Pokok Lalu

Choices

2011-10-31T07:44:00.000-07:00

Indubitably, everything we do in life comes with choices. Some are easy while some are hard.

"Should I stay or should I go shopping today?"
"Should I take Engineering or Computer Science?"
"Should I buy an Iphone 4S, or Samsung Galaxy S2?"

Nevertheless, sometimes we regret doing things that we shouldn't have. Watching "Big Bang Theory" yesterday, Leonard quote out something interesting "People regret NOT doing things more than they regret doing it".

It is ok to try something new that we do not know whether its good or bad, at least then we know and would be able to reflect on it. Being at 23 already, there are lot of things that I regret not doing.

Now I hv opened up a bit, and trying to accept more things o__O

Ok Dah hilang point. Senanye nak ckp Khamis ni ade interview for CIMB Banker Programme and I am freaking out D:

Allah, grant give me the courage to pass through this obstacles! What I would kill for a bank job o__O

A penny for my thoughts

2011-10-30T00:15:00.000-07:00

I cant believe I've work as programmer for 2 month already!! At first I kinda hate the fact that I hv to sit in front of the computer at all times to do work.. But actually it wasnt all that bad. I can move around for a bit and take a short break if I feel like my eyes is starting to hurt. Plus, my colleagues are awesome o____O

I'm still considering other jobs, but if I can't find anything better, I guess I'll stick around first for a year and see where it leads me.

A lot of my friend is getting married,, And I dnt hv anyone yet.. Should I be worried? o___O No but yet but no but yes?

I know its been months after I graduated. But I cant help but to be relieved that I actually did finish my degree. It was tough there believe me!! There isnt many malay at U of R that I Have to work extra hard and being independent. Luckily I have Hoang, and my supportive housemates which I MISS so much T___T

Relief!

I know some of my friends even have to repay back MARA hundred of thousands ringgit becoz they failed to perform at the United States. Most of my colleagues owe the PTPTN..

Its good to be ambitious and always looking forward, but just don't forget that there are unfortunate souls behind us out there, that we should all be thankful to what we have today! Peace!! ^__^

Take Care of Yourself

2011-10-22T08:57:00.000-07:00

I am sure everyone of us have been told by friends and family alike "Take Care of Yourself". It comes in billions of forms such as "Jaga diri bebaik, TC, Watch out, ETC".. The term is so general that I sometimes wonder, what does it all even mean?

Sorry, being a thinker, I like to think about a lot of things, even simple things like this.. I haven't put much thought into this word until quite recently.. Ok so I guess we all have our set of definition and understanding, but being in the informational age and all, let see what google has to offer o_O

*Googled and the first link gives me out to this Yahoo ask*

Asker:

What does "take care of yourself" mean?

When someone leaves and that person says, "Take care of yourself, good-bye" what does that mean?

Does that mean... "be careful in the meantime?"

Thanks and will choose most helpful answer.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

I think that's exactly what it means...be careful, don't get into trouble/arrested/killed, I'd like to see you again or I wish the best for you so please try and do your best so that I will see you again...

But I like the answer that this girl give:

I think it basically means to eat healthy, and live healthily so u dont get sick from neglecting ur needs or health. And also the obvious things like not to do anything potentially dangerous, that would all be encompassed in the saying.

In my case, when I were giving this word, I feel like there are many things that NEEDS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF! SELF is a pretty big word. Anything that we are, physically and mentally, and anything we do or associate with can be apart of that SELF. Does this guy/girl really expect me to take care of this myriad stuff?

E.G.

-health, beauty, finance, friendship, mind, religion, time management, relationship, study, work, IQ, EQ, community, home, cleanliness, fitness, sports, happiness, mode, ethics dsb..

And even if that's it, do they ask us to just take care (MAINTAIN CARE) or to to take BETTER care of that particular SELF?

If the latter, then how thoughtful of them!!!

So whenever I were given this, I always think about what I am currently and how I could take better care of that SELF. Hrmmm..

So guys, Take care of yourself. And I mean: Take BETTER care of your health, beauty, finance, friendship, mind, religion, time management, relationship, study, work, IQ, EQ, community, home, cleanliness, fitness, sports, happiness, mode, ethics (and a 1001 other attributes) haha :D

Food for thought. Sorry if dont understand. Not quite good at explaining though I am aiming to become a Lecturer o___O Myb one day...

Ready to work

2011-09-13T16:36:00.000-07:00

Dear Blog,

Oh ur still alive and running?
For a moment there I thought I never found u again.. College graduation marks a new stage in my life. Work!

It has been slightly worrisome month. After I came back to Malaysia 3 months ago, so many questions about work were asked by peers and families alike.

"Dah keje belom?" was the default question to go to.

Months I've been given excuses like "tunggu lepas raya", "nak relek dulu". "Nak jmpe member2"..

Now finally I have a job :D

As a software developer at ATQMultimedia.. The pay is no much but that'll do for now. Plus I got to make new awesome friends!! *like*

Ok its 740 u hv to go to work.. Lambat nnt jem T__T

Trip to home

2011-06-20T14:39:00.000-07:00

Its a very long flight!!!!

I started off alone from ROC and on Chicago o'haire airport.. The terminal change was very far from my arrival gate.. I made there on time n boarded to la... Me alone in the big LAX airport.. As i going outside, i realised my bag was a bit thin... I checked n OMG i left my laptop on the american airline carrier!!!

I ran towards the kastam but they wont let me through.. Said i need a boarding pass.. I tell her my situation and she advised me to contact AA employees... They are a lot of em.. But when asked, they can only say " ask the supervisor"... Pffft ... I finally found the said supervisor and OMG, it looks like she already hv a handful herself!! idk.. To ask or not to ask... As she was busy withva group of tourist checkin, i act worrysome while raising my hand... She saw but ignored me... I stood there, silenced...

After a couple of minutes, she muttered "what do u need?" ... Thank god.. I explained like my laptop life depends on it, she began to make some phonecalls... Making an indifference face, she said "we found it"... Wait here.. A relief, felt from my inside out... I waited, yes... It took so long but i dnt care... Its worth it as my next flight to malaysia is in 6 hours.. I smiled :)

2011-06-18T11:28:00.000-07:00

Ok this is my first time blogging thru my iphone...

Im currently at rochester airport , Alone t-t

Such a sad day today.. I said my gd byes to my fellow friends..

Bought 12 farewel cards which i assume was enough but clearly its not!!! But as long as u guys know that i appreciate u guys as my friend is more than enough,.. In this world, i learned that we cant easily satisfy everyone..

Omg curently dgr lagu taylor swift yg ade "by the water" trus igt eriba lavachovs!!!!

Aaaaa i miss everyone

Imba pickup

2011-06-14T08:46:00.001-07:00

3 guys pretending to be on a wheelchair, picking up girls.. :D

Clearly im bored

2011-06-03T07:17:00.000-07:00

Midwest was a blast! I cannot believe that I get to meet a lot of people, my friends especially after 3-4 years... For the most part, they seem just like how I remembered them. Well, khai was a little thinner (good for him)... Time moved so fast... But its nice that we all have something in common to talk about:

"Kau balek Malaysia bile?"
"Ape plan lepas balek Malaysia?"
"Pergi mane2 ke balek Malaysia lambat/awal ni?"

I cannot believe that I will be leaving the United states in 3 more weeks. 4 years feels so long yet so short! I wonder what lies ahead in my future, hopefully I can find a decent job. It seems that I'm in that age where a lot of people are either working, doing master or phd or getting married! I'm happy for them and I hope I could come to people's wedding and look at their happy faces :D
Especially when I'm unemployed and dont know what to do back home :p

Every journey comes to an end. I feel joyful and satisfied with a slight regret. I learned and explored new things, good and bad. Hope every experience I gained here can put me on the next level, making me become all the better, faster, stronger xD

I is Done

2011-05-15T15:27:00.000-07:00

Yeaaah !!! College is officially over baby~

I want to thank everyone for all the love and friendship we shared.. And especially for those who come to my graduation today!!! Lan, Ray, Jiji, Mio, Akmal & Muni, Naje and Adam..

I know it was hard for them to come today, having to wake up before 9am when they sleep like 3 am in the morning.. The weather is also tough with a moderate rain and oh it was freezing!! Plus, some even have big exams on monday.. I appreciate all of you for being there.. No, really,,,

Hopefully, next friday, I could join your guys graduation and we can all celebrate and throw our hat-thing together!! the more the merrier, right? :D

i'm overfill with joy right now.. I just cant believe it!! Thanks again ^___^

2011-05-11T06:05:00.000-07:00

I cannot believe I'm graduating this weekend. Time sure flies. What am I going to do after this? What will I work as? There are so many unanswered questions that keep on bugging me. Maybe I do not have to worry about this yet. I hope I can make up something good with my future. :)

In addition to that, I want to take everybody for being there with me through out this whole 4 years. Especially to my housemates, Asip, Mior, Jiji, Joe, Ray.. They have been very good friends for me and I appreciate them for all the good and maybe bad things that brings to all the bittersweet memory of my life.

Asip - For all those COUNTLESS amazing cooking, being there for me all the time.. Sharing stories and problems.. Always invited me to go to events.. making me feel welcomed in RIT when I am not really comfortable with the environment.

Mior - For all the moral support in studying and indirect motivator by being kiasu.. Also for being the secondary chef in the house.. And for all the jokes and laughter.. All the trading card we played.. the LOTION TRAP lol

Jiji - For being Jiji.. You thought me NEVER TO GIVE UP when I can't really take the pressure.. It means a lot to me.. thanks for letting me sleep at your bed at night.. (kejut aku bole tak?).. and also all the entertainment k-pop stuff videos and songs.. sarang butan!! I will always "like" it.

Joe - Probably the most FRIENDLIEST guy I ever met. He is everybody's friend.. I am really glad to know you.. You thought me a lil bit about being social and confident.. Also very caring and pulsa but in a good way.. You always make me people want to hug you. *hug*

Lan - For being a great mum.. Wlupun mak sgt diva and susah utk dpt attention mak, I still appreciate you.. (coz that is what anak do right?) Thanks for all the nice cook, dota moments, the annoying bass speaker.. Terharu sgt ble mak call suruh dtg malaysian night ^_^

Ray - Such a nice guy. Sometimes he would give me a ride to campus in the morning and we talk about some stuff.. Always being THOUGHTFUL by helping me fill in the blanks when I cannot understand what he was talking about with some other friends.. really friendly and make some funny american jokes too..

Also thanks to all my friends.. Semua orang la yg pernah kenal.. korang memang terbaek... Thanks sangat2 and sorry jika ade salah and tersilap.. A couple more shoutout:

Muni - For being such a nice friend.. Muni ni memang friendly (wlupung garang2 sikit).. muni ni mmg rajin tegur2 and datang rumah melawat.. appreciate it!

Hoang - The best friend that I have in U of R.. He is a true friend.. We've been through so much together. taking class, lunch breaks, watching opera, concert, and shared a lot of stories about our college life.. Sometimes we stumble across some issues, but nevertheless we still can maintain friendship.. I'm gonna miss him so much..

Manche - for all the counseling!! there is nothing to hate about manche.. he tell normal stories and make it funny.. he is cool and we share a lot in common (mtg, manga, dota) He is the first person I would recommend a manga to ^__^

Ecah kentang - for the awesome chicken wings and nice 2008 midwest trips that we hv..

Afnan - For all the lol moments... Oreno turn, draw!

Hizami, Adlil - Really, really, really nice Juniors.. They will come visit our house, saying hi, sharing gossip.. melawat rumah org tua katenye.. They really love the RIT seniors.. Even if I am from U of R, they also layan me :p I cannot count how many times zami said "Boleh tak korang jangan grad lagi?" I know they probably aimed at all the other cm boys, but it did touched my heart T_T

Chot, wak, eriq, matt - For welcoming me to Park Point last summer and introduce me to magic! Stuck with it ever since and hope we can play again sometimes..

Adam - For being my friend and sharing our awkwardness together huhu ^_^

Jie - For being a good friend to me.. Thanks for your baked birthday cake that you give to my birthday.. its my first homemade cake ever.. thanks T_T

Shah - Shah ni senanye baek je.. haritu kat msia ajak kua g pc fair, pastu makan nandos.. Shah ni can take care of himself which i respect.. thanks for everything. especially our awesome NYC trip !!

MySA - For inviting me to the awesome Graduation Night even if I am from U of R.. terharu sangat..

For all the others I didn't mention, its not like I dont appreciate you guys, I appreciate everyone!! I really do.. You guys have lifted part of my cold darkness heart and make it slightly red and warm.. I am still far from being a great guy but friends do make a difference and I have to thank you all for that!! XOXO

Smart Consumer

2011-05-05T19:53:00.000-07:00

Everybody desire something in their life. Coming from an average class family, is hard to get my hands on anything. The thing is, it is only natural for parents to be selective of what stuff they be giving to their children because childrens needs can sometimes be exaggerated and pretty much unnecessary.

A typical conversation you could see in shopping malls:
Son:"Mommy, I want that toy!"
Mother:"No no, you cant have that now. We will get that later" (an obvious lie that works againts little kid)....

Coming to US, I am thankful for the monthly allowance we received. Suddenly, there are lot of stuff that I can afford to buy. But the thing is, I can sometimes be a bad consumer. I would buy stuff that I think I want, but in the end, the stuff was just lie there, unused. LoL..

So I guess it is important to note that whenever u wanted to buy stuff, ask urself "Do I really need this right now and the foreseeable future?"

New Phyrexia

2011-04-30T05:24:00.000-07:00

The Magic the Gathering New Set prerelease is going out soon! I have my eyes on lot of interesting rare cards, but let be realistic here, what are the odds of me opening a sweet rare? They dont call it "rare cards" for no reason. So instead I'm going to watch my eyes on "cool" commons cards that will commonly be in my card pool and hopefully my pre-release deck!

A 3/1 first strike for 2 and 2 life? The nut beatdown! (Hopefully not fighting againts instill infection)

A better upgrade from instill infection most of the time!

Do I smell 2 for ones????

Cant wait to play them next saturday. ^_^

Cinemagraphs

2011-04-26T10:35:00.000-07:00

As I was looking through awesome pictures people have posted, I found this amazing photographs using animated GIF called cinemagraphs. This technique was known from a NYC photographer Jamie Beck and her husband. They describe it as "more than a photo but not quite the video"

This thing looks awesome but also looks like "A lot of work" :p

p/s - nab computer may lag XD

For her tumblr account visit: http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/

Sporcle

2011-04-25T10:53:00.000-07:00

Apparently my friend introduced me to this website called Sporcle. It is a website where you got to answer a bunch of fun quizzes. There is one about Malaysia which is interesting.

How much do you know about Malaysia? Give this a try :

Country Malaysia

Zomg malu

2011-04-22T16:23:00.001-07:00

A chat with a friend:

Me:So you are from Brazil?
Friend: Yeah!
Me: Holla, Kom estas, Por Favor :D See I know a little bit Brazil Language! xD
Friend: Yea... That is Spanish :(
Me: ZOMG (realized brazilian dont speak spanish)
Me:Oh yea you speak Portugese right?
Friend:mmhmm
Me:So how do you speak hello in portugese? (haha cover baek nye :p)
Friend: Oi!

