KL 31st July 2009

I've arrived in KL safe and sound after a long 5 hour journey by bus. Arrived at the old KTM station at around 3pm. Got off it and immediately started to look for a taxi to Bukit Jalil where Zicky lives. And guess what I was as dumb as a blonde when I paid the taxi driver twice the usual fee to reach my destination. When Zicky told me that the most would only be RM 25 or less than RM 30, I was like 'What the F***'. Again got owned by the taxi driver. Well everything has it's first time and this will be the first and last time I get pawned by the taxi driver from KTM to Bukit Jalil. Diu Nia Seng LOL. Forgive me for my vulgarity but I just can't find a way to conceal it ATM.

So, went on to Zicky's flat and well 25th floor it is. Impressed... I wouldn't dare to live on the 25th floor TBH. According to Zet, who's coming back on the 1st of August, we will be meeting one another at Mid Valley. Well the time will be confirmed soon enough. We'll try to gather as many college friends as possible even though I doubt there'll be more than 5? LOL Yes it is LOL. Later Zicky and I are going for dinner and then going to Cybercafe? LOL I guess that'll be the plan for the night. Damn no life man we all LOL. And yes indeed we went to Cybercafe for 3 hours at BlitZone. Cool cc that is way better than those in Penang.

Will be in KL mayb until Monday I suppose before I follow Zet back to Penang. Home sweet home Penang~~. However, for the moment, I'll try my best to enjoy my stay here. 2 more months in Malaysia ONLY!!! I'll be damned!!!

1 month in Msia!

Well it's already been 1 month since I'm back in Malaysia. Guess how I wrapped it up? By visiting NetCity LAN Centre and playing Garena at home haha. Damn funny.

For the first time in around 9 months, I visited NetCity once more. Went with William. We played DotA and Counter-Strike. Well we won 1 game and lost 1 in DotA and Counter-Strike? Totally got OWNED!!! LOL Wanted to stay longer but I'm not really used to driving at night so went for dinner at around 7++ pm at KFC in Island Plaza. We talked and joked and yeah was a good day actually.

Well it was Jackson's birthday and so we wanted to call Tomato to hang out somewhere which would be NetCity lo wherelse la. Gurney? Tak mau la. Queensbay? Too far wei. So, I called Tomato to ask him whether he was free but he couldn't make it because he was going to have dinner with his family and then going to clubbing with his friends. Damn!!! In the end, we decided to go for supper without Tomato.

Before that we played Garena for awhile before I eventually came up with the idea. Why not just visit NetCity to kill some time? Haha. And we did eventually decided to go there to play some games before heading out for supper. So, we went there at around quarter to 9? Played DotA, Counter-Strike and Fifa 09 before leaving at around half 11 pm. At first we wanted to go to the hawker centre opposite PCGHS but had to settle for Subaidah LOL. In the end, we went back around 12.30 am and that was the story of the day.

Then on Sunday. Was a boring day too as usual. Woke up, went breakfast, went Queensbay for lunch, back home, stare at the laptop and dinner lorh... At night I saw Mr Loh Yin Qi was online in MSN so called him to ask whether he wanted to play Garena or not lo and he said ok lo (That bugger has a test on monday and he still agreed to join) LOL funny him. Played till 2.30 am before dropping dead on my bed.

Well well what a 'productive' weekend to cap off my first month in Malaysia XD!!!

I'll be going to KL from the 31st of July till 3rd of August and might proceed to Singapore if I could strike a plan with Zet and of course get permission from my parents. We plan to go clubbing in KL as proclaimed by Zet but we'll see what and in case that doesn't happen, we'll just have to settle for DotA? Haha! We'll see what happens down in KL. LOL.

AUF WIEDERSEHEN!!!

What's becoming of Malaysia today?

