Random Solitary Thoughts

Monday, August 27, 2001

Aaliyah is gone... the world is mourning for her... and next door, my neighbour is not doing justice to her by blasting boyband songs all day... sheesh... talk about the lack of respect... or the ignorance of Malaysians. Hasn't someone already told the world that Boybands are BAD?!!!?!? Why ban black metal when the reason our youths grow up to be silly giggling teens who waste tons of money each year, is because of [yes, the dreaded word...] BOYBANDS!!! Shucks...

The past few days in my hometown has been a kaleidoscope of food eating and mindless sleeping. Interrupted sleep comes once in a while thanks to very understanding family members. As for the food, there's just no getting enough here... I'm probably gonna stuff myself silly and hibernate in cyberlala land till my next journey home. Here's to Penang food!

Saturday, August 25, 2001

Fast dial-up connection... network at campus sucks... tis a proven fact! Slow computer speed... doesn't make much of a difference with the fast connection here. The sheer irony of the situation... shucks...

Thursday, August 23, 2001

Just recently found out the cause for the slow network for the past few days. It was because of a worm named CodeRed or something like that... it sends out packets.. in other words.. data! Not just any data, but basically nonsense! A whole lot of nonsense to clog up the lines. And even better yet... after spending mindless hours cursing and condeming people who download endlessly, I found out that my comp was infected with the worm... Spent the whole of Tuesday trying to clean-up the mess my comp has done to the network! Needless to say, I am now worm FREE!!! :D

Had a little jumpy afternoon... I hope a little movie or some food might cheer me up... but as far as I'm concerned, even as I type this... I'm already cheered up...:)

P.S. To the friend who made my day... thanks! You know who you are... and to the rest of ya... thanks as well!

Wednesday, August 22, 2001

Got punched in my nose. Ouch! Had a good training session with Booya earlier on... have to work on my reflexes more... I should be lucky to have been able to walk out of there with only a bruised arm and a hurt nose. Now, to rub my bruises and wait for it to BURN!!! Ouch...

Monday, August 20, 2001

Felt better now... guess a good night's sleep really helps. Leg still hurts from yesterday... considered sueing the company for negligence on their part... but felt bad because they ARE after all Malaysians and have no sense of responsibility so it wouldn't be fair... I shall let it slide... Trying to connect to yahoo messenger and keeping logged on is a hard task... why can't these people stop downloading for a couple of hours? Or at least not clog up the bandwidth with mass downloads... sheesh... MMU students...

Been trying to access and edit my blog for the past two days... this is what I wrote on Sunday morning... now it's Monday night... and soon to be Tuesday morning... now notice the change of mood...

Sunday Morning
WOW!!! The morning has brought an air of positivity. I hate it. In fact I despise it. Why is all this positivity coming in? Where is it coming from anyway? I can't believe it! I actually argued with a friend that politicians are the reason our country is running smoothly [well, not really smooth, but better than some]. In normal cases, I would have just told her that politicians should be shot and the world would be a better place without them! Sad, that I actually backed them in their screwed up political standings. What's more, I still believe that lawyers should be shot... hmm.. that's actually a good thing...:) Anyway, I'm way too positive here... maybe I'll return when I'm a screwed up rat who hates everything in this world...

P.S. Actually this blog was supposed to be for yesterday morning, guess what happened? The network happened... sheesh... The pessimism is slowly creeping in...

Sunday Afternoon
Been trying to post this blog for the past few hours... the net's really bad.. or maybe it's the blogger site which is under construction... maybe it's just me...

Sunday Night
Running low on patience... this is not good... I'm seriously hating this.. becoming more pessimistic... yet still hating it... I thought I was supposed to like being pessimistic... must be the network... screwing up my mind... sheesh...

Monday Morning
Woke up really early... don't ask how early... still can't update... surf for porn instead... network clogging up... better log out now... erase porn before friend comes in.. wait.. did I mention porn? Silly me... that was not true... I was downloading... er... tutorials? Anyway... network wasn't any better in the morning than at night... what happened to the 100mb connection? Feels like a 0.001 kb connection to me... sheesh... should have downloaded porn instead of tutorials... dem...

A little later
Still feeling grumpy and grouchy... network still slow...

Late morning
Pissed at the network... something was burning... [no, it's not my breakfast... how can anyone burn four slices of plain bread with peanut butter... without a toaster...]Checked out source of burning... some construction building near the engineering block got burned... wished it was the engineering block itself... or maybe the STAD building nearby... preferbably the STAD building... engineers are way cooler...

Afternoon
Went to town with a friend... had beef noodles...[probably the only good part of the day...] then hunted around for my freakin bus ticket... which by some weird Malaysian design, couldn't be attained at THREE different booths of the SAME company in the SAME building, but CAN be bought at ANOTHER such booth, at a DIFFERENT location, but still belonging to the SAME company!!! Trust Malaysians to come up with good management... sigh...

Late Afternoon
Almost had my leg amputated by the KTM train and the platform. Still under shock and trauma... will not talk about it... Note to remember... Malaysians for some weird reason do NOT understand the word LINE-UP!!! The barbarians rather push and shove their way into the already packed carriage when it's obviuous that there are tons of people trying to get out, which almost instantly results in a non-moving bottleneck jam at the doors. Smart aren't they? Why can't they move aside for others to leave the carriage beore pushing their rears into place? Impatience or pure stupidity? I'd go for pure stupidity...

Even later Afternoon
Finally managed to limp all the way back to the car... sent friend home... hung around a moment listening to the soundtrack from Moulin Rouge before getting drenched in the rain while trying to get back to the car which was parked outdoors... Picked up roommate from office.

