http://beta.james-chow.com Welcome to James Chow's Personal Website! Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:11:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Test MP3 Link (This entry is a rant. So no pictures hehe… :-D ) Despite the fact that my university is owned by these guys, I really have a lot of shit to say about this company – TM. TM, if I’m not so badly mistaken, is one of the greatest companies in ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2009/05/30/tm-customer-service-what-i-think/ Hope whoever’s reading this isn’t going to click the ‘X’ button on the upper right corner of the screen after seeing the post title. Yup, Bali Trip entry again! But thankfully, this is going to be the third and final part of the longest travel log ever recorded on James-Chow.com! Read Part ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2009/05/10/bali-was-bombed-2009-not-p3/ Wow, it’s been more than three weeks since the first part on my Bali trip last month was published! But anyway, I guess it’s good to refresh my memory on Bali too! So, here we go, part 2! After the relatively uneventful first day (really, because it was only dinner and sleep!), ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2009/04/30/bali-was-bombed-2009-not-p2/ This weekend, MMU is host to one of the coolest events ever held in this city. And this time it’s not some boring cultural or academic event. It’s an event with a magnitude that has never been seen before in this country. The dream event of all gamers. Ladies and gentlemen, but gamers ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2009/04/12/cyberfusion-2009-mmu-grand-hall/ I just came back from paradise. It is really incomprehensible why someone would have the lunatic idea to bomb such an incredible place as this. Yet someone did! In 2002 and again in 2005! (Click to read Wikipedia article) Calculating the time interval between the two bombings, it was really a little scary ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2009/04/05/bali-was-bombed-2009-not-p1/ Yo, yo, whassup people! I’m back from Bali! It was a sooo marvelous trip and I’m gonna blog about it in one of the next few posts after I’ve got the other photos from the other friends! P.S. Unfortunately, there was no bombing in Bali. :roll: ********** Meanwhile, check this out – I ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2009/03/31/putrajaya-international-hot-air-balloon-fiesta/ February was great! Lately, I realized that I’ve been writing blog entries a month late of time. I wrote about New Year’s Eve celebration on January 31st, posted pictures of my birthday on February, and now, February stuff – recalled in March! It is a sin to have an inconsistently-updated blog, because all ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2009/03/08/updates-are-always-a-month-late/ It's time to put one of the special events that happened last month into this blog! My first month of 2009 has just passed. And the passing of January 2009 is nothing ordinary. It marks the incredible milestone of me stepping into the glorious age of 21, baby! Now, how glorious, exactly, is 21 ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2009/02/04/i-am-21-fear-me/ Hey people, Happy super belated New Year 2009! Haha, it's been a whole month without any updates! :oops: This new year - year 2009, however, is going to be different! Why? Because this year, my New Year's Resolution #10: I'm going to make absolutely sure that this blog is updated regularly - and ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2009/01/31/2009-update-blog-year/ Hey, Merry Christmas everyone! Although I may have been shamelessly missing in action for some time now, but you can be very, very sure that I will be back to blog for Christmas! And here I am! Why? because Christmas is the best and most happening festival of all - for me! Yes, ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/12/23/malaysias-top-7-christmas-malls-2/ Nowadays it's pretty hard to stay updated... this blog, I mean. :cry: Right now, this very second - *tick* - that I am writing this entry, I am supposed to be on a one-day Ipoh trip with tourism club... Yes, Ipoh is my beautiful hometown and where the irritatingly ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/11/22/so-many-ipoh-trips/ [Delayed Post] Just came back from Endau Rompin! Finished my exam last week, and this trip followed almost immediately! :-D Huhu... I haven't blogged much for a while and that's because of my exams - AND - my laptop betrayed me and went totally black in the middle of my exam week.. ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/10/23/exciting-not-so-national-park-trip/ You know, exams are the greatest mental torture in the world. They take every happy and colorful moment out of your life and replace it with stupid numbers and symbols... ... at least that's what my exams do. :-( My final exams are coming - next week. And every single day is basically ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/10/04/what-i-want-during-exams-periods/ It's Mooncake Festival! Tonight is supposedly the night that the moon shines the brightest... I'm not too sure about the astronomical accuracy of this, but the moon tonight sure shines like a spotlight! For the innocent fun of it, my housemates and I bought a bunch of candles (the kind that kids ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/09/14/candles-and-ghosts/ I think this isn't a regular entry... Hehe... :-D I'm not at home but just felt like writing something... so now I'm essentially writing this sitting in my car, with the engines running and breathing-in carbon monoxide. :mrgreen: (Therefore don't have many photos with me now... Hehe...) My class had ended at 5PM, ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/09/09/library-lights/ Happy 51st Merdeka Day, Malaysia! ********** Wow, it has been like the longest absence span ever from my own blog... :-D Anyway, thanks to those who have expressed 'concern' over my life/death on the chatbox... :twisted: ... and also the small number of other lovely people who have approached me and genuinely asked ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/08/31/happy-merdeka-day/ Dear friends, I won't be able to write on this blog for some time, maybe for at least another week or two from now. I'm sorry but I have to suspend its updates for an indefinite period. I'll be back, I promise... :-| If you're waiting for any photos from any ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/07/02/113/ Like my new banner? :-D :-D I had planned to get this specific shot of Central Hong Kong, from exactly where it was taken (across Victoria Harbor), half a year before the trip itself, to be used as my blog's new banner! Kakakakakaka... Now it's become reality! :mrgreen: ********** Came back from ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/06/20/magical-hong-kong/ SZECHUAN, CHINA - The poor victims of the Szechuan earthquake are homeless. Please lend them support in any way you can. Show that you have a caring heart. (Call Sin Chew donation hotline 03-79658507) CYBERJAYA, MALAYSIA - Poor James Chow is also homeless. His own old house's tenancy agreement has ended, ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/05/30/homeless-james/ *Just a short update. (Huhu... how come my holidays are busier than my school days? :-( )* Shortly after my friend's car was stolen, my own car - was crashed. I was sleeping in the front passenger seat when the car hit a truck on the north-south highway. I'm OK, or I won't ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/05/27/car-destroyed/ Our house was on fire!!! It was terrible. The news of the fire will be up on newspapers tomorrow - but you get it first on James-Chow.com. I must've been crazy to have stopped and taken the only picture of the fire above! Two people suffered second-degree burns and were hospitalized, two more ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/05/17/house-on-fire/ First, the house's staircase became a waterfall. Then, the house - despite its terrible piping and electric problems (one of the rooms have not had any electricity at its sockets) - was raised by RM300 in monthly rental. And NOW, our horrible agent, the one who uttered the infamous sentence: "... so, ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/05/02/im-getting-out-of-cyberia/ Tourism Club had its annual Appreciation Dinner two days ago at Shogun 1Utama. Haha! This dinner was made specially for the Hi-Comms and Excos of the club who had worked so hard for the club in the previous academic year. Shogun is one of the rather famous Japanese buffet restaurants in the PJ ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/04/27/appreciation-dinner-shogun/ Finally, I am no longer deaf! I was (sort of) deaf since I came back from Redang, and I think some of my closer friends would know that... :-( Apparently, some Redang seawater, or sand - or fish - had gone into my right ear, causing it to be somehow 'blocked'! A GP ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/04/23/no-deaf-new-phone/ It has been quite a long time since I last updated on the smaller and more 'random' areas of my regular life... Let's take a look... ;-) Update on my room: It's April and my Christmas tree is still standing! Haha! I can still remember, this magnificent Christmas tree was bought and built on ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/04/19/the-little-stuff-around-me/ Hehe... Not a blog entry - just a special message... ... to my dear friends who have chatted with me on the 'live chat' box on the left side of the page: There may not be a large number of these special people like you, but thank you for chatting and sharing ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/04/18/message-regarding-comments/ *I canceled the entire entry, please scroll down to see why...