Living in London

saw that outside my office.

xyz .. went to work. came down the bike. locked the bike. noticed something weird with the bike. why is my rim looking like that. shit.. the rim splitted. this is gonna cost. anyways, long story short. surfed the internet to check if buying a new bike is better than fixing the bike. turns out it's quite expensive to buy bikes and fix bikes around here. went to Cycle Surgery . saw a few bikes. damn expensive. the same brand of bike which i'm currently using is kona cost about 299£. deng. i wondered if i saw it in cycle surgery or evans cycles . anyways, decided to go get the wheel which was supposedly priced at £35. went back from office a bit earlier. went to ask holloway cycles asked them. said £35and £10 to fit it.. went up the road a bit. 40 £ from cycle surgery. 6£ to fit it. so i went back to holloway's cycle. turned out it was 40£ . diu. i bought the wheel and a sprocket remover. didnt buy the chain whip. thought i could fix it myself. here's the pic of the split ...

dammit i tried not to blog today.. but i was just bored outa my wits in the office. read the list of blogs i frequent daily( weekdays that is. ) but finished it before lunch time.. now what the hell i am gonna do after lunch. u tell me. ah yes.. now i remember.. i will go search for GST1.8T engines halfcuts in ZTH. anyways, back to languages, i can speak chinese which includes mandarin , cantonese , hakka , foochow , hokkien albeit the fluency of my chinese goes as it drags along those lists respectively. i think i can still speak malay which is bahasa melayu or bahasa malaysia whichever which sounds right. it makes it kind of funny even though brunei and indo have bahasa they sound different. or somthing like that. brunei's anda = awda. and indo's i frankly have never known any :P English that's a definite yes. a little bit of japanese from all the animes i've watch all these 3 years. the list down here signifies that i have close to nothing of knowledge of these l...

hmm i never did like watching horror movies or whatever movies that scares the shit out of me ALONE. anyways to top up with the 5.1 system i have currently watching horror movies is REALLY scary. but then again .. i got this dvd from this flatmate of mine. she passed it to me and said it was a really nice show. it was STIGMATA. well.. it ain't exactly a ghost movie or whatchamallit horror. but to me the sounds were enough to keep me under my covers. USUALLY i'm not like this. if i'm watching with somebody or with a group of friends.. man.. i tell u .. my guts would be so big.. i'm not afraid of anything. mr. superman is watching the movie. but then .. just because i'm alone in the room. that made it all the more worse. heheh.. cut the long story short. i finished the movie wihtout any hitches at all. the sound was great. not only i didnt go under the covers i was watching it intently. next day i returned that movie, she gave me another one. the commitments. some iri...

went to that place to do a free consultation on lasik. few tests were done on my eye. list of tests 1. photo of my retina or my eye. 2. computerised measurements of my myopia. including measuring my spectacles glass index. 3. some weird ass thingy that blew at my eye while i looked at the red light. 4. then they checked my eye using conventional method but the machine that checked my eye was none conventional. 5. then came the drops . with a thingy like pen it poked my cornea to measure its thickness. 6. after measuring. came sommore drops to dilate my pupils so that it looks like the eyes of the cat when it's nite time. big and round !! :P 7. then last but not least, after the pupils dilated, they took a bright light and shone it right to the back of my eye to check the back of my eye. well all in all no problem. i could do it. but the thing is that it would cost £1600. OMG.i could fly back to msia and do it back home and come back to london with that price. *grumbles* i gotta thi...

feeling nostalgic at the moment while cleaning my room and listening to some music. so i thought i'd write a note to self to remind me of the songs that brought memories back and smiles to my face according to the memories they brought back. 1. when you say nothing at all by ronan keating. (appreciative smile) - christmas at W's house. can't remember which year it was. but it was kind of them:p 2. history maker - Delirious (grateful smile) hmm Y was the person who got me into the group of friends. thank you. :P 3. miss you finally - Trademark (loud guffaw) S was the person who made me chuckle at my silliness then. now i can definitely say i was crazy. lol 4. Secret Garden - bruce springsteen ( sheepish smile) I was the person that said hello to J. or wassit me. can't remember. :P 5. Love Me - Collin Raye (sad smile) L was the person taught me a little about myself. 6. Ba Ni Chang Qi Lai - Alex Toh (grin) I was dumb. I was this close... so close. hahhahahhaha M, Thank y...

