Swordie Bloggie

Shopping complexes in the city are all in festive mood… Christmas songs are pumped through the speakers at every corner. Christmas trees are fully decorated… the whole complexes are decorated…

Santa Claus is everywhere… cheering kids, taking photo with kids… including adults… and giving away gifts…

That was how it looks like at 1Borneo last Saturday when I went there to see the PIKOM PC Fair and went to play the archery. The center court was full with Christmas decorations… guests staying at the three hotels at 1Borneo must be feeling like staying in new york hotels with the atmosphere like that

Last week, a man came to my office. He came to sell Christmas cards… he is helping the Carmelite to sell the christmas photo cards.

He was selling me the last pack he brought along with him. It was around 3pm something when he entered my office… that’s why he only left with one pack. He has been going around the building from door to door selling the Christmas cards since afternnon.

He said he has been helping the Carmelite selling the cards for many years already… I can’t really remember but I think he said something like 5 years or so… or was it 15?…

Anyway, I bought from him the last pack for RM15.00

How many of you stuck in the traffic jam during your recent Christmas shopping round? With the sale carnival on going, shopping complexes are like circus. Roads are jammed with vehicles and shopping complexes are jammed with shoppers. And if you were driving yourself, you also have to face another problem, parking!

But if you said you did not experience any of those, then you must be shopping somewhere else… online shopping right? I’m sure some did their shopping online. It is much more convenience than wasting time stuck in the jam.

I did not do much shopping for Christmas through online or at shopping complexes. But I did my online shopping for some stuffs for the coming New Year… only 3 days away… I hope I can receive my stuffs before New Year

I’m sure you all noticed in today toys’ box, some has ‘suitable for’ age sticker meaning if it state ‘6 years old’, 5 years old or younger are not supposed to use the toys, it is not suitable for them.

But today toys are also very complex, I’m not even referring to Play Station or Xbox kind of toys. During Christmas, my nephews got few presents and also puppies. Early morning, they are already ransacking the Christmas tree.

But I think this one particular toy is not meant for kids. Even adults will have a hard time to assemble them. Well, it is good that the kids can think, imagine and solve on how to assemble them at early stage, but this one is just too difficult to finish.

My nephew asks for my assistant to assemble his toy after he can’t go on anymore. The toy when fully assembles will supposed to turn into moving pods. It will carry marbles from the bottom to the top of the tower of the moving pod using chain and ‘bucket’. Once on top, the marble will slide down along the ‘cables rail track’ attached at the side of the moving pod’s tower.

Assembling the tower, chain and the electric motor is no problem… my nephew did it.  But assembling and aligning the marble’s cables track is the problem. It took me morning, afternoon, evening and night to try to align it but it just not perfect. The marble can slide down but the shape of the cables track is not perfect… I have to assemble and unassembled it, and it is not done yet. Clipping and unclipping the clips is hurting the fingers. There are more than 200 parts in this toy to be assembled.

You might think it is easy… what so difficult about assembling rail track cables? I have installed all kind of cables… UTP cables, fiber cables, armored cables… above the ceiling, under the ceiling and even under the ground, but these two less than 300 cm steel cables are just giving me a hard time. You see, if your alignment is not correct and the turning radius is not right, the cable will not end at the same length, although the outer cable has a longer length.

Today, I’m on leave, but got a call about office ‘server room’ air-con… I’m lazy to drive, wish I have moving pods or teleport pods…

Christmas is here bringing good cheer to all mankind… let us celebrate together the peace, joy and hope it brings.

Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a joyous Christmas…

Merry Christmas
Selamat Hari Natal (malaysia)
Kotobian Tadau Do Krimas (kadazan)
Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan (mandarin)
Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon (tagalog)
Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (tamil)
Kia orana e kia manuia rava i teia Kiritimeti e te Mataiti Ou (maouri)
Nadolig LLawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda (welsh)
Shubh Naya Baras (hindi)
Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto (japanese)
Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année! (french)

Christmas tree at home…

Yesterday, 21 December 2007, my office got its Christmas tree assembled. This is going to be the first time our office going to put a Christmas tree. Normally only the other sections will put theirs.

Other said we a late already… but who cares right… the most important is we got it up before Christmas…

  
Seniah & Rusiah assembled the tree then put on the decorations…

  
Guys do the electrical part… me & Darius do the lighthing…

  
Tested the light… the final setting