A guy's night~

It was the grandslam weekend last sunday. The night, which English Priemier League's top 4 club face each other for 2 back to back matches, which will more or less give bragging rights to the winning team.. Chelsea play home to Arsenal and Man U for Liverpool.

Such a exciting night, I of course need to fnd some where that has the right mood for such big matches. Thats why me and my guy frens went to Tiger FC's event, whch is held at TTDI Plaza near One U. We were 2 hours early and we were alreay forced to sit at the far end... that is how many ppl who flocked to see the matches.

























This are some of the pictures taken before the match started. And before the real crowd flocked in, which caused the whole square to be packed with standing ppl.. hehehe.. and we are the lucky ones that have a comfortable sit. Before everything started there were games and live local band, tho the speakers was a lil off until I cudn't make out what they where singing.. hahaha..


And what is a great match, great amosphere and great company with out BEERS!!! yes.. not hardcore liquor that make you drunk... but light chilling beer that soothes the body after weeks of stress at work... Nothing beats a chilling TIGER to bring away the weary and tired soul...






















So you think one bucket of Tiger was enough?? hahaha.. well think again!! although i had only one of it.. y?? i was shouting too much during the match tat i had a lil soar throat. hahahha...






























What happens when one team scores?? Well this is what happen... u can see very clearly.. my camera shots was shaken... y?? apparently I had 3 MU supporters on the same table with me and their big reactions when MU scored the 1st goal was earthquake... hehehe... From my shots... u can very clearly see.. the ppl that sits are liverpool supporters while the one jumping up and down are MU crazed fans..







In the end... 3-0 was the score.. hehehe.. I am happy tho i wished MU had lost.. but i was happy... :)

Note: I've been resizing and resizing a hundred times and the pictures just won't be where i wan them to be.. GERAM nya!!!!

KLCC lately~

Recently i have a 4 days off, thurs, fri, sat and sun (for poor engineers like me working shifts, sat and sun are working days for us for the sake of the consumers.) , with which, i spent 3 days in KLCC.. hahaha.. anyways the las 2 days in KLCC was strictly educational or shud i say business.. but i enjoyed my friday in KLCC.. its been awhile for me to loosen up in a comfortable surrounding.. and for the first time.. i took time and went to attend an art gallery.. it was held and still being held till the 13th April 2008 in KLCC Petronas art gallery. Its called the MATAHATI art gallery..















Its really a new thing for me.. standing on the large pavements on the gallary corridors.. its like what we've always watched on TV.. the rich or the art interested ppl stand their looking at abstract arts, enjoying weird paintings that out normal brain cannot start to even grasp.. but this paintings, art works are quite easily comprehended by any1... i know i understood most of the paintings... humanity, our old lifestyles and other form of situations we see in life (death, darkside of the world, politics etc).. all these really provokes ur head... I wish i could get more pictures but i wasnt daring enuf to take out my camera i might get caught trying to b a spy o somehting.. hahaha... this is one of the sort of paintings tat are exhibited in the art gallery.













But my main reason was not to attend this gallery... I was supposed to be there to get my boss's baby girl a gift... a mission given to me by my other colleagues.. well.. how hard is it to get a gift for a BABY... duh~~~~~ to name a few.. diapers, baby clothes... toys... dolls... books... high quality baby food... hmmm.. so now is the hard part.. what the heck shud i buy??? diapers are too ordinary... baby clothes are too fast to expire, the baby can grow faster then u can think and eventually outgrow ur clothing.. toys, something too hard they can choke... dolls, something toxic they can b poisoned... MAN!!! it was dumbfound~~ Lastly... i opt to buy a 'touch and feel' baby book or some book that has music in it... and... this is wat i found..

















rows of rows of rows of shelves of baby books can be found in KLCC.. I stared at those books...blinked... then the phone rang.. my colleagues called and say..'no need to buy anything they are giving cash'... GOOD!!! i was saved!!! my brain was at the verge of breaking down and i wud have jus sapu (sweep) anything and wrapped it up.. hahahahaha...

