up! sometimes i enjoy it.. but for sure i will keep on following... cant live without it...

win is good, lost?? dunt give up! win liao can lose back wan!!! lost liao can always win back.. thats the kick! end of the day.. win or lose does not matter.. but participation is!! football unites the world! thats the magic of it! n it explains why u have manchested UNITED, newcastle UNITED, sheffield UNITED, west ham UNITED, leeds UNITED etc...fomula 1 nba tennis etc all failed.. even olympics will not match the passion! how come?? can somebody explains???

Book Review: 4th of July by James Patterson

2005-06-07T17:50:00.000+08:00

This is the 4th installment of the Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson. The story begins with Lt. Lindsay Boxer battling a lawsuit after a shootout that claimed the life of a 15 years old girl and crippled the 14 years old brother. As she is put on suspended duty pending the trial, she took off out of town to her sister's place. But she soon found herself intrigued and involved with the local police force in investigating a series of murders involving couples living in the area.

Overall, the book is still a page turner, but I felt that the writer (and co-writer) tried to create a little Grisham-ish style with the courtroom drama, which didn't quite appeal to me (especially compared to Grisham's books). And I am not sure if it's just me, but I can sense a little incohesiveness in the tone and language, the difference between the two authors are a little apparent.

I've always been attracted to storyline with strong female leads. So I guess I will still look out for the 5th installment of the series by James Patterson.

Book Review: My Life as Emperor by Su Tong

2005-06-07T15:18:00.000+08:00

I've always been fascinated by the stories of the emperors and dynasties of China. I know those of you from the Chinese school get to learn and read about the dynasties during high school, and probably dread that, but I was unfortunate not able to read about them, except to learn from the TVB serials on TV.

I remember coming across the review for this book once in the weekend copy of The Star, but I never did looked for it until I came across this book again during my visit to Borders (okay, so I did managed to pick something up from Borders despite my gripes about the layout and settings).

The book chronicles the unexpected ascension of 14-year old DuanBai to the throne as the Emperor of the Xie Empire. It tells how the young Emperor is being manipulated by the Empress and the Empress Dowager (grandmother), how he grows up, unable to control his paranoia, his turn to cruelty and his own insecurity of his own impending demise, as foretold by a mad monk when he took to the throne.

Overall, I do find the book quite an interesting read. I am sure, some of the nicer "words" used in the Chinese language are lost in translation (the book is originally in Chinese). It describes quite vividly the emotions and the turmoil felt by the Emperor as he journeys from the lavish settings of his palace, to the warring borders out his empire, and to the streets as he seeks to find his place.

Sad

2005-06-07T13:12:00.000+08:00

One of the best boss I have ever known, who was a manager in the previous company I was employed, passed away last Saturday. He had a heart attack on Thursday and was admitted to the hospital, everybody thought he would be ok but he left us on Saturday morning. Although I never worked under him before, but I really respect him as one of the best boss I have ever known.
Why did God take the good people away from us at their young age?
May he rest in peace......

Silly Janice

2005-05-28T12:01:00.000+08:00

I was out for a meeting in KL on Wed morning at Menara Promet. Before I reach, Stan told me to park at the open space car park behind the ING building where there was a school, which will apparently be cheaper than parking inside the building. So I did as told, happily, I got a parking space just near to the entrance, changed my shoe, got out from the car, swiftly lock the door and closed it, making sure it's locked properly. In just a few second, I saw some brochures which I tot of handing over some to the customer, so, I started to search my car key from my handbag.... searched and searched... then.... oh gosh!!! really shit!!! and damn!!! my car key is happily hanging at the car!!! Wat a silly me... :p

Since nothing that I can do for that moment, I walked to Menara Promet and met up with Stan, told him about it and he could only laughed. Wat a bad day to start of... despite, my phone was almost out of batt by 11 something (am). After the meeting, we went to Stan's mother's florist shop, to charge my h/p and get the price from the locksmith next door. It cost about RM30 to unlock my car, initially was RM35, got discount of RM5! haha...

But we decided to take a sip at starbucks, the weld, while I were thinking how to solve the problem, "to pay or not to pay?", that was the question. Heh... Nearly got 1 of my colleague, Samuel to come down to help me since he knows the way of unlocking the door due to his past 'same' experience with me. Suddenly, tot of William, a crazy car lover, an adjuster working at AXA, just opposite ING, he should know how to help me. Called him up and he said he will come over and give a try. Then, he came with only a plastic ruler cos he said he could find a steel ruler in his office. Trying for a few shot, knowing that he can't make it, we decided to call the locksmith and to pay the 30 bucks.

Guess what, a professional door/normal lock's locksmith is not a professional car unlocker, it tooks 3 of them to try about more than half an hour to get the lock open. They tried with a few tiny 'L' & 'l' shape steels like those in the movie to open the lock from the key hold and they tried to put a 'saw'in between the window and the door, 'bang'-ing damn hard trying to make the lock to jump up. That moment, I tot my door or my lock will be gone! Luckily after trying and trying, finally they can unlock the lock at the front sitter side before the rain start. *phew*

When I were back to the office, Samuel teached me to open the door lock with a plastic strap, which is normally used to wrap those paper box. It was quite easy seeing him to do it altho I didn't try it out myself. But at least now I have an option to try to open the lock myself next time when the same silly thing happened to me again... ^_^ or some of you may need my help next time? Hah...

Theft

2005-05-28T11:58:00.000+08:00

There had been 2 cases of robbery happened to 2 different friends of mine.

1st case : Samantha

She was walking beside the road heading to her car after the Pasar Malam at SS2. While walking, she sense that there is a motorcyclist following from her back. She could sensed that the motorcyclist will eventually snatch her handbag, so in her thoughts she was hoping that it won't be the case... BUT... unluckily, it did happened. The motorcyclist grabbed her handbag and she conciously & unconciously holding her handbag real tight as she never thought of letting it go with the thief. The motorcyclist dragged her for some distance, her head even got hit by something (she not sure what it is) and finally, the thief decided to let go of her.

Her face and hand got scratched quite badly and not even a soul by the roadside is helpful enough to help her when the terrible thing happened. When she came back to work after MC for few days, she still can smile and joke about the incident. Funnily, she said "I know I like money but I don't really realised that I am that in LOVE with money". This is obviously quoted because she is brave enough of not letting go of her handbag even she is dragged until it hurts. Not sure what will I do if I'm her...

2nd case : Wen

Also happened on the night of a Pasar Malam but this is in Klang. It's her unusual habit of leaving her purse in the car but she did it on that night being advised by her bf to do so. After taking all the money out from her purse, she put it under the seat and start her pasar malam shopping. When she got back to her car, the window was broken and obviously, her purse was gone with the house keys. The rest of the things are still in the car, like, TnG card, her shoes and small change. Not forget to mentioned a very important point, the purse's brand is Gucci and it's bought in Aussie land... guess how much it cost her? It's suppose to be her 10 years investment... but now... sob... sob...

At first she is not as nervous, so she quickly counted her shoes in the car to see whether they are all there. *phew* All shoes are still around. Then, she called the credit card centre to block the card and guess what, the cards had been used for more than RM2k. Woah! The thief now is very efficient!!

Zouk Fest @ Genting, Saturday, 5 March 2005 Part IV

2005-05-24T00:44:00.000+08:00

Finally got into the party area, but both of us have lost contact with the group, anyhow, we just went ahead to walk around the place while tried to contact them. Here's a map of all the stages.

The first stage we saw when we walked in from the entrance was the huge Ghetto Heaven Stage, here was where the non stop R&B music played. But we didn't just stop there, we continued to wander around. When we walked pass the left side of the stage, there was this huge VIP tent for the so-called VIP only, we didn't have any VIP in the gang, so won't be able to go up there at all. Right behind the VIP area was the ZOUK main arena, where they have all the famous DJ's playing all the electronic music. Not my type at all, so I just waited beside the 'Recharge' counter while my friend tried to locate the gang. The weather was so cold that I couldn't help but to sit down so that the crowd will block the cold wind for me. Once again, I had to wonder how the girls can stand the cold with so few pieces of cloth.

After about 20 minutes, my friend finally able to locate them, we ran off back to the Ghetto Heaven Arena. Right beside the VIP tent, there was this slope which leaded uphill to the Velvet Arena, where they played house music. But we didn't go up there at all, nobody in the gang was a fan of house I guessed. So finally, we were able to regroup again at the Ghetto Heaven Arena. The gang started to pick up the mood after some beers, but after all the troubles of getting into the party, somehow it was not as fun as it should be. But anyhow, we still enjoyed the party as much as we deserve to. Dancing to the beat of the music, drinking as much as we could (although beer only), combining with the cold weather and searing wind, it was one hell of a great experience.

