FRED-factor

Change of Habitat

2006-11-14T20:45:00.000+10:30

I have a new blog, decided to keep this one away, will leave it for a month for notification purposes before i delete it. New site will be here.

Childhood dream no. 4756190= Fulfilled

2006-06-23T21:42:00.000+09:30

You know when you are young, say, like 5-9 years old, kids that age often like to dream, it's as if dreaming is like part of their life. I, without a doubt, belong to one of those dreamy naive little souls. Still remember those days, where i dont really have my own toys but leftover treassures from my brother and sister, and due to the age gap between me and my siblings i wasnt really welcome when they are having their own fun with their more matured childplay. Therefore, out of desperation and maybe a slight blessing of creativity, both of my hands became my proxy superheroes...

One thing good about pure imagination is that, u can perceive anything and everything and a small pair of hands of mine will turned out to be the best looking superman and batman's toy.

Set aside those things, i used to dream alot, a whole lot more than now...
I have alot of weird childhood dreams, alot of unrealistic ones and some are reachable... Ever since i started my path along the human psychology and mind, i begin to look inward more and realize that some of those little dreams could really be something that i wanna do, and would really be something that i will be so proud of if i've done it, so.. i decided (around 18-19 years old) to try my best and fulfill each and every tangible childhood dreams i use to had that i can still remember.

For the past 2-3 years, i've completed some of those dreams, such as dressed up like a mafia for some occasion (my prom), snowboarding, picked up judo, started my weapon collection, became someone that's physically abnormal (i meant my blackhole-tummy and super high metabolism rate), jumped down from second storey (sorry, mom n dad, but i wasn't drunk, high, drugged or any sort, just wanted to try it out), and now.. finally, getting my hair braided..

FiNALLY!!!

Predator in the house!!

Rear view

oh.. my hair arent that long, 30-40% of what u see are extensions..

Aerial View

Seriously, it looks like shoelaces from up close.

19th of June, 2006, a day that i shall try to remember at least.. it's that memorable day that i finally got my hair braided. After much of research, calculation and contemplation, i finally went ahead and did it!!! Many people thought that i had this thought of getting my hair braided from the image of Bob Marley.. but actually.. the thing that inspired me for this was the show Predator. (Notice, my hairstyle is exactly like that alien-predator)

For anyone who's curious about the entire process, as in, what exactly is this, how exactly they do it? how do u feel? etc, i shall put down all those in here.. step by step..

First up, there are alot of different types of braiding, and this one in particular is what u called a single-plant braiding. It's different from cornrolls, double witted, micro-style, and etc. The whole idea of single plant, is to 1) pick up a strand of ur original hair (say 5 inches), 2) pick up a strand of hair extension (with the color u desire of course) with the length of 2.5x longer than that of 1), then 3) skillfully use the strand of extensions to 'wrap' up ur original strand of hair (it works like how u bandage a finger, starting from the first joint), 4) braid it and pull it tightly once in awhile, while braiding (it was freaking painful), 5) use a lighter or a burner to burn the end of the strand, and use a pair of scissors to trim the ends, 6) final touch by trimming the baby hairs ontop and side of ur scalp.

It might sounds simple, but it was one hell of a long procedure, it took the hairdresser a good old 8 hours and 7 minutes to finish a head with that length..
and now the question here, "is it painful?", oh HELL YEAH.. it's like having a good old 8 hrs and 7 mins of external head seizures.. everytime when Mary (the hairdresser from Cameroon) uses her strong fingers to pick up a strand of hairs of mine and tie a knot with the extensions, i felt like being phlunge by a dagger..
it was hell for the first 2-3 hrs.. but after that.. say what?

Anyway, it might be as painful as hell and so on.. but, at least i think it's really cool.. especially for an attention seeker like me (i would considered myself as mild in that case), and yeah, a completion of a childhood dream.

Clash of Events

2006-06-08T22:30:00.000+09:30

Just thought of taking a break from work, so here i am, blogging randomly (as i cant possibly think straight now)

8th of June, Thursday, it looks just like another usual day without any particular significance hiding beneath the calendar and metaphysics. To me, it isnt that random, as today's the birthday of my only blood related brother - Shiun. Yeap, it's true i m not that close with him now, i don't even have his MSN, and i hardly even talk to him since i am here, and he's back there in Malaysia. It's also true that, i often forgotten about his birthday for the past years, but for some strange reasons, not this year.

So, shiun, if you happen to bum by this site, happy birthday, and may your wishes become true in the near future.... (lol, that sounds a lil cheesy.. n i m not quite used to seeing myself like that)

Since I m far away here, i cant possibly get you anything as a present.. hence, i decided to write a little poem, and post it here.. (Since i m pretty lazy nowadays, and not being able to post so often at my poetic site - www.xanga.com/friedfred)

So, here it goes,

"Brother in Blood"

I stared at him with a youthful daze
Looking at him with an admiring gaze
Even though he'd only yell, “Get away!”
I’d still listen to everything he’d say

But as I grew older
One could say I got smarter
I started to fight back
No longer taking his crap

We began to drift apart
Yelling at each other was the morning start
Soon he taught me how to curse
So now I could give him my worse

I couldn't stand the sight of him
I wanted to tear him apart limb by limb
He embarrasses whenever he could
Sometimes I believe his torture will never end!

Sure, sometimes he has his moment
Mother would call it his atonement
That he was trying to protect me
But then he'd go back to tormenting me

I'd wait patiently for him to move away
University boarding where he'll stay
He’d pack up his things and to the airport
Smiling as he told me he’d go far

Now, it's my turn to go far away
His presence, empty from what used to be inside
I no longer scream all day
Instead I wonder why I feel this way

He was finally out of my life
His appearance no longer cutting me like a knife
So why is it, I look at pictures of me and him?
Is it really possible that I miss him?

Friends said I matured at last
But really not that fast
I said my brother realized this long ago
He learnt this more than I could know

This came as a shock as you can tell
My brother could act very well
But really now I knew
That inside, I loved him too

I hope that we could've seen the light
And have finally stopped the fight
We are siblings
And that’s how we'll stay on living

Hmm.. alright.. now aside from that.. today's also the eve of worldcup 2006, eve for the launch of new oceanic realm, Barthilas (PvP), the day i received my first 9/10 assignment at a postgrad level, the day i used to always forgotten.. well.. hopefully, not anymore...

P.S- Pray for me, to get a HD for my management framework.. i think i stand a chance for that..

Road to temporary freedom

2006-06-06T19:45:00.000+09:30

Just 2 mins ago, I was bumming at Roy's blog, reading his latest post, about this time of the year where everybody around you in the Uni are busy like worker bee trying to meet up its quota, mad like crazy professor attempting to transform a frog to a dog, worryng like a hamster inside its own cave waiting for the big fat cat to go away, and so on.

Here, i would like to quote my cousin bro a lil, "yes yes i know they are worried, but then i look at myself(yes me!)..im a student too! and what am i doing? -reading blogs and all non-exam related stuff from the infinite depths of the internet...", (See, 2006). I am feeling exactly the same like him.. the only few differences between me n him, n maybe other students is that,
first, I am a postgraduate student, hence, higher difficulty in terms of assessment n consequences to follow on. Second, I do not have exams, HOORAY!!!, but.. i have many many other major assignments in return. Third, although i have more flexible timeline for me to deal with my assessment, i very much prefer examination (i often score better in exams than major assignments). Fourth, i know that all of you would argue that "I also have assignments what, quite major also *insert ahbeng ah lian slang", well i agree on taht, but when i mentioned "major" here, i meant 3000 words n above, n mind you.. i have plenty of those. Fifth, most of the assignments are not structured, as in.. it's not instructed properly, it's free for all, as in, the lecturer allows you to do whatever you want as long as it;'s relevant to the course, n in return he/she will be 200% more strict on the marking, n nope, it's not a choice, it's compulsary for all of us to follow that "structure".. (where's my old sweet spoonfeeding method of education? lol)

Anyway, what i m trying to say here is that, yes, as usual, just like the normal me, i m as calm as mount everest (ignore the avalanche once in awhile) even though i m so much closer to the end of the semester. So, yeah, right now right here, i m announcing that i m officially in deep shit (not so much of literally), but metaphorically, yes i m pretty swarmed right now. Official count of words to crunch out before 24th of June = approximately 13-14k. Sighz.

Well, i m not completely unprepared n procrastinated this time, i have at least 3 skeletons for the assignments up n ready now, just waiting for me to go to the organ bank of knowledge n pick up the appropriate parts n pieces of flesh and bloods for my skeletons to be up n running. Now, it's easy to talk about it, but to actually enter deep down into my own library of thoughts n pick up stuffs n essences that are useful, that's something super difficult. The whole process involves, tons n tons of filtering, rearranging of materials (as i do not have a very good search engine in me), choosing, and finally producing something out of the gigantic library of nonsense in my mind.

I've always been good in drawing the outline of something, a skeleton of something, a framework of something, but i am not so much of a filler type. Since young, i always like to sketch, but when comes to coloring n the whole process of completing a drawing by enriching it with colors, i sux, n i often turn the whole masterpiece into junkiepiece (tho i m often lucky, accidentally won some drawing contests before, :P)
Maybe it's because of my personality, maybe it's because of my style of thinking, maybe it's because of my blood type, maybe it's because of my upbringing, i do not have an answer for that.. but yeah, i m a skeleton guy.

So now, tho i have some skeletons up already, i still need to dug up 13 thousands clusters of visual information that made out of horrible looking symbols/icons called alphabets.. Oh damn.. i hate romanic alphabets, n the words that consists of those things..

13k words more to go.. till i finally achieve my temporary freedom.. wish me luck man, i really need that.

Choice of Suprises

2006-06-03T21:54:00.000+09:30

Now, before i begin, i need to apologize for not updating my blog for awhile.. i wasnt busy (not too much), i m just plain lazy and out of ideas.

Alright, now let's the start the story telling. Earlier this week, on thursday night, few of us decided to throw a suprise birthday party thing for WeeSee, our taikache (big sister) here in Adelaide. Along with the initiative from the boyfriend (Annil), the pet younger brother (Andrew tan), the housemate (Patrick), and with the collaboration from our house n ashley's house, we decided to come up with something for her.

Due to the fact that, i wasnt the organiser, and i wasnt really know what's going on until like.. thursday evening (weesee's birthday is on the friday, 2nd of june), when Annil gave me a call n asked me to come up with some excuses. As, according to the plan, everybody is suppose to gather at my place, and I (i seriously had no idea on why i must be the one who did this) was suppose to come up with some witty, chitty lies or excuses to call her and bring her down to our place.

To come up with something to bring her down isnt something too difficult (well, i have confident in my ability in creating confusion and false information), however, not so easy this time, as Annil (the boyfriend) was forced to "piss" her off or some sort, due to the fact that he needs to seperate himself from her, and that leads to her complains of "not spending time" with her and so on, which also leads to her foul mood that night, which reflected n accurately reported to me from Andrew.

So, now.. if you were me, what kind of lies would you think of? in order to bring her down to my place? Not to mention that, she was so pissed that, she wanted to go out alone to the beach to release some tension n all..

Well.. eventually.. i came up with a few ideas, n i've consulted with all my housemates, and came down to 3 options: 1) Jason accidentally cut his finger while preparing supper and the wound is so deep that we have to send him to the hospital (and weesee is the only person around here who owns a car), 2) Mindy's ashtma gotten serious and need to rush to the hospital, and 3) Chiam got possessed by evil spirits n we need to do something.

Knowing me, with my bad desicion making capability n all.. i chose 3).

Nah.. just kidding.. i chose 1) instead. As, for so many months, Jason had constantly inflict minor damages n injuries to himself while putting himself in the kitchen, and he's one n only person in our house that are so injury prone. So, as any usual individual can deduct the possibility, the chances of him cutting himself till so bad is actually pretty pretty high, tho Ashley they all disagree with me (even Weesee disagree with me later on).

Oh well.. despite the disagreement on ideas, i somehow managed to pull that off.. n weesee finally arrived, n then.. i realized i made a miscalculation still.. As, she didnt want to get off the car, n insisted us to bring Jason to the car, which logically speaking, she's right. Ugly and incoherent, somehow, yet, we managed to convince her to come into the house first, with some lame excuses like Jason's trying to change or whatsoever, n the moment she come close to Jason's room door..

BOO~! We suprised her with our preparations n all.. what else.. lol.

Weesee the birthday girl.. er.. woman attempting to blow the candles

WeeSee cutting the "Magic" cake

Clockwise from right: Mindy, WeeSee, Me, Chiam & Jason (the injured)

Yeap, n so the party begins.. First up, we need to give some credits to Annil, who prepared some wonderful presents for WeeSee: a badly coordinated surprise party, something for bathing (cant remember what exactly), a child book, and a mysteriously wonderful birthday cake. Trust me, it's so wonderful that, people cant stopped praising him, and probing for the whereabout of the cake's origin. But oh well, he chose not to disclose, and i somehow guessed it right (as i confirmed it with WeeSee later).. muahahahahahaha.. but i wont tell you guys.. muahahahahaha..

p.s- i do accept bribery

Embodiment of Skill, Intelligence and Luck

2006-05-27T01:16:00.000+09:30

Mahjong (麻將)is a game for four players that originated in China, which part? god knows. It is a game of skill, intelligence, calculation and luck. Depending on the variation which is played, the amount of luck may vary from 20 to 80 percent (Personal estimation). In China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and other countries mahjong is ~~only~~
often used for gambling. The Chinese word 麻将 literally means "hemp general". In Cantonese an alternate writing, 麻雀, is more common (the same kanji are used in Japanese). In Cantonese this literally means "sparrow", while in Japanese it means "hemp sparrow", and is pronounced mā-jan.

The closest Western analogue is probably the card game gin rummy. Both games involve selecting or discarding units (tiles in one case, cards in the other) to score points by forming groups or runs of similar units. The game pieces (tiles) and scoring rules used in the game are slightly different depending on regional variations. The game play in general is very similar in all versions, as players compete to build sets including the highest point value.

The object of the game is to build complete suits (usually of threes) from either 13 or 16 tiles. The first person to achieve this goal is said to have won the game. The winning tile completes the set of either 14 or 17 tiles.

Hong Kong Mahjong or Cantonese Mahjong is the most common form of Mahjong, differing in minor scoring details with the Chinese Classical variety (Which is the style that i m more familiar with). However, due to the difficulty of understanding and availability of sufficient players, I am only able to play 3-players mahjong for now.

3-players mahjong or what commonly known as "sum-kah" mahjong, which literally means 3 players (duh..) It's very popular in Malaysia, and Singapore. In contrast to the classical china style, the popular hong kong style, and the technical taiwanese style, the sum-kah mahjong is fairly simple, as it only involves One suit instead of three. Normally, the Circle/button suit (tong zi) will be used instead of the bamboo suit (sok zi)or the character suit (man zi). And, the gameplay will continue on and on, regardless of the prevailing wind or the game wind, and 4 tiles of "Fei" literally means "Fly" in English, will be included in the setup and served as jokers.
Joker in mahjong means in can be subsitute as any tiles you would like it to be in order to complete your suit to achive the highest point possible with your current tiles.

Each player is dealt either 13 tiles for 13-tile variations. A turn involves a player's drawing of a tile from the wall (or draw pile) and then placing it in his hand. The player then discards a tile onto the table. This signals the end of his turn, prompting the player to the right to make his move. As a form of courtesy, each player is encouraged to announce loudly the name of the tile being discarded (seriously, make some noise). Many variations require that discarded tiles be placed in an orderly fashion in front of the player, while some require that these be placed face down.

Seriously, if i continue explaining the rules of the game, it will continue on and on and on.. As it has so much to learn, and what's the point of me explaining if you are not there to experience it practically? (in other words, i m not going to explain anymore for now)

Mahjong might be a gambling tool to many people, but to me, though it can be sometimes, but most of the time it's just a very exciting recreational game to me with many elements packed in it. Really, it's not so easy to win a game, even in a simplistic 3-players mahjong. Like i said before, it requires a certain amount of Skill, suffice knowledge and intelligence in this area, and Luck, in order to win a game.

And hopefully, my mates here in Adelaide, wont blame in the future if they somehow got stuck in this somewhat addictive "game". Well, as long as no money is involve.. i guess everything should be fine right?

Gender Equality

2006-05-24T23:37:00.000+09:30

Equalism is the name of many disjointed political philosophies developed separately by political activists. This includes people of Sexual/Gender Equalism in response to the failings they saw in certain branches of Feminism as well as people of Racial Equalism in response to the discriminatory elements of Affirmative Action (sounded pretty technical huh?)

Equalism is based upon the political assertion that all individuals must be equal before society, and that every person is deserving of equal protection from and by society. Aspect of society includes legal-rights, political-rights, civil-rights,
social acceptance of attire, behavior and thoughts, etc.

"Gender equity", "gender equality", "sexual equality", or gender egalitarianism is the belief in the equality of the gender or the sexes. Many followers of this philosophy would like to see this term come to replace “feminism” or “masculism,” when used to describe a belief in basic equal rights and opportunities for members of both sexes within legal, social, or corporate establishments. Ppl from this school have strong beliefs that opportunities are equal to both sexes, for whatever you do, think, and act. They strive for ultimate fairness, and seek cooperative solutions so as to make things better for both males, females and everything in between. While they may share a number of critiques and analyses with self-described feminists and/or masculists, they feel that “egalitarianism” is a better word for a belief in equality than any word that focuses on one of the genders.

To certain extend.. i really believe in this gender equality thing, i mean.. i don't think in extreme that it's a normal for a guy to crossdress n behave like a girl or a girl should act n live like a man or so.. but it is generally acceptable, and i think it's appropriate to allow that to happen, so long that it's not too extreme.

However.. some extremists often believe that, we as human, should sooner or later evolve or become more similar and to some extend.. identical to each other. That, is a school of philosohphy which, i may not, and will not agree with them. It's true that.. the world changed, especially the recent n the past century, so much so that it altered and opened up many traditional mindsets various cultures possesses, such as the typical "sexist" view, dominionology, top-down power distance, etc.

I believe in equality and unity, in terms of efforts, thoughts and essences in between, but not social engineering that would eliminate individuality. Let's just imagine that.. if somehow, one day.. all of us all think alike, likes the similar thing, eat the similar thing, works alike, etc.. woah.. that will just be a lil bit too much.

Do not know why i m in such a deep thought bout all these.. but oh well.. just thought of sharing it with you guys.

Now, back to the story with me being mistaken as a girl (yes, i m still not over with it), i had a chat with Sher, and according to her, i DID look like a girl from behind
(looking at the pic ler..) Well.. i do not wish to believe that, and so i kinda argue with her bout that fact, and she suggested that, why not i search online and look for pictures of girl's backs? and then compare it with that picture of mine. hmmm... with a lil bit of doubt in mind.. i continued n did a search on it after all.. and let's see what we got right here..

Let's compare this back of mine.. with what i've found off the net

i still think that it's quite manly looking for me (:P)

Comparison #1 - Jesse (a friend of mine)

Well, ignore the fact that she tied up her hair, i still think that the difference between the structure of our backs is quite huge. First up, it's the firmness of the shoulder and the back muscles, i meant, it's obvious that her back isnt firm and that's still a lil flabby (don't kill me if u see this). Second, the lil curve there down the waist line, i do not have that, and only females do.
Third, i don't have that t-shirt. hmm..well..

Let's move on..

Comparison #2 - Unknown internet poser (who doesnt like to show her face)

Now this.. she actually looks abit like guy from this view.. Seriously.. tho, you can still vaguely observe the waist line curves that's only applicable to female on her.. but like i said before.. it's fairly vague.. and yes, she has broad, firm, and thick shoulder.. looks like a pair of strong arms to me as well.. hmm.. i think she might be a he.. lol

Comparison #3 - Unknown nudist

Now, this woman here, clearly showed the obvious differences of a female back than to a guy's. First up, the shoulder blades aren't as broad and thick, second, links from the collar bones to the shoulders are normally just as the pic would suggest, not thick. Third, the obvious curve on the waist line which normally (more like 95% of the time) only possessed by females.

So, the conclusion is.. I am a lil confused, as to am I being too feminine nowadays (maybe because of my hair), or is the society began to change to such a manner that, many girls look like guy from the back, so that everyone confuses everybody?

P.S- not trying to be offensive here, so if you think that the above topic here is a lil sensitive, i apologize.. but yet again, it's mainly about my own doubts n thoughts.. so i don't think it will or should affect anybody else.

He? She? err.. Me?

2006-05-24T01:14:00.000+09:30

Today, it was an ordinary dull-as-usual day for me, or at least.. until 7pm. At 6pm, i was attending this mediation related talk, somewhere around Chinatown, suprisingly quite an interesting speaker, tho the speech was a lil bit too short (roughly 1 hr), and she had to cover too many things.. (tho i only paid for 2aud.. they shouldnt even charge us at first, as students.. @&!@$*)

Anyway, even so that the talk was quite satisfactory to my liking.. it wasn't good enough to hype me up in any sense.. However, it was what happened after then that provided me the inspiration for this post...

Alright, now to the main story.. So, right after the talk, before heading to Chinatown for dinner, I felt a sudden urgent signal from my urinal gland indicating to my brain that, my precious genitalia down there is enquiring for permission to detoxify by releasing unwanted toxins out of my body. With that in mind, i quickly look for the sign says ---> Toilet. As i pushed the door open, there was this t-junction, where to my right is the gents, and to the left is the ladies.. so, be in line with logic, ~~i chose the left, and risk my luck by being accused as a pervert or to just casually blend in as they sit, and i stand~~, I chose the right as i just wanted a quick solution for my relief. Without a doubt, i pushed open the door, went in.. selected an urinal stand (or whatever u called it), and just before i could pull down my zip.. I realized that there was this lady followed me into the gents..

And the next thing i know, she shouted, "Oh, goodness! I thought you are some lovely young lady!!", and she went off as swift as a shooting star (even before i could "unzip" my wish). And yes.. as you should understand by now.. i was once again being mistaken as a girl.. arghh...!! and the funniest part was.. she only realized it when she was few feets away from the urinal stands.. lol.. omg.. Do i really look like a girl from behind????

Do I?? DO I?? DOOOOooo AAAaaaIIIiiiii??

Is she really that blur? or is my back really that feminine? i might sounds a lil bit paranoid by now.. well.. Indeed i really am.. what if i really DO look like a girl from behind? and what if it is somehow attractive? (as i would intentionally assume from the term "lovely young lady", hoho), and what if some perverted uncle with the intends to kidnap "lovely youg lady" somehow mistaken me again? what if? what if???? Arrggghh...

Anyway.. here's the sample pic of how i look like from the rear

I do not, not 10% even.. look like a female from this angle

I am really curious as to.. why n how the lady could mistaken me as a "lovely young lady".. As, i had a denim-like jacket on at that time (so i should look bigger, bulkier, in other words, macho-ier) and i was carrying this army cammo decor backpack.. I don't see from a logical perspective that.. which part of my body is showing the sign of feminity.. and directly or indirectly inferred to her that.. "i = lovely young lady"

My gosh.. well.. as suggested by one of my friends.. i could see that statement and the occurrence of the incident as a compliment (?? huh?) As according to her, it shows that at least i have the metrosexual side of me.. backview only at least.. lol.. my gosh..
that sounded abit wrong.. Additionally, according to Adrian (2006), "haha yea...u dun look like a chick from behind...soli to break it to u", well.. dont feel sorry for me.. i still think i could somehow view it as a good thing.. well at least.. i had a good time laughing bout it.. and spent a lil bit more time on analyzing my appearance (from the back)

How I met Your Mother

2006-05-21T21:53:00.000+09:30

A corny line like that might sounds ridiculous and awful, and would probably never be said it out loud from a mouth of a Asian father or any conservative minded dad..
Corny? Cheesy? Funny? Meaningful? well hell yeah.. As many of you who havent gotten married yet or going to, would you or will you ever spend time telling the stories of how you and your partner got together to your offsprings? Would you? Will you? (well, i understand here that some of you prefer not having kids, but the question here is, hypothetically, IF you have children)

Personally, i love kids, i like seeing them slugging around with their innocent little figure and charming pair of eyes. And so, i believe that i m gonna have kids when i m commited and stuffs like that.. So, when they grown one day.. maybe during their mid teenage life.. around 14-16 let say.. and let's just assume that if i have 2 kids, 1 boy 1 girl.. would i one day, ~~forcefully~~ happily gather them around down in the living hall, without the presence of the mother, sit down calmly and share with them the stories about how i patch up with this wonderful angel that then gave birth to them?

Well.. it's rather awkward thinking bout stuffs like that.. n trust me.. i m not being desperate or horny at the moment or.. being psychotic about the commitment thing or whatever..i m enjoying being single right now.. (disclaimer: uh hmm uh hmm, I am still single and available *insert charming smile and the spark on my teeth). So, till now.. many of you would ask.. what the hell is wrong with me? the answer for that question is simple, I am all crazy bout this american made high tech visual simulation feat, a.k.a a sitcome with continuing storylines, namely "how I met your mother".

**Spoiler-free, so you do not need to skip this blog if you decided to watch it later (you need to download tho, or so i heard they are showing it in Melbourne TV)

"How I Met Your Mother" (2005) is a comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future, 2030, about how Ted decided to share his love stories with his children (1 boy, 1 girl). It all starts when Ted's best friend, Marshall (Jason Segal), drops the bombshell that he's going to propose (engagement only) to his long-time girlfriend, Lily (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted realizes that he had better get a move on if he too hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest is Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), a friend with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women. When Ted meets Robin (Cobie Smulders), he's sure it's love at first sight, but destiny may have something else in store.

Ted, remarkably a typical blur type man with a humorous but persistent attitude towards love.. and obviously he possessed skills of telling stories that hook you right on.. Gosh.. i cant believe i finished 22 episodes of this story telling thing.. It would be cliche and most of the time boring for a man to share his love experiences and whatever.. but hey, after 22 epds (roughly 25 mins per epd, 25x22= 550 mins, = 9 hrs and 10 minutes) of storying telling.. i m still with him!! this shows that how good this serie is.. As some of you might know that... i m not a big fan of this kinda sitcom or whatever series thing.. (cept for anime) but this one is simply a killer.. (thanks mindy for suggesting this up, and jason for downloading it using our cap.. )

This serie simply rox, as it pre-packed with on-going intellectual jokes, alongside with remarkably classic lame jokes, and cleverly crafted plots and screenplays. It's without a doubt that this serie is kinda starting to have a lil bit of influence of my life.. not so much of life changing.. but a shift bit of usage of slogans, tagwords or metaphors.. like, "this is Leeeggeeennddarrrryyyyyy.."

Moreso, it's quite educational in a way that.. the serie also included many hilarious way of picking up girls.. (Mostly invented by Barney in the show) tho most of the time the strategies wont work.. but it's kinda fun if you actually have the chance to try it on somebody.. haha.. well.. for some strange reason.. i kinda feel like this Barney character in the show, to some extend shared the similar channel of jokes with me.. well.. wee fairbit.. at least the lameo part.. and his tendency to challenge something stupid and dareable (is there such a word? oh well i can just made it up)

Anyway, to sum up.. this is a good show to catch up whenever you can.. it helps in releasing stress, and hell yeah it's funny.. oh and yea, it's still on-going.. as they've just recently released epd 22 on 15th of may or something.. so.. yeah.. still few more to go.. i suppose..

oh well.. signing off now..

Throw or to be thrown

2006-05-13T23:44:00.000+09:30

Yesterday i had my very first chance to put on my yellow belt upon my judo uniform, well.. really, it feels good somehow.. it's like i've achieve something.. tho it's not that great in practical, but, hell yeah, i felt good.

3 of us (yellow belters) had our chance to free practice around, and pick up new skills for our orange belt throws. The whole process of cracking on how to put it right and apply it on the right situation really excites me. As, from this point onwards, most of the techniques are going to be more technical and it requires instantaneous reflexes. According to my master, the techniques might looks complicated and strange when you first acquired the knowledge about it, but with practice and accumulation of observation and experience, it became more fluent, smooth, and the ultimate goal of judo is to make everything sharper, simpler, and shorter (as in time to react).

Seemingly, i sensed a deep meaning lurked right beneath the principle of the martial art, and it's similar to how we live our lives. We do complicate things when it's uneccesary, and it became a habit or a standard reaction, as we progress along our lives with everyone behaving in a similar matter. I've also learned from Judo that, things that are similar, arent neccesarily the same, with just a fraction of differences, it could results in the direction of the outcome.

Moreso, outcomes of any consequences, cant be limited to just as simple as "win, lose, or draw", there are many other possibilities other than the ones that we normally perceived it as "usual" possibilities. There are times that, the outcome might turned out to be a stagnant state, a mixture of elements (complex combination of win-lose-draw situation), redirection of issues, etc.

Since, everything possessed the possibilities to be anything, the basic principle of securing your desire or your need, is to tackle basics of the circumstances. Say, if you view the obstacles in your life as the opponent you face in judo, the first thing you must bring with you, is the courage and will to face it. Next, with the mind of clear concentration, hold firm to your ground, understand your goals/needs, and break its balance. Obstruct the obstacles, by making yourself more flexible and solid in approaching. And, when the opponent is caught off-balance, step in, apply on the knowledge that has already been passed to you, and finish it off. Once the result is announce, step up, and be ready for the next match.

Unlike judo, Time wont stop, and there's not time to waste.

Experiment done!

2006-05-11T18:52:00.000+09:30

Well, as most of you would remember, i've posted something about this experiment,
and today, i've finally done it..

Trust me not, it's not really quite an easy way of earning money.. what i did was.. just to sit down there.. getting poke by the nurse with a nasogastric feeding tube, been fed with some amino acid, giving out my blood sample every 15-30 mins, and stand in front of the x-ray.. every now n then.. n with that.. i've earned 90aud for spending 5 hrs like that..

Aside from the money factor, and how easy it was, i had a weird feeling and impression towards the nasogastric tube feeding process.. it's really weird.. it's not as painful as it seems... Now, allow me to illustrate it, step by step:

1) the nurse will ask you, "which hole do you prefer?" (as in nostril hole ler.. tho it sounded really really wrong)
2) after your decision on which hole to be invaded/violated by the tube, the nurse will then spray some anticeptic into that nostril.. (woah.. it was as bitter as hell.. but it really helps unblocking the whole track.. n kinda cooling too)
3) then, here comes the culprit to the violation of my nostril hole, the nasogastric tube will be taken out by the nurse, with some lubricant applied on it.. and slowly.. the nurse will then stuck the tube into your nostril, once she found the correct pathway.. she will just push it in.. (woah.. trust me, the feeling of it going down like that, isnt good at all.. especially for guys.. as i could feel the tube like rubbing through my throat and touching my adam's apple, and whenever i swallow my saliva, it tickles..)
4) After the installation of the track, here comes the invasion of another form.. the nurse will then pump in the amino acid that has been labelled with minor levels of radioactivity, right into your stomach thru the tube.. (the feeling is again.. pretty strange to me.. it's like without the whole process of tasting, chewing, munching and swallowing, you felt something cold in your stomach.. and awhile later.. you are feeling rather full, as they freaking poured in like 600ml of liquids; *i had to fast the day before, after 10pm, therefore the feeling is pretty much intermediate)
5)Now, the fun part.. taking the tube out.. the process of removing it out of your body is way easier than putting it in, and strangely.. i had a rather strange but hysteric feeling bout it.. dunno why.. and it's kinda ticklish too..

