Culture shocks ...

...in Bali (that was almost a month ago ... damn, time really flies!!) ... My first encounter of 'yuck' ... is the food!!! Their nasi campur taste is like peanut-butter mixed with chilis and unknown raw veggie!!! Even by looking at it, all your eating mood is gone ... anyhow, with little choice, and since this Bali-style-of-economy-rice cost me around 40,000 Rp (~RM15) ... i have to gulp it down ... :S My second shock wave is the Balinese people themselves ... majority population here are Hindus and they are really proud on being one ... too proud i guess until, they shunned other races and religion ... eehh .. especially 'i' religion ... Such feeling occured to me during our trip to Bedugul where the sacred Temple of Ulun Danu Bratan (temple itself is located in the middle of a lake) ... ... our driver is a typical-Balinese-Hindu who speak 'fluent' English ... that day, by the time we finish touring the temple, it's already noon, so we planned to have lunch at Bedugul (is a muslim area where most of the people are from Java) ... but our driver insist driving us to somewhere else for lunch ... we were baffled ... somehow, we suggested, why don't he joined us for lunch ... and he gave us the reason ... THE FOOD HERE IS TASTE DIFFERENT ... and he don't like it ... we were totally speechless ... I guessed it's due to the 2 bombing incident that rocked the world which changed their whole perspective on 'i' religion or maybe, he really don't like the spicy food ... whatever we really enjoyed having the Bakso Mee :D

Why I still choose ...

... to be at Npark ... :D Ever since our current landlord want his apartment back, we were all scrambled and searched frantically around the blocks (there are 4 blocks in Npark), floor-by-floor (there are 32 floors on each blocks), door-by-door (there are 8 units per floor) ... for our new shelter!!! Yes, it's a tedious task and with some unhelpful management staffs (who only offer those 'expensive' unit - fully furnished) ... as well as facing difficulty finding unit owners although there are available units around ... phew ...  We did put on notice on the Npark bill board ... even at 7-11 and Happy Mart ... only a handful of agents and 'mou lei' (annoying-illiterate monkeys) called up ... and amazingly, no owner calling us at all!! dammit ... anyway, with little choice, we accept the 'help' from agent ... (of course, will cost us extra ... :S) But why still Npark? ... i think, besides having stayed here for ~4 years and being convenient for us to move our 'stuffs' around ... ... is the feeling of light and cool sea breeze (which i yet to feel from other place - i mean, cheap place :P) .... ... the nice Penang island view everytime i walked to the lift ... ... the wonderful and peaceful view of sunset from balcony, everytime i come back from work ... ...and sometimes, there is rainbow view from my room, and it's totally make my day colourful ...   i guess ... again, we make the right choice on insisting staying put at Npark ... :D

One Bali 'Bing', please ...

... no, there is no such drink available in Bali ... deng!!! But they have some better replacement for me ... hehe .... their most famous local beers ... Bali 'Bing'-tang ... as well as Bali Hai (eehh ... no comment on the name ... :P) Welcome to Bali ... it's not the lost, but last paradise in Indonesia ... (according to local la ... ). Besides their 'very-own-style' culture ... like giant sculpture almost can be seen at every roundabout ...  ... a lots of sophisticated yet mind-blowing statues and temples ...   ... highly creative woodcarving skill yet 'yellowish' art ... ... beautiful yet over-crowded beaches ... ... and how much they hate TERRORIST... ... i think, i was making right decision to choose Bali as my first destination out of 17,508 Indonesian islands ... (to be continued)

Millionaire ...

... by the time this blog is scheduled to be blogged, i was already at 'somewhere' becoming a millionaire ... hehe ... ~yes, i am just a Rupiah millionaire~ Supposingly, i am doing spa or visiting some temples or eating some Bali local delicacy ... so, more updates will be uploaded soon ... the earliest, will be on Sunday :D ...   ~my very simple travel kit ... opps, forget to include a book and my 3G Sony Ericsson handphone-camera-mp3 ... :P~

Nine Emperors Parade ...

