Holidays

You know you have finally exorcised the ghosts of studies when you can’t (or don’t) fall asleep before 6 and you can’t (or won’t) wake up before 3. And most glaring of all: coming home at 2am and thinking “what? it’s only 2?”
 Semester 6 starts in 16 days and there are many grown up things to think about [...]

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Earthquakes

Gee whiz earthquake in Taiwan. I caught The Star’s headline this morning with bleary eyes because i haven’t woke up officially yet; i just came down to get a drink (before going back to sleep) My first reaction was of course about the internet communications being disrupted – but right behind it – I heard that [...]

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Early Morning

The orange-hued light of the street lamps bounced and made eerie reflections on my windshield as i sped home at 4 in the morning; car bouncing and skidding minutely on the ground wet and slippery with rain. A weird mix of huge proportions – a bottle of chardonnay, a bottle of Ballantine’s and some beer [...]

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Beefing Up

Today, i feel like a geek. To face the perils of Studio 4 and beyond, i went and armed myself with a whole new arsenal of hardware. Among others, my slaves now include a
Samsung 19″ LCD monitor – No more Less mad scrolling!
Some chun AMD processor – Now i can chew on Photoshop and 3dsmax for breakfast. [...]

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Dilbert owns

I have been following Scott Adams’s heavy thoughts on the universe, free will (or the lack of it) and just about everything mainly because the heavier posts are all peppered with insanely funny posts between them. I have to say HE has been very inspirational and motivational to my own thoughts. Look for some of his better posts. [...]

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I can’t run away.

The dingy omnipresent smoke of the pool parlour permeates my hair, my shirt and my jeans and irritates my eyes while i stare into space; the blurry indistinct shapes that are my friends barely registers.
Smoke from Ivan’s half-finished cigarette wafted from the ashtray across the table and into my (mostly) tar-free lungs. The hip-hop tunes blaring [...]

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What do you see?

It’s kinda sad how there’s only one shot at life isn’t it? Not to mention that one, pitiful, pathetic shot can be ended any time by having a car run you down or you being dumped into a cement mixer. While it is mixing cement. So be careful when crossing the road and take care [...]

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Words of Wise Wisdom

Here’s a testament to the immortality of literature by Horace, some long dead (and i mean really long) poet. It’s the epilogue to his third book. Odes i think it’s called.
Exegi monumentum aere perennius
Regalisque situ pyramidum altius…
Non omnis moriar.
I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze
And taller than the regal peak of the pyramids…
I [...]

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My car goes to the workshop again.
sobs

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Monkeying Around

      “Did u train during the holidays?” Asked Adrian on a pleasantly cloudy friday afternoon as we, along with Sok Eng and her family sat in Kuantan’s raucous wet market over a hodge podge of local kuihs and stuff which he assured were “damn nice”, though he seemed to have picked them randomly.
“No, not really.. Just 2 or 3 times.” I admitted as i [...]

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Another Week

There’s no rest to be found, it seems- I’m off for another jaunt and as again won’t be back till the weekend, either friday or saturday. Among other things, i’ll be dropping by Kuantan, so that probably calls for a short visit to Adrian Piruca who’s currently slaving away in some musty forgotten shop. I think.
Damnit, i [...]

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A message

I’m not the boy i used to be anymore, full of naïveté and childish innocence.
I’m corrupted.
I’m evil.
I’m hardened, after long moments between the anvil and the hammer.
A message, to someone out there: I’m lost the capability.
Sorry.

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Trust Me

Give me your trust.
Trust me to know and to do what is best,
and i will take care of the rest.
But trust is the color of a dark seed growing.
Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark.
Trust is the sound of a soul’s last breath.
Trust is the sound of death.
I was never very trusting, but [...]

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Of cords

I’m damn lazy to continue the saturday post lah. Anyways, i will be away from tuesday to saturday, so (obviously) there won’t be any updates. Someone has promised to sign up for a photohosting account for me since i am too lazy to do so, so maybe, just maybe, there will finally be pictures to [...]

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A saturday (Part II)

   The noon sun glimmered in the sky, but only weak sunlight filtered through the screen of thick clouds hanging low. I am standing on a dirt road, the edge of a hill. Like the rest of Kuala Lipis, i’m in very hilly terrain; valleys and gulleys and ravines intersperses with hills and tiny mountains. [...]

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A saturday (Context)

It’s a pity i don’t have pictures to go with the article; that’s because i have no SLR camera and i hate taking pictures with my Ixus because they (the pictures) seem so crummy when compared to those gorgeous ones taken by SLR cameras. Anyways, here are some characters introduced for context.
Mr T is the [...]

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A Saturday (Part I)

     Stormclouds dotted the horizon, dark gray lumps of water vapors and ice crystals hanging low in the sky. Mist and fog rolled through craggy mountains like tendrils of a giant white octupus, drifting aimlessly through the main mountain range of central peninsular Malaysia. Highways cut meadering swathes through the young mountains, twisting and turning like a ugly concrete snake, [...]

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Prom & After-Prom

All good. Write-ups to follow, as usual (am creating a huge backlog of promised posts here)

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