You guys should try the nasogastric feeding method one day too.. it's not pleasurable but.. it's something worth trying.. haha.. maybe it's just me.. If you ask me, the most killer part about this experiment, is the boredom and the amount of blood they want from me.. As in, i freaking stayed there for 5 hrs.. without doing anything constructive.. other than taking in fatty acids and giving out blood... (at least 500-600ml equivalent) Though, they did serve me food later.. i still think i lost way too much blood in that way.. i believe could sell my blood ( O negative btw, if some of you do not know) in blackmarket for higher price if i try..

I had to stuck with that thing for like 5 hrs tho..

Additionally, while standing there and being scanned by the xray.. i could see the structure of my stomach and intestines.. and according to the researcher and the comparison between the size of my stomach and another indian guy who was also there for the experiment.. i really do have a larger stomach as compare to the normal stomach:body mass ratio. Imagine this, if my body mass is M size, instead of possessing a stomach with the size M, i have a XL stomach.. which is not normal but not yet a disorder.. lol.. In my mind, i have this picture of a wira with truck equivalent fuel consumption rate.. hmmm.... that's not quite a good thing isnt it?

New Look Installed

2006-05-08T21:06:00.000+09:30

Chang chang chang chang *insert sound effects of gong and cymbals... After so long, finally i've decided to spend some time and invest onto the rebirth of my blog.. alongside with the introduction of a new look. First impression might not be everything, but indeed it is still an important factor in determining many desirable outcomes. Not to mention that the previous appearance of my blog was not just unpleasant but falty with errors and SPAMS... It's pretty irritating yes.. and i realized that color schemes such as light brown-orange are no longer what i fancied, hence the result of my new look..

After my decision to make something new from scratch, i sat down there for at least 40 mins.. surfing around just to scavenge for ideas, and see what i could gather and form up my latest finding. While i was in the stage of "meditation", many color schemes has come across my mind.. and atlast.. i decided to resort back to the beginning of entity - Darkness. Oh well, at least that's what i believe (that everything starts from nothing). Hence, the current skin is black-ish alligned.

I do not think this is a perfect outlook, my blog should have.. but oh well, at least it's good enuff to represent me for the time being. And question to all of you who happened to bum by and decided to have a go on this post, What do you think about the Pic attached at the top of blog (the header)? What do you think that is?

It's kind of abstract alright, but at least it's original.

I was thinking of using other pics,

Best recreation game you could have in Adelaide (Location: My house)

Using an inset picture like that, along with cliche themes like "Life is Gambling", "Just another bet", was my initial idea for the new look. Hmm.. but oh well.. i would rather try not to shape it that way, for now, maybe next time.

Anyway, hope you guys enjoy the new look, and keep the comment up, so that i know what and where i shall improve on.

Art of Genital Origami

2006-05-07T12:19:00.000+09:30

Yes, you heard me right, it's "genital" origami but not generic, general or whatever that's similar to the spelling of it. Genital Origami or namely "Puppetry of the Penis" is a performance show that first started in 1997 as a live show by Simon Morley and David "Friendy" Friend (they are both Australians). The theatrical contortion of the male genitalia (penis, scrotum and testicles) into various positions along with comedic narration has since spread internationally. It is humorously called "genital origami" referring to the flexibility of the human penis. Some of their tricks require an uncircumcised penis, others do not (at least that's what i think, so, sorry to all the "clean" ppl out there, you cant practice those). They are indeed famous, and has shows running around the world, EU, US, NZ, AUS, etc.. (but will never be allowed to perform in malaysia, trust me).

the infamous penis puppeteers - Simon and Friendy

Now, why am i suddently so engrossed into this penis contortion thinggy? Is it because of my utter curiosity and attitude to challenge n therefore a challenge as such?
A: Because i've just came back from their live show yesterday night (80+ minutes of breathtaking performance) and so, i thought of promoting them a lil bit.. and i assure you i WILL not risk any part of my genitalia just to perform dick tricks like they did.

Right, this is actually the second time i've been to their show, last year around july, i've witnessed it for the first time together with my mate, Ric, Nicole and Boon, the incredible art of genital contortion. This year round, because of peer pressure and such.. i decided to revisit the 8th.. hmm.. no.. 8th and 9th wonders of the world once more, and of course with the intention of releasing distresses and pressures that has been poured onto me due to assignment and other tensions.

Evidently, i went with 6 other anxious human beings who has high curiousity towards penises that could transform into unthinkable shapes or performing acts that are theoritically impossible. I would not include their names, as it might be shameful to them or whatever, but oh well.. it was En Nick, Ashley who bought the tickets online, Sook Yee and yen Yen then decided to tag along.. with Andrew cheong misteriously involved together and jason to conform and participate along the way.

Well, with little hesitation.. i decided to go again.. tho it cost me 30 bloody aussie dollar to watch 2 penises morphing around.. and that's what i thought before the show.. coz i thought i would witnessed again many familiar features.. however.. seriously.. however.. they included so much new tricks that are so amusing and also.. not to mention the supporting act that tag along before the 2 birdman's performance - Anna Hoffman, she did quite a good job setting up the mood and appetite (alright maybe that's not the right word). With all those installation that they have constructed for me.. i felt that the money is well spent.

As, we cant possibly witness anything similar to that in malaysia.. and why not treat it as an once (twice for me) in a lifetime experience?? Well.. i shouldnt spoil you much bout the show.. by disclosing too much or what they will do in their show.. that will reduce expectation and the effect of surprise when you actually see it "live" and "alive". However.. there are few things that i could spare..

Rule #1 - if you have offensive feelings towards extreme exposure of male genitalia, don't go, or prepared to get brainwash and have a good laugh at it everytime you sees it in the future

Rule #2 - treat it as some kind of abstract art or something.. but rather not like a freak show

Rule #3- try not to be too serious bout the matter that 2 guys getting naked and swing their thinggys around, it's part of their job, their profession, and their "pride"

Rule #4- DO NOT try those at home, unless you have proper guidance such as the DVD or the guide book they sell (yes, they somehow managed to find a publisher to publish it)

Rule #5- DO NOT push it too hard, if you somehow decided to practice it, and "ladies!! Ask permission first!" (Friendy, 2006)

Those are the rules that i've made up.. not for myself! Trust me not.. i might try out some of those..but with the objective of not spoiling anything with priority...

Now, here's some teasers you can watch yourself, click here, and... remember ah.. mature content ah.. so if you are really under 18, must ask mummy and daddy first ah.. and dont share it with your lil siblings or so ah... you dont want them to play with their own and something gone wrong..

Alright one last push.. as their promotion.. imagine this.. (guys only).. have you ever imagine that.. you could make yoda from starwars out of your penis? well.. if you dont, they could!!

The elixir to Alcohol Immunity

2006-05-04T15:52:00.000+09:30

Once upon a time in India, there was this Raja who's almost perfect as a ruler, from man management to physical attributes to political abilities. In one words, he's almost god, so perfect, however, there's one thing where he can never perform well.. which is Alcohol drinking!

O' what a disgrace! for an Indian raja to be alcohol intolerant, it's like a cultural insult to his fellow citizens when the issue is raise. It has also been a bother for him ever since he was young, even a small sip of a diluted beer could grove him down and send him to dreamlands. Every day every night, he prays to the god the almighty, that one day he would overcome this "sickness" and be able to drink together with his fellowmen.

As a King, he has been spending much man power to look for solution, from witchdoctor to ancient shamans, from western medication to eastern herbalism, everything, practically everything he could laid his hands on.. still no effect.. and there he was a sad king for a very long time.

One day, a merchant along with a foreign ship from the south east, docked at the land that ruled by the Raja, and the story of raja's problem spreaded to his ears. With confidence, he went back to the ship he came with, grabbed a lil small bottle, and walk straight to the palace. He claims that he has a solution to solve the Raja's misery. The Raja promises him to grant his wish of setting up a business in his homeland and unlimited on-going supplies of dead crocodiles. With the deal done, he then revealed his thrump card, namely, "the Elixir of Alcohol Immunity" he claims. Without a doubt, the Raja drank it down in one shot. IT WAS HORRIBLE, MORE BITTERISH than anything you could imagine. The Raja was angry and thought that the merchant has cheated him to drink such POISON. Just before he could launch his assault on him, the merchant said,"my lord, you have been baptised by the god of Alcoholism, with the elixir that i brought from, before you kill me, why don't you try to drink now and see whether it has taken effect or not?" The king stumbled for a moment.. and decided to trust his words for once, and after a few bottles of todi, he laughed and cried to joy, as he said, "i've evolved!! I can DRINK!!"

With that, the merchant won himself a small lil brewery back in his hometown, with unlimited supplies of dead crocodiles.

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Hmmm, so, what have we learn here from the story?
~~A: The story is definitely fabricated, because all indians can drink~~
A: The author of this blog has definitelty some ideas to what extend the elixir or some sort is existing.

Yes, to tell all of you the truth, i've heard of the elixir, know how to get it, and personally tested and being baptized by it before.. don't believe? See it for yourself *point below

The infamous BUAYA

With such wonderful beverage, you must have such "wonderful" model chick for it

It's up to you to believe in me or not.. but seriously this shit here, possessed almost similar ability to the elixir i mentioned before. After drinking this crocodile thing.. or Likeur Merah (wtf) back in January, i realized that my alcohol tolerance has been raised significantly. So much so that it became a bother, a problem, as i now need 4x more alcohol i used to drink in order to get just the hang of it.. WHY!!???

Alright, now back to the story on how this miserable bottle of "elixir" appears to me in my life. bout mid january, while i was on a food tour together with jason, joel and julian (the 3 gay Js, or so i claims) across west coast penisular, i saw this beverage located at the bottom left corner of a rack in a liquor store somewhere in Ipoh downtown. The cheapo packaging and weird designs caught my attention, along with the super cheap price - rm3!! So since i was on holiday and suppose to have fun, i bought it, and decided to test it out with the rest. Back at Jason's house in Ipoh, after finishing one whole salted chicken (yim kuk kai), i decided to open it now n try.. i was the first one to try and the only one who finish it off later.. For the first sip.. it taste very much like poison (tho i never really tasted one before.. but oh well), n it smells just like thinner, oh what a grave first impression. I let each of them take a sip.. and all of them returned with one conclusion, "WTF was that?" "Is it even drinkable?" Yes, it is i can assure you, as due to my upmost curiosity and the attitude to challenge everything challengeable, i accepted a bet suggested by either joel or julian, which is to finish the remaining of the "buaya", and if i could, i will earn myself an extra rm50 for my foodtrip budget. And so i accepted the bet, finish it in 2 mins (with video documentation)and from that point onwards, it changes my entire life.

The drink itself is definitely dodgy, with the bottle being a recycled carlsberg bottle and with a V.S.O.P bottle cap...

see!! V.S.O.P bottle cap, LMAO!!

Everything bout the drink might be dodgy, but the effect of it after the consumption is not. Though i acted way hyper right after the drink, but it only affected my body but not my mind,i was still sane. (very, in fact)

Anyway, to sum it up, if you have that kind of tendency to boast to your peers on how much you can drink, down, gobble, sip, suck, watever but in actual fact you cant, "Crocodile- Likeur Merah" or commonly known as Buaya the drink is your one and only solution.

*buaya can be found in dodgy shops in Ipoh, Penang and Kampung Kampung area, i think. It's only rm3. And it has been proven that, it's not fatal, tho the aftereffect of it might turn you into half of a mutant.

My latest stress buster

2006-05-02T20:47:00.000+09:30

Judo (柔道) is a martial art, sport, and philosophy originated in Japan. Judo was developed from "Jujutsu" - a more brutal form of japanese martial, and was founded by Dr. Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎) in 1882. The sport became the model of the modern Japanese martial arts, and detached themselves from the old school that often included cruel and vulgar moves.

Judo literally means "the gentle way", or "the method of giving way", and may also be defined as "the way of suppleness", "the way of flexibility, or "the way of adaptability". To English speakers, Judo and Jujutsu would mean "the easy way", as in the easiest way to accomplish something, or in martial arts' term, an easy way of denfending yourself. Similar to taichi (if you were to use it for self-defense),
Judo follows the principle of using one's opponent's strength against him/herself and adapting well to changing circumstances.For example, if the attacker was to push against his opponent he would find his opponent stepping to the side and allowing (usually with the aid of a foot to trip him up) his momentum to throw him forwards (the inverse being true for pulling). as it would be my major weapon in the future.)

Ever since i was young, possibly due to the influence of a japanese manga that plotted mainly on Judo and the life of a judoka, i've always wanted to pick it up. Unfortunately, i couldnt get the opportunity to pursue it while i was still in Malaysia, nonetheless.. at i least i finally started now.

I've started judo since.. mid february.. been going for classes once a week, 2 hrs every session. And I am happy that other than myself.. there are also many ppl that share the same interest as me.. including Adrian, my mate from HELP as well, and many others that i've just starting to make friends with. It's fun that, when you have a master that keep shuffling you around and provides you the most interactive and practical experience during the session instead of just pushing you to work on your basic or physical exercises for too long (tho those things are also important..)

So far, i've learnt quite abit both of the fielding techniques which mainly consists of throwing, sweeping, tripping, and combination of all the above and grounding techniques like different ways of pinning, scaffholding, strangling, and bodyweight shifting. It has been great since i had the chance to randori (friendly sparring) with ppl from different weight class, ranging from 11-12 yrs old small boy n small girl (one of my masters' daughter and son, well it looks really wrong when i was practicing my grounding works on the small girl... no matter what i was trying to pull out on.. :P), to girls from bout 45kg-over 100kg (that was a killer one.. she really shifted all her weight onto me, and i thought we were just practicing.. i m glad that i m still alive to type this after that technique she laid on me), to guys around my weight class, to guys 25% more heavier than me, and to guys double my weight class (... i prefer to keep my experience with them to myself).

Additionally, we werent restricted to just students from our belt-range (as Judo follows the grading system similar to Karate or Taekwondo)but everyone else.. including our master, and some other really experienced judoka (most of them are black belts..) There was this fairly built and fit Japanese guy, who always like to bully me if he had the chance by applying techniques and skills that i've never seen before. Surplus to that, there's this girl (only 17 i think), she's a killer on the judo mat, as she has won the Nationwide amateur junior championship last year, and she's really swift despite her slightly buff's build.

Personally, i think that judo is really a good way of releasing stress n of coz a fun way of exercise and at the same time acquiring skills n techniques to defend yourself when neccesary. Also, it's not too violent and vulgar, tho some of the moves can be fatal if you landed it incorrectly or forcefully.. but we are taught to be "gentle" as the meaning of judo emphasizes.. :P

Anyway, this friday will be the day for my grading.. to upgrade myself to the second level of judo.. the yellow belt.. wish me luck, and if i have the chance i shall fulfill my one personal vendetta against one of the students in the class.. *ngek ngek ngek..

Good news and Bad news

2006-04-26T21:04:00.000+09:30

I will start with the good news.. as i think it's rather pleasant to provide a good impression then a sucky beginning.. just like when watching a movie.. if you give me a choice of watching a movie with good beginning but sux at the ending and the other way round.. i will choose the one with a good intro/beginning.. sue me if you think that it's stereotypical and i might pre-judge the quality of the show overall.. but oh well. that's just me.. n did i mention some thing bout 'if?" haha..

Anyway, the good news is.. YAY i m finally blogging at home now instead of borrowing the PC in the lab or just let my blog dried to death. I am indeed happy, yes, when i received the news, tho i was having a tad bit problem on configuring the modem n the connection, and i was the only one awake ~~(becoz i need to finish my essay)~~, sigh, terrible housemates i have here.

Now, here, the bad news... i lost my wallet for bout 18 hrs.. n i lost it right after i wrote my last post yesterday.. n the reason for losing it.. i left it there n not realizing it until this morning.. bout 11am (after all the configuration) ARGHHH.. so i ran to the uni.. looking for it, talk to the security guard.. asked the person in-charge.. NOTHING.. so i walked back home.. took out my passport.. wanted to cancel my bank account.. then just before i left the house.. i thought why not i check my email and see.. as the security guard has told me that if they found it they will email me (with my student id they can trace my email add).. so i checked.. n guess what? The campus central is holding the wallet for me..!! Who the hell in the world would wanna turn in a lost wallet there??? i never heard of this.. and maybe i am denial at that stage.. but oh well..at least i managed to get back my wallet.. without the money tho.. but everything else are still there.. so i m kinda glad.. the reunion with my wallet didnt last very long.. as the guy at campus central there (obviously bored) and were trying to have a deeper conversation with me... or more like a lecture or some sort.. therefore.. i have no other choice.. but to shorten the length of my inspection on my lost wallet.. bullshit an excuse and ran away..

anyway.. i m still happy.. tho i lost like.. probably close to 100aud, and 30ringgit.. but oh well.. it's a lesson that i need to learn myself.. Never take out your wallet and put it under the keyboard to serve as a base so that you have more space for your wrist to rest and type.. hmm.. haha.. oh well.. i think i should eat less or go for cheaper food for the next few weeks then..

The best part-time job for me?

2006-04-25T14:54:00.000+09:30

Again, I am here sitting in the middle of the uni lab abusing the internet connection provided. It's good that today's a holiday, Anzac day or some sort like that, I do know what exactly it is, and why the aussies are celebrating it.. but nope, i am not gonna explain it here.. :P

Oh well.. I am in the middle of my assignment, trying to finish off the 1,500 words essay that have been haunting me for weeks.. it's nothing complicated, i am just a lil bit too slugged off to begin with, and the topic which i've chosen and did a presentation based on that.. was just.. a lil bit too dull for me to pick back up my fighting spirit to give it a final blow.

So, right here, I am taking a lil break here, keeping the promise that i've made.. updating my blog that i should have been updated sooner than today.. haha.. alright, now cut the crap and go straight in to the point of writing this post. Right, so about 2-3 weeks ago, I was having a chat with Andrew (tan) and found out that a small research group under the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) are currently running some medical-related experiments and they are still looking for more people to "volunteer" themselves as part of the experiments. It's still an on-going thing, though Andrew had already gone through like 2-3 sessions of it.. and you can only participate once in every 1-3 months i think (not too sure bout that), and payment for the participation is by way of an honorarium at a rate of 18aud per hour for time spent in the laboratory (!!!). According to the info i've gathered, each session would require time being spent for approximately.. 4-5 hours, that means.. 4x18 = 72aud?!

Alright, 18aud per hour is definitely tempting.. however the nature of the experiment is indeed important as well.. i wouldnt want to earn some quick cash and then find myself being transformed into some mutants.. worstly, a WEAK mutant.. that will invite nothing but disaster.. oh well, i think there's nothing more for me to worry about, since Andrew seemed to be fine to me.. though he reacted a lil bit blurer than usual sometimes.. hmmmm......

Now, i've read through the information sheet provided by the research group.. it's quite a long piece.. i wont want to type it all out here.. a very brief summary should be sufficient for this post..

So, what is the purpose of this experiment? it's to basically determine how comsumption of different forms of dietary fat influence the function of the stomach (hmm.... interesting), and the researcher will infuse the fat in 2 forms (by using a nasogastic tube and plunge it directly into my stomach through my nostril hole.. urgh..) - a triglyceride (wtf?) and as a free fatty acid. It sounds alright till this stage, cept for the fact that.. "these fats will be labelled with some radioactivity, which enables us to determine the rate at which the fats empty from your stomach". Hmm... and during each session, 110ml of blood samples will be taken, followed by consumption of few mms of nasogastric feeding anaesthetic.. and for every 15-20 minutes.. i will be needed to stand in front of a x-ray machine and they will then "look through" my body to determine the movement of the fatty acids (with the aid of the radioactive induction), and that will be carried on for 5 hours... hmmm... hmmm...

I've been thinking of it for bout a week or so.. thinking of whether should i sign myself up and be part of the guinea pigs of these australian researchers. There has been many imaginations happened in my rain of thoughts.. picturing the best (which nothing else happened cept for my happy face with some extra cash i earned at the end of the experiment) and the worst (where the induction of radiaoactivity proves to be fatal and results on me getting mutated or changes that might affect my healthy body).. after spending some time worrying for nothing.. i decided to call them up and enquire more info and clarify with them upon the questions that came across my worries... At the end of the day.. i signed up..
the meeting for the screening will be on this thursday.. i dunno whether due to their persuasion or because of their assurance to me that it's nothing to be worried about.. but 1 thing for sure, i do know that i always have this vivid imagination or fantasy you would say of me being transformed into some superhero or some sort through some involvements with some laboratory and so on... haha.. silly it might be, but oh well to think that just by sitting there for 5 hours while quietly digesting the substance that has been induced into me will earned me 18aud per hour, it's just something that I MUST experience it at least once..

p.s - i wonder whether the nasogastric feeding part would hurt me much or not...

Rebirth

2006-04-11T18:20:00.000+09:30

Yeap yeap, i know that my tagboard got seriously spammed, jabbed, and harrassed by the unknown forces that lurk beneath the deep dark wide scope of the cyberspace, i know that my blog has gone moldy for long, i know that many of you have been constantly ~~nag~~ remind me of not updating my blog since early february, well, here i am, to apologize for the matter that yes i've abandoned, err.. or rather left alone my blog for bout 2 months period, n that's horrible of me to commit such irresponsible act.

Well, i've promised that i would, and i will reconstruct and fixed the problems with viewing my blog n so on... when i get a fixed internet connection at home, then i will, for sure. It might seems as if it's just another excuse or such to postpone my duty of being the owner of one small fraction of the cyberspace, but, truly, i do not feel comfortable when i am to blog using other pc or in a public space or something like that..

yes, i could type it in words, saved it in my thumbdrive n later on transfer it on to a public pc n post it on, yes, i could, but i wouldnt, it would be an insult to my laptop if i ever did something like that to him, :P, lol.. haha

Ok, bottomline is, yes, i admit that i've been a lil bit slack off, and my life here isnt that dull and empty, and i DO have many things in mind on what to blog on. I have many pics to share, i have many stories to tell, i have many complains to make, i have many secrets to share (maybe next not), i have many oppinions to strike upon, i have many suggestions on how to spice up your life to post, i have many "manys" to blog about, from the emergence of my new housemates, my new house, my new adventures, my postgraduate uni life, my new hobbies, to my new philosophy of life.

Blame me, or curse me if i am really that lazy to blog bout my colorful life..
I tried not to, but i just didnt have the correct mood to spend much effort on doing that for the past 2 months..

Anyway, believe me or not, i shall try harder to contribute a little bit more from today onwards to this little island in the wide sea of the cyberspace.

New skin to put on, i shall.

till then.. keep cursing me if you wish

CNY leave

2006-01-26T02:16:00.000+10:30

this should be a pretty short post.. basically, CNY is coming soon, i m lazy, and wont be updating my this blog for awhile.. and due to the fact that i will be very busy because of my return to Adelaide (yes.. not melbourne anymore.. long story to tell.. so bare with me for now) and so on.

be sure to leave me some ang pao or stuffs like that..

Will be leaving the country on the 11th.. so.. till then.. bye bye

Late resolution and the infection

2006-01-12T16:01:00.000+10:30

Oh gosh.. after so long since my last visit to my own blog and attempting to start typing.. i felt that i lost touch with some of the "used to be" familiar features and phrases i used... Hmm.. i actually drafted this post, and edited it for like 2-3 times before posting.. as it just doesnt sounds like me!!

So, this is my first post of the year 2006, the year of dog (according to the chinese zodiac), and the year where i need to further expand my studies and so on. Before that, i have a dilemma, which is.. the choice of enrolling a master course in UniSA or start up fresh (as in post grad standard) in Monash Uni.. To be honest, i would very much preferred to join the monash family (tho they sounded way commercialized) even though i m only qualified to start off with a post grad diploma course.. so long as they reply me as soon.. i have only another day to wait for their "tai-chi" reply.. if not by then, i have no other choice but to bounce back to Adelaide... it's not exactly a sad thing.. but *sob *sob.. yea..... lol

Anyway, since it's already 12 days since the new year celebration, it's still not too late for me to state my post-new year eve's new year resolution.. lol!! and i shall try to list up to 12 things i wish to improve or achieve or decrease or remove or unscrew or rescrew or dispatch or in one word, - fulfill.

1. Maintain my chinese new year gambling winning streak (3 years consecutive) with my mates
- hehehe, "friends" are all welcome to come over to my house with "bulky" wallets and "filled" ang paos for "makan-makan".

2. Fulfill my long awaited childhood dream, braid my hair!! the jamaican/african style
- it might be ugly.. but.. oh well.. it's just like terrorism, you know that you gonna go to hell anyhow but as long as u believe that "virgins" awaits you on the otherside.. "sei ma sei lor" (cantonese)

3. Stop telling myself that Scotch Wiskey are made of malts, therefore, healthy and nutritious

4. kangaroo meats does not taste like CHICKEN, so do not stir-fry, or cook it with broccoli or even worst.. combo it with oyster sauce... (which i did it all at one go)

5. Alcohol isnt cough mixture or any sort of medicines, they dont cure bad cough, sore throat, and fever

6. one or 2 more weapons to my possession would be just nice.. for this year
- preferrably, a decent wooden jutten or leather whip, and a fist weapon. If you asked me, "if you do not feel insecure, why do you need weapons for?", i have a question for you, "if you do not feel insecure, why do you need skin-care products for?" "it's for the protection for my skin" "and that's for the protection of my life" ... lol haha

7. Girls aren't reincarnation of devil, girls dont invite troubles; they are just invitation of devil and incarnate troubles. So, it's your choice to join the cult and worship the "devils" or join me to try and exorcise "em" (i meant the "troubles" but not the trouble.. lol)
-if you are a guy, i m not asking u to turn homo, if u are a girl reader, further inspect my use of language and phrases before u start to curse "stupid egoistic guy" on me, :P

8. Money are like water, while you could wash them away like how you take a bath, you also gather it as easy as you scoop it up from the pool. Monetary management, something that i need to pay more attention for this year

9. Don't judge a book by its cover; don't judge a human by his/her look. However, a book without cover don't sell just like a human without skin scares. So, watch out, pay more attention.. at least.. be presentable.
- by presentable, i meant.. at least wear a decent shirt or pants.. that's something i need to work on about.. no more torn shirts or ragged pants

10. "Ker-leng-yan" isnt the correct way to address an indian, in fact it sounded racist.. whenever i try to pronounce it with my "unique" slang

11. Do not wear, associate or use any accessories or clothing materials that has a rainbow color-coding circular shaping pattern on it or has it stick on any items that belong to your possession...
- rainbow does not neccessarily means happiness and peacefulness, it could mean happiness and homoness in a curvy way.. so, beware!

12. A trip to New Zealand.. i am serious.. i just need a few mates and some cash.. yea.. i should start to collect and earn more money when i get back to aus and at the same time "collect" and "earn" a few mates that are willing to go with me.

Alright, so after the statement of my new year resolutions.. i should start and cure the disease that cause by an infection sourcing from my cousin sis - Mayzzz. She has had me infected with this, not sure what is it called or named, but since i am rather bored and felt guilty since i stopped writing for so long.. i shall include this part of infection to my entry. Ok, so this is how it suppose to work

Rules: Post 5 random and weird facts about yourself, and at the end, list the names of 5 people which in turn you infect (sounds like HIV) . Also leave a post to these people letting them know about the infection.

1. Randomly, i am a weird person with a randomly weird attitude. Weirdly, i don't just do random stuffs.. i planned and let my impulse decide it for me.. so.. random enuff? weird enuff??

2. I do not know whether i posted this before or what.. but, yea i have this talent which i could swallow any objects that are smaller than a pigeon's egg and vomit it out back later in less than 2 minutes time without any harmful effect to me or the object. Personally, coins, keys, small gold fishes, chewing gums, are not a problem to me.

3. i dont fancy a body with 6 packs and a chest that could squeeze a flying fly dead, but i do admire a tummy that could consume enough amount of alcohols to drug a rhinosaurus.

4. i have a weird fetish toward animals with long figures.. example, flamengo, giraffe, snake and so on.
- trust me, it's symbolical.. *wink

5. to me, sarcasm is like butter and milk to a mentally healthy lifestyle.

Weird enuff? random enuff? So, since i myself believe that i am heroic enuff to hold on a disease to myself and died silently.. i decided to lock this infection up.. without any outbreak, and all of us shall be free from this infection and yea..

p.s- i m just lazy to do the formality, and mayzzz, dont mean to go agaisnt the norm.. i am already belong to the different species.. so.. haha

Dang Dang Dang

2005-12-22T12:18:00.000+10:30

Before I start.. I apologize for the gap between this and the last entry, main reason being my very own laziness and also a lil bit of ma tight schedule.. :P

So, as many of you who read my previous post would know that, my parents came over to Adelaide on the 10th of Dec with the purpose of touring around as well as attending my graduation (hehe). As expected, I went to the airport, guided them back to the city, picked up the car we rented, go home and sleep (that's the first day).

Adelaide, is indeed a lower key destination as compared to many other places, however, if you are like my parents who enjoyed peacefulness and serenity with the mother nature, yeah, then this is the perfect place.

We spent like 5-6 days traveled around Adelaide (with my house as the station, as i loaned a room from my landlord for my parents to stay on). To cut the story short, we went to almost every tourist spots and interesting destination that Adelaide offered, specifically, barossa valley, Cleland Wild life park, Adelaide Hill, Harbour Town, Hahndorf, Marion, etc.

My mom in the city, accompanied by the fountain of vic square under 42'c's temperature

Mom & Dad and the whispering wall

random scenery, too bad i had to rescale it..

Mom & Dad posing for Chateau Barossa (one of the bigger wineries in B Valley)

Additonal note: for those who never heard of Barossa Valley, this is one wonderful location in Adelaide where all wine drinkers must pay a visit to. It's a farmish small village that consists of 56 different wineries! The best part is.. you get to test all of their wines (cept for the limited ones) for FREE and if you are lucky some of the wineries even offer you free cookies, breads and Cheese! A must go for tourist.

Since both my parents dont really drink that frequently, my mom spent most of the time taking pics, :D

Best scenery you get here in B valley, Bethany Hill, and my mom

Tips and recommendation: 1) when you get into the winery, act cool, and don't show them that you know jackshit bout wine, pretend that you are at least a standard wine drinker, so that they will kept feeding you with the best wines they could offer in order to impress you.
2) if you doesnt like the wine they pour for you, tip it or pour it away, every wineries should have a bucket or something for you to do so, do not feel embarassed or having that kind of feeling that god will punished you for wasting such quality drink, no, just tip it, it's the way it suppose to be.
3) if you see cookies, breads, or cheese lying on the counter, take only. You can ask them for water, if you want to cleanse your throat
4)Do not go to Jacob's Creek, it's famous yes i know, it's big yes i know, but since you could buy their wine even in places like Malaysia, Cambodia, or maybe Timbaktu, why bother visit their winery?
5)For scenery wise, try Bethany wines, Barasossa wines, their wines arent that bad, but the sceneries outside are better.
6)For sweet white wines, try Rockford, Langmeil, and maybe Pennfold.
7)For not so sweet white wines like Riesling, Langmeil have some good ones, but also try Peter Lehmann and this one Chateau that i could not remember the name
8)For sweet red wines, Kies, that's the only place you can get real sweet and fruitful red wine, try either deer stalker or the other one..
9)For quality dry red, Charles Chimicky, Turkey Flat, Rockford, and Pennfold.. Charles chimicky offered some really wicked Shiraz
10)For entertainment purposes, find Maggie's beer, they have some pheasants over there and a few peacocks.

