Streamyx apparently has made its way to Kajang and a reseller came by asking whether I was interested to sign up. Before he could even break out his brochures to explain the thing I was already filling out the forms! What took them so long?? I've been waiting for broadband services to reach here since ages ago! I was on the verge of hypothesizing a conspiracy by Telekom to delay broadband services to the masses so that they can still milk money out of poor saps on dial-ups. It really doesn't make sense to pay a lot for piss-poor services when cheaper yet better technology is already out there. I'm sure just about anybody will look forward to paying only RM111 for faster unlimited access rather than a total of RM200 (or thereabouts) for slow as molasses access if they use the Internet as much as I do.

Sometimes, money is not the be all and end all of everything. I suppose I'm privileged enough right now that extra money is nice to have and not a must have. Mind you, I still need money, but I reckon I make just about enough right now to get by without having to beg, borrow or steal from anybody. What's the point of having loads of extra money but not having the opportunity or be in the state of health (physical and mental) to enjoy the fruits of that hard labor and spend it? One might argue that I'm being myopic and content on "winging it" through life. I'll say, there are just other things in life that money can't buy for me right now: My family, my company of friends, my health and my sanity (or insanity depending on how well you know me! :P) and my own time. Like I said, extra money is nice but I don't see the need for it now and certainly not at the expense of any of those things I just mentioned.

Yes, I was offered something attractive but turned it down. There's always a catch when it comes to these things and I reckon it wasn't worth the expense.

I'm hanging out at Gloria Jeans with Albert and Shaz again. Ina was around for a bit before she went off to do her hair. We were priviliged enough to be graced by the short appearance of Her Brickyness herself, Irma and friend Jochebed. Alyaa also made an appearance, and with her Mom too! Albert got some extra lovin' from the ladies today 'cos he brought along a HP Tablet PC (and loaded with Linux too mind you!). Sweet!

It's halftime on the 37th Superbowl as I'm writing this and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are leading the Oakland Raiders by 17 points! Way to go, Bucs! Brad Johnson, Keyshawn Johnson, Michael Pittman and ex-Boilermaker Mike "Bulldozer" Alstott are really making life hard for the Raiders as the Raiders defense keeps on giving away the ball and yardage during play! Be back later!

Update (11:20am): After so many years in the NFL, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers finally got the monkey off their back by winning their first ever Superbowl title with a thumping 48-21 win over the Oakland Raiders. They led the first half 20 to 3 but let the Raiders catch up with a blocked punt and a fumbled snap during the 3rd quarter. Nonetheless the Bucs hung and pressed on and with Raider's Rich Gannon giving out lazy passes, the Bucs went on to take the Superbowl title home.

Nothing like geeking out on a Saturday night with a Wireless DSL Router/Switch. Yerright. Sad state of affairs indeed. Anyway, I got this sucker the other day but haven't been able to sit down and even test it out and put it through its paces just yet. I could be doing something else at this time but I reckon I'd be a homeboy this Saturday night and toy around with this thing.

Life is certainly interesting, although not necessarily peachy all the time, if you open up your mind to see things.

I feel a migraine coming. Some Saturday night this is turning out to be.

Listening to: Pop Shuvit - Jump (legit MP3 from their own website)

I always think that people who choose to get themselves involved in Malaysian politics are doing it for their own personal gains and benefit rather than for the people in their constituencies who voted for them in the first place. There are obviously some very few who aren't but they are severely outnumbered by those who are. I would say most of the politicians who are of the ruling coalition party have become apple polishers rather than truly championing for the rights of the people they are representing. It's all about pleasing the masters without due discrimination or worse, proper implementation plan (think along the lines of the many changes in the education policy in the last few months), just so that they remain "favorable" to continue receiving their "benefits". On the other side of the fence, we've got a bunch of zealots who are hellbent on preaching and shoving their ideals down people's throats without considering all aspects of it like how it will affect people of varying ethnicity in this country and their ever so condescending "holier than thou" attitude towards everyone who don't share their values. Certainly reason enough for me to stay away from politics with these kind of things going on. At least my conscience is clear knowing that I'm not involved in something that I think is for the wrong cause and intent.

Found this one whilst aimlessly browsing the web and it really cracked me up today! Go download the MP3 (and sing along to the lyrics) now! Quick props to Reza and his gang!

If there are two things that I hate most on the Internet, it's gotta be pop-up ads and spam. These by-product of the dot-com era that are supposed to help fledgling web businesses stay in business are, in fact, making them go out of business. Can you tell how many times have you recently gone to any website that is advertised on a pop-up (or pop-under) window among the kajillion that pops right up upon entering a particular site? None? How many times then have you gone to that website that opens those kajillion pop-ups? Lesser? See, if income is based on the number of hits that a site gets, then obviously it's not HELPING (I have long since doubted this model ever since it came out, let alone understand the rationale of it)! What more if the users use Mozilla to kill those pop-ups from ever appearing.

And then there's spam. Like I'm so desperately in need to enlarge my penis and wanna grow big boobs while I'm at it. And of course, I could use a million bucks by helping some disposed country leader siphon money out from the country he fled from 'cos the people thought he sucked. Rrriiiiight.... No big deal, just delete? Why do I frickin' need to wait for them to download first then? It's a waste of bandwidth and most importantly, MY TIME 'cos that major telco in this country blows goats so much that they monopolize and own the infrastructure that they cannot bring upon themselves to upgrade and improve 'em so we don't have to use dial-up anymore! Change email addresses? Sure, if you can help me inform all my acquaintences in my address book that I've changed email addresses... wait... then you're gonna have my new email address and spam it to death too!

Aahh phooey. I'm always pissed off on Mondays...

I really don't understand what's up with those pixellated cleavages seen during the live broadcast of the Golden Globe awards over NTV7 this morning. What's the difference anyways? Take a walk along KL/PJ and the scene is pretty much the same (minus the boob jobs on majority of 'em :P). Someone needs a job is it? Perhaps those censors would like to try putting frosted window panes over some women bosoms when they're walking out there in public then.

Ayah installed an AC unit into my room the other day despite my reluctance since, sooner or later, I'll be moving out anyways. The wiring of the AC just got done today and barely after it got done, we were on our way to Shah Alam (which is coincidentally close to the home of my ex-colleague who got married last night!) to help Adik and Jim clean their house. The house was previously rented to Jim's friends so it *REALLY* needed some good scrubbing and rewiring job as well so spent the rest of the day there. Meanwhile back home, my room is still in shambles after that wiring job. I can't sleep so long as it's in a mess so I hope the neighbors aren't disturbed by the sound of the vacuum cleaner later tonight. :P

Spoonfork has succumbed to our threats NOT TO GO OFFLINE! That sidebar ain't the same without a link to his site, nahmsayin? Heheh!