I Got The Rock

If you’ve known me long enough, you probably already know that i’m a rock producer. This time however, was a different one altogether.

I’ve been having gastric like bloating symptoms for the past week. This was the culprit.

A gallbladder stone was stuck at the neck of the gallbladder. Underwent a surgery last night to remove the gallbladder along with this solidified cholesterol.

So, if you have gastric like symptoms that don’t go away after meds for 3 days, check your gallbladder before it gets swollen/inflammed to reduce surgery complications.

Hope this doesn’t ruin your lunch.

Goodbye VW GTI

I’ve had this car for a good 12 years and it has served me extremely well. I suppose I was very lucky to have opted for the Mk 6 GTI (and somewhat influenced by Jeremy Clarkson) as I’ve been spared from the dreaded mechatronic problems that plagued a lot of the Mk 6 Golf due to the use of dry clutch. It was a very practical car despite it being a hot hatch and very, very fun to drive. Stepping the accelerator pedal never fails to bring a smile to my face (along with that slight whiplash) even till today despite losing a couple of horses from its 2 litre engine! And boy, can it run too! We once managed to make a 283km dash from Johor Bahru to Kuala Lumpur in 2 hours 8 minutes with my parents in tow! Good times!

You’ve been a good steed indeed. Be good to your new owner now.

Gunship Helicopter Toy

I spent a good part of my Saturday afternoon helping my son assemble this Meccano-like gunship helicopter that was gifted to him by one of his aunts. It wasn’t an enjoyable build, I can tell you that. But the process made me philosophise a bit about how much it resembles life.

What the illustrations and instructions tell you to do versus what the end product looks like on the box makes you question a few things, i.e. whether is it correct, whether you’re doing it right, how it’s supposed to be, the impossibility of joining those few parts together, why do you even bother to do it in the first place, etc.

I ended up doing it with what i know can be done, improvising the assembly at a few parts, basically perservering throughout the whole process, enduring a couple of cuts knowing at the end of it, my son is going to enjoy playing it.

So such is life really. It’s not what others make it out to be. There will be times when people will tell you to do so and so. Then, as you’re trying to figure things out, you question yourself whether you’re doing it right or not. You’ll end up doing it however best you know with whatever knowledge and resources you have. You’ll get hurt along the way but at the end of it, you know that you’re doing it for your loved ones. That feeling of joy and happiness you get out of it is the reward.

So in conclusion, don’t buy this Intelligent Assembly Toys Series’ Gunship (No. 486). Retails at Mr. Toy for RM32 (thereabouts).

Social Mediums

I’ve been very wary and weary of social media of late. I’m looking at you, Facebook. Looking at the feed it’s generating for me, it has become a cesspool of vile hatred and a putrid petri dish of falsehoods propagated by the masses who love amassing likes and comments to feed their narcissistic needs. It may be argued that the origins are small in number but they are undoubtedly loud. I doubt Facebook would do anything much besides paying lip service to stem it as, let’s face it, it’s their revenue stream. The algorithms used to present the newsfeed to you are optimized for engagement. The more of which, e.g. rage inducing posts, means more revenue for them. One can attempt to put good postings or tweets out there to quell and calm the rage but the algorithm will render them less viral.

So, as much as I would like to get off the social media bandwagon, I must admit that I’m like any typical Malaysian who’d love nothing more than to rubberneck at the scene of an accident, but in this case, postings that are rife with wacky conspiracy theories and blatant misinformation. I do find them to be entertaining at times though. I just hope that people will still have enough grey cells to stop to think before they believe and before they share stuff.

Site Rebooted!

It’s 2020! Blogging feels so Y2K at this point. Is it still relevant?

So much water under the bridge since I last wrote anything significant on this website. I finally got laid married in 2016 (after unlocking the “40 Year Old Virgin” achievement the year before), been blessed with a son in 2017 and have been busy adulting since. There were times I wished I did all this earlier but reflecting back on my own attitude towards things back then, I don’t think I’d have the wisdom and patience to deal with some things.

I’ve also succumbed made the plunge to move this website to WordPress after years of running this thing on my own homebrewed solution. I finally realize the wisdom of using something that is widely supported and used by the community at large after years of having the “not invented here” syndrome. Again, I wish I did this earlier.

“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.” – Felix Frankfurter

Generasi Kami

This is one of those things that can come out when I hang around at Fuse after yoga (or dinner). I wrote the lyrics with Omar K while the music was done by Audi Mok and Omar. It was a treat to learn that the song was eventually recorded and performed by big names in the local entertainment scene like Dato’ Jalaluddin Hassan, Afdlin Shauki, Faizal Tahir, Juzzthin and Wafiy.

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