Of Old Working Experiences

I actually posted this in my Crimson Mercenary forum but I thought it was pretty dumbass so here it IS! Where ALL dumbass topics exist!, Its about my old horrible working experience for in Sales.

Allow me to set this up first,

Ages ago when I was 15, worked at a Parkson departmental store for RM3.50 (Malaysian currency) which equates to rougly under a dollar US per hour. It was the Home department (pillows, towels, carpets, etc.) I was practically slave labour.

Ok heres what I go through on a daily basis.

I reach work, fold towels. Fold at least a few hundred towels per rack. FOLD FOLD FOLDy fold. Then I move on to the next rack where I repeat the entire process. Fold Fold FOLD....

THEN! Some middle-aged lady walks up and looks at my nice neat rack.She tosses one towel around.... mmmm looks around, tosses another. looks deeper... tosses another. She seems to think theres gold somewhere deep within my lovely neat stacks of towels so she proceeds to burrow in.

I'm over at the other rack wincing in pain.

Then she moves on to other racks. My heart just screams!! AAARGH! So I try to stem the tide of destruction by going up to her and asking her if I could be of assistance, a particular towel perhaps. Maybe a navy blue face towel? No? how aobut a lovely big pink beach towel? No?...

She replies dismissively ,"Oh its alright, Im just browsing" and proceeds to burrow her way through another pile of recently folded towels! I just sit there in despair as my world crumbles around me. *burrow* *burrow*

The department also has this lovely pile of pillows laid on the wall. Kind of like a soft pyramid,... imagine that! Well,... at the same time the "burrower" is attacking my towel stacks, another lady pulls a pillow from the bottom of the pyramid. THE WHOLE THING COLLAPSES! Her kids run around the shelves laughing.

The attack is relentless I tell you! More burrowers come,... they go through my shelves like locusts through the rice fields. WHOOOSH.........

While I'm expected to give service with a smile, my underpaid situation makes it hard for me to repress my "kill" instinct. I HAD to do something,....

I pulled a chair from the furniture department, an electrical fan from the electronics department, I nick a book from the Times Bookstore (All on my floor) and I go down to buy a soft-drink. Set it all up behind a wall of old boxes and just hide my way there. SO THERE!...........$!@#$@%!@

Of Notoriety

Eric and occasionally Christine is in control of my Handsome Dwarf in World of Warcraft these past few weeks. While Christine wanders around with her RP character, Eric racks up some headcount on Stormscale. Some doofus decided to lambast my honorable name today which deserves a mention.

Hehehe, poor sod got pwned by Eric as he got off his Flight Master. What kind of Troll goes around with the name Darryle anyway? That was all he needed to deserve death at the hand of Nugget the Dwarf Hunter Extraordinaire, under Eric's possession of course.... I'm much too kind a person to go pwn someone. But DARRYLE deserved it for being so whiney at lvl45.

I'm just waiting for the Log In server to come back up and I can go visit him as Nugget and give him another head of buckshot.

Of Purchases & Boiled Food

Gin and Alex from the Penang branch of Ragnarokites came-a visiting so dinner was an endless supply of raw food to be dunked into a giant bowl of other dunked food. STEAMBOAT! Sorta like donuts and a huge cup of coffee. It was some place in Sunway near the whore-house and the food was not too bad, conversation light and friendly and of course the HIGHLIGHT, 2 underaged female RO members!

I don't what to feel when here I am, at a dinner table with 10+ other 22 year old guys and POOF! In between we have two itty bitty ladies. Both younger than my sister. For a reason, which might be purely me myself and I, it was weirdish in some ways. Whats more surprising is the freedom they're given to go out hang. Why, IF I had a daughter and she was off galivanting with 15 other old farts, GOD I'll kick up a fuss! Haha. Not that dinner wasn't fun, it was. After dinner, the whole lot decided to go yummchar at Subang. Its funny how Malaysian culture revolves around food places. Its a no-fail business I tell you!!

