2009!!!

Wow.....2008 gone already and now it is 2009.

Only yesterday it was Y2K party.

9 years have passed wow.........time to slow down...slow slow slow :)

The Birth of Vader!!

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...........................................*****pisssssssssssssh!!!***

At last I am re-born!! Look at me with awe!! Fear my fearsome black armor!! MUAHAHAHA...eh, wait a minit, I am stuck! and and, I am ...WTF!!!? WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FINGERS??

Guards! Guards! HELP!! I AM STUCK I AM STUCK! FUCK who made me a goddarn Lego!!

I asked for the latest model I didn't ask to be a stupid lego!!!

Oily-Wand you are going to pay for throwing me to the pits!!!

Yes Lord Vajer, you called? WAHAHAH...oops! Sorry mi'lord...errr, what they heck did they do to you??? Cant you use the force to somehow, you know alter your molecule or something to make you back to become the big old nasty that you are?......come to think of it, you do look kinda cute short and stunted!!!

To be continued......

Dunes of Gold

Seafood Thai style down in Chinatown!!

Anthony Bourdain I am NOT!

One of the perks of my job is, I get to go off the beaten path when I go on business trips. And I get to see and experience some cool stuff whenever I go to such places where tourists will never go. Recently, I was somewhere in Thailand in the province of Lop Buri. Where is that? Well it is about 150km northwest from Bangkok.

This area is basically a hilly area dotted with BIG limestone hills that are fast disappearing due to granite blasting and marble manufacturing. The soil here is also fertile which enables farmers to grow corn, tapioca, sugar cane and rice.

And whenever we get to go off the beaten path, we also get to sample the food off the beaten path which is something that I totally look forward too whenever I go *out and about* in a country and this is the time whereby I do think that *hey, I could be the next Anthony Bourdain-Asian style unlike the Asian wannabe Bobby Chin* - Man I hate that guy...but Tony's tops!

And the main reason why I cant be like Tony is not because I am not a good presenter or food expert, (I live to eat, not eat to live) but it's because I lack the patience and control that Tony has, coz even before the camera got to the food to show the audience it's yummy goodness, it is gone. Gone into my stomach and all that's left is all you see right here!

Pasar Malam!! (Night Market!!)

As we cruise into the 21st century with wifi, mobile phones, internet everywhere, somethings should just stay as they are and one of it is the Pasar Malam!.

I remember when I am a kid, I used to love cycling to the nearby pasar malam whenever they come to my neighbourhood to set up shop to sell all kinds of stuff from food to clothes to cassettes to magazines to household knick knacks and what not!

Recently I got the chance to pop over to one back when I was home and here's some photos to share!

And if you notice those pink turtle buns! they are only found in Ipoh especially around October when they celebrate the Ninth Emperor festival where such buns are sold everywhere and chinese opera plays for nine straight days for free!

Rodiots!!

Whats a Roadiots? - Road Idiots! aka Idiots on the road!



I normally do think that general road users on this Island that I am living in are fairly courteous and pretty law abiding. However, there are of course exceptions to the norm, or was it that those were the norms? Let's leave that to a later debate. So in this post, I would like to recount my WTF! moments and they are as follows :-



WTF No.1

Now, have you ever tried signalling when you want to switch lane? Of course you have! Any half decent driver would right? But there are some assholes who, whenever they see you signalling, the farker will step on the accelarator even though that tibai fella is at least 2 car lengths behind! I mean, you just cant get in front of them! No! It's their road!!!



WTF No.2

You know those merging lanes? where 2 lanes merge into one, well, I was on the right side of the lane while the ever courteous taxi driver of the blue comfort one was on my left. We both started cordially side by side but as my car is more powerful than the taxi, I overtook him and was ahead of him on the merging lane. Then suddenly I heard this "VROOOM" - tibai mad fark taxi driver cut ahead of me from behind on a merging lane!!!

WTF No.3

After merging lanes, we also have fork roads. You know left lane right lane forks, well just today, along the AYE where the express way divvys up towards Keppel road on the left and towards the CTE on the right. Guess who the dumbass again is putting the lives of us courteuous road users in danger again?? YES the TIBAI TAXI DRIVER of the blue comfortable type!!!! bloody effing idiot just went straight towards the center of the fork and stopped and then decide at the last min which one to turn to and he just signalled and turned!!! WTF?!!?!?


