As I walked into my house around 7pm after a days work, I was thinking what my brother is doing to celebrate Valentine's day. Surely he must be somewhere romantic with his gf, in a candlelight setting, exchanging gifts and talking to each other.

After the romantic dinner he'll send her home and drop her off at her house using MY CAR.

Not that I'm jealous or anything, but I always thought I'll get to do that with that Wira of mine after getting the car and lesen. My brother need to wait for less than a WEEK to do that.

Happy Valentine's day !!! Although I am sending this message at 10.39pm :P

Valentine's day is coming. As always, my brother has some big plans for his love (and want to borrow my car).

As for me, no plans as usual. Will definetely avoid cinemas, restaurants, shopping malls since those places will be pack with couples.

Part 1: On the Outside
Name : Long Ji Ming
Date of Birth : 20th June 1984
Current Status : Single
Eye Colour : Brown Black
Hair Colour : Black
Righty or Lefty: Righty
Zodiac Sign : Gemini

Part 2: On the Inside
Your Heritage : Chinese, Hainanese
Your Fear : Going to be single forever
Your Weakness : want to sleep.. want to sleep...*** zzzz***
Your Perfect Pizza : Hawaian with chicken and bacon

Part 3: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Your thoughts first waking up : So fast morning oledi :(
Your bedtime : Around 10-12, sometimes later
Your most missed memory : Care-free student life and a powerful computer and internet and LAN to boot and a generous finance minister :)

Part 4: Your Pick
Pepsi or Coke : Pepsi
McDees or Burger King : Mac
Single or Group Dates : Both
Adidas or Nike : None.. prefer Camel Active. Nike overhype, overpriced
Lipton Tea or Nestea : Both
Chocolate or Vanilla : Vanilla
Cappucino or Coffee : Both

Part 5: Do You...
Smoke : Rather waste my money on my 360
Curse : You'll do it alot once you start working (but not in front of ppl)

Part 6: In the Past Month
Drank alcohol : Yup. More coming next week :P
Gone to the mall : Yup
Been on stage : No
Eaten sushi : OMG.. this is a no!
Dyed your hair : pretend to be a blondie? No way

Part 7: Have You Ever?
Played a stripping game : Nope, all my friends are too innocent (Look at what I have missed during my teens lol)
Changed who you were to fit in : Being someone else? No

Part 8 : Marrriage
Age you're hoping to be married : 27-29 (Sees that my current age is only 22 going on 23).. must quickly act now!!
Number of kids: 2 enough

Part 9: In A Guy/Girl
Best Eye colour : doesn't matter
Hair colour : doesn't matter
Short or long hair : doesn't matter

Part 10: What Were You Doing?
1 minute ago : Doing the top part of this questionaire
1 hour ago : Surfing the net on my lappie
4 1/2 hours ago : Eating dinner, watching Astro
1 month ago : working? sleeping? surfing? Nothing worth mentioning
1 year ago : Lepaking to the max since I dun have a job that time

Part 11: Finish The Sentence
I love : to go out with a girl i like
I feel : so lazy at times I just wanna sleep
I hate : idiots who mess up with the projects that I took over before they left the company (Note: if you see anyone in your company like about to leave, better check if thier projects are in order)
I hide : a hidden vault containing an army that can reunite the Imperium under the glory of the Immortal Emperor
I miss : the care-free student life when in Australia
I need : a good life and good fortunes and good luck

Part 12: Tag 5 People
1) i wonder who else has a blog and ALREADY been tagged? hui ling has done it. So does eve (she tagged me). My bro deleted his blog, again. So anyone who has read this questionaire then.
2) My xbox 360, if it can read in the first place.

Been busy playing a mod for my Dark Crusade rts on my laptop. It is a survival type gameplay where wave after wave will attack you.

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=135406&page=1&pp=15

All I can say it is one very nice mod and it is free :P

The best part has to be massing lots of uber units from capturing a critical location (you get one every few minutes of wave I think) :P

It is things like this that makes pc gaming far better than console gaming. Unlike Xbox Live Marketplace where you need to PAY to use cheats **cough ** NFS Carbon & the Godfather for 360 ***cough ***

Had to go to JB today coz the local water authority in JB, Syarikat Air Johor (SAJ) requires the consultants to be present during the inspection to see the water tanks, meters etc.

Went there in the morning by bus and later car pool back to KL in a contractors car since he too is heading back to KL. The bus trip only took 3 and a half hours from Puduraya bus station to the Larkin bus station in JB. It was a direct journey with no stops whatsoever. Left KL at around 7am and arrive at 10.30am. The fare is cheap too, RM 24 only since it is the off peak season.

