Weekend project: chair repair

Ever since I changed department, I no longer have my regular twice weekly badminton sessions.

I got progressively unfit until my chair couldn't stand my weight any more and gave up on me.

At least that's what I think happened to my chair...

chair couldn't take my weight no more!

Anyway, I couldn't stand my own state of unfitness as well, so I started to set myself some resolutions, hopefully to get myself back into shape.

As in, that good old flat rectangular shape instead of the rectangular with a lumpy spare tyre shape. =P

When I do my after dinner walks around my condominium compound, I passed by the area where the residents disposed of their unwanted furniture.

I have been keeping an eye out for a suitable chair seat replacement, which I finally spotted one yesterday.

reusing the parts except the seat, which I found a solid wood replacement

So, today I got busy repairing my broken chair. =)

Took me a couple of hours and some extra efforts due to bad planning and additional idea.

I cracked that good, I am heavyweight! =P

Didn't plan to reuse the cushion initially, was just going to buy some cushion to put on top of the seat.

But then why not? So ended up cutting open the old seat to get the sponge inside, and wifey put it inside an old t-shirt and tada! New cushion for my repaired seat.

homemade cushion

After a lot of sweat and elbow grease, got myself a backache and a fixed chair.

done!

Satisfied with my work, but I told wifey that if this one breaks, I am going to throw it away and get a new one instead of repairing.

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质疑人生

忙了好久好久的感觉。

上个周五过了个比较闲懒的工作日，其实也不过是午餐久了点，和五点后没有再加班而已啦…

这个星期就每天早上七点做到晚上十一点多十二点。

加上那深埋的忧郁症，一直隐隐消耗我已不足的能量。

唉，除了累还是累。

真的，没能有泪，就只有累。

身、心、思。

一切。

我甚至开始质疑我的人生。

这样日复一日从早忙到晚的生活，到底有什么意义？

这么累，究竟是为了什么？

为了什么？

我只能深深的叹气…

不知道为何，脑中想起「梦醒时分」的那一段歌词。

“你说你感到万分沮丧，甚至开始怀疑人生”

其实，就只是那一句，那首歌根本就不是我现今的意境。

怎么都好，今晚，我叛逆。

今晚，我不加工！

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Favourite girl

This entry was drafted many years ago, 26th of March 2015 to be exact. Time for it to see the light.

Probably doesn't put myself in a good light saying the following since my previous entry (in Mandarin) was about finding my favourite girl...

...but I have found another favourite girl!

This one is super adorable and brings me much joy and laughter. Definitely my favourite girl trumping the previous one. ^_^

My lovely three years old niece, such a cutie.

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Digi prepaid credit losing

If you were like me...

...who doesn't live by being glued to the mobile phone with internet access all day long;

...who doesn't need a data plan because not connected to the net while driving, eating, or meeting friends et cetera is of no concern;

...who can handle any waiting time without relying on a mobile phone, a not so ergonomic form factor device;

...who simply doesn't need to be connected to the internet when out and about really;

...who is either a caveman or an elite, a smart or crazy person depending on perspective.

Or simply if you are using Digi prepaid without any data plan, here's a public service to raise awareness based on my own experience.

A few days ago, I noticed I was losing my prepaid credit even though I didn't made calls or sent SMS, so I started tracking it, gather data and making screenshots of my call, SMS, and mobile data usage logs.

When I have enough proofs that something fishy was going on, that I was losing RM0.50 daily with no call, no SMS, and as default with my mobile data, GPS and Bluetooth off, a call to the Digi Customer Helpline exposed the culprit.

For some reason that the Digi person could not give me a satisfactory answer to, Digi turned on what they called an old internet option called the "internet payu", which cost RM0.50 per day.

Digi has since refunded my credit, but still could not give me a satisfactory answer as to why this internet plan was activated and my direct question of how to ensure this will never happen again.

So do be mindful if you are a Digi prepaid user without internet or data plan, that Digi might sneakily activate something, hoping you don't notice it, and hence used up your credit so you will have to reload more frequently.

Yea, until they give me a satisfactory answer, I am just going to assume it's their dirty trick.

