yeeeehaAW!

Dayymn its good to be home.

Been back since early Monday morn, where my father and i conspired to surprise my mom at some convention she was at in town. Kinda worked, except daddy-o only called me and unintelligibly told me to hide when they were just around the corner. The flight was also lovely - caught a thunderstorm in the sky, and the usual tricolor sunrise.Also ended up seating next to a warwick grad. Kudos to MAS for chucking in the video on demand system back in economy class, although melepas on an upgrade this time. Woulda liked soo much to try all the new fa-bouu comforts in business.

In just less than 3 days i've caught up on a lot of eating. True, the whole "come back and gorge" thing is gettin old after almost 4 years, but its still fun - althought my stomach is still in shock after bubur pedas, sarawak laksa, chicken rice, rojak, sotong kangkong, lin chee kang, sambal belacan, grilled skate with air asam and what not. And my aunty definitely knows i'm back in the kitchaaynn - everything with an edge is razor sharp again.

Got some catching up to do on Akedemi Fantasia though, as both my parents are elbows deep in it. After just watching one update , with the even more kampong cast - half are from east malaysia and half of em can't speak english at all, i've relegated myself to watching it with my parents for just one reason. The rather hot eurasian choreographer, Linda Hashim. There is a little bit more talent in this bunch though.


Gettin y'all up to speed...

After gettin back from my weeklong sojourn in London - hopping trains and coaches due to railworks just to make the goddamn MSA BBQ - It was pretty quiet for the last week of term. A second BBQ didn't happen, and the only partyin we did was the free international soc's HEAT event on thurs. Without going into details, yeah it was goooood. Especially since i was really in the mood to party. Why you ask? - against all odds, i got a 1st ! Well not exactly an amazing 1st, but still a 1st nonetheless! I was going to be overjoyed with a 2-1, but heyy!. Now all i need to resume my Petronas scholarship is the presidents' (of goddamn petronas, not just the educational division - dunno why - it was all clear up to him )"okay" , which wont be that easy to get. Looks like there's gonna be more brown-nosing and CV flogging to be done here....

Havent done much else back home - gotta wait for my transcripts to start on all that. Haven't seen anyone else back home either. Now i gotta wait out for another week cos i got a flight tonight up north for my grandmas' 1 year wake ceremony at the temple. At least i'll only be serving monks, and not a throng of relatives that come outta nowhere. While they're chanting i'll just be thinking more about the tricked-out shuttle PC i'm gonna slap together when i get back. Even thinking of the specs alone almost makes me grunt.

Caught "Sepet" on the flight back. On one side, it feels just like a looong version of those sentimental ads Yasmin Ahmad's good for, but then again, it still manages to be quite engaging at times despite the rickety story, syncopated screenplay and generally stiff, clumsy acting ( save for Ida Nerina & Harith Iskandar, who somehow manages to get away with using the term 'MILF' in a m'sian movie)

Dammit i got more good rants coming up when i get back - haiya gotta go to airport in a few minutes....tak sempat laarr - hope i remember them by then. Anyhoo to sum it up:

1. Airline food is the refuse collected from the deepest pits of the Twisting Nether.
2. MAS' nasi lemak, however, is personally made by Satan himself , mostly from the intestinal scrapings of a thousand damned.
3. My parents, god bless them , still have the IT capacity of a stone pestle.
4. Oh yeah - true friends are those who have faith in you, and redemption is sweeter than ambrosia itself.

"chiibai....macam puki nak tangga - clean properly!" - my mother, suddenly being a lot more liberal with her vocab around the house.

Londoness...serioosss!

Comin to ya LIVe from somewhere near Gloucester Road, it's-ah-me!!!

Been doing the usual London stuff. Catching up on a lot of food - so far managed 4 Seasons, steamboat, Jap center and Lebanese! yayy! And one shopping run...apa nak buat tengah miskin sikit.

Body clock not getting much better tho. Weird ass sleeping habits, combined with shifts of WoW on Darren's account are not helping. Just caught Mr & Ms Smith last night - It wasn't too bad, action was good and all but the story was kinda iffy. Just your typical american situational comedy , only with darker humour and hitmen.

Made steamboat on Sat night here, and then cooked Italian(prego!) at Windermere Monday. My new italian recipes jadiii! Yup you guys were guinea pigs, like usual. Tapi sodap gak kann?

Just a brief little rant for today :- Online gaming, especially MMORPGs. Its been said before that:

normal person + total anonymity = absolute fuckwad

You find instances of this in forums now and then, when out of nowhere some wiseass fool starts to stir shit up by suddenly diving in, leaving a non p/c comment or scathing remark that rolls into an idealogically/racially/all of the above shitstorm.

