Good by EDS. Hello new job!

Alright, it's Saturday and it's da weekend ! Oh boy i have waited for this week for very long already. I needed a break from work and i have 1 week off! Yesterday was my last day in office. I have been serving EDS for 2 years and 10 months. I have no intention to leave EDS in the 1st place but thanks to HP who bought EDS, it has been nothing but bad news. HP freezes our salary increment, take away out activities like treasure hunt, cut our benefits and making us to buy HP procurve devices! Wth man, i have been studying CISCO to master them and before i can master them they force us to use their networking devices. It's not that their devices is that bad but i rather concentrate on CISCO. I don't want to start to learn something that is not so recognized like CISCO. It just demotivates us. Another reason why i want to leave is because of a person named "toyo". Man this "toyo" is so dumb that he seriously don't deserve to be there now. He just piss me off. I have even sold the crap out of this fella and told him this straight in his face "Don't cross my border anymore". You guys must be wondering now that i am insane and dare to scold the crap out of this "toyo" but i actually have nothing to fear because i know i didn't do anything wrong. When i know i am not at wrong and someone step on my tail, i will surely stand up and defend myself.

Let's not talk about this "toyo", just wasting my time only. Well....i must say thanks to EDS because they gave me an opportunity to shine. If i join EDS in the beginning i think i would still be lost. They made me to what i am now so that is why i have these skills. I learned a lot during my stay here with eds and made many friends. Thanks EDS (not HP) for everything. I will never forget the opportunity/change given to me and will make good use of it.

Now here are some of the shots taken yesterday

This is my laptop with secondary monitor.

My whole desk....got lots of stuff! hehe

My japanese junk food. It's empty already but i just display em at my desk to show off! :P

Lastly this is my table name tag. It even has my favorite guitar brand on the right side(i customized that)!

I had a few farewell lunch with my colleagues already and i will have another farewell dinner with my colleagues at Sunway. This time it will be a very big event. I am not the organized so i shall leave this for the organized to plan and let me know.

Anyway, i am glad i have left EDS at the right time and i will not look back anymore. For more pictures please check on facebook Now here is a new song for ya all! Caramell - Caramell dansen! This time it's a fun song coz it's da weekend i feel like dancing! Yeah so enjoy the music!

I will start my new job on the 1/9/09 and before i start my work i'll be off fishing with my friends. Time to relax a lil before i start my work. So...i shall see you guys again here next time. Ja ne~

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por BaRNeY ~ Saturday, August 22, 2009 0 comments

Moving on to a new job

I'm so bored in the office that i decided to blog something here. Well it's Monday after all. I am trying very hard to tell myself "It's a brand new week to look forward too!" which isn't kind of helping at the moment. Speaking of work, i actually found a new job here in KL. So after 2 years and 10 months with EDS, i am going to move on to another company in KL. Throughout my 4 years working career, i have not stepped out of Selangor for work and this time I'm migrating to KL. My new work place will be at Garden's north tower in Mid Valley. Yeah....mid valley the big shopping mall with lousy road management that's very congested all the time. This time it's nearer to my home but there will be a little road congestion when i travel to work but that's only very minor. I actually didn't have any intention to leave EDS but since they other company can offer me better package might as well i give it a shot. After all i need a new environment already. I will start work at my new place on the 1st of September and now I'm just waiting for my HR to let me know when is my last date of work. Mid valley will be a more happening place as it's in the mall and I'm sure there will be lots of pretty ladies for me to "wash" my eyes when i need come motivations to work there, LOL. The new company is an Australian company and the HQ is based in Brisbane! That's the place where i studied an where i want to migrate later. What are the odd eh? Well...may be i can look forward to work with them and 1 day i might get my transfer to Brisbane! Let's see how it goes.

Last weekend Saturday me and my friends went up to awana genting for a trip. There we're 10 people and we decided to have steamboat there. I was the main organizer and the main chef for that weekend. Basically i prepared everything from scratch in Awana. We had a good time eating and we went up to genting for a while to gamble. I won RM102.50 and ran far far away after that. At night we went back to Awana and had our drinking session. We played the mixing drink game and we had 2 tequila and 1 JD whisky along with some imported soft drinks from Australia. That was one crazy night as 1 of my good friend got so drunk that he started to impersonate MJ, Joker from batman, Leonidas from the 300 movie and Jon Bon Jovi. We even made so much noise in the middle of the night that the management had to come to our room to shut us up. One hell of a night i gotta say. I'm sure there will be more this kind of nights in the future

It's August already. 4 more months and we will bid 2009 farewell. Time sure flies eh. What i want to do now is to create more happy memories in Malaysia and hopefully everything will go smoothly. Ok...i guess that's all i gotta say for today. I'm just waiting to go off work and rest at home. Not sure why but every time i get back home i'll be very tired. Guess I'm getting closer to becoming an old man...oh shiet! I'll think of something to write for the next blog entry...hopefully something interesting. Before you go here is a Chinese song for you to enjoy. I found this song on youtube and i find it pretty nice so i decided to put this as the song up.

