Google Earth. Latest from Google.
Downloaded this software a couple of days ago, decided to try it out yesterday, it's amazing!! Check it out, Penang's actually featured, not like in the Yahoo maps thingy online. Of course, this is a software, so it'll be on the computer the whole time.. but it uses streaming to get the maps in.
Check it out guys... This is the free version, they'll be updating the details in the maps, i read somewhere you'd soon be able to zoom in on your own backyard... Not all over the world so soon yet though.

Thankses Bubu....

Daphne gave me an inspirational bookmark yesterday, a lovely thing, very moving... It means a lot to me, thanks Bubu!! The poem on the bookmark is as follows:

follow your dream...

Take a step at a time

and don't settle for less,

just continue to climb.

If you stumble,

don't stop.

Never lose sight

of your goal.

Stay focused on

your path.

Press on to the top.

For only on the top

can we see

the whole view,

can we see

what we've done

and what we can do,

can we then have

the vision to seek

something new...

Press on,

and follow your dream.

Bowling Tournament...

It's finally here.. the IPG Law Society Bowling Tournament... After dropping in on my newly-in-from-Bangkok relatives for lunch, I'm off to college to pick Parvin, then off to Penang Bowl to practice for the tournament starting at 4. We start off OK, me with about 115 pinfalls, Parvin with 100+, but our playing quality declines gradually over the 3 games we played before i had to leave to pick Prem and Joyce up from the IPG hostel. Once i'm back, I pay the counter for another game, and get my game shoes on again. Brilliant!! I score my highest ever bowling score! The score cumulative is as follows:

17-35-52-60-79-88-97-127-157-184

I also got my first 4-Baggers(4 strikes in a row) in this game.. It was a high for me, and the boast topic for Parvin (See Rags got 4-Baggers!!)

Soon enough the tournament got underway, somehow Bubu hoodwinked me into taking part in the singles as well as the doubles. Aiks. Julien also became a last minute entrant, along with Shiwen. I shouldn't have laned with them, i couldn't keep as close an eye as i would have liked on the higher scorers... I thought it was a knockout system going, I wouldn't have taken it so easily if i knew I was bowling in the thing itself.. the scores from the 2 rounds we played were the scores. I bowled an average of 110+, placing me about 5th. Dissapointing, I'm sure I coulda and woulda done better if I was better informed. Moving swiftly into the doubles rounds, I didn't want to be the first to bowl, so I waited on the Chinese girls in the next lane go first. Coincidently, the guy who got 2nd in the singles was paired with a friend in the lane on the other side of me. The first game was dissapointing. It would've seemed in the beginning that I was headed for a 140 game, but Parvin's low scores kinda threw me off. You wouldn't believe the frames he was missing. He averaged about 2 pinfalls per frame for the first 2 frames, gradually getting more accurate, but still nowhere near what he should've been scoring. Lack of hope lowered my scores tremendously, but Parvin managed a few strikes close to the end of the round, and we both scored 100+. This gave me a boost for the 2nd game, and thank God, Parvin raised his game and scored 120+. My score the 2nd round was 146, which is to date, my 3rd highest score. So it's a 1st and 3rd personal placing day for me, as well as a 3rd and 5th in college, as our second round boosted us above the competition to 3rd in the doubles. I still think we shoulda made 2nd but for our abysmal first round. Anyway, it's all cool, but i realise this'll be the last IPG bowling tournament i can take part in(I'll be in UK next year, hopefully). Here's to hoping the BAS holds a tourny before i go... Cheers guys...

Letting Go...

I'm probably not alone when i say my parents have problems when it comes to letting go. Sure, they let me go to Australia to study for a year and a half, but soon enough come the half-yearly visits. I especially hated it when my mom popped by unannounced on my doorstep last June. Sure, we're their kids and all, but there's a limit to how much you should hang on to your children. Well, i don't know, i'm just afraid i'll be the first 27 year-old i know who still stays with his parents, eating the food my mom cooks, having to say goodnight to them everynight before going to sleep. If I had my way, as soon as i'm on the plane to UK, the night before would be the last night I spend calling my parent's home my home. After that, it's a year and some months in UK for me, and when i get back here, I should have a job waiting for me. Of course there'll be the transition period between the time I get back and when i find a place suitable for me and *ahem* my companion. Yes. I said it. I'm not waiting on my parents to fin someone for me to grow old with. I'm not letting my parents pick my wife... In the wise words of Russell Peters, I won't even let my parents pick my clothes!! I ain't getting into this arranged marriage bullshit. I'm packing some heat here, mind the language.

I just don't get how parents think they're responsible for the way their child turns out. Perhaps, there was a time when parents were the major influences in their kids lives, maybe this way of life still exists in some households. Nuh-huh.. not me. Sure, my parents are good people and all that, but I don't wanna grow up to be them. They haven't got lives of their own. Their main job is taking care of other people. I wanna grow up to take care of my and my girl(who'll then be my woman). By 60, I wanna have my kids taking care of me. Keep those cheques in the mail, son. Just what you can spare. I'm not gonna bankrupt my kids, but i'm not gonna keep sending them money to live on in their late 20s. I'm gonna give them in their teenagehood the freedom i lacked in my teenagehood. I've been forced to be a late bloomer. The little exposure i got to girls during my teens was limited to those i met in Piano Class and Add Math tution. What, you don't believe me? It's the whole truth. I had a little more freedom when i was in A-levels, but i was just a weirdo then, the repercussions of my girl-starved teenagehood. Then I was jetted off to Aussie, and again, weirdo me.
I'm kinda done with this rant. Hmm. *cues curtains down*

Me and the guy-in-charge pulling Archan out of the water after i made too sharp a turn at too high a speed, and she flew off, pulling me with her.. lol..  

Ramnath and Sivaram on their jetski... Pity I didn't ride this slow, coulda had a nice pic like this taken... 

Archan and Me jetskiing on Thursday