Kav’s Kollage

It’s been more than a week since I returned from my holiday in Langkawi. I was there for four days and three nights, beginning on Thursday, 19th June. It was a very fun affair, with lots of laughter and of course, alcohol. What else can you expect when 13 guys go on a holiday to a duty free zone? I was quite lazy enough to do a post on the whole trip as soon as I came back. We stayed at Malibest Chalet in Pantai Chenang, and rented a van and a car.

Now that the alcohol has finally got out of my bloodstream (I hope so), I finally am having another one of those pic posts.

By the way, I’m trying out a new image gallery plugin to enable easier browsing of photos. Please do comment on the new way to surf the images (and also the post itself la…). Click on one of the images, and you’d find links for the previous and/or next image at the either side of the image box. You can also use ur left and right arrow keys. Firefox displays it beautifully, Opera has a few bugs, and IE7 is okay I guess, but IE6 fucks things up as usual. Anyways, let’s move on to the pics!

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At times, being a web programmer in a hotel can make you feel a bit bored when you’ve completed all the tasks at hand. So you improvise and try to pass the time with whatever that comes to your mind. It so happenned that Jimmy and I came upon some Spiderman action figures. So we decided to photograpgh Spidey in action. What else can you expect?

Be warned that SOME images are a bit…. EXPLICIT

Spidey having a backache…

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Loveless. Sounds kinda weird to call yourself as one. It’s like you can’t fell love eh? Well, for the sake of brevity, let’s define “loveless” as the lack of having a companion where you throw around the word “love” all the time, in regards to each other. ** Brevity, my foot! ** Anyways, I can be considered as loveless right now. Coz I ain’t having a girlfriend right now. Or a boyfriend for that matter. Not that I swing that way, but just for the sake of our conversation here. Ooooppss… Not our conversation, but MY MONOLOGUE.

My best friend, Black, recently coupled up with a girl. It’s his first serious relationship, not that he’s a playboy or anything, but he just hadn’t found the right person all these while. Finally, after all these years of us chiding him non-stop, Black finally opened his heart out to someone. I was frankly quite very happy with Black. After all, the Bachelor Society in our gang was crumbling and no longer has enough members to speak loudly. Black was now a member of the Doubles Society.

It has now come to a point where there are only 2 of us who are REALLY, REALLY non-dating. Me and Shortz are working, and frankly, at such an early point in our careers, there doesn’t seem to be a need having a girlfriend, or so to speak. I shall leave Shortz out of this context, as I do not know what is really going on in his mind. About me, well, let’s just say I’m kinda like standing in crossroads, not knowing where to go.

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Sigh… I just saw that I hadn’t really put up a post about the nomination of KaV’s Kollage in the Manya Blogger Awards. Yeah yeah, I know about the stories surfacing on whether is this the latest PR ploy hatched by the MIC. Well, they MIGHT have got their statistics a bit mixed up here and there, but, let’s face it, they ARE trying to do SOMETHING. What is that thing, we shall never know until the shit hits the fan, right? Hehehehe…

I was nominated in the Best Personal Blog Category. Currently, the standings are as follows:
Kav’s Kollage - 4.26
Tulipspeaks - 3.49
Puvanan - 3.18
Kartz - 2.38

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Guys! Just a quick update here… I’m off to Langkawi for some much needed RnR. Leaving to Sg Petani tonight at 10.30pm, and moving on to Kuala Kedah at 8am tomorrow. Then it’s the 11.30 ferry to the island of cheap booze!!!!

It’s gonna be a fun-filled holiday with my ex-uni kaigals*!!!!  I will only come back to Klang on the 22nd, which is Sunday… Till then, ciowz!

*kaigals - slang term in Tamil meaning friends

The other day I went to watch The Incredible Hulk at GSC Shaw Centerpoint in Klang. It’s been almost a year since I stopped watching movies in that cinema due to the deteriorating condition and the lame service at the snacks counter. I prefer watching them at TGV Bukit Raja coz I can select my seats while making the booking. TGV Bukit Tinggi is my new fav. Getting back to the subject at hand, I went to GSC coz I had to purchase some bus tickets at the Klang bus station and I planned to do it after the movie.

