21. A year older and to most, this is a special year. I'm not too sure about that. It's the entrance into my third decade of my journey in life. I've made it this far.
Life has given me its share of ups and down but tonight, it's given me quite a little bit of a twist of feelings of joy tainted with a wracking feeling of dread.
I would like to direct my thanks towards my friends, Bishan, Bryan, Bunny & Joel, Dong, Kok Wui, Fuzzy & Aileen. You people are really too kind. I thank you for the time you have spent with me and all that we share. A birthday without friends like you would mean nothing and would be just another day to myself. However with you people around it really does seem to mean a whole lot more. I would also like to dedicate my hearty thanks, my innermost appreciation to You. You, You and only You are all I want, all that I adore.
I had a really good time tonight. I really did. But in the corner of my mind, a feeling of dread proved to grow and impact me in full force later into the night. My grandmother returned from the hospital, she was visiting my aunt. I noticed something amiss as she walked past all the guests about in front of the house with her hanging head. I followed them into the lounge and decided to now discover why my grandmother was in tears. It was apparent, my aunt wasn't doing so well. This was exactly what I dreaded.
Sometimes the irony of how life in two different scenes can be so different from one another, sometimes even to the extent of being polar opposites. I bear both the joy and pain for myself. I share some, I may even show some, but it's all mine to take. As animated as I can be, there are times when I fail to show enough emotion. Sometimes too overwhelmed to show joy and at other times, too taken aback to portray my dread. Sometimes it is just beyond expression, when both ends are pulling at me.
I am thankful for what I have and I also feel sorry for what I might not have soon. It would seem that once again I am subject to what Life has to offer. I have no choice but try to make the best of it and try to be the best I can be.
P.S - Thank you for the Pink.
P.P.S. - Legal Age. Hoo!
P.P.P.S. - I adore You.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Tagged...
Tagged: Things you want in your partner
I don't really do this nonsense but here goes. (thank You ==)
RULES:
1. The victim has to come up with 8 different points about his/her perfect partner.
2. Has to mention the gender of his or her partner.
3. Tag 8 other victims to join this game and leave a comment on their blog.
4. If you are tagged the 2nd time, there is NO need to do it again.
5. Lastly, have fun doing it!
Lets begin:
1. She has to be understanding. Almost impossibly understanding. She mustn't forget that I'm only human too.
2. Patience is something which is of the utmost importance because I can really get on people's nerves. For someone to get along with me well, she has to be able to take the nonsense I can sometimes throw at her without my noticing it.
3. A sense of humour is something which my partner absolutely MUST have. I could never live with a character who didn't know how to have a good laugh. I could never bear a person who took everything too seriously.
4. She has to be true to me. She cheats, it's over. No question. I don't care how hard it is for me or her. If it comes to her having to cheat, I must not be good enough for her.
5. She has to be as crazy about me as I am for her.
6. Mustn't be domineering. Once she thinks that just because I'd do almost anything for her that she can lord it over me she's got it all wrong. I can only take so much.
7. She has to trust me and believe that I would do anything for her as long as she stays within the bounds of logic and reason. She should always believe that I would never purposely do anything to hurt her (unless I hurt her even without my knowledge or unless I'm left with no choice).
8. 8 is hardly enough. Nor can I say enough to fill 8. What I want in a woman. My perfect woman will never exist because people are far from perfect. That doesn't mean that I won't love the one I am with/will be with as much as I can.
8 others:
I tag...
Jimmy (fuzzy)
Alexa
Kok Wui
Sharon (Tan)
Mag
Ping May
Ehaab
Prith
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Hold On.
Nothing like a little bit of music to set the mood into comprehension of what's been running through my mind for the past month or more. The past few days have been quite emotionally charged.
It's been a while since I've heard a good Goo Goo Dolls song and this one is relatively simpler than others but I think this one really does pull the right strings for me now.
The Goo Goo Dolls
Before It's Too Late
I wander through fiction to look for the truth,
Buried beneath all the lies,
and I stood at a distance,
To feel who you are,
Hiding myself in your eyes.
and hold on before it's too late,
Until we leave this behind,
Don't fall just be who you are,
It's all that we need in our lives.
and the risk that might break you,
Is the one that would save,
A life you don't live is still lost,
So stand on the edge with me,
Hold back your fear and see,
Nothing is real till it's gone.
Hold on before its too late,
Until we leave this behind,
Don't fall just be who you are,
It's all that we need in our lives.
So live like you mean it,
Love till you feel it,
It's all that we need in our lives,
So stand on the edge with me,
Hold back your fear and see,
Nothing is real till it's gone.
Hold on before its too late,
Until we leave this behind,
Don't fall just be who you are,
It's all that we need in our lives.
Hold on before its too late,
Until we leave this behind,
Don't fall just be who you are,
It's all that we need in our lives.
It's all that we need in our lives.
It's all that I need in my life.
P.S. : All I want.
It's been a while since I've heard a good Goo Goo Dolls song and this one is relatively simpler than others but I think this one really does pull the right strings for me now.
The Goo Goo Dolls
Before It's Too Late
I wander through fiction to look for the truth,
Buried beneath all the lies,
and I stood at a distance,
To feel who you are,
Hiding myself in your eyes.
and hold on before it's too late,
Until we leave this behind,
Don't fall just be who you are,
It's all that we need in our lives.
and the risk that might break you,
Is the one that would save,
A life you don't live is still lost,
So stand on the edge with me,
Hold back your fear and see,
Nothing is real till it's gone.
Hold on before its too late,
Until we leave this behind,
Don't fall just be who you are,
It's all that we need in our lives.
So live like you mean it,
Love till you feel it,
It's all that we need in our lives,
So stand on the edge with me,
Hold back your fear and see,
Nothing is real till it's gone.
Hold on before its too late,
Until we leave this behind,
Don't fall just be who you are,
It's all that we need in our lives.
Hold on before its too late,
Until we leave this behind,
Don't fall just be who you are,
It's all that we need in our lives.
It's all that we need in our lives.
It's all that I need in my life.
P.S. : All I want.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Into The Dark.
It's been a while since I've posted. Hadn't really made any time to nor did I have the mood to post. There are quite a few things which I might blog about. Many an interesting tale which I might unfold what mischief has occurred in my colourfully monochrome life. Instead of all that, I choose speak of Death. Having the media and some of our friends' imaginations so vividly morbid, Death is nothing more than a topic which skims over the surface of the mundane.
It is nothing impossible when we say that Death is something we all must and will face in due time. In actual fact it is not the death of our near and dear which we resent but it is the loss of their company. The sudden extra space in the house or the empty chair at the table.
We don't look at those we love all the time and tell them how much in actual fact we that treasure them so. Not to say that we shouldn't have to but it is no lie that we can't constantly remind them how much we treasure them because half the time, we don't. We are too busy with our lives sometimes that we just don't get around to telling people we care for them and when we pass by them we just wave a short of flailing hand at them or a flick of the wrist so as to acknowledge them that they do not go unnoticed. We don't know what we've got till it's gone.
This post wasn't intended to make myself or the readers run off to give hugs to people they care about. That wasn't the point. That isn't the point. Notice people. Know them. Be the best you can for them. When they're gone, live on for them, for yourself.
I once said that I'd want to be the last one to die. This is because I couldn't bear to see anyone I care for standing alone with tears in their eyes. I'd prefer the pain to be mine.
P.S. : Oh lately it's been so quiet.
It is nothing impossible when we say that Death is something we all must and will face in due time. In actual fact it is not the death of our near and dear which we resent but it is the loss of their company. The sudden extra space in the house or the empty chair at the table.
We don't look at those we love all the time and tell them how much in actual fact we that treasure them so. Not to say that we shouldn't have to but it is no lie that we can't constantly remind them how much we treasure them because half the time, we don't. We are too busy with our lives sometimes that we just don't get around to telling people we care for them and when we pass by them we just wave a short of flailing hand at them or a flick of the wrist so as to acknowledge them that they do not go unnoticed. We don't know what we've got till it's gone.
This post wasn't intended to make myself or the readers run off to give hugs to people they care about. That wasn't the point. That isn't the point. Notice people. Know them. Be the best you can for them. When they're gone, live on for them, for yourself.
I once said that I'd want to be the last one to die. This is because I couldn't bear to see anyone I care for standing alone with tears in their eyes. I'd prefer the pain to be mine.
P.S. : Oh lately it's been so quiet.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Fire?
I'm not one to do multiple posts in one sitting (as it is I don't blog as often) but this really calls for a second post. As I was blogging the previous post, I noticed voices from my window (which faces the palm oil plantation behind my humble abode) and so I peered out the window. To my surprise, I noticed the stupid expatriate workers burning their garbage again but the flames were quite large this time. There were neighbours making noise about the burning (took them long enough to notice). I watched the flames grow higher. Soon, the fire got out of control and the top branches of the tree were aflame. The fire began to spread. Noticing the impending danger, I quickly rushed downstairs and dashed out front to grab the long hose. After dropping it off at the backyard, I called the fire department. When asked for my location, I remembered that I couldn't remember my house address to save my life. I rushed outside and got a neighbour to call in (the funniness). When I'd gotten the hose ready, one of the neighbours quickly took charge of it and began a futile attempt to douse the flames with our single, pathetic jet of water. After trying for about 15 minutes, the firetruck arrived. My street is such that there is no clear road which leads round back (tsk tsk). The only way it seemed for the firefighters to reach the fire was through my house! I let them in, opened the gates and led them around the side of the house and through the back door. They began their work on the fire and soon, they'd doused the flames. The whole incident took about an hour and more to settle. While they were fighting the flames, others were ravaging the slum houses nearby the factory where the scumbags who started the fire supposedly lived. They'd made a run for it. No one was in sight. The scoundrels! The police and the other departments will be hearing of this one. I have 2 photos but I'll update them later.
Ha. Herofish somemore.
Ha. Herofish somemore.
The weekend that was a dream (almost)
Ah, holidays it seems. Yeah right...
I volunteered to become a mentor in the Mentorship Malaysia Program under ARCCADE and right now (and even when I first signed up), I'm pretty sure I'm going to be on that shortlisted short list (it's a bitter-sweet thing). (*Poof*, my holidays go up in smoke.)
Went for training today. I woke up and hurried to college for the training session which was to begin at 9am. Lethargy. The only thing which consoled me about dragging my carcass out of bed that early on a holiday was a message from you.
Training was quite entertaining as I was put into a group with an animated character (Kok Wui) and I sure hope that we (my team) get along well and do a good job.
I forgot to smoke this morning (gah!). That probably was one of the causes of the lethargy and almost lackadaisically for the whole day. There are other reasons though. Anyway, the training was tiring, entertaining yet a drag.
Now, onto what was on the plus side (and yet on the minus as well). Last weekend was probably one of the most amazing ones I've had since 1986. The only other time I'd felt like I was in a fairytale or storybook was when I wasn't sober. I never knew anything quite like that. I never thought that could happen to me. I never knew. I never knew that the song could exist in such beauty and encompass such a sweet train of memories. Till you.
Sure the Sunday was a kink downwards but I'm here. I'm ready to provide what I can. You can get through this.
The human creature is one that makes mistakes. We learn from them, we learn.
Time is not our luxury yet so treasure it we must. Time will come around, patience will pay off, what we are will endure. I'm waiting.
You doomed thief, damned robber...
I volunteered to become a mentor in the Mentorship Malaysia Program under ARCCADE and right now (and even when I first signed up), I'm pretty sure I'm going to be on that shortlisted short list (it's a bitter-sweet thing). (*Poof*, my holidays go up in smoke.)
Went for training today. I woke up and hurried to college for the training session which was to begin at 9am. Lethargy. The only thing which consoled me about dragging my carcass out of bed that early on a holiday was a message from you.
Training was quite entertaining as I was put into a group with an animated character (Kok Wui) and I sure hope that we (my team) get along well and do a good job.
I forgot to smoke this morning (gah!). That probably was one of the causes of the lethargy and almost lackadaisically for the whole day. There are other reasons though. Anyway, the training was tiring, entertaining yet a drag.
Now, onto what was on the plus side (and yet on the minus as well). Last weekend was probably one of the most amazing ones I've had since 1986. The only other time I'd felt like I was in a fairytale or storybook was when I wasn't sober. I never knew anything quite like that. I never thought that could happen to me. I never knew. I never knew that the song could exist in such beauty and encompass such a sweet train of memories. Till you.
Sure the Sunday was a kink downwards but I'm here. I'm ready to provide what I can. You can get through this.
The human creature is one that makes mistakes. We learn from them, we learn.
Time is not our luxury yet so treasure it we must. Time will come around, patience will pay off, what we are will endure. I'm waiting.
You doomed thief, damned robber...
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Over, For Me At Least.
Today I woke up to one of the wierder dreams I have every now and then. Oddly enough I remember the content. It was something like a cross of a scene from Thief III, Prison Break and Counter-Strike. Woke up to getting shot in the left shoulder. I woke up to find that I'd overslept and I had numbed both my arms and my left shoulder felt like it had been shot. I was supposed to get up to finish up studying for my Social Psychology final later today (at 2pm). I planned to wake up at like 4am but woke up at about 5 something instead only to read 3-4 pages and finally give up and decide to go back to bed for about an hour or so.
