Mother - A Documentary

A not-to-be-missed documentary about the perils of one being poor, yet still has the determination and preseverence to earn money through sheer hard work with her bare hands and legs. This is what my friend (together with his other friend, who produced that documentary) had to say about her:

Followed a recyclable waste collector for 2 days to walk in her shoes and feel what it's like to be her, from what I experienced of her, I don't think that I have the will to live trough her life and to be honest, I'd suicide/died long time ago.

This woman lives in a house which I would describe it as the aftermath of a collapsed building the only difference is that the house still standing, everything in the house is damaged, dirty and dark, I've seen some very dirty houses but nothing I've seen so far can be compare to this.However, it's not her fault for the house to be like this, she did her best to keep the house clean but one woman simply cannot win against 7 uncooperative bastards (Yes! They deserve the credit for messing up the place.)

She is poor and unfortunate, she has to beg for leftover food at the economy rice stall to put food on the table, and the unfortunate parts comes in when the children refuse to eat, takes from the mother's saving and go out and eat with their friends.

Some might laugh at her mis-fortune, some might laugh at her being uneducated. To me, if you'd do that, you're stooped so low in life that you're worst than a pile of dung that anyone finds on the roadside.

Life's full of fortunes and mis-fortunes, but it is how we perceive and handle the situation to make the best out of it. So what if you're poor? So what if you're rich then? Does it give you the right to be complacent and do nothing to improve the situation further?

Think about it...And. Happy Early Mother's Day to those in Malaysia! (although it's still two weeks away - celebrated in Malaysia on every 2nd Sunday of the month of May)

Food for Thought: Stock Altis vs. DC5-kit Altis

Just a food for thought. Which one of the kit actually looks nicer, the stock Altis kit or the DC-5 kit for Altis?

Altis with DC-5 custom front bumper

Tagged by Mei and Shea

Instructions: Remove 1 question from below and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post.


1. At what age do you wish to marry?
- 27?

2.If you can turn into anything, what do you wish you can turn into?
- A kitty cat.

3. What job are u doing now?
- Full-time uni student

4.Where is the place that you want to go most?
- Venice

5.If you have one dream to come true, what would it be?
- To have a wish, which I will then wish for unlimited wishes

6.Do you believe in seeing the rainbow after the rain?
- No?

7.what are you afraid to lose the most right now?
- My opportunity to finish up my woodbeads in UK

8. What cheers you up for the rest of the day?
- State-of-the-art computer parts

9.If you meet someone you love, would you confess to him/her?
- Duh?

10.List out three good things of the person who tagged you.
- Blur, Sushi Addict and Loves to Shop! (Mei)
- Gila, seorang Penyair dan suka bergurau (Shea)

11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
- Independent

12.What type of person do you hate the most?
- Two-faced people, with absolutely bad politic skills

13.What would you do if you won a million dollars?
- Invest in Mutual Funds/Fixed Deposits/Bonds in £ or USD

14.What is your ambition?
- Make tons of money with a simple job

15.What would you wanna be after you're dead?
- Reincarnate and become a pet of my loved one who is still alive? LOL!

16. If you have a chance, which part of your character would you like to change?
- Get slim yo!

17. What is your favourite color?
- Black & White

18.What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
- Scouts (could never live without it)

19. What's the last thing you think of before you go to sleep?
- Need to drag my ass to lectures and tutorials (though I'll never do it again in 2 months time)

20. What would you do if tomorrow was the last day of the world?
- Splurge and eat all i want together with my loved ones!


Eight ppl that i wan to tag is..
1. Jomay
2. Mei
3. Edward
4. Fer Lynn
5. Niki Poon
6. Amy
7. Mel & Mich
8. MKee

Repeat after me: I am bored. That is why I play flash games

89 words

Speed test

UKEC - Graduan Fair 2008

Reading Mei's blog had somehow reminded me of my forgotten blog, shall do some update now. Haven't been doing much throughout the Easter holidays, been staying at home for the past 1 1/2 week, thanks to online gaming @ World of Warcraft (WoW).

Somehow during this period, I was forwarded an e-mail bearing the details of a graduates fair by Malaysian companies, organised by the United Kingdom & Eire Council for Malaysian Students (UKEC) down at University College London (UCL). Decided to just head down and see what's the hoo-ha about this fair. Managed to get two-way bus tickets for £14 and two nights stay at a 2-star hotel for £30 per night.

Had an interesting discussion with Mel over the fair, yeah and agreed that although it is beneficial for students as to having such career/graduate fairs around, its the prerogrative of the students/graduates to go around looking for opportunities for summer internship or netting themselves a career which they would love to pursue. Such fairs defeat the purpose of making the students/graduates appreciating their hardwork and trouble in getting the job (reading up, getting prepared for interview etc.), and to be honest, it is more like spoonfeeding to the students/graduates.

Well enough of ranting about the fair. Not that its really important anyway, and for those interested, have a look at the participating partners of the fair in the poster below.

Participating partners of the UKEC Graduates Fair 2008

Arctic Cooling MX-2

Weeeeell. Assignments are over (after resubmission of IF on 11/3/08), and hands are getting itchy. Found out what was causing the random shutdown of my laptop when I'm gaming. Apparently the thermal paste that was provided should be time to be replaced with a new paste for better heat transfer...Can you believe it? My Nvidia GeForce GO 6150 GPU core in normal windows mode is running at 99°C. Same goes for Edward's laptop I'd think, thanks to Fer Lynn for donating her nail polish remover which contains Acetone to clean the old thermal paste off.

Project's kicking off after Tuesday, and by then the Arctic Cooling MX-2 should have arrived by 1st Class Royal Mail post. Hopefully it'll solve the problem by then. Am considering to even replace the CPU's thermal paste as well. After reading quite a number of reviews about the Arctic Cooling MX-2 as compared to my cousin's favourite Arctic Silver AS5, finally decided to get Arctic Cooling MX-2 over the Arctic Silver AS5 just for the sake of testing the new thermal paste which claims to have a 8 year life span with a slightly better 1°C operating temperature (lower than AS5).

Main features of the Arctic Cooling MX-2:

• High Thermal Conductivity
• Low Thermal Resistance
• Non-Electrical Conductive
• Non-Capacitive
• Non-Curing
• No Bleeding
• Odorless

A sneak preview of what's coming by post on Monday/Tuesday:

A syringe of Arctic Cooling MX-2

Of Gym and Foam Party

Been on a hiatus lately from blogging due to the nature of feeling shit scared for my double-weighted AIC assignment which is due on Thursday, the 6th of March. Going to experience D-Day tomorrow as the International Finance assignment is ready for collection at Helen Riley's room @ FC54. Heard from Taylor-ians that the results from Kenneth David for their IF assignment is not encouraging at all, and, yeah. Can you imagine the smartest person in the course scores only 67 for the IF assignment?

Naturally with assignment deadlines looming, all of us here at UWE could earn a Ph.D doctorate in Hermit-ism because all we would do is to stay at home, read piles and piles of articles, and visit the mobile Kebab stall located outside of New Student Village (a.k.a. Kampung Baru Pelajar). Its so bad that even my hourly gym session with Niki Poon was distrupted, ahhhh. We're turning into fat phucks. Dammit >.<

A sneak peek of our hourly gym session workouts (Niki's differs as he has more stamina):

Distance = 23.40 km/miles (not sure...) and burning almost 350 calories

Managed to be convinced by Niki Poon to go for the Foam Party taking place at Syndicate on the 10th of March. Apparently they're utilising the UK's largest legal foam machine for this event. Oh well. We'll see about that... ¬.¬

Sneak peek of the event...