Humbled

I am humbled by a friend of mine today.

I saw her (she shall now be known as Teally in vodkatauren) online today, and gave her a greeting message.
I asked how was she doing. Which she answered; tired.
Why?
Because she just came back from her doing her humanitarian work.
Teally went to the beach near to Crown Prince Hotel to help out the fishermen who lived there.
Houses smashed, boats wrecked, family and friends lost.........
I cannot imagine what they are going through.
But I think that the simple act of cleaning up after the disaster is a step towards piecing their lives back to order.

I had no idea of the magnitude of this tragedy on Sunday, and still not much on Monday.
Today, Tuesday, after talking to my friend, I think I am starting to know.

I am humbled, because while my friend helped the victims, I went to watch Kung Fu Hustle.
I am humbled, because while my friend's generosity spanned to people unknown, I can't look beyond the people I know.
I am humbled, because while my friend talked about their suffering, I talked about me having a hard time believing that Penang was struck by disaster.
I am indeed humbled.

So.... I salute you, my friend Teally, and all the other selfless volunteers.
I swear upon my mother's grave, even though she is not yet dead, that I will at least make a donation to the tsunami fund.

And yo! Teally, drinks on me the next time we meet up.

Pizza Fight!

Went to watch Kung Fu Hustle today. It was good.

Anyhow, had dinner at Pizza Hit, Prangin Mall.
Ordered the Chicken Tender(?) thing. It was good too.
Have sort of a cheese cake taste to it.

Towards the end of dinner, there was some commotion in the kitchen.
Seems that one of the kicthen guy had some arguement with one of the waiter.
Things calmed down a bit for a while, then more shoutings from the kicthen.
Waiter guy went inside for another chat, and came out laughing a bit.
I was getting irritated already by then. Can't I just have my dinner in peace?
After a while, the kitchen guy started throwing stuffs around in the kitchen.
He sure was making a fucking big scene, and getting all the attentions from all the customers.
So the waiter guy went to the counter (the hole that they pass pizzas from kitchen to the restaurent), talked back loudly, and then slapped the wall loudly.
More shoutings....... sigh, I was really irritated then. Do I really have to witness all these stupid stuffs?
The waiter guy then went inside the kitchen again, even though others tried to restrain him from doing so.
Blah blah blah... more shoutings, and other noises. Though I don't think that they actually had a fight.

It's embarrassing to see how unprofessional our service line are.
They talked about cleaning up Penang, about getting the shine back to the Pearl of Orient.
Instead of beautifying the streets, I think they should start the cleaning on our service line in Penang.
My suggestion, castrate all the men in the service line, to reduce all those testosterone.

Then something else happened.
Next to my table, is a family of Indians.
The father (I'm guessing) decided to screw another waiter for the commotion, asking for the manager, about him trying to have his meal in peace, blah blah blah.
This man just demonstrated the typical behaviour that racist link to the Indians, by being a bigshot of an asshole.
I will not say that I am not a racist, and I doubt anyone that says they aren't.
I try not to be one, but that man wasn't giving me a helping hand.

Both the shitty happenings pissed me off. And I can't decide which pissed me off more.

The Singlet that is not a Singlet

I went to this Japanese restaurent with the Boss in Pulau Tikus for dinner just now.
It was pretty crowded, and has a few Japanese customers.
One thing about them that irritates me is their tendency to smoke in an air-conditioned area.
To me, that is a rude culture.

Fast forward a few minutes, I suddenly notice a guy wearing a black singlet.
Weirder than that, the singlet looks kind of like a lady's clothing, the spaghetti strap.
I really want to know what the fucking hell is wrong with this world right now..!!!
That guy was lucky that he is bigger than I am, else I would have pound the living crap outta him!
Bloody bastard.

Hmm.... that sight reminds me of some years ago, I saw another guy in another weird outfut.
He was wearing a black singlet too, to show off his muscular budy.
It might have been impresive, had the singlet not have some sort of stiching on the front (I don't know how to describe this, any help would be appreciated) that helps to define the shape of boobies.
Yo freakos, fuck off.

Earthquake??

What?
There was an earthquake? Tremors felt by taller buildings in Penang?
WOW! (not WoW, World of Warcraft™)
I'm sorry for those that met with unfortunate incidents due to this disaster.
But WTF??!!!
This has happened twice in my life, and I didn't even realised any of it.
Bullshit!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my friends who celebrate the day.

