Currently listening to nothing
Currently on super speedy Maxis 3G HSPA awesomeness

I’ve been looking looking for a job even before my final trimester starts. I’ve always dreamed of working in creative field as I mentioned before in my previous post.

Lucky me, my friend invited me to work with him. I somewhat secured the job months before my final exam, and they actually waited for me to finish my education. /touched

It’s a production house, and we work on animation project. Sounds exciting? It is. Concept arts are literally littered on the walls and the atmosphere is not much different than Student Press Room (we don’t have uber internet connection though).

I’m stationed at MSC Cybercentre at KL Sentral, and it’s gawd damn close to my house in PJ. Daily, I’ll just walk to the Asia Jaya LRT station and ride the specific only 4 coach LRT to KL Sentral. Yeah, I do have my car with me, but since I can conveniently take the public transport there, why would i be stupid to go through the jam and pay the expensive car park fees to go to work? Of course, when I feel lazy to walk to the LRT station, I’ll just drive.

I’ve been working with this company for a month and so far so good. More than “good” actually, “I’m lovin’ it”. Light workload, lenient work ethics, and good pay. Of course, I’m doing something that I actually love. Well, again, for now. We haven’t go full throttle yet as most of our project is still at pre-pre-production state. Once we went full throttle, then my life would be a living nightmare.. maybe..

Heh.

So, I’m staying at my grandma’s place in Section 14 now. Do call me out when you’re around Klang Valley, and since I’m a Melakan, traffic jam doesn’t affect me much (getting lost is different story though). I is immune to traffic jam… just as long my car’s fuel tank is more than half, or I’ll start panicking.

Oh btw, I’ve decided to attend my convocation this 2nd August, thanks to encouragement from friends and all. Still, I’m not sure whether my parents will be coming or not since my convocation is on Monday. I’m pretty sure most of you won’t be attending too since it’s on Monday despite the encouragement and all =_=;. But it would be great to see you guys there of course ^_^

And my other graduating mates, congrats. I’ll see you guys from Saturday till Monday! Yeah!

PS: I’m foresee fuck load of “wow, you finally graduated” greetings at convo. lol.

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Currently migrating CF forums

After 6 years, I’m finally done. Finally.

I was offered to enter Multimedia University back in 2004. Right after SPM, I only applied for this university because I threw away all hopes of entering other university due to my disastrous SPM result. I’m was a science stream student, and my horrible math results clearly said that “I’m doomed” no matter how good the other science result was.

I tried to apply for Foundation in Creative Multimedia, but they rejected my application and offered me Diploma in Information Technology instead. I wasn’t happy. Definitely.

It’s true that I have extreme interest in IT, but I have no interest of being in that field for my future profession. Seriously, no matter how interesting IT can be, I definitely don’t want to work with it for the rest of my life. I was imagining myself sitting in front of a computer staring at some project that i didn’t come out with, which is definitely not fun. Besides, there’s shitload of unemployed IT graduates around.

I was dead serious about throwing myself into the creative field. It’s something that I can live with to feed myself although it can be stressful. It’s art. And I love working with art.

But. I had no choice. I had to accept it since I only applied MMU. I was hoping that once I’m done with my diploma in 2.5 years, I’ll move on to Faculty of Creative Multimedia (just as suggested by my Academic Advisor). It made me laugh thinking about it again now. Lol.

Diploma in Information Technology 2004, Section DM1

6 October 2004, stacking up book covers in Student Press Room

Once I entered MMU, everything seems to be perfect… until I had to drop my first subject – Maths.

2 November 2004, sleeping in class during lecture. Proudly scored A for the subject.

I didn’t bother focusing on my academic matters much. I was enjoying my life. The IT subjects seems too easy for me hence I spend more time socializing with clubs and societies. Due to this, it rare for me to be at home during the early years. I would spend most of my time in Student Publication Board or with the EMiNA folks.

My hate for maths definitely screwed me up, and I can only blame it on me. Seriously. My hate for maths dragged diploma studies to 6 years.

24 September 2005, misread the exam slip caused him to study earlier than planned

But again, it’s hard for me to imagine what would happen to me if everything went as I planned.

Although studying for a diploma for 6 years seems to be ridiculous for most, I did not quite regret it. Within that 6 years, I learned a lot more than those who actually graduated earlier than me.