... when majority people around you start to eat non-meat meal, when you see 'tortoise' bun, when rain falls way too often ... you know, the Nine Emperors Festival is around the corner ... :D ... ... i myself is not a avid fan of Nine Emperors or a vegetarian ... but i was really thrilled when my mum told me that there will be Nine Emperors Parade this year in ipoh ... maybe because it will bring me back to my memory lane ... :D ... it was a sunny Sunday morning ... after breakfast with my parents at ipoh old town area, we walked to the closed street and manage to grab a nice spot ... ~it's already crowded with spectators~ ~the parade started with a 'bang' ... yes, it comes from that annoying gong~ ~some Nine Emperors devotees do some 'man-meat-chopboard' stunt ... even the policemen dare not kacau ... :P~ ~some Chingay giant flagpole head balancing act ... and these guys sikit pun tak gay ... :P~ ~even those vintage Volkwagen collectors took part~ ~... and they are really colourful ... ~ ~... some Mongolian custome make appearance too ... and i wonder why ... :P~ ~... Green Dragon dance ... ~ ~... Red Dragon dance ... and i try to wait for yellow, blue, black, white, purple ... but to no avail ... :P~ ~... special guests from our neighbouring country, Thailand ... Miss Pageant or Miss Ah Gua, i really don't know... :P~ ~... some say geli while some say it's a valour act to clean up one's sin ... this 'stuntmaster' kena cucuk live in front of us ... and it's a real spear ... geng ...~ ~... this cute brassband snear drummer really hot ... no, not that kind of hot ... it's really hot, imagine wearing uniform while carrying a few kilos on your shoulders ... kesian kesian ... her face so red liao ~ ~... they actually posing for some journalist to take photo, somehow, i manage to squeeze in .. :P~ ... some precious lesson i learned from this parade is ... always be a dragon dance group members ... because ....  NO UMBRELLA, NO PROBLEM ...

Red Bomb ...

... this year of 2008, so far, is my most fantastic and full of 'bomb'-astic events ... yes, those 'red bombs' are killing me softly almost every month ... and i believe, it will won't be ceased in many years to come ... let me do some counting ... first attack happened in May where i flew all the way to Tawau, Sabah to my 'daughter' wedding ... ya, Lilin always called me lou dau (although we are just one year apart ...) and that same week, i missed one of my closest Uni-mate's wedding in Ipoh ... sorry Ah Lai ... ~My daughter and her hubby~ ... then came in 2 more bombs on June with another Uni-mate, Tung Meng's wedding at Bagan Serai, Perak and my junior Unimate who i called him adik angkat (these are one of our USM culture to adopt some junior as your younger brother ... i admit, i am not a good tai lor ... :P) ~Tung Meng and his wife ... ~ ~My adik angkat and his cute wife~ ...then i gt invitation on Merdeka Day from Fei Xiang at Klang which i 'skipped' as well as another invitation from Yong Choo at Alor Setar ... no choice, have to ponteng once a while to catch some breath ... :P My ex-colleague, JH Beh too, threw me a surprise on Oct which happened i am not around ... so still able to sim ... haha ... ... but, you can run, you will never can hide ... :S During Raya holiday, one of my best buddies' sister denotated a bomb to me ... 'ka boom' ... yes, early next month ... i will be heading back ipoh ... ~JeeYen and her never-apart-hubby-to-be, Kelvin~ ... it's not the end of the story yet ... for there are 3 more wedding knocking at my door ... Kin Sek's wedding on Nov, Yit Yan & Soon Yang on Dec as well as Chee Sing's .... phew phew phew ... i understand why my si tao po keep asking me to watch '27 dresses' ... i think, i need to have more single, available and not desperate friends ... :P

Floorball tournament ...

