Passion Is

Rockband is seriously fun, no wonder it's the talk of the town. At such a price (way over RM2K for the whole set), it should be worth every single sen spent. Though I like Rockband terribly, I am glad to report that I am not a junkie yet.

I suck at the guitar, even more so at the drum, but at least I could hummmmmm some of the tune without getting less than 50% rating. Good enough lah.

The list of songs are quite limited and strictly Rock gila babi. My favorites are Creep by Radiohead, Learn To Fly by Foo Fighters, In Bloom by Nirvana, I Think I'm Paranoid by Garbage, Say It Ain't So by Weezer (I was actually hoping for the inclusion of some good numbers like Perfect Situation, Buddy Holly or The Damage In Your Heart). The only Bon Jovi song in the list is Wanted Dead or Alive which I don't really fancy. Other than that, some of the songs selected by Harmonix beg the question, "What the fuck?"

I still prefer Nintendo Wii over Rockband anytime. Just one try at it and I'm hooked already, body mind and soul.

Expensive games. Huhuhu.... For now, I'll stick to my favorite and free-to-play Scrabulous. I am Scrab fab most time until Bongo beat me left, right and center.

Yo, Bongo, bila mau claim your NZN?

Anywayz, been toying with the idea of having 50s hairstyle - big natural wave but my stylist was against it. Let's see, maybe when I manage to get my hair length past my shoulder, then I could insist on getting that perm. He's always love short 'do on me. Four months ago he did a fabulous pixie haircut. And I loved it.

This is the style I want but I didn't get.

Today, I paid my favorite stylist a visit again. I went in looking drab but when I walked out from the salon, there's that million-dollars-feeling again. However this time, it took a couple of hours getting used to the structured bob ala Cleopatra with slanting geometric fringe.

Came out with this stylo.

Although the fringe is slanting and not straight

Which could be styled like this

Or, like this

This. Feels. Good.

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

A 'rock fell to the ground' (sort of) in the form of cousin Mary. It was Wednesday - the sudden public holiday announced by the PM. I had the day planned but her last minute call on Tuesday evening means I will have to re-schedule. Killjoy!

I had to get her from KLS then to her place. Had to show her how to get around from her apartment to her training center. In between the walk, the ride, the food, the drink, the ...whatever, I had to listen to her never ending questions. If I don't answer, she will repeat herself. No escape!

An inquisitive character she is, bordering on the really busy body type. And just so you know it, I FVCKING HATE QUESTIONS. So to pacify myself, it's okay, I thought, juuuuust for Wednesday. I was wrong.

She found me on Thursday and Friday and Saturday and Sunday. In the days after her arrival on Wednesday, I had to endure questions, more questions and continuous flow of questions. They are all seemingly innocent questions but as I have mentioned already, refer above statement in big caps.

Let me give you an example. On the topic of living, here are just a few of the many questions I had to face...

Where do you live? Is it far from here? About half an hour or more? How much is it if by cab? Is there a bus going there? Is there a 'commuter' going there? Ok, is there LRT going there? Who do you live with? What race are they? Are they good? How did you know them? Can you trust them? Are they trustable? How do you know you can trust them? Are they working? What are they working as? Are they your colleagues? Do they work nearby your office? How old are they? Single or married? Do you cook? Do they cook? What do you guys eat everyday?

For once, I really wanted to tell her to STOP BEING A BUSY BODY but out of 'respect' (she's a lot older than moi), I just have to be content saying it out loud in the head. You probably think I made that up, but that's the truth and it's not screwed.

I spent the whole Saturday afternoon till 10pm with her at MV. Towards the evening, when my legs and knees couldn't take it anymore, I told her to do her shopping on her own and I will be movie-watching on my own while waiting for her.

I went to GSC Signature, paid RM20 for a Premiere ticket. But 10 minutes into the show and about to sink into the whole RM20 worth of experience, the guy behind my chair started to periodically 'accidentally' knocked my chair. If you have been to Premiere halls, you probably noticed the legs space between the rows of chairs are so bloody spacious a cow could practically sleep there.

It really is inconsiderate for the motherfucker behind me to do that. Considering my agitated state of mind thanks to Mary's ceaseless verbal 'prodding' earlier, I was considerably calm when I politely told the guy not to rock my chair because I feel uncomfortable and nauseous.

He did not reply. Zzzip. Quiet.