Until we met again, later~

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por BaRNeY ~ Monday, August 3, 2009 3 comments

RIP Granma...

2 days ago i received a call from my sis at work. She told me grandma passed away. I was shocked and thought it was a joke but too bad it wasn't. My grandma lived until the age of 100 and saw 5 generation. I am the 3rd generation (grandchildren) of hers. Now that's one hell of a long life. She has seen it all and i guess it's about time she goes on to the other world. My grandma really loved her grandchildren. I remember last time my mom would bring her back to my home and she would peel the ikan bilis just for me because she knows i like ikan bilis. After about 1 week of stay she would go back to her home at Labu, Seremban and before she goes back she would give me some money to spend. I normally would not accept the money but she would say "i am old and i have no good use of these money, take it and buy something to eat". I would smile and accept it just to make her happy, I will then tell my mom that grandma gave me money and she will scold me for taking her money but i told her "i am doing this just to make grandma happy". Even during my days of studying in Australia, grandma would ask my mom "where is ah ming(she call's me ah ming)? is ah ming back from Australia already?". Those we're the days. Now grandma has gone to another world where she will have peace. The burial will be tmr morning and i will be there to send grandma off to her final journey.

And so...this month has been a very busy month for me like i told you on the previous post BUT there was a new beginning for me. Something i look forward to and putting all my effort to make it meaning full.

As for work, i have been busy most of the time in office. Having late meeting with the US people suck. Our time about 7pm and 10pm. Well, i can't do much about this because we have to find a time to talk about our projects. As long they don't make it after 10pm, i'm alright.

I think it i better stop here. Here is a song for you all to enjoy. It's from 1 of my favorite artist Jason Mraz! It's called "If it kills me". I am going to learn this on guitar and master it. I really like the lyrics and it's really meaningful and i hope guys will enjoy this song too. Until next time.....see ya~

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por BaRNeY ~ Friday, July 24, 2009 0 comments

Very busy July

I am in the office now. Yes...you must be asking me why am i blogging in the office now. Well it's because i have some times to spare and i haven't been updating here for a while so let me say something here.

And so, my holiday has past and now i am going my routing job which is working. Since i'm back from the island adventure, i was really busy running around here and there. It has nothing to do with work but i have been trying to catch up with my friends or should i say friends have been trying to catch up with me. Almost everyday i at night i am not at home which leads to me not playing guitar that often. I spend a lot of time on my guitar normally but i felt that i didn't had enough time for it. May be because that time my webcam can't working with windows 7 so i can't do any recording which leads me not to play much guitar. Now i have bought a new webcam which is better than the previous one and may be i can start to motivate myself playing guitar again. Don't worry, i wont quit guitar completely. Guitar is my life and the time i will stop playing guitar is when my hands can't play it anymore.

I saw transformer 2 a week plus ago with 16 friends at GSC MV. Yes...it was a big group because this was a must watch movie! The 1st week of screening was really crazy. Everyone was trying to get tickets for transformer 2 which resulted GSC website exploded. Yes...the traffic was soooo massive that they had to strip down the website to a really simply website so people can go in and buy tickets online. Lucky my friend bought the ticket 6 days before the date we wanted to watch. To me the movie was really awesome. I must say better than the 1st one but there was still room for improvement. I am going to watch 2nd time with my buddies when it's not so crowded later.

Well...this month isn't about me being tired and busy but also a sad month too. Michael Jackson, the king of pop is dead. It was really sudden for the whole world to accept because he died from a cardiac arrest. I felt that it was very great lost to the world. I am no big fan of Michael Jackson but he was the man who changed the world. He showed the world how someone should dance with passion, how to sing and love the world. If it wasn't for Michael, the dance moves now won't be that hot. I love his songs and i must say his song will be heard forever. I remembered last time me and my friends sang his song and a good ol buddie of mine drew a comic of Dragon Ball Z where Michael Jackson came and saved Son Gokou. LOL, now that's something you don't get to see all the time. Thank you Michael for everything, the world is going to miss you. May you rest in peace...

