Simplified ConfuJINism in Reality

Have you ever just wondered what are you? I meant other that the oblivious fact that you’re a human of either gender?(Don’t flame me later with replies like "Duhh!!!")

What makes us the way we are? They way we talk, think, drink, eat, smile, laugh, walk …. simply just us. I never quite figured it out and if we have any genius genetic scientist that stumbles on my blog and this question….oh please do enlighthen us all.

Reason I thought of this was that I was actually thinking (imagine that, my brain actually at work) of the age old argument of "Nature Vs Nurture"

Which of these two take preference over our lives? Are we born to be smart or are we conditioned to be smart? If so how come some are so book smart and others street smart? Does that make them less smart? How about the fortunate ones that are smart at both…books & street?

Well frankly I don’t really care much for "Nature" as in the idealogy of we were pre-destined to be what we are. It makes things in life seem more pessimistic. I’m more of a "Nurture" kind of guy. Whereby we paved the road we walk and we are in control of our life.

The thought of people born into wealthy families with silver spoons in their mouth often gets to me as they would have been presented with more opportunities than those less fortunate. That does not kill me though……it’s how these people take advantage of the opportunites.

Frankly speaking I have seen alot of people (friends I know) that actually squandered these opportunities. Education was wasted and money spent recklessly. They end up living a life. It’s not bad to have a life, but wouldn’t we all like to live a dream?? (no sexual dreams here pls LOL)

Do we say nature or nurture that ruined them in this instance?? Well I say neither…..It was themselves. Another session of ramblings from me :p

P/S: The post is a bit sombre today as it’s been quite busy here in office (quarter end) and also I’ve been feeling under the wheather lately….Dang flu

What your MIND can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE, it can ACHIEVE

Good news about my power window….fixed it at no cost (warranty still valid) and I guess the PJ EON is just wayy wayyy wayyyy much better than EON Glenmarie (for the moment though).

Funny how sometimes we just follow the crowd and fad and sorta jump on the bandwagon. We end up doing stuff either we regret later (:s) or look back with a smile …… YESSS it happens so don’t deny it by shaking your head. Think back about the platform shoes, army-type boots, body hugging T-shirt (as opposed to the Over-sized Quiksilver/Billabong/OP ones), and a bunch of other stuff that we bought just to fit in and look cool (U know…the "in" crowd).

These were the period that we blindly jumped on the bandwagon of something "IN" or "COOL" that we don’t just follow up with heart/effort later. One such example is blogging. It seems that since friendster has provided a feature to create your own blog….there were many blogs created. HOWEVER, there are those that just abuse it……literally (U know who U are). I’ve got no issues with those that do (at least you are using the blog feature be it good/bad), it’s those that sign up and create a god damn blog account then out of a sudden "disappear" like they were abducted by aliens or something (govt???). These are the ones that irked the hell out of me. I mean if you wrote something bad and disappear then that’s ok (likely govt then or some other group responsible), but these are the ones with NOTHING, nada, zilch, zero …..i mean just BLANK, what’s the deal??? Y sign up and create a blog……then **POOOFFF** … just like that and you’re gone.

It leaves your connected friends in a wondering state and frankly speaking it kills the enthuasism when one is excited to read your blog and check out new gossip, rantings, stories, jokes or whatever that you do…..only to be dissapointed upon clicking your link. I say……just delete the blog if you ain’t serious enough to begin. As the saying goes, "don’t start what you can’t finish".

Then again, I took into account the foolishness that surrounds people when it comes to jumping on the bandwagon……..yeah I guess that’s just it. The bandwagon, thats the reason…..

What your MIND can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE, it can ACHIEVE

Have you ever had one of those god damn days where everything just don’t seem to go right? Well I’ve had my fair share of those before and TODAY is also one of those days again. And to think I was looking forward to a nice Friday that I can just relax. Damn no such luck!!!

