save the cheerleader, save the future

just read from a heroes fansite (another blogger) that there are more heroes to come in the HEROES series and a lot of interesting things will be happening. caution!! major spoilers are given. so if you guys really wanna know what is going to be happening in the upcoming episodes and season, just click on the link below:

http://www.pauldavidson.net/2007/02/26/an-insiders-look-at-nbcs-heroes-major-spoilers-ahead/


another note, the nbc official website has the link to the HRG's company, primatech..go there to check it out. also, the producers of heroes set up a website.. more heroes-like media?? check it out at : http://www.eshoremedia.com/home.html

all work & no play makes jack a dull boy

u guys must have heard the proverb above. its kinda true in the IT world. (for me la.hehe) an ex colleague of mine told me about the team lead she's having. yeah, i've experienced it before dude. but heck, rules are meant to be broken anyway. she told me that her team lead just laid the ground rules for her work environment. she was told that she can't chat or even surf the net.damn!! this is pretty dull environment and only a dull person can work like this. haha your TL is dull person.. let me say this, when your workin in a IT company or whatsoever IT department or sector. internet and its functionalities is a necessities..for the internet, you have to search for forums and websites for articles and helpings to help out your work. for instance, im in the SAP industry, there are somethings that you or even your colleagues can't really solve the matter. but, the problem might be happening to someone else on the corner of the world, and the person might be posted the solution on the forums or anywhere. there you have it, easy way of solving your own tasks. another thing, chat softwares such as YM, msn, icq, skype or whatsoever, is not really for chatting. its also a medium to share infos and help out each other in their line of field.
so, when my friend told me about her TL doing this. one thing came up on my mind. your TL is internet-illiterate. hahahhahahahaaha

baik takyah citer!!!

just have to post this... yeah it happened to me..i know maybe the person is giving me a good gesture of informing me of the event. but, whats the point of telling if u cant give the invites at all. this conversation was in YM. i changed the name to keep the person safe from mental torture and abuse.hehe.

a: wf
w f: yo
a: astro ada family fest today
a: kat astro tu la
w f: ada apa
a: mcm2 ada
a: aku ada 3 tiket utk guest
w f: apa2 aktiviti
w f: arini je ke
a: ari ni dr kul 5 sampai kul 12 mlm
a: ada mkn2 dinner steak apa ntah
w f: yekk
a: live band performance
w f: dlm astro or kat tmpt carpark?
a: kat astro..kat carpark tuh
a: tp tiket guest tu kwn aku dah amik
a: sbb aku mc hr ni hehehe
w f: ler..then ko nak bg aku apa
a: aku bg tau
a: sbb aku br je bleh online
w f: ler...ko nak bg aku tiket ke tak
a: oo tiket tu..diaorg kata time astro fes ni diaorg bg tiket free
a: door gift
w f: ooo
w f: mlm nie je ker?
a: yg aku punya pass aku dah mintak kwn aku amikkan
a: a'a mlm ni utk tahun ni je..
w f: oret
w f: kalo aku free aku pegi la
w f: tq bgtau
a: tp ko takleh masuk sbb ko takde tiket pass tu
a: tiket pass tu = wrist band cam kat genting tu
w f: abistu ko citer kat aku buat apa
w f: aku takda tiket
a: aku nak bgtau awal tp aku br je bleh online hr ni
a: heheh sorry sorry
a: lenkali aku bgtau awal yek
w f: ceh
w f: ok tq 4 telling

babel

i saw this movie on last weekend. thought of going to see ghost rider, but sold out. so went to the next interesting movie in my mind. babel.. well the movie is sort of like syriana.. where people from different countries are actually interconnected to each other..some call this the 7th degree or something like that. ok on to the movie. this movie revolves around the kids in somewhere in morocco. their dad just bought a rifle from a village friend.he gave the gun to the 2 kids. the kids played with the gun and accidentally shot an american woman on a bus which is 3 km away. this movie is like sarcastically playing with the american government. this is because the woman is an american, automatically the government and the media is saying its the act of terrorists.haha..typical american media.u guys seen it when CNN-embedded during the iraqi war. so, the adventure continues on how to keep the woman stay alive in a very remote muslim community where no terrorist exists at all, also on the movie is the lives of the people connected to the ill-fated woman, the previous owners of the gun and families and also the family of the 2 kids. the movie also shows that just because the US government is pressing the local government, the police are acting out of control. shoot to kill first, before apprehend. typical US style.. moral of the movie, don't buy a gun, don't do any sins, don't look down on people, becoz bad karma will wallop your ass dude!!