I think i stop here. Let me pay some respect to the late king of pop with one of his song. It's from the Jackson 5 where he made is debut with "I'll be there". A very nice song. Alright, till i see you here again, later~

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por BaRNeY ~ Wednesday, July 8, 2009 2 comments

Mid year vacation over, back to reality

Yeap, my island adventure part 4 has come to an end. Time for me get recover and get back to reality. I had a very wonderful island adventure with my other 8 friends. To honest it was fun but not as fun as last year's one. May be it's because of the accommodation and facilities that was provided. I find that the room was the only good thing here. The rest like food, beach boy friendliness and the activities provided still lose to cheaper resorts and chalets in perhentian lsland. I stayed at Bubu long beach resort btw. I wouldn't recommend anyone to go bubu long beach for the price. Cheaper resort can do better than Bubu long. Why do i know? Because i have been to perhentian island 3 times in a row and i have stayed at Perhentian Island Resort (2007) and Cocohut chalet (2008) and there are a lil cheaper than bubu long but in term of activities , facilities and food provided still lose to both ot them. I highly recommend cocohut and it was the best one i every stayed. Food is freaking nice, beach boys are fun when you go snorkeling, room is very comfortable and friendly staff there. So planning to go perhentian trip ya guys can consult me...hehe.

Anyway...now let me get in detailed to my holiday here. We had fun that was for sure because this time we had a underwater camera! Well...it's not really a underwater camera but it's a normal digital camera and we got a cheap underwater casing that will work no more than 10 feet underwater. Seems fair enough for me because we're just snorkeling and wont be diving too deep after all. Here is a shot underwater.
We used bread to lure the fish to us so we can get a up close shot here.
Here is a shot of me in the water. If you noticed i wasn't wearing any life jacket while swimming, that's because i wanted to have the freedom to swim at the open ocean. I want to give in the ocean to see the corals and fishes nearer. Don't worry, i can swim pretty well i think...LOL. But a piece of advice here, if ever you plan to go and swim in the open ocean and even if you know how to swim but you're not confident with the open ocean, please put on the life jacket. I have seen amatures swimmers struggle to keep them self a float because of the underwater current.
Here is an example how someone should put on a life jacket...hehe

So basically what we do there for 3d2n was just eat, swim, and play and eat again. Same routine. We spent a lot of time in the water thought.
Here is a poser pic of me and kevin for you to see. Trying to be like ultraman i guess...lol. We saw sea turtle too and i manage to swim along with the turtle and took a few pics. Here is one. It's damn big i tell you! i think this turtle has been around here for almost 100 year.
Now we paid another extra snorkeling trip and we went to the light house....boy i tell you the corals underneath the light house was sooooooo nice! I mean what you see outside the resort most of them are dead thanks to the the amount of people swimming around that area. If you ever go to Perhentian island, the light house is a MUST go place for snorkeling. Trust me you wont regret. We then docked at the light house and the boat man went up the light house and jump down into the deep ocean! Wow now that was freaking fun and i wanted to do it too!
Here you can see me i have climbed up the light house and about to jump into the ocean! It's about 2 story tall into the ocean.
You can see here the beach boy just jumped into the water! Freaking awesome! To honest here i was kinda afraid when i got up the light house....it looked pretty high but i was determined to do it! Every time i wanted to jump, my leg just couldn't let go of the ledge. Kevin pushed me into the ocean once but i wasn't satisfied because i want to jump the light house ledge on my own so i climbed back up for 2nd attempt.
It took me around 10 mins standing at the ledge before i jump into the ocean! Everyone was waiting for me to jump and now i am being teased by them.
Now that's me in the water already...couldn't manage to take the shot of me jumping into the ocean in time.

It was one hell of an experience and i will do it again if i get the chance. Well, after that we got back to our resort, took a nice hot shower and ate dinner. At night we had a secret operation for a good friend of mine. He was going to propose to his gf to marry him and we make him a treasure chest and guess what...the operation was successful! I am so happy for my friend here. This friend of mine better belanja is BIG BIG because we did played a big part in planning ...hehehe.

Now i am back in KL with sun burnt mark on my back. It was really red and painful yesterday but now not so painful. Now my skins is turning darker and it's starting to itch. It's a sign of the skin is stating to peel. Well...i have been to island adventure 4 years in a row and guess what 4/4 times i got sun burnt! Oh yeah! I am so used to the feeling already which i literally don't care. I did put sun lotion on but still i always kena. Don't know why but well...as long i had fun...it's ok to get sun burn once a year...HEHE.

Okie...that's all from me and here is the pic of the resort
Alright, I'm off...here is a song i have been listening until now since 2001 for you to enjoy..."Vertical Horizon - Best i ever had"....adios amigos!