It began that i woke up in daze (I usually am until I get cold water in my face….don’t you as well?) and realise that I had overslept…..shit!!! (had a late nite out last nite…dinner in bangsar followed by playing pool till about 1am)

Next thing I realise was my left eye was tearing badly….NO i wasn’t crying ok?……looked in the mirror and my eye was like RED like i was hit in my sleep??? washed it out and put ice on it and slowly dozed off…..damn I forgot to call the office….oh well……ZZZzzzzzz.

Tutt….Tutt…..Tutt…. Phone ringing (voice blury & dazed) "Hi, yea I’m up…sorry overslept and red eye, will be in later, bye" …. CLICK.

That was how I woke up about 30mins after I dozed off. Well wash up and out to work. As I was driving out of my condo parking….my damn car’s power window wouldn’t wind up….it’s STUCK!!! …… SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! Noooooooo not now, of all times WHY NOW?????????? Called the office and told them of the situation (as if overslept was not bad enough) and I was driving with the window half way stuck….dust flying in my car

I went to the nearest EON service centre I could think of and the mechanic told me that I gotta go back to my regular service centre so that I can claim the warranty (thank god it’s still under warranty). I told him that I cant drive all the way there with a window like that….he helped me test and managed to pull the window up (suspect faulty motor). Now I cant use the window till I get it fix. Damn troublesome to open the door each time instead. (i think i get curses from other drivers in queue behind me sometimes).

Got to office and was in the office when I realise that I left my mobile in the damn car (went down all the way to the basement to get it again). And I miss lunch with my colleagues….darn it…..This is not a good day

Been trying to call the EON Glenmarie service centre to set appointment for fixing it on Saturday. Calling and calling since 3pm and no bloody god damn answer…..I am kinda pissed off at the level of service that they are giving (Hopeless, useless and really shitty!!!) plus these fuckers charges a whole lot more (like and arm and a leg) for servicing (bloody daylight robbery - cuthroat pirates). If ever i get another car, FUCK it’s not gonna be a Malaysian made (patriotism died when consumerism got killed).

Ok i got my appointment set for tomorrow. So, I guess i’ll just have to bear with it for now. I’ll update you guys on whats goes on.

What your MIND can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE, it can ACHIEVE

It’s another day at work and the LAN network is down…wait up….wait down again….alrite it’s up again……down ….up…..down……shit it’s like a fucking yo-yo …..sigh….oh well it gives me time to do another post
**Actually this post was written yesterday but bcoz the LAN has crashed and just restored.

I’m pretty sure that at some point in time all of us has set foot into a karaoke bar/pub before. It was a phenomenon that hit our country I think way back in the early 1980s where by it provided an outlet for people to show of their audio talents (which some has and some didn’t).

**Note: I used the term audio talents as those that sounded pleasant would be "singing" and those that didn’t were just simply making "Noises"

Contrary to what some of you guys/gals here are thinking, NO! I am not writing a post on Malaysian Idol or any idol at all. This relates back to my earlier post Mundane Monday. This time it’s about the interesting & funny Jonker walk experience post that I promised.

Jonker walk located right in the heart of Melaka city and just around the Stadhuys and A’famosa fort is a bustling street much similar to our Petaling street in KL. It doesn’t have as many stalls as Petaling Street but nevertheless it’s still quite packed. The stalls sell mostly food, cookies, stamp collections, and oddly alot of wooden handicrafts especially incense holders & burners. The shops were mainly decorated with wood carvings and an assortment of handicrafts that have a Javanese, Balinese, African, and Tribal influence. It’s a great place to look out for decos to fill those little corners in the house and spice up the interior with a Tribal or Balinese theme.

Now back to what really caught my attention (you see, I’ve not been to Jonker walk since 2003) was that there was an old building with lots of chairs outside the walkway stretching into Jonker walk. There were a number of old folks….and i mean old folks as in those in their 50s, 60s and above. Now here is a bunch of oldies sitting along a walkway facing the entrance to the building and….get this, there were watching karaoke performances!!!