On a related note, there are many Digi prepaid data plan options, I am not advertising for Digi since they didn't pay me and I am not too happy about them right now, so let me just said that Digi prepaid users can have data plan whenever you need it, with different quota and duration to suit your need.

So don't feel that you need to subscribe to a monthly data plan scheme for the "just in case" moments.

I hope this will be useful to someone, but I also hope that it will never happen to you.

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心的频道：友情阶级

说过、也写过，友情是有等级、有层次、有深浅度的。

从来没有在乎量的我，不是很大的朋友圈里也有质的阶级。

我是很坦白直接的人，我相信坦诚相对。

但男人女人终究不同，有些话只跟同性朋友说；有些话只跟异性朋友说；有些话谁都可以说；有些话只对自己说。

当然，也要看友情的深度，和朋友的宽度。

早就过了寻找伴侣那人生阶段的我，对异性朋友就是很简单的谁合得来、谁可以谈笑玩乐、谁在一起感觉舒服，如此而已。

对那些做作、虚伪、自以为是的女人敬而远之。

就是很反感那些让我感觉很假的人咯…

正常性取向的男人喜欢看美丽漂亮的女人，天公地道，再正常不过。

那些不认识的、身材好的美女，敢显我就尽情欣赏咯，呵呵! =P

但是齁，我发现如果是关系蛮好了的朋友，如果露得太多反而会有点尴尬，不知道该看哪里好。

应该是好事吧？

如果是有什么私情遐想或歪念的应该就会瞪大眼睛猛看吧？

对要好的异性朋友有坏坏的暇想，那友情就有点变质了，不是吗？

不要搞到这么复杂啦，就真的只是要纯纯的友谊。

在一起感觉舒服、不尴尬、什么鸟话鬼话屁话都可以说、一起发神经、笑闹玩癫的，多好。

还有那些频道相近的、会分享分担、可以谈心的朋友，通常也是心比较靠近的朋友。

简单，纯。

当我说把异性朋友当作兄弟对待，大伙总会笑一番。

但我真的是没有贬义的。

到了兄弟的层次，其实就是什么男人之间的话都可以一起谈的程度了。

是好事来的，不是吗？

怎么总是觉得被误为我在踩人的呢？

根本就是荣誉嘛，真是的。

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If I were to spam...

The majority of the people I know don't really like reading, and are more of a visual creature who only pay attention to images, who would skip anything that has more than three sentences.

Simple observation on social media or instant messaging application will reveal the truth. Vast majority will notice a message posted on an image, while skipping over the same message if it's posted as plain texts.

And many would watch a movie adaptation instead of reading the original novel that's almost always much better than the movie.

Anyway, I best not get sidetracked...

More of a words and texts person instead of an image person when it comes to expressing myself, my blog entries are pretty much wall of texts.

Well, I have maintained this blog for years, and I have consistently posted the same quantity of entries every month, for all these years.

Honestly I should get a Guinness record for discipline, persistency or something. =P

One can dream.

I have written and posted many entries all these years, and it just occurred to me to put that into perspective, as something easier to grasp.

So here it is: if I were a spammy person, as of today, I could post a link to one of my old blog entries, say, on Facebook, every day for four years straight without repeating any entry.

And by the end of that four years, I would have written and posted new entries more than enough to spam without repeating for another year.

Basically if you have never read a single entry of my blog, you can read one every day for four years straight just to catch up to today's, and if I continued to write and post as I do, you can read one entry every day for five years straight and still not catch up the latest.

Just think about that for a second. ;)

But of course, I am probably the only person who ever read all the entries on my blog, heh! =P

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生活点滴：拥抱狂

昨天又加工，工作超过十二小时后才回家。

交通情况比平时正常时间下班时糟糕，所以多了近一倍的车程时间才回到家。

原以为回到家就可以马上抱抱情人老婆仔，但一开门独自在家的大瓜就开始他一贯的埋怨。

说什么“以为是妈妈和弟弟回来却原来是爸爸”、什么“都不知道他们做什么鬼出去那么久”（他们饭后去散步）等等无病呻吟的抱怨。

我又累又显又饿（又没有得抱抱），根本不想睬他这吃饱了非常悠闲在听歌的抱怨王。

很无奈的去房里换衣服，准备以前每个工作天都是、但换了部门后鲜少有的「一个人晚餐」。

很幸运的换好衣服后老婆仔回来了，匆匆去抱她充电，嘿嘿！

从后面搂抱在看手机的她，她看着面子书，那些性格测试什么的。

看到「喜欢拥抱」这一项，我就随口说：“我也是喜欢拥抱哦！”

