about me A loner, although do enjoy the occasional companionship, if you can handle it. Enjoys long term friendships, sensitive, ponders a lot about life and people. Monday, April 16, 2012
Hoho...
[ 10:15 pm ] My fiancée reads this blog. 0 comments Monday, September 26, 2011
Hello! 400th post
[ 12:53 am ] Hah! Look who's blogging. I'm in a pensive mood, writing is suppose to help me. I was going through some old photos that I still store on my hard drive. It's good to take a step back and look at those years to see how far you've come. These few months have been quite a journey, crossing a couple of milestones in my life. Work has been pretty steady and I've seen an increased in our business and not to mention the head count. We're slowly establishing ourselves. Not quite the name yet, we have much to learn and experience. I believe God is watching over us closely. Without Him, I doubt we'll be where we are today. I'm experiencing another challenge as we start to hire. Rather than doing everything yourself, you now start to delegate. I find that I'm not good with this. It's a learning process... I'll get it right eventually. I think I can get things done pretty fast, problem is, I can't expect people to work at my pace. Maybe I just need to slow down and take a breather? Asians do tend to work like machines. Ah, this I need to write down on this blog. Yee See is the 2nd runner up of Miss Malaysia World 2011. Ok, I got that recorded now. Super proud of her. Now, back to me again. I just got back from Singapore yesterday. I was down there for another round of training with Nokia. We were quite blessed to stay over Meritus Mandarin Orchard. Pretty nice place, but the rates were crazy high. Good thing this was sponsored (you know He is able). I didn't know it was the F1 weekend over at Singapore, so the rates were jacked up. While we were in Singapore, one of our contacts over at Nokia didn't know we were in town. She was in the midst of planning a photo shoot to highlight key developers.... and we were invited :) Yay! But everything was ad-hoc and we were unprepared for this. We didn't had the right clothes to wear or the right colour. So we spent a little bit of money over at Giordano and got ourselves polo shirts that we probably won't wear again :P The shoot was pretty fun, I kinda enjoyed it... missed the days where I used to enjoy taking photos. Hmmm... don't know why I stopped doing that. "Hah! You're frowning again, smile!" That was the standard line of the day. I need to smile more, otherwise that relaxed face looks like a frown. 0 comments Sunday, April 24, 2011
Easter
[ 11:00 pm ] It's Easter today! So much for a minimum 1 post per month, I've been slacking a lot in devoting time to penning down my thoughts. Maybe these days I don't brood a lot like I usually do, who knows? Or maybe I've been too preoccupied with everything that's around me. Yesterday I had an opportunity to spend an afternoon having rojak a gentleman that I've come to respect and like a lot. Despite how well advance in age he is, he never cease to pique my interests with his many stories, thoughts and opinions. Sometimes, he just felt a grandpa I never had. I really don't mind spending more time with this man, he inspires me. My mom has been spending 4 weeks in Australia now, the house still looks ok. My sister has been keeping things in order. Well, don't look at me, my tolerance for cleanliness is pretty high. Which reminds me, I'd probably invest in a Roomba vacuum cleaner in the future. The house will be tricked out with gadgets! :) Speaking of gadgets, I bought myself an Android phone, replacing the Windows Phone 7 device that I had for about a month plus. If not for the constant reboot of the OS, I'd probably still be using it. But alas, the lust for gadgets for the better of me .... I had to give Android a shot. So far I haven't had any problem with it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't that tech savvy though, if you need an everyday phone with some app usage, just go with an iPhone. I'm suppose to go Ho Chi Minh city end of next month for another training opportunity with the universities over there. I really don't know what to expect in Vietnam. I'll probably go read up about the place. Come June, we'll be down in Singapore for an expo, and once again we are given an opportunity to showcase our work ... woohooo ... this time round, it will be in Marina Bay Sands resort, Singapore's well camouflage intergalactic space ship. Thank God for the open doors, may He be glorified in all of this. I've been pretty backlogged with work, there are several projects that I've yet to get started... but I believe everything has its own time, it will all work out. As much as I want to hurry and get things started and done, somehow the delay has always been on the clients part. It's a blessing in disguise, this gives us room to breath a little while we work on ongoing projects. With Enoch in the picture, things have been going a little better. I'm hoping for another hire to get things really going. Lol ... I had a read of my posts back in 2003, so embarrassing. What in the world was I thinking ... or NOT thinking. Thank you Jesus!! Happy Easter yo! 0 comments Sunday, March 06, 2011
