I got animals in me, insects too...

In mandarin, we say you got little deers bumping around. In English, you got butterflies in your stomach. Boy, the feeling is just strange and I got all the adrenaline pumping! My heart pumps at double the rate, and I got all the blood gushing to my ears and neck!

How do I be cool when my nerves just harden and muscles cramped, the best I could do is to think less and try to finish what I have to say before all my face turns red. It's been ages since I've got such feelings. I just have to be cool, be cool and coooool... but that's just impossible.

She stays late the other nite and I was still around. Alrite, I just have to brave myself up to ask for her number and ask her out. When I went out, she's left! Feeling half relieved as the little deers stop bumping around and half disappointed as another day has passed and I am still a loser!

I guess the later is stronger and I just could not stop to blame what a loser I am! So, what could I do to release my disappointment? I just walked out to check if anyone is playing pool in the rest area. No one was there for me! I guess I am a loser after all.

Just as I was leaving the rest area, she came out from the toilet and we bumped into each other. Be cool! This was just a milionth of a second my reaction, in fact, there's just no time for me to think but to follow my instinct to talk to her.

Frankly speaking, I had no idea what we talked about! A total BLANK! It was casual as usual which brings no meaning at all. Wait, she said bye and was walking towards the door! Do you really want to be a loser?!

I hafta brave up! So I struggled hard to soften my crimping throat muscle to force these words out of me, "Hey, maybe we should find some day to have dinner together!" She didn't get me correctly the first time, so I repeated myself. I did not know what she was thinking at that moment or how she was feeling, but I felt ever so relieved just to have blurted these words out of me.

She said OK! Omigod! Without giving time for myself to react to this, I asked for her number before I could not move my fingers anymore. I tried to really be cool so as to not drop my mobile in front of her, and luckily my mobile remained in my hand.

She left and I fell on the floor due to weak knees.

Lisa Ekdahl sings Salvadore Poe

Nothing could distract me from noticing her sweet and cute voice when I first heard her a few years ago. Though some might not like her pretentiously childish voice, I can't help but to fall in love with her. While I was listening to this CD, I can't help but to wonder who is this guy, though not that ugly, got to do with sweet Lisa? A search in the Internet broke my heart, Lisa was married to this guy!

Alrite, personal feelings aside, I cannot help but to give full praise to this album! All the songs have been cleverly tailored to Lisa's fragile yet unique voice, by none other than this guy on the back of the album, Salvadore Poe. And they surely work in bringing the best out of Lisa's quivery voice. How could they not work when a lucky guy got such a sweet lady as his wife?

Unlike her previous jazz albums where she chose the songs herself, some might find her strange Swedish accent not very well suited for jazz. Indeed, with the wrong materials, she can sound coarse. Not in this album! Her passionate husband has done a great job!

Her singing was filled with naïve charm. Though little and delicate, her voice brings charming sensibility to the album, an album greatly influenced by bossa nova. Some may find her lacking in improvisation skills for serious jazz, but I like her direct, playful and somewhat flirty style!

How sweet is her voice? Let's imagine this, if she were to tell me, "Dear, I saw this nice little purse when I was doing some shopping." I would willingly give her my credit card.

Is this her best? Perhaps!

Shhhhhhhhhh...

Whatever you have said would haunt you later in life but I was not expecting the haunting to be so soon. This morning, or last morning coz it's already passed 12am, a female colleague came to me and told me, "KC, I know who she is!"

Omigod! I thought no one was reading as I did not push anyone into reading my blog. It's more like a personal journal rather than a self promoting tool. It's just too scary to have someone coming to you and slap you straight in the face on your darkest secrets!

Anyway, I tried not to make this a huh-hah in the office as it's bad for the working environment when people could not stop teasing. Yes, to like someone is not a sin, but some morons just could not get it. They would make fun of you and tease you non-stop! This is just plain unnecessary pressure in the work place.

Hey, I admit I like her, but I barely know her. It's still too early to tell what's gonna turn out. In fact, we only went out for lunch once about 1 year ago. And that's with a whole bunch of colleagues.

There were actually 2 incidents where I actually blurted my heart out to 2 girls. It was just a WRONG thing to do when you barely know each other. Who said girls like courageous guys?! You SIAU ar? We barely know each other and you said you like me?

