a DaY aT UM...

Hi Boo… My day at UM yesterday was quite alright. I started the day early because Mami (Uncle Mie’s stepmother) had passed on that morning. Abah wanted to go pay his last respect so he had to drop me off at UM early. I had tried to contact Luqman a couple of times because I wanted him to accompany me at the Expo they were having at the examination hall… I couldn’t get him so I called Juniady who was getting ready for work. He is a volunteer at the National Science Center again… at RM5/hr he seems content… oh well… so I started to get dressed and Luqman called back when I was in the bathroom… I returned his call afterwards and we agreed to meet there in a couple of minutes. I called Dr Nik who was already on the way there to tell her I was going to show… she wanted to introduce me to some of the researchers there… so I waited for Luqman for a few minutes because the office needed him to do something before he could leave… the Expo was quite nice… Ramang was in charge of one of Professor Masjuki’s booth… he seemed happy… I also met Dr. Sahar, En. Ibrahim… all of them still remember me somehow… but hey, who could forget… hehe Dr. Nik showed me the research using the Atomic Force Microscope that had been done by Dr. Roslan (another one of my Asasi lecturer) and I asked for his number… I later called him to tell him I was interested on the AFM and he seem to be excited to hear from me… so I guess this project is going to work after all… hopefully no more changes…
I stayed on at the Department after Friday prayers to attend a seminar by one of Professor Masitah’s student… just to see what I have to do in the future… Ang Wee Lee was there…. He is exactly how I left him… hehe Salam was also hanging around Luqman’s room and he left when we went for the seminar… Abah gone home from the funeral so he told me to get a ride from Anna… so I had to stay at Salam’s until about 7 o’clock before Anna comes to get me… I met Junaidy and Ismail there… and Salam’s housemate… who was from Sarawak and quite cute… for a guy… I was tired by then, not having fully recovered from the flu and all… by the time I got home with Anna and Zul it was like 9 o’clock…
I took a shower and chatted a little with Nathan… then a little more with Miri and Nawal (who is working at Istana Hotel now)… there were no one else online and Leonard was nice enough to amuse me because I was dead bored reading about AFMs for a few hours… he stayed until about 1:30 am or so… I think… I continued my AFM homework until about 2:40 am and then went to bed…
Today is all about lazing about and recovering… and of course playing with Puteri… I am going to clean up my hard-disk a little now… it’s a mess I tell you…
So I’ll write more later…
Bless…
~ShaZ

I aM uP aGaiN...

Hey Boo… It’s been like ages since my last post… I have been in bed all this while… *sigh* caught myself the bug. Again. You’d think after the other day I’d develop some kind of resistance. Ah well… at least I am up and about again.
Haven’t had coffee in like ten/eleven days…
Got to have some…
Bless…
~ShaZ

fLu sEaSoN...

Hey Boo… today started early with me having to help Mama with food. I had to miss Kamal’s sister’s wedding because Tanti is terribly ill and I had to take her place as the ‘maid’ for the day… Puteri has been very cooperative with my taking over Tanti’s chores taking care of her bottles and diapers aside from the fact that Gerber has upset her little tummy and she craps four times a day… we stopped giving her that particular flavor (mixed berries)…
Pulut kuning was menu for the day with my squeezing some internet and laundry time in between… in the afternoon was a meeting out with some business associates to finalize a large deal over some coffee… that was not too bad seeing as the meeting only lasted about two hours or so… and the milkshake I ordered was crap… remember… you want milkshake, go to McDonalds… hotels make the crappiest milkshakes… then it’s back to Syed Hazmi’s house for Laksa… I only took a little portion in my bowl as I was already three quarters full at that time… then came the fruit and of course… more coffee.
Ajib was sick so I had to skip the PSII session. Damn… I was having a really bad headache nyways… nothing Panadol cannot cure… Swallowed 2 pills and I was up and about again… Anna and Zul wanted to leave early because they wanted to prepare for tomorrow (working day mah…) and so we left after coffee…
We got home a little after 8:30 pm and Tanti got really sick… I was just in time to unlock the door when she rushed in and threw up in the toilet… poor Tanti… apparently Hazim is sick too… or that’s what his status say… must be the flu season or something like that.
Anyways, they’re calling me now… for more ‘Cinderella’ duties…
So better be off then…
Bless…
~ShaZ

biTcHy dAy...

