IzzMedia Launched!

Finally, it's out there. After 2 years of getting the domain and not doing anything with it, izzmedia.net is now online.

It took so long because...well, I found out that I was a hard client to please. I kept rejecting my own designs. But seeing my buddy Benjamin swiftly launch his website lights a fire under me, and I finally roll my sleeves and party like a monkey!....umm, I mean get my website done. Not much content at the moment, it's an ongoing process. I stick with my original choice for the CMS (sNews) despite toying with other CMSs like CMSMadeSimple, Wordpress, etc. So far, it's good.

I had intended IzzMedia to be my online design portfolio, but along the way I decided to include other personal contents as well. So now it's like a mish-mash of foods - imagine a plate full of sushi and donuts, sprinkled with mustard and honey on top. With coleslaw on the side. Aggh, that doesn't sound good...

What will become of Izzatics? For the time being, it'll remain alive. I might still post stuff here every now and then. But IzzMedia will be my priority site. It's been great.

Approaching...the end?

Since over a week ago, I risked my well-being to 'reset' myself. Ideally, to 1997 levels. No easy task, but doing just fine so far. Slowly and surely. The weather is surprisingly on my side, too - it only rained in the evenings, which gave me ample time early in the morning.

With this reset, I probably had to welcome back some stuff that I had left behind. My old nature, my fear, my ability...my old friend. Early next month I'll reflect to see whether I'm any closer to my goal or not.

Setting up some stuff on my domain (izzmedia) so I am currently toying with the idea of fully utilizing IzzMedia as my online presence, which in turn will have me leaving Blogger. Unlike some, I rarely experienced problems with Blogger, it's been a real blast to blog here. Or maybe I'll just turn my domain as my web/graphic design work repository, and maintaining this blog for my personal stuff still. Still deciding...most likely I'll have the answer by next week.

The end? Maybe...maybe not. We'll see.

Post-Raya Withdrawal

First entry since after Hari Raya, and that means I could eat lunch again...and consequently gained back all the weight I've lost during the fasting month. I know, I know. My willpower was next to nothing. To make things worse, I recently found a new love: Big Apple's Donuts. Mmm-mmm, so good.

Raya has been...largely uneventful. Tiring at times (since I'm the unofficial family driver) and just plain nuts. On Sunday (5th Oct) the traffic was pretty bad everywhere due to people getting back from their kampungs and back to work. My younger bro was supposed to take the express bus back to his college in Kuantan that night at 10.45pm. The bus managed to finally arrive after midnight...but then I heard a collective groan (and one guy actually yelled) when the bus is apparently broken down. Some other people had been waiting for their 8pm bus, which arrived later at around...1am. I have never seen a group of people with fiery homicidal urges in their eyes. It's a war zone out there. My bro's group eventually got a replacement bus the following day at 5.30pm...which also, you guessed it, arrived LATE. ONE FUCKING HOUR LATER.

Fuck Transnasional. I really mean it. You fuckers screwed up when other no-name bus companies still able to provide buses. One time, my mother and sis was left behind by a Transnasional express bus when they were in the toilet. So you guys pissed off when a passenger is taking their time? How is it that you could let people wait endlessly for a bus that is eventually broken...and not even making an announcement about it???!!!! SO FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU and FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES! Oh, was my language too harsh for you?....boo hoo hoo, assholes deserved no respect. Get a fucking grip and improve your act, and don't ever toy with customers when things go awry!

Wow...that's too much anger in one post. I am spent now, and goddammit I gotta find the energy to continue work.