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Click on the image to take the test. Don't steal my GIF file mmkay.

It's a bit different from the real thing I took a while back; while it is Advanced Progressive Matrices, this one has patterns that don't just go by row and column. The real thing also only has 5 answers while this has 8. The passing mark here is 148, not 130. The deviation may also differ from the Malaysian one. I can't remember my Add Maths (A2 was a fluke I swear!)

To some of you, I am not the smartest, and I admit that. Or maybe the great formulas have already been invented.

The site also says that the Intelligence Quotient is 100 X Mental Age / Physical Age. Since the site doesn't ask for your age, I assume it does not take into account my youth. Therefore, my mental age is 135 X 21 / 100 = 28.35!

One day when I am old and rich, I shall buy a road. Yes, a tar-coated road. Where my grandchildren can run and play in the middle of the road. If anyone asks if it's their grandfather's road, they'd say yes.

So there I was, bumming around KLCC, waiting for my friend to call, as I had invites for the MTV Asia Awards 2005 nomination party at 7:30pm, Zouk.

She called at 8:30pm, just as I settled into an Osim iSqueez chair in Isetan. I walked out Mandarin Oriental side, turning left. It wasn't till I saw *Orange that I realized that I was seriously off track. I ended up in Ampang Park, taking the LRT to Dang Wangi and walking past Saloma to Zouk.

By then it was 9pm, and a queue had formed; the table where one would present invites was closed. I bumped into the guy from Sony who gave me the accursed double pass; he couldn't get me in. I called somebody who worked in another club; she came out of Zouk and couldn't get me in either.

Fortunately, the winner (that's a direct pun for those who know) came out and snuck me in. Two other guys were told that it was closed already, and they reached into their wallets. I kept quiet and got stamped. That was majorly cool.

Apparently the winner danced on stage, did the worm, and she won a trip to Bangkok to watch the MTV Asia Awards 2005! Of course, it was a single ticket; the other ticket would go to the guy who won with her. Yes, a complete stranger.

Sure, I missed all that, getting lost and all, but imagine if I didn't... if I came on time, or if anything else was different, she might not have gotten the chance to get on stage and show her stuff!

You are 80% Sagittarius



I don't believe in astrology, but I am convinced that there is a certain individualistic, independent, free-spirited wackiness in Sagittarians. However, I do know of one Sagittarian who is so normal, so boring... The only thing that matches is that she is happy-go-lucky.

She must be lying about her birthdate. "Oh I know some cool people who are Sagittarians... I shall tell people I am one. If they check my identity card, I'll say I was misled, complete with my blurrest expression!"

December 19th (hint hint) is Sagittarian season, right?

I couldn't resist. Sorry Tech! Fazri didn't help stop me when I bought it, either.

Click on any one of the three pictures to enlarge.

Be happy for me, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual and robosexual people! For once, a random stranger from Friendster who tried to add me... was gay. Yeah, like homosexual gay. Okay so he doesn't say so, but females with gay friends have confirmed his gayness. Now, I can proclaim myself 'jambu'. Haha.

I have nothing (much) against gays. I say yay when my good-looking friend comes out of the closet. One less competitor, I say!

However, I think big-framed, strong-jawboned crossdressers are ugly. Their friends pull it off, but I don't want them to pull anything off!

For the record, I am straight and I didn't approve him because I didn't want my account to be filled up by male strangers who think I'm good-looking. I would rather have intellectual female strangers who think I'm good-looking, especially ones with hot pictures.

So why does my name on Friendster have a 'HUNGRY' attached behind it? I am parodying those camwh0res and camwh0re-adders who have accounts like Jessica-One-FULL and Jessica-Two-FULL.

This post is dedicated to YK and Tech, and to my Transformer-collecting, Transformer-modelling past.

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Reunited at last, in the Transformers Energon series (remember them in the Transformers movie?)

Yes, so I was feeling impulsive and bought the Powerlinx Rodimus. He was worth it because he could merge with other Powerlinx series Transformers. What a coincidence, then, that he would complete Arcee (were Transformers couples? Watch the movie!) I bought Arcee a while back because Patrick said it was a collector's item.

Yep, this would make the second Transformer I'd ever bought with my own money. When you're earning, you tend to think, "Should I buy this cool toy, or should I buy a DVD writer to backup my stuff?"

Last Saturday

It was the HELP Battle Of The Bands. It was a while back, so pardon my bad recollection. I waited at Bangsar PUTRA LRT for the bus to Pusat Bandar Damansara. Apparently, so was this other girl, as I ran out to the main road to see if that Triton bus was the right one. She ran out too. The correct bus came, and we both got on. She received a phone call and went, "What? It started already?" I got off when she did, and we both ran about, lost. I wanted to ask if she knew where it was, but she was on the phone, trying to get directions. We found Block E after a while.