... it's my first tournament ever since joining this new floorball game ... it was played last weekend at Dalat International School ... ~impressive sports facilities available in Dalat ... ~ ... i admit, although i am considered as an 'experience' sportsman, that morning, i have butterflies in my stomach ... phew ... ... you can't blamed me if you were there seeing this ... ~a huge crowd of spectators turnout ... ~ ~... warming up ... that's my helmet gear for GOALIE ...~ ~...yes, that's what i am ... like a guard ... JAGA PINTU GOL ... (eehh, that guy is not me ... :P) ~  p/s: my 'inexperience' team was heavily defeated ... 2-0, 6-0, 3-0 and 5-0 ... but still, i proud to have these young warriors battling with me ... looking forward to more from now on ... :D

If you can't sleep ...

... this is what i did last weekend ... :D at first, together with my housemate, San, we went for supper ... ~they are famous for Nasi Kandar ... but it's too late liao .... so ... ~ ~ ... maggie goreng plus a teh tarik kurang manis for me ... :D ~ Bt still, it's too 'early' to go home ... ~ yes, it is 'very early' ... 3:46am .... :P~ So, we go shopping ... grocery shopping to be precise ... it sound crazy, but there are people who is more crazier ...who do supermarket business 24hours ... it's not the conventional convenient shop like 7-11 or HappyMart ... it's a supermarket which sell everything your mum can think of ... welcome to SunShine Lip Sin .... :D ~the entrance is glowing in the dark ... yes, that's why they called themselves 'sunshine' ... :P~ ~it is in the basement ... like we are going to some illegal gambling den ... :P~ ~due to Bulan Ramadan, there is still customers around ... i wonder, what will happen during normal month ...~ ~we want to buy some veggie ... but ... it's like the workers there ... 'not very fresh' leh ... :P~

Italia with love ...

... although it's a cutely small gift ... really appreciate it especially, after she told me ... that she found it was really damn 'hard' finding such 'tiny' gift for me ... (hahahah ... :P) ... hope she is now having nice sleep again ... :D ~can you find the 'gift' ... :P ... unless, you are colour blind ... hehe~ ~it's a italy flag with its map on a ... i believe is a cap-decoration-pin ... :D~

Prepare for the battle ...

... yes, i admit ... i am the kind of procrastinate person ... in 2006, i was lazy and felt unprepared ... and last year, 2007, i supposed to have registered through a friend of mine ... but somehow didn't follow-up with her and ended up ... opportunity missed!!! this year ... 2008, i told myself, buck up or *tut* off ... at first, they said they were going to cancel the event ... i was dejected ...  then our beloved Chief Minister GE Lim announced, state government will go ahead with the plan even without federal government fund ... i was ecstatic and ready to rock ... :D Yes, PENANG BRIDGE MARATHON 2008 is back on track ... :D and it will be held on coming 16th Nov ... for more info, check it out at ... www.penangmarathon.gov.my ~a pair of sexy and bulu-less legs~ Even without the usual main sponsor, TheStar Paper (aiya, federal control mah ...),Penang State Tourism Development, Cultural, Art and Heritage take the whole responsibility up ... for that, it enhance my interest to get involve :P ...  so i registered myself for Half-Marathon ( i think is 25km kwa ... ) this time, no siao siao already ... :D ... i started to train myself up ... jog 3 times a week ... swimming, floorball-ing, futsal-ing ... :D ...perhaps, stop going to 'masterbed'-room as well ... :P wish me good luck ya ... ~proof that i mean business this time ... not monkey business ... :P~

Special Guest ...

... she really pissed off with her housemate's boyfriend ... so, kind of lepas geram statutory declaration... :P it's all started this morning, while we were chatting, she asked me if i am free to read some of her 'interesting' writing ... of course i am curious ... and after reading it, i ask her permission to blog it ... hehe ... cause it's hilariously wicked!!! :P ...she admit maybe she is a 'bit' yim chim (fussy), but as guy, i don't give a damn on what that rascal did or do to her lor ... it's a disgrace to us ... p/s: i did some censorship .... she really mayak tulan .... oooppss :P

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

1. Please arrange your foot wear like a decent, educated and civilised person, if you are none of the above, please walk up the stairs, go to the balcony and jump. Clearly you don’t need those pair of legs.

