Fallout 3 in a lunch box!

Yo guys I just got my hands on the lunch box Fallout 3. Collector's Edition. May not be posting for a while:

My Coffee Blog :D

Hi all,

Since like as you guys know I'm a super coffee freak, I've written a blog to review how coffee drinks are in Malaysia. Please insert complaints/flames/mass weapons of destruction here:

Adrian Lim's Coffee

Thank you.

Attached :D

Sorry for the super duper late post. Been happening alot of stuff. Work has been crazy as usual, but this is a just a short post to say that I'm attached. :) Aei Ween is from Alor Setar and she's just written a blog on how we met.

Aei Ween's Blog

Aei Ween, if you're reading this. Love you :D

My company, my kid

I just had a meeting with one of my dad's friends, who runs one quite famous signboard posting company in Malaysia. Initially I was expecting a project or two that they can outsource but they want me to partner with them for some other project.

Thing is, as they were talking on how much more money you can earn, I can't seem to leave the company I made for the past 3 years. Technically it's not a company per say coz there's only me and some freelancers running it, but the entity is with me for the past 3 years. I've nurtured it, spend alot of money on it, got people into it, got people out of it, got it to become a Microsoft member, then to a Small Business Specialist, and now going for the Certified Partner.

It's probably then I've spent my life on this kid. I've basically fed it and hopefully watching it grow. Which is also another issue for leaving to London (previous post). It's going to get a full-time employee soon (hopefully!) and hope the company will nurture to more than myself, where I can proudly smile and see it running without me. :)

My dad's friend was saying that your first company you made is your baby, your pillow that you hold to sleep at night, and have a reluctance to let it grow, and he says that I should be thinking objectively on my business, and of my future and to let it go cause it's so small. Although very amateurish this sounds, even if I have to grow out of this pillow than i'm holding, I want to hold as long as I can.

Working with 3d again ^_^

Wow, after months and years of business applications, I seem to be getting into 3D programming, a blessing in disguise maybe?

I got this contact from Hazmer (Thanks ahbonk!) who wants to start working on a simulation to help resell their development packages, which is called the DarkGDK.

Thing about this package is that it requires Visual C++ to develop. My eyes were like wide open when he said that. The last time I worked on that was during my APIIT R&D times at 1999 (if I'm not mistaken) and it was a boot camp of coding. Unlike the newer coding sets like (.NET and Java maybe) where it's more forgiving abit in terms of memory cleanup, my past experience tells me that C++ is not, and doesn't tell you that it's eating your memory.

Microsoft has come out the new edition for Visual C++ which is Visual C++ 2008. I've just downloaded, haven't installed, probably soon because the project starts on Friday and this will either bring me back memories or kill me.

Whichever comes first :)

Is it time for me to leave?

This is my hardest post to blog and the hardest question I still have to ponder.

I've got a friend Mark who's just came back from the UK and is asking me when I'm going there to work and all, and seeing now with this price increase that just happened it's edging me towards it.

I've been pondering about this for so long I can't even remember and it's probably one that is stuck for my head for a long long time. I have this right of abode sticker in my passport that allows me to work and live in the UK for a indefinite period of time as I was born there.

I've also contacted the UK immigration via their website and I found out they have a well plan package for me should I go, for a minimal fee (149 pounds i think), they'll help me set up my bank accounts, handphone and optionally job placements, which is really great because it's very very hard to create a bank account there if you don't have a home address in the UK.

Everything seems set, the only thing thats hindering my plans is me.

I still like Malaysia for all it's worth. I also have a business that I'm working on here. To go to UK now is basically fold the whole thing up and move there, starting anew. It's a risky proposition, maybe even too risky for my taste.

UK is a boring place after 5-6pm, there's no yamcha, the food over there are too expensive to eat out, it's probably eat in and be a good guy waking up at the mornings and sleep at nights.

Also I like my friends in Malaysia. They are the best bunch I can possibly wish for to hang with. To go to the UK I'll probably have to know people again, and basically resetting my life.

One factor I want to go to the UK is their exchange rate. It's technically somewhat an advantage, and I heard that the IT field is in high demand, meaning I probably can get better offers and who knows if I start my business again there it'll maybe be better off than what I'm running here.

Another one is that our govt in Malaysia is horrendously bad. I don't really like to talk about politics on my blog, but time after time they have not done anything to help their country. My thinking that it's going worse, and probably be in very very bad shape in times to come. I know this part is the most selfish part of my life, but I don't want to be dragged down with it as well, and so is my reason of flying off.