Work hard, play hard
[ 11:56 pm ] Let’s see …. I spilled a full cup of water on my less-than-4-month old Macbook Pro. My favourite accoustic guitar broke … literally. My desktop PC of 5 years decided to die on me yesterday. Money come, money go. BUT, I choose to give thanks to God, for His mercies and blessings for allowing me the ability of cover these financially. If these were to happen 2 years ago, I’d cry a river of tears! But it’s not THAT bad la, thank God the keyboard silicone cover that I hated so much protected the water from getting into the mac, it literally flowed away! As for my accoustic guitar, it was a matter of time before it broke … it’s been through a lot; it was about time to get a new one. Who knew it decided to break 2 weeks ago when I was supposed to be serving for ACTSkids. My desktop PC on the other hand, decided to die on me yesterday, I think the CPU is fried. There’s power going in, just that it’s not powering up anymore. I blame this on wear and tear …. I hope the hard drive is ok, that’s where all the important things are. All these can be replaced … so I’m ok with that. Two weeks ago after the guitar broke, Evan and I went looking around for a replacement. I found a couple that I liked … just not the price though. I’m not willing to spend so much … maybe it’s just me, I’m just not willing to throw money around, especially hard earned money. It’s not easy to earn money, ok? I am not willing to spend RM5000 on a guitar … no matter how good it is. Partly because I don’t think the current skills that I have warrant a guitar of that price. Just last week, someone I knew from highschool passed away in a pretty bad car accident. We went to the same 1119 tuition before back in Form 5. I don’t recall much about him, the rest were a lot closer to him since they practically grew up in the same neighbourhood, me? I was just the new kid in town back then, so I never really got to know him that well. Strange… how come I can’t recall any of the conversations we ever had? I think he even stayed over my place once … His untimely death made me think about life once again. Funny how death always stops you in your tracks and make you ponder about your own life. What you’ve achieved in life, the wealth you made, the positions you’ve help … all gone in a blink of an eye. What values do all these things have when you’re gone? What about your money? Your hard earned money that you’ve been saving for years and not willing to pamper yourself once in a while with … all that wouldn’t matter anymore when you’re dead. Isn’t that a shame? You work your arse off and never tasted the fruit of your labour. I think that’s a shame. So, that brought me to this thought. I’ve been a stinge to myself. I work my arse off and I’m gonna reward myself for it! I got myself a new Windows Phone 7 to play around with (well, that’s not entirely true, since I wanted to have a feel of the device before developing anything on it) and this afternoon I bought the guitar. Well, not the 5k one, but a slightly cheaper one at 3.6k ... I’m loving it so far. I feel it’s ok to splurge on yourself once in a while. You don’t know the length of your days on Earth anyways; I don’t want to live in regret. Knowing that I should had done this or done that. The saddest thing is not about dying; it’s about not fulfilling all the dreams that you had. If you died today, will anyone miss you? Will anyone APART from your family shed a tear for you? I asked myself that question and was deeply discouraged and sadden by the answer. What would people remember you for? There is a lifelong project that I’m about to undertake, something that I’ve wanted to do for almost 10 years now. If I’m gonna die one day, in my death you’ll be BLESSED. Wanna know what it is? You slowly wait la …. I’m not going back to the Lord that soon :D Anyways, enough depressing thoughts for the day. Tomorrow is a new day! I’ll be conducting the final leg of our training stint at MMU. I’m not sure if I’m prepared for this, seem to have lost the momentum after bout of training in Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok and Chiang Mai. I’m hoping to spot some talents tomorrow for future hires. You know, God has