I now pronounce you husband and... video game?

This idiot married a Japanese video game anime character on his Nintendo DS.

Problems they may face:
Kids
Low battery
Virus
Theft or malfunction

"Shit, you have no ears to put the flower on. Ahh nvm, I'll just leave it on your screen, dear."


It'll be hilarious when his parents find out about this :D


Oh, and credits to Tzyy Jeng for finding out. I stole this from him :)

LOL

Apple told The Little App Factory to change the name of their popular app iPodRip, as it had the word iPod in it. The CEO sent a passionate letter to Steve Jobs, and he got a response.

Here's the letter he sent:

Dear Mr. Jobs,

My name is John Devor and I'm the co-owner of a small Mac shareware company named The Little App Factory and a long-term Apple customer and shareholder. I doubt you're aware but we recently received a letter from a law firm working on Apple's behalf instructing us that we had violated several of Apple's trademarks in our application iPodRip and asking us to cease using the name and Apple trademarks in our icons.

We have been distributing iPodRip since 2003 with the aim of providing a method to recover music, movies and photos from iPods and iPhones in the event of a serious hardware failure on their Mac which leads to data loss. Our goal has been to provide the highest quality product coupled with the highest quality service in a bid to resolve some of the angst that is generated by such an ordeal; service befitting of an Apple product. In this department we think we have succeeded as we have approximately 6 million customers, many Apple employees, music artists and other notable people in society. In fact I'd argue that our customer service is the best of all competing applications in our niche as many of them are scams and frauds that leave Apple customers with a terrible taste in their collective mouths. We fear very much that tens of thousands of Apple customers looking to recover their own music and having heard of our product via word-of-mouth or otherwise, will instead find a product produced by one of our competitors, and will wind up the victim of a scam (one closely-named competitor charges a hidden monthly fee, for instance).

It is quite obvious that we mean Apple no harm with the use of the name iPodRip, or of the inclusion of trademarked items in our icons, and in fact I believe that we have been providing an excellent secondary service to Apple customers that has potentially caused you many repeat clients. In fact, we are quite aware that Apple support and store staff have recommended our software on numerous occasions as far back as 2004 so we have felt that we were doing something right!

With this in mind, we are in desperate need of some assistance and we beseech you to help us to protect our product and our shareware company, both of which we have put thousands upon thousands of hours of work into. Our company goal is to create Mac software of the highest quality with the best user experience possible. I myself dropped out of school recently to pursue a path in the Mac software industry, and you yourself have been a consistent inspiration for me.

If there is anything at all you can do with regards to this matter, we would be most grateful.

Best,

John Devor

And here's Steve's reply:

Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal.

Steve

Sent from my iPhone

Fyi, they eventually changed it to iRip. Haha

I feel like a noob
I'm wearing a Chip and Dale tee shirt in this lounge coz of free wifi
and everyone around me's wearing a suit...

I should go up and change...

And Mexicans here don't see a lot of Asians. A small girl just stared at me and asked if I was a Chinese in Spanish. And everyone was staring at me when I went into a Starbucks.

"OH LOOK! IT'S AN ASIAN! SMALL EYES! HEHE!"

Setting foot in the States

Los Angeles & New York

...I think I could live here :)

Random Facts:
1. Cars are bloody cheap here.
2. Ratio of hot girls here to hot girls in Malaysia is 6:1
3. Music instruments are cheap aka I can live in Guitar Centre
4. My creative side of photography's raging here
5. Most asian girls here are really hot. I wanna study here :)
6. The school in Gossip Girl's actually a primary school
7. I bought an electric guitar, a SLR camera and beef jerky
8. I now know why more than 70% of Americans are overweight.
9. American food's boring. Asian food has a lot more flavour. Russell Peters was right.
10. The Chinese are the most educated people here
11. The Chinese are, on average, the richer ones here
12. Property in Chinatown's really expensive because of the chinese who made them expensive.
13. People drink their tap water
14. The roads here are worse than Malaysia. Potholes and whatnot.
15. Malaysia's public transport system? FAIL. America? No need for a car.
16. I've never seen so many Jews in my life than I have here.

Los Angeles, California
Behold, The Georgian Hotel. I know it isn't your average 5 star hotel and it looks like one of those hotels straight out of some happy fantasy land, but it's still pretty cool nonetheless. It's hard to find nice hotels in Santa Monica anyway. And there was free wi-fi. Free wi-fi is always good.


The famous Rodeo Drive. Yes that is my dad, and LA isn't as glamorous as it seems. Shopping in Bkt Bintang's a lot better.


The chap between my parent's Richard Yamasaki. My dad's old classmate from his uni days in Tokyo. He was nice enough to take 3 days off just to drive us around and entertain us. And that behind there is Heaven for a lot of people I know. Wait till you see their drums section.


The site of Cirque du Soliel. Yes I watched it. Kooza to be exact. You can search it up on youtube; it's pretty damn cool actually. Btw, that right there is the pier.



