Through My Eyes

iBilik - Malaysia's Largest Room For Rent Website

2011-09-07T14:25:00.003+08:00

When I found out that I was hired for a job based in KL (which I rejected in the end), the first thing I thought about was where should I stay. The working place is not near to my uncle's house and there is little to none public transport (and by public transport I mean rapid KL) that go to that area. I was in panic about where to find rooms for rental when I suddenly came across the website iBilik. It is one of the best website to find rooms and houses to rent in Malaysia, from Kuala Lumpur to Penang and any other states in the country.

These are the public transports I meant

I was managed to find a wide selection of rooms to look at and consider renting it around the working area. The choices that I found were of various room sizes and rates, each place is located from walking distance to the office to rather far from it. I even called up one of the agents dealing with the room that I had interested on and found out more information about the room. While the deal did not go smoothly, I was still amazed at the large choices of rooms the website has to offer.

I strongly believed this website is the best place to look for rooms to rent. When my friend was asking me whether I can help him out to scout for rooms somewhere near his working place in Tanjung Bungah in Penang, I recommended this website to him and asked him to look around if he can find any room he liked. The navigation of the website is simple and easy to use and you do not have to be a tech savvy to do the room searching yourself. In fact, with this website, anyone who wants to rent out the spare rooms in their houses or who wants to find a room to rent can do it without any hassles.

Singapore Rooms for Rent

2011-05-23T16:41:00.003+08:00

Are you planning to relocate to Singapore for work purposes or for your study purposes and are now looking for room to rent? Well, look no further because there is one website that can serve you purpose in this room hunting business. All you have to do is to go to the website called CariBilik Singapore and you can hunt through its many available Singapore room for rents that you might find interesting.

This website is like a forum of sort where people who want to rent out their rooms post it there or where people who want to find rooms to rent in Singapore. From Ang Mo Kio to Queenstown, from Geylands to Woodlands, there are rooms in every part of Singapore that surely will be up to your taste. There are a wide selections of rooms from every area of Singapore that you can look at. You do not have to go far and wide to look for rooms anymore with this website.

One good point about this website is that it is simple and easy to navigate without any complicated animations or large format pictures that requires a lot of time to load. Other than that, you can also bookmark the rooms that you like and go back later after some pondering. This saves time and effort as you do not have to look for it again the second time.

I had often heard about things such as Singapore room rentals are expensive and all but from the website, I can find some really cheap rooms and the conditions are not shabby at all. This website is definitely something useful for those who plan to move to the neighbouring country and do not have any friends and relatives there to help out. If I plan to move to Singapore for work, at least now I know I can go through the website to look for a room to rent.

Death of a Phoenix

2011-04-12T18:59:00.004+08:00

UPDATE: There has been a slight error in term of the new blog. I'd tried using Wordpress but it's very frustrating and I'm not use to it. Hence, I resorted back to Blogger for familiarity reason. So, here's the link to my new blog. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

I guess it's pretty much nothing new but, I'm switching blog from now on. This blog is, from now on, had kicked the bucket. It's been a good, almost three years I had blogged and I have a lot of sweet memories recorded inside this diary of mine. Dead it may be, it will not be deleted from my memory...

This does not mean that I won't be blogging anymore. In fact, I had re-energized myself and am ready to venture into a new blog. Hence, the title. The death of a phoenix is not forever as it will reborn from its ashes with a brand new self. So too will be my blogging adventure.

Until then...

Top Malaysia Property Websites

2011-02-14T21:50:00.003+08:00

Are you looking for a place to rent somewhere around KL area or maybe you are looking for an apartment or a condominium to buy in Malaysia? Or do you have houses or apartments that you want to rent out or sell it off? Well, for those of you who enjoy doing everything by yourselves, well, you can scout for new houses or apartments on your own or sell off your houses without the helps of the middlemen as there are many new websites on the Internet that cater to such needs. A few examples of such websites that are roaming around the Internet are PropWall, iProperty and ThinkProperty.