no more junk food adverts

just read in the papers today.. our local health officials are proposing to the government on banning of fast food n junk foods adverts...man....there goes the days of adverts like "tora datang lagi!!!" or "mamee monster!!!" or even "ding dang!!!!"..sigh... missed da good old junkfood adverts when i was a kid... saw da advert on the tv. straight away went outside to wait for the aci on the bicycle to come. bought the junk food, throw away the food (coz its yuckie) and just took the mystery toy..hhahaha..thats the good old days...hehe

anyway, the health officials are doing this becoz it seems the kids today are too fatty and unhealthy...so to keep the citizens on a healthy diet, they are proposing of eliminating any sort of promo on the food stuffs..hmmmm maybe this will bring over healthy food adverts like "sup ayam kampung" or even like "salad supreme"..haha.... wondering if that will ever take place...

a real softy for war movies

last weekend, i bought a japanese war movie..(a war movie again??)..the name of da movie is YAMATO. i bought it bcoz it was nominated in the japanese oscars.. and one of da stars is TAKESHI SORIMACHI..yup da GTO dude..
ok dis movie sets during WWII, Yamato is the name of the biggest warship ever built dat time. yeah i know, WWII... japanese is on axis of evil.. but dis movie doesnt brainwashed us about the axis n allieds.. is more about frenship and the responsibilit of serving your country.. is kinda sad, when u hv to fight serving ur country when ur family are annihilated one by one thru the war.. and it shows that kamikaze is not entirely a personal preferences in combats.. but it was the only way to fight till death..hey,its war.. its killed or be killed..
as usual, im a sap for dis war movies... da scene where the biggest and greatest ship ever built (yamato la) deployed alone to battle is relly sad.. dey were sent on a suicide mission coz, there are no more backups.. and u cant go to war without a fight... yeah, japanese man..they have strong emotions relating to pride. its actually a gud thing to have pride for your country..who else to uphold your own country besides ourselves..
if u like war movies and japanese movies.. grab this one...

back to our roots

a nice n cute flash clip about us malays... enjoy
http://www.happeepill.com/cartoons/enjetsemut/enjet.htm

watashi otaku??so desu ne??

am i otaku?really?no...it's impossible...haha.... i guess u guys are wonderin wat otaku means...welll it means a person who only sits at home watch movies, anime.. and readin manga...hm... im kinda an otaku myself... but i do go out of da house...so i cant be a total otaku at all rite?? ok back to updating dis blog... last week i went to gsc OU (sum guys out there called it 1 U.. i did asked my fren why he says one u, not OU...simple he said, the logo itself is da number 1 and letter U) to watch Death Note- Last name. the finale of the death note movie. as u all know, i did mentioned about the movie based on the manga of the same name. but it didnt based 100% on the manga..they changed a little bit when they potray the 3rd Kira.in the manga it shud be sumguy in a corporate world. but in the movie it was a gurl in the same tv station that airs the 2nd Kira tapes..but nicely done tho.. and i cant really say about kira's death. as i didnt finished read the manga (juz got thru volume 60 from the 100 plus volumes..) but its right tho, Kira did died in the manga. maybe the creator is juz sayin dat, eventho Kira did killed all the badguys for a better future, but its totally over the cliff when your'e killin innocent people juz to safe your idealistic world...hmm....

ok now movin on towards anime.. as i told before, the anime bleach in japan is back on track according to its manga. which means the journey of ichigo becoming a full vizard is on track...
as for naruto, dis feb 15th, in japan, its an hour long episode special where naruto too is back on da manga's track!!!finally!! the time sets 2 and 1/2 years after suske left the village to join ochimaru.. so we will see naruto as a teenager... cant wait to see the anime to show the part naruto gains new skills (oops... that one just appeared in the latest manga!his powers are beyond the level of hokage).so watch out for it guys!!

move on to tv series pulak... well u know uve been hyped about da heroes series.. the show in US is gettin more x-men-ish when dis super powered people are actually from a superpower family..so u hv to wait another 12 weeks to see it on our tv rite here in da land of big ferris wheel over da lake! c ya next time guys!!

damn!!

