Exactly 1 year.

Yeap, today, it is exactly 1 year of me working in this company. Well, from my own humble opinion, I think it is a good thing to be mentioned, because I believed that there are so many fresh graduates would prefer to job hopping. I dare to say that my company should be lucky to have me for not doing this. Let's say, if you are the boss, you know which is good and which is wrong. So of course, I am a good candidate and I believe the longer the better unless the company suddenly fucked me up by not giving bonuses and lower down beneficial things.

Also, today, is my exactly 1st year of making a step further to be with my gf. Ooo... well, when I was offered by this company, I was happy that I had a job finally. I know, I will not get her if I don't have a job, and because of her, I have the motivation to work. I couldn't imaging of what am I if she doesn't exist in this world. This is a precious treasure and I should keep it till the end.

For those my friends who think that I got kidnapped, actually, I was in Shah Alam these few days.. I really had a great time with my gf, with an extra holiday, thanks to the sultan's birthday. And yeah, I went to Qbar few days ago.. I actually went for clubbing, haha.. and I would say, that was my 2nd time.. I know I am lifeless, but well, I don't like the idea of having fun inside there. I don't mind clubbing, but when it is too crazy, I don't like it. Probably I am that narrow minded although I know that I am not. Seeing people vomitting on da floor is disgusting, but seeing people make love there is interesting. So is that a good news or a bad news? You figured it yourself. Haha..

After all, after clubbing, I realised that I couldn't avoid drinking. It's like more that I am being forced to drink and smoke. Maybe this is what social's today. I would like to drink, but not too much as I am needed to drive later. Preferably, I would rather drink at home. I am emphasising on safety. Well, I don't want anything happened to my gf as her mom still barely trusts me. I consider it as a challange for me and I will prove her wrong one day.

And, don't be sad liao.. I love you always.

Good luck, my friends.

And finally, they went to the Magic: The Gathering, Worlds Championship 2007, New York. Good luck and hopefully I will have 10% of their winnings.. heh,heh..

Anyway, I went to celebrate Ashley's birthday yesterday at the Curve. Haha, probably I should say, same place again? Heaven? Hmm.. allow me to comment that place..

1. The drinks there suXXor.. I think the most consumable one was Tiger Beer.

2. Foods, I couldn't even see my food after it was served for 5 mins. The portion was so damn small and how was I supposed to call it a dinner? Well, I don't mind if the foods were awesome, but yet Heaven disappoints me again.

3. There was a performance from I don't know who. Eventually, they are good singers but it was kinda too loud.

4. The staffs there were extremely lousy yet lazy, and unfriendly. Let me add in the last part. No brainers.

Overall rate.. disclosed. I would like to prefer you to go MacDonalds instead.

Back to Ashley's thingy.. Well, come to think of it, that was my 1st time meeting all of them for like so long. Especially Munz, who become like ah kow dai yee long, so long didn't see him, he's being fatter now. Nico is in PJ, so does KJ. I can say that 80% of Hangoutianz were there.

Ahh shit, Lavander's tea is still haunting my throat.. Gotta Go.

Boring Wednesday.. Long story..

I got kidnapped by myself for quite some time. I found that it is too damn boring so I decided to release myself here..

After all, my life is just about work, Magic, and my gf. Work for money. Money for Magic and gf, and Magic and gf for life.. It is a boring wednesday and that is why I am here. I am kinda lazy to blog these few weeks. However, I have no choice. It is just too damn boring.

2 more weeks and I am 'one-year-old' in this company. I started my work here since 12th December, and now... it is 28th. With a blink of my eyes, 340 days have passed. Come to think of it, I am now 23 and yet I am still thinking how to stabilize my own financial with my so little amount of my salary.. It is not to say that I am a money spender, but with the inflation rate and the price increase of products.. which including Magic, I can save not much. RM 100 might be good enough with my today's salary, but my target is RM 300 per month. Well, my target is to save RM 30k for marriage and right now, I need RM 29,949.50 more to go.. I would want to cut most of my expanses but without them, my life will be boring. Is this really life? Work and Die attitude? Hell no.

