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1. At what age do you wish to marry?
Hopefully next year, that is when I am 28

2. If you were to be stranded on a desert island, who are the 3 blog buddies you would take with you? Why?
I don't have much blog buddies, but from those blogs that I read..
a) TiBun - only childhood friend that blogs and also he never ceases to amaze me with his ridiculous comments and ideas :)
b) Ling - the only girl blogger friend I have, what other choice would I have :P
c) Cheeserland - coz she's one hot chiq at least I can have her then Tibun can have Ling, see, I always think of my friends! muahahaha!

3. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Micronesia - That's a place where I can live freely and do nothing all day long

4.If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
I would wake up one day and become very rich and hire a professor to build me a machine that can make my dream never end :)

5. Do you believe you can survive without money?
Not where we live we won't... as Tibun says, unless you're stucked in an island

6. What are you afraid to lose the most?
Friends and Family - they are my only joy

7. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
Give 100k to God, then use 300k to buy a house, 150k for a car, the rest invest in some funds or fixed savings

8. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
Yes I would if I am still single of course

9. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
a) Smart
b) Very analytical person
c) Quite funny

10. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
- Always be truthful to me
- Able to seduce me & pamper me:D~
- Understand what I want before I say it
- Share my ups and downs

11. Which type of person do you hate the most?
No particular type of person will make me hate them but if I had to choose I'd say a two-faced-liar

12. If you are given the chance to go back to the past and make a difference, will you?
I'd probably go back but not to make a difference. Instead I'd enjoy life more :)

13. What is the thing that will make you think someone is bad?
Someone that pretends

14. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
Family, friends & God

15. Are you a shopaholic or not?
No, I am not because I don't have that kind of money to spend

16. If you have a chance, which part of your character you would like to change?
I trust people to easily and that gets me into trouble

17. Who is the person that you can share all your problems with?
Funny... I am the same as Tibun, I can share my problems with almost anyone

18. What's the thing that you're most proud of?
It would be 2 things. 1 the amount of friends I have and secondly my career.

19. Rainy day or sunny day?
Damn, same as Tibun again... I like the smell of rain

20. Biggest spending per receipt in your life (loan not included)
My in-car-entertainment set - RM2700

I am going to tag :
Ling

More than a month now...

It has been more than a month now since I last updated my blog.
I actually owe you guys quite a lot of updates in my life but I have just been too busy with work and too tired after it. Excuses, excuses... I know :P

Life has been pretty hectic these days at work.
There's a lot of hiring going on and I have been tasked as the one and only person to recruit and interview people. Which I am happy with! At least I get to select the good people first hand and put them in my team first :D
Other than that with 3 accounts under me, it is quite frustrating and gives me quite a migraine. Haven't been having migraines for a long while now but it seems to be back.
Been getting a lot of escalations from my SDM's (Service Delivery Manager's) from UK. They are like my virtual managers in UK where everything I do here needs to be reported to them. If something ever goes wrong in KL, I'd be the first get the bashing.
And I don't really like that but its the norm in my line of work.

Anyway I'll just post some of the photos I've taken at my good chicken friends wedding. Please do not comment on my tummy, I know its big. Thanks.


At G Hotel, Gurney. The place the newly weds would... you know... *ahem* *ahem*


At the Wedding Dinner


The Night Before Chicken Thong Got Sentence to Life as Betterman Husband :)


Dinner witg brides side


Subsequent photo from the first one... got chased out of their room! They wanted to do it even at 4pm -.-"


No... not my gf... she's my khai mui (god-sis) & Chicken Thong's sister


My khai ma (god-mother) & of coz Chicken Thong's mom

Happy Chinese New Year!

Time flies when you're having fun doesn't it? :)

Its already the 4th day of CNY which means tomorrow I'll have to go back to KL already. Come Tuesday I'll be working again... damn :'(
Wish I could just stay in Penang and not go back to KL for work.
It has been a great great CNY this year.
For the past few years I hadn't the time to visit relatives and friends.
It was mostly work work work! Fortunately this year I could take the time off from work and spend very very valueble time with my family and friends.
I can see it in my parents eyes that they are very happy I could follow them out to visit relatives this year. Getting all those usual compliments from the elders.
You know, like... "Wah! Your son so big and pandai, you can enjoy life now!".
I really wish I could give them that but too bad... I can't, well at least not yet.

However there is an exception this year. I didn't get a chance to meet with my khai ma, khai mui, ah thong & wei chuan. Which is kinda sad cause since college I think I have been spending more time with them rather than my family. They have become like my second family, which is great to know that there are people that care for me.