shud post this up lastweek, but didnt had da time to dload the pics from my phone to da pc. dis blardey hell car simply parked in front of my car. damn u!! i was tryin to rush home when i found dis car selamba kodok parked in front of me. almost an hour i was stucked, luckily the cars beside me left enuf room for me to break free.. i posted a note on this blardey bugger windshield..sayin a few cents of my mind..
the next day, i saw da same car blocked another fellow. the unlucky guy had da time to print large characters and put on da bugger's windshield... damn u bugger!!! here's the pic of the car with the license plate..let everyone know who u are.. hahahaha

alternative toll routes

yeah evryone pissed off when da toll rates went up... a few weeks back, paultan.org reported that an NST reporter can be contacted by email for the alternative toll routes.. which is FREE!! just recently, the routes were posted in the paper. maybe too many people jamming up the reporter's mailbox, which made them decide to post the routes in the paper. here's the routes for u guys out there :D

To toll or not to toll...
07 Feb 2007


After prices for five tolled roads were raised on Jan 1, Life & Times set out to find some worthy alternative routes. SHANNON TEOH writes, with additional reporting from YEANG SOO CHING, MANVEET KAUR and RIDZWAN RAHIM.


LEBUHRAYA DAMANSARA-PUCHONG
Used to be: Three RM1 tolls.
The damage now: Three RM1.60 tolls.

Residents in Puchong are practically surrounded by tolls in all directions but there is apparently a simple way out of this.
WK Lim has a particularly useful route that he uses to and from his university in Cyberjaya.
If you’re headed back to Puchong from Cyberjaya, just take the last exit which heads to Serdang/Sri Kembangan.
Next, when you hit the traffic light, turn left onto Jalan Persiaran Kota Perdana until you reach a roundabout. Take the 3o’clock and watchout for a sharp right-hand at a dumpsite. Then its the next left, then a right at the T-junction onto Jalan Puncak Bukit Jalil. Continue until the next junction and turn left into Jalan Kinrara 6.
This will eventually take you to Bandar Kinrara where a right will take you to the Bukit Jalil Highway, a left to Puchong and straight will eventually lead to Old Klang Road.
He claims the distance from Cyberjaya to Bandar Kinrara is exactly the same (25km) and takes just five minutes more.

Lee Chin-Ken has a different route to bypass the same Puchong Selatan toll.

Take the Pulau Meranti exit, and at the third traffic light, make a U-turn and then a left.
This road will take you to Bukit Puchong, which is basically just past the toll booths.
He says this route is about 9km, which is about the same taking the highway, but admits that it’ll take more time and the road condition isn’t perfect.

For the northern end of Puchong, if you’re headed towards KL, take Jalan Puchong which ends up in Old Klang Road and then turn left to Petaling Jaya or right to KL.

Tan Chee Leong, 31, a factory manager, lives on Jalan Gasing which basically connects via Jalan Templer to Old Klang Road.
After trying this route to his office in Pusat Bandar Puchong, he now neglects the tolled route which involves one New Pantai Expressway toll (RM1.60) and the Petaling Jaya Selatan toll into Puchong.
“Previously I only used the tolled road assuming it was faster and better. But this way is just five minutes longer after the roadworks were completed.
And according to the onboard computer this results in lower consumption per kilometre and is in fact, only 14.5km long against the 16km of the tolled route.”
But at peak hours, the untolled route requires double the 20 minutes that the tolled route takes and is the only time one might want to consider the toll.

Liow Mei Fong, however, finds the 25km or so commute from her home in Sg Besi to Puchong Industrial Park to be fastest via the NPE and LDP, resulting in RM4.80 in toll.
The route heading towards the KL-Seremban toll but turning off at Mines near the race course and heading up at the Bukit Jalil Highway to Puchong takes twice as long, at half an hour.
This 24-year-old project coordinator finds that she’ll definitely pay the toll whenever she’s in a rush.


> CHERAS-KAJANG

Used to be: 70 sen and 60 sen for Batu 9 and 11 respectively.
The damage now: Up 30 sen each.

One intrepid commuter has two alternative routes to the Cheras-Kajang which takes her from her home in Cheras to her workplace in Cyberjaya.
For starters, her original route also passes by the SILK Sungai Balak toll which links up Putrajaya and the Cheras-Kajang, bringing her total toll to RM2.90 each way.

June Tham, a 23-year-old sub-editor, says that this route is the fastest, taking just over half-an-hour and guarantees that you will avoid any jams or flash floods.