There are few similarities between PropWall and those websites and one of them is that all these websites can be used for both the properties owners and also the properties buyers. In another word, both the buyers and the sellers can take advantages of these websites and use for their own purposes. Another good quality that these websites possess is that the designs of the websites are simple and easy to navigate and this can be a good selling point as office friendly websites are fast loading websites.

Besides that, there are a lot of properties on listing on these websites and I truly mean A LOT. You can browse through the many available houses and apartments and look at the pictures to have a rough idea on how the houses or the apartments looked like and whether it suits your style. When there are many properties on listing, you can find a wide variety and also a huge price range and all people can find what they want from the websites.

With these websites, now, everyone can do their own house searching easily and do not have to resort to property agents, be it the buyers or the sellers. Malaysia has truly begins to move along with technology!

Resurfaced

2010-12-27T10:05:00.002+08:00

Come to think of it, it's been more than a month of disappearing act of me from this blog. Besides the lack of time to leave any updates on it, I was pretty lazy and unmotivated to do the writings. But, anyhow, just to give some forms of life in this blog, I just wanna leave a brief update.

Holidays had ended without much had happened. Just like that. I was thinking, what the hell did I do during the semester break??? It's like a flick of the eyes and poof, holidays vanished in thin air.

With the end of the holidays come the beginning of the new and last semester of my university life. The prospect of entering the working world once I graduated is as much as exciting as it is scary. Not that it is pretty much a done deal in term of getting a job. I might want to continue with my studies. The path of my future is still vague.

Last semester means last time where all of us will be having fun together considering the fact that most of you will return back to your own home town after graduation. Therefore, we must make sure that this last semester must be fully enjoyed to the max!

I guess this is where I'll stop for the moment.

OVER!!!!

2010-11-13T18:14:00.003+08:00

EXAMS ARE OVER!!!

WELL, ALMOST...

BUT SCREW IT!!!

ALL MY CORE PAPERS ARE DONE!!!

I TELL YOU, DONE!!!

NO MORE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS!!!

NO MORE EARLY MORNINGS!!!

AND...

WHEN IT'S 16/11/10...

I'M OFFICIALLY EXAM-FREE!!!

WAITING ANXIOUSLY FOR THAT DAY!!!

363 Makes English Such A Foreign Thing

2010-11-06T03:07:00.003+08:00

In just 2 more days, I'll be facing my first paper, the deadliest of them all since I barely knew him. Facing him for a semester and I can't even call him my acquaintance. Why, oh why, do I have to be a buddy with you? I don't even understand the things you said. Mathematical you may be, but surely nothing mathematical about you since there's barely numbers. All signs and symbols. English never seems more foreign to me than now. If only life were just about watching TVs and movies...

That Little Wine Bar

2010-10-31T03:13:00.007+08:00

...costs us almost RM180 in total. And there's no wine involved too. But, it's expected since you have to pay for the ambiance too and without a doubt, it's very relaxing and soothing to be there.

What exactly did we do that we have to pay that much of money? Well, just eat. Haha. So, this was what we had.

Introducing the main courses from clockwise, top left...
Duck Breast a l'orange
Mushroom Quiche, my favourite of all the courses...
Red Snapper, what I ordered
The Chicken Panini

For desserts, we have...

New York Cheesecake
Warm Apple Filo Pillow

Overall, the foods are quite nice, though the Red Snapper is on the bottom among the four. That fish dish is not really good and apparently not fresh too, according to the 'critics'. I really liked the mushroom quiche the most. Its cheesy flavor mixed well with the pastry and the mushroom complemented it well.

For the desserts, nothing to shout about though I quite like the New York Cheesecake. Maybe it's because I really do like New York Cheesecake. Must go New York to try it first. Haha.

The atmosphere is very nice and relaxing. It's definitely very Westernized.

The wine collection...

Few Snapshots of the restaurant...

Owned by a European couple (assumed), they were friendly and nice to talk to. Definitely a place worth revisiting, when I had the money.

The entrance

That Little Wine Bar,
54, Jln Chow Thye,
Georgetown, Penang.

