4 June 2010

Once upon a time, I got bonus from my company and treated myself with a huge desktop table. That was before when I placed all my computers and stuff in our living room. But now here in Casa Riana my wife explicitly prohibited me from putting anything in the living room so I had to move them here instead in our bedroom.

I traded the huge table for this smaller one so that it can fit into our small bedroom. Small as it is, at least I got an outside view of the hills. No this hills don't have eyes and it is actually quite beautiful. I can't wait to start studying already!

2 June 2010

Check out our new IKEA Mawas Mavas entertainment center rack. We bought it from IKEA for RM369 and took it home the same day with our trusted Proton Savvy. Believe it or not but it actually fits that tiny car! That's the wonder of IKEA flat packs.

Assembling this thing is a real pain in the a** though. It required 26 steps of aligning, screwing, hammering and jumping through hoops. In comparison, the cheap Flarke computer table took 9 steps and our previous IKEA bed frame took 19 steps. But even if I didn't worked at IKEA for 1 1/2 years before, I still think I can manage to assemble this just fine.

That little PC down there is my very own HTPC (Home Theatre PC) running Geexbox. Sadly it cannot support XBMC or Boxee or else it'll be awesome. Still a lot of space to fill.

18 June 2009

Yesterday evening while I was lounging with my family at home, my Mom suddenly called asking for help with her printer. Apparently she got paper stuck in there so I told her to just remove it. Then she said the paper is gone but she still can't print her extremely urgent, must finish now school work. So I had no choice but to travel some 24 kilometers (to and back) to her place and fix what's wrong with her printer.

I got there, click on printer properties and cancelled all the print queue that was stuck after the paper jam and that's it. After everything that she'd done for me, how could I complain?

It looks like everybody's leaving Taman Universiti. First my neighbour across the street to left moved away to their new house. Then another neighbour 2 doors away to my right left. And some time last week my dear next door neighbour (you know the single girl with the Myvi) packed her bags and left too. As much as I'd like to take credit, it wasn't because of me ha ha! Now who's going to water all the plants she left behind? Poor thing.

16 June 2009

I don't usually say this to people but today I'll just have to make an exception. My landlord is an a**hole. A few weeks ago we received a letter from Syabas asking the owner of the house to change the water meter's ownership from the developer to the landlord failing which they will confiscate the water meter. It took my landlord one week to come here to pick up the letter and 2 weeks later he still hasn't change the ownership of the meter. So when we came home yesterday surprise-surprise, we found our water meter missing from the pipe.

I immediately called yelling and cursing at him, telling him what an idiot he is. Well actually no, I was too polite and well-mannered to do that to him. Instead I told him very sternly the trouble he caused us with his lacksidal attitude. He apologized and promised to take care of this matter first thing tomorrow which he did but he also said the people from Syabas might take a couple of days to fix the water meter back. WTF? Last night I had to perform a little tribal dance outside to start the rain and collect the water in some buckets to shower and cook. Don't tell me I'll have to wait until Friday to get the water supply back!

Lucky for me I've got a friend working at Syabas* so I called him and after he pulled some strings there, we got our water meter back later this afternoon. Dude, we are so moving out of this house next month.

*Thanks a lot Jali, I owe you one!