Right here in the middle of Jonker walk at about 10pm, we have a bunch of oldies performing in a makeshift Open-air Karaoke….blaring and performing some Chinese oldies (none which I could understand). I could actually hear the blaring sounds in Mandarin, Cantonese and even Hokkien from as far as the other end of the street. There had the full setup, with TV screen, blasting sound system, chairs, a big fan…..and get this….even a DANCER!!!
The thing is…..this dancer isn’t a lady but instead some old geezer moving and gyrating his hips & body while waving his arms to the tunes!! He was also covered in sweat. I felt nostalgic and thought of the time when I was at a rave party. (Ewwwwww to be nostalgic at that sight??!!!)

If the Malaysian idol judges were here, I think Roslan & Paul would have rather be tortured by the toned deaf auditions and Kak-G would have had more wrinkles added to her face as she grimaces in pain. Thank god they set an age limit to the Malaysian Idol contest….else we will have to endure more than those stupid-tone-deaf-singers-that-cant-carry-a-tune on TV!!! (Seriously, What the Fuck was going through their brains??)

On the other hand, I think Jien & Cheryl would be having a hilarious time ……. trying to contain their laughter…..I know I would (sorry, Just can’t Resist taking a shot at the M’sian Idol contestants)

What your MIND can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE, it can ACHIEVE

It’s a Monday, yeah I know……the old cliche is Black Monday, Manic Monday, Monday Blues…..you get the idea.

I’m back in the office and doing work when i decided just take some time out to update all you lovely people reading my blog.

Well, it was a pretty hectic weekend for me, (hope you guys had a better one)…as my previous post, I was in Melaka for a wedding (no not mine)…..and Boy was it a hectic time….am still tired from it.

Friday nite driving was tiring as traffic was bad….I had a feeling that some of these people were heading to the wedding too (truly enough I did see a few familiar cars there … think they recognise me too) Melaka ain’t that big after all. I would definitely remember cars that kept fucking flashing their lights at me from the back to give way….not that I’m against it…..but for the love of god…use your fucking brain & eyes please……we are running slowly and in a queue!!!! Man I was wishing I had installed a projector lamp in my boot that when I just pop open my trunk …. it would flash the bloody damn daylights out of the idiot behind me.

These kinda drivers really irritate the hell out of me……I mean SO WHAT?? you drive a bigger & nicer car (i just drive a waja mind you) than humble old me…..that gives you the right to flash at every other cars that are deemed less valuable than yours??? Gimme your car number here and I’ll make sure when I get my monster truck delivered, your car is the first on the list!!!

Anyway, enough about that…..I reached Melaka about 10pm….and hungry as hell….I thought I could go for satay celup as dinner…..no chance of that as dinner was already packed in at the apartment by the host. Oh well there is still another day (or so I thought). Gobbled up the food like a hungry caveman (there was like a whole assortment of various chicken….curry, black pepper, roasted, steamed and braised as well…..it got to a point when I was slowly developing a phobia of chicken….Thank god there wasn’t fried chicken to complete the whole "chicken armada" or else I would be force to go vegetarian from that instance on…..Pheww count my lucky stars.

Anyway, after a nite rest the next morning was the "ceremony" typical chinese weddings starts in the morning where the groom goes to "fetch" or so called greet the bride to bring her home….(in caveman days, we just went out grab our clubs and swing it hard knocking on the gal we want and literally drag her back to the cave…..voila!!! Things were much simpler then). There is this particular session where by the groom and his so called best buds (heng tai) will have to help him gain access to the bride and in doing so there are stuff or so called obstacles/task that have been preset by the brides galfrens (chimui)…These tasks includes giving angpow, singing songs, eating stuff, and many zany stuff that is supposed to make it harder for the groom to get to his wife (did i mention that things were wayy simpler back then??)…..oh well, I never could figured out the significance of that ritual….as with the other so called rituals as well…..I just do what others do. Well suffice to say that the events that day were tiring as by the time the groom got the bride and then everyone convoyed and congregated at the couple’s new home (this was the grooms place btw)….it was about noon….after that was the tea serving and bla…bla…bla….It’s just too boring to write…I’m skipping it. Summary is that all needed to be done was done and lunch was catered (buffet style) and everyone went home after that.

