30 August 2013

Okay, so I am not a frequent flyer nor am I much of a traveller and I don't really see and use my passport that often but please, just how much more ugly can our country's new passport be?

No wait. Even 'ugly' does not quite describe it - yes, 'ugly' is an understatement, no doubt about it.

Previously they printed a full copy of your colored photo and your personal details on the cover of the passport - not too bad I must say. But NOW, they print on a BLACK AND WHITE photo of you with the details (in black and purple text color) on a laminated plastic-material like thingamajig...

How .. hideous. My first impression - the photo looks like it belongs in a funeral and it definitely looks like, what we Chinese called '车头相' (the photo of the deceased placed in front of the funeral van). I mean, choyyyyyyyy~~!! Pooi hau sui!!! Just which stupiak person thought of and approved such design laaa??!

Why can't they use colored photo? Isn't it easier for the immigration officer to recognize you from a full colored photo instead? And they didn't even crop my photo out properly. My ears and neck were transparent, not white. What lousy photoshopping skill. And why purple font color for headers? *sweat*

I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks of it this way.

Phooooo~! I have nothing else to say. Okla, finish ranting for the day :D
Beautiful passport, not
Friday, August 30, 2013

Beautiful passport, not

28 August 2013

 
Haaaa.. another monster in my bedroom. First it is the Rascals - Notti-chan and Wiked-san, then Domo-kun and now it is this .. hmm... rainbow monkey-looking long leg long hand creature (a birthday present from Ayami). My bedroom is slowly filled up with monsters. I hope it doesn't give me nightmares. And aside from these, there's a giant Octopus and a Chocobo in the car. Makes me think how come there's no cute cuddly bears or anything of the norm. I seem to attract and be attracted to monster huggables. What gives?
Monster Bedroom
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Monster Bedroom

23 August 2013


恋する季節 by 西城秀樹
(Koisuru kisetsu by Hideki Saijo)
Once in a while, I like listening to tracks like these :D
There is always something beautiful about the 70s and 80s' Japanese song
- the time before it gets extremely westernized.


愛する人は君だけ
Friday, August 23, 2013

愛する人は君だけ

22 August 2013

 
 
Smartphones oh smartphones, why are you such a nuisance? So mom wanted a new mobile phone to show off. Apparently all her friends had switched to smartphones and she has telling me how awesome photos taken from their phone's camera function are - whereas her current phone can do nothing except for calling / sms-ing and Quadrapop-ing
 
And so, I brought her to Blue Cube and wanting to show her how amazing these smart phones can be. Since everyone in my family is a committed iPhone user, I went on persuading her to get an iPhone 5. Not an easy task. Apparently she has been longing for Samsung Galaxy S4 - claiming that all her friends are using the said model and it would be easier for her to carry it around and have her friends teach her to use it - just in case.
 
Well, I can't exactly force her into liking iPhone right? She has got some points right about S4 - larger screen, larger screen and much larger screen.... iPhone is SO slim, SO small.
 
Anyway Blue Cube ran out of stock for the S4 and all we could do is put our names on the waiting list. Still, on the way home, I can't help but think... why not an iPhone 5? I need someone to convince me that S4 is better for old folks. Like ... how??
 
Unbelievably hours later, no more convincing is needed. I changed my mind. I realized no matter what - getting an S4 would be a wiser decision. Simple reason - I don't want my mom coming back home everyday after her outing and start asking me why people's phone (S4) can do this do that, how come hers (iPhone 5) cannot, why her phone so lousy... etc.
 
I would lose more blood answering to those. Getting the same phone model as her friend would be an easier way out. So yep, Galaxy S4 it is.
 
*Sigh*  Smartphones....
But why not an iPhone 5?
Thursday, August 22, 2013

But why not an iPhone 5?

21 August 2013


I have been thinking alot lately. Most of the time at the middle of the night.

I have been thinking alot lately. Discrimination is indeed cruel. Being discriminated is horrifying. It is upsetting. It is very restrictive.

I have been thinking alot lately. I have been trying to make myself a happier person. I have been forcing myself to think it that way. I have been forcing myself to accept all the differences, all the cruel facts. I have been forcing myself to think that this is not the end of the world.

I have been thinking alot lately. I am afraid of losing friends. But more than that, I'm worried I could cause more problem than it already does.

I have been thinking alot lately. I am tired. I wanted to cry out loud, so loud like it would be the last time I would be crying. But I have been telling myself there isn't much point in doing so.

I have been thinking alot lately. Every little thing triggers me to think about the possibilities of affecting others. I am terrified. I...

I have been thinking alot lately. Shall I die tomorrow, what do I want to make out of the most today? Spend all my money? Do what I like? Or just do nothing?