Academics in MMU didn’t really thought me anything useful in life. Engadget, Arstechnica, Wikipedia, or THE INTERNET thought me more useful stuff, but nothing beats the non-academic experience I gained in MMU. I learned a lot while I’m in Student Publication Board and the interest-centric club EMiNA Japanese Animation Club.

Student Publication Board was the most important aspect in my campus life

EMiNA Japanese Animation Club boosts my morale into the creative field

If I really did end up in Foundation in Creative Multimedia, I would be completely in a different place. If I really did end up finishing my diploma in 2.5 years, I would not have gathered enough the extremely valuable experiences that I’ve obtained now.

Student Publication Board, EMiNA Japanese Animation Club, Comic Fiesta, Photography, Friends, English and a lot more.

The latest MMU Orientation officially was my last contribution to MMU. Throughout my years in MMU, finally it was the first incline in terms of overall performance I experienced. The orientation this year felt so short although it was the same like the previous years. On the 4th day, after my last personal gathering with my group of freshies I nearly cried. After 6 years, this is it. This is the end of the line. My final contributions to MMU finally ends here.

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Yesterday, I finally received my offer letter to Convocation. I still have no idea whether I should go for my convocation. Never interested to go since I always see it as a waste of time. Sitting in the hall waiting for my name to be called out for hours, then wait for others to finish. But maybe. Maybe I’ll change my mind. Maybe.

PS: It’s just a diploma. And it’s on Monday.
PPS: I’m already missing MMU already although work is great now.

Currently still listening to nothing
Currently updating my konpyutta

Edo has a long bad history with figures and numbers since his traumatizing days back in Form 3. “Math sucks” he says, contradicts to what ever he said back when he was a primary schooler where he fucking pwns everyone in class. Wait… let’s not go there.

Now. He just suck badly, and he’s not even hiding it. He suck so bad that it would take him 30 seconds to calculate “7×6″. He suck so bad he avoided himself from calculating anything. Without a calculator, he would die. It’s really bad, very bad. To make things more complicated, he completely rejects math and refuse to study. He rather watch paint dry and watch grass grow than studying math.

He’s making his life harder on his own. Due to maths alone, it took him additional 4 years to grab the certifications that most probably he’s not going to use after he graduates.

It's easier to teach a cat to drive a car than teaching Edo maths.

But at last, after receiving several death threats, killer stares and endless bitchings from his loved ones, he finally passed his paper. Barely.

*ehem*

Ok. Seriously. Thanks guys for helping me out with my maths. Really appreaciated it, lol. It was really good that for the first time in my entire university life, i felt really really really confident over my maths paper. Of course, I felt the complete opposite when I actually see the question itself. It felt like I was brainwashed to believe that I can answer the questions instead of being tutored. There was this imaginary marquee that goes “What the fuck is this shit” scrolling on top of me everytime I skip to the next question. I felt like I was bathed with liquified feces when exiting the hall and felt like talking to my cat all day long about how my life sucked so bad.

But Holy mother of teapots, I passed the paper miraculously. So again, my dearest friends who wasted their energy and sanity to tutor me maths, THANKS A LOT. May you regain your sanity again. T_T

PS: I IS FREE! FROM MATHS!

Currently listening to nothing
Currently just came back from meeting EMiNA Cyber folks

Believe it or not, I was nearly away from the internet for almost a month, involuntarily.

No, I’m not having any usual emotional breakdown or something, it’s just that I’ve been so busy with stuff that I’ve completely forgotten to “touch” my pc. I’ve been outdoors, mostly with MMU’s latest orientation matters. My works piled up especially Comic Fiesta.

Thank teapots I didn’t miss WWDC and E3 Press Conferences live blogs though. It would make me feel less cool or 1337 if I actually missed those, lol.

I’ll update stuff when I’m free as usual.

PS: Damn seriously, I need to put some discipline into this. Sigh.

Currently listening to “Computer Driving” by “Perfume”
Currently finishing some werk

Yeah, you saw that right. 4.2 Megabytes per second. That’s like 4 times faster than your 15Mbps (1.7 MBps) Streamyx HSBB line.

What? I’m just making full use my campus internet connection, no harm there >:3

( Steam is offering Portal for free until 24th. Go grab it if you haven’t played it. This is not a lie ).