Woke up to JoA's message. I'd missed the message I got from the Fuz about 4 minutes earlier. I didn't hear the alarm again. Bloody hell. We were following JoA to college again. After packing up my stuff for futsal, I left home. Off to college.
When we got to college, went for some breakfast and then went to a study room in Wisma Help.
Finals are over. At least for me. I seem to be the only one (other than Stef) who's finished with his/her finals. Everyone still has at least one more paper. Advertising Copywriting went averagely well and today's paper was quite decent. Managed to finish just in time (with 2 minutes to spare).
Afterwards, we went on to have dinner at a Chinese hawker stall and then all of us went our separate ways. I left my phone in JoA's car. The horror!
N.B. - My Kinda Angel ^^
Woke up to JoA's message. I'd missed the message I got from the Fuz about 4 minutes earlier. I didn't hear the alarm again. Bloody hell. We were following JoA to college again. After packing up my stuff for futsal, I left home. Off to college.
When we got to college, went for some breakfast and then went to a study room in Wisma Help.
Finals are over. At least for me. I seem to be the only one (other than Stef) who's finished with his/her finals. Everyone still has at least one more paper. Advertising Copywriting went averagely well and today's paper was quite decent. Managed to finish just in time (with 2 minutes to spare).
After the exams, we all adjourned at the ground floor of the building and what ensued was pure confusion. I didn't know who was joining us for futsal and people who were supposed to come suddenly couldn't make it. By this time, my head was throbbing, I was as hungry as a horse and was really really tired (oh, and did I mention I was antsy to get onto the pitch). Once again we were late (for futsal). There was a serious jam towards Subang. Apparently there was an accident. Must've been bad. Hope everyone's alright. Well, when we arrived on the (futsal) scene, we found there were only 7 of us in total. We had to resort to playing with a bunch of strangers who were just sitting around, waiting for their friends to arrive. The only name I could remember was Jack (I still have that problem with names, old habits do die hard ==). It was fun today apart from the part where JoA got kapow-ed in the temple by the ball with quite some force (Loretta, chill lmao). The guys we played with were good (at least better than me). It was odd how I was short of breath less than 5 minutes into the game. I wonder what happened. Maybe I was tired.
Picture from IStockphoto.
Picture from IStockphoto.
Afterwards, we went on to have dinner at a Chinese hawker stall and then all of us went our separate ways. I left my phone in JoA's car. The horror!
N.B. - My Kinda Angel ^^
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Robots In The Sky
Today has been quite a dramatic day for me indeed. Woke up feeling like someone stuck a wooden stake into my left shoulder blade. Was going to meet Stef in college to study for exams next week. I finished up the project proposal's executive summary, printed and handed it up by about 2pm and not long after, left college to look for the office where I was going to have an interview for an internship. The lady over the phone couldn't even provide me with proper directions which led me to driving around the whole of Petaling Jaya's section 14 quite a number of times. I was almost being driven up the wall by lousy drivers and people who didn't know how to park their cars decently. Malaysian driving isn't something for the person with a bad temper nor is it for those of faint heart. I finally found the office I was supposed to go to and only realized that it was a job I dreaded. The lady there, Daphne, wanted to hire me as a full time sales rep. No, I didn't want to be a sales rep. I wanted a marketing or copywriting internship. Not become a peddler. After about 40 minutes (or was it an hour?) of faking interest, I finally found a way to tell Daphne I would get back to her. I felt pathetic. I was again cursing my way through traffic as I drove us towards Cineleisure because we were to watch Transformers with Loretta, Dong (yay, can call him that again) and Steph A.
We reached Cineleisure ahead of time (for the movie). Poor JoA was starving. So was I. After walking about looking for a proper, light meal, we finally decided on Kenny Rodgers. With some soup and some peaceful conversation, I soon began to cool off a little. Soon, the others joined us and before we knew it, we were headed towards the cinema. I'd left my wallet in the car so I walked off to the car park to grab it before someone smashed a window to grab my very fat but relatively empty wallet. During the walk to the car, my gut began to ache. It wasn't a toilet emergency, it was pain in it's purest form. I was wondering if it was appendicitis but I doubted it. Making my way to the cinemas, I found the bunch of them congregated at the waiting area of the cinema and soon we were seated in our spots, waiting for the movie to begin. I was in pain throughout the entire movie. The screaming pain in my gut wouldn't let up. Must've been gas or something.
Transformers was AWESOME! It's been a long long time since I've been able to come out of a movie cursing at how brilliant it was. I was never a fan of yellow but after Bumblebee, I'm beginning to like the colour a bit. Just a bit. In the past, I was like every other kid who watched transformers and adored Optimus Prime. After watching that movie, my favourite character is DEFINITELY Bumblebee! That cheeky sense of humour and choice of music he has is so lovable!! All you Transformer fans out there, this one is definitely a must-watch. No kidding. I agree Spiderman and X-Men were horrible but this is definitely something which will impress your pants off. Personally, I felt that the cars in that movie were more impressive than what you'd see in 2Fast2Furious (didn't watch Tokyo Drift).
After the awesome movie, we decided to go to William's for dinner. I was still in pain but I guess the walking helped calm my guts down a little. It still hurt but it wasn't as bad as it was during the movie. Ivy joined us for dinner. A pleasant surprise. Dinner was good. Not too filling since we all shared food. After dinner, we chilled out a little then I had to go.
That was basically my Friday. It started off a little bumpy but the movie was so brilliant that it turned the day around for the better (yes, it was that good).
NB - Bear. It will all work itself out somehow. Have a little faith. Wish I was there. But I'm still here. Always.
We reached Cineleisure ahead of time (for the movie). Poor JoA was starving. So was I. After walking about looking for a proper, light meal, we finally decided on Kenny Rodgers. With some soup and some peaceful conversation, I soon began to cool off a little. Soon, the others joined us and before we knew it, we were headed towards the cinema. I'd left my wallet in the car so I walked off to the car park to grab it before someone smashed a window to grab my very fat but relatively empty wallet. During the walk to the car, my gut began to ache. It wasn't a toilet emergency, it was pain in it's purest form. I was wondering if it was appendicitis but I doubted it. Making my way to the cinemas, I found the bunch of them congregated at the waiting area of the cinema and soon we were seated in our spots, waiting for the movie to begin. I was in pain throughout the entire movie. The screaming pain in my gut wouldn't let up. Must've been gas or something.
Transformers was AWESOME! It's been a long long time since I've been able to come out of a movie cursing at how brilliant it was. I was never a fan of yellow but after Bumblebee, I'm beginning to like the colour a bit. Just a bit. In the past, I was like every other kid who watched transformers and adored Optimus Prime. After watching that movie, my favourite character is DEFINITELY Bumblebee! That cheeky sense of humour and choice of music he has is so lovable!! All you Transformer fans out there, this one is definitely a must-watch. No kidding. I agree Spiderman and X-Men were horrible but this is definitely something which will impress your pants off. Personally, I felt that the cars in that movie were more impressive than what you'd see in 2Fast2Furious (didn't watch Tokyo Drift).
After the awesome movie, we decided to go to William's for dinner. I was still in pain but I guess the walking helped calm my guts down a little. It still hurt but it wasn't as bad as it was during the movie. Ivy joined us for dinner. A pleasant surprise. Dinner was good. Not too filling since we all shared food. After dinner, we chilled out a little then I had to go.
That was basically my Friday. It started off a little bumpy but the movie was so brilliant that it turned the day around for the better (yes, it was that good).
NB - Bear. It will all work itself out somehow. Have a little faith. Wish I was there. But I'm still here. Always.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
A Little Bit of Heart-Music
The Fear You Won't Fall
Joshua Radin
Diggin a hole & the walls are caving in
behind me,
airs gettin thin but im trying, im breathing in
come find me
it hasnt felt like this before
it hasnt felt like home..before you
And I know its easy to say, but its harder to feel this way
And I miss you more than I should, than I thought I could,
I cant get my mind off of you.
I know your scared that
I'll soon be over it,
thats part of it all
part of the beauty of falling in love with you,
is the fear you wont fall
it hasnt felt like this before
it hasnt felt like home..before you
And I know its easy to say, but its harder to feel this way
And I miss you more than I should, than I thought I could,
I cant get my mind off of you.
and I hate the phone, but I wish you'd call
thought being alone, was better than, was better than...
And I know its easy to say, but its harder to feel this way
And I miss you more than I should, than I thought I could,
I cant get my mind off of you.
cant get my mind off of you,
And I know its easy to say, but its harder to feel this way
And I miss you more than I should, than I thought I could,
I cant get my mind off of you.
This song is so painful. I had looping for 2 hours last night.
Really painful. It was also one of the songs which Marylee & Kevin
played during BBQ.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
What you will never know.
You look, but you don't see me.
I see you clear as day.
Day by day.
I watch you as you smile, how your eyes smile.
I watch my heart in your pocket. I watch it melt,
I watch it shatter and break.
You listen, but you don't hear me.
I hear you all about.
When you're near.
I hear you laugh, how your voice lifts me.
I listen to you as you speak, I listen silently.
I listen to my mind speak your name, over and over.
I am driving myself mad.
Pass by me. Walk through me. But never with me.
I reach out to you. I never make it.
I can never make it. You are too far. Too far.
I must let you go. I need to forget you.
You must never know. This pain I face,
Must always be my own. You do not deserve this.
Only I do. I let myself fall so hard.
I'm turning my back on you.
You will never know.
I will never know what it would be like,
To gaze into your eyes looking into mine.
To hold you. To play with your hair. To be yours.
I will never know. You must never know. I must let go.
At the very least, I must keep my pain to myself and only myself.
For those who understand this, comment but please do not ask questions. As for those who don't understand, just leave it be. The nature of the topic is such. Apologies.
I see you clear as day.
Day by day.
I watch you as you smile, how your eyes smile.
I watch my heart in your pocket. I watch it melt,
I watch it shatter and break.
You listen, but you don't hear me.
I hear you all about.
When you're near.
I hear you laugh, how your voice lifts me.
I listen to you as you speak, I listen silently.
I listen to my mind speak your name, over and over.
I am driving myself mad.
Pass by me. Walk through me. But never with me.
I reach out to you. I never make it.
I can never make it. You are too far. Too far.
I must let you go. I need to forget you.
You must never know. This pain I face,
Must always be my own. You do not deserve this.
Only I do. I let myself fall so hard.
I'm turning my back on you.
You will never know.
I will never know what it would be like,
To gaze into your eyes looking into mine.
To hold you. To play with your hair. To be yours.
I will never know. You must never know. I must let go.
At the very least, I must keep my pain to myself and only myself.
For those who understand this, comment but please do not ask questions. As for those who don't understand, just leave it be. The nature of the topic is such. Apologies.
Friday, June 15, 2007
The BBQ Nite
Today was the day that we were preparing for. Went up to Subang to meet up with Shaun & Loretta to get some final jamming done. They went pretty well. After we'd finished that up, we went to pick JoA up. The guys wanted to have lunch so we did. After lunch, we went for some CS. Somehow, I managed to top-frag today. We got bored of CS after a while. We turned to Starcraft! It's been too long. I was pretty much playing the game myself till I noticed that Shaun had gotten wiped out. Then I somehow beat Loretta (haha). We just figured out we could play Diablo 2 when we had to leave (sigh).
On the way towards HUC where we (The Brotherhood of the Pink Ribbon), were to perform tonight for the BBQ Nite. We passed by a toppled car on the way. Oddest of oddities. There was an opened man-hole cover, the cops, the toppled car but no driver in sight, no skid marks, no broken glass, nothing. Odd. On reaching the foyer, where it was all going to happen, I was greeted with a voice which I never knew existed. Mary Lee. Amazing. She has such an amazing voice. Never thought that she could sing. Such talent.
When it came to our turn to do a sound check, we were asked to play a number. We chose the medley. The freaking medley. I emo-ed by just listening to the introduction of the first song. I have no idea why but something was off with the Chinese song. Well, after our sound check, I was just constantly emo-ing and when the performances began, the songs they played only intensified my emotions. Mary Lee & Kevin's performance was just so powerful. They were all mellow and soft songs but their choice of songs just plucked at my heart-strings like an eager harp. They did so well. Up next was Kingsley. I've heard some of Kingsley's songs before and he played the sweetest of songs for his girlfriend. They were so sweet.
We were up next. I was so nervous. From the beginning of the first song I felt like I needed to stand up but I kept in my seat. I guess it might've been obvious because I was a little fidgety. Really, I felt this absurd tingling in my chest. That happens everytime I get evaluation apprehension (go grab a psychology handbook :P). We sang the medley, I'm Yours, You & Me and wrapped the show up with When You Say Nothing At All. The Chinese song was wierd all over again. I don't know why. Maybe I was too emo-ed. To make myself feel better, I tried my hand at some one-liners to keep the crowd smiling. It worked, their laughter settled me a bit but I was still tingling. By the time we came to our last song, I couldn't take it any longer. I decided that I'd sing the last one standing up. Although this was probably the only song with mistakes by me and Shaun, this was probably the only song of the night where the audience actually sang along with a volume which could be heard. I'm glad I caught the crowd's attention. It took me long enough (==). I think people liked our performance. I'm glad they did. I glad we did it.
