:: Friday, May 23, 2003 ::
Pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza and pizza.... :) How many PIZZA makes a happy man?
:: Zia 6:45 AM [+] ::
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:: Monday, May 19, 2003 ::
Quote of the moment from me:
He/she who has lost the drive to want more or get more from life, has lost the "life" in him/her. ;)
:: Zia 3:07 AM [+] ::
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:: Sunday, May 18, 2003 ::
Quote of the day by ME!!
He who is not grateful & Happy for the good things he has, would not be happy with what he wishes he had......... SO TRUE ;)
:: Tina 10:35 PM [+] ::
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Vanity... is it really alarming or inspiring?
:: Zia 10:18 AM [+] ::
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:: Saturday, May 17, 2003 ::
Sometimes I just amaze myself with what I can do with colors.... hehehe... am I blowing my own trumpet.. Maybe. But, I like what I can do with colors. I just desinged a theme for the new Horde/IMP webmail interface. My favourite color is lavender. So, I worked on lavender. There are some limitations on what I can do with the interface. The limitations are actually the reasons whether the Horde Authors will accept the theme or not. What I mean is, I could do many things and completely change the look of the webmail, but that would violate the standard to follow while desinging the theme. Anyways, the snapshot of the theme can be found here: http://mzrahman.com/snaps/lavender-snapshot.jpg
:: Zia 9:13 AM [+] ::
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:: Friday, May 16, 2003 ::
Oh man... Some people are always lucky... Everyday, I learn something new about people... the people around me, they teach me so much. Today, I got to learn that no matter how much we sulk, no matter how much we scream saying "nottttt fairrrrrr", no matter how much we become extremist because life was always unfair to us, there are some people who are living a life of easy-go-lucky man. But, the question is why don't they feel the same way we feel? Why don't they get to realise that the reason they are lucky because their parents have worked hard? Maybe, they do realise. And, even after realising that they just pretend not to realise it. Who wants to leave that "Free T-shirt" deal when they are getting it easily? :)
:: Zia 6:20 AM [+] ::
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:: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 ::
I was trying to create a public wishlist for me :), but unfortunately it seems like that the Genie is stopping me to publish my wishes in public. Hehehe... Actually, I just finished configuring the new Horde Frame Work, where I found that the fabulous Horde developers have kindly added a new module called Wishlist (Genie). I was trying to make it public, but was getting some unusual errors. Also, marked one small bug in the process. I think I will report the bug. Just yesterday, I submitted one bug to Horde on their Comic module with a quickly written patch. But, Chuck (main author of Horde) did not accept it :(. Hehehe... actually, I realised later that I was in a hurry to write the patch (or maybe was wicked to get a '15 mins fame') so I didn't bother to check our the whole Driver and write the code by following the Horde Coding Standard. Anyways, this time I am not even trying to write a patch. I will just report the bug. Or, on the other hand.... ehhhh... I might dig into the code a bit. Its fun to see how the Gurus of PHP are coding. :)
:: Zia 11:37 AM [+] ::
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:: Thursday, May 08, 2003 ::
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. Sooo true...:)
:: Zia 2:45 AM [+] ::
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:: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 ::
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day. <--- hahahahah.... oh man... this guy is gooodd....
:: Zia 10:09 AM [+] ::
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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. <-- definitely a good one. ;)
:: Zia 10:01 AM [+] ::
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To err is human.. to blame your computer for your mistake is even more human; in fact it is downright natural. Hahahaha... how true...
:: Zia 9:57 AM [+] ::
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:: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 ::
These are simply good (given by Sanjay):
1) Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
2) Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
3) Coca-Cola was originally green.
4) It is impossible to lick your elbow.
5) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
6) If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you
would find the letter "A"? (just try to find out what is the number)
I enjoyed.... :)
:: Zia 11:18 AM [+] ::
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Just got to know a shocking fact: "Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined." Damnnnn.. wish my monthly salary was near his daily, maybe hourly income..... I also found out searching that "Nike paying workers in countries such as Malaysia $1.60 a day for making shoes, while selling the newest Air Jordan's for $150 a pair"... so that just adds it..... Boy we are still in the same age of slavery... just sophisticated slave....:)
:: Zia 6:01 AM [+] ::
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:: Monday, May 05, 2003 ::
I am alone.... I am alone... I am alooooooonnnnnneeeeeeee........
:: Zia 6:35 AM [+] ::
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:: Saturday, May 03, 2003 ::
All of a sudden I thought of making a special marinade sauce to grill some chicken wings today. So, the first thing that I did was start looking for recipies in the Internet. But, the recipies that I found were not good enough, 'cause they include all sorts of complicated ingrediants that I won't be able to find out in the market without my baby's help. :) So, I decided to make my own mariande sauce. I just mixed BBQ sauce, soya sauce, chilli sauce, ketchup, white cookig wine, lime, salt, onion and garlic past and water to make the marinade sauce and marinated the chicken wings for about 2/3 hours in the fridge. So, when I was done with the grilling, I found that the chicken wings do not taste bad at all. In fact, they taste very nice. Better than my previous marinated chickens. :) I realised I should do these kind of things more often.
:: Zia 10:10 AM [+] ::
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:: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 ::
Just today the immigration lady made me realise that I was giving inconsitant information in the immigration forms i.e. my education is finishing on 1999 and I started working fulltime in a company on 1998. So, it was kinda blur to her. Well, I bet some people will understand that it is indeed possible to persue your education fulltime and doing a job fulltime given the fact that the employer is flexible. My employer was way too flexible. I was in charge of the company that my employer was starting. So, that gave me more benefits. Like, I really didn't have any hard and fast time table for my job. I used to goto office whenever I am free. I used to goto office in the evenings also and stay in the office till 10 - 12 AM. Thats of course when I had some jobs to finish. I remember many days staying back in the office cause it was too late and i had to come back to the office in the morning or goto university for classes. I used to sleep with all the servers and machines. Crazy huh! Well, at that time I was full of motivation and youth. On top of that, my boss made sure that I feel comfortable. He even bought me a car. I was obviously paying for the car but with an interest free installment arrangement. Now, looking back to that state of my life, I really wonder, was it a good choice to leave the job. Well, sometimes when you have all the things in your life that you want, you still feel empty. In my case, I had all kind of benefits and even you can call it a dream job. But, the reason I left the job is completely moral. Yes, you can call it moral. Also, I really wanted to experince working in other countries and see how does it feel to be a normal employee.
:: Zia 10:55 PM [+] ::
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Nothing much happened in my boring life in the past 24 hours. Seems like, I am going to die of bordem. Office is the only exciting thing that I have. "Exciting" because it relates to my passion. Or else, maybe I won't be here breathing. Anyways, its really fun to realise and know that people shows interest at you whenever they see a potential benefit for themselves. I realised that today. Some people are just downright selfish. No matter, how much you brain wash them, that selfish dirt never goes away from their head. So, I am wondering now, should I treat these people as dirt also or not. Hell, I don't give a F*ck to them. They can go ssenhsifles ykcoc rieht ot noitacided a sa tohs gnineve rof me evah dna eeffoc toh ni sllab nikcuf rieht pid.
:: Zia 8:53 AM [+] ::
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:: Sunday, April 27, 2003 ::
The SARS. Singapore government has gone lunatic on this. Today, I went to collect my renewed Employment Pass and they held my passport and asked me to come back after 2 and half hours instead of giving me the EP immediately. Aparently, the reason is, I went out of Singapore (to my own country) and came back by 6th of April. After a series of talk which I overheared from the immigration officers, I realised that they decided to do some digging out on me before they can issue me the EP. Not to mention, I had to fill out a SARS declaration form before I could even go into the counters. Its a good effort. Very very good effort. Actually, thats what makes me feel more safe living in Singapore. I heard in the TV yesterday that WHO said "If Singapore cannot control SARS, then nobody can!!!" Thats a very strong statement.
