Thar he blows - off the starboard yarn! Arrr!!

Sor-or-or-heee for being off radar for like, almost a month. ( Whoa, randomness - serious deja vu). Well i was away for quite a coupla days off to my other hometown, but i've been languishing away at home most of the time besides the cybercafe trips(gettin really boring) and the odd movie. Saw I, Robot ( not too bad at all) House of Flying Daggers ( typical kung fu flick ) , Mean Girls( hilarious), King Arthur( mediocre) .

Not having too much fun on nights out due to a random 12pm curfew by my parents ( thanks to the Darren Kang case and some other random shit) . Otherwise i've been reorganizing pretty much anything in the house i can lay my hands on. Strangely reticent to go online, much less start up MSN or even blog. Why you ask?

Like a ton of bricks, one by one on the ballss

Yup its my results. Even after expecting the worst it kinda hit me hard. In a nutshell, managed to scrounge a clean pass score-wise, but failed programming hideously, and logic too. Could have sworn i did better on at least a few of the theory papers. Funny thing is, programming is the only thing you cant fail or retake. Needless to say i definitely wont be going to second year computingat IC. As of press time, im still trying to smooth over a course change and also deal with Petronas about it. Possibility of staying in IC's kinda grim at present, so i'm also liasing with some other unis with possibilty of another place.

Needless to say all this is taking a heavy toll on my stress , sanity and ...well everything. Luckily all the drama in my house was confined to just a few days - my father himself failed his medics a coupla times ( ended up with an agric. degree) but my mom's another story. All the emailing and waiting aside, i havent been sleeping well at all and my eating patterns are totally off whack. If it werent for the odd hours out with friends i would have totally gone mental.

Thats about it. Lets not talk anymore about that - anyone who raises this issue to my face will lose a kidney or two sooner than he or she can say "hey at least then its lucky that you havent signed any lease contracts yet". Obviously this covers any sanctimonious "i told you so's" , any sentiments of pity or any patronizing. I'm already lost enough hair( brushes more off his keyboard) thinking about what went wrong, post mortems and shit. I will get through this. I will redeem my honor. ( amar ululates) .

On the flipside, lookin forward to see you guys from down south this weekend! I'll see if i can get my curfew revoked for a while....

Of Sneezes and Saffron, part II

The minute my dad and i arrived Wednesday afternoon i was put to work by my aunty - joined my cousins who were running around like drones waitering and helping out in the kitchen. Never ending flow of relatives and well-wishers coming in all day - most of which hardly missed a beat to pay their respects to go straight to the food. Imagine waiting on hordes and hordes of seriously kampong people, dressed all in black when its 40+ celcius outside.To top it off, not many of them spoke english OR malay.. This went on through the night and until lunch the next day.

After lunch and another barrage of ceremonies the next day, our entourage brought her to the temple for final prayers at the crematorium. FInally had some rest after that. THe next morning at the temple when we picked up the ashes we had a lunch for the immediate family at the temple. Just as luck would have it, that was some special monthly day or of worship where people come over to the temple and offer food to the priests for blessings. Needless to say there were lots of random kampong moochers at our lunch in the main temple dining hall - some of them even packed our food to go. Started the drive home around 3-ish - parents made me drive. Boring ass-4 hour drive on the highway.

Idle hands are the devil's workshop

Next couple of days were pre-tty boring asides from a coupla friends coming over and the odd cybercafe/supper sessions- and of course the odd 1-meal a day binges- i don't think i'll be eating Nandos again for a while after scarfing a whole Peri Platter ( 1 chicken, 3 sides and a salad) all by myself at lunch with my parents Saturday. My capacity for gorging has fully returned, but then i'll be full for the next day or so...

Some of the more notable acts of boredom include:
-Sharpening everything with a blade in the house
-Spear-fishing( with a sharpened broomstick) for rats behind the house at dusk - caught one!
-Reorganizing all upstairs bookshelves.
-Putting sharpened sickles and parangs to use - some cosmetic gardenwork

Time for another overdue update between sleeping and Blogger being down...

Part 1 : Of Sneezes and Saffron

The four of us drove down to my grandma's place on friday ( 2 July) . Quite a few of my aunts and uncles were already there. Not only was it sERRIOUSly hot, there was no water in that area of the state as well - and as expected, hardcore sneeze attacks came along pretty soon cos of all the dust and mangy dirty cats around the place. Unpleasant. Boring too as none of my cousins were there yet. At least caught up on some proper Thai food.

