Dopod 838pro

21 December 2007

Bought myself Dopod 838Pro. I currently have 1 Celcom line and 2 Maxis lines. One Maxis line is for Blackberry (office line). Satu lagi Maxis line (personal line) aku pakai dengan N70. I don't quite like my current Blackberry hardware and N70 tu. Yelah, office punya. So, I decided to buy Dopod 838Pro with Blackberry function so that I can return both N70 and Blackberry back to my company. For Celcom line, aku pakai iPhone. Then, I can activate my personal line for Blackberry function and cancel office line yang satu lagi tu. I spent about RM2,000 on Dopod 838Pro.

I like this phone very much mainly sebab dia ada keypad which allows me to type faster. In addition, it has many other attractive functions. See the following article from HTC's official website on Dopod 838Pro.

Dopod 838Pro
1st 3.5G PDA Phone With Sliding QWERTY Keyboard

Dopod International is proud to present the 838Pro, the 1st 3.5G capable Windows Mobile PDA Phone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. Housed within its business-like exterior is a sliding QWERTY keyboard in a form factor first pioneered by Dopod International’s earlier 838. The popularity of this design is testament to the commitment that Dopod International brings to PDA phone and smartphone markets in the Asia Pacific region.

As always, the features and benefits of the 838Pro are not just skin deep. This device also packs a macro-lens and comes bundled with WorldCard Mobile business card recognition software. This innovative solution takes advantage of the unique lens solution to simplify your business card scanning needs. From start to finish, you can scan, recognize and export to Outlook Mobile key information in a business card in about 20 seconds.

Additionally, the 838Pro is the ultimate connected mobile device – it being the first to come with 3.5G (HSDPA) mobile network connectivity, triband WCDMA connectivity, quadband GSM connectivity as well as high-speed WiFi (802.11g) – there’s no longer any reason to be disconnected while travelling.

What Raya?

20 December 2007

It has been some kind of tradition that I don't go back to Perlis for Hari Raya Haji. Lagipun cuti cuma sehari saja. I would rather spend my time in KL buat benda-benda yang aku suka or just lepaking. Tahun ni sembahyang raya pun tak pergi sebab bangun lambat...hmm apa nak jadi! Di sebelah tengahari, I promised HA to meet up kat Pavilion sebelum ke rumah terbuka KP di Cheras. I wanted to buy something nice for KP. Alang-alang orang jemput datang ke rumah for raya, I thought it would be nice lah kalau aku bawa buah tangan. I bought the Wisteria collection from Crabtree & Evelyn for KP. Harap dia sukalah...

Dalam pukul 2 pm, aku and HA dok struggle kat area Cheras mencari rumah KP. KP suggested us untuk tinggal je kereta kat tepi jalan and ambik taxi... aiyooo.... keji betul cadangan tu. Finally, jumpa lah jugak rumahnya. Cuma KP and her maid je ada kat rumah. Family members yang lain dah keluar menziarah. Rendang, lodeh, kari ayam antara yang dihidangkan... memang best.

Dalam pukul 4pm aku dengan HA bertolak dari rumah KP ke Midvalley nak ke MPH beli buku. Kat Midvalley punyalah ramai manusia... nak berjalan pun susah. I bought 4 books. Lepas tu terjebak beli sepasang lagi kasut adidas (memanglah I need counseling) and 2 track bottoms kat British India. Lepas selesai shopping, perut pun dah lapar...so singgah le Little Penang to have early dinner. From Midvalley, we made our way to the Curve. Hasrat hati nak cari Nintendo Wii. Pusing-punya pusing tak jumpa gak. Kat Borders pun takde buku yang berkenan. Singgah Starbucks sekejap for my favorite. Lepas tu chow nak balik.

