Thursday, April 20, 2006

old-skoolnezz

I haven’t been there for ages- 2 yrs in melbz, and since coming back during the CNY. That’s too long a time to not be eating the Hokkien noodles near S&M if you ask me. You see, they do the best Hokkien noodles ever- they cook it with charcoal. And with the amount of heat that they use to cook it, the chef always churns out Hokkien noodles steaming hot and with a hint of charcoal taste which makes it very very unique. And the one which I had that day still had steam rising even from the last bits that I cleaned off the plate. That’s how hot it is. Or maybe I’m just a very fast eater.

But the interesting part is as I was happily enjoying my plate of Hokkien noodles (alone, in case you’re wondering), this man who’s in his late 50s sat opposite me. I might be wrong, but I didn’t notice any waiters taking any orders from him. And after a while, they just served him a metal jug of boiling hot water, a Chinese teapot and a miniature red bucket of hot water which has two Chinese teacups in it. Like a seasoned pro, he just rotated the cups to get the hot water to clean the cups. That’s not easy to do. I remember we kept on burning our little fingers when we were kids.

He then took out a paper pack of Chinese tea from his front shirt pocket, tore it, and poured the tea into the teapot. Then the boiling hot water to fill up the teapot.

While waiting for the tea to release its flavour, he took the teacups out from the bucket, and rinsed a pair of chopsticks and soup spoon in the red bucket, cleaning them. Up till now, all that he did I’m not surprised about. But he then poured the water from the teapot unto the drain. What the?

Then I remembered. Chinese do this to sort of ‘rinse’ the tea. That is why the first ‘wash’ is always not consumed, but thrown.

Now that is old-skoolnezz.

Monday, April 17, 2006

frenzyful

money. i need loads of it.
i've been having this urge to keep acquiring things since some time ago. it all started from back in melbz when i started earning quite a bit. doesn't it suck that just when u get so used to the comfortable life and then suddenly, ur in KL.

no more looking forward to shoppings on the weekends. the time when i used to wake up early just so we could have a day out shopping, punctuated by numerous coffee breaks, is now no more.

i used to always keep my fingers on the latest fashion pulse, n know where to find all the great bargains. i've always been a bargain hunter. something bout a sagittarian i guess. that's why i nvr quite bought anything full price. for the things that i want, it's too ridiculous to be paying full price.

imagine carhartt workpants which usually retail for $230 bucks, i got it for $40 at a warehouse clearance and in my size too! that's also where i picked up a carhartt camo wallet for a ridiculous $20 bucks. heck, 2 meals wld buy me a good branded wallet. what bout the $16 camo stussy belt? bet my ass that u can't find it anywhere even if u wanna pay more for it. a $30 bucks 'stucci' bag. $50 bucks G-stars, which retail for $230! TY camo bear (gosh, it's a beautiful thing i tell u.)- $10 bucks at the royal melbourne show!

my only weakness is when it comes to sneakers. premium prices that i paid i now kinda regret. heck, evybody who wants to go into the sneaker game shld all get educated first before they blindly jump in. don't always believe the hype surrounding a particular shoe. suddenly u might find everyone wearing the same pair. it pays to have some discretion to what u wanna buy. just bcos evyone's wearing dunks, dun always think that the next one will be good. a good example wld be the lunar dunks coming out. only a moron wld actually salivate over those. you can have a look at those here.

i'm in the process of buying a pair of air force 180s. u suckers will have ur necks in cast when u see it.

at the meantime, i'm looking at buying a car. myvi wld be the best choice if not for the waiting. i've also been Needing a digicam. a new laptop. either that, or an iPod. (yep, cliche materialistic person, i hear u.) but then again, my laptop's on the verge of bursting. i'm really pushing it now that it only has 4mb of memory left. so the ipod's for theextra storage. my laptop still works fine after 6 long yrs of torture. Acer is the best.

i want more. i Need more.

