Have you ever just sat and listened to the lyrics of some songs and then think how aptly it describes your current situation? Then you listen more and feel better because you think you're not the only person in a blue funk?
I think music is an incredible thing. I love how you react to certain songs at a particular moment in time depending on your mood. A picture may paint a thousand words but no amount of words can describe emotions as well as music can...
I'm feeling very Fall For You (Secondhand Serenade) today.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
My Dinner Made Me Guilty
I had a super dinner last night
Complete with some fine wine.
Peter went to bed hungry
Because a job he could not find.
I started with a large plate of soup
And a salad with crab meat.
John and his family were so poor
They ate the scabs off their feet.
Then came my main course
A steak done medium rare.
Mark sat around an empty table
For days, his cupboards bare.
For dessert I had ice cream
Together with a lucious chocolate cake.
Martha and her husband couldn't even afford
To buy any flour to bake.
These people will still be hungry tomorrow
I didn't think of them when i paid my bill.
But what i alone had eaten that night
All their stomachs i could fill...
Complete with some fine wine.
Peter went to bed hungry
Because a job he could not find.
I started with a large plate of soup
And a salad with crab meat.
John and his family were so poor
They ate the scabs off their feet.
Then came my main course
A steak done medium rare.
Mark sat around an empty table
For days, his cupboards bare.
For dessert I had ice cream
Together with a lucious chocolate cake.
Martha and her husband couldn't even afford
To buy any flour to bake.
These people will still be hungry tomorrow
I didn't think of them when i paid my bill.
But what i alone had eaten that night
All their stomachs i could fill...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
The Word
There're a very limited few words in the english vocabulary that can describe as much as the word fuck. I think there was an article written on this before so i hope i'm not plagiarizing.
Yesterday i was at the bar with a few friends watching the ManU-Birmingham game. One of them commented that Arse had beaten Everton 6-1 the night before. Not Arse fans, we naturally went "yea...we heard that score...oh fuck..." More like in resignation...
Subsequently after the game started, Birmingham nearly scored in the early stages and the non-manure fans around us went "OH FUCK!! How did that stay out???" It was in disbelief.
Then a minute later, manure nearly scored and we went "Oh fuck! That was a bit of luck!" This was in relief.
But then, the inevitable happened...manure scored..."OH FUCK!! I can't believe that went in like that!!" This time in anguish.
Then towards the end of the game, Birmingham nearly scored again so..."OH FUCK!! The keeper actually got a glove to that!!" In amazement.
This morning...I found out that Liverpool lost. "OH FUCK!! THEY LOST?!??" Bewilderment.
Then i read Rafa's comments that there should have been a penalty at the end. "Oh fuck...there he goes again with his excuses." Indignation.
And i do believe that this word is understood all over the world.
In Thailand while shopping "HOW MUCH?!? ARE YOU FUCKING CHEATING ME???"
In Egypt while on the streets "Stop harrassing me!! Fuck off!"
In Vietnam while learning how to cross the road from the locals "Whoa?? i have to do that?? Oh fuck..."
In England in a pub "Another pint?? Fuck yea!! Bring it on."
In America "Singapore is not in China you dumb fuck!"
In Iraq "Fuuuuuuuuck...incoming!!!!"
In Japan while enjoying sashimi "Aaaah fuck...this is nice." (also can be used in Thailand....)
So if ever you need to teach english to a foreign friend, this would be The Word to teach first. No single word can express itself so eloquently in so many forms.
Here's wishing you two a fucking great day. Hope none of those fuckers come bothering you today but if they do, i hope you fuck them up real good.
Yesterday i was at the bar with a few friends watching the ManU-Birmingham game. One of them commented that Arse had beaten Everton 6-1 the night before. Not Arse fans, we naturally went "yea...we heard that score...oh fuck..." More like in resignation...
Subsequently after the game started, Birmingham nearly scored in the early stages and the non-manure fans around us went "OH FUCK!! How did that stay out???" It was in disbelief.
Then a minute later, manure nearly scored and we went "Oh fuck! That was a bit of luck!" This was in relief.
But then, the inevitable happened...manure scored..."OH FUCK!! I can't believe that went in like that!!" This time in anguish.
Then towards the end of the game, Birmingham nearly scored again so..."OH FUCK!! The keeper actually got a glove to that!!" In amazement.
This morning...I found out that Liverpool lost. "OH FUCK!! THEY LOST?!??" Bewilderment.
Then i read Rafa's comments that there should have been a penalty at the end. "Oh fuck...there he goes again with his excuses." Indignation.
And i do believe that this word is understood all over the world.
In Thailand while shopping "HOW MUCH?!? ARE YOU FUCKING CHEATING ME???"
In Egypt while on the streets "Stop harrassing me!! Fuck off!"
