Finally what I wished for!

As most of my friends would know, I've been craving to buy myself an iPod Nano ever since er, forever.
But then some people suggested the iPod Touch instead. And that created some doubt in the purchase of the Nano.

Should I go for the Nano, or the more feature-filled Touch?? Would I regret it if I got the Touch instead of the Nano, and the other way round? AH THE HEADACHE!

Then it hit me, the solution was SO simple YET ELEGANT! So today after class I went straight and got myself...

My new toys! My green iPod Nano and iPod Touch =D

And on the way out, I passed by a Sony Style Centre, so I popped in and got myself a pair of new earphones since the stock iPod earphones are simply not very good at all.

Sony MDR-EX35. RM79

P.S. Happy April Fool's

P.S. 2: Gotcha! ;-)

My (Unnecessary) Dilemma

UPDATE (20th March 2010): I did a comparison of 3 MP3 players using a method called the Composite Criterion Method. What it does is factors in all the different factors with different weightage and comes up with a composite score. Well obviously the higher score wins. You can download my Excel file here.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/5lpgbb

Remember how I immediately adored my Lenovo netbook the very first time I saw it? Well, trust me to be at it again!
What is it THIS time?
Well, I was walking around in Sunway Pyramid one fine day, not too long ago, and passed by "machines". (yah, there's no caps in its shop name) Now I've been inside that shop many times before, but on this fateful day, I walked right in the shop, and IMMEDIATELY my eyes narrowed in on THAT thing.

That slim, sleek, very attractive (and also fucking expensive) creature.

The new Apple iPod Nano 5th Generation. Slim, Stylish and by God it's pretty.

And all I've ever talked and thought about ever since then was this (unnecessary) creature.

Furthermore, to add even more unnecessaries to this already unnecessary unnecessity, I played around with a friend's iPod Touch, AND ENDED UP LIKING IT TOO =(

The (not-so-new) Apple iPod Touch. Big, bulky yet fucking fun to play with.

Now I'm an Engineer-to-be, and engineers quantify stuff before deciding on anything. So I made a crude comparison between the two iPods. So here goes

iPod Nano
Pros:

• Small form factor (perfect for someone like me)
• Light

Cons:

• No >90000 applications
• No capacitive multitouch screen
• No WiFi means no Facebook
• Quite fucking expensive at RM599 for 8Gb
• I know its sound isn't as good as Sony's

iPod Touch

Pros:

• >90000 applications for me to fuck with
• WiFi means Facebook!
• Touchscreen for convenience (or inconvenience)
• Movies will view better on a bigger screen
• Better Price-Performance ratio (you get more for what you pay)
• You get an iPhone MINUS the irritating calls from telemarketers =D
• That above one was a joke.

Cons:

• Big and fucking bulky (How can it fit in my pockets?)
• Attracts too much attention (Hey look! He has an iPhone!!!)
• Your unFriends laugh at you when they find out it's not an iPhone after all.

As you can see as well as I can, on paper the Touch really looks like the better choice. Except for one thing, I have no interest in carrying around something that enormous.

As my faithful readers, you now get THE CHANCE OF YOUR LIFETIMES to help CHANGE MINE! Your comments MAY decide which player I choose. Choose well!

Uniforms - TheStarOnline article BITCH RANT

Well, this is the first post I’m doing ever since I got back to Subang Jaya. Things seem pretty normal, albeit three months not being here. Classes have started. I hate my new timetable. My friend dropped my beloved netbook. Yeah, things are certainly going on normal here.

Anyway, I’ve been wanting to bitch about do this rant post ever since reading the article in The Star Online, posted on the March 7^th. So, those of you that are anti-school uniforms are welcome to click here to exit. Else hang on to your seats for a (hopefully) bitchy article!

We’ll start off slow with Evidence #1

Well what (optional: the fuck) in the WORLD has pollution got to do with school uniforms? Oh but DON’T tell me “becos uniforms easy to dirty by the dusty ma.” By that logic ALL clothes will get dirty easily.

Evidence #2

His name is not censored as The Star Online didn’t do so, meaning that anyone can search for his picture and name if they tried to.

I call Smart Boy here “smart but extremely stupid”. Slash that, he’s NOT SMART AT ALL. He’s the epitome of stupidity.
And I quote this phrase EXACTLY from The Star Online, “He has a formula for keeping his school shirts white — he does not eat in school, preferring to go home and have his meals!”
Do you want me to repeat on how STUPID he is? I think no. Formula Failed

Evidence #3

Dear Chia Mei,
Now you see that even WITH a strict dress code there are still people who try to stand out of the crowd. So now you understand why students shouldn’t be allowed to wear whatever they liked?