* This is not an advertisement - Apple didn't pay me anything for it but I am writing about it because I am damn impressed! The quality of Apple iPods is so good, so durable, that I in fact accidentally 'washed' it ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/04/14/i-love-apple/ Argh! Four of my most regularly used electronic devices are boycotting - no, actually bullying me! I am, after all, an Electronics Engineering student! I specialize in these devices! In fact, our profession created them! How can they do this to me? :cry: :cry: The four electronic devices that I use the ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/04/10/electronic-stuff-bullying-me/ Before anything, let me introduce - My new camera! It's basically the 2nd generation of my previous Sony T-20! The front design is almost the same, except that the front sliding-cover is much thinner. When I first lost my camera, I said that I would never buy a Sony again, maybe a ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/04/08/i-want-to-be-21-yrs-old-too/ Alright, it's time to tell the tale... Losing my precious camera was indeed a sad story. Paid RM1000+ for these tickets. It happened something like this: Went to watch Ah Long Pte. Ltd. - Camera kept in my blazer's inner pocket - Blazer folded up in bag - Friend felt cold - took ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/04/02/farewell-my-dear-camera/ Lost my camera... Many precious photos gone... ... How to continue blogging? http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/03/28/sob/ Yup, again! And it was very good - and different! I've decided even before I went on the trip - I won't write another entry on every single thing that happened in Redang - I had already done it for my Redang Trip last year. And yes, the main activities were practically ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/03/19/redang-trip-again/ Introducing - Little Ball - guess what it is! 'Little Ball' is actually the name of a rabbit - one of the six adorable babies that were born in our home a few months ago. The name is a nickname given by a friend, who simply loves it to death! Little Ball ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/03/14/rabbit-hair-fashion/ Note: Don't care about politics? Then don't read on, you'd probably not be interested. Instead, take a look at my Photo Album! I've updated and added a couple of new folders! Before I start... I would NEVER do this to my car. No matter how much I support BN - if ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/03/09/the-erection-is-over/ It was our friend Khai's birthday yesterday! Last Friday, we went to Redbox - The Curve to have an early celebration for his license to no longer need to stand and wait outside the casinos in Genting - This guy is now officially 21! Of all places, I think karaoke sessions will ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/03/03/khais-birthday-redboxthe-curve/ We were involved in a car accident yesterday. No one, except the cars, was hurt. Jon was driving. We went to PJ to have dinner, then to Kepong and when we got back to Cyberjaya, we met this 'great' driver - best driver we've seen in our lives! The road was on ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/02/28/jons-minor-car-accident/ Last Friday, we went for a Tourism Club committee group dinner at Shabu Shabu Japanese steamboat restaurant, Puchong; there were 23 of us! It was a really memorable dinner. This dinner was originally scheduled on next week, but since the mid-term tests are near, we made it on last Saturday! We totally ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/02/24/wonderful-club-dinner/ Al-Qaeda's terrorist member's car! Someone call CIA! Maybe Osama is having lunch in a nearby Japanese steamboat restaurant! Yup, I know it is unprofessional of me to capture my own reflection on the side window, but I only had one chance to take the photo, right? If I stood there for ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/02/17/al-qaedas-car-and-my-new-domain/ Yup, you guessed right, I was back in Ipoh for Chinese New Year last week, that's why I couldn't have any updates... Before anything, I WANT TO COMPLAIN AGAIN! First, it was the 'i' button; now, my whole laptop breaks down on the eve of Valentine's day! When I was ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/02/13/mmu-best-university-in-malaysia/ [WARNING: This entry contains images that some people might find offensive (pixelated nudity).] New nude media scandal again! (This time from Hong Kong!) Haha, this post is quite outdated... First, it was cute Vanessa Hudgens, the star from High School Musical, posing in a series of provocative photos (see news article) ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/02/04/sex-scandals-for-the-new-year/ Remember my pet crab? My pet had almost everything a crab would dream for, or perhaps what I think they would : Adequate, nutritious and yummy food, a rather nice tank with fresh water (changed daily!), suitable temperature, free from predators and competition to survive, and me playing with 'em everyday! To ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/01/31/my-crabs-departure/ Before start wrtng anythng want to complan a bt!! There s somethng wrong wth the stupd 'i' button on my laptop's keyboard!!! t s very rrtatng! need to lterally slam onto the button to nput the letter! Normal pressng ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/01/26/coconuts-and-a-wedding/ I've never been so frustrated with a doctor before. I've always respected professionals, or at least people who act professionally. To me, doctors are some of the more 'professional' professionals, because the doctors that I've seen have never given me much bad impressions. It seemed to me that all doctors are ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/01/11/damn-annoying-doctor/ My exams are over, and this is my first blog post in 2008! Woohoo! Despite a relatively uneventful New Year's Day countdown last week (because it was - of all days - on the first day of our final exam week!), a new year has come, and I am looking forward ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2008/01/08/a-crabby-new-year/ This is not really a blog entry, just a small record for the 3-week gap in which I do not intend to write any blog entries - I'll explain later. *No images for this post, just words. Hah!