However, there is also another option of going through MINES, taking the Besraya Highway, which costs just RM1.30 in toll.
From the Connaught Highway, you get onto the MRR2 and head past the toll and onwards past the Serdang KTM Komuter station and into Cyberjaya via the Serdang Hospital and Putrajaya.
This route in fact, while taking about five minutes more due to the bottleneck on the MRR2, is actually 3km shorter.
There is the possibility of a flash flood after the Sg Besi LRT station though and the Connaught is usually jammed up after 6.15pm if you try to take this way home.

But her real gem find is the toll-less route that goes via Connaught, Bandar Tasik Selatan, MRR2, Astro, Seri Kembangan and onto Cyberjaya.
“If you leave before 7am, it only takes 45 minutes but can take more than an hour if you hit bad traffic later on. Road surfacing also isn’t the best but it’s only 32km long.”
She figures that her petrol cost are the same for all these routes and the savings on toll make the last option the best for going to work since she doesn’t mind leaving early, but on the way home, the rush hour means that it’s either of the tolled routes.
“What I can save is time. I’d rather pay more for peace of mind than be stuck in a traffic jam or flood waters.”


> KESAS (SHAH ALAM HIGHWAY)
Used to be: Three RM1.50 tolls
The damage now: Each toll up by 70 sen.

To begin with, there are many ways from KL to Klang and vice versa and so the Kesas is not by any stretch of the imagination the only resort.
The Federal Highway costs less in toll (RM2.10) if you can take the nearly perpetual congestion.
Then there’s the NKVE which is pretty smooth all the way except whenever you’re queuing up at the Damansara tollbooth.
The third route is to pick your way out of the Federal Highway towards Subang Airport and then turning into Glenmarie before rejoining the Federal after passing by Shah Alam Stadium, which is basically just after the Batu Tiga toll.
Just before the Sg Rasau toll, head into Padang Jawa and then it’s basically Klang.
Rest assured, this will take half-an-hour more than just paying up for the RM2.10 for both Federal Highway tolls.
If you’re taking the Kesas to head towards Banting, consider using the above strategies to get to Cyberjaya, then head to Banting via Dengkil.
Once again, we’re certain this will cost you an hour’s more grief.

However, Liow (see above) has a route to get to work which involves just one Kesas toll (Awan Kecil/Besar interchange) that takes around five minutes more as compared to her RM4.80 route involving the NPE and LDP.
So perhaps, another 10 minutes of driving to avoid this RM2.20 by detouring through Bukit Jalil is worth it. Perhaps.


> KUALA LUMPUR-KARAK
Used to be: RM2.50 at Bentong then RM4 at Gombak.
The damage now: RM3 at Bentong and RM5 at Gombak.

Very few of us would be heading out to Bentong/Genting Highlands or Karak as part of our daily commute, so this is more of a holiday route.
And if you have the resources to embark on such a trip, surely RM1.50 each way is doable.
But if you are one of the rare few for whom this is a business trip, then the hilly and windy road via the spectacular Sg Tua Dam is an option.
The route starts opposite the EPF building in Selayang and you just follow signs saying Genting Highlands. This takes about 15-20 minutes longer than via the highway.
From there, you can make your way to the Bukit Tinggi exit and continue along the Genting Sempah rest stop, and take the backroad to Bentong, which is quite a long, windy road. Meaning from KL-Bentong, avoiding the highway might eat up in excess of an hour in extra drivetime, not to mention the petrol.


> GUTHRIE CORRIDOR EXPRESSWAY
Used to be: Three RM1 stops.
The damage now: Each up by 40 sen.

This is, undoubtedly, the fastest way from Shah Alam to Rawang. And while it did come at a price before, that price just got heftier.
Plus the 80 sen PLUS Highway toll to get into Rawang town, that’s RM5 altogether.
Imagine if you started from Puchong like CK Cha, a 34-year-old engineer.
That’s RM1.60 from the LDP and another RM1.60 for the elite stretch from USJ to Shah Alam.
Taking the PLUS Highway direct from Shah Alam to Rawang, however, costs just RM4.30 and alternatively, RM5.50 from USJ.
Another alternative to Rawang is to take the LDP through to Kepong and continue from there, a total toll cost of RM3.20.
The GCE route takes him 45 minutes, PLUS Highway takes an extra 10 minutes and the LDP route takes 90 minutes.
No surprise that Cha is willing to spare the extra 10 minutes to save the RM1.10 by using the PLUS Highway but not doubling his drivetime via the LDP.
The trunk road all the way from Bukit Jelutong to Rawang is probably not worth discussing at all.