I will NOT be a loser

My commitment towards excellence :
1. It's better to have a CCNA in the pocket than not.
2. It's better to pass the exam than not because prolonging the exam period will cause unnecessary stress and restlessness.
3. It's better to suffer for 3 weeks than a lifetime.
4. I will not give up my dream to be a CCNA graduate.

God, please bless me in my journey to become a network professional. I pray for Your guidance and Your protection. No prayer sounds small enough for you, I know You have not forgotten me, God. See me through God. Amen.

CCNA

Planning to retake the exam when my boss is not around Malaysia. Would be during the second week of June... which means I'll have to either take leave to sit for exam or to take study leave. I think maybe I'll get the study leave - since I think I have another 3 days in my allotment.

Pray nothing goes wrong this time, and that I'll be familiarised with TestKing's paper like the back of my hand. I'm just wondering how everyone managed to score above 900/1000 , marks like 987 is not a surprise amongst members of this CCNA-online club which I am a member of. Did they eat,sleep and drink TestKing? Maybe burn the exam papers and drink it befoer taking the exam.... Or they are just plain smart..

Kuantan , Mini and me....

thinks in the positive way lar
u spent rm1 smth then u get a can of coke
he spend the same amount but he don't even have soft drink in that can lar
LOL
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LOL nice way of putting it :thumbs: , but remember he spend Rm1 + and he got RM160, 000. 00 free :omg:
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Found it in a hospital. The irony. For a drink that causes so many health complications it rewards the person who drank it in a place to heal and to get advise on why to avoid such a drink.

Pure IRONY instead.
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the place where people would least expect is where there will find it, smart move Coke can :sweat:

Exerpts from Lowyat.net

Kuantan Mini Boy.When it is yours, it is yours.... else..... 

MCSE and CCNA

What do you get when you take two certifications at the same time?

1. Head confused
2. Head full of techie facts
3. I'm beginning to see stars

I'm amazed at a friend who managed to do it ; not sure if he did two at the same time, really salute him. He is now a MCSE as well as a CCNA graduate. When will I be like him? And more importantly, so what if I'm like him? What lies ahead?

The Greatest Courage is...

... patience
... asking someone out
... admitting your own fault
... overcoming your own fear

Been a week...

It's been a week since I last updated this site. Nothing exciting happened except that I had three nights of dinner with the same McDonald's ... and I finally realised that nothing much in this world beats Mum's homecooked food on a weeknight , right after a hard day's work. On the last night of OT last Thursday, I politely declined my boss's offer to order McDs again *actually I'm pretty bored with their menu already* and insisted that I eat dinner at home. hehehe....

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Some people say do not find troubles, let troubles find you. I find that statement so true ; everyday of my life at work is basically focused on solving problems which are largely others. They say it's about improving the system. But problems come at the most unexpected times, and when you think you have found a solution to a problem, another will spring up. How ironic and how boring life can get over that!

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Manual!

Not easy to drive the monster laa...
I must have done some injustice to the GTi when I drove it around my neighbourhood today.. hehehhee ..

The car must be thinking "Which idiot is this driving me around without knowing how to change gears..... grrrr...."

Anyway, the reason why manual cars are so much fun:
1. You dont get to be lazy on the road dreaming about something.
2. You can banish this "boy thing" about driving manual cars.... and finally one less comment about "girls only drive manuals"
3. You can drive super-toycars such as Fiat Bravo 1.8, Mini Cooper S and BMW X3 - err, if u have the money to buy them at least .... or you can try and drink many Cokes and hope you win the Cooper S - but ohh, wait, a boy from Kuantan had just won it!

The trouble with the manual cars are always the clutch and the gear engagement.
"Slow down accelerator, press clutch and engage gear..."

Try and balance at the hill.
"Release the clutch slowly, release the brake and accelerate the car without moving it. Make sure the needle points to 1 at the RPM meter. If you dont want the car's engine to die off, accelerate more , until 2."

How to make an emergency brake.
"Press both the brake and the clutch together!"

Things to work on:
1. The engagement of gears and clutch.
2. Confidence and control of the car on the road.