In Vietnam while learning how to cross the road from the locals "Whoa?? i have to do that?? Oh fuck..."
In England in a pub "Another pint?? Fuck yea!! Bring it on."
In America "Singapore is not in China you dumb fuck!"
In Iraq "Fuuuuuuuuck...incoming!!!!"
In Japan while enjoying sashimi "Aaaah fuck...this is nice." (also can be used in Thailand....)
So if ever you need to teach english to a foreign friend, this would be The Word to teach first. No single word can express itself so eloquently in so many forms.
Here's wishing you two a fucking great day. Hope none of those fuckers come bothering you today but if they do, i hope you fuck them up real good.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Time and Kids
Ever felt like time has just evaporated? In the blink of an eye, another month is over. So much time has passed, so many things have changed and yet nothing has changed. I'm still sitting here as i have been for the past year. I've still got my old laptop, wearing the same clothes, staying in the same house, driving the same car, eating the same food. And yet...1 year has passed.
Adults used to tell me when i was a kid that i had to know where i wanted to go to in life. I had to chart my course. But of course i was too young to understand that. Even now, i find it difficult to know where i want to be in 5 or 10 years time. Shit, i dont even know where i want to go at 6pm later.
Don't you miss being a kid? It's funny how a kid wants to be a grown up...but when you're an adult, you yearn to be a kid. The grass is greener on the other side blah blah. I miss being a kid. I hated exams and homework and getting up at 6 in the morning that sort of thing but i still miss being a kid. Fun times...
Adults used to tell me when i was a kid that i had to know where i wanted to go to in life. I had to chart my course. But of course i was too young to understand that. Even now, i find it difficult to know where i want to be in 5 or 10 years time. Shit, i dont even know where i want to go at 6pm later.
Don't you miss being a kid? It's funny how a kid wants to be a grown up...but when you're an adult, you yearn to be a kid. The grass is greener on the other side blah blah. I miss being a kid. I hated exams and homework and getting up at 6 in the morning that sort of thing but i still miss being a kid. Fun times...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
ADFGAFAW
Yea...don't know what to put in the tite again...so i just decided to randomize it.
I got a comment from you in the previous post but i have no idea how to reply to that (my childhood days were spent catching grasshoppers and pouring salt on snails). Anyway i wanted to say that as far as i know, only the 2 of you are reading all this drivel that i'm putting up so everytime i mention 2 girls, you know who you are.
I'm hooked on this new PS3 game that i bought. And happily, Jo's discovered a website where she can watch all the korean serials she wants on her laptop. This is very very good because (a) I can play my game without Jo dancing in front of the TV. (b) i can play my game without Jo complaining that she's bored. (c) i can play my game without Jo trying to cover my eyes every 3 secs. (d) i can play my game without Jo blowing into my ear every 2 secs. (e) i can play my game without Jo asking me what I'm doing every 1 sec. (f) i can play my game without Jo using her teddy bear to tickle my nose. (g) We can delay buying a 2nd TV for the bedroom (save money)! But the late nights are getting to me...i'm now constantly tired in the day and the many cups of coffee aren't helping. I think i need to take it easy for a while. I'll start again tomorrow. Anyway i promised to go shopping with Jo tonight.
It's 5.40pm. Is it my clock or does the aircon no longer shut down at 6? It seems to shut down a little later everyday now...is it our management's sneaky way of getting us to work longer? By adding 1/2 min everyday, it'll be about 180 mins at the end of the year...so at this rate, one day we'll all be working till 9 and not even know it...cheeky bastards!
But in line with this devilish management plan, I've just had an idea...what if we move some schmuck's cubicle wall in by a little bit everyday? We keep making it smaller and smaller day by day until one day his arse gets stuck. The brilliant thing is if we do it gradual enough, he'll probably not notice at all. Great huh?!?
I got a comment from you in the previous post but i have no idea how to reply to that (my childhood days were spent catching grasshoppers and pouring salt on snails). Anyway i wanted to say that as far as i know, only the 2 of you are reading all this drivel that i'm putting up so everytime i mention 2 girls, you know who you are.
I'm hooked on this new PS3 game that i bought. And happily, Jo's discovered a website where she can watch all the korean serials she wants on her laptop. This is very very good because (a) I can play my game without Jo dancing in front of the TV. (b) i can play my game without Jo complaining that she's bored. (c) i can play my game without Jo trying to cover my eyes every 3 secs. (d) i can play my game without Jo blowing into my ear every 2 secs. (e) i can play my game without Jo asking me what I'm doing every 1 sec. (f) i can play my game without Jo using her teddy bear to tickle my nose. (g) We can delay buying a 2nd TV for the bedroom (save money)! But the late nights are getting to me...i'm now constantly tired in the day and the many cups of coffee aren't helping. I think i need to take it easy for a while. I'll start again tomorrow. Anyway i promised to go shopping with Jo tonight.
