I promise...

Have you ever thought that we make promises and they were meant to be broken sometimes? Sure you do. People often say such and we often hear them. Promises, or rather resolutions, we always make at the start of the new year remind us of what we need to change in order to make ourselves better. But, mind you, many of us tend to go back to our old ways as the year goes by. Many of us do. Serious. Now I am no exception to this. I know I have been making promises to myself, yet old habits just die hard. **SIGH**...

Anyway, here are my 10 promises for the year, albeit coming near to the end of the year. Hopefully, I don't go back to my old habits again.

(1) I promise not to spend like a rich man. More often than not, at month's end, I am often broke.

(2) I promise not to "goyang kaki" and procrastinate at the office.

(3) I promise to save as much money as possible so that I can retire rich.

(4) I promise myself to go to gym as often as possible, which is good because I am practising this now.

(5) I promise to often update my blog, as frequently as possible, and should not back-dating posts anymore. Bad habit, indeed. First, it is a dishonest man's work. Second, you have to put in effort to catch up.

(6) I promise to often clean my rented room as often as possible. Now, take a look at these mess!

Househusbandry, you say?

Oh what a mess!

Mom's gonna kill you! Go clean it up, kid!

(7) I promise I will not keep pestering my fellow bloggers with somewhat irritating comments. Hope you all can forgive me if I do so. Thousands of apologies.

(8) I promise not to lose my temper so easily and not to be too sensitive over weenie little matters.

(9) I promise to get my future lover and my loved ones at home the best I can give. All my life, all my soul and all my heart to the ones I most dearly love.

(10) Last, but not least, I promise not to drive my car fast like it is a racing car. Look at what had happened to me! Serve me right! Now, that's the reason why I can't go to Starbucks those few days ago to blog my stuff on the net. Damn me!

Skidded on a wet road during a rainy weather and "kissed" the "ass" of the car in front.

The other car that I knocked into. Notice the exhaust pipe was out of place.

SURPRISE!!! Now, this is exactly a meme. Got caught on with the meme virus, thanks to my fellow bloggers. Time for tagging... hehehe... *smiles evilly*... OK, these are the people to be tagged (except for myself, of course!)... TADAAA!!!... here is the list...

Having said all that, will I ever learn from these mistakes? Hopefully I will. And, will I break those promises? Hopefully, I won't.

Now, go and do your meme and write down your own 10 promises you have made for yourself!

Nothing...

Errr... Don't know what to write today... I will leave my, oh so many, thoughts for tomorrow. Now running out of time. Got to blog as fast as possible. Nevermind if it is not interesting or if it doesn't attract any attentions or whatever, as long as I take this precious time to blog, blog and blog. That's why it is call NOTHING for today... exactly nothing. Nothing to blog. Not gonna write any "surprises" for now, but will have it written the next few days... most likely tomorrow. I will let all of you know what "surprises" there are in store. For now, just stay tuned.

A small step... little food for thought

"A journey of a thousand miles starts with a small step"
"A big step begins with a small step"
"A small step preludes everything big"

So start with a small step first.
Don't give up if you fail taking a small step.
Get up and try again.

Writing blogs...

**Sigh** So much thoughts yet so little time. Sheesh...

So, what's next?

Oh dear... seems like I have got to back-date my blog, just like what QR did when he missed those precious days of blogging. In fact, he is the one who gave me this idea of back-dating blogs, but I know it's a dishonest man's job. And you would soon know why this blog is back-dated. Updates soon, coming soon, ok? Anyway, got to be dishonest at times, eh?

Now, what blog info shall we be fed with this time? Aha! Remember wonks ago, we were reading the blog on "What would you do..."? Alright, here are some of my experiences in Celebrity Fitness:

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I was doing this cardio exercise on a machine, and in front of me, there was this row of treadmills. Then, one hawt, good-looking guy, with well-built, well-defined toned body (not muscular ar!), was walking in front of me and did some cardio exercises on the treadmill for some 20 minutes or so. Having finished his exercise, he sort of "purposely" turn his head towards my direction and looked at me. Soon after, I sort of "melted". Ah... that was just the beginning, I thought to myself.

