Archive for December, 2007

Posted on December 31, 2007 - by Abner

Blink Wink Hello Kitty

Thought that some of you might want to add in something special to your 2008 To Have List. This pair of Hello Kitty contact lenses might help elevate your status from kawaii to super kawaii. Could even land you a spot on the altar and getting worshiped as the Goddess of Cuteness. I said Goddess because I honestly believe only girls would dream of having a pair of those. Any guys are secretly lusting to put on a pair and purr? Do I see any perverted arms up with bushes of “ketiak” hair popping out?

Well don’t be shy. In fact, the nice people at Sanrio recognized the inner cravings of you man who need to be adorned in Hello Kitty wears. Random excerpt in Yahoo’s article recently, ” Hello Kitty turns attention to young men” :

• We think Hello Kitty is accepted by young men as a design statement in fashion.
• The usual bubble-headed shape of Hello Kitty was slightly changed for a more rugged, cool look to appeal to men in their teens and early 20s.
  How rugged can it be?
• The feline for-men products will go on sale in Japan next month, and will be sold soon in the U.S. and other Asian nations, according to Sanrio.
  Yeah, just in time for Chinese New Year!

Honestly, if I got it for free I don’t mind. But definitely not going to splurge on some Hello Kitty stuff on my own. And how many of you will be freaked out when your gf/wife/auntie/mother/grandmother/niece/teacher/bus conductor/etc eyeballs you in a pair of Hello Kitty contact lenses?

via Japundit

Posted on December 31, 2007 - by Abner

New Year.

Yeah it’s finally here. So what’s in plan to usher in the year? I won’t be going anywhere for countdown as I detest the crazed sweaty crowd and insane traffic. Rather chill out at home. Erm… having a sprained back does make me feel sucky about the celebration too. Hurt it yesterday when I was lifting a pail of water. Aaa… I have to walk really straight and sit upright too. Rolling like a pig in mud when on bed is also a no no. Two patches of SalonPas did not work wonders too. So I have decided to get the bottle of medicated oil from Clarzy later tonight. Worse come to worse I will take a capful of it before I sleep. Feel the burning sensation trail down my throat and staying there till I float into a state of swirling semi-consciousness.

My 2007 was not that bad. Considered that I had worst in the ones before. Actually it was pretty awesome and it took a somewhat unexpected turn when my “single bird membership” expired. Am currently enjoying all the “lovey dovey membership” perks and hopefully more to come in. Healthwise could be better as I tend to fall ill easily nowadays. And I don’t like the idea of getting too friendly with doctors. Ouch… turning my head hurts now. My neck…

I never did any new year resolution so I don’t think I will start now. Would be better if I make changes as I deem fit. All right all right… I do have something in my mind that I would like to accomplish for the coming months. But it’s in my little black book which I adore for it’s size and paper quality. One of it is to read more. So I have picked up two books when I was back in my hometown. All the reading I have done so far has been a little of blogs, newspaper, blogs, magazines and blogs. Sort of in that order. Here are the two piece of bounded material.

Read a few short stories already. I can’t read chinese so this is the best I could to relate. Am enjoying it.

I was never a keen reader. So… the best I did in recent years was of the Potter literature.
No spoiler please.

Well, my way of welcoming the 2008 seems to pale in comparison with people that I know of. It’s either boozing and shaking bon bons or feeling other people’s bon bons till the wee hours, huddled up with other sweaty bodies watching fireworks or movie marathons. Mine would mostly be finishing a chapter or two of the book and I might even go online and check my MSN list to see which other miserable fellow decided to stay home for countdown.
Nah… I don’t think mine will be that dull anyway. Things always manage to pop up and surprise me… sometimes.

Enjoy ya!

Posted on December 31, 2007 - by Abner

Nufflets USD15 credited

Finished my last lunch for year 2007 in KLCC and got this email from Nufflets in my Gmail.

Hi Abner,
Thank you very much for your patience.
I have credited your account with the full signup bonus.
Thanks for the check on our links! We’ll fix it right away.

Have a Happy New Year!
Nufflets Team

Yup, I have been credited USD15 just like Merdurian said I would. Thank you to the people at Nufflets.
For now, I will just have to wait for another USD35 to be credited before I get a check.
Patience my young uns.

Oh if you are wondering about the last sentence on the links, it’s just a helpful reminder asking them to correct their page links because it was all jumbled up. Everything seemed to be fix now and roaring to go.