Well I think the way I wrote this post might seem a bit sad to read but I assure you that this is the happiest CNY I have ever celebrated despite ang pow money is at its lowest -_-"

Lastly I'd like to wish all of you...
Happy Chinese New Year - for the banana people
Keong Hee Huat Chai - for the hokkien
Gong Xi Fa Chai - for the mandarin
Gong Hei Fatt Choy - for the cantonese
Keong Hee Huat Chye - for the teo chew

May the year of Rat bring you all prosperity and health!

Updates for my first month of 2008

Hey guys
Sorry about the lack of updates here.
It has been pretty busy for me since 2008 started.
And it has not started that well for me I guess...

First of all I am now taking care of 3 accounts instead of 1.
I know this day would come sooner or later as I was already informed before I took on this role in this organisation. However it was promised that the mess in these accounts would be dealt with first before I took over. It is not a problem for me to clear all the mess, after all that is why I was hired in the first place. The problem is not giving me sufficient time to do all this.
Well enough bout my job... I'll move on to happier things :)

My good friend, ex-room mate, khai ma's son & chicken brother got married on 19th January 2008. Although he signed his papers back on 1st Jan 2005 :P I was the witness when he got married so I know! I was tasked with the role of his best man, having to hold on my left hand all his ang pow's (red packet containing money) and my right hand holding a big ass red fan which I had to use to fan him and keep him cool.
It was also the first time I had to feed someone food! Then at the wedding dinner he invited some college friends which I have not meet for a long long time. It was great fun getting to meet them.

Following weekend which was last Saturday and Sunday, I brought my team of colleagues to Penang for a food trip. That was a great fun or great feast whichever you like to call it... :)
List of items we had:
1. Mee goreng which had lots of sotong at Pulau Tikus
2. Chendol at Penang Road
3. Gurney Hawker food - Laksa, Fried chicken and MANY other fried stuff, fried oyster, char koay teow, muar chee & ikan bakar
4. Boozing of coz Kilkenny's - its not food but I'm going to list it anyway :P
5. Brunch at Tho Yuen - Best roasted chicken ever, sang mee, hong tou mee and fried rice. Everyone was so happy with the chicken, we ordered another half after finish half a chicken
6. Ais Kacang at Lorong Selamat
7. Seafood at Ah Yan, Batu Kawan - Crabs, man tou, nestum prawns, red fish (don't know if that's the real name) cooked in tomyam, deep fried sotong and kangkong sambal.

Well I think it was a pretty decent food trip considering we only had 36 hours to eat.

Hope this post gives you guys some updates about my life here...

-2008-

I need to get a new life!
I need to resign and go away from all this concrete jungle!
I need to get in touch with myself again!
I need PEACE & QUIET!

Just feel like letting go of everything I have right and just run away...

Merry Christmas 2007

I know I know... its past Christmas already but still I have to say it right?
Spent Christmas back in Bukit Mertajam with the usual buddies.
Neebs, Keebs and Jeebs - the 3 EEBS?
So what did we do other than drink, drink and drink?
Of course... for me I go back Penang sure eat, eat and EAT!
Hahaha... it was a very fun but short trip...
The part I didn't quite like was the fact that the Penang Bridge was jammed every single I was back in Penang from like 11am till 11pm.
Where the fark are all these people coming from?
My guess is it should be because everyone's avoiding Kuala Lumpur, scared of the riots and protests and rallies that might happen there.
I heard even the hotel prices in Kuala Lumpur was cut down by 30% due to poor business.

Well... back to my Christmas, as I said it was basically an eat and drink trip.
Went to BED with Neebs, Jeebs, Keebs & Kitty (Keebs wife) but before that we went for a Thai food in Bagan Ajam. The belacan fried rice and tomyam was good. We also ordered a seafood platter consisting of prawns, crabs, squid and... LALA :P What do they call LALA in english anyway? Anybody knows? I wanted to take photos of the food but was too busy eating so no photos :P Sorry.
Then headed to BED for drinks, as usual Keebs couldn't even finish a glass of sissy AK47. The RMDC (Real Men Drinking Club) guys (me, jeebs & neebs) had a blast despite the sissy-ness of Keebs. We had Long Island Tea, Dream (it sucks, tastes too sweet and its like bubblegum, more like nightmare for me), 2 jugs of Tiger, and ended it with shots of Orgasm, Sex in Bed and Flaming Samburca. It was fun, that was probably the first time we went drinking together?
Oh also there were bunch of guys and girls from the next table. The girls were like released from prison and were dancing & drinking like mad. One of the guys suddenly came over and gave a cup of chivas neat to drink. What's the point of that? I of course didn't know what to do but to drink it and say thanks. Hope I did the right thing though :P