It's deeply saddening and depressing to hear all the things that are currently going on in Malaysia. What is this lah? Aduh. depressing man... I love Malaysia! I was borned in Malaysia. I was raised in Malaysia. But I'm not studying in Malaysia now and I have no idea whether should I come back to serve the country when I eventually graduate from overseas. You tell me.

Reflecting on all the things that have happened, the chances of me living in Malaysia after graduating seems to be ZERO? I'm not a racist or maybe alittle bit racist. To be honest, I don't care who rules the country be it the Malays, Chinese or Indians as long as they f***ing do their job and make the country a better place to live in. I don't care. I just want Malaysia to be a better country. I'm not an opposition party supporter neither am I a government party supporter. I support whichever party that does the better job in keeping the country going. I might sound like I'm a hypocrite but I'm not. As things are going now. I pretty much would support the opposition party anyway.

The decision to teach Bahasa Malaysia in Science and Math seems absolutely absurd not only to me but to majority of the citizens of Malaysia. I don't even need to ask any of my friends as I know their answers beforehand. If students can't pick up learning the language then why not just find a way to improve the english language rather than reverting back to Bahasa Malaysia. Our English or rather so-called Manglish is already atrocious and now they want to change back teaching Science and Math in BM? LMAO! We'll see what happens in the future. No point changing actually as they'll eventually learn everything in English during pre-u and in university. What a joke!

Good grace! God! please save my beloved country from oblivion!

Back to Cyberlife

With no friends to hang out with and the reluctance to spend money is really taking its toll on me, my dear. I've been going through the whole same routine daily practically. Wake up; Breakfast; A little newspaper reading; Cabal; Lunch; Cabal; Sleep; Cabal; Dinner; Cabal!

Omg this is really pissing me off. Haha. But what can I muster? No college friends available to hang out with while secondary school friends are enjoying their time of their lifes in their respective universities. Feeling jealous? Might probably be the case now?! Haha.

Went back to Cabal (MMORPG) just because my brother is playing it but then again he's not such an active player anymore as he's mugging for his PMR. If he wasn't there, I wouldn't even be bother to train a sucky character from Level 0 and Novice rank again... Damn tedious and ATP draining! I think my cells in my eyes are also dehydrating and dying due to the constant staring at the laptop screen WTF?!

Besides Cabal, I also turned my attention to some crappy facebook games like Barn Buddy... WTF I know haha... Still do some starcraft-ing but seldom as I'm sick of playing with AI and there are not many players playing in Garena.

Now just hoping that there'll be more useful daily activities to make myself pre-occupied so as to prevent myself from using too much of the laptop which will subsequntly make my eyesight worse. @_@ ~~

Cheers mate!

Malaysia! XD First Update!

Teehee… I’ve been back in Malaysia for almost 2 months now and I’ve got left 2 more months to spend here before going back to UK. What have I been doing the whole month? Good question eh? I’ve done practically nothing productive besides starting to go to gym… The others are the usual daily routines i.e eating, sleeping, day-dreaming, playing pc games (Hooked on Starcraft BTW lol) and talking nonsense. Loads of crap practically.

During the 1^st week, I actually met a few secondary school friends before their departure to their respective varsities. Wish could have spent more time with them. But I guess they’ll be having a week’s break during August so hopefully we’ll be able to meet again! Fingers-crossed! :D TBH, I didn’t meet many of them during that time, I only met erm about 3 or 4 of them perhaps? They are, Jeffrey Koh, Min Tze and Chuck Chuan. Well the rest were scared about the contagious H1N1, so they didn’t want to take the risk to meet someone returning from a country that has quite a reasonable number of infections which took place. Haha. Couldn’t blame them aight?