PS: Ok, seriously I’m bored. I had to write this lame post. >_>
PPS: I can’t wait for Portal 2

5 seconds before Edo looses his voice

Scream FUCK YEAH out loud and the whole hall will agree with you. This is “Video Games Live!”

I know, I know. It’s a very delayed post but hey, I was lazy busy and exams were near. At least it’s better than nothing.

Video Games Live

This is the moment where nerd goes orgasmic like fangirls fapping to the New Moon movie.For those who don’t know what Video Games Live is, I’ll describe it to you in short simple sentence: AN EPIC MUSICAL ORCHESTRA ROCKIN’ AWESOME VIDEO GAME TUNES.

I’ve been waiting for this event for a very very long time. They’ve been touring around the world since 2005 performing cult classic tunes like Super Mario, Zelda, Halo, Warcraft and many more. Last year they landed on Singapore, tch. But this year, after much whining from the fans, they decided to rock out the Malaysian fans. And there they were, in the Petronas Plenatary Hall, performing right in front of me, witnessing the holy moment with my very eyes.

5 seconds before Edo looses his dignity

That’s a picture of me and the console guy. We got the “bestest” seat in the hall, riiiight behind the console booth. While it’s not the most expensive seat, it was the “NERD RAGE ZONE”. Almost everyone I knew who was going for the concert are seating in the same section. It was a very “lively” zone.

I was so entranced that various sources claimed that I was the loudest fucker in the entire hall. Amber who was sitting on upper deck was convinced that she can hear me screaming like a mad maniac.

But can you blame me for being overly excited over something awesome? We were reminded by the producer himself this: “If you see something that you like, don’t hesitate to scream, jump or watever.. by all means, please be crazy”. I did that exactly.

Expected, they started with a medley of memorable classics like Pong (yes, pong!), Space Invaders, and many more.

But I never expected them to play “Shadow of the Colossus“. Yes, “Shadow of the fucking Colossus”. I never saw that coming and NO ONE can. Seriously, not many people actually played the game but fuck, THEY PLAYED IT. The chances of them playing is like me going to a political gathering to hear the politician start cracking up some Gundam Unicorn jokes. I locked my jaws. I screamed. I destroyed my voicebox. I shat bricks.

Oh, I suck badly in that game though. I had to actually watch Khurshid play the entire game before I can actually finish it by myself.

STILL. It’s SHADOW OF THE FUCKING COLOSSUS.

Orgasmic Tunes

Ok, enough of Shadow of the Colossus. There are other epic moments too. Wait, I’m sorry. I must rephrase that sentence. “The entire show was the epic moment”. One by one they keep on throwing in awesome sauce.

Let me try to recall what they played that night, since this happened a month ago ( serves you right Ed, hope you don’t delay your post again >_> ).

Right after I nearly lost my voice screaming over Shadow of the Colossus, they rock the shit out of us with God of War. Epic, complete with choir and soprano.

There was Warcraft cinematic suite. Yeah, the Warcraft fan can die happily I guess, since they were screaming “for the horde, for the horde” like they’re on a suicidal quest.

Metal Gear Solid! Yes, the awesome Metal Gear theme is awesome, but that’s not the highlight of the session. Norihiko Hibino, the composer of Metal Gear Solid series was present to perform his favourite piece: Snake Eater theme song. Jizz, in my pants.

Oh, how I can I forgotten about The Legend of Zelda? I’m not really a fan of Zelda since I only played 2 of the games ( A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time. But damn, I love those 2 games ). We found out that the soprano that performed during the God of War piece happens to be an excellent flautist too, very very very good with the flute. She performed a flute solo of the Zelda theme beautifully.

On Stage Games

There were 2 on stage games to fill up the awesome gaps between the shows.

One of them was Space Invaders. One of the crowd went up stage to play the game. He became the cannon himself and he had to literally move left and right to play. Like Wii, just that he is the controller lol. The orchestra supplied the background music as he plays.

Another one is definitely one of the best Guitar Hero session I’ve ever witnessed. The player’s task was to achieve a certain score in Hard mode, but of course, Malaysian crowds are awesomely evil, and requested that he play on insane level. Awesomely, the player accepted the challenge and the crowd goes wild. And damn, he was REALLY good. Again, the best Guitar Hero session I’ve ever witnessed. It somehow felt like a rock concert, lol.

… oh, there was FFVII One Wing Angel. Cool, but overdone. lol.

