Songs on my list.. as of this writing..

Blue October - Hate Me
Beyonce - Irreplaceable
Akon - Smack That
Hinder - Lips of an Angel
Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats
Ciara - Promise
Cassie - Me & U
Paula DeAnda - Walk Away
The Pussycat Dolls - Wait A Minute

Night shift..

Aight, here I am at this a.m in the day. While most ppl are sound asleep dreaming a lil dream, snoring a lil snore, drooling a lil drool I'm wide awake all ready for the call of duty!

Ok ok perhaps I'm not exactly wide awake.. who caught me there? When I took the job I was thinking all will be fine, having a rota tht changes every 2 days was gonna be fine yada yada~ the distance (45KMs 1 way) wouldn't be a problem. The cost to get to work was calculated in detail. Everything seemed ok.

Ya wanna know wat's the worse part? It's the distance from home to work, work to home.. tht's the killer.. especially for days like this after a night shift, I can barely keep my eyes opened on my way back home..

Now tht the toll prices just increased(started 1st Jan), dun help it either. From RM1.00 it went up to RM1.60. Tht's a 60% gawd damn hike!!! Oh yah and I gotta pass 3 of em on the way to work and another 3 on the way back home. Take a count on tht. Simply ridiculous!!!

Wat on earth am I paying income tax for?! This is day light robbery, one allowed by the authorities. Honestly,

1. why is it our obligation to pay income tax? Ya so we need to contribute for the growth of the country yada~ yada~.
   
2. We pay house assessment to the town council to clean the shit up which they so seldom do well. Overgrown 'lalang', lousy road surface, etc..
   
3. We pay our water bill for muddy water to be supplied to our taps.
   
4. We pay for streamyx(broadband) whose service often suffers disruption be it total down time or unsatisfactory speeds.
5. We pay road tax to drive into pot holes.
6. We need to pay a small fee(for each transaction) shall we use the ATM machines supplied from a certain bank more than a stated amount of times. To think tht we are doing the bank a favor by using the machine thus not cluttering up their counters.
7. We need to deposit RM15 for a touch-n-go card. For fux?
8. Dun wanna get stuck at the tolls? Get a SmartTag tht'll cost u RM100 if u reload ur touch-n-go card with another RM100. Oh yeh to top the hefty toll prices.

Think I'll stop there at no.8 the apparent lucky number for the Chinese.

Shucks how did I allow me good self to get side tracked tht far?!

Back to what I wanted to say:

To avoid the hefty toll prices and the inevitable fuel price hike, my only choice will b to rent a plc nearer to Cyberjaya, for instance Puchong. I won't be saving any $ but I'll b saving traveling time and a tonne load of sanity.

personalizing da template?

how on earth do I personalize a template? I've been trying to add a silly image to the header portion and it has taken me days.. erm.. more like a few minutes spanning a few days kinda thingie.. I've lost touch with CSS and heck I just can't seem to get the image to display. grrr~ I see some blogs here on blogspot with pretty nice layouts. Layouts tht ain't available from blogspot's template choices. What gives? HelPpPPPPpppp...

Cameron up in the Highlands!

So I was up in the mountains.. Erm or highlands or hill.. watever it is, I visitted Cameron Highlands recently, 26-27 Dec, spent a night there. Jolly it was a wet visit. Was drizzling the whole morning of the 27th which kinda kept me indoors as the fog was thick n being a tropical guy, I found it really cold! Was most prolly 18 degrees.

Visited the Boh tea plantation, Cactus valley and Buttefly farm.

Well before I get into tht, here are some creatures from the highlands.

Fireworks with KM Dynax 5D

Well a fren called yesterday enquiring "How's Sony's A100?". For those who are not aware, it's Sony's 1st DSLR. In a nutshell, Konica Minolta (KM) sold it's photo imaging division to Sony somewhere 1st quarter of this year. Was like bout a mth after I got my KM Dynax 5D. I was like wtf?! But then again KM had always sucked in marketing. So with Sony's muscles, the legions of Minolta die-hard fans now have hope.

Sony acquired certain technology from KM when it acquired the mentioned division.

So me n mua fren spoke briefly ovr the phone... This morning she got a Canon EOS 400D. I've got nothing against it. Nikon, Canon, Pentak, Fuji, Sony they all make fantastic entry level DSLRs. I naturally asked, why? Tho she had always been eyeing the EOS, she mentioned tht the sales dude said Sony's shutter speed was slow, thus taking fireworks shots will be "cannot".

I was like wtf was he talking about?! Here are some shots I took with me KM5D, essentially the base of Sony's A100.





Essentially it's technique. Time you are willing to spend to learn how ur camera works.

Oh yeh he also said the Canon's 50mm f1.4 lense is selling for RM200 plus while Sony's if gg for above RM2000. Anyone wanna clarify this? I cudn't even b bothered...

x'mas dinner at Debbie's part 3

Aight, everyone's tummy's filled, wat's next? Let's take some shot shall we?


Kelv & Deb - goodness look at the perfect match.. even shows in photos..


Deb & Swee Yin - Best of frens!


Shin & Peh Ling - Newly weds!


Kelv & Jason - Brokeback mountain style bay beh~


Simply luv this shot where Deb looks like the world is non-existant!

x'mas dinner at Debbie's part 2

Everyone's hungry, perhaps only those who had the instant noodles ain't there yet... But I was starved.. With all tht food staring u at the face!!!


Part of the food, more coming!


Wat's this? dun care, eat 1st ask later.. someone wanna help me with this?


Eat, talk later.. dunno wat's this either..


Look at the man trying it out with the bird. Well later Shin took ovr and spend the rest of the bird's meaty life slicing it up for the others.


Luv this shot, take a look at the kid..

Aunty Wong made us chicken curry - Slurp~ and Aunty Tan (I think tht's her name) made some Shepherd's Pie - Nothing beats home made! The rest? Well it was Deb!

Awesome stuff I tell u, simple to kill for. Tho most of the time I didn't know the name of the dish I was shoving up my mouth, they tasted real good!

x'mas dinner at Debbie's part 1

The party starts with a lil posing..


Kelv with the end-of-year pose


Shin with the sumthing-up-my-arse pose


While those 2 are posing, Deb's putting the finishing touches to her pie. Gawd she n Kelv must b part time chefs!


Turkey anyone? Home made! So there'll b a lil xtra charge aight. Take a better look, it's duck! The wings are a dead give away. Hey, we've got a bird too aight!


This wasn't part of the plan. Some ppl got hungry and decided some instant noodle will do just fine!


Any dude forgot their nuts? As the background tells, dinner's abt served!


Wat tasted like fine crackers to me. At this point they were taking their own sweet time to get all puffy.


Wat's tht smell? Sumthing's burning! Deb "Argghhh my bread!". The fella actually smoked!


Look at em pressies laying nicely waiting for the rightful owners.