Study Study Study

2010-10-30T12:15:00.002+08:00

With the end of the semester comes the dreadful study week, where we were supposed to study but mostly ended up having fun, and the horrible exam weeks, where we will be sitting in a cold room for 2/3 hours each round just to prove that we did not study anything at all during the whole semester. It's the cycle of life, at the university life.

Now that I had FINALLY finalized that extremely stupid first report, it's time to focus on the studies. I'm gonna jam my one study week with the whole core courses that I took, making sure that what I'm supposed to know for the semester, I will know it by the end of the week.

I'm rambling.

This is how I feel right now...

The Road Not Taken

2010-10-22T23:33:00.002+08:00

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

We studied this poem back when we were Form Four, if I remembered correctly. It's about the personal choices that we made in our lives and whether we will end up in regret of the decisions we made.

Choices and decisions. It's a very scary thing, knowing that different choices you made today will have different impacts in your life and if you made the wrong choice, then, you have no choice but to stay on board until you reach another stage of your life where you can make another decision.

I'm actually quite scared of my future. All I see in front of me is nothing but complete blur, a rather bleak vision. I have plans but I'm not too sure of which paths to choose and also how my plans will be released into reality instead of being just that, plans.

Is this the feeling of being in the final year of study???

Cars For Sale in Malaysia

2010-10-15T21:31:00.003+08:00

If you are wondering where to find used cars for sale in the Internet that is reliable and have a good selection, search no further because there exists a new website that caters to your need and it is called CarSifu. Basically, this website is like a Malaysian car classifieds where those who have an account can post their cars that they want to sell it off. And the best part of it is that it is a free registration.

If you are hunting for used cars, well, the best place to do it is to personally locate the owner itself to save up some unnecessary fees charged by used cars dealers. You can negotiate the price with the owners and look at the cars first hands. For the sellers out there, you can used this website to sell your cars.

The selections of cars are amazingly wide. From the locally produced cars such as Proton to foreign cars such as Honda, Ford, Audi, and many more, you can find all kind of cars here. This website is easy to use and very user friendly.

There is even a Facebook page for the website to draw in the crowds. So, if you are the seller, don't worry about not finding a potential customer!

*This is another paying community service!*

Want + Need

2010-10-14T23:58:00.001+08:00

What is a want?

What is a need?

When does a need turns into a want?

When does a want becomes a need?

Find Homestays in KL

2010-10-11T20:48:00.002+08:00

Hey!!! I'm back!!!

After almost a month of hiatus, I'm finally back in the blogosphere. The hiatus is mostly due to pretty unexciting life I'm leading and also the fact that I am very uninspired. Anyhow, I better get to the point of this post.

Today's post is to introduce fellow bloggers and also people on the world the wonders of a website that enables you guys to find KL homestays and also in other parts of Malaysia. It is a very good website where you can hunt for places to stay when in KL or other part of Malaysia especially if you are foreigners or that you do not have any friends and relatives to crash into. All the rooms for rental are mostly for short term only.

One of the most common traits among the homestays uploaded in the website is that all the places are located in the residential areas. It can be very calm and peaceful and that it will be less noisy and suitable for a good rest after a hectic day.

There is another side to the website and it is cater to people who are looking for a room to rent for a period of time. This website will the most suitable one for you if you are looking for places to rent. There are many rooms available for you guys to rent and more is still to come. The price range is very wide, making sure that all people of different financial budget can benefit from the website.

If you are looking for people to rent your extra empty room, well, you can upload your classified ads into the website for others to look at. You can write down your criteria to make sure not to waste other people's time. All you have to do is just to sign up for a free membership. So, hurry up and make use of the website!

*This is a community service to all the people out there who are looking for places to rent and stay.*

Holidays!!!

2010-09-13T23:04:00.002+08:00

It's been a while since my last update. Almost 2 weeks plus had passed since Merdeka. Well, blame it on the lack of inspiration. Or maybe it's my lazy bone kicking in. Somehow, I just don't feel like writing anything on my blog without really having anything to say. Not that I have anything to say now, but...Take it as a call to a long lost friend asking how he/she is doing and telling the world that I'm still alive.