3 hours later, everybody started to get tired, when we tried to locate the other 4 of the members, we just manged to find 1 of the couples only. After much effort of contacting them, we finally decided that probably they have gone back to the room and we shouldn't disturbed them for the time being. For ther rest of the 4 of us, we proceeded to grab something to eat at the Hainan restaurant (again!). Despite being so late in the night, it was still full of young clubbers and old gamblers, Genting is really a non stop city of entertainment. When we finished the meal, the lost couple finally contacted us, they were already back in the room. With a fully exhausted body and a dizzy mind, we went back to the room for some good sleep.

I was not able to get a sound sleep at all, the morning came shortly after I fall on the bed. The next Sunday was pretty uneventful, after a lunch and some coffee at Starbucks, we bid farewell to the gang and drived down the hill.

Wow, finally finish the part 4, I know this is abit too late to write about a party more than 2 months ago, but somehow I have to finish the story right? Comparing with my previous party last year, this party was much enjoyable, although there were so much more troubles of getting into the party. At the end of the day, it is always about how pleasant and nice the partner and gang you go with to a party instead of how great is the party itself.

Movie Review: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

2005-05-23T22:39:00.000+08:00

Finally, the missing link of the Star Wars stories are revealed. The final of episode of the first trilogy is really the bridge to the original Star Wars series.

The movie starts off where it left off the last time, with Anakin Skywalker fulfilling his destiny to be the one Jedi to end the presence of the Sith. But is he? We all know by now that Anakin did not become the Jedi to eliminate the Sith. Instead, he became one of the Sith's most powerful lord, Darth Vader. But why and how did Anakin became Lord Vader? It's all revealed here in this episode. This episode also detailed the rise of Senator Palpatine to become the Emperor of the Republic, why the Jedi Masters (Yoda and Obi Wan Kenobi) are into hiding, and how Luke and Leia were separated.

In all, this movie in itself, doesn't really overwhelmed you with details, but it is perhaps one of the more important of the series. The effects and actions of the scenes are all done wonderfully, perhaps really the best in all 6 Star Wars series, not surprising considering the technology available to George Lucas now compared to the first episode released in 1977. But what George Lucas managed to do is that he manages to use technology to bring us back in time... his creations in this 2005 release will mesh seamlessly into the 1977 release. I'm sure if you watch the episodes back to back, you probably can't tell that this episode is created 28 years after the first one. That shows how visionary he was when we created the show.

I can't wait for the DVD box set to be released, so that I watch all 6 episodes back to back.

My Blue Black Finger

2005-05-17T22:46:00.000+08:00

Just an "Aiyak!" and my finger turned like this...

Initially it's greenish in color, after I rubbed it for a while it turn dark red as shown.

I think I seldom see a bruised finger... so tot of showing it to you all as well... :p

Gastronomical Adventures

2005-05-17T13:26:00.000+08:00

It's been a few memorable days of food and friends since Saturday. I had a few cravings that were truly satisfied (song cue: Satisfaction by Benni Benassi...) over the course of past few days... more...

Movie Reviews: In Good Company & Guess Who

2005-05-16T18:48:00.000+08:00

Call it coincidence, or call it some sort of conspiracy by some Hollywood mogul, but I watched two movies starring the members of the casts of The 70s Show consecutively. First, it is Topher Grace in In Good Company, then it is Ashton Kutcher in Guess Who.

Topher Grace puts in an okay performance as Carter Duryea, a young marketing hotshot working for a global company, which has just bought over the magazine that Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) works in. While Carter has a successful career, his personal life just began to fall apart. His wife of 7 months decided to leave him, and he has little friends. So, he somehow managed to get himself invited to dinner with Dan and his family, where he met Alex, Dan's daughter (Scarlett Johansson). Apart from the romance that blossomed between Carter and Alex, the movie also shows the relationship between an older, wiser career man and a young upstart who are seeking the meaning of life and relationship.

Somehow, I feel that the movie can do better if it can decide to focus on either the romance between Carter and Alex, or on the buddy-hood between Carter and Dan, because at the end of the movie, you don't feel that either relationship is really developed properly.

Although Ashton Kutcher's performance as Simon Green in Guess Who doesn't take much of an effort or different path from his character in the 70s Show, overall, the movie is much more enjoyable. It stars Bernie Mac, as Percy Jones, the father of Simon's fiancee. What Percy hadn't anticipated, was that her daughter will bring a white guy back home. So, begins a series of funny exchanges between Percy and Simon, while in between, both men have to learn to deal with their respective angry partners.

Guess Who turns out to be pretty hilarious, not much of slapstick, unlike Kutcher's previous movies. It was definitely a good watch for a late night show.

Saturday Morning Jog with a Gal

2005-05-09T10:40:00.000+08:00

I will have to thank Janice for publicising my Saturday morning jog to the rest. One thing, it clears my image of being gay!
From Paul's comment, I am glad that he finally has a correct perception of me.

Most Saturday morning, I am around that area exercising though our dear Janice may not know this but it is something that I have been doing
eversince the badminton sessions are no longer organised due to the lack of response.

Firstly, I have to agree that the exercise was much needed on myself because I am determined to be restored to my weight 4 years ago (or closer to my weight that time). Hopefully I would be discpline enough to follow through.

Ah yes, back to that glorious morning. Our friend, Janice, came up from behind and with her excited smile, said "NICK POH!!". It was a very pleasant surprise to see her and her "friend". So anyway, we had a brief chat and she had a brief chat with my friend too. But then, she was so eager to continue with her jog that she didn't even say bye! I guess she was so excited to find out I wasn't gay!

Anyway, whether that relationship between the particular gal that was with me and myself is what you think it is, I leave it as it is. I shall savour the moment where my image and dignity is restored.......

*Raises arms and puts them behind his head while leaning back on the cushion chair, savouring the revelation of the truth*

I saw Nick with a gal!

2005-05-07T13:31:00.000+08:00

After skipping for 2-3 weeks of not going to jog, today I manage to get a fren of mine to go jogging with me at Tmn Tun, altho I was struggling to get myself up at 7am in the morning. :p When my alarm rang at 7am, I heard but I tot it's just another working day and as usual, I'll press the snooze button... after 10 mins later, the alarm beep again and again, I put it to snooze... (at normal working days, I won't wake up until after at least 3 snoozes - this is why I'm alwaz late for work :p) But today, just after the first snooze, I realized that I need to get prepared for jogging, so I force myself to wake up... hehe... and I managed to... so way we go to Tmn Tun...

We just started to jog for while and guess who I saw! Yes, it's Nick Poh with a gal!!! No, confirm it's not a guy... it's definitely a gal... hahaha... So, we might want to re-evaluate whether he is really 'gay' or not now... hmmm...

Let me describe a bit of the gal, she is slim, very slim, wondering y is she going jogging with Nick. I know Nick need to do some jogging but I dun think the gal need to... hehe... smell something fishy?? She has long hair and english speaking (suit Nick). Also, this is the second time they go jogging together there. Other things will let Nick to tell us... Nick, ur turn to write... ;)

Is it a book store or a library?

2005-05-05T18:16:00.000+08:00

For quite some time, I noticed that most friends around me don't really read, it felt quite discouraging when I was very excited with a new book I just read but had nobody to share my thoughts with. But recently, I found that there are some friends who like to read too, it feels wonderful to talk about books among friends, eventhough we read totally different books. A big thanks to Fay and Kennyg about this. By the way, Janice, when are you getting the book you mentioned from Kennyg? Hahaha.