WTF No.4

Now we have the Tibais who drives as if their Momma owns the road. This kind of driver will go on the fast lane and drive as if they are on the slow lane. You follow them patiently, they dun care, you flash them they dun care, you honk them they go slower! WTF!!!

So far I have listed above 4 WTF moments. Will list more when I have more time!!!

Business Too Good!

I think these days, business is too good for most F&B outlets in this glorious Island of Acronyms! Age limit for women over 35 at St James Powerstation for ladies nite, meaning if your are over the hill you are not welcome to the establishment. They only want young hot patrons there! Old hags exit stage left please and do so quietly!!!! Business is just too good to cater to these old women who still think they are hot enough to party at their club. Even though they may be single, divorced, hot and damm loaded and willing to throw money there!!!!!! But the management say cannot because their club is exclusively for women below 35.

But the place has like 5 sub clubs in inside which caters to different genres of music like jazz, ching chong canto beng pop and also normal club rooms with house and retro music. SO, the ladies could possibly be interested to go to the Jazz bar no? It's ladies nite so why not let them let their hair down and enjoy themselves? Not as if the the clientele there is uber hi class and elites........business too good hor!!!

Also, personally I also had this experience sometime ago at this micro brewery called the Pump Room at Clarke Quay. We were there after work fr a drink or two to celebrate the birthday of one of our colleagues. We got ourselves a tower and that time was around 930, so by the time we finished our tower at abt 1000, we decided to get another one. But the special offer for the tower ends at 10 and by the time we ordered, it was already 5 pass 10. So we got the waiter over and asked if they could extend us the offer as it was only a few mins passed the time limit.
The answer was NO!.

Fark!! talk about bureaucracies at the BAR!!! WTF!!!....if I own the bar, and bars are supposed to be a happy place, I would have extended and gave us the beers because after that, we would feel well treated, happy to get the beer and we would have recommended this place to our mates instead of me now bitching about it on me blog!!! Business too damm good la!!!!

Also, the farking place got no nuts or tidbits to go with the beer and when we asked the waiter for some, dude look at us like we killed his entire family like that!! He then shoved us the menu and said they only serve finger food after 10 and now they only serve proper dining food!!!....we felt like we were in Alcatraz.

Anyways, business is indeed to good for these outlets la.....well, let's see how long they can tahan with this attitude coz what they dont realise is, us consumers have a LOT of options to throw our money at....business is never too good.....

The I-RACK!!

April Showers

Tomorrow Never Comes...

Time waits for no one but tomorrow will always come. We always feel, yeah, we can always do it tomorrow, talk to our loved ones tomorrow, express our love and appreciation for the people dear to us till tomorrow, put things we need to sort out till tomorrow, say we are sorry till tomorrow, do our taxes till tomorrow, arrange our lives till tomorrow because there's always a tomorrow.

Yeah tomorrow, how wonderful it is that we always have a tomorrow for we are just too self absorbed now to be giving a hoot to all this stuff till tomorrow.

But what if tomorrow never comes? Tomorrow is actually finite! There aren't too many tomorrows actually and tomorrow's are actually not determined by us!

Damm, I better do my taxes now.....because like people always say, death and taxes are always certain! Whether tomorrow comes or not....these two will for sure come!

Love/Laugh

Funny how these two words start with the same letter. They go hand in hand. What is life without laughter and what of a life without love. Is it that illusive to learn how to laugh and love in some parts of the world that these two words does not exist anymore?

All that's left are tears, suffering and aches never ending. Life becomes cheap and death is but a statistic. Why do we fight for an ideology when such an ideology is flawed and complex with too many rules and caveats when the basic caveat that we should have is to live a full life governed by love for fellow humans and one that is filled with laughter?

Dusk....

Day's end, day's gone,

Hated Monday's tomorrow,

Most feel as I, so am not alone,

But I guess it has to come,

For Tuesday to follow,

And the weekend will come soon,

To end our sorrow....

So that the weekend will

Jakarta Floods

Bird Flu?

This was taken during the Jakarta floods in February. The guy in the motorbike was transporting a bundle of wet dead chickens behind his bike.

Asking for it?

