Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Michael 'the undefinable' Jackson...

He was black. He is an American. He suffered from a rare disease called vitiligo which results in a skin that looks bleached. He is the man of all men. He is an icon. He is a trend-setter. He is a singer. He is a dancer. He is the entertainer of all entertainers. He is the master of the stage. He is the King of Pop. He is a teacher. He is a humanitarian. He is a god. He is a good father. He is a good son. He broke barriers. He is a good 'photographer' as he changed the landscape of M-U-S-I-C. He is a constructor whom constructed a 'bridge' between humans. He is a symbol of unity as his musics unites everyone on Earth. He indirectly represents the alphabet M. He was a living legend. He is every good thing that can happen to anyone. He who will stay in all of our hearts forever. He who is highly honoured. He who we shall salute upon. He who one shall never forget even if he/she gets Alzheimer. He who bagged 197 music awards. He who is none other than the one and only-Micheal Jackson...

He started performing since he was five... He joined his brother to form the 'Jackson Five' which I had never heard any song from them until the day he has departed from Earth... The very first song that I heard from him was 'Earth Song'... I was sitting right in front of the TV and suddenly saw this MV with all the animals and heard his vocals and I was like 'wow...!!!' because that time I still don't know much about music yet... Since then, I started to notice him with 'Thriller', 'Bad', 'We Are The World', 'Beat It', 'Billie Jean' and the list can go on and on...

His story was way before Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Barrack Obama and other African-Americans... He opened the doors and paved the roads for black people to blend in the American society... He changed music into an art which is easily accepted... Before him, not much people would listen to music because some of it are meaningless and drab... He was the one who gave music its soul... His sleek and agile moves were the toppings of his music... His life was a mystery and now his death is also a mystery... His friend said during an interview that no one knows MJ other than MJ himself...

His contribution to the world is ginormous... He fulfilled his purpose that god sent him to Earth... In fact, he has done far more than humanly possible... His songs united everyone from every corner, his name can be heard whenever there is presence of human... He helped lots of children and it might be too over for some people and hence the rumours surfaced... But who would bother bout them right now?! He will always be remembered as an almost perfect man...

Long live the king... May he seek serenity and tranquility in another dimension... Bye Michael...

Singapore...

P/S: If you're a patriotic Malaysian please proceed no further, as this post contains disturbing contents...

Just came back from Singapore, and I've never felt this bad about coming back home before(other than being able to meet most of my friends and family again and wandering with my pc)... To conclude this situation, I have two words-MXXXXXIA SUCKS!!! I seriously feeling like staying in Singapore...lol...

I've stayed in Singapore for 6 days... Throughout these days, I've seen a lot... In Singapore, everyone is well-mannered... All the hotel staff will greet you as soon as they see you and even the taxi drivers greet you before you have to the chance to tell them your destination... The ushers will always chant 'Have a nice trip' when you are about to sit in the taxi... The taxi drivers ALWAYS follow the meter unlike the ones over here who will fix the price for you for a certain distance... Everyone over there is just so polite, that the waiter/waitresses there will apologize way before you start to question them unlike the ones here who will not only never apologize instead, they'll put the blame on you... And I seriously don't understand what's the point of studying 'Moral' in our school theoretically when it just comes right out of your heart intuitively(if you have it)... Its just like teaching people how to walk... Such ignorance... Or maybe it's because of the language that the subject is conducted, because in Singapore, there ain't no freaking annoying piggish language(which I always ace in it and yet despise it)... It's as if they have been discriminated, because in restaurants, there's no bloody green sign stating 'Halal' or 'Non-halal'... It sounds like heaven to me...haha...

And Singapore indeed is a man's heaven(strictly for those straight ones) because you just have to tilt your head a lil and you can see chicks everywhere!!! The amount is chicks is like you don't even have the chance to shout 'leng lui' because as soon as you want to open your mouth, another one will just be right in front you!!! Most important of all, there ain't no 'lalas'!!!
It is also a shopping heaven because in a few roads there's like a clump of shopping complex joined together... Just like seeing 1U, MidValley, Times Square, KLCC all along 1 whole road!!!

