Sonny's blog

Under pressure

Sonny — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:13:42 +0000

Working just to survive, new decisions, social life & a lot more are choking me o.0

I’m using Wunderlist to create & organise my tasks, it helps but doesn’t solve main problem which is time. I really need time these days, now sleeping at 6:10AM and should wake up around 10AM to get ready to go to the work. I already cut off 1 working day to decrease some pressure of work and spend more time on study. Probably I’ll continue my education in next few months. The only motivation is thinking about the result of these efforts.

I also need some rest or holiday :[

Missing Malaysia

Sonny — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:26:48 +0000

Sometimes I think I’m gonna miss Malaysia a lot when I leave here. Foods, Places, People & etc. This is the place that I spent about 3 years of my life or maybe I’ll stay more..

This country is very good to stay as tourist for few months, but not as your future. For me it has lots of good memories.

Different Points of View

Sonny — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:37:09 +0000

A good life experience for me is that people can be categorised into 2 categories, American style & Japanese style. Some of my friends really like to bother, annoy, ruin, wreck, break other people & their stuff and have fun with it and by doing these, they really satisfy themselves! I can clearly remember a memory when we were hanging out and my friend cut some Deepavali’s rice pattern in Monorail station and he laughed, then I said why did you do this, he said ‘what? I needed to do that to satisfy myself, I was bored’. Another example of same guy is when I went to his house in weekend & he said Let’s watch what I’ve downloaded few days ago, a series called ‘Jackass’ and it’s so fun, but I really hated it. wtf? Disgusting and it was just sick.

I categorised in American & Japanese, because Japanese culture is full of respects and good manners but Americans just hate respects and say it’s fun to be together. Yes it is, it really is but only for themselves, with themselves, not with those who hate it. I mean it’s very rude when someone expect respect and he’s trying to not to bother others and someone else is careless about these manners. I hate when someone does everything with my stuff without permission, which African people do. I hate when someone is late for an appointment and he/she doesn’t call I’m going to be late. I hate when we plan for something and he/she forces to change the plan during doing that plan, like we decided to go to Hong Kong for 10 days for some reasons, he/she doesn’t like it at all and will try to move out of there by any reason, this is so selfish, because I’m okay in Hong Kong and I’m enjoying staying in there and I’ve to spend more money and energy to move out of somewhere that I’m enjoying? Hell NO! I definitely prefer to separate and continue my journey alone.

Yes, I do have some American style friends & No Japanese style. No wonder that Japanese people don’t like foreigners, so do I. I’m not Japanese but when I studied their lifestyle, I found my thoughts too similar with them. Of course new generations in Japan are a bit different with old ones.

New plans, new hopes

Sonny — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:46:26 +0000

I’ve done 1st step by coming to Malaysia about 2 years ago. It was a very good choice to achieve lots of experiences, but met some critical barriers which made me to chose another country to live in. I found lots of information for living in different Asian countries plus Australia & New Zealand, each has its own advantages & disadvantages; but recently, after studying Japanese language, I got some information about those area which includes South Korea, then I said “YES! that’s it!”. Japan is hard to go & S.Korea is easy one. Malaysia & Japan, both are required to stay more than 10 years on work visa with stable working condition which is a lot of time & much hassle, some others like Singapore require 5 years of working, but S.Korea is 5 years of staying + lots of more advantages than other places. The first one is demand of learning English in (Japan &) South Korea is very high and by having a teaching certificate you can work legally (as far as I know, Korea gives 20 hours of work permit for student visa) & that job can cover living costs which is so great.

So, for now main goal is taking a teaching certificate like TESOL, then clearing up studies and going to Korea. Alternative choice is staying in Kuala Lumpur, continue study in UCTI in web media field and try hard for main plan

P.S:
always keep in mind that before start a new life in new a country/city, it’s better to live temporary for few weeks in there to get to know with culture, people, environment.

Very Chinese words

Sonny — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:12:00 +0000

Sry dude I got no plan to do anything on the toilet, this is no hotel man, u can’t demand so much, but u can do anything u want on the toilet on ur own, I’m not the owner here. If u not happy, let me know if u wanna move out. Thx

I was expecting such words cuz previous Chinese guy said same things
I moved into the house 2 weeks ago & bath was totally spoiled n he said I’ll manage to fix it, but now he denies his words *facepalm*
I need to find a newer place now *sigh*

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Backpacking on my own – Malacca

Sonny — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:39:33 +0000

Yeah, alone.. Lack of friend quantity lol
I’m not a social person & prefer to live alone a chose friends wisely.. Yes! Picky :p
I started to backpack n travel on my own to fulfil my biggest desire, see the world. Alone or with partner doesn’t matter at all (mostly actually)

here’s a link to my flickr page.

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How to change the Joomla date format

Sonny — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000

In of our projects I needed to add time to the article’s date. I was looking at the backend and template source codes, but that was disappointing me until I googled it and found the best & perfect way to do it. Nice job John, it was not possible to comment on his post, then I decided to post this and thank him on my own website

deap.in

Sonny — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:50:11 +0000

just started a new entertaining website called deap.in. Website’s objectives is catch some audiences by posting funny, interesting & informative photos everyday; also improving the system for first weeks to reach a stable situation.

Next step will be allowing registration to be public and get photos directly from users and posting them after an approval. pray for me : )

Sony Ericsson Xperia Active

Sonny — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:56:00 +0000

Hi, I decided to put some information about my (roughly) new phone which I bought it in 2011 Oct. This isn’t a proper review, just giving my own comments about it. Everybody have different demands and here’s my best choice

Many people say that screen size (3″) or resolution (480*320 pixels) is small comparing new phones, but this is a phone that is made for sport and half-tough environment. It’s not shock-proof, the scratch-resistance isn’t that good, I got two scratches when I removed the layer on screen. Also no front-camera These common disadvantages aren’t important to me like large screen or front-camera. The water-proof is the main item which I decided to buy this phone.

There are two same level competitors Motorola Defy+ and Samsung Galaxy Xcover (or Xtreme). Samsung Xcover has lower CPU (800 Mhz) and lower camera pixels (3.15 MP). Motorola Defy+ is better in screen size (480*854 pixels, 3.7″) and type (Gorilla Glass), but I heard that Motorola updates its devices late or have some issues, also living in Asia will brings you better support by an Asian brand rather American. There are lots of Sony Ericsson Branches here in Malaysia than Motorola.

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Added on 2012 Feb 15th: according to my friends phones which have much higher resolutions, Xperia Active has a really smooth UI. it should be because of resolution size.
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All photos taken by Xperia Active in a Flickr group.
Own captured video tests: First (alt. 1) | Second | Third.

Getting sick

Sonny — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:11:06 +0000

Ya, mentally! I was really considering about suicide two times in only 1 month. I’ve really bad situation now. Holding Iranian passport literally means “a great disaster”; no good country gives you visa easily and/or free :’(
In this age and having very few work experience makes it much harder to live in a foreign country.

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