Wednesday 27 February 2008

Another Wednesday....

Groan....sigh...another day at the office. Somehow I dread Wednesday nowadays. It just feels so long! Probably its just close to the end of the month, whom unlike others who probably be doing a jig at this time with "gaji keluar!", it the opposite for me. Out comes the bills, the ponderous moments of balancing payments, payout salaries for my pool of staff, my office rent, doing claims (oh those horrible moments when some customers will "harass" you with questions of "adakan" or "nantitah", "pay you by the end of the month", or maybe even "err sorry, I was taken away by aliens and just got sent back to earth, can I sort it out with you later?" jargons), let alone my own personal bills. Such a drag. Oh well what must be done must be done and accountable for. Gah!

Wednesday is the middle of the week where you feel that the weekend is still far ahead, and that you have just recovered from the activities of the previous weekend. This is where you feel that piles of work gets dumped onto your table where each and every work requires an URGENT request! And yet we humans plod on systematically sorting out the priorities and skipping the less urgent ones. Sheeeah right! Where in the world is requests never URGENT? Its all URGENT! (laughing to myself alone like a lunatic in my "big" office).

Wednesday is the day I don't have lunch with my family and will work straight till 3pm where I will rush to pick up my daughter from her Ugama school and send her to her ballet classes. I can almost bet something with come up today which usually happens especially when you have alot of office work to do. A knock on my door and my senior staff will enter and say, "Err Sir....you have an appointment with this bloke today and its URGENT. But cant you just go to the meeting? He personally requested for you to come to the meeting". Yeah that request squashes my work timings.

Nah...banar! (as I spoke my mind aloud). True enough, my staff just gave a knock on the door whilst I was typing the very last part of the last paragraph..Ironic isnt it?

Anyway, I will have to leave it at this then....gotto go and have my meeting and find out what the client wants...... sheeesh...Wednesday!

Tuesday 12 February 2008

I thought this as absolutely brilliant!

George Carlin's Views on Aging. This fellow cracks me up!

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

'How old are you?' 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

'How old are you?' 'I'm gonna be 16!' You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30 ; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; 'I Was JUST 92.'

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. 'I'm 100 and a half!'
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them.'

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge .

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10.Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,but by the moments that take our breath away.

Feeling Unappreciated at Work Lately?

WORKER DEAD AT DESK FOR FIVE DAYS

From the New York Times: Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed that one of their employee has been sitting dead at his desk for five days before anyone asked if he was feeling okay. George Turklebaum, 51, who had been employed as a proof-reader at a New York firm for 30 years, had a heart attack in the open-plan office he shared with 23 other workers.

He quietly passed away on Monday, but nobody noticed until Saturday morning when the office cleanerasked why he was working during the weekend.

His boss, Elliot Wachiaski, said:"George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that time and didn't say anything. He was always absorbed in his work and kept to himself."

A post mortem examination revealed that he had been dead for five days after suffering a coronary. George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died.

You may want to give your workers/co-workers a nudge occasionally. The moral of the story is: Don't work too hard. Nobody notices anyway!

Wednesday 6 February 2008

My current project car

Own a 2000 Golf 4 1.6litre car. Left it for almost 3 years or was it 4 years in the garage unable to fix the computer that has the car not being able to start and all other stuff jammed etc. Got it fixed and its working brilliantly now. The engine give a one kick start but other issue have arisen due to wear and tear and also exposed for long hours under the sun. I guess....... My bad!!!!

Parts that needs replacements:

- ceiling interior needs reupholstering --> Everstrong?
- bushings needs replacements --> Agent?
- absorbers, Koni? --> Company opposite to Tyre Mart has it
- Wind Shield Wipers --> any car shop
- Rims? Oettinger 18 inch 5 spokes as in picture? Naaah. Leave it

- Front windows cannot come down? Fixed it permanently, no need to smoke in car. Haha
- Aircons needs servicing and examine for leakings
- A good interior cleaning of the leathers and cockpit
- A good polishing at my fav. car spa.

AND YAY....I GOT ME A NICE CAR ONCE MORE!!!! Wooo hoo! Yeah this will suffice until my Porsche 911 Turbo comes along.................

Mind the Gaps? What gaps? Antah eih wha cha toking about man?

Mugen has done it again! Damn you Mugen for making me drool like a puppy! They just had to annoy me by making such a cool looking Honda Accord (Inspire) and and the name also suggest it , "INSPIRE" in Japan as my I WANT THAT TOO car! Grrrr!!!

What you need to do to make your poofy standard Honda Accord 2008 3.5 litre car to a monster machine to drool drool drool drool!



Fit all these Mugen Parts in:

- Mugen Front Sports Grille
- Mugen Front Under spoiler
- Mugen Side Wing Spoiler
- Mugen Rear Under Spoiler
- Mugen Rear Wing
- Mugen Ventilated Visor
- Mugen Sports Exhaust System

- Mugen Brake Rotor
- Mugen Brake Pad Type Touring or Sports
- Mugen Brake linings
- Mugen Sports Suspensions lowering it by 20mm
- Mugen Aluminium 10 spoke wheels - Black, Black metal coat, Mirror face, or silver colour
- Mugen Sports pedals
- Mugen Air filter and cold intakes
- Mugen Tuning Chip
- Mugen recommended Platinum sparkies
- Mugen Tralalalala

And what have you got?

A car that you can drool all you want and gets you to eat Maggi for quite some time! Hehehe!

I wonder how much horses will Mugen be able to churn out?

A 400hp plus or more, with a 0-62mph (100kmh) in sub fours will be guuuuuuuuuud!

That'll scare the living daylight outta ya!

The New Honda Accord 2008!

May I present to you the all new Honda Accord 2008 coming this March 2008 at Happy Motoring. Armed with 2 choices, the 2.4 litre 190hp engine, or the 3.5 litre 268hp (according to US specs), this wolf in sheep's skin is definitely an eye opener in terms of performance and looks! Some mags have reportedly mentioned a 0-62mph (100kmh) of 5.7-6.2 second range, but I would prefer to have a personal go for myself to see if it is really that fast. Yeah I am a Honda freak and I love the Honda cars are made especially the engines. Fantastic job you guys in Honda! Just don't know how you do it! Other comparisons for this car is the Toyota Camry and the Nissan Cefiro. But I would like to think that this car is the BMW of the East. Hehehe.