February 23, 2008
Weekend ramblings
uh, how i loathe Saturdays. Although work ends early at 5.30, yeah, it’s early all right especially when normal working hours are till 6.30 and some time much later till 7 if there are things really urgent to complete within the day. As for saturdays, it’s slow. Dreadfully slow. Especially when most of the work are completed before lunch. Quotation request sent by e-mail, tools sent for machining, and now the waiting game starts. I can get very boring even with the internet entertaining me the whole day. Well, the forums are dreadfully slow too. Being a weekend, i guess people spend time off line, doing other meaningful things then trolling in the forums. Well, i can’t help it, that’s the only thing available for me to do now. Speaking of trolling, the motivational poster on the topic of /b/ did prove it’s hypothesis where 90% of the population don’t know what it is. It is unfortunate that SMF that was installed did not have the vote viewing feature where it allows admins to see who voted for what option. I would sure know who the other 3 /b/tards is in the club.
Speaking of the club, again. A fresh onslaught at parasites was started, again. At first I thought it was amusing. Now it’s a totally turn off. The wise plan of putting a huge bait like 20% off R3 stuff to generate membership has shot us in the foot. After all, being malaysian, who could ever resist a good bargain? Plus registration is free. Secondly is the priceless bank of information that is stored in the forum that is constantly being updated and contributed by professionals, something that the other side lacks off. Then again, access is fairly easy with a simple registration.
Personally speaking, from my own observation, the other side has opted for an “open source” method where everyone is free to contribute, even nonsense, junk and false advice. Srsly, i cracked up when reading and advice given: upgrade fuel pump and a fuel pressure regulator to answer a cry for help of a car that is running too lean after an extractor upgrade. I mean, how dumb can a person get? obviously there’s something very wrong with the O2 sensor reading which is caused by wrong placement of the O2 sensor. after all, the custom made extractor is from a non-reputable-under-a-coconut-tree-workshop. This is what separates us form them.
However we seems to corner ourselves in a very sticky situation. yes we do get new members, but it’s not the sort that we need. Microsoft gets new window users everyday, but a huge chunk of them are pirated window users, especially here in boleh land. There is one way out of this though. Making it a closed club, meaning that it’s just a small group of friends who share a common interest. Having said so, all official ties with companies and affiliates have to be severed. There will be no more endorsement, no more special 20% discounts, no more VIP services. Likewise why would a multi million car company give money to private car users, just because they drive in groups. might as well use that money for better marketing strategy like pitting the myvi and blm at SIC and enjoy the show as the myvi skid off the track. Now, that’s a commercial worth making.
Last but not least, i’ve pretty much given up debating ideas. Especially with my two retired-waiting-to-expire uncles. One was a gambling branch manager for maybank who seems to stuck onto that position till retirement who gave lousy financial advice. I still remember the time when he tried to con-vince my parents into investing into BTS when the project was first launched. Looking at that empty monolith now, sure say allot of his financial wisdom. Just the other day he complained that my housing area was too congested and it’s high time that our family move out following his friend foot steps who have shifted form BU12 to the other side, nearer to 1U. Of course, i did not tell him that he came to visit during rush hour, hence the jam. And neither did he know that there’s no bigger units at the other side compared to BU11 and BU12. Furthermore, at the residential enclave that i am right now has more exits compared to the other side, plus property value is booming since the development of Aman Suria and Dataran Prima. So, who said old people are smart and wise. It’s a good thing that we are not blood related. Amen to that.
Looking at my wall of text, i realized that i’ve lack finesses. instead of deleting this, i’ll just keep it posted to remind myself not to blog with an empty mind. and also for the lulz.
