Simplified ConfuJINism in Reality

To all my Indian friends all over……….Happy Divali (Deepavali), Festival of Lights!!!

To all my Muslim friends all over………Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!!!

May God Bless all of us and Hope you all have a great Holiday ahead.

Specially for Malaysians, Happy DeepaRaya!!!

We’ll I’ll be seeing you all soon……..but first, I’m off to Bangkok for a lovely holiday with my gal and then immediately Singapore for business meeting & training. How’s that for back to back pleasure & business?

Who says you can’t have pleasure before business?? So, I’ll be gone for 2 weeks……Keep reading

Fellow Bloody Horror Ghouls of the Legion of Doom,

May you roam the ghastly night with a hunger to fulfill ……. yes human flesh is what we crave.

Werewolf walk amongst the men
Sniff their fear and tear their might
Run the hunt to feast their meat
Tonight their blood we shall bleed

Spirits float amongst the night
Chilly air turns weak our spine
Silent whispers in my ear
To see them near is what we fear

One night of ghastly ghoulies
One night of mischief mayhem
One night of evil darkness
One night of murderous fear
One night of hellish doom
One night of HALLOWEEN………….

If you survive tonight………….HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!

I dunno about others but there are many types of friend categories:

OTHER-HALF-SOULMATE Friends - This is a category reserved for only the bestest best best of the best friends. I’m talking crap here…..actually this is the upper echelon…so called elite group of friends whereby….they are practically almost you in every sense……except they aren’t you. Confused? GOOD….so am I but I guess you get the picture

TO-DIE-FOR Friends - so called "heng tai" are friends that are they for each other always, they understand each other to the core…..not many secrets and willingly will do everything and anything when needed. There is no talk of profit or gain or whatever…..it’s almost "we share everything" philosophy.
These are hard to find and generally is developed over the years and have a trust that is as tight as a virgin’s hole ;p
These are the ones you talk to about your personal stuff….like GF, sex, marriage, all those real personal shit.

Note: these days, guys call each other ‘heng tai’ doesn’t reflect what it actually means.

GOOD-COMPANY-GREAT-TIME Friends - These are the ones that you hang out with on a regular basis to meet up for drinks and party and movies. They don’t necessary know everything about you but when you guys/gals hang out…it gives opportunity to just rant and chat about everything under the Sun & Moon. Usually not many secrets are shared with them. They know you…Like your attitude and have a great time with you…..but don’t really care if you go missing or have other problems. Not to say they don’t care at all…that’s just heartless…..just that they won’t really go all out just to help out. A bitching ear for you to rant to…….I guess.

SO-SO-AQUAINTANCES Friends - When you meet people, there are other people as well…..these are the ones whereby they are your friend’s friend, or even at times a friend’s friend’s friend. Not too say they aren’t your friends….but this is likely the begining stage of the friendship. Kinda like a "Hi….Bye" type of friends.

CAUTION NOTE: These categories are just pure fiction out of my bloody sleep deprave mind. DO NOT USE THESE CATEGORIES AS EFFECTS MIGHT CAUSE UNWANTED HARM. Violent emotional expressions and foul language might follow as a result of overdose.

If friendship were as clearcut and clairvoyant as the categories above then we would have lived a lonely life long long time ago. This is because, there is also many other types of friends that we just don’t categorise into any of those above.

These maybe one of those……ummm…..check it out:
crazy-loony but helluva fun party animal type
long time close friend but lack of certain social skills like drinking
flirty type of guy/girlfriends that you don’t want your other half finding about
nerdy-geeky but helluva smart ass that is good for projects/work/assignments
and yada…..yada…..yada…….etcetera

Fact of the matter is there are too many types of friends in our lives.

• Friends touch our lives in many ways than one…though they come and go but they leave an imprint on our character
• Friends leave memories that are embedded in our thoughts and in our hearts
• Friends walk together with us side by side through our life and experiences
• Friends are the audience of our soul……we play and they acknowledge

I’m getting nostalgic as I post this blog……but it is worth it as I would cherish all my friends and their friendship for many years to come.

