Vocabulary Lesson with CK (October 08)

bollocks noun

Bollocks, the "coconuts" a Sarawakian blogger often mentions about.

No, it's not a fruit, nor is it tumour shaped like coconut growing out of a body.

It's the male sex and endocrine gland that produces sperm and male sex hormones, as shown in the image below.

18SX warning! Look away if you take offend seeing perfectly normal body part.

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Bollock = "balls", also boringly properly known as the testicles.

Bollocks is often used to express frustration, or meaning nonsense or bullshit.

For example: "that's just complete bollocks!"

Bollocks is my word of choice to replace "shit", or "damn", thanks to Kate Winslet in The Holiday. It's a nice movie.

See the movie clip below, Kate said it at the very end.

Numbers & Random Thoughts

146 months together. More to come.

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15 months old. Full of energy.

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8 days ago. Sense of achievement.

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6 days to go. Again, meh.

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1 hour car park to car park. Home-Kulim with a smooth traffic.

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9.5 hours left. Agenda in meeting which I have not prepared. Better go.

没头没尾

无聊天写个令人费解不加符号的长长句子给那选择离港随风逐流游戏人间放纵自我的情迷丫头盼望梦幻小鬼莫留恋徘徊于桃花源而该悔醒勇于面对最真的自己

Me is Happy

Received my first department award today.

Happy happy! =D

I have received a few recognitions since joining the company but they were all related to minor stuff. Mostly as a token of gratitude for my involvement in organising the team building events, or helped out in a lab tidy up, or assisted in a sharing session, that sort of things.

Today though, I got a proper development project related award, even came with a plaque too.

Truth is, I felt a bit undeserving of the award. The title of the award implies to me it's technology development in mechanical and signal integrity.

I am a thermal engineer since I am hot. While I am on the team working on the same product, I have no direct contribution to the mechanical and signal integrity part of the development.

Guess I just got a tagged along award! =)

Oh, and no, I am not going to return the award. Nope. =P

Here's hoping there will be more to come and that I will be able to pull my weight by getting a thermal related award for the team.

Hey! I can always dream! =P

Anyway, me is happy.

To all the kiddies reading this, me is happy is improper, the proper way is I am happy.

May the Pink Force Be with You

Some of my colleagues are, erm... "pink", their sexual preference is ambiguous. You know, being heterosexual (sexually attracted to members of the opposite gender) as well as homosexual (sexually attracted to members of the same gender).

Maybe they are just acting heterosexual to cover up their true homosexual nature since Malaysia is such a closed-minded country, hmm...

Anyway, I have nothing against homosexuality, but I draw my line when they try to drag me over to the pink side.

Like this...

I am straight! You hear me? Straight!

On an unrelated note, recently there is a new saying started by yours truely *ehem*:

"May the Task Force be with you!"

Task Force is the term for the fire fighting focus team when things went wrong and need to be fixed IMMEDIATELY. It's nasty, unpleasant and a sure way to slim down.

7 Habits

I have attended quite a number of training courses and have a stack of certificates from those courses that issued one. The stack would have at least doubled if all the courses I attended issued a certificate.

But I am not here to compare number of certificates, they are just papers. Instead, I simply have to write about the three days course that I have just completed.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

There is a very well-known book of the same title, sold over 15 million copies as of the 2004 paperback edition, by the great man Stephen R. Covey, who also provides training courses.

I have heard of the book, never read the book, but I finally own a copy of the book now, thanks to my company. My company has certified instructors to teach the course and a class was available at the site I am working these past three days.

I signed up for the training course because I didn't want to be the only person left at my aisle of the office for the three days, since my colleagues had all signed up.

I am mightily glad I signed up, even though for the wrong reason.

The course was immensely beneficial and has profound impact.

I strive to be a better person, and this course has just provided me with a clear path and direction.

I am writing this as a record of, hopefully, the beginning of a better me.

Match sonar bearings and shoot, tubes 1 and 2, aye

Just finished a book by Tom Clancy titled SSN.

SSN stands for nuclear-powered attack submarine and the novel is based on a game of the same name.

Since it's based on a computer game, the chapters are according to the missions in the game, with increasingly difficult encounter.

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The story described the encounters of a USA submarine called Cheyenne in a fictional war between the USA and China regarding a petroleum rich island (it's always about the oil, like in real life *cough*Iraq*cough*).

Written by an American, it's a no brainer to figure out who were the "bad guys" and who were the "good guys". ;)

Engaging story line and educational for me. I didn't know that torpodoes are wire-guided and I am still trying to imagine a long wire trailing behind a fired torpedo until it acquires its target and the submarine cuts the wire.

Guess I am just ignorant to weapons.

Probably due to my ignorance, things like Mk 48 ADCAP torpedoes, Tomahawks, and Harpoons intrigued and fascinate me.

Anyway, in the novel, there was such a huge technology gap between the two countries in war that the Cheyenne always detected the enemies while the Chinese was unable to detect it. Also, counter-measures or decoys launched by the Chinese never worked while the ones launched by the Cheyenne always worked.

When Cheyenne went 1 versus 7 submarines simultaneously and still got away unscratch it became a bit hao siao (unbelievable). By the end of the story, Cheyenne had destroyed 60+ enemies and suffered no damage.

Yea, only in American movies and books. =P

tentative next read: Four Blind Mice by James Paterson

Tagged? Oh I See...

Me stoopid, me finally understand what tagged means. Me tagged by Mun Y.