I've been putting off this decision that I have to make because I don't want to. But seeing what things are going to look for here in the future. I think I may have to set one. Really fast.

Someone just shoot me and get it over with.

Brain Code

more modular already.

RunBrain(Soul sl)
{

if (hp.receivedYamchaEvent==true)
InitiateYamchaEvent(wallet,keys,hp,specs);

EmailList = computer1.receiveEmail();

while (!EmailList.EndOfEmailList())
{
if (MatchClientList(EmailList.getEmail(), ClientNames)
{
if
(EmailList.getProjectTime() > getFreeSchedule()
{
EmailList.Reply("Cannot sorry");
}
else
{
ProjectList.AddItem(EmailList.getProjectDetails());
}
}
EmailList.getNextEmail();
}


while (ProjectListItem.EOF)
{
WorkProject(ProjectListItem);
}

if
((Body.Status=IDLE)&&(Body.LastUpdatedStatusTimeInHours>8))
{
InitiateWalkProcedure(PlazaDamas);
}


}

I'm now annoyed I can't do tabs in Blogger. >(

Being older....

I seriously need to post more often.

As my last post was during March, and now is nearing the end of May to starting of June.

I think what I like to talk about now is that:

I miss the old times.

I miss being young.

Things were easier back then. Money was a concept that you earn as hard as you can and you use it on your expenses and you'll probably get by. Now with all the inflation issues, it's quite hard to live. I thought initially it's Malaysia, but it's also affecting other countries. Like my friend Mark said as he's staying in London, working as a doctor, was feeling the brunt of the housing costs and expenses over there.

But also things were more happier for me personally as well way back before. I am not so alone as I am now, and also not such a workaholic. Because most if not all of my friends are working longer and longer we don't get a chance to go out and it makes it feel...like bleh. Just going back through my previous posts also makes me sigh once in a while. Nowadays, it's mostly work, client calls, computer problems and once in a while some drinks to forget the issues that we had. A boring day cycle.

I'm also not keen of getting old. I have most of my friends getting married and some even having kids. I think I'm at the time I can't be like a kid like that and talk alot of crap (although I still do most of the time). It's just that I'm not really ready to be at the group (although i'm at 27 this year and close to being 30 in 3 years time) to settle down or like just be still.

I need to run, thats probably what drives me to being self-employed. I still like the adventure of having to trying to find money to make ends meet although it's laborious and probably torturous like that. I'm a soul with a fire that I don't want it to burnt out. As probably as long as I can hold this out this will be my fire in me.

I saw this thing on Discovery about the stars after they don't have enough certain gas to burn ( I'm not sure what the gas is sorry ) it'll turn into a white dwarf, then as it gets smaller it pulls the necessary gases together, turning to a red dwarf, trying to burn as many resources as it can, and eventually turn a super nova ( I think i may get this wrong, bear with me, it's an analogy ). I feel that my life will be like that.

Which brings back to the problem of being old. I can't run as fast. I probably can't judge and analyse as fast when I was younger. Also I probably need to wear specs soon, which I'm not used to.

Is it because my mental age is stuck? Maybe my brain think's it's 21, but since my body is 27, it cannot do it's job as efficiently as it used to.

Sims 3!

Sims 3 coming out in 2009! I need a time warp!

http://www.emptyforce.net/blog/2008/03/10/the-sims-3-pcguk-scans/

Turning Point

Hey guys, hmm alot to write about today:



Alot of work has been piling up. Am trying to finish but I had to just solve one of my biggest problem about it. My feelings. And I did. Which I'll probably write the events and see how it goes.



I'm quite happy that (if) interactive have move to a new place. They have supported me and my company for a while now and I'm very grateful to them, I give them all the best. I feel of the joy of gratitude and humility.



Work has been piling up, deadlines have been missed, and are now rescheduled with my head on the line. The pressure is on. I feel like a purpose.



I've made a confession, and I got a rejection. Although it's abit unfortunate, the thing is, I'm somewhat happy, because I tried. I feel the yearn, the gain and the lost.



I've gotten in touch with friends I've long lost, and I met them again seeing the joys of just talking and meeting up. To just talk and to meet. I feel alive.



I've gotten to notice to stare at things that I don't usually stare when I'm so busy. I stare at the brightness of the sky, and I stare at the life of a grass. I feel the serenity of things.



I found out that most Opposition has overtaken our main states in the elections and it's still ongoing. Something that I feel that justice is coming.

http://malaysiakini.aizuikmal.com/



I also lost quite a sum of my money, mostly due to paying programmers and paying for advertising and bills. But I feel good doing that. I feel the payment is worth the effort.



