Jimmy Choo

Heard of this name before? This is the first time I heard of it. Yup yup... I'm a little bit jakun. I was reading this article "Malaysia wants the Jimmy Choos to come home" on The Star and was wondering who is this Dato's Jimmy Choo.

I did a google on Jimmy Choo. Then there's this more than 2 million search results on this Malaysian's name. Hence, I started my background searching journey again. Wow!!! I'm actually so kolot. This man is famous!!!

He's a shoe and handbag designer based in London. The late Princess Diana loved his shoes most. Then I saw some of his products are sold in Saks Fifth Avenue and featured in one of the "Sex and The City" episode. Of my God!!!

This guy was born in Penang. He pursued his studies in London for shoe designing and today has made Malaysian proud. His shoes are so famous that I can't even seen them sold in Malaysia, only the fashion highstreet of London, New York and Milan.

He's like an example of the path I'm looking forward to. To work in London one day. His fame has brought him a Datukship, Professor title and an OBE honour from the Queen of England. Read here.

Girls, go browse here. It's his own online store. I saw something on the web saying that his shoes cost something between USD400 to USD1200. Bwahahahaha... Unbelievable. This is the normal price you always hear when you watch a lot of "Sex and The City". He's shoes is cool. Damn, I'm a man, but I really like his design.

I will attach his pix here. Please pardon the editing, am in the office so good pix editing tools to use.

Tie Da (Dit Da)

The itchy me when and play basketball again on Saturday. Since my knee wasn't 100% healed, I sprained it again... Yup... Itchy me...

I hurt my knee worse than before. Looking at the fact that I will have to leave for Hong Kong in another week, I have no choice but to look for a Tie Da (in chinese, which mean bone setting), which prove to you, I'm still very chin a pek. And for your information, that bloody Tie Da sifu didn't even set my bone or rub the wound, he juz apply on some oilment, then wrap my leg with his secret mixtures of chinese herbs (which sticks to the extreme). Then gave me a bowl of hot and bitter herbal soup to drink.

Green oilment + Red oilment + Herbs wrapping + Herbal soup = RM150

Yeah!!! That's ridiculous huh. He still have the bloody face to say, you must come back for another 2 wrappings to make sure it heal completely. Don't worry, it will be cheaper as the next time you come.

But in my mind, I think what I actually heard is, "Come again tomorrow, so you can stretch your neck very very long and let me chop on them again!!! Muahahahaha!!!".

So, if you ever ever wana go for a Tie Da in KL, I really don't have a recommendation. But bear in mind, don't ever go to this one that is behind the Mandarin Court Hotel near Dewan Bahasa.

p/s: Thanks Ah Keong for bringing me there, it's not your fault mate although I got potong leher. We went in and tried, juz that we least expect he dare to request so much. But at least we streamlined a list of which Tie Da not to go in KL. =)

Also called Dit Da in Cantonese.

FREE Wi-Fi Hotspots in Hong Kong unfound

I will soon embark on my training journey to Hong Kong. As someone who can't live without internet, I google for FREE Wi-Fi hotspots in Hong Kong. To my surprise, there is none. There are a lot of hotspots around in Hong Kong. But FREE ones, is zero.

Now I feel fortunate to be in Malaysia. Coz Starbucks with approximately 70 outlets in Malaysia have FREE wi-fi in all the outlets. This still exclude those other restaurants, cafes and food court that provide wireless connection everywhere you are. You will never be disconnected from the cyber world.

Disappointed...

Back to EPL mood

It's been a while since I'm thrilled bout watching English Premier League. It wasn't until my friend invited me to join one of the fantasy football game that I gave up for so long.

Sometimes it's this type of stuff, other than gambling that hike my interest in the game. And guess what? The first match of the season is Sheffield U. (where I studied) vs Liverpool (where my sweetie studied). Both of us might shout at each other if we are watching this game together. Hehehe...

Here's the time of this weekend's matches. I'm so looking forward to see the players I selected in my fantasy footbal to score. Muahahaha... Die you, Gan and Andrew!!! Bwuahhahahaha...
Time listed below is UK time (GMT). To convert it to Malaysian time, +7 hours.

