Infinitium's version of Happy Birthday...

Happy Birthday to you... Happy Birthday to You... Happy Birthday to You-u... I~~~ REMEMBERED THIS~~~ YEAR!!!!!

That really cracked me up. Thanks for the good laugh man!!!

Exhaustion from work.

3 Thursday's ago, my supervisor told me to pick up some reporting thinghy from the BPA. The next day I found out it was his last day. I also found out that he hasn't been collecting data as he should have done for his remaining days at work.

This daily reporting thinghy is purely the shits. Gotta pull data at 4pm daily. Gotta prepare numbers and compile a report by 10 am the next day... and weekly report... die also must try to produce by 11 am on Monday. It's not easy to have to handle incoming transactions that should ideally be completed within the day while also trying to finish this reporting shit.

Thank God they are discontinuing the need for the report and giving me something else to do soon.

Love my new phone. Btw, mine's in Volcanic Red. Now I just gotta explore the software CD for the phone-Computer interaction.

And most importantly for today -- IT IS THE FIRST TIME in eons since I got back early from work... and am back early just because I'm suppose to visit a granduncle in the hospital.

*sigh* He's in coma. I don't know the full story yet. Depressing thought indeed.

Also... am again containing potential sore throat. Lack sleep. Panicked 2 mornings ago when I woke up with terrible pain at my right abdominals. Luckily it was something other than the worse thing that first popped into my mind.

Yup. Wasn't appendicitis. Some muscle spasm/cramp. Maybe because it was too cold the night before... coupled with my having suffered diarrhoea since the evening before.

My 3310's screen has said goodbye / No call ID, No SMS, No message of any kind I can read / Life is tough without a gadget I once could live without.

Ok... so that pretty much happened last Wednesday. By Friday, Chin2 & I had plans to go phone-hunting on Sunday after watching the earliest show of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Bonus trivia... movies before noon coz only RM5 per head. Woo-HooOooo!!!

Over the weekend I was mulling over whether to get a Nokia 6610, SE T68i or to go for the SE T610... so many things to consider... but eventually... I set my heart to one and felt the pain of having to spend so much cash in such a short time after getting my replacement home PC...

And all I have to say now is... it was well-worth it. Let's just hope I don't so something totally brainless to my new phone like what I did to my 3310. *crossed-fingers*

F I S H

Yup, that's right! Fish! My office has lots of it. Paper fishes and cardboard ones... they are everywhere!

1.5 weeks to D-day, Friday, Oct 3 - a group of unsuspecting employees where pulled into an organizing committee. Gosh! That's not a lot of time for us to help pull things together. Everyone is busy with month end closings... At the same time - each team in the dept had to think of what's a good fish deco to make for the competition. Best fish wins a prize for the team.

1.5 days to D-day... the project chieftess came by and told me... "Hey, I need you to play only parts of so-and-so songs". I broke the news to my partner in crime, James. We sorta-panicked... we lacked the proper tools.

And so we found ourselves stealing whatever time we could to pull bits of small wonders into place for D-day with what limitations we had... of course this included a search over the net for freeware or shareware to aid us. We ended up with only one useful tool. All others were essentially crap to us.

D-day finally arrives. Chaos! I spent more time than I would prefer in reacquainting myself to sound editting via Flash 5.0. James forgot to prepare music for one whole section in the itinerary... The food arrived late.

Later, halfway into FISH - the chieftess asked if we could edit some song like an hour before a scheduled item. We tech fellas nearly fainted... but luckily we managed to make it clear that it would have been impossible to get things done with such short notice.

Considering that our playful boss really dressed up like a pirate and that we all got to see our project chieftess boogie-ing her bootie during one of the games... this event lacking good organization... with no proper rehearsal for the events sequencing and the like... the event was successfully fun! Not bad at all... not bad at all :)

Last Thurs (25 Sep), mum has gone off to KL to follow my dad off for a trip to East Malaysia. The house is all mine and there shall be no mum to nag me for until the end of next week. Friday (26 Sep) - Gosh... landslide of work to deal with and had to sit through a meeting. Bleh... tiring day.

Saturday night... went to Prangin Mall with Jocelyn coz she wanted to buy some stuff from the Thai Fair before they their last day there. Then... we hung about Starbucks for a drink and some scrumptious cake.

Sunday... woke up late and thought "Damn... cannot bathe. No water!"

