Saturday, September 29, 2007

An unfortunate event




At about 6pm on Sat, I was on the road heading home. I was texting my buddy as he told me on msn, he was rushing down to KL to visit his Grandma as she fell ill from diabetes. Didnt had chance to reply his msn, so I text him instead. Hope she gets well anyway.

As I finished texting and sending the message, I looked out the mirror and I saw a guy sprawled on the road in front of Hotel Windsor. Hey, I just had porridge buffet there last week. It was raining. From opposite side of the road, I could see a guy and his bicycle lay there motionless.

I am not exactly sure whether he took a tumble himself or a vehicle actually knocked him of course.
My prayers to this guy. Hope he turns out well eventually. As the bus begins to move, I begin to ponder, health and life is precious. I wouldnt hesitate even a second to deny that.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Prison Break - De Sona

Absolutely brilliant. Curiousity got the best of me when it comes to Prison Break Season 3. Decided to take a peek of Episode 1. The 2 min worth of sneek peek sums up what Prison Break is all about. Tough and gritty with an added touch of brilliance and sexiness.

The scene started of with a lady dressing herself up and brushing her hair with some smudges on her face. Could be blood. I couldnt tell. Then fast forward to Sona Penitentiary, where Michael is standing in the middle of a heavy downpour with the other prisoners cheering on. I swore one of them looked like a deformed mutant. I need to confirm this again, hahahaha. Then we see on the other end, the door opens and appears Mahone. Both of them stared at each other and.............


Thats it. I decided not to watch anymore until I get my hands on Episode 3. If you happen to surf your way through Fox official site, there is a mention of a mysterious character, Whistler. Whats up with that?


Prison Break can only get better this season. And I am sure there'll be more shocks and bumps to come. So buckle up and enjoy the ride.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Hello.........Halo

I am not a gamer but one must be living out of this world not to know about the release of the highly anticipated Halo 3. I am just contended waiting for the movie to be released in the Box Office.

Well word on the street is that the lines are jammed especially for HKG and TWN users that bought Halo 3. With Korea on 3 days break, today the gamers are back with a revenge calling the hotline. I will not go into details on what complications users are seeing since its only hearsay. So to those who are managing the call centers handling the influx of calls pertaining Halo 3, God bless you all!!
Try Red Bull or Livita to perk you up. Meanwhile to those hardcore gamers, go easy on the staffs mending your calls from the other end. At the end of all this, all of us would just like to end our day in a nice lighthearted manner.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Moved Ouch.....Out

Moving house is always a pain in the ass. Finally I have moved to a new far away hideout. Moving our barang barang was tough. Started in the morning and we only ended the moving in wee hours in the morning the next day. I bailed out around 8pm plus after moving most of the stuffs into our new house. Left my housemate alone to complete the task.

Need to catch the bus back to Malaysia that night. With a few bruises to show on my arms and legs, it was certainly a tiring affair. I also lost some barang barang as well during the move. Plus putting your stuffs outdoor is also not safe. Unseen scavengers seems to lurk around in the dark just to take your stufs. I would not want to go into details on who are those I am referring to.

We rented a pickup to do the job ourselves. With my other housemate already cleared some stuffs on the night before. If you were to ask me, I think I would not want to move again. I would leave it to the profesionals. Though I admit its gonna be pricey.

And also thanks to my pal for lending us 2 trolleys. An invention that helped us reduced a whole lot of the load.

Out the old, comes in the new. Hope the new place is a better place to stay.


Dr Koh - Useless

In relation to the road rage posting below, one of the issues that was discussed in the car with my Dad was the lousy administration of Dr Koh. Traffic is a nightmare in Penang Bridge. Everytime I want to catch a flight from mainland to Penang airport, you can be sure I feel a heightened sense of anxiety whether or not would I make it for the flight

Clearly Dr Koh is just trying to pass the buck to others with his comments below. Coincidently he brought up this issue during the same time I was cursing him like hell. There are lots of things the state govt can do to ease the traffic for the time being. Heavy vehicles should be barred from using the bridge at designated peak hours. It was done before nationwide during the Kongsi Raya few years back. Certain heavy vehicles were barred from the road.

Do a trial run and see whether it works. Rather than just trying to pass the blame to others. Think Dr Koh is not that smart for someone of his calibre carrying a Dr title. If a layman like me can come up with a same solution, then what value add is he giving to Penang?