Neways, I was there early enough to snatch those unsold booked tickets. I brought my brother with me. As soon as I had taken my seat in the cinema, I was dumbfounded when hordes of ugly and smelly Indonesians came smashing in. Imagine my surprise when these assholes filled up almost every seat available. I swear guys, there were only a few Malaysians in my sight. A chinese couple and a malay couple were sitting behind me. And on the row in front of me, there was an Indian family of 5 and a Chinese family of 7. That was it. Period!

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Guys, KaV’s Kollage is a year old aledi! Woohooo! 13k hits for the first year… That’s better than what I expected!

Image sourced from here.

Here’s a little history of how I got started. While in uni, and when Friendster was the rage all around, I was posting up some thoughts of mine in the Friendster blogs and also the bulletin board. By and by, these posts got numerous and the response I got from my friends were very much encouraging. Well, everything was randomly posted in the bulletin board at first, and then I slowly progressed to the blogs. My posts were mostly in the style of parodies and spoofs, and it reflected my humorous thoughts and sarcastic opinions well.

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Have you ever paid RM 12 dollars for a cup of luxury coffee? I know you have. And it’s from just some side walk place isn’t it? I know the coffee tasted alright but… RM 12?? Hmmm… Just because “it’s fucking cool I can afford a coffee that is RM 12???” So, here my story begins.

One fine day, one man named Ah Chong walks into this side walk coffee place and realises something. “What the fuck?!”, he exclaims. “It’s RM 12 for a cup of coffee nowadays and everybody is drinking it with all smiles and laughter. This place is always bloody packed! People can afford this, so why the hell should I charge RM1 for mine? It’s the same bloody coffee. Well, maybe I’ll just try it out. I’ll charge half the price and see what happens.”.

And so, the next day, this Ah Chong opens his shop, throw in a little fancy design, throws in a spoonful more sugar, gives his coffee some fancy name, mounts 2 units of air-conditioners, and then the next thing you know, Ah Chong’s coffee shop sell’s his new fancy Kopi Kapitan at RM 6! You would think its ridiculous. But, Ah Chong ends up buying his new Bee-Em-Dabeliu and starts flashing it in front of his friend Tajudin who owns a nasi kandar place.

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When you’re working as a Programmer cum Computer Technician in a large organization, you are bound to meet plenty of idiots and assholes around. I too had the enormous privilege of dealing with such people.

IT illiteracy is something very common today. At most, a person should at least be knowledgable in how to write a document in Microsoft Word, print the said document. Most people know how connect to the Internet, and use the Internet to either search for information, update the Friendster and/or Facebook, and surf the occasion porn site once in a while. So, sometimes, it bewilders you to an extent that you can’t even comprehend the idiocracy and ignoramus attitudes of some people when concerning a computer.

There was this new Department Manager hired in my place, and he prided himself in managing everyone is a very efficient and effective way. Let’s call him DM. I won’t say what department is DM heading, but let’s just say it’s a quite important department in my line of work. Though this department doesn’t need much use of the computer to run things, a computer beside you is never a bad thing. Especially when ur a manager.

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Of all the things that annoy me, I’d say one thing stands out amongst the other. By hobby, education and profession, I have acquired quite a bit of knowledge in the field of Information Technology. This includes its subsets such as computer peripherals, web-based programming, online piracy, and so on and so forth. So it really, really bugs me when I hear people advising me on what to do when faced with computing problems.

Do we go tell doctors and pharmacists what medication to take when they have the sniffles? It is they who give us the tips and tricks, so to speak. You wouldn’t wanna look like a complete idiot when you try to act smart and prescribe Piriton for a backache, do you? Sure you don’t. But why do people insist on trying to show that they’re so computer savvy, when they can’t even differentiate a DVD and a VCD?

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