2006 will retire in 5 hours time. I wonder if 2007 will bring better fortunes and luck for all of us (including you, currently reader of this blog). Will write a review of 2006 like what I did early in 2006 if I am up to it. I can say 2006 was really an exciting year and also a journey into the unknowns and pains (and gains) of working life.

So goodbye 2006 and welcome 2007!

There is a something I heard from my friend:
"In uni, the ocean is very big, very abundance. But when come out to work, it has reduce to a very very small puddle."

I would add " .. when come out to work, the ocean is still very big, but you need better equipment and resources to to get those that are swimming deeper."

Either way, both also doesn't sound good.

P.S: I just cannot get the pictures to stay close together for the previous post, oh well.

Went over to Hui Ling's house for her Christmas Eve party. Stayed up very late till 5 in the morning to keep Woon's friend company after he drank a little too much alcohol. Anyway it was a mixture of a wild party and a good reunion for us since I met with some of the 5B gang. No other former 5A students in sight (where are you guys?). HL also invited some of her UM kaki along too, and I must say they are far more crazy than us (except maybe for Pravin though).

Anyway I did not take any beer/vodka/wine as I know my face will surely become very very very red and I am unable to go home after that. After all, I have tried alot already; Korean wine, australian red, white wine, vodka, local beer, aussie beer and of course XO. Also I dun want to humiliate myself in front of everyone :P

Many thanks to Hui Ling for organizing this party and Merry X'mas and a happy new Year!

Woke at 11am and I found a fun wrapped package on my table. I have no idea what was inside it. Really, no idea. I wasn't expecting a single Christmas present this year at all (Blame it on the fact that I got no gf so I dunno what it is like to give/receive gifts for/from love ones, unlike my bro the romeo). So what are the contents?

Isn't he cute? as soon as you open it you can see the cute smiling face of this soft toy.












It also came with a cardboard box to keep whatever I fancy (lovebirds out there, I know you will be filling it up with stars, love letter, cutesy items etc etc, but I will try to fill something more useful inside).









Anyway I place the soft toy together with Philip the penguin (from Philip Island) and the kangaroo from Australia. I figured this is the best place to place them as all of them are overlooking the door to my bedroom. Now all three are in good company :)








Here is a close-up shot of the soft toy I received. Apparently this is a soft toy for the next Chinese New Year which is the year of the Pig. The chinese character on its necklace says "abundance". Looking forward to a great 2007.

Before I forget, I would like to thank my parents for giving me this surprise gift :)

Meet up with Chok, Hui ling, teck seng, woon and ching last night. It was pretty late actually at 11.30pm, especially when the next day i need to go to work. Gosh got to learn to take more leave so that can zzzzz more.

Really long time have not meet up with Chok nor Teck Seng.

Anyway i tried taking photos and even videos, but the enviroment was too dark even for night mode. Dun want to use flash otherwise like lighthouse attracting ppl.

If all goes well tomolo will meet up with my friend which got the Measat scholarship.

My bro has been shopping around the major colleges to see where to go next. Last Sunday followed him to Taylor at Leisure Business Centre (Bali there, in front of Motorola), Taylor at SS15, Inti Subang and Segi next to Summit. Needless to say, he is spoilt for choice. Targetting either Interior Design, Graphics, Business, Accounting..... anything but Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Dunno what he'll do though...

Yesterday already went to the ONE Academy at Sunway and Limkokwing at Putrajaya to have a look. Didn't went to Sunway coz Sunway doesn't offer anything he is interested.

I remember during my time i was easy, just mechanical engineering FTW.

The weekend is HERE!!!!

Whoppie!!

** Tries out the Calsberg Christmas edition beer with family***

I would say that the beer is less bitter than the normal Calsberg, but the bottle is small though, only 325 ml. Even the Australian beer is 375 ml.

Another thing, the wifi modem is spoil!! So have to move right up to the telephone point with a normal dial-up modem.

My brother has just completed his SPM. SO with his new found freedom he went to watch Casino royale at Pyramid, progress through Gears of War faster than me and will pick up driving lessons very very soon. The fight for the dropship keys is still wayy ahead but it will come very soon.

Anyway too busy and tired to do anything as usual. Bought the new Xbox 360 game Gears of War. The graphics are extremely top-noutch especially when viewed on a HDTV.