Also spent a lot of money today buying stuff,....

Amongst them, 3 DVDs

Tokyo Godfather's (Anime DVD), Shutter (Horror), Exorcist : The Beginning (Horror... duh!)

and I went throught the Fiction section of Pay Less Books in Atria Damansara. Why pay more for books when you can have them for less? I'm not being commissioned to plug the store but its so true.

Jack McDevitt's Eternity Road (Sci-Fi)
Tale set in the far future where Chaka follows her brother's footsteps in looking for a lost civilization. From what I read from the back, its mankind rediscovering (our time). Our cities are their ruins, our roads are objects of mystery to them and so forth. Looks like a good read.

R.A.Salvatore's Starless Night (Fantasy)
Book 2 of the Legacy of the Drow, set in the Forgotten Realms about the dark elf hero Drizzt Do'Urden. Apparently he goes back into the Underdark (the Dark Elf homeland) and kicks some ass there. I was just missing this part to complete my Drizzt collection. Whoohoo!

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (Just plain weird genre)
I'm not too sure what genre this book falls into but its about a good guy that finds a world far below the surface. And like what every other person that finds a potentially hazardous place, this good guy goes exploring. How dumb can you get? Well I'll tell you after i finish this.

PS; On a side note, I have left the RO community for good since 2003. I am now a strict WORLD OF WARCRAFT or occasionally a GUNBOUND player. Don't ask me about slotted manteaus or zeny, I will kill you.

Of Pukey Boy & Assignments

Jason is Pukey-Boy.....

Haha, the foolish mortal hit his limit last night when the lads were at Atmosphere. To recap the night, Oreo & Joey were shuffling around the clock, WaiGra joined us from Eminem's table, Jerry stood there doing his "look cool" thing. Jason was hollering and trying to get Gurl and her friend drunk, while unbeknowingly killing himself in the process. Pretty decent night, cept for the fact we shelled out quite a lot for a lousy bottle PLUS we arrived late due to poor planning. Music was ok,... or maybe I'm tone deaf.

My deepest condolences to Joey's car which was recipient to more of Jason's Bodily Fluids. He does leave them around alot, but those are stories for ANOTHER time!

On a side note ;- I finally completed my small assignment! Whoohooo! Oh joy! I really need to buck up production if I'm going to do more of it. I just slapped all of them together with their supposed titles. Tell me which don't match if you're bored.



And lastly HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sa-Ku,... 50 years is still YOUNG!

Of Infiltrators, Illustrations & Blood sports

I have cornered a lizard in my bunker-like room by locking the elusive critter in my bathroom. Buggery little thing has been "snickering" for the past few nights and it has been unnerving to say the least. Well you know what I mean by "snickering", that seemingly mocking laugh lizards make for whatever reasons. I keep getting the feeling that it's laughing at me somehow. WELL NOW I'VE GOT IT TRAPPED!

I wonder how long it'll last in there. Factors that would conclude with its timely demise are;-
a) Virtually sealed toilet for no escape.
b) No escape also meaning no flies can feed it.
c) My constant "gassing" of the chamber.
My bets would be,.....starvation in 3 days. Unlike the cockroach that would probably begin to cannibalize itself in such a situation.

Ignoring the lizard, I'm actually taking a break now from tracing illustrations I'm doing for a client. Corporate Illustrations! And I guess they don't look all that bad, but already I'm close to my deadline . Heres what some of them look like currently. Keep in mind though these are to be used for adding color to boring business / managing presentations so they can't be all THAT colorful or distracting.

Moving on to New Purchases!....

Just bought a brand new pirated game! Chaos League! Bwhahaha... a Blood Sport-ish 3d Game where you manage you team of brutal Humans/Orcs/Undead, etc, etc... in some sort of American Football cum Lord of the Rings way. You can check it out at http://www.chaosleaguegame.com/ Pretty nifty for a game starved nerd.