Still, throughout the movie, he kicked the back of my chair more than a couple of times. See, polite seldom works?

Right after the movie ended, I stood up, turned around to face him and said, Hey you, you know there are alot of space between your chair and mine, yet you still kick my chair when I asked you not to!

Instead of apologizing, he had a smirk on his face while saying, Is it? Is it? Is it?

He was pretending to be dumb and challenging me, sort of. Hah! Okay. Sengaja wan lah...

He probably didn't anticipate what I did next. With my vocal 2 notches higher, I told him off (right in front of the other moviegoers) : Of course you did. Are you pretending to be stupid or is your vocabulary really that limited?

He was sitting then, but upon hearing my rather loud 'comment', he quickly stood up and hissed, Bitch!

Hah! Wrong turn.

I replied, Ahhhh yes, apparently I am BUT only to deserving people, LIKE YOU. And apparently too, you only LOOK rich from the outside, what with all the brands from head to toe, but money does not seem to be able to buy YOU brain and manners. Oh wait, by BITCH you mean your girlfriend? That's her naaaaaaaame? The one who deep-throated you just now? Hah! Makes perfect sense now!

He's probably stumped so before he could utter a reply, I left as fast as I could. Hah! I bite! I do!

Eventful? Yes, indeed. I screwed someone.

Stressful? Definitely. My legs, my waist, my knees, my feets, my entire system. I am aching all over.

Brain damage? After all that interrogations, I am almost there.

Right after sending Mary back to her apartment, I thought of taking a rest on Sunday so I told her, Hey I am not coming to see you tomorrow, I need to do my laundry and some other things plus I don't really feel well already, I need rest. You have been here a few days already, I am sure you know your way around to the nearby shops to find food and do your shopping.

By then, I had sore throat, headache, slight fever as I was hot all over and it was that time of the month too. She said, okay no problem.

But that was yesterday.

Today (Sunday), she called up to inform me she's lost in Sg Wang and to please come find her.

I was sleeping the whole day, not because I wanted to, but because I wasn't feeling well. Terrible headache.

Well, I told her this, Can you just ask any of the sales assistant in the shopping mall to help you or find information counter and ask for the way?

But she wouldn't listen. In the end, she said, she'll wait for me to fetch her no matter how long it takes for me to arrive because she is lost and couldn't find her way out. KNNCCB!!!

Seriously! Age isn't a measure of how well a person uses his/her brain to think.

I am not going to blog what happened after. Just enough to make me edgy and an ass, right till this moment.

Echo

To those whose existense is kind pretense to strip me off the tangibles, dig your diamonds you shameless conniving fucks, till memories I will have naught, none to forgive, and we are all but perfect strangers. Your politics I will not have. Preach your kind but not I. You are not home no more y'all, my heart will not come. My bind is to live the day, to breathe the light and depart by night to rise for another life for whatever God shall decide.

Graffitis

Graffitis. I love them all. They made my day.