Perhaps I should stop thinking. But you wouldn't understand. It is not that easy.
Midnight thoughts
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Midnight thoughts

18 August 2013

I recently added the Twitter widget and Facebook RSS feed onto my blog. Pretty simple I must say. Then this brilliant mind of mine came up with an absolutely weird idea of adding my Foursquare feed as well. Uh, technically I don't see much of a point and its not like I wanted to be stalked about. And with the safety of Malaysia going down these days, actually it is better to hide your whereabouts.

BUT, that is not the point. I went on to look for the Foursquare feed anyway thinking it would be as easy as copy pasting the feed, just for the fun of it. To my surprise, blogger doesn't recognize the RSS URL from Foursquare - it kept returning as an invalid URL. Is it because blogger is trying to protect the user's privacy? Not bad, if that is the case, but would appreciate if they at least let us know so.

Hmm, does anyone know of the reason? Do you? Do you? Let me know if you happen to know the reason :)
Location check in
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Location check in

17 August 2013

たこ焼きがすきです！＾＾
絵とこのポストはNon-relevantです。



今朝A to Z Language Centerえいきました。先生とみんなさんにあいました。楽しかった、とても嬉しかった。でもクラスにチㇷ゚フィさんとヤンシェンくんだけがいます。ちぇんさんはペナンえいきました。今みんなさん僕の先輩です。クラスに十二時までいます。レベル六日本語のクラスがとても難しいですね。みんなさん平仮名と片仮名早い言ってしました。素晴らしい！僕は遅いですOrz。。もちろんたくさんformも知らないです。p(T.T)q

レベル四のIntensive Courseは勉強したいです。九月１０日からはじめます。九月２０日終わります。毎日クラスがあります。でもCourse feeは高いですね。。RM400でしょう。もし。。お金がありますそのクラスにはいります。それから、今毎日レベル一からレベル三までれんしゅうしまし。レベル四からたくさん漢字があります。僕は漢字がかきません。先生に漢字の練習の本がもらいました。全部で覚えてが欲しいです。

がんばります!　
頭がいい？
Saturday, August 17, 2013

頭がいい？

15 August 2013

Bliss is migrating to Down South ! But before that, she needs to sit for IELTS in some posh hotel.. yeah, sounds weird... English exams in a hotel.. pffttt~~! She's aiming to get a score of 7/7/7/7 - that is to say, 7/10 for speech, 7/10 for writing, 7/10 for reading, 7/10 for listening. Actually it sounds quite hard. So I went online and did some sample IELTS questions. And here's my verdict:

Listening
Is relatively simple. Bliss shouldn't have much problem with this. The tricky part is, the audio would only be played once, so you must memorize the questions and get the answers correctly. Nothing big.

Speech
Shouldn't be a problem either. You are expected to converse in a specific topic like where you are from and what's your past time hobby etc.

Reading
Is similar to what we have for SPM. Read an article and answer questions based on the article. Just gotta stay focus while answering. Shouldn't be too hard-ler.

Writing
This should be, by far, the most difficult. It could be a graph, a chart, a scenario and you are expected to write what you see accordingly. Pretty much like our rumusan. This, you gotta be real meticulous and steady bom-pit-pit while writing. Understand what it is, find out the key points and you're ready to rumbooo..

Total time to take on all these shitz: 3 hours 30 minutes. Sounds pretty tiring huh?

All the best to Bliss. and ALLLLLLL the almighty goodness oh-my-gawd good luck to Bliss' hubby, Briyani.
England lessons
Thursday, August 15, 2013

England lessons

14 August 2013

"See? I told you.....", says the Dr.

Guess I was putting too much high hopes in my recent blood test. I was expecting a much positive result where I can finally stop the medications I'm still taking for the lung infection. But it got worse. The viral load bounces up again and increases and instead of stopping the medication, I need to do a resistance blood test, check what went wrong, and change to another type of medication that could further suppresses the infection.

Sigh.

This is gonna be a long battle. Or should I say much longer than I predicted. What I'm really worried about isn't about changing to new medicines. It is more of the side effect that comes with it. Nausea, rashes, vomiting, fever, cold - now THAT, is the nightmare. I really hope I wouldn't experience any of those. Not again, I've had enough.

Double Sigh.

