Pencils!

We agreed to get Kristine some pencils and also one of those table-top pencil sharpeners so that she can draw as much as she wants. So, off I go to Carrefour and got eveything. Unfortunately, after careful inspection, I picked the wrong pencil sharpener. I did not realise this until I got home.

So, I have to wait until the weekedn is over before going back to Carrefour to exchange. And the weird thing was, they would not exchange the item for you. Rather, they refund you the money and ask you to go in and buy the item again. Of you can just keep the money and swear never to return to Carrefour as long as you live.

Kristine was so happy with the presents but she failed to
notice that it wont go through the grill

I got her some books too, which more or less guided her
over the dotted lines on how to write the alphabets
(In the end, the book was full of circles and thrown into a corner)

Ahem, some of the stuff I got for myself.

Yes, yes, move one now, nothing to see here.

The Kick

We were monkeying about and then, Kristine's knee-ed me in the lips
After the all blood has gone, I got a swollen lip as a reminder.
Well, I think I can enrol her for Karate soon

 

Observations in Klang

So, here I am, waiting for things to happen. Again. For you see, when it comes to a certain customer, where a building involves a lot of parties, you can be assured that no one talks to each other. In the end, the ID (Interior Designer) did some changes but did not inform the M&E nor the Acrchitect nor other parties. So, nothing was done or was done wrongly since no one did have an updated floorplan.

Me? I just kept to myself, (ready to open a can of Coke and some groundnuts) watching "Drama Minggu Ini" unfolding in front of me. But no, its more polite to just stand outside or walk around and wait until you're called. I mean, I can smash so much Egos in one day. Ha ha ha ha ha

After a nice lunch at 7-11's, I've decided to just do the cabling and make it a day. No point feeding more coins to the ticket machine.

This is a toilet bowl which has a square hole but a very steep cavity.
Its like asking the shit to jump off a cliff instead of rolling round and
round the bowl first. Ha ha ha ha ha

Lunch was spoilt by a very tough bottle seal. The tab
was torn off too easily no thanks to the super strong
glue they used

Someone from WPC was here.........

And the cabling is the part which I hate most. This is because I have to open a gel-filled cable and terminate it. Other cables are my favourite but not this black piece of evil. For you see, the gel-filled cable (many wrongly referred to it as armoured cable) is as its name applies, full of gel. However, its more like thick fat to me. Once you strip the thick black sheath, and blunts your blade in the process, you're faced with the gel.

This, my friends, is the root of all evil. You can see all the gel in the cables and this is not a pleasant experience. Even the makeshift plastic bag gloves will cover in fear. There are about forty strands of yucky cables that needs your suffer.....er, attention.

How does this affect me? Badly
The closest experience I can describe would be putting your hand into a cold vat of rotten, smelly butter and swishing it around to look for your friend's unwashed penis (who just went for a sex change) among other penises. There are a lof of feathers and hair in that vat too. Once you found that disgusting thing, you pull your hand our and the sticky slimy gunk wont come off. And you discodered its the wrong penis. his has pus oozing all over it. You wash and wash, but it feels like its stuck to your hands. And then, you realised its all over the place, from your face to your pants to your ladder to your nostrils. And the penis is glued to your hands fron the gunk. And its still the wrong penis.

Yeah, that's how bad it is.

So, this is the gel-filled cable. The 3mm back sheath is tough
so make sure you have a spare blade and your hands are not
slippery. And the metal shielding will have to be cut carefully

Once the sheath is off, you can see the gel sticking onto the wires
and other whatnots. When you have finished, use a lot of talcum
powder and rub your hands. You can use your friend's underwear
but make sure she is not wearing them after you are done with it

After a lot of cursing and crying, the job is almost complete

I like this type of cable better. Here, the contractor just
drilled the box on to the wall. You can see that because
of the mess they left behind. The thick cable is a 30-pair
and yes, there is no sticky disgusting gel in it

The 30-pair splits into three 10-pairs and you must be
careful not to mix them with the other cables are each
cable sub-group is using the same colours. If you did
mix them up, I won't be your friend for a year.

