Living in London

well i am about to think that it's beginner's luck that i won money in poker.. i never did make it to the finals of any other tournaments after that.. of course i've only been playing 1 week. T_T. anyways, some exciting news to day.. ( waku waku - (nihongo)) lol my ex boss offered me an interview as a manager back in penang. wow. i never thought of it that way. anyways, nothing set in stone.. just mailed him my CV that i took off jobstreet.com.my *shrug* who knows... i'm still weighing the possibilities.. like my friend said.. quality of life is zero ? come home la.. not like i'm making any new ties here and my old ties back in msia is getting further and further away. anyways, just an update. moving back is always an option. but i need to have enough money to pay off the legalised loan sharks(banks) lol then i'd be set. no need to be in a hurry. like in poker.. i always go all in without thinking.. this time i gotta think very carefully. what should i do.. i kn...

i was coughing up phlegm. well.. i rushed all the way to the toilet. and saw my indian colleague talking on the mobile in the toilet.. i made a 180 and went to the other toilet on the other side of the office. *i was thinking.. sorry dude,.. i just didn't wanna spit in front of u. Poor guy must be thinking i didn't wanna be in the same toilet as him. (actually that couldn't be further than the truth but this time it was i don't want him to see me spit) a few hours later.. i was in the other toilet. just finished washing my hands and pressed the button on the hand dryer. another indian colleague ( not the same one) comes in the toilet with a mobile while talking on it. and went straight out because the dryer was quite loud. now.. from these 2 encounters from the only 2 indians we have in the office. i can safely make the hypothesis that either it's a huge coincidence that the indians like talking in the toilet. maybe spanish too. i once found a mobile phone in the to...

first there financial spread betting. then came poker. man.. where am i going.. first things first. financial offices are REALLY cool. i went to 2 financial spread betting offices. well.. one was big and one was a little smaller. i learnt a little bit from the guys who were giving the seminar about support and resistance lines and then it seems to work. well not all the time la that is. and i'm booked to another full day seminar on how good their product is.. lol but i'm just eyeing the free lunch and the last session of the day where they teach technical analysis. and some works on technical indicators. (i'm not a man for news.. so .. i just follow indicators la) right okies. that one aside. next thing in my list was pokerstars.com i was talking to a friend of mine on friday then i don't know how we got into talking about poker.. then one thing led to another. we had friday pub with the company picking up the bill. :D i didn't know why i couldn't drink.. well.....

oh well i was looking at the banks websites again. natwest was offering 5.5% for eISA. and i looked it say it was for Permanent resident. weird.. then i went over to HSBC's site, eISA for 5.84% . wow.. that's a little bit more than usual. anyways, my point not being that, i thought they had ppl with good english working in banks. i think the developer or the designer was in a rush when he/she typed out those words. what are you're options. unless i'm totally ignorant of the way english is used.. then i sincerely apologize. but hahahahha *cheap thrill* anyways, right now i found out what i can do with £1. play spread betting will join once i learn more.. difficult choice.. can lose money damn kao fast. but can get money damn kao fast also lol my kind of game. when i saw the (financial )spread betting thingy ..i told myself.. hmm this seems to be right for me. fingers crossed and lotsa learning about the graphs for short term gains. and also i got a scheduled kidney renal...

forgot what castle was it.. i think it was dunottar castle. first time i've seen snow beside the sea. also the first time i've experienced a small snow storm.. visibility was like 50 metres.. T_T. as usual.. i NEVER bring the right clothes for aberdeen. this time i brought my jacket thinking that it'll protect me.. mana la tau .. that weather seems to dislike me .. it snowed.. and snowed.. anyways. seeing the old castle just makes me wanna watch all those old knights and castles shows. this other one is a seaside fishing town where the name was stonehaven. been busy. been lazy. been reading. been just reading a lot about investment. and it's making me bonkers.. i find i rather use my time to do something useful.. rather than do nothing.. heh. that's about it.. i tihnk this blog is gonna be updated on a monthly basis from now on.. i can't find the drive to just write anymore.

