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The Out of the Ordinary : Prologue

2009-11-16T00:28:00.004+08:00

last update March 30th? ahaha ... nampak benar everything goes dunhill in my life (downhill, with a twist) ...

well ... that's gonna change (at least for time being) ... will update on my solo trip to Persada Johor for an "out of the ordinary" event ...

tungguuu ...

Ultra Malas

2009-03-30T21:35:00.002+08:00

Hey peeps!

Ya it's true I've been ultra malas lately to update this web-filled blog coz my days are occupied with other stuffs of interests ... so don't expect this web-filled blog to be filled with anything comprehensible anytime soon ... sorry mates!

Lag Tag II

2009-03-06T23:20:00.008+08:00

Better late than nothing, I suppose ...

Rules:
It’s harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag twenty people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real…nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name : bombe
2. A five Letter Word : blank
3. A boy’s Name : basry
4. A girl’s Name : bazlin
5. An occupation : bridge engineer
6. A color : blue
7. Something you’ll wear : bangal
9. A food : blueberry muffin
10. Something found in the bathroom: bath tub
12. A reason for being late : bas rosak
13. Something you’d shout : bulls**t!
14. A movie title : braveheart
15. Something you drink : beverage
16. A musical group : barenaked ladies
17. An animal : black bear
19. A type of car : batmobile (bulletproof car)
20. The title of a song : bidadari - anuar zain

Lag Tag

2009-03-02T23:49:00.005+08:00

Yea yea ... i've been very malas nowadays ... it's not that nothing is happening in my life ... it's just that I really don't feel like telling ... meanwhile let me entertain you with this tag ...

RULES: The rules are simple. Use Google Image to search the answers to the questions below. Then you must choose a picture in the first page of the results, and post it as your answer. After that tag 6 people.

I'm ... sleepy

I really want to go to ... UK

My favorite place ... race circuit

My favorite thing ... racing

My favorite drink ... milo

My favorite food ... nasi goreng

My favorite colour ... black

I live in ... Shah Alam

I was born in ... Assunta Hospital

My school/college ... SK Raja Muda

My favorite story ... Star Wars

My hobby ... karting

I wish ... I'm an F1 world champion

I wanna tag:
Akkema
Aduera
Abang Amirrul
Hairie Zairel
Yunkedi Yunkedu
Ligok

Tag Team

2009-01-13T00:29:00.012+08:00

Ok ok ... so I've been a little couch potato for few weeks now ... but hey ... at least now it's time for some update, yes? I've been tagged by a couple of lovely lasses, Akkema and Miowzzy ... so here goes ...

1. Do you think you’re hot?
No. Although ......

2. Upload your favourite picture of you.

3. Why do you like that picture?
Made me look good

4. When was the last time you ate pizza?
During office mate's farewell celebration (sort of) last month

5. The last song you listened to?
Jon McLaughlin - So Close (Enchanted OST)

6. What are you doing now besides this?
Listening to mp3, facebooking, reading other people's blog

7. What name would you prefer besides yours?
Muhaimin

People I tag:
1. Akkema
2. Yun
3. Izrulazhar
4. Aslinda
5. Miowzzy

8. Who is number 1?
Kawan se-mengong-an di MMU ... antara rakan2 repeks dan luahan hati yg ultra cool ... juga frenly ya amat ... aku gelarkan dia Mama Petowng (Petung) since she'll be a mommy in less than 4 months time and also coz Petung tu antara nick lain dia masa kat MMU ... best of luck to you and Abob!

9. Number 3 is having relationship with?
Ija (tak ingat name penuh). My bro kenal dia mase bersilat kat MMU (...ker?)

10. Say something about number 5
Budak berbakat besar dlm grafik ... juga punya mata yg besar seperti gadis anime ... sorang lg yg frenly ya amat dan sgt mengutamakan family ... calon terbaik utk jadi isteri solehah kpd sesiapa yang layak ... hihihi

11. How about number 4?
Member mase kat MRSM Jasin ... sorang lg rakan repeks yg best ... tp mase kat skolah dlu takde plak nk repek2 cemni ... maybe sbb sumer dok cover line je kot ... atau mmg basically sgt skema? haha miss the old skool days ...

12. Who is number 2?
By far the coolest human being ever known ... wacky yet smart (smart a$$ mostly) ... also discreet and discrete ...

Yeay!

2008-12-25T19:50:00.005+08:00

Today is holiday and I'm gonna have my "school holiday" till next year January the 4th. To be honest, there wasn't a lot of fun things I planned to do for the next 10 days ... but hey ... getting out of the office is already a fun thing ... so I'm gonna enjoy it while I still can ...

