Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Stuck in a waist-deep pool of pig faeces; literally.

Because today is definitely not my day.

Within a period of 24 hours, I have SOMEHOW managed to:
  1. Lose my clear folder which contained my official SPM slip and other important documents.
  2. Get stuck in a traffic jam which made a 15 minute drive take 80 minutes instead.
Not to mention the credit card reader thing in Taylors College Petaling Jaya didn't want to accept my mom's 10k payment for some unknown grotesque reason. (4 different credit cards from 2 different banks cant be wrong, right?) So my mom called up the card's customer service to inquire about her card's current status and whether it's having any problems. After having a long chat with the person on the line and passing the phone back and forth to the cashier, we gave up and told the councilor to give my mom a call when (and if) the machine gets fixed.

Wasted an hour right there, but registration was a breeze though.

Speaking of customer service, here's a cute lil' comic strip that best describes them.


Enjoy!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

To the maximum, random!

Here's a nice little poster I found rather interesting on the internet.


To put things into retrospective, a decade(?) ago when it comes to hard drives, there was this:


10MB for $3398.

1GB = 1024MB

Which means a 100GB hard drive at that time (if it existed) would cost $3,479,552.

And today, you could probably get a 100GB hard drive for $100.

Interesting to see how far and fast technology progresses through the years isn't it?

Here's another example,

10 months ago I bought my 2nd generation 16GB iPod touch for a price tag of RM1,139.

Barely a year later my brother receives a 3rd generation 32GB iPod touch as a Christmas gift for a price tag of RM1,199.

Double the capacity, but only RM60 extra.

WAT.

Sigh now i'll wait for an iPod that comes with a petabyte of storage space to be produced.

At the rate that we're going, I don't see why not.

You'll see!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Hate!

There are three things that I really REALLY despise in my life.


1. Cockroaches

Don't see a beneficial reason on why these pests exist in the first place. Tough enough to survive a nuclear holocaust and also irritating enough to initiate one. And to make matters worse, there are also..

2. Flying cockroaches

When your plain jane cockroaches aren't troublesome and worrying enough.

These are the cockroaches that tests your flight-or-fight response; if you can't manage to kill it instantly with a single hit, it'll start flying and therefore causing a massive shitstorm around you while you swing your newspaper frantically in the air whilst screaming gibberish like you're on ecstacy. Not very nice. And then there's the king of the crop or the best in the business if I might say..

3. Flying cockroaches that have an attraction to your face

To put it short, these cockroaches are the one that gets you shitting bricks before putting you into cardiac arrest.

SERIOUSLY.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Funny people!

Movie review time wookay!

So in the past two days I have watched two movies; which are Zombieland and the much anticipated Avatar. To sum it up short, IN MY OPINION (so that you can completely disagree with me)

Zombieland > Avatar

Even though the latter was 2 hours and 45 minutes of CGI eye candy.

Yes it might be pretty and pleasant to the eyes when lovely palettes of random (and pretty) colours are being exhibited on every single life form in Avatar (compared to mass bombardment and explosions ala Transformers 2) but 2 hours and 45 minutes? No thanks. Think of it like staring at something you really relish for 165 minutes. It's bound to get painstakingly boring and eventually it would be a matter of testing your patience and attention span. Basically the whole movie revolved around us humans getting to know a new extraterrestrial culture and being a typical Hollywood movie, it ended up with the humans ALMOST wiping them clean off their existence but not before giving them a heavy dose of betrayal topped with a dollop of our greed. (a whole serving!) So basically that's what the movie Avatar is all about. But here's a arrow diagram to sum it all up.

Humans meet aliens --> sends some guy to foster the bond between aliens and humans --> (LOTS AND LOTS OF BORING TIRING NONSENSE) --> humans discovers valuable minerals under the alien's habitat --> humans demolish alien habitat to get their hands on it --> aliens find out they got betrayed --> war ensues --> (everything in between) --> The end.

But the whole movie is aesthetically very pleasing though.

Contradicting, I know.

Just go watch and judge it for yourself. Bah.

Zombieland on the other hand was funny and somewhat gory. (because dropping a grand piano on a zombie = funny) Now I wouldn't mind 2 hours and 45 minutes of that. As the name might suggest, it's not actually a horror movie (minus the few sudden zombie-popping out moments) but instead the movie its more towards the lighter and comical side - or maybe i'm just being a sadist. But then again nearly the whole cinema was laughing at certain scenes. So, a whole cinema full of sadists? Don't think so.

So don't hesitate and watch both the shows while they're still showing and judge them for yourselves. I can assure you that watching whichever of the two shows will not leave you walking out of the cinema hall disappointed. (unless you're fussy and picky like me)

Friday, December 11, 2009

When violet eyes get brighter.

Do you consider yourself to be an indecisive person?


Are you having difficulties choosing between A and B; C and D? Or even between E, F, G, H and I?

Are you the type of person who heavily relies on other people to make your decisions?

Well then, look no further as this is the solution for ALL your decision making troubles! works for me at least.

THE Magic 8-ball!

How it works?