Oh well atleast that cleared the air =.=

Pokok Lalu

2011-04-21T09:51:00.000-07:00

img src: http://verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/129109966259687083.jpg

One of my assignment for Recreational Graphics class is to create a 3 minute animation. That does not sound like much but really it took a long time to actually doing it. My housemate Mior suggested I did something about a tree and how it changes throughout the season. "like a time lapse? That sounds great!" I am a bit interested in time lapse video so I am eager to do it. That I did and it turn out alright. (Though it is not a time lapsed animation as I hoped)

Tired

2011-04-16T20:15:00.000-07:00

Just came back from Malaysian Night. Oh it was very tiring. All that people o_O Loved the performance especially the Asmara Dana.. The dancing was so in tune with the songs. They all seemed very well trained for the performance. Good Job. Now back to the normal life -__-"

Pre-Order

2011-04-15T14:37:00.000-07:00

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While the idea of doing a "pre-order" is tempting, I usually find myself in a position where I never pre-ordered something even when I wanted it so badly. Why? Well I guess I think a lot when dealing with everything, and with money I guess it gets a bit more complicated for me and even for everyone. The most obvious question that I asked myself:

1. What if I have a change of heart - of not wanting the product anymore? ( Canceling a pre-order might be a pain, right?)

2. How do I know that the product is good? When I buy stuff, I usually refer to people's review. How they think about a product. Is it good, worth buying, things like that. By pre-ordering, its hard to get a review becoz u get it as early as any reviewer would!

3. How do I know that I'm not going to be in a money crisis? Perhaps I need money for something else. Something better?

4. The most crucial, PRICE. Pre-order price are mostly retail price. While this is not necessarily bad, sometimes you can be rewarded for a better price for simply wait for a month or two. Have you ever heard of a phrase "Good things come to those who wait"? Though you might not get it as soon those who pre-ordered, you'll get a good deal out of it and that in itself should compensate for the lost of time, or does it? :p

But this varies to personality I think. I guess some people just like to get things as soon as they come up due to excitement "OOOH I cant wait!!" kind of feeling. But even so, by ordering it on the day it came out, You probably get it around the same people who pre-ordered anyway. After all, they wont ship pre-ordered stuff until the release date anyway. Right???

And I guess some jerk just want to pre-order for braggin rights and think they are cool. "Oh I have pre-ordered the Ipad 3 and got it as soon as it came out".. Those are annoying people but I guess you gotta give them a bit of credit for being the kiasu ones. XD

In the end, its really hard for me to do a pre-order. EVER. I tried to click the "Submit cart" but I just can't :P *sigh* Patience is virtue but yeah let just wait for stuff to come out is EXTREMELY PAINFUL!! 7-8 May is a very long wait T___T

Feel differently

2011-04-10T19:58:00.000-07:00

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Dont u ever wonder that you doing the same thing in life everyday that it feels redundant but u can't really run from it? I guess eating and sleeping are the most obvious example.

But I think, no matter how repetitive your "work" can be, if you really think about it, it is always different! For example, let say u cook something today and tomorrow (not that I cook). Even when you cook the same dish, the experience is different. You might have somebody else with you in the kitchen or you might be listening to music while cooking.. It amaze me how so many simple variation of works is seen as merely a single thing (if that make sense?)

Well my point is, sometimes people just doesnt aware or myb cared about the differences they might have experienced. If they do, I think they might feel more enjoyable doing what they do.

But for me, I can't help but to notice my time spent on a freaking bus.. I know, I know, is there really a story about riding a bus? I mean, its just repetitive and lame. There's nothing to tell about riding the long rectangle thing. But seriously, I beg to differ. Sure I have to take the bus about 45 minutes to campus. People said to me "Man, that sucks!".. Well it actually does. I mean who would want to take a bus so long to campus anyway? But sometimes, if I really feel the moment, I can feel the differences which I think was interesting..

Like some day, I notice that the bus driver drive SO FAST that u can feel the corners or there is a bunch of girls singing in the bus (sounded really bad and how relief I am once they get out from the bus upon reaching the mall).. And sometimes, u encounter people who answered their cellphone with very loud voice like they own the bus.. Know what i mean? "HEY MAN, WHATS UP? AboUT THAt Bla BLa, I'm In THE BUS ON THE WAY THERE" Seriously people, NOBODY CARES!!! Control ur voice a bit and let there be peace for other people in the bus :D and ofc I have lot more out-of-the-ordinary bus experience but I guess u could ask me if u wanted to know coz I dont think anyone wanted to. Atleast not after all this babbling of mine xD

I guess this thought come to mind because I red Detective Conan - Case Closed 700+ chapters marathon! (manga has never been this convenient ^_^) http://www.mangareader.net/139/detective-conan.html I think Conan said something like "Detective observe their surroundings and notice the things out of the norm"

So yea, take time to feel what ur doing at any point of time, u might just notice that interesting "this is not what I normally do/see" and maybe laugh and smile about it :) !! Heck, even "normal" is over rated o_O

A chat with Troll

2011-02-11T06:56:00.000-08:00

troll: http://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/06/the-problem-with-passwords/

Barry: ?????

Barry: and im supposed to click that link

troll: 463 yrs

troll: o_O

troll: nope

Barry: effing spammer

troll: =(

troll: im a spam

troll: dun clik meh

Barry: xD

Barry: kinda busy doing work

Barry: mind explaining to me b4 click

troll: zzz

troll: its self explnaatory

troll: zzzz

troll: its quickie

troll: ]bai

Barry: http://whenparentstext.com/

Barry: oh

Barry: i always use upper

Barry: lower

Barry: and numbers

Barry: so go figure ^_^

troll: =_=

Barry: busy?

troll: exam

troll: Q_________________________________________Q

Barry: lol nice

Barry: i just got my exam back

Barry: got 60

Barry: :(

troll: ooo

troll: o_O

troll: well just first exam

troll: u can stil score othersz.

Barry: yea

Barry: just that

Barry: its

Barry: 60/60 xD

troll: wdf...

Barry: lol first time getting a 100

Barry: in college

troll: ..

troll: first time got zero

troll: in college for me

Barry: lol

Barry: i think i got 0 on some quizes

Barry: but they nvr return it back

Barry: so idk really the true mark

Barry: so nvr officially receive a 0

troll: ..

troll: 0 in exam

troll: WDF

troll: satgi ade exam

troll: ^__^

troll: u freee eh

troll: i think by tonite or tomorow

troll: we can play

Barry: k

troll: ...dota

troll: xD

troll: Dx

troll: 1) Carbohydrate = 4 kcal/g

2) Protein = 4 kcal/g

3) Lipid = 9 kcal/g

4) Alcohol = 7 kcal/g (Non-nutritive kcals)

Barry: /..'

troll: .../

Barry: //m,;/k

troll: ///,/m/msaskj//jkje

Barry: jkljkljm ,;,./bye

troll: .//./jn//./noo/..noo/./.

weird

2011-02-07T08:29:00.000-08:00

Lately I feel weird.. Idk.. Its just.. maybe because I havent seen people?.. Lol.. should I see people more?? I guess.. But im not much of a people person.. I wish I can go out more, do stuff with friends and stuff.. Idk.. Whaa?

Ok i miss Malaysia T_T

Hi Blog, how's it going?

2011-01-26T11:36:00.000-08:00

Wow, the last time I write something in this blog is October?? Did not realize its been that long :/ Well then I guess there is a lot to talk about? :p Well sure, there is but thing is I dont meant to bore my readers (ade ke?) with pesky mundane life of myself xD.. Wait, this is my blog??

Hrmm... Well if u must know, Last semester I did well despite the fact having to take 26 credits.. Well mostly is research stuff and TAs that got me there, but I did do well on all the other class to.. Its Ironic how I got my highest GPA (yet) when taking the most amount of credits.. lol only one subject I didnt get an A. Well its a writing/group discussion class. Reading my blogs u'll know that my english is not Shakespeare, so go figure :p

Nevertheless, getting 3.5 CGPA seemed possible now.. I'm at 3.45 now, but its doable! Who would think?? After all these years of not getting Aces, I guess its true when people say "It's not over till its over".. I give up too fast, I agree.. BUT Thankfully, I have friends who been there supporting me, saying "Bole Bari, Aku Yakin ko Bole"and my mum who understands my situation.. When I get bad results, I am really scared to told my mum coz I dont want to get scold at, but surprisingly she just accepted it, ask myself to be strong and do better next in the future.. Thanks everyone for your support. Definitely could not make it without it ^_____^

Now one last semester to go~

Puzzling Words

2010-10-12T22:57:00.000-07:00

Weather is getting colder here at Rochester..

Seemed like snow is just around the corner (Yucks!)

Adapting to the weather, I stop cycling to school (actually my bicycle tire got flat again and uuukh how I hate to repair it!)

Taking the public bus again.. pfft.. ok

So taking the public bus, although it seems mundane, sometime interesting things can occur.. Like today,

I was in the bus, somebody play the bell to stop the bus. The bus stopped somewhere (not sure if its a bus stop coz its at the side of the road with darkness and all) and the guy who was going out of the bus said:

"Thank you! Thank you for being gracious and ignorant!" As he went out of the buss - having this weird expression on his face ..

Interpretations?

So I was thinking.. "wait, that doesnt sound right.. Gracious with Ignorant??? Doesn't go together in my dictionary"..

Is the bus driver gracious because he stopped at the bus stop exactly where he wanted? Or is it coz he stopped not at the bus stop but close to where the guy should have gotten off?
Is the bus driver ignorant because he did not hear the bell? Or is he ignorant because he stopped at some place where theres no bus stop (ignoring the road/bus rule)?
Or is simply because the guy was being sarcastic?

Either way, I could not decide what really happened and my mind was wondering about this conundrum for hours.. It's interesting, isn't it?

work-work

2010-09-23T14:36:00.000-07:00

http://arherring.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/hard-work.jpg

Hurrm its been awhile!

oMg fall 2010 was so busy! Not just academically but also leisurely lol

I did not think that I took this magic the gathering thing so serius before.. It was fun and I really like to talk about it.. But since I have too much to talk about, I designed a new blog designed just for magic! lol.. ok probably no one would read it.. But here's the link anyway:

http://briboomermtg.blogspot.com/

Ok so semester is going well so far! It much work, but doable.. And the class that I am taking this semester only has 2 exams! So most of the time I just write papers.. o_O

Since Summer, and Fall.. I have lived with new roomates/housemates.. They are all awesome!! At first I was kind of scared that we would have a lot of drama going on in the house.. You know.. But hey, nothing serious!!

Can't wait for my first pre-release magic tournament this saturday.. Have a nice weekend =D

Mtg M11 First Tourney

2010-09-03T20:05:00.000-07:00

Card of the day. Simple but Powerful,,

I tried to play MTGO online tournament. I dont know much about previous set like Rise of Eldrazi and Zendikar. So I decided to join M11 Sealed deck tournament..

Sealed Deck is a format where every player receive 6 booster, and build a 40 cards deck out of it.. I like this format compared to "bring ur own deck" because it challenges ur ability to choose good cards from a pile.. It also eliminates the fact that opponent can have so many rares in one deck (since they are rich and buy all the rares in the world :/ )..

Ok, I have to admit that I do have outside help.. Mior and Syafrul helped me creating the deck..

Although it is my first time playing in Magic online tournament, I have confidence and excited to do well.. And that I did! I won 3 out of 4 games, losing to ranked 2 in the tournament.

Event Results:

Rank= 8,

bri boomer

Points: 9

Versus : Mihauliuc (2-0), HelloSir (0-2), OrphanOphidian2 (2-1), FaMuLa (2-1)

Made it to the top 8 o_O certainly better than expected.

My M11 First Sealed Deck

Lands (17)

8 Island

9 Plains

Creatures (12)

2 Ã†ther Adept

1 Air Servant

1 Assault Griffin

1 Elite Vanguard

1 Infantry Veteran

1 Palace Guard

1 Phantom Beast

2 Serra Angel

1 Water Servant

1 Wild Griffin

Spells (11)

1 Brittle Effigy

1 Crystal Ball

1 Elixir of Immortality

1 Pacifism

2 Mana Leak

1 Mighty Leap

1 Negate

1 Safe Passage

1 Jace Beleren

1 Preordain

Sideboards

(Didnt really change at deck content at all during break time between matches)

Artifact

1 Kraken's Eye

1 Gargoyle Sentinel

1 Triskelion

Creature

1 Arc Runner

1 Armored Cancrix

1 Barony Vampire

1 Berserkers of Blood Ridge

1 Bloodcrazed Goblin

1 Bloodthrone Vampire

1 Captivating Vampire

2 Chandra's Spitfire

1 Child of Night

1 Duskdale Wurm

1 Earth Servant

1 Garruk's Companion

1 Goblin Piker

1 Greater Basilisk

1 Harbor Serpent

1 Liliana's Specter

1 Llanowar Elves

1 Maritime Guard

1 Merfolk Sovereign

1 Merfolk Spy

1 Prodigal Pyromancer

2 Rotting Legion

1 Silvercoat Lion

1 Viscera Seer

1 Vulshok Berserker

Spells

2 Dryad's Favor

1 Holy Strength

1 Primal Cocoon

1 Volcanic Strength

1 Autumn's Veil

1 Cancel

2 Chandra's Outrage

1 Combust

1 Fog

1 Hornet Sting

1 Incite

2 Inspired Charge

1 Lightning Bolt

1 Naturalize

1 Safe Passage

1 Rootbound Crag

1 Terramorphic Expanse

1 Deathmark

2 Demolish

1 Disentomb

1 Duress

1 Fireball

1 Lava Axe

1 Mind Rot

1 Pyroclasm

1 Sign in Blood

1 Solemn Offering

Won 6 Mtgo M11 booster.. Should I enter the next tournament? lol,,

start !

2010-09-01T05:36:00.001-07:00

src: http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0912/new-look-no-hands-demotivational-poster-1262022800.jpg

Today it all began!

A new day of a new Semester!
A new beginning of a previous ending!
A new age in a new era! (ok tipu)

While I survive the 16 weeks of 28 credits of madness?
Or will I fall to the blades of Quel'thalaz?

Stay tuned on the next episode of "Not a School's day"..

summer break is over ... bye mtg, mtgo, cf, dota, movies, dramas, etc .. T_T

For Crying out Loud

2010-08-25T08:13:00.000-07:00

src: http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0808/short-bus-short-bus-demotivational-poster-1219217461.jpg

The past few weeks, I've been biking to U of R whenever I am doing Psychology research work. Took me an everage of 35-40 minutes to reach there. Unfortunately my bicycle tire got leaked (by a mere stapler!!) so I take out my longboard and went to campus by bus.

Ok, bringing my longboard was a huge mistake. The road to campus to/from the bus stop are either too bumpy (not jalan tar) or jalan tar but too steep! (ofc kalo bukit terlalu curam nnt bahaye bwk longboard coz susah nak break =_=")..

