I had a lousy Chinese New Year. There had been SOME good parts and SOME people helped make it bearable for me , but other than that, it pretty much blew.
Hope everyone else had a much better holiday than I did.
This is thanks to a video I just watched, during which Najib answered questions that had been posed to him during a #tanyanajib Q&A session on Facebook and Twitter.
I suppose it's a relief to know that our nation's leader has a sense of humour, but it'd be even nicer if he did a video where he actually answers questions regarding our country's economy, politics and/or social condition. Serious issues, I mean. Without that, it would seem like the entire Q&A session was just a waste of time. Got everybody's hopes up for nothing too. =/
Of course, I wouldn't expect him to be like Mandela or Thatcher, but hey, it'd be nice to know that he cared enough to bother trying to answer the really serious and important questions. Just saying.
Or maybe, too many idiotic Malaysians asked stupid questions so he only got the chance to sift through the really dumb ones while the good ones got buried under all that brainless rubble.
Oh crap. My body's damn near failed me today. I really need to stop shortchanging myself in the sleep department. After having done only some simple workouts, I started seeing stars and felt like ralphing. Never happened before.
Even at dinner, while I was standing at the lok-lok truck, I started feeling the same sensations I felt during the last Skytrex outing, which was an epic failure btw. Especially since I just breezed through the obstacle course the first time around.
Anyway I started feeling woozy and all the blood rushed to my head. I could feel my ears start to go numb, as did my hands. Worse, I could feel a slight pain in my gut, although only God knows why or from what. Worst was when I could feel my legs start to go a little numb too, which usually meant that having jelly-like legs would soon follow. Damn, I should've just gone to sleep the moment I got home, but I was just too hungry lol.
And just in case you're wondering why I'm typing this sort of nonsense (again), it's in the vain hope of distracting myself from ranting about something. Even as I think about that particular something, I get all irritated and pissed off. I think I'll mull it over good and proper first, before actually writing about it because I have a tendency to be blunt; and my bluntness, paired with my choice of words more often than not offends people; and the people who will likely be offended by what I wish to rant about actually do drop by this blog from time to time.
All I can say is this: I really loathe how some of the girls of our generation have turned out to be. Which are mostly petty and overdramatic divas. Seriously, just because you act all prim and proper, with your hands folded in your lap and do your best to refrain from laughing when someone actually tells a funny joke doesn't mean you are oh-so-grown up and mature. It just kinda makes us think you're a stick in the mud and that you've possibly a stick up your arse. Seriously, you don't think your attempts to suppress EVERY emotion were super subtle, do you? I mean, it's not that hard to take notice of something (or rather, someone) who's behaving very oddly.
Pair that with the fact that deep down, you're actually a Gossip Girl-type through and through. You love drama. Deny it all you want but just because you think you're mature, you have the authority to dictate what drama is and isn't. Sorry, that's not quite how it works lar, little girl. You find faults with boys who approach you with sincerity and with their hearts in their hands. You say that their honesty and transparency takes the fun and/or suspense out of discovering each other in the future.
Grow up la kiddo. Stop watching so much TV. It only gives you crazy ideas and crazy ideals. Ideals that, by the way, can be easily acted out by someone who's insincere and after something else.
I initially reserved my criticisms and gave you some leeway because I thought that maybe it all boiled down to personal preferences. But the more I heard your side of story, the more I realized that your priorities are more than a little messed up. And that you guys are still young. For someone as young as myself to find you unbearably childish is saying a lot, trust me. What's worse is that you think nobody can see it.
Sigh, I've already said too much.
I will say this though: You are not as grown up as you think you are. Get real.
And to the person who I said this to this afternoon and the others who heard it, if you're reading this, the above are my reasons for having said that. I try to avoid talking out of my arse as much as I can okay, and it's not like I'm providing my support to the party whom I personally prefer. It's just that I'm so miffed that you girls find problems with every small thing the other guy does whereas you're incapable of taking a good look at yourselves.
I'm even willing to bet that you girls are impossible to please. Too much info, and you girls complain. Omit or withhold info, and you girls will complain too. And I'm even willing to bet that if you girls were to share something like this with my man's dad, you girls will be the one who will get the tongue-lashing because clearly, you've got some zany ideas in your head and your priorities when it comes to choosing a mate have been wrongly ordered. I tell you, you sure kena marah kau kau from him wan. Why? Because these are the kind of menial matters that a lot of failed relationships revolve around.
Again, I'm trying to avoid talking out of my arse. I heard you out and I heard him out, and clearly, you girls are the one with standards that belong on the sets of Beverly Hills 90210. And in case you haven't yet noticed, all those dramas you girls love so much revolve around tons of FAILED relationships. Shouldn't that already be a clue? Try and hear me out.