Guy from school

Nothing really interesting happened lately, and am too lazy to do recollection.
So I’ll write about a guy from high school, Allen.
I don’t really know this guy, and we probably exchange pleasantries and only pleasantries every once in a while.
He was kind of a nice guy, athletic, not shy but not talkative, an okay guy by my book.
Then we left high school and lost a non-existent contact.
Until one day, through some mutual friend (or whatever, I don’t remember), we met again on some kind of group website thing.
If I remember correctly, I think he was trying to tackle a sister of my friend.
There (group website thing) I get to know a little bit more of him; his web persona.
That irritated the mighty shit out of me, and I’ve hated him ever since.
No loss, cause I’ve never known him anyway.
So what was it about his web persona that pissed me off?
He acts like a giggly 14-year-old high school girl!
That’s why.

Shotglass

The other day I found my one of my shotglass filled with water, sitting on the altar of the Lord Buddha and/or his ever faithful assistant, Kuan Yin.

That is not right.
I mean, its holy stuff here.
How could my mother do such a mistake?
Its a desecration of the sacred!




MY shotglass is not to be used as an object of worshipping or whatever religious activities.
It is the Intoxicator.

Bak Kut Teh

Two days back I was having my dinner of Bak Kut Teh at Bayan Baru. Dinner for one, please.
It was a rather disappointing visual delight.
Instead of the usual sizzling claypot filled with goodies, what I got was a stupid cold piece of ceramic bowl, only half filled with soup and bits and pieces of stuffs here and there.
However, the taste is still pretty much the same, and that was good. I even got myself a 2nd bowl of rice.

Blah blah blah... place getting crowded....

As I was about to finish my dinner, there came 2 guys with extremely weak legs. They can't stand to wait even a few moments more, and they can see that I'm finishing. So they came towards me, and just sat down.
WTF??!!!
What happened to "Excuse me sir, do you mind if we join you on this table?"?
I may not be the nicest guy in the world. In fact, I'm a not-so-nice kind of guy.
But I would definitely share my god-damned table, especially since I was about to finish my meal.
These monyets in batik (you know, Motorola uniform) need a good walloping from their daddies.

Pissed me off.

Business World

I am so naive, to not realise that the business world is such a brutal brutal world.
The presenting manager (from the States) talked about hurting the competitors, ripping their balls off to chew on for a mere 13 Ringgit.
And about the competitors coming back for revenge so better get your steel mesh undies ready. Better still, get a steel box undies.
I was so sacred listening to him.

Anyhow, I was so sleepy today at work today.
And resisted the 2nd cup of coffee. 1st was in the early morning.

My Discus

One of my babies just laid eggs. Yahooooo!!!!!!!!! (not the search engine)
She laid them on the magnetic scrubber that I no longer use.
Unfortunately, I suspect that there is no husband to that endeavor.
Those eggs are not fertile, they will not hatch.
But it's all still very exciting for me. At least I know that I am keeping these babies in a condition good enough to promote breeding.

I am talking about my fish. I keep 10 discus in 2 four-feet bare-bottom tanks.
Bought them from a breeder at a cheap price, RM170 for 11 fish.
Yeah, one died.

Discus came from the Amazon River, South America.
They had been selectively bred until they have become so much more colourful then their original selves. Recently, the wild breeds too have become very popular (not in Malaysia though, I think).
Discus are pretty famed for their difficulty to keep. But in my opinion, it is not that hard.
They need clean water, first and foremost. Good filter and consistent water changes are a must.
Water changes is a daily routine for me, almost an hour a day changing 60% of the tank water.
I'm far from an expert, so I'll stop my how-to here.

This is going to contradict what I’ve written earlier.
The reason I got a spawn today is due to the water change last night.
What is so different about last night’s WC compared to all the other WCs?
The difference is that I haven’t changed their water for more than 2 weeks.
That led the discus to think that it is the dry season. When I changed the water last night, it would appear to them that the raining season has arrived. Signifying that food will be abundant for everyone.
I believe that triggered one of my discus to start laying eggs. Without a husband fish. Infertile eggs. No discus wrigglers.

But never mind that, I am still happy about it.

LOTR: FOTR

My mom was watching The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and I caught glimpses of the movie.

So Frodo was badly injured, and Arwen outracing the Black Riders to get to Rivendell.
Then those water horses gave those Black Riders a good washing smackdown!
Frodo didn’t die, but woke up in a nice bed instead and found Gandalf sitting there.
Chitty chatty chitty chatty with ol'G, blah blah blah until Elrond showed up and got me thinking.