ChEeRs ppl.. will continue to write later!!~

while I was walkiNg..

I was walking by the shop houses near where i stay... i felt something with teary eyes was staring at me... i turn to y left where a large window display was located reviewed a cute yet familiar creature.. heheh.. the second look i took i know its the CJ7 Doll.. hehehe.. something Ed has been asking for..






















I guess the whole city is getting hit by these cute, furry dolly.. I went to a few shopping malls and all are displaying their different version (original, high quality pirated or even lower quality ones). I have seen shops tat sell glasses, hand phones trying to give this dolls if u do businesses with them... how fast their brain can spin... Not only tat, i've seen teen girls have one CJ7 dolly hanging from her beg... CJ7 on her hand... and a CJ7 on her hand beg... there are even songs about this CJ7 dolly which is in one of our local radio charts!!!! The craze is here.. and guys are going to bear the burden of getting it for the ladies/girls if they like CJ7... and i'm not excluded.. heheheh...

NonE the less.. I am happy and very WILLING... to get the CJ7 for Ed.. so dun whine anymore.. you'll have them when u get back..i promise ok.. heheh..:) CheErs ppl!!

p/s: its not a burden to me.. heheh jus wanna make it a lil dramatic..:)

Eric Can cooK!!!! or at least wants to CoOk~

Believe it or not.. I like to cook actually.. yes i do.. tho my new place has no proper gas stove what more to say kitchen utensiles.. none the less i envy the cooking programs that is usually air-ed on the TV.. why?? well partially is their ability to cook and prepare food.. but mostly is this 2 things.. their assortment of shiny sharp knives.. some might think what does knives have to do with cooking? but to me, i think i plays an important role...





Every cut, every slice and dice they do on the vegetables, chunks of meat and other ingredients look soooooooooooooo easy.. one soft touch and the tendons/fibers are severed.. such a clean cut.. and they rarely waste much time cutting things... yes i must admit their skills put into play also.. but my eyes are always on the knives... not only that.. they have an armemant of kitchen utensiles... pots and pans of different sizes, spoons and measurement devices...



The next thing that i really envy the cooks from the shows are the assortment of FRESH ingredients, ranging from meats to vegetables.. its like the things they use are all from take from an advertisment board. hahahah... you know those advert about vegetables o beef o anything fresh.. they all look sooooooo fresh.. for example, tomatoes.. in the advert u can see them red and a lil watery... u go to the hypermarts... its soooooooo hard just to get something good...





















But wat i really envy is the herbs and spices they have in their kitchen.. Some cook shows might just go to the back of their house and pluck a few fresh herbs and prepare it to be used. Ish~~~~~ I made a silent vow when i was in uni to have a house, which its kitchen is armed to the teeth.. and plant some herbs and spices.... i mayb lazy in doin things and work.. but when it comes to food.. its a different thing... mayb since i was young i like to experiment with food... Trust me.. sometimes the food i make sucks!!! hahahaha... but now with Asian Food Channel on Astro.. wahahahha.. i've been silently training and learning,.. hahaha.. but tat channel made me hungry most of the time..

I dunno u ladies.. but i think a man tat can cook is really cool.. whahahaha... CheErs ppl!!!!

P/S: the song player is crazy again.. sigh.. lazy to fix it now.. will do it when i'm doing my J-POP playlist.. cheers!~

Eric has Been Good, No?

Date: 14th March 2008, Time: sometime between 9am to 10am

Woke up very suddenly with an urge.. the urge of a thousand rhinos stempeding... such an urge was caused by too much liquid intake the other night... lazyly dragged myself...... eh y am i telling u my toilet stories.. hahaha... anyhow... after that.. i was standing at the mouth of my room...looking with my still blurred eyes... i notice its getting a lil messy and as my rub my legs on the floor, the floor feels.. sandy... some how suddenly i jus got furious... took out all the movable things and start sweepign and mopping.. changed the bed sheet... re-arrange all the luggages and all.. clear the dust and nex thing u noe.. its 12pm already..