她马上回了一句：“你不是喜欢，你是超爱拥抱。”

对，我就是超爱拥抱！

抱一抱心情好，抱一抱没烦恼，呵呵！

然后我就开心的去吃我的一个人晚餐了。

当然，晚餐后继续做工到睡前，又拥抱了老婆仔几次咯，科科。

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Just slow?

I like to think that I am a detail-oriented person.

That I cover all reasonable bases when I do my work.

And that I do my work to the best that I can.

I don't want to give a half-done or hastily put together work.

I would rather not give anything at all until I am satisfied with the quality of my work.

I put in a lot of time and effort for the works I do, especially those that I need to present to the others.

After all, I truly believe that misinformation is worse than no information.

Quality assurance, useful and accurate information are things I strive for.

But deadlines cannot wait, and there are only so many hours every day.

If having three projects on hand and all need to deliver simultaneously was the normal expectation, guess I am just slow.

Like, way too slow.

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十三年

嗨，小天使

十三年了…

五月尾开始就想你

这次的忧郁症是不是想你的缘故？

如果是

那是值得的

因为知道会到外婆家

爸爸还真担心会误了每年给你的一天

还好在这也没做什么的

很多时间闲着

如果你还在世

已是中学生了

小大人了

会不会是叛逆青年呢？

爸爸总是把你想成我命里没有的女儿

那乖巧听话可爱粘人的女儿

想想也很开心

呵呵！

乖乖了，我的小天使

爸爸会想着你的

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Backlogs #25: Evil on behalf

These screenshots of WhatsApp group chat are dated 14th of June 2015, though they could be a few days later than when the conversation actually happened.

Don't remember. goldfish memory +1

It's another conversation in WhatsApp group chat today that triggered me about this conversation, since both sounded pretty similar, a bit like deja vu really.

So, I was out of office, probably on business trip, and a colleague who is known for sending instant messages or e-mails using other user account, through mobile internet device left unlocked, found a victim and blasted some 'looking for relationship' kind of stuff that started the below conversation.

That colleague tried to find excuse, claiming to just being evil on my behalf, but that's not important, gotta give it to my crazy friends to come up with funny responses.

Here's the conversation many years ago, as usual, contains mixture of languages because we are Chinese Malaysians! ^_^

And of course I am more evil than my colleague, pfft!

But there are things I just don't do, like identity theft.

I am evil, but with principles. =P

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嘶吼呐喊

自从我开始驾车，我都是自己洗车的。

一向如此，现在也不例外。

今早花了近一个半小时把车里里外外洗得干干净净，洗车还真的蛮累人的。

但看它亮亮的（也觉得靓靓的），心里很有满足感。

午餐后情人老婆仔和孩子们，和其他小朋友和他们的妈妈们约了一同打保龄球，说会吃了晚餐才回家。

自己要解决晚餐咯。

看那天阴阴的，顺口问了爸爸的车停在哪？

心想傍晚若下雨的话，可以驾爸爸的车，不会让我今早洗车的心思精力全功尽废。

然后我就在床上做死尸到傍晚。

自己都觉得自己很厉害，毕竟睡觉是我的爱好之一，呵呵！ =P

（而且忧郁症又来袭，能量很低。）

但其实海边那填海工程周末也不放过，吵得我也没有真真的睡到的啦，唉…

傍晚懵懵懂懂起床，换了衣服就出门吃晚餐去。

很顺手的拿了自己的车钥匙。

开了车才想起担心下雨的事，但又懒得换车，所以便出门了。

心里默默祈祷不会我在外时下雨。

然后，当然，老天爷在我回程时就下雨了，就是这样「臭款」的咯…

勾叉零蛋三角形！

听到我内心的嘶吼呐喊吗？

什么屁话鸟话脏话都出完了那种，总之老天爷你是给我骂到臭头就是了啦。

真的，内心是崩溃的。 >_<

*哭哭*

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