…my cuppa iced coffee…

An acquaintance of mine invited me and a friend to play in a bowling tournament organised by Zainal Alam Kadir’s fan club – Alamorphosis – yesterday at Ampang Superbowl, Berjaya Times Square. It was an inter-fan club affair for the stars of the Akademi Fantasia reality show, and we played for Edlin FC. Fortunately it was only for fun, so we didn’t really feel guilty all that much since we played rather badly. Sorry Edlin. Hehehehe…

It started more than an hour late but nothing much can be done about it. You know how celebrities are. More often than not, they are fashionably late. Whose fashion, I have no idea. Among the turn ups were Zahid, Keifli, Edlin, Linda, Fitri, Redza, Azizi, Ebi, Diddy, Ziela, Aswad, Fuad, Farish, Akma, Anding and of course, Zainal Alam Kadir himself.

It was fun, there were lots of people (especially kids), and the game kept getting interrupted for impromptu photo shoots. I got a few as well.  

Me, Linda & Edlin

Me & Keifli

Fitri & Edlin

Azizi & Nisa

Nisa & Zahid

Here’s another post on the tournament by my friend: Judd’s Lair – Alamorphosis Bowling 07

It was one of those times when I simply could not hold myself anymore. By hook or by crook, I simply had to get one. So I went to www.buynow.com.my and post an order. And voilla !! I got myself a new Acer Aspire 4520

It costed me approximately RM2119 + RM80 for delivery. I was thinking of getting it insured the moment I got it but the courier company made a little mess with the delivery. I was supposed to get it on Wednesday but they were too busy with Deepavali, so I only got it on Friday – after office hours. And that was after several calls to buynow.com and the courier company itself *sigh*

Anyway.. the first thing I did was go to Lowyat Plaza and got the RAM upgraded to 2 GB (from the original 512 MB), bought a new Dicota computer bag, a mouse and a cooling pad. Then I rushed home and started the tedious process of installing the softwares. And as of this morning, I’m still not done installing.

Now that I have this new toy to play with (a few months ago it was the Olympus SP-550UZ digital camera), I can join those people at Starbuck’s and pretend that I was.. errr.. I can’t remember the word. Hehehehe… No offense intended.

I received an email from PayPal Service (service@paypal.com) with the subject “PayPal Accounts Review Department” asking me to validate my account by logging in to PayPal via a link or my account will be suspended.

I smell fish, so I immediately sent an email to PayPal (spoof@paypal.com) to confirm whether the email is officially from them or not. And yup, the reply I got confirmed that they did not send it and that it’s a phishing email.

This is the content of the email:

PayPal informed that they will never ask for your password over the phone or in an email, and will always address you by your first and last name.

I don’t know how long this email has been going around, but for someone new to PayPal like me, this is something we need to be extra careful with. So you guys out there, be aware and do forward any suspicious-looking email to PayPal (spoof@paypal.com).

I didn’t feel like going out for dinner last night, so I decided to order some pizza. My favourite is Domino’s, so I called them first. Unfortunately, I was told that they were not taking orders at that time. They were overwhelmed with the orders received and could only take new orders after 1 ½ hours.

Okay… let’s try Pizza Hut. After giving the girl my address, she asked me to hold the line for a moment while she checked her system. Then she asked me to again hold the line while she checked with her supervisor. I immediately knew that they could not find my street.

“I’m sorry, sir. We do not cover your area.”

What?!?! How could they not cover my area? I live in Taman Cempaka, Ampang. There’s one Pizza Hut outlet less than 10 minutes ride by motorbike near Jusco in Taman Maluri. And there’s another one which is closer near Ampang Point. And another one a bit further in Taman Melawati. I’m basically surrounded by Pizza Hut outlets and they said my area is not covered? What a load of crap!

And to top it off.. my flatmate told me that he actually saw Pizza Hut motorbikes making deliveries to the terrace houses next to our apartment blocks.

Pizza Hut, you need to buck up and update your database. Just because the street is not in your directory, outdated as it is, does not mean it’s automatically out of coverage. Ask for a landmark or something.

Anyway, I got fed up, so I called McDonald’s instead. And I got my burger within ½ an hour.

My officemate told me last Friday that one of the questions in her daughter’s test paper was on netball.

“Netball is played by women only. True or False?”

She was straight away reminded of me and rightly guessed that I would be a bit pissed off if the answer is False. (Hey, men do play netball!) She asked her daughter to inform her of the teacher’s answer, and as of now, I still don’t know what the answer is.