Anyhow, it's already the second week of the two week break we had for the Raya celebration. Originally, I thought of staying back in Penang to work, to find some extra cash to fund my very costly expeditions next year, but, due to my brotherly duty of teaching my sister Maths for her upcoming STPM exam(with I barely did until today which is totally not my fault!), I went back home. Then, I was like wanting to go back early to do the piles of works that keep on piling high but, well, having fun and meeting up with old and new friends seem to take over the desire to work. What to do, I'm a really lazy fella.

That's basically what I did for the last week, going out meeting with friends, having lunch and dinner with them, while stuffing myself with home cooked meals. Well, it's really stuffing as the portion back home is freaking crazy. It's like a feast for 5 to 6 people where the house only have like 3 adults and one child, all of which eat very little. So, I ended up swallowing to avoid wasting.

Karaoke session with that bunch of people is always fun, especially that entertainer friend of ours. Dinner at Michaelangelo's is really worth the value and it's not really expensive to begin with. Meeting up with Nava is really nice considering it's been more than two years, I think, since we last met. Need to hang out with him this week again this week before both of us heading back to our universities respectively. Then, getting to meet with new friends, Sarah and Pui Yun, well, it's nice, to say the least.

How comes holidays have to end so freaking fast???

The Last Week Before The Holidays...

2010-08-31T05:12:00.003+08:00

The last week before the mid semester break is full of mid term tests and assignments that to be due this week. What a terrible way to spend the perfect weekend with the nice Merdeka break on Tuesday. If I were locking myself in the room studying and finishing assignments, which I should do and which I failed to do so. The weekend was spent cruising around Penang, with the exception of Sunday itself as there was a test on Monday morning.

To make things a bit clearer, this week before the holidays, on Monday, which already a past tense, I had a test in the morning and an assignment due later in the afternoon. Wednesday, another test and an assignment due. Come Friday, two more assignments. And before that weekend arrived, I had touched almost none of it, with the exception of the Monday-due assignment. Clear???

Now, Monday had came and gone, with the Merdeka holiday fully secured in the afternoon. Most likely, I'm gonna snored till around 11am like that what with the time I'm going to sleep later. Oh yea, I just came back from an outing which lasted for almost almost 8 hours. More information will be spilled later.

It will be busy days ahead what with all the writings needed to be done and readings needed to be finished. Well, there's always a price to be paid for all the enjoyment in life and I'm willing to carry the burden for I really do have fun these few days. Glad that I went for it.

Ooo ya, Selamat Menyambut Hari Kemerdekaan Ke-53 or Happy 53th Independence Day!!!

Selling P1Wimax Prepaid Modem Preloaded w RM100 Top-up

2010-08-19T16:26:00.002+08:00

I'm selling this P1Wimax prepaid modem preloaded with RM100 of online time worth RM299. I already listed the item on eBay. I'm selling at the starting price of RM100. Here's the link to the item. Those who are interested can contact me for more information about the modem.

Planning (Need Money!)

2010-08-16T20:59:00.004+08:00

Now that both my air flight tickets already secured, it's time to save up money and also find some part time works to generate some income. And it's also mean I need to resist the urge to buy stuffs that I want or that I like. Spending money is always easier than earning it.

Planning for the trip...Cambodia is approaching, in a year time. But it doesn't mean I can't plan where I want to go and what I want to do. This coming holidays I'm going to use it to plan for the trip, where to stay, check the budget, do the route planning, and so on. My target is to use less than RM1000 for the whole Cambodia trip. Hopefully, with good planning, will not be hard.

Next up, Macau. Which is so much longer than the Cambodia trip. Therefore, more time to plan for it. A must do in Macau is to bungee jumping. Again, hopefully, I save up enough so that I can spend without concerning too much about budget. At most, RM3000 hopefully?

After all these trips, I can declare myself bankrupt. And I still got more plans I want to execute after my last semester. But that would require financial support already. More on that later when details are more transparent.

And I have tonnes to buy also. Need money...Jobs, where are you???

Graduation Trip to Cambodia!!!

