55. The New Age Dilemma

Personal/Friends & Family

Hah, this time for certain reasons is not a good start, a definitely worst case scenario to commence with my 2nd semester at MIAT. This post is written before the Chinese New Year.

Our happiness and excitement was cut off with the cruel nature of reality. The problem lies with our house by rent. The malay proverb, "telur di hujung tanduk" (similar if this is wrong heh) really depicts our situation. No real place to stay. We are quite literally hanging in the air. 6th floor. Air-conditioned. Fully furnished with TV, water heater and table. Even good looking closets and each room a set of make-up chair and table set. Oh yeah, a refrigerator. But that's not our house. Our requested unit didn't managed to get into our hands.

That's a house he lent to us temporarily. It's been almost two weeks and he's still all-talk into getting us the house we wanted.

Thanks to the agent who really show that he is seriously into the business and does not tolerate people who do not pay. And thanks to us ourselves who just happened to trust his principles of work. Haha. Yeah, he's serious in the business, as serious as a China conman. I am not going to explain further because I had explain this thing to too many people already especially parents who were worried from miles away.

A good lesson in dealing with money and important necessities and utilities: Do it as if you have no chance anymore to get it and never give in to unforeseen opportunities(because you really couldn't expect what to come). It's quite obvious but as first-timers getting into such business we learnt our special lesson in trusting outsiders. Especially being so far away from your family and home you are vulnerable to risks and unpredictable instances. You could only have close friends to rely on.

[tension..tension. Press ball..press press! -urh he looks pale yeah sick at that time]

And luckily that agent is not a big runaway conman, because at least we still have a house to stay in for the timebeing, enjoyingly with the luxury household items. Imagine the rental.
But just at these times you would really have a piece of that menthol filter in your mouth. Inhaling without lighting just does it. I'm not prepared to get lungs cancer so soon. Good the fear of suffering.

But also at these tough times we would find time to have fun and revel in our youthfulness. Guest appearance: Mou Jian(again). This time it's scotch whisky. Believe it. The Best Bottle In The World is not necessarily the best drink haha. But Jon says the Carlsberg Gold is superb. The Special Brew has been tested and it proved to be commendable. A foot to the plain original variant.

Ok this one is so far, the one which didn't stand out to my tastebuds and throat. But the aroma is fulfilling. The aftertaste sucks...bitter as dried malt/barley brewed beer. 43%.

So we started the boozing at 12am after watching Mr. & Mrs Smith. Mou Jian even brought dj clubbing music CD for the mood and there's a song which gangsta-raps on "lu kua hami lan ciau!!" Yes, card game accompanied the drink. The mixes were Shweppes(something like this..) Extra Dry Tonic and Coca-Cola. Awful mixes! They turned out to be laughing-vomit-inducing-concoction. LOL. Panadol wasn't mixed though.

The game was chortaiti. Losers drank one-go either half or full a cap of the scotch. Lame huh but that's the limit of our tongue and throat. And stomach. It burns. But the cold air rushing in after swallowing it is what I'm fond of. The best were still the one YW brought to Genting(private edition) and the one I drank last year during Chinese New Year, Ballantine Gold 12 Years Old.

Woo. Devil's call. I'm so into breaking this one precept in Buddhism. Haha. Intoxication. Haven't been drunk and not looking forward to it. But our latest boozing activity really made me experienced real-time lagging and brain blowing dizziness. Because it's like 2-4am in the morning. The high time for being blow. So Mou Jian stayed the night with us. Great pal for fun activities. At least, we are saviours to his surrounding according to him. At least, he's not the study-nerd top scholar kind. heh. Next should be a private Genting trip. Play hard.

[the fountain spot at Alamanda]

Oh yeah, we(minus MJ) went to Alamanda Putrajaya. I did my CNY shopping there. But I'm still short of some new bottoms. Hey shopping is tedious for me as a man. I mean, hurrh..I am not as rich to get whatever catches my eye. And I think men are supposed to keep shopping as simple as possible. heh

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So, friends. Please be extra careful if you are already being careful and try reason with your own thinking and decisions in dealing with almost anything in life especially when you're on your own or without support. Give it a second thought, so you could at least observe where you would go wrong. Generally. Because at certain time even we're at our most aware state and feet on firm ground we just tend to take the wrong step. It could be subconsciously a temptation, greed, easy satisfaction or false empathy, hopefully you get what I am trying to convey here.

It's not that we've been deceived or cheated of our money(actually kinda). We just trusted something that didn't appear in front of our eyes. And that cost us an unceasing increasing burden as long as we are still not final with our house rental. Furniture. Household utilities. Proper living. All put on hold. That greatly affected our time and energy consumption and to add to the trouble our classes have started. It's already so hard to stagger and manage our time to go to our classes as we all have limited transportations for 4 different classes' timetables.

Stressful. I have 7 subjects now with a LAN(ciau) subject, Malaysian Studies. And a packed-cum-oddly-hours-arranged class timetable. By the way I scored for my previous semester a cgpa of 4.0-flat @#$*&^ seems lucky. Freaking scored a precise 4.0 pointer for that freaking Moral LAN subject. Stressm proves effective.

[Cruel Reality of Nature is a song by Buckethead. "The Best Bottle..." is a tagline from Carlsberg beers]
[All photos except the Label 5 Scotch Whisky and the fountain spot were taken by my friend. All photos have been edited.]

We got our house already and we've moved in days before Chinese New Year.
Just to add more, we found a used condom with watery fluid in it which someone threw out of their window or balcony onto a grasspatch.haha. It's huge. Earlier, we found the box. haha