3
Sep 09

where the star i have been

reasons why i have stopped posting on lorlilorsor.com for so long.

1) laziness.

2) i have a journal which i write in on a very consistent basis.

i figured the business-y aspects of that journal will turn you off so i write those posts in there.

3) i am officially self-employed. my company name is Kaizen Digital Media.

i have been working on the business since year 3.

which explains why i have been so anti-social and unhappening for a good part of uni life.

unfortunately, contrary to the popular belief that entrepreneurship makes you rich beyond your wildest dreams, kang kang is still a poor man.

i know you probably visited my website and are still scratching your head wondering wtf my business is all about.

that’s okay.

that’s the reason why i’ve never really blogged about it on lorlilorsor before.

common responses when i tell folks about my business:

“oh. you scam people ah?”

“omg, porn?! never share?”

or the more common one.

“oh. hmm.. i see.”

2 reasons for the above. one, they dunno wtf i’m talking about. two, they think i’m in some sort of mlm.

fortunately, it’s none of the above; all you gotta know is this.

i’m in the search engine marketing business and basically i help other businesses get more business using the internet. i also build my own website and sell stuff on them. sometimes, i also sell these websites.

“got people buy meh?”

got. of course got. just gotta know where to look, and what to build.

things have been okay so far, with me working at home or sometimes out of my papa’s office.

i’m also helping papa out with his car business a little so if you want to buy a car just drop me an sms i’ll see if i can help you out.

so that sums it up.

lorlilorsor is where i’ll be writing stupid nonsense without capital letters at the start of first letters, so not much more of this business nonsense.

4) i was too concerned about what you guys think of what i write. and then i had a revelation.

i have always been of the opinion that blogs are meant for people to read.

i find it funny how some people can honestly say they write for personal purposes.

that’s what personal journals and diaries are for, ya know?

so anyway, i kind of fell into another trap; i had quite a few people reading lorlilorsor in the past.

general comments were that it was funny and entertaining.

which is awesome because i like writing.

yeah i know engineers aren’t supposed to like writing but i never claimed to be an excellent engineer.

so whatever.

but once in awhile i get comments like “sometimes i dunno what you saying” because once in awhile i blog about business-y stuff and cheem cheem stuff.

so i will become like.. oh, okay.

i will blog more interestingly in future.

gradually i started to scrutinize myself too much.

until i stumbled upon an awesome blog which i enjoyed reading alot.

it was deep.

resonated with me.

interesting and fun, just as i like it.

the weird thing was..

there are no comments!

post after post, there are no comments.

still, the writer continues blogging about whatever he likes with gusto.

and then i had my revelation.

who the star cares about what other people think about your posts?!

granted, blogs are made for people to read.

but when you pick up your cyber-pen and start writing, thou art thyself.

if you write with the intention of pleasing and entertaining, you are setting yourself up for pain and torment.

so yup.

since i had the revelation, i have been more liberal with what i have been writing.

let the critiques be damned!


3
Sep 09

first spam comment

hello.

lorlilorsor.com has its first spam comment.

here is what it looks like.

spam 

i thought i’ll make this an educational blog post by describing why spam exists, and at the same time expose to the world what in the world i have been doing, staying “jobless” after having graduated for 4 months.

well basically in the comment above, the bugger is trying to promote his little page on his free friendster blog by spamming my poor little lorlilorsor.

while nobody is really going to click on an obviously spammy link like that, a link is still a link, and a link makes the search engines deem that page important.

this might seem incredibly nonsensical and unworthy of the effort to the naked eye, but spammers create thousands of email addresses and spam thousands of blogs on autopilot (hence the weird email addresses) which will result in a substantial number of backlinks getting approved.

so when you actually get onto the page that he’s promoting and buy what’s on the page (some variation of viagra i think) he gets paid.

the probability of that happening is super duper small but when something like this happens thousands and thousands of times, it becomes a numbers game and someone is bound to buy.

makes sense?

end of lesson.

up next: wtf kang kang has been up to and why he has been missing in action for so long


26
Aug 09

authorities

if you’ve known me for any length of time you know i have this disdain for authority.

i just read this very well-articulated write-up about something that happened to this poor bloke.

we should really be thankful for the kind of environment we’re living in.

it’s been awhile since i graduated and stepped into the real world.

health-care, taxes, government, police, whatever.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html

if you hate the singapore government, think about why you hate’em.

and think again.


