My very beloved grandfather passed away due to natural cause on 2nd March 2011.

I’m just putting here as a note here for now. I tried to write about this earlier but it seems that it’s really really hard to do so. I had a hard time to accept that he’s no longer around. I’ll write more about this great man next week. I promise.

Ok. I lied. I said, “next week” but due to complicated circumstances this post is completed much much much later.

Do forgive me, I had a very hard time writing this calmly. Call me emotionally weak, but I can’t simply stop crying in front of the computer every time I try to complete this post.

On 2nd March 2011, I had a very hectic day in the office. I received a 2nd warning letter from my boss for ridiculous reason without even knowing that I had been warned before. That afternoon my mom sent me a message from Melaka, saying that grandfather is no longer with us. It wasn’t really a shock for me, for that time at least. Knowing his current condition at that time, we knew that his time is coming soon.

I reached Melaka the hour later, speeding the Proton Waja at 180kph (shh, don’t let my mom know this or she’ll kill me) just to ensure that I reach there as soon as possible. Reached my grandparent’s house and it was crowded. Everyone including my family seems to be calm, no one was crying with extreme exaggeration like you see in most local dramas.

I aided the few others to prepare the burial process, from cleaning until placing him in his final resting place.

Grandfather

Among my mom side’s cousins, me and my brother were very close to him as we stayed under the same roof for a very very long time. Between me and my brother? My brother was a lot closer to him throughout his entire life with a huge gap. He literally took care of my grandfather especially during his final days.

My family stayed at my grandparent’s house until I was in high school. Since our father is mostly not around, grandfather was more like a father to us. More than that, it’s actually an awesomely IMBA guy, and we’ve witnessed his IMBAness many times.

When I was still young, I was quite an arsehole. I would beat the shit out of my brother for no apparent reason. Well this was when he was still physically smaller than me. Heh. When shit happens, the family will try to break up the fight. Everyone in the family would use the violent method, except for my grandfather. He’s more.. chillax when he deals with any situation.

There’s a lot of thing that I would like to talk about him, but I would save that for table talk session as it’s a lot more interesting to tell stories about his life verbally. I’m just not capable of expressing his awesomeness in written words. I tried, but I failed miserably.

This is the guy who made me pursue in things that I love. This is the guy who thought me on how to communicate with people well. This is the guy who thought me to treat others like how I wanted others to treat me. This is the guy who became my father when my father was not around. This is guy who I respected the most in my family.

There are many things that I wanted to achieve before he left us. I wanted him to see me to be a successful individual in life. I wanted to take him out somewhere. I wanted him to see my future wife. I wanted him to attend my wedding ceremony. And many more. That will never happen now, but I’ll still pursue my goals in life with the values that he thought me.

I love you, grandpa.

PS: I really really missed you.

Currently listening to “Fall Back” by “MONKEY MAJIK”
Currently happy that the internet is back online

Shin Dee insisted on celebrating my belated 25th birthday and damn, I’m touched. I mean, I’m already like 25 years old and there’s nothing to celebrate… since I felt kinda too old for this kind of stuff ^_^;

But oh well, it felt like an awesome old-timers gathering instead.

holyshit the oil was like dancing violently on the pan

More pics after the jump.

The cake is a lie

So, Shin Dee called up others for a simple dinner at Seoul Garden in One Utama. There was Shin Dee herself, then Ai Ling, Thye Shin, Hsia Liang, Fazri, Yuhi, Adib, Khurshid (drove all the way from Melaka), Kay Lyn, and Loo Mun (yeah, I haven’t seen her since she left to Japan).

It was full of lulz. I appreciate this kind of occasion where I get to meet the old MMU people. It feels like it was 2004 again, lol.

Ai Ling, Shin Dee, Kay Lyn and Loo Mun

Me and Kay Lyn

Do ignore the mess on the table

After Seoul Garden closes, we migrated to Centrepoint’s McDonald and continued discussing nonsense, like why Singapore sucks so bad.

Thanks guys for coming and especially Shin Dee for organizing it XD. I’ll return something for you epic one day.

Group Photo

PS: Consumed mountains of lamb, it felt so good, and i wanna do it again

Currently listening to nothing
Currently downloading more questionable contents

Snap… too many things happened around me within the past few months. Lotsa interesting happened and i just simply to lazy to update my blog. I blame twitter. Really. I’ll (try) to blog more stuff soon. I realize that twitter is not really a good way to keep track of my previous adventures lol.

Our company’s IP product press release (pic above), climbed broga hill, radio emina, weird random trips, visit to Thailand, hilarious office dramas and more. Will get this done, soon.

PS: Listen to me on Radio EMiNA every Wednesday night!

…and Rabbit is now unlocked. I’ll give out the password upon personal request.

Have a good one, I know I’m having a good one. XD

Currently listening to “Soranin” by “Asian Kung-Fu Generation”
Currently downloading questionable contents.

Meet Charsiewpao, our lovely new freeloading housemate.

More pics of our lovely cat after the jump.

