GTA (Grand Theft Auto) Vice City....

i bought a PS2 like 2 weeks ago. i was so into it. Everyday after work, i would sit in front of the console and play the hours away till nearly midnite coz that's my bedtime already. i would play everyday without fail. there's one game that interest me. Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Vice City. This fairly violent/controversial in the US (once upon a time) was quite fun to me. Doing all the bad/anti-social/cruel things, that we an ordinary citizen of any country in the world don't have the chance (or we 're to 'chicken' to do it, hahah). let's face it, who can in the wide world, car-jack, slash somebody's heads off with a katana, head-shot some dumb-ass character from close distance, planting boms in the malls, driving a Rhino tank around and ramming all the vehicles that's in front of your path, and the list goes on and on... i think we can try this game on somebody who admit that he's so 'angelic' konon...aka dave. and we can see him turned into a devil in this game. hahah....
anyway, this is not my story, although i played this game for the whole 2 weeks, i havn't turned into a violent monster. but there's a slight problem (side-effect) playing GTA, as in the US, cars are driven on the right of the road but in Malaysia, we are driving on the left side. after 2 weeks of GTA, the effect had finally taken it's toll. at 11pm yesterday, i went out for supper with my sis. i was taking some shortcuts, because the town was jammed at certain strech of road. i drove pass through some quiet neighbourhood, and guess what happened that time...i was driving on the wrong side of the road and i feel so natural doing it (it's like a second nature to me). i encountered a car heading for my direction, then it suddenly slowed down (he was confused actually-because i'm driving on his side of the road). i cursed him a bit ( but i'm the guilty party here, hahah ). later on, after a distance i was driving on the wrong side of road again. at this time i realised my mistakes. damn malu..coz i cursed the on coming volvo earlier on.
i was pretty freaked out and worried bout my mistake. what if when i'm doing it again next time. i'm not a careless driver, i can handle a car pretty well. but GTA is really giving the problem now.....Believe it or not, playing GTA can actually make drive on the wrong side of the road. luckily it havent influenced me to do all the violent things in the game...like car-jacking etc. till now i sitll freaked out. when i told dave that i was driving on the wrong side of the road last nite, he told me that he did that also yesterday, and nearly met and accident (luckily he didnt rammed into other cars - this week must go to church and pray already...(paham paham lah....), but he's not even playing GTA. MTS betul.....(M.T.S is actually a term used by BJ to kutuk someone)

blood sucking company + grandma's story

My "grandma's" story
On the 4th week of July (it was a Friday), my boss called me into his office. as usual, i thought that he's gonna assign me to a new project (because i've been sitting at my workstation for more than a moth without anything big to do. My boss haven't supplied me with a pc. and i don't even have a chance to prove myself). I went in there. The room is so quiet, he told me to sit down before he starts talking. after i sat down, he began to talk. As he opened his mouth, he broke the news. He told he can't keep me anymore because the company was having financial difficulties. i was like blur and dumbfounded. I really don't know how to react. My face was straight and emotionless. I never encountered these kind of situations before. My reaction was...."oh...ok. i understand..." But i felt ok. No heartache, no questioning about his decision and bla..bla. I left the room. The whole scene
in the room was playing in my head. Kept on repeating itself as i walked to my room (whom i shared with Mae my colleague from my first company. We met there. Later she resigned. Then i was left alone doing design. A months later, it's turned to hand my resignation letter to the Marketing Manager (an S-hole). Later i rejoin with Mae, in this new company.) She asked me what happened? I told i was retrenched. She was surprised. Then she voiced her dissatisfaction over my retrenchment. Should it be my part to do that?? Hahah.. she also said that she might resign because she'll be lonely in the room (we're not having a serious relationship with each other, mind you). hahah..at last she didnt resign. If she resigned, she can't fund her monthly shopping spree. she's a shopaholic, you see..

A few days before the retrenchment.
Daily i walked back home from my workplace. I consider it a form of exercise. My excuse to exercise everyday. I'm lazy freak. Back to my story; one day i met a friend (now my colleague in my new company). He asked me to design a flyer for him (for the company's merdeka promotion). A few days later, i send in the thing to the office. I chatted with him for a while. As i'm leaving, he told me that the company is interested in hiring a graphic designer. He asked me whether i'm interested. I didn't reply to him immediately. I said him that i need some careful consideration. But somehow i ended up here (even though i got 2 more job offers from a printing company and a furniture company).

My new workplace.
I had just started to work in the new company for 2 weeks. I was assigned to all the graphic stuff ranging from promotional items from flyers, posters, brochures, web design, (not very good at it- need to revise more on Flash) and multimedia, technical support and data entry in case i'm needed. that's hell a lot of responsibility for someone who get paid with my kind of salary. Unfortunately, i was only paid peanuts (that's 800bucks, including 100bucks for phone allowance) comparing to all my peers who get paid for more than 1.3K and above. one of them, who was doing admin work, get paid for 1.4K. We all had a degree. But why mine always get paid wit peanuts?? Personally i think it's unfair to me. i also got a degree of Graphic Communication from a local uni, not a pasar malam degree. I'm not bragging bout my degree, because having a degree is like having a handphone nowdays. it's so common these days. What i want is only a decent salary with the qualification that i got. And one more thing, I'm not copy-and-paste designer (like some of the designers out there). Is it too much to ask for??And one more thing, my new company really sucks. The environment sucked (looks more than a garbage dump to me) and the boss was a real f**king China-man (please note: that china-man is not referring to man from China (no disrespect to the people from China, my grandma was also from China), but a boss/person that is damn old-schooled, stingy, calculative, sense of dressing worse than my grandpa.) We're required to do OT sometimes, but not much in my case (maybe i'm still new here). But the rate he paid for the extra OT is so little. And it's not worth it to do OT with the damn company. we were only paid for 15bucks/session. and we can only claim it after working for 2hours or more. even though we're working for 5 hours, the rate remains the same. just 15bucks. and we're forced to do OT. with this kind of payment, i rather confined myself in
my room and play my guitar/PS2. more satisfaction than sacrificing my precious time for
peanuts.The thing that pissed me off, one nite my boss asked me to go the office at 9pm just to do a damn NAME CARD. I was already at home at that time. If he wants me to the thing, he can directly inform me to do it a.s.a.p. Not when i'm home napping. What's wrong with these people,
man??? The "China-man" always ask us to "LOVE YOUR COMPANY!!". but if "THE-COMPANY-NEVER-LOVES-U" and
just wanted to squeeze you dry from your resources and never respect your rights and privacy, "LOVE YOU COMPANY"??? i don't think
so...i'm just waiting for the right moment to f**k off from the "China-man's" company.

akademi fantasia, anyone??

just now i was checking my e-mails, i got something pretty interesting from kakiseni.com. quite an interesting article on Akademi Fantasia 2, by MR Al-Mustaqeem and a few comments from readers.
check it out: http://www.kakiseni.com/articles/features/MDU1MQ.html.

woohoo...my 1st blog

after visiting my bandmate's (davidyoong @ fc) blog almost 10 times a day, a few days ago, i'm tempted to do my own blog. bad influence from him.....so fc, if you are reading this, you are a damn bad inluence to me, man...