Second week of the summer holidays, I went to Kuala Lumpur with my grandma, uncle and aunt. I was there just to accompany my grandma though. As expected, it was a boring and tedious journey. However, I wouldn’t regret for following them back there as I actually got to meet a friend whom I met in UK who was doing a exchange programme in UK. So, was actually quite grateful to have gone to KL. Haha. My uncle also took me and my grandma to Seremban to have a look at his old old house when he was living there and subsequently headed to Malacca for a so-called day trip. Well, it was my first time there so I was pretty amazed by that place except for the traffic congestion. One has to walk by foot to actually explore the historical place TBH. But again, I didn’t get to fully explore the place and departed soon after. My grandma and I were back in Penang on Friday after a week spent in KL or more accurately Puchong, Selangor Darul Ehsan XD.

Now to the 3^rd week! I’ve been practically eating for this whole week. However, as usual I don’t really gain any weight! Joined a gym on the 13^th of July I guess? On that day I was just trying out some of the equipment and a trainer came up to me and taught me the proper way of using it and he said, “Boy, you should really eat more and put on more weight”! LMAO. I knew that was coming. I had a session with a personal trainer on Thursday and OMFG I have no stamina and strength and I was totally so shitty haha. So, no choice but to do some work-outs when I wake up every morning =.=”. I shall wait for the pain and sore to recuperate before taking another session with the trainer. Today is “Pai gor” and I’m meeting a college friend later (hopefully he doesn’t PPK me lah) lol. Where to? I don’t know! Haha.

Shall be back for more!!!

"I can see what you see not.

Vision milky, then eyes rot.

When you turn they will be gone,

Whispering their hidden song.

Then you see what cannot be,

Shadows move where light should be.

Out of darkness, out of mind,

Cast down into the Halls of the Blind."

Pua's Mighty 'Pen'

A MALAYSIAN HELPED TAIWAN EARNED $31 BIL ALL BECAUSE OF OUR BRAIN DRAINED SYSTEMSubject: $31bil - Truly ..... an inspiring story !

Subject: $31bil
Pua's mighty 'Pen'

S. INDRAMALAR speaks to the creator of the now indispensable Pen DriveFact fileName: Pua Khein SengAge: 31Hometown: Sekinchan, SelangorEducation: SJKC Yeok Kuan, Sekinchan; Pin Hwa Independent school, Klang; Chiao Tung University, TaiwanOccupation: Engineer/ president of Phison Electonics CorpCurrent base: Taipei, TaiwanYears abroad:12

WHEN he set off for Taiwanin 1993, Pua Khein Seng's only aim was to complete his degree in Electrical Control Engineering at the renowned ChiaoTungUniversityand return home to work in Malaysia.Never did he envision himself heading a multi-million dollar Taiwanese company that developed the world's first USB flash removable disk, which they called Pen Drive.[IMAGE]Pua Khein Seng went to Taiwanto get his engineering degree but ended up staying on, starting his own company and inventing the pen drive. "I went to Taiwan to pursue my undergraduate degree. I chose Taiwan only because it was too expensive to study either in the United States or Singapore."However, I did well in my undergraduate programme and was offered a place to do my masters," explained Pua, who was back in Kuala Lumpurrecently for a holiday.After completing his Masters in July 1999, Pua worked for about six months in a local company before deciding to set up his own venture company with four fellow engineers who had studied with him at Chiao Tung."We were confident that we had the know-how and ability to start our own business, which is focused on USB technology. The company is called Phison because there are five of us - two Malaysians and three Taiwanese engineers," said Pua, 31, who hails from Sekinchan, Selangor. Phison Electronics Corporation was set up in November 2000 and within six months the young entrepreneurs came up with their first invention - a USB storage device called Pen Drive."We were the first company in the world to develop the USB Drive SoC (System On Chip) and we were very confident that the market for USB will be huge. At the time, no one believed in us so we had to do everything ourselves - from developing the technology, the chips to the product itself."We were only 27 at the time and inexperienced. But we were confident that we could design good systems and chips but we didn't know anything about selling.

