Ah Boy and Ah Kao

One day, a 7 years old boy ran up to his mother and asked all sorts of questions. Kids these days can be so annoying.

Ah Boy: " Mummy mummy, why does Ah Kao always get what I wanted?"

Mum ignored. She was cooking.

Ah Boy: " Mummy mummy, I always tell him that I wanted Bumble Bee and he teased me, saying that Optimus Prime is better. But somehow in the end, he will ask his dad to buy him Bumble Bee..."

Mum ignored. again.

Ah Boy ran away and went to his dad. Dad was reading the paper (Sports Section).

Ah Boy: " Daddy daddy, you know Uncle Kao's boy Ah Kao???"

Dad: "Mm-hmm."

Ah Boy: " That Ah Kao very bad one. Whenever I tell him what is best for me, he will get himself what I wanted. You see ah, that day teacher asked us what is our ambition."

Dad: " And then?"

Ah Boy: "I asked Ah Kao what he wanted to be. He said he wanted to be a doctor, so I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. Then hor, when teacher asked Ah Kao what's his ambition, he answered 'lawyer'.."

Dad: "Nevermind la.. It's a good thing that people always follow you. Means you are so damn chun. His dad also always follow me one.. I also lazy to diu him.. "

Mum shouted, "Woi daddy! What did you just said?!"

Dad kept quiet while Ah Boy kept the word with him whole day. "diu diu diu diu diu~"

bad decisions make good stories

And so, another week has gone.

I am that close of getting my US visa done. Tomorrow will be going for the interview. It's so stressful that I barely had a good sleep these days. Been rolling on the bed for some freaking hours before calling Miss Stressie and released all to her. I don't know why I always have to call her during midnight. Maybe she's one of those "midnight people" that I assume stays awake for most of the time?

Last week has been awesome. Some of them just got so many plans and so many friends to hang out with, while some of them were rotting, getting visas done and so on. I prefer to go out on alternate days. Something like Monday,Wednesday,Friday for outing where the rest of the days just hanging out with mushrooms.

I like to meet new people. For me, getting to know more people from different backgrounds can be interesting. But people always leave and that's a sad fact isn't it?

Had a movie marathon on last Monday. First on the list was Phobia 2 with Amanduh. I can't remember when was the last time I watched a horror movie (a Thai horror) in the cinema. It was supposed to be scary but if you watch it from another perspective on how the crews applied special effects or make ups on the character, it is not that scary afterall. Amanduh has got her hair straightened and it looks better I guess. No wonder something is different with her. Didn't notice till Jerry told me. LoL.

Next was Fourth Kind. Jerry joined us in this movie because he's not into horror genre for Phobia 2. Fourth Kind was quite boring and slow pace. The couple behind us was snoring. I almost fall asleep though.

Midnight went to mamak with Lucos alone. We chatted for almost 3 hours. This is what happens when 2 talkative guys are seated together. Guys talk konon. Sadly we never really hang out much during the early days. LoL. But it's good to know a person so much in that few hours. This is where u start to categorize a person from "acquaintance" to "friend".

Wednesday, went to Redbox with some of my high school friends. Thanks to the phlegm that got stuck up in the cavity, I can't sing no more. That's a very sad situation. Nothing much happened other than some chit chatting. Went to have dinner with Ben and Garrick before we watch Funny People over Garrick's.

You know it's a great movie when there's Adam Sandler. This movie even featured Eminem and some other stars.

The highlight of the week has got to be the trip to Sunway Lagoon. It was like a last minute thing. I was chatting with Puimun the other night and she kindly invited me. I mean, we all know there are different kind of friends (just friend close friend best friend not even friend and i think we are friend). I knew it was gonna be awkward as I am not close with the rest of the group. I don't even know who's going but "why not?".

top: asses for sale. bottom: nicely timed group picture with roller coaster on the right!

2 cameras but 1 was out of battery (before the whole thing started). And somehow, as always, I had to be the one who snaps all the shots. Sounds sad. But good thing was that I get to explore and learn more about my camera.