1 day short of being completely bedbound and semi-comatose for an entire year, my maternal grandmother passed away around 1.30 am sunday morning. Almost everyone stayed up well into the next day helping with the planning for the numerous ceremonies to come. By noon busloads more of relatives, a small procession stage, tents and monks in many many shades of orange had appeared. After some last rites/blessings thingy ran by a coupla priests and a "specialist" involving most of the family she was put into a coffin and put up under the shade outside in a typical lying-in state arrangement after being injected with formaldehyde. THe formaldehyde will probably come in handy as the numerologists later decided that she would be cremated the coming Thursday after a 3 day wake and a couple more ceremonies.

Hence, in an uncharacteristically merciful act my mom let my dad and i fly home sunday night so we wouldn't get in the way of all the arrangements and rituals aANd because the house was kinda packed too. We'd be flying back in wednesday afternoon for another ceremony before the cremation and another bunch of ceremonies. Hopefully driving back friday.

A merciful release for my grandmother - she had been suffering from crippling athritis, rheumatism and the like for the last 11 years to the point of near total incapacitation.

Part 2 : Banana Leaf Madness

On monday, managed to meet up with charlotte, lionel and soha. Started with the first two dropping by my house to wait for soha to finish teaching at BBBS. Ended up with them staying for 2 hours-ish and laughing at my old photos. Poppycock. Later picked up Soha and at at a banana leaf place somewhere near UM. Went mental to the point of being full for the next 24 hours. Nasty, nasty things must have went on in my stomach. After that we just dropped soha off and chilled at casa de kinky until they were nice enough to agree to a drink at 1 Utama so i could scamper off later and meet my dad for a 9.30 show that he preemptively booked me for almost a week ago- Spider Man 2. It was quite okay...about as good as the first.

Part 3: C'mon, something other than Warcraft?

Spent the better part of the morning clearing out my room of junk , reorganizing the upstairs bookshelves and redoing the mess of wiring in my room. Later had dinner at 1 utama with zkerng and we joined the guys ( more like got there first) at silver surfer for a much missed cybercafe warcraft marathon. There was like..10 of us - total all out swearing, cursing madnesssss. Got slighty less hectic with the pussy hero map. Played like , from 10 to 2 and then had our customary post-mortem discussion at the mamak followed by cocktalking and reminiscing. Nobody was really eager to drive back cos it was raining like cock. Oh yeah - speaking of driving - first time i drove out of BU since LAST summer. Didn't bang anything or get lost in the rain- go me!

Still waiting with baited breath for the e-mail or snail mail that'll say that i either need to resit a paper or two, or god forbid, completely failed my bitch of a course. Those were supposed to be passed out from the 2nd onwards - well its already the 7th, so i'm still keepin my fingers crossed. If i don't get it next week i'm calling anyway to make sure they didn't screw up my address....haha i'd be completely over the moon if i don't hear anything from them till the end of the month which means i passed clean.....i can only hope....

Ahh.. realized how i missed my mother's dulcet voice when she issues orders and imperatives( 99% when she opens her mouth) to my father and i. bleurgh.

The next whole weekend hangus - got dragged back to visit my bed-ridden grandmother - she has been bed -ridden for the last like, 4 years. God forbid that she actually passes away anytime soon, then i'd have to stay even longer - thai funeral rites are apparently rather long. Sorry if that sounds insensitive. I just don't like how my mother drops her orders - yes i KnooWWW all mothers are like that, but i'd probably have both sides of the family behind me if i say that she's more than a little pushy. Hope i don't miss too much lepak/gambling/eating/clubbing time. It is after all MY holiday, dammit.

Speaking of clubbing, a coupla of us checked out the new Zouk in kl. We went on thursday, which was " Ghetto Heaven" and also ladies night. NOt only was there far more quantity than quality, there were also LOaaDDS of mat kampong and mat motors and other random mats trying to show off their rather dubious "moves". Dance floor was packed as hell, but the music was good and the drinks were not too expensive.

