尽力拼个火花出来。。。

再过3个小时就是一年一度的杯际赛了，篮球是这一届的最后项目。
一向来篮球不是我这队的强项，原因是很少有队友。我们要成立一队篮球队都要经历无数次的恳求一些工作伙伴来加入。一些还是基于朋友的支持，给脸说既然没有人支持你就让我来充数吧，非常感谢他们。
今年还是一样，打着只求参与，不求名次的精神参加。并不是我们不想力争上游，而是我们非常明白我们的实力到哪里。至少希望以4位还不错的球员，让我们尽力的争上决赛的一席位子吧。

懊悔的一天。

昨天有了场比赛，比赛的结果让我很懊悔。

那场5人足球的比赛，对手虽然在去年打败了我们但今年他们已经输了两场，实力上看来我们还是技高一筹。果然球还是园的，上半场踢完我们就落后了2球，成绩3比1，而且主将们都没发挥出本色来，大家都有点象漏了气的球，守门员和主后卫都伤了。下半场开打不久，后卫伤得不能再踢下去，队长要我当守门员，让守门员来当后卫。当然不用多说我当了守门员。虽然这位置不是我踢惯的位置但相对之下那守门员踢后卫绝对比我来的强，权衡之下这是最佳选择。

整15分钟的下半场，我们把比数追平了，而且也反超前，比数是3比4，我们在比赛还剩下3到4分钟时取得了胜利，而且我也扑救了3个射门。比赛的最后时刻，我方攻了对方一次但出界了，对方的守门员开球，把球往敌对的11号前锋丢来。这是的后卫是站在11号的前方，有能力一跳把球清出危险地带。但球竟然没被清除而是往我方向飞来，同时11号也跑向我追着球。我把手一伸准备把球接下时，球从我手中漏出去了，弹在地上往龙门方向去。11号已经把脚一伸，轻轻的触碰把球送进了龙门。

很懊悔，实在很懊悔。努力白费了，队友的努力统统白费了。现在我深深的体会那天我对队长说的一句话。“当守门员者，无论在场上多么活跃，表现多出色，扑救了多少粒世界级的射门，只要一次的小小的失误，一定会令人大失所望。”就是我的失误让到手的3分飞了，太可惜了。。。。。

对所有的足球球会/球队的把关人物致敬。你们的功实在是太少被赞扬了。

昨夜睡了大概只有4个多小时的我，当然不能说全是因为这场比赛的失误，这只造成我失眠的20%，另外的80%是来至于半夜在我楼下清除垃圾的超级吵闹的垃圾车所造成。凌晨3点多清除垃圾也拜托能清理的稍微安静些吗？让我枯坐到天亮。。。希望这20%的感受不要再重复，也希望这80%的情景不要再发生。

misc stuff

Trying to make it like a monthly reports for my personal life and working life and honestly due to no proper documentation I have to jumble up all the things. Lets make it simple and point form for read.

• Things are getting cold in works. Project has done and marching to the new one which has opportunity to travel to US (Yes!!! I could possibly fulfill a dream of my there). According Boss possibly October but things can be changes till then (finger crossing).


• Annual PDC cup on going. Like usual no hope put on the basketball team and things just might get worst with only possible 5 player to participate. That will convert to 40 minute game playing without subs for 4 games (of coz 4 games there wont be a slight chance to march to final unless there is hidden national player in the PP team) not even counted the possible foul out of a player making the team play with 4 players against 5 players or the opponent.


• Had a team building session on a charity works. Come to think of it, the last charity works (exclude blood donation) I did was during high school with interact club and was years years back when the last I hold the pain brush.

The group for painting the house. The special cap guy was the group leader...

I am 150% concentrating on the paint due to the fact that I always almost flung my art subject in secondary school

Before and.....

After... not much different eh...

A team building is not a team building without a proper meal.....

• PRQ dinner coming soon and just had a sudden team building to Mukah Head. Happen to know that within the DV group I am the sole representative for eligible bachelor. Cool! The sudden team building was to go hiking at the PG national park which i been there 2 times before and this time it has huge changes. Some building being built for office and stuff. the nature still preserve though. Here are a glance of some pic.

A dock at the entrance to the PG national park.

The trail towards the light house.

The coconut on the monkey beach.....

Our destination - the light house. Damn it was closed and we have to watch it outside of the fence.

Just come down from the light house and ready to go back.... boating of coz.

Looks who have to push the boat....