Inside the bus, there is this family. A mum, a hot eldest daughter (19 or so), a son (5) and a small girl baby (1)..

The baby was crying out loud, albeit cute with curly blonde hair.. Almost all people sitting nearby was watching the baby and the mother that tries to sooth her.. I? I was standing (xde tmpt duduk) really close to them, hence watching the baby/mum and the hot teen every now and then ^_^

See, the baby didnt stop crying! From Mt Hope to the Mall, the baby went all out.. The mother tried everything (Patting her back, trying to give food or drink, playing with her, and carrying her while saying "Awww she is tired" --is this suppose to work? --) And the sister and brother being the misali siblings also helped their mum but to no avail..

When reaching the Mall, I think the bus driver can't stand it anymore.. lol.. Being cold and direct as any authoritative should be, she commanded "Excuse me Madam.. Your baby is very loud and disrupting the customer.. (No we're fine really.. a bit annoying but nothing that we cant chew).. You need to find a way to PACIFY her.. If you cannot, I'm afraid you have to go down here and catch the next bus.."

Hrmm its actually my first time to hear the word pacify being used in daily conversation :p So the family have no choice but to stand up, go out from the current bus and wait for the next bus.. (Yes the baby is still crying and have no clue that she is being kicked from the bus.. LOLOLOLOLOLOL)

Good bye hot sister :( and kawaii spiraled hair baby -__-

MTG Jokes -"Mom should have casted Pacifism on the baby" xD

Binary chat

2010-08-22T19:44:00.000-07:00

src: http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/12/8/633643570220560292-Binary.jpg

Almost finished with psych research works for PSY266 on the fall.. Just a lil bit of editing to do..

Summer is almost over!! oMg.. I am not sure if I am ready to start class.. This semester going to be one heck of semester.. Imagine taking 5 classes - 3 of which are CS courses, 1 Psy and 1 Arabic for 4 credit each. Not enough? Try adding 2 Psych research work an extra 8 credit and top that with 2 CS intro TA for 4 credit! All amounts to, well.. 32 credit -.-"

Ok2, this is definitely an overkill in credit! I'll do the CS TA for cash instead xD Hence dropping to 28 credit.. Hopes the University accepts my overload :/

Anyways, I have a weird chat with my friend. It goes LITERALLY like this:

Friend (8/22/2010 10:30:28 PM): 01101001011011010010000001100110011010010110111001100101001000000110011001101111011100100010000001101110011011110111011100100000011101000110100001100001011011100110101101110011

Barry (8/22/2010 10:31:21 PM): 01110111011010000110000101110100011000110110100001100001001000000110010001101111011010010110111000111111

Friend (8/22/2010 10:32:11 PM): 01101001001000000110100001100001011101100110010100100000011011100110111100100000011010010110111001110100011001010111001001101110011001010111010000100000011010010110110100100000011101010111001101101001011011100110011100100000011000010010000001101100011000010110001000100000011011100110111101110111

Barry (8/22/2010 10:32:30 PM): 0111011101101111011100100110101100111111

Friend (8/22/2010 10:33:05 PM): 011011100110111100100000011101110110111101110010011010110010111000101110

Barry (8/22/2010 10:33:43 PM): 0111001001100101011100110110010101100001011100100110001101101000001000000111010001101000011001010110111000111111

Friend (8/22/2010 10:35:37 PM): 011011100110111101110000011001010010000001101010011101010111001101110100001000000110100001100101011100100110010100100000011101000110111100100000011101010111001101100101001000000110100101101110011101000110010101110010011011100110010101110100001000000110111001100101011101110010000001101000011011110111010101110011011001010010000001101110011011110010000001101001011011100111010001100101011100100110111001100101011101000010000001110101011011100111010001101001011011000010000001110100011101010110010101110011011001000110000101111001

Barry (8/22/2010 10:36:48 PM): 01101000011011110111011100100000011000110110111101101101011001010010000001110101001000000110110001101111011011100110011100100000011001110110111101101110011001010010111000100000011000100110010101100101011011100010000001101101011001010110010001101001011101000110000101110100011001010010000001101100011000010111010001100101011011000111100100111111

Friend (8/22/2010 10:37:14 PM): 010100010101111101010001

Friend (8/22/2010 10:37:29 PM): 01101110011011110010000001101100011010010110011001100101001011100010111000101110001000000110001001111001011001010010111000101110

Friend (8/22/2010 10:37:43 PM): 0111010001101000011110000010000001100110011011110111001000100000011000110110000101110010011010010110111001100111

Barry (8/22/2010 10:38:27 PM): 0111101001111010011110100010111000100000011010110110101100100000011000100111100101100101

Binary ftw ^_^

"The world of zero's and one's." This reminds me of the manga Majin Neuro..

My TCG History

2010-08-11T10:54:00.000-07:00

src : http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs40/f/2009/006/2/b/Togepi_Demotivational_Poster_by_kiriyamakazuouzi11.jpg

I assume everyone is familiar with TCG?

TCG basically stands for trading card games.

I remember my first TCG was pokemon TCG that I played on my GameBoy Color. When I first played, I didnt read the rules so I didnt know how to play (thought it was boring)..

But after knowing how to play, it get more fun and my brothers joined along.. When my brother returned from boarding school, he bring home a lot of pokemon TCG.. Only then I know the cards actually exist lol..

src: http://www.pokemontradingpost.com/images/Legendary/H-3_Charizard.jpg
One of my favorite old-skool fire pokemon tcg. Charizard's 100 damage sure kill!

We also played Digimon TCG on PS1 which is very different from Pokemon TCG.. My cousin brings the actual card when we hang out at our GrandPa's.. I believe not many people are familiar with this. After all, Digimon company didnt do much to advertise their TCGs. Only their lame digimon gadgets =.="

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081015210716/digimon/images/f/ff/Agumon_St-01_%28DB%29.jpg
Who doesnt love the most famous Agumon?

After that, Yugioh was introduced. When you first watch it in TV, Yugioh seems lame.. Whats the point of summoning a weak creature when you can go for the kill with an awesome 3000 atk points of the Blue eyes white dragon? But the real-life TCG was way different than the way yugioh fight on TV. (You cant summon creatures with 5 star or more without a sacrifice).. Only after a certain amount of time they changed their battle rules on TV which is similar to the actual TCG. Yugioh cards have evolved alot since it first introduced. I gotta say the Yugioh 5d's currently airing is worth watching (assuming you are a yugioh tcg fan).

src: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/c/c6/BatterymanAACP06-EN-C-UE.png
My current favorite card. Having this revived from graveyard, combo with Inferno Reckless Summon and Short Circuit, Resulting to a victory with a OTK (one turn kill). Famous among real yugi tcg players.

And Now, currently interested in MTG (Magic The Gathering)! MTG was nothing new. I first get to know the game in 2004 when Bob bring a lot of his MTG cards to MRSM Taiping. I guess becoz there are too much cards with too much effect so I wasn;t interested into getting to know all of em.

Idk why suddenly now I am interested with it. I guess I like the idea of rushing and staging your creatures to win.. It certainly much harder (strategy wise) to defeat your opponent. Plus, the Artwork of MTG is very eye catching.. Now, if only I have enough Mana to tap -_-"

src: https://www.coolstuffinc.com/images/Products/mtg%20art/Seventh/Blanchwood%20Armor.jpg
Lets get it on ^_^

habit

2010-08-02T15:50:00.000-07:00

src: http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/habits.jpg

I am the kind of guy who'll get annoyed/confused when presented with too many things at once.. (aren't we all? :O )..

Ok, one of the most obvious was when I use the internet.. Using internet requires you to use multiple tabs/window for different websites rite?.. So I usually have tabs for yahoo mail, school email, fb, occasionally the hsbc bank, ebay/amazon, google, youtube, and lately megashares (thanks to manche)..

so I get annoyed seeing so many tabs on my browser. Thus, ended up clicking "X" to remove "Idle" tabs most of the time.. But when I wanted to use it back, "pfft, I just closed that tab before. Now need to login again :/"..

Before I know it, clicking the "X" fast was my primary response! (habit)

Nak di jadikan cerita, petang smlm ade kwn YM tanye pasal something.. After I read it, BAM, X clicked... pastu baru terpk, SHOOT, camne nak respond?? dah la invi, pastu mmg tak penah online smpai da tak igt kat subgroup mane o_O (bad organizing group on my part T_T)

Nak search id lak, name nak pelik2 je.. kalo yg leh eja tu ok lg.. tp yg susah nak eja tu yg tak ley blah -.- for example:yafllelcx7 .. ape la kaitan ngn org sbnr.. i just dont get it? .. Kalo garena leh faham lg.. name pelik2 susah org nak igt utk di ban ^_^ tp YM...

hrrmm but I guess everyone's deserved to be an artist in their own ways.. finding name/icon/identity that they were never born with is a pretty cool concept.. (cover sikit :p)

Ok, I need to reduce my clicking "X" urge !!

Quote- ( "X" marks the spot - Indiana Jones. )

2010-07-22T15:21:00.000-07:00

source: http://www.filehurricane.com/viewerthumbnails/915200895554AM_bba2fd23e8.jpg

Being extremely busy is stressful. Having all sorts of work to be completed, just so you can survive. But being extremely free is also stressful. Imagining all the free time go to waste, without any productive activity at all. I rarely ask for ppl to do activity with me.. So when I ask, it does take a lot of courage and I mean it..

And, turns out, they usually reject.. which kinda sucks.. But do I have to stop asking? No.. Maybe the timing isnt right.. One thing for certain, another evening goes wasted :p

Pffft.. whatever.. this saturday going out camping! Naje is the man of adventure!! also the man yg suke abeskan duit orang :P

hujan emas?

2010-07-21T11:05:00.000-07:00

source: http://whitemaleoppressor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/explanation-demotivational-poster.jpg

hujan emas dinegeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri.lebih baik di negeri sendiri.

So its safe to say that..

hujan emas dinegeri orang < hujan batu dinegeri sendiri

taking things out (hujan, dinegeri)..

emas orang < batu sendiri, so..

batu sendiri > emas orang

Seems logical? I didnt know my rocks worth more than peoples' gold :O OOO My!

Ok things just didnt go as planned. Needed more activities to make me feel alive..

Watched a few drama series.. Dark blue, human target, and dexter.. All are great..

Going camping this weekend. Not really liked camping but, its better than nothing. -.-

Pets

2010-07-17T08:35:00.000-07:00

source: http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0912/living-in-a-goldfish-bowl-fish-demotivational-poster-1259811783.jpg

Back home in Malaysia, my mother is not a fan of pets. So we don't have any pets in the house.. I remember bringing back home a small stray kitten.. the poor thing was in hunger and seek belonging.. I felt very bad for the kitten, bringing it back home and feeded it. Before you know it, the cat sh*ts on the cement floor.. LOOOOOOL... My mum was angry.. She asked us to put the cat away and well, obviously clean the poo poo..

Since then, I never really have the idea of owning pets.. I met my friend at U of R who's a big fan of fish... he has black moors goldfish, guppies, tetras, and some other... He influenced me.. and make me wanted to own fishes myself. We both talked about how we wanted a pet shark which we think was super awesome (ofc such thing remain a dream :/) .. watched some pet shark video on youtube.. notably:

So, I bough a 5 gallon fish tank 6 month ago. Some died, some survived. Ecah momo who shared the same passion have a goldfish and one zebra danios.. When she went back to malaysia, she did not wanted to bring back home her fish. So she gave it to me. I love the goldfish so much! The color of the goldfish have changed to white. Idk why? Probably due to the light or food.. But I thought, fish are boring.. They cant do much and u cant touch them :(

But I look up a youtube video online and found this:

I'll give this a try ^_^

Congratulation Spain

2010-07-12T18:22:00.000-07:00

source:http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/34000/Expectations-Poster-34355.jpg

The FiFa World Cup 2010 was over last week. Congratulation Spain for winning! I never rooted for them in the beginning because they lost their first match. Who knew that lost become their milestone to become even more motivated to compete; heck even win the world cup!!

For me, this yeas World Cup and 1998 was more memorable compared to FiFa World Cup 2002 and 2006.

In 1998- I watched it with my mum and dad and my brothers at home. Still remember France Vs Brazil and watched Zidany Zidane got a goal from a corner kick.. Those were good times with my family! I thought France was awesome at that time.

When the world cup 2002 was broad casted, I was F2 in a boarding school. They are hardly any TV around, other than kedai makcik jah (if i remember correctly) and some other outside the wall. I know f5 always skipped isya or tazkirah to watch the world cup.. I was like "meeh, too much trouble.. World cup? who cares pffft".. As ignorant as I was, no one can resist the temptation of the WC FINAL! Not even me.. so I remembered I red news about how Oliver Khan, German keeper was the bomb and the reporter have high hopes on the German. So I rooted for German, but they lost to Brazil 2-0.. sigh~

In 2006, I was in intec when the WC was live. I didnt have TV in my apartment. I only watched a couple by coincidence if they are gathering of people watching soccer. Although I do read the news about the scores and stuff. I rooted for Brazil since they won the last world cup. But they lost to France in the quarter final.. Yes "Anything can happen with soccer!"

In 2010, I have a lot of free time and I have a big 46inch TV in my house. Watching soccer was never this fun!!.. :D Plus they are others watching like Syafrul who keeps on predicting the tournament winner. He predicted Spain vs Brazil and Spain will win. His prediction was slightly wrong but you got to give that man some credit I guess. Mior was rooting for the Germans. He even bought a German Jersey FOR THE LULZ! AAAh I hate the German team since Oliver Khan disappointed me.. I always rooted againts German.. Rooted for England, Lost. But Spain finally defeated German. That was probably my golden moments during this WC.. "Casillas kot!!!"said Me and Naje as Casillas was able to save a shot from the German. And they are others like JiJi Joe Napi and Aimii who'd come watching the match every now and then..

Lastly, the 2010 world cup was fun because the blog http://sokernet.blogspot.com/ have very crazy yet entertaining entry.. Thanks for the awesome sokernet bloggers! You make my day!!

2010-07-10T22:14:00.000-07:00

Doing Psychology stuff for the summer and not being paid is not that fun...

Out of my mind

2010-07-01T16:06:00.000-07:00

from http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/4/16/633755035797705065-MadnessSanityisoverrated.jpg

How long has it been since I last write something to this tree of darkness?

I believe there is no point in talking about what happened to me for the past couple of weeks. (though lot of interesting things happened).. Heck such thing could be wrote in a dairy! (not that I have one but I do have some events entry that I didnt post due to, well, being too dark for people to comprehend)..

"people who forget the past will bound to repeat it".. SO??? If its going to happen, it happen.. lol

Well, so what should I say?

This is madness!!!

summer psychology research

2010-06-03T01:14:00.000-07:00

So basically I am not doing my own research. I am just helping the professor creating a bunch of research questionnaire and study to be run this upcoming fall so that I can TA for that class. What I liked the most about the research is because some time I got to use my HTML and Javascript skills to apply it in making up this questionnaires!!