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Pretty, pretty lights. Too bad the sound wasn't anywhere as good.
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Few bands knew how to sound good; this 3rd place winner sang in tune.
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Married To Guns was fun to watch, with the vocalist/guitarist doing his dancy The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love cover as well as Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger. They even ended with the solo bit of Metallica - Nothing Else Matters!
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Alda of Cosmic Funk Express looked superbly funky that night.

We then went to Hartamas Square, where we had free beer on the winners, Cosmic Funk Express.

Wednesday

Shaz, JJM and I were supposed to break fast at Kelana Jaya, where Shaz would pick up his ride. Problem was, his ride wasn't ready for him to shoot off to Cyberjaya to hand in his assignment, and so JJM became chaffeur. He introduced me to the mechanic, and I was to collect his Mercedes Benz when it was done.

I didn't want to sit around Syed's any longer, being bloated, so I called Dustyhawk, knowing he lived nearby. I got instructions to his house, and called again.

"Dude! Is your road SS5A/18?"
"No it's not, you ASS. You overshot, you ASS. 'FOO."

I turned around and spotted him waiting outside his road, where he continued with his verbal assault.

It wasn't till I got in that his momma showed him who was boss. She was.

She continuously expressed her love and concern ("aiyo I tell you this Lionel useless host one!"). I shall not go into details, but his room is sparkling clean for a guy. I got online on Lionel's monitor (which read AS5S hence his continuous tribute to it). Shaz called, asking me to get back there to wait for the car with Maman. Lionel's mom made him drive me there.

When we got there, Maman was there, and he lit a cigarette. Lionel borrowed one, as well as the lighter. We got the drift that his mom didn't know that her son was smoking.

Shaz and JJM returned a bit too soon, so I didn't get to test his new seats. Lionel, Shaz and I sat at Syed's again, thinking of the original plan - to go watch Latte at 8 at Sunway Pyramid's Starbucks at midnight. We went to visit Lionel's mom again to get her permission.

"I hope she doesn't give me more bags of starfruits, man." - Shaz

She went on about his underwear and how angry she was walking from Pudu STAR LRT station to Bintang Walk due to her son's misdirection. She went all out to humiliate Lionel in the most funny way possible.

"Aunty, can we take your son to see Latte at 8 at midnight at Sunway Pyramid?"
"Sure, can! As long as he doesn't hisap rokok then can."

I laughed my loudest then.

We went, and got major prime position seats. It wasn't too close to the stage, and yet, we could see everything.

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Close up.

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Adam Carruthers and Marion Caunter of 8TV Quickie with some girl who should've won the Nokia 3200 at the HELP Battle Of The Bands. Yes, this was the first time I'd ever seen Marion after hearing so much about her cuteness.

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Zahid of Disagree sports a new glittery Gibson Les Paul, with Hamka on percussion

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In one of the secret tunnels out, we found the Bus Channel (Lionel poses)

Oh, and I was at a guitar shop in Sunway Pyramid. There was a guy testing a guitar and I was happy for once, because usually when someone tests a guitar, they probably know what to play. He was just playing very sloppily, very average - like me. :)

P.S. Welcome Evening Drama to the links in my About Me! page.

Analog South says: which disco do i go to, if i haven't disco-vered it?
disco-very: YOUR DISCO NEEDS YOU says: Zouk's having a 70s disco fever party tonight
Analog South says: what if my disco-graphy says my disco has been disco-ntinued?
disco-very: YOUR DISCO NEEDS YOU says: then i pity you
Analog South says: ah, expensive place, i need a disco-unt
Analog South says: many have expressed disco-ntent in disco-urses over that disco

"Hey you know since like you're really wise and all would you mind helping your friend out? I need some advice..."

How could I say nay to a damsel in distress? I assumed the role of final affirmer. "Yes! Send the message confessing how much you still feel for him and talk to your ex again after 5 months!"

Then the conversation strayed to me finding out that she liked me for like 3 months when we first knew each other. Whoa what a coincidence, I admitted. Damn. All this while, I thought she was just a very, very conversational person with loads of credit! Damn I was oblivious.

The guy replied. It was mutual. Somebody got her happy ending.

Then there's another ironic thing in life. When I hung out with my crush (and in her group of friends, there is a guy who she likes and likes her as well), the guy will be very, very friendly with me, even on the first time meeting. One of them asked for my phone number and couldn't stop talking to me. Another guy asked for my phone number and gave me my first lapdance!

And hell, I found out both were mutual... a bit too late.

On a side note, some girl I have no crush on whatsoever said, "Hey you know when I first met you, I really really hated you. I don't know why."

I asked this relatively angsty person, "Hey! If I rarely see you sober, how come you've never been frank with me?"

Jenifer was just talking about deleting Smashpop off her MSN Messenger list because he kept going online and offline to the extent that there were two columns of "smashpop has just signed in." on her screen!