All of these time, I laughed, I cried, I jumped, I got fustrated, I fell in love, I fell out of love, I worked, I slacked, I ran, I stopped, I looked, I act, I fell, I got up again, I gained, I lost, I learned, I taught, I screamed, I consoled, I befriended, I berated, I achieve, I got rejected, but most of all I live, and am still living.



My name is Adrian Lim Boon Seong. And I'm now a human being. :)



Thank you for listening.

Dual-personality

I think I'm having a dual-personality complex, which maybe an ala-Dr Jeckyl and Hyde style. I'm not sure if this is common but I kinda have a feeling that I seem to have it.

Being my scientific self I now have to split them to the different personalities that they are and name it accordingly:

Adrian-Alpha
This Adrian is the cheerful happy go lucky one which tends to forget where most of his stuff are (including his car). Usually his lighter side of things compensates his lack of work ethics:

Pros:

• Seems to get along with people sorta well. (hopefully)

Cons:

• Seems to forget to do work, laze around, watch anime, fall asleep unless cafffeinated.

This candidate also seems to have only 2 emotions, happy/sad.

Adrian-Beta
This Adrian is the most efficient of the two. Other than conjuring countless formulas and workarounds he manages to come out with faster development and output. Unfortunately he gets fustrated easily and therefore doesn't work well with people:

Pros:

• Very efficient, get things done ASAP.

Cons:

• Unable to work with people, have a hard time to figure out the opportunity cost of talking to people instead of starting to work.

This candidate ALSO seems to have only 2 emotions, evil grin/angry.

As you can see from the description above. They tend to balance out one another, the problem arises when one of them seems to come into play more than the other. This I find quite interesting. I guess this what makes us human after all. And there are of course some similarities, like both candidates drink coffee. ALOT. Irregardless of the type. I think it's probably when you can classify yourself you then see the true picture and nature of who you are and strategize effectively.

Quarter life crisis

Sigh. I think I'm having this now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_life_crisis

Conjob.

Brain code

I distinctively remember putting this code b4 :) Anyway just to get it updated to the latest version.

while (alive)
{

if ((currentday==work)&&(currentday<=deadlineweek - 2weeks)) PlayTeamFortress2();

if ((currentday==work)&&(currentday<=deadlineweek)) Work();

if (stress > 10.0)
DrinkAlcohol("JohnnieWalker");

if (stress <> 3.0)
PlayMusic("James Blunt", "1973");
else
PlayMusic("Random");

while (caffeinelevel < expectedCaffeine)
{
caffeinelevel = drinkCoffee();
}

}






}

Valentine's day comments

HMMMMM...

I really have no idea what to say for this day except that I really think it's a good marketing concept.

Florists and Chocolate sellers gets to sell their items 5-6 times more than the original price for that particular day. Restaurants get booked all day at that time and it's now the seller's market rather than a buyer one. One day I might think of having a florists just opening at Valentine's Day and the profits will most likely last me through the whole year. :)

Personally, I've never been quite fond of Valentine's Day, all the sane reason that it's a girl's market on that day. If the boyfriend/husband/going to boyfriend fella/cuddle b*tch didn't buy enough flowers for the girl (which please noted that the flowers are more marked up than you buy a Starbucks coffee compared to Kopi O) next to another girl, that girl will get upset, and no happy hour for you (cuddle b*tches are abit of an exception as they were not getting any anyway).

Definition of cuddle b*tch: http://www.intellectualwhores.com/manifestations.html

However, out of sheer insanity and concept reasoning flying out of the window, I did tried to ask someone out for dinner, but she's not free. Then again, this is a bout of temporal madness that happens to me once in a full moon and extreme boredom seems to contributed into the factor. Now listening to 1973, pondering at new code, little did I know that this will hurt for awhile.

I think Mr.Valentine's kinda dead for a while, but his influence is slowly growing.

CNY 2008

First, Happy CNY 2008.

Having a CNY is always a quiet moment for me. This is because everyone is goes to Penang, and I'll be left alone at home. So I gotta clean, eat, take out the trash of my stuff by myself. And usually it's a good thing.

This year however I'm abit worried that I'm not going back. My only living grandfather had a stroke and he's in Penang and I didn't go back to see him because of my work commitments.

Something tells me I'm going to regret what I'll do today.

I'm an Internet Guru

in response to all the emails i've been getting

Hi there,

I'm sure I have met you in my blog, otherwise you won't be seeing this.

Let me tell you the greatest thing about the Internet today is that you can make loads of money and I'm glad to find this speaker who can let you know how. His name is Adrian Lim.

