December 2011
1 post
Most of the time, it's the case of loving the...
1. you think you love Christmas, but you really just love the Starbucks’ Christmas special.
2. you think you love John Mayer, but you really just love how he came up with the right songs at the right phases of your life.
3. you think you love “Hey Jude”, but you really just love how it was the song that made him come over to say how it was his all time favorite song and he...
November 2011
1 post
If you honked at someone in the past few days,...
I was given the finger a few days ago by this sweet looking lady in the next car. At least I can imagine her looking sweet if she wasn’t muttering something in hatred looking at me with her middle finger waving all over the place. If only time would allow, I would’ve told her that she didn’t have to wave so much when she’s flipping someone off. It’s distracting, very...
October 2011
4 posts
Possible signs that you are going through PMS.
I’ve had about ten years of experience, so that practically makes me an expert in the subject. If all of the below applies during a particular time of the month, then there’s about a 73% chance of it being the emotional symptom of PMS. That is considered pretty high, since…it’s 23% more than half the possibility. If you are in the remaining 27% category, then that just...
2 months into the working world and these are some...
So okay, the working life ain’t all glitters and rainbows but I am starting to learn a lot of things about the real world that college never really prepared me for. So here are some of the things that I have learned thus far.
1. Everything seemed funnier.
I admit that I’m easily amused. The lamest jokes tickle me but I find myself even more easily amused since I’ve started working. I’m starting...
September 2011
2 posts
What Omnipotent Power?
The time have come where repressive laws no longer hold. We are indeed living in an interesting time where everyone is challenging every single thing that restrains them from.. anything actually. The masses have somehow woken up from a really long slumber and realize that nothing can stop them and that the sky is the limit. The level of optimism have somehow increased at an alarming rate where...
“I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
another man is a fool when he...”
– Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare)
August 2011
7 posts
Best thing about Eid:
I’m not gonna get all philosophical and deep, Raya have never really had that effect on me. This year is a little different since I am back for good, I’ve gotten over my jet lag and I’ve got no place to rush to when it ends. So I’ve been doing a little pondering, if I could choose something, what would be the best thing about Eid?
The best thing about Eid..
…is when...
Listen
Moment of Epiphany.
Oh my God. I got it. I totally get Black’s “Friday” now.
For real.
For someone who is not musically inclined and far from being able to create profound lyrics, I came up with the same exact lyrics as Rebeca Black’s infamous first single at my first attempt to express the joy of Friday. I get how Friday could inspire such a song for the less talented. She took the words...
“England expects that every man will do his duty” - Lord Nelson “Never was so much owed by so many to so few” - Winston Churchill, Battle of Britain “Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains” - Karl Marx “Give me liberty or give me death” - Patrick Henry “Come back with your shield or on it” - Spartan...
“But I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house full of...”
– Edith Wharton, “The Fullness of Life” from The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
Osage Oranges
I once picked up a weird looking fruit by the road side and brought it back to show to a friend. Not knowing what it was, he decided to google it and said it’s something that only squirrels eat. I took a knife out and cut a piece of it and put it in my mouth. He jumped off his seat and screamed, “Are you out of your mind?! Humans don’t eat that! It’s inedible!” I...
July 2011
11 posts
Things people should quit doing:
Quit putting prayers as your facebook status. God ain’t a facebook friend and the number of likes you get out of em doesn’t guarantee a granting.
Careful who you blame.
*phewwiiitt* I turned around and saw two young men staring at me with the biggest grin on their faces. I just looked at them with a deadpan look, too dumbfounded to express any feelings. I was in a hospital…and being wolf-whistled at was the last thing that crossed my mind.
I dreaded the way out as I had to walk pass them again. Thinking back, I regretted looking down the whole way out and...
“They had extemporized a verse made up of two insults about matters over which...”
– The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison.
Eh, Malaysia, I would like to lodge a complaint.
Well, well, well if its not you again.
Yeah, okay it’s me again. Just hear me out this one time.
So tonight, my parents decided to take me out for supper, showing me the new places to eat in town, the new Indian restaurant with the killer tosai, that new restaurant that I should never try cos it’s no good and PappaRich. And as I was sitting in this fancy cozy restaurant by this...
I've been home for a week and I can feel a...
Mana ada lupa diri. You would think four years of practice would have been able to chip off the Malaysian accent? Heck no. My tongue automatically switch to this peculiar way of speaking and my grammar deteriorates with the weather as long as I’m on this lucky soil (bumi bertuah ni). Nasi lemak/roti canai/chee chong fun still melts in the mouth like little droplets of heaven. So yeah,...