Posted on December 29, 2007 - by Abner

Nufflets USD15 Bait… chomp

As some of you might have noticed, I have added a few things to increase functionality of my blog. There’s the Feedburner and Alexa thingy. No point putting a Page Rank meter as I have 0 as of now. No use showing the world that I have a hard boiled egg on my PR.

Yup, lastly I have replaced the Advertlets ad with the brand spanking new Nufflets Ads who haven’t even celebrated their “full moon celebration”. Merdurian blogged about it the other day and I signed up right after. Played with some color combination before settling down with the one that you are seeing now. Rumor has it that I will be paid USD15 upon signing up. The catch is this… upon joining you get USD5 after approval. The other USD10, you will earn it when you blog about Nufflets and linked them up. That’s what I am doing. See. Hmm… actually I don’t even know whether I have been approved a not, whatever. Now I have to email them to tell them I have spread the word.

News Flash:
Was over at Merdurian’s blog again… no I am not stalking her *rolls eyes* … and she mentioned that she had just received the USD15 as promised.

And on their blog Nufflets said :
A note to all our publishers: our first group of live text ads will commence on the 7-8 of January 2008. Your patience is very much appreciated.

Posted on December 28, 2007 - by Abner

Hike : Gunung Irau, Cameron Highlands

Mmm… since I had got the ball rolling, thought might as well kill your bandwidth once and for all. Guess this would be the last of my hiking pictures for this year.
Went to Cameron Highlands last July for a hiking trip up Gunung Irau. I think it took about 6 hours to finish the whole thing. Up and down. The place is serene and very Lord of the Ring-ish. Personally, the pictures do no justice at all. The surroundings of ancient trees and green moss and strange insects and cool breeze… one has to be there to immerse in it to really understand.

Can you see the shoes that I am wearing? It was a pair of running shoes. Halfway through the hike the soles started coming off and by the end of it… there was practically nothing left. It reached it’s boiling point where I have to struggle to walk slowly and I think I did try holding it together with a rubber band but it snapped anyway. Brought it to the cobbler but he said there is no saving the bugger. Gone. No more running or jogging. That is why I searched high and low for the RM6.90 rubber shoes. Even my Crocs® would have survived the trek. Overall the hike up Gunung Irau was quite easy. It’s only a longer track. We were in between the borders of Perak and Pahang, if I am not mistaken.

I got no backbone. The grey one la.

Tongkat. Ali.












Still can fool around.

The place we bunked in. No need aircon or fan. It’s freaking cold. After brushing our teeth you can’t feel your gums at all.

There’s a playground. This is called Cheefoo.

Might be going for another round on the Bukit Tabur tomorrow morning at 7am. Yup, no need to worry. Won’t be posting any pictures of it. We would be going up from the rubber estate route instead.

Posted on December 27, 2007 - by Abner

Hike : Gunung Lambak, Kluang

Here is how I unwind during my long break back in my hometown. On 23rd December we went hiking in Gunung Lambak. My second time this year. Woke up at 730am and met Ah Hon at rendezvous point at 8+. It started to drizzle when we started but stopped after a while. My Crocs® is getting a bit too old now as I have put it through a number of hikes and caving expeditions. Haha… But still did not get to bring it for a white water rafting ride, my reason to get it in the first place. Sigh… rafting getting a bit expensive.
Anyway we took about an hour plus to the summit and a wee bit more to get down. It was quite steep and the wet muddy condition made it worse. The girls got their pants quite soiled. Nothing Dynamo can’t fix.

A lizard egg.


The rest of the gang. We have to use the ropes to aid in our ascent and look out for slippery mossy rocks. Loose ones too. This part here is considered the hard part. About 15+ mins to cover this part.

View from the top.

Me hanging on a rope. Yeah… I do lame signs too.

Eee… dirty dirty. Hehe…

12′ long millipede.

Had nice curry noodles and barley for breakfast. Attacked mum’s homecooked ‘mee siam’ when we reached home too.

Posted on December 26, 2007 - by Abner

Belated Xmas Present… I wish

Voltron : Defender of the Universe has always been one of my favorite when I was growing up. My parents never got me and my brothers the toys though. So we just have to play it out using our imagination every now and then. We would stick to the idiot box like flies to glued paper when the show comes on. I never realized that all these cartoons have a season thing. I just watched all that I could. My grandpa would always nag me to take a bath while I am enjoying it. Geez.
This time round, Reebok decided to have a line of shoes celebrating Voltron. Nope, they can’t transform like the Nike Transformers one does, but instead comes in their respected colors. Oh, you get mini versions of the robots too. I like the Red Tiger Edition which happens to be an Insta Pump Fury. But why in the hell did they call it Red Tiger Edition when Voltron’s are obviously made up of lions? Duh… stupid. Can one get five shoes with the robot and merge into a bigger one? I doubt it.
Will Santa gives a crap about what I want for Xmas now?

