Life For Rent

Ceddy has been asking me to go to MOS since yesterday.

And now, check this out.

At 22.43.05hr, Ben smsed me “Play tonite?”
At 22.43.30hr, Jamal smsed me “Clubbing?

Am I missing something in town?

I am tired lah I just want to nua tonight. I prolly need to head down to Play soon. Got work to do. And it aint partying. When work becomes play, so boring.

Trust me, you’ll probably not find a single DJ who parties on the dance floor. You either stand behind the console, or in front of it. Not both.

I aint even alcohol hungry. Now something might be wrong with me.

I do miss maxwell. And I miss the walk up to Play. Home… in all sense. I shall return. Very shortly. Hang on pals

Good friday morning! The sun is bright and so is everything around. People are sneezing around me at work though… eeek. One has gone to see the doctor and is going to leave for home soon. The boss is on leave today so there are no meetings in the afternoon. Yay.

Have I ever mentioned my obssession with hair? Or rather the lack of it. For years I have been ‘complaining’ about hairs growing in all the wrong areas. Places where hair shouldn’t be sprouts out a ‘botanical gardens’ but where hair should be, it’s like the sahara desert. But I am working on it!! Don’t ask me how or what, but yes I am working on it.

Flipping through the news of the day, stocks are up after the fed reserve maintained the interest rates, but remain cautious over the inflation. This seems to suggest at the next fed meeting, if things do not change, they may just increase the rate. Better escape from the stock market before then…

Also, a new cure for AIDS? Medical researchers have developed an enzyme that attacks the DNA of a HIV and cuts it off from the infected cell. When I studied virology, I learnt that one of the most tricky things bout HIV is that it is able to lie dormant in a resting stage within the infected cell in order to avoid detection. They can go to ‘sleep’ and not produce new viruses for a very long time. Also, as everyone knows, it mutates rather quickly so no single treatment is able to erradicate the virus.

But with this new enzyme, a cure may be in place to get rid of the HIV from a human body in time. It is still far from being commercially produced, but this particular enzyme sounds promising, and should offer a glimmer of hope for people infected with HIV.

Everything sounds positive around me. I feel the aura of positiveness. Let’s hope it stays!

I got this in the SMS today. Try it.

Man was expecting guests at his place so he went to a shop and bought 4 cans of drinks. The drinks cost twenty five cents each. On returning home, he realised he already had enough drinks, so he took the 4 cans back for a refund. The shopkeeper was nice and gave the man twenty five cents back. The man took the twenty five cents, said his thanks and left. Why?

I came across this blog posting by wilsurn.. so funny la. As they say, do not bitch a bigger bitch. Ok we aint even talking bout bitching yet. Wilsurn is a nice funny chap I must say. I hope his leg is better!

Read the log:

its one of those days. you feel damned tired after a long freakin appointment.
you sit down at one of those corner mrt seats, plugged your ipod and fell asleep.

*someone taps my shoulder*

fuckin grumpy, i woke up and saw lady in a plain baby blue dress

her: excuse me?

me: ya?

her: (rolling her eyes) im pregnant

me: oh, congrats (i plonked back to sleep)

her: (tapping me even harder) im pregnant and you should give the seat to me.

me: huh? (the train was kinda packed and it was at somerset going towards cityhall)

her: you are taking the seat for pregnant and elderlys. you should give it up.

me: look. you are wearing a dress, it doesn’t state that you are pregnant. besides, how would i know if you are not just fat, or you have thyroid like chen liping? and im sleeping. there’s no pregnancy sensor! and just because being fat, you claim ya pregnant. what makes you think im not pregnant too?

(at this point. the train had like loads of people giggling. i turned to the auntie on my left and asked)

me: she look like pregnant meh! can you tell?

auntie: (shook head, and still giggling)

her: so.. er… (looking flabbergasted) im telling you now lor!

me: and im telling you im pregnant lor. (roll eyes)

the train reached city hall anyway, reluctantly i had to alight.
stupid cunts.

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hahaha!

Anyway, on a more serious note, Chris Benoit (the WWE wrestler) who allegedly killed his wife and son before hanging himself in a murder cum suicide case was found to have anabolic steroids in his atlanta home. He was also found to have ordered steroids for body builders online. It is speculated he *may* have been disorientated by ingesting the steroids. WWE has since banned the use of steroids with the recent spate of sudden deaths incidents among its wrestlers. Eddie Gurerro died of a heart failure late last year from steroid overdose.

Steroids are bad. Sure, they give the consumer that power and ability to do more, but there are side effects. I am happy to say, although i do not have that perfect buff look, but I have never been on steroids. I will probably lose all my hair, have bad ace, and weigh over 200 pounds thereafter. My temperament will probably be worse than ever, like a rabid dog. Artificial steroids is a no no. You could take supplements that spur your body to produce more testosterone which is fine, but anything artificial isn’t good, especially in large quantities. So while speculations over what happened within Chris’s family, the family and friends have my deepest condolences. Another gifted athlete has left us. I have a lot of respect for this guy’s athleticism and endurance. Sadly his career has been cut short.

Rest in peace.. wherever you are..

Smokers, prices of your sticks will go up from Jul 1st. Viceroy goes up 40c, and marboro goes up 60c.