Crossings

As we journey through life, we often cross paths with many different people and only a handful of these people mean something or anything to us. Others are just strangers who happen to walk into our way or we meet at certain intersection of our journey.

Last Friday, I happen to come across such an intersection and meeting 2 people, whom I do not know personally but they happened to be close acquaintance of a friend of mine. How interesting I thought, that this couple would sit a few tables away from me, and that I have heard of their "tales" through my other friend and yet I am a complete stranger to them.

Is there something more that fate probably has a hand in but have yet to reveal? Or is this suppose to be some sort of sign that I need to be doing something, somehow, somewhat?

But then as I tucked into my delicious oysters, I thought to myself, well the universe has always a way to work things out so, if it is for a reason then the reason will be revealed in time. So in the meanwhile, I'll just take a deep breath, to feel alive, and slow time down for awhile to enjoy the food that's right in front of me.

Joggers

On the way home today, I saw a couple (male and female) happily jogging along a busy road. Looking ever so lovey dovey, smiling at each other, flirting with each other and smacking each other in the butt ever so often to cheer each other on.

All this activity goes on with their Ipods firmly strapped to their arm and headphones to their ears as the bounce along the road like two bounding jackalopes! Perhaps they are even listening to the same lovey dovey tunes....so romantic....isn't it? To be able to exercise and yet enjoy each other's company.

But then, a thought came to me. These two fellas are jogging along a busy road, stacked with cars and what not crawling down the road spewing all this dirty exhaust fumes, churning out dusts and grime.....I mean how romantic can that be?!?!

I think, the best way to exercise and still to be able to enjoy each other's company in a cosy environment is to.......just.....shag!!!

Don't ya think so???

What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life...

What are you doing the rest of your life?
North and south and east and west of your life?
I have only one request of your life
That you spend it all with me.

All the seasons and the times of your days.
All the nickels and the dimes of your days.
Let the reasons and the rhymes of your days.
All begin and end with me.

I want to see your face,
In every kind of light,
In fields of gold and
Forests of the night;
And when you stand before
The candles on a cake.
Oh let me be the one to hear
The silent wish you make.

Those tomorrows waiting deep in your eyes
In the world of love you keep in your eyes,
Ill awaken whats asleep in your eyes,
It may take a kiss or two..

Through all of my life..
Summer, winter, spring and fall of my life,
All I ever will recall of my life
Is all of my life with you.

Home

"Home"

Another summer day

Has come and gone away

In Paris and Rome

But I wanna go home

Mmmmmmmm Maybe surrounded by a million people

I still feel all alone

I just wanna go home

Oh, I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you

Each one a line or two“I’m fine baby, how are you?”

Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough

My words were cold and flat

And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane

Another sunny place

I’m lucky I knowBut I wanna go home

Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home

I’m just too far from where you are

I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life

It’s like I just stepped outside

When everything was going right

And I know just why you could not

Come along with me

'Cause this was not your dream

But you always believed in me

Another winter day has come

And gone away

In even Paris and Rome

And I wanna go home

Let me go home

And I’m surrounded byA million people

I still feel all alone

Oh, let me go home

Oh, I miss you, you know

Let me go home

I’ve had my runBaby, I’m doneI gotta go home

Let me go home

It will all be all right

I’ll be home tonight

I’m coming back home

Truism

They say ignorance is bliss and curiosity killed the cat.

How true is that!!!

The fellow who came out with that is indeed a darn wise fellow. But then maybe it's 2 fellows instead of one.

To enjoy the bliss, he had to be the one who survived due to his ignorance.

Meanwhile for the other fellow who was curious, well, God rest his soul, coz he is sleeping with the Kitties for eternity.

So in summary it is still ONE wise fellow at the end of the day.

The stupid one. Ignoramus Hippopotamus!

I Don't Like Mondays

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

Tell me why I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

The Telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

Tell me why I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain crackles
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die

Tell me why I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down

- The Boomtown Rats (aka Bob Geldof)

Light Bulb Blues....

I am singing the blues today....and here are them blues :-

What is this world coming to?
When a light bulb cost 22!!
She says I need bulbs all 42!
All my money goes down the loo......

Oh what is this world coming to???....
All me money say to the loo!
Coz bought the bulbs then I am blue!
No more money left in my shoes....

The End.