Everyone over there is kinda rich I think, because everything there is kinda cheap if you see it as a 1:1 ratio instead of 2.5:1 ratio... The waiter/waitresses in an ordinary restaurant gets a pay of S$ 6.50-7.50 per hour and the food there is damn cheap therefore, all the cars over there are worth more than RM 100k... They also have different plate numbers for different automobiles...

Everything over there is digitised... It's like living in Will Smith's character in IRobot... The signboards provides information of ETA of your destination... ETA of busses are also stated and information of busses that pass through the stations are provided as well...

In Singapore, everyone obeys the rules... It's as if they were robots planted with a chip for them to obey all the rules... Therefore, it is kinda hard to get a cab when you are in the middle of the road because you are required to queue up at a proper taxi stand to get a ride...

The roads there don't have much humps there fore you can see Ferrari's speeding across...
Everything just seems so perfect and surreal... Take a trip there if you don't believe me...

Friday, June 19, 2009

Penang trip...

Warning: Long post ahead!!!

The most important thing of all is that I have to thank HIM for guiding our way otherwise I won't be able to tell you what happened for the past few days(exaggerating actually)...

Went to Penang with my college mates on Tuesday... Met up with Wei Xian and Kah Chong at KL Sentral to take the LCCT bus to airport... Reached LCCT coffee bean at 11.30am with Jit Kin, Charmaine, Kelly, Chi Chun, Kuan Hui and Chanranyah... We got prepared for the plane by 12.30pm and the flight was 1.40pm... This is the 1st time thaat I have boarded a plane since my age is a 2 digit number... Felt good and saw some panoramic views of mother nature... We reached Penang Airport at about 2.30pm and had to wait for our bloody luggage to arrive... After that, we had our lunch of waffles and McD... Then we waited for our bus to jetty for our transit to our apartment... The journey from the airport to our apartment took almost 3 bloody hours...!!!

Lashiny checked in for us and we just needed to wait for Chi Chun, Kelly and Charanyah to return as they went to get us the return bus tickets... After that, we had dinner at Gurney Drive, we went there by rapidPenang bus and came home by taxi... We ordered loads of food and shared all of it... They were quite nice... When we went back, we took turns to bath and we started playing a card game, which requires us remember our mates' false identity to fit the theme of the round... We started slow, and suddenly it heated up, we started shouting and inevitably laughed out loud especially when Wei Xian reveals his own identity because he can't remember ours... I lost my voice after that, fortunately it recovered after having a good sleep(from 3am-7am)...

Day 2- Chi Chun and Wei Xian woke me up to 'see' the sunrise... We explored an isolated 'island' which is only metres wide...haha!!! But the sun has already rose... So we head back to the apartment and wake all of them up as the day's activity would be heading to the beach... Unfortunately, the tide was too strong, so we can't swim in the sea, we can only try to stand against the strong tide, and that was what we did... It was quite dangerous though, because at times we can't control our movement at all as the tide was too strong and it can flush us anywhere... Later on, we went back to the pool in our apartment to swim and to not waste Kuan Hui's effort of blowing the ball, so we played 'Monkey' with it in the pool... By night, we wanted to have our dinner at Oriental Seafood Restaurant but then we changed our plans just because Kuan Hui went to toilet and we saw the promotion of RM 19.90 eat all you can at the restaurant in our apartment... Now you know how much a single step can change... The food was rather salty but it satisfies quantitily and not qualityly... After that, we went to the night market at Teluk Bahang... When we went back, we played a game called 'Electric Shock' which was really fun!!! Slept at 4 and woke up at 9 or 10...

