It has been awhile since I last blogged.. haven't been doing very much lately, well until today. Finished my exam in the morning and drove to Shah Alam Club and took a swim. The Olympic-sized pool was so empty..there was only me swimming around and 2 other guys cleaning the pool. Headed to Aroon's after a shower and we went to the workshops to get my car fixed.
We changed absorbers in the first shop and by the next hour, were at the opposite shop to do the alignment, changed of tyres, and other minor things. Similar to humans going to a hospital, they'd discover all sorts of sicknesses while checking for something else.. so my car waited in line and they stared work by 3pm.. it was not until 8pm that they finished the job. The owner of the shop was a perfectionist.. he just wouldn't let the car go until he was satisfied. In that 5 long hours, the mechanics test-drove the car about 12 times.. and did the alignment about 5 times. My goodness.
Will be taking another car for checkup tomorrow.
The road that leads to your door.
Monday, December 28, 2009
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
The long and winding road that leads to Malacca took us there after having fun at the Extreme Park where we played Go-cart which had me ending up having splashed with petrol on my back, drifting out of the track, and getting banged from the back.
So my friends and I took our usual friday night with a little twist this time. We stayed over in Glory Beach Resort in Port Dickson. We did crazy stuff in the apartment. Luke, Aroon and myself performed a short concert on the balcony singing 2 English songs and 1 Malay song. Some were looking from the opposite apartment and some from the tennis court below. Although none of them clapped, Im sure they had a great time listening. We had great fun too playing Banana Boat by the sea.
Had us some seafood for dinner as well as lunch the following day before we took the old road to Malacca. We passed by 3 kenduri's and decided to stop at the 4th to get us some free food..of which we didn't come across.
All 9 of us headed back to KL after our dinner. As I was driving, we saw 5 modified Waja's convoying on the fast lane with their hazard lights on. Me, being a slow driver, for once decided to chase them. I saw that there were 5 of them in 5 cars, and 5 of us in my car..that's roughly equal.. and so I got into the fast lane and turned on my hazard lights. Those 5 monkeys ran, they probably got shocked and most likely didn't stop all the way until they reached KL. Haha
Pictures on facebook soon.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
I skipped class today. Stayed at home to complete some of the assignments which are due next month. Managed to finish 2 essays for economics. Enough to justify for staying at home the whole day
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Jungle is Massive and so is
Last night I went over to pass a friend some books, we had already decided to go for a drink. We had no particular place in mind, so we just drove around for a bit and ended up in
I think it was my first time being there. So we sat in Oldtown White Coffee… and we took our time like they wanted us to.
Sitting there for an hour plus, they played the same music over and over again! It was an instrumental of A Whiter Shade Of Pale. Nice but not 30 times non-stop lar..
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
One fine day
One fine day, I was helping my Chinese friend in her assignment. When I said Chinese, I was referring to the nationality..not race. Her English isn't too good and her discretion is a little worse. well, this picture I took when I was going thru the assignment essay. Just thought I'd share something funny here.
In the end, I got her to changed the phrase "Our great Chairman Mao" to
"The former Chinese leader, Chairman Mao "
The local lecturers won't mind, but some of the papers will be sent to London..so better not take the risk.. after all, communism isn't too popular in
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Early Thursday morning, a reporter walked up to as as we just came out of McD's and asked our opinion on child abuse...
Below is a column in today's newspaper. 
But that wasn't quite what I said.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Fighting a war that never started.
What do you do when your resources are scarce? It's not that you will fail if you attack now..it's just that it may not necessarily be the best approach. After all, who wants to fight a long war? They say nothing wise comes out of a prolonged war. Wars should be won with a sweet sweet surrender.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
Of supper, then supper, and supper again.
