Happy 21st "Joleen Tham Hsu Lynn"!

Hope you enjoyed your all in one maturity kit. Took us an extra set of manhoods to get what you got. Shall not enclose here :)

Anyways, thanks for being a great friend and company. Eventhough ive just met you in aussie, but the times we spent together were priceless, like laughing about whatever nonsence your horny brain could think about. Hahaha..were going to rock SEF man!!!

HAPPY 21st!!!

The Happy Melbourne Family plus SL and Rowena





6 of us... Aik.. we miss you... as you can see.. SL is replacing you.

haphazard cogitation

haphazard thoughts
drifting voices
varying views
many perspectives

hardened back
wizened up
thankful for what i have
greatful for what i have found

hands wet
deeper in life
decisions arise

nearing crossroads
no retreating, no astern
gasps and ponders while it ticks, congitating

blessed against statistic
opportunity against chance
fearing to let go; longing for more through time

youre almost here...
so close.. so far..
with a blink of an eye, everything will be where it was.
everything will fit like a jigsaw piece into the picture of life
which you are

Working in PD for the 2nd week

Was in the pd from the 14th to 19th Feb. Was overseeing the project, shotblasting machine installation and the requalification of the rail tail wagon

Some pictures at work. Other pictures cannot be published due to confidentiality issues

RTW with ventilation hose and lighting inside during the Magnetic Particle Inspection


Meter during the hydro testing of the tank


Contrast paint sprayed on the testing spots during the Magnetic Particle Inspection to check for cracks.


In full gear at the reconditioning plant(safety specs, helmet, fire retardant jacket)


Friday was offday because of awal muharram (is that how you spell it?"). So it was sunbathing and 37 laps in the pool for me.

Dont have shades with me.. so i guess the safety specs is as good as it gets



The view from my sunbathing spot


Random shot


Picture of the sunset taken from my room


This time, i only at room service food.. didnt bother to go down to the coffee house coz it would be too sad. I practically tried EVERYTHING on the menu by now

The lunch before i left for PD, Club sandwich


Tropical platter and salmon steak with balsamic sauce


Chicken chop


Tropical platter, lychee and mee goreng.. the mee goreng was damn nice


Singapore Fried Mee Hoon and mushroom soup.

Which pair of shoes?? hrmm.....

While waiting for my boss to give me work at the office...ahh.. this is how my office looks like. finally got a chance to take a picture early in the morning of the office.

This is my office desk. 2 laptops, 1 for engineering drawings and the other for internal mail,shell network resources and of course internet. The two people who sits infront of me are Aqil(Incharge of all the LPG tankers) on the left and Tee Siong(incharge of the distribution of the shell tong gas in the klang valley) on the right.




View directly on the right of me, Venesa(in charge of bulk sales in south peninsular) on the left and Nazreen(in charge of engineering matter of installation of tanks at customers,factory,hotels) on the right.


View from the left of me. Hanif(handles order processing) on the left, Zairi(handles metal management, purchasing,s crapping and allocation of cylinders) on the right



As i was saying, while waiting for my boss to give me work, i was surfing online and spoke to my brother. Since he was coming back, Im planning to get a pair of onitsuka tigers since my brother is coming back from US and the shoes are cheaper in compared to australia. and you cannot find them in malaysia. anyways.. i narrowed down to 3 designs






Probably going to get the first one displayed..what do you think? hehehe, time to splurge on myself with my pay cheque and allowances. =)

Fuel for thought

Conversation on the way to work with my dad

Dad:Guess how many miles a battle tank can travel on a gallon?
Me: Err.. 4 miles?
Dad: Reverse it..
Me: Huh?
Dad: 4 gallons per mile...
Me: Are you sure the consumption is so inefficient?
Dad:Yeah...

Then to my disbelief i searched online.. and... its 8 Gallons PER MILE DAMMIT!! for an M1A1 Abrams Tank.

Then i came across lotsa figures on the fuel consumption of the US Army.