Keluar je from the Curve, nampak macam ada concert pulak kat luar tu. Rupa-rupanya AZ tengah menyanyi. Rupanya ada opening ceremony of the nearby shopping complex. Terus berhenti kereta and keluar tengok concert. Poyo jugak la... Sambil-sambil mendengar lagu, aku pun menjenguk-jenguk barang-barang dalam kedai kat situ. Berkenan pula dengan 2 carpets on display. Dah le lewat dekat 10:30 malam, aku pulak insisted kat kedai tu yang aku nak beli carpets tu sekarang and nak bawa balik malam ni jugak... Gempar lah sekejap kedai tu dengan permintaan aku. Yelah... nak kena angkat furniture semua untuk ambik the 2 carpets. Dah le satu carpet tu quite big. 6-7 orang pekerja asing terpaksa tolong untuk lipat carpet and hantar ke kereta. Waktu nak bayar pulak, somehow the 2 carpets takde dalam system.... so the promoter dok sibuk bertekak dengan cashier on how to resolve the problem. Dah lambat sangat, aku pun masuk campur... aku siap berleter cakap..."korang ni, orang nak kasi duit RM3,000 pun susah... create la suspense account ke apa! besok korang reconcile lah balik". Nasib baik le bukan my staff... memang le kena haruk kalau takde customer orientation macam ni. Lepas aku berleter, problem solved. Ha! Boleh pon. Sampai je rumah, sibuk aku dok menghampar carpets ni walaupun dah tengah malam. Berpeluh-peluh aku mengangkat furniture. Y pulak called tanya samada ada kedai makan buka kat my area to tapau for his colleagues (ye lah hari raya mana lah ada kedai melayu buka). Kedai mamak kat area aku ni selalu buka, so I suggested that dia pegi tapau di situ. So aku pun ikut temankan Y cari makanan sebab aku pun dah kebulur sebab tadi dinner awal sangat. Lepas tapau he left. Aku balik zzz sebab besok nak ke office to clear outstanding work. Sekian.

Nota kaki: Happy 27th Birthday to my younger sister which falls on Hari Raya Haji this year. (tak sempat nak mail hadiah...so just transferred some money to her account)

Sekian Lama

19 December 2007

...to the one and only, you...
(mati larrr kena spekulasi lepas ni... :-p)

Sekian Lama

Dialah pujaan dalam mimpi
Yang senantiasa membuih hati
Tiap kali bersua
Ku hanya mampu senyum padanya
Ku terdiam


Sekian lama
Ku mencuba
Tak ku lafazkan perasaan
Berkubur saja
Namun dia ku cinta

Apa yang harus aku lakukan
Agar dia pun mengerti
Adanya cinta menanti
Oh sekian lama
Aku mencintai dia

Sukarnya membutir kata-kata
Menilai apa yang aku rasa
Tiap kali ku cuba
Lidah kelu dari bersuara
Ku berserah

Pearl of the Orient - Episode 1

16 December 2007

I was away in Penang over the weekend attending a conference. It was a hectic 1 1/2 day session. As usual, most of us had to work late hours to complete our group assignments to be presented during the plenary session. So peluang nak keluar merambu tu agak terhad lah. Aku sampai Penang dalam pukul 3:00 petang, Friday, 14 December 2007, together with CZ, NSY and ARG. Dalam pukul 3:30 petang dah sampai kat Zurina's (a butik selling branded goods in Penang). Baru tengah sibuk2 shopping, I received a call informing that there will be a meeting at 5:00 p.m. So tak sempat nak shopping sepuasnya, terpaksalah aku bergegas ke hotel. Sempat lah aku beli 3 helai t-shirt Lacoste.

Just when we arrived at the hotel, I was informed that the meeting has been postponed until after dinner.... Larrr.... Ponet den! So all of us decided to go out again after checking in and sembahyang. We went out at about 5:30 pm ke Teluk Bahang. Rupanya kat Penang ni ada Taman Negara Pulau Pinang. Nampak cam best. Maybe next time. We then stopped over at the nearby mamak stall and pekena mee mamak and teh tarik. Mee mamak dia ala-ala manis sikit.... kureng diminati oleh anak tekak aku.

Lepas makan, tetiba datang idea nak bangun awal to exercise besok pagi. So sebab aku tak bawa kasut...pegi lah beli kasut plak (RM150 for a good Nike shoes at 50% off). Memang lah aku ni hantu kasut... kat rumah bersusun-susun kasut yg tak dipakai pon. Lepas beli kasut we proceded back to the hotel.

Lepas Maghrib ada welcoming dinner...so terpaksa lah pergi. Lepas dinner aku ada meeting yang berlarutan sampai ke 1 pagi. Sekian!