• All racists who are prepared to die for their country, why not now?
• Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question.
• Superman is a travestite.
• Do they have reserved parking for non-handicap people at the Special Olympics?
• Lower the age of puberty!
• God bless Atheism
• I drink to make other people interesting.
• My life is like a porno-movie, without the sex.
• An unfortunate person is one tries to fart but shits instead.
• I invented the cordless extension cord.
• Can I get your picture? I collect nature disasters
• For all of you who talk about me, thanks for making ME the center of YOUR world!
• I'm cool, I'm hot....I'm everything you're not
• You and the bank own a very lovely home
• I would tell ya to go to hell but all dogs go to heaven
• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants
• Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
• The only reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live
• Earth first. We'll screw up the other planets later
• Only in America do they buy a double cheese burger, large fries and a DIET COKE
• 24 hours in a day ... 24 beers in a case ... coincidence? I think not…
• I'm fat, but your ugly. I can diet
• English! Who needs that? I'm never going to England!
• You may laugh because I'm different but I laugh because you're all the same
• If at first you dont succeed, skydiving isnt for you
• I am on the seafood diet. I see food and I eat it!
• I aint guilty, im just not innocent! ;-)
• Everyone likes a little ass, but no one likes a smart ass
• I like my steak so rare that when you poke it, it still says mooooo..
• An answer to that nagging question............... I let the dogs out!
• What do an Icebear have after swimming? Snowballs!
• You know it's always business doing pleasure with you
• If you throw rice at weddings, will asian people throw hotdogs?
• I've lost my phone number, can I have yours?
• When I'm good, I'm really good, but when I'm bad I'm better
• What do they call Bush his zipper? The "U.S. Open"
• Beer: helping ugly people get laid since 1823
• Impotence: Nature's way of saying "no hard feelings"
• The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with
• You're looking at perfection, and it ain't you!
• Do blind eskimos have seeing-eye sled dogs?
• If electricty comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
• Next time wave all your fingers at me!
• When it comes to baldness, it's not about losing more hair, it's about getting more head.
• The height of laziness is a man is shitting on the beach and waiting for the tide
• You're unique, just like everyone else....
• Everybody has the right to be stupid but your breaking the rules!
• Why do our noses run and our feet smell?
• Save a mouse, eat a pussy.
• Keep Earth clean, it's not Ur-anus
• Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow
• Make love not war. Condoms are cheaper than guns
• Don't do it behind the garden gate love is blind but the neighbours ain't!
• When you judge others you dont define them you define yourself.. :-)
• The more I learn, the more I forget. So why would I learn?
• A miserable person is one who truly enjoys a fart but can't
• Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?
• Don't be open-minded, your brains might fall out
• Flying is simple. You just throw yourself at the ground and miss
• On the other hand, you have different fingers
• Who laughs last, thinks the slowest Pizza is a lot like sex.
• When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good
• I hope I didn't brain my damage
• If you dont like my driving, then stay off the sidewalk
• I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it
• Kids in back seats cause accidents, accidents in back seats cause kids
• I'm not a follower... I'm a leader with the same idea
• This is where Napolean beat his bone-a-part
• First law of science: don't spit into the wind
• If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from?
• She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon
• My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted
• If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
• Even hot girls have to fart
• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it
• There are three types of economists. Those who can count, and those who can't
• Behind every great woman, is a guy looking at her ass
• Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who' got the smallest
• Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife
• An idiot is a 44th floor window washer who steps back to admire his work
• Men are like roses, you got to watch out for all the pricks
• Behind every successful woman, is a man who is surprised
• I don't hate you, I just need someone to take my anger out on
• I love deadlines, especially the whooshing sound they make as they go by
• Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried to slam a revolving door
• Ass, Grass, or Gas: everybody's gotta pay
• Who's cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have a "s" in it?
• Why is it that the most unattractive people in this world insist on being nudists?
• I'm not a dumb blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot!
• I don't know if I'm a player. Ask one of my girlfriends
• Virginity is like a bubble... One tiny prick and it's gone
• They speak of my drinking but they never consider my thirst
• We'd better get outta here, I think I hear one of those silent alarms
• I don't like to repeat things, so listen carefully the first six times
• If guys had their period, they'd probably brag about the size of our tampons
• Fat people are harder to kidnap
• If one synchronized swimmer drowns, does that mean they all have to?
• If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten
• I wear the pants in this house. My wife just tells me which pair to wear
• I must confess, I was born at a very early age
• I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own
• Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!

About Nothing At All

Hello Darkness my old friend, I've come to talk to you again.

About how one fine Saturday, God was in his best mood that He decided to throw in a RM30 worth of phone credit bonus my way. Some phone dealer must have screwed up at the other end but God is good to me.

About a comment like how fluid I was on the creaky board while losing myself made me happy.

About having two cells yet both turned off pissed me greatly. What if?

Right now, I want to down these thoughts in loud music in my search of a greater perspective.

Right now, I miss the best buddy I ever have, the kind of friendship that transcends boundaries, but he's oh so far, far away at the moment.

Right now, I wish time stops and then brings me back to the time when Buddy and I were on that bus going to destination anywhere - throwing caution in the air and feeling the wind caressing two carefree souls looking for a little bit of grounded adventure.

Right now, I wish I was back to the time when I was riding that blue jet ski towards the setting sun with Jerome holding on tight for his dear life and shouting out to me, 'hey Crazy, where are we heading?' I remember giving him my wicked and evil grin.

Right now, I wish to be transported back to Christmas five years past, when the best of gifts is not the one received but rather the joyful sound of laughters ringing in the air.

Right now, I gotta be doing that gap analysis thingy but hey, where are you? I need my analysis.

This is my life. Oh, the memories. My memories. Your nothing at all.