Played badminton the other day too. Amazingly played a bit better than on the odd occasion i did back in London. Must be the weather or something. Still feeling the pain today - aching grip and leg pains - those 'clicks' and 'clacks' in my legs during the game can't have been beneficial...

Anyways, hope the weekend rolls over with no incident( if anyone sees the Reaper, try and invite him to yum cha or something). Lookin forward to good ol' gambling sessions and all the cursing over cybercafe Warcraft....

Its good to be home.

Well... better anyway - until it gets boring. In the 6 months that i've been gone, Kaknab's cooking has fallen even further from grace, the kitchen has been ( horrendously) redone, and my dad's bought even more crap he has no use for. At least my mother didn't fry ( or even learn to connect) my Streamyx router - i'd DiE going from 1mB/sec college ethernet back to dialup. Haven't started on my culinary hedonism yet except for a nice japanese dinner at M.O. the other day - my stomach should return to full capacity soon enough. Oh well - that and the fact that both my parents have become ardent followers of Akademi Fantasia.

Akedemi Fantasia is pretty much a carbon copy of the Fame academy, except not so much bitching and backstabbing - and a coupla of them are actually pretty damn good. Too bad the same can't be said for like, 99% of the people who tried out for Malaysian Idol. Seriously....some of them haven't a fuckin' clue - one lame-o started with a short Nobita/Doraemon skit with handmade masks and then launched into a random old geisha-style japanese song. Another notable one was a girl who wasn't that bad, but she chose a sheila majid song. Big mistake - one of the judges was her estranged ex-husband who has been fighting a bitter alimony battle for years. Boo-yah! The hour-long montage of failed M'sian Idol auditions was abso-fuckin-lutely hilarious - and that's just the penang-ites!

Been sneezing left, right & center - must be the damn haze or something else in the air. Damn Indons and their open burning. Sleep cycle's still pretty screwed up. Its gonna take a while to get back to even sleep timings - slept for 5 hours the first night, 15 hours the second, and i'm still waiting to sleep today. Once i'm set i gotta hunt down you guys back home!

7.00 am now - and its still nice and dark-ish outside. Back to trying to get to sleep.

Feelin - too tired to be excited
Listening to - the sound of people packing all up and down the hall

Yaaay flights later today. Keepin my fingers crossed for a smooth ride to the airport and a smooth flight home ( and another free upgrade, maybe?) Travelling back 'light' - well normal anyway. Managed to store most of my stuff on Weds - we had to hire a removal truck just for the three of us. Hahaha at least i wasn't the guy with the most stuff.

sOOOOO many plans for the last week of term didn't fan out. The BBQs, the picnics, the parties etc etc. We finished the year on a nonchalant note of shopping and starcraft yesterday. Kinda disappointing. I guess everyone was still busy sorting out last minute stuff like shipping, storing and tying up a whole fuckload of loose ends.

We-he-he-hell now..... guys, its been a helluva year. Lots of laughs, lots of fun , lots of stress, and also a bit of drama now and then. I'm sure as we all got to know each other better through the year everyone's quirks, weirdness, and god forbit, the odd endearing trait started popping up. Well i guess living with people is all about putting up with their crap anyway while at the same time being thankful for whichever way they have supported you and made you grow as a person. What goes around comes around bla bla bla bla

enough prissy cocktalk. Anyway the point is its been great knowing you guys, hope to see you all next year( no reaLLY...assuming i get to stay in Imperial ) , forgive me if i have said anything particularly brash or offensive to anyone in all my randomness and have a fun fun summer whatever you are doing!

Feelin - numbing boredom + equally numbing headache
Listening to - whatever the hell comes up next on shuffle

Packing's a bitch.

Gotta finish up packing away all the stuff i'm gonna keep here over summer - a couple of us are storing our stuff over at ee wen's place tomorrow..whoops later today - which means i will be sans speakers and espresso machine for my last two days here ( oh the hORRoR). Hope bringing our ridiculous amount of luggage to Earl's Court will go without a hitch.

The BBQ on saturday was ser-weet. Quite a lot of the scholars showed up . Caught up a little on new scholarship policies and shit ( all the while supressing a chilling sweat whenever the topic veers anywhere near our batches' results , especially mine).

