Weekend Go Wild

There was one time about 4 or 5 months back we were pretty crazy about our weekends. We were waking up early in the morning each weekend and doing something really productive. This particular weekend we decided to head to Batu Caves to become tourist and after that head to Jinjang area for apparently some fantastic fish head curry.

As usual our adventures begins with breakast. This particular morning we decided to have breakfast antGreen Leaf in SS 15 and the gang shows how much they looking forward to the steps at Batu Caves.

After breakfast we got into the car and drove all the way to Batu Caves. There weren't many people around because we were quite early. It looked like it was about to rain so first thing we did was climb the stairs. I have climed Batu Caves many times and it never ever gets easier. We were relieved when we arrived.

We walked around the temple and we met some very vicious monkeys. We actually saw them taking drink cans and knawing on them just to get to the little drinks inside them. We walked around a bit and head down again. We decided to do some cam whoring a bit before leaving.

 

 

 

I dunno why but Steph wanted to take some butt shots of them pointing at the big statue which I think represents one of the Hindu Gods.

Amy got bored and I actually challenged her to run pass a flock of pegions.

I swore she would get shat on by one but surprisingly she didn't, however I think the pegion had a delayed effect and one of them actually dive bombed me. Lucky it didn't hit me but it actually glanced the side of my camera bag.

It was still way too early to head to lunch so on the way to Jinjang we decided to stop over at the Kepong Metropolitan Park. I have passed this place quite a few times before and during the evening, alot of people come to this park to fly kites. I have been meaning to come to this place for a while now and finally we got the chance. There was an observation tower there and somemore steps later we were at the top and guess what? Cam whore lor.

I decided to take some portrait pictures of the gang since there was some nice lighting and the weather was nice and cool. It actually drizzled a little here and there as well.

I think it was the influence of being in Batu Caves that Mark and Amy decided to go Bollywood on a ladder.

We walked all the way down and Steph got a great idea of everyone at the bottom and taking a photo from the top. Unlucky for me, I was the designated photographer and I had to run all the way up to get this.

I dunno what I said but it sure made Amy laugh her head off. While I was up there I decided to take some artistic shots as well.

After all the climbing stairs we got really hungry and using Mark's GPS, we tracked down the restaurant in Jinjang. It was pretty funny because the row of shops was actually right smack in the middle of a housing area. There were houses every where and pop in the middle there is a row of shops and a restaurant there. What was even funnier is the place looked like a mamak, as dirty as a mamak, smelt like a mamak but it was runned by a chinese family. The curry fish head was pretty good and we were joined by Bee Chin who also followed her GPS from her work place.

After lunch we didn't want to go back and I remembered my mum telling me there is a Royal Selangor Pewter factory around the area where they actually conduct tours around the factory. Again using Mark's GPS we decided to head to the Royal Selangor Pewter factory. The GPS took us through some really really really kampung roads but we did finally get there.

The tour was actually pretty interesting and it showed the benefits of pewter and a few methods of making the pewter. Steph and Mark went all 60s and changed to the appropriate costumes.

We walked around the place checking out what they can make from pewter

This is actually the wall of fame. The hand prints are actual hand prints of workers who have worked with Royal Selangor. You can only get a customised pewter if you have worked for them for 10 years or more.

Desire for the Desire

I know this is going to turn out sounding dem sad, but I have yet to put my own money on a mobile phone before. I have had used 5 phones throughout my mobile phone years. I still could remember during my college years, I never had a  mobile phone. To call me, some of my friends had to call the person next to me to get to me. It was quite paiseh at the time but my parents were insistant not to give me a phone.

I got my first phone from my parents which was actually a hand-me-down from my dad. It was an Ericsson T-18. He got upgraded to the T-28 and after month of begging and crying, yes you heard it right crying. I finally got the phone and people could actually call me instead of calling a friends.

I was so proud of this phone and I took really good care of it because my parents told me if I ever lose it, I would never ever get a new phone again. However with this I felt the pain of being connected to my parents just a single button away. 

The next phone I got was a "free" Panasonic Gd 75 phone. It was the only free phone at the time when I signed up for the cheapest plan in Australia. This little phone actually lasted quite a while and it would be close to 4 years before I changed my next phone.

 The only reason why I would move on from my cool Panasonic GF 75 was because my mum was complaining that everytime she called me, my phone will be engaged. It is not because I "boil porridge" with anyone but the phone was actually going wonkers. My mum got so fed up with my phone that she said she would pay to buy a phone for me.

So low and behold I got a Motorola E398

I didn't actually do any research about this phone but I was influenced by 2 of my colleagues who were using at the time. The feel and exterior of the phone was pretty good but the software and functionality sucks. I didn't know that Motorola had this upside down view of their phones and usually the YES option is on the left and NO on the right but on the Motorola it was vice versa. Not only that, the phone actually has problems charging itself. I had to prop the phone up a little to get it to charge properly. The one great thing about this phone is that if you have a missed call or sms, every couple of minutes it will play a beep. There is something with this beep that no matter how noisy the place is, you can hear it. 