Here are the facts which kept me off guard

"M-1 Abrams tank can eat up 252 gallons an hour in battle"

"500,000 gallons a day to supply an armored division of 348 tanks "

"A B-52 bomber gulps down 86 barrels per hour"

"F-4 Phantom fighter/bombers devour 40 barrels per hour"

"At peak thrust, F-15 fighters burn 25 gallons per minute".

"An F-16 jet on a training mission ignites more fuel in a single hour than the average car owner consumes in two years. "

"To reach supersonic speeds, a pilot turns on the plane’s afterburners which can triple a jet’s speed and increase fuel consumption twenty times. With its afterburner kicked in, Cutler states, the "relatively fuel-efficient" F-15 fighter torches fuel at the astounding rate of four gallons per second — 14,400 gallons per hour."

"Now try to magnify these figures by factoring in the 300 US jets stationed on four aircraft carrier groups in the Gulf, another 700 planes stationed in Saudi Arabia and 22 Stealth bombers."

Now the conclusion

"Between wars, one would think the military’s main purpose would be to "guard the peace." Not so. During times of peace, Tom Cutler writes: "The military’s primary objective [emphasis added] is to ensure adequate oil supplies for the national defense...." Cutler should know: he once headed NATO’s Petroleum Planning Committee and the is the author of The Military Demand for Oil (Petroleum Economist, London, England)."

Read the whole article here
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=593

No wonder US attacked Iraq...oh... like duh...

Happy Belated Birthday Iqram!!

Really sorry it took sometime to find a picture of you and me and to upload stuff on photobucket..but anyways..being the youngest of the lot, 31st december baby!!!

Happy Birthday man! Glad to have finally met up and laugh like we used to, as if we just left high school yesterday. Thanks for being such a great pal under all circumstances.

Malaysia boleh

Its been a while since my dad actually bought any DVD's in Msia because I was in Australia. So after making my suit in Amcorp Mall, we headed down to the "Vision Center". So, my dad and I couldnt stop picking out movies because obviously we havent seen all of them (movie deprived in australia).

So after our selecting we counter we had...14 DVDs..so we asked the guy.. how much? Then he said, buy 10 free 1, 10 bucks for 1. So he said.. you either deduct 3 or chose 6 more and when you buy 20 you get 3 free. so we ended up chosing 9 more dvds.. HEBATEST.. my dad and I was like..since we didnt buy for the whole of last year ...and its a holiday for me..why not?

I only had like 100 bucks in my wallet and my dad had 50 because he paid for the deposit for my suit....sooo..we were like discussing out loud whether we had enough. Then the DVD seller pointed to the corner of his cashier table. There was a credit cards transaction machine.

I literally laughed out loud at him and said..."yau mou!"

hahhaha. i meant what happened to Malaysia battle agains piracy and abolishing shops like this.. now they even can even manage credit card transactions? i wonder what they declare their business as? recordable DVD and CDs?

Why cant they curb piracy?
This business is providing income for families with a roof over their head and also a lucrative export. I spoke to a DVD seller before when i a cell, he said that his "tai kor" the leader for a certain area would bail him out if they were caught and made sure they had nothing tied against them. I cant remember how much they were paying, but i was really intrigued by his story of which police station lock up serves better food.

Yes, our DVDs are found as far as India, Thailand, Taiwan. etc. I guess its the Multimedia Super Corridor. But whatever malaysia boleh..it definitely is squash and pirated multimedia.

I wonder whats next?

New years resolution?

well, its kinda late for new years resolution and for the first post of the year. i wanted to post earlier but i had problems uploading to photobucket because of the stupid earthquake and damaged the fiber optic cables. anyways. i guess the only post i could do was a full text one.

anyways, while waiting for vick to drive to meet Joseph i was thinking of the goals for the year.

