The Day After Tonight

Cheesy title alert~!

Well, I couldn't think of anything better. Anyway, just a bit excited. It's a Thursday afternoon; the day before my company trip to Langkawi~ woohoo. Can't wait, can't wait. I believe the remainder of today will be 'very' productive *ahem ahem*. Can't blame me... I'm just human; and excited humans usually ain't very productive... especially when it's an excitement for a vacation :P

Not much else to say about life. Been busy with work... and Excel. Yes, it surprises me that as a programmer, I actually find Excel quite challenging to master. Not that it is difficult, but rather the fact that you tend to want to do all these amazing stuff that you think Excel either can't do it, OR (most likely) it can only do it by means of some convoluted manner of scripting and workbook planning. I kinda welcome the challenge... but it's irritating that it's consuming so much more time than I initially anticipated.

Alrite, gotta sign off. Oh, hopefully I get some nice pics to share from my trip :) I ain't an avid photographer, so don't blame me if they turn out like crap (IF they even turn out in the first place :P ).

I am *so* broke

*sigh* its the time of the month again. No, I don't mean THAT time of the month. I'm a guy... get over it :P Anyway, I'm talking budget updates, and I just realised its been a heavy year to begin with.

Expenses have been rather high, with my sis' engagement and my (surprising) expense on my b'day dinner. Then there's the 'accidental' purchases of tech stuff. Then there's the upcoming 40k-milestone car checkup. That's gonna cost me a bomb *sob sob*.

Then there's my company trip to Langkawi next Friday. Woohoo, I get to go on a plane for the first time in my life! (Yes... I am 'ulu' :P). BUT... since it *is* a trip, there's bound to be requests for souvenirs... and in the case of Langkawi, they'll probably be more like order checklists *sigh*. Urk... I'm sooo broke.

Well, either way, I'm just excited for next week. Langkawi! First time to the island, hehe. Can't wait, can't wait. *dream dream*

The unblog-like blog

Last I checked, blogs were meant to be regularly updated with relatively short, concise paragraphs to highlight whatever that was worth mentioning. In respect to that, I'm obviously doing a marvellous job at being the exact opposite. Lengthy lines, most likely uninteresting content, and definitely updated far too irregularly. *sigh*

Well it's been a month, and I reckon it should be quite a long talk if I covered what's happened throughout. Lets skip a huge amount of the details; I was busy with preparations for my sis' engagement/wedding. Too bored and tired to discuss that topic :P

Real news for my techie-frens: Dinosaur de-commisioning completed. I have a healthy gaming machine at home and kinda spoilt for choices in terms of games to play. What can I say... I have at least 3 years worth of great games to catch-up on, hehe. I'll skip the detailed specs for a time when we meet up. Now I just need to figure out how to properly dispose off my sis' dinosaur since I've decided to give away my uber-powerful dinosaur to her instead. Apparently, it is quite the challenge to find decent ways to get rid of an ancient system. Heck, I'm still looking for options... ... ... *sigh*

Chinese New Year of 2006 was probably the 'tamest' I've ever experienced. Number of ppl celebrating has dwindled... but my cough and flu wasn't helping either. I had to forego a dinner invite to an old fren's place due to the unrelenting cough. *stupid cough* Supposed to go out clubbing at Zouk... also had to forego. *stupid fever* Arrgh... and I only got a grand total of...

jeng je jeng... RM10 for angpau~ Ok, it was RM12 coz my HR officer just gave me angpau yesterday :P Still, that's probably my all time low *sigh*.

Aside from that, the only thing worth mentioning is probably the fact that this year was probably my most 'celebrated' birthday in years, haha. Well, actually it wasn't even celebrated (as usual) but I admit my house was loaded with 150+ people that night. Sure, they were there for my sister's engagement ceremony, but having over-zealous cousin sisters doesn't really help in the 'keeping a low profile' business. It was fun though seeing how they did what they did... they'd go around reminding people that it was 2 events in one that day. And they don't quit until my other cousins turn pale in embarassment for forgetting (not that they ever remembered :P).

I initially had plans on taking a few very close frens out for dinner sometime this weekend to 'mini-celebrate' my quarter-century milestone. Not sure if I can keep to the plan... may need to go out-station. Trying to snake my way out of the travel plan. Either way, still can't think of a nice place to eat. We need nice, new, refreshing places. Being me, i'd rather plan nothing than venture into a been-there-done-that celebration.

Btw, over the hols, I have decided the following things I need to do more:
1. Play more pool
2. Go mamak more often (not for the food though.. just to hang out)
3. Resume my work outs
4. Play even more pool
5. Read more books
6. Sleep early (gamers have a tough time with this)
7. Update this blog more frequently

Why the list? I have no idea. It just crossed my mind. Not sure how effective I'll be in achieving these... after all my new year's resolution for the past 3 years hasn't been achieved yet either :P So what could be a good motivator to get me to live up to my own expectations? I wonder...