Hectic Week

Last week Deluxe had a retreat at Santubong One Hotel, and of course the family get to tag along.  Will blog about it later, as I'm still sorting out the pictures at the moment.  Never the less, it was a busy week after the Go Bald event.  Had to clear up quite a number of back logs, so have a few minutes to spare before I go have my dinner.

Anyway, will do a video log soon as I've finished some major stuff over the weekend.  So do expect that, and as for the time being have a look at this video of "Aku Sudah Botak", a parody version of "Aku Anak Kampung".  Recorded this last Saturday evening with Lowell, Entinio and Aaron.  Working out on the video clip, but for now here's the demo.  Have a nice day!

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Blood Donation Drive

Back in 6th April 2005

  Ok, so last Sunday the church had a blood donation drive and of course, yours truly went and gave blood as well.  This is the second time that I actually gave blood in my life.  First time was back in 2005, which I think I should have it recorded somewhere in my album.  Never the less, I went with Ketam that time to actually helped out a friend who's grandma needed blood.  So yours truly went and buat kerja rakyat, and be a man to do the right thing.

  The first time was actually a good experience for me, considering that the nurse wasn't able to find my vein where she had to poke the second time for the blood to flow.  Because halfway while I was donating it actually stopped flowing.  And Ketam had a blast making fun of me and renamed me the guy who had to be punctured twice to donate blood.  Never the less all is good.

Jeremy and I before going in

  So, during the second attempt in donating blood I was pretty much cool about it.  Whereby, I went inside and started munching on the goodies that was before Rev. Pau decided to step in and stopped me from having some more as it is to prevent me from high blood pressure or something like that.  So I stopped taking food, and looked at him.  As it was kinda hard to decipher if he was actually telling the truth or joking.  Never the less, I stopped taking the goodies and sat quietly while waiting for my turn to be punctured once again.

  Jeremy is actually a first timer, as he's just passed his 16th birthday (dang I feel old as I'm twice his age now) and wanted to donate as well.  Because previously he told me he wanted to give only if I give first.  Because registration was last week, I asked him to sign up but he said he's under age.  But this week, we found out that those people who are under 18 can actually donate blood but that is if and only if got consent from his parents first.  So probably the youngest dude there to give blood, he inspired his peers to donate blood in the future.  So all is good.

  But this time at least I was not required to punctured twice due to the fact the vein on my left hand was undetectable.  So decided to move to my right arm and finally able to find it.  So it was all good.  After that, due to safety measure, Deluxe had to drive back instead of me.  Just to make sure I was all right, but had a great lunch after that at Chef Special in Cold Storage.  That's all for now, currently trying to survey which bluetooth keyboard is better for my tab.  As for the coming few months, I will be busy doing a lot of typing and may need to work on my tab once in a while.  So you guys have a great one.

Jeremy and his first blood experience

Yi Yang, Hui Ho & Rev Pau

Me pretty much wasted, while Jeremy still look like a boss

My first experience in 2005

Back to writing

  Ok.  After so many weeks of being absent, I must really make it a point to start writing again.  Some may say must post quality post instead of quantity.  One main reason why the delay, as for the past few weeks been really "lazy" in a sense whereby I don't really manage my time properly.  Hence ended up doing something else, instead of something that I wanted to do.  Never the less here is something I am going to post today.

Uncle Buttons whom I've not seen over 14 years

  Last Saturday, Esther has finally managed to meet the person responsible for teaching me all about ballooning.  Apparently after meeting him again, well you could say that twisting balloons  hobby has came back and apparently Deluxe has managed to get hold of the type of balloons he was using.  Never the less, after years of not practicing, I was still a bit rusty and twisting was still a little bit messy.  But it was all good, as Esther really enjoyed watching how Uncle Buttons twist balloons.

  I remembered selling these balloons right after I knew how to get them done, and during the weekends where I would go to public places and just twist these balloons and gave them away freely.  As that time I was still working part time in my family business, and people would just buy them from me, well basically they were supposedly to fund my weekend projects.  One time while I was having lunch with a few friends in Pizza hut, and a kid who so by happened to be sitting in front of our table was feeling well "active".  Back then, I brought these balloons and my handy small pump with me wherever I would go.  Anyway, I remembered pulling up one balloon and twisted a dog for him and gave it to him to pretty much "settle down".

