Sunday, November 30, 2008

Fortune Reversal

Fuck… results are out and the eventual happened. I failed one paper. What hurts me the most is that I failed the paper I thought I’d pass – AMC. I knew I raped it! Shyte man… This is fucked up. At least I passed the one that I thought I’d fail. I predicted I would get at least supplementary for my IEF and I sure did.

Now I have to deal with grief and study for another fucked up paper.

*sigh*

Tis’ not a good day, ladies and gents. Tis’ not a good day…

200th Post

Oh snap… I’ve made it this far on this blog, eh? Wow… I wish I had something epic to write about this post, like going somewhere exquisite for a vacation or actually passing all my subjects!
Well, so far it’s been a swell journey for this blog… I still have no idea regarding the number of people who are actually reading this thing but somehow I get the feeling that the right amount of people and the right people are reading this. Of course, you guys are my lovely audience and this blog has no one to thank but you guys for your silence and rare comments.

=P

No, but in all seriousness, it’s good to know I’ve come this far.

For the Love of Nosferatu



Since I was back in Ipoh during the holidays, it would be criminal to not hang out with these dudes at least once. So, I went to watch a movie with them. I didn’t really care what I was watching, really. I didn’t even mind watching Bolt or GP506 all over again, seriously.

So we ended up watching Twilight. I always thought this was a TV series before this, but evidently not, after some digging. Entered the cinema about 5 minutes later just to see our star vampire, Edward Cullen staring unashamedly at our heroine. A few things I’d like to say about her character. It’s unbelievably bogus. I know characters in stories are meant to fit in well within the parameters in your story. Like how, a sci-fi movie should have a robot, cyborg and an alien duke it out, or how a knight needs to slice the cockles off the dragon with his long and shiny blade (Tenacious D reference there) or how Tobey Maguire needs to whine incessantly about his double life and seem over-soppy about it. Okay, that last one didn’t really apply.

This chick is way too perfect for the story. She’s madly in love with the vampire, not afraid of him, completely aware of the various ways this could end, and somehow managed to keep it cool with the Cullens. There’s no conflict! It’s like that Family Guy short where they find one sitcom annoyingly stupid because the room mates in the show always get together.

“Hey man, I’m gonna get a pizza. You fine with anchovies?”

“Yeah, sure, why not? Anything for you buddy!”

Geez… Anyhoo…

Special effects are alright ‘cept when he scales the pines. The baseball part was cool. The chick sometimes looks distractingly hot. And the new spin on the vampire lore was somewhat interesting and the vegetarian part… I’ve seen that on Angel.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating: 2.5/5 – Another dreary end-of-the-year movie.

A’ite… that’s another movie review done. I think I’d have to download Quarantine for full goriness. Wonder what’s next that’s up for release? Hmm…

3 things that I’m worried about right now: Results, Australia and the adventure. Yeah, in that order. *sigh*

I’m predicting the results to come out before the 4th of December, seeing as there was an announcement regarding the supplementary examination meeting for BL students. Seeing as today is the last day of November, it shall be probably three torturous days of waiting and anticipating. Man… this is gonna suck bad.

Peace out y’all.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Bolt


After Madagascar 2, I had a completely new and revamped view towards animated films. Besides, I am on holiday, so I went to check out Bolt, the extremely-misguided superdog! At least that’s true for about 35% of the movie.

What follows next, or rather, pretty much the whole movie is your typical, kiddy movie storyline with that one part where happy scenes fly by with a nice song going on until they run into another problem.

Initially I was pretty skeptical about watching this movie ‘cause that buck-toothed bitch Miley Cyrus was the voice-over for one of the rather main characters. I hate Disney tweens a lot. I partially disliked Hilary Duff, couldn’t bother with Raven and definitely would shoot Cyrus in the kneecaps. As if they couldn’t fuck up even further with 1 tween queen every 3-7 years, they brought out a whole new bunch of fags to bag the cash for them. Yeah, you know who I’m talking about… those HSM motherfuckers.