2. Please replenish the toilet paper when you are the last person to finish it. You are only excused in doing so if you blind, retarded or constipated.

3. Please turn the tap on whenever you are taking your bath to fill the bath tub with water for the next person to use. Failure to do so will cause SOMEBODY to use your toothbrush to brush off the dead skin of SOMEBODY’s heels.

4. Please do not leave food particles in the sink after washing the dishes. Failure to do so will cause SOMEBODY to use the same toothbrush to wash the sink.

5. Please keep away your cup in the designated area like the *tut tut* kitchen. If you can’t do that, follow directions in 1. but land head first.

6. I understand you are vertically challenged and horizontally endowed so buy a *tut tut* steal ladder and change the *tut tut* fused lights in the house. Be a man.

7. Please do not kidnap the iron and the ironing board from the living room. Since both are not yours, it is SOMEBODY’s good will to leave it there for ALL to use so *tut tut* respect that before SOMEBODY irons your face straight.

8. Please do not use the plastic cloth pegs to hold your towel to the railing anymore. Don’t you understand that once broken, twice the idiot you are.

9. Referring to 8., use super glue instead. SOMEBODY has a tube.

10. Use umbrella, dry umbrella, keep umbrella. REPEAT.

11. Please do not throw the cigarette butt in the rubbish bin; you might burn the house down. When you do, SOMEBODY hopes you are sleeping alone. So since you smoke shit, you might as well swallow shit; it is the same thing only in solid form, it makes hunger pangs go away. See…SOMEBODY is thinking for your sake.

12. You are supposed to be in the house sporadically like a disease, since you are here most of the time all the time, you should help pay the *tut tut* rent. Be a man.

13. SOMEBODY realized the room you so called ‘sometimes’ sleeps in stinks like you are cultivating mummies. I do not know about your world but my world has this invention called air freshener. It goes ‘psst psst’…try it, it is fun.

14. You shall keep thy things a.k.a rubbish only in thy room. Enough said.

15. Please help your girlfriend collect the clothes in when it is raining. SOMEBODY is not a maid; if you think SOMEBODY is one…she’s the kind that kills the employer to make home cooked double boiled soup for the rats.

16. Ma once told me that you throw your condoms in the rubbish bin for all to see. On that note, please continue doing so although it is unhygienic, use double protection in fact. It scares the bejesus out of me if you ever procreate.

17. Unfortunately, it is a common courtesy to acknowledge another known human being by exchanging greetings when you accidentally meet face to face. Even animals have their own way and not by moving your head upwards a few times like a rejected dumbass bobblehead doll pleading for a cookie.

18. Please take out the garbage when it is full. It is a universal rule for man to take out the garbage. Yes, I do not believe in women’s liberation.

19. Please lock the wooden door if you come back late. Preferably, you may opt not to come back at all. Ever.

20. Please do not put empty water bottles in the fridge. It would not automatically fill itself up. The day it does, I will kneel and worship the fridge. But until that phenomenal day comes, you would have to do it. If not, up to this point, I hope you just get beamed up by Scotty, get raped by Spock and be Capt. Kirk’s bitch.

With no offence and prejudice, thank you for reading…if you can read, that is.

p.s. Remember about you being mentally challenged to put back your cup in the kitchen after use? I think I’ll use it to deposit the double boiled soup. Thank you.

Osim-less chair ...

