New word for the day...

*pause*......*pause* Hmmm.....daymn...I totally forgotten the word!!!! Grrrrrr... Makes you wonder if old age begins to kick in.

What??? Another surprise?!?

Barely a year when the 12.4MP Full framed D3 and the 12.3MP Full framed D700 camera came out and Nikon launched its latest gun, the D3x Full framed 24.5MP in the United States and Europe? Status is that this fully professional camera will be out soon in the Asian markets. Prices is still to be announced but many pundits believes that it will cost around the range of the former D3. Hmmm...it makes you wonder whether the D3 is a better value for money compared to the already excellent D700 now that its replacement is around the corner. ^^

Latest gadget geeky Droolers!

Feast your eyes on these lips smacking "luvlay" recent acquirements and wipe the drool off after reading this. Jealousy is not an option here. :P

A 16GB Sandisk Ultra Cruzer Titanium USB 2.0 Flash Drive (15MB/s Read, (MB/s Write) @ S$60 including tax. Opt for this rather than the faster, more expensive $99 16GB Super sexy switchblade Sandisk Cruzer Contour because of bang for the buck value, solid construction and smaller footprint especially when plugging it into the USB jack. More than enough to download TV Miniseries House & Heroes, a full Operating System and still have loads to spare!!!

Aaaaaa yes! This beauty will allow your notebooks to go super duper fiaaaast! Imagine if your notebook has 2 memory slots, 4GB of ram will not even allow you to stutter in your multiple internet browser windows or multi tasking in multitudes of open windows. A geeks dream come true! Corsair is one of the most sought after brand especially for gamers, let alone the workaholics R us. This small bugga asks for approx $40.

This next item is the Seagate 1.5TB 7,200rpm 32MB Cache cookamunga! Not the fastest hard drive in terms access speed as it is owned by the Western Digital 1TB (Black Edition), nevertheless it still rakes in at a highly respectable top 3 access times. But Dollar per Megabyte, its is easily the best you can get especially when you refer to acres of drive space. It rates in at approx. 16 cents per Megabyte compared to 21 cents for the latter. This should store my work, my movies, my music and my games for the next 5 years or more at $238. Off you go then to my server hot plug tray my luvlay!

Another Seagate external hard disk which is small enough to put into your breast pocket. It comes with a leather pouch, a USB cable and a free docking station (valued at $59) which is not seen here. It costs $209 down from $269, and even though it has a big discount, nobody in their right mind will buy an expensive external hard drive. But the clincher here was that it had a hard drive space of a whoopin' 500GB @7,200rpm! I wonder whether I should get one myself and exchange my puny notebook hard drive of 60GB with this? Hmmm..... thats a thought!

Sibuk ku Sibuk!!!

Bukan nya sanang mencari duit ani nya mu. Apatah lagi kalau bedagang sendiri ani. Kapisaaaan kapisan!!! Macam² masaalah kan di hadapi, ganya kalau dituruti perasahan ani bah, awu udah abis bepanyap ku udah. Bakal saja.... terpaksa jua bersabar dan menempohi masaalah ani, apa² masaalah lah, mun namanya bedagang. Bukannya kan tarus kaya..hahahaha! *ketawa melapaskan seteress!* Bah eih...asal saja ada soun soun di dalam blog ku ani, jangan indada nya urang. Bah eih! Cukup udah tu ah? Bah Makasih!! Sudi lah datang lagi... :P~~

Whats up???

Seriously nothing much really....aside from the fact that Lewis Hamilton is a F1 Champion by a point against his nearest rival Felipe Massa of Ferrari. Manchester United won 4-3 against Hull and almost squandered it. Chelsea trashed Sunderland 5-0, Liverpool lost 1-2 to Totenham under new boss Harry Redknapp and and Arsenal was "stoked" by Stock City by a margin of 1-2 as well. Aside from those results, Weekend till Tuesday today, it has been raining most times, and just those few moments when it was sunny, it was awfully hot! Sunday was a marriage function at my neighbours and as a friendly neighbour, offered to help out in the morning and by noon time, it was sizzling hot and replenishments were aplenty. Weekdays since Monday has been horrendous and every minute of waiting is like torture! Well its the "wait" that just makes the day sucky and always the case, 5pm (offwork time) is freakin slow! Oh well...I guess I gotto be patient. And close both my eyes, ears and mouth. Just tired I tell you...just so tired....

The Decorated bus for the Bridegroom and his entourage.










Our house compound being used for some of the invited guests.

Waiting for the guest to arrive. Lovely day though extremely hot! When function ended, I was so exhausted, I slept the whole afternoon and continued till the next morning....

Spiritual Realisation.

Sometimes when things goes wrong and messy and even intolerable at times and despite having a strong mind to blank out, it just needed someone special to remind you that there is a One and Only Other that will ease the pain and suffering at least to bear or release some burden. For me, that special one was my wife who "nudged" me to look for answers to God.