Voice acting was pretty slick on Bolt, Mittens and Rhino’s part. Oh, I forgot to mention that I did watch the whole movie in 3D! Absolutely amazing effect but there were some scenes that I thought they could’ve utilized the 3D effect a lot more other than just making characters seemingly float in the air or the “walk through glass” effect.

Ol’ Spiky’s Rating – 3/5 – Bring the kids or your juvenile lala boyfriend/girlfriend

Football Manager 2009 - *UPDATE*

Choiy… Gone through a lot more tough matches, I have faced a couple of big dogs and am still gonna have to go through a few more big dogs. I have 3 more Premiership matches to go, the ECC finals and the Champion’s League Final to go. My main man, wonderkid Mario Balotelli has been chalking up goals still but not as much as the beginning ‘cause the fame and success has gotten his head way bloated. Anyone has any idea how to deflate huge footballer egos besides giving the match away?

I seriously can’t afford to give any matches away at this point. Every single one of them from here on in is imperative towards football domination! Maybe I’ll lose a friendly match during downtime. Alright then, peace out y’all.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Welcome to Atlantis

Them Dubai people sure know how to throw a party. You may find the city’s name synonymous with amazing structures such as the Burj Al Arab and other architectural insanities like the Palms and the World. Now, they have unveiled a new resort that rivals the aforementioned wonders of Dubai. Check this out, this is the opening ceremony for the newest wonder that they can offer, Atlantis.



I’ve heard plenty from these guys regarding this place. Instead of waking up to the glorious sunshine of the Middle East, you wake up to the vision of marine life swimming around your room. That’s right. It’s motherfucking underwater, baby! Damn, I lost my mail which had some awesome pictures of the interior and exterior of the place.

Football Manager 2009


I have no idea how I started playing but it’s just that this past year I’ve been really getting into football… Yeah, a bit late, I know so this game is pretty interesting for me. Started it off by managing Arsenal, a frustrating club when losing but amazing when it’s scoring goals like Britney pops babies. Arsenal starts off with an insane budget in the beginning, man! 72 million pounds to play with! I almost could’ve rivaled Man City’s budget! I bought wonderkid Balotelli who’s now my top scorer next Adebayor and midfielder Adrian Mutu and another dude, Mustapha Sali-something. The latter two are alright but so far Balotelli’s my best young ‘un.

Alright, shall not bore ye to death, then. Happy holidays, everyone! Peace out y’all!

Friday, November 21, 2008

I’m Done, Son!

Oh praise ye souls, I’m done! Finally, after an eternity of studying and lonely dinners. Okay, that last part was added for flair but not a complete fib. IEF was fucked up, really don’t wanna talk about it. MR was bad as well… Urgh, it is better to know that you fucked up than being unsure. Screw the finals… What’s done is done. No point worrying.

So after MR (‘twas an afternoon paper), I went home to catch some Zs before going to gym at 6 and then Euphoria at around 10. 1st time going there even though the place’s been there for quite awhile and I literally live next to it. In the end I didn’t go to gym ‘cause it was raining like God was taking that long piss right after you wake up. So I took a longer nap but it was riddled with calls and messages that I can’t even remember was about what…

Anyways, Euphoria is fucking amazing. I seriously don’t mind just going alone to enjoy the music. The Deq plays some pretty slick techno and the chairs and the setting was just suave, man. Just kicked back and relaxed with a beer in hand and just drifted away into the beats. Later we went up to the dance floor where we had a table right by the dance floor. I’m sure most of you know how the place is set up but those smoke machines are the shit, man. Smells like freakin’ sheesha when you walk into it. The music that the DJ was playing was freakin’ amazing… Rock, R&B, some oldies… Choiy, man.

Smells Like Teen Spirit, Song 2, You Give Love a Bad Name, Keep ‘Em Seperated, Wonderwall and even Best of You… He managed to mix all that shit into his set. The rest he mixed with beats and some other shit and he played only one Akon song that I was aware of and Whatever You Like by T.I. That’s one of the songs that I’m super addicted to right now for sure dude. I was jumping like a maniac for the rock songs man. To me it’s like super rare to hear rock songs in clubs but fuck… God bless Euphoria. I also met a few VU people there and even met a few old friends there. Freakin’ amazing night, man. I found that Joe was working there, that was cool… Can call in a few favors when I need a spot there.