Sunday and Monday was boring besides from the usual beating at starcraft ( damn guardians & nukes). Still trying to find a third person to share accoms with. Still not getting much sleep either - doubt i'll get much more at home while i'm still fucking worried sick about results. Oh well, next coupla of days will hopefully take my mind off them. Gonna mobilize a mob to hit Selfridges on the first day of their sales this Thursday - havent done any retail shopping for freakin ages.

Oh yeah before i forget - the quote of the day - from a female member of our posse who had food poisoning simultaneously with PMS - " I hope god will give you a vagina so you can bleed from it!" (ps. - that wasn't said to me, btw) aand we had some interesting dinner theater to eHUk eHUk....( cats hissing ) ..

2 days to gooo.......

Feelin - tireeed
Listening to - You Knew, Mario Winans

Maaan the hall's "Going Down" dinner kinda blew - Well its not so much that they substituted the karaoke with the 'awards' or the fact that the music was overall worse - its more to do with so few of our bunch actually going. It's not that we're antisocial or anything, but it can be hard to connect to the locals sometimes, some more than others( c'mon, i've been here for three years ). Probably post a few pictures from that later - charlotte in her "birthday dress"? hahaha toldja i'd never let that go....

Ran around for most of the afternoon - sorting out my final coursework submissions, sent some mail and settled some other stuff. So much for shopping. Meant to get up earlier so i'd have the afternoon off to chill, but that wasn't really possible after fencing and mucking about till 5 in the morning.

Tomorrow's pretty booked as well - goin for a BBQ hosted by Petronas' student advisor here with a coupla of the other scholars, and dunno lor what we are gonna do later tonight - see what stories the Amsterdam/Brussels crew have for us....

daaAAmn - i had something else on my mind to write earlier on, but i forgot. My short term memory's gone to absolute crap. Oh well - see if i remember it tomorrow. brrr - its startin to get chilly again...my feet are actually coldddd

6 days to go...

feelin - more bored than an eunuch watching porn
listening to - La Vida Es Un Carnaval, Celia Cruz

GOD wednesday night was boring. Tomorrow had better be freakin fun. Had an early nap and played a coupla games of FT with Darren - haha gotta train him before Lu and Alex gets back....

Funny story - during that nap had a very weird and equally vivid dream - parents and a whole bunch of ex-cempakans visiting me in the hall. Hahaha total madness - got singh( duude you were dressed like some crazy ass rapper) , daim, waris(sans afro), izran, tai uei, edwin, etc etc etc and even some random people from the batch below.

Probably just about dying to get home right about now....might not be totally homesick but definitely starting to miss the little comforts of home - found myself looking on ebay for persian rugs of all things....

8 days to gooo....

Feelin - bored, spaced out, lingering portent of doom
Listenin to - Hey Mama , Black Eyed Peas, Show Me Your Soul, Bad Boys 2 OST, Teamwork, Ludacris

Sorrayyy for the post-less week again (haha lepak larr singh...i'd be back soon enough). Between complying with my edict of tRyiNg not to blog when i'm pissed/moody/PMS-sing and dishing out the whupass/gettin shafted at Frozen Throne and Starcraft memang takde mood nak blog....jangan marah ye?

Yup - you didn't hear me wrong - Starcraft. In our post exam boredom we went on an old-school gaming spree over the past week - Console emulators ( neo geo, SNES, megadrive, GBA, N64) and even the venerable Starcraft. Realized i was soooo out of it. Forgot all the hotkeys, build order and shit. Kept getting beaten upside down , especially in free for alls where i always coincidentally get gangbanged - suspicious.

Just did some errands and some accounting today. Realized i haven't shopped for ages and for good reason - after holiday expenses and other random expenditures here and there ( COUGH eBay COUGH ) there wasn't really much left to go aggro with.Got only 1 month's worth on the accoms claims too...die lorr like that. Didn't wanna put anymore strain on the good ol' amex either after that new pair of specs and the Vidal Sassoon haircut (still, got discount whaaat!!) Shambled off to the bank to cash in a whole buncha silvers and coppers, and spent almost half the amount i put in on a Starbucks mango frap on the way back. Cocksss...