You Will Never Walk Alone Again

Only one word : U N B E L I E V A B L E~

Anfield was beaming in red ; hardly any blues really.... Players were anxious and the managers even so.

The goal of Luis Garcia didn't look like one from where the cameras were shooting, and we could so clearly see that the Chelsea defenders tried so hard in kicking the ball out of the goal post. That's as early as the 3rd minute of the Second Leg which happened in Anfield. I think many would call that goal a controversial one, but nevertheless as Benitez puts it :

"We are in the final. They(Chelsea) beat us three times by the odd goal this season and we beat Chelsea tonight. I am a very proud manager."

A few memorable incidents:
1. Rafa was so excitedly shouting to his boys during the last few minutes of the game that he overstepped into Mour's territory. I was surprised to see Mour didnt scour at him...
2. Two idiotic fans held up play by running onto the pitch - one flinging a flag in Mourinho's face.
3. The whole Reds winning was just moments of being crushed - not only from entering the finals of Champions League this year, but also from even entering Champions League next year since Liverpool did not make it into the top 4 teams of EPL. How could it have been crushed?

• Time: 1 minute before 96' (90'+6' extra time)

• Incident : The ball was flicked one last time by Gudjohnsen , flashing a shot inches wide with the goal seemingly at his mercy. But it was not meant to be ; no one finished it for him.... Else, the Reds would have to go home crying and Blues would still have their Triple Shot dream this season.

Man of the Match?
Must be Jerzy Dudek man...he saved soooo many attempts for Liverpool. One most memorable one was from Lampard. Undeniably!

Facts aside, I made a promise to a few Liverpool fans that I would be a part of the LFC if the team makes it to the finals of Champions League this year, never did I know that it would happen....

Now Liverpool is just waiting for whoever is going to win the Second Leg between AC Milan and PSV Eindhoven. I think AC is going to win in style.Maybe 1-0.

.......You Will Never Walk Alone Again....

The War

What are you???
"Why not you read me up?"
I have done that, and I have no idea who the hell you are! You're a client or the server software?Client right?
"Well, thats what the documentation says isn't it?"
Well yeah.....
"So, you're asking the obvious!"
OK .... So , how do I go about setting the FTP server up?
"Go read somemore!"
Dang, why dont you give me some answers here??? I'm pretty frustrated because your documentation is everywhere and it's so hard to follow because I get lost in the labyrinth of more and more documentation!
"Hey, if you're misbehaving with your words , I'm not gonna help you okay??"


**Grrrr...... Mutters under breath**

Walking in the Holy Spirit

The church is embacking on the series of sermons focussing on the Third Person of the Trinity - The Holy Spirit.

I've never thought about this but as I was listening to Pastor Dorai speaking about the acts of the Holy Spirit and how it flows like fire, suddenly I looked at my own life and I remember the nickname Firewalker which I use in the cyberworld ... If this is the Fire of the Holy Spirit, I would love to walk in it, and soak in its presence.

The encouragement I always get when I remember the Holy Spirit's FRUIT(notice it is not "fruits") :
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness , faithfulness and self-control.

Why is it fruit and not fruits? This is an interesting question , which I ask myself sometimes.. The asnwer given to me is this ...
Because it is a package and you will not have all the 9 attributes if you do not have the Holy Spirit with you. For example : You can be loving, you can be a good person, but you may not feel the peace of God resting with you..

May this soul walk in your Spirit , o God.Amen.

Am I wasting my time here?

Where am I going?
How do I go there?
Am I wasting my time here?

These questions suddenly popped up into my mind when I read a dear friend's blog .
I see friends movig around me so fast , some are already doing their Masters degree, some are flying overseas for business trips sponsored by their companies, some got married, some are doing well in their work .... all of them below 25 years of their lives.

Is this success? Is this what God wants me to be? What does God want me to be? Who does He want me to become? Am I running too fast? Am I running too far? Does God see me by my resume at the end of my life? Am I living my life to what He accords me to?

Why is it that I feel that I'm running too fast ; sometimes out of the orbit ; sometimes it's the other way round - that I'm too slow and everyone else is running ahead of me? Is this kiasuism and the need for accomplishment killing me slowly, but surely? Or has God's presence and peace left me?