Ok, back to the topic, last Saturday, after a tokok lunch with donkey and colleague at bukit bintang, I went over to Borders BTS for some books and reading. They got a Starbucks inside the bookstore, which let the guests to have a nice place for some coffee and reading session. So I spent my whole afternoon reading and drinking at this Starbucks. But one thing I noticed was that most people will like to grab a big stack of magazines or books, put them on the table, and read for free. Hmm, the place looks more like a library than a bookstore this way, I think they should buy the books instead of reading whole day for free there, it's supposed to be a bookstore right?

apology

2005-04-30T12:30:00.000+08:00

tkm would like to apologise for disappearing for months to all of the suckspagers around.

for the past few months i have been travelling to tai lui yam zi to chui ham sap ging..
of course i went wif my sifu thong sam jhong, tai si heng and sam si dai!
guess who am i??
hahaha pak kai here la, sohai!! :))

oohhh lei tohh futt.. sin joi sin joi...

sorry nick! you might not understand wat kok i m toking abt.. try find it out if u want to..
but who cares!!

recently i gave up on one big part of my life.. :~( it used to be.. but not anymore
felt much better now!
how this happened?

have to tell from few months back lo..
during the 4th day of cny i was so on form!
from the 5th day onwords.. tiu lo!!
no matter how hard i try.. how steady i try to be.. it never returns! i mean my form
lost.. disappeared.. sucks
my life is gone..
so down! luckily something new appeared..

simply pick oso can! tutup mata oso can! keng leh!
hahahah.. can't believe it! but its true
always win more than lose.. thats great!
i keep on trying to win abck 1st love.. dowan to come back means dowan!
try to be nice, try to be patient.. tiu lia ma chau hai arrr!! also dowan to come bek

2 months.. it has been going on like that!
until one day! i tot it returns! hahaha.. so naive...
wui kwong fan jiu woh! ended same..
guan lan joh lo me this time!

4 letters! Q U I T
dowan to carry on like that anymore!
i know i am good enough! no need to prove to anybody!
lou yau dowan to come bek! let it be...
i found new ones now!

chung fatt pak. thung lam sai pak ... sucks
now i got even more! chelsea arsenal man u. barca real villareal, juve milan sampdoria, ipswich gillingham leeds.. wahh to many la..

when its time.. its time!
doesnt matter wats the outcome.. hehehe
cant tell when my new love will give up on me.. it might or might not
i dunt give a damn actually
enjoy, treasure wat shit you have now is the most important thing..
predictions sucks! think too much kills! happy go lucky is the way...

ohhh lei toh futt...
luckily we managed to borrow the ham sap ging from yi loi futt jou to read!
it really opened up our eyes..

Zouk Fest @ Genting, Saturday, 5 March 2005 Part III

2005-04-28T10:56:00.000+08:00

Alright, finally got my ticket. I called my friend up and told her the good news. She was so excited and happy that finally I managed to get the ticket. I couldn't imagine what should I do if I couldn't get the ticket, I was there because of her, if they all went partying and I was left in the room alone, that would be a really big disappointment. So I went back to the room, it was about 10 something and the laides were still preparing, so the guys had no choice but to sit down and wait. 11pm, finally we were ready to go, I found out earlier that the only entrance to the party was the corridor besides Starbucks First World hotel.

Ok, we headed for Starbucks. When we reached there, what we could see was a really huge crowd, shouting and demanding for the organizer to let them in. Hell, things were not looking good, apparently the organizer were not ready for such a huge crowd, they were letting people in batch by batch. As usual, no queuing for Malaysians, everybody just squeezed themselves into the thick mass of people. We looked at each other, since handphones were practically useless now (stupid telco can't accomodate so many users in the same area at the same time), and we would probably lost each other during the squeezing process, we decided to meet up again around the entrance inside when everybody was inside later.

The last line of the crowd reached the Maybank ATM machine besides an escalator of First World hotel, if you had been to First World hotel, you will have a brief idea of how huge the crowd was. I asked my friend, "Better check if your ticket is with you now, you have it right?". She answered, "Yeah, sure, it's with me." Alright, great then, the gang was 6 person in total including me, 3 guys, 3 girls, we joined the battle in pairs, so if we lost each other, there were still 2 phone numbers per group to call for location. Leading my friend, I began pushing through the crowd, luckily, the air ventilations was ok, and thanks to the cool weather of genting, I didn't sweat abit at all. After about 15 minutes, we were right in the middle of the crowd, I looked around and asked my friend if she knew where were the rest, as I expected, she didn't know either, great, now we really lost each other. The corridor turned to the right after Starbucks, right after the corner, there was this narrow doorway. WTF? Hundreds of people were needed to squeeze through this doorway? Surely the crowd moving speed would be damn slow.

After another 20 minutes, after much struggling, finally we were about to reach the real entrance, she started to check her handbag for the ticket. My dear readers, probably you can guess what happen next, yep, she left the DAMN TICKET in the cursed hotel room!!!!! WTF? After so much troubles for me of faking the stupid sms to get the ticket, squeezing through this fucking crowd, and now she told me she FORGOT to bring the ticket??!! Oh my god, I was totally speechless at that moment, we looked at each other helplessly. Ladies, tell me please, why must you all, as a lady, always manage to screw something up at the last moment, this was not my first time in a situation like this. Ok, it was not time for blaming, I have to formulate a solution fast. So I told her, with such a messy crowd control like this, most likely she would be able to get in unnoticed. If it didn't work, she would have to stay right beside the entrance, then I would get inside first, got out again, rushed back to the hotel to get the ticket, then got in again by the re-entry entrance, which had a lesser crowd there, then only I gave her the ticket to get in. So much troubles~!!! But again, it was my lucky day right? Right at the entrance, I just handed my ticket to the staff, and both of us walked right pass him into the party!!! Now should I be happy or what, I went through all the troubles to get my ticket and now, we just needed one ticket to get 2 persons in, how ridiculous.....

Eh, I don't want to make a post too long, I'll continue the story at part IV, can ar? Thank you.

Do not open Webcam from unknown people!

2005-04-27T20:37:00.000+08:00

I was surfing and chatting while I'm online at home. Suddenly a stranger pop up and say "Hi". I usually ignore such person but I tot wat the heck, so I replied with "Hi" then he start to invite me to see his Webcam. So I just clicked and guess wat I see... his c*ck!!! Gosh, where got such a person!!! Then he start to type like "can i cum... can i cum... let me get tissue first..." yukssssss.... wat a sicko!!! Then I straight away put this person into my Ignore list. Wat a nite... Luckily no nightmare...

Small World Indeed

2005-04-27T11:30:00.000+08:00

I can't stop saying this words since 2nd Apr 2005. Almost every week from that date onwards, I discovered that someone actually knows someone who they can actually know from someone. Hehe... sounds complicated???

See the connections below:-

Happened on the first week
There was a party at KL Hilton by KennyG's fren, so I decided to ask Pheobe, my 'single & happening' fren to go with me. Coincidentally, she was invited by her fren, Fay to go for a party at KL Hilton as well! So happen that Fay knows KennyG as a client last time when she is working on an event with them. And I did heard about a gal called Fuan Fui (Fay's chinese name) sometime back then as she is my ex's schoolmate. I got to know Pheobe b'cos she is my ex's fren's ex. Moreover, I know Fay's ex who happened to be working in the same area as mine! Hah...

Happened on the following week
I was introduced by Fay to Cheyanne who is the sister of someone I know. We got a good chat over dinner talking about her juicy story and all seems to be perfect for her. At that time I dun bother to know wat's the name of the guy or who exactly he is.

Then
Had introduced Stan to Fay & Pheobe, we went to Thai Club with Paul as he wanted to de-stress. Then, we started to chat in MSN and added each other in friendster, so happen that someone in Stan's friendster is Fay's "long time no see" friend!

Another find outs
That women who hang out with each other a lot will have their menstrual on the same week! I did heard about this somewhere from someone but I doubt it last time. BUT I believe it now, this had happened to me as well! (Believe it or not?)

On the next week
Cheyanne is learning salsa and she will go to this place called Mood Swing like every Friday, so me & Fay decided to check the place out and I can also recall my salsa steps there :) As we were talking about the same guy again and the name Darren appear. When I'm about to wonder, "Do I know this guy?", Fay told me where he is working and BINGO!... I know this guy who I met in a partner event some time ago and frankly, the first impression from him is definitely not good to me. But anyway.... wat a freaking small world!

Just today
When Jacky is checking out Stan's friendster (to see the leng lui that everyone is talking about) thru my friendster list, he found that one of my fren, my ex-colleague from Tokuii, Wye Jon, was actually his diploma coursemate. Another connection!

Hmmm... is there anymore coincidences???

The Most Expensive Chinese Tea I Ever Had

2005-04-26T19:53:00.000+08:00

How much is the most expensive Chinese Tea you guys ever had?
RM0.30? RM0.50? RM1.00 ? RM2.00? Guess how much is the one that I had then?!!!

It happened to me on last Sunday. I had a lunch appointment wiv frens (collegemates) at 1.30pm at Causeway Bay (next to Coffee Bean) or "Tong Lor Wan" (cantonese) at Low Yatt Plaza.

I reached there half an hr earlier. Therefore, I decided to wait my frens inside the restaurant.
Due to the reason it was Sunday, the restaurant was full and pack and I have to wait for 5 -10 mins to get my seat.