I’m a typical Libran and we treat friendships like how the wee little folk of Ireland,Leprechauns treat their gold at the end of the rainbow.

My parting words to all my friends…..I THANK YOU AND I AM HONOURED TO BE YOUR FRIEND!!!

And to any new friends out there…….Welcome and please stay for the rest of the journey

was looking forward to this trip since 2 months ago. All was planned….eat,play,drink,sleep and repeated in that order for 2 days straight…..well that was the initial plan anyway. Good to have a plan…not necessary to follow strictly…else it won’t be a holiday

We started the roadtrip a little behind schedule…..had a healthy Dim-Sum Breakfast….Remember, breakfast is the most important meal of the day…..whatever.

Little hic-cups and last minute stuff…but nevertheless, once we hit the highway….it was the beginning of a great holiday….yeah the excitement was as high as KLCC I think.

2 cars…..2 silver Wajas……zooming and zipping through the traffic and tearing up the tracks…….Nahhh, I exaggerate too much, after all WE ARE SAFE DRIVERS………most of the times :p
And they had the nerve to tell me I was driving slowly……..Hmmphh….I showed them…..Catchup if you can :p
Oh well, It’s all good……I think…….I haven’t check yet if there were any speeding summons issued.

The roadtrip was kinda long……we made a few stops before the resort. Took in some local tourist sites….Yeah, cuti-cuti Malaysia as one of my friend said

We went to Gua Tempurung first. The road there wasn’t easy and had to play ‘Dodge the BULLshit’, the damn stuff was like on the road everywhere. I felt like driving in a minefield. Ok about Gua Tempurung, It’s believed to date back to 8000 B.C. and is the largest limestone cave in Peninsula Malaysia. It was amazing to see the stalactites & stalagmites….my first so called cave expedition…..we weren’t dressed and ready for the Grand Tour…..so it was just the Golden Flowstone tour that was dry. It was dark and I kinda went slowly on account of my acrophobia (fear of heights) and the steep steps. Phewww I made it through……SAFE!!!
Next round we would go for "spelunking"…..if your eyes just rolled and you have a bewildered look on your face and went like "spe…lee….what???" Congratulations, you can join the rest of my bunch which gave me the same expression when I told them…..They even thought I made it up. IT IS THE TERM USED FOR EXPLORING CAVES. So there, now you know

Next stop we went to the famous Sam Poh Tong Temple, it was built into/within the limestone caves of Gunung Rapat….but instead ended up at Ling Seng Tong Temple….I later found out that the temple is just further down the road…..I can’t freaking fathom why they built 3 temples side-by-side next to each other. Anyways, a temple is a temple to me…….so I went to do the normal ritual of praying and burning jossticks for….ummm….about a dozen and a half of gods and deities. It’s a form of paying our respects and asking for blessing. Don’t go asking me what I pray for and what language I used…..like one of them did. My eyes went rolling…and scratch my head trying to comprehend the simple question but truly difficult answer. I guess it’s understandable since most of them were devoted christians.

After that we made a quick pit-stop at the Pamelo Paradise……it was a long stretch of stalls selling Pamelos. The funny and really akward thing was that they had all these women standing in front of each stall and these stalls had they own numbers like 23, 88, 64, 888, 9, 999…you get the idea. All of them went like shouting "lengchai", "yes,sir", "juicy one here"……yikes!!! I kinda find myself like walking down a brothel that had all these hookers with numbers on the rooms. I must complement Perak though for their well-knowned ability of producing beautiful "leng-luis". Please note I said lenglui…I never said anything about smart or sophisticated…they mostly generate AhLians :p …. "IPOH MALI MAH" I guess the rest of the AhBengs would just melt their wallets away for them…….NOT ME THOUGH. These Perak gals were kinda sweet looking…..tempted I was but had to restrained myself and my "other"  self from straying off. We didn’t buy any Pamelo…..I guess the sight of the gals coming out of the stalls…ALL AT ONCE was a little overwhelming :p

After that we went to the well known Kellie’s Castle. It is an abandoned castle with secret rooms and underground tunnels which was the incomplete dream of Scottish planter, William Kellie Smith. It began in 1915 but construction halted with the sudden death of Wiiliam in 1926. It is a beautiful architecture and we climb to the top of the castle. The view from the TOP was AMAZING and scary too, REALLY scary….did I mentioned I have acrophobia??
We found 3 secret tunnels and 4 secret rooms. There was a Deer farm behind the castle and guess what?? there was just ONE lousy freaking LONELY PATHETIC looking deer.