And now New Year's is coming but won't be going back to BM. No money already keep drinking and eating. Went drinking again last night. This time to cheer up an old friend that broke up with her bf. There were 3 guys and 2 girls but I think only the other girl knew what happened to her. She acted happy throughout the whole course and keep on making everyone laugh. I hope she is okay and will get over her bf soon enough and back on her feet to be herself again :)

Let's see what I can do for New Year and I can't remember my 2007 resolution already!? :P

Always Ahead

Just got back from Langkawi late Monday to watch LIMA with NBSD-[[Keebs]- and Jeebs.
It was a very fun trip having the chance to spend team with my good friends and just lepak.
Got sick yesterday, lost my voice, caught flu and coughing as well. This all probably due to OD on alcohol :P I'll blog about Langkawi next time.

Like the title says, Always Ahead, I'm already planning another trip.
This time its another trip to Penang for my colleagues at work.

Notice was sent out as below:

Team,

We have been procastinating that we want FOOD! We want GLORIOUS, DELICIOUS, HEAVENLY FOOD!
Now is the time we take our stand and make the decision that will change our lives forever!

Kindly refer below:
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Mission: Penang Food Hunt
Code name: PF2PG

Day 1:
- 0200 we all finish work together and drive down to the Land of Glorious Food aka Penang aka Pearl of the Orent.
- 0600 we reach Penang and start our hunt.
Choices: Penang Hokkien Mee using mantis prawn OR Penang Dim Sum?
- 0730 we go to our hotel, check in and rest. Hotel not sure yet - checking for rates at this moment, to see if I can get cheap hotel for you all.
- 1230 wake up & wash up
- 1330 go for war!
Choices: Chicken Rice + Variety of Mee (Hong Tou Min, Ee Foo Min, Char Tua pan & etc)
OR Mt. Erskine aka Pek Hoon Suah - famous for Mee Goreng but also have a lot of other stuff laksa, popiah, pasembur, hokkien mee, wantan mee & etc.
- 1530 we should finish lunch by then maybe can head to Gurney Plaza for some shopping or maybe window shopping.
- 1800 move on to Batu Feringghi, walk walk a bit and of course for you pirates you can get some DVD's.
- 2100 hopefully by this time everyone's hungry and we can head to Gurney for our dinner. Lotsa food - fried chicken, laksa, rojak, sotong panggang & MANY MORE~!~!~!
- 2300 back to the hotel, wash up and PARTY TIME!!! We go clubbing!!!
- 0100 of the next day we either wrap up and go back to the hotel OR for those who can still find space in their tummy we can have some REAL ORIGINAL NASI KANDAR!

Day 2:
- 1200 wake up, wash up & check out from hotel.
- 1330 go for lunch.
Choices: New World aka Sin Sey Kai - Mee Sultan, Ice Kacang, Curry Mee, Hokkien Mee, Char Koay Teow & etc.
OR Lorong Selamat - Famous for its expensive and good Char Koay Teow, Ice Kacang and Penang Laksa.
- 1500 can visit Penang Esplanade & Fort Cornwallis.
- 1700 we can go and eat the BEST cendol in Penang at Penang Road. The laksa there is not bad as well.
- 1800 we leave Penang and head to Bukit Tambun/Batu Kawan for seafood. If you feel adventurous can use the ferry service or else Penang bridge the same way we came.
- 1840 we reach and start feasting on the seafood, recommendation is Ah Yen at Batu Kawan, cheap and good.
Choices: Crab, Mantis Prawn, Fish, Prawns & ANYTHING also got lah!~
- 2030 we complete our trip, wave goodbye to the Land of Glorious Food and head back to Mud City.

The plan is to go on Saturday and come back on Sunday - preferred 2nd & 3rd Feb 2008.

Kindly reply as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,
Chief Food Commander - Alvino
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Any opinion about this itenary guys? Some feedback might improve my plan.

December Already?!?!?!

Yeah... its already December...
Fast right?
Time really flies when you're having fun.
I guess I'm having loads of fun now.
Still got my service line report to finish by this Friday.
I did 5 reports yesterday.
ISO auditors are coming from tomorrow will Friday.
I can't take my leave on Friday which sucks a lot.
Gotta take a flight back from KL to Penang at 6.55am when I finish work at 2am.

Oh boy its gonna be a busy week...

Alvin with a big hole in the pocket

As you may have been informed in my previous posts that I spent almost a thousand on my car for repairs. That has burnt a big hole in my pocket.
Nevertheless another thing has happened... like the Malay saying, "Sudah jatuh lagi ditimpa tangga".
I have been having these pains on my lower right jaw for the past few days now.
It gives me a slight headache and because I bite my teethes a bit when I sleep it hurts even more. So today I couldn't bare the pain anymore and went to visit the dentist.