This happened to be the 1st that Kang Wei got pissed ass drunk ‘cause every time we went down to the dance floor he got crazier and crazier and eventually he puked in the bathroom. Nasty shit. Well, I shall spare all details as I guess everyone involved doesn’t need this going around but in the end, I got back home at 7 a.m.

Ah… a great start to the holidays. Now, I shall go enjoy my nothingness and non-hectic-ness. Peace out y’all.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

End of the Line

It seemed like only yesterday that I told people my plans regarding my degree. It’s always been so easy to say, “Yeah, I’m going to Australia for my final year”. Truth is, it’s not easy, and I don’t particularly fancy the idea of going. I never did, just because I never thought about it. It’s just so freakin’ troublesome sometimes. It’s hard for me to go and it doesn’t exactly help to make the transition harder. Urgh. Fuck it. When I get there, I get there.

Anyways… still 2 exams down, 2 more to go, namely, IEF and MR, the 2 biggest bastards for this semester. I think I need a bit more time to ace these 2 motherfuckers but alas, as always, time is never on your side when you need it. Fuck this shit, man. All I need to do now is to finish up my past year papers and hope that they come out in the finals. I can do that for IEF but unfortunately, not for MR. Damn it.

Missed out on a few movie reviews since my Opera was fucking around with Blogger’s post Javascript. Couldn’t post pictures or highlight words, freakin’ hell. Going to watch Quarantine and that Guard Post movie after I’m done with this shit. I already watched Quantum of Solace and Madagascar 2. If you have 11 bucks in your pants and you’re standing in line at TGV or GSC, I suggest you better watch Madagascar 2. I had an “animated movies are just crappy” attitude when all these alleged animation greats came out, Ice Age, Madagascar and all these junk but after Madagascar 2… Heh heh heh, this one is something else, dude.

A’ite then, not much to say until the end of exams, I suppose. Oh right, small news. My new Merc is coming in soon.

Choooiiiiyyyyy~

A’ite… That’s all fer now. Peace out y’all!

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Tuh-agged

I decided to humour Danny’s latest post and do this thang. I have much more important things to do but I decided to break the monotony. Here we go…

Remove one question from below and add in your personal question. Make a total of 20 questions and tag 8 people. List them out at the end of the post. Notify them in their cbox that they've been tagged. Whoever does the tag will have blessings from all.

1. What’s your ambition?
It’s either be successful businessman or a professional student.

2. Who is more important to you? Friends or boy/girlfriend?
Both, actually. They both can offer you different things in life.

3. How often do you think of committing suicide?
Often… No. Have, a handful. Ever tried listening to a girl with an IQ that could prove that our species is devolving?

4. Do you think you have enough confidence?
To a haphazard level, yeah.

5. Do you believe that what goes around comes around?
Karma, baby. It makes the world go round…

6. Do you believe in God?
I can’t hate something I don’t believe in, so, yeah.

7. Do you believe in eternity love?
I believe in ‘til death do us part.

8. What's a perfect girlfriend/boyfriend like to you? (List 10)
Same interests, sense of humour and definitely someone you can spend sleepless nights just talking to.

9. What's a worst girlfriend/boyfriend like to you?
One who uses you for what you have.

10.What feeling do you love most?
Being high. C’mon, that was damn simple!

11. What is your bad habit?
Heh… Absolutely embarrassing, for sure. Pass, for your sakes, not mine.

12. Is there anything you wanna tell the people who hates you?
I doubt there’s any people out there who do, but if there are… I’d probably tell them to suck it up, ‘cause the world’s not a nice place and you definitely deserved what I said or did ‘cause that’s how I roll, motherfucker. Yeah~

13. Do you cherish every single friendship of yours?
No, because there are some people that I am only friends with are out of formality or out of my need of wanting them to help me accomplish something significant.

