National day 2008

This is a late late post, i was only enlighten to write this post three weeks after the National Day. To be truth, its awfully quiet this year, no celebration, no fireworks, just a good old speech from our dear PM on tele.

Peter, his mates and I went for a nice dinner at Alexis Bar during the last Merdeka eve (have a look at Peter's entry at http://alimento.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/alexis-ampang-on-merdeka-eve/). Its so funny that nowadays people are not celebrating Hari Merdeka because its Hari Merdeka anymore. Instead, they are celebrating it because the next day is a holiday and you know its good to hang out sometimes with old mates.

Today's generation had slowly lose their appreciation towards history and culture/tradition, i am not particularly feeling sad or fret too much over it, cuz personally i think this is just a natural evolution. How many people actually practice the idols and ancestry worshiping like those days in traditional china community? How many people know their ancestry root and are eager to trace it back to their home country like China and India?

Today, as the intellectuality gaining its weights and modernization takes place, people's mind and action are more goal orientated, they dont spend time and effort doing something just because the rest of 25 millions people are doing it, unless its of some interest to them.

Same goes with the patriotism, how many Malaysian truly knows the meaning of Merdeka? The only merdeka which i know is the black and white motion picture of The late Tunku Abdul Rahman shouting in front of the crowds, declaring the starting of an identity called Malaysian. It was a BIG thing back then for those people who live through the British colonial era.

However, the sudden popularization of Internet and the global village concept has really revolutionize the way people define 'nationality'. and suddenly, out of no where its more 'cool' to become a global citizen rather than Malaysian. We are living and standing on the same soil called earth, we are build from the same genetic sequences from 100,000 years ago till today, so what makes us so different then? skin color? language? dialects? occupation? Like my boss always says, there is no race but 1 race, the F1 race (ok, i know its lame).

Anyway, i still love my country, its on this land that i was born and nurtured to the person i am now, i dont intend to become a 'kacang melupakan kulit'. Just that i think its time for us to have a more open heart and 'global' mind rather then fighting over petty racial issue and teritory issue all the time. So, happy belated merdeka, friends.

Mizi shabu shabu

I had a nice farewell dinner with my colleague a few weeks ago at a steamboat restaurant in Puchong. My stomach was an inch wider when i went out of Mizi Shabu Shabu restaurant. Its a not so conventional type of steamboat restaurant, where you have the sushi conveyor belt with individual steamboat.



The fun thing is you can mix and make your own steamboat soup, just add in dried fish, mushroom, oyster and wala! you get your nice self-made soup. Also, there is no charcoal, no gas tanks, but electricity to heat up or keep warm the soup.

i love their thin slices of pork meat and the squid, so juicy and yummy. You should only submerge the pork in the steam soup for couple of seconds, dip into their signature onion soya source and eat the whole slice in a go. Gosh, its sinful.



i enjoyed very very much the companion of my fellow colleagues as we talk about things like office affairs, pets and so on. Its quite rare for me to have the chance to share and spend time with them as i am in the business team while they are in the Technology team. However, on occasion like this (especially when good food is involved), we lose all the inhibition and laughed at stupid jokes and craps. I think its really a Chinese culture to connect to each other while eating.

This reminds me of another rare conversation i had with one of the software engineer intern, Han, whereby one good afternoon we talked about religions and beliefs over Tosai and Teh Tarik. Although he is an atheist, however, his view towards God and faith really intrigue me. I'm actually much senior to him in this company, however, the way he speaks and thinks is far more mature than my own peers. Maybe its the fact that youngsters nowadays are expose to working environment, media/internet and socials much earlier than those days of our generation, and that's why they don't look like their age and are less naive and more strong in character.

Anyway, just wanna wish Han and Dai (the Vietnamese guy who is my Doraemon anime supplier) all the best in whatever they do in future as they going back to their Uni for final year. Its a very short time of companionship but its such a great pleasure to have our life intersect in such a way for the past few months.



All the best pal!

My new baby

This is my new baby, Sony Ericsson's W660.


















It has the cool, sleekly look, like the Dunhill's slogan, "Gaya, mutu, keunggulan"
It has tons of functions which i yet to discover it all
Its in black, my favorite color!
i personally against the red color version which most of my friend preferred,
in which half of the back cover has been adorned with floral motives, while the black version has been encrusted with geometrical motives that look like concentric circles.
well, if you wanna look pimpish with a red mobile phone encrusted with flower motives in your hands, that will be your choice i guess...










Well, I am contented with my blackie!