And for the first time, I got into the pool so far away from the land. I couldn't swim. I couldn't even float. Last time we went to Pangkor, that was nightmare. You don't ask me to go 1 feet further than the beach. The most I could take was the water level as high as my knee and that's it. Not that I don' trust Ryan (ex-aquatic club president). But we've got lifeguards, an enclosed area, and a 1.5m sign which gave me the sence of security in Sunway Lagoon.

The Chicas

And for the first time, I felt a sense of accomplishment (even though I was forced into it). All of them were already far gone before I even step into the pool. Gotta take off my shirt. Damn. Tummy tummy oh my tummy. We were playing "monkey" in the pool. 6 of the girls were the monkey while 4 of us guys cornered them and we're the throwers/recievers. Poor DJ gotta checked on the girls all time because it seemed like we're the only group who entertained him. Songs were being played and we were having this so called "pool clubbing" and dance around. Water level as high as neck. Feels good!

When Flo Rida's Right Round is being played, we all in a circle gotta dip into the pool together when the lyric goes "when you go down when you go down down". It was great. Meeting some of the new people. All of us felt comfortable. At least I felt comfortable with them, I don't know how they felt about me. LoL.

I mean, they do keep insisting having my pictures taken instead of me taking pictures of them.

These bunch of people are nice to mix with but I don't think I can click with them. As what Ryan told me earlier, we're considered as the not so wild type. Maybe the nerd gang. It got to be a nerd gang when most of us got at least USD7k for scholarship right? hahaha.

The mixture of 3 Klang yaos along with the bakkuttehness (the Kopi yao, the oh-so-into-korea-pop yao and the ham yao) and the Klang girl who wears like a lady, a hardcore yet mysterious gamer from Cheras, a lousy dancer with a super math brain, a househusband with good football skills, a forever looks stress girl, a naughty and little wild girl with something too big for her size, a nerd who studies so much yet still can party like Paris Hilton(scandalous ) and me, the forever photograhper. :(

This is what makes us family.

I am a 宅男 . Sometimes.

You pronounce it as "zhai nan". It refers to those comic geek or gaming freak or toy figures collector who stays in the room all day long. They just don't come out. They are forever living in their world of fantasies. You can find many of these 宅男 in Japan or Taiwan. Basically they just look the same. Long hair, thick glasses, skinny, and weird smell I supposed. Well, in Malaysia, not many of them. We will just call these people nerds.

*People who read comic books - Nerds.

*People who do homework- Nerds.
*People who score in exams- Nerds.
*People who listen to Japanese pop- Lala nerds.
*People who play video games- Chan Kah Wei.

Anyway, as what the title of this post said: "I am a 'zhai nan'. Sometimes." I like to stay at home somehow. Even when I have nothing to do, I can just lie down and do nuts. I have toy figures. I play computer games. I used to read comic books. That's why I'm a 宅男?

I don't know. You can bring me out but please do not, I repeat, DO NOT ask me to guide you or lead you to anywhere. Many people said to me, you stay here and this is your area, you don't know where to go?

Yes, I don't know where to. There was once my friend asked me to bring him to Asia Cafe. They picked me up from my home and off we went one round back to my home again and then we changed our mind to go Taipan instead and we got lost. My sense of direction is poor. So this is why my parents, dear mum and dad, youjust have to give me extra cash just in case I get lost in LAX.

Outings! I am so desperate to go out now. I need to take more pictures! You will only improve when you start doing it. Just like math, you practice and score!

*reminds me of the cubicle which urge all the guys to aim at the bull.

Just some foreign movies

After a week of medication, it looks much more better and feels much more better but still, it hurts. I think I need more time to heal. No more running or futsal at the moment.

Nothing else better to do lately. So I decided to watch movies at home. Just recently I am so into foreign movies whether it is of European or South American movies. Without noticing I actually watched some of the greatest European movies for the past few years.