CM: Ease jam on Penang Bridge
Regina William
BUKIT MERTAJAM (Sept 25, 2007):
Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon wants traffic dispersal on the the 32-year-old Penang Bridge improved.
"Traffic on the bridge is at maximum capacity heading to the mainland in recent years. It has further worsened with jams stretching for several kilometres in morning and evening peak hours," he said.
Koh said the bridge concessionaire, Penang Bridge Sdn Bhd (PBSB), must "buck up and stop giving excuses for the worsening traffic flow".
Koh, who was late for today's offical opening of Progenix Research Sdn Bhd at the Penang Science Park because of a traffic jam on the bridge, said: "Existing measures are inadequate."
Traffic flow on the bridge had been slowed down to a crawl the past few days because of cable rectification works carried out by Tenaga Nasional Berhad for a 200m stretch from 4.6km. Daily traffic volume on the bridge is 140,000 vehicles.
Widening works on the bridge are alsoy in progress with the construction of an additional vehicle lane and a motorcycle lane on both sides. They are expected to be completed by September next year.
"In recent months, PBSB had introduced several measures, including clearing up accidents quickly, to prevent massive jams.
"PBSB has also restricted slow moving vehicles on the bridge during peak hours.
"However, this is not enough. I have conveyed to them to further improve the procedures. They should move into the next stage since the jams are not easing," Koh said.
"They should also look into restricting heavy vehicles on the bridge during certain hours."
However, Koh said, PBSB would have to work with the industrial sector on how best to carry this out as this would mean that trailers from the island heading to the port on the mainland and those heading to the island would be affected.
Koh said the congestion should be considered when constructing the second bridge from Batu Kawan on the mainland to Batu Maung on the island.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Road Rage, a personal account

There are many things which I wanted to update my blog on. But I felt this piece of story should take precedence vs the rest.

It happened yesterday at around 10am plus at Penang Bridge. I was on my way to airport. Was talking to my Dad who was driving on what else, politics. As I was talking on how lousy Dr Koh's govt of handling Penang, I turned to my left and saw a driver in the car showing me the middle finger sign. I was stunned and suprised. What's wrong with him? At that juncture, I could feel my blood boiled to a level I have not felt for a long long time. Since the jam was pretty bad during that time, and the right lane we were taking was not as smooth as the left lane, the car managed to jumped ahead of us.

Still I was feeling really really pissed off, I hope and prayed my car can still catched up with him. My wish came true. At the turning into Coastal highway, the car bearing plate # PKF8278 was on sight. I asked my Dad to take over his car and I gave him a stare. Then this guy sped and tried to knock my car off the road. Just like in the movies. My Dad honked and we stopped by the road and he did the same. At this point, I felt an anger never felt before. I took out the stick from my car and shouted vulgarities at him. He did the same. I walked there and getting ready to hurl the stick at him, until an old man from the back of his car quickly came down of the car and held me back.My Mum also grabbed my shirt holding me back from going up front to whack this guy. So basically my Mum and his Dad pulled me back. I could feel that I was losing sense, my mind blank and all I could think of was hurting this guy.In his car, was his daughter maybe around Primary 1 or Primary 2 on the front seat and an old lady at the back seat. His Dad pleaded with me to go back into my car in which I refused. At that point my Dad was confronting him there face to face. The guy seeing this even had the audacity to say I was in the wrong carrying a stick wanting to whack him. Oh, he still has a sound mind to think that huh, I told myself. My girlfriend from inside of my car managed to pulled my stick back into the car from my hands. During that commotion, that guy's Dad was still pleading me to go back into my car. I shouted vulgarities at him still, challenging him to a fight. I asked him why you showed me the middle finger?

Guess what his answer was?

He said I used my hand to pushed up my spectacle frames. He took it as I was mocking him. I dont know what fuck this guy is? It was always been my habit to push my spectacles frame up. Anyway I dont give a fuck whatever his reason was. I shouted again at him and I attempted to go up front again to give him a beating. Again I was held back by his Dad putting both his arms on my shoulder. I told his his Dad to get him to apologize to me. He said I apologised on his behalf. I am sorry for my son's action. Then the old lady, presumably his Mum from the back of his car said please dont scare the kid. During all these, this guy still unrepentant. Still challenging me as well. Then during all that, a Chinese guy on motorcycle stopped by and asked us what happened and asked us to stop fighting. He made a remark. Why you Chinese fighting each other? Do you know that Chinese is already dying if we dont unite. That really snapped me up. Then I got my Dad to come back to the car and I told that guy, because of this politically correct statement, I am willing to let this go. Then my Dad ask the old guy, is this your son? My Dad said today my son didnt do something nasty to him, doesnt mean one day someone else wont take your son;s life away if he still carry on in this manner.

We each got back into our car and drove off. I could tell he wanted a piece of me still. And I really really wanted to beat him up to pulps too.

If my Mum and the old guy didnt pulled and held me back, I dont know what would have happened. Maybe I will be recording statement in a police station for endangering someone. Who knows? Its something I would leave it as a what if question.

My Mum told me I will be jailed if i killed or hurt someone then. During that, I really didnt care. All I thought was hurting him real bad.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Karang Guni

Tomorrow is moving house day. Last nite managed to packed some stuffs. On my way back home, stumbled upon a karang guni guy. Got him to swing by my place. Here is what I got from him

70kg of old newspaper/magazines - $7.00
1 old 15 inch Sharp tv, defect with red screen - $15.00

So all and all, got $22.00 from the exercise. Apart from disposing my old un-used rubbish, got some money from it, and also think I would have done Al Gore proud by not throwing it away just like that.