We wasted…..nah not wasted…..just used up a little more time than planned. We proceed to our target destination, Damai Laut. We arrived there about 6pm. Along the way we enjoyed the countryside scenery of paddy fields and what-nots…….stuffs you find in a kampung.

We checked in into Swiss Court apartments and the first thing we did was swimming. Everyone changed and we got to the pool to swim…it was getting dark…so we asked them to turned on the lights. The answer that came was a suprised that caught me like a left hook on my cheek. They said they are no lights for the pool area. I was like What the FUCK??? Shit…..that put a damper on our spirits…..swimming in darknest….oh hell…Fuck It.
Soon after, we retired to the Sauna Room. There is one in each changing room. Ladies and gents, but we figured…what the hell…it’s only us anyway in the area…..let’s all head for the gents. The sauna was great…sweat it out like a pig…..I find it difficult to sweat at first…..my friend said I had too much toxin in my body….I guess it must be……or is it……hmmmm???

After a healthy swim and sweat ….. we bathe and then it was time for dinner. As we didn’t wanted to go out to town………we thought it was just too far and it was already 9.30pm. We settle to try the Ramadhan Buffet dinner at the Hotel. The only issue here was that there was not much left and they were gonna close the buffet in 30 mins time. We requested them to extend just a little longer and after some negotiating….all was agreed. The scene that ensued was like a pack of hungry wolves that went hunting. We went for every available dish, we grabbed….ikan bakar, satay, beef steak, curry mee, rice, prawn, crab, fruits, desserts, and everthing still edible……that’s what I call getting your money’s worth.

It came to a point that we just didn’t have space to put the food. I guess gluttony is truly one of the 7 deadly sins. We enjoyed our dinner and were literally stuffed like turkeys for thanksgiving. The only irritating thing through out the dinner was the band at the lounge playing mostly Black Eyed Peas songs…..and not doing justice to the songs. I was ready to give the singers a BLack Eye of my own. Word of advice….If you cant sing, DON’T!!! We headed back to the apartment for more fun and…….booze after dinner.

The night was young and we are all young…..sounds like an overdone cliche….but hey…it’s damn true. We wanted to start pictionary….but one person went MIA…….so called "night time con-call"…..we know what that means….so we waited. We played a few rounds of "chor tai dee" while waiting then proceeded to start Pictionary first……..we just couldn’t waited anymore.

Pictionary was a blast…….lotsa funny scribblings and it was a real test of our forgotten "art" skills. Really a good game that livens up the party. Why not? when you have a crazy gang and beer plus liquor….everything’s good

We retired only at 4am……man we were pooped. Slept till 12pm……had a light breakfast then off to the hotel. We went for a quick tour of all the facilities and activities avaialble…….decided to just hang at the beach. The beach wasn’t too encouraging…..same goes for the water as well. Played a little footie, volleyball, monkey :p

We tried to get a tan…..but I guess it didn’t happen. Oh well, to the swimming pool……or so we thought. SHIT!!! we gotta pay to use the freaking DAMN pool?? WTF?? This is totally outrageous. What a load of Fucking crap!!! It’s because the Apartments and Hotel are run by separate management. This explains alot why there is a gap between the facilities and service in the 2 places. Man, I was pissed.