Talk about Computer Science + Psychology Combo!!

Maybe I should run my own research? myb not? I'll just work for the professor for now.. Plus its fun and motivational :D a bit frustrating at times, but hey, that's life! not always having stuff ur way =.="

exaggeration

2010-05-14T15:09:00.000-07:00

Hey, my friend like to exaggerate a lot! he always says "oh this is the best!" or so.. well there is nothing wrong with that. I do think he really mean it which is amusing to me. Like a couple days back,

he said: "Barry, do you want to get Ice cream!. I could take you to Netsins the BEST icecream place in rochester!!"
Me:"Really? Better than Friendly's?" (the one i sometimes eat at home that asip n mio liked so much)..
He:"Yea! better than friendly's, coldstone and abbot. And people dont even know!"

Me:"lol really.. Ok lets go!"

We went there and I get Orange Pineapple + Cotton candy Icecream.. Bought a large cup for like 3 dollar...

We eat it outside in the warm, windy summer.. The icecream was indeed awesome ! love it! But im not sure if you would call it the best ice cream in rochester.. My friend disagree, he said it taste just perfect, like it is not exaggerating in sugar or flavor.. well it just a matter of opinion..

*extra* He:"Barry you should try this candy. Its MAD good!"

Me: *looking at the candy, zomg a kopiko!* "oh yeah this is good i had one at malaysia ^_^"

Bunch of random stuff:

Zomg never captured a pic with this tiger at RiT.

Kiasu Tir at work even during Imagine RiT

Ahh~ first time eat here with a lovely friend o_O.. Also reminds me of eating a buffet at seoul garden malaysia with my awesome brothers celebrating my birthday ^_^

Yes we can

2010-05-12T19:01:00.000-07:00

Yes we can!

The thought of finishing class is only momentarily! While everything seems to come to an end, a new chapter begins.. Hence summer session! Which start next week! Haven't bought books, but we'll see. Also doing summer research with a well-known Professor in the Social Psychology field.. Still a noob, need to learn to do media lab and DirectRT :-s Nevertheless, a pass of success seems opened, dimmed before but strengthened now.. All that is left is for me to be motivated.. In which I am so-so in it.. How could I be? I have so many dilemma that is so hard to explain.. Yup! I am at my limit, wait maybe not..

"Yes we can" or so that's what Obama said.. I shall change my perception.. My nab faulty thinking.. or perhaps even meet a therapist.. that's what my friend suggest.. How? Yup people who knows me knows that I said "how" a lot.. a blonde bimbo? NOOOOOO!!~ :(

A true blonde bimdo:

??? : Are you from California?

Me: ?????? *puzzled* No, I am not! (thinking why would he say such thing, does Asian at california typically look like me?)

???: Coz your shirt say california.

*Me wearing Hollister California sweater"

ZZZZZ LOOLOLOLLOL

Computer alarm!

2010-05-02T10:06:00.000-07:00

by->

http://media.photobucket.com/image/time%20motivational%20poster/don_veto/motivation/time.jpg

For those who doesn't have an alarm clock, or not a handphone alarm fan, you can make your computer act as an alarm!! Yesterday, I told mio that I could program one using html+javascript or possibly php.. BUT i thought, well people might hv already make it.. ( a cold hard truth about programming that explains massive usable programming libraries).. so we search for it on google and the first ranked was pretty much what we need!

Try it out:

http://onlineclock.net/video/

Credit and thank to those amazing makers.

So you just add a youtube video as your alarm, and it will play the video when it reached the time you set! (internet is required).. ofc this is fairly simple with weaknesses like:

1-unable to repeat the video once it done

2-cant do multiple alarm time

3-no snooze ( but I guess if you came to your laptop to close the window u might as well set a new one! took 10 secs.)

But still, its pretty neat. Would be nice to program myself, myb I try it later. As of now, there's so many things at my arsenal T_T

Internet OCD

2010-04-28T11:12:00.000-07:00

Hi!

Energetic aren't we?

Yea!! Coz I is done for this week! no exam until next thursday!

Finally can update my blog!!

LoL, sadly nothing interesting happens.. Sure there are lot of drama in the house, or darkness on school life, BUT i dont want to build controversy by discussing such sensitive yet intriguing matter!!

I come by the proverb "In pm(private message), I trust" =.=" u nvr want to expose too much stuff to the world!

Last week, najmi tagger me about internet cycle... havent got the free time till now! might hv too much free time in fact xD can finally finish final fantasy that is currently on chapter 9? Zomg digressed.. Yes fei always said that I digressed too much.. So here my Internet OCD.. not entirely honest, but not much of trolling either o_O

GTG, Cherry blossoms are blooming!!

hard times

2010-04-26T14:58:00.000-07:00

Its time like these you learn to live again T_T

spring semester is almost over!

2010-04-24T09:51:00.000-07:00

Next week is last week of class! Still got some work to do, but I am so glad this semester is almost over.. After this, there's summer class but atleast I got 1-2 week break before it..

Cant wait for summer.. will be living with 5 guys.. The more the merrier they say? Just hope theres not too much drama in the house!! =.=

happy birthday aimi

2010-04-23T09:12:00.001-07:00

Happy birthday Aimi! Since takde idea nak tulis pe kat blog, might as well dedicate an entry to your birthday.. Lame dah kenal Aimi nih.. Since mule2 masuk intec kat kelas chicago agi.. Time tu lak orang kate aimi "hot" dlm kelas chicago (but yeah our class got like 3 girls in it xD).. mmg hot n ramai la nak Aimi ni xD Tp yeah Napi berjaya memikat hati Aimi dahulu and Alhamdulillah dyorang dah berumah tangga dah pun.. but still maintain ayu ye kak.. I have my highest respect for them becoz dpt kawen awal and still maintain study and hal rumah tangga.. ni orang2 yg gd sense of responsibility je kan handle.. So congrats Aimi and wish u a got panjang umur and be happy with Napi together..

No hadiah but ade yg tgkp gmbr smlm wat nak dedicate kat aimi but was removed by FB due to song copyright for the back ground audio T_T erm so sape2 ade lagu bes / sweet / happy / possibly lagu melayu supaye tak kene charge copyright leh la hntr kat me... mmg hard drive ni no lagu melayu.. bukan tak sayang lagu bahasa sendiri, just kurang meminati =.="

so once again, happy birthday aimi!!

Theory

2010-04-20T10:39:00.000-07:00

Before, I have this theory,

"If i sleep in an uncomfortable place, then it's easier for me to wake up in the morning!"

So is my theory true?

what happen to me was, i did in fact wake up early, BUT something else also comes with it... Those things are:

1- Wake up earlier than intended! (4,5am)

2-Even if I wake up on time, you still feel tired and wanted to have a more comfortable sleep again!

3- I got an unusual feeling about my body ( myb someplace hurt, cram, or feel too cold)..

Hrmm, so its better to sleep at a comfortable place and have your alarm ON. You'd wake up refreshed, bodily healthy and ready to go!

*miss my bed* T________T

marah

2010-04-11T04:24:00.000-07:00

Finished god of war 3!

Because something that happened, enraged, angry, berserk, and mad is what I am at the moment..

May I be cooled by something worthy..

Disaster does not smells.

2010-04-10T06:32:00.000-07:00

First of all, I dont like the idiom "Malang tidak berbau". Why? Coz its too common sense. Idk who come up with that term, but i believe its nothing special. "tidak berbau" in direct translation means "no smell".. But in an implicit definition, it means that it is unpredictable, undetectable, unknown until it happen.. Well sure thats seems plausible, but fact is, any other things can be like that.. I could say "nasib baik tidak berbau, result tidak berbau, kekayaan tidak berbau" and it will make sense. More critically, the term itself is not absolute.. Consider a situation where a driver have loose tires, or was drunk.. Can we say that we smell danger? "sure we can!" When a statement is not absolute, it lost it credibility, but i wouldnt say its wrong.. It just that it can still go both ways, it can smell or not smell having given the right situation...

In relation to that, we can see that "ignorance is bliss" is also not absolute and can go both ways.. It can be a bliss, or a disaster.. A bliss example -> A guys who does not know that his house previous owner committed suicide at that house.. Not knowing make the guy live normally *assuming there is no ghost*.. Knowing would possibly make that guy think about it and be bothered.. A disaster example would be a person who break the law but didnt know it.. Today's law pretty much stand by the term "ignorance is not an excuse" so you are still be punished for your crimes even if you dnt know!

Digressed from the main thing that i want to say.. Last friday i took the bus back home as usual.. A women press the bell *ding* to go out of the bus stop.. however, the bus stop that she was suppose to go was temporarily unavailable due to construction so the driver bus said :"I cant let u off here, i'll let you off at the next stop." Women said :"I dont care." So upon arriving at the next stop, the bus driver did not stop. LOL.. so the women was like ":S" as she pressed the button again and again but it did not ring because it only ring once until the driver deactivate the signal.. So she was pissed.. ANd the driver realised it that he missed the bus stop after 20m away from it.. He was Like "OMG, i forgot!".. Idk what get into him, but he started to control the bus strangely *gelabah* and hit a car that coming from the opposite lane! *bam!* I was stunned. i was actually drinking water and it spill out and hit my bag!.. urkhh.. and so a man came out of his car and said "yo wtf man! You just trashed my friend's car! *calling his friend, pissed*.. I was stucked in the bus and they bring another bus to bring us back..

The trashed car...

SAD

2010-04-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

Social Anxiety Disorder.. I think I might have it.. T_T

Social anxiety disorder, also called social phobia, is an anxiety disorder in which a person has an excessive and unreasonable fear of social situations. Anxiety (intense nervousness) and self-consciousness arise from a fear of being closely watched, judged, and criticized by others.

A person with social anxiety disorder is afraid that he or she will make mistakes and be embarrassed or humiliated in front of others. The fear may be made worse by a lack of social skills or experience in social situations. The anxiety can build into a panic attack. As a result of the fear, the person endures certain social situations in extreme distress or may avoid them altogether. In addition, people with social anxiety disorder often suffer "anticipatory" anxiety -- the fear of a situation before it even happens -- for days or weeks before the event. In many cases, the person is aware that the fear is unreasonable, yet is unable to overcome it.

People with social anxiety disorder suffer from distorted thinking, including false beliefs about social situations and the negative opinions of others. Without treatment, social anxiety disorder can negatively interfere with the person's normal daily routine, including school, work, social activities, and relationships.

People with social anxiety disorder may be afraid of a specific situation, such as speaking in public. However, most people with social anxiety disorder fear more than one social situation. Other situations that commonly provoke anxiety include:

Eating or drinking in front of others.
Writing or working in front of others.
Being the center of attention.
Interacting with people, including dating or going to parties.
Asking questions or giving reports in groups.
Using public toilets.
Talking on the telephone.

Social anxiety disorder may be linked to other mental illnesses, such as panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression. In fact, many people with social anxiety disorder initially see the doctor with complaints related to these disorders, not because of social anxiety symptoms.

Taken from : http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/mental-health-social-anxiety-disorder

Secrets

2010-04-03T08:25:00.001-07:00

Demotivational Poster for today:

SECRETS

Everybody have secrets. Some are dark, while some are as bright as day. But usually we tend to keep the dark secret to ourselves. Why? Coz if people know, it might change the situation entirely.. I think secret are spread due to the temptation "I cannot hold it anymore!"

But sooner or later, the temptation of wanting to tell the secret begin to grow. We kept it lock in our heart so much that we wish someone would hear about it and share the pain and sorrow that we felt.

Unfortunately, you got to be careful to whom you share your secret with. Coz some people cant just hold their mouth. They are likely to spill the beans before you know it.

I think the reason in why they like to tell people so much is because:

1- They proud to know the secret and be the one who tell it to others..

2- Possibly think the person wont tell anyone else ESpecially the secret of that person him/herself so there is no harm??

3- They think that people SHOULD know the truth, even though the truth hurts..

This is where I disagree. I don't think people should know the truth to everything. Let say if a guy was drunk and cheated on his wife, and I know the secret, As a friend, SHOULD I tell his wife? I don't think I should.. What I should do though, is possibly advice him, telling him that it is wrong and stuff.. There are times that someone should know the truth, but as a bystander, you don't really have that much power to spread it. Its not fair to the person who has the secret. Let them decide whether to tell or not...

4. Other reason which is unknown to me.

I do hate when people say "I'll tell them that you said that to me!" in a joking way when you tell them your secret.. Do they think that it is something to joke about? People are entrusting you with secrets and you make fun of it.. idk about you, but for those guys i wont share my secret anymore regardless if they tell it to someone or not.. Coz they are potential blackmailers.

Should I even explain why I hate black mailer??

Obviously, because they know your secret, and threatened you to do something for their benefit otherwise they'll spread the news..

The only time I can remember being blackmailed is when I broke into the middle school computer lab to play games ^_^ My friend got busted and said "Barry, if you dnt want us to tell the warden that you also break into the computer lab, then treat us to burger tonight!".. Well i did in fact treat them coz they did withheld not to tell the warden about me so they do deserve it. But I'm sure others have experienced worst...

Don't they?

bus schedule

2010-04-02T07:23:00.000-07:00

Demotivational poster for today:

I know this is an old issue, but i still hv issue with it until now! While having a bus schedule with exact time is necessarily great, it can give u the harapan pulsa (palsu) !!

Exhibit A:

Bus Schedule - 3:23PM

Me standing outside cold - 3:26PM.. Dude where's my bus?

Exhibit B:

Bus schedule - 7:50 AM

At 7:47AM - Me shouting "Wait!!!! NOOOO!! NOOOO! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEEE" *seeing the bus move in front of my eyes 20 yards away, frowned, stunned, mad, helpless*

Exhibit C:

Me:"mio harini takde april fool ke kat campus ko?"

Mio:"OH ade.. Tadi aku tunggu bus, bus tak datang! p*!"

Me:"Erk tu bukan april fool"

Mio:"April fool la tuh.. igt ade bus tp takde!"

Have a nice weekend ^_^

-bri boomer

Dream

2010-04-01T07:29:00.000-07:00

Demotivational Poster for today:

Dream:

Yesterday I had the weirdest dream.. I dont usually hv dream, but when I do, it tend to be long with like 2-3 different dream.. (and i wake up late the morning!!) ... Of course it is hard to remember those dream because its not reality. You dnt really experience them.. But since yesterday was sort of odd, so I can remember it.. most if not all =.="

So the dream start of normally. I was back home in Malaysia.. Probably back in Bndr Tun Hussein Onn .. Not quite sure.. But for some reason, I hated people.. God forbid, I bombed my home when my family was around.. So I act natural, trying to not the police know that I did it.. (sort of like playing mafia and using jiji's innocence face and said "BUKAN AKU!!").. But I figured eventually they'll know.. (guess CSI has a big impact on this notion).. So i was scared.. What should I do.. Hrmm suddenly I remembered a quote from optimus prime of transformers 2 "I'll take you all on!" sure fighting againts the police seems retarded, much less stupid..