Then a curious gesture to check if the taps were really dry prooved to give me a pleasant surprise... My house STILL HAS WATER!!! Muahahaha! I can wash my clothes and mop the house and... do all the other mundane stuff... including having a nice cool bath.

F1 Race. US GP, Minneapolis. Rainy day with surprising results... bad day for Williams as Ralf Schumacher spins off while Montoya suffering from a spate of ill-judgement and really bad luck. Meanwhile, the Sauber team has much to rejoice for earning 10 points in this race with Frentzen in 3rd and Heidfeld finishing in 5th. A much deserved break for this team indeed.

The whole of last week was much a blur. For one... there was much to do prior to Gramp's birthday celebration on last Saturday. If there was one word to describe the whole of Saturday - it's "Non-stop". There were relatives coming and going from my house from mid-morning to til the afternoon. There were little kids running everywhere... some of them are just darn cute. *EEeeeeEEeeEEEEe... geramnyer*

At night, it was dinner out at the restaurant and well... again... playing usher and host... and I don't even remember at least 35% of the guests' names or family titles (who are they in the first place?!) and how they are connected to us. hehehe... all in all... was so poofed over the weekend.

Now back at work once more on the 2nd day of the week, it's been busy. Had to take up my colleague's workload yesterday since she was sick and on MC. Again.... damn... bzler... so... forgive the lack of updates.

Arrrrgggh!! It's Monday!

Ok... now that that's over with, let me recap on a few things that have happened since my last blog entry.

Work's the same... except I dunno why I had a sudden landslide coming in on last Friday. Didn't go home til 8pm... and sent some work to my "Yahoo! Briefcase" although I wasn't sure whether I'll have access to a PC at home over the weekend. Luckily, Mal brought my PC back on Saturday afternoon.

Got a haircut on Saturday afternoon prior to going out for a wedding dinner and didn't have much time to get ready after that. I'll go get my hair highlighted sometime during this week if I get home early enough.

Darn it... Italian F1 GP at Monza didn't go the way I hoped it would... but anyways... non-biased view --- It's a good sign for Ferrari that they could still win after a poor showing for the last 5 (or 6?) races... and that Montoya is still close in the race for the driver championship by keeping 2nd place. *Yay!*

5 Aug, Fri: Bowie & I went out to shop for stuff that was on bargains at Super Komtar... and I ended up spending like RM120 for 4 pairs of it. Pretty good buys I'd say.

On the other hand, my home PC is currently under scrutiny at Mal's - troubleshooting in progress as we try to pinpoint which piece of hardware is the cause of system instability... It could very well be because of the motherboard which can only mean... *gasp!*... I might as well look into getting a new PC.

6 Aug, Sat: Went to Komtar again after dinner. This time round - my dad and I went to look for the clear plastic wrappers at Popular Bookstore while mum had her fun looking through the same bargains I was looking at the day before.

Oh yeah... borrowed a laser pointer set to the Jumbuck too... that's the least I can do since I sure as hell am not sure where in the shopping complexes to buy one other than from the pasar malam's around the island.

7 Aug, Sun: Well... smrphhh... I slept for most of the day. In the afternoon - my mum and I went round to Gurney Plaza to pick out something as my treat to her for her birthday. She ended up purchasing a perfume package. Oh yeah, she also accidentally sprayed some perfume she was testing on me, before the purchase, into my eyes. Ow!

8 Aug, Mon: Wha...? Oh it's dark, it's raining... it's... gosh! Monday! Get out of bed you lazy pig! (but it's nice and cold... lemme sleep 5 mins more...)

The road is full of water... luckily there's less traffic on the road during the time I usually am on the way to work... I love school holidays!!! Apparently I escaped being stuck in a jam because *gasp!* ...Well whaddya know? An accident happened lar.

28 Aug, Thu: Met up at the sup kambing place to hang out with Shakila & Peky at about 10pm... and as expected, Dominic performed the concorde on us.

29 Aug, Fri: What did I do on Friday? Hmm... stayed home and hugged my pillow while watching TV and contemplating what else I have to do before I format my PC and upgrade from win98 to either win2k or winXP. Which one shall I pick? Heads - w2k; Tails - XP.

30 Aug, Fri (Eve of Merdeka!!): Traffic around Komtar was already horrendous by noon. Ack! Where did all these people come from?! My mood turned sour for the fact that I have 3 places to stop for errands and its been raining constantly too.

