Barathrum - Spirit Breaker

Senchow's log,


An outcast of the Spirithoof clan, Barathrum retreated in shame to the Ethereal Plane, feeding off wandering souls to sustain himself, and wandered aimlessly for centuries, alone and miserable. Found and recruited by the Lich King, Barathrum's uncanny speed and wraithlike powers have now been unleashed upon the Material Plane, his lantern able to project nether energy into enemies, sending them backwards with sudden force. With the ability to close the distance between himself and a target in seconds, Barathrum the Spiritbreaker is more than a match for anyone.







In Dota, this is my all time favourite hero, most people refer this hero as SB a.k.a Spirit Breaker. Why this is my favourite? Because this hero can kill, I mean can really kill. Usually if you use SB and against one on one, by 90% you will win, why? because SB have this awesome skill to kill his opponent. One of them is the Greater Bash, with this skill not many heroes are able to escape from SB, I always believes that SB is the only hero that able to make bash loop, it happen sometime where when the enemy got bash twice in row, I just love this skill making my opponent vulnerable :P. I'm not going to blog about all of SB skillset, so for more info please click here.








In this past 2 weeks, my game play for Dota is suck, I think it was the worst performance ever, I loses almost all game that I played, I guess the main reason for that is first - I got heroes that I'm not familiar with, 2nd - I can't sync with my other team mate to get a good collaboration and 3rd - all of my opponent are pros. But that all changed yesterday evening. It has been long since I got SB, really long, and yesterday the tide has turn, I was the killing machine, I managed to kill 16 heroes but unfortunately I died 6, and more bad news, my team lost. But the game was very tight, a lot of pushing from one side to another and in the late game all of them aim me and my killing partner the Brood Mother (Spiderthrone), never thought spiderthrone a.k.a Along can play Brood Mother, but guess what, he himself was surprise that he can actually play Brood Mother, thumbs up for you bro.

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Busy Month of December (The Ultimate Month)

Senchow's log,

It's been awhile since my last post, I've been busy with work+life, hard to coop these days, I mean to fulfil everything that has been planned, but there are thing that have been fulfil or the more exact word should be achieved which is my dotarank, one of the ultimate game played nowadays.

Dotarank (please click here for more detail) is a website dedicated for Dota players to have a rank (they called it Arank) in the server we played. Well basically one of the purpose is to measure the frequent of times we played and the rest emm..better you read from the website it self. There are rules or criteria which needs to be follow in order to get point and to my understanding as long as you never leave before the game ends, you will get a point which will give you a ranking.

Currently, my rank in the Blueserver is 8 and in the top 100 my position is at 61 (click here), these position will change daily because everybody play the game all the time and submit it to dotarank everyday, so if you don't play even for one day than your current position can be drop, but again all of these depend on the frequent of the players sending the report to dotarank. Last time I checked, there were more than 20,000 players in blue server itself. So, its not easy to maintain your Arank.

The font of the image is to small to read :)

I will try to improves my position to be at a higher level, but this definitely takes time+effort+determination :)). Currently this is the only online game that I play, I'm waiting from Blizzard to release the prequel of StarCraft which goes by the name StarCraft2 (click here for more detail). I believes these will be the ultimate game in 2008 (I hope Blizzard will release it next year). Dota is actually a custom map (created by Guinsoo and now IceFrog) which runs from Warcraft3 which is a Blizzard game. So I guess I'm fond to Blizzard game. Just see the cinematic and you definitely going to fall in love with Blizzard, I mean for gamers of course.

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Dota-Allstars - The Owning Balanar

Senchow's log,

It's been a while since I post in english version, so now my next post will be about the above subject a.k.a Dota-Allstars. I know that there many² people already blogged about Dota, but still it doesn't hurt to share to those who still doesn't know about Dota, beside what I'm going to write is about my gameplay :).

Intro - What the heck is Dota?

DotA (Defense of the Ancients) is a very popular customized game for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. There are two teams of five players and each player selects one of over variety heroes which they will use to try to destroy their opponent’s base, while protecting their own. It is a team strategy game focused on hero combat. The objective is to destroy the opponents' base using one's own Hero along with allied heroes and allied AI-controlled fighters called "creeps". Sharing concepts with role playing games, the player levels up their hero and uses gold to buy equipment in an effort to best the opposing team. For more info please click here.