Today I went to a bungalow site at Country Heights Damansara which is located near the Pengchala toll. Pretty hilly area, ideally suited to build your extremely overpriced, large, beautiful, feng shui optimized mansion. As I went downhill on the way home tried the LOW gear on my car for the first time. My car never went up to Genting before. The furthest it went was Nilai and that was a good 5 to 7 years after it was purchased. So low and behold, after engaging low gear (which is "L") the car slowed down when going downhill. Pressing the brakes was not required, instead need to press the gas a little to go faster. Now I understand why the "L" gear is placed there.

No matter how hard I try, I can never get work done fast enough!!!!

Regradless if I have assualt termies, mammoth tanks, landraiders, you name an offensive weapon, I have it, I can never get it done fast enough. Maybe not enough brute force like the saying " if brute force doesn't solve your problem, you are not using enough".

Actually the problem is that I cannot work overtime too much. It makes me sick. Some ppl say work makes them sick and I believe them. There is only so much you can push ahead before falling asleep. *** sees girls running away from me since I can't work longer than them ****

Speaking of girls... will i ever meet a girl which i'll fall in love again? Still remember last year around this time....

Two weeks ago went back to SMK Seafield's new hall to watch a play. Took a very large 360 degree panaramic photo. I'll see if youtube supports panoramic shots or not. If so than can see panoramic view of the inside of the school hall :P

Saw this entry in my 360's blog:
"paanjang16 was absent yesterday... I was smelling something that reminded me of sweat... He better not be playing with a Nintendo Wii... burning calories while playing games is just wrong"

Well, actually I was more playing my computer and killing heretics and purging the planet than playing the Wii. Besides, the Wii isn't out yet, let alone a PS3.

Been using my N80 for a while. So far it is performing well, although there are some delays viewing the pictures. The delay is like when you want to view a thumbnail but it takes a while to load.

I got a new HP. Bought the Nokia N80 from Sungai Wang coz there are many hp shops there and can get a good price if you look hard enough. Decided against N73 coz the key pad too small, no wifi (for something so expensive, no wifi??) and time to change to a slider phone instead of a candy bar phone.

Here is the close-up of my phone in action. Has a very bright LCD screen and cool blue color keys. The transparent case around the phone is for protection but still has openings for the keypads and other important functions like cameras etc.















The picture below shows the number of phones I have used since I got the first one circa 1997/98. Kinda stick to Nokia all this while. My brother used Motorola, Alcatel and my dad Sony Ericsson in addition to Nokia phones. But my brother who usually can recommend handphones say Motorola do hang sometimes and I have seen my dad's Sony Ericsson P910i hang a couple of times, so Nokia is the way to go for next gen phones. Let's see if this phone lives up to its expectations and do not hang like the rest (from what I read on internet forums, N80s do have problems, just like 360s for that matter, so fingers crossed).















Kinda amazing to see how far hps have gone smaller and smaller and smarter and has cameras (N80 has 2, one behind and 1 in front) and has color lcds in a span of less than 10 years.

Puts on Warhammer 40k cap :)

Praise the Emperor!

I now gotten the Inquisitorial approved version of Dawn of War Dark Crusade!! Was in Mids Valley when I saw this sacred artifact. Immediately bought it and brought it home to the safety of my chapter's stronghold to begin preparations to wage war on Kronus!

** Takes off Warhammer 40k cap***

Yippie.. time to game!! My 360 is going to be soooo jealous :P

Can't wait to get the newest expansion to my favourite RTS (Real Time Strategy) game, Dawn of War Dark Crusade!!

The problem is that the "inquisitorial approved" version hasn't arrive yet (most probably in some darn container in Singapore) and the only way to satisfy my urge for battle, like most Choas marines will say " BLOOD!! BLOOD !! I FEED ON BLOOD!!" is to get the heretic version (as in the, ahem version) first. Of course once I buy the original version the I'll purge the heretic version to play online.

Arrghh, really cannot wait.
And I'm sure he can't wait too.

I really dunno why, but my tag-board has since gone offline. I think the company that hosts the tag-board has gone bust, or got hijacked or whatever. Still have not search for other tag-boards to use. Surprisingly the tag-boards of my other bloggers are still online. Must have chosen a more financially stable one.

I was thinking I really should upgrade my phone. I know Changing phones too often is very costly, but what the heck, I need a phone with both a camera function and some high tech stuff to go with it. Need the camera function for work as I need to take photos when I go to site. Too lazy to bring along a camera.

So what phone I had in mind?

The Nokia N73. Has a pretty high end camera for a phone with auto-focus and doesn't have the brick size of its larger cousin the N90-ties.

But the price of one... RM 2200!!@$!@#$

Although I can afford still too expensive. More expensive than my Xbox 360 with 3 games even!