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por BaRNeY ~ Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1 comments

Time for a break

I took my CCIE written exam last monday and i pass with flying color (thanks to p4s) and now i have renewed my CCNP and now i need to prepare for the ultimate challenge which is the super lab! I have 1 and half years to prepare for my lab so i some how gotta find motivation do study. For the past 2 week i haven't been playing my guitar a lot. May be just 10-30 mins a day max if i have time but now im back to being a full time guitarist at home! So glad i can fully concentrate on my guitar and trying to improve myself at the same time.

Pretty much i'm all beat up. Alright, it's time for me to take my 1/2 year break for 2009.This sunday i'll be taking a plane to KB, then a 40 mins car ride to Kuala Besut, then another 20-30 mins boat ride to Perhentian Island! Boy i can't wait!!!! I can hear the waves washing up the shores now. This is what im picturing in my head now below:
This will be my 4th island adventure in a row and my 1st holiday of 2009. Going to take my guitar there to and have a beach street performance. Let's see if my skills have improved to draw a lil crowd. There will be 8 of us going and we plan to go on a fishing trip. I have been looking forward to this trip for a long time and it's gonna come very soon! Oh boy oh boy i better get my stuff ready.

Well....that island adventure will be my mid year holiday and end of the year i have another holiday to look forward too and it's Krabi in Thailand! I have never been to Thailand before. Do you know that all staff are required to take 2 weeks force leave off during december. 2 weeks is hell of a long time and i don't plan to sit at home and rot. So i was thinking something fancy and may be Thailand. Was talking about it with with my ex-colleague and she too agreed to go Thailand. So i suggested Krabi and we went and looked for another 2 person and guess what...with in 24 hours after discussion and we have booked AA direct flight from LCCT to Krabi for only RM211 with return! I must say this is the fastest planned holiday in history! It's like "i on. you on. they on. air ticket cheap buy now." and the next second it's "Krabi here we come!" we shouted. There will be 4 of us and we'll be ther for 4d3n. We haven't look for accommodation yet as we still have time to plan. I have never stepped out of Malaysia since im back from aussie back in 2005. Okie, may be Singapore but that's too normal to me. Now Thailand, that's something new for me.

Ho ho ho...i soooo cant wait for my holidays! In fact i have other group of friends also suggested Bali this year. I don't mind going there but it seems there isn't any cheap air tix for now. We'll wait and see if we will come across any cheap tix.

Okidoki, i guess that's all i want to say here. Let me see if i have time put in one more entry before my Perhentian trip. Before i sign off, now here is another song for you to enjoy. It's a new song from Miley Cyrus called "The Climb". I'm no fan of Hannah Montana but this song pretty encouraging to listen too if you know what i mean. Alright, signing off now. See ya~

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por BaRNeY ~ Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2 comments

Time to put my guitar a side and get serious

Alright, i have an announcement to make here. I will be quitting my guitar until 15th June. I know, i know, you guys must be saying "what!?" or "you must be joking right Benny?". Well, im not joking here. Something that i play in front of my pc everyday i will put a totally stop on it! Okie, may be not total stop la but when i think i need a break, then i'll pop my guitar out and play for a while. The reason to this is because i will be doing my CCIE written exam on the 15th June i don't plan to screw this up. It's the highest certification in Cisco certification and not easy at all! I need all the time available to study and score here. This means no more going out with friends until dawn. So wish me luck here!

Today, i looked up the sky and saw the moon shining so brightly up the sky and it's a full moon. I stared at it for a while and smiled, thinking about something i wrote to someone about the moon shining so bright during the night. If i can remember clearly, i wrote this:

Everybody want to be the sun to shine on you but i rather be the moon, so i can shine upon you during your darkest night when you need light

I don't think that's the exact words i said but something close to that. Can't believe i actually thought that up...lol. I took the picture of the moon today.

I know the bright round thing don't look like a moon that's because i was using my phone camera. You know phone camera are not meant to treated like a digital camera especially if it's a Nokia.

Oh shiet, it's 3:37am now. I think i better go. But before i go, i got something to say here. You all noticed i added a new music player on my blog here. Now for every new post here, i shall add in the song i'm listening at the moment. So for today's post, it's a classic song back in the 90s during my secondary school time called 'Greenday - Good Riddance(Time of your life)'. It's lyrics if the song is very meaningful so that is why i like this song. I can play this whole song on my guitar too and i'm planing to record it and upload on youtube one fine day.

I don't think i will be adding any new post until 15th June. So hopefully the next post, it will be good news about my CCIE exam. Until next time, take care, and later~

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por BaRNeY ~ Sunday, June 7, 2009 3 comments