Language: German. The Lives of Others, 2007. Won the best European film in 2007.

Language: Spanish. Pan's Labyrinth, 2006. Won Oscar and Saturn Award as well as 68 wins in other awards.

Then just recently I watched Rudo and Cursi. A movie about 2 brothers who are natural gifted footballers which eventually being recruited to play in 2 different teams at Mexico City.

Language: Belgium. And I watched Left Bank yesterday night which I needed to categorized it as one of the weirdest movie I've seen. As weird as Donnie Darko.

It's almost 2 weeks since the holiday started. No where else to hang out yet. Feeling a little bored. Just a little. Even though I have so many things yet to be done. hahaha. I just feel so lazy nowadays. But I have some idea feel like doing a short film. LoL!!

Film editing can give you endless nights of sleepness! In the mean time it is so much fun to play with!

Bad Habits

From digging our noses to biting the tip of a pen or rather clicking the ball pen instantaneously, I believe that all of us have bad habits. Sometimes we can see it ourselves; sometimes not.

You see a girl who sits just right opposite of you. She shakes her legs so hard that you thought the world is not ending in 2012 anymore.

You see a nerd who keeps biting his finger nails that sometimes you will think twice whether he is the nail clipper itself.

I mean, some of us do realize our own bad habits. At times we try to change it but what my old man said is indeed true: "old habits die hard". I know what's my own bad habits. Sometimes I'm straightforward. Sometimes I like to tease my friends. But all the time I like to do things half way. Examples:

I learn things half way. Guitar, drums, photoshop etc.
I know things half way. Computers, cameras, games, sports, movie, etc.
I do things half way. Never ending game, never ending novel, never ending tv series, etc.

I just like to leave it there. But sometimes I do things efficiently. There is several occasions that I am actually proud of what I did to myself, and to others.

So, what is your bad habit? Can you see it? Or you think you are almost perfect that you need others to tell you? Maybe one of the days we should all sit up in a circle and start bitch talking about each other for our own good.

"I think you are selfish!"

"No.. Where got sell fish? You sell cock la!!"

"Don't talk cock la you!"

"What? I said, you sell the cock-o-nut la!"

...

Conversations as above should happen in a situation that I suggested earlier on. I mean, we wouldn't want something like:

"I think you are selfish.."

"MaCau, CCTV fishing frog fishhead noodle bakkutteh!!"

"Banana, cheesecake, papaya, tomato and chili sauce..!!"

"Ni mama, ni mama, ni ge ni mama!!"

....

It could work. But I don't guarantee you that it will work!

Egg, Carrot, and the Coffee bean

This is a story that my friend had told awhile ago. For those that are going to study abroad, this is a good one that will keep you thinking at least for the next few minutes. I hope it does.

The Egg. What happens to the egg when you put it into a pot of hot boiling water? Obviously you're able to eat it later no matter it is half boiled or fully boiled. But what I'm trying to imply is this: The egg has hard shell but its inside will always be soft.

So, will you become the egg who looks tough from the outside but actually you're weak from the inside? Will you pretend that everything is OK even though you know it is not? You can tell people that you are happy, but you actually feel depress and hard to live with as though everything is against you.


The Carrot. Now what happens to the carrot when you put it into the boiling water? It becomes soft. You go in hard but come out soft and all cooked up. You are easily influenced by what is around you. I mean, we all must have dignity and a principle to live our lives. So if you are not strong enough, you might fall into the trap and come out as a piece of soft cooked carrot.


The Coffee Beans. Coffee beans and hot water gives you a nice cup of coffee. From mocha to cappuccino, kopi susu to yingyong. You go in as a coffee bean and what comes out is great. I'm not saying that you will succeed in life but try to think from another angle. You, the coffee bean, influence others around you and make them a better person out of themselves. You stand strong to your own principle and guide the people around you instead of being influenced.

So, will you become the egg, carrot, or the coffee bean?