On a one fine day early December last year, I came back home and saw Kidchan was trying to “persuade” a stray cat. The cat seems to be scared at first but we managed to gain her trust. It’s a really fine cat: nice fur, no battle scar and extremely cute, which made us believe that it’s definitely someone’s cat. Might be pregnant too.

Hmm, she seems to be really nice. Let’s feed her cat food to gain more trust. So I randomly asked my other housemates and fortunately Megu happens to have a packet of Whiskas.

Auw...

Me: “Wow, Megu. That’s very convenient. How come you happen to have one? Do you eat cat food during emergency times or something? LOL XD”

Megu: “Shhh… don’t tell anyone…” =_=;

Me:“O_O;;;”

(you see what i did thar? i definitely didn’t tell anyone. heh)

Look at me. Now, feed me.

So, me and kidchan definitely fed it……… and now the cat doesn’t want to leave. =_=;;

We decided that if there’s no one looking for the cat within a week, we’ll claim it as ours! In reality, we much more impatient than that and got her a collar few days later. It’s OUR cat now. End.

I named her Charsiewpao because i think it’s cute to call her that. Imagine when we have kittens, we’re going to have a family of paos, like beefpao, kayapao and so on. XD

She’s been with us for almost 3 months already and she seems to be a really happy cat (although she was locked outside the house at night sometimes). We sent her to the vet and found out that she’s not pregnant, but just fat. REALLY fat. She demands attention and affection all the time, and I DEFINITELY have no problems with that. This is a lot better than Molly, my cat in Melaka (fucking lansi. won’t layan anyone at all. meh).

I’ve uploaded high resolution images of Charsiewpao due to huge demand from twitter XD. Well, here ya go if you wannit : http://p.nierchi.net/charsiewpao.zip

Bonus:

PS: Now, time to “utilize” my questionable content…

Currently listening to “Change” by “Monkey Majik + Yoshida Brothers”.
Currently trying not to think about work.

Hey, I’ve been away from the blog for a very long time again, as usual. Twitter made me lazy, I guess.

Anyway, while I’m free (or rather trying not to think about work), lemme introduce you to my room: “the Storeroom“.

Ok, now let’s kill the “nice lights” and turn on the bright lights…

OH WHO TURNED ON THE LIGHTS!?

… it’s more something like that actually. Meh. The room is quite messy (realistically messy) so hold on, lemme clear stuff up a bit.

/cleans up the room a bit.

The Futon

There. That’s a lot better.

I’ve moved out from my grandma’s place in PJ Section 14 and moved into this small room, which used to be the storeroom. Hence, it’s called the Storeroom. No, you’re not allowed to store anything in there now since it’s my room now. /throws your cosplay props outside the house.

The residents of the house including me: 3.5 guys, 3 girls and 1 cat + (random cats that’s trying to flirt with my cat). Since I wanted “more” privacy and freedom, I moved into my friends’ house in Subang Jaya SS19. They were having problems with the high house rents and I moved in to slightly reduce the rent lol. Since my room is (very) small, it’s (very) cheap. Oh, the another 0.5 guy is a frequent visitor to the house… who sleeps in the hall occasionally.

The storeroom unfurnished (duh), so I’m slowly buying furnitures. Hopefully I’ll turn this room into some IKEA showroom or something liddat. Eye-ed on few nice IKEA bed, wardrobe and unnecessary furniture(s). Will it fit? Of course! It’s IKEA, they can “sumbat” crapload of stuff into small areas. The room should be fully furnished within 2 or 3 months.

Air Conditioner? Not yet, already have one but haven’t install it yet. The weather at night has been pretty coolin’ lately so it’s actually freezin with the fans only. The major heat source would be the PC, as usual.

Oh, sorry, forgive me for the pictures if it’s not wide enough. My 18-135mm lens are still at Nikon Centre and I’m only left with my 50mm lens. Hence, I used my phone to take the photos.

So yeah. That’s my room. Small right? But I’m pretty sure I can fit two Proton Waja in this room, flipped and parked sideways. If stacked, I think can fit in 3. I dunno, never had the chance to actually fit in a car into the room, but heck, i’m happy with the space.

Oh, here’s a picture of my housemate, for bragging purposes.

Meet Charsiewpao. Caution: Demands fuckload amount of affection. A lot.

PS: The toilet paper? Why is it there? Why, it’s just toilet paper. /hides toilet paper.
PPS: We catnapped someone’s cat. Really. True story.

Currently listening to the fireworks battle atmosphere
Currently celebrating birthday… on bed

Today, on this date, I’m a “Quarter Century Man”. That’s like 25 years old, bastard. I can never imagine myself to be 25 years old and yet here I am on this date. Man, seriously. 25. Whoa…

Let me be in denial. I’m still 18 at heart! XD

PS: I still haven’t told anyone about “Rabbit” post’s password. I will give it out when I think the time is right. :)

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March 16 5:30 A.M.

Today, I will be leaving this town.
The book I borrowed is on the desk.
The orange knit is for my little sister.
The fish need to be fed twice a day.