I dunno lar, I feel that I just can't quite tolerate standstill traffic and having to listen to my grandfather making unhelpful (duh! fact) suggestions at the same time - especially when it also involves a suggestion for an additional unnecessary errand plus use of an alternative route that, to my knowledge, will also be jammed...

Decided to follow my parents to dinner at the City Bayview revolving restaurant. The buffet was really good *burp! excuse me* At 10pm, I went out to hitch a ride with my colleague Christabel to go to Soho with her and some others. Parking was a whopping RM5!! That's expensive by Penang standards.

So Christabel, her bf and Jeffrey (our Singaporean visitor) went on to Soho and... gosh golly!! It was packed already. Then suddenly I saw Hooi Keong dancing like a man crazed... and on the other side of the joint - Erhps and Pam. Kewl. Later, Irene came in to join us. The music was ok at first but after the midnight countdown... it started to suck... big time.

31 Aug, Sun (MERDEKA!!!): The day started with glimpses of a 10 minute fireworks show from outside of Soho... and the countdown in Soho itself was late by about 4 mins... it's about time they calibrated their clocks :/

It's very anti-climatic to have a countdown after seeing the fireworks fying in colourful splendour in the night sky. We hung round until about 2am. By then, we have seen 4 girls who can't dance to entertain a crowd dance on the bar... Some of the things they did up there were just plain distasteful. No class at all. The girls dancing on the barstools next to us were way better in dancing.

Next it was a stop at the kedai mamak (sup kambing), home, sleep, and awake again at 9+am. Prayers again. Ack! Ok... I don't fancy all this ancestral prayer stuff but ok lar... I'm in a pretty ok mood today. My 2 grandaunts came over and we also had a surprise visitor in the form of my late grandmother's best friend. Sweet!

The house never sounded more lively - especially since one of my grandaunts is pretty deaf. It's quite a challenge when we all try to communicate with her. She'll smile and look like she understood and then suddenly - she'll ask us a question about something we might have just previously mentioned. It's kinda cute and funny actually.

Later in the afternoon, we went to stock up on Baskins. Even later in the afternoon, my brother and I scooted off to Prangin Mall to shop for some CDs and DVDs. I like what I found!! Just can't wait to find time to watch them.

1 Sep, Mon: Ooh! It's Monday and it's a holiday!! O yeah... I had a hiking appointment with Shane, Ah Siah & Bowie. We went up a trail from the Youth Park to some stop on the hill. It had a pretty good view of the town from there... the day was cloudy so it was nice. No worries about sunburn.

Anyhow, there was something interesting about what we saw. There was a small gap among the clouds that gave the sea a great big blob of sunlight... the like reflected off the sea's surface sorta looked like a footprint of some sci-fi alien aircraft. ;P

Anyhow, it started to drizzle lightly and we decided to hike our way down before it pours. When we got down - it stopped drizzling so we all went round the park to check out the newly installed facilities... including the new Xstreme sports arena. It's really huge! Too bad we didn't see any stunt skateboarders or rollerbladers there.

After exercise, pump up the calories! That seemed to be the case since Siah wanted to go to McDs... luckily we all got our Big Breakfast sets a good 10mins before the great Malaysian blackout. Hehehe...

Well whaddya know? First it's North America; then London; and guess who joins in the fray for a major blackout... Our very own TNB. Kiasu, I say *chuckles* *just kidding*

It seemed like some areas also had their water supply and telephone lines (those on digital transmission) cut off during the blackout. This prooves that too much technology may not always be good. Luckily, power came back 4 hours later. Hurray! ...and the first thing we did - was to switch on the TV... XP

The beginning of a new era in F1 racing

Hungaroring F1 GP, Budapest, Hungary: Fernando Alonso made F1 history yesterday to become the youngest F1 winner. This also means that it is the first win for Renault after their return to the world of F1 racing... the first win in 20 years! Alonso heading a podium with Raikkonen (McLaren Mercedes) in 2nd and Montoya (Williams BMW) in 3rd, consists solely of a new generation of F1 drivers marking the beginning of a new era.

On the other hand, is Michael Schumacher's luck running out? It has seemed that way for the past 2 races. What's even more upsetting for the Ferrari bandwagon has to be the fact that Schumacher was lapped by Alonso who maintained an amazing lead in Budapest.

And what about the tyre war? Michelin has been giving Bridgestone a run for their money. The cars on Michelins have been dominating the races since the last half of the 2003 season.