Saturday, April 15, 2006

hand-holders will be prosecuted

my friend once asked me- "how does it feel to live in such a fucked up country?"
and he is a malaysian as well.

i really don't know how to answer that. i copped out n said s'thing like "well, it's just the way it is." and then i really appreciate the fact that someday, i'll be out of here. yep, cop out.

for those not in the know, two twenty-s'thing students are now being prosecuted for allegedly inappropriate/ indecent behaviour in public. apparently, they were just holding hands in the KLCC Park when two policemen approached them. without wanting to give a bribe as they believe they did nothing wrong, the policemen gave them summons. please notice that i did not bother to hightlight or bold the bribe part, as the rest of the paragraph deserves more weight of importance.

Parisians beware, and even more affected by this issue would be those ppl in the fashion world- you can now really limit the air-kissings to just that, nothing more. ass kissing is still allowed albeit not in the literal sense.

what are the ministers' response to this? most didn't agree, n gave the reason that it will hurt the tourism industry. i say fuck u stupid ministers. i understand that it just might be a cowards way to give excuse like that without jeapordizing their image in the eyes more conservative ppl. but the greater underlying problem here that's stirring in my stomach, giving a hint of a bad diarhhea to come, is the fact that malaysians' rights are at stake here. even more disturbing is that when u look at the country, no one is bothered.

now, this issue is unconstitutional. the federal constitution (not deserving of CAPS) states that ppl are free to practise their own religion. now, not being allowed to hold hands and hug n shite is Islam's religion. and it's laws shldn't be enforced upon others. in no way that this is an offence to the religion, but the ppl who practise it shld also practise some common sense.

so what if i have a sister n i hugged her when i saw her? what if it's my mom? and what if i just to happen to hold my fren's hand who's also a guy? (i'm not gay) it's like going back in time when they enforce all these ridiculous rules. so, tourists- fuck off. don't come to malaysia. (it might appear that i have comtempt for u, but i don't. really.) there're always some other better places to spend ur moolah on. go to singapore. that'd kill the ministers to know that.

ohh...i feel that bad diarrhea coming. i know that what will follow will certainly be a whole load of SHIT.

Sunday, April 02, 2006

why do i blog?
i've been a lazy bum. the first post was just to take a piss at blogging when it first started to gain popularity. and i just left it at that. couldn't be bothered becos it just took too much effort.

how i see that a post can be good is when the blogger singles out something special that happened during the day and expand and write up about it. in the process, mayb there're some funny bits which sort of rewards the reader. but to me, nothing very significant happens all the time, everyday (read: no life, more on this later). don't even mention funny things, as i've never thought of myself as someone funny. (wow, now THAT is a great confession u dun hear on blogs all the time!)

which is why it's quite a tough job to really THINK and to write something. neil french, advertising great, once said that when you go for a vacation, you can't just write "went to the beach and sat" into your diary all the time,even though that's what you might be doing everyday. someday, you just have to write something interesting. and if you can make it funny, all the better.

and with that in mind, i've vowed to start blogging. for real.
someone might read this, mayb not. but i want to get myself writing. it's bcos i'm feeling quite pressured now that i've got a job as a writer of some sort. this place willl be a place to improve myself.

you know those kinda ppl who r the life of the party? thsoe kind whom when they haven't reached a party, the ppl seems to have lame conversations asking each other what they do for a living followed by a comment on the weather? those kind whom when they're there, ppl will always want to listen to what he has to say, what jokes he has to tell, what fun things they shld play? these ppl are what i'd call the nucleus.

i shall strive to be that with this blog. somewhere ppl'd enjoy reading. and to do that, in following with advertising/ marketing principles, i need to have a niche. i have yet to find that niche. mayb i shld talk more about advertising? hmm...not that i'm an expert in that. mayb food? hmm...unlike some ppl, i'm just not that enthusiastic bout food. mayb sneakers? there's already a website dedicated to that. doubt i can do better or be more updated. mayb music? politics?

it will take me some time to decide on one. for now, mayb a bit of everything. so, till then.