Yes, I could make this look as romantically cinematic as possible like we were supposed to be in the same team, but due to fate, I was not hired in the first interview. Yeah, eventually I was hired, but we were not within the same team anymore. Wrong timing!

We talked about books and realised that she actually attended 深雪's talk session. This was the second time 深雪 visited Malaysia and I actually marked the calendar. But I was with my sister as she came to KL during holidays. Wrong timing twice!

We talked about Janice's CD and she asked whether I know 側田? Coz he was the guy behind Janice who produced such marvelous work! Isn't it dramatic? Although I did not know who 側田 was initially, I did a search and found that he was also the guy behind "好人" and "Erica"! We both share the same passion towards 側田's work!

Is this like a mini series or what? Yeah, it's enough drive my hormone level sky high, but rushing into it might exert extraneous pressure. Heck, I don't even know whether she's attached or not!

Hmmm, maybe I should ask her out on casual dinner to know her better?!

I have been cheated

For us music lovers, there's nothing more worthy than buying the CDs you enjoy most.

Whenever I go HK or SG, there's nothing better than getting heaps of CDs and hold on to them until I get back home and immerse myself in those lovely melodies.

In HK or SG, there's one pressing where by there is a round holographic sticker on the CDs. My best guess is that they are from mainland, let's just forget about their authenticity, they are actually quite good in quality.

Many of the audiophile CDs from mainland Chinese singers come with those sticker. And many of the pop CDs from Taiwan or HK singers come in those stickers albeit in slightly different covers/packagings.

So, when I saw some of the mainland Chinese CD peddlers selling some CDs around the place I was having dinner, I could not help but to call them to show me what they have got. RM8 a piece is really a steal! I bought 3 pieces in one shot and could not wait till I get back home.

I opened the first one and poped it in to the car player. Shit! I could not believe that it could be this bad! Geee, it just does not make sense at all! If they could get the covers to be so nicely done, why don't they make the recording to acceptable quality?!

Well, the remaining 2 CDs went into the dust bin as I could not bear with them! At least one of them is still OK.

The morale of the story, if it is too cheap to be true, there is no way it could be real! Please keep this a secret as I would be the joke of our local audio scene.

A simple eventful morning... simple yet eventful?

It was 7.45 am and I was already at the Toyota service centre, the third checkup for my Avanza.

I have actually made an appointment, so I guess I was still early as the outside was so empty. As I drove in, the guard politely greeted, so I returned a friendly greeting as well, just good to know you are early. As I have made an appointment, I was sent directly to the back of the service centre.

Just as I drove in, omigod, there were already heaps of cars waiting for maintenance already! Wah, why so early? Cannot sleep later one is it? No family for you to bring to breakfast or morning market is it?

Damn, I was number 10! Wah, wait until when leh? Since I was so tired, which you will get to know why later, I just sleep there on the waiting couch. With quite an oily face, sloppy dressing and my company ID still tagged on my neck, I guess everyone was staring at me, thinking of what a disgraceful employee to have for my unfortunate employer!

Who cares lah, at least I am still under employment!

OK lar, what to do, since have to wait so long, I might as well go for breakfact lar. Just when I was walking to meet my colleague for breakfast, I saw this lady in black lace-y top and black tight pants. Wah, as you know black can be very sexy, my eyesight was on her till she walked into McD.

Just as I was recovering from my panting breath, I saw this taxi driver drooling over her as well. I did not manage to take the picture of the black mysterious lady due to shaky hands and hi heartbeat, but I managed to take the photo of this taxi driver.

Wah, you should have seen the number plate, when read from the last 3 digits, it was coincidently 584. Better becareful when you take taxi next time leh, the plate does show the character of the driver.

Phew, lucky my ID got no 584.

Just when I walked pass TGIF, I thought, somthing was amiss leh. Where was my Friday? Shit, I spent the nite over in the office again! Hey, how to get gf like that? I think the company should compensate me leh!

As I walked away, I saw a few old ah pek peeping into the back of this car. Wah, what's inside? What's inside?

I also want to see! Got nice VCDs is it? Can see or not?!

Further down the street, I saw this clinic with such perversive name! "lud-her"?
I ain't going in!

Wah so expensive! How can afford?! Enough for me to take 2 normal mix rice lunches already leh!