August 19
12:45 Sheffield U. vs Liverpool
15:00 Arsenal vs Aston Villa
15:00 Everton vs Watford
15:00 Newcastle U. vs Wigan Athletic
15:00 Portsmouth vs Blackburn R.
15:00 Reading vs Middlesbrough
15:00 West Ham U. vs Charlton Athletic
17:15 Bolton W. vs Tottenham H.

August 20
13:30 Manchester U. vs Fulham
16:00 Chelsea vs Manchester C.

Most of the game will be broadcasted live on Astro ESPN. If you want the schedule, click here. Damn, I want Astro!!! But can't afford 1. Hehehe...

For those who can't afford Astro like me or find a company to watch the match at the nearest mamak, click on Livescore.com to check out the score. If you are desperate enough, watching EPL thru live text is the same as watching it thru television.

Some of you might already know, Livescore.com is livelier than the television. You will know someone score faster than the television bout a minute or more due to the slow tranmission that need to be shot thru the sky, then thru the atmosphere then touch the satelite, then shoot back to the earth thru the atmosphere, then thru the sky, and thru some stars (juz kidding) and back to the receiving satelite dish, then decode then broadcast back to your Astro satelite again, then the cycle goes all over again up and down before it reach your home tv. Phewww.... That's a lot of crap!!!

31,536,000 seconds still not enough?

I had been feeling maxed out for quite some time now. I've had the feeling that 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 31.5 million secs a year is not enough. Thus, I think it's this anxiety that cause me to stay up as late as 3am sometimes when I have to wake up at 8am the next morning for work. I'm worried that I might miss something while I am sleeping I guess.

Let's start analyzing my daily routine. Wake up at 8am, leave for work at 8.30am. Work the whole day, leave work at 7.30pm, reach home at 8.30pm. Go for a dinner, reach home at 9.30pm. Take a bath and look around my room it's already 10pm. Accompany my gf for a short relaxing DVD, it's already 12am. Sometimes it's juz so hard to even find time to just check mail.

I had already started to feel vexed over this job. The distance to travel to work is crazy. But still I can't do anything bout it. I have a career opportunity, I can't just let it go. I'm sure if I do, I will regret in the future.

Arghhh... How do I find a balance between my job, girlfriend, friends, family and most importantly myself? When more than 2 of the mentioned screwed up, I just fall.

I lost my balance...

Happy Belated Birthday Mummy!!!

It was my mum's birthday on Sunday. Yup, 13th August. How old is she? Hell if you ask me, she's 20. Actually, I don't really know which year my mum's born. Unfillial? Yeah I must admit in this sense.

Yup, that's my mum and my dad. I don't look anywhere like them huh. That's what people always say. My mum would always kid with me that I was picked from the rubbish dump. But I never took it into heart even when I was very very young. It is because I know my parents equally loves their children.

Wanna hear more unfillial things bout me? I actually don't know my mum's birth date until about a few years ago. I think it's our family tradition that we don't talk mooshy mushy stuff. But when you leave home for years and start your own life, you start to appreciate a lot bout your parents at home.

There's tough times that our family had went through, like any other families. But my mum had definitely pull through it like a superwoman.

Happy Belated Birthday Superwoman!!! You will always be the superwoman in my heart Mummy Boo.

p/s: Thanks to my little sis who secretly sent me a text to remind me and my bro that we forgot our mum's birthday. But I must say, the text comes in a nick of time. Another unfillial side of me.

Lake House

My Rating: 9/10

PLEASE PLEASE GO WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!

It's been a while since I felt I have watch a awesome movie. I thought of this movie a horror one at first, until my friend, Taikui told me it is actually a romance movie.

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are fantastic in the film. I would really like to accredit Alejandro Agresti in directing this movie so well. The facial close-up of the actors' expression makes it so... I don't know how to express it, but it's definitely going to be in my DVD collection.

Most critics were not astounded by this film. But I love it. Yeah, it might be a little illogical, but this is like a modern fantasy movie. Hey, give it a break, it's a romance movie, what do you expect?

As usual, I'm not going to be a spoiler. You will have to watch the movie by yourself.

Alternatively, if you are prepared, you can click on the link below to read bout the synopsis.


WARNING! Spoiler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lake_house_(film)

When logic can't solve...