Got a x-ray done immediately and the doctor diagnosed it as my tooth that had a filling put in say... hmmm... when I was in form 3(thats around 1996), has some infections under the filling and its touching the nerves. That's why I am feeling such pains.
2 options were given to me, save the tooth by doing a root canal and then crowning OR remove the tooth completely and put in a fake one.
I am a saver, I've saved it once, I'm gonna save it again :)
So decided to go for the root canal and crowning option.
Just in case you want to know root canal is removing the nerves underneath your tooth. That will make it a so called "dead tooth" then they put a crown over it. Thats to cover back the hole in the tooth. Well... it hurts... trust me... it really does!
If you want to know more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_canal
So like what the title says big hole in my pocket, here's the break down:
Root canal - RM600
Crowning - RM480
Total - RM1080
The hole in my pocket & look on my face when I heard the price - PRICELESS

False Information on the internet?

Hmmm... I just wonder why some people provide the wrong information on the internet.
Even when I was like in Form 3 when mIRC was the biggest thing, people were giving wrong information. Like for example whether they were male of female.
Well I would understand why they'd lie about their gender. The males pretend to be females to get to know the females better, I think lar. Don't know if that trick works as I've never tried it myself :P

However I don't know why people would lie about their age & zodiac year.
Well some people lie to be younger so they can court younger chicks but putting your age as 251? What for? You want to court dinosaur?
Then this guy is obviously a rooster, chinese zodiac year, but he puts as RAT?
What can he achieve by doing this? Hmm... really makes me wonder.
Then there's another thing, his profile has been viewed 53 times and nobody bothered to fark him up :) I always like to be different!

Have you ever pretended to be someone else on the internet?
I've never... just be yourself :)

Syiok Sendiri

- Alvino - says: where else besides jobstreet ah
- Alvino - says: i dont like jobsdb.com
- Alvino - says: anywhere else?
Lingy says: jobstreet so far the best lor
- Alvino - says: ya lor
- Alvino - says: we should create emptystreet.com
- Alvino - says: coz all the streets will be empty... why? everyone has a farkin job!
- Alvino - says: hahahahahah

Sigh... I syiok sendiri...

Feeling very down 27th November 2007

Today, for no reason, I am feeling very down...
Just feel like resigning and go travel around the world for a month.
I think a lot of people will feel this way when they are stressed out.
For no reason I feel stressed out.
I just mentioned in my previous posts that I have basically nothing to do at work.
So you might be thinking, "What is this mutha farker thinking? Stress? Come do my work then you know what is stress!".
Let me put it this way... have you ever wondered why some of the people in your company or organisation can keep on working non-stop and are still pretty happy when they are given a lot of work to do. Thats because they are doing what they love and more importantly they are working with people that has the same objectives to achieve. What I'm facing now might not make sense to you but I am really very tired of this job and really want to just resign.
When I decided to take this job offer and leave Dell I was very happy that I would be able to take on this new challenge and prove my capabilities in another company. I even didn't rest from Dell and took this new job immediately without a break. Sigh... I wish I had taken a rest first before coming here. I wish I hadn't leave Dell where all my good friends are now. I live my life by the motto that I won't regret whatever I do... now I am regretting... TOO LATE...

Dedicated to Grace - My Dear

*** WARNING!!! This post could potentially caused some of you to feel sick or might even cause you to vomit or become suicidal. Could potentially make you laugh till you fall of your chairs. However you are not allowed to use this as a joke or something to tease me when you see me!!! ****

This post is dedicated to my dearest. She has always been patient with me for being so moody and bossy most of the times.

Dear if you see this, I just want to wish you a Happy Birthday and may all your wishes come true (hopefully I'm in the wish).

They say pictures last forever... will we be forever? I hope so :)

Boredom at work

Hey guys,
As you may or may not notice... I've been updating my blog quite frequently for this few weeks.
Reason is as stated in the title, "Boredom at work".
Seriously guys this is the easiest job I've done in my whole life...
At first it was busy... then when I finished all those things, I practically had nothing to do anymore.
I'm not trying to brag about my "easy job" instead I feel frustrated having to come from a job that has a lot things to handle to a job which basically asks me to sit here and just do nothing.
I feel that I am wasting my time here with nothing to do. Compared to what I was promised when I was interviewed for this job. Handling transitions, handling multiple accounts, having 20+ agents & many more. All this seems to be empty promises from what I can see from my point of view.
I was also promised a RM500 standby allowance before I came and when I got here... I was told, again, I can't claim this because I am not on standby.
By far... I am pretty dissatisfied and I shall carry on doing my daily tasks such as updating my blog, chatting on MSN, surfing websites, visiting all the forums I can think of, read blogs, read The Star online. Anyone got any suggestions on what else I can do at work?