I then rolled my office chair over to tell him that yes, I had deleted him a long time ago for doing that. I didn't block him though.

"Okay fine! I delete you then. Not like I talk to you anyway."

He then looked for my nickname in his list. He couldn't find it! I checked and found my nick there, without telling him which one it was. Oddly, it wasn't the latest one... I then checked two other colleagues' lists to see what my nick was. They were all different!

"Well then, wait for me to get online, then delete me lah."

It would be nice to dream in black and white like Justin Guber does. That way, you'd know that you were in a dream.

In a hopefully not too distant future, bionic research would've increased, and by a brainwave scan, we'd be able to get live feed from the audiovisual section of the brain. Connect that to a recorder and we'd be able to record our dreams!

A budding director could have a movie marathon, fall asleep, and record his debut horror flick in his dreams. Psychics could record their visions. Most importantly, we could get Marilyn Monroe and Pamela Anderson in the same pr0n flick. (What, did you expect me to name some real pr0n stars? They've probably already had those collaborations...)

You Are a Pundit Blogger!

Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read. Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few.

I don't really care about politics man, but as I got this result, I do believe I will be saying the following sentence to whoever asks what I think about Bush:

I do believe that the United States of America have made the right decision by picking a leader that represents the nation. =D

I have so many blog links in my About Me! page that I only check them twice a month, and I got lazy on the October ones. Dustyhawk! How do you do it?

I have to many blog links that it seems more than three people have the same Blog-city, Blogdrive and Blogspot layouts! Then, those who do change their layout change to something I've seen elsewhere. Heck, I beam with pride knowing that despite the Xfresh blogs having only 9 skins to choose from, we have more tasteful (and not so tasteful) user-made skins. I think Diaryland bloggers have the best layouts... too bad they got that irritating IFRAME and 1-entry-per-page thing.

Oh, and for those who worried about my Western Digital hard disk... it's alright. Last month the following happened:

Windows said "Updates are ready for your computer. Click here to install the updates." So I did. My computer then went into SHLWAPI.DLL Entry Point Not Found errors. I had to reinstall Windows (not a full reinstall, but it's not the Repair option either...) I then let the Windows Update install the patches one at a time, rebooting in between. I then installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 and tadaa! Everything was fine...

Of course, when transporting the CD writer to my main computer, I might've knocked a cable loose.

It was a clear Friday night. I was online, then on the phone. When I came back, my brother pointed at the screen, saying it restarted by itself. "Book disk failure" or something. The BIOS didn't detect the hard disk!

It was too late and too dark to perform surgery.

Damn, there was a lot to backup, considering I had less than 1GB in each of the 3 partitions of the hard disk!

On Saturday I called Fazri amongst others to ask what to do. He gave the most insightful advice - listen for the hard disk motor. I turned on my computer. Again, same error. I turned off my secondary computer (the one I took the CD writer from) just so I could listen for the hard disk.

I couldn't tell if it was my power supply fan making the noise, so I rolled out the computer table. Click! Whirrr. YAY! Somehow, by rolling out the table, the hard disk was connected again. It booted up fine, and I backed up what I could to the secondary computer via the network.

Still, I got scares from back when I first bought the WD800JB (80 GB PATA 7200 RPM 8MB cache for those who care) - sometimes, accessing folders froze the computer for a minute. After partitioning into 5, 35 and 40 GB parts, I formatted all of them, but the 40 GB one said there was an error in formatting after it was done! Scared, I formatted it again, and it worked since.

Could you take a picture?
With the right zoom and aperture?
I want you to capture
My vividness and color

Oh golly gosh there's the flash!
Pay off my shadow with cash
When the light shines, I am the highlight
I shall be dark again and out of sight.

I shall add numbers to these days.

My router has been blinking for a week, refusing to connect, hence my lack of updates.

Wednesday 20

I went to The Backyard Pub, a pub somewhere off Sri Hartamas to see Justin Guber rock out at the Tribute To Jairus Anthony. This wasn't your regular pub - it had a pretty modern-looking website! While waiting for Triple 6 Poser to perform, you could hear good ol' classic rock playing. Stairway To Heaven and the like.

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Dammit, Justin Guber has a Danelectro! Sweet.

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The next band played mostly Beatles covers. The bassist had pretty bad harmonizing. Eep. The guitarist broke his Telecaster's B string. Could Justin Guber save him? "Mine's left-handed sorry."

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SWV was way better; the guitarist did Santana spot on, and during soundchecks he was soloing. They did danceable 70's and 80's hits.

Thursday 21

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Avenue K is a new shopping mall right next to KLCC. It was barely occupied, with long tunnels to lead the imagination astray.

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There was even a Kim Gary there! Mmm condensed milk on toast. Unfortunate it was that dinner was already at home, so I did not go for the one chance I would get to eat at Kim Gary without waiting queues like at Midvalley and Sunway Pyramid.