been really good to us. I’ve been counting my blessings each day! Sometimes we do take things for granted and forget that He’s been the one all along. You just to come into the realisation that the things we have now are not our own. It’s on loan. The prosperity of our business, do you really think it’s because of how awesome and clever we are? Not without the prayer support of our friends and loved ones and for His grace and mercies, I don’t think we’d come this far. To be honest, I’m even surprised we came this far! So, I’ll take this time to thank you God, for your mercies endure forever and You cause us to triump in Your name! We’ve been looking to hire 2 guys into the team. This has been one of my prayer request la … and to be honest, I haven’t done anything yet, no adverts or actively searching. Just HOPING that God will send someone along. Well, of course that doesn’t work. So I did some searching on my own and asking around. I thought about Leong since we’ve worked together before and I’ve known him for years now. I did asked if he was interested as I felt he deserved to be treated well than what he’s getting now. However, things didn’t pan out that well as he’s going to start a business together with his wife. As a friend, I feel that’s the best step forward for him and I’m really glad. I told him our doors are still open if he’s ever interested in the future. Good help is hard to find. Seriously. Well, a churchmate will be joining the company this coming April. I don’t think it’s a coicidence but by divine appointment. So … we’ll see how everything goes, this year is gonna be an exciting year of growth! 1 comments Sunday, February 13, 2011
Hmm
[ 12:02 am ] I did say I’d be writing more, guess I lied. Time is such a treasure now; it’s been hard to find some down time for myself let alone time to blog. Things have a little on the busy side for me. Rushing a few projects and meeting some crazy deadlines we brought upon ourselves. Well, it didn’t looked that bad when we set it :\ Grace under pressure is really challenging. There were times I’d find myself feeling really frustrated with how things are, maybe it’s the perfectionist in me … I guess I have to listen more. There are 2 parties interested in investing into our company, one I’m very comfortable with and the other, I’m not so sure yet. Let’s see how that goes. We’ll be taking this opportunity to double up the team, hopefully this should ramp up our projects and executions. I really don’t know who God is going send our way, hoping for the right people to fit the shoes. I’m really tired and exhausted. One may think that your company is running fine and profitable, but my life isn’t. The problem is, I’m a workaholic. I find myself devoted to my work nowadays, maybe because I still find it fascinating and exciting. What about things that is around me? What about that girl that I’ve sometimes neglected because of the busy schedule and tight deadlines? I can’t think of the last time we had some quality time together … that my mind would not be thinking about work. The solution to the problem is, hire, expand, delegate and manage. I’m aiming for a more balanced work life this year. I’ve activated by gym account last month! Hopefully there’s time to work out. I’m starting to get used to working in the new office. I love our seats, too comfortable! Parking is a little on the expensive now that Subang Parade decided to change the RM3 per day rate applicable only if you drive in before 8am and not before 10am like it used to be. Am I going to wake up super early now? Parking in Empire, if I had a choice, I wouldn’t want to park there. The rates are just too expensive in the long run. There was a major announcement made by Nokia and Microsoft yesterday, and it certainly does affect us as a business. Honestly, I’m pretty excited about it and I’m hoping we’ll be first movers. Too many negative comments out there, but I see an opportunity! I was going through a series of Windows Phone 7 tutorials today to get up to speed on the platform, everything seems pretty easy. The development tools were quite solid, so much better than what we’re accustomed to. Maybe once most of our projects are completed, we’ll start developing some cool stuff on Windows Phone 7 :) I’m gonna be spending some time with Yee See tomorrow after service, hoping to check out some stuff in IKEA for the office and also a mini fridge! 0 comments Friday, December 31, 2010
Goodbye 2010!
[ 11:18 pm ] Another year has gone by … and what a year it was! Haven’t been blogging at all, but I need to pen down my thoughts on New Year’s Eve. This has got to be one of the best years so far, but there’s much more to achieve. So, what were the highlights?
