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:
Unemployed Fresh Graduate Who Graduated From Coventry University

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) Wizardry 8

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

Links:

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

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


29th December 2001
11.58pm

Boy, today had so much more activity than yesterday!

Alright.... my morning nothing much happened, except done more closet clearing. Threw away a bundle of stuff and rearranged my messy filing system. Heheh..... lots of dust too.... *ah chiew!!* Having sinus isn't good for housekeeping.

After lunch, went to yam char with Jun Min. Yes she's back......and the best part is, she's flying off on Monday. I only knew she was in Malaysia yesterday! Went to SS2 Coffee bean after she picked something up from the manga/anime shop nearby. Some sort of doll.... tak tahu what the heck it's called. So happily chatting away when I had to cut the meeting short and send Jun Min home. Why? My dad called for help. He and my mom went looking for floor tiles (yes lilian, it's my family's turn to look for tiles) in Subang Jaya. But he took the spare car key and it didn't have the steering lock key. So I had to take it from the house and bring it to them. Oh well......... got bargaining chip from this :)

Went home and I actually managed to get my two brothers out of the house! I asked Terence whether he wanted to play CS, Senan mentioned Aliens vs Predator, so I changed the game and both of them came along!! Hahah......two hours of blasting aliens and predators..... I played the marine because my brothers are scared of my CS skills. Although it was the first time playing, I managed to adapt quickly and topped the matches after 2 matches. Woo hoo! But I didn't know how to change the name and change race...... whoops...... maybe next time I play predator and aliens. The aliens can climb walls!!! So cheating!! Climb up and go behind me pula! Lucky I got jumping around like rabbit skills. Senan was not happy when I killed his attacking alien at close range!! Hehehhe..... I tried to knife the alien once, but failed :P

In the evening went to a church group open house in one of the big bunglows in Damansara Jaya. Quite a number of people attended. What's more? I wasn't lonely this time! I met 6 of my high school friends there!! Whooopeeeee!! All back from Austrailia having holidays. None graduated yet.... oh well.... free dinner, carolling and exchange of pressies. Also celebrated the priest's birthday. It was today too! Got cake and all that. All my church's priest came today.

So I logged on late and I can't blog as long as I wanted to. Oh well, tmr going out :) hahah *V!*

Darn...... I'm going anime'ish......


28th December 2001
11.06pm

Car's fixed!! Yay!! No more worries about driving at night...... worries involving getting pulled over by the police.

My friend Chee Onn was supposed to call me today so that we could go out to play some multiplayer games..... he said so last night...... Guess what?? No calls today..... all psyked up and nowhere to go. Damn...... I really wanted to play CS or try Aliens vs. Predator 2. Instead, stayed at home and rot more and more.

Oh yes, the Gateway engineer came over today to replace my motherboard. So I have a new motherboard!! Unfortunately I think that my Microsoft mouse has something wrong.... it'll work for a while only.... maybe there's a wiring problem in the mouse that damaged the port last time. So I will not use that mouse but use the serial mouse for a while until I get another PS/2 mouse.

I also got an Air Mail today. I got a christmas card from Cheng and Lilian. Enclosed was also an autumn leaf. Woah.... air mail takes a few weeks to reach here now? Last year it came in under a week. Heheh.... I almost didn't identify that Cheng sent it.... I can't recognise her signature............ I'm very bad ain't I?

Tribute to Cindy's Car: To it's first accident! Be glad it wasn't like what my brother did to my car!!
To Cindy: You ganas!! But each knock is a lesson learnt......unless you drive like THOSE ganas malaysian drivers. But to get a new door? cheh!! Just knock out those dents and repaint only...... opportunist......

Sigh...... I'm getting worked up pretty easily...... must be the boredom setting in..... must.......maintain.......control........ *ZAP!!* (another brain down the tubes)


27th December 2001
11.50pm

Stayed home today...... didn't even have sunlight touch my skin today. Not to mention that it was cloudy whenever I stepped out to do stuff (take back clothes).

A dark day it was. My dad and mom still on leave, but they went out today so I was left at home. Senan took my car out so I had no car either. My dad brought back a couple of VCDs a few days ago, but they were those type of movies that followed other movies. eg. Blade 2. So didn't even bother watching those.

However, Senan annoyed me today. He called the house and asked me why the backlights weren't on. I told him that it hasn't been serviced yet and he asked me......"so what do I do? Kick it?" Geee.....sarcasm from someone who doesn't speak right on the phone? So I passed the phone to my dad so that I can go off and not blow my top. Sometimes brothers can be so rude!!

Anyhow, I need to talk to Ian Jon Albert about Sunday's plans......email correspondence is too slow at the moment.

Oh yes!! I remembered!! I read about PS2 and Xbox games today. Makes me want to purchase the PS2 :). But I need a TV for my own first...... CINDY!!! Are you buying a PS2??? If yes can I camp at your house from time to time?? Hahahah


26th December 2001
10.40pm

Congratulations! Jocelyn Lim is going to US on Friday. After 9 semesters in INTI she finally flies off for the final leg of her education. She and I entered INTI at the same time. Was one of the very very few people from my high school too. Damansara Jaya students don't fancy INTI College.

This morning, Yu San and I exchanged Christmas presents. So I would like to thank her for the thoughtful (I believe a lot of brainwaves were wasted on choosing a present) and very NICE shirt. Even my parents said it was nice. Although it was very wierd giving a smaller sized present compared to what she gave me, it doesn't matter! Size matters not! It is the intention of the heart that counts!