We all met up in PJ sec 14 on our usual Friday night and chatted for a bit before leaving in 2 car to Hartamas for supper. And so we left for Gentings a little past midnight.. Jonard tookwheel and I set in my car helplessly in the passenger's. All the way up there just for a coffee? lolz
The Frontier was sent to help a friend carry a roasted pig for his wedding.. and later used to the wedding dinner.Would have been nice to take it up to gentings with the new spotlights that were added..especially having thick mist which we encountered that evening. Now the car is no longer Halal.. lol
On the way down, the first car with Luke, Aroon, Fiona and Bhusan were stopped by the Polis Bantuan Genting.. Jonard laughed.... I said : " Jonard, dont laugh first.. see we get stopped or not first. If we dont get stopped then only we laugh at them" And we ended up getting stopped anyway.. the cop was a funnyman and made some jokes with us... I then gave the cops 2 sweets as a token of goodwill. lol
By the time we got down from gentings, Jonards cousin and friends had already reached Rawang. They were a little lost and ended up on Federal Highway where we met. Had a drink in Subang before everyone left.
Slept for 6hours and left for KL with my brother to get some investment thing done.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Up the northern states
The road was jammed.. as we drove closer, we could notice they closed 2 lanes of the highway. While passing the closed lanes, we could hear the highwaymen shouting "keep going !!" then when it was our turn to pass the scene, blood was seen splatted on the road and the dead body was left on the road with his helmet on and his mouth open..
The drive that turns us on.
It was a Sunday evening that I confirmed going on a trip up north when I was online and got persuaded to join them. After gathering up and having a good meal, we left in the middle of the night. Arun drove from Selangor to Perak, then later Bhusan drove from Perak to Kedah.. I only drove the dangerous bits of Perak which I actually had to tap on the brakes!! Driving on the north-south highway with hardly any traffic, stepping on the brakes is kinda unusual.. unless you're on that stretch slightly to the north of Ipoh.
Jonardation
When we reached Kedah, we called a Jonard to find his address... and so we drove thru estates, plantations, fields, cows, tows, dam, hills, kampungs.. Below is Mengkuang Dam before heading towards the Island
Democratic Action Penang
Later, he took us to Penang Island. RM7.70 for the ferry ride. I was hoping on finding some decent accommodation.. but ended up in some 5-star hotel we never heard of... Haha
While waiting to check-in, Bhusan fell asleep and so Jonard decided to burn his leg and put it on facebook.
Ate all sorts of food there. First time I ate coconut jelly :) the food were fab and cheap!
We had steamboat for dinner before we left on tuesday night. The pork was awesome !! Komtar building; one of Penang's trademark
Bhusan that nut drove 140km/hour cutting lanes like nobody's business on Penang Bridge. wtf?
Yee Mun didn't get to go to the temple but at least we went to the seaside and sat on the rock watching the couple taking wedding photos right? and the dam with all the rempits of penang..On the way back, Bhusan the champion drove on 3 states Penang, Kedah, and Perak within half an hour..while it took me one an a half hours from Perak to Selangor... after all, the owner of the car said : Maximum 140km/hour.
It jammed for a bit near Rawang and we thought we were caught in the massive jam.. but turned out to be an accident where a motorcyclist was killed. Probably thrown off his bike coz we saw his blood was splashed toward one direction.. just like when you throw a water balloon.
Got home bout 2.15Am wednesday morning.
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
I had my house gate painted with spots.. looking very much like a cow :) I think they might come and charge me for causing racial and religious tension under the Seditious Act. My dear friends, If they come and arrest me, will you please come and bail me out.. please?
My degree program has started. Degree in Intenational Business, University of East London.
So if you ask me what am I doing, I'll probably answer "Intercourse" !! hehee
Ok so one day, we finished class early and I went for lunch with a college mate... All was good until when we had lunch.. it was that time when an intelligence report came in. The gist of it is that the lady is a tramp... a real disappointment. But left after catching a movie anyway.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
It was a hot afternoon when I had to drive to Damansara to get something done. It was a simple mission. Accommodation and of course the pay to be provided. Little did we know that such a simple mission could go bad. It lasted 3 hours longer than expected..It thunderstormed and we got lost for a bit.
facebook and youtube =)
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Shoutout
Happy 22nd Birthday to my Godcousin!! Below: we gonna sip Bacardi like it's your birthday.
My Godcousin came over on Independence Day to have my hair cut.. and we delayed him until past midnight so we could surprise him with a cake. Known him all my life.. Inevitably, we made him have a sip before leaving.
Once again, Happy Birthday!
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Randoms
Random things we did the past few weeks.
It was after another of our Friday night sessions when we somehow decided to take a drive to Gentings. This picture I took is the toilet door. Feel free to call the numbers you see on the door.