I don't want to put myself on a pedestal and seem more holier than thou, but you girls seriously make my blood boil sometimes. Why do you think your gang is almost entirely made up of people who cannot seem to hold down a relationship or even get one despite having tried hard? It sounds stereotypical, I know. I hate myself for using this as ammo but I honestly do think that that is huge clue right there.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Clearly you guys are not the kind who are in for the long haul. I'm sorely disappointed.
I apologize for having to tread on some toes and having to hurt some feelings here. I know I sound self-righteous. But I'm not going to bother trying to refute that or to try to alter your opinion of me because I have a feeling all that would be in vain — you girls are too prissy to consider what others have to contribute. Especially when it's something unfavourable of yourselves. So, think what you want. Plus, I'm not perfect and infallible anyway, so what I've just written may be moot, and you girls could be the rare exception to the rule.
But, if you can see and understand my points of view (although not necessarily accept them), then I'm glad. If you can't, then to each his own, good luck and godspeed.
3 months back I went to my hairdresser for a trim and since my ear piercings usually got in the way of his comb, I decided to take them off. But I left them on the table and completely forgot about them till I got home. By then it was around 9 p.m. and George's was surely already closed. I decided to forget about them and resigned to having to get new ones. Which meant that I'd have to spend almost 50 bucks to get them replaced. *sob*
I kept putting that off, and only two or three days later, my brother went and got his hair cut at George's. Even though I've never been to the salon with my brother and/or my mom, George somehow put two and two together through his separate conversations with us and managed to identify us as family. Impressive lol. Anyway, he passed my ear studs to my bro to be returned to me. I was very surprised he even kept them at all. I figured he'd throw them away and based on that assumption, I never actually bothered dropping by the salon to ask for them, even though it was just a short drive from my house.
Thus, I saved 50 bucks thanks to procrastination and a very helpful hairdresser. :D
Amazingly enough, I left a pair of earrings again just now at the salon. AGAIN. Sheesh.
Thankfully, my brother had coincidentally gone to get his haircut, too. He walked in 10 minutes after I did. I guess it's a good thing I got there first. If I had been any later, my brother would've got his hair cut before mine and wouldn't have been there to bring my earrings home for me (AGAIN) and those earrings might've been a lost cause.
Or, George might actually hold on to them till my next haircut hahah.
What a nice and uplifting start to the weekend. :D
But then again, I'm reminded of what a careless, forgetful and absent-minded person I am. Sigh. :(
The open verdict regarding the Teoh Beng Hock Inquest ruled that his death was neither a suicide nor a homicide.
Although I am very irritated and annoyed by this, I am really not at all surprised.
It is only in Malaysia that solid evidence that strongly suggests murderous intent be sidelined and not taken into account. It is only in Malaysia that blubbering buffoons that can barely pronounce their name be allowed to represent a party in court. It is only in Malaysia that that same blubbering buffoon would also be allowed to supposedly "cross-examine" a seasoned forensics professional in court by constantly interrupting her every statement and by rudely dissing her when the statements made aren't in his client's favour.
I'm not interested in politics. But this stinks to high heaven of the rotten stench of someone with connections who did not hesitate to ask to have some strings pulled.
What I'm interested in is knowing that there is still some form of justice in this country. A friend once told me that he was surprised this country hasn't fallen to the dogs yet.
I love Malaysia, but seriously, its citizens need to stop being treated like rednecks who will swallow everything that is dished out to them.
Especially when it comes to accounting for the death of a fellow citizen. I honestly don't expect that the mystery of Teoh's death will ever be completely unraveled. But at the very least, I'd like to know that should something like this ever happen again, our government's justice system would care enough to make more of an effort to get at the truth rather than stage an auction and sell the verdict to the highest bidder.
Even selling the verdict to the highest bidder might still be better. But to write him off just like that is akin to slapping his family members in their faces. To me, "neither a suicide nor a homicide" is the moral equivalent of, "We don't give a hoot. Next case."
Okay, so I suppose it isn't even injustice anymore. It seems more like indifference and apathy to me. Which could be worse.
But like I said, I'm not surprised. I had hopes of course, but no expectations whatsoever that justice would be served and that the guilty perpetrators, whoever they are, would get their just desserts. I mean, look at the facts: The prosecutors (Teoh's family), although being backed by pretty much the whole nation, had resources that would eventually run out. Seriously, would anybody dig into their pockets to contribute to Teoh's cause? Most of us would not. I, like most people, was of course interested and hopeful in seeing justice get served. But you know, at the end of the day, it's not something that my life revolves around, so... you get the picture. The defendants, on the other hand, is an organization. A governmental institution that has virtually unlimited resources to keep them alive and kicking in the courthouses for at least 30 years. In that sense, any opponent of someone with such a financial advantage is bound to concede, because they are capable of dragging out the case until the other party just runs dry financially.
