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Ok back at marshalls, frozen deboned chicken was thawed for half an hour in the microwave. Then it was left in bbq sauce for a while. Grilled for about 25 minutes with lots of pepper.

There were five guys so we decided to cook all of the hash browns. Jack proceeded with the asparagus soup(campbell). And here i am now after collecting my ECE3102 problem sheets from Siong... back at the halls... i know i should be starting on my work but i think i'll give my parents a call.

Yeah i'm trying to make up for the frequency of updates.

Thought for the moment:
"Having friends around makes hell lots of difference"

Reality Hits (like a brick in the face)

Well i barely survived the week with all the labs and all but then it comes to the weekends where we have to prep for the next weeks torture. I guess that's our lot in life. (qouted by c3p0)

Another week over and another weekend just trying to do work. Woke up late (hey it was well deserved) and attempted to do ECE3102 then i realised that my integration skills has gone down the drain. Couldn't stand being without food, so i cycled down to Marhall Av. for some food. Had some coffee then returned. Then proceeded to read through my dream cars in Sean's Motor magazine (hey it'll happen one day). Then again will attempt the problem sheets.

I guess i'll be doing the same thing for tonight 2. That's it for now. See ya people.

Thought of the day:
"Some things are better left unsaid"

Holidays are over

Well the holidays are over, and i have an assignment to hand up tomorrow. I'll just leave you guys with this hyperlink to visit the pics for the MUMSU easter camp which i just attended.Click Here.

Well that's all i'll give a better brief when i've completed most of my work.

Thoughts of the day:
"There should be more hours in a day"

Ikea

23rd of March 2002
The moment i woke up i joined Heng Yu, Vinodh, Jack and Siong to Ikea. Well basically it's safe to say that Ikea is to furniture what McDonalds is to fast food. Everything that is sold is the same as what we have back in Malaysia. Had some Aus 1 hotdogs. Then managed to buy my ikea desklamp. Yes it's the exact same one that i have back in Malaysia, only silver (hehe it's right above my head now). Managed to find a bargain table for Jack, it was cheaper but the catch was that we had to take it apart and bring it home ourselves. Well managed to get a cab and Jack went with most of the goods. We arrived back an horu later by bus and train. I dumped my stuff back home and then took Julian's bike to join the guys for dinner.

Oh, i know how to cook fried rice!(thanks Siong and Jack) After dinner i managed to kick Heng Yu's ass in Fifa2002 8-6 (this was after 4 matches of being trashed 4-0)

Well that's all folks till next time. I might have lost alot of you guys because i have been lazy in updating my page. Sorry.

Thought of the day:
" Cooking can be as hard or as easy as you want it to be "

All Night Long

9th of March 2002

Managed to go to city to see the fireworks for the mumba festival. Ooh and the car show, alot of cars. I'll post some of the shot on my site.

10th of March 2002

Stayed in the whole day to do my laundry and then went to the city for clubbing at Metro. Saw quite a number of chicks and there was a fight involving some orientals and some ang mohs. Came back about 5. Then attended classes at 9.

Thought of the day:
" When will the fun stop? "

Wassup ....

Hey people. I bet one of the reasons why people don't come to my site is because of my inconsistency. Well i would like to thanks all those that have supported my site so far because i reached the 1000 hit few months ago. Now i'm currently studying in Australia doing my 3rd year here. Well i just wanted to let you all know.

Thought of the day:
"Learning is not just studying"

Flew a Boeing 777 into the Petronas Towers

Arrived at work at 10.30am, did installation in MAS complex again.(been doing it for a month now) We went back to the simulator building to complete software installation for stan-alone pcs. Came across an isolated LAN for instrumentation for a Boeing 777, played with the training sims for about 2 hours, then when we were done we were given a test drive of MAS's Boeing 777 simulator(it costs RM40 mil) .

I managed to do a stall and flew through day, night and rainy weather, this is what i call ultimate force feedback... the machine is 3 storeys high. It sits on eight hydraulic pistons, hence the pitching and rolls.. and saw the twin towers... managed to get near it, but missed... circled around after 2 minutes.. and wham... shit i thought it was soo real that my heart stopped, now i know how the pilots felt on sept 11. My work started at 10.30 and ended at 2.30. Isn't this one of the best days of my life?

Thought of the day:
"You never know what can happen to you in a few hours"

Weird stories from CSA

Cross-over Ghosts

CSA was contracted to do installation of a local area network and also installation of PCs for NEC. The project comprises of 5 buildings which were cabled before the computers were brought in. In each building the LAN cables were placed in certain places throughout the whole building. The cabling was done using straights using dedicated instruments to verify it.

