Eric's Blog

Cockroach Can Fly

2012-01-11T22:03:00.001+08:00

It's just that I have never actually seen one.

Last night, I came out from my toilet and saw a cockroach on the curtain. It has probably come to seek revenge for the one that I had killed in the kitchen weeks ago.

This time, it was so huge that it looked like a boss.

It's that big.

So I went and take the broom, ready to launch the Mission: Exterminate Roaches.

When I get near, about 3 metres away, it spread its wings and flew towards me.

That was what happened. NOT.

Having watched too much martial arts drama and ninja anime, I braced myself and held my broom like a two-handed sword.

Illustration only.

With perfect timing, I swatted the bug down in mid-air.

Broom Style: Karate chop!

One Hit KO!

I swept it out from my room and swung the broom so hard that the cockroach crashed into the wall with a loud thud. Probably broke its neck if it has one.

Having a kind heart, I decided not to deal the killing blow. I expected the cockroach to die from its injuries by morning.

This morning, it wasn't there anymore.

Die-hard bugs.

By the way, cockroaches eat so much that they can only fly at the speed about 20 centimetres per second.

Waiting

2011-12-26T23:01:00.000+08:00

At breakfast.

Food came.

Friend: You pay first, later I pay you.

Me: Nevermind lah. I treat you.

Took out money, expecting a "thank you".

Friend: YES!! I have been waiting for you to say that!!

Me: =____=

Gearing Up

2011-12-11T23:38:00.003+08:00

I'm planning for a long drive out of town for Christmas. Just my car and I.

I'm going to start my journey on the morning of Christmas Eve. Hopefully I get to see something great on the way.

It's going to be a long long drive.

I'm excited just at the thought of it. =D

XTRAordinary

2011-12-01T00:02:00.000+08:00

Perhaps the best pictures that I have ever captured so far.

Day 1 - Satisfied smirk.

Day 2 - Big sister.

Day 3 - Hallelujah!

Day 4 - Joelle.

More photos available in Facebook. That's all for now. Gotta head back to work!

B.S.E.

2011-11-21T18:40:00.001+08:00

Bachelor in Science and Engineering.

No, it is not.

It made me grin in sakai-ness when I first received it.

B.S.E. = Building Solutions Engineer

Do you need to build anything?

SickBun

2011-11-13T18:50:00.001+08:00

I was sick since yesterday.

Thanks to food poisoning.

Friends For Life.

I worked until quite late on Friday, so I thought I would just grab a fast dinner/supper before bed. Chicken burger from SugarBun.

Unfortunately, the bun of the burger was rather hard, as if over-exposed to moisture. I ignorantly swallowed the first bite, but threw the remaining away after that. Better safe than sorry.

Went to bed as usual, woke up about 6am in the morning. I felt a rather major heartburn and an urge to vomit. Trying to be hardcore, I withstood the sensation and went back to sleep.

Burn heal?

After awhile, I ended up visiting the toilet bowl and came up with a definition for the action: Diarrhoea = pooping effortlessly.

I spent the whole day enjoying every single bit of the heartburn and headache. I was knocked out for about 10 hours until dinner.

Went out and ate something, and bought myself Panadol Acti-Fast and some fluid to ease my heartburn.

Next thing on to-do-list: Complete delayed work due to health problems.

On Its Back

2011-11-05T09:35:00.001+08:00

Finally.

Ayam kambing back.

Translation: I am coming back.

Steel Getting Hotter

2011-10-30T02:17:00.009+08:00

Lots of projects in my hands. I'm catching up.

When I was in Form 1 to Form 3, a lab experiment report takes ages to complete.

Gone are the days where the scope experiment is only about measuring volume and temperature of water.

When I was in Form 4 and Form 5, lab reports are nothing. Projects takes ages to complete.

The lab ~~toys~~ equipment back then.

When I was in Foundation of Engineering, assignments are way superior than anything back in secondary school.

Calculation, calculation, calculation.

When I was in the first year in uni, a design project occupied my whole semester.

Commencement of stress.

When I was in second year, a design project occupied my whole month.

Stress manifested.

When I was in third year, a design project occupied my whole week.

Picnic? No, surveying.

When I was in fourth year, a design project occupied my whole day.

Getting more pro.

Now that I'm working, a design project occupied my whole hour.

Back to teddy-days.

I'm a Building Solutions Engineer, one that has gone through a lot of Super High Intensity Training to what I am today. Need a house? I'll design one for you in an hour, provide you with the price, ensure that you get your dream house in less than 4 weeks.

Lysaght® Smartframe® system in TrueCore™ steel.

Gotta work harder.