16
Jun 09

tio jiao sai

dear readers, if you love your car..

be damn careful where you park at clementi central the carpark!!!!

not obvious form the picture, but it’s really wtf.

got one auntie walk past, still can laugh laugh at us. ah pek say he last time kena one time jialat jialat, also not as jialat as mine.

make me 12.30 a.m. come home must wash car..

nevermind, sai weng shi ma, yan zhi fei fu, i shall go and buy 4d.


15
Jun 09

dust in the brains.

hello lorlilorsor.

long time no see.

so what wind blows me here?

rav4 keeps telling me i should blog.. must blog.

but i say no hweeling.

today, i got hweeling.

and usually, me gets hweeling when i see people who piss me off.

so thank you mr dust in the brains.

so i was sitting by the poolside chilling, reading and eating chocolate rolls.

suddenly the security guard went to the pool and wanted to verify if some of the folks swimming in the pool were residents.

(ooooooh, the folks he questioned includes a couple of very hot russian chicks..)

i thought wtf, simi tai ji, this guard so buaya?

until i realized he was instructed by this other resident who apparently complained to him about not signing in or something.

if i were in a rational and clear mind i would have thought he was being thoughtful and was concerned that these folks from overseas could bring in h1n1 or something..

budden apparently the point he kept stressing was that “they aren’t residents”.

got need to be soooo gei gao anot??

he can recognize all the residents meh?! i bet he’s never even see me before.

and then again, so what if they really weren’t residents??

swim only, the swimming pool water will evaporate by half ah?

he trying to exert his authority and power meh?

probably some guy in the management committee..

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE…

my hatred for management and committees re-ignites..

committee liao bu qi huh?!

eat full full sit by poolside complain about nonsensical things..

make the security guard like so paiseh, have to go and make them come out of the pool to sign in..

poor security guard..

these committee people really very the cartoon..

is it just me, or does someone else think it is an uber elitist and anti-social thing to do sia.

pui.


15
Apr 09

approaching the end of life as a student

and yes, the flooble chatterbox has finally died.

i’ve managed to stay inactive enough to not realize that it was dyING.
i shall revive it when i decide to post more actively :)
final fyp presentation just ended last monday!
i basically told everyone that i was a FREE MAN and i would be damn free from then on and i will steal all the duties in the entire world so i was kind of sad when i kind of thought about it and realized i still have..
1) 2 x exams in 2 weeks’ time
2) fyp bounded thesis to submit
3) a job to find
4) my current work
5) 1 x term paper due tomorrow
actually i’m not that free yet afterall geez.
oh well, free-ER i guess.
i have finally started winning some $$ in mahjong! the curse of the tai sui on us dirty mice must finally be over.
after exams end on 2nd may, i’m unofficially no longer a student anymore.
zzz…
rav4 is having HER final fyp presentation now.
i am hanging around near the room waiting for her to come out.
she is such a poor thing.
she is dressed in formal and high heels and so unlike her formal self.
she is so nervous.
her presentation started at 10:55 – 3 minutes ago, and her kena-shoot a.k.a q & a session starts 11:15.
and then it will all be over.
these days as stupid students sux big time, but i’m sure gonna miss school after i graduate!
yea, i probably won’t miss the modules etc, but there’s still quite abit of good stuff we could think about.
amitabha to rav4!

15
Feb 09

nba all-star day

feels funny.

and camaraderish at the same time.
every room i pass by in raffles hall seems to have nba all-star playing inside.
i passed by caoquan’s room just now and heard a “YES!!! GARNETT!!!”
ooh, match resume le, byebye.

24
Dec 08

merry christmas!

perhaps me and rav4 are more boring than the rest of the world but we decided to siam the traffic from the rest of the world by coming home from suntec before 9pm.

even though we already tried to leave early, i was stuck on the bus in orchard area for like 15 minutes before i even hit the expressway..
how come so many people like to go out and squeeze with other people?
on a drizzling night somemore?
hmm..
don’t understand..
instead, i came home and logged into my laptop.
did something i’ve been promising myself for quite some time.
i helped 4 entrepreneurs from kiva by loaning them a small amount of money each.
here they are.

Cee, as she is popularly called by her numerous customers, is a 42 year-old local restaurant operator. She is married and blessed with three children. With income from her business, she has provided for one of her children to graduate from senior high school. In her restaurant, she prepares and sells local foods like “banku” – rice with stew. Banku is prepared from milled maize grains and is taken with hot pepper or soup. Apart from this, she also prepares pastries like meat pies and cakes. Cynthia says that the prices of raw materials have gone up significantly and she needs the support of a loan to enable her to meet her production expenditures. She wants to use the loan to buy more raw materials like bags of maize, flour, margarine, sugar, meat, fish, vegetables, and firewood. Cynthia is a member of a group called Success Trust Group. In this group, members guarantee and provide support to one another to repay the loan. Her picture was taking when she was visited at her business site.


