9 January 2009 - Yeah, it is a date where 25 years ago I was born on this planet. A few of my close friends wants to celebrate this date with me. But I would like to talk about the 09-01-09 night with my usual gang uncomfortable10.

At first we can't decide where to go - 1 Utama? SS2 Murni? Williams? Yeah, that is us - bad decision maker everytime we wants to eat.  But finally we managed to set a rendevous place - The Curve Damansara. But yet the same problem isn't solved - where to eat and hangout?

I was just remember to write about this - last 31st December 2008 is the last date for my (ex) colleague, and also a good teacher - Woon Choo Kien to be in UMobile. He is among my best good teachers that never fails to assist and show me the rope from since the first day I joined the company as network engineer.

He is among the best "sifu" I had that never fails to assist me and the team no matter how "tedious" the job may seemed (as in my point of view) - hardworking, never complaint and always get things done on time. And he is ... young - young but very knowledgable. 

So I decided to throw him a farewell party as token of appreciation.

"What are you going to do tonight on the new year eve?" I received that question like thousand times a day - from friends, colleagues and families. My answer will always remain the same " Nothing. I don't do celebration. I'll just try to get home early so I won't get caught in traffic".

For me, it's just a date that repeat itself after 365 days (or 365 and a quarter times the earth spins). Plus, crowds and louds is just not for me. I just always get home, do routine and that's it. That's what I do for every year - except for this year.

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26 November 2008 (Wednesday) - It was team building day for 2nd group - my group. That means its time for me to forget the office and (supposed to) enjoy the day at the eagle ranch, Port Dickson. Yeah, I know, that is very far away (from KL) considering that we are going to have this activity for just one day. But what I don't know is that today is the day where I got drifted to (almost) another island for the first time of my life.

Last friday is the last day Jo would be in Umobile as a staff. He's moving (perhaps) towards a better opportunity. Good luck dude.

Looking back after a year and a half me and my uncomfortable10 members graduated from UPM at May 2007, our achievement should be considered "acceptably impressive". I mean, the job we secured, and the portfolios we hold (plus the salary in which many wouldn't believe we fresh graduate manage to obtained. One of us already reached five figures on the playslip. I would not want to talk more about this) is far beyond what most typical graduate obtained during their first year in industry 

Here's the list of what we have been so far.... at the dawn of 2008.

Let's recap what happens today (and this goes almost everyday) right after office hours.

Tea time - With Tengku Khairul Shah at Oldtown BTS.

Movie time - With Arafat and David at GSC BTS. Wasted 2 hours on Quantum of Solace.

On-call time - Right in the middle of movie - as usual - killing my socially awkward quality times. Time wasted 1 hours

Unplanned lepak time -  With Irwan Shah and Imran right after on-call time, talking craps of works at Zul Yahya's nearby Shah Alam stadium. Wasted time - priceless.

Sleep time - Past 12.

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Last Friday is our day - again - where uncomfortable10 reunites.

It's very difficult to gather all us 10 in one place. So last week arafat and I made a decision - let's celebrate arafat and jo's birthday this week. So as usual, after long emails and members availability lookup table is filled up - it's decided that we gathers on 14 November 2008 at One Utama Shopping Complex. Our dinner that night is Korean Buffet at Seoul Garden. Participants list is 7 out of 10 uncomfortablers plus one guest - Athiruddin, our junior that never missed out hanging with us 10.

I simply love google, I really do. Whatever services they offer or anything new cames up - I will definitely try it. One of my personal favourite (and I used it practically everyday) is GMAIL.

And in this entry, I would like to talk about how (false?) the gmail spam filter feature. So far so good - gmail NEVER missed to trap any spam that tried to clogged my mailbox to the "spambox". It's true, since I first started using it by 2003, I can only see like one or two spam email enters my mailbox - the other thousand, straight to the spambox!

But what suprised me today is that - I managed to see one legit email sent to the spam box. This is not the common this-is-not-spam-mail case. Here's the story.