Cleland Wildlife park, with mom n dad

This lil bugger here, is a real glutton, never miss a single chance on clinging to you and beg for food

So much so that i could actually kidnapped him and have him my latest pet

Do you wanna follow kor kor home? "do you have good sunflower seeds?" ....

After touring around for bout 5-6 days, finally, the moment has arrived~~~~ mua graduation ceremony! We reached the Adelaide festival centre at about 11.45, where the ceremony is suppose to start at bout 2.45, yet still it was already packed full with ppl like me.

((before the ceremony))

parents & myself

Alicia, Eric, Hendrik, myself, and Bernice

everyone's ready, cept for sher mayne being "pinned" down by aaron's mom.. lol

And during the ceremony,

My 3 yrs worth of hardworks just for this moment and that piece of pride paper

After the ceremony, we were suppose to comb the "hair" thing to the right (aaron & lenn got it wrong)

YAY!! (cwise from behind: Justin, Aaron Ho, Me, Sher, Bernice, Alicia, Eric & Liew)

It was fun, tho i was suprisingly too calm, not a slightiest bit more excited than the moment i sip a cup of bella rouge.. Just before walking up to the stage, Bernice dared me to do some stuffs up there.. hmm.. and i did something, not too crazy yet not ordinary.. In this kinda occasion, anything other than right after you received your cert and walk away swiftly is considered as unusual and worth an applause for.. so i just kissed the cert i received and walked a way "proudly" haha in a depth bit arrogant manner.. lol.. so not like me..

I am indeed happy that i finally graduated, without any problems, however i do not agree with the long winded ceremony that could bore me to death several times.. please in the future, could you provide some entertainment services for the graduants? like attached PS-2 to the seat and a headphone? I would seriously appreciate that if that's gonna implement soon

So now, i am once again a free man, not for long, as i am still hoping to get into Monash for post grad course.. tho they are seriously taking their own sweet time, and sent me a mail that saying that "we are going to holiday as much as we can, and only reply our consideration to you at the 1st-2nd week of Jan" #&@)(^&$...

After sending my parenst to the airport for their return trip back to malaysia, yeah, i am now alone and bored again... just met up with Jaime who happened to trap herself here in Adelaide for a supposed "vacation" hahaha.. i pity man Jaime.. a vacation that could allowed you the time to finish 5 books in a week is really something...

Meanwhile, I still have a long way for my packing, still not too sure on how to start on with.. hehe.. lol.. i m bored.. n today's #*(&%# HOT....!!! i want my ice kacang...

Truly random

2005-12-08T21:52:00.000+10:30

To begin with, i've just confirmed with the university bout a week ago regarding that, yes, i m officially a degree holder! Additionally, i've also received an offer letter from the uni (UniSA) on the master course (Master in Conflict Management) i applied bout 2-3 weeks ago. It surprises me as their admin werent normally that smooth and efficient, well, they do want to keep lost dogs like me for another year or two as long as we could pay up the fees. Oh well, it's true that they accepted me, but it doesnt mean that i am gonna accept their offer :P, it's just a backup plan just in case my application to other Uni for a more counseling based courses got rejected (though i m kinda tempted to accept the offer, as it would just be another 1 1/2 yrs before i became a master degree holder.. hmm...). So, yea, i am happy, so long as Monash U or UQ reply as soon as possible regarding the consideration of my application.

Additionally, my parents are coming over to adelaide starting from tomorrow, main objective is to attend my convocation and also to travel around. Hmmm.. they have approaximately 10 days to spend here.. and due to my lousy planning and busy schedule during exam periods, i couldn't lay down a trip to bring them to tazmania.. Instead, we have got to settle with just a 3 days trip to kangaroo island (somewhere down south of adelaide), and spend like 6 days running around in and out of adelaide. If you ask me now, "is Adelaide really that boring?", i would say.. "no, as in the morning you could jog around as the environment here is very clean and refreshing, during noon time we can visit the zoo, wildlife park, picnic by the lake, feeding kangaroos, shooting birds, evening we can again jog for another round or organize a bbq session with some beers, then at night, during weekdays we can sleep, weekend we can party or watch footy, holiday? what's that? aren't we holidaying everyday?" See? how interesting could adelaide be, we never get bored here, and we never need to buy ourselves a set of monopoly and play whole night long and ended up with quarrels, we never need to window shop for 4-5 hrs just becoz we are poor and bored.. no.. we never.. *sob.. lol

Alright, cut the crap, in actual fact, it's not so bad, as a vacation spot. If you love beautiful sceneries and in font with the creation of nature, adelaide is the place. If you love trekking or rendevous around with a 4wd, and travel across the desert, adelaide is the place. If you love to just relax and live a life like a retiree for a few days, adelaide is the place. If you love to try the authentic kangaroo meat, adelaide is the place. They have skydiving services around the outskirt, shooting range by the desert site, alice spring on the north, kangaroo island on the bottom, barossa valley with top graded wines within reach, adelaide is really not too bad of a place for vacation (seriously, i m promoting them). It's kinda sad that, i might leave this place and wont be coming back forever. After all i've spent a yr of my life here, trying to blend in with the culture here while enduring tortures from my lectures, i think i will miss this place (seriously).

Now, after reporting some delightful news and abit of promotion for adelaide, here comes my ranting on some random issues. Alright, first i would like to clarify that, the entry i posted few weeks ago stating that i've commited and attached to somebody, was a faulty statement. It's suppose to be a joke.. a Joke! A joke is meant to be harmless, or at least believe me when i said, "it was a joke!!" Don't take it seriously and bugged me non-stop. I am still single, as pure as pearl ~~and as handsome as Tom Cruise~~ . I apologize for the confusion due to the out of boredom's childish act, and i did not anticipate it to end up like this (i m not suppose to be the victim!! WHY?)

Now, another random thought, another clarification, i know i have quite a number of friends, and quite a number of odd ones.. some of them like to fish at midnight (literally), some of them can finish mario in 2 hrs, some of them love to commit fancy life-risking act and hurt themselves pretty badly and so on. And for some strange reasons, i somehow clique with them/you (if you know i m talking about you), probably because i share some similar characteristics with them/you or some sort. Recently, i realized that i have quite a number of friends (majority are females) that love to converse/communicate with adaption of codes or symbols that carried along subtle messages. It works more or less like the combat code you learnt through various action pack movies, or the binary code the 100101001001110101 thing.. It's a very smart way to communicate with such special system, even when the intended recipient do not know bout the plan, as long as you know, somehow for some reason he/she would understand it (as there's the whole point of setting up private communication code). I do agree that, to certain degrees, i enjoy cracking these codes, especially from females (even when i am not the intended recipient), it's like a top-class burglar trying to crack the security code of the national muzeum's safety box, the process itself contains a subtle form of thrill and it would reflect a certain level of intelligence and recognition (if you ARE the intended recipient). However, i have to say that, not everyone, could establish this kind of connection with anyone, i mean you need 2 person (or more) with a dept bit of similar wavelenght in order to carry out the message with utter 100% accuracy, as the it won't be the case if i interpret "green banana" as a new gun in the gang while the other party perceived it as a male virgin. It's tough, really tough, and i m suprised at the fact that some ppl can really confused you around with some double inferral statements and it will lead you to nowhere. I love these things... it made me moer anxious as i need to feed my curiosity with the answer and it stimulate me to be more alive.. but now the problem is.. nobody seems to understand the message or subtle code i made.. i m so sad.. *sob

Aight, now, i need to clean up the place abit, before i hit the sack, as i need to get up early to fetch my parents.. i shall write a lil bit more bout how to properly execute tactful communication in that sense when i have time and mood to do so. Till then, bye!

P.S- this post, as the title suggested is completely random, if u get it u get it, if you dont.. remember? secret code? wavelength? ahh there you go.

Funeral for my "memories"

2005-12-02T13:15:00.000+10:30

Sighz, it has been awhile since my last post, i am feeling so lethargic and demotivated, as i am still in the process of recovering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) due to the death of my memories...

Alright, since i am abit better now, with the treatment of gaming and meeting up with friends and so on, let me tell you the story. *sit down with the mahaguru post

As some of you might know, recently, due to constant exposure to the hazardous internet, my PC has been infected by various venomic spywares and trojan-like parasites. Those cunning little things, sucked the hell out of my PC's bandwitdh and processing speed just like japanese uncle's fetish for school girl uniform (hmm.. maybe that's not a very good example). Anyway, it was really slowing down my PC to bout only 40-50% of its potential. The funniest part was, at one point when Kok Tong came over to my place to check out the PC while it's still logged on to the net, a silly "unusual" advert pops up.. and guess what? It was a freaking pop-up that advertise some Christian Radio Station.. Both me and kok tong's reaction was like..
what the hell? THAT's quite an annoying way of spreading your religion man (no offense to christianity as a whole, just scrutinizing that specific "christian radio ad"). It was so funny, and kok tong labelled that pop-up as the "divine Intervention".

Though i am quite a patient guy in this sense, yet, i couldnt stand operating my PC with all these "intervention" screwing up my life and PC. Therefore, I decided to reformat my PC, to give it a rebirth. At that time, my external HDD was being used by Justin, and anyway it wouldnt have sufficient space to cover all my important files, so kok tong's half past dead HDD came into my mind. It might looks a bit old and unreliable at first glance, but it works even after 4 yrs of hardwork occupying by kok tong, so i hired that veteran memory agent to store up some of my files. I brought it over to the comp lab, and burned out most of the files into CDs, and I ran out of blank CD just before i could burn out my 2 gigabytes worth of picture files.

I thought of leaving it with the veteran and transfer it back to my PC. However, I do not know whether it's because of the yucky weather, kok tong's bad breath, my messy room, or its own natural lifespan, it somehow caught a stroke during the process before i manage to transfer my file back, and remain paralyzed!!! !#()&$ It just refused to bloody wake up!! The cable plugged in, the light's on, but it remained silent and wouldn't move a bit.. ARGHHH~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It died along with my precious memories for the past 1-2 years!!!! How tragic can this be?!!

I am blessed that my PC is currenly parasite free and operate in a very decent speed, but.. but.. i lost my "memories".. All my pictures.. all my hardwork.. memories of wonderful sceneries, buildings, pleasurable occasions, friends, families, pets, people who hated me, people whom i adore, etc.. Grrrhhh...

Anyhow, I am abit calm now, so i do not need to handcuff and putting on a straightjacket while discussing this issue. The moral of the story is, 1st, if you wanna burn something out of a backup HDD, do not leave anything behind, BURN IT ALL!!! 2nd, just because it's old doesnt mean it's reliable, besure to check the brand, 3rd, forget bout getting any Maxtor HDD.. they are weaklings, they died before completing their mission.

"Us against Em"

2005-11-24T11:09:00.000+10:30

The mentality of "us" against/versus against "em" is one of the most core cognition in humans that brought us together and formed into groups/factions/communities/clan/tribe/gang/etc. We human arent isolated beings, that's a reason why thousands of scientists labeled us as social beings, not just because we socialize, but we tends to, desires to, have to socialize and acquire the feeling of "not alone", being as part of the group, in order to obtain something from it.

Most ppl felt comfortable when they are with friends (selectively tho), mates, or family members as compared to when they are not, as during the process of interaction or in lay-man's term 'get to know' each other's period, we somehow managed to create a bond (could be one sided) with each other. It would take longer time to form this kind of relationship or affiliation depending on the criteria you have in making friends. As far as i know, some ppl are very particular with their friends, they must have certain qualities or attributes in em already, if not, he/she will just labeled you as "hi-bye accquaintances" (e.g must have model looking outlook, must have at least a car, or must share at least 2-3 similar hobbies/interests with me, etc)

The definition of friendship is very subjective, it's hard to define in a proper or accurate manner, as it varies between gender (even), across culture, and even age group in my oppinion. It is true that, ppl often flock on to each other, based on the few core elements: a) similarities in interest, cognition, or behaviors (ah beng find ah lian, geek find nerds, bimbo find macho, low key find low profile, that kinda of grouping), b) diversities or differences in interest, cognition, or behaviors (normally happened in cross-gender friendships), c) environmental condition (meaning, the pool of friends you gather depends on the area you mingle around, it's fairly logical, as it's hard for you to make a papua new guinean friend if you havent even leave malaysia n all). Nonetheless, the way we choose our friends very much depending on the intention, or any other cognition behind the reason of it, as some ppl make friends just simply because they love to, some people make friends just because of convenience, some ppl have some ulterior motives, some people couldnt care less and flock around, some people couldnt care less and stay home and make his computer his best and only friend, etc.

So, why am i making such a big thing or spending so much effort on trying to ellaborate bout friendships or human interaction? Because i m bored? Because I m lacking it? Because i have too many friends? Because I am confused? ar nga

The reason is pretty simple, what I am trying to say here is, people differ from each other in such a huge degree (hence, unique) and that's the reason why we kept making friends (because you cant grew boredom of meeting new faces unless you are fixated with the goddess faces morphing in your computer monitor), at the same time, that's also the reason why we shouldn't judge people based on anything, as we do not have the capability, rights, accuracy of judgment and anything to make such comment and labeled them as something, therefore heck racism, f8ck the 'us against em' system (unless you are playing some competitive team game, e.g. soccer, if that's the case.. DIE CHELSEA DIE!!!), dice and shred down all the stereotypes you have. Some people might have their own intention or ulterior motive to get near to you, and yes it might induce certain sources of harm to you, but by slamming shut your door and forbidding the rest of the nice nice people outside from getting to know you, geez, you gotta learn how to grow up and stop that "i don't friend you" kindergarten mentality. And yes, rivalry relationship is considered as healthy depending on context and conditions, even sibling rivalry could be beneficial (but not to extent where involving guns n knives n so on).

Oh yea, havent i revealed the reason for me to write down all these rantings? hehe, let's keep it subtle and not to be too probing... hehe, as curiosity often leads cat to death.

A little too soon

2005-11-18T14:23:00.000+10:30

A little too soon, yes.. I m not implying on the fact that it's abit too soon for genius like me to graduate at the end of this year.. no, nope.. but about me being tied on and attached to someone of my liking.. hmm..

It's weird to post up something like this at such period, as yea, i know i m suppose to prepare for my exams until blood-coughing, brain-squeezing and due to exam pressures i should be at the stage of burnout and slimmed down to half of my intial weight, but not announcing here that yea i m commited..

So, i guess, now the biggest question here would be, "who's she?" "do i know her?" "could it be a he? (only ppl like joel might ask) "Is she pretty?" and so on..

As you know.. i m not that kind of guy who trophy their gfs or wives like wearing a rolex out running like that, no.. i m not, i m more conservative and modest.. furthermore she's bit shy.. hehe

So, to my friends around here in Adelaide, nope, she's not someone you know, she's not in adelaide currently

To my other friends, she's an old accquaintance of mine, so you might not know her

To my old school friends, you might know/you might not, as she's very low-profile

To my cousins/siblings/parents, yes, she's pretty, both outlook and personality, and she's not australian, so dun worry, i wont marry an ang moh.

hmm.. yea.. so i guess i wont be able to run as freely and as impulsive as i used to.. aighz..
this might be my last post, posting as a bachelor..

And yea. i dun wanna hold your curiosity for long.. so.. here's my gf.

My name is...

2005-11-09T22:48:00.000+10:30

If you know me well.. or happen to involve in conversation with me on the topic of Names and how sometimes mixture of first name and sur name could results in some funny/silly/embarassing or rather "unique" combination, you would know that this topic can easily be ranked as the top 5 fav topics that I would like to talk or crap about. Though you might argue that having a good or proper name doesnt really matters as long as you have a good and proper personality.. but hello.. your highschool moral teacher might buy that kinda crap, but not me. Imagine, you inherit godly personality like gandhi the great and purity of mother Theresa, but when being asked by your kindergarten teacher on, "what's your name boy?" and you had to reply, "err.. my name is.. Holland Tiu" (Hou Lan Tiu = Big time M*ther F*cking Cock-up) hmm.. the world isnt going to be bright for you everytime you have to reveal your full name man..

Romanized Chinese names in particular are prone to having errors or miscalculation like that.. and end up having funny names.. Due to improper registry or weak linguistic ability, or some screwed up reasons (e.g. mistakes made by nurses that accidentally register your surname "Sek" to "Sak"), some traditional chinese surnames when being romanized or encoded into English produces funky result, like "Yew Ken Fatt" (You can Fatt/F8ck *depends on how you interpret it) and "Soh Can Ai".

Also, due to the reason that there are many dialects even among the chinese, romanized chinese names can be turned into laughing stocks in 'dialectual' context, For example: Chan Yeung Shui 陳阳水 brings no obstructive meaning in Mandarin, as it simply means water of the sun, but phonologically it means very ugly in cantonese, samething goes for all the Tiew/Tius (in cantonese, Tiu/tiew means f*ck or any equivalent swear words)

You don't normally find this kind of thing common in western names.. as their names are made up words by words but not consonant-like characters, the only error they could made out of that is adapting ambiguous or obviously sensitive wordings as part of their name, like Dickson, WindAss, Suckling, and so on. Usually it happens only in the case of surnames but not first or given names (due to lack of consideration from the ancestor.. just becoz they desires their child to have long penises they called themselves Dicklong). Even so, it isnt as bad as the effect carried over in the chinese context with funky-ass romanized chinese names that could results in a life-time tragedy (imagine being called as Sak Yow Lin or Mr. Sak for 80 yrs).

Recently, the situation has changes and opt to be getting worse, as along with the advances in technology, people tends to unify with each other.. and therefore results in fusion of christian names/western names and romanized Chinese names.. woah.. trust me, without proper consideration and double check in at least 20-30 types of languages and dialects.. please do not simply name your child, or else he or she might blame it on you when he/she got to bare on the ever-lasting curse, unless you pay a small sum of money to change your name in related govt sector (don't ask me where.. i dunno). When combining random Christan names with any 'prone-to-errors' Chinese surname, woah.. you can either end up with really cool yet disturbing names like Ian Kok (Iron Cock) and Monica Cheng (Touching your ass - fusions of both mandarin and hokkien) or merely disturbing names like Lambert Chee (Lam Par Chee - testicles in Hokkien) and Harry Teik (Hairy Tit). Though it might be kinda amusing to have a name like Iron Cock (or at least it sounds like it) but having it as the official indentification for others to address you.. it is just pretty much sad ler..

Generally, when related to romanized Chinese names (espeacilly surnames) in terms of context, fusion with Christian Names and other factors you often find weird/improper and obtrusive combination of names. Therefore, since i am taking a break from studying, and as a source of releasing stress, i decided to divide those unthinkable names into few categories, so in future, you will have a rough idea on how not to name your child improperly.

Category I - Problematic Chinese Surnames
*All the surnames listed are considered sensitive one way or another, and could results in even more vulgar combination when being assorted wrongly or without caution.

1. All the Koks (as associated with male genitals)
2. Tiew, Tiu or Tew - the Tiu family
3. Teik (Tit)
4. Sak (Suck)
5. Kum or Kam (as associated with Come, Cum, Cunt, etc)
6. Quek (minor severity, it just sounds rather funny when you put it together with Donald)
7. Lok or Luk (as it means stick or ellongated object in Cantonese.. figures..)
8. Wang (as associated with Wank or Wand which known as male genitals in some Brittish slangs)
9. Lan (again.. male genitals in cantonese.. )
10. Hai (female genitals in cantonese, finally.. something other than male's precious organ)

Advises: 1) with surnames like these, as a parent you must be extremely cautious and watchful in terms of naming your children especially if you planned to give them christian names as well.
2) Start with brainstorming, then break it down and eliminate dodgy sounding names, and shortlist only a handful
3) Double check the possibility of inappropriate sounding names by looking through dictionaries of different languages and dialects
4) Try adapting common Christian names like Alan, Michael, May, Cindy, etc. There's a reason why they are so common, as it is error-free and safe for work.
5) If, after proceeding from 1-4, still couldnt get a satisfying result.. consult me (lol), or consider changing your surname to save the younger generation from everlasting agony

Category II- Dodgy Christian names when paired with suspicious or potentially harmful Chinese Surnames

1. Harry, as it sounded like Hairy.. and could results in Hairy Teik, Hairy Kok, etc
2. Holland, when paired with the Tius family, other less severe cases like Cham, Sheng, Peh.
3. Dick, Dicky, Dickson, Dickinson - the Dick family
4. Virginia, i bet no daughter wanted to be called Virgina Sor/Soh (Soar)
5. Lambert (as illustrated earlier)
6. Monica (see above)
7. Minnie (same reason as 1.)

Category III - Names based on objects, places, countries, buildings or brand names.

1. I know that it's rather memorial to name your child after his/her birthplace.. but please be considerate abit, and think of it carefully before simply naming them.. I've heard of Paris, Florida, London (the not so bad ones) and the really disturbing ones like Bangkok (i m serious).
2. Giving yourself a name like Sydney isnt bad.. but it's just wrong when you are in fact a guy.. please do some research and then you would know that Sydney isnt an unisex name but a more female oriented contonation.
3. Names like Fish, Cloud, Chair, Sable, are just wrong.. (hey, i aint crapping here.. those are of real life examples.. in fact Fish Leong and Cloud Chan or Cheng are actually some celebrities in HongKong)
4. It's ok to have names like Ferrari, Mercedes, even Prada.. but to name your kids as Nike Tan, or Versace Chan.. hmmmmm....... *headache..
5. Naming your kids after tropical fruits - Banana, Melon, Papaya, Apple (not so bad), and worst case scenario - Durian Lim!!!

Category IV- names similar (or completely identical) to celebrities, prime ministers, or of famous people
1. Telly me how many Jacky Chans do you need in 1 country??? (Personally i know 4-5 of them)
2. It's weird when you name your kid as Einsteins, Plato, Socrates, or Hitler..
3. Try to avoid having too many Bruce Lee as well
4. If you wanna be patriotic.. try to beat this guy who named his son after Mahatir.. the thing is.. he's Chinese, therefore - Ma Har Tir (covered by Malaymail bout 3-4 yrs ago). Try Bah Dar Wee or something

Alright here's a list of people you DONT want to get advises from for naming your kids.

1. Hong Kees and Chinese from Certain parts of Mainland China (it's too big to be overgeneralized), if you insisted.. you will end up getting names like.. Fish leong, Emotional Lee (Serious!!), Kiki, Fifi, Gigi, Muscle, Handsome.. ...... Holland!
2. Bengs and Lians.. you will get similar results as 1.
3. Hardcore sci-fi fans, in their head, all their sons must be named Yoda or Klingon, and daughter MUST MUST MUST be Leia
4. Delusional Fantasy novel addicts... If you see a kid with a nametag of Faragorn, or elvish sounding names like Tordrassil Lee the Silverwing.. you know who to blame
5. Spanish.. they will make all your son sounds like some sorta footballer and all your daughter like some famous popstars - Fernando, Miguel, Pablo, Christina, Lopez.. lol
6. English educated Chinese with no sense of creativity.. then you will get names like Sharon Tan Sha Ron, Alan Lee Eh Lan, Joshua Chin Jo Shua, and so on, worst case scenario Lily Lee Li Lee (sorry lily.. :P), wait till you discover another Kiki Kee Ki Kie then you wont be alone

Alright.. so.. in the future.. please please please.. put in a lil bit more effort to research abit.. for your children's sake.. and never never trust nurses' idea and be sure they key in what you instructed them to. Remember, your children are part of you, they are your products.. naming them badly means reflecting your carelessness and weaknesses as well.. therefore.. if you are really that lazy.. just gimme a call with a small ang pow.. i can do the job for you, with terms and conditions applied of course.. hehe no blaming

P.S- no offense to anyone, if you happen to own names like that.. i feel your pain..

Additional msg:
1) to Juei & Kc.. remember.. Holland is a taboo for your family
2) to Roy a.k.a Wz, i know chinese they all like to Gong Xi Fatt Cai.. but please don't name your son Fatt Cai... (See Fatt Cai = Si Fatt Chai = Ass Kid or it could mean sissy in cantonese)

Remote Control for Humans

2005-11-08T15:18:00.000+10:30

"We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots; But manipulating humans? Prepared to be remote controlled." - Yuri Kageyama CNN 25 Oct 2005.

When i read that, the first impression came to my mind was, "yea, right.." i bet it's another scam or gimmick kinda unreliable news.. However.. after i actually read through the article carefully.. words by words.. and further did a lil bit of research on this human remote control thinggy..
And yea, i concluded that this finding is really exist now in japan.. tho it would be a highly classified and restricted technical gadget.. as you wont see em selling it in toy'r'us or some bandai model shop..

Anyway, the fact that this headphone-look alike gadget could actually affect your sensorimotor functions and to the point where "I didn't notice that I was actually walking by myself", that's just simply eerie and pretty much scary. Imagine, one day while walking in the town, a stranger asked you to put on a headphone and listen to some demo music.. then suddenly u just couldnt control yourself and started stripping in front of public.. oh gosh.. it might sounds abit ridiculous if somebody told me this kinda thing could happened say a month ago.. but not after i've finished reading that article.. (so, don't ever use any strangers' headphone)

Though it's still pretty much immature (as in the consistency and capability of the human remote controller) and vague in its development, nonetheless, it's showing prospectful growth still.. See, if they could remote control your sensorimotor coordination now.. that means they might be able to do something even go beyond just that 10 yrs from now. Who knows what they could do? (they as in crazy japanese scientist.. when you add scientist + middle age japanese uncle + geek = ???, i dun wanna think bout it)

However.. according to the press.. the invention itself has friendlier uses in mind.. it might solves the problem of growing numbers in traffic accident.. yet, who knows what they might inject into you... or what.. hmm.. i dunno.. maybe i m just being abit too skeptical..

Homecook unhealthy food - pt 1

2005-11-02T09:02:00.000+10:30

Woah.. after so long.. finally got the chance to write up something again.. Just finished my final lab report in UniSA.. left only one more online quiz before i am absolutely assignment-less until next year..

Anyway, as the title name suggested, this entry is all about unhealthy food (at least to nutritionists and vegetarians), namely some famous malaysian style unhealthy food such as "the fatter the better" - Bak Kut Teh and "The oilier the better" - Malaysian Satay. In actual fact, I attempted on both of those dishes about about a week plus ago, bak kut teh simply for our normal get-together, and Satay as part of Sher Mayne's Birthday celebration (as we prepared some sorta suprise mini mamak night for her with Justin and Lenny as the mastermind)

Alright, now.. back to the dishes, first up I am gonna talk a lil bit bout bak kut teh (肉骨茶), it is a kind of soup originated in Malaysia, though if you directly translated it it would be "Pork Bone Tea". Generally it is cooked in a claypot with various parts of the pig, varieties of mushroom, lettuce (optional), and dried tofu sheets/pieces (taufu pok). The soup itself is a broth that consists of several herbs and spices (including star anise, cinnamon, chinese cloves and garlic) which have been boiled together with soup bones for many hours. Light and dark soy sauce are also added to the soup during cooking, with varying amounts depending on the variant.

It is commonly eaten with rice, and often served with strips of fried called you char kueh (which i will later illustrate on how to make it). Dark soy sauce is used as a condiment, sometimes accompanied with chopped chilli padi (Syok ah! too bad i cant get good chilli padi at that time).
There are many many types of bak kut teh, depending on the combination and amount of the ingredients and some additions to the usual recipe. A variation of bak kut teh made with chicken instead of pork is called chik kut teh (how come no one ever tried something like Fish kut teh, Beef kut teh or Duck kut teh? Hmm maybe i should try to make it someday.. someday..)

Alright then, enough of the brief introduction on this lovely dish.. now it's time for a dummy lesson on how to make Freddy's style bak kut teh (with assorted herbal spices *i m not that pro to pick my own herbs yet :P).

Bak Kut Teh 101

Ingredients:-
3 whole garlics
4-5 thin slices of Ginger
A kilo worth of Pork rib bones w/ meat
A full strip of pork belly w/meat
salt and ground pepper to taste
Light soya sauce to taste
1 packet of "Wonderful" bak kut teh pre-assorted spices
Lots and lots of Chinese mushrooms
2 cans of "kum chum koo" mushrooms

Servings for 5-6 hungry ghosts w/ appropriate amount of rice

Procedure:

1) First up, begin by slicing the strip of pork belly into small rectangular cubes, roughly around an inch witdh and 2 and a half inches long.

2) Then, proceed to ginger by cutting it into thin slices (the older the ginger the better *drool)

Look at the fats.. just look at it.. hmm.. it's smiling at me :D

3. After that, heat up the pot (if you have a claypot, use it) and pour in about 2.5-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Throw in both your pork belly w/ meat and gingers when the oil is hot.

Cook it with low volume of gas, do not cook it entirely.. make it 30% cook..

4. Briefly cook the ingredients for like 20 secs on medium fire, then it's time to chunk in the 1 kilo worth of pork rib bones w/ meat (wooo.. it's better if you chopped it into smaller pieces)

1 kilo worth of ribs cost me only for 2.6O aud, which is about RM7.8O

5. Together with the pork rib bones, cook it while keep on stirring the ingredients for like 2-3 minutes until you could smell a brief fagrance of ginger.

stir the ingredients accordingly to spread the fragrance, i do it this way in order to add flavours to the meat

6. Next, pour in 1.5-2 litre of water (it's ok if it isnt boil) into the pot together with the pre-assorted spices and handful of groud peppers. Place the pot cover on top and let it boil for 2 hours at least (fire's volume should be around medium low, and besure that the contents of the pot are not too filled so that it won't overflow later)

"Wonderful" bak kut teh, with name like this, there is no reason why your bak kut teh would taste bad

In the meantime, you can wash your mushrooms and open the 2 cans of "kum chum koo", and also prepairing the dough for "yau cha kuai"

Since it was the first time for me to experiment on how to make a "yau cha kuai" or what they called it Sticky dough in Australia, for safety wise i bought a packet of pre-packed "yau cha kuai"'s flour instead of mixing it myself.

It says, made in Thailand.. hmm.. are u sure it's not the flour for goreng pisang?