After the performance (since we were the last) the acoustics were all over. Friends were praising me left and right, I couldn't take it, not even in my normal state, let alone in my emo state. I need to learn how to accept compliments better. Really it's embarassing to act like a kid when I get them from people I'm not very close to all the time.
[Note: I'm not bragging, quite few people did come up to me with lines like "OMG you have such a nice voice..." and "You were brilliant Wayne!!"]
After playing some of the games organized by the council, we (a whole bunch of us: Loretta, Shaun, JoA, Munn, The Fuz, JoJo, Bunny, Yi Yang, Ivy, Kristy & Deon) went off to Murni's to grab some grub since Loretta & I didn't eat anything. Had a hard time trying to finish what I ordered (Napoleon Fried Rice - Fried Rice w/ fries, keropok & cordon bleu). The fact that I kept bursting out in laughter every minute didn't help with digestion at all either. At long last I finished my food and watched as Loretta didn't (he ordered the same thing I did, haha).
When we were done with the food, JoJo, The Fuz, Loretta & myself went off to play some CS while the others left for home. CS wasn't fun. We were too far apart to have any real fun. I was emo-ing all the way now. I had a window-seat at the cybercafe. Whenever I had the time, I'd look out the window and just emo... After about an hour and a half, Loretta had to leave so we all did.
And that ended a pretty interesting day indeed. Still Emo.
On the way towards HUC where we (The Brotherhood of the Pink Ribbon), were to perform tonight for the BBQ Nite. We passed by a toppled car on the way. Oddest of oddities. There was an opened man-hole cover, the cops, the toppled car but no driver in sight, no skid marks, no broken glass, nothing. Odd. On reaching the foyer, where it was all going to happen, I was greeted with a voice which I never knew existed. Mary Lee. Amazing. She has such an amazing voice. Never thought that she could sing. Such talent.
When it came to our turn to do a sound check, we were asked to play a number. We chose the medley. The freaking medley. I emo-ed by just listening to the introduction of the first song. I have no idea why but something was off with the Chinese song. Well, after our sound check, I was just constantly emo-ing and when the performances began, the songs they played only intensified my emotions. Mary Lee & Kevin's performance was just so powerful. They were all mellow and soft songs but their choice of songs just plucked at my heart-strings like an eager harp. They did so well. Up next was Kingsley. I've heard some of Kingsley's songs before and he played the sweetest of songs for his girlfriend. They were so sweet.
We were up next. I was so nervous. From the beginning of the first song I felt like I needed to stand up but I kept in my seat. I guess it might've been obvious because I was a little fidgety. Really, I felt this absurd tingling in my chest. That happens everytime I get evaluation apprehension (go grab a psychology handbook :P). We sang the medley, I'm Yours, You & Me and wrapped the show up with When You Say Nothing At All. The Chinese song was wierd all over again. I don't know why. Maybe I was too emo-ed. To make myself feel better, I tried my hand at some one-liners to keep the crowd smiling. It worked, their laughter settled me a bit but I was still tingling. By the time we came to our last song, I couldn't take it any longer. I decided that I'd sing the last one standing up. Although this was probably the only song with mistakes by me and Shaun, this was probably the only song of the night where the audience actually sang along with a volume which could be heard. I'm glad I caught the crowd's attention. It took me long enough (==). I think people liked our performance. I'm glad they did. I glad we did it.
After the performance (since we were the last) the acoustics were all over. Friends were praising me left and right, I couldn't take it, not even in my normal state, let alone in my emo state. I need to learn how to accept compliments better. Really it's embarassing to act like a kid when I get them from people I'm not very close to all the time.
[Note: I'm not bragging, quite few people did come up to me with lines like "OMG you have such a nice voice..." and "You were brilliant Wayne!!"]
After playing some of the games organized by the council, we (a whole bunch of us: Loretta, Shaun, JoA, Munn, The Fuz, JoJo, Bunny, Yi Yang, Ivy, Kristy & Deon) went off to Murni's to grab some grub since Loretta & I didn't eat anything. Had a hard time trying to finish what I ordered (Napoleon Fried Rice - Fried Rice w/ fries, keropok & cordon bleu). The fact that I kept bursting out in laughter every minute didn't help with digestion at all either. At long last I finished my food and watched as Loretta didn't (he ordered the same thing I did, haha).
When we were done with the food, JoJo, The Fuz, Loretta & myself went off to play some CS while the others left for home. CS wasn't fun. We were too far apart to have any real fun. I was emo-ing all the way now. I had a window-seat at the cybercafe. Whenever I had the time, I'd look out the window and just emo... After about an hour and a half, Loretta had to leave so we all did.
And that ended a pretty interesting day indeed. Still Emo.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
A Shorter Post
My toe still hurts. It was throbbing this morning. I was limping like mad when I was rushing to catch the bus. Sadness indeed. I was aching all over. My head, my back, my thighs and my toes. Literally from head to toe? I really do need to sleep more like a human being. With my timetable and my lifestyle, it really isn't easy.
I messed my speech up today. Did it in the wrong format. I lost 50% of my marks right there. I got so peeved at that that I just took off and left, even though I was reminded that it was rude. The lecturer did impart a kind word or two. I brought it upon myself.
We jammed again today. Additional ideas for songs were : You & Me, This I Promise You. I didn't do well in the recording we made today. I need to buck up. Need to make sure I feel my songs. Need to really express. I don't want to go all emotional after the songs though. Happens too often. Way too often.
I messed my speech up today. Did it in the wrong format. I lost 50% of my marks right there. I got so peeved at that that I just took off and left, even though I was reminded that it was rude. The lecturer did impart a kind word or two. I brought it upon myself.
We jammed again today. Additional ideas for songs were : You & Me, This I Promise You. I didn't do well in the recording we made today. I need to buck up. Need to make sure I feel my songs. Need to really express. I don't want to go all emotional after the songs though. Happens too often. Way too often.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
The 4 Day Package.
Wednesday
We finally auditioned on Wednesday. Well, I can be sure that Loretta & myself were nervous. He looked the part and even followed through by fumbling here and there (the others didn't know he fumbled though). I on the other hand was seriously having a hard time getting my voice out there. Couldn't hit keys nor could I sustain them. To make this even funnier than it already is, it was a private audition. We had a room all to ourselves and only about 7 people were there to hear us. Only 7 people and we're already in pieces. We've got quite a bit of work to do. Well, we got through. I'm grateful and very much relieved because even with that performance, we already got a "I like it a lot". If we can get composed properly, I think we'll do wonders on the night itself. Ha. Did I mention that I think I'd like to call us The Brotherhood of the Pink Ribbon? In the night when I got home, I picked up the lame Malay article and began to translate it for the group members (and myself). God, I was up all night. Sick of Malay. Yes. Sick Sick Sick. Then I left home for college.
Thursday
Yes, I left home for college and was a zombie which was too tired to even sleep in JoA's car. Today we had tutorials, tutes were fun. JoA was finally enlightened on why I called someone what I called her before. Now she understands that I wasn't being mean (lol). After tutes and JoA's short meeting, we began trying to figure out where to eat. We settled for lunch in Rice Bowls. Some interesting conversation ensued. During our interesting conversation, an idea of what to do while waiting for The Fuz to get to the train station came to me. We were to go to KL Tower. JoA had wanted to go for a while now (2 years?) and I never really thought of visiting because it never really crossed my mind. We headed towards the tower and reached there after taking a wrong turn or two. It was interesting how when we reached the base of the tower, we seemed more excited about looking for the entrance to the duty-free store there. We couldn't find it because the store wasn't opened yet (sadness). In disappointment, we then went into the tower. RM20 (sheesh), that's what it costs for a foreigner to get to the top of the tower. I was a little shocked when the lady at the counter said that if we showed her our ICs, we, as Malaysian citizens only had to pay half that price. The wonders of being a Malaysian! I'm patriotic again!
The tower was nothing special though. Of all the days to go up there, we chose a hazy day. We couldn't see too far and besides, the observation deck was a little crowded. It was alright I guess, for the first 5 minutes.
One of the pix we took at KL Tower
Well, after leaving the very interesting KL tower, we decided it was time to go. I hadn't slept all night. I was up doing a translation of some lame Malay psychology article. I think I've had enough of Malay for a while. We went to pick The Fuz up. On the way there I fell asleep. We picked up The Fuz and then after changing at JoA's place, we took off for Rio to play some futsal. FUTSAL! Me?! Futsal?! Something I really didn't expect myself to enjoy. I was never really a footie person. Sure I've played my share of footie back in highschool but that was it. Never really touched a football since highschool (so I correct myself here, it's been more than 2 years. Maybe even 4 years). Well, I got the taste of what I had expected. My stamina was in the ruts. 15 minutes into the game and I was panting like mad. I really needed to get out of the court. After another exhausting half, we went for drinks and some food. Then we all dispersed and JoA dropped me off at the bus stop (thank you!!). At home, I washed up and waited for my hair to dry before I took a nap. Woke up later than expected. Oversleeping is a hobby. JoA called me nearly 13-15 times (thank you!!). Got up and began to rush my Social Psychology assignment. I forged on till about 5am then gave up because I began to see words which weren't in the articles I was reading and began to type things which didn't make any contextual sense (aka, I was sleepy).
Friday
I woke up at 12pm and began to finish off my assignment. I did. When I got ready to go out and head to college, it began raining again. I had no choice but to borrow my granny's flowery little umbrella (I think it's cute). After rushing to hand up my assingment, I headed off into Subang to meet JoA. We were going to play CS with Shaun & Loretta (Dong has been ammended to Shaun by request). It was a fun night as we watched JoA suppress the enemy once more. Such skill. Well, after a bit of coaxing, I agreed to join Loretta, Shaun, The Fuz, JoA and Adam to play futsal with them at the CFP fustal meet the next day. At 2am in the morning, I managed to convince Reneeta to join our team as well and her only condition was that she didn't play at all and was a reserve.
Saturday
I woke up late (AGAIN!). We were going to play futsal again. I was supposed to meet JoA at the train station at 10:30 but I woke up at 9:50 (the HoRRoR!). I was forced to call The Fuz and get him to drive us to Shaun's place. He did and we got there. We met up there and after having a light breakfast, we began to search for the place. We found it after a while and in fact, we weren't all that late (haha). We entered the arena and found a sweaty Reneeta. Some of her first words were "You remember I told you I didn't want to play right? Well, I've played!" (LoL). We all began to get warmed up for the game and when we played, we played. I was reluctant to even play at first but after the first game (which was also very tiring) I think I got all hyped up. I wanted to play more. After the second game, my right thigh began to work up. My toes were killing me too but I wanted to play somemore (wahahahaha). In the last game, this big guy side-stepped into my foot and I ended up with my big toe blue-blacked (if there is such a word). What made matters worse was that a while after that, I had to swerve out of the way because this time, a girl side-stepped into my way. That pretty much killed my toe and thigh. Well, the games were loads of fun. I've never been this hyped up about playing futsal before but yeah, I am now. I'm waiting for my toe to heal and then I'm going to play somemore (lol).
After the games, we had some drinks and food then went on to have our showers. I had to take a bath at Loretta's and from there waited for JoA to finish washing up.
JoA was going to take me to pick up my little sister so that we could take her to the magic show which was going on Subang Parade. When we made it there, I found my little sister crying. My Mom had struck again. I will not go into the specifics but simply put, my mom had made my sister cry and that pretty much spoilt her mood and she ended up locking herself into a room and not willing to come out. I decided that it was best we left this little trip for some other time and left but on the way decided that I should buy my sister something to make her feel a bit better. JoA was understanding and kind enough to turn back and let me buy some KFC for my little sister. After that, I ended up telling JoA a story I hadn't told anyone for a while. My past. We headed off for dinner. We had quite decent food. I got stuffed again. Besides the little kink in the night with my sister's issue, I had a generally good time.
We finally auditioned on Wednesday. Well, I can be sure that Loretta & myself were nervous. He looked the part and even followed through by fumbling here and there (the others didn't know he fumbled though). I on the other hand was seriously having a hard time getting my voice out there. Couldn't hit keys nor could I sustain them. To make this even funnier than it already is, it was a private audition. We had a room all to ourselves and only about 7 people were there to hear us. Only 7 people and we're already in pieces. We've got quite a bit of work to do. Well, we got through. I'm grateful and very much relieved because even with that performance, we already got a "I like it a lot". If we can get composed properly, I think we'll do wonders on the night itself. Ha. Did I mention that I think I'd like to call us The Brotherhood of the Pink Ribbon? In the night when I got home, I picked up the lame Malay article and began to translate it for the group members (and myself). God, I was up all night. Sick of Malay. Yes. Sick Sick Sick. Then I left home for college.
