Over the weekend, there will be chopsticks delivery, wedding receptions, gold exchanges, and a little shopping in KL. All this leaves no time and no room to bring the laptop along, which means, no web access, no checking of news through reader, no email, no blogging and no facebook.

Maybe one year from now, I can get a WiMax Netbook, so that I can all of the above while delivering chopsticks, attending wedding receptions and exchanging gold during the Chinese Wedding Ceremony.  Yea, I know… lame… 

So, switch off the net when you are busy…

On Blogging

Blogging is the one thing that I enjoy doing and something that I dont have the time to indulge into. For a long time, I have loads of things on my mind that I want to blog. But because they were just bits and pieces of ideas and it needs the time to really put it down to perfection, it needs time. And when I have the time, I dont have the inspiration. I have just thought of trying something new. A change in my blogging habbit. Re-Invent Myself. Instead of putting down hundreds of words one one topic, I will just instead put down what’s on my mind, no matter how broken up they are. So, today, I hope to blog more often, daily I hope. To vent some of the frustration in life, to share some of the sweet memories and to laugh with myself.

On Che Det

I come to realize, what I am trying to do is not totally new. Tun Mahathir have been blogging in snippets. The thing that strike me is that firstly, it does not look that nice, and secondly, I dont understand what he speaks off half the time. Maybe I am that dumb. Like today, he first say that he is ambarassed that Shah Rukh Khan was awarded Datukship, then he ended his post by saying that the guy qualifies for it. Artistically interesting on how he structure his post, but for an engineer like me, not sure what point he is driving through. Maybe it was meant to be that way…

On Nude Pics

I recently came across a blog posting of Malaysian Colleague girls nude pics through petaling street project. The girls in question came out in today’s Star article “Dont Be Stupid, Chong tells women”. Somehow, I felt sorry for them as now onwards, they are not able to face the world. Worst, for those who don’t know, this article on The Star will sure to alert them. Intriguing minds will lead them to the photos. If you think of taking nude photos, don’t do it.

On VSS

VSS – Voluntary Seperation Scheme, some calls it VSP, etc. My product division recent gave 8 of my colleagues the package. Majority of then are > 10-20 years in the company. They were very happy, its like a fat paycheque before they retire. As this shceme is right for the employees, and should have, it somehow has given the bad impression. Some of my colleagues just stide through daily without any effort or passion. To them, they are just waiting for the big fat package. When you ask, how’s everything, they would say, “like this lor, waiting lor!”. Not that long back the goverment annouce that they will give VSS to civil servants that does not perform. Yes, I was surprise of the annoucement. Its like, you cannot perform, here, I give you a big fat reward to leave. Its sending the wrong signal. The VSS scheme is to protect employees, that the companies are obliged to pay compensation to employees if they decided to terminate them. Its not a meant as a bonus package. For my colleagues, they do deserve it, they have worked so hard all the years, and this is some kind of a reward for them. Those who do not deserve it, are still waiting.

On Blogging

Looks like I dont make much sense. I now understand why sometimes I dont understand Che Det….

As usual, I was craving for a new theme and found this nice little theme from Teresa Jones named Night Whimsy.  It has the basic layout that I like.  Deviant the header, font and font colors.  Behold the new theme for this Autumn, named Autumn 2008, for the lack of creativity in names.  The header picture on the other hand was deviated from Andras Toth’s Autumn Colors.  Both Teresa and Andras are masters in their skills.  Teresa has a great portfolio of WordPress Themes.  You will know what I meant when you step into her Theme page.  Andras has a great collection of photos, and Autumn Colors was just one of his great photographs.  The page feature of wordpress has been broken for some time, and it still persist.  On top of this, I hope to make some changes to the bacground, so that it is not just a plain grey.  I see a little tweak here and there in the near future, but first, need to get the page feature to work.  So that this deviated work can be credited accordingly. 

As I was going to sleep, this funny incident pop into my mind and I thought of sharing it out.  When I was very young, I had a journal.  I wrote it off an old diary and mostly about what happen on the day and sometimes my feelings towards certain things.  It was a personal space, nothing people shouldn’t see, Just I rather for my eyes only.  Like in many things in my life, it was hangat hangat tahi ayam, after some time, i just got lazy and stop writing.  I even forgot where I put the diary.  It was out of my mind and time. 

Not too long after that, i saw this journal of mine mysteriously appeared on my desk.  I open it up and it was filled with grammar corrections.  Yes, apparently, mum somehow found my journal and decided to have a read.  Not only that, she even corrected my grammar while at it.  I was pissed at that time for the fact that she read my diary.  I told her that it was my personal space and I appreciate it that she does not set onto it, more over making grammar corrections.  I was very small then.  Recounting the incident, I just can’t help to laugh on the fact that mum did grammar corrections on my journal writings. 

Learning from that incident, I hid my second journal years later when I decided to have a go at writing again.  Again, after some time, when the chicken shit turns cold, I forgot where I kept it.  Suddenly in the middle of the night during my second year of College abroad, it dawned to me that that journal was loosely hidden in my room of which my parents had a small remodeling after I left for college.  I can’t help to think if she did find it and read it, and this one, I truly did not want anyone to read as it cannot see the light of day.  It was my teenage years journal, and you know what shit that goes through teenage minds. 

Anyway, I got home from College, found the journal intact, and I still wonder if she did actually read it.  One thing for sure was that there was no grammar correction on my writings.   In a way, I was glad, she might not have read it.  This blog of mine can be considered as my third journal, and it is viewable everyone in the world, so no dark secrets here, but mum does not know it exists.  If she does find out, I dont mind her reading it.  Too bad that she can’t make any grammar corrections on my blog entry. 

A couple of days ago I pick up this thread from Lorelle over a competition about the feeling when you first blog.  The prize was a brand new theme professionally designed, and the author’s ebook on Blog writing success.  It was simple, just submit a photo and then a nice catchy caption, and whoala, I won.  There were 50 winners picked.  I submitted the above photo capturing the excitement in the dawn of a new age.   Blogging was a hobby and during the early days, I was particularly excited, and the photo just capture that nicely.  Thanks to Liz Strauss for the prizes.