I'm running an all human team "Kane's Fists" and so far I've trounced a Goblin Team 6-3! Which isn't too shabby considering I didn't run through the tutorial!

Of Vacations & Cicadas

Rundown, I went to Fraser's Hill, where according to History (dad wrote the book it seems) Some guy got blown away by rebels in the hills ages ago. Poor bastard. Must've been pissing off to have your holiday getaway turned into a bloody shoot out! Aaah the exciting days are truly over. Now all we have to wait for is WWIII.

Stayed in a lovely little bungalow. Yes! You can even see an Astro satellitte dish there! I was watching a LOT of Reality TV shows and documentaries in the past days as up here in thar' HILLS, there was absolutely NOTHING TO DO!

Also! While up there, my sisters found a Cicada!
Any of various insects of the family Cicadidae, having a broad head, membranous wings, and in the male a pair of resonating organs that produce a characteristic high-pitched, droning sound. Also called cicala.



Interesting little blighter was dead when my sisters found him. Well thats what they SAID anyways. Anyone else that knows my sisters personally would be bold to make the claim that the cicada saw my sisters and presumed to commit insect suicide.

Of Hide-Aways & Being Cool

Might be the last post for the next few days, as I've packed my bags and will be chilling my rear end off on some highup mountain retreat courtesy of my aunt's connections. If there be internet somewhere up there on that mountain, I believe I WILL find it. But otherwise for the next few days, I will be having intellectual conversations with the various beetles and bugs I find in my soup up there.

About Movies,

I intended to buy "Be Cool" to watch while I rot away in the bungalow but ended up watching the movie prematurely. Pretty good, John Travolta, Uma Thurman and the rest of the star-studded cast delivers a first rate performance. Watch THE ROCK being a gay wannabe-actor cum bodyguard. Its pretty straight-forward. None of that M.Night Shayamalanwatever.. surprise plot-twists that artsy viewers are so fond of. I am a viewer! I want to be spoon-fed! Damn!

Worth a watch in the movies, buying the ripped-off DVD would be better.

And on an even minor note;- Jason will NEVER get me into the Karaoke. BWAAHahahha.. u f00!

Of Bad Starts & Torrents

Alamanda Putrajaya, for those that do NOT know where that is or WHAT it is for the matter, its a Big ass shopping complex in Putrajaya. Was there meeting a potential client today. THANKS PHOEBE! Was quite a bad day though. WAS LATE for a meeting! OMG One of the few unpardonable sins I could commit while meeting a client.

Nevermind that, rushed to Putrajaya and took a minor wrong turn. KAPOW! Police pulled me over. Had to "settle" it for I was late and I WAS in the wrong. =_= I crossed a single white line and fell into their waiting hands. WELL Now you know who sponsored two hard-working traffic policemen their lunch today. GAAH.. Otherwise the meeting went well as I was excused for my tardiness and tried out Alamanda's food court with Phoebz. Pretty decent food there, cept for that one particular stall which I felt, smells like horse manure. MMMMMMMMMMMmmm.

A very skinny lost Yodeller

Also, I just downloaded this lovely Soundtrack by Danny Elfman, off bittorrent. For those interested, theres another Torrent site that is pretty good. http://www.torrentspy.com . Torrent Reactor just didn't cut it anymore.

Also, downloaded that Science-Fiction Drama intrigue, Children of Dune from that same source. Excellent viewing though the effects were a little cheap in some places. You can tell a blue screen scenes from the other. Composition layers were noticeable too. Oh well, story was pretty fun and a nice way to spend the afternoon.

Peace out

Of Daily Funnies & Roaches

Sunday, the only day in which I am justified in sitting around the house doing absolutely nothing. Ahh yes Sundays. Usually Family Day for me, where I would spend most of the day at home reading the newspaper, doodling or just finding new ways to waste 24 hours.