1, 2, 3, 4,... 7 mins gone. Yeah, my turn!
"Sorry sir, the seat inside the restaurant are fully occupied, left only open space seat (no air-con but with fan). Do you want to get it?". Said the waitress.

By looking at my watch, it's still early. So, I decided to take the offer.
The waitness showed me the way and passed me a menu. I decided to place my order when only my frens are there. So, I didn' t order anything. While looking at the menu, another waitress hand over me a cup of Chinese Tea. It's just a small cup like the size we always have for our tea tarik at Mamak stall. Then, I started enjoying my chinese tea and as the weather was so hot and I was very thirsty too.

Abt 1.40pm, my frens were here and joining me. We started to chat for abt 10 mins and didn't bother to order foods. We have not been seeing each others for quite some times. So, we po pey po pey po pey nonstop talking.

Finally, one of fren stopped and questioning "Do you guys feel hot?".
Oh yeah, everyone replied "Yes". So, we get the waitress to check for us is there any seat available inside the restaurant. The answer is "NO". After a short discussion, we decided to go to another restaurant. We can't really stand the weather!!!

Therefore, I asked for a bill. Before the bill came, my fren wanted to settle the bill for me.
When I was about to say "NO", the bill came. Guess what, 3 of us looked at the bill. Wah... then we looked at each other... Anyway, I settled the bill and ciao..

We ended up at "Lau Mai Zi" restauntrant at Lower Ground of Low Yatt plaza too for wan tan mee.... =)
The chinese tea there is cost RM1.00. =P

How much do you guy think the chinese tea cost??

Kang Kang Junior

2005-04-24T13:49:00.000+08:00

Good news to all suckspagers, Kang's beloved wife had safely delivered a new born baby girl. Congratulations, Kang & wife! LingMing & baby is now staying in Kang's hometown (Johor). So, can't visit the little gal for now, need to wait until they come back. But at the meantime, you can see the photo of this little princess below. She sure got lotsa hair... hehe...

Personally, I am so.. so.. so.. happy for them!!! Feel the warmth and joy in their family with the little cutie gal around. :)

Kang Kang Junior

Pics of Zouk Fest

2005-04-24T10:02:00.000+08:00

Due to popular demand, here I post some pics taken in the party with my phone. Enjoy.

Ghetto Heaven stage, all night R&B here, my favourite area:

The VIP tent, I'm not a VIP, so can just take photo from here:

Zouk stage, techno only, sorry man, not my type:

Wondering...

2005-04-23T21:45:00.000+08:00

People alwaz says that "women hearts are hard to catch" but what about men's heart??? Alwaz wondering how men think of relationship...

Know a guy who is attached but not married... He told me that he won't dump her gf eventhough there might not be much love in between them or should I say, the relationship run out of spark! He thinks that there is no point of looking for another 1 when you know that this is alwaz the problem in relationship. So, he decided to stick with the gf as long as the gf does not dump him. :p Oh ya, and he dun mind that his gf is fierce to him, he said may be he already get so use to each other liao.

Another guy, who is attached and not married as well... Alwaz got his freedom from his gf to do anything... They might not see each other for a week... Or they might not even know what each other is doing... Dun you think this is too much of a freedom?! Or may be this is the dream kinda relationship that all men wanted? So, I think with this relationship, any guy can actually 'curi makan' anytime eh...

Third guy, married... Told me that the wife does not enjoy intercourse cos it's hurt, according to her. So the wife remain as a virgin until she gave birth... Yes, you read it rite! Virgin until she gave birth to a new born baby. Wondering how izit possible??? :o What he told me is actually they do not have any intercourse but they mastur**** each other and the wife do not do blow***. Hard to believe rite? And the guy actually respect his wife and stay out of it. If this is true, I do respect this guy! Come back to how the baby can ever exist... he said he just spread the spe*** at the entrance of the *****. Anyone can verify this? Can this is be true???? The wife had already gave birth now and there is still no intercourse between them...

The next 1, attached but not married... He been going out with his current gf for a few months now... and he actually feels that the relationship is not working well... before he got attached, he actually wanted so desperately to get a gf. But when he got this gf, he feels the other way round... life as single is better... (sigh) People is alwaz "farn jin"!

Ok, I think I had enuff of writing all these attached guys story... will think of some single guys story to tell next time...

The story of high heels

2005-04-22T18:30:00.000+08:00

Came across this book that day at MPH, about the most frequent FAQ asked by girls. When I flipped through the book, this particular topic catched my eyes. It talks about the original purpose of high heeled shoes. Here's the story:
So, durin the 18th century, there's actually no toilets in France, so what did the french do when they need to go to the toilet? Basically, they used a piece of paper or cloth to wrap up the shit, n then throw it outside into the streets. So you can say that the streets of Paris are full of shit during that time. The same thing happened in the palace as well, to prevent the King from stepping on shit and dirtied his majesty's pants/legs all the while, the royal designers design a type of shoes for the king which had high heels.
Men and women alike, the French started to wear high heel shoes, but as time goes by, the men abandoned the idea, but the women liked them very much and it becomes a fashion, till now...... So ladies, when you wear a pair of high heels next time, please remember the very first reason of it's existence and appreciate that you are not wearing it for that reason.
Please don't flame me for this, I really read this in the book. Don't believe? Pay me and I buy the book for you.

Comment settings

2005-04-21T11:30:00.000+08:00

Hello suckspager, since there're so limited responses from our fellow suckspagers, I've changed the settings to open this blog for ousiders to comment in the posts. Hope this can make the blog more lively.
Hello non-suckspager, please feel free to waste your time here. Thank you.

Zouk Fest @ Genting, Saturday, 5 March 2005 Part II

2005-04-17T14:16:00.000+08:00

4pm, time to get the ticket, the ticket counter is right at a corner of the first world plaza. According to the notice, the counter was supposed to open on 6pm, but there're a few hundred ravers queueing there already! The queue is getting longer and longer every minute, so we have no choice but to join the crowd.

2 hours gone... the crowd started to get impatient. At about 6, they finally open the counter, inch by inch, we moved closer to the counter but there're still more than a hundred ppl in front of us! We could see fellow ravers covered in sweat struggling out of the queue 1 by 1 with the much prized ticket in their hand. But after 20 minutes, we noticed those who were supposed to come out of the queue victoriously with the tickets, came out empty handed, they told everybody that ticket sudah habis! The news spreaded, everybody started to shout and complained, but obviously, the counters were all closed, black curtains pulled over, with the huge 'TICKETS SOLD OUT" sign sticked on the glass.

There was this special queue that was for some kind of privileged 'Recharged' membership that sold tickets to the members who had a special sms that was sent to them previously by the organizer in their phone, with a special discount rate, but this special counter was closed as well. Well, me and my friend have no choice but to leave the place, I guess I was out of luck tonight.....

So we went back to the room to join the friends, had some drinking games at the room and then dinner at the hai nan restaurant downstair. At about 10pm, I thought maybe we should go and try our luck at the ticket counter again. So we were at the counter again, there were still hundreds of stubborn ravers waiting there, hoping the organizer will somehow start selling tickets again. When we asked around, some friendly ravers told us that there were rumours that the 'Recharge' counters would be opened soon. But alas, I didn't have the needed sms to buy the ticket, but my friend told me she got it, forwarded by a friend to her. Hmm... perhaps we could try something stupid here, so I asked her to forward me the sms, and I changed the receiver name to the required number of the organizer. We didn't know how long it will take to get the ticket, so my friend decided to join back her friends first, when I got the ticket, then only I joined them.

Off I went ahead to squeeze through the crowd, I notice alot of people around me were trying the same stupid trick about the sms. Hehe, I wondered how many of us were able to pull the trick, it was just too easy to spot the scam by just checking the contact details. But everybody just gave it a try anyway. Another half an hour gone, the organizer finally opened 3 counters, annuoncing that tickets were for 'Recharge' members with the sms only.

This is the funniest ticket selling scene I've ever seen, everybody tried their best to squeeze to the counter, and handed their handphones to the staff behind the ticket counter. As I expected, all handphones were checked if the sms was genuine, so much time was wasted because of checking sms. Some people were really rejected and handphones handed back to them, poor fella.... I wished I won't end up like that. Finally, it was my turn, I handed my Motorola E398 with the modified sms and contact info to the staff, she started to checked through. At this moment, I was grateful that I was not using a nokia, because everybody and their mother knows how to use a nokia to check contact details! Things were quite different for a Motorola phone. Perhaps she was quite confused with the different interface of Motorola phones, after about 30 seconds, she finally handed me back the phone, and asked me for the money! Thank god I was able to pull the trick, I happily paid the money, got my ticket and off I pushed my way out of the crowd, with lots of envious eyes staring at my ticket!