So I bombed another place wheres there innocent people living.. OMG what hv i Done?? Theres no turning back now.. You know in CSI where ppl said "criminals tend to go back to their crime scene".. So did I in the dream!! I went back and checked make sure I didnt leave any evidence.. For some reason, People noticed me.. Oh I'm in trouble??

My suspicion came true.. Police cars came "swarming" my house.. Wait, how did I get a new house when my original house was bombed? =.=" (a dream faulty there).. I fled to the back door.. Like a techies using a remote bomb I said "See you die".. BOOOMER BOOM! hrmm how evil I was.. Some police survived the epic explosion.. They still searching for me...

I ran as fast as I can... Remembered a quote from LOTR that gandalf says to Frodo "When you travel, Stay out of the road!' Who am I to surpass the speed of a police car? So yes I hided away from the road, blend myself with nature and buildings.. The police, beginning to comform that it is my crime, looked all out for me..

Search as they may, they'll never find me ^_^

I guess "You can run, but you can't hide" is not necessarily true :/

-bri boomer-

Hell Question.

2010-03-31T05:03:00.000-07:00

Hell Image taken from http://www.trmk.org/images/mkdcu/mkdc_hell_051508v01.jpg

Got an email from a friend and I thought it was interesting.. The email is as follows:

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.

The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :

Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell,then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

I think there is a flaw somewhere. Or it could just mean Hell defy the logic. Interesting answer though.

Lost Key

2010-03-28T18:19:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday we had bbq and played volleyball a bit. It was fun going outside even though it was a bit cold. Unfortunately asip locked the door but lost the key! We search it for like 1hour and decided to call public safety to open up our house with their master key.

Tomorrow I have clinical psychology exam! So nervous =.=

Nikon d5000

2010-03-27T11:33:00.000-07:00

Just bought it last week and I like it very much! My first dslr camera =.=" Still not mastering how to use to its best potential but I think I have a general Idea. Now my main source of tutorial is youtube. Who knew youtube can be more than just an entertainment source.

Registered with Flickr and probably will upload some cool edited pictures there in the future..

Class has been great. Not. So many papers to write. Not fun :/

Alone again. Might as well sleep.. T_T

bad

2010-03-23T08:57:00.000-07:00

This is bad.

Got TA kiasu.

Omg mahu Roger jd TA saya T_T

what to do? So many things to do! Is this the end?

Spring Break

2010-03-05T06:23:00.000-08:00

Finally having my spring break!! what to do? where to go? I want to go somewhere atleast.. It doesnt hv to be far as long as its fun.. more economical if possible : P

Well this spring break is not necessarily a gd feelinsg at first.. Coz I hv midterms and Homework that is due after spring break .. So i guess i couldnt be away too much..

Almost finish playing demon's soul!! only 2 more bosses to go.. it proves that if you dnt give up and practise much, you can do it! (not for all though) wish i could apply this more in academic xD

Weird Dream

2010-02-24T07:16:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, I dream I am a pro Go player. It was really weird! coz i am super bad at go =.=.. so I was hang out with my friends who's also are Pro Goers. But thing in that world, I didnt play go for a while. My friend asked me to play againts random amateur that we can find nearby..

I said to them:
"amateur? Gimme any amateur and i can beat them in 20 moves!"

So my friend hook me up to an amateur that I know of..(manche) We played.. The dream kinda fast forward to the point where I have to make a critical move.. I felt like the game is so complicated and I've become the REAL me, the one that doensnt know how to play go..

In the current game position, I was 3-way trapped by the amateur, he could gain points either by 100, 1000, or 10000.. But i didnt see the 10000 point move... after a while, I moved to avoid the 1000 points.. just to find out that manche moved to take the 10000 points! But then he said it was 30000 points because of the special formation he make.. Idk whats going on but i nodded agreeing it was 30000 (dnt want make myself look like a noob)..

I resigned.. (impossible to make a comeback).. I said to them: "I havent played for a while!! I lost my touch"! I beg to my friend Marcus to teach me how to be pro again but he said "DO YOU THINK ITS EASY TO BE A PRO??" and then we're about to fight.. the dream ends..

what an educational dream :P

Best of luck to my friend

2010-02-22T18:18:00.000-08:00

A very good friend of mine just broke up with his gf..

Apparently he blame the long distance relationship.. College is tough and he had a really bad weeks so he was not in the mood and broke up with his gf..

When he come to his senses and more calm, he tried to make it back to his gf but his gf did not forgive him..

I feel really sad coz I always thought they were very cute together.. I guess long distance is not for everybody.. He did manage to keep it up for years though..

whats done is done.. But its hard to move on.. I know coz ive been stuck in this bad feeling for awhile now... Idk how to go out of this shell.. =.=

Regardless, ive wish him the best of luck.. let us have a more happy life.. slowly, but surely :)

Saya nak cuti

2010-02-14T17:04:00.000-08:00

Apparently, my cousin Zaimah is entering a Mas competition called "Saya nak cuti". Basically the competition is about people introducing themselves and arguing why they deserve to have a free trip. (kinda desperate huh?). Still its a good thing if she win. I mean, really. I myself would love to get a free trip to Hanoi or whatever.. lol..

You guys should totally check her "hillarious" introduction video here and possibly vote:

Imah introduction video

Hrmm... miss malaysia already :/

demon's soul

2010-02-07T18:35:00.000-08:00

bought a game called demon soul for ps3.. dnt really like it but cant return it to the store :\

Me:"But I thought u guys got 7 day return policy?"
Them:"Thats only for unopened games.. If it already opened, you can only change it for a new one if it has a problem."
Me:"But I dont like it"
One of boy staff:"You dont like it? Too hard huh?"
Me: :)
Them:"I am really sorry.. I hope I can help.. You could trade it in for 1/3 of the price"
Me:"So cheap.. I guys I'll Just play it then : ("

left the store, broken hearted..

Global Unification

2010-02-07T12:36:00.000-08:00

Based on my friend's advice, In order for me to improve my sociallness and be less shy, I had to go out and go to events.. Luckily, yesterday there is an event called Global Unification held at RIT which is a good place for me to be less shy, reduce my social phobia and become more social (supportive) : D

Hence, the point of coming there was really to interact with people.. Sure for someone like me, it wasnt an easiy task.. I was quickly overwhelmed by the amount of malay ppl present.. From the familiar faces like pao, naje, freshman, to unfamiliar faces like najmi, mat, jie... But this time I control it a bit... I didnt manage to talk to all of em, but I did manage to make conversation with lot of people.. I guess its true that a simple "Hi" wont hurt..

I think Im improving.. The world of socialness has never been this fun : D I wanna be a better person!! I love people!! LoL

Congratulations to all the performers of MySA and the supporters!! You guys show amazing spirit :) Keep up the good work xD

Root of all evil

2010-02-04T16:03:00.000-08:00

SNOW -> Cant wear nike shoes -> Dry lips -> Blizzard and uber cold > Slippery road (caution!) -> First bus delayed due to snow! -> Bus move slower than ever -> Reached second bus stop but missed the second bus because of the delayed first bus (oh Great!) -> Wait for next one (about 35 minutes) -> Arrived to class late > Owned

So yeah I do love the cute white thing called snow ^_^

Bold

2010-02-03T22:08:00.000-08:00

How can someone be so bold? I feel like ive been shy all my life and I want to discover how to be bold.. People says that well if you want to be bold, you should just ignore what people think about you.. I find that very hard to do.. I always think about myself and ive always avoided attention.. Really need to learn the secret to be more bold and confident o_O

Because when I shy, it usually lead to more negative things like depression, social phobia, anxiety, disjoy.. I never ment to be rude or ignorant to anyone, I just cant handle the pressure of social interaction. (why is there a pressure to begin with?) T_T

Yesterday, when i was taking the bus to the University, A man went inside the bus, saying loudly with energy in his voice "Does anyone have a dollar? I forgot my pass card this morning." No one answered for a sec so I decided to help him.. Ofc I was shy to answer myself, so I decided to (halfly) raise my hand, he sees me and I give him the dollar..

It literally amaze me.. I, even in my wildest dream, I would never do such thing.. Probably in the most desperate situation I would beg the bus driver for mercy (cause it was 1 person attention compared to the whole bus!).. Lately my shyness is getting worse..

This madness has to stop before it get too worse and to the point where I dont have friends anymore.. The feeling is there, just need to "make it work".. Someone also say to me that no matter how smart you are, you wont go far in carreer if you too shy and dont have social skills...

Such a dilemma...

Change

2010-02-02T04:24:00.001-08:00

How many times have I said I wanted to change yet still remain unchanged? Hopefully this time I'll be able to pull this off -.-" Btw mahmud, mls nak wat yg tag2 tu.. yours is interesting though.. mine probably s*** so better not o_O

kiasu

2010-01-26T10:30:00.000-08:00

zomg ..

On my web programming class, there is an assignment where you have to do a web page related to pie.. So our professor, as funny as he always is, said you can have extra credit if you bring your own baked pie to class..!

"Make the pie described in this assignment and bring it to class to share on 1/27/2010. Replace the stock picture of the pie on the web page with your very own pie (or the fun you had baking it)."

we were laughing and ofc, no ppl actually bothered to do such thing.. thats what i originally thought.. but, i was wrong! Turns out there this girl actually make the pie and bring it to class.. Talk about kiasu o_O

sweet~

So the question now, how far are you willing to go for an extra credit ?

A quote came to mind atm:
"I'll do anything for an A" (mak Sam Witwicky from transformers 2 while high, 2009)

Eternal Sonata

2010-01-24T07:46:00.000-08:00

Played a RPG called Eternal Sonata and it was very fun! It was interesting that you can use 3 different controllers to control the 3 different characters in battle. So me, mio, sometime jiji, and asip played it together and we have our own favorite character to play with. Also loved the counterattack and guard system.

Our favorite character:
Mio - Serenade, Beat
Asip - Viola, Falsetto
Me - Fredrick, Salsa
Jiji - Crescendo, Polka

It also has very cool HD graphic.. One flaw is probably because of its story is too long... After this I'm waiting for other 3 rpg games to choose from (which is not released yet):
1.White Knight Chronicles.
2.Star Ocean.
3.FF XIII

While thats fun and all, recently I learn how to convert base 10 numbers to binary numbers (base 2).. You learn that in school before.. Like how 5 in base 10 is 101 in binary.. But what I learn is a bit more complicate.. Like convert 3.46x10^5 to binary number or something o_O Still not sure how to do it, so I guess I hv to read the notes back :\ (though I doubt how knowing to do that actually matters.. For exam sake I guess?)

Am I alone?

2010-01-21T17:44:00.000-08:00

I just IMed my friend zati, my chess mate during high school, and the the only same batch MARA student who is the same like me, Persuing Computer Science..

Barry: hi zati
Zati: hiiiiii
Zati: long time no see
Barry: ko dah start kelas ek (Did you start class already?)
Zati: da (yup)
Zati: ko wat pe tue/ (what are you doing)
Zati : ?
Barry: so ko skrg major ape? : P (what are you majoring now?)
*already suspected she changed major because she was taking really weird class b4*
Zati : food engineering
Zati : :D
Barry : ..........
Barry : what happen to cs?
Zati: hahahahahhahahaha

And Muni told me before that a lot of JPA student in our batch also changed major.. Well this is really discouraging.. Thank god I also indulge myself with psychology.. Hopefully my plan on getting double major works :p

Most important of all, I just discovered lately that I just want to be a MRSM (high school) teacher! lololol >.<

quitting dota.. its near!

2010-01-14T08:48:00.001-08:00

A song by drayich.. change baby to barry xD

Hundred creeps have made you stronger
but its so long since we saw your pretty face
Teamfight after teamfight you been farming
said your tp was cd
Since level1 weve been separate
We need your help now, cuz soon it is too late

We go top without you baby
but this time you said "i got bots"
you tp in when were dead
the damage you deal is simply just to much
they try to fight our baby
but after golem they're to low
and fanboys writes in forums, damn this baby put up a show

After finishing buriza
he goes for MKB to get that ministun

And all our team goes bottom, exept
for baby killin maiden just for fun

Where here without you baby
but he rebuys and tps in
he deals alot of damage
were closing in upon an easy win
we go to roshan maybe
i get the hounor to carry his null
you took both cheese and aegis
and now your inventory is so full
we here without you baby
but now you backdoored their rax
where not angry with you
you carried us to win a game atlast

were here without you baby
and you are so professional
what could we do without you
i love to stay and carry your null

A Bus Driver that never stop talking..

2010-01-13T05:28:00.001-08:00

Every weekday I take the bus to U of R at the same time. So everytime I ride the bus, I will encounter the same bus driver again and again.. And Oh My, He never stop talking!! This morning is the first day of class... Hence the first day I meet him after 3weeks++.. Surprisingly, no one elese is in the bus.. So I sat at the front because he probably wanna talk to me.. and so he did =.="

Bus Driver: Hows you vacation? Did you go home?

Me: No, I just stay here.

Bus Driver: Last 3 weeks, I was working bla bla bla

My response was alternating between each of this-> Yeah? wow? haha! Nice.. mm hmm : )

After what seems like forever and he started to pause for like 1 second. finally over?...

Bus Driver: Last 3 week work was bad.. I wont even let my worst enemy go through that! No No

Me: .........................

Bus Driver: MYB, it was nice to be back.. working my regular shift.. I wont work in the break anymore.. I meet some nice people too.. Like you...

Me: (Atashi-mo?) ?? *flattered but dnt think i deserve such praise.. im bad at social*

Bus Driver: Its good to talk to some one while working.. It makes your work ...

Me Thinking -- "More fun?"

Bus Driver : easier!

*interesting choice of word =.='*

Bus Driver: when are you graduating? This year?

God, this guy always goes around a conversation does he....

Me:Next Year...

Bus Driver: So Im going to see you then until next year..

Me: Yea! *faking but make it believable*

*the small talk continue about college, food, my home *

(oh finally its over.. who knew a guy can talk so much in 10 minutes)

Bus Driver: You Have a Good Day!

Me: You too.. Have a Good one : D *not faked but more of a social norm lol*

I guess its better to talk alot then not talking at all? Seriously, I need to learn how to talk -.-"

Jigsaw Puzzle

2010-01-11T13:36:00.000-08:00

I never solved a jigsaw puzzle in my life. One day, when i went to walmart with my friends, I saw a jigsaw puzzle of New York City.. I remembered a jigsaw puzzle of dragon ball on my nephew house and it seems awesome.. So i decided to buy it and do it during this winter break..

Fortunately, there are friends coming to my house and we did it together.. Though they probably do 80% of the puzzle, i think i did a pretty good job : P Instead of using the whole winter break as I originally thought, the puzzle finished in one night! Awesomeness~

Establishing the frame

Progressing..