Thursday
Yes, I left home for college and was a zombie which was too tired to even sleep in JoA's car. Today we had tutorials, tutes were fun. JoA was finally enlightened on why I called someone what I called her before. Now she understands that I wasn't being mean (lol). After tutes and JoA's short meeting, we began trying to figure out where to eat. We settled for lunch in Rice Bowls. Some interesting conversation ensued. During our interesting conversation, an idea of what to do while waiting for The Fuz to get to the train station came to me. We were to go to KL Tower. JoA had wanted to go for a while now (2 years?) and I never really thought of visiting because it never really crossed my mind. We headed towards the tower and reached there after taking a wrong turn or two. It was interesting how when we reached the base of the tower, we seemed more excited about looking for the entrance to the duty-free store there. We couldn't find it because the store wasn't opened yet (sadness). In disappointment, we then went into the tower. RM20 (sheesh), that's what it costs for a foreigner to get to the top of the tower. I was a little shocked when the lady at the counter said that if we showed her our ICs, we, as Malaysian citizens only had to pay half that price. The wonders of being a Malaysian! I'm patriotic again!
The tower was nothing special though. Of all the days to go up there, we chose a hazy day. We couldn't see too far and besides, the observation deck was a little crowded. It was alright I guess, for the first 5 minutes.
One of the pix we took at KL TowerWell, after leaving the very interesting KL tower, we decided it was time to go. I hadn't slept all night. I was up doing a translation of some lame Malay psychology article. I think I've had enough of Malay for a while. We went to pick The Fuz up. On the way there I fell asleep. We picked up The Fuz and then after changing at JoA's place, we took off for Rio to play some futsal. FUTSAL! Me?! Futsal?! Something I really didn't expect myself to enjoy. I was never really a footie person. Sure I've played my share of footie back in highschool but that was it. Never really touched a football since highschool (so I correct myself here, it's been more than 2 years. Maybe even 4 years). Well, I got the taste of what I had expected. My stamina was in the ruts. 15 minutes into the game and I was panting like mad. I really needed to get out of the court. After another exhausting half, we went for drinks and some food. Then we all dispersed and JoA dropped me off at the bus stop (thank you!!). At home, I washed up and waited for my hair to dry before I took a nap. Woke up later than expected. Oversleeping is a hobby. JoA called me nearly 13-15 times (thank you!!). Got up and began to rush my Social Psychology assignment. I forged on till about 5am then gave up because I began to see words which weren't in the articles I was reading and began to type things which didn't make any contextual sense (aka, I was sleepy).
Friday
I woke up at 12pm and began to finish off my assignment. I did. When I got ready to go out and head to college, it began raining again. I had no choice but to borrow my granny's flowery little umbrella (I think it's cute). After rushing to hand up my assingment, I headed off into Subang to meet JoA. We were going to play CS with Shaun & Loretta (Dong has been ammended to Shaun by request). It was a fun night as we watched JoA suppress the enemy once more. Such skill. Well, after a bit of coaxing, I agreed to join Loretta, Shaun, The Fuz, JoA and Adam to play futsal with them at the CFP fustal meet the next day. At 2am in the morning, I managed to convince Reneeta to join our team as well and her only condition was that she didn't play at all and was a reserve.
Saturday
I woke up late (AGAIN!). We were going to play futsal again. I was supposed to meet JoA at the train station at 10:30 but I woke up at 9:50 (the HoRRoR!). I was forced to call The Fuz and get him to drive us to Shaun's place. He did and we got there. We met up there and after having a light breakfast, we began to search for the place. We found it after a while and in fact, we weren't all that late (haha). We entered the arena and found a sweaty Reneeta. Some of her first words were "You remember I told you I didn't want to play right? Well, I've played!" (LoL). We all began to get warmed up for the game and when we played, we played. I was reluctant to even play at first but after the first game (which was also very tiring) I think I got all hyped up. I wanted to play more. After the second game, my right thigh began to work up. My toes were killing me too but I wanted to play somemore (wahahahaha). In the last game, this big guy side-stepped into my foot and I ended up with my big toe blue-blacked (if there is such a word). What made matters worse was that a while after that, I had to swerve out of the way because this time, a girl side-stepped into my way. That pretty much killed my toe and thigh. Well, the games were loads of fun. I've never been this hyped up about playing futsal before but yeah, I am now. I'm waiting for my toe to heal and then I'm going to play somemore (lol).
After the games, we had some drinks and food then went on to have our showers. I had to take a bath at Loretta's and from there waited for JoA to finish washing up.
JoA was going to take me to pick up my little sister so that we could take her to the magic show which was going on Subang Parade. When we made it there, I found my little sister crying. My Mom had struck again. I will not go into the specifics but simply put, my mom had made my sister cry and that pretty much spoilt her mood and she ended up locking herself into a room and not willing to come out. I decided that it was best we left this little trip for some other time and left but on the way decided that I should buy my sister something to make her feel a bit better. JoA was understanding and kind enough to turn back and let me buy some KFC for my little sister. After that, I ended up telling JoA a story I hadn't told anyone for a while. My past. We headed off for dinner. We had quite decent food. I got stuffed again. Besides the little kink in the night with my sister's issue, I had a generally good time.
Saturday, June 02, 2007
The Kreig-Commando Junkress
Today seemed like a rather bland day to begin with. I woke up at 8-something to find that i was sleeping face down and that i was lying on my dislodged shoulder. I struggled to move. The anticipation of the impending pain was sincerely an obstacle which took me at the very least 2 minutes to overcome and to get a grip of my shoulder as I attempted to push my shoulder back into place. It crunched back into place. Ouch. That done, I returned to sleep, writhing in pain. I woke up about 4-5 hours later to find that I not only had a throbbing shoulder but I also felt like a steam-roller did a number on my lumbar.
Ah, food. It seems there was no lunch for me at home. I resorted to making some French Toast for myself. It's been a while since I'd touched the wok. I can still make a decent serving of French Toast (yay!).
Was thinking that I should get some work done or at least I should've studied some since my mid-terms for my Social Psychology class were on Tuesday but that all didn't happen. I suddenly had the urge to play Granado Espada. I did that till 5-ish. I then got a message from The Fuz saying that he was going up to Midvalley to get the survey for liquor done (some survey which I was also going to participate in). (*Poof*, the could-have-been-productive-day goes up in smoke)
After leaving the house abruptly without having dinner, I got a taste of some of the traffic which JoA had sufferred earlier today while going home from college. After completing the interesting survey in which left me feeling no less than an alcoholic and almost as thirsty as one, The Fuz & I met up with JoA in MPH and went off for dinner. Murni's!! On reaching Murni's, we called JoJo who was coincidentally around the area as well and was more than happy to join us for dinner. After a happy and satiating dinner, we took a peek at the movies available in the DVD store near Murni's and I picked up the 3rd movie from the Monty Python's collection (yay again!).
Some discussion and decisions later, we were bound for Subang to drop off JoA's car and then headed off to a cybercafe. After searching for a place which wasn't filled to the brim with eager gamers, we began playing Counter-Strike. At first my mind was more occupied with what JoA was going to do while The Fuz, JoJo & myself shot each other silly but interestingly enough, JoA joined in on the massacre and we ended up playing against AI. It was maddenning fun. Everytime one of us died we cracked up and began laughing at the antics which we could and couldn't pull off. Although she started off slow, JoA soon warmed up, found herself a favourite rifle (the Kreig-Commando) and began ravaging the opponent. She beat me flat (sheesh).
Although I was struggling to stay awake half the time (damn my body clock), it was a fun night. I enjoyed myself and I'm glad to hear that everyone had a good time. So tomorrow it's back to the real world again. (=D)
Ah, food. It seems there was no lunch for me at home. I resorted to making some French Toast for myself. It's been a while since I'd touched the wok. I can still make a decent serving of French Toast (yay!).
Was thinking that I should get some work done or at least I should've studied some since my mid-terms for my Social Psychology class were on Tuesday but that all didn't happen. I suddenly had the urge to play Granado Espada. I did that till 5-ish. I then got a message from The Fuz saying that he was going up to Midvalley to get the survey for liquor done (some survey which I was also going to participate in). (*Poof*, the could-have-been-productive-day goes up in smoke)
After leaving the house abruptly without having dinner, I got a taste of some of the traffic which JoA had sufferred earlier today while going home from college. After completing the interesting survey in which left me feeling no less than an alcoholic and almost as thirsty as one, The Fuz & I met up with JoA in MPH and went off for dinner. Murni's!! On reaching Murni's, we called JoJo who was coincidentally around the area as well and was more than happy to join us for dinner. After a happy and satiating dinner, we took a peek at the movies available in the DVD store near Murni's and I picked up the 3rd movie from the Monty Python's collection (yay again!).
Some discussion and decisions later, we were bound for Subang to drop off JoA's car and then headed off to a cybercafe. After searching for a place which wasn't filled to the brim with eager gamers, we began playing Counter-Strike. At first my mind was more occupied with what JoA was going to do while The Fuz, JoJo & myself shot each other silly but interestingly enough, JoA joined in on the massacre and we ended up playing against AI. It was maddenning fun. Everytime one of us died we cracked up and began laughing at the antics which we could and couldn't pull off. Although she started off slow, JoA soon warmed up, found herself a favourite rifle (the Kreig-Commando) and began ravaging the opponent. She beat me flat (sheesh).
Although I was struggling to stay awake half the time (damn my body clock), it was a fun night. I enjoyed myself and I'm glad to hear that everyone had a good time. So tomorrow it's back to the real world again. (=D)
Friday, June 01, 2007
Today's Roadtrip
Was woken up the funny way by my aunt again (how she does it everytime my uncle - her brother-in-law comes to give me a ride to the train station). My trusty Mp4 player did not fail me. The song of the moment was a Chinese song. In fact the song was sung in Taiwanese Hokkien, not very very different from the Hokkien I speak but I can understand and even sing along. After being picked up by JoA, we went to buy fuses for her FM Modulator thingy which has been out of order for about more than a week or two. She suspected that it was the fuse (and she just might be right) which was burnt and preventing the machine to work. Even after buying and installing the new fuse, it still didn't work. I guess she needs to go back to Low Yatt to get it replaced.
After that little bit of fuse-purchase, we headed for UKM in Bangi. We needed to look for a journal article which was written by some Rozli B. Ismail. When we got there, JoA & i discovered that to use the Library in UKm for 1 day and it cost 20 bucks person. JoA decided she wanted to go in. The great news is that we 've found the library and we have a copy of the journal which we really needed now. The downside to that would be the fact that the journal was in Bahasa Melayu. The only interesting thing was that when JoA spoke to one of the ladies in the library, she was criticized for waearing baby-tee and was told that she was being too revealing (heh).
After we'd gotten what we'd wanted from the place, we left it. Looking now for food. We looked around Bangi but couldn't find a decent chinese hawker stall around. We moved onto Cheras and KL. In the end, we missed one turn along the Federal Highway which resulted in JoA having to go in one big circle to get to Taman Sea so we could have our chinese food (hah). After the meal, we picked up Dong and went for another drink. We then went to a cybercafe where we played Tower Defence (I really don't know how to play) and got my tail-whipped by Dong. After a game or two, Loretta had come into Subang again and was ready to roll. We went back to Dong's place and began jamming again.
As stated before, we've been jamming since last week. I've been having loads of fun and also been getting stressed by not being able to sing. I can't remember lyrics, my timing is off, I can't hit and sustain keys for times long enough for songs to sound good.
We've done some recordings and JoA seems to enjoy secretly recording our conversations. Some of the conversations we have while we jam can be quite amusing.
Today we tried to further improve our songs and we did, by a bit. Last night I discovered that the BBQ night (which we are preparing to audition & perform for) was not some time in July but it was on the 14th of June which would make it happenning withing 2 weeks' time. I'm glad we've got an audition on Wednesday after classes. I really hope we make the audition. I'm nervous but I am also eager to perform that night in front of my friends. I might like the experience.
After that little bit of fuse-purchase, we headed for UKM in Bangi. We needed to look for a journal article which was written by some Rozli B. Ismail. When we got there, JoA & i discovered that to use the Library in UKm for 1 day and it cost 20 bucks person. JoA decided she wanted to go in. The great news is that we 've found the library and we have a copy of the journal which we really needed now. The downside to that would be the fact that the journal was in Bahasa Melayu. The only interesting thing was that when JoA spoke to one of the ladies in the library, she was criticized for waearing baby-tee and was told that she was being too revealing (heh).
After we'd gotten what we'd wanted from the place, we left it. Looking now for food. We looked around Bangi but couldn't find a decent chinese hawker stall around. We moved onto Cheras and KL. In the end, we missed one turn along the Federal Highway which resulted in JoA having to go in one big circle to get to Taman Sea so we could have our chinese food (hah). After the meal, we picked up Dong and went for another drink. We then went to a cybercafe where we played Tower Defence (I really don't know how to play) and got my tail-whipped by Dong. After a game or two, Loretta had come into Subang again and was ready to roll. We went back to Dong's place and began jamming again.