Like I have said in my previous blog, I still can't find an answer of the downtime. Hence, I turn to the paranormal... astrology in Yahoo!. This quite explain everything. That's why I can't live without internet.

Work is not a cakewalk on Monday. Something is holding you back. It's possible that your head is not squarely in the present, and that a kind of general confusion is making even the obvious seem obscure. It's time to seek guidance. Tuesday and Wednesday are full of deep thought and clarity (bonus!), and you may find your understanding of your professional life taking on a startling new dimension. This is good. Thursday and Friday, none of the answers are at your fingertips, but you're asking the right questions. The weekend consists of round-the-clock social time.

Hmm... hopefully this will be clear by next week.

Underfiring pistons

I am not able to fire at full pistons since yesterday. My mind is blank, or am I? It's just like my body is in the office, but my mind is wandering off somewhere else.
Like my boss always like to say to us, "IT'S NOT CLEAR IN YOUR HEAD!!!", with loud clapping of her palms.

Now, I must admit, my head is NOT CLEAR!!!! Com'on... Smack my head a little!!!

Click

My Rating: 8/10

Went for this movie during the sneak preview over the weekend. It was a hilarious movie. But not only that, it's full of content as well. It got me almost tearful.

Adam Sandler, not only a great comedian, but also brought out the morale behind the movie. I better not break the pot here, it's worth watching. It's the kind of movie that put you back on track in your life when you lose track. Enjoy the movie!

End of week roundup

It has been a long week.

First of all, sprained my knee during a basketball game. Has been limping since then. Although the swelling has gone (because of my experience in massaging), I could still feel a very week knee. Can't really support my whole body weight (less than 60kg) with my left leg now. Worse of all, just heard one of my colleague who sprained his ankle during an island trip 3 weeks ago, had discovered the sprained ankle is actually a tear in the ligamen. Now he has to go for a surgery to rejoin his ligamen back to the bone. Hmm... I think my pain is still not as bad as his. I'm just scaring myself.

Then, it's some random thoughts during one of the sleepless night. I had a flash back on the friends that I had mixed around since I was in Form 3 until today. Then I was thinking, so what happen before that? My memory was a primary school friend by the name of Raymond. He was my schoolmate, tuition mate and my family friend's son. He used to cycle to my house everyday after school and most of the time, he will end up sleeping on the couch. We used to be so closed that sometimes we can chat on the phone for a long time. It's not that we were gay, it's just that we have so much of things to share with as friends. Sometimes when I heard of my current group of friends sharing their childhood story together, I just can't help but wonder, eventhough I see Raymond from time to time, does he still remember the childhood that we had together? Just curious...

Things change when we went to highschool. He started to mixed with another group of friends that hangout a lot outside and getting to know girls. Since my parents was more of a protective type, I didn't much leave the house and hangout with friends outside the house until I was Form 3. That was then I started to hook myself with this group of friends.

Then it's the, rest-at-home-mind-at-work days during the break. One of the project was kicking in so fast that my colleagues were swamped with work till late night and constantly on the phone with me when I'm at home. Even though I only work on Friday for this week, I felt so tired. It feels kind of a guilty as well for my colleagues to cover my work till wee hours very very early in the morning.

Now, I have loads of laundry to do and room to clean due to my lazy bum that got so heavy since my leg hurt. But what to do, the laundry will not get done by itself and the room will not return to the spicked and spanned condition before. So, Saturday will be just another normal weekend where I spend time doing laundry and getting stuff done.

On holiday?

I was on leave since Monday. It was actually a holiday for me to go to Kuching with sweetie. It was her dad's death anniversary.

However, since my sweetie is hot like pancake, she suddenly got unscheduled job assessments that clash this whole trip all together. So, we have to cancel the trip, partly also it's because I injured my knee during a basketball game on Saturday. It's really bad! But getting better now.

So, I take the opportunity and rest at home. But, it's not quite as it seems. I basically spent most of the time doing stuff that I normally don't have time to do due to most of the time spent at work.

It's not a couch potato kind of holiday so. I formatted 2 laptops, 1 whole months worth of grocery shopping, dvds shopping and some driving around to decide what to eat.

Hence, not much of a holiday actually, it's a break.