Its done! :D

Credit to this two Jigsaw Specialist ^^

Dates

2010-01-10T14:10:00.000-08:00

Even though I am single right now and probably will still be for a long time, I also have dated in the past.. Though I dont want to spark any love memories coz it might led me to think back to that person, or rather give me harapan palsu (false hope), I think its fairly fun to share my best and worst date of all time XD

Best Date:

KIV.. Cant really decide which one is the best atm : (

Most Memorable Date:

It was when I met Mrs S for the first time outside school... It was long ago.. In fact, you cant even call it a date coz I was with my friend, waiting for her at mamak :P (Not just the two of us) My friend was constantly harass her with like weird questions so I didnt manage to talk much to her. She was just a friend.. She did came alone with a motorcycle, and we talked for awhile, and take some pictures.. . She has a nice smile and nice eyes.. We loss contact coz she changed her phone number.. Untill now Im still wondering what happened to her .. All that is left is her picture -.-"

Most Interesting:

For me, the most interesting date of all, or would i say foolish? was this time when I went on a date to watch a late night movie.. So we met somewhat evening-ish, walk together, talk, eat and all that normal date stuff untill night probably at 10/11 or something.. Im not exactly sure.. So we were watching this movie untill it ended. One problem arises, how the hell are suppose to get home!! IT was midnight, neither I or her have a car.. We came by public transportation and now they are all out of service... Shoot!! How ? How ? How ??

I dont really know.. it was 2 am.. All I can think of is taking taxi so we went outside to see if there is taxi around.. It was at Mid Valley so I figured taxi might cost a lot and well I dont wanna waste my money on taxi... Should I stay till morning and catch the KTM train? We were both helpless and dont really know what to do.. Before we now it, it was already 3 am in the morning... Then, the most dreadfull thing occured..

"You there, stay where you are!" A Mall Guard (pak gat) shouted at us while walking towards us.. My heart was beating fast.. "What should i do? What should I do? SHould I run??" Yes I was thinking of running.. I cant bear to be caught.. Im scared.. But.. I was thinking.. "If i ran, what would she think of me? can she keep up to my pace? No she cant.. she'll get caught.. It might be the end of us" :O this is futile.. So I didnt move.. We were caught, red handed T_T

So the Pak gat began his lecture "YOu guys bla blab, wat ape kat sini bla bla,, tgh2 malam ni.. bla bla.. kang kene culik ibu bapa yg susah bla bla.." To my surprise, my gf at that time did not know he was a pak gat!! even when it obvious with his uniform and everything LOOOL.. So she replied "OOI ko ingat ko ni sape ha??? SUke hati je datang2 sound orang.. bla bla " Wow that is my first time know she can be this fierce -_-" Pak gat then replied saying he is a guard and everything, but my gf was still in disbelief and mock back at that guard .. O EM Jii...

But then I convinced her that he is, after all, an imba pak gat.. So she apologized and the pak gat continued his lecture :\ At the end of it, he said: "Mak bapak korang tau tak korang kat sini.. Nak ke pak cik bgtau mak bapak korang"..I said: Jangan pak cik! Jangan! Kami bersalah. Kami tak nak bgtau mak bapak.. xnak risaukan dyroang.. hontoni, onegaishimas! -_-" So our plea got through and he agreed to let us sleep somewhere outside the building.. At 6/630am when the train and bus started to operate again we return home and swore never to watch the late night movie again.. Unless if we have cars : D

Worst Date:

It was back then, when i was young and naive.. I was chatting with this girl online in which ive never met in my life.. then surprisingly, this girl chat began to become more personal and stuff, the she said she wanna go out with me to watch movie or something..

I was hesitant.. coz well i didnt know her and stuff, but since I thought it would be interesting and spare time to kill, I go anyway.. And not just go to somewherre nearby! It was at seremban ffs.. Its my first time being there.. what can possibly go wrong o_O

Upon arrival, she was already waiting for me with her friend.. So when I met her, no offense, but she was like this huge, black and tall girl. Lets call her Mrs N.. Even taller than I am.. I tried to run but oh noes, she and her friend already spotted me! So my face was like -_-"" Hi? Surely I prayed to god that it was her friend that is the one im chatting with.. coz her friend was cute.. I think.. But No.. Things are not always go the way we wanted huh?
So eventually, we met up with Mrs N friend's boyfriend so off we go into a double date.. :\
So when we were waiting to buy the ticket, Mrs N was clinging to me like crazy.. I try to avoid but not as much to make myself look rude.. During the movie, god knows what she tried to do.. Make me wonder : "Is this girl a wh***? o_O Ohhh myyy~

So in the end I did not manage to watch the movie properly.. we went to eat at mcdonald afterwards.. At some point, Mrs N and her friend went to the bathroom, so i was chatting with Mrs N friend's bf, He laughly asked "How come you ended up with her? My face was red but i cant really answer that >.< We did talk a bit and one thing I remember is he from SASA..

So after that, I went home, taking a 1 hour bus back to KL.. When the bus started moving, I sat in relief, then she texted me: "So what do you think of me?" .. I leave my text answer to your imagination :P

Gosh what a nightmare.. Lesson learned, do not believe online community that you havent met in real life! Even if they have cute names like puteri_cinta or gadisAyu they probably just some fat girls xD

Pet 3

2010-01-07T10:57:00.000-08:00

I know this is too soon, but my silver molly fish died! T___T

I havent even name him yet.. After his death, we decided to call him sumpmolk.. Farewell sumpmolk : (

A picture of Sumpmolk after harassed and went to seclusion..

Quote from his Master, Barry Boomer , 2010

"He was a fine fish.. sob sob.. so fine that his body sparks as the moonlight shines upon him.. I know he was special since the first day I own him.. sob .. sob.. Hence the other fish, Murloc and Himtrusa always harass him.. Led him into seclusion.. Sumpmolk, your die shall not be in vain! I shall punish the other two fish by not giving them food for 2 days! T__T"

So now I'll wait and see whether himtrusa and murloc can survive for a few weeks.. Then I might add a new member to the aquarium -.-''

Pet 2

2009-12-22T05:40:00.000-08:00

Finally bought 3 fish! It is all the same type of fish which is molly fish.. three in color, gold, silver and black.. The black one has a yellow fin tail..( I like the black fish the most coz he is agressive and it look awesome -.-") Havent really decided to name them yet.. All of em are pretty traumatic at first but now they seem to get the hang of it in my small 5 gallon tank lol

A video during their snack time -.-"

Pet

2009-12-17T14:55:00.000-08:00

I never had a pet in my life..

Sure I have encountered different type of pet like cat, dog, fish, chicken and turtle.. But I nvr take care one of my own.. So I decided to take care of fish! Just bought a 5 gallon(18L) small aquarium tank! Havent really decided what fish should I buy but am considering neon tetra and angel fish o_O

Hopefully, I'll get to buy one soon ^_^

Angel Fish

Neon Tetra

emo

2009-12-13T04:12:00.000-08:00

erm one day, I asked my friend "hey lets go eat outside to celebrate that class is over! Dinner on me"
X:"seriously?"
Me:"Yeah! I'll invite Y too"
X:"where should we go?"
Me:"wherever you want"
X:"Your treating so you pick the place"
Me: Browsing* Yeah lets go here!
X:Its expensive!
Me: looking at the menu and it was about your average restaurant price.. "........." dude this is standard lol..
X:oh ok...

The moment have come..
X:"I cant find Y"
Me:"If Y not coming, im not coming......"
X:"Oh ok"
Me:"We could go some other time like tomorrow"

Tomorrow*

Y:"I dont think i have too much time to go to that restaurant. Why dnt go somewhere faster?"
Me:"faster like McDonalds?"
Y:"I'll IM X.."
Me:"X, Y said he wanted to go to somewhere faster"
X:"Forget it, I'm not going!"
Me:"erk why?"
X:"No reason"

lolz.. ended up not going anywhere.. my money is saved but actually i wanted to go out so that i can stop buy at walmart to buy stuff : (

arctic dungeon

2009-12-10T06:16:00.000-08:00

Snow! We meet again! Coz of u, the roads are slippery. Hence, the bus move slower.. Making me arrive late at campus.. Snows are beautiful but they are also extremely annoying.. Seeing snow, I just remembered the skill arctic dungeon from the game Blazblue. It was a really good 1v1 fighting game with superb graphics.. HD ftw~

Both Assip favorite character : Noel vs Laichi

I also started to play yugioh 5d - tag 4 on my psp.. You know how these days students are like extremely busy? Don't really have the time to duel to gain DP's to buy booster pack :p (Not to mention i was kinda dnt know how to use the new card combo so i had to watch the anime to learn about it XD) So why bother? Activate your cheat to get all the cards! Sure its not the same then getting the cards by urself .. but oh well.. I wish I could send my psp back to msia so that my little brother rahman can play it.. I know he's such a big fan of yugioh.. -.-"

Hrmm really.. Games is good and all.. But it would be more fun once in a while to go outside and chill with friends.. I think this friday im going to go out and celebrate the end day of class! Winter break here i come!!

American Culture

2009-12-04T02:49:00.001-08:00

I really liked some american culture.. In general, American people are very polite.. I dont know if its true just in rochester but they are super polite! lol...

First of all, they never rebut2 when naek bus.. Usually like in malaysia, when they are many ppl wanted to take the bus, they usually rebut2 coz they dnt want to be the one who is standing inside the bus.. Americans do care about that too in some sense.. They wanted to go inside the bus early so they can sit, but they never go as far as too push ppl, himpit2, and all those crazy stuff just to go inside the bus -.-"

Secondly, let say if you are in a situation where you are in a hallway and you wanted to go through a door.. If an american guy is in front of you, even if he was a bit far, if he reach the door first, he would look back to see if there is any other ppl and he would literally hold the door open for you so that you can go inside without opening the door.. You'll say: "Of course everybody does that!" Not really... Im not being rude or anything, but I hardly see any Asian hold the door for you..Unless if your super close that he can notice you without looking back :P Well I guess its because of Asian culture are not used to that..

thirdly, when you want to cross a road, Cars will stop and let pedastrian cross the road first.. and when this happen, the american pedastrian will raise his hand to the driver of the car as a sign of thank you, and the driver would also raise his hand as a sign of your welcome... Ive seen this happen many time.. Even when Im driving with my friend he was like "look at this kid, i let him cross the road and he didnt even look at me or say thanks. V*tch!".

I hv become more familiar with this type of american culture and always remembering myself to hold the door for ppl and raise your hand for the driver that waits you cross the road.. Sure u dnt really hv to.. But being polite is what makes the world a better place ^^

elevator conandrum..

2009-11-12T16:55:00.001-08:00

On One hectic day, I was running through the library office, searching for my lecturer mailbox to take a book I left on her office yesterday. It was such a pain because it was on the 4th floor (the highest floor possible for the library).. *Searching* Found it! As I was planning on going back to go down by the stairs, I saw the elevator! (Its annoying coz the elevator was as slow as a turtle can possibly move even though the library only has 4 floors!)
Still, I decided to take the elevator for now..

Waiting... 1 min passed.. 2 mins.. (AAAA might as well take the stairs?) *getting impatience and started to stare at the door that leads to the stairs* Suddenly, and old lady came out from the stairs door(Lets call her Mrs X). Oh I watched Mrs X as she approached me and waited by my side at the elevator..

Took me a few seconds to notice something odd. Do you? LoL.. This is the highest floor, and she just came from a lower floor BY STAIRS and she wanted to go down? That doesnt make sense to me.. I look at her and I look at the elevator button. (No up button).. Look at her again, look at the button.. She noticed that I look at her so she looked at me.. No choice.. have to talk :\

Me:"Is this elevator going up?" (Later I realized how dumb this question was.. :|)
Mrs X:"Haha there is no up from here. Of course I'm going down!"(wow sarcastic makcik!!)
Me:"*confused* Well I just want to make sure"
Mrs X *giggled*
Me:??? "well the reason I asked because I saw you came from downstairs. Why you want to go down from here when you can go down from the lower level elevator?"
Mrs X:"Actually...I.."

*cant seem to hear what she says.. the answer remain a mystery TT

halloween costume

2009-11-08T06:44:00.000-08:00

I know I probably should have written about this a long time ago.. turns out i kept delaying to the point where speaking it now might be lame lol.. but what the heck.. ill talk about halloween :D

Our house held a halloween party last friday.. "Well, basically we just want to have fun. No intention in celebrating Halloween."(afnan, 2009)

Hrmm I was reluctant to buy halloween costume.. Simply coz its too expensive.. ($30+ for a one night costume? Luck that! XD) Still, I have to wear something? "asip, Can I be a boxer?"(simply becoz i bought a boxing gloves 3 days back for fun)
Asip"yes you can! anything works!" Me:"....." (monologue:"If i were to be a boxer, dnt I have to wear shorts with no shirt? zomg no way)

So I went to southtown plaza with my fren Hoang and a new fren Tim.. Tim was like "You should be a pedophile! Come in the party half naked" .. LoL Tim.. Hoang" You know what you shoulld be Barry?" Me"What?" HOang:"A Jamaican Pot dealer!" Tim" haha yeah! It would be cool if you have the real pot too !" Me"...... yeah,, a jamaican pot dealer with an asian face!" lol.. Browsing through the adult costume section "WOW $70! its demm expensive! No way im buying this **it " Alright lets go to the kids part ^_^ Oh wow, $12 bucks! It said "UNKNOWN PHANTOM" : D

Well I dnt think anybody can guess what kind of ghost i am.. The name speaks for itself "Unknown phantom" LOL.. and also I hardly wear the thing on my head coz it clouds my vision and makes it a bit harder to breathe.

the unknown phantom : P

We played a lot of Spontan Games too... I record it but it was a bit dark in the house so you can hardly see it..

The first game "Perbualan mengikut abjad." Each of them have to make conversations alphabettically ordered. They start from J so, will be followed by K, L, M, N etc..

The last game was "soal menyoal". THey have to answer a question USING a question!

and some other games from my youtube video:

Barry Youtube

2009-10-29T17:37:00.000-07:00

Finally, an entry. Yes I've been busy. At least I pretend to be.. -.-"

This past few week had been impossible for me. I dont like to talk about academics simply coz ppl dnt really care even though I have like a 5-10 pages single spaced due last week! Yeah and my grammar sucks.. I just realize it.. ZOMG .. Here's a comment from my TA "Finally, if you fail to get help with your writing in the next paper, I will take off substantial credit in each assignment. Please see me if you do not understand this." Seriously, how could I do not understand that? LoL.. (myb some1 with good grammar sense can help me correct my paper.. Though you might get annoyed by how much mistakes i made.. no joke :o ) my father is going to kill me.. he's always like "So barry, what does 2 years in America teach u?" Me:"...." Though in my heart, I wanted to say "NOTHING!"

Ok myb not nothing.. I am doing something here.. Or so I thought o_O Last week the University of Rochester Pi Delta Psi is hosting yet another dota tournament! It was cohosting with the CSUG (computer science undergraduate council) Lan Party where ppl bring Xbox to play Hailo and Brawl.. There is free pizza and pepsi :p Gladly to say that, I won the tournament!! I am so happy and I could not believe it.. Credit to my teammates Farmer and Nick for such awesome teamwork ^^ I hope this tournament can be continued in the future..

What it is like inside the room

People playing brawl! Nick own them with Yoshi.