A group pic on the boat

Like I say, a team building must not exclude a good meal

• Olympic is coming soon. The last I remember I had the dream to attend the Beijing 2008. Looks like I fail to fullfill the dream. I just have to stay at home and watching infront of TV pretending I am in one of the stadium there...... :(
• Planning for a trip back to Kuching but usually my plan fail. Hopefully I able to make it this time.
• Just notice bonus had pay out yesterday. Maybe can buy a thing for myself to keep me interest on something. Lately do found not much thing could keep me moving after gone back to my house. Is it a sign of old or I just lost interest on living for myself?
• Is been a long time since I playing a PC game. Well my PC is an antique so what u expect? But this piece of antique still serve me well compare to my bro's P4 at home which had been broke down for a lot of times. Recently get hooked by this Diablo 3 just introduce to the world though it only release I think around 2010. Will get a decent system just to play that game.
• Till end of the year, I think I will have 2-3 wedding dinner to attend. 1 from the colleague which will be held during weekdays. Not sure if I am willing to drive for an hour or 2 to attend the dinner with works still on the next day. 1 from primary school fren who she say will be on Oct which I might be traveling during that time (hopefully). The last one is from Uni friends at KCH on Dec which if I do not have any plans during that time I will definitely attend as I could plan a vacation as well to KCH.

I guess that sum up the month of July. Till the next monthly report.....

Opps... 看来我忘了我该用华语来写这部落格。看来我是懒惰拼音了。

Food for share

Just thought to share some food I find nice that I had over the weekend, well is more like a snack actually. I dont know how it should call but lets name it Tempura Local Style (TLS for short).

This stall located at GreenLane, easier ways to give direction to the stall is along GreenLane there is a McD restaurant next to a Shell petrol station. Along the junction turn into McD restaurant and goes straight down before reaching a roundabout you will see a "tempura" stall with hot wok and oil on your right hand side. That's it.

What is selling? Deep fried stuff like fried banana's, tapioca, sweet potato, yam, green peas (you might wonder what but later let me try to explain) and is hard for me to describe this but in hockien it called "Ti Kueh", mandarin is "年糕", direct translate is "sweet cake". Something that we always see during chinese new year that it is sticky and sweet and used to contain in a bamboo casing. All this thing will be coated with paste of flour and deep fried.

They are famous with there "Ti Kueh" which they sandwiched the slice "Ti Kueh" with sweet potatoes and yam. It is good but I am not the fans of it. I prefer their Green Peas, bananas, kuih kolok and their sweet potatoes. Let me explain Green Peas for you guys. It is similar to soy bean and red bean but is much much smaller size and green in color. I think they grinded the beans and make a paste before they deep fried.

The Green Pea deep fried.

Another look of the Mysterious Green Pea

I am so in love with its Kueh Kolok which I have totaly no idea what "kolok" means in BM. I could describe the food as roundish, dark chocolate color like and banana tasty. It is soft and a bit chewy. Too bad last weekend when I was there it is not ready yet. So I take another cousin of Kueh Kolok on the deep fried banana.

The Deep Fried Banana.

What I found special about the stall is that the cook will deep fried the food/fruit twice. What I use to see is the cook normally fried it once only. I think this make the "Tempura" taste cruchier.

Karipap anyone?

Nice reddish hot filling inside the Karipap

Special tip passdown by the stall owner

Speaking of this I recall that day when I was there with friends to buy the "tempura" I have done my choice and payed but my friend still waiting for the "Tee Kueh" that in on frying. I am tempted with the Kueh Kolok and Green Peas so I took one of each on the spot, it taste so good that I finish half of my first bought of Kueh Kolok and Green Peas. So I reloaded and keep saying damn is good loudly. I guess this cheer up the boss and he pass down this tip to me.

• If you buying such tempura hot from the wok for a take away (BTW there they no serve table nor drinks, all take away), do not wrap them as such. The heat from the food will vaporize the water then condense to water droplet around the plastic and will fall to the food soften the crunchy outer layer. Make the food taste less delicious.

No, jangan, da-me, 不要, mai

Leave it open, eventually it will get cold but still you get the crunchy taste.

链。。。。。

我本身带着一条链。一条白银链挂着一个盾型的链牌，牌上刻着的是我的名字，一个老爸基于要给孩子的将来更顺利而请了姓名学家改了的名字。

这链我带了好几年，老爸在那一年帮了我们三兄弟妹都改了名字而每个人都有一条。至今我觉得仅是我还戴着它。今天让我想围绕着这个链而写些东西的是因为最近我又差点失去了他。

影像中如此的经验只有三次。第一次是在念大学时和朋友到Bako国家公园玩时差点就留在公园的宿舍里。当时在收拾好东西正要上船时突然手往胸口上一拍，触摸不到那盾牌的感觉，仔细找找发现链已经不再挂在我身上。船就要开了，由于船是要从海边开进河口才到达我们上巴士的地方回家的地方，需要靠海潮，迟了海潮太大或退潮时就不能开船了就得等到下午才能回，巴士不可能等到下午。我和朋友们说给我五分钟，也不等他们说ok我就往宿舍方向跑去。路程大概有个300米从码头到宿舍登记处，直接的问了锁匙然后往宿舍跑去。一开门望窗边看去，我的链就挂在哪。没时间给个高兴或什么的心情抓了链就往码头的方向跑去。还好就是船还没开，他们还够朋友的再等我。我们也顺利的回到上巴士的地方。

