Give me another stomach

Now Playing : "Wilted Flower" - Maximilian Hecker

Life is ironic. Especially when it comes to food. 

I go to a buffet, get blinded by all the ridiculously good looking dishes and eat and eat and eat. And eat. I want to try everything that looks good! Secretly pray for supposedly-shrinking-stomach-after-7-months-of-dieting to scream NO MORE FOOD so that I'll stop. But stomach stays disobediently silent. I continue to eat.

Today, been moderately good. Overate slightly at Nando's so made up for it by having just pumpkin soup for dinner. Stomach feels slightly full. Er, OK. Liquids, makes sense. Five hours after dinner's digested, I have Mickey Dees' plain ice cream sundae.

Now can't bloody breathe from being too bloody full!!

Someone loves playing tricks on me.

I ought to get one of these. (Don't click, if you're squeamish...this means you, Su Lyn)

Where??

Where is the *bleep!* exit?!

Left or right??

Ahhh!!

Uh, what?

Spelling error?

I came across this advert while online and stopped in my tracks as I gazed upon the slogan "Experience Instant Getification". 

Uh...

What exactly does "getification" mean? I've looked it up, nobody knows what it means. Could it be a spelling error or a pun?

Lei Kong Meh ah?

Not sure if this is laced with some subliminal political message...

Huh?

This popped up after I watched the said video.

Man...

Will you be my friend?

Now Playing : "In The Crossfire" - Starsailor

Are you on Facebook?

I bet you most likely are.

Well, so am I.

Will you be my friend?

I confess; I update my Facebook account everyday (if SuperPoke counts as updating). I didn't use to have this so-called obsession and I certainly wasn't like so with Friendster but the fact is that 

Facebook. Is. Just. Really. Fun.

But you know, whether in Friendster or Facebook, there will be weird people lurking about. Are you the kind of person who would just add anybody and everybody (enemies excluded) as a "friend" even though you two have never met, never talked, never seen one another?

I get people wanting to add me as a friend many times (not on a bragfest here, mind you) and 9 out of 10 times, I have no heckedy-heck idea who the person is! I mean, have we met?? Did we bump into each other at the cinema?? Did you fix my car at the shop?? Did I try to hit on you while drunk at a club?? Personally, if I don't know you, really, please don't be all pretentious and add me as your friend in hopes of showing off to your pals what a big collection of female friends you've got. 

But wait, before you call me a stuck-up bitch, hear me out; how would you feel if one day I walked up to you and you didn't know me and I swung my arm around you and chirp "Howzit goin' there, buddy ol' pal??"

I think you'd run.

Far, far away.

Still, if you really insist on being a friend indeed, how about a little "hello"? Maybe actually take steps to being a friend. Unfortunately, this nearly always never happens. 

Maybe the term "friend" has a totally different concept in these communities.

Why banned?

Now Playing : "The Racing Rats" - Editors

I remember last year when Phil insisted that I watched the Dawn of the Dead DVD which he had brought, I was quite reluctant. "Why would I want to watch a zombie movie??" I had lamented. I wasn't a fan of gore movies and I still haven't made the leap, but after he had made a good argument that a horror movie junkie like me shouldn't rule out zombie movies, I relented...hesitantly.

DotD turned out to be quite entertaining.

And so, I've decided that I'd like to have a copy of my own. It's been over a year since my first and only viewing and up till now, I've yet to find it for sale in any of the local DVD shops--pirated or otherwise. I've grown quite frustrated at the fact that I just never seem to be able to find it anywhere and was infact, rather puzzled, since they sell the other zombie movies including George A. Romero's old DotD. 

Then just the other day, my question was answered. A shopkeeper had told me (after I had asked for the DVD) that DotD is banned in Malaysia.

I was like, WHAT?

For some reason, it is banned in Malaysia, and that's why I couldn't find it everywhere I went (why it's not found even in the pirated shops, I've no idea O_o) and the only way I could get my hands on it was to order it online. BUT THAT WOULD COST ME A BUNDLE!!!

Needless to say, I was quite perturbed by this fact especially when the most puzzling part is that the other zombie and gore movies weren't banned! Land of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Turistas, The Hills Have Eyes, Hostel...etc etc they were all there!! 

Why did DotD get banned?? 

Why is it the only one that got banned out of all the (possibly worse) zombie+gore movies out there??? I've always known that the Malaysian Censorship Board here was kinda crazy but this is news, even for me! 

Still, if anyone knows where I can get my hands on a copy of DotD in Klang Valley, please let me know, aite? Mucho gracias ahead!

Panic

Now Playing : www.radiodismuke.com

Do you remember the days when you were still in school and the moment you see a teacher walking towards your class you run into your class screaming "teacher's coming!!! teacher's coming!!! cikgu sudah datang!!!" and everybody scrambles to their designated seats and pretend to be angels. The panic every student goes through! Haih!

You know, now that I'm in university--in my final year, no less--I thought I had outgrown that sort of thing. But just a couple of minutes ago, I was looking at Jules' laptop screen over her shoulders when a lecturer of ours logged into YIM. This is an actual conversation that I can't believe just took place;

Jules : Eh, Ms.X just logged on lah!

Me : What?! Quick!! Go offline!! Go offline!! 

Sampat lah me. 

*sweat!*

What the...?!

When I saw this picture, my immediate response was...

WTF?!

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However, I found out that it was this instead...

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*Whew* And I thought it was a jumping mop!

More here

Notice

David Shrigley

Anyone else thought of CSI : Las Vegas' miniature killer?