Then, I went to the toilet cubicle in the gym restroom to do my business. Having done that, I walked to the basin to wash my hand. In order walk towards the gym locker and then to exit the restroom, I had to walk past a row of 5 urinals that were in front of the three cubicles. That means I had to walk a wide path between the urinals and the cubicles. This same guy was urinating in one of the urinals (the last one, near the gym lockers), and when I was walking past the urinals, he was turning his head to look at me AGAIN! No, he didn't just glance at me momentarily and then focussed on his business. No, not that case. What he did was he started to look at me the moment I finished washing my hands and when I started to leave that area. Even when I was passing the last urinal on which he was urinating, he still looked at me, albeit looking sideways. That was like 10 to 15 seconds long! (errr... do you call that staring, if the look lasted for as long as 10 to 15 seconds?) Oh my gosh! He looked at me AGAIN! My heart was racing faster than that of a train.

Another time, I was eating my favourite CoffeeBean panini chicken sandwich at the rest lounge where drinks are served. This lounge is an open space, where those coming into or leaving the gym can see. This same hawt guy, who was about to leave the gym, looked at my direction where I sat in the lounge. As he was leaving, he kept looking at me (or staring at me, rather), and I, of course, noticed it. I smiled at him and he approvingly smiled back at me. He didn't winked an eye at me, but his smiling back at me is a positive response, and I was glad. Well, you should be able to guess what was my next reactions, eh? It was like, oh... , so Romeo-and-Juliet type of "love at first sight".

What happened next was that I approached him one day and I introduced myself to him and we became friends.

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"Hey, he looks gay!"... was the remark I got from some people around me, who also stared at me like I was some kind of alien, or maybe if I looked "delicious". NO, I am not edible, for goodness sake! Honestly speaking, I am not the kind of hottie everyone is drooling at. I don't look like Zac Efron, or Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. But that doesn't mean I am ugly, ok? Instead, to make myself more presentable, I groomed myself rather eloquently or flamboyantly, and I went to gym that way. NO AGAIN, mind you, I wasn't wearing a woman's outfit or anything of that sort. In fact, I was wearing a shirt with vertical-lined flowery patterns. So that they thought I was gay. Anyway, I ignored them. Self-pride mah... isn't it?

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So, what's the big deal with being looked at, stared at and remarked as such, anyway? NO big deal... it's just one of my experiences, though, and yes, I admit I really like that hawt guy.

What would you do...

... when someone smiled at you or even winked an eye at you? What would you do when someone looked at you and kept looking (is that staring?) at you as though you looked "delicious". And what would you do when you overheard someone commented "hey, he looks gay" and looked at your direction? The first 2 incidents happened to me in the gym and didn't exactly know what to do. Got stunned, perhaps. And the last incident happened to me when I was blogging at Starbucks, and also at the gym.

So what would you do then?

Yesterday...

... was the day a chat was established between me and William. So, nothing much to do all day, only reading some IC datasheets and measurement instructions, go chatting we do, whilst at work. Well, since I have been transferred to a new section within the same department, I must get myself familiarize with the products designed in that new section I am currently assigned to. OK, so, I shouldn't have done that during office hours, but I had the best times chatting with him. Chatting for almost 90% of my working time. Anyway, we had a good time chatting. Nice chatting with you, William.

Something to share...

... and again, there's where The Owner's Pride gonna be. At the Starbucks Coffee, as usual. Surfing the net away. So, today, instead of contributing one's own story to tell, there's something to share with all fellow bloggers out there. So, welcome to this blog. And, found this rather funny. Here it is:

"At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

(1) For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

(2) Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.

(3) Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

(4) Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down, and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

(5) Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought"Car95" or "CarNT", but then you would have to buy more seats.

(6) Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only 5% of the roads.

(7) The oil, water temperature and alternator warning light would be replaced by a single "general car fault" warning light.

(8) New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

(9) The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.

(10) Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab hold of the radio antennae.

(11) GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they might never need them or want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.

(12) Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operated in the same manner as the old car.

(13) You'd press the start button to shut off the engine."

Hehehe.. so, this is what happen when the car industry technology goes in the same pace as the computer industry technology. How about buying a Bill Gates car? Any takers out there?