2010-08-12T21:19:00.000+08:00

While the excitements from going to Macau July next year is still in the air (for me, at least), another trip has been planned and air flights booked. This time, it's Cambodia! The whole thing is full of ups and downs, with less than one day of planning and off we go to execute the idea. I already predicted that AirAsia would not be possible to accommodate the huge numbers of us with its RM1 promotion but it is still affordable and cheap.

The booking process is very exhilarating, rushing to get those promotion seats. Luckily, almost everyone managed to secure a seat. It's like a potpourri of emotions. You'll get high, low, excited, disappointment, joy, frustration, happiness, anger, all at one go. I learned my lesson.

Anyhow, with air flights' done, now, it's time to plan the schedule. Can't wait to actually step my feet on their soils. I need to start saving already.

Thank You, AirAsia!

2010-08-10T22:59:00.004+08:00

Thanks to the people of AirAsia, I get to travel to Macau at such a low cost. AirAsia is having a mind-blowing promotion where fares are as low as RM1 only. Where can you get it at such prices anymore???

Since the air flights already settled, I'll be heading off to Macau July next year. I know, I know, it's still like almost a year away but the excitement is very elevated. Give me few more days and I'll be back to normal.

Ruins of St. Pauls
Macau without gambling??? Where can???

And, of course, BUNGEE JUMPING!!!!! Tonight I'm gonna sleep with a grin on my face!

BBQ Gathering

2010-08-08T19:15:00.006+08:00

For the first time after 2+ years of being coursemates, we finally had our first truly gathering, with all minus 2 managed to spare some of their extremely busy time to make this event a success. A great gratitude must goes to our M&E boss for joining us and also bought us Ferrero chocolates. ¡Muchos gracias! Another thanks must go to the Peking lady for the humor she brought to the whole house. You really worth RM120.

There is nothing special about the whole BBQ thing but it is nonetheless, a special thing, I hope, to all of us. I mean, how often do we all come out and hang out, releasing all our stresses and troubles, simply enjoying ourselves? Simply close to zero. Well, just one more year left for us all to go gila and we must treasure whatever time left to hang out.

From the whole shopping spree to the BBQ itself and to my experimental popcorn success, there's just too many sweet memories being captured and stored inside my mind. Even if I forgot who you are after 10 years (sorry to say so but my memory very char in term of names and faces...), I'll still remember this BBQ for as long as I live.

When we arrived 1st...
Sunset...
Then, all had reached the destination...
A 'formal' shot...the 'informal' one a bit blur...
BBQ in progress...

明年今天。。。

2010-08-06T19:27:00.003+08:00

It was convocation time throughout this week - and still is. All our seniors were working so hard throughout their 3 academic years, and after the truly final exams, anxiously waiting for this moment, to wear those hideous purple gowns matched with those square caps, parading in front of thousands of gleaming eyes and million dollars smiles of their parents, receiving those certificates that certified you had indeed been an USM student.

Mathematics & Economic seniors...

Everyone was looking so handsome and pretty, with big wide smiles pasted all over their faces. It was like all their joys and happiness were seeped into my soul, making me simply just so happy for them. And in just one year, it will be my turn, our turns, the 08/09's turns. And one year is nothing but just a statement for when time flies, it truly flies without waiting for anyone.

An incomplete family shot, so to say...

I still remembered the first time I put my feet on the USM soil. Never had I imagined back then that I would be leaving this place in just one more year. So many sweet memories I had in this place. Wonders what installs for me after this phase??? Getting nostalgic when it was not me who is graduating...

Caps throwing ceremony...

So, after two year plus of being here in USM, what did I learn? Let me share with you some of the tidbits I learned...

Time passes by so slowly when you are at Normee's reading session...
However zillions languages you speak, you cannot understand Amir's lectures...
Adam and Z. Ali is the couple from Borevilles...
Whatever Michael taught, it won't appear in the final...
If you understands Fatah, you are sure 发财...

Penang PC Fair 2010

2010-08-02T10:59:00.006+08:00

These last 3 days, I was working for P1Wimax at the Penang PC Fair 2010. Quite a fun and unique experience for me. Here’s a brief gist on the 3 days of my work.