anyways, in preparation for my mom's arrival tomorrow, had to go get stuffs ready in part of which was to get a new sim card. so i went to o2, i asked if they could unlock my k800i for me. this REALLY obnoxious guy said no. u gotta take it to the shops. then when i asked for a new sim card, i was borderlined on about to throw a fit.. ( which wasn't very nice of me.. which i didn't) anyways, long story short, i didn't managed to get my sony ericssons ke800i mobile unlocked. but i managed to spend 20£ for a new sim card. with a tenner credit and another 10 on my current number. and then i knew the shops outside can unlock my simlocked phone for me.. BUT i really don't wanna pay money for something i can do. or think i can do. rather thought i could do. ( it took me 4 hours. T_T) i bricked my phone a few times.. it couldn't start up. but following the guide from a blogspot thing.. i managed to rebrand my phone from an o2 phone startup to an ORANGE phone. while stil...

apart from being busy with games, and books and other stuffs, i've been trying to find ways to reduce my ever present boredom. i tried to get one of those online stock trading accts. wanna learn about other stuffs too. so i tried to apply from a few websites to open a online stock trading acct. 1. http://www.selftrade.co.uk 2. http://www.fool.co.uk/share-dealing/share-dealing.aspx 3. http://www.hsbc.co.uk well.. like they said.. 3rd time a charm.. 1 and 2 needed me to send stuffs to them.. and as usual.. when i have to do stuffs manual stuffs apart from looking at the monitor. i get fedup. selftrade charges £25 p.a for a self select shares isa. and £12.50 per trade made on the dealings acct. fool does it for £2.50 less at £10.00 per trade. and they don't charge for the self select p.a hsbc does it weirder. £11.65 for each trade and add an extra 5£ for trades under the self select shares isa. right now i'm trying to find ppl who knows how to read financial statements and gi...

that has gotta be the weirdest spell to start with. i tried it a few times using the tutorial that was in game. press the X button and the Triangle button. i thought i got it working. and then when i got to hogwarts, demmit.. i couldn't even pick up the pail .. but the tutorial said.. X & triangle.. niameh.. so many times also cannot do .. i got fedup.. i googled it up. it was press the X button till it glows, and then release the x and press the triangle and then move the analog in a circle. £"$!^%$"$%$!%"!$ LOUSY IN GAME TUTORIAL!!! well thank the person who posted his way of casting it.. i managed to do that wingie thingy pretty easily. click here to view source. i'm crediting him with the success of being able to do that damn spell . :D game play was pretty horrible in fact. i HATE running thru the halls oh hogwarts.. the camera panning was weird. just because i was used to the wow's camera thing.. this made my head turned in circles trying to make se...

whatever.. finally it arrived to tesco express in great portland st. woot.. so last nite on the way home, impulse buy based on calculation buying 1 at £1.20 is less worth it than buying a dozen at £7.45. knowing myself to be a glutton at times, i bought more than i need. yum! finished 5 of them last nite. 3 this morning. and have about 4 left for tonite. bwahahhaa. alrighty. i got myself 38 months ++ . that's my plan. grind for another 38 months b4 i reach another goal. *grind = an action of doing endless repeated actions of boring nature. i.e used in wow when farming for materials. this time i'm applying to a real life situation. so it's gonna be a heck of a long grinding session. i've been neglecting to update. because i'm bored. because my life now consists of reading on the way to work. work. lunch. read. work. go home read. cook. sleep rinse and repeat. (i got 38 months to do this. lol) that's it . no inspiration to write.. no muse appearing. maybe the reas...

was looking at ways where i could try to ease my boredom as well as refrain from thinking of moving back home. i stumbled upon this. My spreadshirt shop anyways, from the last update nothing else has been happening. still the old same old routine. read fantasy books, work in office, sleep on the bed, animes for hobbies. wow pvp for killing. i need a solid 5 year plan. (so my plan now is to have a solid 5 year plan) ( i think the solid 5 year plan is gonna take a solid 10 year plan to complete the solid 5 year plan) bah humbugs. okies. enough said. until the next time i get the inspiration to write .