14. What does flying means to you?
Laga laga laga laga~

15. What do you currently crave for the most?
What I want now exactly is going to spoil my special surprise for majority of my readers so I’ll leave that. What I want after that is definitely a meaningful relationship with a girl that I truly wish she’d feel the same way as I do her.

16. Have you ever regretted any decisions that you have made? If yes, briefly describe it.
Definitely. Who hasn’t? Spare me the tough guy talk. I regret not getting to know my dad better. It doesn’t really count as a regret ‘cause I was too young to understand that there will be times that I needed stories and experience to live in this world.

17. Describe the person who tagged you in 7 words.
Round, talented, bespectacled, funny, devout, jovial and free-spirited

18.What have you done to yourself to make yourself happy?
Be around the people that make me laugh. Just putting myself in that position is all I need to do.

19. What will you become in another 10 years?
Hopefully happy in whatever position possible.

20. What would you do when you are lonely?
Seriously, you know, I know and we all laugh silently inside.

There, done. Alright, I’ll just tag whoever I damn well please. Cobain, Wei Shiarn, RR, Fatty and RK, you’re it. Peace out y’all.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Taqi’s Farewell – Part 2

Yeah, this’s way overdue but what the hell, cut me some slack, I have exams too, you know. In fact, just had one today, Consumer Behaviour… I raped that paper wide open, baby… Bun pardo! Messed up quite a bit on Section B, but should be a’ite. Section A was okay… just forgot 3 or 4 of the terms’ definitions. Definitely aced Section C… all the shit I memorized came out and I blabbed bullshit for the part Bs and examples for that shit. Yeah~!

*ahem*

The day after the barbeque, Andre decided to take Taqi out for dinner at Ampang for 1 last time at the usual Arabic/Middle-Eastern food + sheesha places. I must confess that I am one of the worst drives especially when it comes to directions. So I decided to enlist the help of Dion’s GPS so I wouldn’t get fucking lost on the way.

Just comes to show how bad a driver I am… I can’t even freakin’ follow the freakin’ bitch’s voice from the GPS! So after much turning and twisting in the concrete jungle of KL, we finally got to the gas station near Great Eastern Mall.

We had dinner, watched the Man Utd v Hull City game, amazing match that was and had some amazing sheesha. Service was horrendous, though. I do hate foreign help. Foreign people that OPEN the restaurants or shops are alright. The foreign people WORKING for them are horrible. Usually it’d be Banglas, Indons and Indians that floated over on a plank. Pink would be one of the good examples of incompetent foreign help at times. Watching their co-ordination is like watching the paraplegic synchronized swimming event.

Anyways, yeah, food was good and we decided to take one last picture before we left the place.


We were joking so much about how Andre would miss Taqi like how he would be in one of those shower scenes sobbing on the ground with the water running and drawing a heart with an arrow piercing it with Taqi’s name in it on the steamed glass. Amazing shit.

It’ll be a boring year next year if I was staying.

See you real soon, dude.

Beginning of an Adventure – Liftoff


3 more exams to go, just need to pass them, stay disease-free, injury-free and death-free. As in, no close friends/relatives passing away. Had a fair dose this year, thank you very much. 44 more days to go. Peace out y’all!

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Taqi’s Farewell – Part 1

Written: 2nd of November, 2008

Have been waiting for pics and pics alone before I could post this one. Enjoy, everybody!

After months of suffering with ACCA, Taqi decided it was high time that he called it quits to keep trying to finish it in Malaysia. So, he made the decision to go back to Dubai for good and hopefully finish up there. Seeing as he was leaving for good, a few of us had decided to get him a gift and perhaps a BBQ party. It was all a surprise, of course. Over the course of three weeks, people have been trying to make this all happen, particularly Rikaz and Rushdi. Not much had happened over the three weeks ‘cept getting some people to pay up. Only the mug and the booking of the venue were last minute.

