It's the final countdooowwnnn....da daa da daaa or however that song goes.
Yes, it is finally here: the day of the relocation to Shah Alam. Barring anymore 'accidents' (damn you Murphy and your damned Law) I'll be moving there this weekend. After enduring the smell of paint & thinner the previous weekend - and consequently got high - I really want to get this whole matter over with.
The family 'headquarters' for the past 20-plus years had been Port Klang. Am I gonna miss it? *shrug* Maybe it'll sink in later. Then again, in the recent years I had resided in several places - Melaka, Dengkil, Sunway and currently in Sri Kembangan - so I didn't feel quite sentimental about leaving Port Klang. I had condition myself to walk away & never look back before...I'll get over it, in time. Yeah. I hope the recent 'nightmares' I had is not a sign I'd return to Port Klang, though. *shivers*
I'll be on leave from the 20th up to the 23rd. Better get myself some of them Tongkat Ali energy drinks, for I envision a long, energy-sapping days ahead...
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
The best laid plans...
My planned relocation to Shah Alam may be put on hold, for now (again! *grumble*). Last weekend, I was supposed to go there to clean and paint portions of the house. The whole thing was nicely planned...but suddenly Fate stepped in and kick me squarely on the mouth.
We (me, my mum & big bro) went there in the highest of spirits despite our sleep-deprived eyes. Then things got downhill from there. Murphy's law in full freaking force.
The short version: our house-to-be wasn't in the most satisfactory condition, to put it very mildly. Plus I got short circuited when I inspected the electric meter. It's damn near miraculous I am here typing this entry. Of course, right after it happened, I prayed my thanks to God...promptly followed by a nasty string of obscenities directed at the previous owner of the house. YOU TOOK OUR MONEY AND LIED TO US, YOU PIECE OF...*deep breathing* ok, enough of that. Let keep our blood pressure down, Izzat.
My family had been living in the current house in Port Klang for more than 25 years. Imagine the amount of packing that needs to be done. Sometimes, in the process of going thru my stuff...I would find some items that brings me back in time. Damn, I still have my primary school metal badge. Also found some old self-made comics(my artwork sucked so bad)...some old broken toys...some cassette tapes - yeah, yeah my car still got the cassette player - and various other items. I felt like I'm revisiting my past...sure, change is not avoidable. But did I become a better person than I was before? Yes? No? Maybe? Hmmm.
Recently, I got into the retro-gaming kick. Basically, playing old pc/video games. When I say 'old', I mean the glory days of DOS. Windows? Bah, no such thing existed then! Digger, Budokan, Lode Runner, Gunship, Wing Commander, Gods, Wolfenstein3D...etc, etc. I got into it partly because I found some old game manuals when packing stuff. Heck, last night I found the box for 'Police Quest 3' my first original PC game. I am lamenting the death of point-and-click adventure games. Or maybe I'm just not paying much attention to PC gaming these days...*smiling smugly beside XBox 360*.
Thanks to the wonder of internet, there are sources from which I can relive the joy of playing these classic games. *plays old wrestling game* Take that, Mr. House Owner! Muahahaha~! Ahhh, that feels phenomenal.
We (me, my mum & big bro) went there in the highest of spirits despite our sleep-deprived eyes. Then things got downhill from there. Murphy's law in full freaking force.
The short version: our house-to-be wasn't in the most satisfactory condition, to put it very mildly. Plus I got short circuited when I inspected the electric meter. It's damn near miraculous I am here typing this entry. Of course, right after it happened, I prayed my thanks to God...promptly followed by a nasty string of obscenities directed at the previous owner of the house. YOU TOOK OUR MONEY AND LIED TO US, YOU PIECE OF...*deep breathing* ok, enough of that. Let keep our blood pressure down, Izzat.
My family had been living in the current house in Port Klang for more than 25 years. Imagine the amount of packing that needs to be done. Sometimes, in the process of going thru my stuff...I would find some items that brings me back in time. Damn, I still have my primary school metal badge. Also found some old self-made comics(my artwork sucked so bad)...some old broken toys...some cassette tapes - yeah, yeah my car still got the cassette player - and various other items. I felt like I'm revisiting my past...sure, change is not avoidable. But did I become a better person than I was before? Yes? No? Maybe? Hmmm.
Recently, I got into the retro-gaming kick. Basically, playing old pc/video games. When I say 'old', I mean the glory days of DOS. Windows? Bah, no such thing existed then! Digger, Budokan, Lode Runner, Gunship, Wing Commander, Gods, Wolfenstein3D...etc, etc. I got into it partly because I found some old game manuals when packing stuff. Heck, last night I found the box for 'Police Quest 3' my first original PC game. I am lamenting the death of point-and-click adventure games. Or maybe I'm just not paying much attention to PC gaming these days...*smiling smugly beside XBox 360*.
Thanks to the wonder of internet, there are sources from which I can relive the joy of playing these classic games. *plays old wrestling game* Take that, Mr. House Owner! Muahahaha~! Ahhh, that feels phenomenal.
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