Pest Problem

We've been having a pest problem at work and recently it just got really annoying. Rats have been eating my books, even this box of ant poison I kept (probably made it high). Everywhere in my drawers I find rat pee and poo. Heck, all my colleagues' desks around my area have been 'visited' by the annoying pest.

So, one day, I did a short research on how to repel the damn thing not wanting to kill it. Killing it would just mean more work. Trapping it is the same. It was at this time that I found out on some forums that mint leaves could repel them.

Last Friday, I went and bought mint leaves. Came Saturday, I spread them everywhere in my drawers thinking that this could finally solve my problem.

Monday came and guess what? The stupid rats ate my mint leaves clean. And I mean clean. Not a single stem was left lying around. And what did they leave behind for me? I think you could guess what.

But I guess I did them a favour. At least they're crawling around with fresh breath.

PS: Anyone know of any way to REPEL rats?

Best Wishes in Ramadhan

Just wanna wish everyone on Mr Syaf's blogs network (yes, it has a name now - somehow) a Happy Fasting and best wishes during Ramadhan.

Mr Syaf's Blogs Network include: Sin Adam, Shutter Speech, BruGamers and Tanah Air Ku.

Aunt's Another Year

I forget dates easily. Yes, even as a teacher, I don't really pay attention to dates that much. So there I was sitting in the living room, blogging news on BruGamers' website while julezz188 was singing with kneezparoxism on karaoke when the sound of people singing was put to a hault. JuLeZz mentioned today's date and reminded me of (jengjengjeng) my aunt's birthday.

So, if it wasn't for my Mrs Exclusive, I wouldn't have been able to send a text to my aunt on time to wish her a happy birthday.

Happy Birthday Bungsu Suri!
All the best with everything this year!



Photo: My aunt (left) and my sister (right) before my sister left for the UK last month. Yes, there's my shutter speech logo on it - I just like the photo, so I cross-posted this to shutterspeech.com

Joke: Horse And Chick

Horse And Chick

A horse and a chicken are playing in a meadow. The horse falls into a mud hole and is sinking. He calls to the chicken to go and get the farmer to help pull him out to safety. The chicken runs to the farm but the farmer can't be found. So he drives the farmer's Porsche back to the mud hole and ties some rope around the bumper. He then throws the other end of the rope to his friend, the horse, and drives the car forward saving him from sinking!

A few days later, the chicken and horse were playing in the meadow again and the chicken fell into the mud hole. The chicken yelled to the horse to go and get some help from the farmer. The horse said, "I think I can stand over the hole!" So he stretched over the width of the hole and said, "Grab for my 'thingy' and pull yourself up." And the chicken did and pulled himself to safety.

The moral of the story:

If you are hung like a horse, you don't need a Porsche to pick up chicks!

Prefer is not hating another

I sit down feeling a bit insulted at a reply I just got from one of my blogs. I spent a whole night writing an article on the PlayStation 3 on my BruGamers blog to give light to those who are in the dark with the PS3 since there aren't a lot of Bruneians who own one, especially since the Wii and xbox 360 are heavy on the piracy side. But that's not the point.

I'm insulted at two things. The two things I find myself define part of me.

1. Before writing the blog, I clearly said that I am not biased towards the PS3 and that I equally love all game consoles, even though differently, in plain English. Read it if you want.

2. I prefer hardware over software and people who know me know that I read more about hardware than software. I look at the technical specs on top of the programs. I look at the power before I look at its heart. I look at the potential on the outside before what's offered inside.

Now clearly, this reply I read insults my intelligence to write in clear English like as if I didn't write it clearly enough what I laid out at the beginning of the article. Secondly, I am clearly being insulted by saying that I am biased towards one thing due to the software line-up AKA games.

Games are fun and cool but it is not the reason why I bought the PlayStation 3, left my Wii gathering dust and sold my 360. Games aren't the reason why I spent over a thousand for a PS3 and raced to buy it the first time it came out.

As most of you probably know by now, I prefer Sony over anything else. And getting a PS3 is just part of a collection. I buy a lot of Sony products but that doesn't mean that Sony is better. In a lot of ways, Sony products are gorgeous. But expensive. For example, I'd rather play music on an iPod than those Sony Walkmans because the iPod software is cooler. I'd rather use an Apple Mac than a Vaio because Mac is smoother than Windows. I'd much rather take photos with a Nikon over the Sony Alpha because the photo results are better. Hell, I'd play xbox 360 games over the PS3 games because I hate motion sensing and ofcourse to play old time favourites from the original xbox. But, again, Sony products give better hardware when compared to the price that all these others can give. And they look gorgeous too. It's a collection. I don't intend to not own the other things. I do, but my money goes to what I want first.

