Yeap, you read that right. No this is not a scam nor some sales pitch. It was just one of those days when everything goes better than expected.

Angeline and i spent about 2 hours discussing locations on photo shoot with the bridal house and it was time to meet up with Jess Lim aka BlurJess aka The Lonely Pork of Porkless Land. She was in Penang for a day or two and we wanted to catch up with her.

Along the way, i had to make a quick pitstop to refuel and that’s when the above titled incident took place.

I did the usual.

Parked my car, walked to the machine, realized i didn’t bring my card.

Walked to the counter instead and gave two RM50 notes and my Bonuslink card.

The attendant then signaled to me that i could start refueling. As i hit the RM100 mark, i walked back to the counter to get back my Bonuslink card.

“Ada satu ringgit?” the attendant asked me. For some reason, i took out one ringgit without thinking and i was given back my Bonuslink card but i also got back one RM50 note. Being all confused, i tried asking the attendant what’s with the RM50?

Instead he showed me his screen and it indicated my pump poured RM49 and he then said, “Next” and served the next customer.

I was already in a hurry to meet up with Jess and decided to walk back to my car. As i got in, Angeline asked,”What’s that you are holding in your hand?”.

I didn’t answer cause i was in a state of blurness to the max. Started my car and drove off.

“I don’t know why but i was given back RM50 after giving RM 1 to the attendant,” i told her.

The short drive to Jess’s place was total silence cause we were trying to figure out why RM49 when my tank showed:

Estimated Cruise Range 623km.

That’s full tank.

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2011 was the year where I was the least productive on my blog. You can go through the entries and realized there were barely 20 post.

2012 on the other hand will be a year where I will be documenting more entries as I will rely on my phone more.

I gave away my PC and been relying on my old notebook which takes a long time to boot and not to mention to launch Firefox, Photoshop, etc.

I recently cashed out from Nuffnang and it was good to see passive income which will be funded for my coming soon trip. Hopefully that will spark my urge to write more.

Until then, have a great 2012 and be sure to see more updates from me, whether it’s from the phone or notebook.

It has been a long time dream for my dad to own a dog, especially after having 2 dogs back in the days of Ipoh. We just couldn’t afford to keep one here in Penang due to space constraint at home.

We eventually shifted many years to a new home and finally this year, after we have settled down well, my sis and i surprised my dad with this fella you see above.

It was Father’s Day when Bittu arrived.

We walked into a nearby pet store and my sis had her eyes locked on to a brown toy poodle who was fast asleep. Upon inquiry, we were told that the fella was already sold to a couple before us.

Out of nowhere, this white fella jumped into the scene and ran towards us!

I was stunned …

… and my sis said, “OMG he is so adorable! Look at his pinky nose”.

There and then a bond was made and Bittu followed us home.

My dad got a shock when he saw a white furball with short little legs running around the living area.

The whole family was in joy seeing a new addition to the family.

My mum has never being so keen of having pets.

“Why should we have a pet when you can’t even take care of yourselves?”

Her usual statement since the beginning of time.

Now that we are all grown ups, it don’t really apply. Well at least not to me.

Bittu had a hard time with mum.

He tried quite hard to win for her affection …

… but it has always fall on deaf ears.

The closest he has got to her attention was being chased by a rolled up newspaper out of the kitchen which isn’t what he expected.

Everyday as i prepare to go for work, Bittu sits at the same position until i leave in my car.

He also awaits at a similar position when i return.

Recently, he took up a notch by banging on my door sharp at 8am. My iPhone Alarm is now used as a back up alarm.

My parents are always in awe when they see him wake up at 7.50ish and walk to my room door to do his customary bang. If i don’t respond to the sound, he actually growls and followed by him barking.

Being a home dog, Bittu rarely interacts with outsiders unless we have visitors. This has made him to bark at strangers who come nearby our front gate.

A few months back, 2 guys jumped into our porch probably to break in but they decided to grab our shoes instead when Bittu started barking.

It was hard to believe what he has just prevented, especially for a small size dog. We replayed our CCTV and yes the fellas that broke in did do an about turn when Bittu barked.

Since then i have extended his name to Sergeant Bittu. Not that i call him that all the time but i thought it fits well since he love patrolling. Mum has also then opened up to him. In fact now he loves playing fetch with mum.

I recorded this a few days ago when we tried to tease him by placing one of his toys on a table. Never expected anything from him and i thought he would just bark at us until we return the ball to him.

I thought wrong.

LOL

Thank You Angeline, Ai Ling, Emily, Aaron, Jessica, Bryan and Angeline Long!

Really caught me by surprise when a small cake appeared out of nowhere.

Thank you all for the wishes on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram!!!!!