Funniest load of crap I've seen in ages...

Guys,

This has gotta be the funniest load of crap I have seen in a very very long time!
Hope you guys enjoy this as much as I do...
If you want more head on to youtube.come as there's even more there!

Penang's Good Food... forget about those email that they forward

hey guys...
recently visited this blog by a BM guy... its superb!
he introduced a lot nice... and i mean really nice eating spots that i usually go to as well!
oh goodness gracious... being in KL and watching all those photos just gives me the urge to just drop everything in KL and go back to Penang just to eat 'em all
too bad i just cant do that... well... i wish i could though...
so if guys want to know what penang food is good... visit it here http://www.vkeong.com/

BM kia rulez!!!
Penang forever!!!

Being honest to run a business

Hey guys,
I know I know... been quite a while since I updated my blog.
Life has been pretty boring for the past few weeks.
Everyday I'd wake up late and go to work around 3-4pm.
Do some reports in the early times of the day and spend the rest of it sitting there doing nothing at all...
Well I'll skip all the boring part ok? ;)

My parents came down for the weekend just to visit my and my brother in KL.
So as usual whole family cramp into one car and we went to Sungei Wang.
On the way back I hit a pothole that was deceiving, it looked small but when I hit it, the whole car flew up :'( The steering was displaced around 40 degrees that pretty bad. When I turn its now hard to turn back, a little hard not to say very hard.
So the next day took it to a shop for checking or diagnostics.
So what happened? I felt like I got slammed by a phone book thats what happened.
The guy started checking and unveiled more and more and more issues with my car.
Kinda feel cheated :( At first he said bushing, then he said drive shaft and then he said steering rack. I was like WTF dude! Make up your mind!
So he then started making phone calls to get pricing. Which then he came back to me with a calculator and started hitting the calculator like a mad man. Ok he did't hit it like a mad man but to me it felt that way. *Tik* *tak* *tik* *tak* times that like a million times and he showed me the golden number. MAHAI it was a thousand plus!
Suddenly I felt like a sucker... a big one!
I gave the guy a frown and told, "Wo mei you chien!" (I don't have the money!) and I walked into my car and drove off.

I'm not sure if he was trying to rip me off or what but sure felt like it was. Consulted the great Keebs which told me to get a 2nd opinion first which is the right thing to do.
Can't KL people do business with honesty? When I was in Penang I wont have problems like this... hmm...

Old post

This is an old old post I should have posted long long time ago.
Anyway, better late than never rite?

Long wait ended

After a long long wait... the wait has ended
Yesterday was the go-live day for the calls to be taken by my team in KL
The calls were previously handled by a team of service desk in Crewe, UK.

Well... I haven't been talking much about work so you might not know what I am talking about. I'll try to summarise what has happened in the past month about work.

I was hired to manage of a team of service desk analyst. The company wanted to transfer the current desk in UK to Malaysia. This is usually for cost saving purposes and sometimes customers requirements.
We were all in training for a month starting September. Even the customer came down to see how we were doing prior to going live. It was the service manager which we thought before this was a very strict person but he turned out to be very nice and very helpful which helped our team to prepare even better.

That's basically it. So we went live yesterday and started picking up calls from customers, resolving technical issues and of course we had a little issues here & there. It was expected. First days are like that :) It can never be perfect.
For me, it was good enough. I am very proud to be in a team of people that are so dedicated and smart. Kudos to them.

1 month it has been

Time flies as they say, it really does.
It is now 1 month since I make the decision to let go of everything I had.
My hometown, my house, my home, my job, my girlfriend, my family and my friends.
To come to this place call Kuala Lumpur.
Well... its not that bad, its just me. I just miss my friends and family but also the food in Penang.
I wish I could bring all the good food from Penang to KL...
Maybe I could? and make lots of money from doing that haha :)

To update, I have got my broadband installed.
I moved to a new apartment last weekend. Actually on my birthday itself.
Spent the whole day moving and unpacking my stuff.
Then drove all the way back to Penang.
It was a very busy weekend but I really enjoyed it and appreciated it a lot.
Spending time with friends and family is the best thing and the most important thing.
I guess moving to KL has made me realise that even more.
Well, no point going on about that. Its too late to turn back now.
Just feeling sad... sorry...