Dear Boo… it’s almost 2:30 am now and I just got out of a meeting… you’d think that I am running some kind of mafia business… :P but this is life as I live it… I get to wake up whatever time I want but I’d have to sacrifice some things when the time comes… my partner seemed so tired, going over business strategies and the silly agreement we got from one business associates… sheesh… oh well… we managed to sort out some of the things. But hey… tomorrow is another day.
As usual at this time of the month… it’s the time to pay for bills and stuff like that… my credit card bills are still escalating despite the fact that I am trying to control my expenses. All well… all for a good cause.
I spent half part of today getting some house chores done, seeing as Tanti is unwell I’ve had to take up her portion as well… but I suppose she’d felt the same way when I was ill the other day.
I’ve been missing a lot of sleep lately, seeing meetings are going through the wee hours of the night… I think a few times this week alone.
Have I bitched about IPPP and my masters project yet?! Ah well, I was partly to blame as well… but boy was I pissed to hear that MRB is patenting what I am doing… if they knew this was coming in the first place, why the heck offer me in the first place. Damned fools… so now I am again left with a new project… more or less back to square one for the fourth time… it doesn’t get bitchier than this I tell you!!!
*sigh* it’s kinda late… I better get some shut eye before I become bitchier than I already am…. *curse words running through my mind*
Bless…
~ShaZ

MuSiC BaToN...

Total Volume of Music on my Computer:
4,776 songs, a few days of music, 23.4 GB

The Last Cd I Bought:
Let's Talk About Love - Celine Dion... I've been on P2P eversince...

Song playing:
This Love - Maroon 5

Five songs, I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
This Love - Maroon 5
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Sunday Morning - Maroon 5
Life is Like a Boat - Rie Fu
Thank You! - HomeMade Kazoku

Five suckers to whom I'm passing the baton:

Let's see... Hmmm...
NeLLe
ZaI
BuZZ-iLLe
KayN
TanTee

yOu kNoW mE? I kNoW yOu?!

I saw this 100 things about me thing on Pat’s blog and it occurred to me that I mightn’t be able to write 100 things about me… do I know myself that well?! Let’s see… I couldn’t join the webring thingy because they aren’t accepting anymore members so I’ll just write my own 100 things about me list… :P