Khurshed Rahmatov is 20 years old. He is a young boy with a great desire to get ahead in life. Khurshed has been running a pharmacy business for 4 years together with his loving mother, pictured in the photo. Currently he is working in the city polyclinics in the dispensary.
Khurshed loves his work; he likes to help people and is ready to consult with the patients purchasing medicines in his store and those who could not find the required goods in his store. During all the years of his work, Khurshed was dreaming of opening his own drug store and saving money for this. He hopes that someday he can realize his dream.
Now Khurshed has requested $ 600 US Dollars for a term of 5 months. Khurshed is a client of IMON and has a positive credit history. Now he promises to repay the loan promptly and thanks everyone supporting him.


Mukaramakhon describes herself as a enterprising girl with the goal to achieve successes in the future. She decided to start a sewing business to help her family with household expenses a year ago. She started out helping a woman who ran a tailoring shop. Being very nimble, she learned tailoring and soon began running her own business at the tailoring shop. It has gone very well since then, and she has been able to grow the business.
Mukaramakhon is requesting a loan of $600 USD to purchase materials so she can fulfill her customers’ requests. The end of the year is fast approaching, and that is when demand is at its highest. She plans to repay the loan within 12 months. Mukaramakhon and her family are very grateful for your support in helping grow this business and move ahead.


Rawad is a 26-year-old man who lives in Aley, Mount Lebanon. For the past 16 years, he has been working as a barber.
Rawad is now requesting a loan in the amount of $1,000 via Al Majmoua in order to decorate his shop. Notably, this is the third loan that he has sought, and he states that he always repays his loans on schedule. His prior loans have helped to support his business operation, which he started because he wanted to be on his own from a professional standpoint. In the future, he plans to open another shop.
loaned them a small amount of money through kiva.

http://www.kiva.org

i think it’s meaningful to help out entrepreneurs in third world countries because ultimately they are the ones who will help their families/villages break through poverty cycles and really make a difference in their societies.

i’ve been telling myself i must give back to society once i make a little progress in my own entrepreneurial pursuits, but just didn’t find an organization that makes me want to help.

well now that i’ve found kiva, there’s no excuse any longer.

merry christmas, world! :D


5
Dec 08

finally.

there are 2 days of each year i know will be 2 of the happiest days of the year fer me.
the 2 days exams end.
yes, i hate exams that much.
when i have the inspiration and mood some day, i’m gonna launch a lengthy tirade against exams.
for now, let us just celebrate life and the end of exams.
“Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” 

22
Nov 08

exam blues

just passed by like 3 people using computer.
all of them are either reading blogs or on facebook.
it is time for me to take a break.
hello lorlilorsor.
i wanted to boot up the greatest evil that starts with a “dot” and ends with an “a” but figured that this evil will KILL me and waste me at least 2 hours and drain me of all my mana.
afterall, i have not been doing tutorials as usual for the entire semester and as father says, “you gotta study”.
qing qing just tempted me with a mini-evil.
okay it’s a global phenomenon called facebook but i obviously still live in the primitive ages in terms of entertainment.
phei phei was like so amazed that i dunno what kunfu panda was.
my sister is like so amazed that i dunno that the ah xin from mayday is not the ah xin from xin yue tuan.
so anyway, i have had the mini-evil account for ags but not done anything with it actually.
as i’m typing this, i’m going off to find that stupid game qing qing was playing beside me just now.
that stupid game where u keep a pet and can pit him against other people’s pets in races.
i tried playing and felt tripping over banana skin and never even won a single race!
i am back with a venegance.
qing qing showed me her pet’s house which was like absolutely pathetic.
her toilet doesn’t even have a toilet bowl.
she went to dannish’ house and told me that there are flies flying around dannish’s pet because he is very dirty and hasn’t bathed in days. so she proceeded to scrub dannish’s pet with soap and his cleanliness bar started to rise.
wtf?
update: oh my god!
i now have a pet.
rav4 went to create one for me when i left the computer at the pet selection screen and was away.
my pet now has a horrible name.
his name is pet kang.
wtf?
and he looks horrible too.
this is how he looks like.
wtf?
he is a cross between a pig and a i dunno what lah.
i went to visit my vicinity and so far i have told qing a joke, went to fight with shuyun, and danced with sofero.
i then went to the stadium to find neighbours to race.
pet kang finally finished in first place!!
rav4 says this kind of game is for girls.
and that i am disgusting to be playing it.
okay, pet kang just won 3 races in a row.
i have wasted enough time.
goodbye.