So, enough of the intro and focus on my gameplay, I haven't played constantly because of my PC is to heavy to play Dota (old PC with to many data), when played sometimes it get stuck,delayed(due to network) but most of the time the processor is used 100%, which eventually will hang my PC for a short while, and since my dad (retired) & my lil'Sis (long vacation from UiTM) is at home, my PC (not mine actually but it is a family PC..wa ga ga) was never available when I actually needed, but I guess the main reason is still I'm to busy to play.

There are several modes in Dota but mostly people will only choose either All Pick (AP) or All Random (AR) and in this game, the host picked AR, I randomly got Tiny, but since I'm not that good handling this hero, so I asked to swapped with another hero which is Balanar the Night Stalker, lucky for me the other guy agreed to swap with me. One thing for sure the advantage is more on our opponent team because all of them got ranged heroes while my team are melee heroes, but with proper tactics and team work, you can still win (this is one of the reason why people like to play Dota)

Here are some screen shot of the game:

As you can see I'm chasing the blue cat to go for a kill :)) and he was my 1st victim wa ga ga.

Soon after I kill the Priestess of the moon (the Blue Cat) and recharged my life, I straight away hunt for my 2nd victim and the above pic is me team up with Tiny (the one that I swapped with the other guy). This battle is 2 on 2, advantages is on our side because Tiny (the gray rock hero) have avalanche skill which actually bombards an area with rocks stunning and damaging enemy land units(see above pic). I managed to kill Troll Warlord (an opponent hero next to sniper the purple hero).

I straight away chase Sniper to get the 3rd kill with tiny backing me up from behind, I got distracted by the creeps (damn those creep) but luckily Tiny managed to toss (another Tiny's skill - Tiny grabs the nearest unit, friend or foe, and launches them at a location. Upon landing, the unit deals damage in an area as well as receiving 20% of that damage to themselves) me to get near to sniper. See below pics:

Balanar going up up and away :)

Balanar high in the sky (I guess at this point Balanar is listening to Iron Maiden - Aces High :P)

Balanar prepare to land.

Balanar save on the ground.

At this point, Sniper are already behind his defence tower to take cover, but since I'm confident that I can still take the tower's damage and get a kill without getting myself kill, I fight my way to kill the enemy (hohoho).

By this time, my hero earn the title of "Killing Spree" because I'm able to kill 3 opponent heroes without getting myself killed.

The final ending of this game, my team lost, but I got most of the kill, they managed to kill me only if they combined, if it is 1 on 1, they flee away :)

You can click here to download and view my gameplay, I know that this is not a pro level game, but I'm working my self to become pro in Dota :)

Orale..

D project is done :)))))))

hahaha...akhirnyer pc 2nd hand aku dah siap..muahahahaha...akan ku ceritakan secara detail yg bole pasal pc yg aku baru wat nih..

Ekceli tak plan langsung nak nak beli pc...emm not this time around laa...plan tuh ader sebenarnyer tp bukan skang. so the behind story of project D are as follow:~

Setelah aku beli pc dari sahabat lamer aku Shah aka TomatoMan (dulu kami gelar dia tomatoman sbb muka dia sebijik mcm katun tomatoman..wa ga ga) Aku pun inspect every part of the CPU yg telah berade dlm genggaman aku tuh...dan mengenal pasti barang aper yg aku kene ganti...Shah penah ckp kat aku..dia mention ader something wrong ngan pc dia..maybe harddisk kot..tapi dia tak sure, harddisk 2 ketul dlm tuh 160gb sata ngan 120gb sata memang konfirm akan kong tak lamer lg...skang still bole pki tapi everytime aku try transfer data ke dlm harddisk..ader kuar bunyi yg tak menyenangkan ati aku..and aku tanak gamble utk pki harddisk yg mungkin bole mengkorapkan segale anime+cite yg telah aku donlod sejak azali..so aku decided utk beli harddisk baru. Aku ajak spupu (Adi) aku teman aku pegi lowyat, smpi je kat kedai lowyat:

Adi : Abengoh(panggilan aku kat kg) nok beli gapo?
Aku : Sayo nok beli harddisk jah..
Adi : pastuh monitor tokke tokse beli..cekak nok cocoh cabut woya ikut blake....tok mikir ko?
Aku : takdok pitih gilo...ingat sayo cop pitih ko..natang...
Adi : Ale² beli angkat laa slalu...bilo lagi nok beli (best tul dia hasut aku..hampeh)
Aku : emm..(time nie dah terpengaruh sket² dah)
Adi : Abengoh tengok tuh..LCD monitor...ale² beli baik amik LCD..baru puah ati...
Aku : err...aaaa..emmm (bagero punyer spupu..) gilo apo nok amik LCD..mano mampu

Adi : Huk Alohh..bilo lg nok pki LCD..buke hari² awok beli monitor..toksoh duk kupik pitih laa
Aku : tu laa pasa..bilo lg nok paka (time nie dah start terpengaruh)..emmm..