Blogging... blogging... blogging...

... when the resources and time are at hand. Well, these few days have the free time there is... and best of all, 4 days of holidays there are, beginning from Friday till Monday! Yay!!! And the even best thing is that a new notebook is now a pride to call one's own. At first, it was thought that HP Compaq Presario V3000 notebook looked better in terms of its specifications, though no integrated webcam was included, but alas, stock of it SenQ had no more, as of 13th October. Looked through the specifications of the next best offered notebook that was also yearned for quite some time. Well, good as it seemed, with a 1.3 megapixel webcam included, as well as the integrated add-ons, such as WLAN, integrated LAN card, Bluetooth and the like. Cool it seemed, so it is now called The Owner's Pride instead of Acer Aspire. Here is the picture of The Owner's Pride:

Guess what, the moment this beautiful baby is at hand, off to the Starbucks Coffee and connect to the Internet wirelessly and seamlessly. Day in, day out, before or after working out at Celebrity Fitness in Gurney Plaza or at Fitness First in Island Plaza, surely The Owner's Pride is always there at Starbucks Coffee and surf the net. So, with wireless connection and a Wifi-equipped notebook, coupled with lots of spare time, there will be no reason not to connect to the net and blog away or surf the "waves" of the net.

Anyway, good-looking laptop, eh? OK, guys and gals, let's go to Starbucks Coffee now and surf the net away!

Happy moments...

Oh no... I really seriously did not realise 3-seconder actually tagged me on 29th September to write this meme until I realise it today. Oh great... it's really hard to start writing about happy moments when I am actually still mourning my grandma's demise 5 days ago. Anyway, will try my best to write it.

Let's see... how am I to start writing it? Been thinking about this for some moments now. Right... got it. Here we go...

Well, thinking of the past times, some happy some sad moments, a lot of changes have taken place this past year and while I was in Kuala Lumpur before moving to Penang in June 2005, I have been meeting a lot of plu friends who have come and gone, and still get into contact with some of them every now and then, including those I have met in here. Well, I have lovers come and gone too, with relationships some long, some short and a lot of heart breaks in between. Some gone on for quite some months and worse still some just gone on for just a week. That was the shortest relationship I have thus far.

Then, Lady Luck winked an eye at me when I got to know this W, whom I met in November 2006. We became lovers 2 months later.

My HAPPINESS! at last. One day, W proposed to be my lover earlier this year, and if I can still recall it, it was on the 1st or 2nd of January. That was exactly the happiest moment in my life!!!

OH... HOW HAPPY I WAS!!! INDEED! YES!

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Author's note: WE ARE NOW GOING TO THE " WORLD OF PAST TENSE"... (an excerpt of my diary written sometime end of February / early of March 2007)
"We have been spending time with each other since then. Life is really good now. I am praying that we can go on forever. Just recently, on Valentine's day, I bought W a camera phone, a box of Ferrero Roche, and a hamper package of facial and body cleansing gels and creams. Not forgetting the 3 romantic cards I attached with those 3 Valentine gifts. How touched W was! We went to a Korean restaurant to eat and celebrate the special day.

"And 8 days after that, W gave me a nice branded wallet for my birthday gift. We were spending time together again and we ate at a Taiwanese restaurant. On that night, W gave me a kiss on my lips and I was really, really extremely HAPPY with that unforgettable kiss. I was extremely touched. I licked the very spot where the kiss was planted. Those were the two special gifts that I will never forget and that which I will always keep in my heart forever and ever. Since then, we have been going out shopping and watching movies with each other almost everyday."

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But now... it's all over. The sweet dream's now over since 3 and a half months ago. It's actually very depressing trying to come to terms with it, knowing very well that the next morning when you open your eyes from your good sleep, those sweet dreams have faded away, leaving you only a sweet memory to remember by and your lover has left your heart in pain. Yeah, it's just so very hard to let your lover go away from your life just like that and it's even harder to accept this painful separation.

This is how my meme ends, in melancholy, so that there's no more happy moment to spread around (no more tagging, that is!). Anyone cares to spread around sad moments instead, eh?