Inverted Situations

Ewww....

Now Playing : "Rocket Brothers" - Kashmir

*AAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!*

I had screamed with all my might and leaped out of the bathroom while doing some funky chicken semi-dance moves thing. Normally, I'm not this enthusiastic about getting out of the toilet but just half an hour ago the most deeeesguuuusteeeeng thing landed first on my head, then travelled down my neck, plopped onto my boobs, sped down the side of my body and bounced off my hips right into the toilet bowl...*plooop!*

A house gecko.

Geli!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If there is one thing I hate after arachnids and insects, it's geckos! Ugh, them and their beady eyes and lagi ewwwy super adhesive bulbous digits! The mere look of them gives me the willies! Ironically enough, I do like certain kinds of lizards and have kept two green iguanas, Beau and Jonas. Ah, but I digressed! 

These geckos normally love to hide in the kitchen trash can, so whenever I open it up to throw something away, five out of six times, I can expect one fat-ass gecko to go flying out from under the cover and landing on anything--that includes my feet! And of course each time that they do, I scream like there's no tomorrow. Aiiie, geli betul!

Still, better a gecko than a spider. Wah liao, if a spider ever touches my skin, I bet I'll be screaming loud enough to wake the dead. 

Shhh...!

While I'm busy screaming over tiny geckos, earlier tonight Jules and I went to watch a movie; Dead Silence. Initial plans were to just go for dinner and window-shop with my cousin Joanne, but since she bailed on us at the very last minute, we decided to take in a movie--one of our very favorite time killers! And we were far from screaming.

You see, unlike the gecko, Dead Silence was a horror movie--a B movie but nevertheless quite entertaining, especially with the direction recent horror movies go in lately. Digressed again. Pfft. Anyhoo, instead of screaming in fear...

...we were laughing!!!

But here's the best part; we weren't the only ones who were laughing but the entire cinema!! (Well, okok, so there were only about 25 people max in the cinema but stiiiiilll....!) For some reason, everyone had the collective tendency of laughing and giggling when a shock-value scene was about to happen--or is happening--and has happened. 

Weeeeeirrd.

Jules can vouch for a secondary reason of laughing and giggling so much during the entire movie, though! Seated next to her was a guy our age who was clearly (and very animatedly) terrified of the not-overly-scary movie *lol* and kept his face half hidden in his upturned shirt collar and had his fists covering the side of his eyes as he whimpered and breathed heavily while he watched the movie!! He was probably genuinely terrified because at one point he actually walked out!

So yes, it was the first time that we experienced and audience who laughed in fear and a guy so terrified of a movie. 

Fun times!

Ps. Methinks I got too enthusiastic with color options. >_<

Who dunnit?

Nobody did it.

I want...

Now Playing : "Butterflies and Hurricanes" - Muse

I must have been high on something tonight.

Here's why; normally when I want something from the 'rents (I'm trying really hard not to sound like a spoiled brat here *lol*) and when it's something expensive, what I would normally do is talk about that thing endlessly for a couple of months prior to its launch or whenever I want to have it. I'll bring up all its good qualities, not so much of its bad but make it sound like it's good anyway--the works. Sometimes this strategy works, sometimes it doesn't.

But, like I said, I must've been high on something tonight. Or maybe I just wanted it so desperately. What I did was...I went up to dear mother who was at the time washing dishes (partial distraction is a good thing) and said...

..."ma, I don't want a new cell phone. I don't even want a new Mac. I'd really rather you just use that money and buy me a ticket to Venice. It costs about the same too. I want this more--and it'll bring a much higher satisfaction value to me than a new phone! I want to leave tonight or real early tomorrow morning and come back on Sunday."

I think my ma has never laughed so hard in her life. 

I was being serious! >_<

I think my mum thought I was high on something too.

Et tu, Philip?

The Letter Jay

Now Playing : "What I've Done" - Linkin Park

For some reason, things in life seem to occur in patterns. Like the number 23 (some of you may remember I talked about this before). Yesterday, as I was typing furiously away at the keyboard talking to Jules, I had mentioned that I know way too many people whose names start with the letter J. Then I quipped that when I have kids of my own, I'll name one of them a name that starts with that same letter. Naturally, Jules being Jules, laughed. "What would you name him/her then?" she asked.

Hmm. Now I already have my own set of preferred names (*ahem* Jules) but none of them began with J. So after a long, hard thought, I've decided if I did, it would be Jonas--after Jonas Bjerre of Mew. Since this was kinda fun, I decided to find the meanings of my dear friends whose names all start with J! Wooooot fun!

Julianne = "down-bearded youth" (I have no idea what this means >_< )

John = "God is gracious"

Justina = "Righteous, just, fair"

Josephine = "He will enlarge" (Don't ask, I don't know either lol)

June = "the sixth month of the year"

Jaime = "supplanter"

Joanne = "God is gracious"

Joanna = "God is gracious"

James = "supplanter"

Jack (both of you!) = "God is gracious"

Jimmy = "supplanter"

Jessy = "gift, wealthy"

Jeannie = "God is gracious"

Jennifer = "white, fair, smooth"

Jane = "God is gracious"

Taken from BabyNames.

Stolen Identity!

June!!! June!!! This is too uncanny! Right after you told me that someone had the same e-mail as you, I was just looking around and then I found this!! Someone else has my nickname!! While I don't use LiveJournal, this is pretty freaky! You'd think with someone out there with my nickname there would be problems signing up for other services and mail and what not but so far I've been lucky so hopefully this person has stopped using this nickname!!