It's lucky that Malaysians have some form of ADD because it's only a matter of time before something else controversial makes the headlines and hogs the limelight. Sad, isn't it? I could already see how the interests of the nation rapidly shifted from the Teoh Beng Hock case to the case of the two lawyers who were accused of murdering the cosmetics queen. Just like how interest shifted off the Altantuya case completely when the Teoh Beng Hock case came about.
It's no wonder Malaysia's more often than not regarded as a third world country by some. Some have not even heard of Malaysia. And I'm not even kidding or exaggerating on that one.
Something to (hopefully) make you laugh. Or smile, even if it's just for a little while. =)
They censored my favourite (and the funniest) bit, which is from 1:55 - 2:17, but here's the complete lyrics to the song. The part in yellow is the part that got censored. ;P
AFROMAN - BECAUSE I GOT HIGH
I was gonna clean my room until I got high I gonna get up and find the broom but then I got high my room is still messed up and I know why - cause I got high [repeat 3X]
I was gonna go to class before I got high I coulda cheated and I coulda passed but I got high I am taking it next semester and I know why - cause I got high [repeat 3X]
I was gonna go to work but then I got high I just got a new promotion but I got high now I'm selling dope and I know why - cause I got high [repeat 3X]
I was gonna go to court before I got high I was gonna pay my child support but then I got high they took my whole paycheck and I know why - cause I got high [repeat 3X]
I wasnt gonna run from the cops but I was high I was gonna pull right over and stop but I was high Now I am a paraplegic - because I got high [repeat 3X]
I was gonna pay my car note until I got high I was gonna gamble on the boat but then I got high now the tow truck is pulling away and I know why - because I got high [repeat 3X]
I was gonna make love to you but then I got high I was gonna eat yo pussy too but then I got high now I'm jacking off and I know why - cause I got high [repeat 3X]
I messed up my entire life because I got high I lost my kids and wife because I got high now I'm sleeping on the sidewalk and I know why - cause I got high [repeat 3X]
I'm gonna stop singing this song because I'm high I'm singing this whole thing wrong because I'm high and if I dont sell one copy I know why - cause I'm high [repeat 3X]
Have no idea what to write. Feel like ranting, but I guess I shouldn't ruin anybody's New Year. I could recount some funny coversations and/or moments I've had in the past few weeks, but that would be just boring.
Wow. I thought things would slow down after my semester ended, but boy was I wrong.
The night of the first day of my exams (4th Dec) was also the celebration for our 3rd anniversary.
The next night (5th Dec) was a celebratory dinner for my brother's birthday.
Two nights later (7th Dec), I attended Theng Chuen's wedding dinner.
Then, on Friday (10th Dec) was the last exam paper of my academic life (I hope).
Saturday night (11th Dec) was a baby shower for Frederick & Serene's newborn, Russell.
Then the next night (12th Dec) was a surprise birthday dinner for Bubu's new squeeze, Esther. That night itself I only managed to clock in a few hours of sleep before I had to wake up early the next morning (13th Dec) to start packing my stuff to be moved to the new house. Thank God the houses were only about 5 mins away from each other.
My mom stayed at the new house doing the cleaning, while me, my dad and bro did the heavy lifting to and from the houses. Sure made me feel like the second son my parents never had hahah. We were rushing about the whole day, and I was out at the supermarket in the evening running some errands when Jeremy called to tell me he was at the new house. I rushed home to let him in and found myself having to entertain some relatives who had come over to gawk at the new furnishings. And then I had to unload tons of stuff from the car (including a tray of eggs. Don't ask.), and set them up in the house. Then I had to quickly shower and get ready for dinner with three of my closest cousins to celebrate the homecoming of our wanderlust of a cousin Jane, who was home from the UK, post-graduation.
After dinner, they all came over to gawk at the new furnishings as well as check out my new room and didn't leave till almost midnight.
Later (18th Dec) I'm gonna need to head over to church to help with the cleaning and preparations for the coming Sunday Christmas luncheon, from 6pm-10pm.
Then on Sunday (19th Dec) is the actual Christmas luncheon itself, for which I would probably be at church for and serving from 8.30am till late afternoon. I wonder if there's gonna be a yumchar session at night.