All done!

I took this photo of a Proton Waja parked next to me. Its very
difficult to take this shot as the window tint keeps reflecting.
What I am trying to show you that the owner has stuck a
block of something to the window but as the glass keeps
sliding down, it destroyed the tinting. The window problem
is a very common fault with the Proton Waja car.

The Shockgun

While packing my remaining stuff, I found back one of those Playstation guns which I have bought (and forgot) in the late 90's. They call this the Shockgun (no, not shotgun) and its very nice. Almost like a small shotgun.

So, in the box, you have the gun itself, the paddle (for those games which requires you to reload), cables, and power supply. I am not sure why they need a power supply but then when they first came out, guns like these are pioneers. Unfortunately, after the initial batch, it stopped.

I think when I have the time, I am going to cut the cables away and then modify it to have my own lights and sound.

The Shockgun, and the grip underneath the barrel
can slide in and out just like a real shotgun

A closer look

Even the sights are nice and look the business

 

Playmates Tricorder

OK, I have found the power adaptor for the Tricorder. And I have also modified it to display lighted up at The Outpost. And once you pull the power jack away, the Tricorder would run on its internal batteries. But when I am finished with the Phaser Rifle, this would be my next project.

Some of the parts are still not completed yet, especially the top as I did not

have the time to get those semi-circle transparent acrylics

Its a bit brighter since I am using 6 volts instead of the usual 3. And I have

cut off the circuit to make the sound since the extra voltage makes the sound

scratchy. Yeah, the labels are crap and since I lost the beautiful original, this

was the best I could come up with, for the moment, tha is

Avanza driveres are rude on the road

Well, it would be true if he keeps driving like that. I know that in the morning, having to face traffic jam(s) would make everyone cranky. So, its better to get that over with and reach the safety of the office. But hey, everyone was probably thinking the same thing too.

It is just not nice to speedily cut into a lane without signalling. In the stop-go situation, I had to brake hard just to avoid bumping into you.

Already the side lane has turned into a third lane and suddenly, whoosh....

In you come, with your Avanza, proudly showing you're both a TOCM member

and some Avanza club. But did it occur to you that you're creating a very bad

publicity for the clubs you belong to? Not even WPC (that I know of) members do that

And I was so frustrated at that, I did not even notice I got a bad note

the brush

When I got the toothbrush, I did not expect it to die just after a month. Maybe its because I start to learn how to be foul mouthed, this Chinese toothbrush decided to commit suicide rather than help me perform germicide (is this the correct word? Ha ha ha ha)

So, I had to get a new one and I was shocked with the prices. I mean, which nut would go for a RM18.00 toothbrush? And there were so many to choose from. There is one which would flex back if you brushed too hard, while some would change colour over time to tell you when its time to change (where did the colours went, heh?)

Somehow, I can't find the ones which tells if you're pregnant, drunk or have eaten garlic. And none had timers which tells you when to stop brushing in case you used polish instead of toothpaste by mistake. So, I settled for a cheap Rm1.99.

I mean, given the way things goes, it'll probably die in a month's time anyway.

The old and the new. And looking back, I think I can use the old toothbrush sideways....

But it has a more important job to do, which is to help me clean off the termite

gunk. Unfortunately, after this photo was taken, my wife threw it away the next

morning

Motorola L6

One of my cousin's cousin (from my Mom's side) has given her a mobile phone. And yes, just a mobile phone. There were no nice itty bitty box, charger, instructions, etc. Which means, I have to step in and prep the phone ready. But I am stopping short of giving her a sim card.

Mom did not indicate if she wants go into my Celcom package which I am currently paying for my Dad, Brother and wife. But she is thinking of getting a pre-paid though, since she argued that she seldom uses the phone (yeah, right. My phone bill went up a lot last month). Also, she claims she does not know how to use the phone, compared to me which I figured out most of the functions within an hour. But then again, I do not know how to operate a VCR, she does.