Name: Chin Kung, or CK

Sisters: 0

Brothers: 3

Shoe size: same as my feet

Height: just right

Where do you live: Penang island

Favourite drinks: H2O, Coke

Favourite breakfast: skipped and sleep till noon

Have you ever
Been on a plane? yes

Swam in the ocean: yes

Fallen asleep at school: nope

Fell off your chair: can't remember

Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call: yes

Saved emails? yes

What is your room like: 4 walls, a ceiling, a window...
What’s right beside you: my wife
What is the last thing you ate: the vegetable in my soup

Ever had
Chicken pox: yes
Sore throat: yes

Stitches: no

Broken nose: no

Do you

Believe in love at first sight: no

Like picnics: yes, but only with people close to me

Who was, were

The last person you danced with: His Royal Highness King Baby Hsiang

Last person who made you smile: His Royal Highness King Baby Hsiang

You last yelled at: probably Master Yes Man, he has mad skillz of making people frustrated with him

Today did you:

Talk to someone you like: yes

Kissed anyone: yes

Get sick: no

Miss someone: no
Eat: no, I live by air only

Best feeling in the world: love and being loved

Do you sleep with stuffed animals: no

What’s under your bed: floor

Who do you really hate: I forget instead of hate
What time is it now? check your own clock

Random:

Is there a person who is on your mind now: no

Do you have any siblings: read above

Do you want children: yes

Do you smile often: wife says no

Do you like your hand-writing: okay lor

Are your toe nails painted: nope

Whose bed other than yours would you rather sleep in: my other bed!
What color shirt are you wearing now: beige
What were you doing at 7:00 p.m. yesterday: trying to nap

When did you cry last: a long time ago

Are you a friendly person: no, I am super mean
Do you have any pets: all the siu kheongs in my house
Where is the person you have feelings for right now? beside me

Did the last person you held hands with mean anything to you now: of course

Do you sleep with the TV on? nope

Have you ever crawled through a window? yup, locked ourselves out once
Can you handle the truth? I prefer to stay in la la land

Are you too forgiving? I think so

Are you closer to your mother or father? same

Who was the last person you cried in front of? I can't even remember when I last cried, let alone in front of who

How many people can you say you’ve really loved? loved? I still love all deserving my love
Do you eat healthy? absolutely not! =P

Do you still have pictures of you & your ex? I have no ex

Have you ever cried because of something someone said to you? crying question again...
If you’re having a bad day, who are you most likely to go to? my wife, or my cave

Are you loud or quiet most of the time? quiet
Are you confident? I am pretty confident that I am not

3 things I was doing 10 years ago: eat, sleep, shit

I enjoy: sleeping

3 of my bad habits: read nonsense, write nonsense, speak nonsense
3 places I have lived in: 2 only, Penang and Nottingham

4 people I tag: 江边鸟 (one of him can generate enough nonsense for 4)

Calling Bookworms

Four novels this time, all from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Nope, not the Dragonlance but the The Darksword Trilogy plus another Darksword book.

The Darksword Trilogy:

Forging the Darksword, volume I

Doom of the Darksword, volume II

Triumph of the Darksword, volume III

And also Legacy of the Darksword.

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In a world where magic is life, baby Joram was born without magic, so he was pronounced as being "dead". But guess what? According to prophecy, this Joram held the fate of the world.

Tough luck. =P

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The Darksword trilogy told the story of Joram, from birth till he became a man, and ended with his decision and action that changed the world forever.

Of course, in between all that time, it's packed full of goodies!

The Legacy of the Darksword was a continuation of the story line after the trilogy.

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Obviously there was a Darksword, how it's created and what's so special about it was revealed.

There were also magic, dragons, centaurs, faeries, tanks, laser, spaceships, space travel, time travel, battles, wars, romance, aliens, parallel universe, Merlyn (with "y" instead of "i"), Excalibur (mentioned), and a teddy bear with an orange ribbon.

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I kid you not.

There truely are all those things in the novels, and no, they don't suck monkey balls being all together. That's what makes the novels so involving.

Being a Dragonlance fan for so many years it took me a bit of getting used to the magic system in the Darksword series, it's a refreshing change.

Great books by Margaret and Tracy, go read!

悲

我喜欢睡觉。

每每母亲问我周末有何计划，我总会回答“睡觉”。

周末对我而言是没有早晨的，一觉睡到太阳晒屁股是人生大乐也。

开斋节加上周末和拿了一天的假共有五天的假期，我原本的计划就是让屁股晒足五日，晒个黝黑古铜。想到都非常十分的开心！

然，那些优等的原居公民每天凌晨的一些鬼时间放炮和违法飙车，真是胫烂塞喽！

罢了罢了，还好是假期，可以睡迟迟弥补下。

衰在自己非常醒睡叻，一点点声音就会被吵醒。而这五天，天天七早八早就有噪音，我的宝贝王上殿下就是其中一个源啦。

所以这五天反而比平时还要累。

好悲哦！

Tagged?

I seldom get comment so I was rather excited when I saw a comment to my last entry, thinking someone has something to say about my twisted sense of humour or something.

Instead I was told I am tagged.

Huh?

Probably something to do with having a link to my blog kua?

Whatever, I hope I am tagged with something nice like "slacker extraordinaire", or "nutter", or "bore your brain off", and not something that I will have a hard time living up to.

=P

Wouldn't have posted this if I wasn't tagged, now let me get back to slacking off my Raya holidays.

Gotta maintain my slacker reputation. =)