Adi : Beli slalu LCD 22"...hok nie bengoh...LG nie besa nok mapuh...

Aku : baik sayo amik samsung...design dio lagi bijok..

Aku : Award pun byk samsung mene...ko guano...

Adi : ikut awok laa..mugo awok jong baya buke sayo..hahahaha

Aku : Nate bewok...sajo jah nok mupuh sayo..ok angkat LCD 22" jom gi baya..

Adi : heh heh heh...

Time nie dalam pale otak tengah imagine main game ngan layan anime mcm bleach,onepiece,naruto,gundam byk lagi laa klu aku nak list down..wa ga ga..

Mcm nie laa rupe spupu aku yg telah berjaya hasut aku beli LCD 22", aku plan nak mount to the wall monitor aku nih..tapi since bilik nih aku sharing ngan Aniki maka kene dpt persetujuan dia dulu sebelum aku drill dinding..


Terpakse kuarkan fulus sket utk beli kerusi sbb selame nih aku duk pki kerusi mekap adik aku je..hahhaha..disebabkan harga LCD tuh RM1k lebih, aku terpakse cut cost beli kerusi computer yg biase je..but still harga dia mahal gak laa pada aku RM80 (sbb bole adjust turun naik ngan ade tempat letak tgn)




Kucing aku (DABU - umo 13 thn)yg suke menyibukkan dirinye tatkala aku sibuk pasang meja utk PC 2nd yg telah aku beri nafas baru..wa ga ga..


Walla...PC yg bakal aku stress test dgn game & development plus torrent download. Item baru yg aku beli utk PC nih:

i) Meja - RM60

ii) Kerusi - RM80

iii) Speaker Altec Lansing - RM215 (terpakse beli 2.1 dulu sbb kekurangan budget..hohoho)

iv) Keyboard+mouse - RM30

v) Harddisk 500gb - RM490

vi) LCD Monitor 22" - RM1088

So overall aku telah abiskan duit dlm 2k jugak laaa...I know people will said dengan harga tuh aku bole dpt pc baru..tapi aku ader specific item yg tak bole dpt dgn harga tersebut..hahaha..cth RAM DDR II 1gb, ATI Radeon PCI-Express graphic card..mobo yg bagus..etc.

Aku dah plan ahead utk buat CPU baru biler aku aku ader extra resources nanti...when the day comes, aku akan dpt aku punyer dream PC...wa ga ga...at the moment aku dah puas ati dengan ape yg aku ader..syukur alhamdulillah.



Nie dia..up-close of my LCD 22", muehehehe...tengok one piece High Definition giler best...tak pun layan citer heroes..pehh....memang puas hati yg teramat..aku teruja giler layan heroes,prison break, bionic woman,Smallville & segale Anime.

Up-close of my mouse & speaker..hohoho

So with this last pic, aku summarize spec pc aku.

1) LCD 22"
2) AMD 64 socket 3000+ (1.8ghz)
3) ATI Radeon graphic card (PCI-E)
4) 1gb RAM DDR II
5) Storage Seagate SATA 500gb & Western SATA 120gb (total 0.6 tera)
6) Altec Lansing speaker

CPU ni aku consider as a medium spec, but as at now, it can do almost everthing, from rendering graphic to playing games and even buat java programming (memory hungry punyer programming) sume dia capable lg...Oh ya, lupe nak mention mounting LCD ke dinding, currently cite² aku utk mount kat dinding bilik aku tak tercapai lg atas sbb² tertentu, segale toolkit & item aku dah beli dah..maybe later aku akan mount ke dinding, but as at now aku letak atas meja dulu...heheh.

