Yesterday I was reading news about a teenage boy who has passed away in a car accident nearby Subang. While I was at it, one of my peers forward me the blogspot address of the deceased.

I didn't know this boy, but it is an interesting thought to read a blog of whom who has just passed away (and even made it to the front page).  It has a collective archive of videos and photos of him during his days with family and friends.

The last entry by the kid was last couple of weeks ago, while the latest input are from visitors on the shoutbox condolencing to the late blogger.

I would say that this blog is the best archive for those who wants to remember the boy, or in search of the long lost memories of him, in his point of view himself.

And this does raise me a question… what if I am dead? Hey, this blog would not be here forever, not in this paid hosting on Joomla!

Suatu hari sekumpulan Mat Salleh anak kepada Pakcik Sam datang pada seorang Mat Melayu, dan mereka mulai menanya soalan berkaitan budaya di sini.

Mat Salleh: Hey melayu, kamu kisah kah kalau saya tanya kamu sesuatu yang amat pelik bagi kami?

Mat Melayu: Ya, silakan.

It’s been a year since I posted an entry with similar title . This year, so many thing has changed. Here’s the road so far and up ahead:

Target 1: to earn a 5-figure salary by 30 years old
- already earning half of target at the age of 25. good progress... but i just learned recently, salary is not everything, what are you working on is all that matters..

Target 2: to work on and do amazing things with my life
- is employed by google, currently attached to a project that deals with sophisticated infrastructure in the world. Looking forward for more challenges! :)

Target 3: acquires Pilot Private License (PPL) for single-engine airplane by 30 years old
- No progress yet, but should be able to reach target. Money almost enough, and physical to. I'm not planning anything of making this as my career. This is more a like a luxury hobby of mine (Didn't you notice I love to do anything different than typical?)

Does this quote sounds familiar to you?

"I hereby do solemnly swear, that I will support and defend the Constitution of Malaysia against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help me god"

Yea, this is modified version of US oath of citizenship (it is, isn't it?). I find the original somehow, very... strong. So I modified it to fits my own hearing and make it more meaningful to me.

Selamat Hari Kebangsaan! I am very proud to be Malaysian, and will do with all my wills to protect the peace and harmony we had had for the past 52 years!

(please don't ask why I don't use our national language typing about national day. I just want those who don't read malay understand this, if there is any.. ;) )

Regards,
Izuardi (a proud Malaysian)

OK, rasanya aku tak pernah blog pasal hari aku keluar bershopping, tapi harini aku nak blog juga, simply because aku terserempak dengan mamat-mamat ni di center court The Curve tepat jam pukul empat petang tadi:

Haha, yeah. Memang ganas diorang ni bergaduh, tapi nasib baiklah bukan bergaduh betul-betul. Ni la persembahan demo silat cekak Hanafi.

Kenapa aku post - kerana aku adalah...:

Finally, after a very long recruitment process (longest in my life I guess), I was officially offered an engineer position in Google Singapore, a network/server/hardware related position.

Congratulation Izuardi! You have made the most important hiring process for this region and officially win yourself the first hire from Malaysia title.

Dearest of all peers and readers,

Readers... I doubt they are many readers left, considering of my response to maintain and update this blog, and daily webstat.. but I keep on getting "urge messages" from friends by other medium - orally, social networks, sms etc etc.

I am busy - typical excuse from lazy blogger - but that's the thruth - Well not Barrack Obama's busy, but still I need to spent some of quality times away from my lappy and PC. 

Anyway, loads of thing happens since my last entry - but nothing that you missed if you're within my facebook networks(I treat my facebook like twitter actually). Here's the highlights (I'll to recall as much as I can):

Finally - after four phone interview session with googlers across the world - I have the chance to meet (two of) them for final interview - on 23rd May 2009 at Boulevard Midvalley.

One of the interviewer is the who previously interviewed me over the phone, and the other guy is the operation manager for asia pacific.

I myself never expect me to get thru up to this level - hopefully this means something, because I bet they won't waste their time with 5 interviews if I am not worth of something - and I'll make damn sure I won't waste theirs' (and mine) too.