Last week should have been relaxingly idlyll. Mostly sunny ( really REALLY hot - almost like back home) and cheery weather. Too bad i wasn't really in the mood to enjoy myself. Haven't been sleeping well at all - partly because of the shorter nights and morning sun, the thoughts of the ramifications of actually not passing my course(not even counting dissapointing my parents- a first- and Petronas) and the accomodation fracas amongst our bunch.I'm not gonna bitch too much about the subject, but accomodation arrangements got from bad to worse to a hideous mess even an Indah Water septic tank cleaner wouldn't wanna get close to until yesterday when a few of them signed lease contracts after much, much unnecessary stress. Okay, some people had qualms with prices and sharing etc but that doesn't mean anyone can just take charge and just shuffle people around without asking them first? (deeeep breath)Well i'm not sore or anything, i did drag my feet about it and i did look for alternatives, but yeah, whatever. Enjoy your arrangements.

On a lighter note, we've been having a lot more late night suppers and lepaking sessions up in my crib....haha more dodgy videos, late night carbs and playing games till the sun rises ( freakin 2.30am-ish). Don't think we'll be doin much more of that for the next coupla days 'cos Alex and Lu are off with Jed to Brussels and Amsterdam - i would have joined, but i was a bit the broke...haha hope y'all won't get up to tooo much mischief hmnn? Remember to get me those....urmm...yess "clogs", juuuust "clogs"....oooh yeah caught Les Miserables on Monday night as well - not as enthralling as Bombay Dreams but still a classic nonetheless.

I promise to try my darndest to post more!

9 days to goooo....

Feels weird to be finally, absolutely done. Too bad it was an anti-climactic finish though - the last exam paper was followed by two labs, that damn coursework and a programming test on tuesday. Kinda envied the people who topped off the year with their last exam paper. Grr

Hhhaanyway the last coupla days went by kinda fast - maybe the freakin heat just blurred everything. Every morning you just wake up early because you feel like you're in an oven or something. Monday and Tuesday were, like, really really hot.

Boredom and milling around were quickly replaced by the discovery of old-school fun on old video game emulators ( Neo geo and SNES games) and warcraft/starcraft on the network. Yay. Still feeling very listless and bored overall though. Still waiting for the real celebratory mood to kick in. Maybe when my bank account magically refills itself. Till then i guess we'll just stick to our kiddy games and taking dodgy videos. eeRrgh once i settle storage and accomodation for next term i'll probably try and get an early flight or somethin. Wonder if the odd party and summer sales in the last week are worth it....

15 days to goooo...

Wow. That was an amazingly bad attempt at doing serious work. My Prolog notes and tutorials are all laid out and i've got some online tutorials open as well and i'm still just barely creepin along. Didn't help that i raided Sharescan for some mp3s too. Oh yeah - noticed some weird shit going on on Friendster with dissappearing people and what not. Whoaa - the new FT patch is out - lets play it to test the new neutral hero - okay he's crap lets try a new strategy ( countinues playing for another hour). NOW you see why i cant get any work done.

My moodiness is kinda levelling out and is being replaced by my more general disdain for work. Probably all that tea-blending ( killer mix - viennese fruit tea with orange ceylon and turkish apple tea ) and jazz finally worked - while we're on jazz, brief digression - i gotta recommend Jamie Cullum and Katie Melua. The former's a 22 year old who looks like a 16 year old but sounds like part Sinatra, and part Kelly Jones ( Stereophonics) and the other's a cute young thing with a really sweet smoky voice ( think Norah Jones, less nasal-ly). Go get the mp..(eEEhuk ehuk) i mean CDs....

It'll be interesting working against the clock again today on the LAST lab assignment of the year. WOnder if i can ever be sufficiently prepared for the prolog test either. Death, doom, despair - no recent burden doth compare.

Well thats enough time wasted - back to work. Damn birds - why cant they just STFU and let me slee.. i mean workkkk......

ps.- if you though the second paragraph sounded a little gay, screw you
18 days to go....

It was probably a good idea to have postponed my blogging till today. Had i blogged on friday or saturday it would have nothing much more than a constant stream of mega PMS-sy ranting. Not only was i already feeling strangely feral this weekend, coincidentally a few random people chose to heighten my blood pressure as well.