We decided to ditch the fucking pool….seeing as we gotta pay anyway…..we might as well get our money’s worth…..so off to the sauna & jacuzzi. The cool thing is you get the whole place to yourself for one freaking whole hour……..hmmmm I should imagine what great escapades could have been arranged next time around
The sauna was alright….the jacuzzi was refreshing. When we were done soaking and sweating…..some of us turned RED like a lobster, we headed back to the apartment. Shower & bathe…….then off to the most important activity, DINNER!!!

We learnt our mistake and went out for dinner earlier……..we went to a restaurant in Kg.Cina and ordered seafood for dinner. Crabs, Prawn, fish, shellfish, clams and etc etc.
It was all good and eating with a bunch of spicy freaks is interesting as the only two words we kept asking the waiter was, "kak,ada chili?" and "sambal lagi pls!!". That’s what I call Hot & hilarious…….especially when the chili kicks in

We wanted to play a little snooker and Pool after dinner, but the actitivies room was closed. Ended up back at the apartment for more drinking and other fun stuff. I missed out alot on the after activities……Why? simple…I had a freaking sudden migraine attack. Pop two tablets…and off to LaLa-land I went. I was told that they had fun that night….Shucks!!

Got up early morning and had a wholesome breakfast at the hotel then back for a quick swim and sauna just before we pack to leave. After packing and checking out, it was 1.30pm. We decided to have lunch in Bidor, but halfway to town…..we changed our mines and had a last feast of seafood….AGAIN!!!
So lunch was seafood, we had fish, crabs, prawn, osyters, clams, shellfish and etc. So stuffed and still feeling the heat of the sambal on our lips, the roadtrip back to KL begun.

The roads were longer this time it seemed and winding too. Lucky we had lunch else we would be starving like hell.
Once we hit the highway, it was a cat & mouse game all the way back to KL. I clocked in at 192km/h, but I didn’t dare push it to hit 200km/h. Why? simple….I love my car AND I’m broke to have anything fixed.

We later had dinner in Vietnam Kitchen, 1 Utama to finish of what’s left of the liquor and yes, to eat again. We laughed, retold jokes, view pictures taken, and planned for the next trip. Efficient aren’t we??

Memorable points to note fron the trip:
Great company of friends for the trip…..especially if they love SPICY FOOD!!!
Wonderful SEAFOOD, SEAFOOD, SEAFOOD……and yeah, SEAFOOD.
Theme song for the trip "Black Eyed Peas - My Humps"
Theme words for the trip…. "Bring It On", "It’s All Good", "Fuck It" and "Very Good, Congratulations"
Pictionary is FUN, and definitely livens up the party…….recommended for 6-20 people groups.
Liquor, beer, liquor, beer…..and Ahhhhh Liquor
Swimming and sauna……till I looked like a lobster

Final words……IT WAS A GREAT WEEKEND AWAY AND A WONDERFUL TRIP.

It’s almost the weekend……Selangor is on a public holiday tommorow, Friday 21st Nov 2005……and I’m all psyched up for the upcoming roadtrip that has been planned since ….ummm 2 months ago?

YAHOOOO!!!!!! Ahhhhhh relaxation, stress Free vacation with Friends where agenda is eat, sleep, play and drink booze……What else would you need??

Car Engine……..checked
Tyres…………..checked
Brakes………….checked
Battery…………checked
Air-cond………..checked
Lights………….checked
Radio LOUD…….checked

Ok now that we are done with the safety checks……let’s move on to serious stuff :p

Food……………checked
Liquor………….checked
Beer……………checked
Mixers…………checked
CDs…………….checked
Camera………..checked
Pictionary………checked

Well the rest down the list are the standard stuff needed

Enough clothes….checked
Underwear………checked
Toiletries……….checked
Towel……………checked

Well, Well, Well, I guess that’s that…….I’m Ready

To all the KLites…………..Happy Working :p
To all the Selangorians…….Have a great weekend
To all out there……………Enjoy your weekend…..you deserved it :D

Drink and be merry……very merry……just don’t turn gay

Now where the fuck did I put my suntan and googles……hmmmmm

Weekend is upon us again….I have been busy that’s why this post is a little late. (it’s been sitting in my draft along with the other half-baked blogs)

I had a little triple celebration for my birthday this year….yeah….you heard it right…I’m another year older…AGAIN :p

Celebration 1: Family - Mum, Bro and GF.
Simple Japanese buffet dinner at Pan Pacific KL over the weekend…….had to do it early by few days as my mum will be going to China on the actual date. Dinner was great and I was stuffed. Thanks my lovely family.

