Tuesday, July 31, 2007

31.07.07 New Vids I Like

I'm in d middle of doin my assignments but i can't seem to concentrate.. Bah.. take a rest la. Anyways, this are 2 songs that have been stuck in my head for awhile now. They aren't that new. But hey, they are definitely worth a watch/listen.

1. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah



2. Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls



oh.. also i've been downloadin loads of acoustic/unplugged versions of songs.. Thanks to my sources.. i have Evanescence - My Immortal, Daughtry - Home, Rob Thomas - Time After Time and The Fray - How To Save A Life. I dare say they sound almost as good as the original versions! So if u can get a hold of it. Please do!! I guaran-damn-tee u wont regret :)

Sunday, July 29, 2007

29.07.07 - Wet Wet Week...

The weather in kl for the past week has been nuthin but overcast and rain. Its a good thing if you've been complaining that its bloody hot in the capital all this while. But not if you are one of the organizers for your schools sports carnival event. The Social Science & Humanites school (or faculty if u like) held their sports carnival last weekend. And me knowing ppl from there, got involved la. Needles to say, i'm kinda sticking my nose into someone elses stuff again. But it ain't that bad, got to become Chief of Judge for them. Don't let the title fool you, sounds like power rite, but actually, my job is almost the same as the sexsecretary but only easier..

But the better part was i got to become football referee! First time become ref weh! With that being said, surely got a degree of noobness in me la. Like calls not being made n wrong decisions made. But like Wallace said, i'm d ref, i'm d law. haha.. Now i've really played in EVERY position on the pitch!! From goalkeeper to center back to midfielder to striker n now ref!. However, since it was rainin like all day, the pitch was in seriously dire conditions. Even the field in St. Davids on a rainy day is better thn TAR college field. Its literally playin in a paddy field weh. But its fun watchin ppl slip n slide in d mud chasing for d ball. Especially when the ball suddenly stops in a puddle, those chasing the ball will apply their 'emergency breaks' and sumhow end up on the deck. And it also makes refeering a whole lot easier cos players don't dare go 100% into a challege for d fear of gettin mud. Too bad i didn't bring my camera la. Oh, i wasnt spared as well, had to run from 1 end to the other, and wats d result? legs covered in mud. But ain't mud good for the skin? Hmmm.....

Well, besides football, there were other sports goin on la. But most of em are so far away from d field, that i myself malas wanna go n c. But one other sport that i was overseeing (or partially overseeing) was chess. Yes, my college also got chess tournament! But 1 thing i see was so damn sad. The chess pieces were old and some of em had missing 'heads' weh. And u noe, its d same chess boards/pieces used in St Davids! Nostalgic.. hahaha.. There were good players and serious noobies. Rarely get to see those inbetween types.

Thunderstorms halted play for all outdoor events on Wednesday. So with us ithcing to kick something, we decided to go n play futsal instead! :D. And the following day, the whole football event was converted to futsal for the fear of rain n bad pitch conditions. A wise move i must say cos it did rain again on thursday and we manage to finish it on that day itself! :D. Overall, i think i have to be the most lenient ref around. I often let play go on, never gave a card for the whole tournament and let ppl tackle each other silly. ahhaha..

Then on the final day, as with all or most sporting events, there was d ol' tug of war. The conditions on that day was superb. For once it didn't rain !!.. And one surprising thing, there were girls taking part!! Seriously, all my life, i've not seen any girl team taking part in this event. But most of the girls taking part were one kind la.. no no, surely not seafood-ish. But more of the tomboyish, guy-side of the lesbian couple, sibeh vocal type. The way they taunt opposing teams before the game seriously scared me weh.. Were they really girls or 'girls' with a lil 'thai influence' :P.

Anyways, all the field events ended by 6+ and wat was left was basketball. But then, some ppl, namely commitee members decided to have sum fun by throwing flour (used to draw d lines for tug o war) at each other. I tried to be as silent and as non existant as possible for i really didn't want to get floured. But then, as it turned out, i got d worse. Most of em just got flour thrown at em but i got flour + water!.. Water weh!!.. they wanna make me into a human dough or wat? It was disgusting la.. All sticky n hard to get off. And when it dried up, felt like got 1 extra layer of skin...-.-.. but i understand la, no hard feelings k. All in d fun of it.

So after d final whistle blew for basketball, we all were free of this event d! whee... No more stayin back at college till nitefall!! yay... Seriously, with the 7th month comin up, i dont wanna weh.. But then, i fear that next week, my friends from another school will ask me to ref again. oh well, it aint that bad rite? ...