Time: 1709hrs

After hours on my bed watching HK dramas on my laptop, a sudden excitement tingled down my spine.. i woke up and changed... headed straight down to the gym with my laptop and a small chair.. setup the laptop and my HK drama then i started running on the treadmill.. amazingly.. it worked.. i have been having this feel of boredom more than laziness when it comes to gym or normal solo exercises (i prefer games basketball, futsal etc).. solo exercises are dull.. weight lifting and jogging for instance... so i formulated a plan to watch my dramas while jogging.. i got me running and fast walking for 40 minutes.. not too bad.. felt sooooooo good about myself later on... i wonder if u all have noticed this o not.. after sweating buckets of sweat.. u feel so fresh o even if u're tired u feel good... like u've accomplish alot.. compared to the times of our fore fathers who sweat all day long in the field, how they wish they cud just sit at a place and work...

Date: 15th March 2008 Time: 0600hrs

woke up with sore hands (i did a lil weightlifting without the warm ups..) and legs.... still feel drained after long hours of sleep...

Time: 0740 till present

I've been sneezing from the moment i stepped into the office...i'm getting sick..i still need to work for another 4 days straight (72 hours more exculding today)... Jia You!!!

CheErs eveyone!!!!

Eric's goIng danCe ClasseS??

dancing... it always has facinated me... freestyle..breaking.. the robot... waltz..salsa.. cha cha etc etc.. altho the first few are more on modern vibrant moves compared the last three, which is more traditional yet lovely...no matter what the dance is called, it is still a way to show beauty in different ways of movements, different forms of expressions..

I just finish watching "Take The Lead", with the sexy Antonio Banderas as the main actor.. They make dancing look soo... how should i put it... SEXY... hahaha.. i guess tat is a very good word for it... smooth, beautiful and coordinated... i quote from the movie, "Its like Sex on hardwood". and damn they are right... the tango the danced was.. woooooooo.... hot hot hot...

so am i going to take dance classes?? why not?? but tat is only done when i have my next pay rise.. hahahaha.. my collegue told me there was a nice salsa bar in this hotel.. mayb after tonnes of lesson i can go and salllllssssaaa... hehehehe...

but the thing with me is my hand leg coordination sucks big time.. hahahaha... and the akwardness to dance o i shud say, the akwardness to not know the steps but still move around stupidly in class jus de-motivates me even more... nex.. my partner.. be her pwetty o not, hot o not... tat doesnt matter.. not knowing to dance and stepping ppl's feet can be the worse thing to do.. hahahaha... ppl is always like tat, before we do anything 'fresh' and 'new' they find alot of reasons to stop themsleves from breaking their own routine.. hahaha..

so we'll see... if my next pay rise comes and i still have my excitement to go... heck y not.. but the problem is always transport.. hahahah... oh well, we'll see we'll see... CheErs for now!!! and shall we dance?????????? heheheh

Fruitless day~

As i sit in front of my laptop all day... i just couldn't find the thing to write in this blog... sigh... wanted to write about the memorable japanese dramas i've watched BUT the materials are still lacking.. then i wanted to show u all our roof antenna.. but it was raining.. didnt wan to risk turning into a roasted piggy by being struck by lightning... then i wanted to show the non critical places in my office... but i guess i was too lazy to move.. haaha

well put a j-pop playlist in accordance to the japanese drama blog i will put in... it is trully a fruitless day for me.. was hoping to be able to blog something.. but it seems my brain is dead for the moment.. only thinking of going into my bed's embrace... cheers ppl... lazy bear bear going off from work..

note: the j-pop playlist is only applicable to viewers who are viewing my blogspot's blog and not multiply.

Playlist

I THINK i have solved the Imeem Playlsit problem... so ya..u can now enjoy full length of jazzy/bossa nova songs... CheErs!!~



Note: I'm back in KCH on the 16 June.. anyone home??

Eric was, is and WILL BE a manja BOY!

