53. The New Celebration

Personal/Friends & Family

Ayam kicap

Sayur kuning

Telur sotong...

First time in my life minus the infant years, I slept till as late as 11am on the first day of Chinese New Year. Nice, at that time for the every past years I should be in the temple or relatives' houses chewing sweet cookies and having hard time pushing in the bulk of angpows into the pocket. Lazy morning for everyone. Because my mum woke really late too hahah only to be wake-up called by my aunt.

New clothes. You can see you know, on the roads, in the shops, at the house porches, everywhere people are, you see their clothes.. They are all bright(as in fresh and new) and clean. Good ol' tradition for us chinese Malaysians. Peace be unto all.

As for me, on the first day of the Chinese New Year I had lunch with my family, with aunts who are sisters to my mother. The night before was a reunion at Butterworth with the family of my father's side....very big....I'm like uncle to dozens of nieces and nephews. And then to Jonathan's house. Right timing for a lion dance blessing ceremony. AHHH...I'm so HAPPY. My favourite entertainment is lion dances and stunts. AND that close to me with the ear-blowing drums.
uh..a meal with guests there. That was 4.30pm and plans later changed for the good and energy-saving. Hooi and I chatted with Jonathan. Until 6, we left for home for dinner. Secret Recipe was my destination. CC trip was next. With Hooi, YW and Andrew. Played Counter Strike for 5mins then freaking failed-trying to play Left4Dead without disconnections. Dota for some time and then proceeded to pwn at Left4Dead.. Good, the game went smoothly until the difficulty was set to Expert..woohooo the zombies came barging in like holy cows. Great game..

It's 1am already. Andrew left early. Where after CC? Subaidah Sungai Dua. Paper Tosai(s) and nasi kandar....

So, there was a heavy lunch meal, then a heavy tea time meal, a filling fattening dinner and finally a heavy midnight supper. That's called heavy metal. No breakfast that's all but altogether 4 meals for me..my stomach's small you don't know and my arms are small so pushing all of them into me is a blessing. Ame.

~It's a war to stop war...so war is redundant, natural and existences mean wars; competition in life.

oh great, I retired from being a driver this time. It's a car, it's a vios, it's holy-shit...it's Hooi's driving gig. Yeah. From north to south to west and east, pump it.

[ahh...it was my ambition long time ago to join the troupe..either under the lion or at the drums]

Happy celebrating. Happy eating. Happy visiting. Happy collecting. Happy driving. Happy riding. Happy flying. Happy travelling. Happy sexing. Happy, try as real as possible to be happy.

52. The New Chinese Year & New Taggo(3)

Friends & Family/Personal

Gong Xi Fa Cai and a merry prosperity. Make sure you check your angpows inside out upside down before throwing away the packet for no hidden deposited money. You never know, fortune is unpredictable. But yes it could when you work hard for it...make sure u know haha..

Yeah forgiveness, I was idle to blogspot for like 2 weeks. No access to internet. No effort taken to use the library. No initiative. So I'm back. And yes, back in the island too. For a week. I will see friends' faces and talk onto them. Step on the ground firm and that's it. Just a short break which I had to apply 2 days of study leaves from school. That means missing 4 classes of different subjects. The tough one would be Mandarin. The wasteful ones are "Theory of Flight and Control" and Electric Fundamental 2. The other one would be the suicidal-boycott-political-antagonizing lecture for LAN Malaysian Studies. Fux.

I already have a post to publish actually but that one is not so good in terms of mood and story. May the festive spirit come first. May all be happy and free from harm.

Also, a farewell and best of luck to Adelyn who is going leave soon. Here's a toast and cheers, be it wine or scotch. haha yeah due tag homework
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1. Does it matter to you if your boyfriend or girlfriend smoke?
Yes, if my girlfriend does. Not a good image for ladies..