Hmm, guess I can't finish the story today, stay tuned for the next part.

Tips needed...

2005-04-16T13:17:00.000+08:00

Looking at the response to our previous few blogs which is quite bad, I'm trying to make my story to be more interaction-based...

It's been almost a year now that I've become single and available... :p

Along with this 1 year I had met with some guy friends... like I said earlier there are a lot of people with different status (as in being attached or not and so on). There are some guys that like me but I'm not really interested in (either I'm really enjoying my life of being single or like what Paul always like to say "No Feel" :p). And when there are guys I met that can attract my interest, they are either attached or they are actually interested in another gal.

Should I really try and approach the guy that I like rather than to wait for that "someone" to approach me? Hmmm... if yes... what are the best ways to approach a guy? U know la... I dun wanna make myself to look like I'm desperate or wat rite... cos I'm really not... just wanna giv it a try only and see whether it works for both party or not... no harm rite? Hehe... Frankly, I dun try it with just anybody... everything I do will be based on my true feelings... (even when after a drink or 2... haha... just to bring up the courage to do something that it's not usually done) So, any tips?

Hoping to see more response to this blog... ;)

Zouk Fest @ Genting, Saturday, 5 March 2005

2005-04-13T21:47:00.000+08:00

Hi all, since Janice wrote such an interesting blog, I think it's time for me to contribute something.

So, my previous rave experience really sucks (if you forgot how sucks is it, please check the archive), which makes me really hesitate to go for this one when a friend invited me to go on friday, the day right before the party. Additionally, I need to prepare for my trip to Brunei on the following monday, so I really want to reject my friend's offer oredi. But unfortunately, this friend, who I know from friendster (kudos to www.friendster.com, the best chic-knowing-tool in the world), looks really hot in her friendster profile. So to hell with the previous rave experience, and to hell with the bloody business trip!!!

Saturday 2pm, I drived right to her place to pick her up, and to my surprise, she's in her clubbing outfit oredi, this early in the afternoon! She's wearing this black bikini top inside, with a black see through long sleeved shirt, and the bottom is a light blue short skirt. Up and up the hill we went, not much jam, considering that the Joey Rong's concert is at the same day, it's really a better idea to go up earlier. In less than an hour time, we reached First World Hotel, where we were supposed to join her friends, who had a room for the night here.

3pm, we met up with the friends at their room and spent some time walking around genting. With nearly every single male creature staring at my partner (because of the top, of course) who i was holding her hand and walking besides me, I have to admit that it feels not too bad. But alas, like any other happy moments, I could only enjoy this for about an hour. So what happen next? The ticket queueing nightmare, you can't imagine how fucking hard it was to get a rave party ticket this late, it was just too last minute! But with some funny and stupid tricks, I manage to get one, legally, of course. The details? Stay tuned for the next part, which I will talk about how I got the ticket, and the whole Zouk Fest experience.

and the Story continues...

2005-04-13T19:38:00.000+08:00

Now.... where were we... oh yah... the sms...

It sounded like "I can go there just to see u. Cannot sleep well thinking about u. This may sound absurd to u but... at the least I'm being honest, no lie! Seeing u is believing! As simple as that." This is when he really wanted to come over to Bangsar where I were the other nite. He even offer to send me home in one piece. Scarrrrry..... But at the end I tell him that it's no need for him to come.

Before that, he actually offer me a job in his company, which is quite well-known in the market for its hardware. He told me that the package is like RM5k for basic excluding comm. Wow, sounds very attractive rite! But then if I go then I'm creating more opportunities for him to get close to me... hmmm... dangerous!

Anyway, after the Bangsar nite... he stop sms-ing me... until y'day nite... he msg me to ask how am I and asking me for the Veritas quotation that we owe him on a project that he is working on... ah boh then... I'm not the one who is handling the product... it's my partner... gosh! Putting pressure on me eventhough it's not my responsibility... :p

I think he won't approach me for some time liao... I can rest in peace without him... hahaha.......

That's all about him for now. I'll think of some other event to write after this... tata...

Happening in Janice's life lately...

2005-04-11T22:16:00.000+08:00

Since no one is writing anything here, let me start of something that had happened to me lately. Interested or not? That's up to you to judge...

Lately some friends are asking me the same question, "What had happened to you?" or "Lei sou jor mat yeh chi kek?". I think most of you knew that I went out for clubbing quite often nowadays. That's why people is asking me the same question. But anyway, my answer is "Nuthing! I'm just hanging out with my friends. Dun worry... :)".

Apart from that, I had met with many many different kinda people... there are old, young, nice, cunning, si man, ham sap, good looking, not so good looking, very rich, not so rich, single, just-only-single, single-wanna-be-attached, attached-wanna-be-single, attached, attached but still hanging out, married, married but still available, divorcee, engagee, etc... etc... etc... (of coz this include male & female). Oh man, there are a lot of different kinda people in this world!

If I would to tell everyone here one by one then everyone will be sleeping reading this as I'm not good in describing things/person in words, but I'll try my best to describe that someone. This someone is a married guy (probably Stan & KennyG) will know who I'm talking about... hehe... and yes, it's that guy! I know him because he is one of JOSD's business partner/customer. After meeting him for a few times, he started to sms me very often asking me to go out to meet up with him. As I'm a bz woman, I got my excuses of not going. But still, he is my customer, so I will still entertain him once a while.

He is a rich guy... one of the important person in his company... driving BMW... just bought a banglo of dunno how many millions... a person who got fed up with money and said money is not important... Then, he start telling me that he can buy me a new hp... and that I dun need to drive a Wira coz he can buy me a Toyota or even let me have his BMW... that statement shocked me a little... and I started to smell something fishy... but he is smart enough of telling me "Dun worry, I'll not ask you to sleep with me... I just enjoy your accompany..."

Guys, need your opinion now... is there such thing like this?! So big "kap la" hoping around?!

The most 'gek' is that when I'm clubbing in Bangsar the other day, he kept on insisting that he wanna come over and just to see me! Oh Gosh! and the sms are very the "yuk mah"... "yuk mah" until Stan wanna copy and use it on another gal! hahaha... (Sorry ar Stan... dun mean to burst your pot)

Wanna know how good is the sms?

TBC... Now need to sleep liao...

BBQ Party @ Yee's Place

2005-04-10T10:39:00.000+08:00

Photos uploaded to album 2.

Photo for 318 Janice's Bday Party

2005-03-19T12:02:00.000+08:00

Dear all, the photos are uplodaed to album 2, enjoy.
:D

Party @ Bar Savanh, 10pm, Friday, 18 March 2005

2005-03-15T12:27:00.000+08:00

Fellow suckspager, there'll be a birthday party for our beloved suckspage secretary Janice Chang aka 'P.C.' this friday, at Bar Savanh KL. Please show your support and gratitude for Janice's contribution to suckspage all these years by showing up at the party. Of course, please don't bring your official partner along, party is supposed to be coming alone or with 'unofficial' partner. So, please do show up and together we'll dui lam the birthday girl! Muahahahha.

20050302: Suckspage Dinner@Golden Dragon

2005-03-04T17:19:00.000+08:00

Thank you very much to Mr. Yee & Mrs. Yee for their dinner and Ang Pow(s)!!!!

Photos for the dinner session available at Suckspage Photo Album 2.

Enjoy!!!!

Movie Review: Seoul Raiders

2005-02-18T00:10:00.001+08:00

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Ah, to keep this blog alive and also in the spirit of the Chinese New Year, let me put forth a review of a Chinese movie... sort of. Seoul Raiders. How do you make a HongKong movie doesn't feel like a HongKong movie? By casting actors who speaks Cantonese badly. I think in the entire movie, there are only about 4 characters who speaks fluent Cantonese... and that includes 3 extras.

The movie starts off with JJ (Shu Qi) bumping into Lam (Tony Leung) as he is about to pull off a heist of some plates for printing counterfeit US dollar notes. Lam managed to outwit JJ as he escaped with the plates. Lam then handovers the plates to a representative of the US consular, Owen (Richie Jen) expecting a reward of USD 20 million, only to be tricked and relieved of the plates by Owen, who plans to sell the plates himself to a mob boss in Korea. To restore his reputation and to get even, Lam flies to Seoul and put together his team of hot assistants to help him track down Owen and retrieve the stolen plates.