Quite a simple packaging you have here.. for this "Tippy" Patongco Mix (what?).. Behind the packaging, on the instruction it says, dispatch the packet pour the flour bowl or container, add water and vegetable oil while beating it with a mixer until it shaped up. Or you can choose to follow the manual instruction, which is to mix water and oil with the flour simply mix it till it stick together and then transfer it to a "flart" surface. Further the procedure by applying 300 "vigorous" fold on the dough (wow.. canggih nya). Basically, just knead the dough like how normally you normally prepare your pastry dish, by kneading the dough using your palm, strech the dough on the surface, then flip it and fold it over on where you begin and repeat the process for 300 times (I did try to count.. tho i lost count half way)

Too bad i do not have a more illustrative pic to show you how to knead it.. this is the best i can do

After the dough is shaped up (it will still be sticky a little), let it be for 10-15 minutes before you heat up the frying pan with lots of oil to deep fry it. Now, just before you fry it, here's the tricky part.. you need to know how to shape the dough in order to make it looks the one you buy from some hawker uncle in pasar pagi. First, flatten the dough with the usage of a rolling pin or a big ketchup bottle (that's what i used at least), spread it until it's about .7-1cm thin. Then cut it into smaller pieces (rectangular shape) bout 1cm witdh and 4cm long. Next, just before you deep fry it sprinkle a little bit of water on one side of the sliced rectangular dough and stick another dough on top of it (it might looks abit flat or like placing 2 pieces of white chocolate on top of one another), then slowly place it into the frying pan and deep fry it until the skin turns brown (tip: test the heat of the oil by throwing some smaller pieces of dough or cacat looking dough into the pan first, after the skin turns brown scoop it up and taste it, test it whether the middle of the dough is already cooked or not.. if it isnt, lower the fire, adjust the heat and try again)

Now, here's the final result of the chinese delicacy believed to be past to Malaysia from the Cantonese culture.. *point below

Trust me, it looks 100% like the real one, and taste 80% like it

OK.. by now, it should be about time for you to check on your bak kut teh.. So, back to the procedure

7. Now, open the pot cover, pour in all your mushrooms (except for kum chum koo), together with 2 teaspoons of salts and about 3-4 tablespoons of light soya sauce (you could add more later). Close the pot cover again and boil it for another one an a half to 2 hours

Woah, now it is the mushrooms' turn to smile at me.. *drool...

9. By now, all the meat should be cooked already, but in order to make sure that the taste of the soup is at its best, check on the garlics whether it's already melted or kinda like fully absorbed into the soup. Take a spoon and test out the taste of the soup, if it isnt salty enough, add a lil bit of salts and/or light soya sauce to taste (besure to stir the bottom of the pot before you taste it)

10. After making sure of the taste, just pour in the kum chum koo, leave it there for say 2 minutes, then it's all ready to serve. (Tip: do not throw away the leftovers of the soup.. keep it in the refrigerator or something, reheat it the next day, it will taste 20-30% nicer, trust me)

Now, bring out rice, yau cha kuai, and lettuce, along with the main course- the unhealthy but delicious Bak Kut Teh, and enjoy your meal!

With the addition of ginger, this bak kut teh possessed a slight spicy touch.. lovely!

As mentioned before, i cooked satay at bout a week ago as well.. yeap, it was nice, and of course i m willing to share the recipe as well.. but not today, i am bit too tired and getting lazy to continue, so here's a picture of the satays i made (as a spoiler or something like that)

about 20-30 sticks of satays, along with Curry made by Aaron & Lenny and some chinese pancakes by lenny

In 2-3 days time, i will post up the recipe, till then, happy deepavali to those who celebrate it and Selamat Hari Raya to all my malay friends..!!!

Just a lil bit more

2005-10-27T02:58:00.000+09:30

It's true that i m very much looking forward towards the moment where i walk up the stage and receive the scroll of degree from whoever in-charge that signified my success in completing a bachelor degree. I'm glad that i could achieve that in such a young age.. i m really lucky..
However, maybe because i often fantasized too much or get carried over with the thought that ahh my life in Adelaide is finally going to be over.. must relax abit.. slack off abit.. slumber abit..
hmm.. laid back attitudes like that arent really bad most of the time, but definitely not advisable for me to carry on that now.. As i still 2 more assignments to deal with before my final black & white battle with all my lecturers on paper.

Recently many things happened around me got me distracted from being too gung ho in my studies and that's not good.. So many people's birthdays are approaching or already over (like yesterday, just celebrated Sher's birthday with da gang and a day just spent like that.. i m not complaining tho.. it was fun after all) and also my own birthday *wink, oh yea, SL if you are reading this thanks for the pressie.. tho u mistakenly remembered my birthdate wrongly (anyway, i got to receive them earlier.. muahaha) and also alot of other stuffs.. mentally, emotionally, physically (i miss my weekly football session) and biochemically (suffered from caffein withdrawal symptom.. trying to quit those poison or cut down)

And suprisingly, i did not play any games or attempted to play (except for Yahoo's Go and some crappy flash games) for more than 2 weeks already, not even my WoW, mostly becoz my credit for WoW just ran out and i m too lazy to recharge it or something.. and i think it would be a good negative reinforcement to push myself more to commit in this one last thrust for my first bachelor degree.

Unlike many other unis, UniSA's schedules for exams are always later than expected.. we normally start our first exam when ppl in monash or melb Uni already finished all of theirs.. grr..

Courses
Counselling & Psychotherapy 11/14 18:30 essay
Introduction to Org Psychology 11/16 14:00 MCQ
Biological & learning Psych 11/21 09:00 MCQ
Research Method 2 11/22 14:00 Openbook

Above i attached the lovely timetable of my exams.. luckily the management people are kind enough to seperate the two big guns far apart from each other.. As Counselling and Psychotherapy's exam is really a killer in terms of both mental and physical fatigue.. as you need to complete 6 bloody essay questions in 2 hrs.. tho Bryan Gerner (my lecturer) is kind enough to give us the questions before hand, but there are like 12-14 of them, and only 6 will come out.. please.. somebody do the math for me and tell me how many essays i need to prepare at the minimum cost? For Org Psych and Bio & Learning psych, the paper exams arent really a big deal at all as compared to the other 2 subjects, as it's only a 1 hr multiple choice question exam.. nonetheless i wont wanna screw that up either.. And lastly.. the biggest nightmare for a stats hater like me.. RM2!! It's a 3 hr open book exam on statistics, calculations and SPSS interpretations.. oh man.. judging from the fact that Cathy Balfour (my lecturer) finalized it as an open book test.. i could imagine the difficulty level and amount of stats and numeric figures i need to jumble up and make senses out of it.. Argh! what a pain..! But oh well.. unlike my previous naive thoughts on psychology, research methods and stats are very important in psychology.. hmm.. hmm.. sighz..

Oh well.. guess i should keep myself occupied more with my academic related works and not wasting too much time on pondering with thoughts that cant be answered anytime soon.. and man.. I really need some luck for my RM2 exam.. maybe i should get myself a goodluck charm or something.. as i dont really have or believe in these things most of the time.. like lucky underwear, lucky shirt, some weird ass aztec looking pendant, chinese's "Fu", etc..

*some bonus feature for this entry

Things i've learnt recently:
#1 how to cook green curry
#2 perfected my bak kut teh skill

#3 how to cook decent malaysian style satay

#4 never trust pre-made satay sauce (especially Kan Tong's)

#5 caffeine keeps you awake and lethargic at the same time, so reduce the dosage/intake

#6 anxiety keeps you worried and disorientated, so don't frown, sleep.

#7 dont take any caffeine induced substances, so that u can sleep well

#8 Birds are evil (not talking bout you albert)

#9 a present not neccesarily need to be tangible matters

#10 if you know you are nocturnal, disorientate your abnormal sleeping pattern, so that you are normal back again.

#11 loneliness is treassureable

#12 despair, like sleeping pattern, can be solved

#13 hope, like satay need to burn well before it taste nicer (not too burnt tho)

#14 sense of achievement, like bak kut teh, shouldnt be too jelak, too arrogant = no good

#15 Love, like green curry can be tricky to succeed

#16 and lastly, every single thing happened in your life, holds a role to teach you something.

Non-Practical Invention Part I : Vehicle

2005-10-25T20:59:00.000+09:30

Initially i wanted to post up pictures of the bak kut teh i made 3-4 days ago, along with the recipe, the process, and stories when we were eating it. But oh well, due to some technical issues, i couldnt get the photos from Sher Mayne yet (your fault! hehe), as i didnt have a camera with me at that moment you see, since we cook at her place.. so i guess while waiting for the photos to arrive, i shall post something else to prevent this site from being so dead and swingy.

So, as the title inferred, it's about scientific inventions that are fancy by looks but useless in reality, in this entry, non-practical vehicles will be my top priority in reviewing. According to some dude in Mercedes Benz (in some documentary), he said, "designing a car is like designing a remote house, it must be convenient and perfect by looks, usage, mileage, safety, SPEED, in order to achieve its purpose". Except for his negligence of price (it's also very important to us consumer leh), i totally agree to the above statement. Unlike simple products like clothing, shoe, furniture, food, wife (oops!).... Vehicles has many criteria to meet in order to be optimal and marketable, though you might argue that it's style and design of the vehicle IS very important, but to me, what's more important is its capability to match will all the criteria as a whole.

Legendary beauty... Burgati Veyron, it's like Angelina Jolie of Cars, Elizabeth Taylor of Vehicles, sexy!

Veyron, yes, without a doubt, very sexy, and pretty fast as well i can guarantee.. but what if i tell you that a single bolt to screw the rim in could cost you more than 40usd? and the entire car worth more than 3 mil usd (this version)? hmm.. i guess the closest i can achieve is to get a miniature version of it.. Poorgati Veyron..

Price is a serious problem to many consumers, as majority of us arent sons and daughters of sultan, king, tycoon, or fortune teller. (eh they very rich one leh) So, something like veyron is definitely out of our reach in normal consequences (u can try to rob it). Therefore deprivation in possessing stylish and COOL stuff provokes a minority among us to make up with what they could do, and produce utter crappy modification or vivid replication of supercars like this...

lol.. like piloting lala spaceship like that... if by doing all these make you comfortable... add a few more neons leh

eh mister, your eye sight very bad ah? paddle also need to neon

By modifying cars in an utter odd manner might somehow boost these people's inferiority complex and make them feels a lil bit superior when they ride it on the road along a beemer, and they can say, "eh, ur car so expensive ah, but paddle got neon or not? meter can shine or not? Speaker can crack or not? cannot leh! hahahaha" *insert annoying ahbeng's laughter

Anyway, back to the post, damn, i got too carried away by the whole ah beng revolution thing.. damnit.. everything must be colorful, unmatched, and "pukable". So, like i said, a perfect car isnt easy to create, yet even harder to own one.. It's ok to have a dream car, even if you know the chances for you to own one is as slim as Michael Jackson being not guilty (hmmm...) Anyhow, because of those scientist, mechanics, and car engineers that dreams, we have variation of cars, and because of their constant efforts, many evolution has been introduced (see, evo also got generation 8, proton pun got gen 2) Though sometimes, i would say they seriously tried too hard..

this "thing" by peugeot here is just.. plain weird

According to the Peugeot technicians, this concept vehicle aims to eliminate many incapabilities of motorbike, scooter and so on.. It possessed smart turning manuveur (serious?), wonderful mileage management, and comfortable movement (what? by riding in a superman position?).. Hmmm.... i really wonder..

another weird ass err.. "car" by peugeot

So, with a doorless "car" that looks like a fish tank like this.. what are you trying to achieve here ah? Though it claims to be categorized as part of smart car.. hmm well to me the design isnt very smart..

the new evolution of the biker gang!!! lol if i see them on the road with that, i run for sure

The roundish vehicle from the top part of the pic, looks kinda familiar.. like some weird ass spaceship/vehicle in some sci-fi movies, and i am impressed that someone actually willing to cough out a sum of money to invent stuffs like that.. It claims again to be a safer version of biking (of coz.. i dun think it can move very fast, tho it looks really cool)
For the second vehicle on the bottom part of the pic, i actually kinda like it, it's suppose to be some german-jap cross company project or something like that.. not too sure.. but the design is pretty cool and sleek.. advanced monowheel huh.. i like it.. tho it looks bit fragile..and dangerous..

lazy to research on this, anyway cool car in first sight huh?

Not too sure what model this is, but one thing for sure these guys who designed it never been to any tropical country or never planned to sell it there.. Imagine, driving this car in Malaysia during one fine sunny day.. *sweat.... If you managed to get only a heatstroke, you are considered lucky...

Vehicles are important to us, mainly because of its function to transport us to the destination we wanna go, its ability to be there faster or slower, its safety capability, but not so much bout the looks, speaker system, NEON, and of coz the mileage. It's true that to many guys cars are like wives, as it represent your status, style, taste and maybe achievement. Therefore, i could understand the feelings of why people wanna decorate their cars, add a lil bit of stickers here, a lil bit of spoiler there, changing the rims, convert to buckle seats, adding NEON (hey!), etc.., as in a modern world cars are like part of us, especially if you are living in a country with lousy public transportation services like.. M*******. But please, don't love your car too much, till you need to add tails for them, installing blue color light bulbs below their tummy, renovating their behind (boot) by moving in audio system.. please.. you are abusing them.. Maybe we should start some anti-car abuse organization or something like that (ACAO.. lol)

Furthermore, car scientists and engineers.. please please please.. invent according to our needs, try harder to figure out how to reduce vehicles' petrol consumption, try to produce cars with optimal function yet cheaper in price, but not spaceship looking car that only sons of some sultan or kings could purchase.

Learn from the japs or Koreans, design some contemporary stuffs.. no need to be so funky and no need to brush every records with every production.. what's more important is consumer's benifits.. :P teaching you how to do business here.. hehe

Be practical bit la..

Cravings...

2005-10-21T00:03:00.000+09:30

Oh man.. i m not trying to say that my cooking sucks, or the food here (adelaide) sucks, or whatever.. but Man.. i freaking miss malaysian foods.. and also i m getting bored of my own cooking..

a good old small packet of nasi lemak like this would be satisfying enough if i could get it here..
I tried cooking it myself, it wasnt bad, just that i forgot to off the rice cooker, and it continue boiling the rest of my rice and therefore resulted in more of a "nasi lemak bakar" then a normal nasi lemak, nasi lemak.. (i finally know how to cook a decent dish of sambal anchovies, dun believe ask sher mayne and justin) Anyhow, it's bit troublesome to cook it every now and then, coz it's a bit difficult and expensive to get certain ingredients here.. namely pandan leaves, and bloody ikan bilis.

I want Malaysian food.. !!!

There are at least 50 types of malaysian food i wanna eat and enjoy.. it will be troublesome for me to list all of it down here.. but trust me, i m seriously gonna eat all of it when i get back..

Alright, since i m taking a break now.. i shall name a few..

20 types of malaysian food that i am currently craving for (a few?)
*in no particular order

1. Nasi Lemak... (there are a few stores, namely Steven's corner's, KPD Maxis's nasi kangkang, KPD road side uncle, and Kepong Market's)

2. SatayyyyYY, yes i know i could get some decent satays here as well.. but all those are nothing when compared to Kajang's... *slurp

the bigger the fire, the burner the satay turns out, the better it tastes (not too burnt tho)

3. Kun Kei's Claypot Chicken Rice (somewhere around Atria in DJ)

4. Pork Chop Rice in Kun Kei as well.. my gosh.. the portion is really huge for rm5

5. William's Pastas.. all types.. freaking kick ass man.. Australian Italian you need to learn to be more generous with ur ingredients and pricing.. overcome those problems first before u claimed ur pasta to be the best in the world

6. Authentic Malaysian-only RAMLI burger!!! it rox when u make them slice thru the patty and taruh all the seasonings in between.. (i know damn unhealthy.. but who cares?)

decent skill of egg spreading is a must for all ramli burger seller, and this guy failed

7. Jalan 222's "kwong fu chao".. with rm2.50 more of "chu yao cha" = demonic contract to ultimate oral input satisfaction (too bad they dont have a website)

8. Otak-otak.. nyonya style.. not the bakar type

9. Ipoh Kai Fun (Chicken Rice) with alot of bean sprouts and pork balls (as in.. something like fish balls.. not talking bout testicles here), 1 notable store in klang valley, the ipoh kai fun shop in Jalan Gasing (in front of CHS, wonderful memory).

damn.. the chicken breast is like smiling wide at me and says, "come.. eat me.. eat me.."

10. Sambal Kangkung.. damn adelaide.. i can never find kangkung here..

11. Malaysian style thick-soya-sauce-flooded-wantan mee, it might not be as authentic and as original as the hongkong ones i ate over here.. and the wantan is seriously.. just the skin.. unlike hongkong one with nice portion of fillings.. but oh well.. it tastes great after all

12. Ikan BAKAR..!!! Sting ray ROX.. squid isnt bad as well.. (wait that's not ikan) and that's ikan tongkol by the way *point below

13. Ying Yong in the coffeeshop in Paramount.. kick ass man

14. SS2 Murni's Claypot lou shu fun

15. again Steven's corner's Cheese naan..

16. PENANG CHAR KOAY TEOW, with extra hot chilli, eggs and more chilli!!

17. Ipoh Hor Fun.. yeah i do enjoy koay teow in soup as well..

18. CHAR SIEW and SIEW YUK they called it BBQ pork and roasted pork here in Australia.. well.. it's not as nice after all!!!

lol.. i want it all... yum yum

19. Bak kut teh!! not neccesarily Klang's one, Kepong got some nice one also.. even section 14/15 in Subang.. oh yea.. we are gonna cook it this saturday and i m the cook.. muahaha

20. and lastly... the nearly forgotten kunyit rice

again.. with a nice portion of chicken curry, the dish itself is trying to seduce me

Hmm.. that's it for now.. tho in my mind there are still at least 20-30 types that i would like to list it down.. but oh well.. getting lazy here.. and really HUNGRY.. now i know it's almost impossible for a good food review journalist to keep a decent weight image of themselves unless you are forbidden to eat the food but just to look at the picture.. then again.. that's tempting and saliva inducing enuff..

damnit.. i guess i have to start controlling my weight and loosing some fat components from now.. since i already made an oath to completely devote myself to the malaysian food and beverage industry (in terms of consuming) after i get back for holidays.. I should loose some before i consume more 'delicious poisons' (in the eyes of nutritionist and health-OVERconscious individuals)

Before it's too late.. and end up like this *point below

i dun want to become monster like this wey.. Becoming a Sumo wrestler was never a dream for me.. so, hell no!

By the way, i am organizing a food trip tour around malaysia, specifically from starting from KL to Ipoh then to Penang and all the way up to Alor Setar, so far confirmed members are myself-the tourleader :D, Keith-anything but accomodation manager (please.. i dun wanna end up in some apartment with transparent toilet door), Joel- a she and he backup driver, and a stand in MPPJ (if we somehow couldnt finish our food, "she" will be the man!!) and Jason (fine, dun wanna call u gayson d.. later u really become one and attempting to convert us) - the multipurpose bitch/victim/punchingbag(unless jarrod joins)/scapegoat/blacksheep, he might sounds a little useless, but with a tag name that long, it will be a bit of a pity to not bring him along.. anyway, if we ran out of money, we can pawn him for money; if we ran into troubles, he can be out bulletproof vest; if we got chase but dogs, wait.. the dogs will only attack him anyway, same goes for mosquitos and all kind of insects.. like i said before he's multipurpose
Anyway, anyone else wanna join? if got more than 5 ppl, we can try to bring in 1 or more cars
Contact me or any of the members for further details.. anyone is welcome!

15 to 20

2005-10-17T23:58:00.000+09:30

After handling in my report for Organizational Psychology on friday, I was in a mood of floating around without my soul in ma body.. just waiting for the time to spend away while my body slowly recover back its potential to function.. Thus, i did completely nothing constructive for the past 2 days, cept for a completion of 2 poems, a slight progress on my on-going fiction, and a succeeded in cooking steam rice with green curry.. too bad i was too excited over my success and ate it before i realized that i should take down a picture or two.. damnit

Back to the entry, the title is rather vague and vivid.. huh.. uno like those cliche movie title "13th going on 30" "50days" "8days" those kinda thing.. hmm.. it's nothing much actually.. it's just a brief reminder for me, myself, and those who care, that.. in 15 days time i am going to turn 20!!
*wink *hint hint

Since ancient time, no matter eastern or western culture, nomads or settlers, warrior tribe or farmer colony, in most culture it seems that the day of your birth in each year is something that worthwhile to celebrate for.. hmm.. i really wonder why.. why is it that this sense of happiness or needs to celebrate is applied universally (almost.. i cant think of any culture that forbid the celebration of birthday) To me, yes, it's something to be proud of since this is the day where the hero of the coming future was born, and it might be neccesary to held a celebration or occasion each year to remind everybody about that.. but at the sametime it's also an official reminder to everyone that.. yes i am getting older.. by 1 yr (officially), and it reminds that, that day was also the day when my mother had to suffer for hours in order to squeeze me out.. it reminds me of things and stuffs i received on that day of every year, it reminds me of everyone who helped me, loved me, hated me, and those who still kept on doing the same over and over again, even when i am no longer a small little kid who needs guidance on every single step i take.. however, i do appreciate it still.. very much.. yeah.. that day of the year.. it's coming

2nd of November, 1985.. the date followed me into my life, the date that represents me in every single documents, the date told by my kindergarten teacher as the most important date that i must remember no matter what, the date that will be carved on my epitaph stone, the date that will see me rise and fall..

I am glad that the youngest son of my family, i am happy that i belong to that family, and i am happy that i am growing well without much accident happened to me.. I am pretty well.. however, the fact that i m turning 20 without much achievement, experience and success in any major sense just doesnt make feel like decent.. I havent represent my home country for anything, i havent do anything like bungee and sky-diving, havent publish a book, havent this, havent that.. havent havent havent.. Damn, there's so manything that i wanna do yet i couldnt cover it in the past 20 yrs.. I am going to say goodbye to my teenage life and accepting the beginning of adulthood, and i hope till then the willpower within me will increased and prolong my urge to fulfill all my dreams and goals..

For now, i have nothing more to ask for, but a decent rest and growth until i am done for in Adelaide, and UniSA.. After this year, i shall further my footstep to around the world..
This year, i took a step leaping from Malaysia to Adelaide, next year, it will be melbourne, year after that.. hmm.. hmm.. year.. after that.. hmm any fortune teller out there?

This entry is rather ambiguous, since i myself dont really know why i wanna put all these on.. hmm.. just random thougths, impulse and intuition.. and as a bold reminder to the world that... YES.. my BIRTHDAY is coming soon.. Soon.. SOON... SOOOOOOONNNNNN....

*hint hint again again

the "SLAT-er" party

2005-10-12T17:43:00.000+09:30

Again, i m one day late to post up my interesting daily occurrence, but oh well, let's focus on the core of the entry itself instead of pinpointing on my slumber-ness.

Yesterday, at bout 3.30pm, just half an hour before our Learning Psychology's practical where we are suppose to observe this thing called "slater" (no, not Christian Slater, we weren't trying to cage him and electricute him, since he could cloak himself) and their decision making function, me and justin were running around our house and trying to look for them. At that moment, none of us has any idea on how this slater looks like (hopefully not a bug with a face like Christian Slater) Hmm.. for those of you who are lazy and decided not to click on the link to have a proper look on this cute lil bug thing, here's some photo of those cuties

the one we caught was grey in color

Looks abit like flea or tic huh?

Due to lack of experience in slater catching and lack of information, we managed to catch only 1, as we were told that those little bastards here love to hide under bricks, woods, stones, or wherever that is dark, and wet.. So, we looked around the house, hunting for them, but end up only one.. tho it is relatively fat (too bad taada picture) and extremely lively. Later on when we meet up with the rest of the people in the pract, then only they tell us that we should look around trees and plants... Damn it.. anyway, Sher Mayne and Lenny they all caught like tons of them, though most of them looks aneroxic to me, as they are so skinny and petite as compared to "Aaron Slater" (my birthday present to Aaron Chong :P)

The difference of size and body mass is like Wynona Ryder versus Arnold the governor (too lazy to find the pics, imagine it yourself), you get the idea?

Anyway, back to our experiment, it was a relatively simple experiment, what we need to do, is to set up a T-junction looking maze on a piece of tile, and release the slater (1 by 1) at the tail of the T and observe whether they decided to take a left or right turn.. Ok.. it's a weird experiment for a psychologist student.. Anyhow, each round we had to measure those "Slater" (as pronounced as SLUT-ters by us.. :P), clean up the tile and maze (as the scent of the previous SLUTTER might influence the decision of the current SLUTTER), time their time of completion and observe which direction they would go. Each of us had a specific duty, as i was the chief wiper, my job is to clean the maze and tile, everytime the slutter completed a race; Miza's job is to catch (or rather toy with) them up from the container and measure their body length; while Aaron and Hemah were responsible on recording down the details that we were suppose to observe; Sher Mayne was the time keeper and Justin was the Slutter relocater, as he is responsible on putting them into the maze.. hmm.. so.. lenny, what bout you ah? hmm.. so she's the TRUE observer, just stood there and observe.. lol

The entire progress was ordinary, until suddenly, when Justin decided to put the slutter onto the tile first.. then only place the maze on them, more like capturing them with the T-Looking maze, he was successful in doing that for quite awhile, until he accidentally squished or smashed the maze on one of this poor little Slutters.. After the collision, the poor lil guy couldn't even walk straight, and we concluded that Justin's little action here paralyzed the lil bug and so we had to replace it with another slutter. Out of a sudden, Lenny came up with the topic of naming Justing as "the Slutter Killer" and nonsense along this line.. However, justin decided to ignore it and continue with the continue with the experiment, while he was setting up the maze and about to release the slater, he noticed that Sher Mayne, the Timekeeper wasnt paying attention, so he shouted,"Eh, Sher it's COmming" hmm..

Come, Comme, Comm, Cum, Cumm, hmm tho it's just a word, a tone of pronuntiation, but becoz of the situation, tone, and people around you, a simply face like "it's coming" can cause the rise of massive nasty thoughts.. lol.. haha.. yeap, due to that incident we (except for the pure and innocence Justin) continued our nonsensical talk about Justin the "Slutter" killer, and how it could end up being a movie (or porno) and the slogan can be something like, "They are coming, and be sure to get "Blown" away" , "If you dont show youself, I will make you Come", etc
(p.s for those who couldnt get the sense out of all these.. you are safe, it has been officially justified that your mind is pure, uncontaminated, and please don't try to find out what it means, if you wanna keep your brain clean, :P)

Haha..anyway, we finished our entire experiment in bout 70 mins, trapping and observing 20 (21 if you considered the first victim of Justin the slutter killer as one) slaters. It was a fun experiment, really.. though i am still trying to figure out a clear direction on how this is going to link with learning psych.. but yea it was fun.. And so, we did not keep them as a pet or slaughter them bruttaly, we actually set them free to the wild somewhere within our uni compound, and i sincerely hope that Aaron Slater will be safe and be well!

Strived for the "Plan"

2005-10-10T23:59:00.000+09:30

Actually this entry is slightly outdated.. as i should update it yesterday instead of today..

Yeap, yesterday was one hell of a day.. that brought a few unexpected surprises to me.. Oh well.. i started the day without a plan anyhow..

To begin the story.. the first glimpse of the day(yesterday) was awarded to me by Liew (my housemate) when he knocked on my door at bout 4.15pm (yes.. i m such a koala..i need 20 hrs of sleep).. To be frank.. i was a bit piss at him at first.. since i really needed my sleep at that time.. and the first thing that came out from his mouth was this, "Eh, Freddy ah, do you want to go to Simple Plan's concert?" *......
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After a brief 5-7 secs of silence.. "Huh?" is the only response i could come up with for his question.. Anyway, he restated his question again, and demand an answer from me.. so since he was so nice to ask me bout it.. i asked him, "when is it?" he replied, "2 and a half hours later"

Again.. his reply really smacked me around n left me mind stoned for a few more seconds..

Maybe i was too blur and still remained at my alpha state of mind.. i couldnt think of a reason and any excuse to refuse his offer.. since he said i only need to pay 50% of the price for the ticket.. So, i accepted his invitation to this Simple Plan concert without any initial plan or motivation for it..

So, we left our house at bout 5.10pm for the concert..and while on our way in the public bus.. i just realized that.. Liew.. he dont even know WHO is simple plan (that might be a good thing actually) yet he decided to go to check it out.. hmm...

Anyway, cut the crap short, we reached the city 20 mins later, shopped for our dinner and bunked at Liew's friend's place - Aaron Nathan, a very nice indian guy who offered me countless shots of drinks before the concert.. For this incident i deduct my previous remarks on most Indians are stingy.. only some indians are like that.. some of them can be pretty generous and friendly...

We then took a cab from around his place at bout 7.20 and reached the Adelaide Entertainment Center at 7.30... Initially our plan was to push together and get to the front before Simple Plan's performance, however due to the fact that most of the crowds there are young healthy strong looking Australian teens that although aged around 14-17 yet physically more superior than us witty Asians, our fleet of platoons got seperated into 2 groups, when Aaron the front soldier man managed to escort only Private Sashi but left me, Corporal Liew and Private Jade behind..

I never know that Young Australian kids could be SOOOO barbaric.. and remarkably strong especially when the first opening band - Kisschassy (some local bands) performed one of their hit songs, and everybody just stomped around and squished each other into everyone.. damn.. now i know where the Australian national rugby players train their endurance and techniques...
And before i could recover my sense, i realized that 3 of us were moving in front without putting any personal efforts.. i felt as if i m just like a small little leaf floating on the river.. i cant control my movement at all and just kept following the flow.. sighz.. young kids nowadays..

A moment later, All American Rejects - the second opening band came out and do their thing.. I've heard of them before, they are actually pretty established themselve.. yet they had to run this kinda small errant for the almighty Simple Plan, and yeah i can feel their depression.. Anyhow, frankly speaking i prefer their music way more than Simple Plan, especially one of their hit songs - Swing Swing, it is really a good song, and the live version was good as well.. And since i was paying more attention to song, i didnt realize that the flow that generated by the crowds has attempted to suck me into somewhere else like the quicksand and seperate me from my fellow platoons, so i quickly pulled myself back to the squad..

And while trying to reunite with them, i felt a sudden shock impact on my head, and my sensorimotor reflexes quickly processes the inputs of pain and i realized that somebody's elbow hit right on the softspot of my headskull.. it was &@(&(#$ painful.. I looked back and saw this 19-20 years old looking Australian girl, smiling at me and just before she apologized, she popped out with this line," Hey, Benny(or issit kenny) is that you?!?!" And just before i could come up with an answer, she pulled me away from my initial direction and dragged me to her group of friends.. (oh gosh, she completely defeated me in terms of strength man)

She introduced herself to me, and her name's Carla, and since i was already lost and got dragged into her group somehow, i decided to stick along with them.. and let's just be friends.. I had absolute no problem on hanging out with them until when i found out that.. all of them were only 16!!!! Goodness!! and all this while i thought that they were at least 18-19!! So, i treated them like the age i perceived them to be and spoke to them with a matured tone and all.. but now you are telling me that they were only 16??!!! Gosh, it makes me looked like a bloody pedophilliac since most of them were females.. (oh yea, i couldnt take any picture with my camera, as i left it with liew, and i think it's abit big and clumsy to bring it out as well)

So, i behaved like a freaking lost child and looks like a stupid squirrel squishing around a bunch of gold-haired gorrillas.. But somehow or rather it was fun in its own way, as i m practically aggressive in nature, and when you introduced a new born predator to a group of violence loving teenagers, that's it.. case closed.. We managed to clear the path and fougth our way through to the very front of the concert 3 songs after Simple Plan appeared.. In the process.. i received countless shots of upper cut, left/right hooks, shoulder thrusts, boob smashs, toe crackers, etc..
It was a tough road to kill..