I have been thinking of getting odd jobs. Not to say odd, but maybe, an Insurance agent. This reminds me of multi-level marketing, need to pester people to join/register for commision. With my own opinion, if I am an insurance agent one day, I will be on Car insurance category. I believe that every car has a proper insurance and a road tax but not people. Many of them, which included me, think that health insurance is unnecessary so I think it is hard for me to approach and explain to them how important it is. Just like my friend, Boon. He's an insurance agent right now and he's trying so hard. He even quitted his job and he's a full-time agent now. Well, I did advice him about his imbalance income but he is old enough to think for himself. Maybe when he is rich enough, the amount of money that he owes me would be mutiplied. Hehe.. Interest rate.

Again, it has been a while I am with Hangoutianz, I am wondering what are they doing.. Probably because most of my time spent in Millenium Square for Magic, they might think that I have no time for them. I think that it is my fault and I should be the one who should join them more often.

It is 11.10 am now and I am still have no work to do. I had finished my job and waiting for approval. Errr, in other words, I am actually 'snaking'.. Haha, well.. I definately can't work for 8 hours straight as I will lose concentration easily. This is something not my interest.

Anyway, talking about the Magic Worlds Championship, 2 of my friends, in the same team, will be going to New York next week. They will be representing Malaysia this year and hopefully, bring back some money. We need those money! I am sad to say, but bear in mind, I am not looking down on them. The fact is, they don't have enough training and from what I expect, they will not be in Top 64. I will be really surprised if they made it, they should thank me for teaching them draft. Hua hua hua.. Legacy decks from Manawerx and my recommendation on Standard Constructed. They are going to spend RM 5k for the ticket to New York, and if they covered back the winning for the air ticket, I would say, it is more than enough as experiencing in worlds will be the best experience ever. And hey, this is the only opportunity they have this year as they might not able to reach Top 4 in Nationals next year.

Oh yeah.. by the way, I quitted Magic because I lost a thoughtseize..

Ever since yesterday, I am a new Magic player, named Joe..

They made fun of me, and yesterday, while they were drafting, the pod was sooooo freaking valueble and winner could win 2x Thoughseizes, which worth around RM 150.. just for training.. Damn it, I should be playing..

And.. this Saturday, I decided not to go to Penang. I think I would prefer to accompany my Gf here more than spending my money there and have a very small chance of winning there. I don't mind to give it a shot in Subang again on 9th December, not to mention that there will be grinders around for PT:KL. I am still not sure when is PTKL but according to the latest information, it held within Chinese New Year's week. Man, there goes my angpow money..

I think I should stop here now, I am taking too long..
Cya.

It is fated, time to quit... Maybe?

I lost a Thoughtseize on yesterday's draft. So. pratically, as promised, I should quit Magic.

Well, it's kinda unfair to have a timed-draft like this.. but this is life. After that event, I learnt something..

A lesson. Probably I should learn how to stall time. I think it is a part of a strategy too. Everyone does that, why not me? If I can't beat them, join them.. That's the way to play Magic. Also, a 1-0 win is still a full 3 points win. I should just fully utilize the damn time next time..

At this rate, I have lost 5 drafts in a row.. I did very badly on previous 4 drafts as I only had 1 or 0 win on each draft. 5 drafts had costed me RM 160 and I pratically get back about ... RM 40? This sucks so bad.. I believe that I am a good player, but yet having this kind of losing streaks are not acceptable. I trained so hard yet so far. What is the matter? Am I becoming suckier, or are they becoming stronger?

If they are becoming stronger, I should congratulate them. If that is not true, then, indeed, I should quit.

After the journey to Ipoh..

Damn it, I am still disappointed with my performance in PTQ. I mean, it's so close for me to win the tournament and yet it is so damn far away.. That was my first time going to Ipoh just to play Magic. So what happened in Ipoh..

It's just like in Subang. 95% of the players there are from Kuala Lumpur. It's like I was playing in Subang. And man, that place.. is FULL of cats.. They actually breed the cats in that shop, and half of his premises are belongs to the Cat's properties.. I tell you, that's what we called those cats... Prosperity Cats. Hou Sek, Yau Hou Ju.. Good Food, Good Home. I am wondering if I can be like one of this cats in next 5 years? haha..

Okay, I was in top 8. I was very confident. And quaterfinals, I met my friend, Hafiz. Thanks to the outsider interferences, I lost. And yet, that outsider is the next opponent for us. Well, I am 100% believe that I deserved to be in finals. What to do, lives go on and I had to attend another tournament this Sunday, in Subang itself.