The movie started off with little promise, almost doesn't make sense. But I didn't mind too much as I was just enjoying the sights of 3 hot Korean babes (although only 1 really caught my eyes). Even Shu Qi doesn't really looks as hot in this movie. Half way through though, the pace picks up and more funny jokes were cracked. Thus overall, it is still an enjoyable watch. Many tried to compared this to Tokyo Raiders, and said the first movie is better. Well, I think both movies have different parts that excelled.

Ratings: 3 of 5

New Halo Cafe @ The Curve

2005-02-03T01:04:00.000+08:00

I just stumbled upon the newly opened Halo Cafe at the Curve today. Similar concept to the other Halo and Wow Wow outlets around KL and PJ, this new place looks nice and spacious. It has got a big stage that can accomodate about 5 singers comfortably, although only 3 performed tonight, 2 guys and a girl. The girl's pretty cute. Hehe.

Parking is easy and convenient (still free for now...), we can consider this for as a venue for a suckspage outing.

Cheers.

Happy CNY!!!

2005-02-02T11:52:00.000+08:00

Gong Xi Fa Chai to all the suckspagers.

Hehehe guess we got alot double ang pau this yr rite??

Get more space for ur Hotmail Account

2005-01-24T23:31:00.000+08:00

I've tried this and it works perfectly. I got 250mb hotmail account now. Muahahahahaha.

1. Sign in to your hotmail account and change your personal profile in the Options as following:
Country: United States State: Florida (choose another state if you want - http://www.50states.com/) Zip Code: 33332 (choose another zip code if you want. - http://www.downloadzipcode.com/)
Needless to say, you need to enter the zip code that belongs to the state you've chosen.
2. Then get to the Language options and make it English if it's not.
3. If you don't want to lose your Inbox, click Put in folder (After deactivate and re-activate back your account, all messages in Inbox will gone).
From the menu, choose New Folder. Create your new folder and go back to your Inbox. Select the emails that you do not lose and click Put in folder once more. Choose the folder you have just created and the emails you have chosen will be moved to that folder. You can move them to your Inbox again later by the same method.
4. Before signing out, paste the link below into the address bar and click "Close my account". Thus your account will be deactivated.
http://by17fd.bay17.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/Accountclose
5. Now visit the address http://www.hotmail.com again. Enter your username and password. The activation page will load. Activate your mail account (Select 250MB free).
6. You're done ! Now your mail account capacity has grown to 25 MB and in a month or so it will be 250 MB. Enjoy your "enlarged" hotmail account!

too free to create another site for gallery

2005-01-24T11:25:00.000+08:00

since no activity here, i'd create a new blogger site but for store images purpose. it proclaim that it can store unlimited pictures there so can make used of it since yahoo only provided 20MB only.

then another advantages of using this site to store the pictures are it allows blogger friends to view it or share to public and can upload .zip which contains all the pictures at 1 time. (but this still need to be improve abit since i've try it and found out sometimes unable to upload the .zip if too large).

Well since long time no activity here, just to create this for fun and you guys can make use of it also, the login name and password is the same as gmail and yahoo

try here:

suckspage new blog for image gallery

Welcome 2005

2005-01-03T13:57:00.000+08:00

this blog can still survive so far consider not bad already.

since no one posting here, just for fun only.

Movie review: The Phantom of the Opera

2004-12-27T21:41:00.000+08:00

WARNING, only watch this if you like musical. This movie consists of more than 80% of musical performance. If you don't like musical movies at all, skip this movie at all cost. But if you like it, please watch it in the cinema, all the breath taking scenes and good music are supposed to work best in a cinema hall only. Don't complain it sucks if you watch it at home with your 21" tv and pirated vcd.
The storyline is all about 2 guys, 1 rich, famous and handsome, another 1 charming, talented but has part of his face twisted, fighting each other for the girl. Of course, most movies talk about the same thing. Things get a little slow and boring when u have to wait for everybody to sing their part, even when they're fighting each other. I noticed there're people who fall asleep in the cinema, so u can imagine how slow and boring the movie can get into.
But nevertheless, I enjoyed the movie alot with all the music, you can say it's a new experience, after all the standard movies you watch, it's great to try something different.
My take: 3.5/5.0

Polar express .. no vote fr me!

2004-12-21T01:50:00.000+08:00

Hhmmm.. Kenny, u shld hv watched The Incredibles for better laughs and its many chunks of goodies tht anyone can easily relate to!! Felt Polar Express a waste of my $7 (read: reap-off)!!! Maybe it was bcos i watched The Incredibles and with tht as my benchmark, even shows like Alexender (which sucked with or w/o the cartoon benchmark) lose flat out!! Polar Express was so unengaging and as one mag puts it, its animation felt like a "technical experiment; coldly polished wt dead-eyed impersonal characters"... right at the target! As u said, its rightful place maybe to be slotted in some Hallmark program :p Nway, hope wt the IMAX 3D effects, the show was a better experience for u thn for me :p

Makan Review: Iketeru, KL Hilton

2004-12-16T22:53:00.000+08:00

KL Hilton is fast gaining popularity as the choice place to have a nice meal, as least in my opinion, and when I have money to burn (which is not often enough) or when it's on company's account. I've recently had the opportunity to visit the Iketeru japanese restaurant, located on the 8th floot of the new KL Hilton at Sentral.

Walked in and you can feel how grand the place is. High ceilings, large glass panels providing natural lighting and with the view of Hilton's swimming pool. Service is wonderful, a delightful trait that I find throughout the entire KL Hilton. While food wise is really nothing to shout about (especially at the price) but the ambiance and settings made up for it. I particularly enjoyed the miso soup that came with the set meals. A 6-piece sashimi plate costs RM72... so, if you are not a small eater, I suggest you spend those money on 10+ plates of sashimi at your nearest Sushi King outlet.

Ratings: 4 out of 5 (extra points for excellent service)

Movie Review: Ocean's Twelve

2004-12-16T22:44:00.000+08:00

How often can a movie boast of such as stellar cast as those of Ocean's Twelve? Ocean's Eleven, it's predecessor had almost the same cast and had an engaging story line to make it a hit at the box office. Can Twelve repeat and make it one more notch better? Yes it can and it does.

3 years after their $160 million heist at Terry Benedict's (Andy Garcia) casino in Ocean's Evelen, Danny (George Clooney), Rusty (Brad Pitt) and team are living their own lives, trying to go legit. Unfortunately, Benedict managed to track them down, and demanded that they pay back the amount stolen, plus interest. Pushed onto a corner, the team decides to travel to Europe to pull off more jobs, tracked by a beautiful Europol agent (Catherine Zeta Jones) and encountering a mysterious and egomanical foe, the Night Fox.

Eye candies aside, this movie provide strong storyline, with lots of twist to the plot. There are plenty of laughter moments. I would even categorize this movie as a comedy more than a thriller. Definitely among the better movie I've enjoyed this year.

Ratings: 5 out of 5

Newspage in Genting over the weekend

2004-12-16T13:39:00.000+08:00

Hehe, maybe someone will be interested to go and do something to them there? Such as pretending ghost, cheat at the gamble table to win their money etc.

Book Review: Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

2004-12-07T10:43:00.000+08:00

Normally I wouldn't read books that has already been made into movies because I thought I'd lose the magic of imagination, with all the vivid images displayed on the big screen.

Skipping Christmas, by John Grisham, is now also a movie, just released recently in the States, known as Christmas with the Kranks, starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis. Well, reading through the book, I can't help but picturing Tim Allen (and his Home Improvement character and surroundings) as the protagonist, Luther Krank, a husband and father who came up with a supposedly brilliant idea of skipping Christmas and all the festivities that came with it. Nora, the dotting mom, reluctantly and quietly appreciating the idea that her husband came up with. Again, I think you can easily imagine Jamie Lee Curtis in Patricia Richardson's shoes as the wife of Tim Allen's character in Home Improvement.

The book itself is an easy read. Not heavy plots, little character development, lots of characters being thrown into the plot. Is John Grisham just milking the movie industry? The storyline is too simple, language light and not much to hold your interest for too long. I managed to continue to finish this book only because of the time I like to spend sitting in the toilet reading books! This book sucks as a novel, but I am sure it'll fare better as an adapted screenplay, no doubt. This book just reinforced my believes in books that has been made into movies are nothing to shout about... although there's a few more John Grisham books that are made into movies... which has been recommended to me.