As stated before, we've been jamming since last week. I've been having loads of fun and also been getting stressed by not being able to sing. I can't remember lyrics, my timing is off, I can't hit and sustain keys for times long enough for songs to sound good.
We've done some recordings and JoA seems to enjoy secretly recording our conversations. Some of the conversations we have while we jam can be quite amusing.
Today we tried to further improve our songs and we did, by a bit. Last night I discovered that the BBQ night (which we are preparing to audition & perform for) was not some time in July but it was on the 14th of June which would make it happenning withing 2 weeks' time. I'm glad we've got an audition on Wednesday after classes. I really hope we make the audition. I'm nervous but I am also eager to perform that night in front of my friends. I might like the experience.
Monday, May 28, 2007
What Was...
Yesterday night, I recieved a call from someone special whom I met in back National Service. That added to my (emotional) burden of thoughts and memories which I already was dealing with.
Well, I will save the story for myself but the memories which came back to me also brought along a song which me and the boys used to sing at night at our dorms to the stars, hoping that in our counterparts' dorms, the song could be heard.
Lela - Bidadari
Kenangan silam aku dan dirimu
Berdua sesama bermadu
Saling berjanji sehidup semati
Hakikat di dunia ini
Segala yang dikata
Harus di kota
Ibarat adam dan juga hawa
Alangkah indah
Sewaktu bercinta
Tiada senjata
Yang dapat menghalang kita
Kau umpama bidadari
Suci bagai embun pagi
Tapi aku belum pasti
Apakah cintamu itu suci
Kau hadir membawa erti
Penawar di kala sepi
Sehangat dian yang menyinari
Bersama cintamu abadi
This song like the one before is beautiful yet has hints of pain in it. Such emotion...
Well, I will save the story for myself but the memories which came back to me also brought along a song which me and the boys used to sing at night at our dorms to the stars, hoping that in our counterparts' dorms, the song could be heard.
Lela - Bidadari
Kenangan silam aku dan dirimu
Berdua sesama bermadu
Saling berjanji sehidup semati
Hakikat di dunia ini
Segala yang dikata
Harus di kota
Ibarat adam dan juga hawa
Alangkah indah
Sewaktu bercinta
Tiada senjata
Yang dapat menghalang kita
Kau umpama bidadari
Suci bagai embun pagi
Tapi aku belum pasti
Apakah cintamu itu suci
Kau hadir membawa erti
Penawar di kala sepi
Sehangat dian yang menyinari
Bersama cintamu abadi
This song like the one before is beautiful yet has hints of pain in it. Such emotion...
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Your Song
Been about quite a lot this week. Every day in fact. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Bah, what's done is done and all I can do now is just look back and smile/frown.
Sometime earlier this week (methinks t'was Monday), Dong approached me and asked me to audition for the BBQ Night Acoustics. He offerred to play the guitar.
Nearly everyday of this week I've been having dinner or at least a meal with JoA before she drops me off (I'm so grateful for that). On Thursday, after classes and some sit-down-and-bullshit sessions, JoA and I had lunch in Champs in Bandar Utama Centerpoint. The noodles she ordered were CRAZY... They were like, a portion for like, 2 and a half people. Restecp! She finished it all up (save for the vegetables and the squid which she offerred to me). I could barely finish up my pork chops (which so wisely came with rice). Afterwards, we went to Sunway Pyramid to go bowling. We invited Loretta & Dong who gladly came. While waiting, we did some window shopping and found out that JoA knew even less than I did when it came to bag shopping (wahahaha). As we walked along, I noticed that something was wrong with JoA. She seemed to be having a fuzzy head. She had to take off her lens. By the time she'd taken off her lens, Dong & Loretta had reached pyramid and were en route to the bowling alley. We met them there and began bowling. It was a sight to see indeed. I'm not a pro-bowler but the 2 of them were hilariously cute when they were bowling. Their antics kept us entertained till about 5-6pm.
After that session of laughs, we went over to a Cendol vendor on the roadside somewhere in Subang near SS15 and got us some. I recieved a phone call for a survey on handphones and I was doing the survey all the way while I watched my Cendol melt in front of me. The bunch beside me were having odd conversations, I couldn't hear them at all. By the time I put down the phone, my Cendol was completely melted. I didn't enjoy that. It wasn't good anyway. While I was holding it, the sugar was dripping and had gotten onto my fingers. Damn, that was disgusting, it dried up and got sticky and.... urgh!
Having "refreshed" ourselves at the Cendol stall, we went over to Dong's place to begin the jamming session. Jamming is just SO fun. For the first jamming session, I'd say it went quite well (but I need to memorize lyrics). Loretta was more than happy to jam along. He did wonders to the songs. We're still trying to coax him into auditioning with us but the fellow is still shy and reserved. He needs to see how essential it would be for him to join us. Another guitarist and vocalist can do lots better than what only Dong and I would be able to pull off.
The songs which we were initially thinking of playing were Jason Mraz - I'm Yours, Howie Day - Collide, John Mayer - Your Body is a Wonderland and Ryan Cabrera - True. We found out that most auditioners only played 2 songs. Within the 2 days, we decided that we'd still play I'm Yours (your song :D) and we somehow came up with a little ensemble of 3 songs: Jay Chou - Qing Tian, Joan Osbourne - (What if God was) One of Us & Peterpan - Mimpi Yang Sempurna. It's a little rickety because it was an impromptu make-up song but it can be done and according to JoA's ears (the genius herself), it sounded good. Well, I guess that makes up the second song which we're playing for the audition then.
After jamming on Friday night, JoA dropped off Loretta and then beat me up with a yellow (think Sin City) pillow at the traffic light before dropping me off.
What ensued after she dropped me off was emotional. I will stop at that. There was this wierd guy who came up to me in the train as I was closing my eyes and just "emo-ing" and asked me what station I was getting off at. I wasn't the nicest person to him. I just stared at him.
Sometime earlier this week (methinks t'was Monday), Dong approached me and asked me to audition for the BBQ Night Acoustics. He offerred to play the guitar.
Nearly everyday of this week I've been having dinner or at least a meal with JoA before she drops me off (I'm so grateful for that). On Thursday, after classes and some sit-down-and-bullshit sessions, JoA and I had lunch in Champs in Bandar Utama Centerpoint. The noodles she ordered were CRAZY... They were like, a portion for like, 2 and a half people. Restecp! She finished it all up (save for the vegetables and the squid which she offerred to me). I could barely finish up my pork chops (which so wisely came with rice). Afterwards, we went to Sunway Pyramid to go bowling. We invited Loretta & Dong who gladly came. While waiting, we did some window shopping and found out that JoA knew even less than I did when it came to bag shopping (wahahaha). As we walked along, I noticed that something was wrong with JoA. She seemed to be having a fuzzy head. She had to take off her lens. By the time she'd taken off her lens, Dong & Loretta had reached pyramid and were en route to the bowling alley. We met them there and began bowling. It was a sight to see indeed. I'm not a pro-bowler but the 2 of them were hilariously cute when they were bowling. Their antics kept us entertained till about 5-6pm.
After that session of laughs, we went over to a Cendol vendor on the roadside somewhere in Subang near SS15 and got us some. I recieved a phone call for a survey on handphones and I was doing the survey all the way while I watched my Cendol melt in front of me. The bunch beside me were having odd conversations, I couldn't hear them at all. By the time I put down the phone, my Cendol was completely melted. I didn't enjoy that. It wasn't good anyway. While I was holding it, the sugar was dripping and had gotten onto my fingers. Damn, that was disgusting, it dried up and got sticky and.... urgh!
Having "refreshed" ourselves at the Cendol stall, we went over to Dong's place to begin the jamming session. Jamming is just SO fun. For the first jamming session, I'd say it went quite well (but I need to memorize lyrics). Loretta was more than happy to jam along. He did wonders to the songs. We're still trying to coax him into auditioning with us but the fellow is still shy and reserved. He needs to see how essential it would be for him to join us. Another guitarist and vocalist can do lots better than what only Dong and I would be able to pull off.
The songs which we were initially thinking of playing were Jason Mraz - I'm Yours, Howie Day - Collide, John Mayer - Your Body is a Wonderland and Ryan Cabrera - True. We found out that most auditioners only played 2 songs. Within the 2 days, we decided that we'd still play I'm Yours (your song :D) and we somehow came up with a little ensemble of 3 songs: Jay Chou - Qing Tian, Joan Osbourne - (What if God was) One of Us & Peterpan - Mimpi Yang Sempurna. It's a little rickety because it was an impromptu make-up song but it can be done and according to JoA's ears (the genius herself), it sounded good. Well, I guess that makes up the second song which we're playing for the audition then.
After jamming on Friday night, JoA dropped off Loretta and then beat me up with a yellow (think Sin City) pillow at the traffic light before dropping me off.
What ensued after she dropped me off was emotional. I will stop at that. There was this wierd guy who came up to me in the train as I was closing my eyes and just "emo-ing" and asked me what station I was getting off at. I wasn't the nicest person to him. I just stared at him.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Nothing But A Dream
Peterpan
Mimpi yang Sempurna
Mungkinkah bila ku bertanya
Pada bintang-bintang,
Dan bila ku mulai merasa
bahasa kesunyian.
Sadarkan aku yang berjalan, dalam kehampaan
Terrdiam, terpana, terbata.
Semua dalam keraguan
Aku dan semua yang terluka karena kita.
Aku kan menghilang,
Dalam pekat malam,
Lepas ku melayang,
Biarlah ku bertanya
Pada bintang-bintang
Tentang arti kita
dalam mimpi yang sempurna.
This is indeed a beautifully melancholic song.
My kind of song. I love the composition,
I love the lyrics, I love Peterpan.
Not really up for pouring my heart out onto this blog for now.
Right now I do most of that in my singing and my guitar.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Robber of the Ocean's Blue
O'er all the calm in the seas, All the blue grows but bluer,
All the pain grows but truer,
O'er moaning under the breeze.
The grumbling sands seem to bleed,
Ev'ry breath it breathes unto,
Shells- husks of dead sink into
the sands, torn from their creed.
Beyond the silky, tear-rimmed shore,
Deeper still into the spray,
Lurks the dark and far-away
eye of the storm, pain grows more.
Within the heart of this all,
Lie shreds of hope, long since lost.
All are but lingering ghosts,
Which never let the storm fall.
Cry now in eternal grief, O'er the pain that keeps growing.
Sigh now but not in relief, For the gale that keeps blowing.
Found now, is this Ocean's thief...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Bowling: Singing Fingers & A Sore Butt
Monday. College. The new semester really took off today. My two other classes began today as well, which leaves me with a full week of classes. This short semeseter will get the best of me before I even know it. I have a lot of work to do, lots of studying to study and a body-clock to knock into shape (yeah right, fat-chance if you ask me).
I will not talk about classes unless I find it necessary to do so and I'm sure sooner or later the day will come when you will be able to make a course outline from all the details I give you about my school-work but until then, I shall avoid it till (as I've said) necessary.
Well, let's see where do I begin, ah yes, the morning. When I woke up to my irritating alarm. I snoozed it a bit too much and that got me out of bed at like, 5.30am. A restless night. I lay in bed from 2.30 till past 4 just trying to go to bed but my head wouldn't shut up (I know that's freaky, but yeah.). Thoughts just kept racing through my head, ethics of all things. Ethics!!
So yeah, I got up late and in a flurry, I had to leave the house after getting ready. I stood like an idiot being stood up there for about half an hour waiting for the retarded bus to come along so I could go and reload my phone so I could wake The Fuz up. By the time I'd done that, it was already too late to make the time we agreed on to meet JoA at the train station in Subang. She called and in her morning grace, decided that she would wait for us. We made it. Late of course, we can't really be naive enough to believe that the Malaysian public transport system. JoA gave me directions which managed to confuse the sleep-deprived Wayne. The Fuz & I ended up jay-walking to the other side of the main road only to recieve a call later from JoA further confusing the sleep-deprived Wayne and causing me to think that we needed to jay-walk back across the street. On reaching the intended rendezvous point, there was no sign of JoA or Daniel (her car). Then, I recieved a phone call and turned around to see a frantically waving figure of a girl on the other side of the well-trafficked road. The figure seemed to be on the phone screaming "Look over here, on the other side, I'm over here!". So we jay-walked once again, towards the car and yeah, that was the story of how I got from Klang to college today.
Between classes today, we went to check our results for last semester's examinations [insert suspense music here]. JoA, Stef & yours truly went over to the library to do this. On seeing my results, I was relieved and almost was about to say "yippee!" (no, I didn't do exceptionally well. I just got better grades than I thought I would) when JoA told me what she got and when I noticed how down she'd gotten. I immediately suppressed my "yippee!" and only made it known that I was relieved. I decided to try to cheer JoA up a bit, I decided to test myself while I was at it and challenged her to a few games of bowling after my class ended. In the meantime, she also kindly agreed to wait my class out by sitting in on it with me for my first class of Public Speaking (which was boring). I also managed to convince her to join in to help out with some ceremony which ARCCADE was holding on Saturday (yay).