The final week of 2010 was probably one of the best final weeks of the year i had so far. Started off with the AFF Suzuki Cup where Malaysia met Indonesia in the finals. Putting the stupid laser beams aside, i can easily say it was the one time where everyone in Malaysia was one, united. No race, no religion but Malaysian instead. It even came to a point when i was packing food and the fella manning the store asked …

“You are Malaysian?”

I was like in a state of shock cause finally, finally someone asked the right question and not the usual, what are you? what race, bla bla bla. This fella is actually an ardent fan of the Malaysian football team and he was giving extra chicken to his fellow countrymen. HAhahaha nice gesture.

My room mate’s cousin was getting married and i was invited to witness and also photograph the ceremony as i haven’t been to a Punjabi wedding before. Honestly speaking, it was damn nice and colourful!

The Punjabi community are very closely knitted and i had the chance to see that first hand. What left me in awe was how close were they to their Chinese neighbour! There’s a part of the pre-wedding where the ladies would dance around with one of them dressed up as a bridegroom and bride. I followed the group as they danced around the guest but they suddenly danced towards their neighbour’s house and i was baffled.

The owner of the house actually opened her doors and invited all of them to dance in their hall !!!!

I have never seen anything like that and just had to record it !

Neighbour also started dancing There’s always a first for everything.

Finally on New Year’s eve, i was invited to celebrate New Year with my cousins and nephew/nieces. I was forced to gulp down wine and beer though i never liked both. But over the years of attending family functions, i have slowly learned to drink beer -_-! Would definitely go for sparkling juice anytime but that would not look good especially when you are forced to mingle with your boss and colleagues in future; social drinking. So which better place to learn to increase your tolerance level for alcohol if it isn’t your cousin’s house.

About 1am plus we called it a day. One the way back i was stopped twice at the police roadblock asking for my nationality -_-! The moment i replied in Bahasa, i was given the hand signal to move on

On New Year’s morning i went to temple as how i would do with my family in Penang. On the way back, while driving on the Bukit Jalil Highway, a car cuts right in front of me … on a highway …. and he suddenly slams the brakes.

*Bang*

After my first few nervy encounters with Angeline’s parents, i took the next step which is to invite her parents over to my home. And what other better time than Deepavali to invite them over. I think i had to correct my invitation message a couple of times before actually sending it to her dad.

I never got any reply after that and Angeline never said anything if her parents did mention anything regarding my invitation.

The next morning, Deepavali day itself, i was too busy running around getting things down before the whole jingbang came to my house. This is in fact the first time i was having an open house. 2 hours before lunch hour, i went over to Angeline’s house to pick her up. That’s when she told me that her family was coming over.

I was like O.O!

So i messaged my sister telling her to inform my parents. So many things ran through my head like what are my parents going to say to her parents or will i do anything stupid.

Last year my sister invited her friends and this year i thought it would be nice to gather a few friends. With a special appearance of Angeline’s parents.

One by one appeared at the gate and slowly the hall started to fill up.

While i was busy entertaining the crowd, the house bell went off and it was Angeline’s family. I dropped what ever i was doing and welcomed them in. My father was already at the door to greet them. My mum on the other hand was busy in the kitchen bringing out the food. I couldn’t serve them lunch as my table could only cater 6 people at any one time and with Desmond, Emily, Jason yakking away lol, i kindly asked them if they were going for second round.

My parents then joined them for lunch and i think i panicked. I kept moving up and down bringing whatever that is needed to the table. This was when Angeline’s siblings laughed at me especially when i was serving them T.T

Tension sial.

To make matters worse, i was sweating like a cow when my hall had 2 airconds turned on.

“Eh you okay or not,” Angeline asked.

“Of course i am not,” i replied.

“Why lar? Don’t ler so tension,” Angeline said.

“No ler, it’s so quiet at the table. Why aren’t they talking? T.T,” referring to both the parents.

“Let them eat first ler cow,” Angeline mocked.

T_______T

True enough after lunch, both parents talked. Angeline was clever enough to divert my attention by asking to initiate a game of Monopoly Deal. Since only a handful of us were playing, i put on Avatar to keep the rest accompanied. Speaking of Monopoly Deal, i was introduced to this game by Angeline’s parents themselves.

I didn’t really concentrate on the game as i kept glancing over to the dining table. After a few rounds of Monopoly Deal, her parents signaled it was time for them to leave.

Before they left, Angeline’s siblings looked at me and controlled their laughter T.T

I think i did look stupid  but nevertheless it’s at least one step forward for me.

I finally reached the legal age to be a voter and to be a responsible citizen, i registered myself at a nearby post office. Surprisingly, it took me less than a minute. Probably the longest part of the whole process was waiting for your turn.

I dragged my brother along, just to show him what i was suppose to do. We walked to the post office near Sunshine Square.

All that was required was my Identification Card (IC).

Then i was asked a rather confusing quetion:

Man@counter: “Kamu ini apa?” (What are you?)

Man@counter: “Chrisitian?”

Me: “Oh agama?” (Oh religion?)

