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Deng asked me some questions two days ago. Blogging has slowed down considerably on Narrowband.org (blogger’s block… :p), so tags are great to keep the blog alive!

Instructions: Please answer all questions. You may spice it up with humour, puffery or exaggeration. Nonetheless, it has to be the truth. Upon completion, please pass it on to 5 friends.

1. Your nickname that is used the most? What is the reason behind the nickname?
Narrowband. Began using it many years ago; inspired by my then-internet connection (dial-up). Our prized possession at that time was the 56K US-Robotics modem.

We had more than one of those fax modems; I remember seeing one being zapped during a thunderstorm.
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I’m not even sure if I should associate my visit to the park with the VMY2007 campaign. By the way, in English, it’s known as the Malaysia Agricultural Park. It was my first time there, and I’m not surprised that it may well be my last, too. I think it’s a great hangout place if you’ve nothing better to do on a Sunday morning, really.

We got up at about 7am on a beautiful Sunday morning, and drove to Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam in high spirits (btw, I rarely wake up that early on Sundays!). It was overall a fun trip, because I had a great company of friends and we had lotsa fun by ourselves. But gee…, the place seriously needs a little bit of maintenance.
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Weekends. How I love weekends. The past week hasn’t been very kind to me, except on my birthday when my friends touched me with their text, YM, email, MSN and Friendster messages. A few even wished me on their blogs, and I just felt like running over to their place and giving them a big, warm narrowhug. I had a simple family dinner over at Italiannies, where the crew even sang two songs for me - complete with a tambourine accompaninent, at that! (Ok, not so ’simple’ after all, huh?). All of that, including the birthday celebrations since as early as April, meant so much to me and it couldn’t have been more wonderful.
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