Two near misses...

Would you consider yoursefl luck or unluck if you had 2 near misses.
Say you nearly got into a car accident, would you consider yousefl lucky because you missed it by inches or unlucky because you got into an accident.

Le premier est quatre-vingt deux virgule cinquate.... duexième est quatre-vingt-un virgule cinq.....troisième est quatre-vingt-un virgule vingt-cinq!

Note to self: Patience and good luck

Merdeka!(also shouted when the exams are over)

It’s our very own 4th of July! and our dear leaders can't help but remind us to display our affections for own by waving the Jalur Gemilang (Stripes of Glory?). Some are more patriotic than other but who can top the girl that dressed herself in our nation’s colours. Most find it vulgar but I found it quite amusing. She’s definitely more passionate about this country than I am. Don’t get me wrong I love Malaysia very much. Every time I leave this country I come back more grateful. Citizens of this country lack a sense of humour, is it so difficult to look at the brighter side of life. Sure it dressing skimpy is against our ‘Asian values’ but have you notice everything around you e.g. girls showing of their fluorescent G-string and micro-mini-skirts. Pfff.

So don’t you think your more guilty for showing being unpassionate about our homeland (if you consider this you’re home that is).

However the luke warm is understandable. Why are they expecting us to hoo-haa now when we can hoo-haa on the actual day itself (31 August if some of you have forgotten). I think it’s a scam, one the ministers owns a flag manufacturing facility and is trying to make a quick million off them (who makes a quick buck nowadays).

So long people enjoy your holidays. Vive la Malaisie.

Note to self: my my aren’t you a preacher today?

Love is in the air........

Yeah rite! The air here stinks literally. I'm pinching my nose while typing this entry. Forgive me if I sound nasel.

Vish ai m bach in melaka rite now. dee hair is so munch kleaner. "£$%£$ inhdooneycia, Ai dink wee afh bekome dier dumping ground. pffff bluuup.

note to self: I wish I am on remote island rite now.

Borders - my new library

Say you have a questions and googling gives you a bunch of crap, go to Borders.

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I like going to book stores but I think its time to phase out the phrase 'Can I help you?' uttered every time I visit Borders.

Duh! maybe that’s why I'm at the bookstore cause I need help. Why not direct me straight away to the self-help section if they think I do.

I admit I'm not that smart that why's I probably at the bookstore. But when I say no I don't need their help they give me this look like they're saying 'So you know everything there is to know do ya? if ya do whatcha doin here anyway?'

People working there should help themselves to 'Body languages for dummies'. Why don't they ever ask the people sitting at the sofas if they would like some coffee? Better yet tell them to make themselves at home, get them a pillow since some customers have already planted themselves there.

End

hmm.... I have cheese, maggi mee, left overs in the fridge lets go to borders and see what creative supper can I whip up. Damn! I forgot I closes at 9.30 pm.

Note to self: what happened to the koala bear?

Pondering......

Imminent fact: We are running out of gas.

Are you using energy efficiently?
If you adopt the 'who cares' then are you willing to walk to work?

Sniff sniff..

I can't help it these two buggers are such sentimental blokes. Let me introduce your to SY and Rob, my very own tear jerkers.

p.s.: they may be a bunch of sissies but they are still my friends and they have all my respect.

note to self: French is a male remember!

Bonjour!

Does less say more or should I speak another language. By the way I'm learning french for god knows what reason.

Your place or mine?

1. A Parisian to a Londoner.
2. Yahoo search 'ways to ask a guy out' link to my site.
3. I'll never ask this question. I like yours.
4. If you ask me I'll say your's always
5. Who cares why not rite here!
6. Don't worry its just business.
7. Ha Ha you've gotta be kidding me!
8. How many times has MJ used this line.
9. Yawn....

Why do I feel that I should be doing something else?

Pheee ...ew ew ew ew!

Ooo.... look who just drop in! Thanks to those who still drop in once in a while. I still get about 4 visits a days for not doing anything. Thanks people! (you have way... to much free time)

It's true when you are working life the flashes by, april was hazy, may was busy, june.. shity or 'sithy' if ya get my drift.

Hmm what in store for July... well i have plan lots of running. I think I want to run my 1st marathon next Feb. Why? Well its something that’s been nagging at the back of my mind and I'm unemployed or as one of my friends put it I'm a budding architect. Now I have way... to much free time. So more postings for all of you to read, if it's worth reading that is...

Note to self: Stick with it you idiot!

Blurred and jaded

The past few weeks has been quite busy with academic work (i.e. doing lab demonstrations and grading 120 lab reports). By the time I finished I had a huge headache and was talking funny.

