see lahh... its been so long since i've accessed my blog, now i know how easy it is to put pics on. last time so susah oh, have to store on some other site, then point it over, u know the drill, all that html was driving me nuts...


hey hey where've i been ... i suppose life has been happening. isn't it amazing how our simple everyday activities can just take up days, weeks, months, and years? i suppose its important to keep in control, manage, and maintain priorities. never works for me. sigh.

pic above was taken in Kuala Trengganu.. was in perhentian for a few days, cherrylove and i, admiring nature, aquatic life and the such. i will, as always, have my gripes about the state of our environment, but for now, i'll save it for another day. some days are just too nice for stuff like that.

while waiting for the flight back, the hours were spent sauntering all over the old market... have u been there? its a pretty nice place, reminiscent of the markets back home - think about pj old town market, and central market in its heyday. u know, products everywhere, wet stinky floors (though the KT one's pretty clean - we must've missed the messy parts), little shops selling everything, and not forgetting the food-stalls on the first floor. nice place to wander and find a gem or two.

then, by the sea-front, we're accosted by this wonderful sunset... wowzers, it's a reminder of god's wondrous creation, the beauty and magnificence and energy, the irradiating colours of a sunset. simple yet profound. wow.

phew. am actually tired after working that brain o' mine writing this. til next time then...

hi peeps out there! am back! did you miss me while i was away? ...

its been the usual, same-ole'-humdrum life u know. well, we did play in a futsal tourney, our team didnt make it thru the first round. think there was some teamwork issues. the result shows laaa...

heard on the radio yesterday - this was on one of those little snippets of wisdom broadcast on RTM channels - it went something like, "if you feel angry with someone else, keep it in, don't voice it out, because it will be bad in God's eyes to say it out. much better to keep it all in.." now, i cant remember the exact words but it made me wonder. my mouth was wide aghast at this point. the broadcast went on to say stuff like, dont fight because this might lead to injury and death. errrr.

so what i gather is, we have to keep in all this anger in, instead of expressing it? ok, so we dont chide our friends or screw them unnecessarily, but to bottle it all in? it's a sure-fire recipe for people to go postal...

hey hey so the weekend came and went. as always.

highlight of the week was that late-nite (early morning?) drive to PD. had to pop over to seremban so thought we'd go to PD as well. yeaaa... Tanjung Biru proved to me as magical as ever, with the millions of stars, plus two shooting stars too. groovy, baby. didn't u just love the sight of those, mon cherry... : )

even catching forty winks in the car wasn't that bad given the location. thank god for the stall that was open, enabling us to buy the classic box of mosquito repellant. havent used those since the 80s worrrr... hee hee.

i think we're nuts....

hello... sawadeekaaaa.... hehehe

was in bangkok with beloved cherrylove, wed - sat. how's the place? errr... lotsa shopping, walking, temple-watching, boat-riding on the Chao Phraya (isnt that romantic). food food and more food. and then - food again! how does 8 meals a day sound. that's the price of walking around and wanting to try everything eh.

tuk-tuk riding was fun! even though the guy took us to all the tourist traps as well... riding in the open thru half of bangkok in what is essential a 3-wheeled motorbike, the fumes get to be irritating after a while especially if there's a bus right beside...

3 or 4 temples later, the tuk tuk chap has disappeared, the idiot, cos we were gonna tip him plenty for being so kind as to take us all over the place. perhaps the guy got his commission from the shops he took us to. ah well. we saved a few bucks there, yeah.

getting around bangkok is pretty convenient... there's the Skytrain, the MRT (which we didnt use), the boats along the Chao Phraya, taxis and tuk-tuks. it's a big city, so transport costs were formidable but still within acceptable limits. getting someplace usually meant taking the train, then a cab (hey sounds like our LRT system eh).

tips for prospective visitors - avoid Patpong, unless you're an SM freak who likes being abused and overcharged by traders there (sounds like Petaling Street - must be the Sino heritage). and unless you're looking for them girlie and live shows. ehemmm. irritating the way the ppl there push the shows... yucky yucky... i'll find my own way to play with pingpong balls if i ever see the need, thank u.. waka waka...

