Fabian's Blog........ yeah yeah, somehow I got 'convinced' to get one.

A wee bit about the blog author:

Identified as: Fabian Chong

Also known as:
(Now this would depend on who you are)

Number of rotations around the sun so far:
21

Current Title:
IT and Communications Executive, FM Promos

Part of:
1) YCCians (Honoured to be part of this zany bunch of..erm...people)

2) INTI ex-Chairpersons club

Loves:
Ice-cream (who doesn't?) and chocolate

Currently playing:
1) Counter Strike
2) Dungeon Siege
3) Jedi Knight: Outcast
4) Heroes of Might and Magic 4

Email: fabchong@yahoo.com
(YCCians use the group email pls)

Links:

Yu San
Nina
Haz
Jean
Hani
Li Lian
Alex
Choon Ling
Tariq
Ash

Archive:
19th to 25th August 2001
26th August to 1st September 2001
2nd to 8th September 2001
9th to 15th September 2001
16th to 22nd September 2001
23rd to 29th September 2001
30th September to 6th October 2001
7th to 13th October 2001
14th to 20th October 2001
21st to 27th October 2001
28th October to 3rd November 2001
4th to 10th November 2001
11th to 18th November 2001
19th to 24th November 2001
25th November to 1st December 2001
2nd to 8th December 2001
9th to 15th December 2001
16th to 22nd December 2001
23rd to 29th December 2001
30th December 2001 to 5th January 2002
6th to 12th January 2002
13th to 19th January 2002
20th to 26th January 2002
27th January to 2nd February 2002
3rd to 9th February 2002
10th to 16th February 2002
17th to 23rd February 2002
24th February to 2nd March 2002
3rd to 9th March 2002
10th to 16th March 2002
17th to 23rd March 2002
24th to 30th March 2002
31st March to 6th April 2002
7th to 13th April 2002
14th to 20th April 2002
21st to 27th April 2002
28th April to 2nd May 2002
3rd to 11th May 2002
12th to 25th May 2002
26th May to 8th June 2002
9th to 15th June 2002
16th to 22nd June 2002
23rd June to 14th July 2002
15th July to 19th August 2002


9th August 2002
10.51pm

Voila! Another blog entry from work. Yup, I'm here at the Carl's Jazz Festival. There's not much happening here. Kinda brain daed at the moment. Sigh.... now now... what should I blog about?

Ok, here goes! Number one: Cheng Cheeng is back in Malaysia. Apparently she wanted to give us ALL a surprise. She called me the other day and played one of her usual phone games (one that I have totally not remembered). So it goes like this.
Fab: Hello?
*unknown person : Hello?
Fab: Hello?
*unknown person : Hello?
Fab:.... hello...(this seems familiar)
*repeat until the other side breaks down laughing
Sigh...... I wasn't really up to it.

Oh Gee... it's raining now. Hmmmmm.... I might have to stop typing here and now.

Note to self: Find a way to fight off falling sick while working. Struggling along but I can feel myself losing the battle. I've survived 3 months without a single day leave so far.

I'm going to Seremban this Sunday. My cousin FINALLY came down from the states to visit. His kids are probably near the age of 10 now. And I have NEVER set eyes on my nephew and neice. Should I buy them a gift? Gee... I'm not going shopping yet.

Which brings me to my next topic: Shopping. The mega sale is on and I can't seem to find a free slot to go shopping yet. All my plans are constantly not going to work out.

Hmmmm..... YOSHA!!! Incoming Final Fantasy Review!!
Based on Final Fantasy 7 to 10. My own ratings and opinions of course.(and in no particular order)