  The next thing I knew, children were starting to surround our table, and I pumping away the balloons while my friends helped distribute them.  And children were getting excited, plus the joy on their faces were priceless.  It went on for quite a while, before the waitress went and cleared our table and placed another pizza for us, as a complimentary lunch as indirectly thanking us for doing it.  Never the less it was a good experience, and eventually I stopped doing that after I couldn't get better quality balloons again.  As I tried the cheaper ones, they couldn't last long and hence I decided not to sell them anymore because of the poorer quality.

  Anyway, maybe one of these days when I have the time will probably go do these "kangtao" again.  As basically Uncle Buttons was actually the person who also sometimes during weekends will give out free balloons.  But for now, probably I will start practicing again my skills before heading out and probably the person whom will enjoy most is Esther.  Ah well all is good.

Esther with her Poodle & 8 Petal Flower

Digi Oh Digi

Why Y U no follow me?

  For the past week, I have been having problems with Digi.  Despite their infamous "I will follow you" song that has always been played throughout the end of the ads, but unfortunately for me they had not been following me around especially during night time.  Especially during night time, for the past few days I have not been able to actually make phone calls or connect to data.  

  At first I thought it could be my phone or something, so I thought of restarting it but that didn't do anything at all.  Again, 2-3 hours later, I get an incoming sms stated that I have 2 miss calls during this period of time.  So seriously, I'm not too sure what's up with them as I didn't receive any notification from them that they are upgrading their network.

  What made it worst was that last month, because my contract with them using the iDigi plan was about to end.  Their customer service called me up and asked me to stay with them by using their new Iphone plan where I only had to pay RM55/month but they still gave me the free mins, sms, mms, and 1 GB of data.  During that time I thought it would be a sweet deal since their cheapest data plan was RM48 that time, so an additional RM7 would probably be a good deal.  

  So I went and agree to proceed with them, and he told me that I need to stay with them for 1 year.  Should I decide to terminate with them earlier, I would be required to pay RM400 for cancellation fees.  But I did ask them what if I decide to get a new phone from, can I continue to use that plan.  He said no,  but the RM400 cancellation fees will be waived off and use the new plan.

  Probably one of the greatest mistake, and maybe it was due to the fact I was busy so I said yes to everything during the time of call.  I overlook one point where I thought of actually cancelling the contract to switch back to Prepaid.  Main reason is that I'm pretty much a light user.  Plus nowadays everyone is on Whatsapp/Viber/Line.  Whereby making actual phone calls is less than 1 hour a month.  And data, I only manage to use up to 3-400 MB/month because I don't really stream videos on my phone.  And another reason why my data is getting less usage is probably due to the fact that I stopped being anti-social especially during breakfast/lunch/dinner.  Yes I was a social media enthusiast.  But not anymore.  So the more reason why I don't really use much of data apart from Whatsapp now.

  So, what's next on my plan?  Most likely will head over to Digi store and find out how am I going to terminate this postpaid line and change it back to prepaid and hopefully to avoid the RM400 cancellation charges.  But since Merdeka Plaza is just around the corner, I may just go over there to see how can it be done without any casualties.  Oh well, life goes on and have a nice day.

So Long 2012, Hello 2013

Ok so it's already the end of the year. So what has happened so far for this year? Guess pretty much a lot. And hopefully one day I will be able to do something about my life in a sense, where I want to change the world. But I guess that would be impossible for now, who knows in 2013 I may get lucky and able to do something with my life and change the world. But from now till then, I'll prolly live a holan life for now.

So much for an introduction. So 2012, did not bring a lot of joy but pain as well. That's why I seldom really blog much nowadays, as nothing really spectacular happen in my life. But anyway I probably would think that if I met these people below, would be the highlight of 2012 for me.

Me and Jackie Chan would be cool.

Me and Jason Mraz

Having a moment with Jin And Reuben would be cool.

President Obama would be a nice person to meet

And of course riding on his popularity Psy may boost my ranking

But alas things above may not happen to me in 2012. So I guess I may need a few more years or even decades should I ever have the chance to meet these people. So instead of having wishful dreams, let's get real on what actually happened throughout 2012.

2012 bore a lot of good news, as well as bad news. One in particular where my family lost our beloved Aunt Lina to colon cancer. As she was battling it for 6 months, where by she was misdiagnosed with gastric instead. When we found out, it was a little bit too late but I guess my brother managed to prolong her life here on earth a little longer. But through her passing, we know no matter what family stays together. There were of course other people who were sick, and we had to serve them throughout the year. But I guess sometimes we need to serve those who are sick, as Jesus instructs us to love thy neighbour as thyself. At least, they know that even their own family pretty much given up on them but they were still able to find comfort through our serving.