After reaching the top.. you cant really do much there already except for listening to the formulated-all-sounds-the-same Simple Plan's simple songs.. So, basically i just dragged my way through and had a lil bit of chats with some of the new gorrilla friends that i've just met through Carla (or Kayla).. They performed for bout 90 minutes, including 2-3 encore songs..
Personally i think that they arent exactly a very good band, in terms of technique and quality of songs, but they are really good with few things, 1) provoking the audience (it's like splashing bloods in front of thousands of hungry predators), 2) then cheer them up again with nation-related praises and actions (the whole Aussy! Aussy! Aussy! Oi! Oi! Oi! thinggy, it's something equivalent to malaysian's "Malaysia Boleh" thing..) , 3) making catchy tunes with repetative rhythms, 4) writing lyrics with bold languistic and words that are very easy to remember and sing along with, 5) using the F words, 6) Occasionally the A**holes, 7) and not afraid to show their beer bellies in front of blood thristy gorrillas...

I am really amazed at the fact that i actually managed to survive the entire concert without passing out and all.. afterall, i got lost from my mates n all.. And just before the end of the concert, when all of the band members starting to throw all the "free gifts" like guitar picks, brandless drum sticks, water bottles (!), sweat towels, etc.. The vocalist (i dunno his name.. i just know that he's the fattest of them all) walked towards my direction and threw some black coloured sock-looking like object towards my direction.. With years of experience as a goalkeeper, my reflexes denied my brain's order and instructs my hand to raise up and grab that dodgy looking object..

Guess what.. it's one side of his wrist glove

It does looks like sock right? lol

And this is how it looks like after u put it on.. it's freaking nameless and worn off (i washed it before i put it on)

Yeap, this is the bloody nameless wrist glove i snatched it from the rest of the hungry gorrillas (Jase, i didnt steal it from the vocalist la, he threw it towards me one, it's freaking worn off anyway) It was all sweaty.. when i first hold on to it.. I do not know whether i should be happy or sad.. As.. i expected it to be something of a "brand" uno.. like nike or adidas.. or at least a reebok.. i never expected it to be something NAMELESS and that cacat in condition sommore.. man.. u can get this kinda shit in every single K-Mart man.. damn there goes my plan of selling it on ebay and make some money out of it.. grr..

All in all.. yesterday night was fun!! seriously.. but mainly not becoz of the fan tho.. I am happy because, 1) got to participate in such a big scale concert with only 28 aud, 2) Met so many young australian friends (some of them are hot.. Carla especially.. too bad, only 16, and i dun really wanna go out with ang mohs.. as in into serious relationship), 3) They mistaken me as someone 16, :P HAHA, 4) Got to witness All American Rejects' performance.. though only 4-5 songs, 5) managed to prove that Australians are generally more ganas than Malaysians, 6) somehow got my hands lay on the stupid sweaty wrist glove of a retarded looking celebrity, 7) got some free drinks from Aaron's house before the concert (Teacher's Scotch) and made some new friends there as well..

It might not be a good plan to go n watch Simple Plan without any plan in hand, but for my case, it ended up all good.. i am satisfied..

And PEACE OUT..

Badger Fever

2005-10-05T05:14:00.000+09:30

Somewhere around 4-5 years ago (or issit 6-7 yrs?), when the macromedia Flash technology hit the internet, many people attempted to create many many aimless, brainless, senseless, flash vids that has only 1 ultimate motive.. which is to reduce the amount of your functional braincells... Notable old time classic flash vids are like the infamous banana phone, ABC song, Peanut butter jelly time and many more..

Generally.. those flash vids that managed to make it big.. shared a few common features.. 1) they are equally brainless (most of them could temporarily reduce your IQ by 25 or more), 2) they are equally annoying (to those who cant tolerate stupidity and be amused by hypnotic tunes.. did i say HYPNOTIC??), 3) they have really really catchy tune (same principle as the famous numa numa dance), 4) and again.. it's really HYPNOTIC.. you could just let it on for like 30 mins.. some ppl actually did leave it on for hours

Maybe people really like the "stone" feeling.. and you could actually achieve it by looking at one of this vids.. repeatedly.. eventually without any chemical input you could reach the stoning stage in no time

And recently... one single flash video brushed the old records and made its own name with its very own uique style and all.. And that's our badgerbadger vid..

I m not talking bout the real badger, badger.. but...

This horrible creature *point below here that haunts many internet users' minds

The truly notorious BADGERBADGER known for its ability to kill your brain

On the surface.. the character itself looks pretty much cute and innocent.. huh.. hmm.. wait till you actually watch the vid.. Click here for first hand badger-ized experience..

This thing here.. got really famous around the end of last year.. and the disease continue to spread till now.. and it even has it own website!!! An independent host for just a single flash vid.. OMFG...

This thing is clearly evil.. yet some people still couldnt live without it.. some says it's almost equivalent to the addiction to ciggarrettes and hard drugs.. Woah... I do not deny that.. this vid actually possessed the capability to do so.. trust me.. i got haunted by it.. many many times.. According to some unknown forums, some dude in America actually rely on this vid to put his son to sleep.. LOL... please it's not a lullaby song.. it might works.. somehow.. at its slowly numb your senses and put you onto the euphoric alpha state which most sedative drugs could do..

The situation gotten worst.. as many people around decided to pick up the role as a plaguespreader by fowarding this infectious vid to all their friends.. and eventually it forms a big circle.. till even some American companies uses it as an advertising material.. yes.. They showed it on national TV.. for goodness sake.. (&#@# you intended to brainwash the population issit?

Here's a vid that showed the most severe symptom of getting tagged along by the badgerbadger movement.. (they obviously got brainwashed nicely.. and the badgers successfully took over the control of their brain and all..)

LOL >.<

Despite of the serious situation.. some people whom already been converted by the badgers add oil to the fire.. and made even more vids that pictured similar style as the original..

Here are some links you could click to dope yourself a lil (remember don't stare at it for too long.. make sure to set an alarm somewhere) - Santa, Footy (must watch if you are already a devotee of the badgerbadger clan), PotterPotter, Badgers of the Rings, badger-banana fusion... (damn! i m a plaguespreader myself here.. :P)

I guess.. i should stop here.. before someone decided to take an action against me or sue me or something.. lol..

Anyway.. enjoy it.. as long as you don't drug yourself too much with this.. and advice #1 dont watch it while drinking (you will DIE of "stonage" or braindead..) #2 try to get the song out of your mind by listening to something else that are less nasty.. #3 if you are seeing things.. like this kind of hallucination... *point below

ARGHH.. they are infecting my desktop!!!! ARGHHH!!!

Please please.. off that shit.. go drink some cold water, take a cold shower if you need to.. try to recover your sense ASAP.. it's poisonous!! nasty stuff..

So.. till my next post.. let's sing a song..

BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadger..
MushroomMushroom..
BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadger..
MushroomMushroom..
BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadger..
Snake..arhh..Snake..Snaaakkkeeeee...
BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerBadger..
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ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!

Disclaimer: watch the vid with your own care, Fred-factor holds no responsibility for the introduction and promotion of the vids.

Warlovers in disguise

2005-10-02T23:57:00.000+09:30

I m pissed.. as in really ANGRY.. GRRRrrr...

This morning.. (at bout 10.30am) while on my way home from Chinatown (after getting some PANDAN LEAVES and anchovies), just on the walkway right before the entrance of my house.. I saw a few pigeons gathering around the corner. Among the pigeons, there is this one particular pigeon, unlike the usual kinds around my area that possessed either a punk-mohawk looking hairstyle or cock-eyed breed, this one looks like DUCK.

one of the usual kinds around my area:

Old-skool punk rock lover with a mohawk hairstyle in the bird's region (sorry for the blur pic.. :P)

The other usual kind:

the cock-eyed breed, too bad i couldnt snap a pic from the front

And the now.. the duck looking pigeon:

the culprit of my later misfortune

On the first glimpse.. i really tot it was a duck.. hanging around with its multiracial accquaintances.. but it's indeed a pigeon.. or at least.. a bird that could fly.. sky high

Anyway, since i m not much of a "bird" person, i decided to just leave them alone and go back to my own hut.. and out of the sudden.. just before i entered the front yard of my house.. without a freaking warning.. this duck looking lil ruscal here flew towards me and tried to attack my nose!!
My gosh, it was quick, aggressive.. and without a doubt.. dangerous..

Thank god for my constant practices as a goalkeeper in football.. i barely managed to dodge the attack.. just to leave an opening for one of the cock-eyed dude to attempt to snatch away my beloved pandan leaves.. Everything looked as if it was well planned and it was ridiculous.. me being attacked by pigeons that are suppose to be the embodiment of PEACE??!! WTF???!! A symbol for peace and love.. *ka-pui!!

Anyhow, i managed to avoid even the second attack from the birds, and returned them with a warcry that sent them flying (that's when i realized that, yea that thing isnt a duck) Yes.. and that's the reason why i m so annoyed.. by the stupid birds.. trying to attack my nose as if it's a cherry or what.. while the others trying to steal my pandan leaves at the same time.. LOL, what's with all this man? Is our world really that corrupted till even the creature that suppose to bring luck and peace to mankind.. ATTACK us just to gain something in return for their sensation? And somemore.. a DUCK looking pigeon.. *puzzled.. Peacelover? NAH... pissed me off only

From today onwards.. i would like to declare that.. I HATE birds.. And they are all EVIL... they are all demons in disguise, they fooled us all!! I've been attacked by them ever since forever, around standard 4 when a crow attacked me for no reason, form 3 when some weird looking chicken chased me without a cause, 2 years back when my friend's dad's parrot poke my finger while i was trying to feed that brat.. this march while eating subways in Glenelg beach together with Justin and ended up being surrounded by unfriendly seagulls (a legion of them), few months back while visiting Cleland wildlife park, some turkey looking bird peck my hand (hard!! leaving a.. hmm beak mark?) just becoz Sher Mayne was telling me that it's friendly.. (yea right), and now almost got gang robbed by a syndicate formed by 3 races of pigeons.. that's it!

From today onwards.. if i have the chance.. I m going to take my revenge.. i will show no mercy to all of you birdies.. try to snatch my precious pandan leaves away from me? i m gonna strip u and pluck out all your feathers. Tried to attack my nose? I m gonna take my revenge and paint your beak PINK..

If i have the chance..
If i.. hmmm...

Additional message.. when i said birds.. i mean.. ALL birds.. from ostrich to pigeon, from eagle to duck, from chicken to kingfisher.. every single one of them!!

P.S- just realized that i made a super huge mistake.. that is.. Pigeons arent the embodiment that represent peace.. but DOVES.. instead they are the ones which represent poverty and disease (no wonder).. anyhow.. they are all BIRDS.. so WHO CARES???!!!

Unyielding Factors

2005-09-30T22:56:00.000+09:30

As an ordinary human myself, it's undeniable that in some moments of our lives we just cant seem to give in or yield on to a solution/circumstance that is suppose to be justified or at least be seen by the society as fair. Now, just think of which, when you behaved in an unreasonable manner for no apparent reason.. not trying to achieve anything or prove anything.. but just trying to be hard (not physically).. you get what i mean?

Simply put.. people can be stubborn at times without any good cause/reason/solution..
Some people think of it (stubbornness) as a way to hold on and put a stance point to their (mostly male entities) own principles/virtues/vivid-formation-of-sell-restricted-rules, ;P

One good example, you often see guys that cling on to a pair of old shoes.. which by right should be buried away and dedicate a tombstone for it.. u get what i mean? (i hav a fren.. wearing the same walking shoe for 6 yrs.. the problem is.. that's the only shoe i ever witness it on his feet...)

It's common to see guys holding a deep obsession to things/patterns/behaviors that they are used to and comfortable with and never thought of changing it or modify it..

Wearing the same shirt, using the same route everyday, eating the similar food, seeing similar friends, particular with arrangements of their cars.. etc.. u get what i mean?

Tho.. i m not saying that men are more stubborn than women.. perhaps no one in this world can make any serious comparison and measurement bout that matter.. but women are stubborn in their own ways as well.. tho in general in different fields than men

However, the unyielding factors arent always materialistic in form to women, for example, obsession towards their idols (no matter what happened to the idols, they are still equivalent to god, to the fans Brad Pitt is still single and a virgin in their hearts), the guy they adore in real life, to the colour they like (migosh.. i never knew pink is so evil.. it could completely swallowed one person and converts everything into PINK!!) , chocolate (especially during the day of the month), and ASAM (migosh.. u shud see how sher mayne they all constricts the asam.. u leave one packet there.. it will be gone like being evaporated in less than 5 mins)

We all have our own unyielding factors, stuffs/behaviors/thinking that we dont wanna give in and forcefully decided to carry on no matter what.. It's like scorpion's instinct to sting, moth's genetic coded idiocy to die early, turtle's cowardness to never die early, sunflowers' obssession of the sun, Goldfish's incapacity to stop eating, etc

We are all mulish/stubborn beings in our own ways... be it on thoughts, behaviors, or possession on materialistic means, we are...

For some strange reasons, i decided to list down a few unyielding factors of myself that no matter what;s the cost i wont give in.. at least for the next 5 yrs..

TOP 20 unyielding factors (in no particular order)

1. my childrish determination to get my hair braided/dreaded (no matter what i must complete this childhood dream of mine before i die)

2. my love for poetry.. nobody can take it away from me.. i know i m being stubborn even when i know that my writing style might not be as trendy as the angsty-i-wanna-slash-myself's kinda poetry

3. my ridiculous hobby of collecting stupid videos, mindless jokes and retarded pictures that killed my harddisk's memories day by day.

4. my instinctive urge of being sarcastic whenever the chances are given.. (it's bad i know.. it's bad.. but uno.. it;s i m like the moth striving for the fire.. couldnt help it)

5. my human-cant-explain fetish for all Aristotle's works/concepts/philosophies (stop bugging me.. i know some facts arent exactly valid.. and yes.. i m like an old man reading stuffs like this)

6. my biazed perception on chinese and viewed them as a smarter race among all.. as they are everywhere (not just because i m one of em), see for urself.. they discovered northpole n stayed there even before the spaniards discovered it (and argubly true that red indians might be chinese as well)

7. my ridiculous belief that if you stare into my eyes long enough i could read your mind ~~and tell your body measurement~~

8. my righteous behavior (or rather idiocy) to always support the underdogs in any league of any manner(almost always...)

9. my moth-suiciding beheviors of constantly performing of risky or senseless behaviors (electricuting myself with mild electronic devices, forcing myself to swallow wasabi, ginger, chocolate, lemon, and sarsi-flavored candies at one go, etc)

10. my constant hatred for anything flourosenct pink.. tho i have a pink tie.. shiny one summore

11. my even-god-couldnt-explain's tendency of calling Jaime, Jaime.. (i might be dyslexic in a way.. selective dyslexia)

12. my without-a-cause accusation of calling anyone i perceived as gay as gay.. for example ~~Gayson~~ Jason

13. i am stubborn when comes to taking pictures of the scenery.. but not humans

14. my boredom-inducing style of blogging, as i MUST induce bits of my ranting and the moral-of-the-story bits in each of my entry.. :P

15. i am ridiculous on my sleeping pattern, and not planning to do anything to it anytime soon

16. my self-belief prophecy that even last minute works can score a D for most subjects (D as in Distinction)

17. my self-proclaimed traits that.. i am STILL 19!! (expiry date 02.11.2005)

18. my unfriendly interpretation and urge to ruin anyone's evil plan if being detected by my divine-o-meter

19. my one sided view on.. Harry Potter is evil..

20. my entity as a whole as being unyielding and idiotic to made a promise that should never be granted and was being cast to a 1-yr's seal(expiry date 27.12.05) that i somehow suffered and being fooled of. (Curses and spells are existing in this world, trust me!)

Blah..

Conformity

2005-09-28T04:03:00.000+09:30

Concerning on the fact that people nowadays are trying very hard to follow the social perceived stereotype or what-you-called "trend". You know it when pay more attention to the people when you walk around in the city... One very obvious example would be, still remember when Matrix:Resolution (the last one.. hopefully) were screened on the cinemas all around malaysia (when i havent transferred to Adelaide yet), you could straightaway notices the quick changes in some of the population's dressing sense n all..

People starting to wear black, thick, bold sunglasses; wearing leather jacket or even trenchie in midvalley (i swear that i saw someone wearing it during that period) and all kind of nonsense that would make you look a tiny bit more like Neo (the cheating character in every sci-fi show) and Trinity.

When something seems to smell interesting and would fry up your appetite to test it out appeared in the society or being blessed by the media, ppl tend to follow, then once some of the more "influential" entity among the population picked it up.. the acquaintance of that particular "influential" entity would then followed and those around them tends to feel the pressure and later on decided to join...

Another example, ownership of an Ipod, why Ipod? it isnt the only GOOD mp3 player that provide all the functions that apple claims it possessed.. But why still it's so popular? 3 keys, 1-superior level of media frying, 2- image persuasion with sleek design of the casing,body that fascinate ppl's fetishes on the slimmest/tiniest/handy's title, and the cool-white-appleuser-must-have-earphones, 3- combination of 1&2 as the starter that later on burn up human's nature of "I-also-want" 's mentality. Without a doubt, ipod IS cool (i m thinking of getting one ass well if i hav money to spare) and i m not trying to criticise or anything.. ipod users please don't bare any grudge towards me just becoz of this.. (it's true anyway right?)

My point of bringing up all these, simply just to ellaborate more on our tendency to comform and stretch ourselves so that we could fit into the society or the community that you chose to belong to.. It's nothing bad actually on the surface. What's wrong of being common, social friendly and cookie-like to all the others in the society? What's wrong of seeing everybody wearing the similar dressing code, using the same phones, eating the same food, driving the same car, watching the same sorta movies, loving the same ideal forms of male/female (depending on your interest, bare no grudges toward homo-liking homosapiens;unless you are asexual), becoming the same ideal forms of male/female, dating the same ideal forms of person, and marrying... etc.. now.. see the problem?? If everybody behaves in that manner.. in 100 years time, everything would be "uniformalized" and everybody will be like cookies, one looking like the other. (p.s, at the sametime i m not trying to persuade you to be extremist... please don't turn yourself into goths or screwed up dressing victims or so)

So, since we cant really help and change how other wanna carry on their lives... the moral of the story is, be true to yourself, know what you like and conform only to stuffs that are harmless by nature and/or stuffs that you truly like.

Alright, so, that's the end of my moral teaching.. now i shall demonstrate on a practical behaviour that very-related to conformity... *drums rolling.. *ta-da , = that's filling in purposeless surveys and posting it on internet...

Since.. i've been tagged by both davors and jaime (stubbornly spelled it that way) the zebra, both somehow related to me one way or another; one's my blood related cousin and the other long distance relative of my ancestors' (first few hominids) prey back in africa. Due to that, i shall put in a lil bit of efforts to pull this one off and complete this infamous 7 tag thing with my utter sincerity and truthful responses.

Now, let's just bring it on!

Seven things I plan to do before I die:
1. Befriend with at least one of my personal idols (to name afew, Chris Cornell of Audioslave, Flea of RHCP, Sean Penn, Hayao Miyazaki, Chuck Pahlaniuk, etc)
2. have one of my creations, be it a book, manual or any sort, published and sell hot (bestseller if possible ;) )
3. Involved in a birth of a genius boy or girl
4. Achieve or succeed in something, so that someone would sincerely build a monumen/statue or something close to that as a remembrance of my existing life (even a nicely carved epitaph and gravestone might be sufficient)
5. Revive the oldschool-style of poetry by making tons n tons of good poems (refer to here, for sample; excuse me for promoting my other site :P)
6. Lay my footprints on these countries - Egypt, USA (NY n LA preferably), Germany (specifically Berlin), Bueno Aires, Lisbon and Greece.
7. Go on an outing with my katana/wakizashi (japanese sword) without getting caught into any trouble or complication

Seven things I could do:
1. Burp whenever and however loud i want it to
2. Seduce and calm down most stray cats (dun believe you ask my mates in Adelaide)
3. Down a can of bitterish guiness in one shot
4. chatting in msn, listening to songs, talking on the phone, arranging notes and eating chips at the sametime (that's y some old frens of mine called me octopus)
5. Poetry writing and still continue doing so in a very frequent basis
6. enduring lame jokes and improvising them
7. eat more than 7 (proper meals) or sometimes surviving on just 1 per day

Seven Celebrity crushes:
1. Sarah McLachlan (Mclaughlin) and her voice
2. Monica Bellucci ~ so unreal...
3. Franka Pontente ~ the actress in Run Lola (Lola rennt), 1998
4. Chiaki Kuriyama ~ especially when in Killbill vol.1
5. Carmen Soo ~ if you consider her as one
6. Rachel MacAdams
7. Chris Cornell ~ simply for his electrifying voice and eagle-like eyes.. how i wish i could possessed those 2 gifts

Seven physical traits I look for in my partner:
1. Hair, must have hair on top the head.. not baldness here, long, short, layered, colored, non-colored, as long as not bald (So, justin failed)
2. A touch of "naughtiness", am not really into the 100% clean, neat, nice-girl-next-door look.. tho it doesnt mean i do not welcome their presence.. (we all can be friends, semua orang pun boleh.. mari mari)
3. Not too short, not too tall (cant exceed 25 cms in both ways) i'm bout 167-169 btw if you wanna know, otherwise semua pun boleh, :P (no way i m gonna date a 190cm + girl)
4. fingers' proportion and finger nails.. (i know i m weird)
5. legs, precisely ankle (again... please dont judge me stereotypically..)
6. Jaw's proportion, other words, formation of the face (some ppl said by looking at how the jaw linked to the face skulls and cheekbones you could tell the basic facial features of a person)
7. Lips.. not too big.. not too thick.. some says Angelina Jolie's thick juicy lips are sexy.. i dun deny, it's sexy.. but not my ideal lips

7 Often Repeated WORDS/PHRASES: (tough ones... -.-)
1. This is what i called *take a deep breath.. ~ SKILL
2. forget it
3. bangla
4. yau mou l*n (paiseh paiseh, just being honest here)
5. Uhnn then?
6. lol.. (as in the pronunciation, meaning as same as wahlau, yo, etc)
7. So?

7 tags to go to:
1. Gayson/Jase/Jason
2. zebra (do it again)
3. Teddy
4. Fred (not me)
5. Brian Gerner (my lecturer lol)
6. Satan
7. Roy a.k.a Weizhi (doubt that u wanna do it tho)

Dreamy display ~ Howl's Moving Castle

2005-09-26T22:22:00.000+09:30

My first movie review in a blog form.. (stilll first proper movie review ever made by me)

It's a movie directed and produced by Hayao Miyazaki, the animator who won countless movie awards around the world and carved down deep and meaningful memories for viewers with wonderful anime works (all movies tho) like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997) and so on. This show (Howl's moving castle) is the second movie that forced him to come out of his retirement in order to finish the undone business that adopted by his animation company the famous "Studio Gibli".

Based on a novel - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Howl's Moving Castle follows the story of young Sophie Hatter, a bookworm, the eldest of two daughters, a girl doomed to an uninteresting life as a hat maker. Sophie resigns herself to her boring fate, but fate has other plans for her. Cursed by the Witch of the Waste with the body of a 90-year-old woman, she finds her way to the moving castle inhabited by the young handsome wizard - Howl, said by all to eat the souls of young girls.
Howl has been cursed by the Witch as well, and is seeking the love of young girl to help him break the curse. The book has enchanted readers of all ages for nearly 20 years, and the film was released on November 20, 2004 in Toho theaters across Japan.

After watching the show.. which followed no certain concrete flows.. the only thing in my mind was.. "it's so good that it shames virtually every animated movie film since his last film, Spirited away, graced movie scenes in year 2002"

It started off with a rather slow pace plot.. showing how peaceful the community is.. n blah blah.. but slowly the plot grows by gathering part and pieces of fantasy creations that based on his wild imagination and improvisation that based on the novel. This movie is very personal.. as in.. different viewers will have their own interpretation of the story, and it's unworthy to argue upon which is the better explanation and all.. It's a fantasy dreamy movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and that's the only thing you need to know.. and for that, no further explanation is needed.. because it's Hayao Miyazaki!!

Haha, maybe i m being a lil bit biased here or what. .since i've watched almost 60-70% of all his works, and yet, it always gave me a satisfied smile and i think paying 9.50aud for the ticket is definitely worthwhile and i have no regrets.

When viewing his production, even the most skeptical and critical individuals would gain no starting ground to begin their criticsm or expand their sarcasm.. Because in most of his films, he managed to install this deep message into the show and tell you this, "This is what dreams are for, and at this point of the time, what you need to do is to sit back, relax, and feel"

Some people might find it abit slow going still.. but to me.. this is a good show.. very good indeed..
8.5/10 at least.. If you can find it in any cinema near you.. go ahead!

Discovery of a new path

2005-09-22T21:14:00.000+09:30

First of all, sorry for the sudden dissappearance.. as i m having my holiday now.. so taking things easily (in other words, lazy).. Anyway, this post is specially dedicated to a new hobby which picked by me not too long ago..

OK, the story is just like this, one day, when serotonin hits the brain, i couldnt sleep (at bout 3.40am) and my body overcharged with energies and felt like moving n do something.. So, right at that moment, i decided to take a walk...

Yes.. walk around my neightbourhood around that hour.. i might be crazy..
If you really think so, that's just the beginning..
Few days later, the same situation occurred to me, and this time, instead of walking at night alone, i called out, and managed to drag someone along..

His name is Teddy (lol.. my camera).. yep.. sadly i dont think anyone would be that crazy and energetic willingly enough to accompany except for that digital one-eyed cyclop = Teddy..

So, together we begun our journey, as a nightwalker... Honestly, there are a few things that i need to say regarding walking alone at night in Adelaide, 1) It's scarier than you expected.. as the roads here arent as bright as back there in Malaysia (maybe they wanna conserved energy and materials, so less lamp post), 2) because of that gloomy feeling the night gave birth to, it looks beautiful!! 3)walking alone at night in a hooded fleece plus holding a camera taking pictures everywhere made me a typical stalker look.. (I am so glad that i havent gotten the chance to encounter any police or security authorities here)

It was fun.. as a nightwalker, it's as if you are the only human left survive in this humonguos piece of landscapes, and everything, everywhere is so quiet and peaceful (additionally, bit spooky). And not to mention that, due to the my PASSION in photography and large quantity of time which i could spent with, i took alot of photos of moon, stars (not as nice.. in fact it sux), buildings, trees, etc.

Don't cha think the moon's just so beautiful?

Till now, I had 4 nightwalks experience in Adelaide already, each time i brushed my own record by walking further and further.. by my third try, I reached the City via magill road (main road, and yes, it's freaking far, about 18-19 bus stops' distance from my house to the city) If my memories never failed, i departed at bout 3.40am, reached city compound at bout 5.am (as i took my own sweet time swindering around..)

Here's some of the photos i took on during that walk,

another attempt on capturing the moon

Dodgy looking alley around hindley street

This is how North Terrace is like at around 5am, so peaceful and quiet (took me bout 20 mins/37 attempts to get this one shot)

And so, for my fourth walk, instead of walking through the magill road, i tried walking to the city through the Parade.. honestly.. i got lost several times during that walk, and it was scarry..

After struggling in/within the parade area, and some weird housing areas, i managed to reach the city somehow,.. but it looks so strange to me still.. As i entered the city through the west side which i seldom lay my footprints on, however, it looks so beautiful during dawn time still..

I couldnt remember at all where I took this shot, but, don't cha think this is such nice shot? And i never know that i could catch purple sky at such hour (6.15-6.30am i guess) (For those who stays in adelaide, you could tell that i was so far off from my original route.. lol even this shop is no where near the core of the city)

Alright, after sharing some photos, i would like to share some thoughts that i acquired thru these walks, 1) my neightbourhood looks so friggin scary at night

Ok, maybe that's abit exaggerated.. haha.. but nice photoshop attempt aight? dun cha think?
(I altered the texture effects and make it into oil painting-like.. then adjusted the lightings and of coz the bloody sky)

2)Do not try to push yourself while walking, just follow your mood, the flow, and dun forget to enjoy the ambience and environment around that prepared specially for you by the mother earth.

3)If you are worried bout robbers or rapist, please don't try... (Honestly.. imagine this, if you yourself IS a robber/rapist yourself and you encounter someone walking around the neightbourhood alone at night, say 4.30am, what would you think? Could this guy be someone like me? or what? and hello, even if I really am a rapist you think i no need to sleep ah? And if i am a robber why would i cruise around the residential area so late at night during weekdays? Perhaps the city should be more dangerous in that sense, where drug addicts and some dodgy entities lurks around all the time, don't cha think?)

4)If you cant walk anymore... take a rest, sit down somewhere, and wait for the bus home (In adelaide, the first bus operates at about 5.30am)

5)Never never underdress.. the temperature will increased in an incredible manner at bout 3.30-4.30am (that's the reason why i always depart around that time, to assure that and to avoid dodgy entities)

6)Finally, be sure to bring a map and a torch light or handphone that generates suffice amount of light, unless you LOVE to bet lost like me..

P.S-Adelaide IS beautiful, not just at night :P, and.. anyone wanna join??

Myth of Human Body

2005-09-13T20:44:00.000+09:30

Hmm.. a rather weird topic aight? Yeap, i agree... even so, i decided to put it up.. All this has been squiggling in my head for quite awhile.. before i could freely type it out without the anxiety to worry bout my assignments and all.. (though there's still 1 more.. due on this friday.. grr...)
Anyway, yep, today's lesson is about how wonderful our human body is(Jason and Joel if you are reading this, please stick to the decent and general path of perception) and some myths behind it (this might eventually get a lil bit philosiphical.. so if u cant bear deep thoughts, turn away now)

The myth of the exiled soul presents an important problem of interpretation for the Adamic myth (Adam and Eve, that Adam). For the myth of the exiled soul is the only one that divides man up metaphysically into two irreconcilable realities: soul and body. It is the only mythic anthropology that is metaphysically dualistic (Yes, i do read those stuffs.. i am boring i know). It deals with the externality of evil seduction by assimilating it to the body which becomes the symbol of evil seduction: the body symbolizes everything that happens to me without "me" doing it (getting deeper...). The body becomes the symbol of the involuntary as the focus of the resistance which the passions create impeding the free exercise of our will. In the Adamic myth the serpent (or snake) symbolizes the seductivity of the non-human world, while in the myth of the exiled soul the body symbolizes the seductivity of the human world, for the body is somehow part of man himself even though an involuntary part (and deeper....).

The myth of the exiled soul presents man as a mixture of passions or desires. The body serves as an internal symbol of the external and as the positivity of evil seduction. This inner dualism and alienation of soul and body is unique to the myth of the exiled soul. In the myth, man is divided in his essential being, In his earthly existence he forgets his original state and becomes imprisoned, in the passions of the body. The myth has ancient roots and is reminiscent of archaic Hinduism. Later Platonic philosophy modifies the myth by placing human deliverance in a special kind of knowledge. In the myth the body becomes the symbol of felt conflicts from which a man can escape only by returning to his true inner nature: the soul. Human life on earth is experienced as intrinsically evil and man's only salvation is a spiritual purification by special knowledge.