I was using this phone for a good year or so and got fed up with the interface and changed to another hand-me-down from my bro. He bought a Sony Ericsson K700i and when he changed to a new phone he passed the K700i to me.

Now this is the first proper phone that I had the pleasure to use. Everything about this phone was perfect from the SMS and calling function to the size. Unfortunately this phone has a fatal flaw which is the joystick in the middle. It will get gunked up with all kinds of dirt and render it non-functional. I liked this phone so much that I actually found guides online to dismantle the phone and clean the joystick. I used it for another couple of months and changed to my next phone which is Amy's hand-me-down Sony Ericsson W810i when she upgraded to the iPhone.

It should be quite evident now that I am super cheapskate with it  comes to phones. I will either use a hand-me-down or get free phones from people. The reason for that is, I always use my handphone as what it is intended to do. I use it just to call and sms people and on the occasion take some pictures with it.  So I never saw the need to have an expensive multi functional phone. 

Now if you liked the SE K700i, you will love this phone as well. It has everything the K700i has but without the joystick problem and also it has a cool 2MB camera with autofocus. I used the SE W810i till about 1 week ago when I finally put my own hard earned money down on the first phone that I actually bought. I been lusting over this phone for many weeks before getting it. I was reading reviews about the phone and researching about the phone for weeks. It got so bad that where ever I go in cyberspace, Google will target the Maxis adverts at me.

I was actually waiting for Digi to release it on their DG Smartplan before getting it. However last week the lust became too much and I decided to say screw it and I would sign with a Maxis plan. So after weeks of lusting, the desire for the desire has been satisfied.

I finally paid RM1499 to get the HTC Desire which is suppose to the real iPhone killer. It is built based on the Android OS which has been steadily becoming increasing popular compared to the iPhone OS. It has a solid 3.7" screen and what surprised me is how solid the phone feels in my hands. It came in an iPhone like box and even the way the pack they phone was kinda Apple style.

Everything was neatly packed and upon opening the box, you can only see the phone in all its glory. Taking the phone out and you will see the battery and beneath that is all the accessories. All the accessories were actually packed in a plastic material that was really nice to the touch. It makes the packaging quite classy and nice. The supplied wall charger was quite interesting.

Took me about 2 minutes to figure how it works and how to assemble it. The phone itself is a nice size, the front casing is made of aluminium and the back cover as a nice rubbery feel.

The baddest feature about this phone is that it is highly customiseable. If you do not like the way the icons are places, you can easily change it. You can pretty much almost change anything on this phone including the whole user interface and even the OS version. If you not happy with this OS version, you can change it albeit it is "illegal"

However I can say that it is not as easy as the iPhone to use. I took me close to 3 days to setup the phone the way I want it. This is the first phone I actually have to read the manual to figure things out. The stupid thing is that it doesn't come with the manual and I had to actually download the manual from the HTC website. Not only that I also had to surf some forum to figure some stuff out.

I would say that HTC has really created an iPhone killer as stuff actually runs almost as smooth as the iPhone and not only that it also has that pinch to zoom and multi touch functionality. However I would not recommend this phone to people who are less techy. If you like a phone that is easy to use without much customisation involved then go for the iPhone. If you want more flexibility in the phone you are using and want the same feel as the iPhone then I highly recommend this phone.

Beautiful Flowers

One of the hardest thing about photography is to represent nature from your own prespective. Why I say it is hard is because the camera doesn't have the capability of our eye. What we see is not what you can get from your camera.

One of the most beautiful things you can take pictures of are flowers.

The thing about flowers is that they come in all kinds of shapes and most important all kinds of vibrant colours.

Now speaking of beautiful flowers, on the same trip when I took pictures of these flowers, I also took some pictures of different types of beautiful flowers.

Of course not to be forgetting my lovely fiancee Amy

It was a great trip other then one stupid movie. I think it is time to make another trip back. So what say you girls?

How do you know you are nerd/geek?

There has always been segregation through the world between the nerd/geek/people who get bullied from the cheerleader/football star/jerk/bitch. This is a how to know if you are a nerd or a geek.

1. You see a fan that is rotating and since you are hot you try to fix it to only face one direction

 
2. You realised it doesn't work and you go back to tell your friends

3. Knowing other geek/nerds are lazy people and usually build a backdoor for themselves, you try again.

4. You wear a super orange shirt with barcodes and you think it is the coolest shirt
5. You plot how to make your name into a barcode

Oh yea I know, I have been a geek/nerd all my life. Lucky I never got beaten up in school for being one. Have to be street smart also right?

Cheating Spouse

This does not have to do anything with my relationship with Amy okay. It is just a coincidently that recently while driving to work I was stuck in traffic and I saw this.

Guess Malaysia also turning out like those western countries. Alot of sneaky sneaky here and there. Haha