More bloody samples
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

More bloody samples

13 August 2013

みんなさんおひさしぶり！お元気ですか? 僕はせんせいAdd to Facebookをしました。いまみんなさんレベル6のにほんごクラスがべんきょうします。すごいですよね！クラスがいつも楽しかったです。

僕はたくさんにほんごがわすれました。たいへんですね！たすけてください (-｡-; 来年、たぶん。。にほんごをもう一回べんきょうしたいです。

みんなさんまたあいましょう！^^

p/s: I had forgotten most of my Japanese, so obviously whatever I wrote up there may not be accurate. Usage of the vocab and grammar may not be correct either. But oh well, so what :pppPpPpppPppp ?? I tried!!!!!
あの。。ねね
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

あの。。ねね

10 August 2013

高雄呀！台湾呀！可能很快又去探望你了。对上一次去台湾可是五年前的事了。那时候是为了参加一位表哥的婚礼。哈哈哈说起来真好笑。我都不知道有这位表哥呢！就这样白白的去人家的酒宴，哼~ 不过那时候也终于遇见阿姨的“安室奈美惠” - 儿子叫安室，女儿叫安惠。很扯吧！真的男的型女的美 （但女的好像白痴白痴似的 - 不是真的白痴啦 ； 就是那种过分开朗活泼type!）

这次回台湾纯粹是为了好玩 - 吃喝玩乐。蛮想念表妹们和哪边的小吃！哈哈，上一趟回去都没吃到想吃的 （就一直在搞身材嘛）。真的搞个屁！这次不管了！！要吃就吃！！不管那么多了~~ >.<

啊 slurps ~ 鸡肉饭啊~ 炸鸡排啊~ 盐酥鸡啊~ 花枝羹啊~ 花枝丸啊~ 猪颈肉啊~ 台湾香肠啊~ 肉圆啊~ 卤肉饭啊~ 等等等等！你们等我啊！！
夜市，等我噢！
Saturday, August 10, 2013

夜市，等我噢！

09 August 2013


This is Sam. Naughty, annoying, lurves to bark, very good with sad puppy face and extremely tired - Sam sleeps for >15 hours a day. Talk about pure laziness! Pffftt...!!

I have always wanted a pet dog but the idea of having to clean up their mess restrain me from doing so. Not to mention we all have to work - so it goes to mean no one would be free to take care of the dog.

So then how come a dog now? Well first things first, Sam isn't really our dog. He belongs to my bro's gf. Secondly, 'a dog now' doesn't sound too right because he has been staying with us for over a year now. The appearance of Sam certainly made our family more livelier. Plus I don't have to clean up his mess cause everyone else in the house would be doing so - that's a plus point.

A dog. A pet. A family member. Sometimes I enjoy the company of Sam especially when he gets pretty close to me. Sometimes I get pretty irritated with him because he barks. Alot! Loud! Sharp loud bark! And we get especially distress when he does that ; now that we live in a condo.

Being a brown poodle, Sam dislikes being alone. He loves company - even when he doesn't play with you, he still prefers to having someone by his side. Walking Sam at the park is superb embarassing. Like a hooligan from out of town who has just visited a metropolitan, Sam would do all sorts of embarassing act you could ever imagine - sniffing everywhere, peeing at every pole-shape objects, sh*tting in the middle of road, barking at bigger dogs as though he's a Rottweiler (Orz), and the list goes on...

Dogs! Tsk..
Sam!
Friday, August 09, 2013

Sam!

 
 
Which type of Satay do you like?


Some like it fat and greasy. Some like it lean and crispy. Personally I prefer my satays to be fatty - with chicken skin burnt to crispiness. Hoo-boy, the juicy fatteningly good chicken oil and thigh meat (well, doesn't necessarily have to be thigh meat, but taste better if it is) is h..e..a...v...e...n!

I recently tried satays from Satay Station. Unlike the Kajang satays (read: fat and chunky), they serve much leaner type of meat (tender breast meat grilled to perfection with skin on :p). Their beef satays are really nice and juicy too. Not too bad I must say, albeit on the pricey side. RM 1+ per stick as opposed to 70-80 cents per stick elsewhere.

I must say, aside from Nasi Lemak, satay is one real good treat. I wonder who invented the chilli peanut sauce. Pandai sangat ^^ Kudos to him/her/them. I don't really fancy the onion/cucumber though haha. Ketupat okay-lar..

So how do you like your satays? Maybe we can go makan together someday!
I can haz 10 sticks... burp!
Friday, August 09, 2013

I can haz 10 sticks... burp!

08 August 2013

I miss my Japanese classes, the teachers, and classmates. We had so much fun every week - laughing at each other for being so silly sial. It is like primary school all over again except everyone is in their twenties and thirties.

FYI, I did pretty well in my Japanese class the last 2 years. I scored an average of 95+ for each level of exams - I took 3 levels in total (Beginner Level) and had to stop at Level 4 when all the health problem took place :(

I used to be able to put all the vocabs and grammars to practice (damn proud of myself...) but now, it seems like I had forgotten most of it - all the tenses, sentence structuring and all. Of course, I can always catch up on my own again with the available text books and notes, but damn.. I am just so lazy to do all over again. You think so easy-ar?