Oh, sorry i couldn't make it back this weekend again... sports thing really took alot out of me.. really tired + still got damn assignments to kao tim which sum i haven't even started!! So if, IF all goes well, no disturbances whatsover, i should be coming back next week?? But like the weather here, it can change in n instance... >.<..

Thursday, July 19, 2007

19.07.07 - O O Nite 07


Jason n me.. MIB 3 anyone??

Last weekend my college held an event called Orientation Odyssey Nite. Don't ask me why its called dat cos thats wat its been called ever since i enrolled in here. Usually i'm not a big fan of all this kinda stuff... Need to dress all formal n all, sitting down in ur seat watching a show that maybe the least bit entertaining. However, this year, cos my friend Wallace asked for assistance, i thought why not rite? Actually, he's just 1 of the directors in the committee nia. So, with all this going on and not to mention assignments, presentations n mid sem test, sorry for not blogging la.

Rows n rows of chairs which was filled up at that nite.

So my role for the nite was suppose to be one of the ushers. Whats that u may ask? Well, u know la this sorta events got all sorts of big shots n celebrities rite? So our job was to erm.. usher them wherever they wanted to go during the event (like to their seats, up on stage, out of the hall, etc) . One of my friends even escorted the principal to the toilet weh!! lolz... So being an usher, i kena la pakai formal kao kao.. Thats why i needed the blazer which luckily i did. I seriously look like a MIB agent eh? Forgot to bring my sunglasses that day :(. But seriously, i look better thn sum of the finalist weh :D.


Smart tak? wanted n upclose of me, but dude who took said stage more nicer -.-'

The day before the event the college hall was buzzing with ppl walking here n there carrying this and that, finalist practicing their routines (which honestly needed more work), helpers n staff arranging props, chairs n AV equipment. I was there at around 12 pm in time to pack the goodie bags to give to those who came. Digi was the main sponsor.. alamak, why no maxis la.. guess they really do follow u everywhere huh -.-'. So cutting the long story short, most of us spent almost the whole day from morning till nearly mid nite preparing. Man, it really felt like the longest day in my life. Even after yum cha session, it was only 1 am and i seriously felt as if i could sleep rite on the mamak table.


Finalist during their first catwalk..

On the day itself, i thought i could wake up a lil later cos i just played a minor part but since i was called to assist, kena la i go at the break of dawn (actually, it was around 830 liddat). Surprisingly, we weren't the first to be there, the poor finalist actually was there from 8 am d. I don't know if its a malaysian culture or what la, but sumhow, theres always more last minute work to be done as the eleventh hour draws closer. Even got someone or something tried to sabotage furniture. But as the hours pass by, i guess everything was falling into place. Went back to get a rest at around 1 and came back to college at 3+.

Honestly, i very malas wanna explain what happened the entire nite la.. so i'll summarize eh.. lets see.. 4pm, commitee, helpers, crew started arriving, by 5, the guest judges also started arriving togather with students. There were 6 of em. 3 guys n 3 girls. I guess the only guy worth mentioning was Adam C! Yes, Adam C came weh.. and he was very nice to come without any monetary incentive or wat not. The other 2 were a guy called Dylan (host of sum chinese show on 8tv) and Vic (neh.. the malaysian idol 2nd runner up). Vic looked soooo gay that nite.. even i malas wanna take picture of him. And he bukan main ada diva attitude sial.. scold the helpers for not listenin to him. The girls leh. Honestly, i don't know any of em. 1 is suppose to be last years Miss Astro 3rd place Josephine Goh, 1 more X-tarCollege/model and another is fashion design head. But they were all surprisingly down to earth and friendly, even stayed back after the event to take pictures with those who came. Vic pula, run like he was being set free from jail.

Adam C and me.

Hmm... the show started right after all the Heads of School and principal arrived. The finalist were required to dance, do a sketch and catwalk + show of their 'talent' during the event. Their dancing was ok. Not that bad but not that good either. Their sketch however.. left very much to be desired. This being TAR, i didn't expect much of their english la. But after 2 months of training, they still had glaring grammatical errors? I think out of 6 contestants, only 1 and maybe 1 more can speak english fluently. Catwalking leh.. i don't know what to expect la. Definatly not going to be ur America's Next Top Model type la.


Josephine Goh n me. Hot not?? i mean her..