Chatuchak / Jatujak Market is a great place to be! wish they had a map / guide though, the place is just too big.. everything imaginable in one place - food & drink, souvenirs, clothes, furniture, decorative stuff, pets (oh so cute! and cheap!) and the list goes on and on and on. probably take two full days to see everything - the size is comparable to a huge expo at some world trade centre ok. humongous. this is where i'll spend my time if i need to shop in bangkok. come over, check out my Teva knock-offs heheh...

getting a headache. hungry. will continue next day ok... love n peace.

it ain't all that dark and gloomy, yaaaar.

caught this movie called Where's the Party Yaaar... its the kinda silly movie that just grows on you with every viewing. 3rd time round and i'm still rolling off the couch. yup. nice sight.

u know what.. perhaps the best part of going downhill, as in like in a roller-coaster, is that it will go upwards again, right. i'm rollercoaster-phobic, i keep imagining the cars coming off the rails. that sorta shit happens, yaaar...

its amazing the sort of ideas that come up while taking a dump.

i think i'm too existential for my own good.

am i getting too old to be all hippy and shit?

should i be watching movies til dawn, something i've been doing since, like, 9?

is there something important that i should be getting into?

where are those friggin' aliens and when are they gonna manifest for real?

over n out.

hey there my dear readers... (are there any out there? har har)

have you had any of those days when you feel crushed in spirit, downtrodden, and just can't stand up? i'm in one of those phases now. *sigh* you know, i have no problem getting screwed by customers, employers, friends and all that, but this one time is just too much to bear....

i was made to feel like a miserable little nothing. and those of you out there who think i should take it responsibly and move on, i just can't. it's much more fundamental than that, going in deeper and making me actually question who and what i am, what i can and cannot do, who i can be and cannot.

it's not good to step on and take lightly someone's hopes, dreams, ambitions. it's not right to belittle someone's achievements no matter how insignificant they may seem.

you can say i was always on the edge of this thing we call 'our life' and this might push me over so hard i might not want to rejoin the race.

and so, anon, my friends, i leave you with a thought:

at the end of it all, nothing matters.

hello hello.. so, city day hols came and went. wish i had more sleep. had so much planned to do, cherrylove and i. in the end, it was just goreng pisang, monty python re-runs, and some other quirky movies we got in the evening.

and so - the song for the day is 'Every Sperm is Sacred' from the Python's 'The Meaning of Life'. it is purely friggin' hilarious, much better if seen in the context of the movie lah. how spillin' yer seed is a sin... wooo hooo... just the sort of song and dance number to take our minds off our everyday troubles.

where's next eh... mmm.. supposed to have been langkawi next week but... financial constraints shelved that plan. maybe a day trip to port dickson, eh. march, is a different story lah... it's Bangkok here we come!!! amazing thing is we still dont have accommodation. heheh my faith in The Divine One to provide a room is strong....

and when is bob marley's birthday eh? the US is telling visitors to Ethopia not to carry weed over. like, it isn't the universal plant? kee kee kee hicccc bubbly bubblyyy burpppp

over n out...

oooh.. its hot these days... after driving around, i swear i smell melting rubber or plastic everywhere... good if i was in phuket ;) these days i'd rather sit in. the traffic aint that amusing either. all the selangor folk heading to KL for their CNY shopping. stay home, everyone...

oh my look at the time... been in the office for much of the day looking at some figures... urrggghhh... pening. eyes need a rest soon.

read with much amusement yesterday's headlines... Club raided (twas Zouk,right?), patrons locked up for up to 10 hrs, not allowed to go to the toilet (one girl even peed in her pants, poor thang, sue them bastards dry), women being ogled at, and that sorta thing. congrats JAWI, you've done it again, shoving your own foot up your stinky arse.

i'd be less pissed if they represented the qualities of the faith they're supposed to be the guardians of. instead they're turning to be the worst pervs of all, ogling, taunting, being a general pain in the ass. more so, with the badge, throwing their authority around. hey, they were the ones taking the pic of that girl taking a piss on the truck, right. straight outta pornton, homey.

this is what happens when there's politicization of religion, less secularization of state, leading to all sorts of hi-jinks, when it becomes a tool of control for the state. hmmpphh. anyone on my side here? isn't it easy to coerce people into a certain way of behaviour, all in the name of a higher being, but it's just a manifestation of human shortcomings, which is power, greed, control, distrust, and all those things we'd rather do without.

well, i gotta go home soon... clear my head, get ready for monday night highlight - futsal! yeah baby now thats something to look forward to.

love n peace.

oh.. a sobering thought. on tsunami d-day, dec 26, we were at the beach in PD... most elements of my closest family. i was asleep on the ground, while the others were lounging around, walking about, or fishing... if the waves were a lot stronger or happened closer to the peninsular, the outcome would have been so much more closer to home. brrrr....

back from the dead. again.

it's tsunami fever eh. such a sad piece of news, that. yet - there was so much that could be done to avert the massive amount of human loss. like, perhaps, some functioning government bodies? enough of this half-baked, tidak-apa attitude lah, time for us to wake up.

personally? i'm affected by my cancelled phuket trip! selfish as it may seem. ok there's always another day. i wish i could do much more... donated clothes and cash, havent sent food and water yet, due to current financial constraints. yup. we still have our mundane every-day problems to handle here.

oh well... til another day...