Saturday, June 30, 2007

ya pakkk, guewe di jakarta...

yup, im in jakarta. the land of my forefathers... so what, yeah i know my roots are from here. most malays are. and i know which part are there from. its good to know where your roots came from. it gives a sense of humblity when meeting with people.

im here for the go-live project as an onsite support. meaning, all problems are handled ad-hoc. the office is at menara jamsostek. jamsostek, which faizi googled on the net is some sort like our own JPA la.. the cool thing about this menara is that it not only houses the companies in one building, of coz it also has a foodcourt area, but.... the food court area is quite cool. right in the middle of a building, an open air foodcourt area with some restaurants too.. nice......... also, might i add another point here. on the 25th floor. there's a nightclub.. wat??? yup, a nite club in an office building.. reminds me of Bali, Sunway.. but that building is own by a private company. not like the one i'm in which some sort connected to the government.

the place faizi n me stays at is a private service apartment. think of it as a highclass apartment for expatriates. hehe... so when you're stayin there, it gives you some ego boost.. hahaha... but also some taxi fare boost.hehehhehehehhee damn...

talkin about the taxis'. its always takes about 15mins to wait for the bluebird taxi. but if on a rainy day it takes to about 30mins. this is because, the place is not a hotel which taxis lined up for pickups.. this is a private area, hence the waitin period. hehe. which that is the reason we use to come late to the office. coz, its the truth. but...... everyday we find difficulties when goin back to apartment. no cabbies know where it is.. so tend to get lost everyday, until yesterday nite. this pakcik really know where the place is. really suprised the both of us. and he's the best cabbie we ever had. he gave back the exact change dude. haha... which is a rare situation involving cabbies here.

now for the apartment. hehehe as faizi came first, so he took the big master bedroom which has, tv, queensize bed, shower, bathtub and closets.... im stayin in smaller room but my bathroom is next to my room. not like the masterbedroom lor... theres a hall and kitchen, ironing area n washing area.. got a washing machine too.

heheh now to the best part. 2 nights ago, faizi want to do washing. he asked me if i want to put my clothes in too. i decline as i still got alot of fresh clothes. baru sampai maa... so both of us explored the washing machine. its an old frontloading one with the dials. damn.. last time i saw this type in my home was like 10-15 years ago.. mana mau ingat.. im using fuzzy logic technology now.. no more dials... and both of us was kinda struggling to get it running which we managed to. then when it started spinning, suddenly the front part which usually to place the water tube, burst open!! and water was coming out and the floor was wet.... both of us surprised and luckily we are not the panic type. (hehe real man dont panic dude!) so i go get a towel to make sure the water wont come in to the kitchen and faizi called the frontdesk to get people checkin the machine. almost half an hour later, 2 guys came in to check out the machine, the problem was that the front part was not locked correctly, which is not our mistake, we didnt know the front water tube part is not locked. so they locked it and helped us to mopped it. so we went back to lepaking and watchin the indon's own david letterman "4 mata".
which is quite funny la... faizi is my translator for some weird indon words...
then for the next drama, mauahhahahaha


while i was watchin the show, faizi went to look if the washing ady finished ornot.. suddenly, "DUDE!!come here!"
hahaha both of us laughed. the door opener was broken off by faizi's doing. another bad luck happened to him... so we tried prying it open with fingers, kitchen utensils and later on use my penknife. hahaha another bad luck happened, my penknife bengkok while tryin to pry the door opened. also at the hands of faizi..hahaa.. so, letih by the adventure, faizi called twice for more asisstance and he even went downstairs to ask where's the technicians... i fell asleep while waiting for them. in the end, they changed to a newer washing machine.. hahahha da fuzzy logic type...hehehe and im goin to rasmi it tonight.. hehehehhehehhehehehehehhehe

oh yeah one to add one thing. theres a coffeeshop on the 9th floor of jamsostek building which serves the best cappucino i ever hard... damn nice!! goin to have it everyday...hahahhaa

oh yeah, carrefour and a shopping mall, the ambassador is right across the street from our apartment. hopefully one of these days, when got time. go there to look around... hehe hope so.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

movies movies movies

did i gave comments on fantastic 4:rise of silver surfer? i guess not... well its a good continuation of the series... heheh thank god i used to be a comic book addict.. movies nowadays are cater for us geeks... hahhaa and people say geeks are losers.. who are the losers now buddy?? the ones who gleefully watch movies with knowing everythin or the ones stupidly watch it and dont get it at all?? haha do the math..

