Leaking Toilet

I received a call from the management office of my apartment today, saying that my neighbour downstair complains that the water from my master bedroom toilet is leaking into hers.

The toilet looks pretty bad, the ceiling already turned brown. After open up the ceiling, you can see water drops all over the top and some already crystalised and formed stalactite. I was hoping that it was just leaking pipe but it looks more serious than that.

Everyone told me that when this thing happens, it's always the owner upstair's responsibility to fix it. If really have to hack all the tiles and fix this, it might cost some money (2k?) and how am I going to monitor the work for few days?!!

Since this doesn't actually affect my toilet, I really wanted to ignore. But after looking at the situation and being a nice guy, I also pity the lady (pity myself too). The apartment is just over 3 years and it's already leaking water. I have always been told that IOI is a good developer but I am really disappointed with them now. I am going to COMPLAIN and COMPLAIN and COMPLAIN, if they don't want to pay for the cost, I am going to spread this and tell people not to buy their property.

So angry now.... >:(

Oops, my brother just bought one!!!

Left Right Hands

We live in a world which is dominated by right handers. Do you realise that many products are designed for right handers? e.g. can opener, scissors, guitar, sharpener, bowling ball and bowling shoes etc. It is difficult to cut paper following a line with your left hand using a normal scissors. I find this lefties FAQ site quite interesting.

People who know me know that I am a left hander. My hand always 'fight' with the guy sitting on my left when eating. But actually I am not a pure left hander. Except for writing, drawing, painting and eating, I use right hand to do most of the stuff as others do. I use scissors, mouse, open door, hold racket, play bowling using my right hand.

Normally lefties only use left hand to do most of the things, I am not really sure why I am different. I thought about this and figured out that I feel more comfortable using my left hand for things that require a bit of skill with fingers. For the rest that doesn't require much skill, I can adapt to the right-handed world easily.

Many cultures including Chinese consider using left hand something bad and a lot of parents would force their children to use their right hands. Actually left handers simply have a more dominant right brain, which means that they might be more creative. I always think it is not right to force kids to use their right hands. If they prefer to write or draw with their left hands, that means they are more comfortable using the left hands and the results could be better. Jimmy Connors, Martina Navratilova might not win a Grand Slam if they were forced to use right hand to play tennis when small; the same for Yang Yang and Zhao Jian Hua in badminton.

Do you know Leonardo Da Vinci is also a left hander? For those of you who only know him from 'Da Vinci Code' or the painter of 'Monalisa', he is also an architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician and scientist.

Apple iPhone

Apple iPhone is really cool. It is an iPod, a Phone and an Internet Communicator.
It's a bit hard to imagine how cool it is without watching the Macworld 2007 Keynote Address yourself.


























Even a non gadget guy like me can't wait to have one in my pocket!

Too bad it will only be available in Asia in 2008...

Ah Yat Abalone

Last Friday I went for another makan makan session. Yes, another heavy one.

My ex-colleagues decided to spend the remaining money from Gonbei makan makan session at Ah Yat Restaurant. Each of us had the RM138++ set which came with:

1. Buddha Jumps Over the Wall or Shark fin - The shark fin came in pieces, but lacked the texture, didn't taste like what we normally have at wedding dinner. May be this was a small shark.
2. Abalone + sea cucumber + mushroom - Yummy abalone.
3. Cod fish - I didn't like the cod fish that much, may be it wasn't warm.
4. Stir Fried Kai Lan
5. Fried Rice
6. Almond Soup

We also ordered a Peking Roasted Duck and a 2.6kg Alaska King Crab. After eating the duck skin, the meat was then fried with ginger onion, looked like beef or deer meat and tasted quite nice. The King Crab was cooked with cheese, it was the best crab meat I have ever tasted (this is far better than the Snow Crab at Team Dinner. Btw, it was RM280 per kg, which is almost double the price of Snow Crab).

Oh no, I really need to watch out my cholesterol already!!!

Team Dinner

My team had another team dinner last Saturday at Unique Seafood. It was a fun night.