So, we sought partners or traders who could help sell our products for us," Pua added.Through smart partnerships and shrewd strategies, Phison soon made its way into European, American and Japanese markets. One quick move was securing Japanese tech giant Toshiba as Phison's largest shareholder and customer."We launched Pen Drivein June 2001 and by August the same year, we broke even! From September 2001, we were reaping monthly profits from our invention and there has been no turning back since." Having established himself in Taiwan, Pua is in the midst of setting up Phison's branch in Malaysia, due to begin operations this February."I am starting a branch in Malaysia because this is my country. I would like to do contribute to its development."We have about 100 engineers at Phison in Taiwan, 20 of whom are Malaysians.

Though they studied in Taiwan, I had to re-train all the engineers I hire because, like most fresh graduates (in this field), they are not industry-ready upon graduation."Unfortunately, some of the Malaysian engineers want to return home after a couple of years because they are homesick, about to start a family and so on. Some prefer to work in Singapore, as it is closer to home. Instead of losing them to competitors, I decided to set up an office in Malaysiawhere they can still work for me," said Pua. Another problem faced by returning computer engineers from Taiwan, Pua added, was the lack of job opportunities for hardware engineers in Malaysia."There is no environment or support for design engineers here in Malaysia. One of my Malaysian engineers from Phison returned home and ended up as a teacher in a Chinese school! I was shocked and thought, 'After all that training and re-training, he is going to just teach?' I told him to hold on till I open up the Phison branch in Malaysia."Though he has been in Taiwan for the past 12 years and married to a Taiwanese, Pua is not sure how much longer he will remain there."I have really no idea where I will be in 20 years. Maybe Taiwan, maybe Malaysia, maybe somewhere else ... it all depends on my business. The industry is moving so fast that I cannot predict what or where I will be," he said. For the moment though, Taiwan is home for Pua, his wife and two children even though he misses the Malaysian way of life."I come home once a year for Chinese New Year and will usually stay for about two weeks. There are several things I really miss about Malaysia. One is the food! For the past 12 years I have been craving for Malaysian food ... I miss laksa, curry noodles, chee cheong fun and all the other delicious dishes we have here."I also miss the lifestyle and quality of life here. When I come back, I am always amazed to see people hanging out and relaxing at mamak shops at night. In Taiwan, most people would still be at work at that time of the night! "Before I got married, I used to work for 15 to 17 hours a day, everyday.

Now that I have children, my wife has forbidden me to stay so late. Now, I go to work at 9am and come home by 11pm. These hours are quite normal for the Taiwanese.

"The man who invented USB pen-drive is a young modest Malaysian who can't even get into a local University but invented the most versatile, indispensable computer peripheral today. And helped his adopted country, Taiwan made $31bil in the process.

The rest is history....

English

'MASTERPIECE' IN ENGLISH FROM TUN HUSSEIN ONN UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA. This is truly amazing!! English language at its best in Malaysia from 'Tun Hussien Onn University '. Does one laugh or cry? This can only be attributed to be the by product of years upon years of the NEP!! After reading this masterpiece, it is not surprising that Malaysian Universities did not make the grade in the rankings of universities. What a sorry state of affairs in the country's institutions of higher learning!! Was this a literal translation from the Malay language that it was originally written in?? God save Malaysia!!

25 August 2008

My Dear Friends I am sending you an advertorial that was published in the New Straits Times on 23 August 2008.

The advertorial is about the conferment of an honorary doctoral degree by the University on Raja Zarith Sofia, a member of the Perak State Royal Family.

Notwithstanding the contents of this advertorial, I am 'EXTREMELY IMPRESSED' with this 'Masterpiece' in English writing published by the University. It is something I have not read in 53 years. That is why I would like to share this 'Masterpiece' with all of you.

The style of writing is so 'Excellent' that all of us who have been schooled and trained in the traditional forms of the English language have to UNLEARN and RELEARN the language in order to be able to understand and appreciate the contents of this advertorial!

In the meantime, may God save our children and grandchildren from the clutches of tertiary educational institutions such as these.....

Regards,