Nostalgia

There are many others. Halo theme songs, Sonic the Hedgehog theme songs, Rockman ( yes, you can hear shameless otaku screaming okkusenman during Wily’s Castle theme. I’m included. ), Castlevania and of course, the awesome concert ended with a final piece that were marinated with awesome sauce: Chrono Trigger.

I felt nostalgic. When they played all these memorable tunes it didn’t remind me of the game, but instead it reminded me of the good old day of me playing the game. Me, sitting in front of the computer, playing those classics.

I manage to personally thank the producer and the composer of the show, thanking for performing Shadow of the Colossus specifically. T_T

5 seconds before Edo jizzed in his pants

5 seconds before Edo hyperventilates critically

I’m anticipating for their return. Next time they’re here, I’ll be seeing you in that “NERD RAGE ZONE”.

PS: Oh, I changed my blog layout btw.

Finally, I fully assembled my RX-0 Gundam Unicorn, that I got few days before GACC2009.

Actually, the model was fully assembled for nearly 2 months already, it’s just that I was too lazy to take any photos of it… because I didn’t fully apply the decals as soon as it was completed… because I was lazy to apply the decal too. But of course, then comes the examination week where anything that everything else which doesn’t involve studying becomes amazingly interesting.

Liek suddenly you feel like reformatting your PC after months of delaying it. Liek suddenly you feel like reading that book after months of delaying it. Liek suddenly you feel like playing that shitty game after months of delaying it. Liek suddenly you feel like watching some horrible anime for the lulz after months of delaying it. Liek suddenly you feel like designing that client website after weeks of delaying it. Examination week… really makes you explore your inner interest. Sort of. >_>

So, yeah. After procrastinating from studying, I finally applied the decals… and I have no other valid excuse to not photograph it as soon as it’s done ( of course, studying doesn’t count as a valid excuse ). More (selected) picture after the jump. Enjoy.

Update: Yeah, I forgot to credit Usagi who enjoyed cutting the pieces, who also did a really good job at it. Thanks, dear.

PS: Then after that, I procrastinated from blogging. Haih.

Unagi x Inari

I never imagined myself saying “NO MORE” to “Unagi”, that awesome slimy disgusting but delicious eel sushi.

It was the awsm offering by Sushi King, the RM2 bonanza – where you can eat any rice sushi for RM2. Me and 10 others raided Sushi King to ensure we abuse this opportunity so that we can bloat ourself with sushi. Sushi King’s sushi aren’t the best sushi around, but who cares when they’re selling any rice sushis for 2 bucks.

Long Queue

When we arrived there, we were greeted with a scene we expected…

Very Long Queue (it goes way longer behind)

..sort of. I never expected that the queue would be “VERY” long in front of the shop at the new Jusco. The queue we usually encountered is usually 20-30 people, but this was beyond 100. We were stubborn for cheap sushi hence we waited. I did scout around for a better place to dine while they’re waiting in queue, but we were cheapskates, we want CHEAP sushis.

After 45 minutes of waiting (more like “gossiping” on dramas), it our turn to clear Sushi King’s food supply. Due to limited space, we split ourselves into 2 groups. My group went in first, got a table NOT next to the kaiten belt. The other group were lucky bastards, not only they got the table next to one of the kaiten belt corners, they were right in front of the sushi chefs too. These bastards end up supplying us sushi, so everything was still cool.

Table Full of Sushi

That was our table. Yep, it was full of cheap sushi.

That's me, trying to look as assholic as I can be, riiight next to the queue line

Directly next to us was the glass wall, where others who’s still in queue watch us eat. happily.

Some how, Sushi King was a bit generous I say. Before this Unagi were “rare spawns” or boss characters (explained in ‘Tower Defense’ lingo imagining all those on the kaiten belt are cheap creeps). But that day, there was Unagi all over the place. Our table was full of eels while we were stuffing eels into our stomach…

Phase 1 Ended

I think the waiters cleared our plates twice. The other table kept on sending us food, and finally we were bloated and unable to finish the food on the table. Navin agreed to eat all the rice while we finish the topping. Still, there was too much rice and I had to help him finish the rice.

Each of us end up paying 20 each ( I think, I can’t really remember actually ). We left the place with a bloated stomach, satisfied. We had enough of Sushi King… for now.

PS: Don’t you wish Sushi Zanmai offers the same thing too?

Lost?