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upcoming Project

huhh...terlalu lamer aku tak update blog aku nih, kali nie aku nak terai memblogkan dlm bahase melayu plak..susah gak nak karang ayat ayat ikut omputeh nih, nak kene pk btul² supaya grammar tak salah..ader rizen aku blog ikut english which is aku nak improve kan english language aku..wa ga ga...

tengok blog ijoy dok citer pasal the making of pc baru dia buat aku geram je nak sambar pc baru gak..sbb like him aku pun tech freak jugak..hohoho..cume skang nie tak mampu nak beli..byk bende lain aku kene konsentret lagi selain pc...cume lately..pc aku dah makin tak larat..dah makin tenat...bayangkan pc lamer aku tuh berjase kat aku+familia aku selamer 7 tahun...lamer tuh...aku raser pc lamer aku tuh bertahan selamer 5 thn kot..b4 new era of technology mcm dual core, ddr3, pci express, etc comes into picture. Almost sume software baru memerlu technology baru for smooth running. So, as at now..susah utk aku explore new technology (software base) utk aku mendalami & learn.

last wik aku jumpe kawan lamer aku ..old school mate aku...Shah...mamat nie ader company sendiri..antara kawan aku yg bole dibanggakan sbb dia berjaya dlm hidup both in career n life. Saje aku nak cite pasal dia sket...sbb aku raser dia bole dicontohi...namer company dia "Shahreza Advertising Sdn. Bhd" dia punyer main business is advertising, printing /packaging etc...sape tak kenal A&W and Bege King, for your info..dia supply segale packaging product for these two fast food..mcm kotak bege,cup air yg isi air gas, bekas fries..tuh sume dia yg design n supply...power tak...proud to be his friend..wa ga ga..

Nway, rizen kenape aku citer pasal dia is bcoz, dia nak tolak pc (graphic spec) kat aku...2 cpu+1 monitor dengan rege RM700...muehehehe..aku terase nak angkat..no..infact aku memang nak angkat..see below pic:

Nie salah satu cpunyer..wa ga ga..AMD64 tuh..lagi kuat dari pc lamer aku..although bukan dual core..tapi aku raser dah cukup utk experimen mcm²..wa ga ga..

2nd cpu yg bakal aku beli dari Shah..kabarnyer ia menggunakan mobo asus (brand feveret aku)..akan ku stresstestkan pc nie once dah berade dlm genggaman aku..muahahahahaha

Monitor Samsung 17 inci...ekceli cpu yg 1st ngan monitor nie member aku nak..so since dia tade pc n dia pun kaki main game cam aku gak..aku raser tak rugi aku jual kat dia...ader pc byk² kat umah pun nak wat aper..space consuming maa..bilik aku dah laa kecik..

dengan adernyer cpu nie..1st aku nak buat ialah pc lamer aku akan kujadikan file server aku..plan nak beli harddisk yg besa sket utk aku bubuh segale anime+manga yg telah aku donlod selame nie..also..aku plan utk install openbsd or fedora or pape je laaa utk aku blaja opensource OS...rizen aku nak bubuh linux OS adalah utk gauge performance between Linux & Windows..plus aku nak try buat networking Windows bole talk with linux or vice versa...aku dengar bole buat..emm memang bole buat pun cume aku tak pernah try..wa ga ga...some people said bende nie ilmu basic..n since aku tade ilmu nie lagi..aku raser this is the start...new age of knowledge (khas utk aku sorang..sbb aku baru nak start..wa ga ga)..hmm wonder linux support wifi ke tak...adsl router aku dah ader wifi..hmm..need to study on this....

Tajuk post aku ialah upcoming project...the above said is my mini project..starting tis wik..(if everything goes well) Main project aku ader 2...but baru initial stage (discussion stage to be precise) member aku (Shah) mintak aku develop satu webbase application utk dia utk dia mulakan perniagaan internet dia(klu sukses memang kaye mamat nih) proposal dia memang menarik..sbb dia nak involve ngan payment (deduct from credit card) susah tuh nak buat..sbb aku tak pernah buat lagi...but it will be good experience 4 me if I manage to do it :)