It's 5.40pm. Is it my clock or does the aircon no longer shut down at 6? It seems to shut down a little later everyday now...is it our management's sneaky way of getting us to work longer? By adding 1/2 min everyday, it'll be about 180 mins at the end of the year...so at this rate, one day we'll all be working till 9 and not even know it...cheeky bastards!
But in line with this devilish management plan, I've just had an idea...what if we move some schmuck's cubicle wall in by a little bit everyday? We keep making it smaller and smaller day by day until one day his arse gets stuck. The brilliant thing is if we do it gradual enough, he'll probably not notice at all. Great huh?!?
Monday, July 27, 2009
KL and the fooseball table
It's been a long time since i came here. Nearly forgot about this to be honest. There were tons of times when things happened that i really wanted to write about but have always been too damn lazy to get off my arse and get going. In fact, it took incredible will power to start this again but i realise that once i start, i really do enjoy this.
It's 7pm and i'm still here because Jo's still at work and i dont want to go to Millenia Walk and just do nothing. Oh sure there're loads of shops and other crap there but i don't shop. I usually end up waiting for her at the "shirt shop". I've stood in front of that shop countless times for countless hours and i still can't remember the name of the place. Aston something or other i think. I'll make it a point to remember this later when i take up my usual spot beside the poofy looking model on the poster.
We got a fooseball table in the office. Yea i know you 2 girls have talked about it already and i'm only just beginning. I'm sooo behind fashion aren't i? But the fooseball table has been a good source of entertainment and the harbringer of many late nights. Evil thing! I honestly cannot believe that i have spent hours after work playing that...but it is good fun. Michael is an absolute magician with those sticks. It is simply amazing the sort of things that he can make 11 men stuck together by the waist do. A pass here, a feint there, a shot from the centre striker, back pass, round the outside, shot from the left striker...it's just dazzling and his moves are just so quick and varied. You can never tell what he's going to do next which makes it all the more challenging when you defend against him.
I was in KL over the weekend and i still cannot get over how thoroughly disorganized that place can be. There was an overhead bridge that got cut in half by a railway track so it looked like this...---l---. I stared at it for a pretty long time wondering if that happened because the track simply had to pass through that route or by some manner of gross misjudgment, the builders just made it so and rather than spend money tearing it down again, decided to leave it as a landmark for tourists.
Yet amid all that higgledy piggledy mess, it was fun and lao jiat. People talking all sorts of languages from all sides. Grimy, sweaty bodies pushing you also from all sides. Motorbikes threatening to run you over even on the sidewalks, cars who don't seem to bother about red lights. Even the green man that tells you it's your turn to cross the road is running. I think the planners really know what they were doing when they decided to make the green man run instead of like our local green man which just doesnt seem to do shit except simulate walking. I had a good laugh at the running green man.
We had breakfast on Saturday in this quaint little coffeeshop in Brickfields which was just opposite our hotel in KL Sentral. I could see the place from my room although it took nearly 20 mins to walk there courtesy of a construction site right smack in between our origin and destination causing us to make a bigass detour. Food was awesome! I had a char kway teow and it had the right mix of MSG, sweat, rat poop, oil, ghee and nose shit. It even came with tiny shrimps and some egg. Naturally i forgot to tell them moi haam and it came with 7 of them...still red and raw. The coffee was also out of this world...dark, thick and damn sweet!
After that, we had a little walk around the area. The shops were beginning to open. The dentist beside the coffeeshop was opening his shutters...Doktor Gigi his sign said. I love their spelling. Yes, it is in malay but i love the way they spell it so it sounds english. In fact, i'm going to attempt finishing the rest of this post in Malglish. So fun!
Anyway...the purpose of our trip was to visit Jo's kousin who was celebrating her birthday. So we had lunch with her and the rest of the family at this hotel in the city. It was a dim sum lunch and again the food was quite stunning. We had 3 tables and i think her kousin must have ordered everything possible from the kitchen because the tables were, quite literally, overflowing with food. But because everything was so good, i didnt even know i was full until after that when i felt quite sick. Although i think the whisky we had didnt really help matters much.
After lunch, we went to the new mall for a walk. Pavillion, it's called. Spanking new place with your big brand shops. They were having some mega sale so everything was like 70% off. Naturally i got bored the instant we stepped into the mall and entertained myself by stoning everytime jo went to try something.
