will i am's delayed diary

Herbs~ , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Back to Saturday marketing with the POC out of the way. Just a short trip this time. Breakfast was had at the Happy Garden market where downed a couple of bowls of curry noodles with an extra helping of mint leaves and roast duck that we had bought. After sending my mum to my sister's place, I followed SK to meet her supplier at an unmarked factory lot in Puchong. Felt like we were collecting bags of heroin. On the way back, saw a familiar restaurant near the industrial area-- The Wok ! I remember it being in Kota Damansara. As we stopped in front of the place, I immediately recognized the owner. The interior decoration was exactly how I remembered it. Woody and antique. Kinda like heritage preservation where the shop was moved piece by piece to the new location, or perhaps it was picked up and dropped in the new place. A fabulous leng gor with shades on his head took our order. Was impressed with our choice of perut ikan , sambal kacang

stadium. , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Finished the second half of the POC on Wednesday. Couldn't care less about trying to get points for the items. Just told the truth and said that it was unsupported but customizable. There were also several boo-boos with the system, but I deftly hid the errors or in some cases just jual air liur . The audience was already sick of me and restless, so they let it pass. Wakaka. I was out of there by lunch time. Took the train down Bukit Jalil, collected my car and thought about lunch. Made a last minute decision to call KH: "Hi dear, you have one hour to accompany me for lunch?" His mum would just have to wait to have lunch with him. :P. Picked him up and we went to Star Cafe , Taman Desa. Ate there once with my colleagues during a farewell lunch. Was told that the chef was from The Colliseum. Finding parking was relatively easy, but digging for coins to pay the parking meter wasn't. I practically had to dig for coins under th

Sharing an iPOD, Wine and the Sun , swiped from DarkB4Dawn on Flickr. On the POC D-day, I waited and waited and waited and waited... Thank goodness the client provided tea breaks, lunch breaks and other what-not breaks. My slot was supposed to be at 2:30pm, but it was delayed by three freaking hours till 5:30pm. The idiots before me where so enthusiastic to show off their few items that they forgot the big picture. I had a bloody one hundred and thirty seven to go! By that time, the consultant was pissed and she hissed at me through her braced teeth. "Please speed things up and make sure that the demo system has a faster response time." F*ck off. What do you expect when we are using an erratic wireless broadband to VPN back to our HQ?! ( you should have let us use the internet line b*tch! ) Definitely ain't moving the million ringgit iSeries server all the way there for a deal that most probably won't even materialize. Barely 50% through, the audience was getting res

BlackBall Signature Combo. Dessert overload , swiped from satkuru on Flickr. Monday was the last day that I could do my preparation for the big demo. Did several last minute checks and changes to fit the POC script. Even up till the end, one can still find more things that were lacking. Since I had no more time, I just gave it the old "f*ck it". The demo laptop had to be brought to the client site for connectivity testing, I so didn't stay back that day. Picked KH up and we went to Seri Petaling. Randomly picked one of the new food outlets there for a quick bite to eat before meeting KH's ex, Kenji. Yes, you read it right, his ex. An awkward thing one would say, but what the heck. Just ordered ten bacon meatballs at Tao Tao Kitchen . Tasty, and as it should be since it was MYR1.40 per piece! Talked more about KH's future plans and the possible opportunities for him in KL. At 9:00pm, we walked over to Blackball for dessert. Took their Bestseller. Looks-wise, very

SpiderKid , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Dragged Cyan to church on Sunday. Roan stayed up all night and his mum was on the verge of a breakdown. The elser kid was all puffy-eyed and sleepy when we picked him up. At church he was quite well-behaved. Lunched at Restoran Ho Boh . The adults had lui cha and pan mee while we ordered the kiddy fried rice set for Cyan. Before going home, we stopped by at Giant BK 5 for some shopping. Refilled Cyan's cream cracker quota ( eats them like Cookie Monster ) and bought him a set of bowling pins. He was already restless and kept whining that his mum was waiting for him at home. In the afternoon, I drove over to KH's apartment. Chatted at the playground. Talked about his coming interviews and his relocation plans. When the sun was condong ke barat , we changed into our swimming gear and jumped into the pool. Did our usual skanky laps. ;). Halfway through, we were joined by a guy who had quite a yummy body. Not too muscular, but the

Working for long hours can be shitty, so my colleagues and I usually go for breaks at the nearby mamak  shop for some sanity and to de-stress with food.  Saw this straight Malay cutie hanging out with his machas  at Devis's Corner  in TTDI. Sad to say that he has the typical straight attitude ( was 'blowing bull' with his friends, talking big and what not ) and smokes. But I can overlook that seeing that his arms are quite sexy. Huhu. That definitely perked me up for more drudgery in the office!