I don't know if I have written such an article before... i guess i did.. haaha... i dun feel weird if i have written such a self insulting blog.. hahahaha... none the less.. i still wanna write it... hahahah... apart from boredom... a blog is meant for ppl to brag, complain, express etc...

now most of you know i'm brought up in a family filled with manly genes ( i have 2 older brothers but no sisters).. being the youngest male i guess i was... a lil ... a lil only la... manja-ed by both mum and dad.. hahaha... if i was a girl.. i def will b a spoilt princess... looking at the circumstances tat my mum was hoping i turn out to be a girl.. heheheeh... anyways... growing up looking at friends have their elder sisters bring them to school, directly watch over them in school, makes me a lil envy... hahaha ... brothers dont do too much of mushy mushy stuff... hahaha... some have younger sisters that my friends have to b big brother to and watch over...their mouth might say dun care what their younger sis is doing but actually is worried to hell how their younger sister are.... well... no matter, i'm given a wonderful family by God, and not giving me sisters is a plan by Him, which i need to know learn to accept (already accepted).

YEARS AGO, I short-listed 2 ladies that i hope cud be my older sisters. I was a very yung boy then, hopng God wud give me one (altho i dunno how he cud give me an older sis when my family clearly dun have one..hahha) Recently i saw one of them on tv and reminded me i had such a wish before. hahaha...

You might see a certain likeness between this 2 singers/actresses... i guess when i was young the ideal big sister is this type of girl.. hahahaha soft spoken and all.. the one i can manja and get away with it... hahaahha... oh my... me and my kiddish dream.. to think of it.. how silly was i.. hahaha...anyways... dreams will always stay as dreams.. take care now.. and CHEeRs!~!!~

Election Crazed~

For 3 weeks, my company has been hit by a craze of election fever... As u all may noe (if not, u're hiding under some rocks) the 12 malaysian general election has ended with great suprises (not really la).. BN (Barisan Nasional - main coalition party) won.. with a simple majority of 63% (140 parlimentary seats) and the BA (Barisan Alternative a.k.a opposition) which consist of PAS-DAP-PKR has amazing wrestle 61 more seats compared on 2004 election from BN that totals 82 parlimentary seat and 5 states (Selangor, Kedah, Kelantan, Penang and Perak) from BN. well, i'm not going to brag about politics here too much... too much facet, too much perspective and too dark for me to comment on.... yet....

Its been hectic since i got bac from my CNY holiday. At first it was busy setting up equipments, then busy with new operational activity and on the eve of the election, after my morning shift (7pm) i was asked to go to Penang with my senior engineer to send 2 microwave dishes that is to be used on election day. Reached Penang at bout 3am, left penang at 4 and reached KL again at 8am. huuuu... 26 hours o more was spend wide awake.. but my manager and senior engineers spend 48 hours in the office.. talking bout dedication.. got a long way for me to go...

This 2 pics shows the microwave device we patch up the day of the election to receive more news and more visuals around malaysia at tat time. NOW.. most of u might think a microwave dish looks and feels like a DISH... but noe.. this one apparently is a lousier version of the the dish but works better... weird huh... how does it work?? it transmits(shots)/receive microwave signals in a more direct and narrower way.. imagine a straight invisible laser beam. the dish can receive much higher frequency and also... eh buat ape i be so specific... anyways.. the pic with me in it is taken when i was trying to aim KL tower and shot it down.. ahhahaha... looks like a bloody canon... hahahahahah...

take care now...

Sneak PreVieW~~~ shhhhhheeessshhhh~~~

Welcome to my office... well.. actually jus one small part of my office.. this is the room where i work most of time.. its called the MCR (YES, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE!!) - which stands for master control room... Now u can see how strict we are to ppl who arent involved in technical sector should refrain themselves from entering this place..

As u can see and read from this sign, we mean business.. we are a strict and dicipline bunch of engineers.. hahahhaha... who are we kidding... this sign was made by some1 (which i really dunno) but i think the reason was when our team had a beautiful lady in it.. the other ppl would somehow always walk around and peek through the window to look see.. now that she is gone... I kinda miss that kind of treatment.. hahaha.. jk..