The menu system is still crap, compared to Nokia's. I mean, it took me hours to find out how to lock the keypads. Who would have thought it was in the Security section?

First impression of this L6 is that its quite flat. And because the casing is metal,

it feels solid and fragile at the same time. Time to charge the phone up

Chocolate currypuff anyone? I got distracted while looking the phone over

and came across these mini currypuff makers. Ha ha ha ha

The phone lights up briefly when charging. The keypad feels nice, though

LED Holders

I wonder if a certain guy from KK is interested in using these 5mm LED holders for his lightsabers instead of the usual black collar types.

Yep, as promised by RS, it came through the post in just
4 days. All these 15 LEDs jsut costs me under RM28



And this is how it looks like when you put them all in a row

The Fork

Kristine has dicovered another use for the fork

Two ladies in a Wira

Maybe it was because of the long talk I had with the Boss. maybe it was because my car was narrowly squeezed between two rouge buses. But whatever it was, I was late for my 9 o'clock. You see, I had to get the Motorola charger for my Mom and the shop closes at 9. So I had to rush all the way from Kepong to SS2

And then, when I was about 300 metres, disaster struck. As those of you familiar with SS2, there is a T-junction (not the KTV T-junction but the other end) which you must enter to get into the shops. I was at the main road which means, I have the right of way to turn into the junction. However, there were a lot of cars and a lot of frustrated people had to wait for thier turn.

As it was my turn to go into the junction, out came this golden Wira all off a sudden, blocking me. I was blocked because the cars behind the Wira had move forward and they cannot reverse. And this trapped Wira then created a traffic jam for the opposite traffic.

I think the two ladies in the car thought that because they're ladies, they can have everything their way. So, the driver smiled to me, hoping I would give way. But since I was a hard-core Engineer before, these human wiles does not work on me. It pisses me off to think they could pull such a cheap trick like that instead of a nice "sorry". So, I called them stupid.

Apaprently, they did not understood my sign language. So I gave up and was about to give way for them until I saw her passenger which was waving frantically, in an angry face, telling me to move as if I was the one in the wrong. So, anger level shot up. I showed them that I have pulled the handbrake up indicating I am staying put.

After much reversing and driving, they managed to cross behind me, which eased the traffic a little but by then, I turned in and showed them that I had a lot of space to play with.

You know, if I had the camera ready, their faces would be priceless

frwrs

While we were moving, we found "The Table" this is the table which my Dad brought back from home one day. The table is a big rectangular hollow box while the chairs are smaller versions. we used this table for our meals, studying and later, my first computer.

Later on, as time went by, we've overgrown the table and it was "missing" about the house. Still it is a wonderful surpise to see it again, after more than two decades. Now, Kristine and Kaelynn have taken an interest in it too.

The original colour is yellow, and it now had wheels. Which makes me
worried because Kristine keeps pushing it and it keep knocking on the
glass doors many times

And sometimes, I can find Kristine sleeping inside the table too. As for Kaelynn

she loves to crawl inside it.

Lek Chat Chat Far Hai

Sleeping Fucker wasted my money somemore

Letting a pussy steal his rice

There is a fat Master who can't work hard or even work at all. He thinks that the power of his Masters Degree will make his lunch come to him while he sleeps.

He thinks the World revolves around him and does not need to spend any money for anything at all. His parents will protect him and shelter him, while he sleeps and plays with his computer all day. He has his Father chauffer him to work every morning because driving and owning a car is expensive and troublesome. He even has friends driving him for shopping trips.

He thinks he is so clever that he can work in the office without getting paid much and thinks it is a waste to use the money for the family

You can see his face change to "Pau Ching Tien" when you ask him to help you. You can also hear how he sighs and breathes like a suffering 80 year old when he carries a something for you. Maybe he should get an Oscar for his efforts.

This selfish git does not even respect his loving parents, especially his Mom.