After all, my last time to Ipoh is when I was small, maybe around 12 years old. During that time, my dad usually brought us there to makan, and makan angin.. because he needed to collect the rental from his house there in Ipoh. Well, pratically every 2 months once till he sold his house due to economy crisis in 1997. From that moment, we stopped going there.

Obviously, Ipoh has changed alot. I couldn't even recorgnize the roads there already. I had 'Char Siew' rice next to the tournament center last sunday and guess what.. It was just RM 3.. Yes, it is cheap. My dinner was in Tapah R&R in PLUS highway.. I can't deny that it is a world class R&R..

Hello November..

Ahh, finally, November is coming.. 2 more months to go..

First of all, congratulation to my Friend, Nico, who finished 28th place in GP: Bangkok last week. He won himself $550 USD, which is around RM 1.8k. And hey, don't tell me you don't have money anymore, unless you want to buy my cards :P..

I was kinda surprised when he was the only person in our Magic Team went for Day 2. Well, some miscommunications happened as some of them thought that the 3rd round of GP began at 2.30pm while it was 2.00 pm. As the result, those who were late got a match loss. Pity them, but it can't be helped. Life is like that, please go on..

While in Legacy Tournament, a tournament which all magic cards, including restricted cards can be used in the whole Magic database except banned cards by the DCI. Well, Victor finished 8th place. Good result isn't it? But the problem is.. total player joined this tournament .... 9 people. But hey, at least he got 2 italian Legend boosters, worth around RM 100.

Haha, although I didn't go to Bangkok, it's a sad thing that I couldn't go but I didn't regret. If I would be in Bangkok, things might changed and I am happy with their performances as they tried their best.

And this coming sunday, it's my turn to attend PTQ : KL in Ipoh to get a slot for myself. I think that I am well prepared for this block. Nico told me to expect more Singaporeans as they think Malaysians suxxor, but if they underestimated me, they will pay for it. I promise. However, the main problem is transportation as I can't car pool anyone of my friends as their cars are fully booked. I can't drive my 'datuk Saga' all the way there - it can't make it and it might have heart attack and I don't have enough money to treat that disease. Worst come to worst, I have to borrow one of my friend's car to drive.

MMmm, by the way, Happy Birthday Jenni. It is your birthday today.

Also, to my lovely girl, I love you.

Thoughtseize is mine!

Thoughtseize is a rare card in Lorwyn block, Magic the Gathering. During pre-release, it was worth RM 45+.. And today.. guess how much is it?

RM 70.

Correct, it is a chase rare. It's just like Tarmogoyf. Gross.. But heck, who cares? If I have it, I will sell it. But ironically, players don't buy it at RM 70. RM 60 also I don't think they will.. It is a supporter card.

Tarmogoyf is going at RM 80-RM 90 PER PIECE.

Who cares, but I am going to practise my draft early. Pro-Tour Kuala Lumpur is coming. Sadly to say, I am not going to Bangkok but I will try my best to qualify from my very own country.

So what does thoughtseize do?

B, Sorcery.
Reveal target player's hand and discard a non-land card from it. You lose 2 life.

Super duress that sucks 2 life from you. Is it worth it? I think it will be around RM 30 soon. Probably it's going to be another Psionic-Blast.

Let's dont talk about Magic anymore.. Hari raya just passed few days ago, and I am not satisfied with my holiday. My girlfriend has 5 days holiday. My client's company has 6! My company? 3 only. Holy crap! I can't do anything within 3 days. 5 days at least I can go somewhere, far-far away..

Okay okay, actually, I have dilemma. Should I change my job? Or not? One of my friend, who is a Sales Manager in that company, has been asking me to shift there... I told him that I would consider.. But we will see how.. If the pay is much more higher, of course, I will change, but no matter what, I will try to re-evaluate again after I work here for a year plus..

I can say that working in this company is quite flexible in terms of timing. Well, not too flexible but at least, they implement a grace period of 15 minutes. So which means, if you are late, you can late for at most 15 minutes from actual working time. But of course, the company knows that you are cunning enough to finish work 15 minutes earlier .. They will warn you.. I am pretty sure of it. In short, In 8.45, Out 5.45. Nuff said.

Another dilemma.. Should I sell all my cards? Oh no, I am talking about magic again. I better get myself off now.
Ciaoz.