Thursday, January 26, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006
Golf are for Gentlemen?
Golf was exciting over the weekend.
First of all, a little self trumpeting. It was my club medal championship Sunday morning and I played reasonably well considering it rained half way through. I thought nothing of it until they announced the winners during the lunch cum prize giving ceremony. I nearly choked as I heard my name declared as the winner. Yippee!!?
Minutes later, I had a bigger surprise when I was told that I came third in the overall club ranking. I marginally overtook the previous third place contender by a mere 10 points. I was ecstatic!
Beaming with confidence after the winner's photo taking session, I was off again for another game as my overseas brother in laws were in town. We were early at the first tee and we waited for the earlier front group to clear. When nobody was in sight, the course marshal told us that we could go, as the flight supposedly in front of us might not show up. After the three of us teed off, the group came and demanded that we move back as it was their time. Out of courtesy, we gave way although they were late. They moved on without acknowledging us. Thank you to you too, rude ass!
We went about with our game and it was as competitive as ever. Everything was smooth, until the 6th hole after I teed off. My BIL followed suit and that's when I heard someone shouted. OMG, the front group has not cleared and they were not visible as they were under the shade of the trees.
Lucky they were out of our driving range and we halted our game. Feeling terrible, I went over to apologize profusely as it was my fault for not noticing them. However the three gentlemen did not accept my apologies but instead started abusing us verbally. With my BIL's short fuse, tempered flared obviously as the 3 CCB acted ungentlemanly and insistently provoking us with verbal abuse. Lucky there weren't any fist fight although those 3 deserves irons to be wrapped around their necks.
We did not purposely tee off into their group and we apologized but there was no courtesy on their side. With that incident, the club that supposedly to be the premier golf club in Sarawak unfortunately disappoint me as they have admitted some of the best ah beng asshole as members. I am sad but will not be disturbed by such narrow-minded people.
What comes around goes around and unfortunately these are the people and things that makes the world goes round. :-)
First of all, a little self trumpeting. It was my club medal championship Sunday morning and I played reasonably well considering it rained half way through. I thought nothing of it until they announced the winners during the lunch cum prize giving ceremony. I nearly choked as I heard my name declared as the winner. Yippee!!?
Minutes later, I had a bigger surprise when I was told that I came third in the overall club ranking. I marginally overtook the previous third place contender by a mere 10 points. I was ecstatic!
Beaming with confidence after the winner's photo taking session, I was off again for another game as my overseas brother in laws were in town. We were early at the first tee and we waited for the earlier front group to clear. When nobody was in sight, the course marshal told us that we could go, as the flight supposedly in front of us might not show up. After the three of us teed off, the group came and demanded that we move back as it was their time. Out of courtesy, we gave way although they were late. They moved on without acknowledging us. Thank you to you too, rude ass!
We went about with our game and it was as competitive as ever. Everything was smooth, until the 6th hole after I teed off. My BIL followed suit and that's when I heard someone shouted. OMG, the front group has not cleared and they were not visible as they were under the shade of the trees.
Lucky they were out of our driving range and we halted our game. Feeling terrible, I went over to apologize profusely as it was my fault for not noticing them. However the three gentlemen did not accept my apologies but instead started abusing us verbally. With my BIL's short fuse, tempered flared obviously as the 3 CCB acted ungentlemanly and insistently provoking us with verbal abuse. Lucky there weren't any fist fight although those 3 deserves irons to be wrapped around their necks.
We did not purposely tee off into their group and we apologized but there was no courtesy on their side. With that incident, the club that supposedly to be the premier golf club in Sarawak unfortunately disappoint me as they have admitted some of the best ah beng asshole as members. I am sad but will not be disturbed by such narrow-minded people.
What comes around goes around and unfortunately these are the people and things that makes the world goes round. :-)
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Titleist 695MB Forged Iron
Finally, some closeup views on what's more to come from Titleist. Below are supposedly Titleist latest 2006 new 695MB forged muscle back iron. Not even out in their webiste. :-)
Titleist and other golf manufacturers are set to launch new club models this year. Unless you have set your mind, I am recomending a wait and see stance, if you are in market for a new clubs.