hmm i need to find myself some powdered bleach. i've been told that it was sold here in london in some of the pharmacies. but i have yet to find one. maybe i'm too lazy to go find. i wanna get this hair blond. that's one thing i've never done b4. the lightest my hair had ever gone was orange. damn bleach wasn't strong enough. hair bleach la. what else.. u think but then again i gotta consider la. this damn uncle so darn old liaw.. lol had my cousin sister's daughter talk to me on msn the other day. telling me her parents(my cousin and husband) didnt wanna buy mobile for her. sigh.. kids these days.. they have mobiles when all i had was just an extension cord from the tel to my room. ( years back) now i've got a phone in the room. i hardly ever touch it. u tell me. si beh sien or not. no guessing what's gonna happen if i bleached my hair. lol. i can't wait for it to grow long again. been sporting a crew cut since i started college. now i must ask myse...

here's a picture for today as i was walking to burger king for the 99p double cheese bacon melt burger which has 2 slabs of meat, 2 slices of cheese topped up with some crispy bacon. ooooo YUM ! . It's london thinking that it's not enough to have trees in the city . the taxis must have grass growing on the roof of the car to promote healthy oxygen flow. and another few pictures of the day.the football jersey i bought. my flatmate told me that it was the last season's jersey. the white one was the newer ones. crap. and i didnt buy the white one when i had the chance. okies. i admit it doesnt look very nice. but it's AFFORDABLE. :P right on a side note, why do i feel that ppl wants my approval for doing something or they do tell me things that i have absolutely no interest in. geez. right i will not complain to myself less i stress myself out. well i've learnt that if u feel that something is wrong.. sometimes it's usually wrong. :P lemme remind myself this d...

I am the baby who didnt want to be a cancer(starsign) but came out 2 weeks late to be a leo. I am the boy who cried cause he missed his mommy every year on his first day of school till he was 13. I am the boy who learnt how to ride a bicycle out of boredom when his parents left him at a nanny after school. I am the boy who carried a girl while running a tripped the girl had bruises on her knees. lol (9 years old) her mom scolded me afterwards. lol. I am the boy who was given the similiarity face description of a monkey by the same girl when i wore my first spectacles which money was given by my grandfather to have the spectacles. I am the boy who sat on his spectacles on the second day of the specs being made. I am the boy who disliked his own sister cos he felt it wasn't fair that he worked twice as hard but got the same amount of reward from the parents. I am the man now who outgrew the feeling of jealousy of his sister and am glad his sister is very happy now :P I am the boy who...

hmmm yesterday i met a guy who says he speaks a little jap, chinese, korean BUT HE NEVER SPOKE anything to me except english and he JUST WOULDNT STOP talking. OMG.. this is the first time i met some guy who can talk nonstop. there were girls beside him but he just wouldnt stop talking to me.. .. geez.. anyways, enough bout that. some malaysians in london are weird. lol i met up with one last nite. asked her where she lived. she said central london. i asked which area of central london. she said central london la. blardy hell.. maybe i looked a bit funny kua.. lol that's why she scared.. but then she asked me so many questions.. it's only natural that it's a two way thing. so when i asked she clammed up. diu... think what.. so nice talking to her meh? it was only both of us there la.. until more ppl came later mah. anyways, met another guy from kwangchow or dunnowhatumacallit. he was nice. an earring of a flower in his ear. another 2 guys from the japanese meetup. erm few m...

Part of the restaurant it was dimly lit. Second picture shows a group of ppl dancing a greek dance or seomthing with smashed plates on the floor. This is basically the same exepct for the different lightings. i couldnt get the shot of the belly dancer cos it was too dark and this is a camera fone. :P k750i. Finally a night shot of tottenham court road at nite. cheers. pictures of the day is done. i promised didnt i ? hehe. well one note for me. i think blogging reminds me of doogie howser MD. muahahaha. ************************************************************ On a site note.. here's the details for that nite. Menu A:(25£) Meze A large selection of starters, fish courses and grills, all served at your table for you to help yourself; served with salad and pitta bread First Course Taramasalata, humous, tzatziki, feta cheese, garlic salami, crab stick and prawn salad, potato salad Second Course Kalamari, crab claws, whitebait Third Course Lamb cutlets, kebabs, kioftethes, lounza, l...