1. My name is Raja Shazrin Shah bin Raja Ehsan Shah
2. I am the only son in the family and I have two sisters
3. I still live with my parents
4. I don’t have a girlfriend (pathetic huh?!) and for some reason I have been hit on by more guys than girls (just when you think things couldn’t get any worse)
5. I think I am very ugly and I don’t like to look in the mirror
6. I enjoy shopping… as long as I am not paying (I am very stingy when it’s my money :P)
7. I have enough clothes for a whole month’s cycle (or maybe more) without repeats and yet I always feel like I have nothing to wear
8. I hate to wear a ‘songkok’ and I never wear a ‘kopiah’
9. Generally, I think I am a nice person… easy to approach and befriend
10. I like making friends
11. I don’t like to leave the house… and my longest stay in the house without leaving for any reason (except Friday prayers) is more than two weeks… (yikes!!!)
12. I like to garden… back when I was in Jordan, had my own garden (and a gardener whom I’ve never seen who takes care of all the dirty stuff like weeding…) complete with broccoli, cauliflower, celery, leek, carnations (which didn’t come out so nice btw), more than two dozen matured rose bush of all colors, iris, a fig tree, a peach tree, grape vine that grows nicely in the backyard, and aloe-vera which have matured and grew into a nice round shape and the flowers blooms every spring…
13. I like to sew… something I picked up from my mother, I can make shirts, blouses, baju kurung, baju melayu, dresses and a bunch of other things…
14. I like to cook… I like to feed people the things that I cook…
15. I like it when people complement me…
16. It’s hard for me to say no to people
17. I am still a virgin… (did I just type that…?!) :P
18. I get hooked to things very easily and I get bored with things very easily too.
19. I was born in Kuala Terengganu
20. I lived in Taman Tun Dr Ismail for ten years
21. I went to Sekolah Rendah Damasara Jaya (2) for primary and continued to Moharram Islamic English School in Cairo, Egypt for my prep-school.
22. We moved around to Amman, Jordan and Istanbul, Turkey for the next two years or so, and came back to Malaysia for my PMR and SPM
23. I joined the Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Malaya for my Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering (graduated in four years in 2004) and later (and currently still…) continued to do my Masters in Engineering Science there researching on membrane technology and the possibilities of its application for environmental and zero waste applications…
24. I like the library
25. I have borrowed all the cookbooks available at the UM library
26. I am 5’ 10 ½” tall, black hair, eyes… slightly plump… wears glasses…
27. I don’t drink
28. I am addicted to coffee
29. I have gone without sleep for 3 days before after which I became delirious
30. I haven’t done any form of drugs
31. I can eat 8 pieces of chicken from KFC
32. I don’t eat fish
33. I have slept for more than 24 hours straight before
34. I work and study
35. I am a Chief Executive Officer at my company
36. I hate my job and I love my job (don’t ask!!!)
37. I like meeting people
38. I hate going to mamak stalls and I hate going to ‘pasar malam’
39. I hate to sit in the front passenger seat in a car because I get carsick (except when it’s an SUV or MPV)… I always sit in the backseat, on the left side
40. I have been called a bitch before
41. I have called someone a bitch before (at a government office one day… that woman was really on my nerves… so I just snapped at her… “BITCH!!!”)
42. I hate to sleep with air-conditioning
43. I try to keep fit by going to the gym but I’ve had to give it up recently because of the busy time schedule but I plan to take it up again
44. I like to sauna…
45. I like the Jacuzzi
46. My favorite colors are yellow and black
47. My favorite book is the Prodigal Daughter by J. Archer
48. I drink a lot of water
49. My hair grow upward for some reason (like Marge Simpson :P)
50. I like it when people suck up to me
51. but I hate people who suck up to me
52. I like to watch the Disney Channel
53. I miss living in Egypt, I want to go spend three months there and take a cruise down the Nile
54. I hate to see women in hipsters, especially those cut really low…
55. I don’t trust people very easily
56. I really believe that family comes first
57. I believe that money spent for my family is spent for a good cause
58. I like to pay for my family
59. I don’t believe in giving people choices… people can just be too stupid to understand more than two choices (I can see this in politic, and even everyday life… sheesh people…!!!) so it always has to be yes or no, this or nothing…
60. I think that life is very precious
61. I like computer games…
62. I work better under pressure
63. I like to help people
64. I like chicken and meat
65. I eat almost anything (but fish)
66. I believe everyone should have a goal in life… and no matter ho stupid it may be everyone should have the guts to try and get what they want… those who don’t are cowards.
67. My life is currently focused on making money and graduating again…
68. My social life in danger now… the only people I meet are mostly business associates.
69. I like my peaceful life but I feel lonely at times
70. I try not to drink more than four mugs of coffee a day
71. I strongly believe in cronyism (my friends should know)
72. I am a very patient man… the only time I lost it was during a students council meeting back in uni (I was the Secretary General) when I started to shout at everyone and for the first and only time in my life thus far hit the table hard… and for good reason too…
73. My jeans size is 33
74. I have a long neck and long arms (my tailor told me I couldn’t buy things off the rack because my arms are 1” longer than average)
75. I spend most of my money on the car, groceries, clothes, food, food, and more food…
76. I am very bad with faces and with names too
77. I strongly agree with Pat when he wrote “I think individuals have to bear a greater sense of responsibility for their choices and the potential consequences.” Because I always feel sad to see young men/women here waste their lives
78. I think it’s hard for me to fall in love with someone… (hence the still single status)
79. I always feel like I don’t know myself
80. I hate it when people say they know me because I don’t know me…
81. I don’t drive, never have and never will… I was born to be driven (and for good reason)
82. I don’t know how to keep a grudge
83. I hate to speak on the telephone… I hate making calls and I hate taking calls
84. I don’t believe in ghosts
85. I startle easily
86. I am trying to lose weight
87. I don’t watch TV much nowadays
88. I get mood swings sometimes (and I’ll bitch about everything and everyone)
89. I like to bitch…
90. I hate racism and discrimination of any sort…
91. I like to study (I don’t know why… I think I’ll go all the way and get my PhD)
92. I like to talk… yap yap yap yap
93. I don’t like people commenting when I am working, wait until I am finished dammit
94. My room is always a mess
95. I like oranges and I hate rambutans
96. I like my steak medium rare
97. I hate having changed my research topic a few times now
98. When I have saved enough money, I want to buy a 3 carat diamond ring for myself
99. I like to read
100. I don’t know what else to say… I sleep with 8 pillows on my bed.

