Since I really enjoy playing around with the DJ software on my PC, I thought I’d make a sorta sound track to explain my day. I’m kinda frus with Digi today, but it’s probably my fault for not reading the fine print. Or is it?

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Started out my day feeling rather groggy. Dragged myself out of bed at a respectable hour (thanks for the wake up call ^_^ ) and headed down to the office. Had breakfast for once too. Phew!  2 croissants from Jusco and 2 cups of black coffee. Wonderful! Or so I thought.

I don’t know why, but coffee didn’t wake me up today. I had another 2 after those 2, and I was still feeling groggy. Caught up with Eddyhan over lunch with Huei, and had a good catch up session. Eddyhan really busy these days… Not sure with what. Didn’t want to bother him with work questions, so we did  what we do best… TALK COCK!

Hahaha!! The amount of topics that passed around the table were hilarious! So hilarious that I didn’t even realize to whip out the phone to snap a few pictures. Please forgive the lack of visual aesthetics today.

Met up with Radiance after lunch then headed down to Digi to port my number. I had everything sorted out, my Celcom bill settled (RM451… ouch PAIN!), and had signed all the forms. SIM card also ready for me sia!!

But guess what?

Just before I rip it out of the plastic casing….

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The sales consultant conveniently tells me….

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“Make sure you don’t use this SIM card on another phone. Only use with Blackberry.”

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“!!!!”

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“Oh, when use with Blackberry, you can’t tether also ya!”

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“What? Boss, please explain…”

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“If you use with iPhone or if you tether, Digi will charge $$ per KB on top of your RM58″

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How come it’s like this leh? Is it possible to lock/detect and adjust the pricing scale? I took my form back and asked the dude to reserve the SIM card while I check this out. If you guys know anything about it, please let me know ya! Argh… my plan to port has been postponed….!!!!!

OMFG Mixtape 4

Today’s mixtape is an extremely eclectic playlist of songs that was inspired by my rollercoaster mood today. Don’t try to make any logic from the sorting. There is no mathematical formula behind it. Just kick back and listen. FYI, day started at 8.30am and ends now at 3am.

OMFG Mixtape 4 @ Mediafire (*.mp3, 0:33:17, 42.72MB)

Enjoy?

Wow. It’s already the end of the year?!

Damn. I’ll be honest. It’s all only just sunk in for me recently.

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Totally didn’t realize that December was the end of 2009. Somehow, this year has passed to darn fast!

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Oh well. Enough ranting. Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been busy with…

Attended quite a few events this month… One of the was the infamous PC Fair. Packed to the brim as usual, and getting there was hell, again, as usual. Drove down with SimonBotak and he managed to keep me sane through out the massive jam. We ended up parking in Pavillion KL, and took a short walk over.

Nothing special going on in PC Fair this time around. To me, the whole thing has turned into a huge pasar malam, and is totally over run by the battalions of broadband promoters. Guys, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you guys seriously have to work on your manners. No wonder a fight broke out between you guys during the last PC Fair. Heh.

I was also at the Astro HD preview. I posted this picture up on Twitter and got spanked for doing so. No NDA, but was asked to take it down, so I did. I guess more in depth pictures and reviews are already swarming the net, but my take on it will be up on the main site tomorrow.

Dropped by the MOL – Friendster acquisition too. Have you logged into  Friendster recently? I caught a glimpse of it on someone’s account, and was kinda stunned at the facelift. Can you say Facebook? I havn’t been able to log in to my own account yet…. cos it’s been REALLY long, and I don’t even have my old password! Hahaha!! Gotta korek korek a bit for now…

Then there was the flymas.mobi launch at Subang Airport. Awesome mobile site I reckon, and I absolutely love the way MAS is moving forward. Good job guys!

I also had a chance to meet up with @Nike_MY for a short discussion. Check out these kid shoes at the reception. I’m so pimping out my future son with these babies!

Inside the office, I caught a glimpse of the huge carved Dunk Hi. The last time I saw this was during the Nike pop up art installation at Pavilion KL. Awesome piece… I think it was contributed by StreetThing? I soooo wanna take this home!!

P.S. Thanks for the cool swag! I’m lovin the backpack!

It wasn’t all about work though. Here’s a picture from the dreaded 10 year reunion. It started off a lil slow, but picked up towards the end when Ben Tan took out these mothers…

Okla… So you can’t really see it, but it’s 3 bottles of Cordon Bleau! Woot!! Just to think… 10 years ago we were drinking shit like Club 99 and Joker 10 in half filled Big Gulps, and today we’re drinking Cordon effin Bleau! Happy night indeed. Great to catch up with you lot!