I prefer Sony over Apple. I prefer Sony Ericsson over Nokia. I prefer the PlayStation 3 over an xbox 360 or a Wii. Heck, I preferred the original xbox over the PS2 and PC. Why? Because the xbox offerred built-in hard disk, out of the box online play and no installation for games
(but we were a small group during those years when people were into PC gaming).

To prefer one thing over another does not mean you hate the other. You guys do know what 'prefer' means, yes?

Technology isn't the only thing I love. I love writing and to be insulted as if my writing wasn't clear? This is why I am an English teacher. Frustrates me when people out there misunderstands something they read as a personal attack on them, which clearly happens to a lot of us Bruneians. Which is why comprehension exercises in your English lesson is important.

This brings me to a whole new subject, how good is your reading and understanding of the text? I'll pick on this subject matter on another blog post. Right now, I'm just really pissed. And no, I don't prefer being pissed. I just have no choice but to indulge in this stupid feeling that humans get when someone deem to insult the intelligence of another. I prefer being acknowledged for my effort.

Rejected

So I was sitting at Dreamcones today sweating straight after our extremely hot Isyrak Mikraj event at work, tired and wanting a good company but only to be rejected by a certain birthday boy who wouldn't want to come and see me and receive a personal birthday wish, handshake and hug. Can you believe it? I've never felt so rejected. Never!

And on top of all that, he had to be busy on his birthday! Lectures, going to the airport, dinner - wth man? It's your birthday! It should be spent celebrating all day! Skip lectures! Be excused from errands! Meet Syaf! Yes! Me!

Man, all I ever wanted was to wish him a happy birthday personally. But nooooo! Dude, and you know who you are, you suck. And hope you have a happy birthday Ripin.

PS3 Tags

I was just trying out PS3tags. They make tags for you that you can use in forums or wherever (tags are usually popular in forums anyway) and adds info about your PS3 and your PSN id. I made the following as mine. I think it will auto-update if I edit it from the site.



Anyway, if you're interested, you can try PS3tags.com.
There's also PS3tag.com but I started with PS3tags so I didn't wanna be bothered with trying another site again. Tags are just not my thing.

Exactly A Year Ago Today

Exactly a year ago, I got my job. Today marks my 1 year anniversary as a working man. And what happened a year later? Extremely busy, 7 days a week of work (I'm talking about this week - after a 6 day work last week). Exhausted much? I believe so. But the 29th of August doesn't only mark my career.

Exactly a year ago, this and this happened. Yes, that historical night where JuLeZz and I didn't know we were engaged. Who knew that the day we first met we'd be engaged not even 6 months later? Who knew that exactly a year after we met we'd get married? Heck, who knew that today we'd be here?

You wanna hear the story of the The Exclusives? You'll find it here. I shall re-tell the story another time.

Although it doesn't matter, but happy engagement anniversary anyway.

Never Knew

Over time, you see that things around you don't always stay the same. Like people, your surroundings can change by the absence of another. This has been true, even if only for a day, due my sister's leaving to study abroad. Funny how you can feel that there's something missing at home. Or rather someone.

My wife said a few hours ago to me how the house feels rather empty now in the afternoon when how she got used to having someone, aka mimi, whenever she gets home. When I got home earlier, I realised how true that was. There was always someone there sitting in the dining room watching TV, or something making noise outside my room, in the kitchen, outside the house carrying laundry. Heck, sometimes some random music is playing somewhere until I realised it was just my sister's mobile phone. God, I think I'm gonna miss that. Never knew I would.

And even now, tears are falling down my cheeks for the first time. That, I never knew I would.

This post I dedicate to my sister. I wish her goodluck and all the best. Hope she has all the strenght in the world to hold on to everything there.

Enjoy the UK sister!

See the photo albums:

• Exclusives Handmade
• Leaving: From Home
• Leaving: At The Airport
• Leaving: The Crying
• Leaving: Farewell

A Morning Support

I went to this Interzone Netball competition last Friday morning (yeah, I had to wake up really early for sports - which I'm not even in - surprise?) to give support to my wife's team. While doing that, I took some photos. Check it out.

And there's JuLeZz.

Click here to view the album.

[via Shutter Speech]

Picky or Just Plain Idiotic?

I wanna be able to blog again. Maybe, I'll find a few seconds right before I go to bed, like lastnight, just to share a few words here.

I'm at WyWy (Bengkurong I think) right now, having my lunch break with Anwar while waiting for the afternoon session of our Mac OS training. We just spent a good 20mins talking and catching up until I got bored of it - I'll tell you more about that in a moment.

This particular post is made available thanks to the existence of this Apple MacBook we've been using for our training. It sucks because there's no Java installed on this thing (have to remind myself to do that later), which therefore makes it a bit hard to blog and post stuff via this thing. As you can see from last night's post, I didn't have a photo attached to it.