This was the evening or rather morning after coming back form Gentings.. It was about 4am that we wanted to hang out a little longer and so found ourselves strumming the guitar in a bus stop somewhere in PJ..
Steven's Corner.. No pork, just wine. Ever tried pouring some wine into your limao ais? As some of you know, I have a bunch of friends who are as eccentric as myself and we'd do funny stuff. By the way, it didn't taste that good. :s
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Brokeback Island
When the monkeys swam across to the island, we continued cooking our lunch. When they wanted to grab our stuff, so did we. They were aggressive and we were defensive.
And as we retreated, I heard a sound.. it was a voice, Kuhan's voice.. it said : Fucking monkey is eating my lunch !
It was Saturday morning when I had to prepare a few last minute things and wait for Kuhan to arrive at my house. 5 something and I was up and about. We left bout 6.30 or so. We knew only 2 things; we re going south and we were going to camp on an island.
By the time we could see the Straits of Malacca, it went something like this..the sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful. We stopped at a local police station to ask for directions. But it was of no help since they don't know where we're talking about..as much as I don't know what Kuhan was talking about.
Checked out an island or 2 which were visible from the coast but we noticed the water wasn't too clean. Finally we stopped near a Hutan Rekreasi.. pumped up the boat, unloaded the stuff, had it waterproofed, then parked the car and off we went. It rained as we were paddling. Got to the island and made a temporary shelter. (But moved later on as the tide would set in.)Hanged around for a bit then decided to cook lunch. We were almost done cooking lunch when we saw a troop of monkeys swimming over to the island. A small troop of about 6. They were wild and kinda fearless. We tried to scare them off but they were just stubborn. We pulled the bot out to sea so they wouldn't get to it as they seem to fear going into the open space. And after we lost the Battle of Waterloo, we went back to count our casualties (after they left of course!).
We lost Kuhan's lunch, some 3in1 coffee, had some torn bags and that was about it. Could have put up a fight with them but they might have rabbis.. we wont want to risk having our faces torn too.
We couldn't find proper land to set up tent. Kuhan bought this huge tent almost like a mini field hospital. And it was rock everywhere. still, we managed to set one up next to a huge rock to help as a wind breaker and wall. We practically set up camp next to a cliff. Used only the second layer of the tent as roofing and the rest of the tent as a mattress. Uneven ground but that was where we slept. lol Below: Rock to the left, cliff to the right.
Below is the temporary camp we set up for lunch.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Only The Christian Churches Can
The are many things that many can do, but only the Christian Churches can do that ONE thing that no one else can. It can give you a confirmation !!
Something that people say when they're asked upon. But end up with excuses regarding their Fathers, Sons, and in Bad Spirit.
The Abuse of the Word.
We Malaysians Abuse the New Economic Policy, Abuse our workers, Abuse our maids. But not as devastating as the Abuse of the word "Confirm".
I am and always was a poor student in class..was never too good in anything. My Malay was bad and of course my English was worse. But when I looked up the dictionary searching for the word "confirm", I thought I managed to understand the gist of it. But probably there are many other definitions of it which Im less familiar with and forgot to look it up.
Malaysians who tend to whine at times, would on the average prefer to play a game called
"50 Reasons" rather than the other called "50 Questions". After all, it's easier to think of 50 reasons than 50 questions. It's instinct by now.
On another matter, I'm glad to be able to talk about something more pleasant now :)
My friend Kuhan and I are gonna do a parody of Brokeback Mountain.. I think we're calling it Brokeback Island. So here we planned to have an expedition to another island this time round. And we're gonna camp for the night. We have everything sewed out and bought. The equipment, food, water, and even the Jalur Gemilang to be seen flying high in the wind 500 meters away. Our boats can accommodate 6 people and we had 5 confirmations. I had to bankroll the opperation.. but now only to find that 3 may not be coming. That is where the 50 reasons come in.
So I guess we learned our little lesson when it comes to counting on other people. But of course, they are nice people and good friends. Kuhan and I, being decisive, are going anyway. After all, we have something called honor to keep. We'd probably tag them in facebook later. lolz
I'm not a Christian although my family has been for most of the past 150 years but now you see why it's better to count on the church when it comes to a confirmation?
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