Satu lagi project ialah setup development server, configure application server ngan setting source code kat Jbuilder 2005 kat ex-client aku aka SMIDEC. Aku dah singgah SMIDEC minggu lepas utk tinjau² dulu ape yg aku kene buat if aku accept the offer. Dulu aku slalu gak wat free support kat SMIDEC but lately ni aku terlalu bz ngan current job aku & plus aku rase its not my responsibilities anymore to support them. So this time around aku nak mintak payment klu dorang mintak support aku..muehehe..bole dpt extra cash klu berjaya...wa ga ga. Emm back to the story, mase aku pijak kaki aku ke SMIDEC...humang ai..coding yg team aku buat dah abes di re-structurekan...mebi sbb dia tak phm kot konsep yg team aku buat dulu..sbb yg handle application skang adalah org baru..emm 2 jam lebih kot aku duduk kat situ n xplen balik kat dia structure coding asal & nasib baik aku ader coding lamer (dlm external drive aku)..emm few things yg SMIDEC kene buat..kene ader repository utk source code (currently burn cd..takde versioning) then tade development server (same environment - unix) so nak kene setup development server utk dorang, and last skali nak kene install & configure weblogic app server utk dorang buat enhancement on current system..hmm..byk gak nak kene wat nih...oh ya..satu lagi nak kene TOT kat dorang...hmm...byk tuh..byk activity maka byk duit masyuk..muehehe..emm come to thing of it..knowing SMIDEC..susah utk demand tinggi²..klu bole everything nak free..nak cut cost..emm but at least bole dpt sket pun jadi laa..better than nothing..huhuhu...

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Sorry..

Suddenly it really hit me in the head of what I've done in the past. there are a lot of wrong doing done by me that by intentional and unintentional hurt other people around me. I never thought that things that I do will gave impact to others around me. So I take this opportunity in the month of RAMADHAN to say sorry for all of my wrong doing to all who knows me, I know that sometimes its hard to forgives and forget because when things happened, it can never be reverse or turn back in time. But the least that I can do is to say sorry.


I'm sorry for the times I’ve made some people upset.

I'm sorry for the times I’ve made people cries.

I'm sorry for the times I disrespect to some people.

I'm sorry for the times that I drive so fast.

I'm sorry because I drives so reckless.

I'm sorry for the wrong things that I've done.

I'm sorry for shouting at certain people.

I'm sorry for cursing at certain people.

I wish it to be undone.

I'm sorry for the fact that I'm not aware of important things around me.

I’m sorry for everything…

Aniki bought Yamaha LC 135

According to Wikipedia Aniki means (兄貴, Aniki?), a Japanese honorable term for an older brother or a superior (frequently used in yakuza speech). As I mention in my previous post that I've been using some Japanese word in my daily life (I think I watched to much Anime cartoon hahaha), I now describe my elder brother as Aniki.



Well, after I lost my Nakama (our motorbike), Aniki bought new bike, a Yamaha LC 135cc, as far as I know, this bike is like Megan fox, it is that hot and its true, its damn true, every motorcycle shop told me that this is the bike that everyone wants to have because the design of the bike and the performance (for kapcai class) is at the top notch, the best of its class.


This bike cost around RM6200 to RM6500 (something within this range), quite expensive compare to other brands, maybe because the cc of the bike is 135cc whereas others range from 100cc to 125cc. the design is up to date, the engines is damn smooth and quite. The bike haven't been tested at full speed yet because the tachometer need to be at least 1000km (tak lepas pantang lagi kate org melayu).


There is a saying in Malay "patah tumbuh hilang berganti", I guess it's true, I've lost my old bike, but now I have new bike (although the bike belongs to Aniki) but the phrase "patah tumbuh hilang berganti" actually make sense.


Don't know why but now the phrase "And now you knows..." keep playing in my head..

Nakama

Since I'm addicted to Japanese anime (One Piece, Bleach, Naruto and etc..) I've learned few Japanese word unintentionally. One of the word I'm using in my daily life (whenever I talk to Along and my Aniki-Honorable big brother) is Nakama which means friends. I've looked up in Google and according to Wikipedia nakama (仲間) means colleague, compatriot, or comrade. I bring up the word Nakama because I just lost one.

The story goes way back, it was in May 1997, I was just 18 years old at that time Ayah bought a motorcycle for Aniki's birthday present. Although it was a present for Aniki but the actual fact is Ayah bought it for both of us because we need a transportation to go to college. Suzuki GSX 110cc, that was my ride back then, although not many people like to use Suzuki's bike(because the spare part is damn to expensive) but I'm glad both Aniki and me choose Suzuki. Compare to other bike (on the same class) Suzuki GSX engine was much faster (especially EX5 and KRISS)

Now it's gone 4ever, Aniki need a new bike due to the fact that our Suzuki GSX is to old and to costly to repair plus the spare part are hard to find nowadays. I always felt the bike was part of my life, that's why I consider my bike as my Nakama, we fell down together, we get hurt together and the fun part was every time we race, we usually wins.