Anyway, that's the boring bit. When I was talking to Anwar just now, he got to talking about his old job at a certain restaurant here as a waiter. The interesting bit is how he got to see the different kinds of people who go to eat at a restaurant. Imagine someone wanting a new teh tarik just because the one given to him earlier had lost its bubbles. I mean, seriously? The essence of that diabetic drink doesn't come from the bubbles. Some people.

There were more things he mentioned but I kinda forgot about them now.

Are you like that?
Or have you ever waited before and dealt with such customers?
Or have you ever heard of stories about customers such as that?

Please, share your thoughts on this matter. I'm interested to know.

That Apple Fanboy

Man, I have so much to say but I haven't got much time. I haven't blogged for so long. God, how I miss doing this. There has been so many times where I would just like to put the thoughts in my mind with ink, but somehow, I can only think of one thing: work.

Lately, I've been going to this Mac training course since the government is supplying Macs to schools. After we've done the course, we are to then teach others at work. Fun stuff? Not entirely.

I've used a Mac before, and absolutely loved it. But in the end, I prefer Windows. But this guy, the guys who was talking in front of the room, trying to show people what a Mac can do, just annoys the hell out of me. He says stuff like "Windows can't do this", "Windows can do that", "You don't have this in Windows". How biased can someone be?

Seriously though, I liked using Mac for different purposes but I prefer Windows, even though some times it gives me frustrations. Both sides have its own advantages and disadvantages. That's why Linux is the best! (kidding!)

Number Can't Show True Beauty

Just wanna take a minute out of my busy schedule to wish my wife a happy birthday.

Happy Birthday Miss Exclusive! ;)

Right, off to the birthday dinner.

Taking A Minute

I am currently at work and the internet is finally working. I realised I haven't been doing this for quiet some time and I miss this. So I thought I'd drop by, say hello and hi from work and let those who care that I am still live and kicking. Just been pretty busy with everything. Not married life (married life is the bomb mind you). I'm more caught up with a heck of a lot of work. Tomorrow, I'll be out at the Bersama Rakyat event thingy in bandar. See ya all there if you're making the early morning show!

PS: I've decided to cross-post to my blogger since I still have people going there. Oh and just so you know, I also cross-post to shutterspeech.com and brugamers.com. See ya!

Multiply Linked

Testing. Just thought I'd try and see how it would look like if I embed a photo from my multiply page. Here goes...

Multiply Woes

Hi, it's been awhile. Multiply's not loading at the moment. It's probably due to our server, so I can't write anything there nor upload my photos. I'm pissed. I'm annoyed. This sucks.

With the new bean bag, two days ago.

Soon-To-Be to be Be

Just incase you do not understand the title of this entry, next week the Berjarum-jarum ceremony will be held. So commence the beginning of the engagement period for... well for us. =)

Hopefully, insyallah, everything will go as planned. I am so excited! After this step, then we deal with the marriage planning. I seriously can't wait to get there. I mean the marriage part, not the planning. Although, the planning might be interesting as well - especially since I love planning parties. Then again, marriage planning will be different.

And so, what have we learnt? Life is beautiful after all - just coz there are beautiful people like the both of us. Mwahahahaaa!!

Don't forget to contribute in our Fund! It's still open to the public! 

The Exclusives in Muara

=)

See here and here for photos from Muara Beach. 

Twenty Four Zero Seven Zero Six

These are the happy faces of those who had a Meet The Parents session. We see green lights everywhere man!!

Those two? Just two hot people who became the happiest couple of the day!!

Next!! Talking to our parents about the engagement. Then, the donation from you guys begin. Mwahahaha!!!

Life has never been this great!!

Twenty four zero seven zero six, an important day for all mankind. =) 

Guess Who's Back?

She came back yesterday. She snuck out at night to see me. She hung out with me the whole morning and most of the afternoon. She took me to dinner with her siblings. Two days, things never felt like home. Who is this amazing woman? This girl who needs to grab herself a simcard soon because sending text to a UK line cost 30cents per text. Gila, mahal kali ah~... =)

Here's something that I rarely post - actually blog details about my day. Today's a special one. I just feel like sharing it with the world =D

Amazing how today went - and how I survived. I spent the whole day with JuLeZz, after sleeping for only 2hours. I couldn't sleep lastnight. Ofcourse, with my sleeping pattern, I've been spending the nights awake and the mornings asleep.

After sending JuLeZz home, I spent the rest of the afternoon and the evening with the guys, mofo, santet, ripin, sambreng and the sister as well. Gila, kalat mata - i was half asleep at Taurean. We then left for the perayaan in bandar, and walked around town. Then, when the guys left, I met up with JuLeZz again and hung out with her siblings. Damn, haven't had a long day like today for ... quite some time.

Spending the day with the one you love and your some of your bestfriends, just laughing your heads off at the smallest thing as if high on something equals a Great day I tell you... malas ku kan kraja eh, I just want days like today.

Hmmm... aku kan kawin! siapa mau sedekah? aku kapih nie~