I’m sorry for selfishly deciding all this on my own
but today was the time to leave,
not yesterday, and not tomorrow

Here, I’ve always been surrounded by wonderful people who’ve loved me
There will no replacement for and no equivalent of this town which
I will be leaving today

I’ve got to go before the church bells ring
Take care, everyone.

March 16 No. 3, South Wishbone

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おきてがみ

3月16日　午前５時３０分

私は今日、この町を出ていきます。
借りてたままの本は机の上。
オレンジのニットは妹に。
サカナのエサは１日２回です。

ひとりで勝手に決めてごめんなさい
だけど昨日でも明日でもなくて
今日はその時だった

大好きな人に囲まれて愛されてきた
かけがえのない　ふたつとないこの町を
私は今日出ていきます

教会の鐘が鳴る前に　もう行かなくちゃ
みんな元気で。

３月１６日　サウスウィシュボーン３番地

Currently listening “Light Song” by “livetune”
Currently pretending to fast

The keyword here is “finally”, not the popular “congratulation”.

Wow, I’m seriously loosing the blogging morale juice. Maybe it’s because, *gasp* I’ve become less fun? Hope not. Been very busy with work during the daytime and been very busy “socializing” or wasting time outside during the night time. Poor blog, I left you. Well at least, I’ve picked up twitter again and been spamming nonsense life updates there. You can subscribe me if you dare at @edo_errol.

Now, back to the topic

Convocation

Reluctantly, I did attend my convocation and expectedly, it was boring as hell. You sit there in the hall, waiting for your turn, take a fake scroll and you wait for more. But for certain individuals, it’s an important event in their life.

This is not a wedding photo. Srsly.

Like my mom for example. She wants to see me on stage to take the scroll from Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah ( wife of someone really important ). I’m pretty sure she felt relieved and accomplished to see that her son didn’t end being a drug addict or sell burgers at road side (no offense to burger sellers, but big fuck you to drug addicts). The least I can do is to make her happy.

Expected, my dad weren’t around. I doubt that he knows that actually (finally) graduated.

This is not a wedding photo. Srsly.

Senior and Junior

A lot of you buggers encouraged me to attend, so i did. But when you buggers found out that it’s on Monday, you guys pulled out. Buggers.

Oh, Shin Dee, thanks for the flowers. I is touched and loving it. <3

Ok, just kidding lol. Thanks to those who actually there to meet me, and for those who didn't come but did plan to come, well, thanks for "trying to come", lol. You guys didn't miss anything special, really. It's just a diploma. Some of you guys TRIED to troll me and made a flash mob. I sabotaged it by hiding behind anyone bigger than me and ran away from them. Heh. Don't worry, wait till i get my degree. Soon...

.. ok, not so soon. Working is an addiction now. and of course I can't afford to loose this job since i got paid higher than most fresh degree grad. Not meant to brag, but yeah, I'm addicted to this stable income. I'm still trying to get freelance job though. Hopefully, I'll find my mood back to study once my project with Thailand ends within 3 years.

Other updates

A lot of things happened, like my laptop graphic card was fried. Yes, that huge ass laptop (that you can see in the previous post’s picture). I tried to install StarCraft 2 on it.. and it fried my laptop. Good to know that the game has been frying graphic cards all over the world, not mine alone (ok, that’s bad. but, come on, it sucked if it only fried mine.)

So, my primary machine now would be my vaio netbook. Yes, under powered but suffice to do my work. I’ll just use my office’s PC when i wanna do my grafix stuffs. It’s running on Fedora now instead of the old openSUSE. Yeah, not really happy with openSUSE’s direction now.

Work? Work’s great although assignments increased exponentially. At least I’m happy with my work, and it get more and more exciting week by week (in a bad way and awesome way at the same time). Definitely better than freelance shit that I’ve been doing. I’m getting paid ON TIME, that matters.

Night time, I’ve been hanging out with Jared a lot lately since he’s wiling to drive me around. No gay stuff. Really.

Oh oh! I got myself a new phone! Nope, it’s not an iPhone. I got something better (in my terms). It’s an awesome phone for geeks: Samsung Galaxy S. (Sorry, I had to cancel out the word Samsung because i refuse to admit that it’s a samsung phone. All samsung phone sucked, except for this one. Since it’s an awesome phone, it’s not a Samsung phone. Get it?). Totally going to blog about it. Hopefully, before the iPhone 4 goes to the masses in Malaysia. LOL.

Also, about the StarCraft 2, I got it on the first day itself. Yeah. Add me if you have an account. I don’t get to play regularly though.

Overall, I’m happy with my life now. I’m happy that it worked as planned and as fun as i thought it would be. While I was optimistic about living in KL, i was a bit scared that I might not be able to cope with the living “standards”. Nah, I worried for nothing. I was financially unstable during the first month only and everything was smooth onwards.

So KLites, let’s hang out when you’re free XD

PS: LET’S GO FOR AN EPIC ICE-CREAM AND CHOCOLATE OUTING! YEAH!