Ah Nee and her friends went to Restaurant Tak Fok, Kepong to eat crabs for dinner. (Egghead and Loc Kee both recommended this restaurant.) While on the way back, they met an accident, 3 cars in a row. The impact was very big, by looking at the pictures and damages. If you were driving along that road and got stuck in a traffic jam, most likely was their fault. -lol-

Nee hit her head against the seat twice, and is still feeling dizzy after 1 day. I am still worried about her, afraid that there will be any concussion. I have reminded her to see doctor if the condition and symptoms continue for another day.

If you can read chinese, hop over to her blog at http://ahnee.jasonmumbles.com. She will be blogging there from now on.

Yes, our template are very similar, because she was the one who designed my template as well. -wink-

Brats,

The Johor office is currently lack of journalists and contributors, and I need you people’s help in writing stories and covering assignments for The Star. Your article would be published in Metro south and east edition and you will be paid accordingly.

Please contact me for further details.

EH,
Johor Office.

I received this email 2 weeks ago and I replied his email, saying that I could help him out. However, he only wanted Brats who are based in Johor only. My offer was turned down and I thought that would be the end of it until one day, I received another email.

Jason

EH contacted me stating that you would like to contribute your articles to us. If you are interested, you can call me at this number, 012 – 6842434 and we will arrange a time to meet up and discuss the details.

YP,
Malacca Office.

Immediately, I gave her a call and we agreed to meet up on Thursday, at 3PM.

Fast forward to Thursday, 3PM, I arrived at the office and requested to look for Madam Lee. Her colleague brought me to her office and the “interview” started.

Here are some of the highlights :

“You are a Brats?”
“Yes. I attended the Kuala Terengganu workshop in 2000.”
“Good. It means you have the basic idea of what journalism about, gives you an advantage.”

“What is your interest? I mean, what would you like to write?”
“Food.”
“Other than food?”
“Food.”

3 seconds of silence…

“I mean, other than food, what else do you think you can write? You see, if I know your interest, I will know what type of assignments and stories that you can write or that I can send you to.”
“Gadgets, internet stuffs, and little stories that happen around my area. I haven’t tried writing about events though.”
“Alright.”

“I will train you up, don’t worry about that and it will definitely earn you some extra cash. I have trained about 14 stringers so far and most of them are not based in Malacca anymore. Some went to UK for studies; some got married and etc. So, I am really short of journalists and contributors here, so, its good that you are here.”

“The highest paid for 1 of my stringers is RM2700 so far. And depending on how much time you are willing to spend on this, you will earn the extra cash. But most of them are full timers, part timer but works full time.”
“That’s a lot of money. Definitely will help me in my always-seem-to-be-not-enough-allowance.”
“Haha…”

“Do you have a digital camera?”
“A 4.0 mega pixel camera.”
“Good enough.”
“But that’s my dad’s.”
“Haha… Never mind, you can borrow mine if you want to.”

“Once I start assign you to cover assignments and news, we can loan you a notebook for you to do your work. You won’t have an official nametag, but you can just tell them that you are The Star’s journalist and that’s it. If there’s anything, you can ask them to call me. You can use your Brats’ tag also.”
“Ok.”

“Bla bla bla bla…”
“Bla bla bla bla…”
“Bla bla bla bla…”
“Bla bla bla bla…”

“So, I will fax in these details to HQ and they will setup an account for you. And hopefully, by next week, you can start writing your stories.”
“Thank you.”

I stepped out from the office and I have never feel so great before. Why? It is because my name will appear on the papers soon, but not very soon.

Thanks to Twinsmom’s advice. Most of the food articles, you have read it in my blog because there are not much to be offered in Malacca. However, I will need to rewrite them into an all new article, with different writing style as well. As for new stuffs / food, I will try to blog it here first. However, somehow, I feel, this is going to limit me from blogging certain things.

P/S :

To avoid unnecessary problems (Pelf should know about this.), I have to password protect this post because it is work related. In another words, I have to protect my identity of as a stringer for The Star.