If it had not because of my health and stopping the classes, I would imagine myself blabbing Nihon-go to all the Japanese staying around by now. But nooooo.... I forgot all the words! (Of course I can always use some broken Nihon-go and murmur out some words but that would be so embarrassing and rude) Ah, so disappointing~

AND to make things worse, I grew a liking for Hangul (Korean language) instead. Hahahaha How-lar? How? Anyeong-haseyo~ Chonun Kenny imnida. Manaso banghap sumnida~~~
Foreign language
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Foreign language

07 August 2013


5 years ago, I watched Aka Tenshi Angel (Tenshi Ni Naru Houhou) and I absolutely love the main theme of the movie. So, I went on YouTube and asked if anyone know of the song title.
 
天使が舞い降りてくる日
The day that angel descended
by Yuki Otake
 
5 years later, well... 12 hours ago to be exact (at 3:00am), I FINALLY got an answer from Tommy Fung. Not sure who he is, but he is a great man. I appreciate his effort and help ^^ Thank you.
What a surprise!
Tenshi has descended
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Tenshi has descended

05 August 2013

I haven't been seeing most of my friends lately. Either they are really busy with work.. or they are just plain lazy to hang out these days. OR it could be because most of them are married now with kids - and presumably busy taking care of the young ones. SIGH. Having said that, I have been seeing a lot of baby photos up on the Facebook lately.

A-L-O-T of em'. Everyday. First thing that loads up on my FB page ...

On an exaggerated scale:

Nicolensm puts up photos of her daughter every MINUTE.
CYen puts up photos of her daughter every HALF AN HOUR.
My cousin from Taiwan puts up photos of her boy and girl every HOUR.
My cousin from KL puts up photos of her son every DAY.
Bliss82 puts up photos of her daughter every WEEK.

... and there's always a pic of a newborn every SECOND.
... and people announcing they are getting married every HALF A SECOND.

And all of them are growing as fast as the giant beanstalk. No kidding. Entah-lah minum susu apa.. Time flies. I still remember holding (some of) them in my arms (c'mon last year onni) and now, they can already walk/run/sprint/dance/murmur/write/draw! Ama-zing.

Sometimes I get their names wrong in my head. I would mistaken, say... KayKay for Anya, Anya for KayKay that kinda shit. AND *pffft* I always, ALWAYS have to make sure I get the name right in my head before my call out to them. Can you imagine looking at the sweet innocent face of the baby girl/boy only to call out the wrong name? The parents would be devastated, and I would have to quickly find a hole to hide my face.

Just saying.
Musume / Musuko
Monday, August 05, 2013

Musume / Musuko

04 August 2013

It has been a long year.

And these (but not limited to) was what happened to Yours Truly:
(mid 2012 till now)
  • Disseminated Penicilliosis (means fungal infection)
  • Atypical Mycobacterium Lung Infection
  • Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (something to do with unstable blood counts)
  • Chronic Kidney Disease secondary to immunosuppressant post Bone Marrow Transplant
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy (a weak heart)
Was admitted to UMMC hospital for about 5 months. Was treated with community-acquired pneumonia and atypical mycobacterium lung infection. Cured but still on medication for the said diagnosis until immunity stack counts above healthy level. Probably another 3-6 months to go.

SO much better now. I'm off work, off gym, off Japanese class, off everything d. An excuse for a long holiday? Hmmm... maybe? It'll probably take me another 6-9 months to recover before I get back to where I was before. But having said that, I am feeling much stronger now.

Only thing bothering me now is my red blood cells which are at the anaemia state. Not sure what may have caused the low blood count. Did all sorts of scope (btw I HATE OGDS - go google it yourself) - no issues, no bleeding anywhere, no ulcers.

So what went wrong? No idea. Hope it gets better by time.

Anyway what am I up to these days?

SLEEP / EAT / DIABLO 3 / TV / SWIMMING

A lot has changed. Not just my health, but surroundings too. Me and moi family has moved to a new place. Saying bye-bye to the house I've lived for 32 years ... wasn't really that hard. No, not because I don't feel mm-seh-dak but because I understand the necessity for a change. Furthermore, like what I told my mom, a house being a shelter is like an expensive shirt/dress. When the time comes and you know it has to go, IT HAS TO GO. Sad of course but it's really not the end of the world you know? And then comes the part where my bro is finally thinking of settling in. Getting married, that is. Finding hotels, looking for the best price, good food. All sort of stuffs. And then comes renovating our new home yada yada...

And there you have, a quick update of my miserable (why me again?) life. I'm totally sick of it. I'm okay, I'm fine, I'm still my own self, but totally unamused.

Ciao~
2012 is indeed the end of the world
Sunday, August 04, 2013

2012 is indeed the end of the world