Alright... enough on the intellectual babbling... To sum up, in one sentence, human body is evil in one sense when it involved with sensation and temptation... As simple as that..

I am not.. exactly a fanatic or extremist in regards of the view on human body or whatsoever.. i just felt that.. to certain extend.. it could be interpreted in that way... However, one of the reasons why i came up with this post.. isnt to bore you guys with loadful of info or simply just wanna amuse myself with weird stuffs.. it's becoz i recently just bought a poster.. like this
*point below

yes.. i know i m freaking weird.. you can call the police now..

Haha... somehow i just felt that it's amusing to keep a poster like that in my room.. eventhough i m not goin to be a sport/health/neuro/muscular/whatever psychologist that has any relation with that.. i just.. find it cool.. to keep one in your room

Dont you think this corner of my room looks more like a stereotypical psycho-geek room?

I am not crazy yet, or any where close to that.. so mom and dad, please dont worry, i wont be a serial killer that inspired to keep human body parts as a collection or so.. (*smirk... hehe)
Back to the topic, by sticking up a poster like that in your room, not only will make your room looks smarter, cooler, or even spookier, it helps to raise your scientific knowledge in terms of body parts, and whenever any part of your body is aching.. you can refer to that spot with names!! not just like.. there la. .here la.. say bye bye to those ape-like days man..
We human, must communicate in human-like manners, speak in human-ly language, and describe our body symptoms with "terms" and scientific "names"... We can't always communicate merely with hand-signals in terms of illustration of pain or so anymore..

Therefore, starting from today.. am gonna refer the parts of my body that gave me problems with the given scientific terms... I felt that.. my trapezus and superficial fascia is getting tighter and stiffer.. i guess it's time to loosen up my latissimus dorsi for awhile and rest my splenius capitis at the same time by sleeping.. so ciao!!

Triumph the insult comic dog

2005-09-07T19:41:00.000+09:30

Let me proudly present to you... the up coming most hated interviewer/host/MC with a very good image defense mechanism.. TRIUMPH the Insult Comic DOG!!

"ta~daaa!!"

"The similarities between me and M.Jackson are, we are both made of plastic and occassional hand-up" - Triumph

Triumph, a plastic made black dog puppet could be considered as one of the most discussed and heated host in America now. This renowned puppet which first introduced to the public through (and almost always) the late night show with Conan O'Brien (another funny guy but not as sarcastic and critical as his canine counterpart) and right after his first appearance, majority of the Americans that just couldnt accept his "balanced analysis" on his interview outings formed severe prejudices towards the dog species... especially rockweiler (i made this one up). Yeap, it is that bad, those that who are open to critical, sarcastic dark humor and fictional insults would be his true fans whereas the rest who cant, viewed him as Osama the second.

Personally, I thought that the guy who's behind this is a very witty individual, equipped with godlike reflexes, instant sarcasm, and frantically humorous. Therefore, I decided to do a lil bit of research to search for the man behind "Triumph". The guy who make himself sounds like a latino or american italian (whichever) and handled Triumph's movements and reactions is this dude over here, *point below

Yeap, a guy that looks this ordinary could be a host or interviewer as controversial as ever as long as you throw away your own dignity and booze it up with sarcasm and harsh criticism. Psychologically speaking, this guy here is a genius, by deploying Triumph the fictional harsh character as the one who speaks, he lay down a perfect defense mechanism against any direct accusation and therefore he could carry out his job as both the most hated and the most hilarious host at the same time. As most of the audience or the public wouldnt know that this guy over here, Robert Smigel (lol, i forgot to mention his name earlier), is the one who directed the entire "evil" role as the most irritating, blood-oozing interviewer ever. Without a doubt, Robert, the guy who created, scripted, directed, and carried out Triumph and brought him the notorious fame is a genius. He is, he really is. (For those who never heard of him, or see him-as in triumph, "robert's alter ego", can click on this and have a first hand experience with the poopy triumph)

After taking a peep at this particular outing of Triumph (an open public warfare against all the Michael Jackson supporters, at the supporter's camp just outside his trial court, yes.. just outside), one with an open mind should really salute Robert, and appreciate his wits, his guts (lol, i guess he was wearing a bulletproof helmet, vest, and etc while doing the interview), and his creativity in speech. I admire his instant-spontaneous reaction time and his perfect observation skill that never escaped in catching on any lil facts that would support his speech or strike out some sparks of laughter. He never let go of any chance that could further expand his sarcasm... aight, words alone cant describe his marvelous hosting skills.. anyone who can take offensive jokes please please.. click it and hav a look..

If M.Jackson actually saw this, right before his trial or so.. it would be a good reason for him to act out as "unstable" psychologically again.. lol

Alrighty then, i shall keep this short.. as i need to get back to my report writing... life as a 3rd year uni-student arent as easy-going as what i thought.. sob

Quote of the day, "*point up, Will these faces ever LIE to you?" - Triumph aka Robert Smigel

Accidental? or plain Co-incidence?

2005-09-04T17:27:00.000+09:30

Few weeks back.. just out of curiousity and sudden urges to gain knowledge in one sense or another... i searched yahoo for the origin of the name "Fred", "Freddy", "Freddie" or "Frederick" etc, and instead of getting the result i wanted.. i saw the hyperlink of this website...
http://fredfactor.com

And i was like.. uhh.. what the..? What the hell is this? Someone took the name before me?? It make me looks stupid, as tho i am a much of a copycat or so.. Anyhow, despite of my sudden burst of frustration and ranting, i decided to click the link and have a look of what this "Fred" got to offer.

The first impression i got from that website was.. "? don't tell me this is a direct-selling scam or something like that..." As, the interface of the website just looked like one and with a big red statement of "Are you a Fred?" "Be a fred" Omigosh.. it's either direct-selling crap.. or some weird ass cults.. Nooo.. please dont condemn the name that's similar to my blogsite..

Somehow.. i managed to squeeze out abit of effort to read the introduction or what is it all about.. this.. fred factor thing.. and just to realize it's nothing too bad but a self-growth/self improvement book. In the books, it emphasized much on conceptual ideas and perceptions on not to live an ordinary life and stuffs like that..

Here's an excerpt from the author himself

"To this day, I can't tell you what motivated Fred. I know he didn't get paid more for his extraordinary work. I doubt he received any special recognition from his employer (if he did, I never heard about it). I know he wasn't privy to any exceptional training or incentive programs.

One thing I do know: Fred, and the way he did his job, is a perfect metaphor for anyone who wants to achieve and excel in the 21st century. Truth is transferable, and the four principles I learned from Fred apply to any person in any profession.

Inspired by Fred the Postman and the countless other Freds I've met, observed or been served by in numerous professions, I wrote The Fred Factor. It contains the simple yet profound lessons all the Freds taught me. Anyone can do them. Everyone should. By learning how to be a Fred it's possible to do extraordinary work. And that means being an extraordinary person as well-something we all want to be."

Yes, the original "Fred" who inspired the author (Mark Sanborn) and sparkled him with wonderful insights and thoughts to blossom up with the production of this "Fred-factor" series, is a postman...

Irony huh? Life is a big Irony by itself.. yep

For those who are interested in learning more bout life, choices, decisions, and philosophycal works like these, you could just click the link above and pay a visit to this creator of the "Fredfactor" not the "Fred-factor" (notice the difference? hehe.. damn him for grabbing the name before me).

Sighz for the cost that somebody actually thought of the name "fredfactor" before me, and further brought it up to a higher level with sparkling thoughts and insightful info (it make me sounds so pathetic... lol), propz for his effort to share what he learnt from this "fred" guy and this indirectly polished the general reputation of all the "Freds" in this world.. hehe..

Hidden imperfection

2005-08-28T22:35:00.000+09:30

Today i am rather free... as i decided not to stress myself that much with assignments or going out to seek for additional amusements.. therefore i stayed at home the entire day doing some miscellaneous stuffs like playing with my cam, arranging pics and so on.

For instance, pics like these

p.s-i did not add the flare on this one via photoshop.. it's skill!

some unknown flowers in Grampien National Park-Melbourne

Nice chimney shot in Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Melbourne.

A decent shot that captured a fair bit of the beach and the cloudy sky (Brighton beach, Adelaide)

Too bad, due to the limited framesize of this template i couldnt enlarge it further... As, most of the pics are 2200x1800+ in resolution orginally. All these pics seems so wonderful and "perfect", in a sense that nothing unnatural or extra negates the beauty of the scenery shots.

I thought so too.

Until today, when i edited the last pic here, i found something... "additional" in the pic.. which.. is totally unexpected..

Have a look at this..

then this..

Hmm... i wonder whether the guy in "blue" is related to those in red circles...

Basically.. i don't really mind.. these kinda.. minor distractive factors in my scenery shots.. however, it's funny to discover something like this.. especially the one on the far left.. what a typical heroic pose for a cameraman.. lol..!! And, what's with the guy i circled in blue.. looks kinda suspicious to me, dontja think?

Individual's Music preferences

2005-08-24T20:08:00.000+09:30

I am a devoted believer of, "no one in this world share the exact preferences in the music they listen to". Though, in many cases, it might be similar, but the feelings, meanings, understandings, and energies one received from the music should be unique to him/herself..

Music is such a subjective mean as to human's entertainment input... Its variation is as sophisticated as how a human being would be, from a gentle soft touch of ballard, to reckless core of heavy metal, from sacred chants and worships of church songs to uther darkness of Death metal, from simplistic raw percussions to highway personality of jazz.. Just like human and human's life, music is endless and unlimited.

Without a doubt, music could be argued as part of human's creation, but by looking at how it has been evolved since ancient time, from simple wood hitting, coconuts banging, metal striking, bamboo blowing, to the implementation of modern instruments, and how people dedicated their lives to the occurrence of "their" types of music (regardless to intention of making it), you sometimes wonder, whether the people choose their own kind of music, or the music is waiting for the chosen ones to discover and perform them.

Getting rather philosophical aight? Anyway, to cut the crap short, music is unique and never identical to human in their own experiences. A general catogerization of music is needed.. just to ease the process for us to refer to music range, however, one shall not specifically judge a certain kind of music as a "type"
Like human, you shouldnt be stereotypical towards music, as, even rock bands produces strong and good ballads, even church bands produces heavy metal-like church songs.. Music is as volatile and versatile as an amoeba.. one shall not lay their judgment into it, until you fully experience it both as the audience and the performer

Enough babbling on my random thoughts on music, it's time to reveal what kind of music i "truly" listen to since the day i arrived this world, and also i would like to pay some respects to music creators that produce wonderful songs and lyrics after my birth. So, here's the listing of notable rock albums regardless of the specific genres to my preference(as categorized by timeframe, without any particular order in preferrence, like i said, i cant possibly rank them, that's no valid measurement for that)

yr1985(my birth yr)-yr1989
1. Metallica - 'Master Of Puppets' (1986)
2. RUN DMC - 'King Of Rock' (1986)
3. Guns N'Roses - 'Appetite For Destruction' (1987)
4. REM - 'Life's Rich Pagent' (1986), 'document' (1987), 'green' (1988)
5. Iron Maiden - 'Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son' (1988)*
6. Faith No More - 'The Real Thing' (1989)#
7. Nine Inch Nails - 'Pretty Hate Machine' (1989)
8. Beastie Boys - 'Paul's Boutique' (1989) p.s-they kicked the negro's asses
9. Soundgarden - 'Louder Than Love' (1989)*
10.Nirvana - 'Bleach' (1989)p.s-beginning of the new age

yr 1990- yr 1999
1. Public Enemy - 'Fear Of A Black Planet' (1990)
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik' (1991)* p.s-personal breakthrough
3. Guns N'Roses - 'Use Your Illusion II' (1991)
4. Nirvana - 'Nevermind' (1991)* , 'in utero' (1993)
5. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless' (1991) p.s-just find out bout them recently, rox!
6. Pearl Jam - 'Ten' (1991)* , 'Vs' (1993)
7. Faith No More - 'Angel Dust' (1992)# p.s-might not be famous,but nice music
8. Alice In Chains - 'Dirt' (1992)
9. Smashing Pumpkins - 'Siamese Dream' (1993),'Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness' (1995)
10. Soundgarden - 'Superunknown' (1994)*
11. Nine Inch Nails - 'The Downward Spiral' (1994), 'The Fragile' (1999)
12. Marilyn Manson - 'Antichrist Superstar' (1996)*, Marilyn Manson - 'Mechanical Animals' (1998) p.s-might be bit wicked, but awesome music without a doubt
13. Radiohead - 'OK Computer' (1997)*
14. Tool - 'Aenima' (1996) p.s- maynard rox
15. Deftones - 'Around The Fur' (1997)
16. Foo Fighters - 'The Colour An The Shape' (1997)* ROX!
17. Rage Against The Machine - 'Rage Against The Machine'
18. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - 'Californication' (1999)**
19. Dream Theater - 'Images And Words' (1992), 'Awake' (1994), 'Falling into infinity' (1997)*
20. Dream Theater - 'Scenes from a Memory' (1999)

yr 2000-?
1. Radiohead - 'Kid A' (2000)* p.s- one of the best albums ever made
2. Queens Of The Stone Age 'Rated R' (2000), 'songs for the deaf' (2003)
3. U2 - 'And All That Can Be Left Behind' (2000) p.s-the only U2 album that i listen to
4. Coldplay - 'Parachutes' (2000)*, 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' (2002)
p.s-revolution of the brits' wits
5. Tool - 'Lateralus' (2001)* p.s- just go n get it!
6. System Of A Down - 'Toxicity' (2001) p.s-competition from the arabic americans
7. Jimmy Eat World - 'Jimmy Eat World' (2001)
8. Marilyn Manson 'Holywood - In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death' (2000)
9. The Strokes - 'Is This It' (2001)
10. Flaming Lips - 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' (2002)# p.s-worth a try
11. The Darkness - 'Permission To Land' (2003) p.s-bit gay, but the talent is there
12. Gorrilaz - '?' (?) p.s- lazy to search for it
13. Audioslave - 'like a stone' p.s- chris cornell rox
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'By The Way' (2002)*
15. Super furry Animal - 'Rings Around The World' (2001)#
16. The White Stripes - 'Elephant' (2003)
17. A Perfect Circle - 'Mer de Noms' (2000)* , 'Thirteenth Steps'
18. Dream Theater - 'Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence' (2002), 'Train of Thoughts' (2003)

* = personal favourites
#= items that might not be famous, but truly good stuffs

Unusual Ranting

2005-08-21T18:12:00.000+09:30

Damn. Yes. I am annoyed.

.....

Frankly speaking, since the beginning of the new semester (4 weeks ago), the amount of efforts i put in for academic purposes is considered as pitiful. So, this morning, i decited to wake up rather early as compared to usual, i sat in front of my lappie and worked for 4 hours at least, 2 hours on reading and analyzing journals that i've got for my research, half an hour to plan and schedule future assignments, and the rest of the 1 1/2 hours on writing an essay for my biological psychology.

To begin with, I AM not a biology freak, and i do NOT like this kinda stuffs, so to write a 1500 words essay on "Do Homosapiens have large brains? Why? if so, are they so large?" is really something that i've squeezed all my eternal energy, souls and efforts to force myself in sharp concentration for that essay.

Why do we have large brains? lol... I am in the Psychology field, and inspired to be a psychologist, not a neurosurgeon, biologist, or anthropology researcher!!! I am suppose to figure out why, how, and what will human behave like in any kind of situation, but not to chop off their brains and say, "yea, this one abit yellowish, must be unhealthy... hmm.. suppression"

I cant deny that brain structures and the consequences that happened to it would change our behaviors, or even personalities in some sense... But.. the entire course design of Biological Psychology is just too.. Biological.. it's more like.. Intro to Human Biology than what it truly suppose to contain... Damnit, i m not trained to be a psychologist that would saw off your brain, reassemble the neurons and nerves as if i am like an electrical repairman...

When i chopped off your brain.. i don't see something insightful like this!!

What an unusual brain activities.. lol

Okok, enough ranting bout the course itself.. it's not the main factor that affected my mood.. The thing is, when i decided to save my 1 and 1/2 hours of efforts, somebody in my MSN nudged me, repeatedly (i still dun get it.. how come that fella could nudge for so many times in a row), and due to the unstability of my lappie's virtual memory since i was operating more than 12 windows at the same time (including browsers, winamp, word documents, pdf journals, etc), the entire thing clashed.

I didnt panic... becoz.. i know that even tho it clashes, the smart window recovery system would at least save up 75% of my work...

I was too confident...

It did not... for some strange reasons... instead it recovered a word's format's journal (which i accidentally made some changes in it) I was like.. #@&*&#... what the?! As I had experiences where more than 1 word documents clashes and it recovered all of them.. but not this time, i guess.. it's that time of the month for my window OS... BLOODDDYYYYYY HEELLLLLL!!!!

yes, i am pissied, i swore to god that i am goin to find out who nudged me!!

That means, i need rework on the "Big Brain" essay that gave me a real headache all over again.. Damn! In order to calm myself down, I remembered that i need to collect back my clothes that are hanging outside at the backyard for drying.. just went i am about to get up.. i realized that.. just a moment ago there was a heavy rain outside.. NOOOOOOOooooo!! That's my first laundry done in 2 weeks.. please don't do this to me... In the end, i decided to pull in all the half-wet clothes and hang it around in my room with hangers and all.. turned on the fan, opened up the window, and BLOW.. (i cant wear the same shirt for more than 4-5 days right?)

Unlucky me... at that moment, i cant really ooze out anymore efforts for my biology essay.. so, i decided to put it aside for now, and work on my other assignments (the next due date for my assignments is in 2 week's time, so dun worry i m working in advance here)

I am really pissed.. at myself, at the weather(non-stop raining), at my boring bio lecturers and the contents, at that somebody that nudges me (i need to find out who the heck was that), and at the australian lecturer's ambiguous style of giving out instruction for assignments (damn, whaddaya mean by "only psychology journals" when your research is mainly based on Philantrophy and Sociology journals?)

Phew.. i am drained for now.. cant possibly withstand another blow today.. if something did hit me again.. I will be like a butterfly without wings, cant fly for awhile.. most probably i will fall sick in no time

tried so hard, yet i just cant seem to get up on ground, straight away.. i need time man

Anyway, i shall stop my ranting here, i shouldnt blame anybody, it might seem that it is.. but it's not so bad after all.. hmm.. one thing is that, i truly hope, pray, and beg that.. my "beloved" Windows Words wont clashed and "forgot" to recover my files again..

God.. i know life wont be smooth and silky, yet, you neednt ruined my plans all in one day

Till then, be good.. my OS

p.s1- yeap, i love to use animal's pics in order to express myself. It's more illustrative and impactful in a way to me...

Why do we care so much bout our hair?

2005-08-15T23:28:00.000+09:30

As accordance to the title yes, why do we human care so much bout our hair when if you look at it at a very biological perspective, it is just a layer of moist materials that served the purpose to prevent us from physical harm (i got this from bio text book... lol.. bullet proof meh?), coldness, and wetness. Hmm... if u are observant enough, you can tell that.. many of us spent so much effort, money, etc to take care, keep, change, and make our hair looks nice and decent (in most cases), sometimes.. we spent too much on it

I agree that, hair itself isnt very important, but the hairstyle that is part of our physical image is really important to us. It determines partly, how other people look at us, perceive on us, etc. Though our hairstyle does shaped our physical images and has a little impact to our lifestyle and how we carry ourselves in public, in return, drastic changes of hairstyle could because of drastic changes in personality or cause drastic changes in personality...

Imagine a "normal" (yea i perceived myself as one) guy like me

the most recent me yes (dad n mom, if you want to know how i look like now.. this is it)

Turns into... *points below

someone like this.... the next morning

Famous japanese DJ -Yoji Biomehanika, i wonder ppl go to his show is for his music or to look at his hair
http://www.yojimehanika.com

Or something like this...

ignore the soccerball or the face.. i meant.. just focused on the hairstyle.. (do we human needs attached feelers or antenna?)

If I actually have hairstyles like this.. omg.. i bet my parents is going to detach me and exile me.. or worst hire some hitmen to look for me.. or maybe.. they would force me to attend some psychiatry session or counseling..

Anyway, hairstyles and care for our hair is indeed important, and sometimes our lifestyle might affect our hairsyles as well.. like when you're stressed, your hair looks stressful.. when you're happy.. it looks cheerful.. etc

stressed out and depressed doggy with stressed out and depressive hairstyle... lol.. so cute

Anyhow, i still think spending too much money, effort on just your hair isnt the only way to shape up the unique "image" of yourself.. however, it's still your choice to choose to cut, chop, squeeze, screw, braid, lock, perm, dye, trim, shampoo, wash, keep, change, etc, in other words do anything to your hair, it's your hair anyway.. but do keep responsibility to it, for the consequences of carrying out the hairstyle you chose..

Alrighty then.. enough of those serious talks.. it's bout time for me to review back my own hairstyle that i had, i have and i wish to have in the future...

Honestly.. i am not really that kind of person who would stick to just one-two hairstyle for my entire life.. i am more adventurous in terms of changing my hairstyle and all (tho i dun really like to add color on it.. i never did.. permenantly, no).. i've tried quite a wide variety of hairstyles before.. from no hair (it;s still a kind of style.. getting rid of it, doesnt mean u never had it) to bushy untidy hair.. etc

First up, i skinned my entire head before, in other words, baldily shaved lol..
Some people says that i looked like some mafia small fry.. some says i looked like a pimp.. some says monk... lol..

i admit that.. WE do look like some mafia small fries in this pic.. lol (photo thanks to Kevin Teo, the small fry beside me)

When you went to a prom with a gorgeous promdate, surely people will called you a pimp, i knew it.. *they jealous mar.. kidding lol

From completely hairless to some intimidating hairstyle..

class A criminal look... butcher fred, bounty value 500,000 USD

dont mess with me a.k.a digging my own grave look...

Then to.. bushy untidy long hair.. some says I looks like "rambo" without the muscle and height

i dont understand how the heck they linked this hippy look of mine to "rambo"..?!

I am free to experiement any extreme hairstyle in the future.. in fact.. i already have 2-3 of those in my mine.. as my next future hairstyle.. tho i might need another 1-2 yrs to let my hair grow first in order to achieve those.

Having an unique hairstyle for awhile is part of my tiny childhood dreams.. yea.. i m weird i know...

Anyway.. there are 3 possible outcomes that i might choose for my hair.. in the future 1-2 yrs

Possible outcome #1 thick twisting braids

Inspired by Brian "Head" Welch who gave up rock recently

Level of Difficulty (as in to maintain it, and the degree where you face the social discrimination with it) = A-

Level of Uniqueness = B+ to A-

Possible outcome #2 - Jamaican Braids

Inspired by the entire reggae movement and their carefree attitude

Level of Difficulty= B+ to A- (it aint easy for any asians to carry this out.. dunno whether it could work on me or not)

Level of Uniqueness= A- to A (since no many asians dare to try this.. yea)

Possible Outcome #3 - Knotty Dreadlocks

Inspired by.. i also dunno..

Level of Diffulty= A (it aint easy to maintain a dread.. as i once heard that the proper way to wash it is to wash it as if you are "trying" to wash a sponge, squirt lil bit of shampoo on it, soaked it with water, squeeze the water out, and repeat the procedure like x 50 times.. )

Level of uniqueness = B+ to A-

Alright.. i guess that;s bout it.. this is actually my second attempt on this.. as after spending bout 50mins-1 hr on writing the first post.. my window clashed.. n everything just gone with the wind.. anyhow i decided to rewrite part of it.. i guess only 50-60% of the original contents.. anyway.. i m getting tired now.. so wish me luck for getting into the direction of fulfilling my childhood dreams

P.S1) any fans of Yoji Biomehanika, forgive me for making fun of him.. i dun make fun of his music.. he's really good.. i just make fun of his hair.. i think that he put.. slightly bit too much effort on that

P.S2) any fans of nigerian football or taribo west.. sorry again.. i really really do not think that we need attached feelers or some sorta thing like that

P.S3) I am not a mafia small fry (if i really wanna be one.. i will be the boss not the small ones), a pimp (sorry i wont pimp out my ex-prom date.. :P), a criminal (unless u considered skipping lecture once in awhile and chained littering as a crime), a rambo wannabe, a grave digger, and so on.

P.S4) to mom n dad, i m seriously serious bout getting those hairstyles.. it might be permenant however just for awhile.. it wont be forever, and if it turned out ugly, or unpleasing, i will turned it back as soon, i promise, ok?

P.S5) I really think that.. spending more than rm150 per month for haircare is abit too much.. dun you think so ******.. lol.. uno who you are.. hehe :P

Till then, take hair.. i mean.. care..

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2005-08-13T00:52:00.000+09:30

The initial title for this post is suppose to be "Short forms", as in.. short forms or abbreviation of something, you know like "brb" = be right back, ty = thank you, np = no problem. Yeah, since everything could be simplified, therefore, i "shortformed" my title.

First up, the main purpose of posting this entry is to raise the concern of.. do we really need all those while chatting or typing in electronic forms? For some cases, it might be useful.. but sometimes it could be troublesome, as there are so many self-proclaimed abbreviation and misinterpretation of meanings.. so it could be confusing in some cases...

Case#1
Fred: yo, do u hav a mom (moment)? I need a favour from you
Victim1: huh? you need a favour from my mom?

Case#2
Blurguy1: Did you receive that? could you plz sms the msg to me, so i could msg her back, pls?
(notice the confusion? the sudden changes of sms n msg)

Case#3
Blurguy2: No cash atm(at the moment), cant do much
Victim2: huh? atm(auto-teller machine) no money?
...
..
.
Case#3478
Blurguy379: I saw that guy came out of the garage with a taekwando uniform, and i was like WTF?! (what the F***)
Victim351: Oh, i prefer GTF (Global taekwando Federation) than WTF (World Taekwando Federation)

Ok.. enough of those craps.. Basically i have just a few simple points to make, when in use of abbreaviation or shor forms in typings, electronic forms, please be sure than the receiver could get it and please don't over use it.. Though it's also part of our responsibility as a modern civilized individual in a high tech environment to at least have the basic knowledge in all these. However, over usage of it would only cause confusions and irritation in some cases. For example:

Irritation case #1 (i hate this the most) - over usage of LoL (laugh out loud)
Fred: just like what i told u right?
Sucker1: lol.. that's funny.. lol
Fred: yea.. haha
Sucker1:lolololololololololololol
Fred:....
Sucker1:lol!
Sucker1:lol, I would really like to see taht again lol
Sucker1:you there? lol
Sucker1:lol
...
..
.
Sucker1:still there? gtg now man.. lol

Oh man, i understood that the term "lol" is rather easy to put up to since "O" is located right below "L", yet.. you must at least understand the exact meaning of it, and do not freaking overuse it.. Yeah, knowing what you are typing is one serious matter.. you wanna use abbreaviation? Fine.. but at least know what it means. I've heard from a friend that, her little cousin sis actually typed this in a conversation,

Cousin1: haha, i am loling
....

lol... loling... what the heck?!

And one more thing.. chained abbreaviation is as bad as overusing it (as in frequency)
One example (which is actually a ritual in the leveling process in World of Warcraft.. in my guild :P, once or twice is alright... though)

Chained abbreviation case#1
Guy1: Yay! ROFLOLICOPTERPWNXWTFKTHXBYE!!!

Firstimer1: what what what??!

Anyway, without a doubt.. it could be useful and it will be as long as you dun do it 2 frquently, dun b 2 lz, liddat won b gud, lol,coz if evry1 iz goin 2 tok like tiz, d wrld iz goin to b 2 fast.. slw dwn bit ler.. k, tym's up, log, bye

c ya nxt!

Best out of your kind

2005-08-09T17:20:00.000+09:30

A rather seriously sounding title.. but trust me, it's not!

M writting this based on the inspiration i generated thru readin my sis's entry on what her pet teaches her about life.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/juei/Blog/cns!1pWNPbKQDAV8ETMDll9Yf6wQ!306.entry

Initially... as a human being, we are granted with the precision of perception to make uther judgment or at least a better sense of observesation in many things. We are what we are, is a statement that keep many people at the same standing point for many years. Looking at my pets, (2 dogs - a genius and a clumps, and a cat - the queen back home) i managed to derive some meanings out of it.

As an introduction, my first dog - Digi

Age: 6-7 (?)
Gender: Male
Temperament: has large scale mood swings as if he's a grumpy old man
Psyche description: Intellectual, deep thinker, and great philosepher that traps inside a furry small container
Hobbies: Dissapearing in the house, attempting to escape from the house, commanding the maid, holding the royalty pride, meditation (as if)

My second dog- Blackie (BBoy)

Age: 3 yrs old
Gender: Male
Temperament: Something like Patrick in SpongeBob Squarepants, or rather.. to him, "what's that?"
Psyche Description: none. I am a dog, and i am a dog, i am happy with that.. so i am happy!
Hobbies: Eat, eat, eat, sleep, play with myself, eat, eat and EAT!!

My only cat - Tika

Age: 3 yrs old
Gender: Female (woman she insisted)
Temperament: I could compare her to any human female, cept for that fact that she might have the pms mood on everyday
Psyche description: If you think you are beautiful, you are, and live up everything to that and be the MOST beautiful!

Pets or rather, animals other than human are mostly genuine and pure in their intent. Even so, i managed to learn from them that, recognize your kind, your direction, and work on hard to it.
Like Bboy, if you want attention and affection from your master or anyone else.. go for it, earn it!
Like Tika, believe in yourself, once you managed to do that, you neednt to act elligant, you already are
Like Digi, learn from him, don't think so much, there arent many things for you to worry about as a dog (or in our case as a human). Learn how to take it slow, keep a calm n steady lifestyle.

Stay healthy my beloved pets, wait till my return!

And Digi, i love you as always, even when you purposely turns your head away from me, when you know that i will love you more with that.. hehez

At the edge

2005-08-07T00:57:00.000+09:30

Recently, i had quite abit of self-talks with my inner self that don't normally expose himself to the outer world and even to the conscious me. Most of the discussion we made, were basically unrelated to any issues that gotta do with me in my recent life.. but yet, something that might be useful and practical or insightful in a way (in other words, non-sensical sense.. lol)

One of it, the question i asked myself was,
"Have i ever been placed in a real-life situation where, i've been placed at the edge of a cliff, and the only option to avoid being eat up by the enemies that surrounded me is to jump"
Have i ever?? hmmm.. in a situation that.. putting my life on the line and just.. close your eyes and go for it.. hmm..

Put yourself in the shoe of that hamster (hmm as if they need shoes)

I thought about it for at least.. 20-30 minutes.. and the answer i gave to myself is..
No.. not exactly
Except for the 874 times, when i was sitting in the middle of the exam hall.. staring at the multiple choice questions.. head went blank and felt as if i've been shot multiple times by my lecturer..
other than that.. not really
my life isnt that dramatic and adventurous after all

So, ask yourself...

Real life comparison

2005-08-05T00:47:00.000+09:30

After getting a few feedbacks for my previous post bout everything that you should read bout it in order to get the grip of it (please don't be lazy if you havent do so.. :P), i decided to illustrate it more based on the feedbacks i got from my sis (juei), mz and Kar Swee (my dad, seriously...)