And this wan tan noodle of mine got only wan tan and no char siew one? So weird as I was swallowing noodle only!

Just when I was complaining how expensive the food can be, I saw this nice car. How can they afford one leh? They rob is it? Only the food expenditure already eats up a huge chunk of my salary already, how to afford such luxury leh?!

Back to the office, wah lau, I went to the wrong office is it? All strangers to me leh. Most people I have never seen one? Oh, they have BCP drill. BCP? Blow Cock Procedures? Ops, Business Continuation Procedures, some sort of drill in case of emergency. You know lar, bank always over paranoid one.

Yeah, my Avanza's service manual. But I got latest Female featuring Denise Keller. The best female service manual after CLEO!

OK lah, killed enough of your time already! Chill!

Susan Wong - Just a little Boss Around?

Wou, a sexy, mature and sensous lady in black! A lady basically at her sexual peak, I got a sudden gush of urge by just looking at the title - Just a little Boss Around! Ops, sorry, read wrongly, should be Just a little Bossa Nova.

Well, who would not like to be bossed around by her? An occasional escapade of being overpowered by the opposite sex is just so mind blowing and wild! A fantasy in any normal, hormonally driven guy!

Back to the title, this CD consists of many familiar numbers rearranged in Bossa Nova tune. The Look of Love, Girl from Ipanema and Imagine, just imagine her singing in her sexy black silk outfit and you have no reason not to buy this album!

Highly recommended!

My trip to Singapore PT.3

Singapore Swimming Club was the place we played our match. The tennis courts were newly upgraded ones. How I wish we upgrade and maintain our tennis courts as frequent as required!


See how happy our players are?


After the match, I got the the rest of the day all for myself! Where else would I go other than Adelphi?! The audio haven for me! Oh, multi-orgasm!

Oh, next to Adelphi is Funan IT Mall, a centralised place for IT stuff. But it is better to visit Sim Lim for better bargains. But hey, check out the food court here, not the basement one, but the one outside. The mixed pork soup and braised pork fist are 2 delicacies I never miss to taste whenever I am there!



There is no reason for any sane audiophile not to visit Adelphi! Even if you do not plan to get anything, visiting Adelphi really makes my day! You would drool over the hi-end stuff that you could find there! Stuff that you do not even get to see in M'sia are all there!

Sadly though, hi-fi is really slow moving in S'pore now. Even the last time I came during December, the situation remained until now. They are just very conservative in bringing new products to S'pore! I asked about Stealth Audio Cable and Fisch, none them is actually known here!

Still, if you work in S'pore, SGD1300 for the Shunyata Taipan VX really shows how good the buying power really is! If you work in M'sia and wanted to get the Taipan VX, wait long long to save up lar!

I am a stalker!

Hey guys, let's GUESS whose Jazz is this? The Avanza is definitely mine, but whose Jazz is that? GUESS!


If you manage to GUESS whose Jazz is that, let me know!

Mini power cords shootout

Fantasy is a bold cord, having extended and unrestricted highs, bass is solid and tight with ample of energy. However, the mids is not the forward sounding one, not recessed, but relatively softer as compared to what it has to offer in the highs and lows areas. However, the boldness is a civilised one. Not of those harsh and rough ones. Everything is smooth and composed, especially the highs, extended yet not intrusive. But if the setup is really sensitive, you will soon realise that the mids carries fine graininess. If the setup is fleshy, then it mates real well as it gives the impression of airiness in the vocal.


This is based on A + B + C + etc between the Fantasy, Shunyata Taipan VX with stardust, Stealth Cloude 9 and Fisch Performance P5. Shunyata is the most laid back one with darker presentation, very refined. Fantasy by comparison is the roughest one, relatively, due to its lower league. But still, it beats the hell out of many sub-2K cords out there.


Fisch has got the strongest copper sound. The highs and lows are very extended and 'strong'! You don't hear hi hats as metal, but you can actually feel it!!! Everything has got strong definition with sharp outline, imaging is top notch!


The Cloude 9 shines in providing the best mids details, microdynamics and superb delicacy! Silver has got this character of resolving the finer details of instruments. The detail retrieval is very balanced across the frequency spectrum, unlike copper, which is quite apparent in the highs and lows areas. The mids density is the quality I am dieing to get with the C9. The silver bass is also very unlike what the copper could provide. Copper bass is very strong and comes in abundant, silver bass is very well defined and encapsulated with fine details. You might find them not as deep, but with further listening, you will find that the bass has got more texture and minute tonal detail.