Translation: Prohibited to walk here and there with a piece of paper (With a fake face indicating that you are busy) in this office.

Well, now... i'm very glad that i got this job.. although sometimes we can be very busy... our culuture here is a very relaxed but serious type.. anyhow...

Well this is a glimpse of how my work place looks like... at a glance there are lots of monitors... for monitoring and operation usages. That big screen hanging from the ceiling is how we monitor from stage 1 to the final tx (transmission)... stage by stage.. so if somehting happens we can troubleshoot very fast and noe which stage is causing the problem...


I stopped blogging for an hour just now.. a microwave vendor came.. so i was curious what they were going to do... so i followed them up to the roof where all the satellite dish are.. so i along with one of the vendor's engineer climbed up to the roof... when i was up on the roof... KL was quiet for once... at 1am in the morning.. i could actually hear dogs barking and no vehicle engines was polluting the night's tranquility. But at such a late time of night, it makes me wonder, what the dogs are barking at (goosebumps) hahaha... after then installation of the satellite dish, me and the engineer was talking on the roof which is over looking a small jungle (yes a jungle in the midst of KL city).. we heard rastling from the woods.. and the engineer was flashing his torch light to the source of the noise... then i immediately refrained him from doing so.. telling him softly, 'Tak ya tengok tengok la bang, sini banyak penagih. Kalau u nampak penagih kira u nasib la, kalau nampak yang bukan orang....' then we laughed... and got on with our small talk. Apparently i found out tat he was one of those few who had to climb to the top of KL tower and install dishes for the betterment of the ppl... he said up on the KL tower there is a platform not too wide.. walk too much to the edge and u'll drop like a tomato to the floor a few hundred metres below.. hahahahha.. tat sounds like found.

I'm getting ready for my Chelsea match... Take care now!! CHeers..

Note: microwave dish is not a microwave oven to cook things... its an receiver for ultra high frequency waves that comes from another microwave source. :)

Marriage?!!!??!!

I was having my dinner then.. i remembered oh so clearly.. then i got an sms.. a close fren of mine told me that she was getting married and asked if i was able to attend it.. my first reaction was... 'WHAT THE..' then it started to dawn in my head.. we are no kids anymore.. THAT was my first time that i really start to think that marriage has anything to do with me.. and that was like 4 years ago!! Now after 4 years, almost all my friends elder sisters (2-4 yrs older) are married, more and more of my lady friends are also married.. some juniors i noe are getting married too... SO the question is.. when and who is the 1st male of my batch (be it GRSS or UNITEN) to get married..

Recently, i was having dinner with 3 of my other uni friends.. some how we brought the topic of marriage into our conversaation.. one of friends was saying:" I'm not saving a single cent now. WHY save when in the end of the day we are goin to waste all on marriage." then he continued with "Now a days the market price to pay to the lady's parents is about RM 10k or more." Market price?!!? yup tat was exactly what my reaction was.. well u see.. bac in kuching.. i dun remember knowing any market price when it comes to marriage.. for our Hakka clan, the payment to the ladies' parents are low.. hehehe... not that we are stingy but there is an understanding amongst Hakka that YOU (the lady side) are sending your daughter to us and we need to feed and take care of her from now onwards, so why do we need to pay u sooooo much. Which i clearly am relieved about... hahahaha

none the less before this dinner conversation, mum and i had a short but calculative talk on marriage.. i was saying i'm not getting married if i dun reach my goals financially (it will be reached if the lady side paid me... whahahahahah) ANYWAYS, i was telling her how expensive this and tat (dinner, the exaggerating photo albums, wedding DRESSES etc) was. Mum debated saying it could all be a cheap one except the dinner.. the entrance fee (angpow when they come for ur dinner function as a token of thanks) should cover half or even more for the dinner. as for dresses.. use malaysian designed and not ITALIAN/JAPANESE/FRENCE/TAIPEI.. photo albums can take jus one album.. take so many for wat.. mum said her album also dunno put where.. so there u have it ppl.. minimum RM 25k for all those hanky pankies... but tat doesnt include the small detail fees.. driver, photographers, CAKES, ya da ya da ya da...