Ever since I was a wee lad, I've been reading them Sunday Morning comic strips, mostly from major publications such as The Star or NST or the Malay Mail. I NEVER read Malay publications which is why my Malay Language Subject just barely made it. =_=

From fondest memories, I've always been a fan of works like Calvin & Hobbes, One Big Happy, Robotman,.. etc etc. I've even gone throught a phase where I read Brenda Starr! Aaah yes. comics, short strips meant to invoke either thoughtful insight or tickle a funny bone. I've always dreaded reading the final strip of the comics section every week. The only consolation I have is that the following Monday will bring its own share of comics albeit somewhat less.

On a side note though, the Malay Mail has one totally ridiculous comic strip. "In Lighter Vein" by a Malaysian named Tommy Ong. While it may sound mean and very obnoxious of me but I have NEVER found that comic funny/entertaining/insightful. The art is hideous and not even in an abstract sense. It is just plain horrible. The jokes, if they can be called jokes, are bland with seldom to no punchline. Even the title is boring! Its comics like these that make me wonder if Mr.Ong is a very close friend of the Malay Mail's publisher to warrant a space for him to mutilate sequential art as such. If anyone out there thinks, "Oh hey Ivan, your art isn't all that witty or artistic as you think!" Well, for one thing, I do not have a comic strip published weekly in a local newspaper so I don't need to worry about my standards all that much. Sorry Tommy Ong (if ever you read this) I don't dislike your work so much as the fact that its published.

Now I feel everyone that reads the Malay Mail and see's Mr.Ong's strip would think "Bloody hell, is that the best we have?" Besides Lat and a few other local cartoonists (they're out there!) I have lost hope of finding good comics in the market. Arang Man is pretty decent but its storyline doesn't exactly suit a daily comic strip. Oh well... nowadays to get my comic jollies, I look to the world wide web. Heres some I find worth a good read.

PvP Online, Angst Technology, Nodwick, RPG World , Penny Arcade, Neverwinter Nights Generika

Also I found a tiny dead cockroach beneath my bed today when I was changing sheets.

Of Distruption of Information

This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd’s Internet service is currently experiencing a slight drop in performance caused by several outages due to service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States.
Nicked from TMNET's customer care website. 10/04/05 http://isp.tm.net.my/html/news_details.cfm?id=346&type=News&pg=1

Slight is a cute understatement. Our reliance to a flimsy network is somewhat worrying. Are we so easily crippled? Hope not. I've always wondered what would happen when war busts out. But I must say, electricity and water have been pretty stable since I've got back from Australia.

Of Bad Examples & Egg Tarts

StarTwo, The Star 7th April 2005

I found this Pickles strip by Brian Crane to be pretty funny and true in its way.

Tried preventing someone from eating my Egg-Tart by taking a bite our of it first but it didn't work!!

Of Duplicates & Fitness First

Our Day at Fitness First

Thanks to free guest passes from Tak Meng & Heng Lee (prospective hunks), we were invited to go try out Fitness First's facilities. The bloody expensive yet spanking lovely new gym down at the Curve! Sig-up is a paltry RM450 now during their promotional period! You don't even wanna know how much it is on standard days.

The first thing I noticed when HengLee parked his car was the beautiful floor of the parking lot. While this has NO relation to the Gym itself. I think the floor deserves a mention. Jerry proceeded to ruin the ambience by leaving cigarette ashes on the beautiful floor. IMBECILE!

Well once we rounded up the members namely, Me, Jerry, TakMeng, HengLee & Jason. We shimmied our way to the front desk and got our guest pass cards! Small little blue cards that allowed us access to THEIR secret locker room upstairs! ooOoooOooo.... which did not have any nekkid wimmen in case you're wondering. ^^

On to the WORKOUT!

First the WARMUP! Being the addle headed morons we were, we took advantage of our guest passes by turning our warmup session on the Exercise bike into the bloody Tour de France. We felt our underused thigh muscles starting to give way to paralysis but yet we moved on! TREADMILLS! The stationery indoor pavements,.. nothing much happened there so we moved on.