My uniform and tag

30/07/2010
Horrible way to begin my work. I failed to do any sale on that day, mainly due to my slight language problem. I don’t know which language to use in so I stick to English and Malays most of the time. When I did use Mandarin and Hokkien, maybe due to my first day work, it felt and sounded bad. Haha…I was the only one with zero sale in my team.

31/07/2010
Determined to fight today, I managed to score 6 sales, the highest in my team and was one of the top 3 top sellers. I believed it’s number two. Out of the 6 sales, one 1 I think is Chinese and it was my manager who helped me finish the deal. The rest were Malays. Somehow, language no longer a barrier and I used whichever languages needed for me to use. Definitely a great moment from zero to, well, not hero la but at least an almost one. Hehe…

My rewards for being one of the top sellers...

01/08/2010
I still needed 3 more sales to hit the required targets and 3 I ended up with. By the time I already scored the last sale, I slacked off and produced a half-hearted job already. Haha…No longer have to work so hard already since I already done my part. But I still helped out here and there, helping people to settle their required targets. By the time the whole fair was almost over, the whole telco area was in a mess and filled with screams and shouts and cheers, trying to score some last minute sales.

Throughout the three days, at least all my food were covered, so, I barely spent a dime. It was surely fun and all, but the most dreadful thing would be the visit to the toilet. It was just next to the P1Wimax booth but when you enter the toilet, it’s like trespassing the hell gate. The room was filled with billowing fumes emitted from the cancerous sticks, making the release unbearable. If I were to have more toilet breaks, for sure I’ll be diagnosed with cancer.

Like I said, it is sure fun being able to hit the targets but it will not be so if I failed to do so. All the money earned and the rewards from the second day surely brought smiles on my face. Now, anyone wants to buy the Wiggy from me???

Here's the P1Wimax modem I'm selling...

Please leave a comment here if you want to buy it. I'm selling it off at just RM200. The modem itself is worth RM199 and it's preloaded with RM100 of 1 month of surfing the Net. I have only one modem, so, first come first serve. Here's the link to eBay listing.

Modern Family - The Best New Comedy In Town

2010-07-28T11:32:00.002+08:00

If you have yet to watch the fantastic TV series which I think air in Astro (what channel I'm not sure), go download it and watch (for those Astro-less). Nominated for The Outstanding Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy this year, it goes against Glee, 30 Rock, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Nurse Jackie, and The Office. For me, it's either Glee or Modern Family.

The sexy Sofia Vergara...

It's Been A While Since I Had Such Fun!!!

2010-07-23T22:55:00.002+08:00

Well, the title pretty much said it all. I have so much fun today singing my throat out, letting loose and be wild for a while. Thanks to the two friends of mine for giving me such a wonderful time! And I know I had gave them a great time too, letting them see my idiotic side. Please let it slip off your mind...

We went to Neway Karaoke at Queensbay after deciding not going for movie. Or more like just opt for karaoke since not many interesting shows are in the cinema. And the only interesting was Inception which I already watched and reviewed.

Such a letting go experience singing karaoke can be. You totally forget all whatever that has been bothering you. A blast filled almost five hours of fun!!! Let's do more of it!!!

Sooner or later, we will be packed with our final projects and mid terms and finals and all. It will be hard to pull out some time to actually hang out and have fun. So, truly treasure the fun I had today.

Inception

2010-07-22T14:23:00.000+08:00

Wow. This movie is simply brilliant. Mind blowing. I mean, that scene where Joseph Gordon-Levitt defying gravity is just worth every single penny spent for the movie. A definitely must watch movie of the summer.

Great flick it is...

It's true that you SHOULD NOT read any reviews or information about the movie for the less you know about the movie, the better. You will be more amazed by it. I basically knew some few information on what it is all about before entering the cinema and well, I did not really regret knowing those teeny weeny bit of details or I might get a little bit lost. Or not.

Anyhow, from the start till the end, the whole movie is nothing short of surprising. Definitely an Oscars contender in Best Picture and Best Director, in my point of view. For those who still had yet to watch it, erm, watcha waiting for??? A rewatch is also highly recommended.