Celebration 2: Rojak group
This was a small improptu celebration thanks to Lilian. It was suppose to be another small gathering for her….but instead it turned into a great small little celebration at my place.

Yeah, you heard it right….a small birthday celebration. Why the "rojak" group?? coz I had my family, 2 friends & Lilian (refer previous post). MOM & Bro was there coz she was leaving for China holiday and Bro staying with me. We had a few drinks, Ikan bakar and loads of laughs. I captured most of the moments on my trusty VideoCam.

Thanks to Lilian & my MOM, I had 2 cakes to cut :p (both also blueberry…..what a coincedence!!!) one cheese and the other chocolate. YUMMY!!!

Celebration 3: The Local Gang
Met up with the gang and decided to have something different for a change…..usually it’s restaurants and nice places but this time I chose Kanna Curry House for dinner. We had banana leaf rice…..and boy did we get stuffed….with rice, chicken, fish, sotong, fish eggs, mutton and all the other stuff.

So yeah I’m a year older again…..I’ve celebrated with housemates & friends the year earlier, with friends & colleagues the year before…..celebrated with a few close friends last year……and this time a celebration with International presence……that means you Lilian.

Whoa, looks like I’m on a roll here…..should I even start planning next year’s bash?? Nahh I’ll just leave it to the last minute.

Then again I might just go about it quietly……….birthdays give us 3 things:
1- a company of good friends & family
2- lots of prezzies
3- a Bill that will usually leave a bigger hole in da pocket

Parting Notes to all the rest………THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE WISHES AND THE GREAT PRESENTS

Life is indeed sweet at times amidst all the bitterness in the world.

I’m happy as my college friend from Indonesia, Lilian finally made a trip down here to visit us all and take time off from her hectic work schedule. Even though it’s a short trip…..nonetheless, we are all gonna make the best of it. It’s been a long loong looong time since graduation…..about almost 2 years plus.

As my guest and an old friend, a bunch of us from way back in college got together and met up. It was great….since most of us also haven’t seen each other for a long time…..it’s chit-chat and laughter all the way.
Big Smiles, flashing digicams, big-big hugs, and name cards were flying everywhere. It was a sight that stuff of memories are made of.

If this is the case, we should always just disappear and then re-appear once in a while. it’ll make things more interesting and have lots to talk/update/gossip about….especially for the girls

Plus her timing for this trip is just impeccable….arrived on the day….rather the night of my other friends birthday…..and leaving on my birthday. YEAH  you read right, my birthday….but more on that on my next blog.

We did a dinner and a lunch with her. Although a few late nites were also required…..it was a pleasure to do so. This includes drinking on a MONDAY NIGHT….yes you heard/read me right…..MONDAY NIGHT!!! We had a bottle of wine, a jug of beer and 2 shots of tequila each. Pheewww, A little dazed the next day but heck it was worth it.

Now what’s left is my promise to visit her and my other Indonesian friends…..It’s coming guys……It’s coming

It was an eventful Saturday nite…as far as I could remember……a little blur and still feeling the hangover.
I live and breathe the ConfuJINism Weekend Mantra……a true student to the end.

To refresh your minds…Please refer back to Clash of the TiTans post. Now here is Episode 2 in the epic saga of the "TiTan Wars".
As you all recall that in Episode 1….TiTans B & C got wasted and went out crashing which left me the only standing one….yup Numero UNO…ME!!!
I guess they got jealous and felt insecure that they have conceded their status to me. What else that needs to be done then???……..Round 2 ofcourse…what else?

This time around the tables were turned….and boy did it really turned. The setting and venue this time was at Chynna (next to the Loft).