It's as easy as one-two-three!
  1. Ask it a question; any question for that matter! (eg: Should I go to the toilet or should I continue holding it in and risk getting a haemorrhage?)
  2. Give a shake! (optional)
  3. Position the ball till the small window situated at the back of it is facing upwards and as soon as the icosahedral die within the ball floats and presses against the window, you get your answer wookay how simple is that!
There are 20 possible answers so the outcome might not be what you're expecting it to be!

So why wait? Get your very own 8 ball now!

Available at your local Toys-R-Us store for RM29.90!

A small price to pay for getting rid of all your decision related problems!

Wookay chao outsidee!

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Retep's guide to surviving Guilin, China!

Hello peeps I'm finally back from my 6 day vacation in the People's Republic of China!

And to commemorate this auspicious occasion, I shall post up a Guilin survival guide that is based on my experience there.

(Applies to Guilin only because generalizing the whole of china based on one small city is bad for business. But I’m assuming the whole of China is like this anyway.)

Wookay so lets get started!




If you despise smokers and can't tolerate the smell of cigarette smoke, this is not the place for you.

That is because 96% of the people I see on the streets are heavy/chain smokers. Yes I know, who am I to tell people off about their personal preferences and choices right? But the LEAST they could do is have some consideration to the people around them, ESPECIALLY when you’re smoking in a damned confined air-conditioned place. It’s suffocating you know?

But if you’re a smoker yourself, then by all means disregeard this whole paragraph I’ve written.




If you can’t drive in Malaysia, you’d die even ATTEMPTING to drive in Guilin.

Here’s a tip when driving in Guilin – The horn is your best friend.

If you see a pedestrian crossing the street USING THE ZEBRA CROSSING – you horn like there’s no tomorrow.

If you see a motorcyclist/cyclist blocking your way – you horn like you’re being paid to do so.

If you see a car hogging the road – you don’t flash your headlights, but you horn his arse off the lane.

Conclusion: It’s against the law to NOT use the horn while driving. I’m just saying.

Oh not to mention they use a left-hand drive system there in China, which simply means that for their road system, left is right, and right is left. The fast lane is on the left, whereas the slow lane is on the right. Very confusing indeed.




Never EVER look into the kitchen when you’re in a restaurant.

That is of course, unless you’re the type of person who does not fear the word disgusting/nauseating/revolting etc.

The few restaurants I’ve been to have staffs that probably don’t wash the woks that the chefs use to cook in ever since they bought it. The walls itself behind the woks are black and thick with grease a millenium old and sometimes you might even catch a rat or two running across the floor and through the appliances back there. Nevertheless, the food is rather tasty though, probably the rat’s doing. Mmmm.

Not only that, certain streets have the smell of fermented toufu combined with someone’s week old diarrhoea waste topped up with sour milk. Nyam~ <3




Hygiene? What hygiene?

In Guilin china, the floor is your rubbish bin. Feel free to throw your cigarette buds and spit all you like as it’s like a custom there. You want to blend in, you litter and spit as you please, even though a waste bin is probably within your arm’s reach. If the government of China had a strict no litter policy like Singapore, they’d EASILY make millions every day. But oh well, this is China after all.




You need to have really REALLY thick skin when bargaining for something from those mini stalls along the pedestrian street. (think Petalling Street)

For example, initially the price of a magnet being sold at this particular stall costs 20 yuan (RM10) but with proper bargaining techniques, you can manage to get the price lowered down to a measely 5 yuan for TWO! (RM 2.50). Of course there are several factors that can enhance the efficiency of your bargaining.

First, you need to ignore the fact that the seller is only trying to make ends meet or even get enough money to afford a meal. You’re blind or hardhearted if you can’t see that they’re living in poverty and are having a hard time, and by lowering the price that drastically, you’re making it harder for them to survive. So if you can be ignorant about that, no problems!

Secondly, in order to save MORE money in certain stalls, you need to walk away to get the seller to BEG you to buy their goods. When you have managed to do that, you have them right where you want them and you then go in for the kill by giving them a impossible price for an item otherwise its no deal.

Would they succumb to that method? I’d give it an 80% success rate.

If the second method was too heartless for your liking, then try buying in bulk as it would allow the seller to give you the opportunity of letting you suggest a REASONABLE price that you are willing to fork out for the item.



I'll update this post again if I manage to recall other experiences of mine that I have somehow left out.

So with that being said, if you can somehow manage to ignore these few flaws that Guilin has and master the ways of being headstrong and thick skinned like a bear, you would most likely enjoy your trip there as the various cultures they have is really an eye opener and its scenery is worthy of being placed on a back of a postcard.

Pictures are up on my Facebook profile so wookay!

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Downtown, chinatown.

Gentlemen, I'll be leaving for China this coming wednesday and I'll be back the following Monday.


So if you have something urgent that requires my attention, it can wait. It has to wait.

And hopefully, I'll be kind enough to post a DETAILED review of my trip when I get back.

Hopefully.

And being the chairman of the NATO* organization, don't get your hopes up too high wookay!

Wookay chao outside!





*NATO = No Action, Talk Only.

 
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