Lastly, a big hooray is in order for the Williams team. They've managed to spruce up their whole package in time to catch up for the driver's race title - where the top three consisting of Michael Schumacher, Juan Pablo Montoya, & Kimi Raikkonen - are just 1 point ahead of one another in that sequence... and of course, not to forget, Williams is now leading the constructor's championship!

19 Aug, Tue: It's way too cold in the office... I'm freezing... *shiver* No appetite to finish lunch. By 1+pm, I have a fever in reaction to extreme cold. 30 mins later, my supervisor tells me to go home. It took me one hour before I left the office. That one hour was used to leave my cubicle and to stand around the sun filled region of our teabreak area. I only left the office at 2:30pm - just after feeling warmer and fit to drive home and make a visit to the clinic.

20 Aug, Wed: One thing about medication - it really makes you sleepy. So... no one will seem surprised if I'm resting on my desk for a while. Anyway, during our team communication (briefing session) - I was leaning my head on the side of a cubicle for a rest everytime I felt like dozing off for a few minutes. :p

17 Aug, Sun: Morning - went for a swim at the club and couldn't give a damn whether it was drizzling or not. It drizzles. It stops. It drizzles again. I only got out of the pool when the drizzling got slightly heavier... arhhhh.

But the stupidest thing of the day... make it the stupidest thing I've done this year so far... is what I'm about to write below. Ok, so here goes!

After dropping my dad off where he's to catch his bus back to KL, I drove home. I drove over something in my driveway and I thought... maybe it's something with the tire. I reversed. I rolled over something. I moved forward again. I rolled over something again.

I opened my door and saw my handphone on the ground. Holy mother of God! I just rolled over my handphone, THRICE! Shit! Shit! Shit! I thought I had left my phone safely at home on top of the TV shelf. But no... it seems that my short term memory is as good as Dory's.

But as far as product torture test goes... I can tell you that my Nokia 3310's original casing passes the torture test. No cracks and not a single scratch. There you go! Support original casings... only if you have a damned good plastic cover to give it extra protection too.

I can't say the same for the LCD screen though. Half of it is still visible while the other half is as good as gone. Only one of my keys is not functioning and that's because the rubber extension for that key has been shortened because it was squished. So now I need extra effort to be able to press zeroes.

Otherwise? Well... the phone still works fine. I can make calls. I just can't make out SMS-es nor write any of those. It's not good to have a failing short term memory. Help!!!

16 Aug, Sat: After dropping my grandpa at work, and going home for breakfast with mum; I dropped by my office to check if I was scatterbrained enough to have not finished my 250ml of Dutch Lady milk, last evening.

Reaching the office door, I fumbled with the doors lock combination. I don't really know how it works but by some miracle, I managed to open it. I ran for my cubicle.

First thing I noticed to my extreme relieve; I have actually finished the milk and the empty box is lying safely in my trash can. The danger of having spoilt milk spewed via the straw onto my table was totally non-existent. I then decided to take some notes home to go over during this weekend.

Going back out of the office and locking back the doors, I tried to figure out what I did to open the door. Then Poh Lin who was inside the office came by and opened the door for me.

Sheepishly, I quickly asked her how does the lock thinghy actually work because I surely would not want to look like someone trying to break into the office the next time I have to open that darned door. She kindly told me how it opens and thank God for that, I think I'm now knowledgeable enough to handle that lock.

At 5:30-ish, I went off to get my dad from Kampungku. Luckily I reached in time to pick him up before the drizzle began. It rained rather heavily again for about an hour. Shortly after I arrived home with my dad, Sharimalan called to say that he's in Penang and asked for us to meet up. Cool!

Ok... so I recruited my colleague Irene (whom I recently found out was actually also my collegemate and Shari's friend too... again... SMALL WORLD!) - for tonight's outing. At 10pm I picked up Irene and headed to Tari Cafe. There, we met up with Shari with Sally & Daws where Shari imminently told us that we are shifting to Ali's at Argyll Road.

Finally settled and regrouped at the new venue, we caught up with one another. One thing we noticed immediately... Shari had shrunk! He had loss his fats and looks fit now... and not as "selekeh" as he once was.

The other thing was he looked a bit tired and he was more subdued. We all miss him though. He'll always be our personification of bubbly (well that's how he really is like when his engine is in full performance mode anyway).