BratS stands for Bright Roving Annoying TeenS, which is a young journalist program started by The Star for teenagers aged 16 to 18. You will learn a lot of things about journalism throughout the 3 days 2 nights workshop. It was during my workshop which I got to take my first flight.

Stringer is another word for contributor / part time journalist.

I am still searching for suitable ringing tones for the various groups in my phone, mainly “Family & Relatives”, “MMU-ians”, “Bloggers” and “Special Friends”.

After going through my 8.9Gb of MP3s’ and WMAs’ song list, I still couldn’t find a ringing tone that I really like for all the groups. However, when I came accross this song, I knew this is the song for a few best friends of mine, especially Chee Yong and Chun Kit.

The song is titled “Friends 朋友”, sang by Emil Chau 周华健 and was released 9 or 10 years ago, when I was in Standard 6 (1996) or Form 1 (1997). Simple, easily remembered and down-to-earth tune, short, simple and meaningful lyrics.

When I asked Chun Kit, “What song do you want me to put as ringing tone for you and Ah Yong?”
He answered, “Emil Chau’s ‘Friends’.”
I replied, “I was thinking of that song too.”
He said, “Guess that song is just too meaningful for us.”
I couldn’t agree more.

“朋友” (Download)

这些年 一个人 风也过 雨也走
有过泪 有过错 还记得 坚持什么
真爱过 才会懂 会寂寞 会回首
终有梦 终有你 在心中
朋友一生一起走 那些日子不再有
一句话 一辈子 一生情 一杯酒
朋友不曾孤单过 一声朋友你会懂
还有伤 还有痛 还要走 还有我

Dedicated to all my friends, especially Chee Yong and Chun Kit, cheers to our 16 years of friendship.

On the other hand, what song should I put for the group - “Bloggers”? Any suggestions? And what song is meaningful to you?

P/S : Posting song lyrics is not my style. Does this post even consider as an update? Sorry, Boss Stewie. :P

2 reasons to explain the lack of updates lately.

1) Nothing to blog.
2) Need to study for my upcoming mid terms (27th of March, 3rd and 4th of April).

Today’s paper, I was well prepared for it, as I started studying for it 2 weeks before the exam itself. I managed to do the tutorials, read the notes, tried the examples in the notes and understood how to use the formulas. I was confident that I could score the paper. However, when I was attempting the questions, despair striked. I couldn’t answer the questions correctly.

Sighs… Need to work harder on it before I disappoint my parents again. -sobs-

For those who played Super Mario 3, here is a chance for you to bring back your memories. If you were born in the 80’s and you don’t know who is Mario, you ought to be shot dead. Anyway, I found the game on the net, and is a replica of “Super Mario Brothers 3″, with enhanced graphics and soundtrack.

Nice to play, fun to play, easy to play and addictive, somehow.

You can download the game (freeware) from here. Its about 19Mb. Install the file and you are all set to go. (Credit goes to “Acid Play“.)

Have fun!

P/S :

If you reallllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy don’t know how to play, the objective is to collect as much coin as possible and reach the finishing line at the end. To kill an opponent, you need to step on it. That’s all.

Most likely you will get stuck at World 1-4 (boss stage) and World 2-3, like I did.

The game will crash whenever you reach World 3-4 (boss stage), you need to quit most of the applications like your IMs, before you play this stage.

Obviously, I have nothing to blog about lately. So spare with my pointless entry today.

By looking at the amount of cars parked inside and outside MMU, we can easily conclude that MMU students are getting richer and richer in terms of pocket money and more luxury in terms of lifestyle, except me. Not only the parking lots in our campus is not enough, we have a huge variety of cars such from high class (for a student) like

BMW 1-series,

Mercedes Kompressor C230,

Toyota Hilux,

BMW 3-series (A few actually, with “P” stickers.), Toyota Celica, Toyota Supra FTO and etc. to “normal” cars like Proton’s and Perodua’s.

However, there’s a new car in MMU lately. Behold, the new car…

Can’t see? Nah!

LOL. I wonder who is the person who designed this car. I don’t know what model is it, where it came from, and how much it costs. All I know is, this car is freaking weird and funny. Anybody know what car is that? I am sure that’s not a hybrid or smart car! LOL.