Funny story about the mug… Not so funny on my end but exceptionally satisfying nonetheless. Me, Rushdi and Shraddha went to Central Market to get the mug done. What we had in mind was to put a couple of jokes that we had all shared with Taqi on it and the list was quite a long one. We found the biggest mug the store had to offer and we still had to chop off quite a few jokes from the list. Here’re some of the things written on the mug from the top of my head.

“Power extreme treme treme” – From the Centurions, apparently

“Melaka toilet” – A true Malaysian public toilet story

“Wheelbarrow” – The position that no one wants to be in

“Fire truck with the ladder up and broken glass” – Don’t ask…

“Spicy milk” – A pervert’s misunderstanding to great effect

“San…Fran…Cisco!” – Good times, good times…

Anyways, here’s the funny story. After we were done, we took the KTM during rush hour back to Subang Jaya. Shit, now I know how people feel. It’s so bloody packed! I’d make a joke about sardines but hell, this just wasn’t funny. From Carrefour we took a cab back for 12 bucks seeing as there was the usual jam. Seriously, with so much concrete per square mile, one would expect cars to be flying here and there with so many alternative routes around. We got off at Sunway Monash Condo to drop Shraddha off and I had the mug in hand. I placed it on the top of the cab and I stopped to calculate the cost of the ride. Next thing I knew was the passenger side door slamming and the revving of the cab’s engine. The cab turned into the road and off towards SunMed… with the mug on top.

Fucking hell

Believe it or not, I started chasing the damned cab. No hesitation, no quip, just adrenaline pumping outta my ears! Three quarters of the way to SunMed I finally caught up with the cab. The driver had seen me running and when I reached he had turned back and looked at me through the passenger side window. All I heard was something about being lucky and shit like that. I got the mug. It was better than scoring a goal. It was better than bitch slapping a ho. I felt like Usain Bolt winning the Olympics. Walked back the way I came slowly, clutching the mug with a grin of a winner. After what seemed like a fast-forward tape of tragedy in progress, this seemed like a slow-mo scene of a hard-fought glorious victory as I walked passed the condo bus stop to a clapping Rushdi. Took me awhile to catch my breath.

Eventually night came and these guys went down to prepare the food and stuff at the BBQ pit. The plan was for Raashid to go ask Taqi to go down for a swim for one last time, for old time’s sake. Seeing as the party wasn’t going to start until Raashid had returned, I waited at home playing Max Payne with the highly-acclaimed Kung Fu mod.

After a beer with Rahul to make sure Taqi was staying put at home, I went down a bit smashed and soaked my head in the pool trying to stop the fire that was going on in my noggin. Taqi eventually came with Raashid and then we all started. Check it out…



Trying not to be caught off guard, Taqi gave a wide smile for the surprise



Chefs hard at work



Me and Piumi enjoyin the food



He loves the chilli BBQ chicken, apparently



The Lagoonview gang

It was quite a manageable crowd. The Lagoonview gang had come, Jeremy had come for a bit, and 710 was there, obviously and definitely 706 and 709. Shazwan was at a gig at KDU, apparently.

The party only started when Azim got dunked into the pool. I was supposed to be the 1st one in but plans changed. I knew it was coming so I took off my shirt before they could try anything. Just stood by the edge waiting and suddenly Zabrin grabbed me from behind and jumped in with me in tow. It felt like I was caught in landslide and it had brought me tumbling into the raging river far below amidst a hail of boulders. Bodies started flying everywhere into the pool and eventually after catching all the stragglers we all jumped into the pool together. Good times…



Azim goes in first after a change of threads



A couple of people that went down with him



Piumi trying to struggle out of getting dunked but...



D'oh... Heh heh heh heh...



The sheesha corner

TO BE CONTINUED

Damn... Freaking ass long post. Peace out y’all!

P.S: Lifts have been fixed! WOOHOO!
P.P.S: SL United made it through the group stage with 1 win, 1 loss and 1 draw by goal difference!
P.P.P.S: NAAASSSRIIIIIIIIIIIII~!!! In your face, Man Utd!