I got the meaning of "we love to see people acting stupid", because it is somewhat entertaining.. However, what i am really curious about is the "somewhat" that make it entertaining, i dont really bother or care about whether it is "idiotic" or plain "innocence" in the nature of such act.. But the dynamics behind it that structured the phenomenon/na. Innocence or Idiotic is just one thin line across, and i understand the fact that, act stupid doesn't mean you are stupid, some wise guys do act stupid in order to get what they want by drawing other people to think that he is stupid. Of course I am aware of all those, that's why i am asking all those during my previous post in such a pretentive manner (try to figure out what i am trying to get at, even if you cant nevermind, it's just part of my ego) , nonetheless, what i was aiming to adress on this issue was are we really that sadistic, it might be sublimantle, however the hidden psyche that lurking beneath us might suggest that as a displacement to our inadequency and urge to seek for comfort by feeling that, "we arent that bad after all" or in other words, consolitdation for out disatisfaction in our own perception of "self".

It may not be true, yet it may not be wrong... It's just like when you ask somebody to be him/herself, so that him./her could stop "pretending" or "changing" in order to get the very best of what the person truly possessed as an individual (which is a vecry typical and classic wsay of advising somebody when you do not know how to handle his/her direction of living his/her life). Come on, ask yourself how vague and vivid is that phrase "be yourself" sounds to you? If oneself truly know the meaning of "be yourself" or in other words "self actualized" in a psychological sense, he/she dont even need your advice, in facthe/she could easily become a successful politician, thinker, religious leader, or fields in any dimension. You might say that this world aint just black and white, there's a whole patch of gray which we havent discovered, what if you already did, and find that even those shades of grays couldnt fulfill the complicatedness of this world, and what truly lurked beyond for us to discover?

Sorry for it to sound abit philosophical, but what if one that, u discovered that the true form or the optimal form of yourself is to somewhat keep in pace with changes (aggresively) and constantly for, like an amoeba's destiny to mimic and perfectionalize until it reaches the peak condition to evolvek, would you accept a comment or advice from someone else that suggest you to "be yourself"? What if the true me is to not be me in a stable manner? that's not just a gray matter, it's beyond our current knowledge, what do we call all those?

Ok, it might gone abit too far and jargonish to some of you, so, let's just pull back to the idiotic vs innocence context, let's use the example of famous comedian Ben Steeler vs Adam Sandler, Ben Steeler being the representation of someone funnily stupid and Adam Sandler as the individual who constantly potrays as innocently funny in most of his chracters in shows (eg. Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, etc). We look at both of their performance and we both laugh becoz of their act, but not becoz of what they truly are, becoz they are permitted by us indirectly to portray those. So, just ask yourself do you realize of all these, when you are watching the show? Do you call this the gray area point of view while looking at this? I guess not.

So, sorry bout being sophisticated and blabbing on stuffs that might only be comprehanded by my ownself and yea, i am saying that gray area of the matter isnt that gray anymore. Even the greatest scientist could only predict what;s beneath the core of our earth but not an exact picture of the true possibility.

Before the day i pass on my life, i shall work on this.

P.S- this is not the result of reading thru Freudian based chapter on psychoanalysis and all teh theory contents, maybe partly, but it is an inspiration that accumulated.
Sue me for being so serious

Idiotic or plain innocence?

2005-07-31T16:33:00.000+09:30

Looking at people standing in front of the crowds and embarrass him/herself without apparent reason and in an idiotic manner... sometimes you would wanna ask is being stupid a mere idiotic act that meant to insult our very existence or sometimes it could be the symbol of pure innocence? The simplicity of mind that did not take any future consequences and worries, the chastity of thoughts that allow intuition to flow out, the blamelessness of behavior that purges instinctive acts... What exactly do you call all these? I guess.. the best answer (or rather another excuse to relay or delay the question itself) would be, "ahh.. it depends la"

Though it might sounds as if I am not answering anything at all.. yet, imo (in my oppinion) i think that's the best answer for this. As, to whose rights that suppose to determine which act is plain idiotic or genuine innocence? And please.. provide me an answer for what's being idiotic and what's not? when you see a clown doing all sorts of silly tricks and often making himself embarrassed in front of the audience, but in return, he earns their laughter and approval.

Ask yourself.. Why would you laugh when you are witnessing a clown trying to pull out some stupid tricks? trying to be silly, idiotic in some sense and stupid? Have you ever thought that why all the comedians and comedies in the world tends to be stupid, silly, and trifling in order to get the attention of the viewers, in order trigger laughter? in order to spread happiness?
Are they really that stupid after all? Are all the jokes really that silly in nature? Why are we so fascinated by silly things?

Joke, can be defined as something said or done to provoke laughter, it also means the humorous or ridiculous element in something. And most important thing for us to laugh at a joke or to laugh at a comedy is that.. it's not meant to be taken seriously. Clowns, comedians, jokers, entertainers are given the mutual rights, and settings to be funny, in other words free license to be stupid, and proved a point to be ridicule. It sounds.. rather convincing and all.. but grasping back to the core.. could this world be another major scale joke? are we given the rights to be stupid and care free just for a lil moment sometimes? When should we be serious and not?

Am i an idiot to think of all these? or just plain innocence? to question bout these nullyfying facts that wont produce any definite answer

if i have to be stupid or looks stupid in order to make others happy, why not?

Recent reflection of myself

2005-07-28T20:49:00.000+09:30

Hmm.. after a chat with a friend of mine, (no name shall be mentioned in this.. sorry Gary.. i apologize for that) i suddenly had a instant reflection on the current me. As in, how i used to be like, and how i really am for now.. it seems to me that, there are some discreprencies since my last realization on the way i carry myself in many sense (might be.. 3-4months ago).

I somehow realized that.. i m not.. as critical, and as daring as before, that's one. Second, I am not as sarcastic as i used to.. and i m turning lamer and lamer... For those who knows bout my fish question.. you should know this...

Really, it's weird.. how could oneself became so different in such a short period?? Why is that? What's going on? Is that because of my usual sense of sensitivity is decreasing in contrast of my age (in other words, am i growing old and turning blunt?) Is it because of the course i m currently doing? (am a psychology major, -.-!!) or issit because of the environment??

What's exactly the reason for that i am not so sure.. but one thing that is definitely related or co-related to that.. is the entertainment level of Adelaide City. According to environmental stimulation theordy (2031, which will be published by me in the future), the more boring the environment you are staying at is, the more blunt and dull you might become... hmmm how's that sound?

Grr.. that's just a hypothesis of mine, and i dun really wanna blame it all to Adelaide.. it's not that bad afterall.. A friend of mine from Hong kong (Albert yam) just invited me on a fishing trip.. yeah.. so it aint so bad after all.. it's such an *exciting and thrilling life we are having over there.. so.. must treasure it.. *cough..

Anyway, during the conversation with Gary.. i mean.. my friend.. I replied to his comment of i m turning blunt with this,"oh well.. sometimes you just need to be a little blunt and square.. it's not good to be as sharp as a knife all the time, that's y you dont see carpenter using a knife to hammer nails". To me, since the current lifestyle i am adjusting to isnt that.. demanding and stressful, why turn on all your instinctive alarm and be alert all the time?? Be aloof.. learn from the hippos or.. the koalas.. eat more eucalyptus.. sleep more.. since the only thing i could spare with you is my time.

So, don't be silly to judge me as less critical or blunt... it's not like i am putting a ring on something and committed to a fixed pattern of carrying myself for the rest of my life. In other words, saying that i am less daring is also another bull.. hello who wanna die early for nothing? though imitating some mild jackass stunts might seem to be part of my hobbies.. but.. no that's not how i earn my living, so i neednt put my own life on the line for that..
However, for the being less sarcastic part.. YES, I DO AGREE!!! In order to earn a "license-like" permission to BE sarcastic again, why not?

Back at the "Lake"

2005-07-24T20:47:00.000+09:30

from 30th of June till 19th of July.. i've spent 20 days in Melbourne.. M all broke, tattered and splashed... for the remaining few months, it's imaginable that you wont see me as active as before and i need to keep my indomee plan on-going in order to cover what i've spent...

Thanks to friends and cousins, i did not spend a single penny in accomodation (thanks to Shinyi, my cousins, auntie, uncle, Eric, etc) That's quite an achievement to me, i think. But really... need to thanks all of you for letting a "boring" person like me to stay... that's really something. Sorry, if i cost u guys any trouble whether consciously or not intentionally.. really tell me so, if i did commit something which i didn't know that annoy you or something.

Apart from that.. i would like to thank those ppl who bring me around, All my cousins (Wz,Mz, &Mq), Jacke (or Jackie, or Jacky), Shinyi, JuYuan or Matthew, Eric, Lo, Andy, etc. Haha, really thanks alot for bringing around man.. it was fun most of the time...

20 days, it's not a very long period.. yet.. not too short to be forgotten anytime soon...
It's quite a thrillin one, a lil crazy, and definitely a fun one. Met up some old frens as well.. bit lazy to mention it over here.. Anyway, let me recall on what i did and come up with a list of things that i've learned bout Melbourne (be bit observant and observe what i did thru that list.. :P, m not gonna list it out, i dont see the point)

29 things i've learned about Melbourne or from Melbourne or from people staying in Melbourne

1. Do not put your headphone on and play loud music when you are crossing tram tracks
2. Only get up a tram with no tram ticket with you and dont plan to get one, when you are rich enough to pay for the penalty.
3. "Hook Turn" is really something i wouldnt do in Malaysia.. and never thought of doing so
4. I am still amidst with the rumours surrounding Mekong's (a vietnamese restaurant, famous for its hor fun and delicious soup) method of preparing their soup... I never know that soup that made with cow's testicles could be that tasty...
5. Cheapest food you can get in Melbourne.. = the casino.. Suprise??!!!
6. Another thing bout the "wonderfulness" of Casino, it's 24/7!!! (so it's just like an alternative for mamak, with a nicer setting of coz)
7. Start with normal Roulettes for building up your modals, then switch to baccarat (is that how u spell it?), then back to rapid roulettes... with these sequence you might be able to stay there for quite sometime... slow slow.. and steady
8. I hate the zone system for the public transports' routines in Melbourne.. It's so friggin expensive, and ridiculous in some sense.. 3.10aud for 2 hrs ride in only 1 zone? geez
9. Staffs in both Monash and Melbourne U arent that friendly afterall.. they should learn from people from Adelaide.. Smile a little.. customer service man!!
10. Yo, finally... At least they hav starbucks and nandos in Melbourne.. if you happen to know any of the shops i mentioned in adelaide.. please do tell me
11. Max Brener (a chocolate specialty shop, supposedly Melbourne's specialty) issit really that famous?? I hav to admit that the stuffs there are quite decent and pretty "choc-a-lot"... but.. why? why? when talking bout yamcha everybody also bring me there??????? i've been there.. 3 times man.. that's too much imo
12. Berwick or Berricks.. (er.. dunno ler) is really far away from the city.. and else where)
13. They should change the name of "the twelve Apostles" (some stones hanging halfway along the coast line.. pretty impressive i would say) to "the remaining 8 apostles" or something like that..(and guess what? 2-3 days after i reached melbourne.. one of that fell down.. hehe.. damn jinxed)
14. Don't travel to grampian unless you are planning to spend a few days there.. or at least a will to trek around the jungles and all
15. Melbourne's kangaroos and wallabies are all around the rural area.. and they arent as friendly as Adelaide's...
16. Mt Buller arent as snowy around this period.. should go around august... and snowboarding is really fun.. more fun than Skiing i think..
17. Please don't try to snowboard on the blue or black track unless u r 200% confident of your skill.. or u really plan to eat some snow
18. When snowboarding or skiing, please off your phone, and even if you forgot to do so, when it rings, dont try to pick it up!! dont ever please.. Mz.. becoz of u i fell for no good reason (and i want my photo if u see this)
19. Melbourne's penguins.. are so friggin tiny.. like pygmy only... dissapointed.. but kinda cute
20. Everything is as pretty and as square as it may seem when you are checking it on top
21. If adelaide's asian to local's ratio are 1:100, melbourne's ratio on that will be only bout
1:15-20
22. Go Karting in Sunshine (Acekart) is ok technically but bull in management wise.. waddaya mean by pulling you off if we drift while encouraging us to beat the record at the same time???
23. The principle of slow & steady arent practical at all in terms of go karting
24. When playing laser gun shooting with unlimited ammo.. make full use of it.. just shoot only
"Kua teok or nyah ter kui cheng" (shoot whenever you see shadow moving)
25. Don't ever trust an italian barber who doesnt even understand English totally.. (@#^@&!, yea i did cut my hair abit.. will update more photos on that.. later)
26. Never eat chicken teriyaki in Gigi's corner or something like that along swanston street
27. Shopping with girls in Melbourne is exactly the same as shopping with em elsewhere... this is something universal.. go slow... be patience, pretend that you are doing a walk in the park... waiting for the sun to set and you will live like a happy man..
28. Be decisive! And sound out your oppinion.. (which i dont sometimes..) that makes the whole thing sux...!! sometimes
29. Dont ever.. sit on the first or second roll in a double decker bus that's goin on a 11 hrs' journey.. please dont... If that's the only choice.. R.I.P man.. mate..

Alrighty.. that's the top 29 "insights" i've learned from spending 20 days in Melbourne... hehe
Here's some photos on my trip.. will write more bout it in details in the future

the twelve.. i meant.. eight apostles...

you called this art?? my 6 yrs old lil cousin also know how to do ler..

went to the seal's stone.. wanted to check out some seals.. instead i found this guy

I love this signboard alot.. !!

photo taken in Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, the goldmine

Interesting decoration for a car... hmm... must be a male car.. for sure

Just nice for a rabbit fillet... funny guy i met along the roadtrip

Was so tempted to get the hat.. so nice... but nah.. being a cowboy aint my dream

Yeap.. so guess.. that's bout it.. it's still kinda brief if i stop here for my 20 days trip.. so dont worry.. will write more in details soon.. trust me.. soon

Crawling slowly to my "afterlife"

2005-06-30T12:45:00.000+09:30

"Afterlife" a term i often used to describe the period of thrills, excitements and kicks after undergoing 1-2 weeks of torturing under the spell of excessive stressors or situations..

For me, for now, i am simplistically, genuinely very happy, as i've finally started to get the feelings of enjoying my "afterlife"(screw d exams!!)

Yesterday, afternoon 3.35pm-ish, was the date and time that i decided to record down, as it would supposedly act as a declaration for my temporary freedom (from studies), and i was suppose to get really excited and went like this,

But instead of that, i was acting abnormally (unlike some of those happy happy jumpy type) and i looks like this the whole day,

The combination of blur, spaced out, mentally numbed and stoned, no other pics other than this could illustrate my emotion as accurate at that moment.

I was just so blank.. at that moment, i finished all my exams, no more worries bout studies for 1 month, and i will have all the free time to do this, this, that, that, so i am suppose to get excited!! damnit!! but i just couldnt find the feeling at that moment..

Anyway, i m goin to melbourne tonight, and wont be back in awhile, that means i wont be having any chances other than yesterday night to hang out with my 'aunty'-eunice, before she cut off her strings with UniSA and fly back to Malaysia. Therefore, i went out with her, and a bunch of others.

The initial plan was, to find a pub/bar that sells cheap drinks, get a quick fix, and head to k-box (karaoke). We reached the city at bout.. 9.45pm, and started to walk around and hunting for bars...

Guess what? we went to 6 destinated bars in 2 hrs time!! that's really a record..
The only thing to concern about is that, we pub crawls without the alcohol and getting in... the reason being, WEDNESDAY NIGHT is JINXXXED!!!!

5of them closed, 1 of em (Carg0) was havin some all white theme thinggy.. so we had to bunk and settle in Austral, some no-name bar (i meant.. not popular ler, poetic license mer), thank god we didnt end up buying booze in some convenient stores or pokies... that will be really really pathetic.. Targetted 6 bars and all 6 failed.. what a pub crawls

The drinking process was normal, though i regret for didnt bring my camera along with me... Eunice was high.. pretty soon.. (abit too fake i guess, like instant coffee mix like that..)
I took some shots (Jim beanx1, JDx2 and some scotchx1), shared half a jug of cooper's with Albert (cool ass hongkee dude), 1 submarine (scotch with cooper's)

I was doin alright even then, perhaps i m really a depressant type in alcohol.. so just before we leave that place, me n albert decided to take one last shot, and we asked the bartender for some recommendations.. and she gave us this "mee-eh-chem-bulb" (it pronounced like that..). It's a mixture of a mugfull of "redbull"-famous energy drink, and a shot of some kinda waterchestnut rum.. the method is of coz dump it in, and gulp it down...

I wouldnt say that it is strong, strong... but it hits ur brain very very fast.. probably becoz of the usage of redbull as the medium, as energy drinks are designed to release the effect quick.. that's my rationale of looking at it ler..

i took another shots when i brought justin (not botak) and daniel (not the other botak as well) back in... at that point, after consuming the second shots of that.. "bulb" thinggy.. i would said, the night is just about to start.. hahaha

Too bad my cam(sorry teddy, left you at home) wasnt with me.. anyway, i m trying my best to search for the waterchestnut rum.. squary bottle, green logo, if anyone notices it please please take down the name and inform me!!

Anyway, the night was.. alright.. tho didnt spend much time in k-box.. however it was.. fun.. reasonably.. reached home at bout.. 4+? 4.20-ish like that.. i guess..

So, this would be my first post after my exams and last post before i leave to melbourne.. tonight!! So then, hav fun and go play play play!!

p.s- pub crawling isnt that fun.. unless u r drivin.. my legs are aching..

What a greenie day~

2005-06-15T17:33:00.001+09:30

Green, an enhanced non-primary color produced by the mixing of both blue and yellow isnt always my favorite color. That, i can assured you, I dont have anything particular with greenie stuffs, meaning i dont really hate or dislike the color green nor cling over it or "fetishize" over anything with green (just like the pink fetish fever that runnin across the world, possessing on mainly 14-24 yrs old females). Yeap, regardless the fact that green is always just.. ordinary and passer-by to me, i bought a green sunglasses yesterday.. Yeap.. GREEN

For those who possessed a pair of eagle eyes, yeap, you could tell that this is a Killerloop's Sunglasses. Usually, it would cost.. up to 150-200Aud, however, fortunately due to the fact that one of my friends wanted to buy a "decent" sunglasses, we entered this sunglasses shop, and just out of curiosity i asked abou the price of this pair of goblin-look sunglasses. Guess what? unexpectedly, the saleslady shocked me with an answer of.. "40aud" wow..

Honestly, that's pretty cheap.. and i kinda like the look of it, and with still a bit of spare cash in hand.. i bought it. Turned out that the friend that suppose to get a sunglasses didnt get anything in return, becoz the rest just arent "decent" enough.

I was abit excited bout the retail of the Killerloop Survivor series "green-monster"... but when i bought it.. it's already 4-5pm in the afternoon.. it would be weird if i still wanna put on the sunglasses.. moreover.. it was quite a gloomy and rainy day yesterday..

However, i finally got the chance to try it out today, as i woke up at bout 1.30pm, and on my way to a pharmacy nearby to get some stuffs.. i tried it out.. and.. it was cool

Oh, what a greenie day~! Ppl from GREENDAY, you arent that green without this!!! :p

I used the greeny shade as a filter, and this is what i got.. pretty nice heh? (when i took the pic, i didnt adjust the light exposure, becoz i wanted to save battery and i didnt on the LCD viewscreen.. so, in return, i photoshopped it to add abit of light on the top right, and exaggerate on the colorization more). Yeap, so this would act as a demonstration on how it would be like after puttin on that green shade on.. Yeah, pretty funky heh?
It's like.. everything is just.. so GREEN, and natural..

Not to exaggerate.. but yeah i think i started to like the color.. Green.. hmm.. anway.. due to my exam pressures and all.. this shall be one of my last posts before my exams over..

So, i shall reward all the readers with this colorful creation of mine..

F-tuned desktop background #1

Till then, have fun and enjoy your life! Dont limit yourself with just one color or so.. live a colorful life!!

A kind of Preparation

2005-06-13T21:24:00.000+09:30

Exams coming soon, and it's pretty much easy for me to forsee that in the future 2-3 weeks time i wont be having the time to clean up and keep my room tidy. Therefore, after waking up at 3pm, I forced myself to do so.

Spent bout 1 hour or so, to clean up my room, done my laundry, vacuum the carpet, wipe the furnitures.. etc..

And now, allowed me to present to you, a new fresh and white Freddy's Room!

the first time in 3 months i decided to make my bed, and from this angle, it does look like a cheap motel or something huh?

I had to take down my Chiaki Kuriyama's KillBill vol.1 poster when i clean up my bed, as i realized that it's full of dust and that might be the reason why my nose kept running and wont stop from breathing dusts in. (As the poster is just right above me pillow)

ignore the towel.. other than that everything seems so fine and clean

I'm glad that i actually did clean up my room, as you know i can be a bit lazy.. and sometimes.. i could just overdo it, so i m really glad that i did. It's now easier to breath in and sleep inside my room...

House's backyard, took it at bout 5pm

I actually thought of cleaning up the backyard as well, as in.. at least clear up the fallen leaves or what.. but after say.. 3-4 sweeps i suddenly felt bit lethargic and therefore i held back right then and managed to just sweep it back to one side... At least, i sweep them back nearer to their mother ok (the tree)... :P

Anyway, today's pretty ordinary, tho something funny happened yesterday but i dun think i wana post it up today, maybe tomoro or so, and i guess i wont be posting up as frequent as i mentioned before, exams are coming soon, I AM suppose to study on how to score my exams but not to blog on how i fail my exams..

A Plan

2005-06-11T22:35:00.000+09:30

Recently i've been babbling about Teddy here, Teddy there for too much, and in the actual fact teddy is surviving with just a 16mb memory card.. That's like Vin Diesel feeding on 2 bowls of grade C plain porridge for a day. That's bad, indeed bad, i dont wana be accused as abusive or torturing my Teddy, however, guess i wont be getting any larger memory card until beginning of july. Sorry teddy...

Anyway, tho he's still on his way of starvation, i m goin to lay down a plan for me, myself, and teddy during our holiday. Once, i've gotten my new memory card, i wanna start some shooting, and goin to pile up a short movie clip (hopefully, beyond my usual standard). It's kinda hard, when you need to constant unload the memory to your laptop or other devices, and keep filming short duration shots. However, i've done something similar before, by clipping 14-15 mini shots that contains 3-5 secs each, with reasonable editing, you could still work it out somehow.

So, the basic idea of the plan has been set, which is to make good use of teddy's ability and compose a short film. Now, the problem here is, what's the theme? topic? title? style? genre? and how bout the Casts? Plot? Location? Money?

yeap.. it's indeed a very troublesome hobby, but i m determined and motivated! I've done something on psychological disorder (Pyromania, fanatic who obssessed with set things up on fire), a tale bout a social loafer, plenty small clips for orientations/promos/activities, Kosovo: the cursed sacred land, and so on. I need more inspiration on this, of coz.. must b low budget, easy to film while could obtain great effects at the sametime, and does not involves too many casts

erm.. tough yerr...

Touch me, and i will burn down your house!!

Filmed that say.. 2 years ago, sorry that i only kept a brutally compressed version, so it's very blurry..

Another shot of "Pyromania", featuring Suresh and myself

Pudu jail? Sungai Buloh's? or the Pahang one's? Nope, it was actually my frens' house's living room.. Nice setting and lighting control huh? hahaha, short of casts.. so gotta act it out myself,
2 propz should go to Suresh's acting, indeed a very scary and brutal policemen.. tho we only managed to get the old police uniform.. :P

Yea, so, to round it up.. short clip firming is one of my hobbies, and by involving yourself in the picture, it would be so much fun.. Trust me..
Yeap.. teddy is suppose to be a camera not a video cam.. but oh well.. can wan ler..

So, pour in your idea, amuse me, feed me!!

Welcome abroad, Teddy!

2005-06-09T21:01:00.000+09:30

"Welcome, Teddy!" Yes! the day has finally arrived.. Our hero has finally reached his destination, his first step to create wonderful images and keep memories in a miraculous manner!

This afternoon, bout 4pm i finally got a receipt sayin that i could pick up my "teddy" at the local post office which located at about 5 mins walk away. Without any hesitation, i rushed and collected it straight fresh from the postoffice. I then spent about 2 hrs reading the manual and discovering many many functions and superpowers that Teddy would offer to me only if i ask and learn from him respectively. The stock was clean, safe and perfect, and i m satisfied with it other than the slight delay of delivering which invoked a lil bit of my anxiety and anger.

Knowing me, a young 19 years old (still!) tad that owns a passionate heart towards new and intriging objects even a 6 years old small kid wouldnt wana compete with me in that hyperactiveness sense, i quickly untied the parcel, and follow the instructions straight to hav a quick detailed look at Teddy. He's indeed handsome and crafted a witty look on its smart design

i had to use my webcam to take this shot, sorry for the blurry image of "Teddy"

Without further hesitation, i read through 60% of the manual, picking on mostly technical features and abilities that i could derived from Teddy. Of course, you wouldnt know whether a Durian is indeed a D24 breed or just a normal thailand hybrid just by looking or sniffing at it, the most simple and direct method is to test it out... yep, break it into parts and chew out the flesh of it, taste it from bits to bits. And that's exactly what i did to Teddy.

As inspired by one of my cousins, Davors (a pro-like when comes to lomo attempt and camera handling), I took out some of my own toys and put it on together with teddy to create some "Cool-looking-thought-provoking" pics.

Before the actual shootings, i would like to introduce to you my "toys" that being involved in this attempt. Firstly, "Waki" a fine made steel wakizashi (a form of katana, slightly shorter than usual length)

Disclaimer: this is indeed real, and it's for self-defense and decorative purposes. Please dont try anything more at home

Secondly, an official reservoir dogs' poster, featuring Mr.White, Mr.Orange, Mr.Blonde, and Mr.Brown in that show.

Go watch the show, it's indeed a splendid mafia style show.. !!

So, a wakizashi and a reservoir dogs' poster.. a rather weird combination huh? I would think that it's totally ridiculous and senseless without the existence of Teddy in my possession. However, since teddy is here, he said, "no problem, i could come up with something even with that weird combination". I trusted him entirely, therefore i took a few tries.. and here's the result of Teddy's true power!

"A lone samurai stand tall with his katana in front of a squad of mafias, attempting to save the world from injustice!"

Too bad i had to resize the pic in order to fit in nicely in this blog.. if you look at it at the 2000 x 1500 pixels resolution, you could clearly see every single features of the mafias and a nice glaring flare effect due to over light exposure. Yeap, that's the key, exposing it to the pendaflour light on top of me, and readjust the shuttle speed, with a manual aperture and speed approach should be able to obtain this kind of images fairly easily (at the sametime, angling to achieve perfect dimension is also fairly essential in order to get the reflection). However, i wasnt quite satisfied with just that, and i decided to work out teddy a little bit more, so i tried something else more on light exposure and color burning.

Here's my second try,

"The samurai drew out his katana, and it was so glaring, it blinds the enemies!!"

In this attempt, i try a closer up close shot (without micromanage, as i want to over burn the image), and i on my flash (fill flash), and locked angle on hilt part where i wanted it to glare.. slow filter flash it (u normally do this for red eyes reduction), and at the sametime drag the light exposure, combined with appropriate aperture and shuttle speed. Here you go, a glaring light reflecting wonder samurai sword (if you look carefully, you should be able to see the center splash glares effect.

Haha, after messing up with my "toys" i am satisfied for today! phew, please feel free to comment on my attempts and if you hav any future suggestions, please, more than welcome to spill it out~!

Meanwhile durin the wait...

2005-06-08T21:40:00.000+09:30

This post will be a continuation of my previous entry on "teddy". Don't be suprised or so, yes, he's not here yet.. as expected.. grrr.. damn those postmens.. cant you just skip your footy tv session for a weekend and send my baby to me? Apparently they mentioned in the post that, it will be delivered within 7 working days... Arghh!!

Anyway, enough of ramblings, i m not goin to complain or curse more on this post. Instead, i m goin to promote my this future buddy a lil bit more and to clarify up a few matters. After posting up my previous entry, i received a few comments on my choice of camera, and right here, i m not tryin to offend anyone or even defend myself.. As when i read back my own post.. i realized that.. i didnt include much technical explaniation on my selection, so that's crucial.. to the point that i dont want anyone to hav any bad impression on KonicaMinolta's bad pricing becoz of my lack of clarification. (actually their RRP is indeed abit steep.. but oh well.. i somehow gotten it cheap.. so who cares?)

Comments such as, 1)"with the same amount of money you could get a smaller camera with higher megapixels and in a more fashionable sense of casing." 2) "Don't you think it's abit too big? As currently trend in technology is to squeeze everything into as tiny as possible" (except for TV). 3) "i heard that KonicaMinolta's camera are very sensitive and it's not easy to repair once it;s broken down." 4) "It's a camera that uses alkaline batteries still, and as compared to lithium batteries that you could recharge straight away, dont you think that's a downside to its wonderful specification?"

Honestly, i m glad that i received such comments (both in public and privately). I really do, because it showed me your concerns about me being conned or deceived by the flashy cover-ups and pakacging that made up by KonicaMinolta and e-bay. Nonetheless... by knowing the fact that i could be abit anal retentive and skeptical when comes to materials that i aint so familiar with yet passionnate for.. i actually calculated all the pros and cons and i came up with the final conclusion that.. yes, Teddy is worthwhile buying for that price.. definitely..

So, now, allow me to ellaborate and discuss on the raised comments on my "teddy". In notion to the first comment, Dimage Z3 (Teddy's official name) might not be as 'handy', when you talkin about its physical appearance that will match or fit directly to just a single palm size, but, with its excellent functions, the size of a real crafty wizard could be neglected. It is true that with the same amount of money you could afford a camera with 5.0megapixels or even more, however with a total zoom of 48x that teddy could offer, you neednt a topclass soya sauce in order to bring up the delicious taste of a high grade salmon. What i am tryin to say is, it's more than enough for teddy just to have a well that could produce high minerals water, so the initial capacity in the well wouldnt be a big matter to its quality. Additionally, with the function of switching it to manual focus and manual light exposure.. you could achieve images that exceed a quality of 4.0mps by sight.

For the second comment.. i would like to ellaborate abit more though i touched on abit on the above statements. It is relatively true that everything technological except for some special cases such as TV, Trucks, and rockets (where the bigger the better), every other thing seems to strive their way to reach the goal of becoming the "tiniest", "slimiest", "smallest", etc... I wonder why.. when most females work on a totally opposite direction regarding a specific organs of theirs...
Honestly.. i dont really see the point of some of the objects to be smaller.. k, say camera and some mobile phones.. dont you think it's bit hard to press and sms when you are holding a tiny ass phone that could possibly stuff into your backside tunnel if you happen to keep some drugs inside your handphone case, and for camera, when it's so small.. it affects your finger ability to co-ordinate with the whole snapping progress.. and since it is small.. a lil shake meant alot to the result of the picture.. furthermore with the sharp ass 5.0mps + resolution.. that's y all your digital photos need to be photoshopped before u post up ler..