Favourite Final Fantasy Installment: Final Fantasy 8
Favourite Male Character: Squall (who doesn't?) Favourite Female Character: Tifa (no reference to the chest area ok?)
Favourite Spellcaster: Vivi (Loved his duel with Black Waltz)
Favourite Guardian Force/Aeon/Summon/Eidelon: BAHAMUT (he's a dragon.... enough said)
Favourite Limit Break: Renzokuken (cool moves!! And it is still the most powerful Limit Break I know: 16 X 9999 damage)
Favourite Spell: Ultima
Favourite Villian: Sephiroth (many will agree with me on this)
Best Story: FF7
Baddest Monsters: Weapons from FF7
Best love story: FF8
Best couple: Garnet/Dagger and Zidane
My most powerful male character ever: Squall!!
My most powerful female character ever: Yuna (even Tidus couldn't do 99999 damage!)
Saddest part: Ending of FFX. (Even aerith's death couldn't move me as much as FFX's)
Ugliest Character: Quina Quen
Most Annoying Thing: CHOCOBOS!!! I HATE CHOCOBOS!!
Character with most depth (main character): Tidus (come on, all the rest lost their memories)
Series with the most powerful summons: damagewise it's FFX, in concept it's FF9.
Longest Play time: FF7
Prettiest Female Character: Rinoa (I know some of you hate her, but I still think she's not the worst thing there is)
Best 'old' character: Auron (FFX)
Best combat system: FFX, they are all together
Best Score: FFX
Best Theme song: Errr.... I think that would be Melodies of Life in Japanese.
Happiest ending: FF9
Ending credits worth waiting for: FF8
Ranking FF series:
1) FF8
2) FFX
3) FF7
4) FF9

Ok, that's all for now!


25th July 2002
10.51pm

Hey all, I'm actually blogging from work! I found one nice thing about this place... it has a wireless network that entitles me to FREE broadband access. Haahahah... I'm getting 10Mbps here! wooo hooooooo. Viewing movies at work.

Anyway the following is a blog I created two weeks ago but never got to put up:
Guess what? This blog is written from work. It is Friday night at 9.57pm. Geee… I woke up at 3.30 am this morning. I’m tired…. I need to get online too. There’s something on my client’s website that I need to configure. In case anyone wants to see what Web Site I’ve been doing so far, go to www.carlsjazz.com. Previously, www.carls.com.my was set up, but because there isn’t much happening there I’ve redirected the page back to www.carlsberg.com.my.

I’ve really been a busy bee lately. My main project is really tiring. It’s been 4+ months and the project is yet to be finished. One of the problems is that clients keep adding and adding things they want and this results to the long delay and endless work. Hopefully this project will end soon. As far as I am concerned, I’m to integrate the cold fusion codes which interact to the online database.

Then comes the next project, which was www.carlsjazz.com. Spent two days creating the necessary codes for the database as well as the configuration of the web site. As some may recall, I ran into trouble with the database for the online server and was asking people like crazy. In the end, waited till the next day and got my hosting provider, Free Net to configure my database for me. However, they also made a mistake, making me think that it was my coding problem. Bah… wasted most of my day fussing over a non-existing error in my codes.

You’d think that was over… no… my client dropped a huge bombshell on us this week. We proposed a marketing solution involving using iPaq pocket PCs to collect database and information for the current Carls Jazz Festival. That was 3 weeks ago. And on WEDNESDAY (two days ago) they suddenly told us that we are actually going to implement this project. Bugger…. I had two days to develop a software for PDAs. I wasted one day waiting for the iPaqs and the software only arrived the next noon. Leaving me…. 24 hours to create the software. ON A PLATFORM I’m not familiar with. Sigh….

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Anyways, I felt nauseous yesterday. Must have been the lack of food and stress. I feel a slight tinge right now too. Maybe it's because I have yet to eat. Don't worry, eating SOON.

Hehehe... but waking up in the morning is going to be a challenge. I'm usually only late if the appointment is set at a very early hour. Hahahah.

Remember cindy? I don't really come on time for the 8am class?

Another note worth mentioning. I didn't really notice it, my weight is starting to crazy again. It's a see-saw affair I tell you....

Maybe stress is a factor.....

I'm feeling this now: Iccceeeeeee creeeeaaaammmmmmm
Final Fantasy 10!!! Almost finished it.... once I kill Omega I shall move into the battle with Sin! Then I will play Metal Gear Solid 2.
Ayashi no ceres: Woooooo.... looks like I'll be following it for a while.