He has not seen the real World which is waiting around the corner to smash his face in

Pretty soon, I can save up some money and give him the "40-year Old virgin" original DVD for his birthday and he still won't have a clue what its all about, as long as it is free.

Heavy rain

After the screw-up job, it was time to to go another customer. But I had to reach there fast as I spotted a very angry rain cloud. The job is to start in the evening so that we can minimise our disruptions to their operations.

From one end to another. It was starting to rain when I was in Petaling Jaya
seconds before I crossed the Arch that separates PJ and Kuala Lumpur

By the time I was near Kuen Ching Girl's School, it was already raining heavily

And flash floods were almost on every spot, which made the journey difficult

I'm there at last! (Yeah, and the whole evening was spent talking to nice Japanese girls)

Last minute screw-ups

This is one of those system installations where the customer has gone completely nuts. OK, to be more direct, he is very disorganised. The whole building was supposed to be ready by early January but because he kept changing plans, everything was delayed. Even the Main-Con was pissed off with him. In the beginning, he had a lot of time to plan, about more than a year.

However, being a typical Chinaman, he assumes his word is law or something. Hence, this stupid bugger does not need to plan. Then all of a sudden, he realised he only has less than a week before everyone moves in. So, the moron came to "inspect" the work and changed a lot of things many times. Many of the sub-cons lost significant finance because of him and in the end, the Main-con sort of gave up too.

And this is where we come in. The Main-con "forgot" to tell the customer that there is no phone system in the building. Ha ha ha. Hows that for revenge? In the end, our sub-con had to lay all the phone cables which meant digging up the tiles on the floor and cutting open the beautiful plaster ceiling.

And the Telekom's ppl did not turn up today to relocate the telephone lines from the old office to the new building.

Update: 20.01.2007]
The Telekoms people came and comissioned the line on Saturday, which is a Pblic Holiday. I literally told the customer (via a third party) to go to Hell since I am already busy installing another phone system elsewhere.

Mr. Budget-Concsious went for an el-cheapo Panasonic KX-TDA100

Remember those office carpets? The carpet people would have to

cover the whole floor with blue before laying the carpet tiles. But

now, they used those sticky rubber stuff instead, similar to the ones

you buy to make sure stuff on your car's dashboard does not slide off

The only thing nice in the building was this spotlight fixture. I cannot show

you the beautiful Japanese room, though, but take my word for it, its nice.

Bikes

OK, so the sun was bright today and I did not cause accidents while trying to take photos of these bikes. To them, the motorcycle is a means of transport for them and some can even say, its a necessity.

OK, these are just a couple on the bike

But once you get closer, imagine what would happen
if a car or another bike knocked into them

If I knew how to ride a bike, I would most probably
looked like him too, except that I would have a full-face
helmet instead. Really

Of all the..........

I realy hate this. OK, maybe I am not in a jovial mood today

I don't mind if you mix up my title and downgrade me
to Engineer or Technician but after you have labelled me
as a contractor, this is this is really hitting below the belt

The sign reads:
Disabled toilet
For Contractors only

Yeah, now I have to share a toilet too at Cineleisure

So, today is the last day for moving all the stuff. This time, its my turn to get a lorry. I must have misheard the conversation as the river keep telling me the lorry is "14 kaki" which turns out to be 14 feet in length and not a 14-wheeler as I keep fantasizing about.

Still, its better than the first one last week.....

While waiting for the lorry to show up at 10am (The were late by 45 minutes)
I now present you, the real "Fly Guy" ha ha ha ha ha

Waiting for them is like taking an eternity..........
This lorry is covered and cleaner. So, we don not have to worry about
the rain and have to work fast.

This is the center of my Universe before I got married
Then it crashed...............

Much of the stuff is still intact.........

And by 4 in the afternoon, we have shifted MOST of the stuff


The next morning, I realised that I should have never pissed
off the cat last night.

But never mind, a brick soon stopped its habit
Pity I could not thrown and hit it as I could easily
hit any of the neighbour's cars, which is not good