New York City, New York

Hello Times Square! Stayed in Renaissance which happened to be right outside Times Square. Bloody congested though. And I think it's harder to drive here than in Petaling Street.


I watched Phantom of the Opera in Broadway. Absolutely brilliant. Makes Puteri Gunung Ledang look like a kindergarten recital. I have high expectations of our musical now.


Met up with Jordan, Henry and Emily. Guy on your left is Jordan and guy on your right's Henry. Emily's not in the photo. They're all Chinese living in America. Pretty cool people. Jordan drove my family around and entertained us in New York. Jordan and Emily's 22 and Henry's 26 so I found myself hanging out with old people yet again. Spent my last night with them WITHOUT my parents. We were in a Japanese restaurant so we were ordering alcohol and they asked me for my ID. Shit, I feel young again... :/


Btw, if you haven't noticed, the pictures of New York's better than those in LA. I bought my first SLR camera in New York. Really awesome. I got some really good photos which I'll post later. One of them's the one I have at the top of this blog. The one of the bridge and my name. That's the Brooklyn Bridge I took in one of my photoshoots.


One of me posing during my photoshoot in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) No I'm not shitting you. That is the official name of the place. Jordan happened to be a really good photographer too so he brought me to all the good spots and gave me a few pointers.

I wanna come back to NY again. Alone.

This is only a very brief entry. I'll post a more detailed one about my whole trip another day. I still have Havanna and Mexico City to go. Leaving for Cuba tomorrow morning so I'll see you people on the 27th :)

Plastic Surgery for WHAT?!

HAHA! Call me immature but I found this super amusing!
and I was just surfing through this Singaporean youtube channel called clicknetwork (which is pretty entertaining) when I stumbled on this so no, I did not search this on purpose :)

Btw, it's 6am now and I've got tuition at 10 so I'm off now.

Life Without a Maid and a Driver

So my maid just went back to Indonesia for a month for holidays now.
I've never eaten cereal and cereal bars this much before. I mean, I did manage to "ta pow" food back and order pizza once a while, but still... Sighh.... Life is tough man. And both my parents are away too. Check out my kitchen sink 4 days after she left.


DRIVERS
...and have I told you how BLOODY hard is it to find good staff these days?
I've had at least 3 drivers so far this year. The first one had an attitude problem and he was lazy. Every time my dad leaves the country he hardly shows up for work. He's also quite rude at times and he's the FIRST DRIVER EVER to talk back at my dad, who just so you know, is a super serious and scary and short tempered person especially when he's angry. Oh, and he crashed my dad's Merc too. The second one, was pretty okay at first, then again, he turned out to be lazy too. He'll show up maybe 4 out of 6 days every week so he had to go too. The third one, I only had for bout 4 days. He seemed okay, but his driving was jerky and hesitant, and he didn't really know how to drive long cars especially the 7 Series coz the gear shifting system was a little different than normal cars. So my dad, being an impatient guy, told him off one day. "eh, you better learn how to drive. My patience is running short." The next day he quit.

And my driver now who's been with us for a month now, and who I thought was one of the best my dad's ever hired, doesn't show up for work. My dad left for China on Saturday morning. The minute the driver came back from KLIA, he left although it was a half day saying that his wife is sick and all, and he's not come to work since. That ass wipe lied to me too. "Oh, tuesday I kan balik kerja." And I was waiting for him the whole day. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some spoilt rich kid who needs to be chauffeured everywhere I go, but, I can't drive and I had a shit load of things to do. No, not fun things like meeting friends, but proper appointments and tuitions and meetings and rehearsals and worship sessions. So now, I'm making sure he doesn't come back to work. Gonna complain to my dad when he gets back. Idiot. Not coming to work is one thing, lying and not giving me any notice is a whole other. And he doesn't pick my calls up. At least have the decency to tell me if he's not coming to work so I can make arrangements. ARGH. stupid.

So now, here I am at 9am typing this out coz again, he didn't come for work and I just missed my tuition with Sally. Well, kudos to you if you read this long long rant. But yeah, it is quite annoying.

Jam Session @ Bangkok Jazz

Are you a musician? Is music your passion?

If you said yes to both questions, then you need to go to Bangkok Jazz every Thursday at 10:30pm. Jam Session till you feel like going home.

I just got back from Bangkok Jazz and it amazes me how good our local musicians are. Arthur and John Thomas stole the show for me as usual. Jose Thomas, Martin, Daniel Foong and Wagner were there this time and Jose was phenomenal. I dunno how he works those fingers at such speed. And this time, they set up 2 extra drums. So I was basically there with at least 15 drummers, 3 quarters of which were part of Drummer For Christ. All professionals and a few semi-pros. I don't know why they bother calling it a jam session when people like Arthur jams. It's intimidating for other drummers. I mean, tonight's jam session was gila gila off the hook. 3 drummers playing simultaneously with other bloody good musicians. They might as well call it a weekly jazz fest/drum fest. But it's really crazy. I went 2 weeks before and I was equally entertained this time. The level of musicianship is bloody high in there.

Maybe one day eh? :)