Nick Thien, Jerica & her fiance Ben

Had a good time catching up.

In other news, last day of work before CNY today. Yippie… tomorrow night = Penang food, first round probably dad cooking, 2nd round Penang island! yay!!!! Exciiiited.

2.30pm now, it’s raining cats & dogs in KL :(

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Gym at 6 with Pat and Melvyn. We’re gonna do Party Jam with Luciano.

Need time off to complete two big assignments in Networking Fundamentals as well as Advertising and Promotional Management, both due very very soon. To add salt to insult on top of injury, I got Internet Commerce assignment also due Friday. But this one is much more easier cuz I only have to search for 10 journal articles from the Interweb.

Lim kit siang is on twitter @limkitsiang . Of course, you can follow me to @thepippo

Meeting with a few people regarding 2-3 web projects, not to mention, finals in 3 weeks time. Exciting times are ahead. And also a Manchester United match later tonight (or possibly Thursday morning).

Yesterday we went to Jalan Alor for some good foods. We had stingray, pork, sambal kangkung and a forth-dish. We wanted to have durian at the street corner but the uncle wanted rm 16 per kilo. The durians were small, but we reckon 2 durians would set us back for about RM 50.

I guess they gotta put that price lah. if they sell us too cheap, then the real durian-kaki would complain and wanna pay our “student rate” as well. As Donald Trump would say, “location, location, location”.

I downloaded about 700MB over 3 hours on my Maxis 3G at home. If you follow the iPhone 3G data plans, they give you only 1000 MB per MONTH for rm 150! Crazy hor? And I swallow up all of it so fast. Now, i *think* they banned me already. I can’t seem to surf the net, so I gotta rely on the school network.

Maybe later I’ll give Maxis a call.

Actually I ported over back to Digi due to the better rates. I did it last week but still no response from them. The red tape for Mobile Number portability is simply amazing, they don’t want to steal customers easily, and of course, who would wanna lose their customers to their competitors.

Wah, the Ipoh / Perak situation is crazy man. The speaker dowan to get off the Speakers seat in the Dewan. The law in favour of the opposition with our honourable leader appealing to the courts. Its chaotic.

I think its a good time to pray for political and economical stability in our nation.

No streamyx. So I guess I will have to bug them too.

Live long and prosper.

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: X

AFAIK, that’s the emoticon for a kiss right? WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… I’m over the world.

Hmm, or maybe I could inteprete it wrongly. I always get wrong signals from girls. Maybe she’s sealing her mouth so tight cuz she’s disgusted at me. Or indirectly telling me, ÿou’re rubbish; thus I have nothing to say”.

Bah, I better not over-analyse. Takes too much time and as we know, time is money.

No surprise there – Barca won. But for the bookies, it wasn’t such a happy ending because the odds were even ball. By 15 May 2009, Manchester United will mathematically be the champions of England for a second successive season.

It tickles me to see great teams such as Chelsea blaming the ref for results and decisions that don’t go their way. Chelsea claims 4 penalties, despite having Barca playing with 10 men for 20+ minutes! If you’re a true winner, you would win it by a margin, no matter how close your teams are. Lets say: 3-1?

Point is, everything is a dice roll. Poker is definately depending on your luck; but the element of skill comes when you manage to disguise your hand and give your opponents the impression your hand is weak. It is not how many pots you win, it is how MUCH you win from each pot.

Lets say we have a problem

2x + 3y =14

5x + y  = 20

Average people follow instructions

The refer to a Math book, study the method, and apply it into a problem

y = 20 – 5x

2x + 3 (20  – 5x) = 14

2x – 15x + 60 = 14

13x = 46

x = 46/13

y = 20 – 5 (46/13)

Smart people use better methods to effectively solve this problem. Now, I’m no math genius, but AFAIK, simultaneous equations can be solved using a Formula x = b^2-4ac [bla bla bla]

So one shot, use calculator / MS excel, kaw tim, found answers for X and Y

Geniuses are people who come out with new methods of solving problems

You may think that existing methods are good enough for our needs. People studying University level Applied Mathematics would think it is insufficient for complex models. So they learn more advanced shit for curves and other 3-dimension equations, for example. At this level, they are forced to think of problem solving methods. We need a starting point, yes, so we refer to existing work. At some point, they would have to deduce their own methods and formulae to use.

Same with business. There are 3 ways to approach a problem.

A conventional way; an unconventional way; and a breakthrough innovative way.

