Boring routine

Woke up, clean up, eat up, pack up, go to work, go to class, go home, sleep.

That’s my daily routine. Nothing special, and nothing to be exited about.

I get almost no benefits from my company. Basic medical which is limited by the months, a fixed 12 days leave which never increases over the years, no performance bonus, only reviewed bonus which is never once I see above 0.8 months.

There’s no 20% time for creative work, there’s no training provided, and the boss keeps telling everyone that the company is not doing very well when asking about increment or bonus.

Obviously, I need a new job.

Moving forward…

“Taking one foot and putting it in front of the other, that is the only way to travel forward… If however you take steps forward whilst looking backward; well -then you will fall over because you end up tripping over something you would easily have seen if looking where you were going in the first place. So, when looking back just stay still for a moment, allow yourself to reflect, but then you must at some point turn around and just keep moving – or you will stay stagnant on the spot which means going nowhere at all.” – Jacquelene Close Moore.

It feels that I do have times which I become all moody and depressed even though I’m a guy. Probably my emotions are  easily affected by what I see.

One part of me says I’m lucky and supposed to be happy with what I got. Just take a look at how much further I’ve gone though then some of my friends. Another part of me says I’m a looser. Someone who could have gone so much further only if I’ve just worked a little harder in the past. “Past” is over. The future is where I’m heading. Plans are drafted in my head but action not taken. Why? Cause I don’t know how to put plans into action? That’s a bad trait of me which I struggle to fix all my life. It’s not supposed to be in my DNA. But certainly someone has planted the thoughts into me head that I’ll be making a big mistake if I change. Education? Bad parenting? Bad friends? I guess blaming only solves the emotion but not the problem.

I’m still stuck. Stuck in this bad situation where I don’t want to be in. I’ve just figured out I’m studying for a subject I am not interested to dedicate my life to make it into my career. I’m stuck as one of the lowest paid employee in the company but doing one of the most work. Working extra without extra compensation. Getting bad reviews over something impossible to do in the first place. Quit? I wish I can. But how?

Why do some people only have to sit around and face fixed problems to solve and earn a lot higher then me who always have to face a dynamic range of problems (and not to mention, Idiots) and earn so much less?

Blog for money? It was not encouraged. Start my own business? I wanted to do that ever since I got out of high school. But was not encouraged as well. Oh, now that I’m already too old and suddenly there’s no objections when all the market have already saturated?

Sorry for this rant post. But I’m still finding a way to punch through this wall of life.

Someone dared me to post his comment

MenJ, probably better known as the owner of the new Project Petaling Site has posted a couple of nasty comments on my blog and dared me to post it up. Here it is.

I’ve also deleted some nasty comments said against him (maybe by accident since it fell into my spam box :P )

Besides posting up his comment on my site, I’ll also post up his tweet posts for your own judgement on his character.

Just to make things clear MenJ, I never made lies about you and the worst I’ve ever done to you was calling you an idiot, which I still think you are. The fact that you turned PPS into a advertisement land. You destroyed what I loved to visit for great blog posts.

Here’s the definition of idiot:

An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. …

The other thing I did was saying that you censored posts in your blog. Too bad I couldn’t prove it since all I have were some old memories and probably some other bloggers complaining their posts aren’t showing up in PPS anymore after you modified the site. Well, since I can’t really prove it, I apologize for this particular comment I made.

You also have a lousy attitude towards anyone who wrote anything bad about you. For example, while I only made 1 post against you, in fact, it wasn’t even the whole post was written to defame you, only the last bit of paragraph. You called me a “pompous ignorant fat asshole”. That’s usually what a girl would say to someone who she don’t really know but pissed at. Are you a girl? Do you have hormonal problems? Are you on your period or something? Doesn’t matter right? You don’t want to see me on your site, and I don’t want to ping on your site. Great that it’s working out fine.

Good luck on your new PPS launch. Just like Danny Foo said, it’s too late.

Aside to shadowfox. If you’re reading this, I want access to your blog. I want to see what you wrote about MenJ which made him so pissed at you. :P

Fuel Price Increase… AIYAH!!!

Price for RON95 has increased by 5 cents per liter today. That means, my usual RM60 of 32.4 liters will now get me 31.5 liters only. Or the other way round, if I pump 32.4 liters, it’ll cost me RM61.5 now.

Meaning, most drivers who has a tank capacity of 40 liters like me will likely save around RM1.5 if they rush to the petrol station, queue and wasted RM5 calling and messaging all their friends about the price increase. That’s a total of NEGATIVE RM3.5 of saving! :P

Okay, I understand the need to reduce subsidy in order to save money. But will the ~RM1 billion saved be useless? I mean, they are going to spend it on some guy to go to space again! :(

Bodoh.

Updating to WordPress 3.0.2

Saw the update alert bar when I logged in today and decided to click on update.

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.2.zip…

Unpacking the update…

Verifying the unpacked files…

Installing the latest version…

Upgrading database…

WordPress updated successfully

Phew!

So what’s new in this version? It’s actually just a security update, bundled together with several bug fixes and smaller security fixes.

More detailed information can be obtained from this website: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2

Radio Advice – Search online less?

Currently, most radio channels in Malaysia features short advisory advertisements highlighting issues in our world and advices on what to do. For example, MyFM frequently advices us to remember to appreciate our parents by going home to visit them frequency. It’s all good and encouraging. But sometimes, some of their advices aren’t really properly researched.

LiteFM for example, have this advertisement that advices us to use less search engine as every time we click search, it generates about 7 grams of carbon dioxide.

Now that may be true. However, I wonder if they have weighted the effects if people DON’T use search? How much carbon dioxide will be generated if someone pick up their phone to call 2 or 3 friends to ask a question? How about driving to the nearest library? Wouldn’t that actually generate more CO2?

CO2 generation is naturally increasing due to humans. But when the internet actually made an impact to help people travel less and achieve results faster, did anyone calculated the amount of carbon that COULD HAVE BEEN generated otherwise?

Sometimes, there are just people out there who may have good intentions but could easily stop a good development. This is just one of the example, the oppose of Genetic Modified Mosquitoes is another example.

A watch with no hands or Numbers

Tokyo Flash has been around for awhile now and makes watches with no numbers or “hands” on it. Instead, it uses a bunch of patterns (usually LED lights) to indicate the time.

That means, you’ll have to learn the patterns in order to read the time if you own one of the watch, but that also means you’ll be cool among your friends. (If you’re not branded as a fashion geek first).

In Malaysia, if you want to find Tokyo Flash watches, you’ll have to resort to online orders such as Lowyat.net or Lelong.com.

I want this in my kitchen!


Some guy (Dutchman Pascal) created a computer hooked up to his wall in his kitchen. Installed with with Windows XP and used an LCARS theme. For those who don’t know what LCARS is, I recommend watching Star Trek – The next generation or Star Trek – Voyager.

While the computer doesn’t replicate food, keep track of crew members around the house or issue red alert signals, it helps to keep track of the guy’s train schedules, calendar, music, torrents, etc…

Not really Trekkie but still cool!

Source: Gizmodo