Let my bro installed Half-Life 2 onto my previous Pc which has a 1.4 Gb Intel P4 and a Geforce 4 MX. Needless to say, after a while of playing the some graphics error pop up and took forever to load.

I think after 5 years of using it, since early 2002 after SPM results, it is high time to change pc and to let this pc retire. Have not checked what is the latest processors or grpahics card required but I think I might need dual core and vista now.

2006 year in review

I have updated my links to include my bro's blog and my ex-classmate's blog. My brother abandoned his previous blog and attain a new web address as his previous one I can pretty much say has been "taken over".

Anyway I was thinking of writing the review of the year 2006, but never got around to it coz there is simple too many things to write about. Then I pop over to Eve's blog and saw her method of reviewing the year 2006 which is in point form instead of paragraph form like what I did last year.

So in a blatant act of copying her method, here was how 2006 was like:

• January and February was busy looking for job, sending out resumes and going for interviews.
• Started working life on 1st March 2006.
• March was quite boring and confusing as still learning to know the ins and outs of what I;m actually supposed to do. Earned first paycheck at the end of that month.
• As the months progressed, learned more of the trade and the scope of my job. Getting more and more capable to do things.
  
• Found out that work is tough.. ok enough of it.
• Used the LRT to commute everyday and found out just how unrealiable and how crowded it can be. Atleast they already ordered the new trains, but still have to wait.
  
• Bought my Xbox 360 which I was planning to get since last year 2005 with my 1st, 2nd, 3rd and maybe fourth paycheck with 2 games!
• Upgraded my handphone from my Nokia 7250 to the Nokia N80. First handphone to be bought by myself (the earlier ones were handed down from my parents), 6th Nokia phone to be used by me and most the expensive one to date (ouch).
• Sponsored the new TV table for our new TV to play my 360.
  
• Meet up and getting to know more of ppl from 5B like hui ling, chew, the low brothers and many more.
  
• Got the new Dark Crusade expansion original.
• Still no girlfriend and still have not met the special someone :(
• Didn't go anywhere for holiday :(
• Took only 2 days leave from March 1st to December 31st.
• Not a single MWDA game played in 2006.

All in all, 2006 wasn't as memorable as 2005, with the holiday to Uluru, falling in love (and having a girl reject, ouch), graduate from uni and many more. But 2006 was still a good year as the year was prosperous and nothing bad as occured during the year.

Let's hope 2007 will be better as I am hoping that:

• I will with someone special and have a girlfriend by the years end. (hopefully)
  
• Maintain the momentum in my career and the ecomony is stable
• Meet up with more people
• Get a PS3 and a Wii.
• Upgrade my desktop to play Supreme Commander

Currently I'm more keen on the first point that anything else.

I have bought something which is cute and can collect "wealth/requisition points/power/gold/respect/money" and it runs off solar power. May I present you, the solar powered waving cat!

Bought them from 1Utama since.. nvm, forgotten which weekend I bought it. Anyway it needs alot of light for it to work. Flourescent lights doesn't seem to make it work unless you have lots of them per sq meter like in those departmental stores. They also don't seem to work on a cloudy day where there is very little sunlight. Placing them near BRIGHT yellow light (again, like in those shops, haih) is one way to make them move. So much for solar technology.

Oh, the green one is mine, the purple one is my parent's one.

Yesterday went to Kemuning Utama to check on our second house and to let my bro drive my Wira for a while. Took to it pretty fast and now he know just how easy an auto car is. It was only last Friday that he took his 1st driving lesson. First drive around SS15, then was asked to drive to Kelana Jaya near the Kelana Jaya Giant to learn bout slope and parking. But imagine, first lesson already drive on Federal Highway and LDP on a weekday. And he was going quite fast too.

After that went to Klang for a while coz got 1 road on the way to Kapar, the whole road got used car dealers. Asked around for a 2nd hand kelisa or kenari. Too my big surprise 2nd hand kelisa a rare and far between, more so for an auto model. And the majority of ppl who enquire kept enquiring bout Perodua cars only. Small, cute, K cars are the norm now but I would take my Wira any day coz its bigger. Also, not a single Myvi in sight.

Something to ponder upon.

To get the the girl, you need the following 'C's:

The famouse 5 Cs:
Career
Credit Card
Car
Condominium
Club Membership

The alternate Cs:
Career
Citibank Credit Card
Camry, Cefiro, C-Class, Cayman S, Carrera, Citra
gated Community house
Club Membership
Cameraphone
Chief Executive Officer
Clever
Cat (pet cat)
Centrino notenook
liquid Crystal display (lCD) TV

But the above 'C's mean nothing without the most important 'C' of all:

Commitment

Looks like I just found out the holy grail of starting and maintaining a relationship.

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