Oh Pedasnya ...

2008-12-12T14:49:00.002+08:00

Khutbah arini berkisar menahan api kemarahan ... sangatlah pedas rasanya ... tp baguslah kan ... dpt sedorkan dan beri iktibar skit kat diri ni ... hehehe

Office Alone

2008-12-10T00:40:00.002+08:00

yep ... aku sensorang je tadi kat multimedia dept ... dan ini akan berterusan sehingga ke jumaat sbb azrin ngn melal cuti minggu ni ... have as much fun, people!

in other news ... gaji dah masuk 2 bulan kena delay ... maka carutan, kutukan dan umpatan akan berterusan lagi minggu ini ...

Midweek Retreat

2008-12-06T21:34:00.021+08:00

Haa ... like I said in the previous posting ... I went on a family vacation to a remote beach of ... Teluk Kemang ... in Port Dickson (remote ler sangaaat) from 2nd Dec - 3rd Dec ... which was in the middle of the working week ...

A couple of months before the trip ... my mom made a booking for a bungalow at the PKNS Bayu Resort ... it is a newly constructed resort home which is exclusively built for PKNS staffs and their family members ... In case you were wondering ... my parents are PKNS staffs (Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor, yeah the one with the controversy over a general manager election) and they have been serving them for more than ... well ... since before I was born, really ... Back to our vacation, we depart from Shah Alam at 10am ... picked up my brother in MMU at 10.30pm ... brim the car with fuel at Dengkil R&R ... and instead of taking the south-bound PLUS highway ... we decided to use the old road to PD ... driving through winding roads and palm estates ... and also got ourselves trailing behind a very slow trailer ... on a hill Before we reached PD ... we stopped by a small town called Lukut where we bought a Secret Recipe's Blackforest cake, a barrel of KFC and some fruits. What's with the cake and the KFC? Find out in a bit ... Then, at around 1pm ... we reached the destination.
My first impression of the place was ... "WOW! TNB's resort is 10 times bigger than ours!" Yeah ... TNB also has a resort situated just next to ours ... and their resort is like a hotel already ... anyway Bayu Resort PKNS was okay too despite the limited land property. It has a 4-storeys apartment ... 2 2-storeys bungalows (semi-detached actually ... dunno why they called it a "banglo") ... a decent pool ... a jacuzzi ... a karaoke room ... a pingpong table and a barbecue grill, whereas TNB only got 8 storeys apartment ... a very big pool with slides for kids ... a karaoke room ... a barbecue grill ... a restaurant ... a gym ... a banana boat ride ... a jetski for hire ... a jacuzzi ... a game room ... a garden ... a few beautiful and hot girls ... a few elevators ... a big gate ... a bla bla bla ...
what a boring resort TNB has ...
3.30pm. Check-in time. Was supposed to be at 2pm but there was some technical problem which prevented it to happen. Anyway the house got 4 bedrooms ... 3 on the 1st floor and 1 on the ground floor ... with each has its own air-conditioning unit. I tagged the ground floor bedroom coz I don't have to climb up the stairs to get there ... and also coz it was next to the kitchen so I can pop something up out of the fridge when everybody was sleeping ... >:). The house also has a decent living room with a 32" LCD TV but sadly ... no Astro ... so because of that ... for the first time ever ... i watched RTM programme ... which virtually lasted for as long as 30 seconds before I went for a date with my beloved lover, the laptop.

4.30pm. Time for celebration. What celebration you asked? Oh ... we were just celebrating my bro's 24th birthday actually. That was why with the Secret Recipe cake and KFC earlier.
After had a couple of thighs and a slice (or two) of cake ... performed the prayer ... and went back out to go swimming at the so called pool. When I got there ... my bro and my dad were already there. With only 4 feet deep and a radius of about 10 feet ... I found the pool to be as spacious as a tempayan. Clearly this pool is only for people with a couple of buoys on their arms. What about the beach you say? I would rather swim in a septic pool filled with mutant jellyfish before I jumped into that beach. The water was murky and you can barely see anything in it. It would probably the best place to dump your toxic wastes coz no Environment Dept officers would dare get in there.

Done with kuak lentang ... head back to the house and had some more quality time with my laptop. At night ... my parents and sister went for karaoke session at the karaoke room in the next building. I don't do karaoke ... so I spent the quality time with my laptop again ... then ... some reason quite unknowned ... I slept earlier than anybody else ... and it was just before 12am ... strange ...
The next morning ... not much went on ... we had our breakfast ... my mom and little sister went to beach then went back to the pool instead because of air pasang ... my dad went somewhere ... my bro went out taking photos ... and me ... glued to my trusty laptop yet again ... since nothing else really gave me the fun I was looking for in a holiday ...