Me: Hindu

Paper work doesn’t have the option of mix or chindian, etc. Anyway that doesn’t really matter.

The guy behind the counter then printed out a slip for me to check my details and asked for my signature.

THAT’S IT!

I am finally a voter!

The next elections will be in the year 2012, unless you know ler something crops up in my area. I am only saying that cause there’s so many by-elections recently that you just wouldn’t know what would happen next.

So for those who have reached the age of 21, go and register! It’s easy

It was the eve of my birthday and i had just flown back to Penang to spend some time with my family and also Angeline. I haven’t slept the day before because of some last minute datelines and just before i called it a day, i received a message.

Not from a usual sender.

!!!!!!

ROFLMAO!

It was from Angeline’s brother.

I do have his number in my phone and that’s because the tendency of Angeline’s phone running out of juice is very high. Thus, having back up numbers to contact her is essential.

So the next day, i got ready to drive over to house and before arriving, i did get what was asked in exchange for Angeline.

A box of Chicken McNuggets!

So a date with my girlfriend is worth 9 pieces of Chicken McNuggets!

Of course Angeline, didn’t know what was happening as she was busy getting herself ready. I left the nuggets on the dinning table and sent him a message …

“The nuggets are on the table; with BBQ sauce”.

When i came back from the car after 5 minutes, the nuggets disappeared, LOL. He took it with him into his computer room. Later on only did i tell Angeline about the ransom asked and she replied …

“Why didn’t you get the 20 pieces? T.T 9 pieces only ar ?”

I usually bring my DSLR where ever i go but this time i left it at home. It’s my birthday and i am not gonna weigh my shoulders down with my camera bag. I relied on my phone and Angeline had her PnS camera with her which was good enough for a date.

Not the best shots but it’s good enough to be in a collage

We went to Gurney and hung around in Toys ‘R’ Us before our movie started.

Angeline wasted her time finding my name in those “Your-Name-On-A-Keychain” section.

We were actually in Gurney to catch a dragon, i mean to watch How To Train Your Dragon in 3D. For those who haven’t watched it, please do so. It’s hilarious !

Then we left for dinner. Angeline was the one who planned where to eat and i had no clue to where was this place. I drove blindly *literally*.

It’s called Ferringhi Garden Restaurant. Frankly i never even knew this place existed. Probably that’s because i am always driving and it’s hard to looking around.

The surrounding of this restaurant is really nice.

It’s a good place to photograph especially with the sun setting.

The food was delicious; we had some seafood platter where it consisted of crabs, lobsters, fish, etc.

So there you have it, i paid 9 pieces of Chicken McNugget to go on a date with my girlfriend on my birthday.

Hahaha strange …. but true.

I have done it last year and I am doing it again this year. Probably some of you must be wondering what am I talking about.

Last week I ran out of cash and instead of driving to the bank, I decided to live off my loose change. Coins collected for the past 5 months were used for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Personally I was wondering how long could I last with my coins? The people that I pay to are usually on both extremes; either they hate your guts or love you. Last Saturday I was in a rush back and so I asked for take away. When I was told it’s RM 8.40, I removed RM 1.60 as I had 10 ringgit worth of coins. The fella gave me a long stare and started counting one by one LOL. Can’t blame him also. You wouldn’t want to be short changed at the end of the day.

Last year I lasted on loose change for 3 days and this time I managed to get from Wednesday till ….

… Sunday !

That’s 5 days worth of coins lying around in my room.

My loose change usually comes from parking machines that can’t dispense notes and you get tonnes of coins instead.

I wonder if anyone out there that have coins left in a bottle or drawer like me?

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The last time I wrote about my first encounter with dolphin’s parents were many moons back and if you haven’t read or can’t recall the main subject of that particular meet was her pet Husky!

Though it was Malu-ation for me but over the months it got better but occasionally I did have my moments.

A week after meeting her parents I was back again. This time around I wasn’t as nervous but as cool as a cucumber. While waiting for her to get ready, her mum asked if would like to read the papers in Hokkien T.T Just Before I could show her mum that i do know how answer her in hokkien, my phone decided to jump in:

“Ding ding”

“Lost satellite connection”

“Ding ding”

“Lost satellite connection”

-_______________-!

Her mum got a shock cause:

1) The voice was blaring out as the volume was set to the max

2) I was trying to get my phone out of my pocket but for some reason the phone decided to get stuck in the pocket.

So it was kinda awkward. A voice screaming that there’s no satellite connection and me looking like a fool.

Moral of the Story: Double check your phone if you forgotten to turn off the GPS XD Another tip is, have appropriate ringtone. At that point of time i had “Sexy Can I” as my ringtone. Though i only had certain part of the song but the words were:

Sexy can I, hit it from the front,
then I hit it from the back.
know you like it like that.
then we take it to the bed, then we take it to the floor

After that day i changed it, hahaha