Day 3- The day where we own the car!!! Yeah!!! We rented a Viva and a Wira(manual)... The Viva was for the girls and the Wira was for the guys... We went to Chinatown for our lunch because we wanted to go to Kek Lok Si(the temple)... The only food there was Asam Laksa which I can't eat... Grrrrr...!!! Ate all those fried things though... Then we headed to Kek Lok Si and saw a lot of things there... After that, we bought some Guai Ling Gou and ate it on the cable car in Bukit Bendera... When we were heading back home, we played 'Electric Shock' in the cable car again and everyone around us was like 'what the heck are these 10 people doing?!' haha!!! We felt damn tired after all those activities, so we had a rest at the apartment and by the time we were ready to have our dinner, it was already 10.30pm, we went to Oriental Seafood Restaurant because that was what we wanted to have the day before, unfortunately it closed, so we can only eat at Gurney Drive but this time, it is another end of it, guess they take shifts to open the stalls...haha!!! After the meal that we shared as usual, we went to Gurney Plaza to see if there's any midnight shows available, but the cinema closed... Even those pubs are quite empty, I guess there's just no night life in Penang...!!! So we decided to drive around instead of heading home at 12am... Little did we know that our drive around plan turned into a-I-wanna-get-back-home-ASAP-plan!!! Both of our cars were travelling together all the while, and Wira has got RM30 petrol and Viva RM20 petrol... We wanted to see the Penang Bridge and get home after that, but we took a big round back to our apartment which made us pass through the whole island... We went to Balik Pulau(never ever go there!!!)... God damn it, the roads there were damn hilly and narrow and there are no street lights!!! So we were surrounded by trees and darkness...!!! Before that, we swapped cars, Wei Xian, Chi Chun(Wira driver) and me swapped places with Kelly, Jit Kin(Viva driver) and Charmaine as Kelly wanted to try the manual car... When we went into Balik Pulau, Charanyah, Lashiny and I were so worried that Kelly cannot handle it but the car was behind us all the while... Such a huge relief... But then, there was another complication-we have 20-30km to travel back and the Wira uses a lot of petrol so we were afraid that the petrol was gonna be used up before we reached home, but thanks to Wei Xian's think positive aura, it calmed us all...
After a long journey, we finally managed to get out of the hills to a long road... Suddenly, Charmaine phoned and said that the Wira's tyre went flat, so we went back to see... When I stepped out of the Viva, I heard noises, which Jit Kin interpreted as a lil boy crying for help but all of us knows that its just a cat... All of us panicked because we have a long way to go and we don't know how to change the tyre!!! So, I called Hare Jsr immediately to ask him how to change, but then, kudos to Kuan Hui for paying attention during the undang classes, he was doing what Hare Jsr just told me... Thank God, that we managed to change our tyre... Due to safety reasons, we swapped our places back, and now I was seriously worried about our petrol consumption!!!
Whenever I heard noises, I will double confirm it with Kuan Hui, then we will call Chi Chun to pull over to check if the tyre is still performing well... We stopped twice and along the journey Chi Chun kept saying he wanted to fart...lol!!!
By the time we reach home, it was 3.30am, then we had a lil discussion about what had happened... Then only we knew that we went through a hell of adventure(by hell, I seriously meant H-E-L-L!!!)
During our 1st stop to check the tyre, Jit Kin saw a sign saying 'AWAS, kemalangan sering berlaku'... 2nd stop, when we went down, we only saw a white building full of lights, but according to the passengers in Jit Kin's car, we stopped right in front of the cemetery(having goosebumps right now)!!! Holy shit, scary ain't?! And on the journey home, Wei Xian said he saw a leng lui which none of us saw...
After these discussions, they brought the presents that they bought for me in the night market- 3 king boxers!!! When I received it, I wanted to say 'Thank you' but as I saw the contents, the frustation just overflowed my jubilant feelings... Posed some pics with it due to the request from them...
The clock struck 5++am that time, we wanted to watch sunrise but everyone started to sleep so, the plan was cancelled indirectly...