So, with the Fantasy connecting my RGPC to wall and the C9 to my pre, I can foresee a very well balanced sound. But I can only tell after 1 week as my C9 will only arrive then. It's going to be painful while waiting!

Hope you like her...

What started off as a place for me to express my passion towards life, HK, food and music ended up revealing more and more of my inner feelings. It's a relief to find the slow moving web counter as the lesser it moves, the more comfortable I am writing as it means no one is actually reading other than myself. This has been a place for me to get connected with my feelings and emotional ripples, at least a place where I could comfortably express myself rather than shielding myself from sensitiveness.

I finally gave the Janice CD to her, just a simple gift, asking her to enjoy the CD fully. She said she wanted to return the CD after she's done with it but I said the CD is really for her. Just as a simple gift. I just wish she could enjoy it as much as I do!

Janice is a happy go lucky girl, direct and unpretentious. She's sunny and joyful. Her singing connects honestly and serenade your soul. I listen to her every nite and wish everyone else could just have this precious opportunity to appreciating her.

I went off a couple of hours playing tennis and having my dinner. Surprised to see her still in the office, I asked why she was still in the office. She said she's waiting for her ride, how I wish I could offer a ride to her. It was painful to not able to show how much I cared!

I became tongue-tied, all my humor and wits went missing. I just could not be as cheeky as with others around her, only true honesty. I could not dare myself to be playful with her, in fear of hurting her.

Anyway, I wish she likes the CD as much as I do!

My trip to Singapore PT.2

The first place we visited was Queensway Shopping Center, just across IKEA. I didn't actually know this place until those sports fanatics brought me there! I guess the best thing for Singaporean is how they centralised all the sport stuff and audio stuff under one roof! This place is haven for shoes, rackets and apparels! The price? Far lower than Malaysia even after conversion!

Some of the brands you can get here is so much varied than in M'sia, some you don't even get in M'sia! And many of the shops are more than willing to give huge discounts! I can't help but to wonder what the heck is our government doing? SGD210 for a racket which you have to pay RM500 here shows how poor our buying power is dollar to dollar!


Just across the street, you have a wonderful food court! I was browsing around and found this stall with a long queue. To me, whenever there's long queue, there's good food! So I just queue along without realising what food I am expecting. Ah, from the huge sign, I guess it's something like laksa in claypot lar.

As I come from Penang, laksa to us is asam laksa, not the curry type as the KL people would like to call. Anyway, either one is OK with me. Since the trip is paid, I asked for the SGD5 portion. Then I was greeted with a question, "Do you want 'hang'?" I said "huh?" for 3 times until I realised she's asking "si hum"!

There are more and more Chinese from mainland working in S'pore! Even the cleaners in hotel are mostly mainland Chinese. Where are all the Singaporean working actually har?


This was what greeted me on the tray, aromatic and thick curry! I can tell it's gonna be a great curry laksa before even tasting it! Indeed, very nice!


A great view of the food court during busy Friday lunch time. Hey, how come they have more sweet looking girls in their food court?! Where are all our nice looking girls? Why is it so hard for us to have good views in M'sia?!

Hey, the guy in the foreground is our first singles. A consistent and great player!

My trip to Singapore PT.1

It was early in the morning when I reached S'pore Friday and I had no idea where I was except the sky was so gloomy. Gee, looked like a storm was brewing. I guess it was like 7am in the morning. Have you ever tried checking in to the hotel but no room for you to sleep yet? I was really in need of a nice cosy bed to crash, but no room! Can't blame the hotel as we arrived in 2 tour buses! We were there for inter-country SCB Games, Malaysia against Singapore. FUN!


Instead of sleeping, we were forced to go out and find food to eat first. Just as we walk out the hotel, I saw this huge building opposite with a huge sign "Ministry of Manpower". Omigod, reminds me of Manpower in OZ where the guys would strip while they dance. Is the building filled with guys strip dancing?!


As we walk opposite, only then I realized the hotel was Furama City Centre, very near China Town. Not too bad lar the standard, room is quite cosy and bed is quite comfortable lar.