Bai Xue

2011-10-22T19:11:00.003+08:00

It has been quite a hectic week for me.

I am stressed, but joyfully growing. I am busy, but not distracted. I have a guitar to accompany me and a desire to learn that keeps challenging me to improve.

I have decided not to call it as Xiao Bai.

Readers, meet Snow White 白雪; Snow White, meet the readers.

It is not exactly white, but rather be considered as pearly white. The temperature of its colour changes with the lighting.

I bought this at ZOSO Music Shop, and it costed me RM600 at a discounted price. It comes with a bag, new set of strings and a built-in guitar tuner. The guitar strap costed me AUD25; I got it from Perth earlier this year.

Now I have almost a complete set. Next stop, capo.

I will be serving as a musician again, starting this week. I'm loving it!

Extra Forty

2011-10-14T20:50:00.010+08:00

The following conversation happened between a few cashiers and I at Singapore Chicken Rice.

Cashier A: Eat in or take away, sir?

Me: Take away please. I want to order 1 salad chicken rice, 5 roasted chicken rice with extra rice.

Cashier A: Ok. The extra rice just one extra box or you want 5 extra boxes?

Me: No, no. I want to tambah nasi to the 5 boxes of roasted chicken. Give me a little bit more rice.

Cashier A did not quite understand what I wanted. So she called Cashier B to listen together.

Me: Okay, it's like this. There's 6 people who needs to eat. The boss (thinking about myself) wants salad chicken rice. The other 5 people are workers, they need to eat more because they work a lot today. So they need more rice.

Cashier B: Oh... Ya ya... Ok.

Cashier A key in the price, press few buttons, and then her face turned a bit nervous. She called Cashier B again, and I looked at her computer touch screen.

The amount was RM30.40 and it seemed that she has pressed "Pay Cash" and pressed "Yes" at the question: RM30.40?

Cashier B came and tsk-ed at Cashier A for a few moments before I handed RM50 to them.

Kachiing! Cashier B returns RM20 to me. I was wondering if they made a mistake or simply wanted to bless me. So I waited for a drama.

After one minute, I was standing there waiting for the chef to cook the food. Cashier B came to the counter again.

Cashier B: Tadi kamu bayar lima puluh ringgit kan?

Me: Ya, why?

Cashier B: Harga tadi tiga puluh ringgit empat puluh sen, saya lupa bagi enam puluh sen kepada kamu.

Me: Kenapa bagi saya enam puluh sen? Saya bayar lima puluh saja, bukan lima puluh satu oh.

Cashier B blushed and took out a calculator. Press press press. and she replied: Sembilan ringgit enam puluh sen.

We laughed at the mistake and I handed them RM10, and they gave me RM9.60 after that.

Funny people. They had just made my day.

Nine. Ten. Eleven.

2011-10-09T16:29:00.001+08:00

Things happened, and I could not help but to beam at them.

Today is the day when people openly tell me how they feel.

Screenshot: Be careful of what you share online.

Today is the day when two of my friends made the eternal commitment towards each other.

Congratulations on your wedding! God bless!

That's called, real love.

Today is the day when I bought something for myself.

Meet Xiao Bai, my new guitar. (This is just a clone.)

Greater things have yet to come, greater things are still to be done!

Reaching Out, Touching Lives

2011-10-04T23:54:00.002+08:00

A really heart warming message. All the way from across the borders.

Joy unspeakable that won't go away, just enough strength to live for today.

Sometimes, you don't have to give perfect gifts to touch someone's heart.

HTML may fail, but in the end, it's the your sincere heart that matters the most.

Restaurant Outside Restaurant

2011-10-01T21:40:00.003+08:00

That's direct translation.

It's a Chinese restaurant where non-Chinese workers can speak good Mandarin. I was taken aback when an Indonesian spoke Mandarin fluently than most Chinese I know.

Seriously, this is a real Chinese restaurant.

And I found this.

~~Carlsberg~~ Wheatgrass Milk.

I felt more healthy again.

I'm just going to let the pictures do the talking. They speak a thousand words each.

Mushroom bean curd.

Sweet and sour fish fillet.

Sarawak's exclusive Midin Belacan.

Sesame Chicken.

Curry Red Snapper.

In the end, I had a Wheatgrass Milk round two. The curry set my tongue on fire.

Tasted and Tested

2011-09-27T00:37:00.004+08:00

It's my second time on the plane this year. This time, it's to Limbang.

I stopped by Miri for the best claypot bak kut teh, or at least rumours say so.

Tenth Mile Smell Good Beautiful Food.

This place is so far the best claypot restaurant I have ever experienced. Not only do they have lots of different weird combination of pig's body parts, but they also add in different kinds of herbs and spices.

