Expenditures/Apartment

Posted by vampire at 07:55 PM on November 2, 2004.

This month, I've to spend much more than my salary.

My car's road tax is due and might as well renew the insurance due next month. For that, I gotta spend Rm1300++.

Then, I'm moving to a new apartment. Staying at the penthouse, 15th floor. Yay. Although the room is smaller than my current room, I feel the place is nicer and more airy. Easier to furnish and to keep tidy, too.

The apartment rental is Rm900 monthly. The landlord provides us with water heaters for each bathroom, an aircon for the master bedroom, washing machine, fridge, dining table, beds, and TV Stand. One thing good abt this apartment is that it has two shaded carparks, cos most other apartments has only one. To park outside the apartment compound is a hassle, especially when it rains.

To move into the apartment, I've spent Rm1300 for the deposit and furnitures. I managed to buy a nice 2nd hand sofa set for Rm280 only. My housemate is gonna bring in his TV. There are more furnitures to buy, and other stuff necessary for the house.

Housewarming to be set on the first or second weekend of December.

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Joy?

Posted by vampire at 03:37 AM on November 12, 2004.

So now, what to look forward to?

When someone's depressed, life's a bore. Thus, this question pops up.

So, you've got family? Yes.
So, you still got a job? Yes.
Bankrupt? No.
Still have friends? Yes.


Life goes on.

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Work

Posted by vampire at 03:47 AM on November 12, 2004.

I can't seem to work properly anymore. I don't go to work on time at all. I wake up at noon or later. I don't work 8 hours a day. I'm not disciplined.

So is this job not suitable for me?

What will drive me on? At this age, I should be building up my career.

I may not like being an engineer, but sometimes we gotta face it - We're not cut out to be the person we want to be. Stick to ourself, who we are, although you envy the rest.

I'm feeling what a friend is feeling a few days ago.

MK: I need a change.
Me: What change?
MK: I donno. Just a change. I'm feeling down.

I didnt know depression can spread so fast. Why we need a change? Becos we're bored. Bored of what? The answer of 'don't know' means 'everything'.

I desperately need someone/something to happen to teach me to appreciate what I have.

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Moving

Posted by vampire at 04:02 AM on November 12, 2004.

I'm close to moving out to my new apartment. Need to transfer my toiletries, clothes, this PC, and a box of stuff, and I'm ready to stay there.

Come Saturday, a new guy will move into this room.

What I'll miss here:

1) Mahjong sessions. It was fun to do something away from the PC. Anytime. Learnt to play 3-player mahjong with money here. I wish there are more of these sessions. My new place is ready for mahjong, but in need of more players.

2) Streamyx. Broadband connection from the moment I stepped into this room. I'm addicted to it. Starting from Saturday, I won't have Internet access at home. Gotta wait for housemate to come back to apply for it. Anyway, I'd love the time away from it, to do other stuff, like reading books I bought and haven't read, games I bought and haven't played, cleaning up the house, go out shopping for stuff.

3) Location. This place is so nicely situated in Bayan Baru area, and so easily accessed. There are roads leading in and out in all directions. Shops are nearby. Eateries are always open.

4) Parking. I don't need to get wet if it rains to get to my car. It's a terrace house. My car isn't far from where I am. At my new place, it's an apartment. Gotta share carparks with housemates, and there are shifts of parking outside the apartment fences.


On the other hand, these are things I look forward to at my new place:

1) Comfort. The place is adequately furnished. I'll have a living room with a nice sofa set, a TV on a proper TV stand, with cool air blowing thru the balcony door of the top floor of the apartment. Before this, I've been living at places which are immediately recognized as 'student house's. 14" TV placed on a stack of newspapers. Boxes lying about somewhere visible in the living room. Living room converted to dry clothes, etc.

2) Size. My room and apartment is smaller, thus easier to maintain.

Shit. I can't think of anymore.

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Apartment

Posted by vampire at 10:36 AM on November 19, 2004.

The apartment's incomplete without housemates.

I'm also not used to staying in an apartment. When I look out my kitchen window, I see the outside. This means people outside can look in as well. Really scary if I suddenly looked out and see a person outside staring at me. Well, it didn't happened, but I'm spooking myself, living alone there.