Have you ever experience a moment where you want to cry hard for reasons that you don’t know of. The feeling of just crying out loud… just cry.

I’m… at that moment now.

I cried. I cried hard.

After several fail attempts to make a phone call, I cried. I was inside my car, parked outside of my house. I felt so frustrated that I just want to cry. Moments before, I felt like I have less problems to worry about and but more came screaming to my face. I cried hard.

Deep inside me, I’m screaming “why”? “Why all these have to happen to me?” “Why now?”. Moments like these makes me feel inferior to anyone else. Makes me feel that my best weren’t good enough. Make me feel like… I just want to disappear. Makes me feel like I wanna close my eye and never wake up again.

I was put into a hard situation many times where I face so many difficult choices to be made in life. Crying… makes does make me feel better now.

There come moments where you actually wanted to be comforted by someone while going through rough times, but instead you shot in the back… leaving you feeling like you’re all alone. In some situation, you might need to swallow whatever you receive and do what you were hoping for to someone else instead of getting it from someone else.

My sleeping times has become irregular. Having hard time sleeping, although I’m lying down on a comfortable bed with warm blanket in a cold air-conditioned room. After I manage to force myself to sleep, I’ll have problem waking up, refuse to be in the real world.

Maybe.. I’m not worthy at all.

… maybe, it’s not a “maybe” at all.

PS: Look before you leap, I guess?

This car might rape me one day

It’s official…

… my car is a Yandere.

I’ve been using my lovely kancil “Suzie” since 2005. She’s been serving me well… until she showed her true colors. She’s truly… a Yandere.

She’s a second hand car, aged 9 years old when I first “touched” her. The previous owner was a girl and the car was still in mint condition. She served me well, and she loves me. Although she’s an old car, she’s VERY reliable and rarely fails on me. She bought me to Penang twice, that says a lot.

But again cars automobiles are like mechanical girlfriends and she does frustrates me at times.

For example the air-conditioner. It failed so many times that I nearly gave up on fixing it but again, it wasn’t caused by Suzie’s age fault. The mechanic was an idiot and kept on replacing other parts of the air-conditioning system like the filter, cooling coil, and the filter pin. I went to another mechanic to find out that the actual faulty part of was the main condenser coils that was punctured when my brother rammed Suzie into another car. In short, in the process of fixing the air-cond, I nearly replaced the entire system.

Let’s get back to the topic: My Car is a Yandere.

Why? Because SHE IS. Here’s why.

Of course, like any other human beings, you want something better than what you already have. My parents offered to replace Suzie with a newer car but I said “no” due to my love for the car. Really, it has a lot of sentimental values to me. Besides, she was fine. WAS.

Slowly, I start to face problems. The drive-shaft starts to fail, the engine is slowly loosing it’s power and so on. So, subconsciously I thought of replacing her since her maintenance is steadily increasing. I thought of… Honda City…

( Yes, I would love to own Honda City and I will GET ONE after I start working ).

Somehow, she felt jealous and STARTS TO DIE ON ME. Every single time I talk about getting a new car, she acts up.

Like few months ago, for no reason her left tire was punctured while I was waiting for my friend at the roadside!

Also, refuses others to get into the car too at times by pretending to fail the servo for the locks. There was also an incident while I was at my grandma’s house in PJ, she locked the car while my keys in it ( pictured above, don’t be deceived by her innocent looks ). My spare key was in my bag… which was also locked in the car. The other spare key was all the way back in Melaka. We had to break into the car by force.

One morning I discovered the rear windshield cracked into million pieces, until now I still don’t know how it happened. The most logical explanation was “she went emo”.

It’s hard to wake her up early in the morning nowadays.

The latest incident would be 2 days ago. I was in campus until 3am. It was late, and I decided to go back home ( after a session of late supper of course ). Went to my car and SHE REFUSES TO START. Dammit. I just send her to workshop for service the previous day! So yeah, I was stuck in campus… until sun rises up so I can call a mechanic to check up on her. Maybe she overheard my discussion of getting a new car with my mom.

So from now on, no one is allowed to discuss anything about “cars” around her. She might kill me in a car crash so I can die with her. /touch wood

PS: I’m keeping that plate number no matter what. No one is taking that number away from me. No one ~
PPS: I still prefer to drive my car than my brother’s Waja. I don’t know why…
PPPS: I HOPE MY CAR IS NOT READING THIS.