... lost and found behind my house ... some retard must has failed miserably modifying his original massage chair into something that can fly ... and amazingly, that fella still 'civilized-conscious' enough to dump it on the street ... bravo ipoh-an ... amat men-siasui-kan!!! ~i thought Airasia dump it from the sky!!!~

30 Ways to ...

... die sooner than others  ... or put this way, die secara sihat (sound more positive :P) ... come across this article from ...  http://www.thesun.co.uk/... out of 30 ways recommended, these are a few i found 'useful' ... :P 1. HAVE SEX: It lowers cholesterol, boosts blood circulation and releases feel-good endorphin hormones. And do it in the morning – your blood-sugar levels are low then, so the body converts fat stores into energy. (i wonder if going to 'masterbed'-room counted or not ... :P) 4. READ UPSIDE DOWN: Challenging the brain extends the cells’ lifespan so increasing life expectancy, say researchers. (sure or not ... later my eyes power go up how ah... ) 9. EVERYBODY SALSA: All dancing is good but with salsa you’ll burn at least 420 calories an hour. (i think i have to learn dancing liao ... never see katak doing salsa before ... :P) 10. GET MARRIED: A 20-year study found that married men typically live three years longer. (some would rather live 3 years less than losing whole life freedom ... haha ... no no, i am not referring myself ... :P) 11. DON’T CONFORM: You’ll live longer if you do not worry about the opinions of others. It makes you less stressed. (this, i think is the truth-est truth ... if we live scaring how others see us, it's not our life anymore ...) 13. DON’T JUMP: Sudden noise, like the loud ringing of an alarm clock, can increase the risk of a heart attack in people with high blood pressure, says a Japanese study. This is because it triggers the body’s “fight or flight” response, pumping up levels of adrenaline. (damn ... i always use to do that ... time to throw away my alarm clock ... :P) 14. DO THE CHORES: Cleaning windows uses 80 calories in 20 minutes, vacuuming will burn 90 calories and ironing will burn 65 calories in the same time. Being fit and lean prolongs your life. (ladies, now you got a reason to ask your partner help out ... don't worry, i always love to do chores ... :D) 16. LEARN SOMETHING NEW: Many people who have reached their 100th birthday say it is down to learning to play an instrument or a new language, says Dr Roger Henderson, author of 100 Ways To Live. (i gt my plan already ... if i safely reach 70, i will learn Spanish ... then at 75, i will learn cooking ... later at 80, i will get a mistress ... and before 85, i will die liao la ... killed by my first wife ... :P) 18. SLEEP: But not too much. A study published in the US Archives Of General Psychiatry found people who get six to seven hours’ sleep a night live longer than those who sleep more – or less. (it's my lou peng yau's favourite 'sports' ... now you gt licence to become ^@^ ...  ) 19. GET A PET: Owners of cats and dogs are less stressed and have lower blood pressure. (but make sure it's outdoor lor ... i hate those owners who sleep with their pets leh ... imagine if they bangsai and siu pien inside their room ... how to stay longer ah ... do it outside ya ... :D) 28. ENJOY YOURSELF: No, it's not an excuse to head off to the pub, but doing things you enjoy, like shopping, are just as good for your health as physical exercise, says a Harvard University study. (yupe, i am definitely die very healthy liao ... cause i am enjoying writing all this shit in my blog ... HAHAHA ... :P)

MoonCake Frenzy ...

...every year ... after the Hungry Ghost Festival is over, the fullest moon of the year will appear.... :D ... yes, it's Mooncake Festival .... as Chinese tradition, have to buy some for family and Khee's family or even friends and colleagues ... (no more giving friends and colleagues liao cause it's no longer an 'in' thing to do so ... they will say you so 'uncle aunt' liao ....and more important, it's not cheap, ok ...and they are not worth it ...  haha ... :P) ~why translate as oversea leh ... should be sea over sky, right ... :P~ ~now i understand what is 'variety is the spice of life' ...both flavour and price~ ~i thought chinese dynasty has ended ... damn, it's so expensive, i wonder what's inside the cake ... maybe the real Moon~