Very sweet of him to bring souvenirs for us too... except it's souvenirs from Sarawak instead of Russia though. He got those while he was doing his 4 days of practical at one of those district hospitals in Sarawak. Aside from that, it seems that the rest of his first few weeks back in Malaysia went into attending practical training in Jitra Hospital.

15 Aug, Fri: It's a wet, wet day. It drizzled shortly in between torrential bouts of rain for most of the day. And tonight will probably be the last time I will see my young friend, Chris Ng, before he goes to Wisconsin to continue his studies.

At the office, the day was pretty relaxing. Not much to actually shout about (and that's a good thing too). Don't wanna think about what's in store on Monday. When I left the office, it was just starting to drizzle again.

15 mins into the traffic jam, visibility swiftly dwindled to about 10m. My planned pitstop at home to collect my camera became a rainstop. Waited for a good 40 mins or so before driving myself up to Island Plaza in Tanjung Bungah.

Reaching my destination, I headed to KFC for dinner with Alan, Chrissy-boy, Mei Sze, & Evonne. It's always nice to watch Chris & Mei Sze battle on anything and everything... Sometimes, Mei Sze will battle herself on certain things... it's quite amusing! Really! That girl is just quite uncontrollable. One time she exclaimed so loudly that the whole of KFC was silent for a few seconds! Even the fussy baby at the table behind us became quiet.

Later on, we moved to Starbucks. It so happened that our friend Victor was working the night shift there too. And so we continued to bergila-gila there. Shakila and Marie joined us a little later. Chris then started to be melancholic and told us that he gets hit by pangs of loneliness in the nights for the pass two weeks.

We told him its the "leaving blues"... and we know he hates to leave behind the close friendship that has developed between everyone in our group. Marie then gave Chris her contact in US in case he needed a friend while he adjust himself in his new home for the next few years. She is after all still studying there and is going back there on Sunday.

We, of course, snapped photos. I later convinced Chris and the gang to come by my house so that I can give Chris a "farewell for now" gift that I forgot to take out with me earlier... and also because I can't see him off when he leaves via Penang Airport on this coming Tuesday afternoon.

Slightly after midnight, Shakila left with Marie. The rest of us left Island Plaza only after Victor cleaned and closed the shop for the night. Later, back at my house, the gang hung out at my porch while I darted in to get my token gift for Chris. The curious group wanted to know note I've left on his gift and he offered to read it out loud.

Luckily the note was not sappy but had more of a friendly banter-ish tone to it. At 20 mins to 3am, we all traded goodbyes. With Chris, that included a farewell hug and wishes for his safe journey.

Half yellow half red
The angsana blooms merry
Unlike all others

Half bright hardly bright
Off to work and later back
Still ever darkness

Joyous light I see
If chance says be off early
Hip, hip, hip, Hurray!

Okay! So I dreamt about a weird tree with a wide canopy... the whole tree was covered in flowers - a bright yellow on the top slanted half, and a scarlet red on the bottom half. Very cheerful colours I must say.

The rest is just well... mundane stuff. I do believe that every chance I get to be home early, I'll run for the exit! Otherwise, I hardly ever see the sun on a weekday - Moving out early before the sun lights the sky into a clear blue; and getting home when the sun is already hidden behind the hills and the sky a dusky sepia... or perhaps its already dark.

So... I must say that I'm happy to be able to see the sun when I walk around the office car park in the evening. And of course... thank God that I've been going back earlier for the past week! I don't wanna know when I'll have to miss seeing the evening sun again.

Btw, my mentor from Singapore has arrived on Tuesday. He's been very helpful in attending to the tirade of questions from all of his mentees (4 including me... and the occasional person whose mentor isn't on site...). His colleague who mentors another 3 in our sub-team arrived on Thursday... she's a cute little Filipina with beautiful straight long hair. We'll be playing tour guide to them tomorrow afternoon.

Meanwhile, I finally managed to get myself to do my banking today; restocked on my engine oil; get new wipers; and in the afternoon - went to Carrefour with my parents to do our grocery shopping. I must say that the amount of milk and paper products we bought (various tissue paper... get the idea?) makes us look like we are stocking up an underground safe-haven. You know... like stocking up to live in the aftermath of a major disaster?

I just have one thing to add for now... yahoo!!! Montoya won the Hockenheim F1-GP.