Now Elrond is an Elf, and Elves are a bunch of pretty people.
Legolas for example; silly girls wetted their panties looking at him.
Arwen, yum yum.
But Elrond.... Elrond is different from the other Elves.
He is the Lord of Rivendell, and possessed one of the elven rings of power, the ring Vilya.
I don't read Elvish, but I'm damn sure that Vilya reads as Ugly.
Yeah, Elrond wears the Ring of Ugly, thus making him one butt-ugly Elf.
That is the only explanation I can think of for him to be such an ugly person, Elf or otherwise.

mornig

Tonight, I feel young once again.
eVer since I started working, I've been feeling old.
But after having the elixir of youth, my college days came back to me.
I.... err....
am going to bed.
Boss gonna call tomorrow, she'll be mad if I'm still asleep then.
I'm going to trybto relive my younger days.
i"m not old, just feeling olf

*edit: ha ha, I'm going to leave this as it is.

Anonymous

That’s what I wanted to be when I first started this stupid blog.
Today I told the Boss about my blog. Now I can’t bitch about her anymore in here.
Not that I’ve done it before. Just that I wont be able to do it in the future.
Then I told another friend about it, resulting in I can’t go berserk on certain issues, especially religious issues.
So now I have to behave myself properly. But would I? Should I?
What is the point of all this, when I have to end up being the normal self that I’ve projected to the world?
Sheeshhh…..

Anyhow, today I defined wimpy as the state of being a wimp.
With that, someone called me George W. Bush.
????
I would rather be Bill Clinton.

Las Vegas

I remember the time when I travelled to Las Vegas with a colleague of mine, Shake.
We took turns driving for roughly around 18 hours before reaching the place.
So, there we were at the place, and looking to get to the hotel that we had booked.
Following printed instructions (MapQuest, Yahoo! Maps) we proceeded on uneventfully.
That is until we came to a junction of 5 roads, governed by traffic lights.
Probably being tired and everything, Shake took a wrong turn and we ended up driving against the traffic.
Luckily, we didn't panic like stupid schoolgirls would have.
I calmly told him to drive over the pavement to the other side of the road. That’s what they do in those action movies. Movies prepare us for emergencies like this!
Unfortunately, Shake prefers romantic comedies. He switched on the hazard light and waited the road to clear up. Then he did a U-turn and we were back in business.
How much more boring could that be?

When we finally reached the hotel, we chickened out from sleeping in the car for the first night. Earlier we decided that we are too poor to pay a full day's rate for only a night's sleep, and therefore decided on sleeping in the car. But chickens we were, afraid of being mugged.
That’s when we used our engineering logic to solve this financial dilemma.
What we figured out was;
Hotel = nice place = expensive
Motel = not a nice place = cheaper than hotel
So off we went to look for one, and there are plenty.
Decided on one particular motel, went in and was told that the price is USD50 per night.
WTF??!!! That’s more that what we'll be paying for our hotel stays.
Walking out, I had a sudden realization;
here are 2 guys, trying to check into a motel........
Oh my fuggin God!!!

We went back to the hotel and paid for an extra night.

Magic Pills

Excedrin. It really works! (like one of those infomercials the TV used to play late at night)
Headache is now only a soft probe.
Managed to burp my nausea away. And still burping away.
Now that I'm feeling better, I'n starting to get hungry.

Was reading some girl's blog. From the beginning.
It felt like watching a movie.
Like one of those girly love movies.
Not really my type of movie, but its facinating that emotions were captured in the blogs.
Either that or I'm just being emotional because not feeling well.

Head in Ache

Went to the doctor just now and had an x-ray.
Found a nail inside my brain.

Well, not really.....
but I do really feel like there is a nail inside my head, causing me all these pain.
And also feel like puking.

Dr. Mom said that its migraine. She has the same problem too.
Either its a genetic passed-down, or I have drank too much coffee in my lifetime. Just like my mom did.
Took 2 tablets of Excedrin, for migraine. Not helping me though.
I was wondering if I'll ended up like some of those Hollywood charactors who take aspirins like taking vitamin-C.

Anyhow, attended a presentation at work today. Its about how our vendors are improving on their "Quality".
One word to sum the presentation; STUPID.
The vendors sent idiots to present them. Some of them can't speak average English, some had crap spilling out of their mouths.
So some people from my company took up the challenge;
they too start bullshitting around with their "good" English.
I left after a while.
Went in with zero expectation, came out with even less.

Inspired!

I thought I'll write something artistic.....

Bitches, bitches, go away

Don't turn this into a lousy day

I'm busy and have nothing to say

Will get back to you on your funeral day

An inspiration from work

Haircut

I had my hair cut today, by a little man in a pink shirt and white pants with translucent blue belt. I was not happy about it. I almost get up and give him a chokeslam.
Damn faggot!
No its not a gay hair saloon. My cousin owned it. I had to go there, its the family thing to do. I just cannot understand why she would have all these weird staffs.
I guess real man don't become a hair stylist.

Inbox

Holy Mother of God!!!
Yahoo! Mail's inbox size has just been upgraded to 250MB!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now what am I going to do with all those empty space?