First was my one of my group project mates - also the Computing year rep. I finished my ( more than fair ) share of the research and HTML and passed it over to him a day early to collate and arrange into the frames and layout he already drafted( looks very template-ish).FInal deadline to have our finished pages on our alloted server space was 1700 hrs friday. Here's a brief summary of what happened on that day:

1300hrs- said he finished putting everything together. He'll upload after friday prayers
1630hrs- swung by labs to pick up work, found out our server area still empty. WTF.
1640hrs- got back to the hall and gave him a call. Still fiddling with the page. Give him 10 mins, he says, 'safe' , he says
1650hrs- had the balls to ask me whether i knew how to upload the pages to the server
1655hrs- he finally passed me the pages, and i sec-Exed them to the server. Problem - his frames and shit were in many many subfolders, and those didn't really transfer all too well.
1700hrs- we're fucked. He'll try and claim technical problems and settle with CSG and the assesors

He had better damn well work that out.

Secondly, bumped into an ex-Oundelian ( same boarding house for 2 years)doing Maths whom i so successfully avoided the whole term ( eg 20+ missed calls). Just the sight of that fucking hongkey ( disclaimer - apologies to the people from hong kong i know who are actually not out of their fucking minds). almost made me spew bile ala The Exorcist and turn my head 360. GOD not many of you guys can imagine how annoying he actually is - a hideous ,skinny poseur who thinks he's god's gift to women and sings like a cat being gang-raped by anthromorphic power drills. Those of you who do maths at IC or heard my boarding school stories can concur.

Besides supressing all that pure malice, it was an alright weekend. Managed to catch the third Harry Potter movie. Definite eye candy and very well shot, but you didn't hafta read the book to know that they schmutzed the story quite a bit(BTW yes alex, emma watson's cute, but she's like what, 15? A bit of a pervy kiddy-tiddler now, eh? hehehehe). After the show alex, lu and myself had a little walking tour of the housing around Gloucester ( not by choice ) on the way to finding a 'shortcut' thru to Sainsburys for a midnight run. Fun.

Saturday? Still very little work done. Almost passed out makin the Dhal for dinner in the sauna of a kitchen. Sweated seas and cried rivers ( onions, garlic, chilles and ginger galore) . At least the moghuls feast turned out well - tandoori chicken, dhall and naan. Apologies to any of the old folks with weak stomachs. Would've been better with more lime and ghhhHHEEEE no? Next time i'll make sure to personally deliver any cholestrol or fat in my cooking.

These mood swings have GOT to go...grarrgh.Worryworryworryworrystressstressstress.....just one more lab and programming test to endure.

19 days do go.....

Its been a while since i slept before the sun rose. Damn summer daylight hours.

Still trolling away on the bioinformatics coursework. Having vivian's 'farewell party' in my room last night didnt help - cooked supper, made Pimm's and did the other normal shit from like...12-ish till 5am. Hahaha had another supper cookout from 1am-3-am again today with alex and lu. Cannoot worrkkkk!. God knows how i'm gonna prepare for my prolog final lab on tuesday.

Went to view a schweet flat at Earl's court today - huge reception and three singles - a VERY hard combo to find. One major problem though - the landlord wasnt there and we only had the Foxton's agent to deal with, meaning we couldn't like....bargain to hold the place over summer or whatever. Ultimate buggery - still gotta look around for other options unless sOMe people would mysteriously 'disappear' and free up other sharing combinations.

Planning to write a nice, interesting & insightful piece about my whole first year at uni and post it on the blog sometime soon. Should be some nice revelations and epiphanies in there, no? Will probably start working on it sometime after i settle all the marked work submission and shit. I'd be pretty damn free after that - haha i'd probably post up loadsa random new photo galleries and do-over my Friendster again ( wonder if anyone actually still goes on ).

22 days to go....

bOOM baybehhh!

6 hours to go to the deadline of my second last lab assignment this term. Sooomething about arcs and searching in Prolog. Fell asleep every time i tried to work on it - seriously. Not exactly up to schedule on the Bioinformatics group coursework either. Haven't heard a peep from any other members since like... last thursday so i assume its the same with them. Groaarr - probably will need some help with the Prolog later.