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Wednesday (22nd Dec) will see me feasting at Essence, Sheraton Imperial KL. Since Mom gave me this voucher for a complimentary buffet dinner sometime back and it expires end of this month, I've no choice but to put it to good use. Do say hi if you're nearby hahaha. Oh, and it's the day Kevin's coming home too.
Thursday (23rd Dec) is the proposed date for a reunion dinner amongst my high school classmates. Though I most probably won't be joining them for dinner, I plan to join them for after-dinner drinks. Depending on what time church service ends. And depending on whether the plan actually materializes.
Oh and Aaron, it's not a once-in-a-decade meetup. We've been meeting up once a year at least lol. And we've only been out of high school for 5 years. Damn, I feel kinda old now. My parents sure make me think that...... Although, in retrospect, I finished high school when I was 16; started college almost immediately in my 17th year; and will still be 21 going on 22 when I graduate. Not too bad lar. I don't know why they're hassling me. Sheesh kebab.
Ironically, there are no plans for Christmas on Saturday (25th Dec). Although, we had been chatting earlier and depending on what the group consensus is, we might actually drive down to Sepang GoldCoast for a BBQ. And maybe go-karting, although the rates seem kinda steep.
And sometime during that week, which is next week, me and the cousins are probably gonna take Jane out again. This time Hao Wei suggested a whole day of hanging out at Sunway Giza. He's promised to bring me to Snowflake lol. And he said we could all yumchar and talk cock at Asia Cafe. As much as I love them, I don't even know if I have a whole day to offer them. >_<
I suggested a meetup (which will probably pan out) on the 27th or 29th, since Kevin's only back on the 22nd and it's usually family time for the first few days. Plus, Jeremy (Goh) has said that a meetup with Kevin Kang-kang once he's home will definitely be in the books. Although, he didn't say so in as many words lol. If he goes back on his word, I can easily find out where he lives and confront him. He's on foursquare. ;)
Although.... Bukit Beruntung is such a painful distance to have to drive. But I already miss him after hanging out with him the night of the wedding dinner. :(
Anyway. Bruce has said that we should organize a dinner at either Tak Fook (Desa Aman Puri) or DeFoodland (Taman Bukit Maluri) to satiate everyone's seasonal craving for crabs. Even Hao Wei has expressed an interest in going for a crab dinner. So that means two crab dinners with two separate groups of people.
Alan has suggested doing something before or after Christmas. Although he never said anything specific, I'm guessing it's got to do with eating.
And then Hao Wei told me just now we should make a trip down to Malacca sometime in January. This plan has been postponed and shelved since his return from the UK in August lol. I might have to drive separately, sigh. By myself too considering the number of people going and if my jantan doesn't want to take leave on a weekday to make the trip down with me. Anybody who wants to follow me and be my radio, please let me know. Seriously. Jeremy Goh, Ian, Kevin, Jia Hoong, anybody who's in town then...?
And either on the 8th or 15th Jan 2011, we'll be dining as a group at Westin. Again, this is to use up a voucher that entitles us to 50% off on the total bill, but the catch is that we have to have a minimum of 6 persons, and a maximum of 12.
If the Sepang Goldcoast thing doesn't pan out this Christmas, we would probably be making the trip down there on the 22nd of Jan 2011.
After that is Chinese New Year.
Sheesh kebab. Stress giler, trying to remember everything and keep the dates straight. Haha typing all this out helps me keep track of what the confirmed and/or tentative plans are by the way, in case you were wondering why I'm typing this out at all.
Oh and congratulations to Eric Ho & Karen Leong on the newborn baby boy! Haha if he had been born an hour or so earlier, the baby would've shared his poppa's birthday. Earlier, we were standing around outside the lobby after church when Sister Caren rushed up to us and asked if Jeremy had brought his phone cos she had forgotten hers. She needed Jeremy to call Eric, cos another church sister, a doctor, had strongly advised that Karen Leong be brought to the hospital first. Their overnight bag, which was at home, could be brought over later and since Karen's water had just broke, that was more urgent. But they had already left before the doctor said that and Caren urgently needed to pass the message along. So we were all standing there and Wei Hern said, "Hahah, Caren's calling Karen."
And then, "And then there's this Karen (me)."
LOL.
Eric texted Jeremy sometime past 1am to inform him it was a baby boy and that everyone was well. Congrats again, proud parents! It was just last Saturday that we were all at Russell's baby shower, watching their eldest, Rebecca, whine for a cupcake. :P
karen lim. am already 21! female. in case anyone told you any differently.
alternately hardworking and lazy.
can behave in a highly dysfunctional manner. or otherwise.
a tomboy at heart.
PMS-enabled. :)