ok ok enuf of the taunting.. so the movie is quite good.. except that i was hoping galactus was shown in the movie... see the montrosity of galactus... that will be cool. but im not sure if silver surfer ever died in the comics.. i dont think so...

recently in hbo, the v for vendetta was shown. damn, another comic book adaptation. hehe watched it in the cinema too..hehe... it was the product of the wachowski brothers (the guys who brought matrix la buddy). its quite a philosophical movie. where puts the right way of democracy where people have the power. thus, the phrase "people shouldn't be afraid of the government, the government should be afraid of the people".

and its kinda ironice to don the mantle of guy fawkes. he's the guy who in old days tried to blew up the parliament building coz he was against the uk monarch at dat time... but he failed as the cops got him before he ever blew up anything. the phrase "remember, remember the 4th of november" is the date of the guy fawkes tried to blew up the parliament house. and every year it is celebrated by burning firecrackers and bonfires.. weird UK customs...hahahha

uwaaa tomorrow transformers opens in malaysia...uwaaaa wanna watch it tooo.... damn... gotta buy the toy....heheh...

travellin again

its been 2 weeks since my last posting. damn bz lar.... lotsa things to be done... work lor.. haha i've said once to my colleague that i've sold my soul to the company... hehe... might be true...

exactly 1 week ago, i was in singapore for a whole day. to give briefings on my area of expertise to external consultants doin the new project in singapore. the purpose of the briefing, consultants there "didn't understand" the whole concept of authorization. well well, once i got started there and spittin out the details. its actually not that they dont understand the concept. but they dont understand why the security so detailed. shit. these people are just wanna do the ez stuffs. shit.. blardey buggers.. so i emphasized to them everythin must be detailed. or not hell will break loose later on. ok enuf on the briefing. more on the adventures there then.

the flight to singapore was the 9am flight... damn early.. and the flight back home is at 8pm.. ciss so late... so my bfast and dinner was spent on eatin MCD's... luckily my lunch i ate nasi campur at the nearby food court. haha the "kakak" there thought i was chinese... duh, wats the point i talked to her in malay and no wonder she replied everythin in english.. she finally understood i am a malay when she offered sambal belacan..hehe

dont ever think singapore cabbies are better than malaysian. its just the same. they talk vulgar and loud and they also donno the roads that much. i got the experience both ways comin and goin to changi.

changi airport does brings back memories when my big bro n i first travelled together to UK.. hehe... still remember the air stewardess... hehe purposely asked the mango juice often just to see them.. hehehe

another point to say, why a one hour journey to singapore, the SIA gave the plane that has screens on da seats? where as MAS 4 hour flights to manila or even 2 hour flight to jakarta didnt gave the same specs???why MAS?why ?"??????????

hehe im writing this as i am in jakarta gor another go live session. so far its nothing much difnt livin in kl. got traffic jams.. one thing i notice, the more vehicles in the country, the more jammed, the more jammed, the more ruthless the drivers are.

no wonder the indons dont bother about the haze, its hazy all the time. also, eversince the bombings, security here is quite high. they check under cars for bombs whenever ur enterin the complex or apartments. when enterin the office complex, the guard search u for metal stuffs... hmmm..... everyone is a potential bomber...

oh yeah, for you guys who has a wife or gf, ask them to eat those makjun.. indon gurls here are not the maid type u can find at homes.. be it mom with kids or single gurls.. it seems there are more better lookin than us malays of malaysia.. and typical malaysians look down on indons... hhaa here i think it will be the other way around.

the place im stayin is quite near to a shopping mall.. just a molotov cocktail's throw (hehe changed it to suit the bomber thingy)
hopefully my stay here will be a pleasant one n hopefully hopefully have time to see things... :(