Viewed from the window of my room, I can see Hotel 81 just across the street. A popular spot for many!

A tough guy and a TOUGH backpack

Remember I was supposed to buy a bag for my sister? I finally found one during my last short trip to HK. I don't understand this, whenever I tell anyone about buying stuff for my sister, they'll say it's lucky to be your sister. Ain't we supposed to be nice to the ones we love?

Even the sweet salesgirl said it's so nice of me, and great to be my sister. Well, I guess I'll be nice to her too if she's my girl friend. Hahahaha...

So, the moment I stepped on Malaysian soil, I called my sister.

Me: Yo, I got a backpack for you.
Sis: Really? Got bluff me or not?
Me: Of course no lar, said I wanted to get you one wut.
Sis: Is it beautifu?
Me: Of course lar, the salesgirl told me it's the latest and sold out in many other outlets!
Sis: Sure or not? What brand one?
Me: TOUGH lar, cool leh?!
Sis: Oh, thank you thank you!
Me: When are you coming to get it? Later outdated already lar.
Sis: No holidays yet lar, wait lor.
Me: What if my gf sees it and wants it?
Sis: Give it to her lor. Later you blame me for pissing your gf leh?
Me: Hahahaha, wait till I get one lar.
Sis: Ha, if you dare to give it to your gf, I'll knock you and your gf's heads! Hahahaha...
Me: Hahahaha, OK lar. I am sure you'll like it!

What a happy conversation to have!

Google Earth

Oh my god, oh my god, I am so fucking old and slow in Internet time. I have got no internet access of my own since I moved in to my apartment. Let see, more than 2 years now?

I could only do it during office hour, but being an abiding employee sitting next to my manager, you can tell my surfing time is limited. Hmmm, maybe that explains my long hours in office? Surfing rather than really rushing for projects and stuff?!

Anyway, I only found out about Google Earth this morning! Oh my, I used to be the explorer during my Internet prime time, showing friends the cool tools and stuff. Now, I am so lame to always be told the simplest tools available!

But hey, at least nobody beats me in HK stuff! Still, it does not feel good to know you are so OUT already! Man, HK is IN, being passionate about HK should mean I am IN also lar! But NO! I only found out Google Earth THIS MORNING!!!

This is so COOL! Like zooming in and out of ya country and see where you are living in. Sadly though, our Malaysian images are as blur as our government. You can see clearly for HK and S'pore!!! Anyway, I am grateful as if any terrorist chose to slam one of our planes into any high rise building, they could not do so as our images are BLUR!

But I assure you, if I get to have my own internet access again, you could not find any larger AV collections than me. Muahahahahaha...

2 kinda people to make you puke blood...

What time is it rite now? I am still in the SCB training center setting up machines. OK lar, no fuss lar, at least they fly me here drink drink eat eat, I should at least be thankful, rite? Rite!

Anyway, what I want to say now is some people just ought to be humbled, whatever you tell them, they say "ya lor, same like me!" Not exactly that way, but literally lar. No matter what also, they want to be equal, if not above you!

The other day, one guy told me about his audio hobby, so, I thought why not sharing experience. But I soon realised that it was all about boasting! So I took the RM13K Stealth Dream to humble this guy. I brought it to him and told him that this is what I am using while waiting for my new power cord. Then he started being humble and tried to ask for opinions.

I am OK sharing experiences. But there is this other kinda people where when you started telling them your experiences, they would just chip in with statements like, "yalor yalor, ..." then they continue elaborating from your point. But then, they continue for the sake of continuing, no substance to add from their own.

I was telling this guy about copper sound and silver sound, and he started saying, "yalor yalor, it's like that one. Copper and silver very different one, even with my setup also can tell the difference. Very funny hor, they sound really different one."

WTF, just tell me what's so different lar, at least do not tell stupid statements like that lar! Spoil my fucking interest in sharing my experience only!

So now, I just try to keep quiet, at least you would not try to be like me and tell me silly things. Less blood to puke.

You like perfect boobs?

Once upon a time, there was a land far far away, where ladies are designed and mass produced just like any other electronic goods. There seems to be peace living that way for many decades, until one day, a consortium came out with a specification for what they called "Lady in 35A".