Besok paginya, kasut jogging Nike yang dibeli semalam tak dijamah pon. I went straight to the conference hall sebab bangun lambat. Pukul 6 ptg baru habis discussion. After Maghrib ada another dinner, and lepas dinner sambung discussion balik. Aiyo..penat sudah. Aku sempat keluar jap dengan ARG for about an hour, shopping kat night bazaar di Batu Ferringhi. Takde benda sangat except I bought souvenirs for NM and NA. Then balik hotel sambung keje. Dalam kesibukan ni, sempat juga a few of us planned a surprise birthday party for ARG dalam pukul 11 mlm macam tu. At 11:30 pm, aku sneaked out sekali lagi to meet NM and MZ yang bermalam di resort Penang. MS pon ikut sekali... Hasrat hati nak cari Starbucks, tapi ended up kat Restoran Subaidah. Dalam pukul 1 lebih dah balik hotel coz memasing dah tak larat.

The conference continued on Sunday with a plenary discussion. Habis dalam 12:30 tgh hari. Aku, ARG and CZ chow from hotel dah dekat pukul 3 pm. Sampai KL dalam pukul 8 malam lepas adegan singgah menyinggah membeli buah dan sebagainya di sepanjang lebuhraya. I plan to come again to Penang in the near future....we will see how!

Alamanda

9 December 2007

Hari ni aku dah janji dengan NM and MZ untuk ke kenduri kawen our colleague di Taman Botani Putrajaya. Semalam, aku dah gigih membeli hadiah kat Sogo. All wrapped and ready to go. Entahle... for the past one year, for every wedding that I attended, aku kasi benda yg sama... this german made cutlery set. Selagi tak kena keji dengan sesiapa, I guess I will continue buying... or sementara stock masih ada ;-)

Aku janji nak jumpa NM kat office kul 12:30 p.m. Tetiba pagi tu Y pun ajak pegi dengan dia and family. Hmm...dah janji dengan NM, takkan aku nak kench plak kan? So aku pun menolak lah pelawaan Y. Jumpa kat sana je lah.

Sebaik sahaja aku sampai kat office, dari jauh kelihatan NM persis 'air bandung bergerak'.... dengan tema yang sungguh pink. Rambut pulak begitu anggun setelah didandan oleh 'car wash' ternama di KL ni [private joke... tak payah tahu]. Si MZ pulak baru tengah mandi. Pukul 1:00 pm baru lah bertolak. Si Ali and family pun berkonvoi bersama. Aku yg tak lagi breakfast sudah meracun NM untuk isi minyak.... dah separa kebulur ni. Kalau lambat makan, nanti perut masuk angin... aku gak yang sengsara. Somewhere near Bangi baru berhenti untuk isi minyak. Aku ni pulak pegi memborong makanan segala, sandwich lah, corn, dan berbotol-botol air.... (and lepas ni nak pegi makan kenduri nih...sekian!!).

Sampai ke tempat kenduri, hari dah macam nak hujan. MS pun baru sampai.... so meriahlah jugak. Tetapi, mak ai, ramainya orang.... kena beratur bagai. Tapi adat kenduri kahwin lah kann... nak makan senang, dok makan kat rumah je lah.

Waktu aku baru beratur, Y and family dah tengah makan... cepat betul diaorang sampai. Aku lepak semeja ngan NM, MZ, RS, MS, Ros and family and some other colleagues.

Lepas wedding, aku, NM, MZ, Ali sekeluarga dan Y sekeluarga bersetuju untuk ke Alamanda. Jakun tak jakun, inilah kali pertama aku ke Alamanda. Ada sedikit sesat jugak larr... Alamanda is not as 'gempak' as I expected... tapi tak le keji. Cuma, some of my favorite shops/brands takde kat situ. Tapi, as long as ada Starbucks, I can survive. He he. So all of us melepak kat Sbucks.

Lepas Sbucks, we all berpecah. Aku dah terjebak beli standing fan that comes with a remote control. Tanpa diduga, aku terserempak dengan my ex schoolmate waktu form 4 & 5 dulu. Sepatlah berborak tanya khabar. Lepas tu aku ternampak someone yg aku rasa kawan baik aku kat sekolah dulu, tapi tak berani nak tegur sebab he looks unfriendly with jambang and all (Come to think of it, it was my mistake to prejudge him sebelum menegur... rasa bersalah plak).