Never the less 2012, also brought many blessings in disguise. One major achievement I could say probably is finally able to reach 80KG. In other words I have dropped 17 KG within the period of 6 months, and boy it was an awesome adventure for me. Seriously, I would have done it if it wasn't for Deluxe who supported me throughout the time while I was TRA. As I managed to change my lifestyle from eating all sorts of unhealthy food, to pretty much choosing the right food to eat. Hence I went and closed down my main blog at alexjong.com, to pretty much dedicate my weight lost programme there. And share my experience through that website.

And there were times, when we thought that we wouldn't have enough to cover for rental, but the good Lord never failed us for one second. He always provide even at the very last minute during one of the month. Maybe it was a sign telling us to put our trust in Him more and HE will surely not Holan us. Hehehe.. But this year, despite all the misfortune that I've gone through. God has been there through out the whole time. To pretty much make sure He'll see us through.

So what to expect for 2013? Well, I'm not too sure yet. But I know, our fate is in His hand. And basically, just put our trust in Him and hope for the best. Despite the fact that, there will surely be uncertainty for our future. We shall see which direction He leads us and guide us. So on behalf of my family and I, I would like to wish all of you a blessed 2013. And may God bless all of you for the upcoming 2013.

December Is Here

  So it has come to the last month of the year 2012.  And things has been shaky for the past few weeks, but eventually everything is good.  Thank God for that.  Was supposed to head back Miri yesterday, but due to unforeseen circumstances I had to cancel the trip.  Ticket wise pretty much burn, but I guess it's all good.

  God hand has been working quietly behind the scenes, despite of all the tribulation that I've been going through these past few weeks.  He has ceased to fail me, by sending angels to come and minister to me.  Though we are not out of the woods yet, but now at least I know He is still there beside me.  Maybe one of these days, once everything settles down I may write about this.  Till then will update again sometime soon.

Fuji Xerox Docuprint M205B & Network Access Storage

OK, just gotten myself these two devices. One is the Fuji Xerox Docuprint M205B Laser Printer and the Dlink Network Access Storage. Pretty much satisfied with both the printer and NAS. Considering that I seldom print colors, plus the previous ink jet printers has been giving me headaches where if one of the ink runs out I am not able to print anything. And unfortunately for me, my Brother Printer has finally given up on me again as I suspect there is something wrong with the print head. So now I ended up getting the Fuji instead. At least it comes with a 1 to 1 exchange warranty for the next 3 years! Yes, that's how great it is.

Plus I'm still figuring out on how this NAS actually work. Currently I am able to print from my laptop via wifi, but not on Deluxe laptop. But for the past few days with it, I finally find how great this device really is. Considering the fact that I am able to backup my system and finally share files between my laptop, and Ipad. So basically it has indirectly my network is now sort of have a mini cloud at my home. So at least I could now transfer all my photos on the Ipad to the server. Which is pretty neat. But unfortunately I am still also not able to print from the Ipad. Oh well, guess I'll try to work it out some time later.

I just completed backing up my data, which took about 1 and a half hour over network for 27GB worth of data. And while I'm typing this blog I'm waiting for my laptop to create the recovery disc for me. Still another 2 more disc to go. Never the less it's all good, as I'm going to finally reformat my laptop after having it for 1 and a half years. As this time I may take about 50gb to install Ubuntu on this laptop. Since the warranty period is over, then I guess it's time for me to finally make full use of it.

Windows 8 is sure fun to have, but I still think I need Ubuntu to get a few things running. Hopefully will start formatting by tonight if not by tomorrow morning. May still need to download Ubuntu after I format this laptop. Never the less, it's all good. Since most of my data has finally been back up, and a lot of things that I used to download had to delete them as I doubt that I will be using them anymore.

Oh well, I think I shall stop here now while waiting for the system to complete creating my recovery disc. Kinda sucks whereby I can only create it once. If not I would have waited to get a Pen Drive instead. Oh well. life goes on.

  Oh yeah, got a call from Digi stated that my contract is going to up by next month.  Never the less they gave me an option to continue to stay with them for another year for RM55/month which includes of all the 200 mins, 200 sms, 20 mms and 1GB Internet data.  Which I think it's fine by me.  So it's all good. 

It's been a while

It's been a while since I last posted here. Whereby I've moved to a new destination to blog actually. You can follow my actual blog at http://www.alexjong.com. I'm thinking of hosting my podcast here instead. Maybe that might do some good. Hehehe. Will see how it goes.

Stay tuned, as the Return of Holankia will be back really soon. Hehehe.