Upstairs we mingled with other over buffed people at the weights department. Being totally out of our league, we still attempted most of the machines. First we stared in awe at the instruction panels. Then we screwed the instruction panels and try to figure it out ourselved. I'm still reeling from the fact we didn't kill ourselves by entanglement or something.

Well, we then later joined Tak Meng and Heng Lee downstairs where we managed to see Tak Meng gasping for air like a fish out of water. It must've been toooough. But as most know it, No pain, no Gain. To end it, we pre-cooked ourselves in the Sauna probably killing off valuable sperm, got dressed and went home hoping tomorrow we won't need to be carried around on planks.

Also, the night before,...

Extreme boredom leads to extremely stupid measures. We cloned Jerry. Fellow conspirators Yennshin and Thomas help out with the assimilation of our egoistical friend. So much so well we cloned him that eventually we forgot who the REAL Jerry was. (he was still sleeping and totally missed our prank, but we didnt know.)

Of Newsites & Retarded People

Our local no.1 newspaper The Star has a totally FUGLY website. Go check it out at www.thestar.com.my . Its pretty sad in more ways than one. It fails as a webportal and as a site which a lot of foreign students visit to read up on daily happenings back home, its embarassing when other people of other nations take a peek and go,"WTF website is that? Looks like my kid brother made it!"

Even The Malay Mail (http://www.mmail.com.my/) and the New Straits Times (http://www.nst.com.my/) have a more polished and professional look. And I've always considered the Malay Mail as a tabloid rather than a newspaper which is what makes it a good read. But still The Star falls behind with its cheapish look. Really sorry to whoever maintains the site buy YUCKS.

In other news,..

Fliiping through the Star, you're once again bombarded by a lot of unbelievable. Some maid was raped by 13 youths in Penang. WTF! 13!!... Its not the act of some deviant sex starved pervert but 13 assholes that will probably never be brought to justice because they're probably bumi's and the victim in said article was a maid which seems to warrant less attention. And this isn't some small backwater village, this is BLOODY HELL Penang. A city!!! The closer you get to civilization, the more wild animals you tend to see.

As least in the outlying kampungs, all you get are sick bastards raping their own children. Which is another fuck-and-a-half story to be brought up some other time. WHAT THE HELL! SAVE some CASH and go find a prostitute or something! LEAVE INNOCENT PEOPLE ALONE!. Legalize prostitution, allow horny dumbasses that can't control their little wankers to go find relief elsewhere but in their daughters/sons beds.

Oh wait,.. why not just go get a bunch of loser friends, go kidnap some bystander and take turns with her/(him). That seems to be the rage nowadays. Seriously everyday, eeevery friggin day you see someone getting brutally rape or killed. WTF! For some reason this pisses me off, I don't feel safe leaving my sisters around anymore. NOT EVEN in Damansara Jaya. It pisses me off that I can't even feel safe in my own neighbourhood. And so far I thank whatever powers that be that no one I know personally has been touched or violated. Total Castration and Forced Sodomy with an Iron Rod is the only solution to such a crime whether or not some human rights activists thinks so or not. Theres enough people in the world to allow these scum with their screwed up mentality to multiply. Its our favor to mankind to reduce such numbers in a bloodthirsty way as possible.

Ruining someone's life just for 5 seconds of pleasure. 13!! 13 retarded fuckfaces... hope they reincarnate as toilet tissue or kitty litter crystals.

Shutting up now,.

Of Things that Live in Water

Alls well in the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys

Remember last time when we were small, some of us might have dragged our poor parents to places like toys'r'us and those that have would probably have met the INFAMOUS Sea-Monkeys!...

Cute little critters that are supposed to look like people with three pointy things on their heads and webbed hands and feet. While moving around on the web, look what I found! Videos on what they REALLY look like! http://www.seamonkeyworship.com/smvideos.htm OH JOY~!