They say that, “There is a solution to every problem”. Whenever we are faced with an impossible task, it is easier to give up rather than to look for a solution. In assignments, we can be feeling totally lost and confused on how to approach the task. Our mind goes *blank* and we start to panic.

Being a good team-player and leader involves the need to be calm and collected during this phase. We need to get over the initial fear of not being able to accomplish. We also need to put ideas on the table, so that our team mates can work on and improve the methods. In a good effective team, other members will debate and disagree (if necessary) on the ideas put on the table. As an individual idea contributor, you must be man enough to accept the fact that you’re NOT always right, and other peoples ideas might be better and more effective than yours. However, you can fight back and explain why your idea is better.

The above just happened in our Student Council “pre-meeting meeting”, I noticed some people were very good at debating and giving objections to ideas. I love people who presents a different point of view. But this particular person keeps throwing problems-after-problems when someone comes up with their ideas. On his own idea, he would protect it like mad, and follow-through kaw-kaw.

This person will be someone top, maybe Director of a Company, yes because of his ability to see problems and rectify it.

But to be of someone of Steve Job’s stature, you need to be open to crazy shit, putting aside perceived “practicality” and budget constrains. Come up with a big idea; let the angel investors come up with the fundings.

GREAT ideas don’t come overnight. Lets say you receive funding from a sponsor to come up with a cure for H1N1. You got a lab and equipment, you got a big intelligent team. The objective is to improve on Tamiflu to specifically target this strain of flu. You are given 72 hours, maximum 6 days to come up with results.

An average team of Scientists / Biologist will come up with some shit similar to the existing flu medicine. Improve this and there a bit, add a little salt and pepper [in Hokkien, they say : keh yam keh tau yeu] and come up with FluAway(tm).

Smart people will take ideas from other Scientists and work out new ways to make it more effective. They call it collaboration. I call it plagiarism.

Geniuses will tell the client: EH, sorry boss. I cannot deliver within your timeframe. But as soon as I come up with something, guarantee I give the rights to you cuz you funded us.

Bottom line is, as cliche (Gail for you Arsenal fans) as it sounds, we need think out of the box. Be an innovator and trendsetter, not a laggard, not a follower. IN a related issue, do not compromise your values, ethics and standards no matter what the rewards are.

God bless your weekend :) Be fruitful, cheerful and productive!

“My Ferrari costs more than your little S-Class.” – K-Fed, Lose Control

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Just two rows closer to Carrefour, in Jalan SS15/2B

It is air-conditioned, and the housemates are so much nicer to the dude who is the same race as Barrack Obama whom always complains about small-small shit like my Bass being too loud, or shit stuck on the shared toilet floor. Hmmmph.

Anyway, I added Kevin Federline’s – Lose Control to my Phailed Mix May 09. He’s Mr. Ex-Britney Spears [youtube]. It was released back in 06, but hey, if its good (decent) then its worth adding!!!!!

Congratulations Barcelona, congratulations Chelsea, congratulations Liverpool on your recent wins. Nevertheless, you will all finish 2nd to the champions of England, champions of Europe and Champions of the world, Manchester United!

* will share some pics with you guys tomorrow afternoon. stay tuned!

[05:14am update]

funny College Humor take on iPhone

My favourite quote “numero uno”!

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- Hock Khoon, 2003

Below are some of the junk I still keep with me. It reminds me of the good times and really gives me a reason to live. ok, I won’t be THAT depressed without it, but still.. these things encourage people.

“”Its GOOD to encourage one another”

- Jesus [citation required]

Here’s a girl’s take on Formula 1 (back in 2002):

Anyway, food for thought. If my memory serves me right, Hakkinen & Schumacher were leading with 80+ points, right? (And the rest with 60+). If Schumacher was winning & he was a person with low self esteem, why didn’t he purposely crash onto Hakkinen. That would assure him that he would win (they would have crashed and thus 0 marks to both of them).

Whoa. How insightful. How profound.

Weird humour. And Pihilip?? Hmmm… Interesting ;)

The dog, Brian from Family Guy?

Half-Malaysian , Guy Sebastian, Australian Idol?

Art-sy card

(the receipt at the back is for my Aztech Wireless DSL modem)

Chimpanzee card

Goodbye is hard indeed

From my brother Alex.

Since I’ve started gymming, I’m not THAT big anymore.

Although technically speaking, I’m still having BMI of about 32! (omg)

Fruits & Vase

Fishing, another artsy one

Blue is nice. Can’t go wrong with naked animals ;)

This is from Azman, the Royal Brunei Airlines pilot!

Ah… why don’t my current friends give me cards har???

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