:: Zia 8:52 PM [+] ::
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I will be watching Wrestle Mania 9 now. I like it cause it entertains me in a silly way. maybe my inner beast likes to watch it...:o (may be I wanna beat the s*it out of everyone who is lucky...)
:: Zia 7:47 AM [+] ::
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Today in the afternoon, I went hystirical. I guess its the result of living alone. 26 years of my life, I never spent more than 1 or 2 hours alone except the fact that I was sleeping. I was always surrounded by people. People that loves me. People who would die for me. Although I used to spend most of my time in my room, every now and then I used to get my mum's febulous cooking treats, or maybe my nephew coming and asking something or maybe somebody screaming at someone downstairs or something or the other is happeing around the house or my friends/my loved ones kept me always busy with their attention and love. I guess that never made me feel what is loneliness, how ugly loneliness can be. I thought I was always alone and i can handle this... But thats wrong. I wasn't alone. Now, when I don't get to talk to anyone for about 72 hours, then I realise what treatment I got from those who loves me... I think I got to realise that I am helpless without them... Thats why maybe I went more lunatic today....
:: Zia 7:44 AM [+] ::
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:: Saturday, April 26, 2003 ::
I think I am bored. :(
:: Zia 9:48 PM [+] ::
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Morning realisation - yes, let me call this my morning relisation :). Right when I got up from sleep, I realised that I have only ONE reason to keep hanging on to this Lah Lah Land (Singapore).
:: Zia 8:21 PM [+] ::
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Another day of my life ends. What have I achieved today? NOTHING!
:: Zia 9:13 AM [+] ::
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Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted
In one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip
-- Eminem (Loose yourself)
I think I will go capture it now... ;)
:: Zia 4:03 AM [+] ::
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I like the line "Success is my only mothafuckin option, failure's not" in the "Loose Yourself" song of Eminem. Thumbs up Eminem, you're my mothafuckin GURU. :)
:: Zia 4:01 AM [+] ::
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Yesterday, when I was about to finish my office day with a smile, something just pissed me off so badly that I could feel the heat around my ears when I was in the bus. All along I had this stupid notion in me that people are born to help other people out. Other people who you don't even know much. I had this beliefe that if I continue to do that then that makes me a better person. Well, at least I got myself convinced that there is no harm doing that. But, today I realised that may be I should not help them unconditionally. Maybe, I should use them. Or, on the other hand, maybe I should not at all expect that I would get something in return from them. But, all I wanted was a little gratitude, a little acknowledgement from them which would make them more humane than ever. Later, I got to realise that maybe its supposed to be in this way. In the path of mysterious life you and me will be helping others all the time. Maybe, we were born with this f*cken quality of helping others without f*cken expecting anything in return.
:: Zia 3:49 AM [+] ::
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Just realised that I have to take control of my own life. Somehow, this fooking life is treating me null. Every now and then I get deprived of everything that I want in my life. If I scream and say "NOT FAIRRRR", that s*it just keeps coming back at me. Rambling, ain't I? Well, this place supposed to be for rambling around. ".tihs ym ,ekil tnod uoy fi kcid ym kcus nac uoy oS".
:: Zia 3:39 AM [+] ::
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Just finished installing, configuring and updating the new windows in my laptop. Phewww, that was one tidious job that I hate. But, didn't have any choice. 'Cause the lappy was full of garbage and it was getting the famous "Microsoft Blue Screen of DEATH" too often. Now, have to start the 2nd phase, installing the programs I need regularly. I think I will do that after a hot bath and some rest and of course with a hot cup of coffee. Till then, Adios folks.
:: Zia 1:58 AM [+] ::
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