11 am. woke up erm snoozed a little 12. put some irish sausages into the oven. 1250. it was all cooked. put some papardarms into the microwave. they have this cute stuffs that i dont really need to fry it to get it to cook. pictures will be up soon. i hate posting pictures now lol . 1310. started eating. 1 piece of bread, papardarm crushed into pieces, hot dogs. and some ketchup. yum! ( substituted the dried onions with the papardarms. well. they taste almost alike. :P ) 1350. started watching 24. AGAIN. stopped at eps 17 i think. not sure. eps 17 was when it all sunked down to me. ( nothing to do with the movie anyways:P) eps 17 was the first series i've watched when i was in spain. :P 1530. mom msged me on messenger. talked for a bit. 1600 told her i wanted to watch SDK. Samurai deeper kyo. talk to her later. 1700. still watching. 1730. played some ARCADE STYLE shoot'em up. house of the dead 3. couldnt complete it.. wasnt really good with the mouse. bah . 1830. watched suzuka...

11 am woke up. tired. watched some movies. 12 went out shopping in safeways/market/etc. 1330. came back. cooked. dunno what. 1400 ate. watched movies. all day. :P 0000 i think i ate sommore 0200 slept. i think. not sure.. this is blank out day. :P

Thank God It's Friday !! 830 am. woke up. as usual do the usuals. 930 bus. 1000 reached tescos bought some food.. 1010. in the office. work work work. 1200 can't remember what exactly happened. 1900. left the office for a partyin appollonia restaurant. some greek restaurant. set dinner party. food was okays. but iwas just like finger food. i'll post the menu on monday once i get to work. 1930. guest of honour arrived. surprise!! hehe. then talked a few more. had one vodka coke. 2000 food started coming. 375ml of red wine for me to drink. from crete that is that wine. 2100 belly dancers. some greek plates smashing. dancing in a ring around those plates. 2200. still there.. almost none sober. yes i get drunk easily 2230. wondering what time would we go home. 2345. left the party with a few other ppl. 0015 saw an asian guy trying to pick up some chick. it WAS SOOOOOO LAME!!! OMG... that guy needed to get a live LIFE. okok .. i guess i couldnt have done any better. :P but still...

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830 am etc etc. wanted to cycle to work but it was raining. %"^%%$£ so i took the bus. then worked. etc etc.. all the way to 12 noon 1200 still working. saw an ad on gumtree. cambridge soundworkds. 4pointsurround. 15£. contemplating on actually buying it or buying a new one. cos 15£ for a 5 year old speaker isnt just my cuppa tea. 1230. told him i wanted those speakers. but he can only get it to me on monday. sheesh.. okies. i skipped that then.. placed an order from PC world for my X530 Logitech. yum. :P 1300. went out for a walk looking for speakers. 1330 came back to the office. routine routine. can't wait for my time to go home so i can go and get that speakers. meanwhile read a lot of reviews for that speaker. 1800 hhahhaha didnt know i'd go straight here didja .. i can't remmeber what i did for the past 5 hours.. but heck i sure dont wanna remember it cos i am going to get my speakers soon. 1830 reached the store. picked it up. woah.. they didnt have a plastic bi...

830 woke up as usual did my usuals. 920 biked to work. etc etc.. i'll skip the boring parts. cos it's pretty much the same. life is boring in the mornings. :P 947 reached office. did my stuffs. etc etc. same as usual. 1200 completed the small project. had to copy some tables from development to live. 1314. did some HORRIBLE MISTAKE. deleted some tables from the LIVE db. got myself in deep shit. was in freaking panic state. wanted to run away. wanted to go hide somewhere that nobody could ever find me. 1340 eventually some tables back up. but data was lost. trying to find how to restore db tables through transaction log. 1400. still panicking. couldnt do anything. learnt that when i do a copy objects in ent. mgr. must not check the box include dependent objects. 1430. die die. all the way up to 2045 2045. left when senior said it was almost close to okay. the office closed that time as well. 2115. biked reached home. 2130. finished cooking maggi. ate it. couldnt finish. blame it...

lemme see yesterday .. oh yes.. slept at 3 am. then i woke up at 5 am needed to pee. 830am alarm rang. snoozed. 845am it rang again.. snoozed again. 850am dragged my feet outa bed. went to toilet. washed up. 900am changed. checked torrents. 915am spreaded bread with corned beef and cheese to bring to work. 920am checked locked and loaded. 930am left the house. a few steps away from the house. couldnt find my bus pass. 935am back to the house. searched for it. was thinking somebody snitched it. but then remembered it was in my nike trackpants pocket. 940am walked out of the house. rechecked and relocked. 1010am arrived somewhere near the office. was late. gave a call to mom. 1015am she wanted me to talk to grannie but i was late . so i told her i'd call back in 2 hours time. 1020am at work. checked the programs as usual. 1030am rememberd that my russian colleague was on holiday. nothing much. no wonder it felt so empty on my left . lol 1040am usual blog skimming. while waiting for s...

