Beautiful accents??

Some may have already know that I'm currently working as a Software Tech Support with a UK based company which has about over 300 customers in all over UK and over 10 customers in Oz....most of my daily responsibility is dealing with these customers via VOIP phone with some tools like Remote Desktop Protocol and Webex where applicable...

Speaking with British and Australian has its ups and downs; language barrier...not to mention their accents...believe me when I say you'll fell lucky to be on the phone with Londoners or North region of Australia but not some other parts of UK especially Scot (Ms Flo who's residing in Aberdeen may have mastered their accent but I still find it difficult most of the time) or South region of Australia...

This however, give me a chance to sometime have a 'play' with their accents..as if a Sabahan residing in Penang and learning to speak Penang accent where 'R' becomes 'Q'...no offense, it's unique and beautiful...hehe...

Here I have 3 examples from a very helpful site I found years ago whilst learning to get familiar to their accent...and still I am...

Liverpool vs Oz


Yorkshire vs Oz


Londoners

* Why not making an online language-learning site for KadazanDusun or any Bumis' language from Sabah???

Romantic Ideas

I found these simple ideas very romantic...

#On a special occasion, buy your partner eleven real red roses and artificial red rose. Place the artificial red rose in the center of the bouquet. Attach a card that says

“I will love you until the last rose fades”

#Spouse is going to work and you have to stay for some reason (i.e. sick). Say goodbye to her at the front door and then immediately send an email to her work address. The email should simply says

“Miss you already”

The email will be in her in-box when she does her morning email check.

#If you partner has a voicemail at work or on her mobile, leave a message saying

“Just wanted to let you know that I’m thinking of you”

She will appreciate this anytime but especially when she is going through a rough time.

#Next time it is raining really heavily, go for a walk with your partner. Forget the umbrellas and the raincoats. Run through the streets together, jump in puddles and get totally saturated.

Pick her up, twirl her around and kiss her whilst the rain falls. Taste the water off her face and hold her close.

When you get home have a hot shower and then share a warm drink preferably in front of an open fire or watching light entertainment on tv.

Have a great weekend! Cheers!!

Thought of the day...

Sometimes I think of myself as an individual who strives hard to be a man who I am now but at some other time I think striving hard is just an excuse for me to gain better living than the better of me…

Well..to be honest with you I don’t really care what would that make a different of me…and sometimes listening to people who’s more superior than me made me wonder if they really that superior than myself (they always does) and others to have a long story of people living their live to certain extend…I might be doing the same and…frankly speaking when I spoke about some one it reflects my own admiration towards these individuals…..it does not matter how much they earn and how vastly their knowledge were…their philosophy is the only item I look for….I try to understand what makes them speak about these individuals and I even try to relate that to the life I’m having (where applicable) yet at the end of the story..it always fail to stand out and outclass individuals who have always being generous and very calm in many way of their doing yet successful.…

Would you think he would make an impact locally and world wide with his effort of wearing this costumes?

I love to talk about life and living the life yet when an individual begins talking about their thoughts towards breaking through the outside world for an impressive achievement would make me wonder myself (I did this juga ba sometimes as a metaphore) Why think about making the better of the outside world or breaking into their world when even locally an individual couldn’t even make the best out of it (to be a successful individual you’ll have to be among a successful group) It has always been a token for me as non-superior individual to listen and know about the outside as a knowledge of motivation but praising the outside world for an achievement is just not quite right to build up the inner motivation….I sometimes (well, most of the time) observe these individuals and think wow! This individual is really something! And thinking about that I begin to wonder further..why is this individual still here and having a conversation with me when I couldn’t understand what this individual were trying to achieve or tell me….well, I might have an impression towards this kind of individual for being knowledgable and kind for sharing the stories…the rational is always seems to be something intereting for me…was the individual trying to tell me about his/her ambition of being a successful individual preferable the outside world or was the individual trying to tell me that he/she is far more superior than me/the lads…was it a remarks or was it just a chit-chat showing his/her interest of making friends…