I guess sometimes, the denial to admit my mistakes/decisions, there is always that one point of weakness that I overlooked, be it just by nature that we are stubborn to realise that fact or too downright bothered by other factors in life that we fail to realise the obvious, and it just needed that touch of a reminder that we are only humans after all and that life is a mixture of pain and pleasure which is a God Given virtue, then we learn from our mistakes and embrace tests and rewards handed down to us. I know it sounds kindda awkward to my norm, but sometimes we have to realise humility in order to be able to see what we have not seen in the first place.
I have to admit that I am not a pious person, but now I realise that whatever we do in life, or however we choose to live it, our decisions, our livelihood, our well being, God has a hand in everything. No matter how hard we work or the reverse, how much we calculate and decide upon, what we choose, or how we choose to live, the many consultants to advice you, I believe that we also need Spiritual guidance as well to balance our lives.
I felt a peace of mind after a very long time, and somehow my problems didn't seem to bother me as much as it did earlier on. A sense of realisation enveloped my thoughts and somehow it opened up my thinking to things I have not realised previously. An answer to my many questions!
Its not right to pray to God only when we have trouble, but I believe that we should always pray to seek guidance and advise from Him because it is only from Him that we exist and only from Him that we return. To acknowledge and declare His existence must also be accompanied by remembering Him by doing our sustenance of prayers as He will also remember us by our asking for help.

Finance 101

With my finance staff no longer with the company, I have been reading up and familiarising myself back with these Trading, Profit and Loss accounts, Balance Sheets, Projected Summaries, the whole enchilada. Quite a number of financial discoveries I have found, some upsetting, some surprising, some was also unbelievable! But lets not dwelve into there coz its for me to know and for you to not be too curious lol. But yes this book is a big help for Accounts Idiots like me and I've decided to take over that company portfolio until a suitable candidate comes along, which I would say would be a few months, even years down the road.

Busy Busy Busy!

I have been extremely busy sorting out a few things and was not able to write a blog till now. In these next few days, I guess we will see the results of my hard effort and strains. Hopefully everything will fall into place, God-Willing!

I decided to purchase a reliable lighter to light up my ciggies as it was kindda hard relying on matches which I had accustomed to the last few weeks plus also I believed I caught my daughter playing with matches which brought a chill to my spine.

A Silver Audi A8

An extremely limited edition Audi A8 silver was made for Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, the former President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Ruler of Abu Dhabi.

The car is NOT only silver in colour, IT is also made out of SILVER!?!?!?!?

KACHIIIINGGGGAA!!!!

The Art of Writing

Mont Blanc is well known for its writing instruments, some of which are rare, collectibles and very expensive! They seem to increase in price every year much like the Rolexes. I have the privilege to own a few expensive ones for a "Normal" layman which were gifts from a good friend, and two from companies I associate with. I myself would not have splashed out any more than $150 for such a pen and probably the most expensive pen I have ever purchased in the Mont Blanc line was a black resin and a maroon resin ball pointed pen which is no longer in my possession, as it has gone lost and never came back. Talking about writing, I used to write when I was younger, be it writing my diary or for the fun of writing. Not that I am any good at writing though...even if I had won an essay writing competition just once during my younger years at lower secondary in SOAS college. Nowadays, writing is more like a classy hobby for those who has time. I know I don't have the time to write anymore, and I'm happy enough to type away in my blog that is if I have the itsy bitsy time for a minute or two.

An all silver (plated?) roller ball Mont Blanc pen given to me as a gift from a rich friend for my birthday during my University years in the US.

A free gift from Standard Chartered Bank for my credit card application. Apparently its a limited edition (special edition) Mont Blanc ball point pen dedicated to a World reknown Violinist Yehudi Menuhin.

A Mont Blanc "Floating Star" Edition fountain pen which I use regularly to sign documents etc. It was a gift from a friend at Dell Computers. Notice the star on top of the pen in which seems to float in mid air?

Tough Day today

Its been a tough day today... Been working and negotiating, had a slight loss of temper & patience and been on the computer the whole afternoon without a break and abit of mumbling/muttering to myself like an old senile man. I guess after being patiently pimping and coaxing and persevering for more than 3 months now, maybe even four, there was bound to be some pressure asking to let loose. Time to head home. Mentally drained and tired. Haven't been having sports the whole week or more, I wish my tennis buddies will call to play...I need to whack the d$&% balls and let loose my tension. Not good for my heart if I were to coup it up. Hair pulling is out of the question.. I need to preserve whatever hair I got left the way things are going.. LOL

Deal with it or stay at home

This is what I have to deal with every few days of the week. Been running around like nobody's business trying to get things done quickly and efficiently. But it never does, no matter how much you try to push for it. To top my 3.0litre V6 Honda Accord to full tank cost me between $27-29 dollars... that comes to about $8-$10 per day? Bearing that in mind though, a full tank carries me to around 400 plus kilometers if I push the car decently and not let my leaded foot do the talking. But it seems that I'm averaging about 100kilometers in a day. I have a right mind of buying a diesel car next time the way how things are going on.

My faithful torch

My faithful blow torch used to light up my coal for my 'gaharu' wood to air my office. These past few days, its been a useful tool to light up my cigarettes, as I have ran out of lighters and couldnt be bothered to pull out 60 cents to buy a new one. Unfortunately I have started to smoke again...not going to dwelve into the reasons for doing so. But hopefully in the near future I will. Will try my best though...maybe puasa enam soon.