Sigh...really disappointed to know that we can't be together no more, but as everyone knows, nothing and I mean nothing in this world will last. And now you knows (Hitz.fm favourite words)

Hepi Besday Ibu :D

22 July 2007 ..Ibu turn 51...just like last year, this year I bought her bracelet again :D, I remember the 1st time I bought bracelet for Ibu was with Iera, I was quite desperate to find a gift so I need somebody to guide me to buy a birthday present, I think that day both of my boss was not in the office so I grab Iera, took her to Wangsa Maju Carrefour and asked her to pick a jewelry. I have to admit jewelry can never mix with me, in my very eyes..it looks almost the same, only the price is different. but that was the old me, Now I know a little bit about jewelry (only bracelet :P). I was so relief Ibu like the bracelet (thank beb..owe u one).

The think about my mother is, she has a specific taste toward jewelry (even Ayah can't figure it out) He usually bring my mother along to choose (easy...no need to crack in his head) I follow his footstep by taking someone with me to buy it(ngeh ngeh ngeh). Anyway, I think it was a mission successful when she says "waa..pandai pilih..." I smile with my nose wide open...proud, but later I tell her that it wasn't me who choose it (beb if u read this, jangan kembang idung sgt, u r damn lucky that all..but really appreciate it...thx).

The second bracelet was a failure. Sad but true it was to small for Ibu's hand and the worst part is Ibu don't like it. She really appreciate the thought but the bracelet was meant for younger generation. Good thing about buying a jewelry, you get to change if you don't like it within one week time. So I bring Ibu to the jewelry shop and change it. It was a failure because I went on my own to buy it hahaha...lesson learn..don't go alone to buy a jewelry next time.

So come to the 3rd bracelet, I went with my elder brother(Abang), 1st we went to a florist shop to buy a 2 dozen of roses, Ibu really like flowers. Ayah told me to buy it somewhere near Central Market because it is cheap there. Just imagine 24 dozen of roses (including wrapping) only cost RM70, pretty cheap huh. If you choose imported rose it will cost you RM90. Afterward Abang decide to buy a gift for our beloved Ibu. He suggested to buy perfume. At 1st I agree with him and said "SOGO is the best place to buy perfume" but soon afterward I told Abang it's not easy to buy a perfume because different people have different taste, beside once you've bought a perfume, you can't change it later, and my brother agree with me. So next thing came to my mind is non other than bracelet.

I figure, although both Abang and me sucked big time when come to buy a jewelry, but you get to exchange it within one week time, so to me it is win to win situation, if Ibu doesn't like it, she can change it. Ibu called Abang when we're at the Jewelry shop. She started to scold on the phone because knowing that we haven't pray Maghrib yet and the time is almost finish. But we manage to reached home and pray before the mosque started to Azan for Isya'. (This is the reason why we don't go for our prayer at the mosque Ibu, we went out to buy you a gift :D)

Later that night, when the clock stroke midnight, My little sister took the bouquet of roses, when to Ibu's room and start singing Happy Birthday to her, and the best part is, when we show her the gift that we bought, she like it very much, Abang and me was so relief. Ayah going to bring Ibu to a nice restaurant I guess, maybe lunch or dinner or both..hahaha...anyway Hepi 51 Besday Ibu :)).

Choices

Yesterday, I asked my dad where is the cheapest and yet give the best service to fix my car. Maybe I should explain from the very beginning of my situation (need to learn on how to arrange my post). Anyway coming back to the subject my car can't go long distance anymore because it gets overheat easily. I've sent my car to one of the workshop and one of the mechanic confirmed that my car need to be overhaul and as everyone knows, when you hear the word overhaul (although it's just a top overhaul and not a real overhaul) a large amount of money need to be spent which currently I don't have. So that why I asked my dad where to fix. Dad told me "You go to klang laa, cheaper compare to KL and furthermore there's a mechanic who is expert in fixing Honda" by the way I'm driving a 1995 model of Honda Civic, a 12 years old car. High time to fix or change a new one :).



