What we do during our free time

Me and deedoo pictochatting. She is extremely talented. See if you can guess which is mine  : )

Chee Weng's Theory of Composite Examination Studying Dynamics

So, I have a midterm tomorrow for Archaeology. There are maybe 150 terms to go over. It's at times like these that I refer back to Chee Weng's Theory of Composite Examination Studying Dynamics.

It's a great technique. It greatly reduces your workload while ensuring that you have sufficient preparation for the exam.
It can be essentially summarized into 4 words:- "Won't come out la".

Lol.
I fully recommend it.

Quoted from the wise and great Nicholas Khaw. I should get a Nobel Prize for this, it worked for me so far.

You should never be purely retarded

Just came back from watching tropic thunder with my colleagues, and i must say i am truly disappointed. It was a cross of 21 and Austin Powers 3, dodgy comparisons but let me explain. They had a perfect premise for LOL and if you didn’t already know, its about three actors (played by three actors) shooting a war film and was accidentally put into a real war scenario. Things started of real fun, and how wouldnt it be with these 3 awesome comedy actors put together? But when the freshness of the premise starts wearing out…it just became mediocre. They couldn’t maintain the momentum throughout the whole 120 minutes (aka 21) and it was disappointing because the first half an hour or so generated a generous ammount of giggles.

Another thing that was completely unnecessary was the huge ammount of cameos. I never knew what was the deal with cameos as they rarely add anything to the movie. I can only recall very few instances where they were pretty good most. On the top of my head i would say recently is Jonah Hill in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the babes (Elisha Cuthbert, Elizabeth Shannon etc.) in Love Actually. In these cases the actor/actresses actually fit the role or fits into the right context. Really, i am not against cameos but this movie really looks like they concentrated too much into including them rather than improving the script etc. The first movie that pops into mind when mentioning this is obviously AUSTIN POWERS 3. (if you haven’t already guessed it)

The final note is about the lameness about the movie. There’s only so much lameness a comedy can take, and this movie crossed that line. With so many talented actors, i wouldn’t expect lameness to carry this movie but it was what they did (which contributed to the boringness at the second half on the movie). It’s ironic too that **SPOILERS…..kinda….*** in one scene Robert Downey’s character said “You should never act purely retarded in a movie, only mostly retarted” (referring the other chars such as Forrest Gump who won Oscars) because that’s what i would describe how they acted towards the end of the movie – purely retarded.

Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening

This picture was taken by my bro at Liverpool airport. I personally enjoy no. 4, 7 and 8.

Prod

If you are half the geek i am, you probably recognize this from the Worms series. (unfortunately i couldnt get a screenshot of it in action :P). I seem to have developed some kind of phobia/reflex system towards this weapon of destruction. No matter where i am, ppl seem to enjoy prodding me (probably due to the fact that i have a very sensitive area near the hip) and see me jump a few centimeters off the ground, and the office is no different. There’s this colleague of mine who keeps prodding me every now and then in the office that at one time, when i spotted a shadow lurking behind me, i actually tried to dodge and put up my left arm to try parry the incoming attack. Turns out it wasn’t that colleague, and that person wasn’t even walking towards me…he was just going back to his seat. Then my other colleagues were staring at me weirdly…..

Highlight

Instead of going diary style, like i always do with my holidays trips,i thought i would just talk about the highlight of the trip. When i feel like it, i'll start talking about all the sightseeing stuff in Berlin and Dresden (which was pretty awesome, but it's not gonna top this)

No.7 sending the keeper to the wrong direction

Was there any doubt what else it could be? Being inside the Theatre of Dreams when the stadium erupted when no.7 Christiano Ronaldo scored the most undeserved goal in the world. It didn't matter, the crowd and atmosphere was worth every penny (70 pounds actually) and a cool goal by Wayne Rooney was icing on the cake. From waiting anxiously on the cheap plastic seats for a goal to happen, to attempting to follow the chants of the supported, to jumping and screaming at every near miss or referee whistle....is truly an experience that money can't buy. (70 pounds actually)

I was never a true MU supporter till few years ago, which led to claims by my bro that i only supported the best teams. I don't agree. Sure MU is probably the most supported team in Malaysia, but i truly support them because of their offensive style and individual brilliance. I believe its influenced by my infatuation with NBA basketball, where attacking individual talents are appreciated more. (with exception of Nick who has a good eye for defensive plays)

To prove my point, long time ago, i used to support Liverpool because i thought they were a good offensive team. Looking back at it now, i'm not really sure if i understood football as much as i do now, but as far as i recall it was the Beckham era where MU and Arsenal reign the EPL. In the NBA it was more apparent. I supported the Trailblazers when they had Mighty Mouse and the Sheed even though they never won a championship. I was a die hard fan of Chris Webber's Sacramento Kings when they weren't even championship contenders yet. But they played exciting ball in my opinion, and that's why i watch them.