More pictures / photos of Titleist clubs can be found in my previous posts:
Any information, reviews and comments will be appreciated. Thank you for sharing.
Tagged: Titleist forged 695 mb MB cb CB 695.mb irons iron
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Customer Service in Malaysia
You will be amazed at how slack some of our Malaysian company's customer service are, until you tried them yourself.
I was one of the unfortunate ones to find out. And if I were to vote, TMNut takes the cake for being the slowest. See photo capture below. It only took them 3 weeks before they responded! Amazing!!Eh, too much kopi break ah?
I hope Celcom will not take as long or longer, as I officially wrote in to complaint about another unethical SMS billing, from the same gateway: 39444. My mail was sent out last Saturday 14th January and I gave them until this Friday 20th January 2006 to reply.
However, I am not putting too much hope on it; by the way and pace of some Malaysian corporation works. So I guess I better start my migrating process to a better service provider. I heard Maxis is good?
Let's hear your experience, good or bad.
I was one of the unfortunate ones to find out. And if I were to vote, TMNut takes the cake for being the slowest. See photo capture below. It only took them 3 weeks before they responded! Amazing!!
I hope Celcom will not take as long or longer, as I officially wrote in to complaint about another unethical SMS billing, from the same gateway: 39444. My mail was sent out last Saturday 14th January and I gave them until this Friday 20th January 2006 to reply.However, I am not putting too much hope on it; by the way and pace of some Malaysian corporation works. So I guess I better start my migrating process to a better service provider. I heard Maxis is good?
Let's hear your experience, good or bad.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Of seatbelts, women and no sleep
Only god knows how a woman thinks. They are truly from Venus. And I am serious!
Sigh. I am a bit incoherent today; as I didn't get much sleep this morning after the effing rubbish truck came 3 am in the morning. I bet the whole neighborhood loves the local council even more after last night rude awakening. As the truck hums and clanked away, I wanted to open my window and shout my lungs out but I would have sounded like a fool. Then came the thought of throwing rubbish at them instead, and yet again, it would look foolish, as theyalready smell like rubbish? Duh! were only doing their job.
After a few minutes, which felt like eternity, the truck and its sound faded away. Insistently, I tried to return to snooze land but I just kept tossing and turning the whole time. Arghh…. Oh well it was better than the last experience when some dim wit blared his horn in the middle of the night announcing his arrival or was he trying to get his sleeping maid to open the house gate, 5 feet away!! Seriously I believe that common sense these days are depleting fastlike MAS bank account. Must be all the TehTarik or our ailing education system?
On the way to work, I found this morning news on the radio rather amusing. Malaysians were supposed to buckle up at the rear seats but the law was postponed because it needs to be table in parliament as there were too many cars not equipped with rear seat belts? Aduh! Seat belts also need to be politicized? And is there a need to wait for a few persons in suits to table and pass parliament law before people starting buckling up? It is for your own safety and if you love your love ones, please buckle up, be it at the front or the backor in bed.
On the lighter side, did you know that The Malaysian Highway Safety Council has done extensive testing on a newly designed seat belt? Results show that accidents can be reduced by as much as 80 % when the belt is properly installed. Correct installation is illustrated in the following attachment.
I still do not know how women thinks and I guess I will just never know…
Sigh. I am a bit incoherent today; as I didn't get much sleep this morning after the effing rubbish truck came 3 am in the morning. I bet the whole neighborhood loves the local council even more after last night rude awakening. As the truck hums and clanked away, I wanted to open my window and shout my lungs out but I would have sounded like a fool. Then came the thought of throwing rubbish at them instead, and yet again, it would look foolish, as they
After a few minutes, which felt like eternity, the truck and its sound faded away. Insistently, I tried to return to snooze land but I just kept tossing and turning the whole time. Arghh…. Oh well it was better than the last experience when some dim wit blared his horn in the middle of the night announcing his arrival or was he trying to get his sleeping maid to open the house gate, 5 feet away!! Seriously I believe that common sense these days are depleting fast
On the way to work, I found this morning news on the radio rather amusing. Malaysians were supposed to buckle up at the rear seats but the law was postponed because it needs to be table in parliament as there were too many cars not equipped with rear seat belts? Aduh! Seat belts also need to be politicized? And is there a need to wait for a few persons in suits to table and pass parliament law before people starting buckling up? It is for your own safety and if you love your love ones, please buckle up, be it at the front or the back
On the lighter side, did you know that The Malaysian Highway Safety Council has done extensive testing on a newly designed seat belt? Results show that accidents can be reduced by as much as 80 % when the belt is properly installed. Correct installation is illustrated in the following attachment.