Then my mother came and asked what are we discussing about, so after I've explained to her, suddenly she voice out her thought "Why fix? Selling the car is the right thing to do" at that point there is a one big sweat at the back of my head(it just like in the Japanese cartoon, one big drop of water at the back of your head). Previously, I did mention to my parent that after I've finish paying the car installment I want to get a new car, and my plan to do that is next year since my last payment is on the march of 2008. Then suddenly my dad agree with my mother, and I was like "err...err..emm...uhmm..ok..so we need to sell the car 1st so we can use it for down payment later"



So the next question is "Which car to buy?" This has been playing in my mind for quite sometimes now, I know there are various number of car to pick but, it must suit your interest & the most important part is your budget, and after I've investigate, out of all the car in Malaysia, non of them meet my criteria (to have both interest of the car & enough budget to pay monthly installment) and people keep telling me that "Sham, you can't take proton car because you are used to Honda's technology" I guess what they meant is, I better think thoroughly before buying or I'll end up complaining because I will start to compare between my old car and the new one later and I think I will. Last couple of week I drove Atun's car(Inokom Atos) and I find it's quite challenging to drive an under powered car since I'm used to drive my Honda. but to me what really matters is I have a transportation to move here and there. It's just that if you have the financial to buy a better car, why choose not to? I know that some people say better to save for future need, but to me, nothing in this this world will last, nothing in this world is permanent. To me saving is good, but having a lot of money in the piggy bank and not using it emm...I mean you've been working so hard, to earn money for what? just to save in a bank? and compromise your satisfaction..that kind of idea doesn't make sense to me. But I guess people have their own reason for doing what they think is best.


So now, I'm stuck...if I chose to fix my beloved car, it will be ok in few months, because maintaining a 12 years old car is just not worth it, time after time you need to change here and there because of depreciation (wear and tear), and not to forget that later when I want to sell the car, the price will drop. These are the reasons given to me by my parent, and I think they are right. But on the other hand to buy a new car is something I'm not well prepare enough, I mean in term of my financial, currently I think I can't afford to buy my dream car, so I have to search a car with the right price and to make sure the car suits me. I'm not trying to be choosy but we are talking about buying a car here people, car in Malaysia is really damn expensive (damn tax). Unless I lived in another country. So I need to choose wisely, because I'm going to use it for a long long time.

So now I'm back at square one because currently, I can't find a car that suits me (car that I like and affordable). I don't want to regret later. In transformer, the car seller said that "the car choose the driver, it is something like a special bond between Man and Machine" Now where to find my yellow stripe Camaro :P.

Trip To Pulau Perhentian

Finally, the pictures I've been waiting for so long is in my hand, and finally, I can start to continue on my second blog :) . It wasn't like what I've imagine but I'm glad I went there. We went there from 28 of June until 1st of July. There were 11 of us 4 boys and 7 girls. Among them I only knew Ijoy, Amir and Iera. Since there were 11 of us, Three cars were used for the trip, Iera, Hana and Atun's car. I was deployed in Atun's car, Feel like total stranger in the 1st place but as the journey goes, we started to break the ice. Among the 1st question pop out from these girl (Atun, Fai & Suria) was "do you have a girlfriend? Are you engaged?" I was like what the He**....arghhhh..why start with these kind of question..but only in my heart..outside..I just said Yaa..I have a girl, and no I'm not engaged..then I kept quite. Only afterward they started to ask about the normal stuff...At that point I was relief..and I'm very glad I've made new friends.

We reached Kuala Besut around 9.30 in the morning and I never slept in the car during the journey, probably because all of the girls never slept either. We were told that the boat should pick us up at 10a.m but we have to wait until 11.30. Then finally we reach Perhentian Kecil..Matahari Chalet, when we reach there we have to wait until 3 o'clock before we could get a room which been book a month ago. what kind of booking is this? When people book a room or a place, it should be ready. It just the same as not booking at all. I can describe as the Perhentian trip as "Waiting Trip" everything we must wait, there goes our precious time. The 3 session of snorkeling was nice. But not according to Ijoy. He said Redang's beach and ocean are much nicer. But since this is my 2nd time of snorkeling, I say it was quite enjoyable. The coral and fish fascinated me, and not to forget the turtle, I dived deep to see the turtle up close..but only managed to see not more than 10 second, couldn't hold my breath :P . Every time I dived, it consume a large amount of energy, damn it was tiring, but since the scenery of underwater was so nice, the energy of my body keep generates hahah. But at the end, I always hang on to the boat to catch my breath. One of our tour guide even catches a colorful small fish for us, it just like the finding Nemo fish, he catches 3 of them, and gave it to me to bring to the boat so the rest of the group can see. The girl's even gave the fish a name Neo or something, Atun even kiss the fish before I release them from captivity :D.

