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.