Maybe I should just live my own life as if I don't care about others. Not to think of lost opportunities , but focus in running according to Him? How do I do that? Would my desire to do that run out before I even reach there?

So many questions, so little answers.

Setup of FTP server

This is one thing which was never attempted before. There's so many things to think about :
First : functionality. Second: Authenticity. Third: Security.

Still working on it. Lots to try on. Well, at least the week is not boring... :)

One Week without IM

.........is like one lifetime without it!

Effects as below:

• Work efficiency : increased.
• Accompliment of the week : FTP server set up , emailing typing speed increased , IQ (allegedly) increased according to a research reported by BBC without IM.
• Failures of the week : Time passed very .. verrrry slowwwwleeeyyyyy.... , need to eat chewing gum and talk more crap , need of more MP3s , need of more handsome lads in my office - current count : nil.
• Thankful for : Friday is here, finally!!!!!!!!!
  

Times The Bookshop Warehouse Sale

Date: 29th April - 8th May
(Preview day for Times privilege card-members on 28th April)
Time: 10am - 7.00pm
Venue: 4, 2nd Floor, Jalan 13/4, Section 13, Petaling Jaya (behind Colgate-Palmolive)

So Juventus lost.
And Liverpool moved forward to advance and meet Chelsea.
Two English teams in the Semi-finals of Champion's League.
History is made.
Who will advance to the finals?
We will not know.
But watch the game - first leg of the two. Stamford Bridge.
Tonight : 2.30am Malaysian Time.
Sing the song if you will :)

London Bridge is Falling Down

For those travelling to the capital for Wednesday's Champions League semi-final first leg, here's a classic Kop anthem to you in the mood...

London Bridge is falling down Falling down, falling down London Bridge is falling down Poor old Chelsea Build it up with Red and White Red and White Red and White Build it up with Red and White Poor old Chelsea

Read more news here

Acceptance of the truth

In life, there are always things which you can change and some which you cant.
I saw a very interesting prayer last weekend which sounded like this:

God, grant me the serenity to accept things which I cannot change,
Grant me courage to change things which I can,
and the wisdom to differentiate between the two.

It's time we move on and live a life, and not just existing.... Harbouring ill-feelings against someone brings more adverse effects to yourself than to others.

Melaka is famous for....

1. Food: Satay celup, cendol, beef noodle, chicken rice balls, nyonya food(tak makan),yam cakes, currypuffs.
2. A lot of night spots but they are all empty at night.
3. There's plenty of food spots in Melaka..... but u gotta find them.

Spent half the travel budget on food... I'm in self denial now because I have not gone on the weighing machine. Maybe later.. hehhehe

New Pope is elected : Pope Benedict XVI

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is officially elected by the Conclave as the new Pope Benedict XVI.
Have no knowledge about him, but read the CNN and they said he is the "head prefect of Pope John Paul II" ... close confidante of the late pope.... things like this. It also means he holds strongly all the traditions of the Roman Catholic church . The 78 year old pope, oldest in the history of St Peter's is seen as "an enormous disappointment for all those who hoped for a reformist and pastoral pope" , in short, someone who is more liberal and open-minded to tackle issues such as :

.sexuality and the role of women in the church
.birth control
.stem cell research
.ordination of female priests
.usage of birth control methods especially in AIDS-stricken countries like the African nations

I suppose the new pope isn't going to rest his laurels, especially when his predecessor has done many firsts as a papal in history (think about bringing down communism, went into a mosque and a synogogue , speaks ten different languages, held inter-faith dialogues, initiates a unification of church between the Protestant sect and the Roman Catholicism sect, focus on the youths as the new face of the Church and the list goes on...) .

Will he be a conservative pope, or a contemporary pope who adheres to the latest world events -think stem cell, condoms and morning-after pills, euthanasia,gay priests -

Will he follow the foot steps of Pope John Paul II?
-think inter-faith talks, unification of churches-

Will he focus on the future?
-think youths and women-

Will he be pro-Jesus or pro-tradition?
-think Islam , traditions of the church-

Will he stand on a side or be the strong voice against world issues?
-think terrorism, racism, AIDS , sexuality problems -

Waiting to see the next episode. Byes!