It has been quite a long time since I last updated on the smaller and more ‘random’ areas of my regular life… Let’s take a look…

Update on my room:

It’s April and my Christmas tree is still standing!

Haha!

I can still remember, this magnificent Christmas tree was bought and built on December 2, 2007. The date today is April 19th, 2008, and I still haven’t got time to remove the decorations and store away the tree!

Or maybe it’s because it is too beautiful that I don’t really want to take it away…

Or maybe I was just lazy… Hehe…

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Update on my house:

We’re moving out next month. This house is still in danger of flooding!

Oh no no, the piping problem is still not fixed yet!

We’ve been having this problem since last year, and we were pretty sure that we hadn’t done anything to stuck the toilet pipes and stuff…

Check out this video of us sweeping the overflowing (and still flowing/moving) water down the staircase from the upper floor!

But the problem is, the agent / landlord isn’t claiming responsibility either!

One of the most famous (and totally annoying) sentences ever uttered by our agent to us about this piping problem was:

“Oh… If you think you didn’t cause the blockage, but the problem happened during your tenancy wor… So, I guess you are just… err… unlucky lor…”

… meaning we’ve gotta pay for the fixing! How much? The last price quotation was more than RM3,000.

Really geng lor, these agents! UNLUCKY wor…?!!

Besides, the rental prices of townhouses around this area are rocketing sky-high – A typical RM1,200/month house will cost RM1,500/month starting next month; and RM1,600/month penthouses are going for RM2,200!

Staying in Cyberia is really going to bankrupt us before we can graduate!

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Update on my studies:

I’ve successfully and officially changed my academic major! I’m no longer taking Electronics Majoring in Telecommunications. Instead, it’s still Electronics, but – Majoring in Multimedia.

The official, unnecessarily long title is Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) (Hons.), Electronics Majoring in Multimedia.

If you asked me what the heck is the difference between the two; in words that we are more familiar with, I’d say that, in my previous major, I was going to be involved with phones, the internet, satellites and radio signals; stuff from how you received text messages from your boyfriend, to how EPL football matches get broadcast live from England to your local mamak stall.

Well-known brands in Telecommunications are like Maxis, Streamyx, Nokia and Skype.

But now, with my new major, I will likely be more involved in the designing of, perhaps, your latest high-resolution digital / video recorder, a better and faster YouTube (video-streaming), the next HD plasma TV display etc.

Technically anything involving an electronic combination of two or more of the following – Graphics, Text, Sounds and Videos – that’s Multimedia!

Well-known brands in Multimedia are like Sony, Samsung, Astro and GSC/TGV Cinemas.

Wish me luck! Hehe…

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Update on Jon’s rabbits:

I’ve done quite a regular coverage of Jon’s ‘baby’ rabbits ever since they were born four months ago…

But this is probably the last time I can update about them, because Jon is moving out of Cyberjaya next month, and the baby rabbits are, after all, all grown up already!

Only 3 left!

The other two babies, plus their daddy, were sadly given away due to, err… cost and ’spatial’ considerations.

They are all grown-ups now! No longer babies… and we’ve got proof – one of them, according to Jon, apparently tried to hump its mother! Rabbit porn!

Anyway… They are so big now, really… I think each of them can turn into a very full, BBQ dinner meal already…

(Still) my all-time favorite rabbit – MAYA!

So big that I can no longer hold with one hand – like I used to do a couple of months ago…

Huhu… Won’t be seeing them anymore starting next month… Sad sad…

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Lately, there are a lot of students around Cyberia doing ‘catering’ businesses – meaning they distribute fliers advertising the foods they’re catering, you call them up, and they deliver to your doorstep – with a charge, of course.

These foods usually range between fast foods (McD, KFC etc), burgers (ayam special, daging etc), and other stuff like Chinese mixed rice and nasi lemak.

Some have even gone as far as offering to cater food from a nearby hawker center in Seri Kembangan – Wantan Mee, Chee Cheong Fun, Dim Sum… all in the name of a small profit!

I think these people really know how to ‘fit the Demand’, since food choices in Cyberjaya are so disgustingly limited!

Anyway, catering KFC or burger ayam special in Cyberia, a residential area beside MMU generally populated by student residents, is considered quite normal.

But here are the really ’smart’ guys who pioneered a drastically new kind of catering:

Beer!

Now I really have to say - except for maybe the ‘moral’ aspect, these guys are really good business-thinkers!

Cyberia is ultra-densely populated by 20-to-30-year-old students, many foreign students, and what’s more – there’s a law forbidding general stores selling beer in Cyberjaya! If I’m not mistaken, a special permit is needed for stores to sell beer around here!

Therefore, basic economics: low supply + high demand = very profiting product!

I should have thought of this!

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