Balik pun dah lewat, sampai rumah dalam kul 8 malam lebih. Dalam pukul 10 malam, Y datang rumah. We went out for dinner and borak-borak pasal issues surrounding us. Sebab mamat ni suka sangat kaler kuning, aku ada belikan something yellow that I thought would fit his craze for yellow things... We lepak for a while and he left at about 11:45 p.m.

Nota kaki: Selamat Pengantin Baru...you know who you are...

Perut Hijau!

8 December 2007

"Perut Hijau" is a description of me given by a friend from the North. Kalau kat utara, bila kita cakap seseorang tu "perut hijau"... maksudnya orang tu tak berhati perut... or some say hati kering. To a certain extent, that description is reflective of me.

As I sit by myself and ponder this topic, aku tahu yang aku ni "perut hijau" in 2 ways. Firstly, I can be direct and say whatever I have in mind which on a number of occasions have hurt people around me. Secondly, I can also be a "perut hijau" by totally ignoring the person as if the person no longer exists in my life.

At the onset, allow me to clarify yang aku selalunya tak ada prasangka ke atas orang. Aku cuba berkawan dengan seramai yang mungkin, try to assist in anyway I can bila diaorang kesusahan and selalu bersedia untuk mendengar dan memberi pendapat bila diperlukan. But I really cannot tolerate people who are pretentious and/or not honest in befriending me... ataupun yang berkawan semata-mata hendak mencapai sesuatu hajat. Aku juga cepat rimas, when someone is too clingy (baca entry on 'bila nak kahwin?') or needy. I may have hurt a close friend today bila aku bagitau dia yang aku rimas dengan SMSes yang tak berhenti-henti (I am to be blamed as well sebab melayan for the past few days... mainly to show my support sbb dia ada masalah sikit). Ada juga, a number of old friends yang dah bertahun tak pernah contact have suddenly contacted me asking for favors when they know that aku currently memegang jawatan yang agak penting. Hmm... I guess, life is like that.

I consider myself quite liberal and I don't choose my friends based on gender, religion, race, status or sexual orientation. But there must be mutual respect between us as friends. Most of the time, a friendship is lost because I can no longer respect him/her as a friend for the reasons stated above, or vice versa. I hope, for those of you reading my blog, that our respects for each other remain intact and this friendship have enriched us and allowed us to be wiser. For those who feel that our friendship has been lost, I wish you the best and hope somewhere, somehow and sometime in the future, the friendship bond we used to have can be rekindled. Wassalam.

Maybe, I am not so "Perut Hijau" after all... :-p

Bila Nak Kahwin?

8 December 2007

At my tender age of 32 (tender sudahnya!!), I can't run away from people asking, "Bila nak kahwin?". For example, harini aku ada kenduri kahwin kat Cheras Perdana. Yang kahwinnye adik kepada kenalan aku. Aku ended up duduk dengan this one Makcik, her husband dan mungkin juga dia punya 2 cucu(s). Dah le tak kenal sesapa pun kat wedding ni, except my friend.... tapi yang penting Makcik tu tetap tanya aku "dah kahwin ke belum?", and when I said "belum", she asked "bila nak kahwin?". Memang lah ini soalan favorite di tempat kenduri dan di hari raya. Besok, I have another wedding to attend... we shall see whether I'll get asked the same question.

My personal take on this is...

I'm happy the way my life is right now. I'm committed to my career and would like to do more kebajikan. Helping out anak yatim would be something that I would like to do more... (currently just buat periodic donations je).

I'm an extrovert... suka bergaul and all, but I always like to spend time alone doing things I like. I like having the freedom to meet with people I like, participate in many activities as well as having the freedom to go back to an empty apartment, be able to pick-up a book and read quietly or watch my favorite movies without interruptions. And I have no problem staying single (at least at this point in time lah....).