As for the talent show, not the best, but after the 3rd contestant, Adam C was already sufferin from boredom by the way the put his elbows on the table and put his head on his hands.. They were mediocre at best. Well, i guess i can't complain la rite.. they are all freshman anyways. Oh, i did escorted one of the judges to the stage to recieve their token of appreciation, the X-tarcian.. she is ok looking la... but hey, she was the only one that actually 'used' the usher provided for her. U see, as each judge goes up to the stage, we were suppose to accompany them, male judge with female usher n vice versa. The girls are suppose to sumhow 'hold' the guy's arm while accompanyin them upstage. Sadly, none of em wanted any 'help' . All 3 girls were good looking weh... The female judges also didn't want to hold on to the arm offered by us guys. Well, not them anyway, haha.. i was lucky :D .


One of the female ushers, Rae and me

Actually we also had to escort which ever sponsor was there to recieve their TOA. But duno why, only 2 out of i think 5 showed up. Quite n embarrasing moment la. MC calling their name few times but no one came up to stage. Oh well, shit happens rite? After all those was done n dusted, the winners was announced and to quite a number of our surprise (judges included) the one we tipped to win only managed to get 2nd place. I tell u its a consipiracy weh.. she catwalked the best, acted by far the best (she played bimbo girl.. power weh) and she her talent was singing.. and she sang really well weh... she was the digicelebrityteen winner or runner up i cant remember.


Mel (one of my 'bosses') n me

So after all that was done. People were leavin already but not before looking for those celebrity judges to camwhore with. I tell u, i think adam got the most attention. He was rooted to the spot for a good 15 min weh. But i can tell that he was loving every min of the attention he got la :p. And then rite, he asked one of us, "wheres a good place to eat around here, i'm hungry". So one whole bunch of us headed to Steven's Corner 2 yum cha with Adam C!! No one could be more happy thn Wallace himself cos according to him, he's an adam fan.. -.-.. There was this one incident, a hitz.tv ad was on tv and it was serena with adam on it. One of my friends started booing n wooing and we all wondered why. And then when another friend started to point, the whole table of us (i think got 20) started booing loudly. Adam's face got seriously red man.. hahaha. Anyway, it was great to have him at our college let alone joining us yum cha. So if sumhow ur readin this adam, thanks for the memories :).

Wallace, me , Yow n Chris

So all in all, it was a succesfull event la, and again, it was a very long day got back by 1 and it felt like 5. Although i did wake up at 5 to watch Brazil trash Argentina in the Copa America final. Was really hoping that Argentina with Messi, Riquielme and Tevez and blast those brazillians. But that was not to be.. Oh well...

Yum cha-ing with Adam C at Steven's Corner.

With that all done, next week will be another busy week cos of Sports Carnival. Yours truly is co-Chief-Of-Judge. Hahhaah. oh.. i still haven't given those photos in my camera to those particular ppl.. Dah le forgot to bring it down. >.< .. need to online again soon.. argh..~~

Monday, July 09, 2007

9-7-07 - Getting High On Weeds

Its been awhile since i last blogged. Sorry la, got alot of work in school to take care of. Still, at least i'm not 'abandoning' my blog unlike someothers *ahem*. Anyways, over the past week, i've watched Die Hard 4.0, Transformers (yes again) and Fantastic 4 2 (finally). What i can say bout die hard is if u've watched the first 3 Die Hard movies, u'll pretty much know wat to expect la : Single white tough guy cop against enemys that the whole US government cant catch. But hey, its a good show to watch. One of the best scene was when Bruce Willis is driving a truck ( think Optimus Prime) on the freeway and he gets attacked by a US Fighter Jet!! damn cool!! Definatly one of the better movies this year.

Fantastic Four leh.. ok ok la.. Jessica Alba is still hot but this time, she looks very kaku in her acting la. >.<.. so robotic... Silver Surfer also.. ok la.. still cool.. at least better than Ghost Rider la. :P. Oh, also watched transformers again.. and again it was impressive.. but i terdozed off at the beginning of the show.. ahhaha.. damn tired dat day weh.. >.<..

Anyways, one series that recently cought my attention is Weeds which was introduced by my roommate. Its about a single mom tryin to make a living as a drug pusher in suburbia. Think Desperate Housewives on weed :). Togather with a screwed up family and even more screwed up friends, this is a must watch comedy series. They even grow their own strain of weed called MILF Weed!.. Watch and u'll know why its called that. So far alreay got 2 seasons and both seasons got only 10-12 episodes and 1/2 hour per episode. Its kinda short but damn worth it :D. i can watch 1 season 1 day. 2 days kao tim d. And oh, i have both seasons :D .. Anyone wanna get high?

Monday, July 02, 2007

02-07-07 - Randomness again..