I still do not know how women thinks and I guess I will just never know…
Monday, January 09, 2006
Oh... Malaysia
I am glad that our Malaysian police came into the limelight of late.
They are our country law enforcer and over the years they have done respectable deeds. However with more public awareness and accessibility of more liberated mass media, especially electronically, the force's bad apples are finally scrutinized openly.
As seen in recent headlines:
Nude Squat case?
Women carrying condoms are prostitutes? Are we Burma?
Police judging public on how they dress?
These are sad cases and will they be swept under the carpet like always?
It is also not surprising to see public confident plummeted to an all time low with such enforcement officers. Especially when Malaysian public have instilled a silent perception that enforcements officers from various government agencies are corrupted in someway. There must be some truth in their accusations otherwise a tree does not flutter without any wind?
This might sound like over generalizing but it is also believed that dealing with Malaysian government agencies involves a lot of bureaucracy and red tapes. They are known to be slow and inefficient, making them prefect breeding grounds for enforcement irregularities.
To be fair, there are always two side of a coin. Basic demand and supply economics. Can we blame lowly paid personnel for accepting inducement? For some it became a chronic habit and infectious. Maybe that is why it is an open secret that a handful of Malaysian law enforcement officers accept bribes and Malaysian public gives bribes?
So what is your take?
They are our country law enforcer and over the years they have done respectable deeds. However with more public awareness and accessibility of more liberated mass media, especially electronically, the force's bad apples are finally scrutinized openly.
As seen in recent headlines:
Nude Squat case?
Women carrying condoms are prostitutes? Are we Burma?
Police judging public on how they dress?
These are sad cases and will they be swept under the carpet like always?
It is also not surprising to see public confident plummeted to an all time low with such enforcement officers. Especially when Malaysian public have instilled a silent perception that enforcements officers from various government agencies are corrupted in someway. There must be some truth in their accusations otherwise a tree does not flutter without any wind?
This might sound like over generalizing but it is also believed that dealing with Malaysian government agencies involves a lot of bureaucracy and red tapes. They are known to be slow and inefficient, making them prefect breeding grounds for enforcement irregularities.
To be fair, there are always two side of a coin. Basic demand and supply economics. Can we blame lowly paid personnel for accepting inducement? For some it became a chronic habit and infectious. Maybe that is why it is an open secret that a handful of Malaysian law enforcement officers accept bribes and Malaysian public gives bribes?
So what is your take?
Friday, January 06, 2006
Dirty Telco's in Malaysia
This is so lame!
I received another spam sms and this one caught my attention as it wrote:
I received another spam sms and this one caught my attention as it wrote:
"FOC Msg: Dear user due 2 technical error, u may hv been billed for unsubscribed services under 39444. For refund, call 0321711286 Mon-Fri, 9-6, by 31-01-2006 Sender: 332220000000"
Sadly, I am still being targeted as one of their victims, with random irritating sms coming in at all hours. I would like to reiterate that I have NEVER subscribe to their services and never will! So what was the above sms about? More scam? Or this must be the Malaysia Boleh thing that people have been talking about huh?
Technically I am sound enough to comprehend any jargons, so please, could someone from these Telco's or their
Please! Someone put a stop to this harassment on Malaysian mobile community.
And I want my money back and no question asked!
P/S: 2 technical error or two technical errors? Reread the rest of their above message and I thought my English was bad but theirs take the cake. I am dumb folded.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Why Titleist Pro V1?