I come with this….I might be a little off set but first impression really help to find it way to work things out….I ‘d prefer to think that this kind of individual is pretty much trying to make his/her territory among others…he/she wants others to think he/she is not someone who is just someone but he/she is someone with something….what does it means?It does not bother me and I’m happy for what I have and of course I will always strive to the best of me….to what extend? Be God to decide….sometimes God will work his way out of the unexpected and always the way we couldn’t even get it until a certain period of time (if you’re grateful enough) Being a superior individual does not require high profile or being a well known individual at workplace…if an individual could make good impression and impressive performance at workplace then it is not a crime to think about making an impact onto the outside world….if an individual is just playing plain stupid at workplace thinking that would put him/her at a right path to great achievement….then forget about achieving the outside world….it’s just not quite right….would you play plain stupid at workplace whilst dreaming of gaining more earning in future or getting promotion to higher position…or far more ambitious to achieve something in the outside world?? Isn’t that obvious?? we can be a low profile individual and feel save at our own safety net at workplace but would that make you happy to dream of breaking into the outside world when you’re not making any impression towards the particular??? There's always a right way of doing it rather than talking about not pushing yourself outside the boundry for extra responsibility than what your job description prescribed....take a risk and learn from the risk??? I salute you for being smarter to avoid wider range of responsibility though...

* Betul-betul saya pun macam inda paham ni thought o..haha...

I'm 'NOT' smarter than you IF

Am I NOT smarter than you if
A. You buy this for your child (regardless of gender)
B. You buy this for your girlfriend
C. You buy this for your boyfriend
D. You buy this as a birthday present
E. You buy this as an exchange gift-present for Christmas
F. You buy this for your pets
G. You buy this for your husband
H. You buy this for yourself
I. You buy this for a kitchen napkin

Weekend Gateway

I’ve just got home after an hour flight from KL via Subang Airport..

The ‘sit-drink-talk’ was fun…we had 2 crates of Special Brew, 2.5 crates of Carlsberg and 16 cans of Chang beers….

There were me, Mr Jew, Mr Brandon, Mr Donald, Mr Guz and Mrs Guz, Mr Alex and Ms Eva (Brandon’s gf)…I arrived at the KTM station an hour early than expected and I had to wait for over an hour for mr Brandon and Mr Jew to come and fetch me up then we went to Carefore, Subang looking for stool+table as well as meeting up with Mr Donald…we started the ‘sit-drink-talk’ session at about 5pm that afternoon with 16 cans of Chang beer (Mr Guz had not arrived yet with 4.5 crates beer supply)….I think because of the tiring journey I had earlier from Penang to KL, it affected me as well as Mr Jew who came from JB….we were not up to the full potential of once being recognized as ‘dewa’ (ni serita muda-muda lah ni…all day long drinking-karaoke until ‘soilang’; emptied your wallet to buy more alcohol..haha..)

We managed to finish up all 16 cans and I fell asleep for about an hour waiting Mr Brandon and Mr Don to return from buying some dishes for dinner (Ikan and Pari panggang) Mr and Mrs Guz arrived hours after then followed by Mr Alex who came couple more hours late….It was a surprise and a happy moment to see Mrs Guz who’s currently 8 months pregnant…congratulation!!

The night was fun although it was just a decent ‘sit-drink-talk’ session…we had catch-up chat and non-stop drinking but it was a shame we didn’t even manage to finish 2.5 crates of carlsberg...imagine that!! We finally ‘kecundang’ at around 4am on Sunday (not drunk but tired)…..It’s been always a wonder to us, every time we had some kind of drinking session in KL we never really get to the level we’ve always had in Penang…4 crates of beer in Penang is just about nice for 4-6 people...Mr Brandon now has 2 crates of Special Brew at home…

I woke up at about 12pm noon then buzzed Mr Jew to wake up as well…me, Mr Jew and Mr Brandon drank couple more cans of beer (finally we managed to clear all 2.5 crates of Carlsberg) whilst doing a brief post-mortem of the ‘sit-drink-talk’ session…at about 1:30pm Mr Brandon drove me and Mr Jew to Subang Airport for a return journey…

* Thanks to Mr Alex for coming; a token for me who came all the way from Penang and Mr Jew from JB