1. i cooked a little for chinese new year dinner. of course . where would be dinner without fish. ya know.. so i tried this swordfish i bought from sainsbury. thought i'd try out.. wah piang eh.. 150gram of it.. cos about £3.27. T_T. anywyas, fish is fish. i thought what can be so different from other type of fish. i chose to make it a japanese marinated grilled thingy .. and cooked it under the grill for about 20 mins. after it was cooked. OMG... when u eat the fish.. it literally MELTED in my mouth. hum.. okies.. i've never been a fan of fish because of the bones. so that's one reason i don't eat fish. no no.. it did melt. other fish u can still chew a little bit.. but this one..... it MELTED .. anywyas, it was nice to eat la. i had other stuffs as well, fried noodles, curry, some stir-fried greens, some eggs, some crabmeat ( those processed ones la.. ) and some icing cupcakes. too full. 2. i overclocked my old amd64 3000+. i had to do that because i was about to spen...

i browse for stuffs to buy. i am looking at a new cpu/gpu/mobo. and some extras gigabyte p35C-DS3R E8400 intel XFX 8800GT alphadog microsoft recluse keyboard. and a new casing. it totals up to about £500. now.. i don't need one.. i'm just hand itchy only. heh. never mind. not gonna get one. don't need it. it's like feeling of getting stuck in between here and there.. want to get but dun wanna get. but i am currently reading raymond e. feist's riftwar saga. it's a good book series. i like the stories that have rags to riches story. about a small boy with nothing and turned into someone big. hmm the other kind of stories i like is about epsionage. tom clancy writes pretty good novels for his jack ryan's series. stephen king for his horror/thriller. dean koontz too. david eddings write really funny fantasy books. ( well i did laugh out loud on some of the paragraphs ) didn't really like the discworld series. ( maybe i never read it properly.) neither did ...

excerpt of msn conversation weird guy 1: hello weird guy 1: gm *at this moment i've had it up to here.. ( please don't call me gm anymore) me: hi ! can u please not call me gm anymore.!! weird guy 1: ah gm= good morning **OMG !!!!! T_T i felt sooooooo cacat.. niameh.. come onla.. don't use short form that is not generally used around here la.. *** i think my face turned so bloody pink and blushed i bet a schoolgirl who was kissed by the person she admired couldn't have blushed as pink as i did.. so i put on a smug face and pretend i was still ok. me: ahh sorry my bad. ....... i damn prasan laaa ---___---". this has been happening so many times.. i thought what the heck is gm gm gm.. ( i use gm for grandma / general manager) and i only used it when i'm with relatives... ( i used to live with my grandma and my aunts and uncles will always say . u better eat rice properly else gm will scold.) so u can see why the damn culture shock when it was GOOD MORNING ! inste...

rolls royce of the hypertension drugs apparently. i was quite afraid it was gonna cost tons.. but lucky for nhs, it was only £6.85. weekend i bought, a jack lalanne juicer. some tv thingy. apparently it is made in china. and right. i was bored. that's why i bought it. and they are lying when they say i don't have to cut anything.. i tried putting the whole carrot in .. it spun and shook like the earth was shaking under it's feet. lol it was quiet. that i'll say . not as loud as others but still quiet enough. carrots stains the plastic almost immediately.. that juicer cost about £49.99. yeah i know.. that's too much to pay for a juicer.. i should have gotten myself a nice keyboard for that price. and then i went to the south library to get some books and the librarians there were talking about britney spears. --__-- cleaned my room. played some wow. read some books. ate some pizza. i guess tomorrow it's back to the bicycle for me after a week's long absence o...