This weekend i came back to malacca for a number of reasons. One was to watch Transformers with Leo and the gang. And boy, Transformers is one of the better shows of 2007 by far !! Oh, just for note, i myself grew up watching it on TV so not surprising, i had very high hopes for this movie. And asking those who saw d (namely Liang), he just said " its a Micheal Bay movie" . With that, i knew there was gonna be one thing : explosions galore!! And boy was i not disappointed :D. I highly recommend watching this in the cinema for maximum enjoyability . If can, go Times Square and see it on IMAX (even if its still 2D)


Full moon.. nice

Second reason was OO Nite (the college thing i've been mentioning to u guys). Well, stuff i needed to get ready for it la. Manage to get my haircut rite after i came back to malacca. Felt very old school to me. A lil bit too short IMHO >.<.. but oh well.. Ermm.. got my shoes, shirt n slacks too. Now all thats missing is a blazer which i guess i need to go back to kl and buy :( .. tiu lo.. spend money again.. >.<... This year really over budget kao kao.. And its just only half the year!!


3 budak that semangat go McD at 4 am!

Hmmm... met up with Siang, Liang, Soon n Jo on Friday nite. Long time never seen them d (barring soon la). So went to play pool and mamak before going to MP to watch movie the next day :D. Oh oh.. FYI, malacca got new cineplex d!. Its called MBO ( i think stands for malacca box office) and its situated at the old kotamas aka Melaka Mall.


McD's across the nation are changing their image. looks nice eh?

According to a few friends that already went there to watch movie, its better then GSC in MP! Seats are larger n more comfy, got 7 halls instead of the 4 in MP and the tickets cost the same price. So next time wanna watch movie, don't have to go all the way to town d :D. But other than that, the whole building still has no shops opened. Lets just cross our fingers and hope this Cinema will stay open for years to come :).


Breakfast was ok. Coffee however, sucked :(

Anyway, after coming home from the movies, i went to this restaurant called Havanna Asian sumthin with my parents for dinner. I have to say, it looks pretty darn impressive. The decor and all, very posh. Too bad i didn't bring my camera along that time cos i didn't know where we were going at first. The place is located sumwhere near Wings ans Xuan cafe there. It serves both local and western cuisine. And the plates they serve on looks exactly like what you see on Channel 11's Made to Order. Nice..


Secret Recipe @ Jusco

Oh, the food there wasn't bad at all! Price is standard la.. 3 of us eat bill came up to 100+. I recommend having the Thai mango salad for starters. The cili padi inside really kicks up ur appetite for the main course :} . For the main course, i had beef fried in breadcrumbs and stuffed with ham and cheese! Its nice la, but being me, i didn't find it all appealing. Reason? my mom makes better ;) . Oh, they even had this dish called soup shots. For those who can't figure out what that means, its soup served in a shot glass. Well, a slightly bigger one and got 3 different kinds of soup.


See this budak.. layan HP ni... -.-''

For dessert leh, had the recommended Baileys Cheesecake. Imagine, bailey's and cheesecake, in 1!! Simply heaven i tell u. Secret Recipe pun kalah! Only thing i can complain about is , well, not enough Baileys :P . The coffee served is not bad as well. Although it could do better with a lil wider variety la. Certainly a place that i'd go again. The other local and asian foods are very reasonably priced. Next time i'm back, who wanna go ? :D


My espresso milkshake :D

Then later on that nite, of all places, i went to Jonker Walk with the guys + Chia Ying and her friend Vianne (i think thats how its spelled). At first i was WTF, jonker? again?? O.o.. But since got 2 non locals (jo had a fren from Subang), i give face abit n go la. walk walk walk... Then found a place to eat chendol. It wasn't the best one i've had (that goes to the shop beside but it was closed already whn we got there ), but at least they gave us a bottle of gula melaka to pour to our liking. Soon had soo much till he got sugar high. Wanted to take them eat o-chean but the one siang said was nice already tutup. So went to the usual one in Bunga Raya. But sadly, duno why, it was a let down. According to those who ate before, last nite's one sucked.


Bukit Beruang O-chean.. not bad :)

Today leh, went to Secret Recipe with Leo and Su Ling for tea. Sembang with those 2 till nearly dinner time. But sumhow, Leo was more keen to 'interacting' with her phone than having a conversation with us :P. Oh, Khai Lip is back folks! the boy from russia. Sadly, i don't have any tequila that was promised to me because of some stupid Singapore customs stuff. CB betul.. was so looking forward to it leh.. >.<>.< .. hmmm won't be coming back malacca for another 3 weeks i guess.