Evidence #4

The Cikgu Disiplin WILL die listening to this excuse, OF LAUGHTER. FORTY FIVE MINUTES TO IRON THREE PAIRS OF UNIFORMS? HAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA *chokes* No seriously, LEARN HOW TO IRON. P.S THERE IS YOUTUBE.

Evidence #5

This is another STUPID boy. You can spend HOURS and DAYS on computer games (more SPECIFICALLY, DOTA), but you can’t spend ONE (1, SATU) minute tucking in that DAMN shirt of yours? To the hell with your excuses fool.

Author’s Note: And hey look, it’s our friend Smart Boy Jeremy from Evidence #2 again! Good old Jeremy, never fails to amuse me with his stupidity.

Evidence #6

Nah I’m fucking with you. Just when you thought our society was beyond cure, this proves that there ARE some people out there who aren’t stupid. Kudos to these siblings, unlike the stupid girls that can’t even iron their uniforms.

Verdict:

I will totally throw this case out of the window (literally) if I ever were a lawyer and get such a case.

While most of the people in our country are either stupid, ignorant or have bad English, there’s no denying that there ARE a small group that are not stupid, not ignorant and do not have bad English. Some lucky ones even have all three together, like me.

Afterthoughts: Ahhh...that felt soooo good, ranting all my irritations at those stupid people.

Time Flies Like An Arrow, Fruit Flies Like A Banana

If you're still scratching your head over my title, I'll give you a hint. Fruitflies? :)

It feels like barely a week has passed. As I am typing this post, I will have been here for my industrial training for exactly three (3) months. And what a three months it has been. At first before starting my training, I had apprehension that 3 months might be a tad too long. Before this I used to laugh at how long my fellow UTP (Universiti Teknologi Petronas) friends that their training was too obscenely long. Yet today as I sit in front of my (new) screen and reflect, I must admit I do feel that 3 months might have been a tad too SHORT. Oh the irony...

Within three months I've come to known many new acquaintances, in the office and out of it. In the office it is these new friends that have taught and guided me when I (wasn't lost, duh) had questions about the company. Outside the company too, I had my badminton and mealtime buddies. Some of these acquaintances have grown on me, some remain but acquaintances. Let's blame the three months for being too short for knowing you guys better.

In no particular order, I will now attempt to do an Oscar winner-ish thank you list to my new friends. (To those whose names might have been left out, it's not that I don't thank you, but seriously the list will be neverending if I did so, but thanks a million to you guys too!)

Thanks to:

• Wei Zhu and your quirky sense of humour (and FMA:Brotherhood), btw the Myvi IS a good car
• Ang for your guidance in the office (and plant), I'd still be fumbling in SAP if it wasn't for you :P
• Wong (not Thomas) for driving us soo often to Hup Seng, AND for answering my questions when I asked them.
• Kua (please don't call him Ah Kua, it sounds wrong) for teaming up with me to bully Wei Zhu. Hahahah
• Tim and your infinite resource of games and movies, it's been great knowing you and YEAH, MALE POWER!!!! (don't let your gf see this)
• Qi Hua for (driving me to KL and back, although I did pay :P) basically being a great friend. Without you Tim wouldn't have anyone to vent his "MCP-ism" at. =P
• Jarryd for (letting me drive your Satria Neo (bracket within a bracket, LEUNG KEET IF YOU'RE READING THIS, PROTON POWAH!)) and er..eating breakfast with me twice?
• and to all the others who've all been great company. Kerteh wouldn't be as fun without you guys!

Oops I think I hear the orchestra playing (the one which lets people know they've exceeded their 45second limit)..which means time to end this thank you speech.

It's kinda bittersweet, the feeling I'm feeling right now. On one hand I'm really excited that I'd be going back to school, yet on the other I feel heavy-hearted to leave all these great friends behind. Ying Yang anyone?

I came here without knowing anyone (bar my dad), and tomorrow I leave behind a bunch of great friends. A sincere thank you to you all, from the bottom of my heart. (The statement "May we meet again" holds no substance here, we're in the 21st century. The world is a much much much much smaller place, limited only by our laziness.) We WILL meet again in the near future.

My netbook, purchased in my first month of training

Ah, the sweet carcinogenic aroma of freshly brewed EDC and VCM, I will miss you a lot.

This freeware actually tracks mouse movement and records it as a picture file. Search "IOGraph" in Google.

Well the plane is self explanatory. It symbolizes my return to KL.

My New Sportswear

Just now I 'accidentally' walked into Al-Ikhsan in Mesra Mall. There was some sales going on, and I was choosing like a bitch. I finally decided on this orange baby. It's damn worth it, the price tag shows RM45, but with a further discount I, well my dad only paid RM39 for the shirt. With this shirt I'm going to run faster than other people in the field =D