It seems that a Voltron movie is in the works.
And I happen to have in my possession an old washed and tattered Voltron T-shirt with a MAS airline logo emblazoned on the back. I rescued it from my aunt’s workshop. It was going to be turn into a rag cloth if I did not intervene. It was my uncle’s cloth before being passed down to my aunt who then sent it to hell. The rescue part was like 4-5 years ago. The real age of the t-shirt? Easily more than ten years I suppose.
I am still wearing it, every now and then.

Here’s the deal Santa. No shoe also nevermind. I would be glad to have a DVD collection of the Voltron. Thanks in advance.

Link

Posted on December 21, 2007 - by Abner

Off on a long break

Warm wishes in advance for I will be away for till eve of Christmas. Am going back to my hometown in a while. Hopefully will get to meet up with my friends and my brother suggests that we go hiking up our local mountain. It takes about one and the half hour to reach the peak. I did it once, earlier this year. Might as well do it again right.

Here’s a game that had me wasting minutes away since year 2005. It’s called Brat Invasion a flash game developed by the people at T-Viral. Just the right game to unwind yourself and get you in the right mood. Hehe…

Play Brat Invasion!

Am looking forward to a weekend of food, family and tv I suppose. And I am bringing BitBit back today. Hopefully he will enjoy running around in the garden.

I snapped this when he was at my brother’s place. Blek!
Would be back by eve of Christmas. Cheers!

Posted on December 20, 2007 - by Abner

Tag : 5 Classes To Attend

It’s the holidays and I am all alone at home. Got tagged by SlowCatchUpKuan and why don’t I finish it while listening to
Texas’s Say What You Want on her site. Since 2008 is dawning upon us, here is some classes that I would like to sign up for.

Class #1 – How to Absorb Other People’s Power
Yeah… be like Peter Petrelli from Heroes and obtain their power just by mingling or be near to any of them.

Class #2 – How to Cook Great Tasting Food
I like to eat. I hope I can make some lip smacking ok ok… edible food and enjoy together with my family and friends.

Class #3 – How to Shape Shift
Turn into anyone or anything whenever I want. That would be useful.

Class #4 – How to Find a Magic Lamp
Metamorphically speaking it’s just like getting something I want and trying to make it come true. I need my magic lamp.

Class #5 – How to Learn More New Things
Loads of times that I am excited to learn new things but somehow or rather I am inclined to start. I need a push. I need a kick in my ass to start my motor.

Another lame 5 classes from me. Hope that I graduated from at least one or two classes from the above. Whom shall I tag? I need to scout around. List coming soon.

Posted on December 19, 2007 - by Abner

Ridin’ on the sore eye

Yup. I confess. I did. I went for it.
Initially when it started I never had the slightest notion to give the white elephant a try. That was before… *clears throat* skip *aaa*
Anyway, since it was December, the last month that the giant ferris wheel will be around, I thought hey why don’t we go for a ride. So I got my brother and his gf, my gf and me. And yeah we smuggled the little one too. What was the excuse given again for the last minute installation of this thing? Well it kind of looks like a last minute decision to erect something like this to me. Especially only 2 weeks for soil testing.

If I am not mistaken, these 42 air-conditioned gondolas was setup in conjunction with the Visit Malaysia Year 2007 campaign cum 50th Merdeka celebration. So it’s like a gimmick to get the foreigners to come over and have a 30 mins queue (lucky ones) for a 10 mins ride overlooking a lake and some not so attractive night lights. Honestly, I did not see any non-Malaysians there that I could identify. Worst was I had a couple of braggers in the VIP line barking that they got theirs free because they are some traveling agency and that they could get as many free passes as they wish. Fat fuck and company even lauded at us idiots who need to pay and queue up.
I moved around in the gondola too much while taking pictures and it made me felt sick. Sigh.


Muaks… kiss my RM30 goodbye.


BitBit the stowaway. We did not let him out as we had to share our gondola with two malay girls. Don’t want them to ring the alarm.

Big money.

If they fix this thing in between the towers, then that would be fun. Surely would attract visitors bringing them to a dizzy new height. And one can be sure that Singapore can’t compete then as they have only durians.

Speaking of which I heard that there will be an extension for the Visit Malaysia campaign as it was not successful. Do I foresee that this piece of spinning metal will be here for another year?
It came with a RM30 million price tag for a one year installation. So how…
For those who still have not given this baby a try. Don’t.