I wonder if their INSTANT-LIFE policy clashes with any churches policy on "Thou shalt not be God" or something.... in some ways YOU ARE! A mighty deity of the innocent peace loving seamonkey civilization! DESTROY THOSE THAT DO NOT LOVE AND WORSHIP YOU! FLUSH them down the drain! or rain horror upon horror upon their cities in little glass tanks!

Though its a curious thought, what if you poured them into someone's drinking water and they actually evolved to live in someone's digestive tract!. BRUTAL DEATH!....

And on a final closing note, Sea-Monkeys are a type of unusual genetic Shrimp.

Of New Acquisitions & New Beginnings

My lovely acquisition, a spanking new HP1310 Three-in-one printer, YES! You heard me right, THREE IN ONE! not one,.. not two,.. but THREE fancy functions in one small delectable package. Bloody hell! and you THOUGHT just coffee came in 3-in-1 satchets!

For RM328, this baby was a steal at ComputerWar SS2,... usual price going for RM370. Its pretty much the smart choice as a printer + scanner would already come up to a hefty sum of 400+ EASILY!.....



Buying this baby nearly wiped out all the dough I made from Heng Lee's dad doing some freelance work, but in the long run I can put this down to my FIRST business expenditure! I feel things moving already BUAHAHAHahaha.....

I've decided to go with some catchy name for my enterprise,... and being the nerdy gamer I am, "CRITICAL HIT" sounded pretty good, PLUS I came up with it myself. A logo was already forming before my brain even stopped thinking of the oodles of money I intend to make. RICHness!!! GLORY and lotsa GOLD! and the adoration of women everywhere!!

Heres the logo, its supposed to look shattered and well yknow,.. in game terms a Critical Hit is normally something that does extra damage, or has MORE IMPACT!. Sound vibrant enough? A far contrast in real life to the slow moving me,..


On other news, the pope died... For those that play Warcraft, I saw an undead priest walking around with the name "Former Pope". Seemed funny at the time. Strange how all funny things are soooorta disrespectful. Oh well, never knew the guy. The pope's probably in Heaven anyway so I guess he's kinda happy in some way.

Of being the Transporter

Ferrying two sisters around is no easy task, let me tell you that. Parents are away today off to Genting for one of their new-age seminars they're so into nowadays, and yours truly is left behind to be the delivery boy for both sisters.

It was horrendous!

At 9.00am - Carrie goes to school
At 10..30 - Carrie gets back from school
At 12 - Carrie goes to school again!
At 3.30 - I pick Carmen up from school
At 5.00 pm - I send Carmen to tuition at Bandar Utama
At 6.30 - I pick Carmen up from Tuition in Bandar Utama
At 6.45 - I pick Carrie up from school.

That leaves me with an hour and a half in between sendings. Not neough time to get some much needed sleep, and not enough time to go hang out at the nearby watering hole. Worse off is when it rains and you're stuck in one of Malaysia's famous traffic jams. Imagine spending an hour picking up two sisters!!!

So for those of you that are still ferried around by an older sibling or parent, take the time to give them a hug and say Thanks.

Of Cheap Tricks & Interviews

Opening blog, puny mortals......

Was at Lotus today, saw a couple. I have a tendency to pick up on every channel in the area ( some may call this very "8" but it has its uses. ) The guy was saying something along the lines of ,"That is the way of Jesus our God." and slid his hands on to hers. Hmmm,.. while a lot of you out there might find it romantic or spiritual in some ways, it kind of gave me the creeps. EEEWWWW.... using religion as a pick up line? And the girl was so totally buying it! ( from her expression! ) WOW! This kind of stuff really works!

Tonight Jason will be interviewing me and "Billy" the Boey as the gang's two foremost "Unemployed Graduates". how charming that we are two specimens of the current social disease. FU Jason! There had better be a free drink in this for us! I'M FREELANCING DAMNIT! FREELANCING! Will work for Food.... & Drinks..... and make-out sessions (female)...