This gets even more especially annoying when you play online games. After downloading shitloads of patches, sitting out horrible lag and finally joining a game, you have to deal with total fuckwads. Smack talking is one thing, but random irritating comments,condescending advice and downright bitchy whining makes gaming online with humans an absolute rectal itch more than half the time. Dude, i'm "sorry" i dont sit down and play those games all day to be anywhere near your godly level of skill and command and i'm "sorry" that instead of forsaking the sun and sitting over hunched over a computer over a hypnotic trance and mouse movements that just BEG for RSI , i choose the company of REAL people and not the online avatar of some 'girl' that danced for you in WoW for rescuing her from "Thornus the thorned-cocked demon of the hellborne".

Just stop calling people noobz, or simply pissing them off with such gems as " you stpid cow head balls spit" . It wouldn't killya to be civil once in a while. Unless you're an fat pimple faced pig nosed little shitwad who has no other redeeming value on this earth instead of producing carbon dioxide , and acting superior and berating other people online is the only way you can channel your angst and general loser-liness. Fuck you.

Anyhoo had a blast every single time i've been summoned over to Windemere this year. Despite all the little brother-ish ragging it was seriously a hoot. Its really nice cooking for people who really appreciate it. And of course join in the salacious claws-out conversations. Time to catch some sleep now - and later to score more ticks in my foodie list. Cheerio!

" I like ass!" & " Lets all sing Raihan" - Fi, within half an hour of each other.

That's a rap!...i hope

...and i'm done for the year. I've pretty much worked my ass as best i can. Asides actually being fairly confident in most of my papers ( well more than last year anyway ), the rest is in the hands of the markers( and of course the big Man).

Been burning time like nothing else in the last coupla days. Mostly on goddamned warcraft, and foosball down at Rootes. Started sleeping 6am to 4pm on average too - madnessh.

Sorry to sound so curt, and to be without anything ranty or amusing to slap on mah blohg. But i've just finished cleaning up after a nice little BBQ we had near my hall - Wave, Hon Win, Taib, Kiok ,Joanne, Huey Chin , Sangeetha and myself. Macam batak jakun baru keluar hutan nak light the fire. Stupid English BBQ briquettes. Dahlah macam taik gajah - tak boleh pecah - nak nyala pun macam sial. Give me M'sian arang kayu anyday. The last i heard no one's having anykind of food poisoning, and i hope it stays that way, esp for the ladies who're going on a road trip.

Oh yeah had another round of Fudge after the BBQ. We pretty much put away 2 1/2 bottles of vodka. Hahaha hilarity - Joanne was the life of the party, and Wave fell asleep for a bit with his face resting on the rim of the puke jug that i luckily prepared ( and he so obligingly filled). Thank god Bericote's just a short, 2-people-assisted shamble away. Photo montage to follow eventually. "Vivid! Mac ROcks!! 12:45!! Amar is Great!!"

Gonna catch some zzs now, and hopefully wake up early enough to shamble into London to see y'all whom i miss shooooo much- its been bout 8 weeks innit? Can't wait!!!

"what do u think? boobs fall from trees ah?" - Naz, clearly drawing the line for any forseeable sex change op.

Listening To : Slow Down - Bobby Valentino
Feeling : definitely not a sense of urgency

Waaargh i couldn't be in any more of a holiday mood - Drinking freshly made Mojitos and listening to Salsa while doing the mechanics questions for the last paper. Sigh. One more, just one more.

In my innate procrastinatism (izzat a word?) i finally signed up to jiwang.org. What can i say, indon rock rocks! Get songs by 'Peter Pan' and 'Dewa' !! Also:

My ultra sexy ethnic stud-muffin name is Ignacio Amante.
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The devil makes work for idle hands? FUck that man...the devil makes work for should-be-working hands.

Quotes?
"Kasi itu bangla mandayy!" either Waris or myself, during an early morning cocking session where we somehow got to banglas being shot with a water riot cannon.

Oh and a real gem i found online:
Dude: You're fat
Fat Chick: It's just baby fatt!!
Dude: Daaaymn...how many babies did you eat?

Errata Corrige

Hockaaay got quite a bit of flak for the last post. Anyway its off ,its done. Apologies to all those who were offended , and especially of course the person it involved the most. It was wrong in the first place to even have read a password protected blog, regardless of how i came across it, It was even more wrong to even drop an alluding hint of its existence on my blog, which preceded the mmass influx and eventual cracking of the blog. And its even worse to put up an actual entry of that blog, which was pretty much the equivalence of kicking someone when they down. It was inexcusable and morally wrong etc etc etc. It was an immature, cheap shot and a direct assault on her privacy and the sanctity of her private thoughts. Sorry, sorry , sorry. Disregard the contents of the previous post as it is an unfair portrayal or her character. Again, profuse apologies to all who were offended, especially Nadia herself.