back to my recent dinner, my friend mentioned all the above which was my talk with mum, he showed me the other side of getting married.. he told me photo albums where got can take 1.. when u want one the photographers will take alot more and tempt u and ur wud be wife with words like 'look how beautiful u both are' 'wah! this one 'cheng' ur kids will be proud to see u like this' 'one life once, takkan u dun wan such a pretty picture with ur WIFE..' my fren's sis spent 7k on 3 photo albums, all the photographer had to do is play with ur head.

next are the DRESSES.. u see how i say DRESSES... yes.. wedding dress one, dinner wedding dress another then mid dinner wedding dress another! and if those are all designer dresses, they can all shot up to near 10k or more... next lets go survey the restaurants.. i told my mum one table will cost 1k, well.. i got a hell of a whooping, she said ' ur aunty soooo rich also one table RM900, u wan so much for wat.. some more, 50 table!!!'... hahaha... she said " we got 30 good enuf lo.. 10 for the ladies.. if not 15.." In contrast my friend was telling me, "u think relatives and friends will give alot back during the dinner? if they a group of ppl share share giv.. u sure get very lil.. then ur dinner will cost a bump" sigh...

well last 2 years my senior engineer just got married.. altho he is an indian.. but from what i noe his marriage cost him a WHOOPING 100k (lesser mayb but near that number)... FUUUuuuuUUUuuuUUuuu....

anyhow, this blogs does not hint that i am getting married soon or anything..just tht recently more and more of my frens have stepped on to the heavenly doors of happiness and tied up the knots with ppl they love... or mistakenly handled.. ehhehehe.. well, i hope a few years down the road of my career i hope can prepare me for such a financial, life changing decision.

take care now.. cheerS!~

My new blog home~

hmmmmmmmmmm... i was thinking of moving my blogs and all completely to blogspot... but then.. i already have a small network here.. i guess i'll continue on here on MULTIPLY.. but as for my frenster and xanga.. i'm closing them down..

anyways.. my blogspot is ericcky.blogspot.com

Lets see now... where should i start blogging.. i left the blogging scene for.. erm.. a good 7 months.. tat is long.. well.. i was getting used to working life.. life being financially independent... independently handling serious formal procedure (EPF-Employee's Provident Fund, Insurance, Police, etc etc) every thing we once see mum and dad do... Its kinda hectic.. altho they seem small matters.. but they do take alot of time.. and patience.. (trust me, anything tat has to do with goverment departments, u can bet u have to wait for sometime)

anyhow... like most of you may know, I've switched jobs from my travelling job to Astro (well one of Astro's channel - Astro Awani). Many may still be scratching their heads on what i actually do... well.. i was suppose to take lots of pictures of my office and placed them in my blog... BUT... to my knowledge.. it seems my office layout, equipments and protocols etc are actually confidential... why is tat so? well apparently, IN THE CASE of a terrorist or hostile take over of Malaysia or even just KL.. broadcast stations like us are one of the key targets to capture 1st... sounds interesting huh?? and why should they want studios and cameras for?? well.. we have the capability to transmit and broadcast propagandas and all sorts of informations to the public... so even my office is hidden.. if i wasnt asking the guards on my 1st day of work.. i won't have known there was actually an administrative office, studio, server room and control rooms tucked away there. BUT like i said.. IF there was an attack on Malaysia, WHICH... i dont see the reason why there is one... if i were some warlord o war hungry leader. i'll ignore malaysia.. and find somewhere better to take over. hahahaha

oh ya.. seems like i haven't gone into wat i'm doin... well.. let me see if i can take some pictures and put it in these blogs... cheers ppl..

Testing Post

Testing.. I'm posting this to test if my audio is working...