Terence on leave today, so got in some nice uninterupted sleep. But then I still had to drive around in the afternoon. Today seemed to be "send cars to workshop day". I drove my mom's car to the workshop for a checkup, then followed my dad to buy lunch at section 17. Later in the evening, followed my dad to the workshop to pick up my mom's car, and to let them check the wiring of my lights. As most of my passengers know, my dashboard lights and back lights do not light up immediately after the lights have been turned on. After much fidling, the mechanic still could not fix the problem and told my dad that the source of the problem was the dim controller of the dashboard. So my car is going back to the workshop on Friday. Oh yes, replaced the damaged remote alarm control for my car too. It's now in a new casing which I will show off one day :).


25th December 2001
11.58pm

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

I just got back from Seremban so I think this will be another short entry. Kinda tired from the journey even though I slept most of the way. Left the house at around 11am.

Woke up to have breakfast (instant noodles because there wasn't much in the house). Got my present from my parents and gave mine to my brothers. Nope, no change in tradition yet, brothers still come up zip for me. Oh well....... I expected that. I don't really care anyway. Also got chocolates from our insurance agent (don't ask me..... insurance agents get loads from us anyway).

Went to Seremban and managed to catch the extended family gang. Had a bit of refreshments too. Only when the extended family left did the passing of pressies go around. As usual, most of my relatives did not know what to get for the young men (me and my brothers) so cash was given. All except my youngest aunt, whom gave me a tie......this time it looks proper :)

My grandma got a new puppy! Her name is Cookie, she very manja dog and still so small. Brown colour with a black muzzle. Mongrel of course lar. Seems intelligent too. However, she likes to bite things so I expect her to start chewing on shoes in a few months.

Dinner was held in the house. It's normal because we always have a family dinner on Christmas day at the house. Tradition of the Chong family. Luckily didn't get stuffed like the turkey. Bailed out pretty quickly.

Oh yeah, Lois has been SMSing me....... on my Dad's handphone!!! I better tell her my temp number soon .......eepps!! So wierd getting her sms on my dad's phone.

And refering to the lelaki tak guna thing in Yu San's blog...... I admit it...... AKU TAK GUNA. I kalah...... I should have temaned her....... why didn't I? Me stoopid.

My dog also left a pile of "gold" for us when we came back....... geeee, thanks Rex....


24th December 2001
11.00pm

It's Christmas eve!! It's almost Christmas!

I even forgot that it was a Monday....so I was not prepared to wake up early in the morning to send Terence to the LRT station. However, upon my return I went back to bed.....

To be woken up by my dad saying there's a phone call for me. Now I want to thank Yu San for the nicely timed phone call. I almost overslept to the point that I wouldn't be able to catch the anime on AXN!! THANK YOU!! Hehehe.... but tomorrow I need to wake up early as well...... eeps!

Spent most of my afternoon reading Lord of the Rings...... sigh.... the more I read, the more I notice has changed in the movie. Sometimes I wish that I didn't pick up the book in the first place. Gosh..... now that I think back..... I didn't do much today!

Originally wanted to do a night outing today. But then after considering how many people that would attend and the look my dad gave me yesterday, I thought that it'll be best if I stayed put today. Although I could pull it off today because I did tell him very very early, but I don't think that I would be able to go out during the week if I did so. Hopefully the sacrifice will pay off.

Went to church today. Mandarin mass. Not much of a choice unless my parents wanted to wake up early to go for mass tomorrow. Going to Seremban tomorrow. Coming back after dinner. Going to be stuffed again unless there are more people there OR they decide to have a seafood galore. That'll be new, I can throw a tantrum if they do :).

Oh yes....... my brothers....... one of them stepped on a roach yesterday (not Chuen Ian) and yeah, it splattered it's insides. And DID NOT clean up!! Guess who cleaned up the next morning? ME!!! I wasn't the first one to see the dead roach either!! Terence claimed to have seen it in the morning, but so far none of them admited to stepping on it.


23rd December 2001
11.22pm

Lilian!!! How many email addresses do you have?? I lost track a long time ago! It's a lucky thing that I don't keep a record in a small itty bitty address book because I would have to cross out so many already!!

Today's Sunday?? I totally lost track..... I thought it was Saturday. Oh well... at least the morning papers quickly made me readjust my internal calendar. But here's an interesting piece of information from today's paper. Apparently, all males suffer minor brain damage while in the womb. Why? Well, testosterone apparently hinders growth of several nerve endings in the brain.... in the right side of the brain. That would result in males being less emotional. I'm sure if Hani read this she'll say her famous motto about males.

Went to Pyramid in the afternoon to meet the YCCians, Choon Ling and Tan there. Although Nina claimed that she knew when to be late and when not to, I don't think she got it right yet. Because, today the majority arrived late (as usual). The early ones met at MPH. Then headed off to A&W for lunch. While eating, Yu San got tickets to Monsters Inc and Nina got her Lord of the Rings tickets.

Oh yes, met Kuan May/Mary for the first time too.

After lunch our group split up again. I went with Tan, Choon Ling and Yu San to Sega City. Played Time Crisis 2 (my first time!!), Off Road Runners (i think) and the table disc thingy. Gee, suddenly I suck at the table disc thing. Maybe it's due to my sore arm.... hahah...excuses :) Played a wierd japanese game...... the one where there's three buttons. Tan won.....the bugger knew the game!! Yu San and I didn't know!

I watched Monsters Inc for the second time this round. Why?? I had to see the Gone to the birds animation again!! HAhahah......it was worth it.

After the movie I had to rush off though. Luckily too!! If I didn't show up on time, my dad would have grounded me for sure!! whew!!