Why is it so good and addictive?
Could it be the high exposures on golf tours and the wins it garnered? Or maybe it is the marketing power by giant company like Titleist? And before anyone thinks that I am paid by stingy Titleist to write about this article, you are dead wrong. I am still waiting for my complementary HIO gift but later was told that I could get a certificate (by printing it myself from their website; with my own printer and paper! Yeah rite). But one thing is for sure; I am hooked on this sticky little ball.
No, this ball does not float on water nor it can help you do your dirty dishes. But it is one of the best balls in market yet. ProV1 is a spin-off from the old time favorite balata tour and professional series. The former balls are known to scuff easily but their orgasmic buttery feel and spin they produced outweigh the expensive heartache. ProV1 was later introduced as an improvement and it stormed the industry with its revolutionary drop and stop technology. More resilient, longer off the tee coupled with superb flight consistency and great feel around the greens, there is no wondering why this high performance ball are the #1 choice on worldwide tours and for seriousrich golfers seeking Tour-level technology and Tour-proven performance
Over the years, ProV1 just got better with each new model. The latest model is longer with improved launch conditions yet increase ball control into and around the green. My only gripe is the claim made on the ball's workability, they are just not the same and have been reduced compared to the balata days. It is however offset with longer straighter drives, thanks the constant research and improvement in technology.
I have reviewed a few balls over the years and the closest rivals are Callaway HX tour and Ben Hogan Apex tour, each has their own characteristics but none come close to pro V1 in terms of consistency and overall feel from tee to green. Hey, I might be addicted but I am not on drugs and sober enough to know that they cost a bomb. Until one that is cheaper and better comes along, Pro V1 will remain the best golf balls todate.
Now, I hope somebody from Titleist will read this and will be kind enough to send me 2 years unlimited supplies of ProVs. Ha!
Could it be the high exposures on golf tours and the wins it garnered? Or maybe it is the marketing power by giant company like Titleist? And before anyone thinks that I am paid by stingy Titleist to write about this article, you are dead wrong. I am still waiting for my complementary HIO gift but later was told that I could get a certificate (by printing it myself from their website; with my own printer and paper! Yeah rite). But one thing is for sure; I am hooked on this sticky little ball.
No, this ball does not float on water nor it can help you do your dirty dishes. But it is one of the best balls in market yet. ProV1 is a spin-off from the old time favorite balata tour and professional series. The former balls are known to scuff easily but their orgasmic buttery feel and spin they produced outweigh the expensive heartache. ProV1 was later introduced as an improvement and it stormed the industry with its revolutionary drop and stop technology. More resilient, longer off the tee coupled with superb flight consistency and great feel around the greens, there is no wondering why this high performance ball are the #1 choice on worldwide tours and for serious
Over the years, ProV1 just got better with each new model. The latest model is longer with improved launch conditions yet increase ball control into and around the green. My only gripe is the claim made on the ball's workability, they are just not the same and have been reduced compared to the balata days. It is however offset with longer straighter drives, thanks the constant research and improvement in technology.
I have reviewed a few balls over the years and the closest rivals are Callaway HX tour and Ben Hogan Apex tour, each has their own characteristics but none come close to pro V1 in terms of consistency and overall feel from tee to green. Hey, I might be addicted but I am not on drugs and sober enough to know that they cost a bomb. Until one that is cheaper and better comes along, Pro V1 will remain the best golf balls todate.
Now, I hope somebody from Titleist will read this and will be kind enough to send me 2 years unlimited supplies of ProVs. Ha!
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
First blog for 2006
Started off the New Year with a bang alright.
A Canon Ixus digital camera was stolen from our table as we were dancing away during the midnight countdown. Yes, this old geezer still has a few move in him. We left the party early as the theft incident gave a bad taste in our mouth. I am sad for the thief as it happened in a posh private club and angry at the same time as we lost the photos that we took earlier. I was told that I looked stunning.
Then, this morning our golf community was shook by another sad news. A golfer friend was found dead at our clubhouse. May his soul rest in peace and condolence to the family.
Sigh... I am too sad to blog.
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