I kicked back at least half a dozen of these at Finnegans Mid Valley too. Had an awesomely long and eclectic discussion on music, sports and random other shit with Kabi, Lee and Kenny. Mmmm… Cider FTW!!!! Thanks for the hospitality guys!!

Made a trip down to the clubs too, and partied away in Phuture. Eddyhan booked us an awesome table, and it was a massive night out for all of us. Surprisingly, me and Charles didn’t get shitfaced. Can’t say the same for two other people tho… It actually IS nice not to be the one completely shitfaced for once! Hehehe.

Rounded off the drinking binge in typical Chinese style – at a full course Chinese wedding. Complete with suckling pig, free flow of beer and Martell, and being served by an army of highschool kids. Really traditional feel, instead of those overly snazzy and poofed up hotel receptions, was nice for once. The night was complete with singing emcees and failed drunken pickups. Totally rocking!

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Newsbuzz: It feels good to know that I’m actually able to consciously control my drinking now too. I’m proud to say that I havn’t been shitfaced since the incident.

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And when I don’t feel good, scenes like this keep me grounded.

Caught this just outside my office at about 2.30am. It looks like a S204. What a waste…

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Well, that’s about it for now. I’ll wrap up with a quick WIWT.

YSL long sleeve shirt, Levis 505, NB MT580 GoreTex

Subcrew “Subcrew Reaction” tshirt, gray pants, Nike Vintage Dunk Hi r/g

Nike Sportswear tshirt, Levis 505, Nike AF! w/w

Subcrew “Wrote for Subcrew”, Bosini polo t, Lee jeans, Nike AF1 w/w (kena jeans stain!!! damn!!)

Subcrew x The Hundreds mesh cap, RL polo t, Lee jeans, Nike Vintage Dunk r/g

Nike jacket, Lowyat.NET tshirt, Paul Frank lanyard, Lee jeans, Nike AF1 w/w (my favorite pair of kicks this month! LOL)

Subcrew tshirt, Lee jeans, Nike Jordan 1 Nu Retro, Nike backpack (1 ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!)

Subcrew “UNITY” mesh, Giordano polo t, Lee jeans, Nike Vintage Dunk Hi b/w

This one goes out to you. You know who you are.

Damn. Damn. Damn.

The month of December has JUST started, and my first 3 words are borderline swearwords. Damn.

My 10 year high school reunion is on tonight, and I don’t know what to expect. It’s been at least 10 years since I’ve last seen some of these buggers, and I don’t really know what to expect. There’s wine and stuff, so it could well be a “formal” event. My bro said its like going to a prom night. Damn son. You’re spot on.

What has this got to do with bitter?

Ok.

Shamefully, its the materialistic things. Its the things I don’t have, have had, or could never dream of having. I’m gonna be bitter at things I don’t understand. I’m gonna be bitter at things that I don’t have. But its nothing personal. It isn’t because I don’t like you or because you can’t stand me. It’s because I don’t understand you. Yet.

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*Booms*

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So guys, if you’re reading this and are going to the reunion, please excuse my erratic facial twitching. It’s not infectious. It’s just a motor reaction. I’m nervous. Not psycho.

Oh. Of course…

I just hope that the join doesn’t run out of wine. If that happens…. I’ll be god damn bitter in the world.

Bitter sial.

Oh my, I can’t seem to get this blogging schedule down, and everytime I snap a new picture on the camera / phone, I keep thinking to myself – damn, how the heck and I gonna blog all these pics?!!

Well,  I guess I cant, so here’s a quick update on how my week (and last weekend) has been so far – that is if you care enough to read on

Food

Now, since I’m not a food blogger, I’m sure you can excuse my sub-par food pictures. It’s not like you can taste the pixels on your screen anyway rite?

Hamburger steak! I had this at Sri Hartamas in a cafe called Backofen. At RM13, this was an awesomely epic lunch. Sedap! But what’s better is the garlic roasted potatoes. Walau… each bite is like having an mouthgasm.

Being a Malaysian, I simply cant survive without rice, so I headed over to Bangsar with Ken Wei for some Banana Leaf Rice (BLR) at Nirwana. Hmm… Is it Nirwana or Nirvana? Bah who cares. All I know is that the curries they serve are pretty good. I still prefer Kanna tho. Personal preference I guess.

I also had a healthy dose of Indonesian Ayam Penyet over the weekend, but I gobbled it up so fast, this is the only picture I have! HAHAHA!

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OK… Maybe not the ONLY picture, but the only picture that has anything to do with the food I ate. Damn. I wish I was just a lil taller, then I could be 50-ayam-penyets-tall!

Friends

I also managed to catch up with some friends over the week/weekend….

This is Stef. We used to be colleagues back when I was still in NewMan. She recently joined Catcha (another of my ex-employers) and came out for a “welcome” drink. Hi Stef and welcome to Mid Valley!!