Fish in Captivity

Fishes having lunch.

The second day the girls wants to move out to big island, to me , the 1st chalet was much nicer than the second one, but that ain't matter to me anyway, as long as there is a room for me to puts my belonging and sleep, it's good enough for me. For lunch and diner, we must go back to the small island, since the arrangement have been made, we can't change that except only for the chalet. The barbecue was not a barbecue at all,I thought that we need to cook on our own, but everything is cooked already, and all the dishes wasn't that nice either, except for the donut, damn the donut was so good. We had a good laugh when we started mocking iera, she always speak before think, I think Amir was the first one to mocked her...hahaha. When comes to mocking, Amir's is the man, God Of Mocking. It was full moon on that night, Don't know why, everytime I saw a full moon, it fascinates me..hmm...a night to remember.

The Girls - Stomp The Yard Wannabe

- The Boys -

1st pic is Amir followed by me,Ijoy & Zali


Again, on our last day, we have to wait. At 1st, we're told the pickup boat will arrive at 9am, but it came around 12 something, Thats why I said that this is a waiting trip. Finally, we reached the mainland (Kuala Besut), bought few souvenir for my office colleagues. We reach Kuala Terengganu around 3 or 2 something. We had lunch at pasar payang, and the girls went for shopping afterwards. I myself bought keropok lekor and serunding daging, ibu love serunding daging, kelantanese called it samba daging :) . By the time the girls finished shopping it was 6 in the evening. we stop at masjid terapung for prayers.






We start to roll out around 6.30pm, I volunteer to drive, I figure we can reached home earlier by doing so, Atun, Fai and Suria started to freak out when I overtake few cars, buses and trucks, sorry girls, didn't mean to freak you guys out but have faith and confident in me next time(If there is a next time..hahaha) I don't know why iera called me a reckless driver, beb..it's not reckless ok, I just drive like I normally do, infact I think I have reserved the way I drive since I'm not driving my own car, and not to forget you also drives fast, but I never label you as reckless driver, some people think you drive faster that's all. To me as long as we know what we are doing and anticipate what going to happen next, we are safe :p





We stop at dungun for diner, the girls want to eat sata, but unfortunately sata is out of stock, i never eat sata in my entire life, wonder how does it taste, or maybe they call it different in my home town...hmm...but anyway I think we roll out from dungun around 9.30pm or something.
We reached KL around 2am in the morning, luckily I was on leave on that day. Picture below is the whole team.

To me, best pics taken goes to this two:

Chucky and

The Perhentian cat :)

Angry

Huhh...never thought I have my very own blog, and my very 1st entry is about this one chinese guy. He is my user...emm let me explain from the beginning.

I work as Software Developer, and currently I'm maintaining/administrate/enhance one financial system in my company. And part of my job is to become a System Analyst, so my story begin when This fucker(huhh...never thought I would used this word in my 1st entry blog) my user get mad at me on the phone. If I made any mistake then go ahead scream at me I won't mind because it is my mistake, but I just wants to ask a few question, and what do I get, a free scold. I don't deserve this, especially not by him. Just because people don't understand your requirement doesn't give the right for you to scold people. It happen just because one of my collegue doesn't understand what he wants, so I call up this loser to try to understand his requirement and suddenly out of nowhere he start scolding me.

I heard stories about this guy, people hate him, a lot of his collegue never like him, he is the kind of guy who will call your big boss if you make a mistake, yup...calling the big boss and not your immediate supervisor but the big boss...damn you. Luckly my big boss (also chinese) understand the situation and never even bother about it.

When I think about it, why should I even bother about this, I should let it go and forget about the incident, but to me this kind of event influenced my mood, and when you are not in a good mood, you can't come out with a good idea or output. Hmm.. I guess I need to adjust myself to try not to get influence by this kind of event...but this requires time :)