So, for those out there yang bersungguh-sungguh trying to help me out mencari jodoh... tak payah lah susah-susah. You know who you are. All these years, I've seen suka-duka perkahwinan...in my family, tengok sedara mara and sahabat handai. Banyak yang porak peranda, although ada juga yang bahagia sentiasa. At this point in time, I'm not even ready to consider when or will I ever get married. You are welcome to continue asking, but do not hope for a positive answer from me in the near future. I'm not even looking at this point in time. Nevertheless, we shall revisit this issue sometime in the future ;-)

Rempit!

8 December 2007

I should not be writing this... Oh! But what the heck... HA has been my good friend for a number of years and I'm sure he wouldn't mind (sebenonya dah minta kebenaran to write about this... takuuuttt.. hehe).

HA got a scholarship to do his masters in Sydney sometime early next year. As such, he needed to find a buyer for his Vios... yelah nak suruh aku jaga, I don't drive... kang bersawang pulak kereta tu. His bro is already maintaining 2 cars. So he decided to jual. Within a few weeks he found a buyer and he had to let go by end November. So, memandangkan he still needs, and he needs a car badly, to drive to work until early next year, he decided to rent a car from someone.

Sebelum aku sempat tengok kereta tu, HA had warned me times and times again that he is now a Mat Rempit. I thot he was joking. When I first sat my eyes on the car (Iswara, just so you know), I thot the car ain't that bad. But when you look closely, memang kereta ni dah lama with its paint peeling off, seat tak boleh adjust, broken side mirror, etc. HA took me once to Hartamas in his 'new' car... and I just couldn't believe the sound that the 'ekzos' made. Aiyoooo...so the 'Mat Rempit'. Here we are, two metrosexual men, sitting in car that produces the loudest and noisiest rempit sound in the whole of Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur. Try imagine that... it is so wrong!!. At times, aku yang tak pernah merempit seumur hidup ni, agak kerisauan takut the car breaks down ke apa.... tapi dah lima-enam kali naik....the car works just fine, except semuanya manual.

But as I said earlier, I shouldn't be complaining coz aku menumpang je.... Mati laa....

Encik Sri Siantan

7 December 2007

I remember the time when a local newspaper had a dedicated column for public to write in and seek advice from Cik Sri Siantan (CSS) on personal problems. Week after week, I would find myself glued reading every word that she said, thinking how intelligent she was, able to answer every single question posed to her.... so kelakar....

And now, as I grew older and more savvy (at least from my own perspective.. he he), I've noticed that people, friends especially, find me approachable for them to share their problems be it work related or personal problems. Some even shared their darkest little secrets with me ;-). And of course, in many of the cases, they put me under oath not to share their secrets with anybody else.

This month, someone I know confided in me with a little secret that shocked me to my core... All I can say is while rambut sama hitam...tapi manusia ni hati lain-lain. And I have a feeling that something will turn bad.... real bad....in the near future.

On a lighter note, my life has been busy as usual. There were times that I stayed very late in the office coz I just had too much on my plate. But, I must say that I started to love this job.

Apa lagi eh? Oh ya... I got very excited when I first heard that Ms Whitney Houston would be coming to Malaysia for the 'Live & Loud 07'. I grew up listening to her and "One Moment in Time" has been an inspiration to me. So wajiblah beli ticket kann.... I bought 3 RM263 tickets for myself, HA and RR as well. On the day of the concert, aku, HA and RR got there at about 4 p.m. Dina, Malaysian Idol Runner-Up, was performing when we got there. The concert started earlier at 3:00 p.m. with other performing artists. Banyak betul artists yang performed that day... the memorable ones include Kumpulan Pop from Indonesia, Elliott Yamin and Shaggy. But the most memorable of all was definitely the Diva herself, not because of her performance yang melathop, but because her performance sucked...and she was really...really... bad!...dah le pukul 12:30 a.m baru dia punya show started. I left halfway through her performance, and so did other people. And I totally agree with the review by mrmanager on his blog about WH's performance that night (except the part when he said - we all sat riveted to our seats - coz I was standing...hehe...and at that point in time I had been standing for more than 8 hours) as follows:

"The voice was shrill, strident in the upper chest register and when she switched into head, it was a whimper of a falsetto. The vocals just came across as being very tight at the higher end of the registers. Nevertheless, she tried very, very hard to up the energy but we all sat riveted to our seats as we witnessed the most embarrassing performance on stage by a song goddess, no less."

I gave the entire performances that day - 3/5 STARS