At 12 noon ... we checked out from the resort. On the way back ...we stopped by the Saujana Walk Port Dickson to have our lunch ... but not before visiting a bundle shop called "Baden Baden Bundle" which was just next to the Saujana Walk ...
it had quite a huge collection of bundle clothings and shoes in store ... the price is fair ... if only I had extra money to shop around ... sigh. Once done with the window shopping ... we went straight for lunch at the Walk ... having some satay from Sate Kajang Haji Samuri and curry me & nasi dagang ... the food was nice from Bangi Kopitiam ... and boy the food was nice ... this should be the place to go if you ever come down to PD ...
Once the tummy has been filled ... we stormed back to Shah Alam after we dropped my bro at his college ...

P/S: Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha to all muslimin and muslimah

Mun-day

2008-12-01T19:09:00.003+08:00

... is the most boring day of the week ...

The only consolation I have is that I'm on leave today ... till Wednesday ... which is good ... very good indeed! hahaha ... and tomorrow I will head to Port Dickson for a family retreat ... it has been a while since we last did this together ... previously it was during my secondary school days ... or much earlier than that ...

On the other side of Klang Valley, Dura-emon started her first day at work at her new workplace in Cyberjaya ... wishing you all the best

Enter the Sepang : The Ride of My Life

2008-11-30T22:31:00.019+08:00

Fan-squealing-tastic!

That how I would summarize my Sunday, although a couple of friends might be a bit small liver (kecik ati) for not attending their wedding reception today (sorry Nasir & Muzzamil).

The day started like any other normal Sundays. A visit to the local newsstand for a few newspapers, buy some breakfast for the family ... oh wait ... I didn't ... I bought a cooking gas instead ... but basically ... it almost the same as any other Sundays ...

At around 10.15 am ... I depart for Sepang ... slow and easy ride on the Elite Highway at 80-90kph ... had a pit stop at the Dengkil R&R to refuel because the two bars indicated on the fuel gauge was not so convincing ... so I pumped RM40 which I reckoned would be enough for the action later ...

11.15 am ... I arrived at the paddock of Sepang F1 Circuit ... park the car ... and head straight to the Media Centre where the driver's registration took place. After registering ... I was given a couple of PVC stickers displaying my car number, 112 ... which I need to stick it on the car ... and I can tell you it was quite a pain in the a** to stick it perfectly without any bubbles ... but with the sun shining brightly on top of my head and was started to get sweat ... I just simply stick it and begone with it ... boy, if this was one of Che Mat's* assignment ... my botch job will surely be shredded and burnt to crisp

*Che Mat was an Art lecturer of mine back in MMU and he simply doesn't tolerate botch job.

Done with the pesky stickers ... it was time for Safety Briefing at around 12.10pm which was conducted by Mr Brian Eravelly, one of the key figures of the event and also an instructor. Basically he just highlighted the things that was mentioned in the documents sent a few days ago ... the flags ... the pit entry and out ... how to overtake safely ... bla bla bla and so on. Once done with that ... Group 1 drivers (beginners) was gathered at the lunch room where they were assigned to their respective instructors ...

I was assigned to an instructor named Huffidz Fahro Rozi, an MME driver and also a My-KART member whom I have never met or seen before although we have joined the club for a few years already. Once we got acquinted, it was time to have a go on the Myvi

1st Session
Huffidz asked me to drive on my own first to assess my current driving skills. Mind you that it was not my first time on the Sepang Circuit ... so I have pretty much the idea of how to get around the circuit quickly. After the assessment ... Huffidz said my racing was okay ... it was just that I need to tweak it a bit on some of the corners ... and so I did. At this stage, I was still trying to find the limit of that little Myvi. But as soon as I found it ... it was exhillarating! I never thought that little Myvi can give you so much fun driving ... it corners well despite the understeer of a front wheel drive ... although you might feel discourage by the lack of power ... but hey ... what do you expect coming from a 1.3 litre standard powerplant?

2nd Session
On the 1st session, I found out that the transmission change response time is COD DAM slow if you set it to just "D" without overdrive (yeah yeah go ahead laughing at me for using an automatic transmission car) ... so on the 2nd session... I play around a lot with only two gears ... the 2nd Gear ("2") and 3rd gear ("D" overdrive). You won't get to change to 4th gear that often in Sepang if you really throttle the engine till the red line (7000 rpm)

Anyhow, while driving the Myvi on the limits and try out a few racing lines into the critical corners, I was caught up with a VW Passat 2.0 ...
This guy was fast on the straights ... but slow on corners. I would say it was one of the most exhilarating drive I've ever done ... when on the straight piece of road ... he would definitely left me to eat his dust ... but on the corners ... I actually managed to catch up again with this Passat ... and a darn close one too! I could actually saw my car's reflection on the Passat's rear bonnet ... maybe just a foot in length at 70kph (i think) at Turn 5 and 6 ................. okay fine, I made up the length, but I promise you it was darn close!