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

doc marts

doc marts.. for you donno wat it means, its dr marten's boots.. yeah the boots the skinheads love (except here in malaysia, skinheads kinda poor, so they usually go for the cheaper version, dr cardin's.hehe)

just read from a blogger that doc marts got an advert on dead icons of the rock era. it shows them wearing doc marts.. coz, they heard that these icons used to wear them. one of the icons were kurt cobain.. and i thought to myself. i never saw kurt wearing any doc marts, usually saw him in mags n stuffs wearin converse shoes... anyone got a pic of kurt really wearing doc marts?? send it to me ok. here's the pic from the advert.



here's a pic showing that he really wore converse shoes. please ignore the rifle in his mouth, thats how he died. a gunshot in his mouth. anyway RIP kurt. your the best rock icon ever lived. grunge will never die.
oh yeah, doc mart's already said sorry and pulled off the adverts. courtney love(kurt's widow) was mad to see the advert. coz if kurt still alive, he wont do any commercial thingies. he's against these type of things..

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

comment on pirates

forgot to post my comment on pirates of the carribbean 3. eventho i didnt watch the second, slept everytime the first installment was aired on astro. i still managed to go to the cinema to watch the 3rd. hehe.. evntho my sis comment was "tak best la.. banyak mengarut. jack tu dah gila sangat. talkin to himself la. otak jatuh la.. " and so on.. these words never hold me back from goin to watch the movie.

to watch the movie, you should know the whole series. hehe i know the whole series.i think.hehe. to watch it, you gotta know that its a fun movie. so, take it as it is. yeah jack when cuckoo..he was in davey jones locker all by himself. you'll be looney too if ur stuck with only urself in middle of no where. remember tom hanks in a movie, stranded on an island?? luckily he got a ball and treated it as a friend. poor guy.

so the 3rd was some sort of the finale of the trilogies. jack gettin back his ship and lost it again. orlando bloom's character saved his father and got his gurl in the end. eventho have to see her only once in 10 years. davey jones was laid to rest. barbossa stole the ship back. the witch finally freed.

but in the end, it seems it can be another installment, if they wanna do it. coz jack got the map that barbossa wants. the map for eternal youth.which jack likes to be some sort live forever.

luckily i heard the morning crew said that dont leave the theater once the credits are up. there are a few mins of clips in the end. my sis didnt knew about it.so she left without knowing what really happened. the clip showed that orlando's character came back after 10 years. it was his curse.and we see keira with her son, around 10 years old, waiting faithfully by the sea. the boy is exactly the same boy who started sang the pirates anthem in the beginning of the movie..hmmmm kinda weird eh??

overall, its a nice movie to watch and destress yourself from your daily workloads. ITS A FUN MOVIE laaa!!

the need for speed

this afteroon, i got back early as im tired doin work for the day and it seems not much ticket for the afternoon. as i was driving along the sg besi highway, as usual the traffic builds up.. so kinda bit slow at certain places.. while i was switching the middle lane for the fast lane, out of a sudden the avanza in front of me switched lanes without givin any signal. i flashed my headlights and honk that damn bastard. and what do u know, he sped off.. this just makes me pissed off even more.

so, me being me. i follow suit. hehe... bila lagi nak tet dgn avanza. haha.. also, the car already out of its pantang, so i can speed all the way... and what do u know, the avanza was drivin like mad... now this makes me all giddy and excited.. adrenaline rush you might say.. my teeth were grinning, my foot was tapping all the way.. heehehe i really like this rush.. i smirked all the way... taunting the guy in front. everytime he swerved and cutting queues, i be right behind him.. he musta ben scared coz he was really anxious to get away from me. i didnt try to overtake him. just following him, just wanna see where will he headed.

then, we reached the rhb tunnel. damn. heavy traffic.. no more chasing lor... so i switched lanes to be side by side with that guy. with my face still with a large grin, i glanced to him. yup. he's scared. he was trying to be cool and just facing straight away. never ever moved his face to my direction. haha.. this makes me happy. so, i took a pic of the car to post it later and then sped off as my lane was much faster.

lesson learned here. nothing. its just pure adrenaline rush.haha...im so evil..
yup dats da avanza... dats da nearest pic i can take... was drivin maaa