4 ppl Hailo :o

Financially, I am doing quite bad.. A lot of money is spent on food.. CAN I NOT EAT? lol.. Nevertheless, I am trying to do stocks exchange.. Investing! yeah! Apparently I have a nice friend that are willing to help me learn.. Yeah I need money to buy a car.. Everyday I waste 45 mins to go to campus and another 45 mins to go back home.. Would be nice to own car..Hope I make enough money to buy it..

I am happy that people use my PS3 to play games notably little big planet.. I bought the ps3 but i realise I am not really a fan of games other than dota.. -.-"

Travel? Well I havent moved a lot.. I did go to DC before but that was like ages ago.. It was fun seeing the white house and the nice environment near the Abraham Lincoln Monument with some nice friends.. I also went to the Eastmen Kodak Theater with 2 awesome friend to watch an Orchestra playing! It was such an awesome orchestra with a violin solo!! It was so good that I falled asleep halfway! LoL Yes Orchestra is not for me :-s So we went out and have a nice coffee drink at Spot .. My friend likes to make gay jokes.. At that coffee cafe, I asked "Is there any other interesting place to go at Rochester?" and he was like "Well you could go to a gay stripper club". ZZZZZz Yeah there are lot of things that i wanted to say but cant due to its censority. Lolz..

Regardless, Hope u guys doing fine too and Have a nice weekend ~

-Barry-

2009-10-02T15:17:00.000-07:00

I'll be going to DC this weekend.. I didnt wanted to go.. but was forced due to peer pressure.. Abraham Lincoln, here i come.. I hope u become animated like in the night at the muzeum 2 -.-"

I am broke! I should have saved my money for traveling. But instead I bought a PS3, an Acoustic guitar (In which I dont know how to play and havent tuned it yet) and a Digital drum ( dnt know play drums either).. I bought it coz i think its cool to learn it.. . Ironically enough, my motivation for music actually starts from playing the rock band game from ps3 o_O.. However, it seems very heard to learn as time is of the essence.. Mind got confused between dota, music, movies, studying ???

Trivial - i also bought a lots of other stuff like headphones, amplifier, netflix, a new ram for my netbook, textbooks.. Clearly im too boros atm..

Have a nice weekend ^_^

leverage

2009-09-17T17:36:00.000-07:00

Wow I watched leverage first episode and it was really great! Its about a genius guy who lost his son to an insurance company. He then seeks justice to any corporate individual who runs dirty business.. Along with his team (1 computer specialist, 1 fighter, 1 thief, 1 actor, and he himself as the mastermind) they make an excellent combination!!

from left, fighter, actor, leader, thief, tech

a chat about god?

2009-09-15T04:33:00.000-07:00

It was a fine evening where a class that should end at 315 ended up at 220.. lol.. Me and my friend was just hang out there, killing time..

H: So Barry, what are you going to do after this?
B: I think Im going to head home taking the bus at 240.
H: Im going to the Sue B to take new pictures.. I am over 21 now and I need to change my student ID...
B: Oh I already changed mine! Here look..
H:Oh wow, wtf thats really a long name.. Look at that!
B: haha.. yeah I know.. I get that a lot..
H: hey, do you drink?
B:I cant drink. My religion forbids. You drink?
H:All the time dude.
B:Why you dont believe in god?
H:Becoz I dont think god exist.
B:Then how do you explain where we come from?
H:DUDE, chemistry! You know like how early age things are different, and as time goes one, the world evolved..
B:lol but where does the early age things came from?
H:Well if god creates all the stuff, then who create god?
B:God is pre -existing.
H: And how do you explain that?
B: I cant. God just pre exist by its powerfull powers..
H:*Laughing in disbelief* I was before in buddhism but then i believe biology makes more sense to me..
B:OK, what if god does exist and u are raised after u die, n u go to hell?
H: then im screwed. Sh*t happens all the time!
B:but ur in hell forever! while life is at most about 100 years..
H:well then thats a risk im willing to take.. Dude, just live your life!
B:alright... I think its time.. lets go..

alright, failed to convince him that god exist.. he just doesnt want to believe :\

jet lag

2009-09-14T01:18:00.000-07:00

How to cure jet lag? I found myself sleeping in the most bizarre time possible..
eg:
530pm
630am
900pm

You would think that sleepy can be cured by washing your face or drink coffee.. turns out its not that simple ..

Traffic Jam in a small road?

2009-09-11T14:25:00.000-07:00

It was a first time I have experienced a traffic jam at mt hope, rochester -.-"

As usual, I was riding the RTS bus to Mt Hope.. Suddenly it stopped at a road and OMG there's like 35+ cars in front of us. That road was never jammed before. "Maybe there's an accident at front?" Yes that seems like a typical hyphotesis when your on a road.

After what seems like forever, the car line never moved and more cars came from behind. People are starting to get impatient , honning and little by little they decided to take alternate route. In which the bus sticks to that road coz well it is really a skema bus to begin with. But we moving little by little(due to cars getting out of line to take alternate route).

From afar, the traffic light is still red.. what the??? And then, as if a spell casted to the traffic lights, it changes to green without going thru the yellow color. OMG GOGOGO!

Yes, car moved. But... They say miracles are too good to be true, well, turns out they are! After approximately 11 secs (yes I have no keje other then counting how long the green light last) it turned back to red!! the ??? Ok after a long hellish wait of red (I think its more than 7 mins coz it feels really long) the 11 sec green came back! GOOGOGOGOGOGOOOGO

(turns out the traffic light is the problem. I dont know if it is changed but the red light seems way longer than usual n the green was like as short as (cant seem to find a gd example)...)

BAM! Red again.. "........."

THe buss still 20m far from the bus stop.. But considering the situaation, I wanted to hop off. As my dad always says"Dont waste time!" .. I said"can I go out here?" Luckily where he stop got a bus stop sign.. Otherwise I got to hear that annoying yet familiar lecture "DO YOU SEE A STOP SIGN HERE?? THERES NO STOP.. I CANT JUST STOP AT WHERE YOU WANT! PEOPLE WILL GET MAD" if I was in malaysia I imagined the bus driver would say something like "IGT BUS NI BAPAK KO PUNYE? KANG KENE SAMAN SAPA NAK BAYAR" wakaka

Anyways, I did hopped off. To my amazement, I reached the next bus stop faster than the bus and saved like 5 mins ^^ YAY ME! lol.. Conclusion of this event? humans can be faster than machines :D

Time is running short, mortal..

2009-08-30T17:45:00.000-07:00

There are lots of things that is happening to me during the summer.. Although I love summer very much, I felt ready.. Ready to feel the hardship and the complexity of the Fall. Maybe Im too overconfident. Maybe Im too eager. Maybe I have underestimate the Fall.. The quote from the movie transformers "The Fallen shall rise again" somehow seems to bug me.

Nevertheless, I cant afford to stay here much longer.. The thought of missing class is already worrying me enough. This Fall, just myb, I am aiming to get above 3.7.. Although it might not seems like much to some, yet it is already a hardcore target for me -.-" Yes there's a lot of things in life that I began to see its importance. It might be too late for me. But even late is better than nothing.

My only regret is I wasnt able to meet my old best friend.. Naimullah (not a real name).. He was fun to be with, cunning and a romeo to girls.. (or should I say an alligator? lol).. I guess we can meet up after another 2 years -.-".. he did send a message however, stating "Friendship Never Die" and yes it kinda touch my heart a bit and I hope we will hv a chance to rendezvous sometime in the future..

Packing.. wait.. what is there to pack? FOOD.. lol.. I'm not really a good cooker myself, but I do hope that buying more perencah n stuff will help me improve :D lalala.. I was impressed by Hawa's cooking.. the taste is so rich.. Ah, tgh puasa right now, cant think of food o_O

Music

2009-08-28T16:52:00.000-07:00

Seeing my brother, rauf so good in playing guitar n drums, I am inspired to learn to play musical instrument.. I know, at this age, it might be hard for me to learn. Aiming to buy a cool n hopefully not-to-expensive digital drum set and a acoustic guitar once I reach US (thanks for the convenience online shopping) -.-"

Planning on myb buying this. AN OSP DD-502 MKII Digital Drum Set... Is it gd? o_O

Aaah still, There's are a lot of things that needs to be done when I'm back in US like

1. Catch up with class. ( I'm already absent for 3 day of class when I reach there).
2. Catch up with Hong. (Need to discuss about psychology class n our plan to try market investment)
3.Catch up with Mior and Hasif (About house stuff, storage, unpacking, cleaning, billing)
4. Catch up with Prof Zucherman (Social Psychology research class, need contach him asap?)..
5.Catch up with Nick ( For CS issue n planning n myb yet another Fall dota tournament? lol)
6.Catch up with Marty (for CS advising - so confused coz the cs department has moved from an art and science department to the engineering department thus making some changes in the major requirement).
7.Catch up with other friends ( for life sake :D)

So much to do!! SO MANY CLAM SO LITTLE TIME!! :D

genting

2009-08-20T22:50:00.000-07:00

Went to genting last thursday!! It was a blast!! I guess u can get a detailed story from my facebook photo album : ) http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=100681&id=528328166&l=49632495ed But if there's anything I learn from that trip, it is:

1. If you're going for a one day , no sleepover, go there early!(we reach there 215pm -.-)
2. Bring load of cash! (if you think of playing a lot..) Things there are expensive... eg Rumah hantu Rm17. Snowworld rm17 but you cant bring your camera.. have to buy picture from its merchant but cost like rm15+ or so..
3. Last bus to kl central is 830pm!! But there is another bus terminal going to stesen monorail titiwangsa at 11pm.. But it was really far from the skyway o_O
4. Last ktm train is before 12am!! (ended up sleeping at kl central becoz of this)
5. A lot of the indoor ride are for family thus making it unworthy if u get urself an indoor pass.
6. I cant seem to find a swimming pool!! penat bawak baju mandi segala -.-" So I think its better not aiming for mandi there at all.. (plus the weather is a bit cold)..
7. Jangan naek go kart!! Beratur 1 jam but the go kart was as slow as hell!! haha.. hardly use break at all.. but then again, i dnt think u can affort to not playing that when ur there.. Only after u play it u'll be like "oo what a waste of time" n i wish i was there to say "told u so! LoL"..
8.Erm an advice from an chinese uncle we met at the skyway which i doubt to be usefull " if you wanted to go inside the casino, get yourself a forged indon passport or something.. Malay arent allowed to go in for obvious reasons.." :P

Ramadhan datang lagi!! Selamat berpuasa rakan2.. Dont forget to puasa from all the bad deeds also.. May god bless u all.

Name tak serius maen dota?

2009-08-13T19:01:00.000-07:00

I was playing dota with my Taiping friends zahir, yed, afirul.. suddenly an annonimous people join our game..
User account name : Seluar
LoL! Kicked by host(zahir)..
Seluar: Why kick me?
Zahir(krictz): Name macam tak serius je nak maen dota..
Me(bri_boomer): Nak sgt seluar pegi la beli kat kedai levi ke.. ade ke username name seluar??? takley belah tol..
Firul(berlios):Weh biar la dia maen.. aku nak maen ngan seluar!!
Zahir: Karang leaver?
Firul: Takpe seluar meh top..
*ended playing with seluar anyway despite the ridiculous name* -.-"

JFK EWR

2009-08-10T19:22:00.000-07:00

In dilemma of buying tickets from Newark to Rochester!! If I buy a ticket from newark airport to rochester, it would cost me $238.. However, if I went there from JFK airport, that would cost me only $74! But then I had to deal with travelling from Newark to JFK!! Well It only cost $30 to take a bus to JFK airport.. But I guess I have no choice.. I have to take the NEwark -> JFK -> Rochester if I want cheaper flight..(238 - 30-74 = $134 saved)... Aaah.. what a pain -__-"

Nokia 5800 Xpress Music

2009-08-09T01:34:00.000-07:00

I went to Mines Wonderland with my brother to buy hand phones. My budget was around RM600 with Sony Ericsson Brand in mind... However, after an exhausting search I want to buy a sony ericsson W595 for Rm700.. Im a lil bit off budget but the phone seems really cool o_O
But then I look at a Sony Ericsson W705 cost about rm980.. Wah ini ade wi-fii 3g segala.. screen pun besar..

Then the promoter says : Kalo awak nak WiiFii n screen besar baek awak amek ni : He show me a Nokia 5800..

It has a really big-touch screen.. I was in Love!! literally.. I dnt know if its the design or the touch feature, but I decided I wanted it and asked for the price.. It seems quite reasonable and I bought it.. OMG im so broke after this -_-"

Btw, I found this interesting article"21 Reasons Why Nokia 5800 is better than Apple Iphone"

Well I cant really say it is better than iphone coz both has its special quality I guess? But one thing for sure, I <3 align="center">21 Reasons Why Nokia 5800 is better than Apple Iphone

We get lots of requests to compare in detail Nokia 5800 with Apple Iphone 3G. Here are some reasons we believe Nokia 5800 is way ahead than Iphone-

1) Size
The iphone is bigger in size and uneasy for one hand grip. Nokia 5800 is designed to fit well into your hands. Being smaller in width, it’s easy to operate single handedly.
Iphone size: 115.5 X 62.1 X 12.3 mm
Nokia 5800 size: 111 X 51.7 X 15.5 mm

2) Weight
Iphone is much bulkier than Nokia 5800. Nokia 5800 is 25g lighter than Iphone in weight.
Iphone: 133g
Nokia 5800: 109g

3) Screen Resolution
The Iphone has 3.5” screen while Nokia 5800 has 3.2” but the resolution of 5800 is far more superior to Iphone.
Resolution:
Iphone: 480 by 320
Nokia 5800: 640 by 360

4) Storage
Iphone comes with two options- 8GB & 16GB internal memory. Nokia has a more flexible option to offer 8GB with micro SD card which is expandable upto 16GB. Nokia owners can expand memory size according to needs which the Iphone guys can’t do.

5) Input Methods
Iphone: Finger only.
Nokia 5800: Finger, stylus, plectrum, handwriting recognition.

6) Features
Apple Iphone has lots of missing features like cut and paste function, saving email attachments, no support for third party headphones, ringtones, applications, many software bugs and other technical glitches. Nokia 5800 Tube has no such issues plus many more amazingfeatures included.

7) Colors
Iphone: Black for 8 & 16 GB, White for 16 GB only.
Nokia 5800: Red, Blue and Black.

8 ) Battery
Nokia 5800 provides upto 35 hrs of music playing time against Apple Iphone which claims just 24 hrs. Overall battery power (talktime/standby) is also about 30% more in Nokia 5800. What more, 5800 has a removable battery which Iphone lacks.
Iphone: 5 hrs talk-time, 300 hrs standby, not removable.
Nokia 5800: 8.8 hrs talk-time, 406 hrs standby, removable battery.

9) Camera
Iphone: 2 MP, no flash, no zoom, no additional camera.
Nokia 5800: has a 3.2mp camera, 3x digital zoom with Carl Zeiss lens,professional optics, autofocus, zoom, and flash compared to the iphones 2mp cheap optics. A second camera in front is available for video calling/conferencing.

10) Video Calling
Iphone: No Video calling possible in Iphone.
Nokia 5800: Video calling is possible.