3rd Session
Final session Group 1 drivers. It was already around 4.30pm and the track has become much cooler compare to the earlier sessions. I once again out to push the envelope of limit for standard Myvi auto. But amidst the eagerness to find the limit, I somehow misjudged Turn 7 with massive entry speed and eventually spin the car 90 degrees to the right and went on off track ... luckily I didn't get to introduce the car to the wall and managed to get back on the action a few seconds later ... syukur alhamdulillah ... here's a depiction of what happened (more or less ler ...):

After the incident, I kept on driving the Myvi to the limit. I was getting faster and faster through the bends ... although it was a bit disappointing since I can't get my full lap times recorded as both of us didn't have a stop watch. But I do managed to find out that this little Myvi could go up to 140kph on the main straight (mind you the straight was only 900m long ... so you don't actually have enough room to see how fast this sucker could really go with all it's power).

After the chequered flag had been waved to signal the end of the session, Huffidz managed to share a few secrets in taking a few corners at Sepang ... and it was a very valuable one indeed!

Also ... remember the RM40 fuel I pumped earlier? Yeah ... it's all gone just for that three sessions which is only for less than 90 minutes drive! Hahaha! See ... when it comes to speed ... all the fuel saving DVVT stuffs doesn't really come to effect ... if u wanna go economy ... maintain rpm 2500 or lesser only at all times ... dont turn up the aircond ... and dont fully wind down the door mirrors ... just 1/3 should be enough ...

Back at the pits, I thanked Huffidz for his support by being the my instructor for the day and also for sharing some of his experiences on track so I can learn better. I would also like to thanked HPC for having such a great event for us speed freaks. Looking forward to the next HPC event!

P/S: to all Homeroom E buddies. I met Azam Razali earlier and he became boroi like me too! Hahaha! But a boroi with a Mini Cooper S ... cilakak! jeles jeles! Here's his number : 016-3 2222 78. Tak sempat bergambar ngn dia.

Enter the Sepang : 2 days to go

2008-11-28T19:02:00.015+08:00

What better ways for speed freaks to learn the way of the professional race car drivers other than learning from the pro themselves?

On Sunday, my little black Myvi and I will be participating for the first time in the High Performance Challenge (www.hpcevents.com) in Sepang F1 Circuit organized by HPC Events. This is not a racing event however; it's an event where speed enthusiasts will test their car performance and driving skills to the limits (or somewhere near), with the help of professional instructors whom mostly consists of professional race car drivers.For this event, the organizer decided to use the full length of the track, so this should be a blast! I intend to find out how fast this little pony will go around the circuit and also the fastest speed it can go with me at the wheel. Hehehehe ...

There will be 2 sessions, the morning session and the afternoon session. I'm joining the latter which will start at around 1pm. The drivers are divided into 3 groups, according to their level of driving skills. Group 1 for first timers and beginners, Group 2 for intermediate drivers (usually drivers who had gone through Group 1 before), and Group 3 for experienced drivers (mostly consists of race car drivers and also those from Group 2 who has been given a consent by the instructor)

I, being a newbie to the event, has to join Group 1. Some of the instructors whom I knew from My-KART (a local karting club) were quite surprised to see that I registered for that group because being an avid kart driver myself; they thought I might have developed some driving skills already. But hey, this is no go-kart. It's a car and car goes bloody fast. If you inadvertently introduce your car to the wall, it will also be bloody. I don't want to take chances here.

3 days prior to the event, the organizer emailed me some documents (mostly rules of conduct, timetables, etc.) which I need to read through to get myself prepared and organized for the event.

Looking at the documents, it made me pumped up and nervous at the same time.
Can't wait for it!

Stay tuned for Part II

When Quatro Became Trio

2008-11-26T22:19:00.008+08:00

... the fun factor is lessen ... thus renders it not quite fun ...

arini ... pagi2 lagi da boring ... brekpes pon sume main tapau mkn kat opis je (except for azrin for some apparent reason) ...

pastu melal dok bz setelkan web opis ... azrin bz wat direction map ke opis utk letak kat web pentasoft ... dan aku ... haa ...... bz men solitaire dan pool dan beberapa lagi aktiviti tak berfaedah ...

nk buat kad krismas pentasoft pon ... si kavita tak isik assignment sheet lg ... nk tunggu meeting pasal web pentasoft dengan budak2 marketing ... kol 3 ptg baru meeting ... so smentara tu cam ... ape je nk buat ni ... nk study software ... tade mood la plak ... makanya aktiviti tak berfaedah tadilah yg mengisi masa "terluang" tersebut ... hehehehe >:)

An End to another Chapter

2008-11-25T23:11:00.011+08:00

Yesterday, marked the end to another chapter of my life.