* Two weeks ago, I went back to Ipoh, and as I said before, somehow ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/12/31/3-week-blogging-leave/ This Christmas, instead of the usual five to ten names, I prepared a fifty-name Christmas present receivers' list! Unlike previous Christmas's, for which I bought presents of almost the same value for most people; this time, I sorted the names into levels - the higher the level, the more financial and ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/12/15/malaysias-top-7-christmas-malls/ Yesterday, I was ill. Had fever, a severe headache, runny nose - essentially all the symptoms of a really bad cold. In fact, I'm still feeling unwell now, but I think the fever is temporarily under control by medication. Oh... I really hate these rainy days! Last night, I took my medicine ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/12/07/flooding-inside-the-house/ Christmas is the most wonderful and enjoyable time of the year - to me~! I think one of the main things that makes me like Christmas is the atmosphere of it! Of course, the true purpose of celebrating Christmas is to celebrate the Birth of Christ; but still, coupled with Christmas trees ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/12/04/omg-christmas-is-coming/ They've moved in for more than a month, and I didn't have the chance to write about them! *Drum rolls* Introducing - My two new housemates! Firstly: Alvin ... as you can see from the monitor screen, a rather aggressive, ass-whooping, leng chai DotA pro. He's an IT student; but ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/11/28/introducing-alvin-samuel/ I am a moving, talking, blogging panda now. I know myself - I need to sleep at least 8 hours, or at least-est 7 hours a day to be my normal self. Whenever I get insufficient sleep, I tend to be grumpy, emotional and do/say stupid things; I would also not care ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/11/22/sleep-debt/ Did I mention? I dyed my hair red - it's got a bit of purple-ish colour on it too - for the new trimester! Err... I would really like to post a nice photo of me and my new hair colour in this entry but somehow, just somehow, I couldn't ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/11/13/my-hair-is-red/ I've been thinking a lot and I feel like ranting a bit, you know, just to write what's in my mind right now. Actually, not really now, I thought and wrote this stuff up during my previous final exam period. Although that has quite long passed, but I think I should ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/11/08/exams-bah/ One of the more dramatic events that happened during my five-week absence from James-Chow.com was the official, earth-shattering proclamation that, of all people, Dumbledore is gay. I've always thought that the 'new' Dumbledore, the one played by mister Michael Gambon (above), is like, totally ghey. Bad-tempered, wearing that stupid, permanently annoyed-looking ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/11/04/what-if-dumbledore-announced-he-is-gay/ Alright, I know it's been more than a month since my last entry, which was on September 20th, so this makes up to the longest blog post gap in the history of James-Chow.com! Let's see what happened: five weeks ago was my super exhausting study week. Hey, when I say exhausting ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/10/30/what-i-was-doing-for-the-past-five-weeks/ I’m taking the subject Moral and Ethics this trimester. While everyone thinks it’s a stupid and boring subject, I think it’s fairly unique and interesting! Why? Besides being able to do an extremely entertaining presentation on Terrorism, we were all supposed to do some kind of social work as part of ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/09/20/a-day-with-cats-and-dogs/ On September 7th, I, along with a few committee members from Tourism Club, went on a trip to the MATTA (Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents) Fair at Putra World Trade Centre. The few people who came to this fair with me are committee members of an upcoming trip to ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/09/16/matta-fair-pwtc/ Gosh, it has been so long since I wrote my last post! Admittedly, I wasn't in the mood of blogging during the last two weeks, I won't make any excuses... It was pure laziness. But of course, I do have a reason for the 'mood-less-ness' of blogging. For the last ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/09/13/no-updates-struggling-with-attendance/ Today is August 31st - Merdeka Day - our country's National Day. Commemorating