Skipped the hall BBQ yesterday when suddenly everyone else in the our crew decided to naff off and have dinner elsewhere. Probably the thought of queueing for a tiny single burnt hamburger wasnt that appealing. Some went to the Stick and Bowl, some went to Misato and a coupla of us just had some sushi delivered to the hall. I couldn't really leave cos i hat to wait for the M'sian shippers anyway who were like....2 hours late. At least i managed to send loadsa shit home ahead for me for quite a fair price, considering its charged by volume and its door to door delivery. I would have gladly paid a skosh more, considering that i've been through picking up some stuff i shipped home from a freight depot....the horrors ohhh the untold horrors.

hhHHHanyway gotta run down for dinner now. Ciao amigos
( 24 more days )

meri channi channa channo channa channa haii ....oooooooh
meri channi meri channi channa channa bollywood

Damn its still stuck in my head. And i'm STILL in that mood where i feel like flaying alive anyone who pisses me off with a blunt, rusty razorblade while drowning that person in vat of snake venom AND feeding him Dr. Bombay's crap-ass songs on headphones full blast( on a blue ipod mini, perhaps?). Grrr. Roaarrr. Hisss....ANybody in the hall needs somebody 'taken care of'?

Seriously dunno what's really getting to me....

Leeeet's start today's post with a little gem i found while faffing around :

Two men have been sitting out on a lake all day long, ice fishing. One has been having no luck at all and the other has been pulling fish after fish out of his hole in the ice. The man having no luck finally leans over and asks the other what his secret is.
"mmmmm mmm mm mmm mmmm mmm mmm."
"I'm sorry, what did you say?"
"mmmmm mmm mm mmm mmmm mmm mmm."
"I'm sorry, I still didn't understand you." The successful man spits something into his hand.
"You've got to keep your worms warm."

Booyahh - i wish i can be there to see that smirk/wince or even hear the 'ewwww' comin from ya!

Anyways, I've been in a rather evil-ish mood for the last coupla days. Probably its a smidge of stress from having to do really well on the next lab exam or finishing the coursework on time - oRrr it could just be from having to put up with a heap of random crap from random people. Personally i think its either the full moon or just something hormonal ( which is strange, as finally returning to regular gym sessions should result in a more chilled, mellow me). Spent the better part of the day tongue-lashing people and ploughing through anyone who got in my way on a grocery run to chinatown. You'd think i learnt before not to go on a saturday - sheesh. Had i been either an agoraphobic or claustraphobic i would have died like, a thousand times over today. Screw it if it sounds gay - i feel like a class A primo bitch todaaaayy!!

Later Sunday night i made Pho again ( vietnamese kueyteow soup, pronounced 'fur'). Jadi jugak laa....as Lionel suddenly got 'reminded' that he had bar duty we just brought our food down and ate at the bar. As luck would have it the other local girl doing bar duty lived in Thailand for a coupla of years and sOMeBody let it slip that i'm half thai so i got stuck making small talk with her while the other guys slooowwly drifted away - damn you all!! Haha don't get me wrong its not like she's a nauseatingly hideous wench or anything but i was just noooot in a very layan-ing mood today ( refer to previous paragraph).

Saw Troy Friday night. Well shot, amazing action sequences and all but the story was kinda mangled. Adding the odd love interest or two is fine ( it IS Hollywood) but killing people who aren't supposed to die and vice versa while getting all the other nonimportant fine details correct is just...well...Hollywood. I wouldn't presume to bore anyone with the list of inconsistencies though. But still - coooool fighting.

Sorry about slagging off (the posts) for the last coupla days. Again, i wasn't exactly busy, but god knows my time just keeps on dissapearing despite having done sooo little work.Only things i got left are two labs, a Prolog lab exam and that Bioinformatics group coursework. Graargh...

Saw Bombay Dreams on Tuesday night - schweeet. Very flashy, loud and impressive. Although the lyrics were a bit on the lame side, the music was really catchy and the dancing was...urm..powerful? You could see quiite a few people dancing in their seats (ehEM eHEM). Their portrayal of the many Bollywood stereotypes were amusingly spot on - although they missed a few bits like running around trees and the excessive fighting sound effects. Until this very moment i've been playing the soundtrack cd to the point of having the tunes stuck in my head. Oh well..chai chaiyya chiayya hei!

The rest of the week? NOthin much - no more lectures, so i've just been milling away doing 'research' for the coursework and trying to start on the labs. Managed to catch up on looads of sleep, and started going to the gym again - so bitter the pain, so sweet the endorphines! Really gotta try to swing back into full momentum for work - Topics coursework deadline's on the 4th, and the final lab exam's on the 8th then god knows what i'm gonna do until the 25th...if i manage to settle everything early i'll see if i can go back like...a week early or something...