A very good friend, Ms Elma Adura (aka Aduera Miowzzy aka Azura aka Eldura aka Duraemon) finally left the office at 5.25pm, for her new office in Cyberjaya and will start working next Monday. There were mixed emotions circled around the air in the office right from the start of the day.

The day starts at the mamak restaurant on the lower ground floor of Amcorp Mall where myself, Elma, Azrin, Mailal and Faiz gathered for a breakfast together2 for the last time. Azrin has been longing to have a breakfast with Elma at another cafe called Ka Fei Dian on the ground floor but sadly it never took place even on her last day working with us. Next time la bro bila rejeki murah sket ... Anyway, back to the breakfast gang ... Nowadays, we didn't get to go for breakfast together that often like we used to do back in Cyberjaya ... where breakfast can be virtually any time you want from 8.30am till 11.30am ... now we have to stick to before 8.30am ... sheesh ...

Back at the office, Azrin and Elma starts to play Yahoo pool together as there were no job to be taken care of and we were waiting for feedbacks of yesterday's task. I on the other hand meddled with this blog and Google Adsense for no apparent reason. Everybody was virtuallyminding their own business for the whole day ... except for Melal

Melal had taken a half day leave to visit her relatives for some personal matters, I guessed. When she was about to leave, she bid farewell to Elma with no sad emotions whatsoever ... not to say that she was heartless or anything ... but she was brave enough to embrace the parting as I understand that it was never easy for her to let go of the people she cared the most. Bravo lass!

12.30pm. Lunch break. Elma and Azrin, together with Fahmy, decided to go for a few rounds of CS (yes, you heard it, Counter Strike) for half an hour ... "Yeah right," I said to them ... and they only stopped playing an hour later (half an hour konon =P)

Lunch. We had ours (Elma, Azrin & myself) at Rak Thai, a classy (classy ke? macam la kut) Thai restaurant on the lower ground floor. Previously I suggested that we go to Uncle Chili's ... but we decided to go with Elma's choice and she chose Rak Thai ... which is good too coz I've never tried their food before ... I had a claypot chicken noodle ... Azrin had a Nasi Pattaya ... and Elma ... I wasn't sure what rice she had but it did look interesting ... the food is good too la I think ... but the price is not ...

Back at the office, there were a short debrief on the outcome of the Sales Meeting earlier from our colleague, Zita Ondrackova, went for Zohor right after that, then had a small farewell hi-tea for Elma, with nothing more than a few roll cakes and some teh tarik made by Vanitha (another colleague) ... sori la Elma ... sume tgh sengkek sket ... hehehe ...

Then at 5.25pm, hugs, kisses and wishes surround the office environment as Elma stepped out of the office for the last time. Though we might be seperated now ... that doesn't mean our friendship stops there. We all gonna miss you very much and we appreciate all the contribution you have given to the team for the past 4 years. May we meet again someday!

P/S: sume org cam asik tersasul name je arini ... nak sebut name org lain ... tp yg kluar dlu ialah Elma ... haih we're sooo gonna miss you beb!

A New Hope ..?

2008-11-24T22:46:00.004+08:00

Finally ... after few years missing ... I finally have the courage to update my blog ... which apparently was last updated on 20th Nov ... 2003??? Man ... has it been that long?

Oh btw ... happy belated 5th anniversary, my forgotten-little-piece-of-crap-blog! (which I only realized I got one when I tried to open an account ... for some reasons yet to be uncovered ...)

Anyhow I'm glad it is finally updated and do check out this blog as often as once in every 5 years ...

P/S: Congratulations to Hainey, Zam Hunny Bunny and Najmuddin for your first born child, Atun for your first yet-to-be-born child, to Acap & Hana for your first marriage last weekend (eh ... more marriage to come kah?), Aduera Miowzzy for your first job change (sape la nk gi brekpes ngn aku pasni? huk huk), Melor for your first online store, Yun Irma for your first agriculture business, dan sape sape lagi la yg rase baru experience something good for the first time ... hihihi

wassalam

2003-11-21T14:36:00.001+08:00

testing blogger for da first time... i can sense that i won't be typing anything in this blogger again after this...