After class, we headed to Midvalley megamall to hit the pins. Once we left college, it started raining cats and dogs. We could hardly see but we managed to reach megamall in 3 pieces (her, Daniel & Moi). We went bowling. It was embarassing. I used to play every week in the school bowling society back in the day. I was a decent player. That is no longer the case it seems. JoA ended up teaching me how to play. It was embarrassing no doubt but hey, we had fun. I was just glad to see her laughing again (so sue me). After the 2 games of being thrashed by JoA, her knee ached and we were going to meet up with The Fuz, Carment, Joel & Pearly for food. After seeing them, leaving my bag behind, losing them, wandering around and finally calling and finding them, we sat down to have a good and well-deserved stare at Carment and Pearly enjoy their Asam Laksa (food). Afterwards, we went to the food court where JoA & The Fuz had somemore food while the others and myself had dessert (I made one round of the food court and nothing caught my eye).
Soon, JoA had to go so she went. The rest of us wandered around a bit more (we seem to enjoy doing that) and then Carment & Pearly decided they should head home. After they did that, we thought we'd follow suit but on getting into Joel's car, he said 2 letters which sort of woke me up "CS". We headed over to Damansara Jaya and played some CS till about 11 something and then headed home.
It's been a day indeed. My right thumb, index & middle fingers were singing after bowling and my butt hurts. I had fun. I enjoyed myself. I hope everyone else did as well. Well now, I should make preparations for tomorrow. I don't want to snooze my alarm again in the morning (I hope not, Haha).
I will not talk about classes unless I find it necessary to do so and I'm sure sooner or later the day will come when you will be able to make a course outline from all the details I give you about my school-work but until then, I shall avoid it till (as I've said) necessary.
Well, let's see where do I begin, ah yes, the morning. When I woke up to my irritating alarm. I snoozed it a bit too much and that got me out of bed at like, 5.30am. A restless night. I lay in bed from 2.30 till past 4 just trying to go to bed but my head wouldn't shut up (I know that's freaky, but yeah.). Thoughts just kept racing through my head, ethics of all things. Ethics!!
So yeah, I got up late and in a flurry, I had to leave the house after getting ready. I stood like an idiot being stood up there for about half an hour waiting for the retarded bus to come along so I could go and reload my phone so I could wake The Fuz up. By the time I'd done that, it was already too late to make the time we agreed on to meet JoA at the train station in Subang. She called and in her morning grace, decided that she would wait for us. We made it. Late of course, we can't really be naive enough to believe that the Malaysian public transport system. JoA gave me directions which managed to confuse the sleep-deprived Wayne. The Fuz & I ended up jay-walking to the other side of the main road only to recieve a call later from JoA further confusing the sleep-deprived Wayne and causing me to think that we needed to jay-walk back across the street. On reaching the intended rendezvous point, there was no sign of JoA or Daniel (her car). Then, I recieved a phone call and turned around to see a frantically waving figure of a girl on the other side of the well-trafficked road. The figure seemed to be on the phone screaming "Look over here, on the other side, I'm over here!". So we jay-walked once again, towards the car and yeah, that was the story of how I got from Klang to college today.
Between classes today, we went to check our results for last semester's examinations [insert suspense music here]. JoA, Stef & yours truly went over to the library to do this. On seeing my results, I was relieved and almost was about to say "yippee!" (no, I didn't do exceptionally well. I just got better grades than I thought I would) when JoA told me what she got and when I noticed how down she'd gotten. I immediately suppressed my "yippee!" and only made it known that I was relieved. I decided to try to cheer JoA up a bit, I decided to test myself while I was at it and challenged her to a few games of bowling after my class ended. In the meantime, she also kindly agreed to wait my class out by sitting in on it with me for my first class of Public Speaking (which was boring). I also managed to convince her to join in to help out with some ceremony which ARCCADE was holding on Saturday (yay).
After class, we headed to Midvalley megamall to hit the pins. Once we left college, it started raining cats and dogs. We could hardly see but we managed to reach megamall in 3 pieces (her, Daniel & Moi). We went bowling. It was embarassing. I used to play every week in the school bowling society back in the day. I was a decent player. That is no longer the case it seems. JoA ended up teaching me how to play. It was embarrassing no doubt but hey, we had fun. I was just glad to see her laughing again (so sue me). After the 2 games of being thrashed by JoA, her knee ached and we were going to meet up with The Fuz, Carment, Joel & Pearly for food. After seeing them, leaving my bag behind, losing them, wandering around and finally calling and finding them, we sat down to have a good and well-deserved stare at Carment and Pearly enjoy their Asam Laksa (food). Afterwards, we went to the food court where JoA & The Fuz had somemore food while the others and myself had dessert (I made one round of the food court and nothing caught my eye).
Soon, JoA had to go so she went. The rest of us wandered around a bit more (we seem to enjoy doing that) and then Carment & Pearly decided they should head home. After they did that, we thought we'd follow suit but on getting into Joel's car, he said 2 letters which sort of woke me up "CS". We headed over to Damansara Jaya and played some CS till about 11 something and then headed home.
It's been a day indeed. My right thumb, index & middle fingers were singing after bowling and my butt hurts. I had fun. I enjoyed myself. I hope everyone else did as well. Well now, I should make preparations for tomorrow. I don't want to snooze my alarm again in the morning (I hope not, Haha).
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Welcome to Klang.
Yesterday, JoA came down to Klang and met up with The Fuz and myself. After she reached Klang, she gave me a call (which woke me up after I completely missed the first one) and asked me how to get to my place. The funny thing was that we had a little breakdown of communications and I - having just woken up - wasn't fully functioning yet. She got lost in the process (haha). After a few more directions and a U-turn, we discovered that she'd actually gone the right way and had actually overshot my place (haha again). After finally picking me up and getting to The Fuz's place, we went off to eat some Bah Kut Teh.
After the meal, we took JoA to do what she'd come down for: her guitar. The shop-owner was a friend of Fuzzy's and she was very hospitable and verbose. After JoA had chosen her guitar, we went hunting for JoA's bed-frame. We went around to a few shops till we finally decided that we could look into Courts Mammoth. On reaching the Mammoth, we spotted a furniture shop beside it and decided to compare prices and look for the best deal (what any other logical shopper would do when presented with more than one shop selling the same thing). After walking to both shops twice, JoA chose her bed and got a matress with it. After this, we went for some "sweet soup" ("Tong Sui") called "Aeroplane" ("Be Gi") or also known as Len Chee Kang. Haha, apparrently Fuzzy never had it before either. Well, I'm glad they liked it. After that, we were dropped home and thus ended a short yet fun-filled day.
The night wasn't near as entertaining as the day. Last night we were meant to sign up online for tutorials for our Social Psychology class at 9pm. We (Fuzzy, JoA & Myself) were there waiting at 8.45pm and just waiting for the time to sign up. When the clock struck 9, the expected happenned, the server crashed. There were what, 70+ people logged on and probably another 20-30 trying to get onto the site and it crashed? What a pathetic server. to make things worse, the geniuses up in the department decided to bind the tutorials for Social Psychology and Human Personality classes which made students who were doing only one of the two subjects non-eligible to sign up online and had to do so manually the next day in college. Such stunning efficiency, such sparkling logic... I was so irritated by this. Irritated by their insolence. I cooled off as fast as I'd gotten peeved. Besides, getting all aggro wouldn't make the server come back to life and magically make the tutorial sign up upload through all those 100+ students hacking away at the Refresh button. JoA and I decided that we'd sign up online first anyway, just so that we could reserve our slots in that tutorial. I just lay back and waited it out. Others really didn't take this well and I don't blame them. The server got back up at about 11-ish? That's like, an hour or two after the stated time. Sure the site died on the server but don't you think that if a server can't even support less than 150 users, it should be deleted and spoken bad about for the next decade or two?
Oh well, enough about that. Now, onto today. This morning, I dragged myself out of my bed at 6.25am, 35 minutes after the initial alarm went off. I just HAD to watch 3 episodes of Prison Break before i went to sleep (haha). I got myself ready and then headed out towards The Fuz's place. Sent him a message saying I was on my way. I didn't get a reply. I thought he just didn't feel the need to reply. I reached his house and stood outside and sent him another message telling him that I was at his gate. After waiting for about half an hour, I called him. He didn't pick up. I thought he was in the shower. I gave him 15 minutes and called again. He was asleep. After dragging him out of bed, we set out to the train station. We were headed to Subang today. We were going to rendezvous with JoA and from there we'd go on to college to settle the issue of our tutorials (read about it under Yesterday). We went up and discussed things with Jue Ying, an admin in the CFP (Center for Psychology) who set things right. I helped Stef sign up as well but sadly, Fuzzy couldn't make it into the same tutorial group as JoA, Stef and Me. Bummer. After that had been done, we went over to Lan's Corner to have breakfast (yes this was all done before 9.30am).
The horror, I ordered a cheese thosai (Fuzzy said it was good) which ended up not having a single ounce of cheese in it! The horror!!!! I will never order thosai (with the exception of thosai masala) ever again!
After the not-so-good breakfast, we were off, to Low Yatt Plaza. The Fuz needed to get his router checked, buy DVDs and get some speakers; JoA was out to find herself a pair of earphones, get her modem replaced and on the way, she got herself an FM modulator (something which allows you to transmit music/radiowaves to radios OR in English it means that she can play mp3s in her car with a pendrive); and myself, I was out to get a set of speakers for my babe Celeste (yes, I'm a geek who names his beloved possessions).
After walking about Low Yatt for a couple of hours looking into and comparing prices, we eventually got our stuff and then, headed towards Midvalley Megamall to meet with Sue Jern to spend our MPH vouchers which we won last semester during the Colloquium for our Ergonomics project. I just walked around the bookstore staring into books which caught my eye without the slightest intent to buy because I wasn't crazy over buying any books. As it is I have quite a few at home which I hadn't finished reading yet. Besides, I'd already promised my share of the voucher to JoA earlier on.
I wandered around some and then wandered somemore and then a bit more till I noticed I had lost JoA and I didn't see her at all through all of the 4-5 rounds I'd made through the bookstore. Initially I was looking for her to let her know that Sue Jern had finished choosing what she wanted and was waiting for us to get done. JoA's absence didn't really strike me at first since she enjoyed reading a lot, I thought that she'd probably wandered off somewhere I missed. I finally decided to call her because Sue Jern was just standing around and I felt that she was getting a little impatient. JoA didn't pick up. I began to worry right about then. She wasn't in the store and she wasn't picking up and didn't let anyone know where she was. I was worried. I made one more round of the store. Still no JoA. Called her again, she still didn't pick up. Just as I was about to call her again, she popped out from behind a book rack. Relief! She'd been on the phone and I guess she had her call waiting function on which explained why I could still call her. Well, we payed up and Sue Jern had to leave. JoA finished up her phone call and we decided that we would go to Klang again to eat. We did, we went over to Port Klang and went to this old school Chinese tea shop which served Western food (Coolness)! After that, we went to our homes again.
These two days have been really fun as this is probably one of the few times my friends from KL or anywhere else have come down to Klang (what's more twice in two days). Well, I guess this is just lots of fun which I hope will make getting through this semester easier.
After the meal, we took JoA to do what she'd come down for: her guitar. The shop-owner was a friend of Fuzzy's and she was very hospitable and verbose. After JoA had chosen her guitar, we went hunting for JoA's bed-frame. We went around to a few shops till we finally decided that we could look into Courts Mammoth. On reaching the Mammoth, we spotted a furniture shop beside it and decided to compare prices and look for the best deal (what any other logical shopper would do when presented with more than one shop selling the same thing). After walking to both shops twice, JoA chose her bed and got a matress with it. After this, we went for some "sweet soup" ("Tong Sui") called "Aeroplane" ("Be Gi") or also known as Len Chee Kang. Haha, apparrently Fuzzy never had it before either. Well, I'm glad they liked it. After that, we were dropped home and thus ended a short yet fun-filled day.
The night wasn't near as entertaining as the day. Last night we were meant to sign up online for tutorials for our Social Psychology class at 9pm. We (Fuzzy, JoA & Myself) were there waiting at 8.45pm and just waiting for the time to sign up. When the clock struck 9, the expected happenned, the server crashed. There were what, 70+ people logged on and probably another 20-30 trying to get onto the site and it crashed? What a pathetic server. to make things worse, the geniuses up in the department decided to bind the tutorials for Social Psychology and Human Personality classes which made students who were doing only one of the two subjects non-eligible to sign up online and had to do so manually the next day in college. Such stunning efficiency, such sparkling logic... I was so irritated by this. Irritated by their insolence. I cooled off as fast as I'd gotten peeved. Besides, getting all aggro wouldn't make the server come back to life and magically make the tutorial sign up upload through all those 100+ students hacking away at the Refresh button. JoA and I decided that we'd sign up online first anyway, just so that we could reserve our slots in that tutorial. I just lay back and waited it out. Others really didn't take this well and I don't blame them. The server got back up at about 11-ish? That's like, an hour or two after the stated time. Sure the site died on the server but don't you think that if a server can't even support less than 150 users, it should be deleted and spoken bad about for the next decade or two?