My recommendation, don't bother picking up this book. Save your RM30 and buy your date and yourself the movie tickets to the show, popcorns and drinks, and enjoy the laughter I'm sure funnyman Tim Allen will bring to the screen.

Ratings: 2 out of 5

Movie Review: Polar Express (IMAX Release)

2004-12-06T01:17:00.000+08:00

First off: glad that IMAX screen is finally on our shores. I first caught the giant 3D screen wonder 5 years back in Australia, and has been hoping to be able to watch more shows on IMAX. IMAX 3D screen gives you an additional dimension of depth when watching the movie/show.

Polar Express is the first movie to be released simultaneously in both the standard and IMAX version. It tells of a story of a little boy's adventure upon the Polar Express heading for the North Pole, home of Santa Claus. The boy lost his belief in Santa Claus and Christmas, and the journey will help him to rediscover his faith in the spirit of Christmas.

Overall, there isn't much depth in the story line. It is pretty simple. If it is a live-action movie instead of a animated one, it might be classified as one of those movie you find on the Hallmark channel. Animation wise, the producers and creators went for realism, creating looks and feels that resemble real actors. It might not be visually as appealing as other animation such as Pixar's Incredibles (which I've not yet watched :( )

IMAX Release also added certain element of excitement in certain scenes, where movement were brought closer to realism through 3D vision. I would recommend watching this movie on the IMAX screen.

Ratings: 3 out of 5

Change of Mobile Number Effective 6 December 2004

2004-12-02T10:02:00.000+08:00

Please be informed that I will be switching my mobile
number as of 6 December 2004 (Monday).

Yes, I have finally registered for a KL number and
it's about time =)

If you haven't already got an email specifying my number do let me know, I will send you the email. I don't intend to publish my number on this blog :)

It's confirmed: Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon

2004-12-01T13:17:00.000+08:00

Columbia Pictures has confirmed that Tom Hanks has been cast in the lead role of the famed symbologist Robert Langdon in the studio's upcoming film adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling thriller The Da Vinci Code, it was announced today by Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group Chairman Amy Pascal and the film's producers Brian Grazer and John Calley. The studio also announced that it has slated May 19, 2006 as the worldwide day and date release for the highly anticipated film.

OK. I'm trying hard to imagine Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. Although Harrison Ford would be the perfect choice, had he been 20 years younger, I am still not convinced to have Tom Hanks as Langdon. Maybe he has been stereocasted as a simpleton, loner, outcast... to have him as an intellectual cum adventurist... still doesn't click. But Tom Hanks has proved to be a versatile actor, and I am seldom disappointed by his movies. So, let's just hope it doesn't bomb.

Book Review: Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

2004-11-30T11:01:00.000+08:00

Another one book by the hottest selling author currently, I believe this book was published before The Da Vinci Code (his first book?).

I must admit Dan Brown's thematic reference to breaking codes and cryptology is intriguing in each of the 3 books of his that I've read. Digital Fortress however, differs from the other 2 Robert Langdon stories, as it does not have heavy reference to religious symbolism. The setting of Digital Fortress is more high-tech and contemporary. It revolves around a department in the National Security Agency (NSA) that deals with breaking codes to deal with encrypted messages. When the NSA finds that there is a code that they actually can't break... what could they do? What would they do.

Dan Brown is a master at creating twists and turns, so Digital Fortress has been a pleasurable read. It's like walking down a corridor and *wham* you bumped into a corner and had to turn to find out where it leads you next. However, he created too many characters in this book... many who are almost irrelevant and can be taken out of the entire context.

Ratings: 3 out of 5

Event: John Digweed @ Zouk KL

2004-11-29T23:24:00.000+08:00

One of the top club DJ in the dance scene today, John Digweed spinned at Zouk on Friday, 26 November. It has been years since I last attended a gig by a top DJ. The last time was for Paul van Dyke's show at the now burnt Movement YEARS back. The crowd at that time was unbelievable... the queue getting in was traumatic. Thus, most of the time I stayed away.

This time, I am glad that I was there to witness a maestro at work. Digweed was superb! I am not sure how long the queue was to get in, as I was at Zouk earlier for the MTV Asian Award event at 8pm. Saw some local acts performed (Misha Omar, Ruffedge and Too Phat) and lounge about until they begin the warm up set at about 10.30pm. Digweed started his set at 12am and it was pumping and rocking all the way! I was tired and left at about 2.30am, but he was still playing... the place was packed. I was told that he played on till past 3am... I was impressed, for a top DJ to be spinning more a 3 hour set.

Overall, this event has "rejuvenated" my interest in big name DJ... considering that I've missed Armin Van Buren of Godskitchen and Pete Tong in the past weeks... but Paul van Dyke is coming again... December 10 2004!

Makan Review: Good Evening Bangkok

2004-11-29T22:47:00.000+08:00

The number of Thai restaurants in around KL and PJ are countless. Located on the ground floor of the new One Utama, Good Evening Bangkok is another spot where you can savour the hot and sour taste of Thai cuisines.

Good Evening Bangkok (GBE) is one of the latest in a series of Thai based restaurants operated by SEA Cuisines, who also operates Amarin Heavenly Thai, Rain Nudle House and Bangkok Jam. GBE's interior is spacious and wide. It also overlooks the indoor landscaped garden of One Utama's new wing.

Food wise is pretty standard Thai fare and the price is neither cheap nor expensive. I was there for a late lunch with 2 clients. We ordered a fish in Thai sauce (nothing to shout about), claypot tofu (a bit sourish) and tomyam soup (they have 2 type - clear spicy and those reddish kind... quite tasty). My client also introduced a very interesting appetizer, can't recall what it is called... but it's like popiah... you roll up a leaf, dump in some nuts, dried prawns, onions, lime, dip it in a nice sweet sauce... and put it in your mouth... yummy.

I think GBE can be quite a nice place to have a group dinner (6 to 10 people). It's spacious and the staffs are quite friendly (maybe because I was there when there were less crowd). I might check it out for dinner one night.

Rating: 3 out of 5

Suckspage email

2004-11-26T15:08:00.000+08:00

For your information, suckspage@gmail.com and suckspage@yahoo.com is having the same password.

suckspage@gmail.com - can be use as file sharing or others you want to share.

suckspage@yahoo.com - suckspage 2nd photo album.

Food For Thought

2004-11-26T12:40:00.000+08:00

"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing." - Jose Marti, Cuban Father of Independence

Oh how true eh?

Aunty Jo finally in the loop!

2004-11-24T17:58:00.000+08:00

So long MIA from SucksPage and now finally back in! Thanks Paul for invite :)
Lots of "Cina punya bahasa berbunga" and movies/ song reviews :P
Question tho... how do i access into the photo album?? Wht password laa...

Music [Jazz]: Renee Olstead

2004-11-17T23:50:00.000+08:00

Two months back, as I walked into MPH Subang Parade, I heard this awesome Jazz tune being played. Upon asking a MPH staff at the music section, I discovered that it was Renee Olstead's tune being played.

I was mesmerized by her music and how her style is close to that of Michael Buble. I won't say they are the same because she has her own unique style. For Jazz lovers (or non Jazz lovers), you would appreciate this album.

Just imagine having a glass of red wine (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot etc) with Renee Olstead humming in the background...that's what I call life.

Rating: 4.5 of 5

A Tribute to the Bride and Groom (For Yee and Tammy)

2004-11-17T14:53:00.000+08:00

Dear friends, we are gathered together,
With innocent hearts, that are light;
Each face is abeam, and meet doth it seem,
As there is a wedding tonight.
A wedding! with love and peace in full bloom;
And a sweet, comely, bride and an exquisite groom.

Dear friends, we are gathered together,
And happiness leads us tonight;
We follow her star, with nothing to mar,
Through the sweet, dreamy whirl of delight;
And we feel our hearts throb and swell for the room,
To encompass our hopes, for the sweet bride and groom.

May this night's love and contentment,
For the happy pair, prove to be,
A nucleus e'er, to enlarge with each year,
As their barque drifts out, in life's sea:
And we wish them many returns of the day,
With peace, love, and happiness, as only friends may.

Should sorrows e'er darken their pathway,
As oft in our lives, sorrows will,
May they turn to the One, to whom millions have come,
And each heard His sweet words, "Be still."
And may His blest Presence, forever find room,
In the pure, sweet, abode of the bride and the groom.

Thompson: Gleanings of Quiet Hours

14 hours in Bangsar...