1 Aug, Fri: Today I have 6 hrs of class, a 2 hr lunch break, and a communication session at the auditorium for about 45 mins. At night, I joined Jocelyn, Hei Li and a few of their friends at Coffee Bean... and after that... Joce, Hei Li, and I decided to go hang out at the sup kambing place for to get a drink and a snack.

30 Jul, Wed: Hmm... odd... Why is there a small traffic holdup on the fastlane leading to my office? It's only 7:10 a.m. or so. Then I saw it... a furball. Closer still... what the?! An owl?!! o.O What's it doing on the road next to the road divider?

31 Jul, Thu: Today is day 3 of our live support for data entry. I must say that the order that was given to me by my mentor was much harder than than the other 2 orders he gave me in the last 2 days. Better still, today we actually have a deadline to submit the order. Argh!!!

My order came in about 30 mins before lunch time... so there's nothing much I could do about it other than study the faxed documents. I went out for lunch with my old colleagues at Suat Lee's house in honor of Say Hua's birthday celebration (in advance). There, we met her handsome young man... a very cheerful toddler. After that, it was back to toil at my desk at exactly 1:40 p.m.

Shortly thereafter, in the midst of figuring out a confusing statement in an email from my mentor in Singapore... a few from the Taiwan team told me that their Acrobat can't read Chinese... and that we needed the CD to update the program so that it can interpret the Chinese characters properly. Erm... ok... so I ended up updating the PCs of 2 people.

Then JO came around saying that this is happening because I didn't install it properly. Right... whatever... then for the sake of curiosity... I tested the PC where, as far as I know, Acrobat was installed by JO himself. Hah! It needed updating too. I must say my blood was beginning to boil. Next, I asked JO what should have being selected upon initial installation... and he replied that we should activate both options for the language. Aha!! So it wasn't my fault... he only told me to activate one option the other day. Better still, that was what he demonstrated.

I blew my top. Firstly, it was his fault for misinforming me prior to my going about to do the installation for the remainder of my team yesterday. Secondly... he said it was my mistake before recalling that it was him who demonstrated the wrong thing for me to follow... and he quickly offered to do the damage control. Ahh... that's more like it. Hrmph! Don't mess with me when I'm stressed.

Back at staring at my order, I quickly made a checklist of what I should enter into the system... made some clarifications with my mentor regarding a few issues and wa-lah! I officially finished it 15 mins before the deadline of 4 p.m. After that task was all done, relieve clouded over me and I was back to being cheerful and all.

Later in the evening, I went out for a delicious seafood dinner with 3 colleagues and 3 of our trainers in Batu Maung. We had a Thai appetizer, 2 dishes of crabs, a steamed fish, a dish of prawns, a dish of shellfish, a plate of vegie, some satay, and a dish of fried maggi noodles. The best part of all, we found out that a cute-sy and hunky trainer of ours is afraid of ghost. We had so much fun just telling local ghost stories to spook him out... after all... it is also the Hungry Ghost month in the Chinese calendar :)

Luckily I booked my tickets for the 5:20pm "Tomb Raider 2: Cradle of Life" at Prangin's MegaPav a day earlier. It was sold out when Jase and I went to collect our tickets about 1 hour before the show. Oh yeah... then to kill time, we went to get some DVDs. I finally got myself a copy of The Hours, The Majestic, Catch Me If You Can, and Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio.

Next, I popped by Popular bookstore to get some stationeries but the selection of items there were pretty bleah... so... I didn't get anything from there. Looks like I'll have to go look elsewhere for the stuff I need.

Going back to the cinema, I spotted Pinky. I quickly looked out for Jase and grabbed him to let him reacquaint himself with Pinky. It was quite funny. He couldn't quite recognise her while she pranced cheekily and grinning to test his reaction... until I said it was her. Hehehe...

Ok... now! About the movie... it's definitely way better than the first Tomb Raider. More drama and the storyline is not so plastic. Ditto.

26 Jul, Sat: Today it finally hit me that the reason Pinky was back in Penang since Thursday was because today is KDU's graduation day. Oh man, I'm so blur!! Luckily I remembered in time to wish her a timely Happy Graduation day.

Later in the evening, we all met at Cravan Cafe in Pulau Tikus. It wasn't easy getting there because of that Long Buffet thinghy was being held along Gurney Drive. Traffic was hell. But forget about that because at least we all had the chance to meet up and had fun catching up and talking crap and such. Head counts for this gathering included Shakila, Chrissy-boy, Pinky, Mei Sze, Kant, Alan, Apple, Rusdi, etc.