I also managed to catch up with my man with the plan, Jon. Everytime I see him, he gets a new tat. Damn over man…

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OK the color’s a little off, cos I was using some color seperation feature of the camera, but in real life, his tats are real killers! I cant wait to see his full sleeve!

And if that isn’t enough, Jon even came decked out in his brand new pair of Nike Dunk x Cassette Playa kicks!! OMG! Damn fresh leh!!! I IS JEALOUS!

Fun

By now, I’m feeling a little frus already. Jealous of Jon’s shoes ok… So its time to talk about something fun.

We just started shooting episode 1 of Lowyat.TV’s new production, and this round the whole office was involved. It was a pretty darn fun session since the guys who are producing this series are like award winning dudes. They actually produced/directed one of the short films in 15 Malaysia, so you know they’re pretty dope.

Things did get a lil stressful when they decided to point BOTH cameras at me for one of the segments. The instructions were “Do it like Punkd. Turn here turn there OK?” Phew…

I also got a pleasant surprise when this news clipping emerged in the Malay Mail. Thanks Gabby!!

Of course, the weekend wouldnt be complete without a brew… or ten.

We had our weekly dose at MJ Cafe, so don’t expect to see Carlsberg bottles in Tiger buckets anywhere else.

But all the beer in the world cant outdo a simple, but perfect, cup of coffee. I had that with Kel in our favorite Jap cafe in Subang. Don’t know where it is? Good! The less people who know, the better so we can get our favorite smoking table!

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Well, I guess that sums up the week / weekend for me so far. I’m headed off to the Curve for a meeting with a certain brand in a short while, so stay posted for my updates ya!

Before I leave tho, here’s the usual WIWT compilation.

WIWT

Plaid button up shirt, jeans, Nike Airmax 360 Koinobori edition

Subcrew UNITY mesh, polo t, jeans, Nike Air Force 1 (my favorite kicks!)

Subcrew “Wrote for Subcrew” mesh, polo t, jeans, Nike Dunk Hi Vintage blue/yellow.

Ugh. I know… overdoing the polo t a lil huh? Well… hopefully that’ll change soon

There are three reasons why I haven’t posted any blog posts since Blogathon KL.

1) I’ve never been a hardcore blogger per se, and the recent “24″ hours of blogging has pretty much drained up most of my blogging juices.

2) I spent 2 full days at YES 2009 and have been Twitting like crazy. You can check out my updates on the hashtag #yes2009.

3) I’ve been too busy trying to catch up with work since I’ve been away from the office for so long.

OK. So they aren’t exactly solid reasons, but this is my blog, so my reasons are gospel. Hah! There, I’ve said it. Pfft.

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*sound of crows flying by*

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OK. Enough BS.

So what’s been going on in my life? Well, for starters, I kinda walked away from the Intel/Lenovo/TANGS  Blogathon as the winner….

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I want to take this opportunity to say a very big thank you to everyone who commented on my blog, retweeted my tweets, came down to Pavilion to vote for me, and for making all those kick ass placards!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

OK. Maybe talk is cheap, but I just want everyone to know that winning this competition really meant a lot to me, but knowing that I have your support and love means so much more. I never in my wildest dreams thought that so many of you guys would come down and show your support, and to be completely honest, I was so touched that winning the contest was more like a bonus to me. I love you guys, and I really really thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

To the rest of you who’s picture isn’t up on my blog, I sincerely apologize to you. Please don’t take it personally because I haven’t forgotten you – it’s just that I don’t have a picture of us together!

I also want to thank the three bloggers who took part in this contest with me – Cheesie, KY and SixthSeal. I may not have been as friendly or as chatty as I usually can be in the box, and I fully acknowledge that. Sorry if I gave off the wrong impression of me being lansi or whatnot, but the truth is, I was pretty intimidated (and still am) by your reputations as major league bloggers. I guess that brought out the competitive side of me. Thank you for your gracious congratulatory notes, and I hope we can meet up again soon for a yum cha session. I’m sure KY will have some awesome place to recommend, kan?

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After the Blogathon episode was over, I had barely a day’s rest before I headed back into the fray. I spent Monday and Tuesday in Putrajaya for the YES2009 conference, and I have to say, it was a pretty awesome experience. I headed there without any expectations – assuming that it would all be rather camp since it was a YOUTH summit – but I left feeling extremely glad that I did participate. Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to get many pictures since the Samsung camera that I was using during Blogathon was a loaner, but here are some of the highlights of my 2 days.

1) Met Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter. Realized that he probably wasn’t the half that did most of the talking. Was lightly entertained, but not overly impressed by his public address.