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That's a first for a mannequin pose.

Friday 22

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KFC's Ramadhan combo was cun. The chicken soup tasted like liquid mashed potato! It went surprisingly well with the rose syrup.

Monday 25

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William took a picture of this; doesn't it remind you of the Half-Life trash can?

Tuesday 26

I watched Shark Tale. It was cool. It was funny. Problem was, it didn't have the emotion of Finding Nemo... it was all about Will Smith in 3D, spouting cliche hispanics in self-parody. It also parodied the mafia (how ironic that Martin Scorsese would voice Sykes...)

Mafia: If you understand what I said, nod your head.
Will Smith in 3D: *gulps and nods his head*
Mafia: Okay. Now tell me, did you nod your head?

Wednesday 27

I forgoed this week's The Backyard Pub gig to meet up YK and Hannna. I then found Warm Paw instantly, upon picking out her distinctive voice amongst the Kayu Nasi Kandar SS2 din.

Thursday 28

I got myself the BenQ DVD DD DW1620 DVD burner; it was loaded with 16x DVD+-R, 4x DVD+-RW, 2.4x DVD+R Dual Layer, and 40x24x40 CD speeds. However, it didn't have support for DVD-RAM unlike my LG GSA4040B (which has gone on a long vacation.) If the LG ever comes back, I shall be able to turn practically anything. :) The TDK burner I wanted to get mysteriously disappeared from every shop I asked; that one was faster, at 48x24x48 CD speeds. Oh and I saw the jacket-less DVD-RAM in the big computer hypermarket up one level from the main shops in Low Yat. What timing.

I forgot if I ever mentioned that I had a GeForce 2 thanks to Syefri. My brother and I can finally race in Need For Speed: Underground.

Saturday 30

After passing Jenifer the-phone-forgetter her phone, I reloaded my Touch N Go at the Kelana Jaya station (which said it was down.) I then headed to Taman Bahagia LRT station. It was 6:30pm.

I decided, out of total nothing-to-do-ness, to walk to Uptown.

By 7pm, I had reached the "I" shape of SS2. I asked Tracy for directions to Restoran Murni, thinking it was near Kayu Nasi Kandar... alas, it was in the SS2 "square" instead, which I already passed! Ah well. I walked back on the highway and Jasmine spotted me as I crossed at the traffic light. How cool is that? I figured that it would be wayyy easier to bump into someone on the LRT than on the road... but it's not the first time; Cara has called me as she zoomed past in Masjid Jamek. Maybe Klang Valley is that small, just that some of you are too sleepy to notice me crossing the road.

I reached Uptown at 7:30pm and had McDonalds. It was still torturously early for the Halloween gig at Paul's Place; its specified time was 9pm, but they started at 10pm!

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Spungy Funggy played, with Azmyl on drums, to be replaced by Ben the b***h (look I don't wanna get on the bad side of any office's website filtering system) on the last song.

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13 Voices In My Head, or 90 degrees out of 360 Degree Head Rotation, played next, with some mellow screamings coupled with a beautiful 12-string.

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Kawowski was less depressing. He did a killer cover of The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work.

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Frequency Cannon broke their good-boy image with Kua Chee on the didgeridoo.

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(Red) Indian versus (Jamaican) Predator.

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Kua Chee the Siamese Cat. Aww c'mon man you know you don't need contact lenses to be cute. ;) His shirt just makes me wanna go DUDE! and do that hand symbol with him.

For all their effort, I'll post up a double-sized picture of their Halloween effort.

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From left: Azrul loses massive chunks of weight, Ape man reveals his secret identity as the Tak Nak! poster boy, Siamese ca... dude, funky Jay Kay, and peace-loving rocker Predator.

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While all those costumes could've been bought at Toys'R'Us, the next band, Ciplak, brought true shudders. Ronnie of Furniture shows us he can get even more experimental, making anti-music, where they make sounds that must not sound musical. The drummer was excellent; first he became Ben's b***h by running up to his crotch, in complete garb (satire anyone?) and then he drummed most dramatically. Amusing act indeed, though others didn't think so, and where they go I shall follow, missing Ben's B***hes and Thundercoffeeclub.

I politely declined a coffee at Starbucks because well, uh, my urine smells of caffeine after that. I found out I wasn't the only one! Perhaps our bodies did not process the caffeine (which explains why coffee doesn't work for me anymore.) It wasn't always like this.

We then lepaked at Uptown.

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An apparently closed shoplot.

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Or apparently not. A guy spoke over the walkie talkie, saying he couldn't find a Size 10 Adidas.

Kua Chee then sent me home, and on the way, two racers cut us. His quick reflexes saved us from a deep shave.

Oh and I've updated my links in About Me! - check out Ian, Tech and YK.