our country's 50th year of independence from the British rule, the International Fireworks Competition, featuring impressive fireworks displays by countries such as Australia, Japan and Italy, was held in Putrajaya last night. While I'm sure most of our own ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/08/31/merdeka-eve/ Lately, I received a lot of forwarded instant messages (IMs) from my Yahoo and MSN Messenger accounts. Every night, when I switch on my computer, I'd be rather unintelligent to not expect a whole bunch of IM offline messages waiting for me. While a small amount of these are actually friends ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/08/23/stop-forwarding-useless-messages/ I'm ... s-s-sorry, I ... am ... currently ... feeling ... s-s-so ... revolted!!! Minutes ago, I came across a video on the internet, showing a guy sentenced to 20 strokes of the rattan caning, which is a judicial corporal punishment in Malaysia and some other countries ... If you've ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/08/19/appreciation-dinner-and-stuff/ I have to admit, there's really nothing much to blog for the last few days! No big events, no funny happenings, no exciting activities - Nothing! >.< At least nothing that might interest other people, people other than myself; unless you're uniquely interested in my assignment deadlines and mid-term exams! But since ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/08/15/the-past-4-days/ SPOILER WARNING: The following entry contains information on the plot of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, information that you DO NOT want to know if you've not finished reading the book. This entry was written in the very hour that I finished reading the book, which happened a few days ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/08/11/deathly-hallows-reviewed/ I'm back from Kukup Island! If you've never heard of this place before, read on! =) This is an ice-breaking trip organized by the Tourism Club of our university for its senior and newly-recruited committee members to better know each other and get along! Kukup Island is located in the state of ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/08/07/kukup-the-fishing-village-island/ * This posting of this entry was delayed because I was away for 3 days, sorry!* I'm so tired~! For the past 4 days I slept no more than 4 hours per night... Yawwwn... ~~~ Today, I went to the PIKOM PC Fair held in KLCC. For those who don't know, PIKOM stands for ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/08/03/my-new-camera-pikom-pc-fair/ Huhu... Next week onwards, my parents will be needing the camera that I'm currently using, and they don't know about the existence of this website and that I need a camera to take regular pictures for it... What should I do?? =( Image taken using my mobile phone's camera In desperation, I ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/07/29/canon-or-sony/ The only thing that is not boring in my life these few days is reading Harry Potter. It was like a dream, I was drifting through the days. It's like, I dunno, when I look back to what I've done in the past 3 days, I could remember nothing. Nothing at ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/07/25/routines-are-so-boring/ I've got it!! Argh! Finally! *pants* It's... 21st July 2007! It's here... It's FINALLY here...! Har.. Harr.. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! I cannot believe it! Oh...! *faints* After the traumatic experience of watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - the movie - days ago, I ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/07/21/harry-potter-book-7/ Photos courtesy of Winston Tan. Yesterday, We had the pleasure of having the Group CEO of Telekom Malaysia Bhd. (TM Bhd.), YBhg Dato' Abdul Wahid Omar, to have a talk on leadership and success in our university. Studying in a TM-owned university, students of MMU naturally think that the CEO of ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/07/14/the-tm-ceo-talk/ 3 days ago, 7th July 2007, also conveniently written as 07/07/07 - was the commencement date of my first ever small business! Founded by me and my friend, Heng, while financially and physically assisted by a group of good friends; it's a small food business offering alternative snacks and drinks for ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/07/10/my-new-business-is-running/ The club registration week has ended, and our Tourism Club has got its new batch of members! It appeared that many people who visited out booth were attracted by the sight of the 2 marvelous paper coconut trees designed by Shobita! We had two, towering coconut trees made mostly of paper standing ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/07/06/club-registration-week-0708/ I've finally moved into my new house! Along with some of my friends, I've moved into Jon's house, which is one of the town villas in Cyberia. It's completely unfurnished, so we'll have to buy everything ourselves! Here's the living room: For some reasons, Jon's previous housemates have unanimously decided to move out ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/07/02/my-new-sweet-home/ Everyone is just so, super busy lately, and it's just the second week of the semester! Let me just mention some of them... I've been sorting out the Redang Trip photos as their respective owners pass them to me one-by-one... 1000+ photos gathered up till now! Crazy! And that's not all! There ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/06/27/2nd-week-is-busy/ If charging RM1.80 for a glass of Milo is outrageous and can be fined RM22,500 with the shop's signboard torn down in Malaysia, then I think vendors in Redang Island are in deep risk! Not to mention that the mamak stall in Cyberjaya IS currently selling Milo at RM1.80 per glass, ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/06/23/redang-shops-should-be-fined/ IMPORTANT: This entry is the sequel of I'm Back From Redang (P.1). If you haven't read it, please do so before reading this entry by clicking here. ------------- 2nd day: 6.15am - Some eager guys and girls woke up early in the morning to watch the oceanic sunrise! Indeed, I imagine it ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/06/19/im-back-from-redang-p2/ *This entry and its sequel (I'm Back From Redang P.2) contains some photos from the trip that are not from my own camera. If you are the owner of the camera that took the photos, and do not wish for the photos to be displayed here on this website, please ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/06/16/im-back-from-redang-p1/ I've been screwing all day, literally... With screwdrivers and tons of screws! I bought a bed, an L-shaped office table, a 3-door plus a 2-door cupboard for my new room. They're rather nice and cheap but the bad part is that they came as parts and I had to assemble them ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/06/10/been-screwing-all-day/ Ladies and gentlemen, it is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure, that I present to you... *drum roll* www.James.com.my ! Woohoo! *cheers* I've been looking for an alternative domain name ever since I discovered the extremely annoying JamesDashChow issue and was determined to prevent my friends from ending up in someone else's website instead of ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/06/06/jamescommy-is-born/ I'm back in Ipoh! Apart from being able to meet my family; this week has been, and is going to be... Extremely boring! Why? Because I'm not able to drive! My driving license has passed its probationary period (with the stupid letter 'P' on it) yesterday. That means I need to reapply for a ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/06/02/a-zzzz-holiday-in-ipoh/ *This is an entry of me reminiscing about the days when I was a huge Pokemon enthusiast. If you think having been crazy over Pokemon is lame or talking about Pokemon when I'm almost 20 now is childish, or if you think Pokemon is demonic, evil or simply boring, I ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/05/25/my-pokemon-story/ After swallowing 7 sleeping pills of different types over 5 consecutive days, it's over! And I'm still alive! The final exams are over! First of all, I must say, they sucked, totally! Not something from your average exam! Although I didn't study all there is to study, but I did study ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/05/21/hey-exams-over/ Help! I have a 'cannot-wake-up-in-the-morning-phobia'!!! Whenever I have to wake up early the next morning, say 9 or 10am, I will not be able to sleep that night! This becomes much worse when the thing that I have to do the next morning is very important or needs special attention, for example ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/05/15/my-wake-up-in-the-morning-phobia/ I just went to watch Spirit of the Victim at GSC 1 Utama. It is supposely 'The Biggest Thai Horror Film Of The Year', as written on its poster. Although I have to admit that the 'horror' scenes were very plentiful and non-stop, but they were, as with many other Thai ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/05/05/the-standard-thai-horror-plot/ This Place Is NOT for people who fear heights! I'm going to move out from my apartment in 1 month's time and I think I should write something about living on the (I think) highest residential unit in this area before I move out. I currently stay on the 12th floor ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/05/01/life-on-the-12th-floor/ Today, I had my final public speaking speech for the trimester. ARGH! FINALLY! In addition to my usual subjects, I'm taking Public Speaking as an extra subject for this trimester. This trimester has been a roller coaster ride of pure anxiety! Days leading up to the presentation days are days that ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/04/25/fear-of-public-speaking/ Everyone knows about the famous Kim Gary restaurants. I just went for dinner at a branch in The Curve today. While the prices are a little expensive, you'll always find Kim Gary Restaurants totally full; Apart from its nice and unique dishes, I think it's also thanks to the uprising 'yum ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/04/21/the-kim-gary-evolution/ In Multimedia University (MMU) where I'm studying, there's a control system for students' attendances