2. How about drinking?
Not quite, just try not to go having a drunk ONS with other men.

3. Do you like someone you can't have?
Yes, countless. But wait..why not? It's just far from reach =D

4. If someone liked you right now, would you want them to tell you?
Urh it's ok but..I'm afraid. I'm always startled when girls say IW2T2U etc etc hahahaha

5. What's your favourite sport?
Hiking and running/racing/sprinting heh

6. Its Saturday night, and you're home alone... what do you do?
Self-entertainment.

7. Do you like roller coasters?
Yes. going to experience them again at Genting in 2 weeks time.

8. When's the perfect time to have a bf/gf?
Any time is Twiggies time. Depends on the hormones and maturity of the mind.

9. If you could date any celebrity, who would it be?
Traxex the Drow Ranger...XD nah, none.

10. What are you doing this weekend?
Go out with family and friends and of course the eve family Reunion.

11. What is your favourite restaurant?
Fettes Park Hainan Western Food or Subaidah(same area)...no particular actually.

12. Have you ever hugged someone?
Yes. The most should be my mum.

13. Ever kissed someone you weren't attracted to?
"Yes"..seriously

14. Do you like anyone right now?
Yes (don't be curious la)

15. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Hair. haha then one by one from top to toe

16. Which do you prefer, Beach or Mountains?
Mountains.

17. What kind of phone do you have?
Sliding phone

18. Computer or Laptop?
Both are computers to me (??). no particular..

19. Jeans or Sweats?
Sweats.

20. Which year(s) has/have been the best so far?
1990.

21. How old are you gonna be on your next birthday?
Close to 2 decades.

22. What should you be doing right now?
Sleeping.

23. What is your favourite TV show?
Long time no enjoy TV lo...no particular but I like Marvel/DC cartoons

24. What's been your last purchase?
Tuna Crabstick Mayo Sandwich.

25. Are you attracted to girls/boys that smoke?
What difference? oh..no.

26. Have you ever fallen on your butt in front of a crowd of people?
Maybe. But usually "LPC bullshit falling"...front-first.

27. What do you do when you're at home?
Self-entertainment.

28. What is your favourite subject?
Physics/Chemistry.

29. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you?
Girl almost falling and grabbed my hand. woooh I hope that's not a dream...

30. 10 people to tag:
no need d kua..many ppl had been tagged..do your homework la

That's all ladies and harshmen...See you all again.
My Element TD game...not the most spectacular capture though. Those are Ronald McDonald as the creeps... the final level wave of enemy.

51. The Next Seasonal Tide

Personal/Friends & Family

Hello again, the January of the year 2009. The beginning of a new year, in fact the very first week. It is also the season in the year which many farewells take place. In certain way because it's usually the time when studies start so people either leave for further studies or to continue their semesters. Looks like a fresh kickstart with smiles and serenity brought forward from the previous year. May the joy finds it way in everyone's heart.

As for me, I will make my move back to the jungle(by the time you read this, I am already there). If you haven't know I brand my place of study jungle. But this photo wouldn't make you think so. Who wants a free ride(in the dream)?

[My first photo with an aircraft. Jonathan took this photo for me]

Good luck to Ye-Wheen in continuing his A-levels for his final 6 months. Go on, get a M.D blues-style. Good luck to Cheng Yee too, at Sunway...know what I duno wat course u doing oso...so BAD of me..island people basically. And to the rest, either still at holidays or going back already or starting on a new journey I wish you HAPPY STUDYING and best wishes in you endeavours.

Oh, for Hooi and Khang Yang. Work your ass off for STPM! Just make sure when I meet you guys again, don't look like some study geek or lose some patches of hair already. To Jon, I am waiting for your big paycheck in the near future. Your turn to treat me REAL big.

So here are some photos for entertainment purpose while I could serve.

ahh..my new partner. For the time being, I am going on a solo hiatus.

[dismantling to check out the innards, that neck space does allow me to fix a humbucker heh]

[Marshall amplifier..WOW..hahah..it's so good. This unit is very simple. So easy to use.]

[This matters so much...it's a Joe Satriani product ok! Planet Waves strap]

And yeah, thanks to Hooi for bending my string like 4 notes?higher and snapped it. But new set of Ernie Ball Medium Slinky equipped its way.woohoo

The splinter that got into my palm. It's minuscule. But to take it out, it's just nice, stinging, morbid and what can say, it's for the love of pain. YW got nice amount of flesh scraped off just recently, in the swimming pool. It's just so good to see blood huh. Dig em'.