Dinner was at Green View Restoran in Petaling Jaya. Once again, we had top nosh. The winner was the tai haa sang meen. Some really monster prawn in krispy noodle with gravy. But the dish alone for 11 of us kost a whooping RM$200. I thought it was a bit overpriced konsidering that it was just 6 prawns (kut in half to become 12...bloody cheats...), noodles and gravy. But kost aside, it was a good dinner. After that, another kousin brought us to a nearby pub for a bit of a drink. This kousin is in the beverage industry and his kompany has got some shares in the pub so the range of beers there is quite outstanding. He was quite free in ordering and by the time we were done, i think we did nearly 50 bottles (i shit you not) and only 6 of us were drinking. Needless to say, i slept very well that night.
All in all...a very good weekend. Wonder where we can go to next. I'm can't wait already...
It's 7pm and i'm still here because Jo's still at work and i dont want to go to Millenia Walk and just do nothing. Oh sure there're loads of shops and other crap there but i don't shop. I usually end up waiting for her at the "shirt shop". I've stood in front of that shop countless times for countless hours and i still can't remember the name of the place. Aston something or other i think. I'll make it a point to remember this later when i take up my usual spot beside the poofy looking model on the poster.
We got a fooseball table in the office. Yea i know you 2 girls have talked about it already and i'm only just beginning. I'm sooo behind fashion aren't i? But the fooseball table has been a good source of entertainment and the harbringer of many late nights. Evil thing! I honestly cannot believe that i have spent hours after work playing that...but it is good fun. Michael is an absolute magician with those sticks. It is simply amazing the sort of things that he can make 11 men stuck together by the waist do. A pass here, a feint there, a shot from the centre striker, back pass, round the outside, shot from the left striker...it's just dazzling and his moves are just so quick and varied. You can never tell what he's going to do next which makes it all the more challenging when you defend against him.
I was in KL over the weekend and i still cannot get over how thoroughly disorganized that place can be. There was an overhead bridge that got cut in half by a railway track so it looked like this...---l---. I stared at it for a pretty long time wondering if that happened because the track simply had to pass through that route or by some manner of gross misjudgment, the builders just made it so and rather than spend money tearing it down again, decided to leave it as a landmark for tourists.
Yet amid all that higgledy piggledy mess, it was fun and lao jiat. People talking all sorts of languages from all sides. Grimy, sweaty bodies pushing you also from all sides. Motorbikes threatening to run you over even on the sidewalks, cars who don't seem to bother about red lights. Even the green man that tells you it's your turn to cross the road is running. I think the planners really know what they were doing when they decided to make the green man run instead of like our local green man which just doesnt seem to do shit except simulate walking. I had a good laugh at the running green man.
We had breakfast on Saturday in this quaint little coffeeshop in Brickfields which was just opposite our hotel in KL Sentral. I could see the place from my room although it took nearly 20 mins to walk there courtesy of a construction site right smack in between our origin and destination causing us to make a bigass detour. Food was awesome! I had a char kway teow and it had the right mix of MSG, sweat, rat poop, oil, ghee and nose shit. It even came with tiny shrimps and some egg. Naturally i forgot to tell them moi haam and it came with 7 of them...still red and raw. The coffee was also out of this world...dark, thick and damn sweet!
After that, we had a little walk around the area. The shops were beginning to open. The dentist beside the coffeeshop was opening his shutters...Doktor Gigi his sign said. I love their spelling. Yes, it is in malay but i love the way they spell it so it sounds english. In fact, i'm going to attempt finishing the rest of this post in Malglish. So fun!
Anyway...the purpose of our trip was to visit Jo's kousin who was celebrating her birthday. So we had lunch with her and the rest of the family at this hotel in the city. It was a dim sum lunch and again the food was quite stunning. We had 3 tables and i think her kousin must have ordered everything possible from the kitchen because the tables were, quite literally, overflowing with food. But because everything was so good, i didnt even know i was full until after that when i felt quite sick. Although i think the whisky we had didnt really help matters much.
After lunch, we went to the new mall for a walk. Pavillion, it's called. Spanking new place with your big brand shops. They were having some mega sale so everything was like 70% off. Naturally i got bored the instant we stepped into the mall and entertained myself by stoning everytime jo went to try something.
Dinner was at Green View Restoran in Petaling Jaya. Once again, we had top nosh. The winner was the tai haa sang meen. Some really monster prawn in krispy noodle with gravy. But the dish alone for 11 of us kost a whooping RM$200. I thought it was a bit overpriced konsidering that it was just 6 prawns (kut in half to become 12...bloody cheats...), noodles and gravy. But kost aside, it was a good dinner. After that, another kousin brought us to a nearby pub for a bit of a drink. This kousin is in the beverage industry and his kompany has got some shares in the pub so the range of beers there is quite outstanding. He was quite free in ordering and by the time we were done, i think we did nearly 50 bottles (i shit you not) and only 6 of us were drinking. Needless to say, i slept very well that night.
All in all...a very good weekend. Wonder where we can go to next. I'm can't wait already...
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