Till then, i'll try and think up of some funny/random things to put up to spare you guys from reading more of my oh-so-intTUHresting day to day goings on....

cali chaiyya chaiyya chaiyya chaiyya ,
cali chaiyya chaiyya chaiyya chaiyya !

Damn that shit is stuck good in my head....

Still struggling to get back in the mood to work. A tiring but 'adventure' packed weekend didn't help either. Had loadsa fun though. Had a quick weekend trip to Brownsea Island( a really small - 1.5 miles across - island which is a nature reserve and the birthplace of the Scouts) , Bath and Stonehenge. We rented a 7-seater and somehow crammed 8 people in all the way. Jed was the driver, and the others were Lu, Lionel, Alex, Jac, Vivian, Jingye and of course me.

Day 1 - Started on the drive outta town around 7.30 am-ish. After about almost 3 hours, we got to Poole which was another typical touristy English harbour town. Wandered around for a while then got on the ferry to Brownsea Island. On arrival you can already tell that the brits spend quite a bit of money looking after their heritage/history sites. Lots of information about the island's history and wildlife all over the island itself - it had a few private owners, hosted a pottery works which went bust soon after( hence all the pottery crap all over the beaches) and was the birthplace of the Scouts movement, by the handiwork of Lord Baden Powell himself. Everything is very well placed and mapped on the island. Had no problems finding any of the sites. Luckily we had nice weather too. Lotsa mildly exotic birds, peacocks etc but didn't see any of the red squirrels which were supposedly the mainstay of the island. Oh well.

After about 5 hours plus communing with nature( or at least doing our darndest). We took the ferry back and drove on to Bath. Just as our luck would have it, there was a music festival in town, and we had a freakin problem finding accomodation. In the end, we managed to get one double room - we managed to cram 5 people in there, and the rest of us ( yours truly included) slept in the car.

Day 2 - Amazingly the three of us in the car got slightly more sleep than the others. Everyone got up around 9-ish and after b'fast we checked out the Roman baths in town. A few of us felt a con-job coming and decided against coughing up 8 pounds for the tour around the old baths so we checked out the rest of the town while they were at the baths. Met up later and went to chill in the city gardens for a while.

Next, we drove over to Stonehenge. Very touristy place. Mildly interesting but somewhat unimpressive. If it werent for the audioguides i personally wouldn't have stayed for very long. At least i can say i've actually been there though...Stayed for around an hour, then drove back to London- made it back around 7 sharp.

Now its just me - After a much needed shower, rushed over to make the 7pm dinner at the opening of the new Malaysia Hall. Due to various things , among them the Circle line being closed and the District line being screwed over too due to track changes i only got there at almost 9. Food was completely gone, but at least managed to see some people. Hung out there for a while, then had a takeaway from Nahar and took a bus home...tiiiiired.

Oh yeah - put some photos up from the trip. Don't think i'll put anything up from Bath though. The baths weren't exactly pretty. Maybe once we pool our digicam photos i'll see if the other guys got any good ones..

GOd i almost forgot how boring Computing lectures were. We are on our last week of lectures on Prolog, and the lecturer is like....the second most boring one on the course ever. Even people in the freakin front row cannot help falling asleep. What is it about Computing lecturers - they're generally as boring as hell and aren't very good at explaining something despite knowing it inside out.

The fencing demo/showcase on monday went alright. They also broadcast the debate whether or not to host the Olympics in London to the rest of the hall. It was a strange sordid debate - one of the Brit speakers just rambled on and on about role models in sports, and the French speaker spent a good deal of his airtime insulting both the french and the english.

Been wasting a lot of time these last coupla days just lazing about with da crew talking cock, playing foosball/frisbee and talking more cock. Still feeling very sleepy despite managing to catch up on loads of sleep. Probably milling about wasting time is more tiring than i thought. Oh yeah - remembered how freakin hilarious The Emperor's New Groove was at another movie session in my room yesterday.

Sleepy. Need to get more catnaps before i start rambling like a hippie on an acid trip. DuuuuuUUUdeee....