[ahha..so small only...but imagine la using a needle to dig it out, to open a hole. Astounding.]

[the piece of splinter...]

My other accounts of pain were stepping onto broken glass pieces, stapling fingertip, burning fingertip using the car cigarette lighter, hitting and getting guitar fretboard splinter into between fingernail and tip and bleed. They are accidents of course and I never(for now) would want to hurt myself like this. Also getting aircraft wiring poked into between nail and tip. So what's your style? haha Be more careful.

And my first new phone. That's Guns N' Roses. Great Buckethead guitars in it haha

So, I will be back in Penang again for the Chinese New Year. Get sweatin'. Till next time. oh yeah..gota return KY his swimming trunk which he left that day...huh so gay.
My top 2 alien-based inspirations are from Joe Satriani and Velvet Revolver materials.
~JS - Surfin' with the Alien [and his affinity for alien stuffs]
~VR-Loving the Alien

For some non-personal/stress-talk write-ups, I haven't got any good materials. No inspiration though. There's nothing much for me to "preach" about haha. Basically just plain fresh season in the year. I just have nothing at all in my head, opinions or whatsoever except a still-born draft which I need to find a suitable time to write and post.

Time oooh...this year will test my time management to the critical level. Failure of doing so spells disappointment and will only reflect my "you-still-duwan-to-change" attitude. But at least I should improve a bit on giving proper time allowances and not procrastinating on and on again. This does apply to everyone, I reckon especially with this new era and generation of youngsters having new toys and "great" lifestyle. So, back to you people..enjoy life.

50. The New Phantasma

Greeting/Personal/Friends & Family

There you go, the new post for a new year from for blogspot from a blogger for himself and his readers.[I haven't got any proper sleep yet since 10 hours before the countdown. So it's no-sleep for hmm..maybe almost 24 hours. New year spirit. yeah YW, Hooi and I watched The Spirit. Great.

Hello, Merry New Year. 2009, the year for the Cow. Moo moo.

There's actually nothing much to be briefed here because to reminisce it's much easier if you just go through my posts in 2008 throughout the months. I mean, the accounts were already written why would I want to repeat the storytelling. But that's actually the point of end-year-recap-cum-new-year-greeting post. So I will still get it flipped the pages of life locomotion.

[Popcakes..from popcakes.blogspot.com...bought from Tanjung Tokong place..]

Anyway, I will let some photos do the talking. If you see smiles, they are telling you those were the joyful days. If you see frowns, they telling you those were just the days. If you enjoy looking at the photos, they are telling you that we had fun. If you feel a sense of boredom while looking at them, that means...everything is fine. hah

I just want to post some photos of fun times in the past and throw all nostalgic feelings in them and get them remained there because it's useless looking back too much instead of advancing towards the betterment of life. Let's try not to regress and weep over what's done and passed. Stress-talk: What's done is done, what's gone is gone; they happen, really for reasons. Because the grass is always greener on the other side and every cloud has its silver lining. So get on with life. Each year coming in just gets better and more interesting. But sadly, with each brain cell dying slowly as we age haah.

Let's start slowly with some never before seen photos. From the old times. I do it like this because I feel that the year 2008 had brought tremendous changes to our lives and rocketed free-flowing emotions and life-changing events. People leaving. People loving. People studying. People rising. People working. woo..it's a Rocket Dive. So they serve as momentos of the seemingly benign past.

..depressing..while doing the photo selection and going through them. Dvorak's Symphony no.9 is playing and then suddenly the happy part comes in, a smile is shone from my face.heh

["yeahhh, I'm standing on the edge of the world!"]

