will i am's delayed diary

When we are bored, lonely or wu liao, we may contact certain people to improve our situation or entertain us. And then we forget them. Who is the person who is always on our minds even when we are having loads of fun or too busy with our schedules? -- Regards, William

CNY20092 Swiped from williamnyk . It's the year of the Ox, and that makes my brother 36 this year. Already his 3rd cycle. How time flies. As I age, I notice the Lunar New Year being increasingly "faraway". The significance eludes me at times. I guess its true that festivals are really for the kids. However, this is not to say that I'm indifferent about the occasion. I try my best to absorb the atmosphere or if there is a lack of it, try to create some. Ever since my dad and grandma passed away and my sister got married, things have been getting simpler and simpler. No more annual pilgrimages and perayaan besar-besaran . Reunion dinner is normally just an affair between my brother, mum and I. Although its a small gathering, mum spares no effort in preparing a big spread. But as I age, my mum advances in age too, and I can see that her stamina has decreased and she finds it harder to organise things. I try my best to help her, but I find it best to always let h...

Hi people! I'm sure you're all enjoying the CNY holidays, stuffing your face, watching tv, sleeping, gambling, and running about town in the sweltering CNY weather. I'm not here to blog about my CNY yet for fear of ruining my tardy image. I'm just here to make a random observation-- did you know that if you pee into a cistern that uses toilet blue, the water turns green. The mixing of prime colours! That's all for our Ox Year Art Attack! You can now get back to eating that last piece of bak kwa. :) -- Regards, William

There isn't any CNY-themed men's underwear in department stores this year! Preposterous! What a mockery! That aside, here's wishing all my readers a Happy Chinese New Year that's sprinkled with all things good and if some bad things do slip in, hope that they're easily reversed. Lou sang with Wagyu beef, anyone? -- Regards, William

I am grateful for the prayers, thoughts and concerns that were expressed in response to my post . My aunt finally breathed her last breath in the presence of family members last Thursday. Her suffering has ended and a new journey has begun for her. Mum and I left KL for Bagan Sungai Burung on Friday afternoon. The drive there was quite horrendous during the last leg as the trunk road leading from the PLUS exit to Sungai Burung is really bumpy ( worse than Kuching by a factor of 3 ) and eerily devoid of vehicles. By the time we arrived at the village, it was around 6:00pm. Went to pay my respects and proceeded to make myself useful by folding paper offerings. The funeral was quite unique. To me, it was kinda like a party with a buffet line. It's amazing that a funerary post like this can turn into a food post. Well, dinner was served at 7:00pm-- stewed duck, fried duck, fried suk yu ( blanched and salted Mabong ), stir-fried vegetables, Kung Pao cuttlefish, baked catfish, and seaf...

BDAY2008XenriCollage Swiped from williamnyk . Months have passed since my birthday in October and you know what? I have yet to finish blogging about it ( QueerR, choke or not? ). Quite an injustice to the loved ones around me as all your gifts are precious to me. Time to reveal the final gifts: A Nokia 5220 cellphone from KH -- We talk everynight on the phone and my old Samsung SGH-X700 was a bit giler according to him. He could hear a fan-like noise in the background and it irked him to no end. Therefore, he bought me a new phone! Love its music playback quality. Thanks again, baby! A scrapbook from SK -- With lots of love, she made a scrapbook from scratch, highlighting events along the year of 2008. A very thoughtful gift. Thanks dear! A Japanese procelein rice bowl from Jaded Jeremy -- For some reason, I love eating out of Japanese rice bowls and for that same reason, he got me one. KH lugged it back to KL for me. Arigato, JJ-kun! A Braun Buffel half-rim spectacle frame f...

In my company, there's this guy who joined my product team last year. We shall call him FZ. He had zero business and technical knowledge of the product, and yet my Fatty Boss pushed him up as a Team Lead. This irked Lan to no end. According to Lan, his only purpose was to sit in on meetings ( blindly passing requirements to the technical team ), writing e-mails to tai chi responsibility and gain credit for reporting project statuses, Facebook, Facebook and more Facebook. And recently, Fatty Boss even introduced him to my JellyfishHead Project Manager as his assistant in overseeing all the implementation sites. I nearly choked on my water. Well, FZ recently sent me an e-mail asking for technical training material. I conveniently ignored it after my collague told me that he is so useless that even after giving him a sample document, he expects you to change it to suit his context. Later, he added me on GTalk. I rejected that too. I wonder how long before the jig is up. :P.