swimming. , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. In my line of work, there are several abbreviations that I abhor. I shall list them out for you and they do come in that particular order: RFI - Request for Information - a short inquiry about a certain solution that the potential client needs RFP - Request for Proposal - basically the customer gives out a list of requirements and questions and we are supposed to come up with a complete proposal that addresses their technical, functional and commercial needs. A lot of lying, creative writing and delusion takes place here POC - Proof of Concept - if the potential client is happy with the RFP, they will shortlist us to do a demonstration of what we said we were able to do in the RFP. And since we always lie, we always end up coming up with some half-baked features just for show ( think cardboard movie backdrops ) And I recently had to endure all that crap. The bloody POC script had eight scenarios and one hundred and thirty seven items for m

Paxton and John , swiped from themaleimagesf on Flickr. Many people have asked me when my LDR will end. Truth be told I have no definite answer, so I just arbitrarily tell them, "2012 kwa...". I can only repeat what KH told me ( but he insists that he did not say 2012! ). For the first five months of 2012, I never saw any indication of KH's relocation back to Malaysia. And I never said anything to exert pressure ( but KH begs to differ! ). Just a few 'innocent inquiries' here and there during our conversation. Hehe. But recently, things seem to have shifted into high gear. He had contacted a head hunter and started distributing his resume to potential employers. Even managed to go for two interviews in KL! He has also started moving some stuff back home ( knowing what a big hoarder he is, he would most probably need at least six trips ). So far, he has not received any offers. But when he does, it will be another three months to serve his notice. To my surprise,

duck. , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Filled up on my spiritual needs at church on Sunday. Was feeling rather helpless with the strong currents at work and a little faith did help to ease the burden. Somehow it feels better when one gives in and leave things to God. Sempena Father's Day, the Youth did a disjointed dance performance in the church compound-- adolescents dancing to Madonna's "4 Minutes". The whole atmosphere was dripping with lala -ness. Was sick of the food options in Kelana Jaya and OKR, so we ventured to Puchong Jaya for lunch. Stopped at Restoran KH20 ( no affiliation with my KH ) for bihun kolok ( they ran out of noodles ) and duck rice. Not bad. Sent my mum to my sister's place after that. Sis and BIL were having a dinner party later for Cyan's birthday cum Roan's baby shower. The main dish was nasi lemak so I helped with some prep work before heading home. Rested a while before I went for my weekly swim. As usual, the guests w

roo , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Having participated in Danny Gaga 's guessing game, I won some souvenirs from Melbourne!!! He was so nice to courier me a box of nougat, a kangaroo refrigerator magnet and a wooden boomerang with aboriginal art on it. Thank you so much! So many things right? And yet in his note, he described it as "just a little something" and in his e-mail correspondences, he told me not have high expectations over "just very little thing" (sic). I hope this doesn't mean that I'm disqualified from future contests! P.S.: Actually I was secretly hoping for an Aussiebum underwear model. :P

pizza? , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Once more, Saturday saw me doing the market and office routine. One would think that Saturday's a day of rest and sleeping in but I've not done that in a long time. :(. Left work a bit earlier coz I wasn't really in the mood to work. June's been a pretty bad month for me with three proposals to rush, one proof of concept, a project manager breathing down my next regarding development progress and a quality manager asking me every other day whether I had finished testing the system. Team lead. Developer. Tester. Pre-sales. Marketing. Way too many hats. Way too long hours. Way too little pay. Left work a tad early to swim. At the entrance of my apartment, I bumped into my tenant and his friend. We both gave each other the scan. His friend was very likely gay. Hurriedly asked about the leak at the unit and went to change into my swim trunks. Perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to swim on that day as the haze was pretty bad. Ev

baby. , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Tater came acalling after many failed attempts to meet me due to my crazy work schedule and the fact that my workplace was far off from the city center. Seeing that I had not taken my replacement leave for Agong's birthday, I used it to see him. By Tater's account, we had not met in a couple of years. He was actually in town for several meetings, but whatever time in between we spent together. Early Tuesday morning I headed out to Hang Tuah station. I took a leisurely walk from the monorail station to The Pavilion. Pudu Jail was slowly being chipped away and construction was starting to get into full swing. By the time I reached CBTL, I was sweating like a pig. It wasn't such a leisurely walk after all with my heavy laptop and morning sun. I plopped down, ordered a brew of the day and fired up my lappie. Just about ten minutes into that, Tater messaged me saying that the people at Westin were nice enough to let him check in, so he