Ok, now for the 3rd comment, yes it is indeed sensitive, in the sense of the lens (Minolta produces worldclass quality lenses and focus tubes). Since teddy came with a fine-tuned anti-shaked and pre-prediction balancer it will be even more sensitive yet stable in snapping quick shots. Yes, i do agree that Minolta's parts are abit harder to reach than the rest.. like nikon, kodak, sony, etc.. and it might be abit prone to injury according to rumors.. however, after a certain amount of research i seek on, no, it isnt that bad for my teddy.. the rest of the fancy line cameras might be.. but not teddy

Lastly, i think this comment is worthwhile for 2 propz.. yes i totally agree with that mostly. It is true that with a lithium base battery you could save more and it might.. last longer (if your camera supports only 2 AA or 4 AAA batteries). However, with the design of 4 AA batteries, it shud b quite durable provided that you need to cough up abit initially for 4 rechargeable AA batteries ler.. that.. i cannot do anything more for it lor..

With those.. i conclude my defending statement for the accused offendant.. Mr.Teddy Dimage Z3 Tan. For the outcome of the trial, we shall proceed to after the break for further solocication and waiting for the sentencing.

Till then.. buhbye...!!

Wait... keep waiting...

2005-06-07T00:26:00.000+09:30

Time passes by vigorously just like the flow of the red sea,
Every second seems so consumptious and flatterning,
Every minute my pulse stuttering upon anxiously,
Every hour i check my wrecked old clock

Oh boy, i wish i could just be like Moses
Setting the sea aside, cross the path straight
Forget bout the wait on the other side
On the other side, of the damn CAMERA I ORDERED!!!

I am annoyed.. anxious.. and again worried.. bout the camera i bought over via ebay last tuesday night.. The company sent me an email and informed me that.. the camera has been shipped on Wednesday.. and should be arrived by monday.. (from Melb to Adelaide only.. not so far away) Therefore.. i've been waiting... since then.. i m bit worried.. that something happen to my future partner that will screen down everything around me that's worthy for him(i decided that it should be a he) to take a look and memorize the incident down.

Therefore.. i m really scared.. what if something happen to this future partner of mine?
Like being kidnapped by somebody? rob? or even rape??!! NOOOOOOOO
Anyway.. before i go any further.. i shall describe my partner here abit..
his formal name shud b Dimage z3, surname Minolta, middlename konica
Click the link below to have a good look of it
dimage-z3/

yea.. i know.. it looks pretty expensive.. and indeed it is expensive.. in a way.. however.. i managed to get it off from an auction in ebay and i got it cheap..
according to some crappy reviews.. the RRP should be around 699-7++ AUD .. that's crazy.. but i got it for 369AUD plus postage.. that's a pretty good bargain.. i've been watching the auction acts goin on for awhile.. but lucky me, this company seems to stock up alot of that model.. and they couldnt sell it off with the normal path.. so they came up with the auction idea.. this is the 4th one i attempted.. and it came out cheap (tho.. i had to sacrifice all my extra pocket money and money that i've earned from somewhere.. somehow.. shhhh.... meet me behind the alley, tonight, 3am, sharp!!.. shhhh)

When u gotten something cheap and valuable and not suppose to be in any logical way.. u tends to think.. hmm.. am i really lucky? or are there any conspiracies behind all these?
I had a conversation with one of my frens that pretty 'pro' or rather.. experienced in ebay trading.. he told me that.. in countries like UK,US, and AUS, u often managed to get cheaper stocks via ebay.. becoz certain medium scale trading company have gotten their stocks in some other countries that suck less taxes on the goods or country where the manufacturer located.. so from that point, they often managed to bring up a better price (excluding the postage and insurance). So after knowing that, what left is the price of the postage services.. However.. even after my own calculation, the price IS still relatively way cheaper than the RRP over here.. therefore i decided to get it

Now, you might wana ask me.. these questions.. such as
1) Is photography a hobby of yours?
2) Are you planning to go pro or something?
3) Are you goin to spend all your times in shooting photos? since u dumped in so much money in it?
4) Do you think it is worthy enough for that amount of cash?

grr.. firstly, i deny that photography is a hobby of mine, it is not.. clearly not, to me.. shooting photo is just an artistic way of screening down and keeping down memories with concrete outcomes.. therefore.. it;s more than just a hobby, it is part of life, and i never own a camera before.. as in.. my own camera.. no..that's y i m craving for one.. and i m getting one!

second, you neednt to be a pro or a semi-pro to own a camera like that, it is just like.. u no need to be a japanese to eat japanese food.. (wait.. bad attempt).. er, how bout this, you no need to be a lawyer to be familiar with law and it's not neccesary for you to be filthy rich in order to own a sport car. The point i want to make here is.. no matter whether u are up to the par of the object you just obtain or what.. as long as u willing to be, or surely to be matching it in the future.. it's alright. People might say that it's still early for you to use this, but if i m comfortable with the spent, the experience, the usage, and the efforts i m willing to put in, why are you making a fuss? when i am suppose to be the person who;'s goin to use it, not u?! (and trust me.. i discussed with my other alter egos several times before i made that decision..so.. it's clearly a democratic victory)

i think i accidenntally inclueded and answered q4 up there..so i shall focused on the third question. Ok, allow me to say this in order to answer that question, anyone can eat up 10 cows, but just not in one day. I m saying here that, i m willing to entrust my partner a 15 years contract (at least) of pairing up with me to screen beautiful stuffs that are worthy for (such as butterflies, flowers, bees, and giraffes, etc), and 369aud for 15 years of good memories retrival cues.. that;s not at all a bad deal to me.

Anyway, let's pray with me that, teddy will be safe from harm and come to me in one perfect piece ASAP, as i m really getting up my head with the wait!

p.s- i decided to rename him, coz i dun wanna call him z3 or dimage, one sounded like some motorcycle, while the other sounds just like... an ordinary camera.. teddy is much unique and a nicer sounding for a partner.

Miraculous form of Metamorphosis

2005-06-03T18:57:00.000+09:30

Meta-mor-pho-sis.. what the heck is that? In layman's term, change of physical form, a striking alteration in appearance, for example, a marked and more or less abrupt developmental change in the form or structure of a butterfly (see, i promised you that i will write something about butterflies) occurring subsequent to birth or hatching.

I am sure most of you know that butterfly isnt exactly a butterfly(as in the appearance) when the egg first hatches (if u duno this i shall refresh ur memory).

According to the lovely illustration above, after the 'breaking of the egg', the larva need to go through 5 stages before it officially form its cocoon and became a butterfly (during the 2nd stage onwards u could called it a caterpillar). So, the term to address this entire progress is called Metamorphosis.

I've a bit of fetish on butterflies, therefore i did put in some effort to research on it. Sadly, i discovered that butterflies are too stupid to recognize human, therefore it's not suitable to make it a pet of yours (as it would probably fly away in anytime). I was pretty sad, when i discovered that fact... and i make a lil promise to myself, one day if a butterfly would actually follow my command and cling on to me wherever and whenever, i will officially adopt it as my pet. (but that will never happen.. logically)

One day, during an unexpected incident, where i was slicing a big bundle of cheese, i accidentally sliced my own finger, and a piece of skin detached from my flesh, left a little line of hope that cling on to my finger (it was tragic, so stop laughin now!)

this is the result of that incident, the blood is already been stopped while i took this picture.

As you can see from the picture, it was kinda deep, however my skin are strong and independent enough to cling on back to the flesh without falling off. After such an incident, i know that i should rest and dont hurt my finger more for another 1-2 weeks. However, knowing me as a hyperactive and a trustworthy individual that never wanted to break a promise... I went to a club at the sameday (2 hrs after the cut... :P) Of course, i did make sure that i put on a secure dressing on it and make sure nothing else would happen. Nonetheless, during the clubbing session... I "accidentally" drank a mug or two of alcohols... knowing the fact that alcohol helps to increase bloodflow.. my wound started to turn into a waterfall.. no wait.. a bloody fountain..

I literally squirt bloods around the club.. (luckily it was too dark, and the bouncers are too tall to notice the short little me, squirting around) I borrowed a hankerchief from Daniel, as it is obvious that the little handy plus i addressed to the wound wasnt sufficient for the 'fountain'. I ran to the toilet, washing my wounds and tie the hankerchif tight to my finger. While i was doing that, 1-2 australian locals stood beside the sink i was using, and they all staring at me with a horrifying look... And one of them actually asked,

"Did you just punch somebody?"

Instinctively i answered," Yeah, one of the bouncers"

They then just stood there with a pause (it was funny to look at their expression, especially the one that stopped from washing his hands)

Of course, being a nice person, i didn't want to traumatize them and affect their general judgment on asians.. as if all of us are like Jet Li or Jackie Chan, one fella can fight the whole nation.. So i quickly end the conversation with this,
"Er, actually, it was a joke"

Yet, even so, i dont think they get it, judging from the fact that both of them quickly ran out without drying their hands..

Ok, so after that, i continue my night session in the club.. and again.. the stubborn me made a same mistake again.. I helped Justin to finish his drink.. and here you go, Niagara fall.. *squirts

Even the poor little hankerchief couldnt do anything to stop the bloods from squirting out of my body.. So, i came up with this idea.. which is to place my finger, into my mouth, and suck back my own blood... (Sorry, if there's any vampire working as the janitor in the club.. u cant have my bloods) Well, without knowing it, the moment i was sucking my own finger, it provokes the transformation of a miraculous metamorphosis.

Though alcohol could increased the rate of your bloodflow, so it is bad to drink when u have bleeding wounds on you, but it works well as a substance to clear and clean bacteria from wounds if you apply it on the wound, and that's what i did by putting in my finger into my mouth that filled with alcohol substance. (ish, coincident? no, i called it the first step to the occurrence of a miracle)

Eventually, my finger stopped from bleeding once again, and i decided to go home soon, as i felt bit of exhaustion after a certain amount of bloodlost. After that night.. i took good care of my finger and i rest it pretty nicely for 1 week.. Exactly 1 week, when i opened up the plaster that covered my wound.. instead of seeing my healthy finger, I SAW THE MIRACLE!!!!

I SAW A BUTTERFLY!!!

tadaa! I saw a butterfly flappin it wings, waving hello to me!

I stunned for awhile.. and i made a further observation on that 'thing'..

see! really a butterfly, staying calmly on my finger!!

another view of it, it might be small.. but it's still a butterfly!!

Apparently, that butterfly grew out of my wound.. you know.. just like a replacement of a pupa..
Amazing?! Who ever thought that a butterfly could actually be born out of a human flesh??!!

I am the first person who did that!! and it was a miracle!!!

*cough cough.. ok.. enough of all those.. i shall reveal the truth, later some kids passing by this site and misunderstood it and end up failling his science test.. then it wouldnt be a good thing aight? So, now, let's take a better look at that thing..

The true form of the miracle butterfly

Yes... if your eyes are sharp enough.. you should be able to tell this..
It was my dead skin which formed the transformation of the butterfly! Please dont puke or anything.. it wasnt that disgusting when you look at the first and the sec pic weren't they?
hehe.. anyway, this is the truth of the miracle tale.. Cut yourself + bleeding + alcohol + sucking your wound, is not = to breeding a miracle butterfly

If that equation could work.. i migth as well slash myself with cleaver over my body.. pour on alcohol.. and kept sucking it.. hopefully one day i could transform into a butterfly-human hybrid? (i shall call it butter-man.. wait.. that doesnt sounds right.. how bout.. butterfluman?? )

And i shall became this.. a new superhero!! with the special ability of sucki.. i meant flying, squirting bloods, spreading powders and destine to bring hope to mankind!!

All hail the Super-Butter-Fl-uu-man!! I will keep squirting around until i finally safe the day!!

P.s-1.no evil intention towards the kind of butterfly.. so nerds.. i meant members from all the insects society or organization please make use of your sense of humor and take it as a form of entertainment.
2. the deadskin part was real! and i didnt create it on purpose
3. it happened bout.. 3 months ago
4. i know i am bad in photoshop.. so please bare with me
5. and the marks behind the naked me was real.. but not becoz of any ill-form of hobby but a traditional way of massage.. (please.. it's true!)

FREDbrication vocabulary review #1

2005-06-02T21:59:00.000+09:30

Hewo everyone, my bad that i didnt post up anything even though i m actually very free.. =P
I apologize for that matter, and i shall begin a trend/series of posting which started with the title of "FREDbrication". Before me ranting, i would like to come up with an explanation for the term - FRED-brication (what exactly does this mean? dont try to search under Oxford or Meriam Webster.. trust me u cant find it)

To carry out my dissection on this word, proper format need to be formed for the best effect of understanding..
So, let's check out the meaning of "FRED-brication"

Vocabulary: 1Fredbrication
Pronunciation: ''freid'-bree-ka-sh&n"
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): Fredbricated, Fredbricating
Etymology: Modern Cross-Racial Culture, from Old English Fabrication and the emergence of which with a not-so-common western based name (signal representation)
1 : a fictitious process which involves narrative or statement that directly or indirectly reflect reality with certain amount of sarcasm or criticsm: as a : a wind of rumor/story that spreads the means of reality; vividly
2: a creation of such (1), and by using lies/falsehoods to extract people's mind from plastic reality
(getting confused already? next point i shall make it all clear)
3: A form of persuasion technique, which induce imaginary facts(a.k.a white lies)

Ok, so there you go, that's the meaning of FREDbrication, a term which i thought it would be sufficient to describe this kind of behavior or action or incident. Think hard, ask yourself, how many times you actually did that? When you see a friend of yours (assuming same gender as you), has a very bad sense in dressing (cant get the picture? let me help you, imagine this yellow based t with big PURPLE flower patterns and GREEN petals plus the mixture of pink skirt with white poke-a-dots for female, and for guys - ultra tight shirt grey based with orange color paints, as if kena splashed by coffee or something equivalent to that, and a leather pants), and he/she is goin out with you for a casual walk in the mall... And just so that, you feels like confronting him or her bout his issue... and you tell him/her this, "Eh, Mary/Michael (fictional names only), you look pretty 'awesome' today, but why dont you try a bit of low profile outfit when we are goin out next time? As according to some megazines (here it goes), they said that the current hottest fashion trend is to go 'As' plain and 'As' ordinary as possible when u hanging out in a mall."

now u get what i mean? white lies! white lies!

If he or she still don't get that, you can make use of the person he/she like, e.g."heh, i had a chat with 'whoever'(the person he or she like), he/she said, he/she likes someone with a plain sense of dressing, color coding n all should be "dull" and "ordinary" (yeah, get that right, punk!)"

You might ask me, why not just confront that friend of yours straight away? Let's be sincere to each other, that's what friends are for right?

That might be right, but as a future psychologist standing here, I dont really agree on that. As to tell a white lies in order to achieve something, you must obey/follow at least these conditions:
1) carry it out of good intention (not to cheat, curse, spread rumors, manipulating ppl for u own sake)
2) based on the principle of never hurt anyone's feeling unless it's necessary (when you think that this person is really in manic sense of obsession towards a certain behavior)
3)situation where you think you could handle (like the dressing one or some other minor issues, please don do anything like that when you encounter major issues, such as break-up in relationships, lost of family members, etc)
4)Always weight the consequences before you tell a white lies
5)Always ask yourself are there any other alternatives other than this, that would carry out a better or at least same par of effect to this
6) Do NOT make this a habit of yours (though you are conducting it for other ppl's sake, yet, it's still not a proper way to reflect reality)

Alright, i guess i kinda sum up the meaning for this, and the term FRED-brication shall served as the title for this series of entry (my own word dissection and interpretation and creation of vocabulary for better accuray in description)

P.S- i think my tone and style in this post are rather serious and mimic to my usual style, anyway i guess the clinical side of me is awakening, and please.. i dont wish to be a boring person myself

the continuation of 'present' and 'future'

2005-05-30T23:01:00.000+09:30

So, after i finally handed in my assignment.. i m free now.. officially free! =) Therefore, i shall continue writing and finish what i started. As a recap.. i mentioned bout my doubts before i leave malaysia.. n i mentioned bout what i miss most (top 10 list) about Malaysia since my departure. To go on with the flow.. i shall talk about what happened in Adelaide, to me when i m here and all..

Basically, i guess i m not as active as back then, when i m free to travel around with the company of my wife (refer to the previous post.. if u dun get what i mean). Due to that limitation and the weird weather that i hav to find a way to shoot it down and be ready with.. I stayed home most of the time..

Anyhow, though i m kinda homely now.. yet i managed to visit some places that could be amusing, such as the zoo (very sad looking zoo.. if u ever wana visit it.. please don.. send the money to salvation army instead), Cleland Wildlife park (tryin to box with a kangaroo.. but i withdrew coz they outrun us with numbers), Mt. Lofti (where u could view the city far away from, and the City really IS square.. no fun =p), Glenelg beach (it wasnt that fun..as it was too cold to even start with.. and i gained phoebia towards seagulls before they bullied me pretty well), Adelaide Wine Center (oh well.. nothing much actually.. as they dun offer free drinks afterall), and the botanic garden (if we could picnic there instead of sitting down munching balfour's pies it would much be better).. I think there should be more in the list.. but i couldnt think of any at this moment.. *blur

this dude over there really t ried to box with me... and if u turn the camera around there was another 10 of them

At the beach.. and as you can see it was really really windy and sunny at the sametime

Now i understand the use of a moat...

Wine bottle windows.. damn.. even this cant beat Bill Gate's windows, in terms of value =P

Yea.. so from all these u could tell that Adelaide is pretty much.. slow in pace then KL.. but it's still pretty cool tho.. at least not as bad as what i imagined before.. As long as they dont serve u camel milks or cactus juice and when you asked them, "do you have coke?" they turned around and give you a cock instead (BBQ style)..

So it wasnt that bad... And i normally cook myself. But that's a bad thing... i never that know that i could be such a cook that could produce such evil foods.. I gained 2 kgs already tho i constantly involved in some sports (at least i think i am) damn.. 2kgs in 4 months, and i hav 6 more months to go.. meaning another 3 more kgs to grow? NOOOOOOOO.. i shall not let that happen (i will try at least)

Anyway.. weather is getting colder.. 4'c tonight.. pretty impressive.. i finally got the chance to try my electric blanket (eunice's tho, =P).. i love the weather where u wont sweat even when u r in the middle of a football match.. being tackle 37 times and dive 24 times..

Life in adelaide could be better (set aside Uni matters, i shall talk bout it another time) if the local gov made certain changes...

Areas of improvement:
1. Adaptation of Mamak Culture.. (yes, eureka!!)
2. 2 hrs extra for shops' opening hour.. (closed at 5pm is really ridiculous sometimes)
3. More soccer!!! (yep.. australian footy IS very nice to watch.. but.. yet.. i need more soccer on TV)
4. Cheaper rate for bus tickets.. ( i know i m being harsh here. .tho it's already pretty reasonable.. but NO.. i insist!)
5. Introduction of second line supply of entertainment (a.k.a. piracy!!)

yea.. if they could make at least 2 out 5 of these suggestions, life in adelaide would be much fun
than ever

Past, Present, Future

2005-05-28T19:02:00.000+09:30

YOoo everybody, i've just finished my second last assignment for this sem.. yesterday.. so i m basically pretty free.. so why not writing a blog or two? that's an ideal acitivity for a person like me (that without a car, money and chix) would do to spend some time.. Where else could you sound out your opinion loud n clear with 'proper' visual support and technology effects? It's convenient.. especially for shy guy like me that are slightly introvert and pleasant.

i told you that i am shy and ANTISOCIAL!!!! *cue serial killer music

Anyway, back to the initial topic of this entry... It's entitled Past, present and Future, it's bit cliche and cheesy.. like those "yesterday, today, tomorrow" kinda metaphors... Before you click the lil red X button on the top right corner of the window, please allowed me to ensure you that it's nothing bout deep thoughts, prophecies or any personal insights that targeted on human's fragile's heart.. *Ahem.. please dont misunderstood the title

What i meant past, present and future was.. the life before i moved to Adelaide, the time when i am still here enjoying (coughin) and the possible changes that i wish it would happen in the future in adelaide...

Sorry that if my words confuses you earlier.. as i couldnt make up another title that are relevant u see?
If u got any idea.. please feel free to spill it out tho, i will be more than happy to accept any comment on that

ALRIGHTEE then, after all the clarification, i shall start the bull spinning by splitting the content of this entry into 3 section (Before Adelaide, In Adelaide, and potential CHANGES while I'm still in Adelaide)

MY LIFE BEFORE ADELAIDE
Duration length: starting from 3 months before leaving

Once.. during a mamak conversation with one of my intelligent friends..

Dude: hey, Freddy! so you are studying psychology right? doin it all here in local U?

Me: No, I am goin to transfer to University of South Australia this February

Dude: Ooohhh.. australia.. which part?

Me: (eyebrows raised onesided).. South Australia.. that's one of the main states in Australia, like Kedah in Malaysia uno...

Dude: Ooohh.. really ah? i never study that in my geography.. So, which town or city??

Me: (getting annoyed by his pretentive knowledge) Adelaide

Dude: At the lake?? where?

Me: (Paused for 5 seconds... thinking to myself... is he drunk or on drugs or something?) eerr.. i meant Adelaide.. the capital for South Australia.. uno like.. Melbourne in Victoria state

Dude: Ohh.. Adelaide is by the lake side la.. ahhh.. now i get it..

*sob.. NOOO.. u dont get it!!! screamed inside my lung.. that's one hell of a ridiculous conversation i had with this cute fren of mine... Decoding Adelaide as "At.The.Lake" that must be some sorta potential in creativity man... At that moment, i thought to myself... "Is Adelaide, really that ulu to some of our fellow population in Malaysia? Am i making the right choice to transfer to Adelaide instead of the United State? Am i goin to transfer to some deserted area that filled with sands n camels?

that would be kinda sad.. dont u think? but at least i will get the chance to try camel milk tho..

At that point.. i was really in doubt.. All those stories that i heard about Adelaide from other poeple like "boring like cock la", "better visit afghanistan then Adelaide", "Better bring ur XBOX and lots n lots of games/animes', just popped up in my head n giving me this feeling that, "it's nothing bad.. it's just like a detention camp"... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ANYWAY.. that didn't stop my determination to put my faith in UniSA.. Adelaide might not be as comprehensible as Melbourne, Sydney or Perth back in Malaysia.. but I kept telling myself that.. since everybody is goin to those usual locations.. I am goin to be DIFFERENT! (Self-perceived reality.. that's so pathetic.. )

Regardless of all those comments.. i went all the way and i finally left the KLIA and flew to Adelaide.. (i am such a persistent guy! propz for myself :p)

LIFE in ADELAIDE

Right after i made my first step in Adelaide, and got myself transportation to my new home... I walked around the Uni, the town, and so on.. to get myself fit into this culture and lifestyle. Like i said before.. i m pretty adaptive.. i am ok with the lifestyle here.. and i dont have any particular preferrences for food and all.. so i m fine.. till i finally figured out the top 10 listings of what i miss most about Malaysia

let's check it out

10. My usual routine of havin my laptop in front of me, while my TV located at the 2 o'clock direction of my laptop = perfect double information gathering at one go!! propz! (i could get a TV here for myself as well.. but oh well.. is ok)

9. The usage of half broken half rotten Inggeris = what we called Manglish... seriously i kinda miss that.. u feels more comfortable and familiar with when you are talkin with your 'mother-tongue' uno (eh?!) (Manglish is not bad sounding at all.. as compared to Japlish, Papua New Guinlish, Banglish)

8. Futsal... tho i've been playin big field for several months and i m enjoying it.. yet..

7. the unlimited download cap of StreamyX.. it might not be as fast, might not be as efficient.. but it's economic and unlimited!!!

6. the usual telecast of football (soccer).. in Australia.. only big hack major matches are being broadcasted.. unless u subscribed the foxtel

5. MALAYSIAN FOODSSSSSS!!!!!!!! (i ranked it at the 5th place.. as i m not bad of a cook.. so i could produce some malaysian looking foods once in awhile)

4. Mamak.. I need u here.. as some of u might know that.. i m such a nocturnal creature.. and i m lazy sometimes.. so nocturnal + lazy + hungry = let's mamak.. but.. everything closed here after 5pm.. oh damn!!

3. Car..... my sexy purplish KIA Rio.. she might not be as fast as a ferrari, might not be as stylish as a Lumbo, might not be as classy as a Beemer, but.. it's still a car.. n once my wife!! Sorry that i had to divorce you temporarily.. *sob

2. Beloved Friends and Family members.. i miss u all.. honestly

1. MY PETS!!! my younger brothers n sister.. (i m the youngest in my actual family tree.. but 3rd in the full tree of 6 siblings, 2 younger bros -both shih tzus and a younger sis.. a syamise cat that always wear a bra!)

see? i aint no liar...

Alrightee then.. tho i m not finished yet.. but i need to be off now.. for some reason.. so i will continue more on the next post.. more to tune in for what's happening or has been happened in Adelaide and my wishes for future changes in Adelaide..

tataz

Second entry on a second thought

2005-05-26T23:11:00.000+09:30

A rather weird title for an entry aight? Anyhow, after knowing the fact that the blogger (yes, me!!) himself is a 3rd year university student who are suppose to bury his mind, brain, body, soul and every single efforts he could squeeze from to work on his initially Friday due assignment (which is 5pm tomorrow), you would probably have a rough picture on why I posted this entry on a second thought (just in case air pollution slowed down your reaction time, let me provide you with 1 hint: I AM NOT doing my work while I am wasting my time blogging here. Eh, wait.. that’s not a hint.. but the answer.. )

Anyway, according to some people out there, blogging could be an activity that served as the purpose of releasing stress. I do agree with that to a certain extend, provided that all bloggers in the world only write bout happy little things like birds, butterflies, bees and toilet bowl. Contradictory to the suggestion, many people blogged about their depressive lifestyle, childhood, anger, daily obstacles. In sum, they normally blogged bout sad stories that could make other people sympathize with it, which mean.. Makes other people feels the same way as they do, while they release their on tension by cursing in public (the internet… )

Therefore, to surpass that level… I decided not to do the same thing… not to curse on my lecturer that assigned to me this bloody lab report that filled with complete &#@)!! (oopsy!) So, I should post something funny, bright and amusing rather than releasing the evil site of me

"I sense the darkness in you... Join me!! Join the backside of the light!!!"

Ok, i agree that i am pretty lame and boring (to those who possesed none in creativity and comedic reaction, yes). However... being lame isnt necessarily bad or inferior to those who are not uno? As, for many many years, we the civilized human has been taught not to behave in that way, and it's fairly difficult for an individual to come up with ideas, jokes, or acts that are lame, yet funny and impressive at the same time...
Those who managed to do so, deserves a trophy or salute from lay ppl like us (wait.. i thought i just said i belong to the lame grp as well? )

However, talking bout being lame and yet managed to produce impressive joke/act, it reminds me of this lengendary incident... One that occured to fortunately (or unfornutately) a friend of mine, when we were playing the taboo card game. The goal of the game is to describe the item revealed in the card without mentioning the name itself and it's taboo words. It's not a very intellectual game as compared to chess or monopoly yet it rely pretty much on your brain's reaction time and creativity in describing an object.
A typical taboo card cue would be:

Card Name: Bill Clinton
Taboo listings: Monica Lewingski
Cigar
Scandal
United States/America
President

Alright, enough said, now, back to the story. So then, during our dear friend's **** turn (Friend's name will be completely remove in order to protect our friend Kong Jia Zun's identity and personal rights), he stumbled upon the card for awhile.. and he began his illustration with this, "OK, this is pretty easy, you often use this when you ran out of condoms on sex". So, logically, we came up with answers such as, "Pregnancy pill, Diaphragm (Female's condom), sexual protection tip, oilment, plastic bag, etc" and after 5 minutes of bombarding.. we gave up.. He did add a few points like,"it's very flexible and pretty useful in other manner" and he shake his head.. And guess what?? the answer was... *drums roll RUBBER GLOVE!!!!!!!!

well... this doesnt look like a decent and normal penis to me...

So, tell me, how on earth could a person come up with this kinda bizarre idea?? And his reasoning was... "becoz it's fairly flexible and you could use it for 5 times?! and he said, " if you arent that gung ho on the mondays, then u could use the pinky;s slot instead" therefore.. it's totally conveniet.. and trust me not, in bout 1 to 1 and half years time this genius is goin to graduate and become a MAS (yes.. Malaysian Airlines, not some AyaMAS ripped off) pilot. See, even a top range pilot could be lame at a certain point of his life (though he's that lame most of the time) But seriously, when you see this and if you happen to be some high post officer in MAS management... Please dont fire him, as he might be the best person you would like to consult on how to reduce cost. kong: "easy only la, replace all the oxigen masks with rubber glove mah can already lor"

i can breathe still!! wao this is nice!

So, moral of the story is... be creative! do not care whether it;s naturally lame or what, just carry it out if you think it would be effective and useful to mankind (though it might not be practical). Anyhow, be optimistic and hope that when you are using it for any sexual activities, the pinky wont burst...

FRED's new baby is finally out of the womb!!

2005-05-25T00:26:00.000+09:30

Hello readers, audience, tresspassers or whatever you want to call yourself, welcome to www.fred-factor.blogspot.com. My name... as mentioned above is Factor, full name Factor Tan... (if you think that my father would name me after that kinda weird name, you should then name your son vector or sector to compete with) Alright, let's cut the crab (i meant crap), and you can call me freddy, fred, hong lit or even Lit. This site will serve as my blog (my second one to be exact), as well as a point of communication between me and my friends (as i realized that my first site isnt so 'reader-friendly' and i dont really fulfill the point of communicating by dragging my thoughts and words just then...) Therefore, the new breed has been born!! In other words, www.fred-factor.blogspot.com is the younger brother of www.xanga.com/friedfred (ooo, sibling's rivalry, interesting)

I would like to think that I am a genius like Einsteins and a miraculously lucky bastard like Bill Gates (That's why i came up with this equation, E=MC2, which stands for Electronic =(Microsoft Craps)2). However in reality, judging from the point i am standing and typing right now, it's obvious for you to derive that I am as average,regular,ordinary,normal,common as any jack, joe, and john you can find in every corner of the world. But, when i am thinking of those, i began to think that what exactly is special and unique? Is it when you created your own breed of orchid flower and name it after yourself? (freddichid, what a horrible name for an orchid) Or forced yourself into guiness the book of record by swallowing 60 hard boiled eggs at one go?

I am starting this second site of mine when I am faced with a pretty difficult period in the current path of my life. As some of you might know that I am a 3rd year pscyhology major, and in less than a month's time i will be putting all my heart out to deal with the exams. In the coming days, before i put a fullstop to the overwhelming of assignments and exam pressures, I shall be exploring some interesting factors of me, my friends, my surroundings, and the world. So, please, bookmark my site only after i started to be more active in posting...

P.S- this site will be a more 'reader-friendly' version of blog as compared to the dull, sluggish and poetic old www.xanga.com/friedfred. It will be a site that reports only on lively and wonderful stuffs such as butterflies, peacocks, birds and bees (wait.. don't you consider peacock as birds as well?) Anyway, stay tune.. for more

I'll make changes to this site on a regular basis, sharing news, views, experiences, photos...whatever occurs to me. Check back often!