我的链。不是什么贵重东西但对我有某种意义。

第二次发生是在可以说是最近，是在打球时。打球是我都会把链脱下，这是除了睡觉之外唯一链会不在我身上的时候。那天打完了球也许是忘了我把链脱下了，拿起了车匙就走了。回到家大概晚上九点多才发现身上少了什么的，那时才知道链不见了。我想都不想就知道是应该遗留在球场上了。第二天上班时就先到球场上找找，但看遍了球场都找不到。这时开始有点慌了和觉得不可能吧，我该不会掉在别的地方和没人要偷这个不值钱的链吧。上班时我就想说几封email给那几个不是说很熟的朋友看看他们是否有看见。果然又以为我知道他的名且应为他在篮球比赛中夺得了“三分王”而让我羡慕且妒嫉的朋友帮我保管了。那天下午就找他拿回我认为贵重的链并谢谢他帮我保管。

以另一种方式来看我的链。

第三次也是最近最近一次，而且事隔第二次才不到一两个月，又一次的在同样一个球场上再一次的忘了带回我的链。这一次是发生在星期六早上，难得我早些醒到球场打球，到了球场上早已有了一个人在打球，我就加入了他打打球。过后他的朋友来了在场上打起排球来，为了不让彼此有不必要的阻碍我就坐着看他们打了一下然后就走了。那天我还心血来潮的想到市中心吃面，就去市中心了。到了哪，就发现有些不对了。在一次的我往胸口排去，然后就懂了。我想时间还早，就算那班人发现了我的链想为我保管，时间还早他们该还不会回去吧。我走时他们还在尽兴的打球中。不管了先吃饱了再说。吃饱后就有点飚车似的回到球场，果然那班人还没回但也没发现我的链，就拿了就走。

底片模式下的链。

这条链虽非价值不菲，但其意义对我来说是老爸关心我的一个标示。他希望我们前程而他所相信的一个方式。希望最低限度我能像每次那样能找回它，不会失去它。

A word I found meaningful today

"給活人送一朵鮮花，強過給死人送貴重的花圈"
"Give those living a fresh flower is much more better than giving those departed an expensive bouquet"

Thanks to a friends email stating this word in between the article that I find interesting and meaningful.
I personally found that on the funeral those plat, flower bouquet showing respect to the departed is worthless as it does not bring any meaning to the departed or his/her close family. If wanted to show you care then why show it after the person can't feel your care?
To those who happen to visit my little place here, let your friend, family or person you care that you care for them, treat them good and don't do it when they can't feel it.

Maxed Time Wasting....

I must be on fire today since I posted 2 blog in 1 day.

Happened approximately 5 Hours ago where I started my normal work, checking mail, checking data, compile data, take coffee, take breakfast and gone to lab. As I sit on an empty tester (empty means no test running, no one log on to, no unit on the test head) send IM to my boss saying I want to use this tester and help to allocate the tester to me. Our tester in the lab is very hot and famous that we need our boss to collaborate and assign to their respective subordinates who needed. So I start loaded the testprogram through another software that I had modified the testprogram and inputs files needed which is the first time I modified the input files for my own use and which I had tested last week that it works. I intend to collect some data and shorten the test time so that the overall procedure is clear and easy enough for the technician to help me run the test. So it was on the loading process.

It tooks quite sometimes for the loading so I wonder around into my own world where I check out some comics, some BBS, some news, NBA playoff results (sad that Hornet lost for 20 points in Game 4) etc. The testprogram will load for like 2 Hours before we could start the testing. Right when the testprogram are done loading to the tester and the monitor shows that you may put your unit in and start testing, here comes the bad news..... "pop" lab lights blinks and a part of the lab was in dark. Tester monitor turn off and a deadly silent environment. Usually the lab is full of noice of fans blowing to keep the tester cool and others. Now is deadly silent. 2 seconds and the lab is back with light but the monitor still off and no more deadly silent but you can hear people cursing (one of them is me). Is power surge.

"Damn!!!, WTF, S***, no..... Arghhh!!!"

The conciato of curse and depression sounded in the lab plays by PDE of SDM_Penang. Lab technician checked and confirm is power surge. Need to wait for 15 to 20 minute according the handbook of such situation to prevent the second power surge that could potentially damage the tester if the tester is bring back to action now. Nothing can do but wait and after 15 minutes, tester was bring back online and no I still cant use it yet. Why? Because the technician need to perform a check on the tester to make sure they are in good condition. Ok no problem I can hang on to it. At this time, my boss give me a call and say I have to release the tester to other team as they have a higher priority works to do. There goes my whole day works.

So what I do? get out from tester, get out from lab, go for lunch and then nothing else.....
The only things now is I posted this blog to share my feeling here. It so time wasting till the MAX where the time taken hours to load the testprogram and finally I can start testing, I get kick off from a days work. Well is an experience of such, I wont be that piss if I was half way loading the testprogram. My feeling is just like I am putting a juicy drumstick in my mouth and just as I want to take a bite, some one just took the drumstick away. So sian.....