Who is he you might ask?

Adrian Lim has been successfuly branded several marketing ideas, such as "Mad Cow" and "Green Cow"and has turned into a worldwide phenomenon. He has also revolutionize the "talking crap" creativity that many people have been astounded for decades to come.

He is also the man behind the "I drink damn alot of coffee until I can get to hospital" method and now he shall share with you this revolutionary method because he can't seem to be rich with this method BUT he shall be rich by teaching you guys and you pay him the cash method :)

If you would like to know more, I'll be happy to see your wallet you. Let us help you be poorer more rich that you can ever imagine!

Facebook addicted

Just to add a post in regards to Facebook. Initially a website that I do not understand to a point of marvel engineering of software and web.

I got introduced to Facebook by (if) and that was by accident. They needed people to add so I put my name and my ugliest mugshot in town (deleted already). When I went to the home screen, the horror that I thought of so many different things that are happening. 20 vampire bites, 30 shot kills, 50 pies thrown, and many more. I closed it without a second thought, thinking OMG I'm that old and people younger than me are finally using a system which I cannot comprehend ( as a software techie couple of years ago and a software developer now, it hurts when you see little kids use software or something on the web that you don't understand T_T).

So then my friend Harvey introduced this game of Triumph, which basically is a military game which launches different armies of infantry, tanks and jets together. Seeing that most of my friends (if not all) are in facebook already, I have to give it a shot. To go into the unknown that I feared and got bested the most.

After trying to filter the endless trudges of what is needed and what is all stuff of fancy, I finally found out that you install Applications to your Facebook. This by itself I believe is probably one if not the only one thing genius about it. It's like your computer is on the website and you install applications, genius. After that, I installed Triumph and started playing. And then I recognise the marvel of the software engineering that is Facebook.

This brings me back to those days when computers didn't have colour, and everything that you want to use wasn't point and click. It was typing on a screen and hopefully it'll run the game that you wanted. You put in a 5.25" piece of magnetic strip covered in disk into the drive and hope it runs your 4-16 color game, and you hope that you didn't bend it if not you wasted your money. And in those days, computers were horrendously expensive. It's a luxury item that you buy, like a VAIO today or even worse, a VAIO small PC (the small handheld one, last I heard it's 10k now).

As the rate of things evolve, I would like to thank the developers of it all. True, the hardware does provide the forefront of engineering and provides the platform in which we develop, but without the software that encompasses that technology, the hardware will not be famous.

So cheerios to all you nerds out there, and let us code the nation for the better :)

Time goes by too fast.....

As some of you might know, every Sunday evening I'll have dinner with my dad and sometimes he brings his childhood friends. One of them has a daughter which I meet once in a while and became friends. So once in a while we will meet up and talk about gadgets and her shopping and all that.

I just got an sms from my dad that she passed away as she was knocked down by a car in Penang. I was seriously in a state of disbelief when I got that.

Rest in peace Shu Zanne, I'll see you when I get there.

After a hard day of work

After the rushing deadline that we have tried to achieve last Friday, everyone made a sigh of relief and call it for the week. Weekend's coming!

The thing is, I don't like weekends. I won't have anything to do and I have a nagging feeling of my projects ahead until Monday.

Also, my brain on weekends goes on a rewind and thinks back on the past I don't really want to think about.

I need to work, I need to forget.

Streamyx needs to go to hell

Sorry can't seem to blog because of my internet. It's dead.

The cool part in all this is that it's 4 days already. The technician came yesterday, checked it and said that it's from their side.

Then the call support called me to check if it's fixed because the same technician said it's case closed.

....

WTF U GODDAMN PIECE OF SHIT COMPANY THINKING THAT ALL YOUR BALLS TOGETHER CAN COME UP WITH SOME SOLID INFRASTRUCTURE BUT IN ACTUAL FACT YOU GUYS ARE JUST JERKING ON EACH OTHER WHILE SATISFYING YOUR NEEDS WHEN ALL OF US ARE SUFFERING IN THIS HELL HOLE THAT WE CALL STREAMYX MY GOD THE HORROR OF OUR COUNTRY'S MORONIC LOGGING OF CUSTOMER SERIVICE IT'S A WONDER WITH TERRABYTES OF INFORMATION COMPUTERS CAN FUCKING STORE CAN YOU BECOME FUCKING GAY AND JUST HIDE LIKE A FUCKING MORONIC COWARD WHENEVER TROUBLE ARRIVES, YEAH I BET YOU STILL PISS IN YOUR FUCKING PANTS YOU FUCKING RETARD.

Done.