It's been a while hasnt it?

Yups boys and girls its that time of the year again - when deadlines are looming ( i know man, Tuesday week 2?!?!?!) and i'm pulling out all the procrastinating stops. Nicely tucked away in a corner of my desktop is a folder of photos and little notes and quotes that i've been meaning to blog for aaaayges.

But i'm 50% lazy and 50% percent actually trying to keep some time left over for work so letsh just start with bringing ya up to speed with my summer in phok-ohs yeh?

**Summer 2007**

Hung around in July for the lucky sods on three year courses' graduations, and also managed to get some work done on my 3rd/4th year coursework. Had a quick trip to The Hague, and a quick pit stop at Amsterdam on the way back.

Den Haag. boring boring boring boring.

Urrh yeah i just happened to pass by the Shell HQ. Pretty.

Met some interesting ( albeit early sleeping) folks on my night in Amst - stayed for a night in an 8-bed hostel room. Found some pretty brill shops further out in the student quarter - one noteworthy mention was this gorgeous chocolate shop - "Puccini" - that had great handmade chocolates in all sorta funky flavours. Kinda pricey though.

Faaast forward to the end of early August - Flew back on the 29th of July, and had like, 5 days in town before I had to go off to the Petronas Re-orientation. First 5 days was at Agrotek all the way in Ulu Langat - a forest reserve/chalets/function rooms kinda place with a proper warung.

Basically it was 5 days of seminars talks case studies group work skits roleplaying mandi sungai water polo 6meals a day 40 man dorms zero phone reception aaaand of course zzzBlisszzz After that, it was 4 days at a homestay program in Negri Sembilan. The homestay program? mandi jeram akad nikah kenduri gotong royong inspirational talks to schoolkids matmotoness fantastic stories by mr. suhud food with santan santan santan hyper chatty little kids and cowshit slaloms.

Yeah this spot aint so quiet when its water polo time.

Where kids go to chill when there's no malls or shisha places.

Ze host family and the other two blokes who got put in the same house.

After all that, Dad had some ASEAN energy thing in Singapore, so i joined him on the flight down and took the bus back .Helped the old man sort out the papers he was presenting (and kept a few interesting ones. Colin Oram sure interested one) and managed to catch Darren and Jac for makans. And a city F1 track in Singapore? a NIGHT city F1 track in Singapore? This should be interesting. Expect a random cockrant on that sometime soon. I have a feeling i'm gonna be seeing this view a bit more in the next coupla years.

But yeah after that it was a really fun, chilled out summer. Was practically at Rhasta almost every other night shishaing and talkin cock ( and picking up quite a bit about banking hahaha). It was brilliant - managed to catch up with so many old friends, and some new ones too.

Man serious everyone's face be gettin round yo..

Sri Cempakaaaa , megah berdiriii-iii....

Thank god that some of you guys are still around in London. Still so many places unseen and un-makaned and so many shows on the West End i'm still dying to catch. And of course they're the uber-babi japanese buffets too. And there's always Addies' & Masala Zoooneee!

Sigh too bad schooo many of you guys wont be here anymore in London. Next Petronas annual briefing just wont be the same...

Less than a week to raya! woooot! The folks are comin down this weekend for raya and a quick hop around Italy too while i'm stuck here. Pfeh. Can't wait to eat again in daylight thouugh.

Oh yeah quite sad also - this year's Raya photo shoot in Warwick will probably be the last one for a while, seeing that Raya will fall like, on the first day of term next year. At least we got some extra silliness in the photos aye?

I'll just finish off with a quick music plug - been listening to a lot of Rilo Kiley. Also, the new Korn unplugged CD(who woulda thought that was a good idea hmmn?) , Talib Kweli ( LOTS of good tracks and collabs) and Katie Tunstall. On a more local side - also some good listenin from Tangga, Samsons, Ahli Fiqir & Anuar Zain.

And if you havent heard of Project Pop, go youtube them or something. They're freaking hilarious - some of their classics are "Dangdut is the Music of my Country", "Jangan Ganggu Banci", and you have GOT to see this one - "Dugem vs Metal" FYI, "Dugem" is a portmanteau from dunia gemerlap - Indo slang for like, clubbing, karaoke and other glitzy nightlife pursuits. Seriously the lyrics and the video - tergelak sampai nangis i tell you.



This is also a damn catchy song ( well okay most people think it sucks) but even tho the video buruk sikit the tune is damn catchy, and the song is hilarious if you get the lyrics. Basically this woman is taking the bloody piss out of this rapper she used to date.



Oh and i think i've finally pimped out my desktop to the max. Now i gotta join at least one CompSoc Lan party to show it off at least once. Oh and to find out if anyone's hosting a DC++ server on campus as well. hur hur.

Yes overkill i know. But isnt it just purty? I've got an Intel DC E6750 sharing a water cooling loop(240 mm radiator) with an OC-ed 7900GT and its only 18C on idle! *geeky snort*

MMkays time to get back to woooork. Just gotta run down to the kitchen for a nibble first. Tataaa! I'd post some of the raya pics but since most of you guys are on Facebook anyway, yeah fuckit ( DAMMIT thats 6.50 quid now iniit?)