Anyways just wondering how many of you out there has read this months Cleo M’sian ed. One particular article sort of pissed me off, well just annoyed me actual. The title was ‘5 ways to ask a guy out’. I’m not sure about you guys out there but I feel a bit short changed.

Consider this: Every other self-help list in that magazine has at least 10 ways to do something. e.g. 10 signs to tell if your guy is cheating on you or 10 ways to spiced up in the bed room or 10 signs that you guys are meant your each other, get the point.

However when it came to asking a guy out they could only come up with FIVE, not six, seven or eight BUT FIVE. If you have read it the ‘pick up’lines are not exactly mind blowing. They are like ‘Hi, can I get you a drink’ to ‘Hi, cute T-shirt can I get you a drink’ to just ‘Hi’.

It like saying 'Hey all ya girs out there guys are very pretty easy just use one of our 5 lines you are bound a get a guy'. Guess we aren't that complicated to figure out huh.

Do I think it will work? Sure why not I’ll probably take the drink and leave, unless you look superficially good but how many good looking girls would do that try to pick up a guy.

Think about it these lines are more of a conversation starters at bars or clubs and they are the worst places to have a conversation.

If a guy said the same thing to you girls I wonder will it work.

note to self: When in hell am I going to figure out what I want.

Holy matrimony (2)

If love makes the world go round then you know what turns it upside down…. (I think)

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.
-- Judith Viorst

In the end this is what I believe whether you are married or not……

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
-- Eugene Kennedy

But may you be warned again….

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics and war hold him in check. And the wife who wants him home by five, of course.
-- Encyclopaedia Apocryphia

I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette

Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do...."
-- Lenny Bruce


Some personal favourites…..

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Now when I look at my parents and even my friend's parents and wonder how did they do it. Have another good laugh ya'll

Holy matrimony (1)

I wonder are events like marriage seasonal. Past few weeks, I either know someone who’s engage or is planning to. Some of my good friends are making the big leap while a few has already tied the knot and most of them are around my age i.e. below are average marrying age.

Since I’m not exactly the most qualified person of talk about this topic I did consult a few people who were. And some of them agreed with me on certain aspects of marriage…

Dating is more fun, right?

I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder

Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn

A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie

Well if you still want to get on with it here are a few comforting thoughts….

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
-- Woody Allen

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason

Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken

My wife suggested a book for me to read to enhance our relationship. It's titled, "Women are from Venus, Men are Wrong

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you say. After marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish.. -- Helen Roland.

Here's a good place to settle down and to bring the in laws.

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd

I’m not trying to put anyone of commitment or to ridicule the institution. I saved the good stuff for the next post. Have a good laugh ya'll

To be con’t…..

Its celebration time c'mon

It's that time of the year again.

It's the eve of the Chinese new year and I would be looking forward tonight's reunion dinner. This year it's going to be different, for the first time we are going to have it at my grandfather's place and that means a new dinner menu!

An aunt, uncle and 2 cousins would be overseas during this CNY. So got to keep the men fed as no one will be cooking for them that is if my mom get the prized fish for the laksa, it's really really absolutely the embodiment of a home cooked meal (that means it taste good without the MSG).

CNY is KL for me is a quite affair. No traffic jams, no idiots on the road, no pesky humans blocking my path, no queuing, etc. I can get to anywhere in KL in 15 minutes for less. Absolute charming of a city to drive in!

The weather during CNY here gets pretty hot, with clear skies and blazing hot sun. Compounded by the bright coloured clothes people wear you'll probably fell hotter than it actually is. Oh and we just love to visit our relatives some we see just once a year or 2 if there is a wedding or went someone has reached its expiry date.

We normally pick a day and go house hoping. During these visit the children like me (you're not an adult till you're married) would keep ourselves assumed with TV, food and gambling while the adults chatter away. It can get so loudly that I turn the TV volume just a little louder than their and they and the tv would be having a mini competition who can bring the roof down.

When the celebration is over on 15th day of CNY or Chap Goh Mei. I would be counting this year's collections after the gambling and alcohol. The money generally gets lesser when you get older for some reason and when you get married you start to lose as you start giving. (and during this time probably some girls are trying to get hitch by throwing oranges into the Klang river). Sigh.... as to all good time an end has to come.

Happy New Year again.

I saying with all the joy in the world, like I said before not everybody gets to celebrated 2 new years or more in a year (you have to be Chinese or Malaysian).

Spectacles??

An old classmate from my primary called up on Monday and decided that we should have a drink together with some old classmates. Here the thing I found strange, he still has my number after 13 years of no contact.

So there were 5 of us sitting at Starbucks at Times Square having a conversation amidst the rumbling of renovation going that night.