"Lady in 35A" has got no stunning look, no endowed bottom, everything is just so ordinary. But it has got one killer feature, one that would make many guys kill for - a perfect pair of boobs! Great measurements and quality control had been put in to produce the perfectly balanced boobs! Omigod, many flocked in to get it!

Many had been sold! Even until today, although production had ceased, and discontinued, many are still dieing to get even a used one! But then, many had been sold secondhand when the original owners found that the "Lady in 35A" could not have hot and crazy sex! Even a spontaneous quickie could send her panting, forget about combi styles as she could only take it slowly.

We live in a fascinating world with heaps of sex positions and styles, soon, many gave up as it defeats all the meaning in life to have the "Lady in 35A". But since it achieved cult status, many just kept quiet and sold theirs used at exorbitant price!

Fret not, we still have many who thinks slow sex is itimate sex. And since "Lady in 35A" can only take it slow, the owners could only do it one way, one pace, nothing else. Oh, they still think they are having the best sex when we could do it many other ways.

3 Western Food Restaurants in M'sia

You know lar, I am very Chinese one. I seldom eat Western food. Why I seldom eat is because it's expensive, and they come in huge portion, which is not so healthy. Also ar, why normal lunch also eat so much? Sure cannot work later as I will be dozing off.

So, if I decided to eat Western food, it is either I am too hungry, or it's the glam factor! Got glam meh? Coz it's expensive mar, that shows you can spend! But then, not all are good lar, here in M'sia, we have 3 more known one. TGI Friday, Victoria Station and Chili's, yes, we have more than that, but they are more well known.

They actually reflect 3 main tastes M'sia, ranging from dry steak, just about rite steak and soaky wet stick. If you want wet steak, go Victoria. I went there once and the steak is actually soaking in water. Not sauce or gravy, but really water!

Friday is really everything also dry. The chicken wings, steaks and mushrooms also dry one, no gravy at all! If it's not their unlimited refills, I guess you'll get blisters in your throat!

The best is still Chili's! The steaks nicely done with the correct tenderness and very juicy. Mushrooms also come with delicous gravy. The best is their bottomless juice, unlimited refills! I love this place.

Anyway, I seldom go Western food. To know how stingy I am, 1 lunch in these places is enough for 10 of my normal lunch.

There's a price to pay to be GLAM!

3 mini steps to climb a huge corporate step

This is really proven and there is no doubt they would work! You only need these 3 steps, and you are on your way to corporate stardom!

Firstly, keep quiet and remain within your cubicle. Don't mix around nor talk to your colleagues. Only talk to managers and joke with them, oh, you don't have to respect the managers, too. Act as if if they don't have you, the team will fail. Also, delegate all the work out, do as little as possible, but delegate as much as possible! Remain like this for about as long as you could and you would definitely be promoted as more and more people leave the team due to your fuck up attitude.

Secondly, whenever the team is on huge projects or tight schedule, tender your resignation. Then, you would get your counter-offer-interview. State a salary others are paying you, even if you do not have an offer yet, boast a huge salary hike. This way, the stupid managers would think that you are an invaluable asset and would try their very best to keep you! STUPID!

Thirdly, keep your eyes and ears opened to look out for other companies in huge projects or tight schedule. Apply for it and ask for high post and high high salary. Die die also the stupid managers would get you in! Why? Because they need people to be in the team, at least if the projects fail, the stupid managers would say they have done their best to keep the projects going. Oh, they have one extra person to blame, too. So, if you ask high high salary, they would take you also.

If you are born to survive and prosper in this corporate shite, intermix the 3 steps above, my god, marnie(money) will keep pouring in! Like how? Join a company with huge projects/tight schedule, ask high high salary. When you are in, keep quiet and start delegating work, piss as much ppl as possible and make it real bad to the work environment. Make as much ppl leave as possible, make it real hard for the new joinees, make the hell out of them! Now you have 2 choices, either stay there for as long as possible and wait for your luck. Or look for another company with huge projects/tight schedule, tender your resignation and hope for a huge increase! If they can't pay, you got nothing to loose, join another company with huge projects/tight schedule, boast about your previous huge projects and get in.

Wah! How can you be not rich?! Oh, if you prefer the first method, make sure you bail yourself out when the projects are destined to fail. At least, you won't be the fella who got blamed, let the stupid managers get all the shite!