August 2011
2 posts
On journal article
I was finishing my first draft of my English report on umbilical cord blood banking in Malaysia when I came across this whilst reading an article in the Medical Journal of Malaysia :
“In Malaysia , the experience of umbilical transplant was first reported by Chan from Universiti Malaya who reported the first successful umbilical cord transplant in 1999 involving a 25 months old...
On growing up
I stumbled upon a note I wrote in 2008, on goals for myself - 2009 and beyond.
According to that plan, in 2011 :
I’d have a Masters degree
I’d be working overseas
I’d have finished paying off my PTPTN loan
I’d be finally ready to have a baby
I guess life doesnt always work out as planned :)
July 2011
7 posts
On crying wolf
Got an email with ‘URGENT!!’ as subject.
It contained an instruction with no urgency.
Sorry, I’ll be ignoring your ‘URGENT!!’ emails from now onwards.
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn
On thermochemistry
It’s 4am and I’m studying thermochemistry for today’s quiz.
If this how life is going to be like for the next 5.5 years then bring it on!
Life has been a bit slightly off these few days - I’ve been late (thus marked as absent) many times to the 1st class due to my inability to wake up early enough, to get things packed up fast enough and to handle Lyla’s separation anxiety when she’s being dropped off at the nursery. Things went out of rhythm during the semester break.
They say that habits are formed after 21...
On loneliness
I remember being so alone, that the only friends I had were on DVD - all 10 seasons of them.
On love
Statistics class, on scatter plot and bi-variate distribution
Teacher : “There’s usually a correlation between a husband’s height and his wife’s tallness”
Students : *nod* *nod*
Teacher : “A tall woman usually marries a taller man”
Students : *nod* *nod*
Teacher : “But sometimes there are cases where a petite woman...
June 2011
1 post
“All in a day’s job - On Monday I git push, On Tuesday I baby push.”
– My Twitter account, 20101004
April 2010
2 posts
McDonald's Breakfast and him
Do you want to run with me today? No .. zZZzzZzz
3 hours later …
Yang, I bought you Mc’Donalds. (whilst throwing his running attire all over the room)
OK. Thanks. (mildly annoyed at the sight of his stinky underpants, running vest, socks and running pants on our bedroom floor)
I then went to open the plastic bag. Sausage McMuffin, complete with Hash brown and coffee. Ahh.....
January 2010
2 posts
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
1 post
June 2009
1 post
“I was checking your online banking account. It had $404 in it.
What does that...”
– 090620 Ija to The Husband
May 2009
1 post
The Brick Wall
But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
March 2009
1 post
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Lvl 4
“We feel that you had too much spare time in the office”
“Didnt you realize that some of my emails were sent on Sundays, so they wont backlog on Mondays?”
The Husband’s office
Result : He has stopped working @ home. Heh.
February 2009
1 post
T-7 days
till resignation.
no one is indispensable.
January 2009
1 post
November 2008
1 post
Wedding
Cant wait to live with the love of my life but as the date draws near, I cant help but wishing for this uber-romanticized ceremony to be over as soon as possible.
I’m tired.
September 2008
1 post
Mom's Voice-Activated Banking Service
My mom has the best banking privilege in the world. If she needs to transfer something, instead of lining up @ the counters or ATMs or use Online Banking like normal folks, she’d use her voice-activated banking order that goes like this:
“Ija, please transfer RMxx to account xx”
P/s: I have access to her Maybank2U. Her TAC goes to my phone. I originally registered it for her...
August 2008
6 posts
The First Poem Written for Computers
<>!”#
^”`$$-
!=@$_
%*<>~4
&[]../
|{„SYSTEM HALTED
For you somewhat cybernetically challenged, it goes something like this (using the proper cyber-names):
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
...
Astro VAANAVIL withdrawals - dangerous stuff →
It's almost middle of August already?
Gosh time sure zooms.
I still need to :
register for IELTS (will use money from MMU’s Deposit + RM30)
scrape enough money to save RM500 in ASB for July’s savings even if I have to eat grass for the next 18 days
sigh
July 2008
6 posts
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– Harry Truman
FYP Update
After a devastating interim presentation in Trimester 2, the groupmate and I sat down and got crackin’. We mutually decided that he’d be doing all the dirty works (documentation, research, compiling, presentation slides) whilst my job would be nothing but purely coding and designing for the next 3 months.
In the end, we nailed it!
Gotten ourselves an A- each. That’s amazing,...
“Experience shows that a large fraction of problems “solve...”
– RailsSpace Google Group Main Page (http://groups.google.com/group/railsspace)
In Love with Photoshop
My new job requires me to design software and web application UIs on top of doing minor programming works. Good enough. After all I’m pretty comfortable doing something that I’m really familiar with.
Here’s a kicker - I’m expected to use free tools - eg GIMP.
Crap.
Dont get me wrong - I think it’s a decent, free raster image editor. But after spending 11 years...
Pay It Forward
One of the thing I vowed to do after earning my own paycheck is to put aside at least 5% of my gross salary for charity. At current salary rate, the amount is sufficient to buy me 3 and a half paperback books every month. Now, some people think that it’s outrageous for me to spare some cash for charity when I’m swimming in study debt myself. Sometimes I do wonder what was I thinking...
“Love people and use things - not love things and use people.”
June 2008
2 posts
My next KIVA microloan - Mahsuda Abdulloeva of... →
May 2008
5 posts
My Hours
Early Morning
Needs physical / aural jump start. Good music works best. Door knocking/annoying alarms will result in a really bad day.
BEST Settle as many routine TTDs as possible, especially the ones that dont require much thinking or involve any decision-making processes. These include laundry, ironing, cleaning, prepping for work/school, training for runs, going to school/work etc
...
Practicality
Dad, daughter and son jogs around the lake. Mom stays behind to prepare food
Mom thinks that she’s making sacrifices for staying behind
Daughter wishes for mom to jog with them. You can buy food but you cant buy time together and health
She thinks mom is using it as an excuse
Mom laughs nervously
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
– Don Marquis
-Boa- Ruby vs Python
A wise man mentioned that he’s venturing into the world of Python really soon.
Me, needing my support system, goes Googling.
ruby malaysia => Malaysia Ruby Brigade | Google Groups
python malaysia => Digg - Man swallowed by python in Malaysia [undated]
/facepalm
We cannot change the cards we are dealt
.. just how we play them
I’ve been blessed with good cards lately. And frankly I dont know what to do next.
Halp?
March 2008
1 post
February 2008
5 posts
“I may be old, poor and uneducated, but I know that I am making a right choice...”
– Maimun Yusuf
[Personal] The Day I Got Pwned by a Nenek
She’s 89 and feisty. In fact, she reminds me a lot of my dearest late grandma.
Next time when I feel like giving up, I’ll remember Nenek Maimun.
[FYP] Opinion
Everybody’s entitled to his own opinions no?
I think… my supervisor is biased
I think… my supervisor hates me
I think… my mupervisor is a quantity > quality kitchen-sinker
I think… I may grow an extra pair of arms and a new brain if I keep on juggling all these alone
Bleh
[Personal] A short update
OK sidetrack kejap. My closest cousin’s reception is tomorrow and here I am on my bed golek-golek. I’ve been working too hard for the past week - juggling 9 subjects, trying to stay sane while stuffing my head with tonnes of new information and submits as many assignments as possible within Week4-5 pasal after this sure bz with midterms, quizzes, bigger assignments and FYP.
What does...
December 2007
8 posts
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