[Life could be only this small~spot that tiny cutie (photos taken from trip to Sg. Sedim, Kedah]

[Good times, bad times~in Form 3-Baiduri(2005)]

[Better days]

[The great team, Editorial Board 06/07]

[The great leisure time taken off from SPM. I still remember the hot dough kneading chick]

A video, also a leisure time at my place after school^

[This is me, receiving my Merit Award in 2007 as the magazine editor...fuhh =.=(smiling lik fux)]

And yeah, ^the early photo is taken a few days after finishing SPM at YW's as the first great G-Jam and the latter is the latest jam with the Strat missing but substituted by an alto sax.
This is the latest photo and a photo taken by Hooi on the first day of the year 2009. It's 7am we were recording a mini G-2 jam and we're not sleeping yet and he's very -blow- d but after that he went to dota by himself while we take a nap before going for Dim Sum.

Oh yeah, we overnighted at YW's. And do blues. Jamming. And practising for our projects. I owe big time stress to YW for my lack of skill AND especially my tardiness for not practising and learning up beforehand. Bad.

Oh yeah, talk about the new year countdown experience. I felt so touched and kinda like wana shed a tear... My first time spectating fireworks from just less than 500 metres away and got the explosions happening and smithereens just above. At Queensbay. And I celebrate that moment with Hooi and YW. The everlasting STILL-SINGLES...not homo. But we revel in enjoying our every minute of freedom of being ourselves and not having any burden or trouble heaping on us.


"When you are with me, I'm free; I'm careless, I believe; Above all the others we'll fly; This brings tears to my eyes, my sacrifice"~My Sacrifice, Creed


ROARRRRRRRR this is life. Let's pulverize the new year resolutions.

Anyway, for the people who came into this Earth on the same year as I did..we're only turning wat..not even 20 yet. We're all still so young huh.

I told my mum, I fear Alzheimer's and Dementia the most. Forgetting life. Ain't that scary? Forgetting your friends, family, and the people who have drew or wrecked a smile on your face. Yet, life is on hot wheels. So damn freaking fast...like fast-forwarding Ye-Wheen's already fast fingers doing Bumble Bee...hahhah.

..oh and losing hearing ability.fux.to loud music. aeroplane engines are also deafening. As for now, I am close to losing my knees if I don't ...sigh..my heart in sports and outdoor actitivies

For 2009, I would like to:
-Keep more in touch with friends and family
-Decrease procrastination skill by hopefully 10%(dun be too ambitious)
-Speak less shit-talk and control my heart's agitation(sucks at emotions)
-Do more action that is practical and real
-Manage guitar, studies and other activities
-Waste less money on er....stuffs la..
-hmm..this is new. Reconcile long time buddies....my vow
-be a Better Man..[Robbie William sings]

For avid readers and fans of this blog (wuaha XD) keep in touch with me and I won't let you down. Because unlike some stuffs/activities, I would die dead enough so this blog won't die...until my body rests in peace (but maybe my descendants may want to continue with it). My assurance.

Give me your hand, reach for me and I will show you the life.

What you see is life, what you hear, what you smell, what you touch and what you taste...that's life. I believe in only the 5 senses in reality, other than that just deals with what's in my(our) head, the brain, the mind. But if they do exist, please be excused for being ignorant. The psychotic grumbling emotional juicy dream slurpee-machine. Our existence, let's discuss about it later in the afterlife if your God programmed it. Brahma gives the green light I reckon, for us to live life to the greatest-able and not care too much about what's up there. Black holes and Revelations on Big Bang, what else? A Bigger Bang.

This is the amusing part right when I go on a continuous off-topic who's-ur-papa preaching. If you don't like it...don't force. If you like it, ask for more. I hope to keep myself as busy as possible. Seeing myself often with greasy hair and sleepy eyes in the mirror make me feel useless and guilty.

Ok..just in 1 week I will leave the island once again. Good ol' joyful spending quality time with friends but it's been fulfilled so it's enough. Time for me to go back to pore over the studies. Career. Will be back for Chinese New Year.

So...I wish you all people and all sorts of humans on Earth a happy new year. Have a joyful year. Let the tough gets tougher, and let the simple be solved. wtf.

[Rocket Dive is a song from Hide. A Bigger Bang is inspired by Rolling Stones. Better Days is inspired by Goo Goo Dolls]
[The photos posted are edited but not for quality measure]