If anything, it broadened my horizon. Taught me humility by showing me how much I do not know. And showed me how to think, not just about anything or leisurely, but really think for the sake of ultimate truths. So I leave you today as grateful as anyone can be, for giving me the best memories of my life, yet. For thoughts, if not directed the right way, will only remain as thoughts.
Overheard at 30 Rockefeller Plaza:
EuropeanTourist: So where can I get Sex and the City souvenirs? *sexy accent*
NBCworker: This is NBC. Sex and the City is HBO. You're in the wrong store.
Of all the dreams that could come true.
You are going to think I’m on crack when I tell you this, but I swear to God (mine and yours) that I am not lying. You know how there are dreams that you remember from when you were younger because they either comes repeatedly or that they were so outrageous/weird/real that you wake up thinking, “I’m never going to forget that”. Well, I used to have this dream that I was...
Being broke and needing books are never a good...
WISHLIST THAT WILL REMAIN A WISHLIST. FOR NOW.
I have one word for Eugenides’ Middlesex: Clever. Read and be mesmerized my friends.
Guess who's back to be with civilizatioooonnn??
Yes, it’s me again. And I have tons to tell because the last 3 days of my travels (out of 17 in total) have been… out of this world, unpredictable and enlightening that I just have to share.
But wait, what’s that smell. Oh yeah, I havent showered for almost 2 days. Probably should do that first. Stay tune my fellow followers (and you have grown in numbers while I was away....
June 2011
13 posts
"Whatever" is not an opinion.
I’ve been calling “bullshit” on a lot of things lately because life as we know it is … unexpected… in a very I-knew-it-was-gonna-happen kinda way. We make up new philosophies in life to defend the way we live. I am always trying to find that divine connection in a world where divinity is getting harder and harder to conceive. The thought of a standardized divine law...
A vow of silence for my lack of tact.
“Men need to realize their penis has far more power over them than it does over...”
– Kristen Schaal on The Daily Show.
Going off... 'Into the Wild' style.
Yes, yes, I know how it ended. I just like the sound of it.
Dining Alone →
stardustwanderlust:
Sometimes—if you’re lucky enough—you get the opportunity to have a nice meal alone; alone in a crowded restaurant. Maybe you’re traveling. Maybe you’re freshly single. Or maybe you’re like me and people annoy you most of the time. Going to the movies alone should, by now, hopefully a perfectly acceptable thing for someone to do and not be deemed pa-the-tic. You shouldn’t...
Basic biology.
It sorta just hit me. You know that 14 year old girl who admitted to having sex on her blog and got bashed up by crude comments and getting twitter trends for it? No body attacked the guy who actually agreed to have sex with her.
When I was 14, I thought sex was just holding hands and kisses on the lips. I don’t feel so bad for my innocence anymore because grown ass people whom are able to...
“Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than...”
– humanity i love you because…., E.E. Cummings
Judge as you want to be judged.
How is it fair that you are often judged by your religion (or lack off)? People often fail to realize that religion and a person of the faith are two separate entities. A kid is cursed and spit upon with the harshest words for his/her actions not so much because of the action itself, but because those actions are against his/her religious beliefs. We fail to see that our power to judge is limited...
WatchBarbara Walters talks to the controversial Dr. Kevorkian about assisted suicide in 1992
How should I put this subtly, like a lady should,...
Lets put it out there and reemphasize: chivalry’s dead. And I’m not saying it in a bad way or anything, like its something we should mourn over, because I think it’s only expected. I see it as part of the evolution. Almost science…-cy.
The burden for men to be a gentleman have been lifted little by little, partly by the fact that more women are repeating the girl power...
“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case...”
– Robert Brault
July 11th: Malaysia, say hello to your homegirl!
May 2011
41 posts
Don’t sit down ‘cause I’ve moved...
WatchComic Sans: The Documentary
“Never try to trick me with a kiss
Pretending that the birds are here to stay;...”
– Never Try To Trick Me With a Kiss, Sylvia Plath
mydesiderata replied to your post: mydesiderata replied to your post: Posthumous…
Yeah I was, and about his own romance and untimely death. I’m a fan of his though — :D
I’m glad you’re a fan!! I’ve moved from his poems to his letters to Fanny. I am almost convinced that no one’s as sweet :)
Life doesn't get worse from here on out. It just...
mydesiderata replied to your post: Posthumous Romance
John Keats paling sadis, if you must know.
If you’re speaking of his work, I think most poets feed their depression by writing poetry that speaks of their sadness: Poe, Plath, even Dickinson. Geniuses nonetheless.
Posthumous Romance.
John Donne. Oscar Wilde. John Keats:
The reason for my indifference towards other men.