I dwell now where I was born - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. It used be full of rubber plantations when I was a kid. Now it's considered a posh area, though I only live here because its convenient to get to work for both my wife and myself.
I'm happily married to Junn. I work for Shell and she works at ExxonMobil, so in the corporate world we really are rivals. But sometimes we're rivals at home too when I forget to throw out the garbage, or when she hogs up our internet bandwidth downloading chick flick movies.
Both of us love traveling, and eating good food. We've traveled most western European countries combined. I did some USA. She did some Brazil. Our next trip would be Japan, hopefully next year if we save enough money.
At work, I'm a Technical Lead for Global UNIX/Linux, where I have a few engineers working with me, mostly running systems and services for Shell businesses around the world. I play a lot with RHEL, RHNS, AIX, Solaris. I used to do a lot of Oracle. I also developed web applications using PHP. I consider myself well versed in MySQL and PostgreSQL. So UNIX/Linux, Web applicatons and Databases is pretty much my domain.
Outside of work I enjoy cooking, traveling and road trips. I'm sometimes a musician. I'm a drummer, pianist and a guitarist. I used to right my own songs for MY listening pleasure only - to other people its often more painful. I have an electronic drum set which I only used a couple of times, a Casio keyboard and a cheap wood guitar. It's not fancy, but its enough to let me go crazy. I used to have a band at university, and we won second place in a Battle of the Bands competition. We played Freebird by Lynard Skynard. I listen to Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Guns N Roses, Bon Jovi, so you can guess I'm more of a rocker. But classical and jazz is enjoyable too.