2004-11-17T14:00:00.000+08:00

Tell me that I have nothing better to do. I actually spent 14 hours in Bangsar on Monday. I'm trying to figure out what else I did on Sunday that I decide to go hangout in Bangsar on Monday... Oh yea. I was being a good boy and was with my parents, uncles, aunts and my sister at One Utama on Sunday, then met a friend for dinner/snacks at Chili's before heading home to play mahjong with Paul and Keing Ming. So obviously I didn't have too late night, and no alcohol for entire Sunday...

So, I woke up early Monday morning. Do I need to go to work. Nope. It's still Raya day. Hooray. Okay, so buzz up a friend, said to meet at 11.30 in Bodega Deli but that fella said he still in bed, can make it at 12.30? I told him I'll be there at 12, need to go to the bank. Got to Hong Leong Bank bout 11 plus and stupid machine not working, so I can't pay them. Too bad.

Then went over to Bodega Deli, picked a seat near the cashier, and ordered my usual omelette with onions and beef bacon, plus a serving of chicken sausage. And a 8 degree Ice Peach Tree (I seriously has no idea what it was... but cost RM 10) and imagine my surprise when the waitress pour me a glass of ice peach tea from this white tiny bottle... I was like... WTF. Damn. Kena conned. Then worse happened. The waiter brought me my omelette, with onion inside, but told me the chef bloody forgot to include the bacon and had to serve the bacons separately. I thought of rejecting it, but my stomach said otherwise. My friend joined up later on bout 1pm.

Okay, lunch's over. What's next, thought of heading home to sleep, but I had my novel with me so I thought I'd head up to Bodega Lounge upstairs too see if can chill out at the couch. My friend joined me. I ordered a glass of pink guava and he started with white wine. At 1pm. What is wrong with him. Geee. Ok. Bodega Lounge wasn't really packed yet, and we managed to grab a couch seating. Got bored after a while, and checked out some boardgames they had there. And we started playing Snakes & Ladders! I don't think I've played that since I was 8 years old. And the game takes bloody long to finish, keep on hitting on a snake and sliding back. Then we started to say everytime we hit the snake, we gotta take a sip of wine... and ended up opening a bottle of wine. Oh my god.

Time now, I think only about 3pm. So we started with Monopoly... another game I've not played since Standard 6. But hey, I still kicked ass. Managed to make my friend bankrupt in 1/2 hour. Hahaha. Ok, he's not satisfied. Another round. Then another friend joined, and watched us played for a while before she got bored. So we got her into the game, her first time. Hmmm, a monopoly virgin. And after almost 1 hour of game... I won again. Hahaha. Maybe I can challenge Donald Trump in real estate now. By this time, we've finished our 2nd bottle of wine.

Whoops. and it's not even 6pm yet. So ordered a jug of white sangria. And we begin to play Pictionary. I think we were making so much noise people are staring and wondering what idiots. Hehehe. Got bored with Pictionary, and we started with Taboo when another friend join. We paired up and the earlier girl was already tipsy from the wine and sangria and can't play Taboo straight, keep on making mistakes... which resulted in her drinking more... wahahaha...

Ok. Almost 8pm, let's head for dinner. Went to the chinese restaurant next door, and ordered 3 dishes of noodles for 4 person. Just nice. Was discussing what's the plan after dinner (and supposed to head home to shower...) but I ended up with one of the girls having a drink and chat at Bar Flam. It started to rain again, so decided to stay on... until I had more friends joining up at Bar Flam at about 10pm... I knew then that I won't be home until I spent at least 12 hours in Bangsar, and true enough, after 3 jugs of beer, some nice R&B and hip-hop music, and a total of 14 hours later at 2am... I finally drove home. To sleep.

And what did I do on Tuesday? I spent the whole day at home. Didn't go out for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. After 14 hours in Bangsar, I think I had enough of going "out" for a day.

So what did you all do on your long weekends?

Music: New York City - Peter Malick Group feat. Norah Jones

2004-11-17T13:22:00.000+08:00

Admittedly, I don't think I've heard of the Peter Malick Group, but when my friend passed me this CD and said it has Norah Jones in it, I asked, or new Jazz album? He said no, it's kinda "chill out" music. I was baffled for a while, until I pop the CD in my player. Whoa.

For those that enjoy both house/chill and jazz sounds, this CD provides you a perfect fusion. Soft bass and electronica in the background, coupled with Norah Jones' soothing vocal, the CD's perfect for setting the mood for a slow quiet night at home.

I am not sure how the original Peter Malick tunes sound like, but this is a Remix album with club DJ putting those mix with Norah Jones' vocal, but I must say, I like the result.

Full CD title: New York City: The Remix Album
by The Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5

Music: Parade of the Athletes - Tiesto

2004-11-17T11:40:00.000+08:00

I had missed the opening ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympics Games, where for the first time in history, they have a DJ spinning music during the parade of the athletes. I thought that was pretty cool, and they couldn't have picked any other than the best DJ - DJ Tiesto.

For those familiar with the dance scene, Tiesto's name and sounds are well-known. I am not sure how long was the entire parade during the opening ceremony but this CD starts of with an > 8 minutes track call Heroes, which is just superb! Powerful and exciting.

Rest of the tracks in the CD are perfect for some trance session as Tiesto is the master in playing with the mood... from high to low to some lingering feel and to the climax!

Ratings: 4 of 5

Book: Aphrodite by Russell Andrews

2004-11-17T11:11:00.000+08:00

This is Russell Andrews' 3rd novel, after Icarus and Gideon. I have a this habit of picking up novels by the same author (if they are good), so I had been waiting for months for this paperback as I had enjoy both his earlier works.

Aphrodite tells of a story of a small town cop who got entangle in a web of murders, cover-ups and lies. A suspense-thriller, paced nicely that makes you want to turn the pages. The writer doesn't go to elaborate length to set the tone, but the action is fast and coming to you. I like how the all the little storylines/plots are revealed as you read along towards the end of the book.

Good read, nothing too heavy, just treat it like watching an action/cop movie.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5

Book: Angels & Demons - Dan Brown

2004-11-08T14:53:00.000+08:00

The first book by the acclaimed author of Da Vinci's Code, is it really good? Well, no doubt I had enjoyed Da Vinci's Code, I had a little reservation about Dan Brown's writing style, as I am probably more engrossed about the facts & myths presented by Brown in the book than his storyline, style and pacing. Thus, I decided to pick up this first book by him to see if I can "explore" deeper into his style.

Well, suffice to say, I finished the book in about a week. Considering that I had actually started on another book (The Family by Mario Puzo), which I dropped, and started on Angels & Demons, I must say that it had been an engrossing read.

The book tells of the story of Prof. Robert Langdon being summoned to CERN, a high-tech research facility in Switzerland to help investigation on a murder, where the corpse of the dead was "branded" by sign of a secret cult, the Illuminati, thought to have been disappeared centuries ago. Together with the daughter of the deceased scientist, Langdon then travelled to Rome and Vatican City, where the Pope has just passed away, and the election of a new Pope is to commence. But the threat of Illuminati threaten to put the entire foundation of the Catholic church in disarray, with 4 top cardinals being kidnap and the Vatican itself is being threaten by a high-tech bomb.

Again, Dan Brown has shown great ability to meld historic art, ancient believes, religious topics and modern technologies into an intriguing storyline. Although most of the paragraphs are used to describe the environment, the architecture and the structures, he managed to pace the book in a way that makes you want to keep turning the pages. With some twists and turns, the book keeps you hanging to find out who is the villain behind it all.

Now, will his 2 other books be as good a read? Time to find out soon.

Rating: 4 of 5

P/S: Talk about coincidence, when I bought this book and The Family by Mario Puzo together, I didn't realized that both books will touch on the Vatican, the Pope, the process to elect a Pope (known as the conclave). The Family talks about the conclave in early 17th century (when there are only 5 or 6 cardinals) while Angels & Demons' conclave is set in the 21st century (there are 165 cardinals). Just one of those moments that makes you ponder...

Music: Suit - Nelly

2004-11-08T14:47:00.000+08:00

One of 2 albums released by Nelly concurrently, Suit contains some pretty good listening of R&B tunes. Slick lyrics, rhythm & bass (I think I burst one of my car's speaker playing this album...) showcased Nelly's smooth gangsta style. The other album, Sweat, supposed contain heavier gangsta stuffs, while this album contain the milder ones.

Among good tracks are the first single - My Place, In My Life, N Dey Say and Over and over. Most of the tracks contain collaboration with some other hip hop artists, including Jaheim, Snopp Dogg, Mase and Tim McGraw (isn't he some country music guy?)...

Ratings: 4 of 5