Jade Lime , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. As usual, I attended Sunday mass. The only difference that week was the fact that SK invited me over to her place for lunch. Lifebook was sick, so SK whipped up some homecooked food for him and asked me to join in. I arrived at about 1:00pm and by that time Lifebook was already there lounging on the sofa, watching TV. Didn't have to wait long for SK to put the finishing touches on her cooking. Specially for Lifebook was stewed pork with fish maw and hard-boiled eggs whipped up in a jiffy with Lifebook's pressure cooker , old cucumber soup and stir-fried vegetables with Chinese pear ( a colourful dish ). Did some talking after the food but Lifebook was so satisfied that he just rubbed his tummy and fell asleep ( but perhaps because we were talking about work problems and that wasn't exactly dessert material ). While he slept, SK and I watched Astro-- some cheesy Chinese series entitled "72 Tenants". When Sleeping Beaut

pork. , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Early Saturday morning, mum left for Melaka to celebrate Roan's full moon with the in-laws. I stayed back cause I needed to work. :(. SK was kind enough to bring me for breakfast at Kota Kemuning before the drudgery began. The shop was a branch of the famous Imbi Road pork ball noodles. Not quite sure if it was the same shop that my colleague brought me to at Weng Hing. According to SK, the loh shu fun was one of their popular options, so I went with that. And to test their skill, I went for the dry option. Surprisingly, the noodles were thinner than usual. Perhaps it's of their own manufacture. It was quite good, but a tad oily. The 3JC pork balls had a good bite to them and no overly-porky taste. The bowl of noodles also came with extra sausages. Compared to the generic options that hawkers usual offer, this version was softer, no doubt due to the higher fat content. Not to my liking. Driving back, I felt a bit jelak ... huhuhu... M

shop. , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Woke up early for English mass on Sunday. As I walked out of the church, SK buzzed me to meet up. She had just arrive from Linggi and suggested that we hang out at Paradigm Mall. Although it was quite near to my church, I had to go quite a ways down to U-turn before being able to enter the parking lot. Took the basement and boy, Pluboy was right... it was quite a mess. Pillars out of nowhere as one descended. Hazards everywhere. And the parking spaces were at weird angles. Oh well. Just open for a week, so parking was still free. Walked up and immediately went into Brands Outlet. Some kind of opening promotion going on. Bought a couple of shirts and Ts for KH, while I grabbed a pair of tank tops. Next, we wandered into 3Dots which was having a special too! 50% off the bill just by purchasing something at normal price ( and they choose the cheapest item! ). Our bill came to around MYR300 for a whole bunch of Paul Frank undies, socks, stretch Ts

brunch. , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Worked on Agong's Birthday and found myself in food limbo during lunch time. Food was scarce at Bukit Damansara. UOA food court was closed. Subway was closed. O' Brien's was closed. HP food court was closed ( but an Indonesian woman and a Bangladeshi did offer me a burger... erm... declined their offer ). San Francisco Coffee was closed. Gloria Jeans was closed. Wisma E&C was closed. Nerofico was open, but I decided against it. Finally ate at Jarrod & Rawlins . Always wanted to try their food. Went to One Utama to look for them once, but that outlet had closed down. Walked all the way in to their 'in-jungle' dining area ( sampai kena letak ubat nyamuk! ). A few KKYN couples were there having brunch. Looked at their menu and ordered their brunch set of toasted organic bread topped with a generous serving of fluffy scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, black caviar and rocket salad. To fuse it all together was hollandaise

headlight. , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. One night while driving home from work, I noticed that the roads were exceptionally dark. For the better part of the journey, things were fine because SPRINT and OKR were well-lighted. Only realized while I was in the BK1 area where the street lights don't work. Upon reaching home, I did not testing and found that my headlights were shot. Crap. Only the low lights were in service. Early next morning, I scoured OUG for an open workshop. I did not have many choices so I settled for one near the Shell station. Getting down from the car, I noticed something amiss about the workshop-- a Ferrari on the side, a Porsche hoisted up and Maserati below it. Yikes. I asked anyway. The guy confidently answered that the bulbs were dead without even checking. I raised doubts about the wiring both sides failed to work at the same time and he shrugged me off. Ok lo... I'm not the expert. He replaced both bulbs with some difficulty as my Iswara ain&