It has been three months at Cyberjaya and I think I’m starting to blend into this serene high tech city. Amidst the gloominess of the surroundings filled with fear and worry as the recession looms in, it had been quite calm in the company that I’m working at. Which I’m particularly glad of as I’m able to focus my energies into the pursuits that I’m engaging in.

Two or three weeks ago my life is more on the bumpy side as I find myself in situations that I trip and stumble. Just one of those times when things aren’t smooth going, but along the way I learnt new lessons, understood my own surroundings and realities better, shifted personal perception and pacing as well as move along with life. If …

My birthday just passed over this timezone. So essentially I’m 26 and a day.

Anyway, it’s just like any other day: no lavish parties or birthday cakes: just me going through my daily life, trying to enjoy the present as it is. I’m very blessed with a lot of friends and family who sent me birthday messages, as much I sort of perceived myself to be alone most of the time, these kinds of little things reminded me that there’s a lot of people who cared for me in some way or the other. With that I’m very grateful.

I actually got myself my own birthday present a few days back: basically a card purse and wallet (to the uninitiated, I keep my cards and cash separate, sort of a …

… for my EeePC.

Since Thursday I have been spending a lot of time configuring it as my working think tank, which basically means installing the needed software and configuring it to make very pleasant to work with. (also due to the fact that I accidentally screwed up my previous installation).

This time round I got Debian Linux installed, which is close enough to Ubuntu (which I used back at home) but only install the minimal set of software (i.e. less bloat). Pretty much reminds me the time when I’m on Gentoo, only different being that I don’t need to compile stuff :lol:. It did took me a few tries to get it right though, mainly due to tame my wireless to allow me to switch it on and off depending on my …

Finally, after quite a long absence, my Eee PC is back :D. That by itself is worth feeling happy about :).

So now I got it back which gave me a different feel from what I used to know it: the screen is now perfect (the reason I sent it for warranty is due to some LCD glitches), the keys on the keyboard felt a bit “loose”, which gives a very “spring-like” tactile feedback - something I liked about (being a geek of some sorts, such keyboards felt better compared to soft keyboards).

I think the difference now is the role that this small baby would take from now on: instead of just being a tool which I used to record meeting minutes (well, that’s the main purpose when I first get it. Heck, I paid …

In one way, I pretty much have settled down and have my lifestyle shifting gears down to a more relaxing pace: something that I personally enjoyed a lot. Despite not having its own annoyances (found myself in a pretty shocking surprise on the second day of Eid/Hari Raya that virtually no eateries was open around the area that I stayed at. Only consolation that there’s always 7-Eleven with its ready stock of overpriced cup noddles :p), I’m pretty satisfied being in such a seemingly desolated high-tech suburb.

These days have observed my brain going on an overdrive as I pored deeply into information sources both at home and work. Having just set up my ideal working environment, I’m pretty much putting a lot of effort studying code and jotting down notes …

It’s been close to a month now, lots had happened even though none was being mentioned: Coming back from Sabah, immersing into a completely new environment at Cyberjaya, shifted to a new office on the fifth day of work, attending my best friend’s wedding…

Yet it seemed that I can’t seem to find something to say. ^^||

Guess the intent of this post is just to say hi to those who are following this :p.

In other news, I sort of working on a few experiments in life, which includes adjusting my sleeping patterns (trying to sleep at 10:30 - 11:00pm nowadays) and reducing my Internet and computer usage. Probably will post thoughts about this one day.

After coming back from Sabah two days ago, I moved into Cyberjaya the next day (Plug: thanks for Theen Gee for the help :). Eight hours from now I’ll be reporting into my new office, so it’s sort of like a D-day for me, after all the anxiety, excitement and overwhelming emotions: A completely new environment, complete different set of people to interact with and a completely different ballgame to be in.

The days being in E-Genting R&D seemed so near yet so far away after a complete nine-days absence from all the hustle and bustle there. Not particular sure whether is it due to the distance, all of a sudden everything that I used to know years ago seemed to foreign to me and same goes to what I’m feeling now …

As life slowly transitioning to the next phase, new variables will be introduced while some will be eliminated. And sometimes, you just have to accept the fact that there’s challenges that you have to face at one point or the other.

In my case, I’m currently finding myself warming myself to the idea of driving and taking up a car loan to get my first car. Which, to most, is one of the most ecstatic experience you can get in life. To me… let’s just say that I’m overwhelmed, for the opposite reasons.

To be very frank, I dread driving - heck, it seemed set in my mind for quite a long time that the worst way to die is to die in a car accident. Inhumane torture would be even scarier …

For some reasons I just felt that these few month, the more major events for the year in my life have uncanny timings and coincidences.

As time starts ticking away and I’m counting down towards a complete change of environment, the major concern for the people around me was either my career decision or, should I stay firm with my decision to make the switch, where would I be staying. At that time I was still considering to stay put and commute to Cyberjaya, which will take me about two hours per trip. By all means whomever concerned was indeed concern about the duration of the journey, by all means four hours of commute per day was indeed excessive.

And now with this… I think I was left with no choice ^^||||.

With such a …

Finally, some green on my table! 😄

Just got this potted mother-in-law’s tongue from my parents after hearing about it’s air purifying properties (apparently it’s true based on Wikipedia stating a NASA study). Actually I got two of them, with one intended to be placed on my office desk. But considering that I’m switching jobs, I left it back home for my mom to cultivate another pot of it.

Am sort of thinking that it’d be nice (and pretty) to have a mini-aquarium by it’s side. 😊