We had a group there and tookup a corner….now here is the thing….our corner was next to a table with……you ready for this??……a group of AUNTIES!!! I mean these were motherly figures, a mix about 40+ and just 2 or 3 younger ladies. Please note that they were younger……dun mean they weren’t still old though. I felt really really weird man……I’m no bigot or racist or whatever….but hell man….it was really damn weird. It felt like I had gone partying with my mum or grandma at tat……yikes….that just sent shivers down my spine.
The only thing I could do was ummmm show respect and salute them. Why? simple….they were still partying at their age and they didn’t bother what idiots like me were thinking and probably gawking when good old "aunty forty" starts moving and shaking whatever is left of ‘em booty (not a sight to remember….I’m still trying to brainwash myself with lotsa pics of babes since that nite).

Anyway, putting that sideshow aside….the night started slow and it kinda got bored so a few of us (includes TiTan B & C) moved on to the outer balcony and started chatting. It was cool and nice, just chatting and lighting up a few ciggies…..then it hit. We bloody hell got thristy (it had to happen…sooner or later). So me and my big mouth suggested that we should get a few shots of tequila ……TiTan C took that literally as a command and next thing I know……we had 10 shots of tequila on the table….2 for each. Hey, fine by me….who’s to complain when you’re thirsty and drinks are served

Before I continue, there were 5 of us out at the balcony area.
Me, TiTan B, Titan B’s friend…let’s just say TeeTaNiC (a nick for those that weren’t full fledge TiTans yet), TiTan B’s other friend…ummmmm Wussy???, and ofcourse TiTan C.
Now that we know who’s who…..at least I do…u readers gotta figure it out ;p

OK……as I was saying, there were 10 shots of tequila on the table…..being the thristy gang that we were….we finiz it like in less than a minute!!! After that we took a break and I went with TeeTaNiC to check out Loft next door (Chynna and Loft have the same management…..more on David later). As soon as we got in there….we were both suprised that:
1-it wasn’t as crowded as it used to be (there was actually places to stand and dance…Imangine that??)
2-there was a few gweilos in the club…..enjoying themselves
3-there is still alot of AhBengs in there……this is actually no suprise

After a very short trip to the Loft…we ventured back and lo and behold….Wussy ordered another round of 10 Tequila shots. Smiles on all faces….and that round went down in like 5 mins. So TiTan B went and ordered 5 glasses of Graveyards…….by the time the drinks came we were sitting down and chatting with the Operations manager, David Pope (an OZ that runs the Loft and Chynna). Nice chap and although he was busy he made effort to chat with us. I was again feeling thirsty, so I being gungho ordered a bottle of Black label. I was still very much sober….maybe a little high….but nevertheless….still sober :p

Towards the later nite, David had more time to sit down and join us…….he even ordered us a suprise. I don’t know what it was called but hey it came in a big bucket of ice and about 20-30 test tubes. All vodka based and flavour range from mango, chocolate, orange and I dunnno wat else. The bucket went down in 20mins or so.

Alot happened after that…….I know there was still drinking continued and alot of talking loudly….we were high by then. Mostly thru the nite it was me and TeeTaNic talking loudly…and challenging each other. My ego got the better of me and voila….I end up drunk…..BUT not before I saw TeeTaNiC puke and pass out before yours truly, Mua

I may have gone down…..but at least I went down AFTER

Whatever happened in between….I was told it was just pure troublesome (Well, hey…..right back at you both…now u know what I went thru with you two)

Anyway, that’s what friends are for….getting drunk and wasted…then KNOWING for a fact that you’ll still in good hands

Sorry for the trouble TiTans
TeeTaNic, you reading this??……HAHAHAHA…..status quo remains….you went down first (Oh yeah…sorry to hear what got lost……I promise we wont repeat it again)
Wussy…..Thanks for your help and the nite was great….lets do it again….minus the finale ofcourse :p

And my last parting words….

Look out for Episode 3 in the epic saga of "TiTaN Wars"……Coming Soon