Day 4-Last day... Woke up at 10am and felt rather gloomy... This is because it will be the last day that we will be together... Such a sad departure... Tried to be happy but just can't get any better...
Missing everyone now!!! Hope to see everyone again soon...

Last but not least, Thank you Lord for paving our way out through the darkness...

P/S: Pics will be uploaded ASAP...

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Partial gathering...

Guess what... Yesterday PJ Crews crashed my house though it was just Hare Bros, Kwan Siong, Ken Ling and lame-o-Sam... It was supposed to be a 2pm plan but thanks to that lamo, we had to postpone it till 6pm, and the best thing is he doesn't want to swim!!! Asshole Sam(no offense)!!! lol... And we had dinner at a restaurant in Old Klang Road and it was Hare Jsr's suggestion to go to a chinese restaurant!!!

Anyway, it was fun to meet up with them, because it's like I've been away from them for a million years(though it was only 3-4 months and we live quite near)!!! Sad thing is, others are having exam so they're not present, shall make another perfect plan for us PJ Crews(everyone) to attend, it has been a damn long while since all of us were together...

Looking forward to my Penang trip on Tuesday with my college mates, because that's the only major upcoming event, and it'll surely be hell of a fun too... I don't know what shall I do after next week, I ain't made any plans yet, so I'm totally lost, please enlighten me...

Suggestions please...!!!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Emancipation of Marcus...

Gosh!!! Finally it came to an end... And now I feel lost again... haha... I've been through hell for the past few months(as in exams) and am glad that it has ended but now I don't really know what to do with all the free time...slap me...

Today is exactly a week after my birthday and I finally managed to 'celebrate' it with my mates... Watched Star Trek and Terminator today!!! This is the very first time I've ever watched 2 movies in 1 day... It feels great to go out with them, but our days are limited considering that we don't have to go to college anymore and everyone lives quite far away... It's been fun studying with them though...

And I'm consuming alcohol now, guess that's my way of declaring an end to a hard fought battle... Let's hope it will be a glorious victory...

God bless me!!!

Friday, April 17, 2009

Football...

Just now, Kim Fai called and asked me if I wanna join them for football tomorrow... How I wish that I can give an instantaneous response of 'sure!!!', but unfortunately, there's part of me that is inhibiting me from saying that word and the only word that I was allowed to say was 'no...' sad...

That conversation of playing football brings back all those sweet memories we had during F5... Almost every week we'll play futsal in the school or we'll play in the 'backyard football field' which is at the back of our class... The best part is we have to come out with a reason to explain to our teacher why has the glass in mirror broken AGAIN? Though I've never done that...

It's the weekends now which means its 1 week closer to my finals... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! My blog will once again go under hibernation mode(hopefully) at least until 10th of June... God bless me in my finals... Thank you...

Monday, April 6, 2009

Break...

Finally the freaking trials are over!!! Craved for this day to come for a long time... As usual, the results will suck and I don't dare to think about it for the mean time... I need a break!!! Though I started resting since Friday... Intended to go out with my college mates but 'the man' just wouldn't allow, so stucked at home... But still, didn't do much...

Just now, after Mechanics test, we went to the canteen and discussed about our plans... The plan went from Mid Valley to Sunway to Section 14... lol!!! So, we took the bus and went to Section 14... Our destination was the Old Town Kopitiam, thanks to Raghu, we had to walk quite a distance though its not tiring... haha!!!

Had lots of fun teasing and laughing there... It's just a totally different feeling when you hang out with different people... Guess what, there were 9 of us, everyone ordered 1 drink and 1 kind of toast and the bill read RM 68.xx!!! Holy cow!!! 68 bucks for 9 pieces of bread and drinks... gah!!!

After that, we went to the bus stand and took hell lots of pictures... Will post them if possible... haha!!! What a nice way to end the last day of TRIALS... Wonder what will happen on the last day of the actual exam... God bless my results will be good... Thank you...