11) Video Recording
IPhone: No option for video recording.
Nokia 5800: Video recording is included.

12) Music Service
Iphone: Paid service with Apple Itunes Store. You pay and download music to your Iphone.
Nokia 5800: “Comes with music” service is bundled with Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic phone by which you can download as much music as you want for 1 year- FREE!!

13) Voice Dialing
Iphone: Not Available
Nokia 5800: Available

14) Voice Recording
IPhone: Not Available
Nokia 5800: Available

15) Web Browser
Iphone: Webkit based Safari browser, no flash available.
Nokia 5800: Webkit based browser, supports flash lite.

16) FM Radio
Iphone: Not Available
Nokia 5800: Available

17) Bluetooth
Iphone: Bluetooth is available for just handsfree, no file sharing possible.
Nokia 5800: Bluetooth available for handsfree and file sharing is possible. Better audio quality on bluetooth in 5800 with A2DP technology which Iphone lacks. The 5800 supports stereo bluetooth. The iphone does not.

18) Messaging
Iphone: It does not support message forwarding, multiple SMS deletion, sending SMS to multiple recipients and multimedia messages (MMS).
Nokia 5800: All the above is possible plus it has MMS ver 1.3, message size upto 600kb, and automatic resizing of Images for MMS.19) GPS The Nokia 5800 has a GPS receiver with turn by turn directions. The iphone does not have turn by turn

20) The OS
The 5800 runs symbian s60 which means that you have the ability to install any number of programs on it, such as a different internet browser or multimedia player. Apple does not allow apps in the app store that mimic the official apps. there are internet browsers available for the 5800 that have embedded flash. the safari browser on the iphone is html only.

21) Experience
Nokia: Ages of experience, hundreds of success stories and dozens of smart handsets in current portfolio. Nokia has about 40% market share with the No.1 spot with no close competitors. Certainly the king when it comes to brand value, service and experience.
Apple: First phone ever launched by Apple is Iphone, no prior experience in the telecom market. It’s a novice in the market with a very less market share despite having millions of Iphone sold.

Mobile Fair

2009-08-07T03:30:00.000-07:00

Went to a mobile fair at Giant taman connought.. the phone there wasnt really that cheap... but it was a fair price.. There was this CSL phone which just have basic color phone sell at RM78.. LoL.. I figured I want to try it but eventually decided not to.. (thinking that people might call me cheap o_O)

As I move along with my nephew, we found an odd booth.. It sell a simcard with 010.. Its called XOX.. Not your ordinary celcom, maxis, or digi huh? the amoi promoting the simcard was cute or so my nephew said.. -.-"

Amoi: "Come2, buy 1 simcard free 1 simcard.. Special promotion punye.. Dalam simcard ade rm5, Simcard cume rm8.80, dlm tu ade rm5 so 2 dah rm10, u beli manyak untung. "

Us:"Beli 1 dpt 1? (mcm tak percaye)"

Amoi: Betul punye.. U beli la nombor manyak cantik. baru2... you beli 1 utk girlfren you laa.

Us:*tersentap coz takde gf* "Tp rate call camne pulak?"

Amoi:"nah ni pamplete dia.. rate2 ade situ.. You beli simcard ini dpt 100 msg percume setiap bulan selama setahun.. kalo mcm itu kirenye2, 12 ribu mesej percume ye?

Us:"1200 la..mane 12 ribu!"

Amoi:"ha tu la bnyk untung.. Also kalo u topup rm10 aa, kite bagi ini percume (rantai ape ntah), pastu kalo u topup rm30 , kte bagi ini t-shirt percume *showing her t-shirt)..

My nephew whispering to me: "cakap kat dia kalau kite topup rm30 kte nak tshirt yg dia pakai bole tak?"
Me: "ahahha ko ckp la.. mcm ko nak topup.. rate dia agak mahal.. tepon seminit 35 sen kire standard ke cane?"...
Nephew: "Tak tahu la.. kite men mesej je la."..

Us:"oo.. tp kalo orang msj nombo ini mahal tak?"

Amoi:"kene tengok la dia pakai ape, maxis ke celcom ke digi ke."

Us:"ok kalau maxis?"

Amoi:"kalo maxis aa, urm, kene tgk juga dia pakai ape.. prepaid ke postpaid ke laa."

Us:"ok kalau prepaid?"

Amoi:"urm kalau prepaid aa, urmm... saya pun tak tahu juga! saya cume promote ini simcard saje.."

Us*LOL????* tadi cakap kene tgk tu mcm tau je .. haiz..

Amoi:"ala nombor ini awak bole upgrade punye.. kalo u rase mahal, bole tukar nombo ini jd maxis ke celcom ke ikut u la.."

Us:"oo ok la kami beli" *pilih2 nombo*

End up buying a XOX number.. 0103177647.. Message me when u have the chance :P will be disposed after the rm5 abes -.-"

quote of that day "Aku beli nombo ni sbb amoi ni cun n baek layan kite" Yes, Trees can move LOL..

The proposal Review

2009-07-31T05:13:00.000-07:00

I just watched this movie: The Proposal!! At first, I was like "proposal? *sigh~*" Im not really into romantic movie ya know? :| But since my friend wanted to watch that so I watched it.. To my surprise, It is so good! It has all the sarcastic, jokes, n sexiness an american movie has to offer o_O I highly recommend to those who like to watch romantic comedy movie and even for those who are not.. I think I'll give it a 4.99/5 ^_^

An interesting pick up line I heard from a friend.

2009-07-30T02:23:00.000-07:00

*jiwang alert* LOL

On a free day, I went to my friend house living not far from my home.. He was very good with girls.. I then asked him "Ajar la aku camne ko ngorat awek ahaha" with a no serius tone.. He then show his skills talking to a girl and it was rather impressive.. (I found it hard to copy though).. My friend then bragged about how he has a friend so good at picking up girls even better than him??.. I doubt such a man exist (coz he already too good LOL) but being curios, I asked how good??

*He began his story*
Lets call his friend Mr X

It was a busy day, there are many ppl waiting at the bus stop at the University.. There is this girl, so white, so cun and all the good things I guess ( or so he say) -.-" Mr X wanted to get her phone number and possibly tackel her. They hardly know each other that much... Mr X approached her and said:

Mr X: Awak, awk boleh tolong miscall nombo sy tak.. Sy punye hp ni rasenye rosak la .. Tak bole terima call..
Awek Y: "?" Kenape awk tak suruh kwn awk je miscall awk?
Mr X: Dyorang dah try tadi tapi tak dpt2 jugak.. tak tahu kenape.. Awk try la pulak miscall sy... ^_^
Awek Y calling.. Hp Mr X berbunyi ..
Mr X: Eh, boleh la pulak!! Terima kasih la awk..
Awek Y: Sama- sama.
Mr X: Awak, alang2 dah ade no telepon ni, boleh sy tahu nama awk siape?
Awek Y: Saya TTYLLOL#!
Mr X: oo Saya ROFLLMAO!

And they continued to talk and my friend did not go into the details,... but that definitely is some pick up line LOL!

My friend said Mr X finally got her to be his gf, n they couple up until now.. Hope they'll last coz their first encounter is quite something :D

Memang Larat

2009-07-28T21:54:00.000-07:00

On one sunny day, me and my nephew went to my dad new house to help him clean up and move some stuff..(jadi buruh berupah kejap utk 1 hari).. One of the thing that we have to move is 5 packet of cement... It is about the size of when you buy a 10kg rice . .

Then I said:" Zaim (my cousin name), bole tak ko tlg aku angkat simen ni.. Mmg larat kalo ak angkat sorang, tapi penat ah.."

Then he laughed and said: "hahahha MEMANG LARAT?? Hhaha"..
Me:"haha? *laughing a bit*"
He:"Cube ko tgk kat kampit tu ko tgk berat dia berapa!"
Me:*belek2*" WoW 50KG!!! Memang larat!"
*laughing together*

Ok jom angkat same2.. With 2 ppl carrying it is also really heavy.. But dueable.. after the 2nd pack I said "No more! Berat nak mati!" Then I called my dad saying is tiresome and asked him to finish up the rest... Buruh upahan menyuruh Boss wat keje ^_^..

"what lies in this very packet is a monster.. So heavy, it kills! You would think 'ade batu ke dlm ni!' But no, its something even more devastating.. That is cement."

PC Fair 2009

2009-07-25T23:52:00.000-07:00

Come On everyone lets go to the PC fair!! I think this is the good time to change my laptop RAM (or is it easier at lowyat or jj?) , buy some stuff, and a good time to meet people!! =P Im going there this Sunday (2 August) at KLCC with Manche,Adam, Shah, my cousin etc.. Sape lg nak ikut? Jom! Lol... Hope to see you guys there!! ^_^

From : http://www.pikom.org.my/cms/General.asp?whichfile=PC+Fair+InfoCentre&ProductID=22461&CatID=12(

UUM - PIKOM ICT FAIR 2009

29 - 31 July 2009 (10:00am - 10:00pm)
University Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah

PIKOM PC FAIR 2009 (II)

31 July - 2 August 2009 (11:00am - 9:00pm)

· KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur - Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50888 Kuala Lumpur

· Village Mall, Sungai Petani - Kedah

· Dewan Perbandaran Taiping - Perak

· Batu Pahat Mall, Batu Pahat - Johor

7 August - 9 August 2009 (11:00am - 9:00pm)

· Penang International Sports Arena, Penang - Jalan Tun Dr Awang, 11900 Relau

· Mahkota Parade Melaka, Melaka - Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Bandar Hilir

· Sabah Trade Centre, Kota Kinabalu - Sabah

· Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan - Pahang

13 August - 15 August 2009 (11:00am - 9:00pm)

· KB Mall, Kota Bharu - Kelantan

· Terengganu Trade Centre, Kuala Terengganu - Terengganu

14 August - 16 August 2009 (11:00am - 9:00pm)

· Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru - Jalan Abdullah Ibrahim, 80000 Johor Bahru

· Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak - Jalan Ghazali Jawi, 31400 Ipoh

I hate my laptop

2009-07-24T07:49:00.000-07:00

Why is my laptop easily over heating !!! I cant play games like this... Would it change if I upgrade its RAM? I tried to open it to clean it but the screw was just too tight..
Should I buy a new one? -_-"

PD

2009-07-22T05:42:00.000-07:00

I am at PD right now.. It is not very interesting because there arent many people here. I just went with my mum (who had activities like all the time) and my little sister (whos like to watch tv like 70% of the time) so Im pretty much stuck with nothing to do and no one to do with! lol

However I did found the hotel food there is really good and it is buffey... And theres this new manga Kekkaishi that I am started to have interest with :D

spaghetti + black pepper meat + sesame & curry chicken + fish soup + dessert..
who could ask for more? ^^

A typical lunch there..

We did not went to the beach yet.. I guess because I was still dazzled by the Pulau perhentian beach that I have less interest on the PD beach.. I might go tomorrow...

Till then, hope u guys enjoy ur holiday ~

First of everything

2009-07-17T18:03:00.000-07:00

These are my firsts. If I tag you, it means I want to know yours. Copy and paste this note into your notes, delete my answers, and fill yours in.

I tag Mio, Pao, Najmi. :P

1. Who was your FIRST prom date? I figured her name was Dianna or something.. lol!

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? As of now I am still confused who is my first love... :O

3. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink? I don't drink

4. What was your FIRST job? Being a factory worker and worked on puting a bookmark on a daily planner book at my uncle's factory! :p

5. What was your FIRST car? No cars. But I wish I have a Lancer Evo, it seems cool in the Initial D story XD

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? Cant remember.. Dont think its important..

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning? My dad coz he was a bout to take me to his unfinished house to make me work as a construction worker.

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? Hrm.. I remembered Miss Brown from my kindagarten school - Fox heyas first school :D

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? To United Kingdom following my mum studying there..

10. Who was your FIRST best friend? Johny during kindagarden.

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over? At my cousins house.

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? My dad. He call me to get ready for work.. urgh..

13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time? If it were someone significant for me, I'd say it was when my aunt get married. I remembered it coz it was a double wedding's day! n they are still together untill now ^^

14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? Answer my phone call from dad..

15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to? Ive been to the one on tv1 at angkasapuri thanks to my friend.. But it was a show to be put on tv. I wondered if that can be considered as concert? :P

16. FIRST tattoo? none

17. FIRST piercing? None.

18. FIRST foreign country you've gone to? UK.

19. FIRST movie you remember seeing? Michael Jackson! cant remember its title though -.-"

20. When was your FIRST detention? Hrmm there is this one time when me n my friend were caught staying in class during midnight (in boarding school) by the warden and we were to stand with our hands held up in the field for like 2 hours while hearing him preaching about whatever...

22. Who was your FIRST roommate? In boarding school it was khalid my best friend from elementary school! I wonder how he's doing now..

23. If you had one wish, what would it be? I want to live an interesting life and be put to heaven...(something i need to work on myself).. Wait that was two wish? aaa~

24. What is something you would learn if you had the chance? Playing guitar..

25. Did you marry the FIRST person to ask for you/ you asked to marry? Not married until I'm secured I guess..

26. What was the first sport you were involved in? Football. I played it with our neighbour Hidayat. He was a really lively neighbour.. It was fun back then..

27. What were the first lessons you ever took? ............

28. What is the first thing you do when you get home? open my laptop.

29. Who do you think will be the next person to post this? Mior I think.. or Pao..

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince Reviewspoiler alert

2009-07-16T23:55:00.000-07:00

So how was your harry potter movie experience?

For those who had read the book, the movie might come as disappointing, at least for me. The movie is very fast paced, the flow is not very smooth, and very less action in terms of using spells and fighting against the Death Eater. I understand they have to pack all the things in one. Maybe Im asking too much, maybe I should n't have red the book in the first place? But I guess what the viewer would of expected from a story this caliber is the "magic" of this story in which I found it less amusing in this movie.

Though I have to admit some part of the story are fun, like when Draco discover Harry Potter using the invisibly clock ,paralyze and stomp him. Also when Ron drank a love potion and almost poisoned to death..

On the bad side, The fighting scene were surprisingly short, and there is really no point in the death eater invading hogwarts if all they do is burning Hagrid's hut and watching draco trying to kill dumbledore -_-" (in the book the death eater is actually fighting the other wizards too.) And whats with this half blood prince? In this movie it looks like the half blood prince in not even important!! Why ##### even bother to declare himself the half blood prince? As if anyone cares.. I bet harry potter was saying to himself "whatever" when it happens:P For those who blur in why ##### is callling himself as the half blood prince, it is because ##### family name is called Prince and ##### parents are one from wizard family and another one from the muggles (ordinary human.).Thus making him half human blood, half wizard blood.. But they dont explain that in the movie because like i told u, the half blood prince is not even worth to be curios at in this movie

Nevertheless, regardless of how bad the movie may be, Harry Potter and the half blood prince is a movie that you must watch if youre a Harry Potter fan, Just so you can cross it out from your bucket list. So enjoy the 2 hours and 30 mins of this noob Potter -.-"

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