Took a nap till evening and then our host/newly weds took us to the Portugis settlement for dinner. Ahh it was great…..suffice to say….the crabs & seafood was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S…..and spicy too (i love spicy food) Yummy…writin this made me drool…excuse me while i wipe my saliva. After dinner we headed to Jonker walk for some fun and to digest all the seafood. It was packed as it was a Saturday and I didn’t bring my camera (darn!!!).

The things i saw there ……well I’ll just save that for another blog….suffice to say interesting & funny too.

Back at the hotel, I was tired but not sleepy….lucky I had my notebook with me…..watched a DVD and then played a few games……little did i know that it was 2am liao….OMG…..went to bed quickly.

Next morning was dimsum…..oh yummy yummy yummy….I was starving since last nite/morning (digested all the food by 2am)….cut short…..ate b’fast then back to pack and get ready for the wedding lunch reception. (not all weddings are dinner mind you).

The luncheon started quite late and I was constantly looking at my watch …. cause I gotta drive back to KL. It started at about close to 2.30pm and done by 4.30pm……Pheww and I thought it would drag till 5-6pm. Reason for thinking this is because the luncheon wasn’t really much of a wedding luncheon (the food was great though…except for the lousy half-melt ice cream) it was more like a Old folks karaoke pub and line dancing performance. Through out the entire luncheon…..it was graced with various Karaoke performances from the groom’s parents’ friends…….suffice to say It got to a point I wanted to stuff the chicken in my ears!!! The songs were like from a non-existent era of my time. I could see the various faces begging for the sound system to blow up.

And if that wasn’t torture enough….there was not 1, 2 or 3….but i think 6 line dancing performances by the oldies……OMG….after the 3 one I literally wanted to die or get drunk (unfortunately I had to drive back KL so no drinking for me). So here we have blaring chinese oldies songs and golden oldies with old folk dancing right in the middle of the DAY in a wedding luncheon!!!……I pinched myself a couple of times to see if I would wake up from the nitemare.

It was quite a funny and interesting as well as akward wedding that I have ever attended.

p/s: this post is kinda long but I just had to share…..enjoy

What your MIND can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE, it can ACHIEVE

It’s a FRIDAYYYY people……..time to sit back, relax and let loose. Work can wait (unless your a doctor….then sorry mate).

Don’t you always get the feeling that Friday is the 2nd best day of the week….no offense but I think Saturday is still #1. Why? simple, I can sleep in till like lunch then watch TV till dinner and after that it’s drinks with friends and out for a nite of clubbing in town.

Oh yeah, not to mention about the loads of babes and chicks that I get to feast my eyes on….REEFRESSSSHINGGG ;P

So Go out and enjoy a little….just a little and save the rest for tomorrow.

Too bad as I gotta be in Melaka to attend a wedding over the weekend…..sigh….there goes my weekend.
Then again, there’s always Satay celup and I’ve got my camera…so it’s off for some sight seeing.

What your MIND can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE, it can ACHIEVE

Hmmm, I guess with all the hype that is surrounding me these days….I kinda got hooked on this thing called BLOGGING…at first sound I bloody damn thought if it was a new game that people would just throw ballons filled with some kinda icky-gooey stuff. Then I remembered, thats already named….it’s called WaterBallonFight…or something like that (don’t sue me….then again go ahead….I don’t care).

Then I thought a little more and imagine that it was a new type of wood found in some lost jungle in a far far far away …….. u get my drift……back to the wood….I figures it was a new wood species that was harder than most trees to log so they actually named it BLOODY LOGGING….as it would then entail more than a dozen guys to saw through the trunk and each time they would be working till their hands bleed (hence the term BLOODY LOGGING). I guess it was such a hassle to say the 2 words and soon it was just B.L.O.G and doing it was BLOGGING.

Hmm…. I think my creative power & juices was overflowing when I was trying to write that piece up there. Anyway, I like to thank your time reading this post and I hope to give more senseless material for you guys to read.

What your MIND can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE, it can ACHIEVE