What I’m looking forward to,
Oh yeah, Kanmani is back for a few days, I’m suppose to contact her, maybe I’ll give her a call tomorrow or something. I haven’t met Zack before, can you believe it? Starting next week towards the end of the month I’ll be in Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok and Chiang Mai to train students at their local Uni on mobile design. I’ve been trying to enhance the teaching materials, but that proved to be a little challenging. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it! I’m not sure if I’m looking forward to the trip, there are still a few deadlines to meet next month. Ok, I need to stop being a worry wart. Just got back from a trip to Singapore with a bunch of church friends, it's good to be doing tourist-sy things in Singapore other than work :D I had fun, so I guess all is good! Can't believe I'm going back there again next Sunday. We went to the Night Safari! I didn't think it could be that exciting hahaha Ok, it's almost the New Year, gonna stop blogging. I’m gonna try to blog a lot more. Oh, we shall see if that happens. 0 comments Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Awesomeness
[ 9:54 pm ] Hello there. Let’s get acquainted again. I’m the proud owner of this dilapidated blog. It’s been such a long time since I last written. Free time is a premium nowadays. Things are a little more relaxed now, though I doubt it will last that long. Might as well update my blog, huh? It’s really hard to get the engine started again … The past few weeks … or months for that matter, were really one roller-coaster ride to the other. Plenty of ups and downs and some triple loops thrown in. Work truly has been amazing. We’ve been shown so much favour that it could only be from Him and no one else. Now that the new Nokia N8 announcement had been made by Nokia, we can talk about it. We’ve been busy creating 5 different apps for them that will be preloaded unto the device when it’s released. It’s really awesome to have your creations loaded onto a state of the art phone for market release and potentially being used by hundreds and thousands of people. God is good, because I believe He made this happen, to cause us to be favourable. It’s been great fun creating these apps, and of course the project management part of it is something that we have to learn improved on. Another app that we had a hand in the development process was released globally last week. Globally. Now, that just means millions of people will be using something we designed (not created, since we were only contracted to design while another company handled the development), isn’t that awesome? We attended Nokia’s conference last year, and I thought to myself. Ahh … I wonder what it’ll be like to be up there presenting instead hahaha … but of course, this isn’t something that you’d think out loud, ok? But God knows the desires of your heart. Less than a year later, I got what I wished for. Early this month we were invited to speak at their conference. Jitterbugs! Yeah, it’s something I wished for … but never expected it to be real ok? I’m not even a person that’ll speak much in front of a crowd … but I thought to myself, this is one opportunity that we should not miss … even at the cost of making a spectacle out of one self in public. We were invited to speak as a Nokia success story, sort of to encourage budding developers that they too can partner with Nokia :) So, when you have less things to say, you do it with beautiful PowerPoint slides :P I think my slides looked better than what I had to say. Malaysians in general, especially the developer crowd aren’t very ... umm … responsive? It’s not like church for sure, when you’re up there alone, you’re alone man. At least some of the Nokia guys thought we did well, that’s encouraging. Oh! I got a speaker appreciation gift hahaha … a leather wallet, keychain and pen. Smells nice. I thought to myself, hmmm … wow, God really have been blessing us. Maybe He’s honouring our 10% company tithe? I really believe God will build our ‘house’ as we sow into His house. We’ve been faithfully giving each time we make withdrawals, and that’s on top of our own personal tithes. You cannot imagine how happy it feels when you’re able to tithe. It’s like, “Wow, God, I’ve worked so hard and this is my offering!” Just this afternoon, the both of us drove to LimKokWing Uni to meet up with 2 Head of Departments (as introduced by Nokia) to work out an opportunity have some of their students intern with us. At the rate we’re going, there is a need to multiply ourselves … and interns are a great way to do that :) We did worked something out, and once again I just felt God’s favour upon this. We’ve been asked if we could coach/train their students every fortnightly starting next semester. To me, that’s a win-win situation. We get inside involvement with students (to identify hidden talents and