2) Realized how bloody awesome Sir Bob Geldoff really is. His message was a little crude and in your face, but it held true and was extremely relevant and inspiring to the youths.

3) Got very annoyed with Tony Fernandes’ “eeerrrrrrr” laugh.

4) Contemplated asking Nando Parrado what human meat tastes like, but chickened out.

5) Caught a glimpse of the Trump and felt his looming “I’m your boss so STFU” persona even though he was talking to us from Trump Towers via satellite.

6) Ran a flat and managed to change my tire under the pouring rain in 15 minutes.

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Another update that I have is in regards to the Lowyat.TV project that we’re embarking on. After rounds and rounds of discussion, planning and scripting, we’re finally ready to shoot! If you’ve watched previous Lowyat.TV efforts, like the interview with Eva Loke, Amber Chia, and my various overseas junkets, then forget about them for now. If you have no idea what the heck I was talking about in the last sentence, then good, because we’re starting something completely new under the Lowyat.TV marque.

I can’t reveal much now (I know, I know. Then WTF did I bother blogging this about rite?), but what I can say is that for this round of shooting, we actually have a bona fide production crew with us, so you can expect big things to come.

Until then though, please do check out http://www.lowyat.tv and give me your feed back on what you think about the layout, etc. You can’t sign up now, but sign ups will be open very soon!

OK. That’s enough ranting from me today, so I’ll sign off with two random pictures.

Campaign poster from Celest. Thanks Carebear!

WIWT (What I’m Wearing Today): Unofficial /k/ tshirt, army shorts, Incredible Hulk Bapesta, watch from Suan Lum market in Bangkok.

We’re about 20 minutes from the end of the Intel/Lenovo/TANGS blogathon and I can confidently say that everyone’s pooped. But before we make a dash for our freedom, I just wanna extend a huge thank you to all the folks that dropped by and cast their votes for me. It was an extremely memorable day for all of us, and I won’t be forgetting the experience any time soon!

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Lo and behold – the mighty (some might say mightily boring) 5-in-1 card reader!

Can technology be fashionable? I certainly think so. Which is why I purposely chose one of the most boring devices that I could find in this aquarium – this orange card reader that belongs to Huai Bin – just to prove a point.

To tell you the truth, it wasn’t easy to pimp up this drab piece of plastic. Sure, it has slots for all sorts of memory cards, but then again, memory cards aren’t exactly the sexiest things in the world either.

So how do you fix a problem that looks pretty dead end? Well, it isn’t that difficult actually…

See – problem fixed. I’m pretty sure you’ll be hard pressed NOT to agree with me that the once drab, plasticy, mediocre card reader is now a fashionable tech device! Hahaha! OK so maybe I cheated there, but one look is all it takes to make me go – “wow, that’s hot”.

Oh, and before I sign off…

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REPOSTA FTW!

Is it the clothes you wear?

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Or is it the way you wear it?

Even after two whole days of sitting in the TANGS window display, I still cant put my finger on it. I’ve been around sexy, expensive designer clothes for longer than I spend at home, yet I can’t tell for sure if style is really defined by what you wear, or who wears it.

Silly, I know, but hey I’m silly like that.

Personally, I almost never wear slacks. I’m almost always either in a pair of jeans or in a pair of shorts.

I’m also almost always in a tshirt…

But when I’m not, I enjoy wearing plaid shirts…

Occasionally, I put on a jacket…

But we’re in Malaysia, and a lot of jackets are unfortunately off limits…

Finally, my headgear of choice is a truckers cap…

So a regular dress up day would look something like this…

Or this…

Or this..

Or even this…

OK. So I don’t have much style per se. And I can’t blame you for saying that either. Like the old saying goes – one man’s meat is another man’s poison – so I’ve come to the conclusion that style isn’t about what you wear, but rather who wears it. Confidence is definitely the key, so after a long “explanation” to the simple question of “what defines style”, I’d have to say…

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YOU do.

In my line of work, I deal with tech every day. Be it from the aspect of the devices themselves, to the services that they offer. Today however, we’re going to talk about another aspect of tech that has steadily been gaining importance over recent times – aesthetics!

No longer are devices like mobile phones only available in monotonous colors like black or…. black.

Or come in sizes big enough to double up as a weapon (or water bottle)…

But in slick designs and fashionable colors!

Reposta for good measure.

The lovely lady above not only owns a fashionably colorful mobile phone, but is also the proud owner of a Nintendo DS, and various other gadgets. As a beauty consultant from Sabah, she’s definitely someone who know’s what’s fashionable and what isn’t, so if a red mobile phone is good enough for her, then who am I to argue rite?

Well, just for good cause, here’s another piece of eye candy for your enjoicement!