There ya go…. Hey wake up…

100 Things

yOu kNoW mE?

I just found this on my friends blog. It's nice... Bless...

To know me is more than just a look,
Judging me takes more than a talk,
I'm not whatever you think you know,
If you only took ten minutes to look and talk with me...

Never judge me from the first look,
I might be ugly and poor,
But I'm not too stupid to understand the disgust on your face...
-si|3nt-

bUsY... bUsY... bUsY...

Hey Boo... It's been a busy week... I'm too tired to write about it now. Tomorrow kay.
Bless...
~ShaZ

ZzZzZzZzZz

I am going to sleep now... Good night...

gRaNdMa'S pLaCe...

Hey Boo… I called Professor Nik at about ten but there was no answer and her cell phone is off… I guess she wants to rest before her trip. Started a little on the I3 article… Describing innovation is apparently ‘bitchier’ than I thought. I didn’t get to finish though. Mama and Abah wanted to see Tok Ani so the whole house was hauled along… Haven’t seen Tok Ani in ages. It’d be nice to see her. I was the last to get dressed because I was in front of the PC the whole time. I just grabbed a grey snug-fir t-shirt and my favorite jeans. Too tired to care. I didn’t even shave today. Had breakfast in the car (burger and coffee) and we went to get some mangoes for Tok Ani.
We were the first to arrive and Zul went to pick up Auntie Fairuz because Uncle Bazid was working. Abang Ngah (Auntie Dillah’s 2nd son) and Atikah were there too. Zabir has really grown. He seems to be skinnier but taller. I guess it’s because he just recovered from flu. Bazil was totally different too… He’s so grown up… Well… at least since I last saw him. Uncle Muzaffar arrived later in his new Kia Carnival… still nice and shiny too.
We had lunch and later had cucur pisang for tea. There was something up with Uncle Kudin and Uncle Muzaffar again I think but we are just too tired to care. It’s just the same old thing. Better to stay out and quiet. Madiah seem to be more liberal with her clothing nowadays. Seems a bit too tramp-ish to me, but who cares. They brought the twins too… what a bunch of cute babies.
We left a little after Asar…
Back home, I chatted with Nathan a while… some love life crisis… everyone go through that sometimes… I’ve never had a partner so I don’t bet on him listening to my advices so much. Played Solitaire with Pradeep and lost miserably… as usual.
I want to get the I3 out of my hair but I am just too sleepy and lazy now… so there…
Koi day coming on Neopets… Can’t wait.
Bless…
~ShaZ

wAkEy wAkEy...