Till next blog!


25th July 2002
10.51pm

Whoops.... meant to blog a few days ago, I wrote a really long blog entry in a laptop while working last Friday. However, I didn't copy the file and the laptop went to my client and I got it back today. But didn't have time to save the file before I left the office.

Surprisingly I'm feeling happy today..... for no reason at all. Heck I didn't even get Ice cream. Hmmm...

I will try to get that long blog entry out. Possibly on Sunday since I'll be working till midnight tomorrow and Saturday night as well. Will be tired and slightly unhinged.

But Saturday afternoon must summon the energy to go shopping. I just found out I worn out too many pairs of pants and shirts. Eeeeps!! I'm on clothes shortage. Time to spend. Too bad the Malaysia Mega Sale isn't coming back so soon.

Update on the BMW case with Jean. I think I got out of it. Observe the following ICQ conversation:(I'm Dargent)
Dargent: (10:34 PM) hahah....... did you know, a BMW 5-series monthly payment scheme is more than I make in 2 months?
Lt Laiisiliel Torres: (10:35 PM) good. keep working
Dargent: (10:36 PM) so......... can I get you a BMW0.0005 series?
Lt Laiisiliel Torres: (10:36 PM) no.
Dargent: (10:36 PM) cannnn lar............. bagi lar.........
Lt Laiisiliel Torres: (10:36 PM) no.
Dargent: (10:37 PM) how bout a 0.005 series??
Lt Laiisiliel Torres: (10:37 PM) no.
Dargent: (10:37 PM) a 50 series?
Lt Laiisiliel Torres: (10:37 PM) no.
Dargent: (10:37 PM) ...... james bond series?
Lt Laiisiliel Torres: (10:38 PM) no.
Dargent: (10:40 PM) Ohhhhh........ so that's what you want.......
I'll give you NO series........ so no BMW for you :)
Lt Laiisiliel Torres: (10:40 PM) HOI!

Hey Cindy! Are you going PC Fair? I wanna go to check some prices..... but I have not the time!

Oh yes... I switched back to the big bulky handphone. So I can SMS again!

I'm still trying to finish FFX.... going is slow because I'm putting only a couple of hours every week.

Oh yeah..... Cindy, which anime is Ayashi no ceres? Issit nice? It's going to be shown after Sakura Wars ends.

To my self appointed Guardian: Thank you!!! I buy you ice cream if you make a blog entry in ....... 5 days from now!!

To Cindy again: Yahor..... your bday coming soon. Any chance I get to drag you away from your boy for a single afternoon/night?


15th July 2002
11.46pm

I'm amazed I'm actually blogging today. Even though I had a long day again (sigh.... I long for the day when I can program things as fast as a speeding bullet). Not to mention the fact that I tried to find someone to help me with my Internet problem.... Any friends of mine experienced webmasters??

Can't come out with the long blog as promised yet. My current work project isn't finished just yet. The client's boss needs to approve it. And of course all the short term projects coming in is really bugging my work process. Who would have guessed that Carlsberg has so many projects in one go? Every product of theirs is potentially a project.

Nice to hear that Haz is into Sakura Wars too! Yay!! Another fellow Sakura Wars fan! What other songs have you collected? I've got 106 mp3s to date (Sakura Wars related).

Sheesh...... brother tripped over telephone wire and never replugged it for me....... WHY do I have such brothers?

I feel like scolding him......... but no energy

Hey Cindy, Cheng claimed to have obtained 2nd Upper..... but still want to find out HOW the heck she managed to get that after her first semester fiasco.

Oh yeah... SAKURA WARS is coming out for PS2!! Sometime next year!! Not only that, planned releases include:
1) Kouma (Featuring Sakura's dad (Kazuma), Yoneda, Ayame and Yamazaki)
2) Sakura Wars 5 (based in New York), also for PS2
3) 3rd OVA for Sakura Wars (couple of episodes, including Sumire's retirement)
4) An Action game for Sakura Wars 5 , PS2!!

I'm soooo happy to have my PS2.....