right. just because this is a friday i'm posting this thing up. and also because i know i've been lacking in posting up memories. this was taken when my niece asked me to teach her about poker. myself ? i'm not a poker player and can never keep a straight face. but i do know some of the poker hands that can be used with poker. and thus the photo shows all of what i know about poker. nothing else. i woke up this morning thinking.. omg.. it's thursday .. i can't bear it anymore.. this has been a long week. imagine after a long holiday begining from pre christmas till new year's. where got mood to work la.. and so .. i've been sleeping pretty late from watching house. last nite i took and forced myself to sleep ..( otherwise i think i'mgonan be so tired that i can't focus my eyes on anything else) woke up this morning.. pretty good. it was raining.. and heavy too. i took a look at bbc's website for weather conditions, apparently it's gonna rain ...

happy new year. pre christmas and christmas i spent my time at home doing nothing and lepaking and watching house and some other animes. then i went to norway on the 29th. ... STILL no luck with pretty girls on airplanes. going there i got a free seat next to me.. so it was good. more space for me to sleep. coming back i got the double whammy. 1. i chose the wrong seat. window. 2. the other 2 seats were filled with one FAT HUGE man on the aisle and a granny in the middle seat. T_T .. 3. the worst part is that i was in a urgent need to go to the washroom. i had to hold it in till i got to the airport in london. ----_____---- okies. that was that. i managed to ski. 7 days of holiday in norway. quick recap. saturday 29th dec. 1st day . oslo was not snowing. took the train to vinstra then a bus to gala. tired after 24 hours door to door. sunday 30 dec 2nd day . went to the hotel climbed up some slopes to get to the hotel. VERY tiring.. and got lost after renting skis and after trying to sk...

not dead. :D so much for christmas !! bah humbugs !! LOL laters.

thursday 29 nov 530pm left work went to airport. bought the walkers shortbread. got ready to board the plane. MAS - must have been a crew in training. it was erm.. way below my expectation the service. to top it up.. i had to sit next to a BIG guy who was taking up the armrest space. and his feet was taking up my feet space. --__--" glad the flight was over. arrived about 30 mins earlier than usual. the taxi driver that brought me back was expecting a tip. i would have given if i had change. ( i'm not used to giving tips) sorry. i would have given it if i had change. next time remind me. mom cooked black soy sauce chicken and some hakka soup. ate and then got blasted by one friend who said why don't u come look for me etc etc. anyways, rearranged the schedule to go to mid valley around 10pm-ish. at 1130 ish got picked up by another friend in damansara uptown for snooker, jln ipoh dimsum, and DOTA ( my first time with it) ugh.. bad at dota. then went back home at 7 am sat m...

my suitcase is packed with biscuits. i bought them from morrisons/sainsburys/M&S. man.. i didnt know that biscuits takes up so much space in a suitcase. i need to get the walkers as well from the airport. apparently world duty free has a buy one get one free thing. 10£ .. not much cheaper than buying from the website.. but nevertheless it's alright. for the past few days i've been almost a little sick. i think must be the heater. dries up my throat. i dreamt of an old friend a few nites ago. T_T i dreamt i had a beard growing too. ( i'm not THAT hairy so this is a nightmare. )- due to the effects of watching dennou coil i think. nothing else to update. was too lazy to do anything else. met up with a friend for lunch on monday. went to this japanese place in centrepoint. but i think they are koreans. or maybe they were speaking some japanese dialect i've never heard b4. they had this thing pasted up on the door saying it was time-out one of the best place to eat. etc...

London Thames River. about 100 metres away from the embankment station. thought i'd try to take some photos of the night and river view with the d80 but i managed to get 1 shot off b4 it started pouring.. T_T.. anyways, updates, none. still waiting to go back. today had to wear the tightest shirt in my entire life. we had an event. and boss wanted me to wear the company's shirt. well everyone was wearing one. and then turns out that they only had the female's shirt left.. obviously when i wore it.. it looked like a tight t. T_T... and all the other guys made fun of me .. --__--". some even called me bacon. u're supposed to be fat.. but u're not. . ( lock stock and two smoking barrels. ) uwaaaaaaaa.. anyways, i supposed it was all in good fun. had a nice time. had a free dinner some snacks for lunch. and this is the second time i've worn a pair of trousers in london. and all my shirts aren't ironed .. havent touched them in 3 years ++ .. ahh those were t...