Oh well, enough about that. Now, onto today. This morning, I dragged myself out of my bed at 6.25am, 35 minutes after the initial alarm went off. I just HAD to watch 3 episodes of Prison Break before i went to sleep (haha). I got myself ready and then headed out towards The Fuz's place. Sent him a message saying I was on my way. I didn't get a reply. I thought he just didn't feel the need to reply. I reached his house and stood outside and sent him another message telling him that I was at his gate. After waiting for about half an hour, I called him. He didn't pick up. I thought he was in the shower. I gave him 15 minutes and called again. He was asleep. After dragging him out of bed, we set out to the train station. We were headed to Subang today. We were going to rendezvous with JoA and from there we'd go on to college to settle the issue of our tutorials (read about it under Yesterday). We went up and discussed things with Jue Ying, an admin in the CFP (Center for Psychology) who set things right. I helped Stef sign up as well but sadly, Fuzzy couldn't make it into the same tutorial group as JoA, Stef and Me. Bummer. After that had been done, we went over to Lan's Corner to have breakfast (yes this was all done before 9.30am).
The horror, I ordered a cheese thosai (Fuzzy said it was good) which ended up not having a single ounce of cheese in it! The horror!!!! I will never order thosai (with the exception of thosai masala) ever again!
After the not-so-good breakfast, we were off, to Low Yatt Plaza. The Fuz needed to get his router checked, buy DVDs and get some speakers; JoA was out to find herself a pair of earphones, get her modem replaced and on the way, she got herself an FM modulator (something which allows you to transmit music/radiowaves to radios OR in English it means that she can play mp3s in her car with a pendrive); and myself, I was out to get a set of speakers for my babe Celeste (yes, I'm a geek who names his beloved possessions).
After walking about Low Yatt for a couple of hours looking into and comparing prices, we eventually got our stuff and then, headed towards Midvalley Megamall to meet with Sue Jern to spend our MPH vouchers which we won last semester during the Colloquium for our Ergonomics project. I just walked around the bookstore staring into books which caught my eye without the slightest intent to buy because I wasn't crazy over buying any books. As it is I have quite a few at home which I hadn't finished reading yet. Besides, I'd already promised my share of the voucher to JoA earlier on.
I wandered around some and then wandered somemore and then a bit more till I noticed I had lost JoA and I didn't see her at all through all of the 4-5 rounds I'd made through the bookstore. Initially I was looking for her to let her know that Sue Jern had finished choosing what she wanted and was waiting for us to get done. JoA's absence didn't really strike me at first since she enjoyed reading a lot, I thought that she'd probably wandered off somewhere I missed. I finally decided to call her because Sue Jern was just standing around and I felt that she was getting a little impatient. JoA didn't pick up. I began to worry right about then. She wasn't in the store and she wasn't picking up and didn't let anyone know where she was. I was worried. I made one more round of the store. Still no JoA. Called her again, she still didn't pick up. Just as I was about to call her again, she popped out from behind a book rack. Relief! She'd been on the phone and I guess she had her call waiting function on which explained why I could still call her. Well, we payed up and Sue Jern had to leave. JoA finished up her phone call and we decided that we would go to Klang again to eat. We did, we went over to Port Klang and went to this old school Chinese tea shop which served Western food (Coolness)! After that, we went to our homes again.
These two days have been really fun as this is probably one of the few times my friends from KL or anywhere else have come down to Klang (what's more twice in two days). Well, I guess this is just lots of fun which I hope will make getting through this semester easier.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
In Response To A Response
Hope may be a two-edged blade but like a pen with multiple coloured inks, we can choose to ignore the other colours and use only the pink ink :)
Hope can destroy, hope can be bad, but then and again a con-man can be trusted to be dishonest.
Perspective is a powerful tool when looking at something. Perspective shapes countries, religions, families, heroes. Perspective can shape lives. Death can be seen as rebirth or the end of the road. It's all about perspective.
It isn't about which side of hope you choose. Nor is it about what you strive for. It's the choices you make along this journey. It's about how you choose to see things. Accepting one's fate for what it is isn't always the wisest choice nor is it the most adaptive decision. Our destiny is in our own hands and the only thing Man cannot control is Death. All things leading to the River Styx are our own deeds, our own choices and what choices we make are our destiny.
Hope is indeed a noun. Your definition of it? Your perspective. Your choice. Your destiny. Our hope.
Hope can destroy, hope can be bad, but then and again a con-man can be trusted to be dishonest.
Perspective is a powerful tool when looking at something. Perspective shapes countries, religions, families, heroes. Perspective can shape lives. Death can be seen as rebirth or the end of the road. It's all about perspective.
It isn't about which side of hope you choose. Nor is it about what you strive for. It's the choices you make along this journey. It's about how you choose to see things. Accepting one's fate for what it is isn't always the wisest choice nor is it the most adaptive decision. Our destiny is in our own hands and the only thing Man cannot control is Death. All things leading to the River Styx are our own deeds, our own choices and what choices we make are our destiny.
Hope is indeed a noun. Your definition of it? Your perspective. Your choice. Your destiny. Our hope.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Now, Back To Some Good Ol' Ranting : Reality Issues
Life serves us all our share of crap. Some get a larger plate, some get a saucer-full, some get a spoonful. Either way, all of us have to face our walls. Our walls of shit. When we hear about others' walls, we look at our own and ask ourselves, why am I so useless? Others seem to be faced with more than I am but they seem to be doing better than me. What's up with that? Some serious self-esteem issues follow, no doubt.
Why does it seem that some of us have to take blow after excruciating blow from life? If only life were like classes, where we finish one module and move on to the next. No, we have to take everything as it comes. Why?
I'm sure life isn't fair, I'm sure we can only make the best of life as it is and I'm sure I'm usually the one behind people telling them these things as they face their walls of shit but everytime I say that, my heart shatters for them. I may not be the best candidate but I do my best to support those who I've set out to. Having said that, there are times when I just feel like letting go of this silly role I've taken up as it seems so redundant but every other time, they just turn around and smile at me. They show me what I saw in them from the very beginning, the driving force that got me started. Hope.
Call me cheesy, call me stupid, call me redundant. You can't shake me. I'm going to continue doing what I love to do. I'm holding on. Even when you let go. I hope you'll do the same.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
The Genting-Bentong Trip : An Extensive Account
Last Friday I received an invitation from Hui Munn, a classmate to join Bryan, Ivy, Hui Zhi and Shaun(hereafter addressed as Dong) on a trip to Genting and then onwards to Bentong. This sort of took me by suprise because I was never really that close to this group and only recently had I watched a movie with them (Mr. Bean's Holiday) and this was the first time ever I'd been out with them. Now the reason why we set out to go on vacation was centered around a barbeque in Genting at an apartment. Well, I was actually flattered by their invitation and after making some arrangements, I confirmed my attendance into their little party.
Sunday:
After packing up my stuff, I hitched a ride with my cousin to the Asia Jaya LRT station. I was supposed to let Bryan know when I would reach so that he & Dong could pick me up. When I reached it seemed that there were some complications on Shaun's part in getting his car. It seemed I had to wait a little while before my ride came along. I thank goodness for my MP4 player and JoA whom I could talk to (thru SMS). Although the music got me all emotional and I began my whole disconnection-with-reality thing and I would enter into that state and only emerged when I received a reply from JoA. After about half an hour or so of singing along to my MP4's music, Dong's car had gotten there and then off we went to Ivy's.
Sunday:
After packing up my stuff, I hitched a ride with my cousin to the Asia Jaya LRT station. I was supposed to let Bryan know when I would reach so that he & Dong could pick me up. When I reached it seemed that there were some complications on Shaun's part in getting his car. It seemed I had to wait a little while before my ride came along. I thank goodness for my MP4 player and JoA whom I could talk to (thru SMS). Although the music got me all emotional and I began my whole disconnection-with-reality thing and I would enter into that state and only emerged when I received a reply from JoA. After about half an hour or so of singing along to my MP4's music, Dong's car had gotten there and then off we went to Ivy's.
We first met up with the others at Ivy's apartment. Then we went grocery shopping for snacks and stuff which we would need for the BBQ and also some stuff to cook for dinner that night at Ivy's (and I just have to mention that I bought a big bottle of that yoghurt drink which I have lately been so into, it reminds me of Lassi :D). As I had insisted, Dong had brought his guitar. While the rest we were trying to get dinner ready, I (who could not really cook) stood aside and watched Munn Munn hack away at the chicken like a blacksmith melding a sword. I couldn't take it. I had to lend a hand. Afterwards, I decided to get to the guitar. After me and Dong messed about with the guitar for a bit, dinner was ready. Dinner was good. Bryan & Munn Munn were the chefs of the night and they made a great dinner. I don't know whether or not it was a compliment or just gluttony when I went for more rice. After dinner, we had some "tong sui" which was made by Ivy's relative. It was quite bland as apparently some of her relatives can't take sugar but it was still good. After that good meal, the gang began playing mahjong. No gambling involved, just wanted to mess around. While the lot was playing, I volunteered to wash the dishes as I didn't do any cooking. Dong helped me out and still I took ages to wash up... I still have serious speed issues when doing any chore. Well, after a few rounds of mahjong, Hui Zhi had to leave. We followed her out and then when she drove off into the night, we went to a mamak named NASA (note the very lame name =.=). We chilled out there and began to talk about many an interesting topic. At about midnight, we went back up to Ivy's and chilled there instead. Somewhere along in the discussion there was mention of alcohol which got me interested and the next thing we knew, we were having vodkas (yay!). We gathered around into a circle and began to chill (yes, once again). Dong & I began taking turns at the guitar which to me (being obsessed with the guitar) was probably the most central part of the night (other than the alcohol). We chatted (and I kinda played [the guitar]) the night away. 
Dinner in the making ala Bryan & Munn Munn
Dinner in the making ala Bryan & Munn MunnMonday:
Monday woke me up at about 9-ish with the voices of Bryan & Zhi in a conversation of which I cannot remember the content. While I had slept, Ivy had gone to pick up her Aunt's Honda City, Zhi had come back to Ivy's from her place and Bryan took photos of me and Dong asleep (the freak!). After a shower, we were ready to set out for Bentong. The ride was a rather peaceful one for me at least but I pitied the four sitting in the backseat (they threw me in front anyway, being the largest one there). We were headed for Bryan's hometown in Bentong. After about an hour and more we reached our destination, the small town of Bentong.
It seemed rather homely, a simple town with nearly everything a person could need (except for a cinema and I didn't really see any cyber cafes). I repeat that the ride was safe and also entertaining as we had Bryan & Munn Munn to entertain us (Zhi still fell asleep anyways). On reaching Bryan's abode, I noted how calm the environment he was brought up in was. We met his homies and after a brief respite, we went for lunch. Even looking for lunch was entertaining as Bryan seemingly couldn't make his mind up on where to take us and when he did, the group sort of rejected the place and we had to actually get up and walk out of the restaurant (haha). He then took us to another place across town and since the group had announced their intent to eat "dai chao", he wanted to take us to places where he thought that we wouldn't be cheated (apparently the locals there wouldn't hesitate to make a killing when they noticed that we were from out of town). The second place we stopped at was actually serving something else and directed us to a place we had already passed along the way if we indeed wanted to eat "dai chao". We made our way there with Bryan already stressed with the worry that the group was getting frustrated. What really didn't help was the fact that the place we were directed to was closed on that exact day. There was a big sign in Chinese on the gate reading: "Taking a Break - 23rd April". Just our luck. Well, Bryan had no choice but to take us back to around where the first place was to a restaurant where we finally ate. We found out that Dong had never had "Nga Pou Ham Yu Fa Lam Pou" (Claypot Pork Belly & Salted Fish) before. The horror of deprivation! Anyway, it was then that the gang commented on my being very busy with the handphone because I had been in constant conversation with JoA since Sunday. Oh well, misunderstand if you want. I would offer an explanation but that would require them to believe it right? No matter.
After lunch, we stopped back at Bryan's place to rest a bit while some of the others went out to buy the stuff we needed for the barbeque. When they got back, all was set and we were ready and with supplies in hand, we headed up to Genting (which wasn't far away from Bentong). Dong & I were to follow Bryan's car while the girls stayed in Ivy's. After a comedy-laden trip uphill (and another bottle of that yoghurt drink which we referred to as Lassi anyway), we reached our second destination in the afternoon (at about 3-ish pm). We checked in, moved our stuff into the car and then we headed up to Genting, or so we thought we would. The initial plan was to drive to the cable car station and take the ride to the peak but that wouldn't happen because we found that the station was closed for repairs (of all the days to do so they chose our day!!). After a few wrong turns and a total of 4 trips around that Police check-stop on the way up to Genting, we decided to go back to our place and just relax while we waited for the night. When we would begin our barbeque. It was at this time that the bunch asked what happenned to me (because I told JoA that I'd talk to her later and we stopped messaging each other =.=).