I kinda amazed on the entries made by the Xbox 360 blog site. When you never play with it says the darnest things. Like " I have seen wierd things, but my owner not playing today really takes the cake!" or " I'm going to make you play tomolo, just you wait!! I'm not Kidding!!". When I do play it, it then shower praises like it has been waiting to be played for years. Of it also complains I play too short. Acutally yesterday (Friday night) I did play my Xbox, just didn't bother to go online with it. So the server which hosts and generates the blog "thinks" I didn't play.

For those who think I have neglected my 360 due to the constant rants and pleas by the 360 (as if it has feelings lol), dun worry, it is in good hands.

Enough talking bout my 360, now to other news...

It has been 1 year since I went to Uluru. Still remember the date I was there; 25,26,27 September and the sweet memories there. So happen 25/9 was the birthday of someone I know. Arrive there on the 25, went to visit The Rock on the 26 and 27.

For the post that explains the entire trip, here's the link http://paanjang16.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_paanjang16_archive.html

Here's a group photo of the members in our tour group. Note that there were 3 S.Koreans, 2 Japanese, 2 from France, 3 Singaporeans, 1 American, 1 South African, 1 British, 1 Malaysian and the rest Australians (I think), so we have ppl from almost all parts of the world in our group. Can you match who is from where?

The hardest thing to say to your friends or whoever that you know of is no.

That day which was my friend's birthday I had to turn down an invitation to have a makan gathering to celebrate his birthday was pretty hard one. Imagine, your best friend's birthday and you really cannot go coz you have other important matters the next day. It doesn't help his friends who message me to go is trying to persuade me to go ahead anyway. On one hand you felt you have let down a friend, on the other hand you really have to make this compromise to yourself. Very hard to describe in words I tell you. To make matters worse I let the cat out of the bag by calling the birthday boy/girl in panic when his/her friends wanted it to be a surprise.

Wat to do, I'm one of the first of out the gate when it comes to studying and into the working world. The majority of my friends are still studying and have a LOT of time to spare. Not to mention I need more sleep than most ppl (I'm amazed how far some ppl can go without falling asleep).

Here's a little something I thought about:

Remember the 7 Cs? Whereby,
Cash -Rich
Car -Got wheels
Condominium - A property in the sky
Club Membership - Self explanatory
Career - Stable Job
Credit Card - Swipe Away!
Company/CEO - Own a company

Now there's 7 Ms, whereby
Mansion - Condo penthouse or bungalow is not big enough
Mercedes/Mustang - Not just any car!
Money - Rich!
Manager - Not only a stable job, but high position
Musician - To impress the ladies
Masters Degree - Knowledge is power
Mustache - Err.....

Or Bs, whereby
Boss - Da'boss
Bugatti/Brabus - A Mercedes isn't going to cut it
Bungalow - How needs a condo?
Bachelor Degree - Knowledge is power
Bonus - Stable pay is not enough
Bank - Own a bank

This is all I can think of so far. Maybe there's more to add in the future.

Since my friend wants me to blog more to compete with my xbox 360's blog, here's an entry.

I have added a few more links to some other blogs like my cousin's son's blog, the xbox 360's blog and paul tan's automotive blog.

BTW, I dun think I can compete with mt 360's blog since it updates EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! Oh, and I also do not always go online with it. Sometimes I just play offlince and that's it. Really want to see what it will say if I dun play for 1 week.

Anyway today happens to be friend Woon's birthday. Happy birthday Woon!

My 360 can blog.

Sounds silly but there is a website which can sorta create blog entries that reflect what my 360 is thinking. Let's see how accurate are its blog entries.

The address to it is:

http://360voice.com/blog.asp?tag=paanjang16

Just got Ridge Racer 6 and an extra WIRED controller in case my wireless one runs out of juice. YESSS! Time to challenge my bro in football!!!

My parent recently went ot a wedding dinner of my mom's friend's daughter. It was held that the Nikko hotel along Jalan Ampang near KLCC. What I heards was that during the dinner the bride, bridegroom, bridegroom's parents and bride's parents (in no logical order) made a speech. To make matters simple either my brothers wedding (since he HAS a girlfriend) or my own (not within this decade at this rate) will have one section for the XO drinkers to drink, a ballroom dancing area for those who want to dance the night away and a wine testing area for those who like wines. The only speech one has to make is to tell everyone about the 3 areas , period.

P.S: Sorry Woon, still thinking if there should be an area for DoW Lan gaming.