called - the 'barring system'. According to the system, any student who attended less than 75% of the lecture/tutorial sessions for any single subject, will be barred from taking the final exam paper for that particular subject! Ask ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/04/15/youre-barred-no-exams-for-you/ As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, MMU has broken quite a few records in the Malaysia Book of Records as well as the Guinness Book of World Records. Some of the latest ones are: Longest Kebab in the World Most Number of Rice Arts Playing Congkak 30-hours non-stop Longest Non-Stop ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/04/11/is-breaking-records-good/ Apparently there are more James Chows on the internet than I thought! Have you wondered why I'm using James-Chow.com (with the dash in the middle) instead of JamesChow.com as my domain name? Actually I REALLY wanted to register JamesChow.com as my domain name because instead of simply saying that my website is ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/04/07/so-many-james-chows/ (WARNING: Kinda long entry ahead) James-Chow.com was SILENT for more than 1 month!! What really happened?? It's a long long story, but I guess I should explain a bit about what actually happened. At the end of February, one of my other websites had an error. That was due to an accidental PHP ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/04/03/sorry-long-time-no-post-what-really-happened/ *This is not a blog entry but an announcement. I am having severe technical difficulties with this website and now I'm in danger of losing all information on all of my websites. I won't be posting on James-Chow.com for an indefinite period to figure out what I can do about the problem, ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/03/02/emergency-maintenance/ How far will you go to prevent people from sticking advertisements on your wall? Stroll down any street and you'll probably find a few common 'stick no bills' signs on the walls or pillars alongside the street. I guess the shopowners are just too tired of people sticking ads for sexual ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/02/24/stick-no-bills-or-else/ To the Chinese, Chinese New Year is supposed to be all about prosperity and generosity. Giving out Ang Paus has always been a united symbol of both prosperity and generosity as we are 'sharing the prosperity' (Money, actually...) However, although the stock market is booming in early 2007, the size of ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/02/19/honey-i-shrunk-the-ang-pau/ This actually happened yesterday but I didn't have time to blog about it, so here's the replacement! Japanese culture lovers, you're gonna love this! The Japanese Cultural Society (JCS) of MMU has organized a Carnival of Japan in MMU! This is truly not an event that you can see everyday! In my ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/02/15/26/ Everyone hates busus when they are full. A full bus means that you'll have to stand for the whole journey, and it sucks. Imagine you're a working adult without a private vehicle, you've been working for a whole day, waited for the bus for half an hour (standing!), and finally when ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/02/10/the-nightmare-bus-for-busy-people/ Chinese New Year is approaching and as usual, the Chinese Language Society (CLS) of MMU is making a hell of a fuss out of it. Well, that is to be expected since CLS is known to organize very impressive and sometimes over-exaggerated events that involve hordes of members and tons of ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/02/06/cny-food-feast-mmu/ Windows XP is getting obsolete! After more than 2 years hearing about its rumours, the monster has arrived! Windows Vista is here! For those of you that are not really into technology, Vista is the latest version of the Windows operating system series by Microsoft, and an operating system's basically the thing ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/02/04/windows-vista-launch-at-low-yat-plaza/ I was scrolling through the photos in my camera and I found this really interesting photo! The photo was taken in Seremban a few weeks ago when I was there visiting my friends. Placed outside the shops along the streets were small machines selling capsules with fancy toys inside, although the ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/01/31/wanna-ride-a-fellari/ The VISIT MALAYSIA 2007 tourism campaign is on! Let me feature a great place for you art lovers out there to go, in Malaysia! But before that, please allow me to introduce: The prestigious musée du Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, in Paris. Image taken from visitingdc.com The Louvre museum is the home ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/01/26/the-louvre-of-malaysia/ This entry requires the knowledge of the gaming term 'LEAVER'. If you DO NOT know what a 'leaver' is, read on. If you do, please skip the next 3 paragraphs. For those who are not familiar with gaming terms, a 'leaver' is a player who leaves a multiplayer game before ... http://beta.james-chow.com/2007/01/19/the-best-cyber-cafe-for-leavers/