I am up... Chatting with FiQ... calling Professor Nik in a while.

sLeepYzzzzzzzzz....

Hey Boo... I am still up... better go to sleep now before I explode... or the PC...

LaTe... mE nEEdS sNooZe...

Hey Boo... Meeting ended 15 minutes ago... Guess it went rather well... Need to get a draft agreement ready by Tuesday... *sigh*
Was doing some thinking too... Professor Nik told me my proposal has been approved by the department and the faculty... just waiting for Senate's approval... should get my letter by next month... need to get a program sorted out ASAP. Professor Nik is leaving for Japan tomorrow. I don't think I'll be able to catch her in the morning. I'll just have to sort things out with Ann in the meantime...
Oh well... back to work... *yawn*
Bless...
~ShaZ

sEx mAcHiNe...

I dunno about the flirting skills level, but I sure make it up with the sex skill level... woohooooo...

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bAcK tO mY rOOtS...

MSN Messenger rocks!!! MSN Radio rocks too... I still use my first email account... Long live...
I've been sitting in front of my PC for a whole day now... Determined to get this IPPP thingy over with... Meeting with contractors at 10:00 pm tonight... hopefully good news... amen.
Bless...

wAkEy wAkEy...

I am up... hehehe
Much to do...
Bless...
~ShaZ

cOOkiNg...

Hey Boo… currently making pasta with creamy mushroom and herbs… there goes my diet… you want some?!

Bless…

~ShaZ

tHe wEEk oF fLu...

Hey Boo,

Time just seems to past by me so quickly lately… I haven’t the slightest idea what I have done these past few days… I have to think hard just to recall the things that I’ve done and gone through to blog… it’s really starting to get to me now… L

Let’s see… I think I am not the only one though… a few of my blog friends are also slacking of their blogs too… I guess the simplest explanation is: there’s probably something in the water :P or it’s just that we’ve all been busy or getting too much sleep.

I finally met Kamal after so long. He dropped over to give me the invitation to his sister’s wedding. He seems to be happy with his job. Big shot trader at Petronas… I am happy for him. He couldn’t stay long because he had a bunch more invitations to deliver.

This week Mama and Tanti caught the flu… Anna got it last week, and I got it the week before… must be the weather.

My masters is progressing very slowly… A few of my friends wants to further their studies too. I know this because to date three have contacted me asking about writing proposals and stuff like that. I guess I will not be the few after all… before it was just Ang Wee Lee, Luqman and me… now there’s Rifqah, Premjit, Fazrina, Nathan and maybe even Ramang… I guess the Chemical Engineers are of my graduating class are more drawn to the academic side… or perhaps they are just looking for excuses to not get a job or get away from work (not unlike myself, lol). We’ll see how that goes.

Professor Nik hasn’t contacted me this week. Maybe she’s still sick since Monday. Or maybe she’s tired of calling me… whichever the case I’ll have to see her on Monday. Want this issue of the Bulletin of my hand once and for all…

Settling my bills this month has made me realize something. I spend a lot… before I just thought I spend a lot… but now I know I spend a lot… a lot a lot… things are getting expensive too… even groceries cost more… I think like 10 – 15% more…

Why am I telling you this?! I sound like some old out-of-job parent trying to raise ten kids… lol

Now that I know this emailing thing works… I guess it’ll make posting easier…

I’ll write more soon. Bye for now.

Bless…

~ShaZ

 

Test...

I am just testing this email to blog thingy to see how it would appear on my
blog...
Bless...
~ShaZ

mEmO tO sELf...

Hey Boo...
Must keep this in mind all the time... Mental note:
If you are getting dressed in a hurry, don't do it under the celing fan... KPLANGGGGGG!!! ouch... still fee the pain :P
Bless...
~ShaZ