At the place, the gang began playing mahjong again while Dong & I got back to the guitar. Soon, I began playing mahjong as well. At nightfall, we decided to start the fire up but since it had begun to rain, we thought that we'd do it on the balcony. After setting everything up, I began to notice how hard it was to start a fire. Yeah, I'd been camping before and I had a cousin who started charcoal fires all the time but I'd always only watched them start the fire so all I had was the theory behind how to start a fire. Putting that into practice was easier said than done because it seemed that I was the most experienced one with fires there. After about an odd half an hour of trying to get the fire to work, Bryan and Dong decided to go on down to see if it would be better to get the thing done in the BBQ pit which was provided and it was. While they were gone, the girls and I were still trying to get the fire started on the balcony. We had resorted to using the gas stoves to start the charcoal burning (sheesh) and it was actually working till Bryan & Shaun came back to say that we should go to the BBQ pit and that was when the gas stoves ran out of gas... Well, we moved everything down to the BBQ pit which was well sheltered from the rain but we were running out of starters for the fire so we had Ivy & Munn Munn go out to buy some starters while we moved everything. I was still unsure how to get the fire started but I was determined to get this thing on the road. I was so embarrassed that I couldn't get the fire started and was pretty irritated that the cold weather there wasn't helping. Ivy & Munn Munn got back with some starters and some tips from a man selling roasted potatoes who had kindly provided them with some wood to help the fire start. With the information and wood, I started to try to get the fire working again. After some antics and about an hour or more later, we had fire. It finally began to work! I was so relieved that we finally got the fire started and that we finally were going to have the barbeque but I was still embarrassed it took me so long. The fun finally began, the girls were doing the cooking while we helped out and played the guitar and sang. Ah, the food was good. The girls did a great job :). By the time we decided to leave it was already way past midnight. We cleared the place up and then went back to our apartment.
We continued playing mahjong and the guitar. Again, I spent nearly all my time with the guitar. That was a truly fun night. I was happy I got the fire started and that we had a great time. It was fun to see everyone have so much fun even after such a tiring day. Ivy seemed to be showing the most emotion :). Well, by 4-ish, we decided that we should get some rest as the next day we would be going back to Bentong because the girls wanted to buy some things from there and we were going to have lunch/breakfast there. So we slept.
Here are some of the photos from the BBQ that night. The one with Bryan & I was funny, looked like we were having a moment. Hahaha.
Tuesday:
Woke up at about 8.30 in the morning to the sound of Dong's alarm. It was My Chemical Romance. I was like "what the fuck, not this and not at this time!" but yeah we had to get up. I was the last one to get ready (cos I just didn't want to get up haha). We took some photos and then we packed up and headed for Bentong. Again it was Bryan and I to one car and the rest in the other. We journeyed down the mountain towards the petrol station at the base of the mountain because Ivy wanted to refuel her car (and Bryan and I wanted to kene some Lassi!). Another fun-filled, interestingly conversed, 40-ish minute drive back to Bentong ensued.
In Bentong, we first went for lunch in this hawker stall which reminded me how some of Klang's hawker stalls looked like in the old days. It wasn't the most hygeine of places but it had that homely flavour. We had what Munn Munn was talking about since Sunday, some fishball noodle thingy. It was good. The prawns were big and fresh and there were like, 5-6 of them in each bowl! I actually gave my prawns away after having 2. The thing is that in Kay Elle, that bowl of noodles wouldn't have been that big, the prawns would have been smaller and been in larger portions and it would probably cost more than RM4.50 (can you believe it?!).
After a great meal, we went back to Bryan's place to return stuff and to rest for a bit. Kristy (Bryan's sister) suggested that we went to the waterfalls around the area and after saying our goodbyes to Bryan's family, we set off for the waterfalls. They were as expected, beautiful, but the waters seemed quite fierce and it was probably because of the rain yesterday. Munn Munn was the first to waddle into the water and Bryan, Dong & Ivy soon followed. I didn't want to follow suit because I was lazy to get out of my sneakers. The funniest thing happenned though, one of Bryan's sandals decided to take a trip down the river (haha). Poor fella had to hop across the tarmacked parking lot back to the car. After taking a few photos, we went back into town to let the girls buy some Bentong ginger (they said it was realy good, yech). After Bryan bought a new pair of sandals (haha), we decided to end the trip with some ice-cream from a famous shop in Bentong (Bryan told me they had Peanut Butter icecream and this had me smiling with glee since lunch). Having enjoyed that, we dropped Bryan back at his place and then we headed back for Kay Elle. The ride back was a bit more sleepy than the ride towards Bentong since we were tired but there were some bends on the freeway which had me at the edge of my seat because of the other stupid drivers around (Ivy was at the wheel, thus I was also worried since the poor girl was also tired). We reached Kay Elle in no time and were invited to have more "tong sui" in Munn Munn's place. After that refreshing drink, I was dropped off at an LRT station and I made my way home.
Monday woke me up at about 9-ish with the voices of Bryan & Zhi in a conversation of which I cannot remember the content. While I had slept, Ivy had gone to pick up her Aunt's Honda City, Zhi had come back to Ivy's from her place and Bryan took photos of me and Dong asleep (the freak!). After a shower, we were ready to set out for Bentong. The ride was a rather peaceful one for me at least but I pitied the four sitting in the backseat (they threw me in front anyway, being the largest one there). We were headed for Bryan's hometown in Bentong. After about an hour and more we reached our destination, the small town of Bentong.
It seemed rather homely, a simple town with nearly everything a person could need (except for a cinema and I didn't really see any cyber cafes). I repeat that the ride was safe and also entertaining as we had Bryan & Munn Munn to entertain us (Zhi still fell asleep anyways). On reaching Bryan's abode, I noted how calm the environment he was brought up in was. We met his homies and after a brief respite, we went for lunch. Even looking for lunch was entertaining as Bryan seemingly couldn't make his mind up on where to take us and when he did, the group sort of rejected the place and we had to actually get up and walk out of the restaurant (haha). He then took us to another place across town and since the group had announced their intent to eat "dai chao", he wanted to take us to places where he thought that we wouldn't be cheated (apparently the locals there wouldn't hesitate to make a killing when they noticed that we were from out of town). The second place we stopped at was actually serving something else and directed us to a place we had already passed along the way if we indeed wanted to eat "dai chao". We made our way there with Bryan already stressed with the worry that the group was getting frustrated. What really didn't help was the fact that the place we were directed to was closed on that exact day. There was a big sign in Chinese on the gate reading: "Taking a Break - 23rd April". Just our luck. Well, Bryan had no choice but to take us back to around where the first place was to a restaurant where we finally ate. We found out that Dong had never had "Nga Pou Ham Yu Fa Lam Pou" (Claypot Pork Belly & Salted Fish) before. The horror of deprivation! Anyway, it was then that the gang commented on my being very busy with the handphone because I had been in constant conversation with JoA since Sunday. Oh well, misunderstand if you want. I would offer an explanation but that would require them to believe it right? No matter.
After lunch, we stopped back at Bryan's place to rest a bit while some of the others went out to buy the stuff we needed for the barbeque. When they got back, all was set and we were ready and with supplies in hand, we headed up to Genting (which wasn't far away from Bentong). Dong & I were to follow Bryan's car while the girls stayed in Ivy's. After a comedy-laden trip uphill (and another bottle of that yoghurt drink which we referred to as Lassi anyway), we reached our second destination in the afternoon (at about 3-ish pm). We checked in, moved our stuff into the car and then we headed up to Genting, or so we thought we would. The initial plan was to drive to the cable car station and take the ride to the peak but that wouldn't happen because we found that the station was closed for repairs (of all the days to do so they chose our day!!). After a few wrong turns and a total of 4 trips around that Police check-stop on the way up to Genting, we decided to go back to our place and just relax while we waited for the night. When we would begin our barbeque. It was at this time that the bunch asked what happenned to me (because I told JoA that I'd talk to her later and we stopped messaging each other =.=).
At the place, the gang began playing mahjong again while Dong & I got back to the guitar. Soon, I began playing mahjong as well. At nightfall, we decided to start the fire up but since it had begun to rain, we thought that we'd do it on the balcony. After setting everything up, I began to notice how hard it was to start a fire. Yeah, I'd been camping before and I had a cousin who started charcoal fires all the time but I'd always only watched them start the fire so all I had was the theory behind how to start a fire. Putting that into practice was easier said than done because it seemed that I was the most experienced one with fires there. After about an odd half an hour of trying to get the fire to work, Bryan and Dong decided to go on down to see if it would be better to get the thing done in the BBQ pit which was provided and it was. While they were gone, the girls and I were still trying to get the fire started on the balcony. We had resorted to using the gas stoves to start the charcoal burning (sheesh) and it was actually working till Bryan & Shaun came back to say that we should go to the BBQ pit and that was when the gas stoves ran out of gas... Well, we moved everything down to the BBQ pit which was well sheltered from the rain but we were running out of starters for the fire so we had Ivy & Munn Munn go out to buy some starters while we moved everything. I was still unsure how to get the fire started but I was determined to get this thing on the road. I was so embarrassed that I couldn't get the fire started and was pretty irritated that the cold weather there wasn't helping. Ivy & Munn Munn got back with some starters and some tips from a man selling roasted potatoes who had kindly provided them with some wood to help the fire start. With the information and wood, I started to try to get the fire working again. After some antics and about an hour or more later, we had fire. It finally began to work! I was so relieved that we finally got the fire started and that we finally were going to have the barbeque but I was still embarrassed it took me so long. The fun finally began, the girls were doing the cooking while we helped out and played the guitar and sang. Ah, the food was good. The girls did a great job :). By the time we decided to leave it was already way past midnight. We cleared the place up and then went back to our apartment.
We continued playing mahjong and the guitar. Again, I spent nearly all my time with the guitar. That was a truly fun night. I was happy I got the fire started and that we had a great time. It was fun to see everyone have so much fun even after such a tiring day. Ivy seemed to be showing the most emotion :). Well, by 4-ish, we decided that we should get some rest as the next day we would be going back to Bentong because the girls wanted to buy some things from there and we were going to have lunch/breakfast there. So we slept.
Here are some of the photos from the BBQ that night. The one with Bryan & I was funny, looked like we were having a moment. Hahaha.
Tuesday:
Woke up at about 8.30 in the morning to the sound of Dong's alarm. It was My Chemical Romance. I was like "what the fuck, not this and not at this time!" but yeah we had to get up. I was the last one to get ready (cos I just didn't want to get up haha). We took some photos and then we packed up and headed for Bentong. Again it was Bryan and I to one car and the rest in the other. We journeyed down the mountain towards the petrol station at the base of the mountain because Ivy wanted to refuel her car (and Bryan and I wanted to kene some Lassi!). Another fun-filled, interestingly conversed, 40-ish minute drive back to Bentong ensued.
In Bentong, we first went for lunch in this hawker stall which reminded me how some of Klang's hawker stalls looked like in the old days. It wasn't the most hygeine of places but it had that homely flavour. We had what Munn Munn was talking about since Sunday, some fishball noodle thingy. It was good. The prawns were big and fresh and there were like, 5-6 of them in each bowl! I actually gave my prawns away after having 2. The thing is that in Kay Elle, that bowl of noodles wouldn't have been that big, the prawns would have been smaller and been in larger portions and it would probably cost more than RM4.50 (can you believe it?!).
After a great meal, we went back to Bryan's place to return stuff and to rest for a bit. Kristy (Bryan's sister) suggested that we went to the waterfalls around the area and after saying our goodbyes to Bryan's family, we set off for the waterfalls. They were as expected, beautiful, but the waters seemed quite fierce and it was probably because of the rain yesterday. Munn Munn was the first to waddle into the water and Bryan, Dong & Ivy soon followed. I didn't want to follow suit because I was lazy to get out of my sneakers. The funniest thing happenned though, one of Bryan's sandals decided to take a trip down the river (haha). Poor fella had to hop across the tarmacked parking lot back to the car. After taking a few photos, we went back into town to let the girls buy some Bentong ginger (they said it was realy good, yech). After Bryan bought a new pair of sandals (haha), we decided to end the trip with some ice-cream from a famous shop in Bentong (Bryan told me they had Peanut Butter icecream and this had me smiling with glee since lunch). Having enjoyed that, we dropped Bryan back at his place and then we headed back for Kay Elle. The ride back was a bit more sleepy than the ride towards Bentong since we were tired but there were some bends on the freeway which had me at the edge of my seat because of the other stupid drivers around (Ivy was at the wheel, thus I was also worried since the poor girl was also tired). We reached Kay Elle in no time and were invited to have more "tong sui" in Munn Munn's place. After that refreshing drink, I was dropped off at an LRT station and I made my way home.
Here are some of the photos we took before we left Genting and at the waterfall
I must say that I am grateful that I was invited along on this trip and that I had an excellent time with these people. It didn't really matter whether or not we went up to Genting or not because all the fun we had was the time we spent together. I really had a great time and I am looking forward to joining these people for another fun and funny trip someday.
Cheers to the whole lot of you :)
P.S. - This is my longest post :D!
Cheers to the whole lot of you :)
P.S. - This is my longest post :D!
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