Evening
Played Serious Sam with roommates... mindless killing and shooting... felt slightly more relaxed... tried to update blogger.. failed as usual... cursed for a bit before going for dinner...

Night
Finally updated my blogger... what a day... but well.. it's worth all that trouble... I had a good day... a little bit of downs along the way... but generally a good day... dem.. am I getting more positive by the moment? Shucks... where's the crappy network when you need it...

Saturday, August 18, 2001

Moulin Rouge... nuff said. Go read someone else's blog... will update when I feel like it... probably when I wake up wondering what to do in the morning when everyone's still asleep in their cozy beds and for some reason I'm up and about at the most ungodly hours of the morning. Anyway.. go watch Moulin Rouge or read somebody else's blog!

Friday, August 17, 2001

Life is good. Period. My sense of pessimism is slowly wanning out... I'm still confused as to whether this is a good thing or not. Some people have told me that this is a good thing, so how come I have this nagging feeling that something bad will follow up this loss of pessimism? I'm still pondering...

The weekend came again and started out really nice. A good show on Thursday night, the same one tonight... I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings. Rush Hour 2 was definitely something I never expected. Being a Jackie Chan fan [not really, but I do love his older shows], I was really disappointed with his performance when he first started starring in Hollywood movies. Nevertheless, I disliked Rush Hour [the first], but the second one really changed my mind. It was mindless action and fun all the way. A no-brainer in my books, but nonetheless, a GOOD no-brainer. A fun watch, a good comedy, lotsa nice slapstick comical action [like the ones in Jackie's previous Hong Kong movies], and a good ending. What more can you ask for a summer movie? [considering the fact that most summer movies are beginning to SUCK big time...] Anyway, Rush Hour 2 is a worthwhile watch, something to watch with a big crowd! One of the better summer movies this year.

Well, time is eluding me again, and I need to get my sleep... still can't find inspiration to continue writing a story I'm working on right now. Perhaps I'll wake up with fresh ideas tomorrow morning... if I wake up... early enough... that is..:)

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

The weekend passed me by as quick as you could say 'baka'. Sigh... back to work... back to the sad, sordid life I lead... full of nothingness and misforgivings...[yeah... pessimism rocks!!!] Anyway, the long weekend which I spent back in my hometown proved to be an interesting and relaxing one. Had lotsa food, lotsa sleep, and lotsa time wasting. Hanging out in other words... something I haven't had the time to do in a long while and I wouldn't even consider it wasting time... to me, every second of it was time well spent.
The briefing yesterday was a major bore... wasted time and I do mean wasted time. What a load of hogwash. Crap... should have spent the time sleeping... where do they get these losers anyway? They keep repeating themselves in the hope that some of us might catch on and after a while people begin to realize that they make no sense at all. Sheesh...
Hmmm... other than that, I can't seem to find anything else to write about... life has been peachy... I might be losing my sense of pessimism soon enough. That can't be a good thing can it?

Monday, August 06, 2001

This is never a good thing... I meant the network by the way. Was about to write a whole lotta good things bout the happenings of today, but the fact that I had to walk around the whole campus looking for a public phone that's ACTUALLY working, doesn't really amount to a happy ending...[okay, maybe it did... but that's another story...]

Anyway, the day started off with a slight delay in my waking up...[remind never to go back for an extra five minutes of sleep...] followed by a hurried trip to campus where practice took place. The dance was well enough... some mistakes here and there... but other than that, the crowd was supportive... so that was that.

Dinner was at the dreaded KFC... stale chicken breasts and thighs... mouldy buns... and mounds of mashed potatoes with too much pepper. Don't I just 'love' KFC... After that was the long quest to find the working public phone!!! Walked through HB1, all floors... HB2, two floors and foodcourt [before I realized that one of the phones practically chews up your money and never returns it... I should have kicked it...], HB3, almost went up, but the guard was there, so I didn't wanna look too desperate... ended up in STAD [the last place I wanna be in the middle of the night], but nonetheless, they ACTUALLY had a WORKING phone there!!! [woohoo...] And then I found out that the other side is a bit soft, so I had to practically THROW my voice out throughout the whole hallway!!! Talk about self-projection... well... the night ended in a better note, with me finally updating this blog and sitting down to finish watching swordfish... maybe tomorrow I might actually get a transfer to another campus and be liberated from the horrors of this place!!! Sigh... there goes another 'putrajaya'...

Saturday, August 04, 2001

Saturday was nice... had a busy day today. Busy but productive nonetheless. Started the day off by going to town to send Booya to his meeting and Myth to his guitar lessons. Hung around a bit at KLCC until I me up with Myth and sent him back home to get some stuff. Had a nice time hanging around at his place. Then we proceeded to KLCC to pick Booya up before heading off for a shopping spree at Sungai Wang plaza. Got a whole bunch of movie cd's and albums as well. Overall, it was a good shopping day.

Watched a play later that night. Was a really hilarious one. Enjoyed myself thoroughly. Had a long tiring but fun day... now I'm just listening to Coldplay while I relax and unwind for a good night's sleep. Lemme see... I don't have anywhere to go in the morning... hmmm... brunch sounds like a good option.... if I wake up early enough...:)

Friday, August 03, 2001

Friday came and went... what a day... Saturday welcomes me on a slow note... it's gonna be a long day... Better get some sleep... can't think of much to write now... and the net is still slow.. maybe things will pick up tomorrow... until then...