On a side note, WHY OH WHY DID JASON WILLIAMS RETIRE?????

Arriving 3 hours earlier at Old Trafford

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep..........

That was the high pitch sound that was ringing in our ears when we drove for dinner. My parents said that they heard the same sound when we drove out in the afternoon so it must be something wrong with the car. I tried switching off the radio....nope not from there. "Hmm's maybe it's the air-con fan, sometimes when it needs greasing it makes noises like these" my dad says. So i turn off the air-con. The sound still persists. "Tomorrow must spray WD40 on every part of the car already lol. I remember last time my old car we took forever to find the source of the noise. In the end there was this gap between the spark plug and (insert) and we didn't know we needed to install metal discs in between until we read the manual. Last time the cars like that one," my dad continued.

So we arrived home. When my dad switched off the engine the sound was still there. "Hmm must be the alarm system short circuit already," my dad says. When we went inside the house we were like "wah even inside can hear man so noisy". Then we went upstairs to watch tv and we can still hear the sound very clearly. So my dad decided the disconnect the main battery of the car so when the backup battery for the alarm system runs out the sound will stop. And it did stop after all.

Suddenly, the sound came back on. This time, to add to the mystery, my dad went down to check and realised, its not coming from the car anymore! "Wah, it seems the neighbour's car also got the same problem ar, its not from the car!" my dad claimed. My mom could not believe it and she went to double check and also found out that it wasn't from the car anymore. And for some reason, the sound is even louder when heard from upstairs....

After going through all the trouble, we came to realise that the sound was actually.....a button stuck on my dad's phone >.< And he hung his pants in his room, so of course can hear in the house and it's louder upstairs la!

Pink Eye

Driving signals

If there's one thing Malaysians lack, its driving courtesy. I mean people here in the UK (and in Aussie too from my experience) almost never fail to stop and give way to other cars or for pedestrians to cross the road. Try crossing the road on a ZEBRA CROSSING in KL and see if the cars stop WITHOUT slamming the horns repeatedly. Hope you don't end up in the hospital.

Interestingly here in the UK, ppl actually flash their lights twice to tell the other car that "hey im slowing down for you so you can cut in front of me". And the other car would say "thank you" by either blinking their harzard lights twice or signal left and right in quick successions (since you can't flash the person behind you). This is stark contrast to our pathetic usage of the 'flash' back home where it means "piss off! you're driving too damn slow!" or "don't cut in front of me yet cause im gonna speed pass you".

I'm gonna try it out when i get back home. Although i'll be expecting more "what the fuck" than "thank you" signals.

Don't you just hate it when this happens?

The last day before leaving for the UK, it was noon and i was all excited and worked up about the trip. But anyways so i thought i would just laze around and tighten up some loose ends of my work when suddenly i was called upon to collect this urgent letter from the client. I look at my clock, its 3pm, and i need to leave the office at 4 to make it back on time with some time to spare before going to the office. One hour to get to sentral and back, seems pretty tight but i should be able to make it. So i packed up everything to be ready so when i get back i can leave right away.

But then theres this tiny little thing. My colleague suddenly said hey since you are going over why don't you pass him this letter? OK, why not. So off i go to sentral taking the monorail and all, and i was starting to rush cause i was trying to make it back on time. Was well on schedule when i arrived at the client's office and he gave me the urgent letter. So i was on my way out when i remembered i was supposed to pass him this other letter so i went back and gave it to him. And guess what, i PUT THE FREAKING URGENT LETTER ON THE TABLE and left it there. Reached back at office empty handed. Fcuk. Guess what time is it then. 4 pm. Double fcuk.

Dont you just hate it when this happens? Well, I do. Considering that if my colleague did not ask me to pass that not-so-urgent letter, i wouldnt forget the urgent one. Still, its totally my fault for being careless and easily distracted, i absolutely hate it.