Lately, I've been sorta obsessed to make the place as nicely and adequately furnished as possible. It has been so long sinced I stayed in a homely place, being away from my hometown for long periods since uni days. So, I go shopping for furnitures and house accessories.

But, I need my housemates to complete the house furnishing. Some decisions need housemates approvals. Also need to check whether my housemates will be bringing in some stuff which I intend to buy. So I better wait before splurging out more money on something I don't need to buy.

I got 'conned' by the furniture sellers. I said I wanted to buy a pullout bed. It should be understood that I wanted the top & bottom beds. She showed me the catalog picture of the set. Written there was Rm580. She offered with the price of Rm260. So I accepted and the bed was delivered to my room, but only the top part. Dang. I knew I had to spend much more money. They knew that I wanted the bottom part, and since it comes in a set, they knew I had to buy the matching bottom pullout bed. So they sold it to me at a whooping Rm160, when I returned there. Thus, my bed cost Rm420!! My two mattresses cost Rm235. My bedsheets and mattress protector costs Rm80. Total cost for sleep = Rm735.

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Book

Posted by vampire at 11:57 AM on November 19, 2004.

Currently reading this book, Eragon. Book 1 of a Fantasy adventure trilogy. It was written by a 19-year-old Christopher Pallini.

There are many logic loopholes, but this book is meant for teens anyway.

Fox2000 gonna come up with a movie for this story maybe next year.

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Buzzz.....

Posted by vampire at 01:38 PM on November 22, 2004.

Freakish thing happened two nights ago.

My apartment seems to be attracting lotsa bugs, insects, and flying creatures.

I was lying on my bed reading a book, when this 3cm-long bee/wasp (I'm not sure which, but it was the one which stings with its end) came flying in the room through the window, attracted by the fluorescent light.

I kept looking at it hoping it would fly out and away, but it didn't. Instead the ceiling fan at speed 2 caught it with a loud whack. The bee/wasp was hurled to the wall with great force, and dropped onto my bed.

Afraid that it might sting me, I shifted my position from lying on my back to lying on my side, which, in my opinion, was a safer position.

I thought the bee/wasp was already dead, but it still managed to fly. It flew out of the window, and I heaved a sigh of relief. I thought all was safe. Haha... How wrong I was.

So, I tried to resume to my lying on the back position, but OH MY GOD! It STINGS!!! Hurts Badly.

Dammit. What happened was the fan blade had cut the bee/wasp's tail off, and the tail sting (shaped like a chocolate chip) was flung to my mattress.

Was in pain for about an hour, before I managed to sleep. Luckily I wasn't allergic to this. Now, the swell has decreased and doesn't hurt anymore. Instead, it itches.

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Attitude

Posted by vampire at 02:13 PM on November 23, 2004.

How to be a boss:

Morning
Boss: I want this touch screen to replace the LCD. Looks nicer.
Engineer: But that would mean I have to change the whole system. Hardware and software. I've already completed this system.

Afternoon
Customer: I want the PC to be slotted from the front, not from the side.
Boss: We already completed the design. I can't change it already.


Evening
Boss: I want the touch screen. Tell me how long you need.
Engineer: ...



I don't think I get the point through well enough. This situation does not involve me, but I've seen it happen. This boss character wants his engineer to do a task. Task will take a long time and is irrelevant. He doesnt care. Engineer has to do it.

Another person ask the boss (he's an engineer, too) to do a different task, which the boss is in charge of directly. He doesn't want to do it.

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Alexander

Posted by vampire at 02:29 PM on November 26, 2004.

Title: ALEXANDER
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins
Rating: 0.5(for the effort)/5

This movie is one of the worst I had seen this year. There aren't that many battle scenes, and they don't portray Alexander being Great.

Spoilers ahead. In fact, they portray him as Alexander the Gay. This is very direct, unlike Achilles in Troy. Colin Farrell had to kiss a guy in the show. Luckily it was censored off. Yay. One of the extras, acting as a harem guy/gal/dancer, appears more often than some of his generals.

In the movie, they don't show any great strategies conjured by Alexander to win battles. The movies skips lotsa important parts, like how he won an important battle in the movie, how he returned from exile, and so on.

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