The day after the cabling was done, the PCs came in and it seems as though all the network cables were not working. A further examination showed that the cables were crossed. This happened for 2 out of the 5 buildings. The thing is, if the same person did the installation of the cables, all of the buildings would have been crossed, but it only happened to 2 buildings. The placing of LAN cables were only exclusively known to the technician installing it.

This anomaly no matter it how it has been scrutinized, it still has no solution and still baffles those that were on the project till today.

Haunted servers

There were a few cases of this. Common ones are servers that are unable to boot up. Please take note that the integration department actually does the installation and trouble shoots before the unit leaves CSA. Therefore the unit leaving would be a running unit.

There were 2 accounts from field engineers. One server refused to boot up and despite all efforts to change the RAM and other components, it still refused. So just for the sake of trying the engineer then put a “fat Buddha”( you know the kind found in Chinese homes) and weird enough, it does boot up.

Another variation of that is that the engineer took a piece of yellow paper (those similar color to those from Buddhist temples) and scribbled some nonsense on it. This paper was then stuck on to the server and miraculously enough, it actually boots up.

(This techniques may come in handy when it comes down to the last resort)

Self resetting server

There was a project to install a server in the new securities commissions building in Bukit Kiara. There were 2 engineers on location that were doing the software installation and setting up. The dou spent almost the whole day setting up the server and after it was done it was locked up in the server room which at that time were exclusive only to the engineers. They left about 11 at night.

They returned the day after to suddenly find out that the server was somehow reset to the factory settings with an empty hard disc. Since then one of them have left CSA.

Mistaken hauntings
Case 1
Again, a server was requested by customer and when it arrived it refuses to start. The engineer went to the extreme until he brought replacement network cards, cpu, mother board, array controller, until the whole server was practically replaced with totally new internals. It still refused to boot. The server unit was brought back to the office and the original components were inserted back into the chassis and it could boot.

The engineer then brought the unit back to the customer place, and the engineer was stumped again. He just changed to another power outlet and it could work.

Apparently, due to the bad wiring the server would not get a stable supply of power, hence it refused to boot.

Case 2
A server was installed into a server room of a customer. After setting up, it would always hang at a certain time of the day. It usually came about 10 am. Other engineers were brought in to trouble shoot as well as analyze the log files. No matter what, it still failed about the same time, but this time an engineer was there to witness it. He was so frustrated that he just went to the pantry to refill some water. And it so happens that the pantry was situated next to the server room, he also noticed a tea lady making coffee and tea for the staff.

A close inspection of the premise showed that the server room was supplied form the same source as the pantry and the coffee making machine somehow caused the power to be unstable when used, this was deduced as the tea lady always came in around the same time. The problem was solved by using another power source for the coffee machine.

Thought of the day:
" Isn't life ironic? "

A very productive day?

Saturday was interesting, had an extra long Karate session form 8 till 11.30 then picked up Joanna and Ee Lynn. They hung at my place for a while till Steph could finish her dance class, then we were off to pick her up and Bukit Jalil. Well Lynn paid for me so i didn't have to worry about entering. The pool was fantastic, the water was soo clean, and there weren't many people and for once i'm actually swimming in a pool deeper than my height. Oh and luckily i didn't become a hero and dive in. The water was soo cold. We were done by 5.30. Then I sent all of them home.

Today, the first centralised training for this year at Bukit Bintang Boys School. It was different, alot of black belts came. This the first time i have seen a demonstration of all the ippon kumites, the sad part was that i didn't manage to bring a camcorder. I managed to document half of the movements but the remainder would have to wait till i see a senior.

Thought of the day:
" I don't understand girls "

New Year is here

Started with a bang, i went with Jen Min, Kar Chuan, David, Joanne, Shawn and Thiru. We actually caught the new year boat ride. It was fantastic, the display was just over head, unfortunately we were soo close till some of the sparks could actually reach the boat seats. Well otherwise this is the best New Year yet, till we decided to go to KL.

We got stuck in the massive post-new year jam and it took us about an hour to get to Orange. Well because of the delay, and the fact that i was not in the mood to enter, i was just content to stare at a Maseratti and a GT-R (R34) parked outside the place. Well i still think it was great, in GT2 i can't even count the hours that i spent on that car, and to see it in real life make it so.... surreal. Well the dinner earlier was fantastic, we went to Sam Yue in New Town. Had quite a good time there and we managed to finish half of the remaining bottle of hard liqour.

Well second working day of the new year, still nothing to do, so i got the ball pictures up, please visit.

Looking forward to my 2nd dan exam on the 26th at BB school at 8.30 if you guys wanna come please do.

Thought of the day:
" I think New Years is just a psycological thing, things are still the same "