DAY ONE (MONDAY) 830am woke up. snoozed 845 am. REALLY woke up. brushed teeth, cleaned face. gelled hair.checked computer. removed finished torrents. 9 am changed. wallet check. keys checked. fone checked. snacks (few packets thai bites - bought from 99p stores for one whole big box(20X in box). :P ) in to bring to the office checked. 910 am . lock windows load up bag. wear bike clips + gloves. check room one last time. turn on fan to air the room. 915 am . took the locks locked the room door. brought the bike out. wheeled the bike to the road. 920 am start cycling. nothing like the cold wind in your face when leaving for work in the morning. 935 am . saw a bike that looked like my friend's bike which got stolen. tried to catch up with it.. missed it at the traffic light. red kona bike. 940 reached office. locked the bike. went up to office. 945 am started my usual checks on my programs if they'd behave nicely for the weekend. checked some mails. read some blogs. and continue t...

hmm went to the matsuri thingy didnt stay long as my feet were killing me. didnt manage to see the japanese dances. but the whole street were filled with ppl. it was as i found out when i reached there the 1st year aniversary of the brick lane thingy market. as you can see. it was a combination of multi events in one place. erm like a carnival la. well.. nothing much to say about it. what i did there was just walked around . listened to some music. saw the taj indian supermarket. didnt see anything special about it. it seems that brick lane is a haven for indian and bangla food. lotsa restaurants there. erm lessee.. nothing else on the side note, it seems that when i read comics these days i tend to start reading them from right to left. it's becoming a bad habit. heh.

2 hsbc credit cards 2 citibank credit cards 1 natwest debit card ( yes finally got one debit card. but havent got an atm pin at the moment so it can't be used yet. waited 2 weeks. monday i will go and ask them about my pin.) 2 hsbc atm card 1 nectar card 1 NI card. 1 matalan card 1 Brent council library card 1 hotlink RM 30 prepaid reload card. 1 genting membership card. 1 myKad 1 old IC. 1 msian driving license. 1 singtel phone card. damn i got lotsa cards. card most frequently used. hsbc atm card. doh. my oyster card is in its own wallet given when i bought the oyster. a card with list of hsbc emergency phone numbers. never used it in msia.. wondered why i never threw it away. hmmm my pin is in here as well. lol i never remember them.. *sic* a name card from a friend whom i met working in a factory. a piece of paper with my mom's details number on it. oh yes.. there's a leftover RM 50 note in my wallet. with a heart shaped 1 RM note. with 1 passport sized picture of me in...

hmm finished one jap series. God, just a little bit more time.. 12 eps in 3 days. 50 mins an eps. muahahhahaa. half the show was either he's running or she's running, or she's crying her eyes out, and another half he's thinking about goodness knows what.. just like indian shows.. most of them have at least an hour of chereographed dancing. that's like half of the movie man. not talking about brit shows. i donno. i dont like them. lol i like the accent but i dont like them shows. erm.. bland ? some of them maybe. but i do like the spies thingy. ahh yes.. the BBC documentaries are good too. other than that. i have not watched much of any telly programmes since i laid my hands on broadband. then i'm currently thinking of going to bicester village . there's this just 15£ fare for the village. + another 2 pounds for bus fares i have to buy more to save lol . but then just have to budget budget budget. hehe. cos if i do go shopping i think i'm gonna spend a h...

bus 43 to london bridge station. walked passed southwark cathedral. down the back lane where there was this full sized reconstruction of a ship which i can't for the love of myself remember what the name of the boat was and towards the anchor. bayside. had 2 beers by the river thames. watching the boats go pass and the breeze gently flowing through my hair. lol . i was not really that tipsy. okays. it was my limit at 2 beers. what made it worse was the bus ride back. the bus kept stopping and it was so stuffy up in the bus. and i wanted to pee. haha. oh btw. i have no ideas how i ended up with 2 extra glasses in my bag when i reached home. turned out that we brought the glasses home. anyways, went back. puked a bit. slept for about an hour. woke up. met our neighbour. japanese guy who was quite friendly. told me about something that was gonna happen on sunday 11th sept. Resonance Fashion show. erm 93 feet east. for more info u can try going to www.matsuri-uk.com not that i know an...