It's like eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in a soupy way.

Next we have the die-hard traditional hotel.

Welcome to Gloria Hotel.

One thing about this hotel, it's cosy and not costly. But it comes at the price of hygiene. I flipped open the blanket and found a near-fossilized mosquito on the underside of the blanket.

Someone must have slept on it. And probably someone has forgotten to wash or change the bedsheets.

I slept through the night rather peacefully, except that the pillow was too stiff. I like feathered pillows.

Woke up, blur blur. Somehow reached the airport safely. Took a 6.15am flight to Limbang and I saw the smallest airport so far.

Limbang Airport, where there's only one parking slot for an aeroplane.

About 50 passengers, but there's only about 6 taxis. It's a good thing that my colleagues and I only have our hand-carry luggages. We secured a taxi to ourselves.

All we did were: eat, drink, talk, drink, go for a site visit, drink, site visit again, drink, talk, eat, drink, eat. My tank almost leaked.

Behold, the scarecrow that scares away thieves who steal construction materials.

We went to a place named "Good Old Place" for lunch.

Literally, Good Old Place.

This is where I found a new type of Barley drink.

It's fresh barley brewed with winter-melon slices.

It's so good that I might dump wheatgrass C for it.

The "KL Hokkien Mee" is a bit disappointing.

Now I know why Penang is rated to have the best Hokkien Mee, and why Kuching is said to have most of the best Sarawak food. Trust me, I'm not kidding.

It is not that Limbang, Miri and Bintulu food are not nice. It's just that, I grew up in Kuching with all the best food I could find (yet I complained at times), I find it harder to satisfy my own tongue in other parts of Sarawak.

We flew back to Miri before dinner. We decided to abandon Gloria Hotel, and move on.

Welcome to Imperial Palace Hotel.

By paying about RM40 extra, my bedroom gained extra 2 stars. I can finally enjoy feathered pillows. Not one, but four.

Probably the only place for dinner in Miri.

As far as I know, I haven't ate my dinner anywhere else in Miri. Don't know why also.

Just before bed, I had one of the most talked-about drink at night. Just one glass.

Kilkenny just killed my already-diminishing liking for other beers.

I must say, I had fun and enjoyed everything. Tasted the hotels and tested the drink. It's a tiring day, yet fulfilling.

Bluescope Lysaght

2011-09-17T10:49:00.004+08:00

Yeah, that's where I'm working right now. It's a downstream company of Bluescope Steel Australia.

Quote: "Bluescope Lysaght is one of Asia's largest rollformers that is dedicated to manufacture, supply and installation of top quality and intensive processed steel building products with a legacy of more than 135 years worldwide and 40 years in Asia."

In a shorter-term, Bluescope Lysaght is probably, if not the best place to look for when you want to build your roof and steel wall.

All steel sheets are coated with zinc-aluminium alloy to prevent corrosion. Normal corrosion prevention method is only galvanization of steel (zinc only). Bluescope Lysaght owns the unique zinc-aluminium coating called ZINCALUME®. It is tested and proven that it can prevent corrosion four times more than the ordinary zinc coating could. Read more about ZINCALUME®.

The paint system used for Bluescope Lysaght products goes beyond weather resistant. The Clean COLORBOND® paint offers colour-fading resistance, delamination (paint peeling) resistance, and stain resistance. It is the result of extensive actual field exposure testing. It has been proven that the paint system used for Clean COLORBOND® steel provides superior durability against weathering and UV penetration, when compared to other pre-painted steel.

On top of that, the paint surface resists dirt bonding. Any dust or dirt particle resting on the surface remain "loose" and can be washed away during rainfall. Therefore, the surface maintains a cleaner look over time.

Bluescope Lysaght is about quality. Most people would want their roof to look neat, clean, solid, and rich in colour for a long term. Most importantly, a roof has to serve its purpose to protect its owner from rain and shine. Read more about Clean COLORBOND®. More than just the colour, anyone can enjoy having the an extra metallic effect to it. Read more about Clean COLORBOND® Spectrum series.

Why choose products with cheaper price and lower quality when you can invest a little bit more for something of better quality manifold?

Quote: "When you install LYSAGHT® products you have the comfort of knowing that they have been designed and tested to withstand harsh conditions. Products are designed and tested for wind pressure, cyclonic conditions, hail, impact of falling debris, earthquakes and point load strength."

Back To Blogger

2011-09-16T17:39:00.000+08:00

I have just set up a basic layout for this blog.

Needs a lot of resources for web design and renovation work.

Will start blogging after I get a decent camera.