Here the thing, we haven’t met for 13 years, we weren’t in the same clique so I curious; what's there to talk about? During my days in primary school I have to few close friend but lost touch over the years.

So we and began cheerfully with the ‘how are-yous’ and ‘long time you see’. It was down hill from there. The conversation deteriorated into the use-to-be-bad-boy-of-class self promotion of his life and the ups and downs as a salesman of anything to do with eyewear.

Here I thinking at least by the end to the night we would at least know what went on after our lives after primary school, reminisce about the good old days. But the truth is I can’t remember much about those days. I have long forgotten and the only memories I have are a few photographs. Except the few good and embarrassing moments, those you can’t really forget even if you tried.

So I am thinking what the point, we have nothing in common and yet I went. I went hoping we could find that we still had some common other than being in the same class together. Turns out we don’t have then and we still don’t have it now. At the end of the night I wonder how many meaningless friendships and award conversation do I really need. C’mon then let not waste any of our precious time, not even for old times sake.

Well some good did come out of it. Now I know who to call to get a discount for my new pair of spectacles when I need one.

AArrrgh I ruined my brand new Nike shirt!


Boo Hoo! My just ruined my new Nike jersey. I was just trying it on and while putting it back on the hanger that that oh so terrible sound when a piece of clothe tears. Shit I felt I ripped my own heart out at that moment. It never even get to see the light of day and this has to happen. Now every time I wear it I’ll always notice that small little irritating tear on my rigth shoulder even though no one else will. Sigh……

Oh by the way I was goin watch that Hugh Grant movie today cause there was any electricity at my house little did I know that the whole KL blackout. Later in the 8 o’clock news its was reported that the bottom half of the peninsular was experiencing a blackout. Weird…

U can imagine the thoughts I have while walking to KLCC. Like gosh I can live without electircity, this is what dooms day will be like, the dread of walking among the lifeless working class and the though that I’ll be stuck in a cubical was unbearable (shrugs).

Note to self: girls now should learn how to cook.

Guilty conscience anyone?

I made some unsound decision in the past but I have never never ever regretted it. So why do some people still try to make me feel guilty about what I’ve done.

These people, if all of you should know are well respected by society. The general population would have been awed by their accomplishments, yet how quick they are to judge people without knowing all the fact.

I admit I made a risky decision but that’s what this field and living is all about. Just because it didn’t pay off does not give them the right to criticise and condemn my decision as if it was the biggest mistake of my life. To put things in perspective it would have only affected me and only me. I made that decision for me and I don’t expect any of you to understand it.

In fact it was one to the best decision I have ever made. I actually would have regretted if I didn’t take that risk.

So quit telling me about what should have and shouldn’t have done cause it’s just going to bounce of me like a rubber ball and against a brick wall.

Note to self – Arrgh!! missed the opening episode of Charmed. Alyssa is looking gooood[Drooling]

A great day to be alive

Another year has pass for all of us. This year I have learned a lot about myself, my limitations and potential but basically my limitations.

This year ended in with a lost of many lives due to a natural disaster. I read many messages saying how much we the human race has forgotten, how god is punishing us for whatever our sins. To me there isn’t a ‘spiritual’ or godly explanation for how or why it happened. It just did like everything else. Just the same as the many decision I or we make this everyday, wise and unwise it just happens. We can only lick our wounds and recovered from this and whatever tragedy that befall us.

I feel there is still a glimmer of hope but still being cynical at the same time that the human race has reach stage in their psychological development to say ‘Hey the world is not about me, me and me’. Bravo to the immediate aid, generous donations, (not include those who gave trophies, torn bras etc. oh how thoughtful some people can be) the US 4 bill promised (which I doubt will be either not be fulfilled if not mismanaged). Ironically I can see in the local papers everyday people posing with HUGE mock cheques. We still have a long way to go. I still have a long long way to go.

Did I mention I took a holiday in Florida visiting Disney World. I came back not with not just a bunch of souvenirs but also a different perspective and a clear picture of what I want. Yeah who woulda expect you could get all that from visiting the local hero Mickey mouse. After some soul searching I realised how lucky I am and how many people would like to be in my shoes (well except my love life unless you like being single).

Last year I learnt about the hardships of just being alive and the complexities of our society does not make it easier which got me so down emotionally that I neglected so many things, but that’s another story. So this year after recovering some “bear necessities”, I made a wish upon a star hoping they would all come true. I can’t tell u what I wish for cant I or I’ll jinx it.

Ciao for now people. Happy New Year! (Being Chinese I celebrate it twice a year, more if you’re a Malaysian. That’s how lucky I am)

Welcome 2005. Happy New Year!

Peace on earth, Please!


p.s.: very very very hectic month december was. I don't even know where to begin.