Makes you wonder why everything goes up but then they don’t come down. Unlike our salary, or stock market. haha…

Also, toto prize pool has snowballed to 3mil tomorrow. For those who are interested…

Just under 1 more week.. I’ll be able to hand over and put all my scheduled breaks into place. I guess it isn’t just me who needs that break here and there. At other times I wonder, what is the point of working so hard, only to spend money for a vacation to destress. Or a trip to the club. And after that trip we are back to square 1. I am referring to the vast majority who earn an average amount, not those who earn thousands where you can go on a 2 week round the world vacation and it doesn’t impact your bank account’s bottom line one bit.

If we didn’t work so hard, would we burn out that quick, or work hard to earn that vacation trip? Just a hypothetical thought.

Politics.. as if we do not have enough around our lives, it has to come between frenship to. People who know me, will know that I get extremely annoyed with politics among friends. At best I will just distant myself. At worst I’ll blow my top one fine day. Day in day out, we have enough at work and at home and everywhere, do we need them at play too? Perhaps there are some who simply don’t get along. Perhaps sometimes we do not respect the crowd we are with. We go out in a group but break into smaller groups, engrossed within our own world, neglecting the rest. I suppose I can be guilty of it too. Disrespect perhaps. It is a tough call. People try to mix leisure with business. It is a lose-lose situation regardless of how you put it. If we didn’t mix, maybe we wouldn’t be able to have leisure time at all and meet up with the rest. I do assume most will just say “if you’re busy, then don’t head out’. For the longest time I have followed that rule. There are many people whom I haven’t met in eons. I haven’t met my best fren since last year. So one can imagine, what about mutual friends then. Either way, I am at fault whether I meet or do not meet. So how? Everyone has to compromise. People have to be understanding, yet the ‘busy’ ones have to be mindful of the presence of other people and not neglect them. It could come to the point of being rude (imagine you come out with frens and everyone is busy playing with their mobile, smsing other people), but the line need not be crossed if people could be more tolerant.

With all that said, I do NOT subscribe to any of the above, simply because it will mean I EXPECT people to undersand or tolerate. I do not want to expect anything. The episode I learnt from Jansen is, not everyone can be friends with each other. Perhaps we can still be plastic about it and go ‘hey how are you’ when you bump into one another. Or perhaps, in the corporate world, that is just being polite and courteous. You do not want to step on anyone’s toes even those that belong to your enemies, simply because in the corporate world you will never know what happens and who you work with. Your new boss could be the ‘enemy’. He could also be the new guy under you, or a partner in the company. Maybe not now, but 10 years later? It is a small world.

I valued friendship a lot. But thanks to a certain person (who made me cry throughout my entire birthday week last year), I realise if you get along then it is good, if not, then it is better to be apart rather than become enemies. At least you are neutral about each other still. Indeed, not everyone is made to be friends. I don’t judge people by how many people they know whom they call friends, but rather how the circle of friends accept the person for who he or she is. I can’t stand a lot of my frens whom I know from a long time ago, and they probably cannot stand me either, but we accepted each other’s faults and we are friends. Friends where lines are not crossed, yet are more tolerant and forgiving to faults that would have otherwise, ticked one off big time.

Everyone knows I am the music guy. Here’s two lines from a track that summarises it all. I used it in my summer mix too. My frens will know what song it is…

Love me or hate me, its still an obsession.
Love me or hate me, that is the question.

“If you love me then thank you
If you hate me then fuck you!”

I regret to inform, I have just received news that Chris Benoit (WWE wrestler), along with his wife and young son were found dead in their home. Police are investigating the case as a murder cum suicide.

I have recently gone online shopping! I saw some cute pyjamas online that is so my type. Those cute cute ones. I bought something for the hubs too. And with promo codes that you can find online too, things get far cheaper. And these are stuff I can’t get around here. Wow!

Can’t wait to receive it.

Birthday season it is. One birthday to attend today. Happy birthday queenin! and then princess rach, and then it is mine.

Now where shall we go tonight… hmmm…

I was dining at the Greenhouse, Ritz Carlton during their japanese promotion. Gotta say it is a real good place in terms of quality. As anyone who has been there will probably say, it is a good place for that occasional indulgence.

Interestingly, throughout the 2 or 3 hours I was there, there were 4 birthday songs (courtesy of the violin guy coming around) going out to 4 seperate groups of people. The service crew came around to sing the birthday song and to present the cake. Wow. Looks like the place of choice for birthdays eh?

Is that an omen?

I am sending out an advisory alert to ensure your AV signatures are updated.
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Hackers compromise 10k sites, launch ‘phenomenal’ attack
The large-scale attack is based on the multiexploit hacker kit dubbed ‘Mpack’
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What happens is, sites from Europe have been compromised, and the infections are spreading.

Legit websites are the ones hit, and it has not been determined how these sites are compromised.

What can happen is, you surf onto a website, could be any popular website that has the malicious code injected into an iFrame. Your browser is then instructed to download a file. Eventually keyloggers get installed and if infected, whatever you type, gets recorded and sent to the attacker. Who are these people, we do not know yet.

For Symantec users who are up to date, this is detected as Trojan.Mpkit!html and Downloader.