Monday, June 11, 2007

certain shade of green

certain shade of green. wonderin what does it mean? i have no idea. i just simply put it coz while im writing this, im listenin to that song, which is from the band "incubus".

its been a while, about 2 weeks since my last post. too many ramblings were goin on, and i didnt had the time to write. about 2 weeks ago i went for an IT shopping. its been a while since i did dat. the geek inside me was screamin wif joy (picture king leonidas of the 300 movie when he yelled "tonight we will dine in hell", yeah thats about the same scream of joy i'm experiencing) when i stepped into low yat to buy the things i want. i will not leave until i got the things i want. actually what was only list was to only buy the external maxtor harddisk. why do i need it?hehe got plenty of stuffs to put in ma.. furthermore, with this system, anything happens, theres a restoration system. as the files i want will be sensitive, i need this. i've already experienced 2 of my externals hddisk went kaput juz becoz of mishandlings.. uwa..... i did managed to get a gud price. eventho it was a big pricier than YC bought it 2 weeks before. maybe he bought it during offer. then, i've just wandering around the mouse area.. its like my gut telling me to go there... well well what a surprise, not optical, but laser mouse's by microsoft were on sale!! i was comtemplating for more than 10mins on buyin it onot.. the mouse were being sold at 115 and the retail price were 250++... and the offer ends the day after.. finally i bought it.. hahaa... its a cool mouse..damn fast.. laser ma... i have to reduce the scroll speed as it was too smooth.. the laser is the invisible laser technology, so it wont irritates your eyes if you look into it. the downside of it is that the wireless radio receiver is bulky.. maybe becoz of the laser?? another plus is that the size is big.. i got big hands :D :D so it fits me ok :D

next items?? hjehehe already got the list for it..

my mom told me to get new specks once i got the PH allowances.. so finally got one.. its kinda pricey, coz i didnt know it was multifunctional, got multicoated la, uv la, for computer screen la... no wonder mahal eventho i dont hv any powers except for my astics. anyway the bump of the day was that i didnt realised it has almost the same design as my sis'. duh......

yesterday, went to midvalley to pickup the spec and watch a movie with my sis. hehe she promised to belanja me.. so we watched Ocean's 13. for me, its better than the 12, and about the same level as the 11. the whole bunch were very funny, stayin true to the original 11 with 2 additions, an IT expert and the olde enemy, the guy they stole the money in 11. in 13, they are up against al pacino for a revenge. al pacino (banks is the name in the movie) betrayed the 11's compadre, the guy who owns a casino.aiyah forgot his name.. banks betrayed him and nearly make him die, coz he suffered an heart attack.
ocean offered banks a 1 time oppurtunity to make all the things right again, using the "you've shook hands with sinatra" phrase. this is quite interesting, as sinatara is part of the ratpack who were involved with the mobs that were running vegas previously..
so this movie shows how they did the revenged and some old characters did cameo's on this installment. i wont put any spoilers coz this is a good movie to watch. so u guys better watch it. and have fun!!

oh yeah, today went to the indon embassy to get the visa. gonna go there end of this month for their rollout. so went there with faizi around 11 plus. was a mistake using the smart tunnel. missed the indon building and wasted almost half an hour looking for it. finally found it around 12. luckily we managed to reach at the counter at 1220. they will close for lunch time at 1230. hehe.. so the process will take 3 days to complete. have to leave the passport with them. which was surprising to the both of us.. the thing that the immigration officer bugs me that she took a about 5mins++ to see my face, my passport and my pics and said "muka cina, your name memang wan fadhil ker?" i was like, yeahhh... just took the foto 2 days ago, it should be the same wat..

oh yeah forgot, just got a support phone. :(( uwaaaaaa. now anyone can reach me anywhere and anytime by saying "i want access!!" damn!!! now my days aren't the same anymore. even weekends.. hopefully they wont be any much issues... but last saturday, have to respond to tickets as basis sms-ed the phone to notify an urgent ticket must be handled...

pics of the phone, hddisk and mouse will be posted later... kinda lazy to take pics right now... :D

here's the box of the phone.. see the face of the guy gettin the present.. which sort of ironic. same way i get the support phone. but i didnt smiled. i was frowning.. hahaha