1. Graduate with first class honors
2. Get a PR overseas and work overseas or do masters
3. Settle my driving license and drive legally, prolly drive to penang or melacca before i leave for aus.
4. Get a job overseas to gather international working exp
5. Fix my ankle so i can play sports again
6. Learn how to parkour or breakdance
7. Read a book, anything but a textbook


by the way, i never laughed so hard throughout whole of last year with anyone else other than my highschool friends.. all you need to trigger it is, nanda tell a story..and vick says potu in a subtle manner half way interrupting enthusiastic nanda... and we laughed for at least 10 minutes non stop, as in laugh and not talk.. i never laughed till every part of my abs were sore and i was suffocating.. really nice to meet everyone (joseph, jiawen, vick, nanda and mark) . It was as if i just left highschool yesterday and im sitting down and talking to you. Its as if we could just catch up on where we left off.

First post of the year.. weeeee.... will post those pictures once they patch those cables.

Three clubs in a week.

After the stupid tiring and sad week in PD, it was time to experience civilization. All the stupid hotel food and loneliness ended. All the drinking and NOT WORKING started..



It all began at Poppy Garden on the eve of christmas eve

Price paid : 38 bucks per person
No of bottles : 2 Chivas Regal

Thank God i know Joanna who knows the head bouncer and the manager, Kumar there. Opened 2 bottles and got 15 ppl in without extra cover charges. I organized this outing, wanted everyone to have a good time together. It was stressful...hectic and consumed 50 ringgit of credit.


This is Joanna, the Tai kar che who got us in for free last time and waived the charges..VIP..dont play play.



Candid shot of the whole gang and the 2 tables we got at poppies

Dunno why chee ming so happy..




Picture of us caught in the act at the huge industrial ventilation fan..god i love the fan
me, chee ming, boon kiat and sl.



Jo's necklace became my crown of thorns on the eve of christmas eve. Was it Jo's necklace?




SL, Celine and Jo


Tots, me and Meng




The flaming lamborghini that burnt Sl's hair. which he was complaining for the next few days. hahaha.


Group pic





DK and Soo Chee getting it on with themselves



Followed by Josephine's Farewell @ Zouk's Ghetto Heaven, Ladies night on Thursday


No of bottles : 1 Hennesy VSOP (480 per bottle)

Well, as suggested by karen to organize a farewell.. she conveniently made me plan the outing and made sure everyone was informed. So we ppl from Shell, young ppl from Shell, went out on a thursday to zouk, btw we had work the next day.. crazy asses..never slept so little in my life...



Picture of me and Josphine.. the office is sure quiet without you, but lucilles taking over your place really soon!! hahah



No of bottles : 1 Hennesy VSOP (480 per bottle)


L-R - Josephine, Lucille, Carol, Azlinu and Karen



Vivian's Friend, Chin, Lucille, Karen, Vivian, Me and Linu, clarence taking the picture.





Celebrated 2007 and ended the year with Maison, Heritage Row

Price paid: 85 per person
No of bottles : 2 Dewars priced at 570 before 10pm

A picture of the bar at Maison, which was more happening than BED that day.



Cheers to 2007.



Hahaha, somewhere during all the dancing...sl dropped his camera and it landed on the lens. the lens retracting mechanism was stuck erected and couldnt retract. it went like...pzz pzz pzz.. and stay stilled put. SL immediately became sober. End of the day, Jc bent the casing back in place and the camera works fine now.. give it up for olympus for durability.




Me and the grand master drunket liang, which did his usual thing after club..gutter and him..very good friends



Lou Poh and Lou Kung




Sigh...missing one person... AIK!!! see la you.. miss out on all the fun... :(.. miss you man



Thanks Li Yee for the hat, which all of us camwhored with.


This is how we ended our session, walking back to St John's Cathedral where we parked our cars because we thought it would be a terrible jam everywhere. Can you see Li Yee not wearing any shoes and walking around? Her feet was to pain to walk on her heels anymore. She's reverting back to caveman era. 24 degrees? really?





Im done clubbing..i have spent too much money.. drank too much alcohol...compromised too much sleep and screwed up my body clock.. i need a break...no more clubbing...for a long long time