offer them internship opportunities). We’ve been invited to attend an MoU signing next Tuesday as well as some of the students will be presenting mock-ups of the applications they plan to build. That’s a great way to gauge the quality of their work. When we first started this company, never would I have imagined all of this. There’s so much more that I’m hoping for in all of this. Well that’s some updates on work. What about life in general? It’s alright. My mom is doing fine, except from the allergic reaction to the chemo drugs. One more shot to go. We’re kind of used to seeing her without a head of hair :) She’s pretty positive, so that alleviates any worries that our family has to face through. I believe God is in this, so there’s really no need to worry about things. I’m finding it a challenge to juggle between work and relationship. Don’t get me wrong, Yee See and I have an awesome relationship, and as much her understanding the significance of my work for the sake of our future, she gets it and fully supports what I do. She’s been doing really great at work and I’m really proud of her. Who’d thought that a person of her quiet demure would make a great medical sales rep? She hit her sales target this month and next month will be moving to a much much better MNC. It’s really not easy to maintain a relationship; it’s a lot of work. There are a lot of rough patches that we’re ironing out, then again, which couple don’t go through these things? At the end of the day, we just learn to appreciate each other better and to ‘celebrate’ our differences :P I’m just so thankful for someone great like her. So, that’s my ‘report’ for the day, thanks for reading haha. 0 comments Saturday, April 03, 2010
Cobwebs
[ 2:27 am ] Yes, I haven't been updating my blog ... but I shall soon! When things are a little less crazier. I have so much to share ... spoken words don't do justice to what I have in my mind, I rather pen them down. 0 comments Monday, January 18, 2010
Job, you smart fella
[ 3:36 am ] I know I should be sleeping at this time, but somehow I just don’t want to. I don’t know. I think it’s such a waste of time … I mean, I feel like time is wasted when you’re sleeping. Nah kidding, I love sleeping :) I was busy playing desktop defender on facebook … my latest weekend time sink. Don’t think Yee See will be pleased to know what I’ve been up to :-X I’m quite excited about the latest project we’re doing with a certain mobile manufacturer. I thank God for the ability to visualise designs in my head while driving … showering … sleeping … spacing out … yes, I do have an active mind. Things usually just fall into place and I don’t have to conceptualise too much. I believe He has put these things in me, so I guess it’s not my work, but His. I got 3 designs in my head that’s just waiting to have a label on it! Ok, enough about work. We should be receiving our loot tomorrow … and I need to clear off all my debts. Whatever that’s left, hopefully should last me a couple of more months. I’ve not taken Yee See out for a long time now. Ugh … the intricate art of balancing work and relationship. I’m not good at it. I think I’ll buy my family dinner, or maybe they’ll just have to sit through my experimental recipes. My mom is doing ok and will be discharged later this afternoon. Almost felt like she was out vacationing somewhere for the whole week. I hope she’s able to adjust … hmm … nevermind. I love bananas. I’ve not drank Ovaltine for a long time now. Not sure if you still can find it anymore … btw, there’s this show on TV, Willy’s Chocolate Factory … or was it Willy Wonky’s Chocolate Factory … hmm … anyways, this guy cooks with chocolate. Savoury dishes with chocolate. I know there’s a restaurant somewhere that does savoury chocolate. Can’t recall the name now, I’ll check with Kanmani when I see her … if I see her. Speaking of chocolates, my sister ate ALL my chocolates when we were young. Sometimes I do get bitter about it partly because of my grandpa’s favouritism towards granddaughters. I don’t have a single good memory of him. That’s odd right? I can’t seem to recall any, really. Most of them were quite nasty. It’s funny how people remember the bad things a lot more than the good. I wonder why? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have any animosity against him, just that I don’t have any good memories of him. My grandma on the other hand, there’s way too many :) I wonder what happens when you microwave a banana. I was watching “The Fourth Kind” earlier this afternoon. It’s a docudrama/movie about … alien abductions. Particularly in the town of Nome, Alaska. I got fooled by the authenticity of the whole movie. The video footages looked very very real. If you’ve watch Blair Witch Project, you’d know what I meant. If you’re interested, go have a look, just don’t get freaked out. A part of me want to believe that aliens do exist, and the other part tells me they weren’t part of God’s creation. This collection of creation science books is really challenging the way I think about this world. Can I really accept and be ridiculed for believing the Earth is actually 6000 years old instead of what evolutionist claim to be billions of years old? It’s a very long debate that I don’t want to get into right now. But the bible holds so many scientific truths that were only discovered last century. Read the book of Job, and you’ll know what I mean. The book of Job is the oldest book in the bible … predating Genesis. Lemme look up a verse … Job 38:4-7 4 “ Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?Look at verse 7. Singing stars? Most people would think that it’s something poetic … but there’s a truth in it. The Hebrew word for sang is “renan”; it just means the emitting of a loud shrill, piercing sound. So what this verse tells us is basically, the stars were emitting loud piercing sound. What? You didn’t know stars emit sounds? This was only discovered in the late 1940s when scientists were testing radar equipments and they picked up some extremely high pitch noises that were so intense that the equipments could not work properly … which leads us to the discovery of radio telescopes. Job 28:25 25 To establish a weight for the wind,Yeah, everyone today knows air/wind has weight, but this wasn’t discovered until 300 years ago. It was written in the bible thousands of years but why it took the science community to acknowledge it? Job 26:7 7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;How did Job knew the Earth of suspended in space by the gravity of the sun? Or even the existence of space? How did he know the Earth of suspended over nothing? Nothing = space. This wasn’t an accepted truth until the 17th century, it was brought up and ridiculed in the 15th century. I guess people back then prefer to believe the world rested on a giant tortoise or on Atlas’s shoulders. Actually, there’s a lot more … but I’ll leave it to another day. Creation science and apologetics is very very interesting. I’ll share more the next time, it’s time for bed. 2 comments Friday, January 15, 2010
Life goes on.
[ 1:22 am ] My mom has cancer. It took a while for the reality to sink in. Any normal person would start asking a million and one question asking why this is happening, life is not fair, God is not fair, etc. I don’t think I’ve even at one point blamed God or was angry at Him. I still find no reason to be angry at Him … I find it silly actually. We repeat this in church almost every week, “God is good all the time and all the time God is good”. This is a truth. Despite whatever overwhelming circumstances we face in life, we still have a God that’s good. And because He is good, I know He’s there to make things right when everything seems wrong. Some simple logic la … you don’t need feelings to tell you that. Bad things do happen to good people and even as believers we do go through rough patches, these are parts and parcel of life. The wonderful thing about this is, it’s not from God. I don’t believe cancer is from God, it never was, it’s caused by sin (based on the creation science book I’ve been reading) when man first disobeyed God. Sickness was never part of creation. Anyways, bad things only happen because God permitted it. Why? I don’t know, maybe to refine us? Sometimes we might not see His hand in the situations we are in, but we know His heart. That’s where we place our trust in, because we ‘know’ God, His character. Thinking about it, God was in this all along if we open our eyes wider. She has been carrying that ‘thing’ for 2 years now. If not for that doctor to urge her to do an ultrasound, things could have been worse. I don’t think my mom wants that many people to know about the things she’s going through; I don’t see the problem in it. The more people know, then the more people should keep her in prayers. She’s been in the hospital since Monday now, and she’s doing quite fine. Doesn’t look like any cancer patient I know. She’s probably the only cheerful person in the ward … that’s my mom for you. A change from the person I knew before she accepted Jesus. Ok, I did tell God, He took my dad, so let’s make a deal, keep my mom around longer. She needs to be there to see her son get married, be a grandma and babysit the kids, ok? Hahahaha HUKM is one big hospital … Yee See and I was lost finding our way out last Monday. We ended up walking through the back of the hospital, pass the hostel, power generator, morgue, garbage bins, laundry area … we walked for 15 minutes till we got back to the front of the hospital. Well, that’s a little update from me. Life still goes on. I’m down to RM79, that’s all I have. Client promised us the money will be banked in next week. I certainly hope so. 2 comments Archives nothing |
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