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Bits and Pieces

Hello. Welllll, there isn't much to know about me. In other words, don't ask. Hey, but if you really want to know, one word: psychopath.. Anyways... I'm just another one of those bloggers out there, blogging about how crappy life is, etc. Pathetic, is it not? Life.

exhausted. Monday, February 25, 2008 |

hmmm... i slept at 2am, then woke up at 7am. weeee.

the walk i was going for was gonna start at 7.30am so like that lo.

at least it's for cancer awareness.


i dunno about you, but with the song playing then,
it was like they were gonna have a little striptease.
thank you but no thank you, guys.

dont worry, edison.
we're here for you.
you RAWK!
HA-HA-HA.

i was walking for aunty diane.
i hope you're getting better. :)

-----

the walk was unexpectedly very short. we were done in an hour. so ck and i went for an aerobics class! it was fun. i would have had some photos taken if it wasnt for the stalker next to me. also, i was too busy doing aerobics anyway.

so it was like this: we were in the middle of some saturday-night-fever-pose aerobic stance when he who stalks suddenly stumbled next to me. i cringed.

he joined in. that's ok.
him trying to do those relatively difficult stances for his a-little-on-the-verge-of-rolypoly body, but ended up just clapping and laughing like a madman? not ok.

i could have been sure everyone was staring.

-----

the thing is my exams are this friday and i havent studied a single shit. so i'm going to be MIA probably until next thursday. got that?

...it's not like i have a dedicated fanbase anyway. haha.






new LCD tv being delivered tomorrow. teehee.

24 hours. Sunday, February 24, 2008 |

3 different people.

makeshift.

Mahmūd Ahmadinejād will be after you...

twin power.

xpax.

do you?

swimming cockroach _ sadist.









i really wonder why i'm not studying now.

the GI kid. |


dont you just love him?


the hairstylist killed his hair unintentionally today.


mum hairstylist
erm... what hairstyle he want?
short.
short ar?
yea.
ok.
sometime later...
*reading newspaper*
*then looks over to ronan*
OMG!

a slap in the face. |

i attended a public speaking workshop. you know the one organised by the star? yea, that one.

well, everything started out fine i guess. it was soon the last hour of the workshop and this was the hour for the participants to go up to showcase their oratory skills.

the first one spoke very well, his speech also wasnt that bad. it's just such a pity that he's a snob. the second one was also great. overall, most of them were exceptionally exceptional. the only one that i felt didnt do that well was seumas. i dont mean to say he slobbered all over his speech, but compared to those others, he was just good. he would have excelled in school but not under these circumstances. but at least he went up(or should i say, down) there to speak, unlike yours truly who just sat there, heart pounding for no apparent reason. was i nervous for seumas? or nervous because of the possibility of being picked by

Pn. Faridah Khadil

and then ending up not that excellent?

but whatever it was, i didnt get my chance to speak because i wasnt "invited" to speak and i obviously didnt volunteer. i kinda regretted not volunteering because i thought i could do well too, not like the others but just well. in the end, i kinda doubted myself in another kind of way too. i just dont know... what i really want.

one thing i do know is that i am ignorant.

----

while still feeling so inferior compared to the likes of them, i travelled to the botanical gardens for a nature society outing. lame, i know. the main reason i joined the society in the first place was because i assumed we were going to plant trees and stuff like that. who knew that, in the end, we were gathering rubbish on sport's day. one of the most humiliating things to ever happen in my life. it's kinda sad. a naive form one student picking rubbish while being taunted by some other bastards: "hey! you missed that scrap of shit!" sigh. my life is in shambles already.

i'm crying.


anyway, met up with ck and sian kitt there. the club just organised a walk. boring.


----

ranjini came online just now. i needed to talk to someone, so i talked to her. and after i explained how i felt to her, she told me stuff that made me feel so much better. after chatting with her, i realised my problems were nothing compared to hers. i felt so petty. i felt so pathetic.

i'm sorry.

thank you, ranjini.

----

what i initially wanted to blog about was how i realised how uselessly untalented i was. about how i dont play no music. about how i suck in sports. about how plain lazy i am. about how i dont speak that well. about how i dont do that well in certain subjects... yadda yadda yadda.

but then i talked to ranjini.

now, i realise that i'm just trying to be perfect. she told me nobody's perfect. i too have told a lot of people that, but ended up not applying it to myself. isnt it ironic? ha-ha. i guess i really need that slap in the face. and a slap on the back too, if possible.



Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
-Salvador Dali







thanks for all the advice, ranjini. you really made me feel better. :)

listen up. Friday, February 22, 2008 |



i was clutching my stomach in pain.

red-faced, stumbling around, hitting walls.

and then finally... collapsing.

-----

...i was laughing. what were you thinking?

ANYWAYS
are you ready? ready to hear that amazing feat of mine?

okay? here goes:

i squeezed a one-month workout into a 5-minute session.

but of course, with the help of my mum and brother.
nope, they weren't torturing me. ;)


wanna know the secret?

i laughed like i never laughed before.

NON-STOP HAHAHA-ing.







dont ask about the details.
it's an inside joke.
what? i was obviously the only one laughing,
while those two looked on in disbelief.
i bet it must have been scary.
i think i forgot to breathe for at least a minute too.


xoxo
gerald



yuck. HAHAHA

DISCLAIMER: AVOID ME. LAUGHTER IS KINDA INFECTIOUS... i think.

shit. Thursday, February 21, 2008 |

this is shit.

what is shit?

oh.

KFC ads are shit.

especially the ones on the radio.



i'd kill myself
again and again
for every time i'd have to listen to it.

someone deserves a good ass-whooping. Tuesday, February 19, 2008 |

and that someone is my dad.

it's like this: i dunno why, but some people are still setting off fireworks and firecrackers, whatever. like hello people, face it. CNY is over. go do something useful like cleaning your stinkhole toilets or something.

so anyway, the dog gets scared of the noise. so it squeezes in through the front door. and by doing so, the mosquito netting gets torn. it's been torn for quite a while already. but someone chose to get angry over it anyway. and that's my dad! and in the process, innocent people get hurt. he shouted at my brother to get the dog out. he screamed at my mum to pay for the mosquito netting. his face got all red and if you were there, you could have seen the steam billowing out of his ears. and to think it was such a jolly scene before. everyone was watching their favourite chinese soap opera(except me, i was fiddling with my handphone). my mum even jokingly offered him wine like a wine connoisseur.

well, i just glared at him.
i was just disgusted. appalled. repulsed. i got up and just got out of the living room.
i'm ashamed,
yes, i'm saying it.
i am ASHAMED of my father.

he may be good and kind and thoughtful at times but his temper overshadows everything. and the worst thing is, he gets furious at the littlest things.

i crash the car. fine, you can explode.
i forget to bring my handphone but i'm already in the car and there's suddenly armageddon right in the driver's seat. what a way to die, right? i just hope it's quick and clean when it really happens.

the other worser than worst thing is, he's only like this in front of his immediate family.
he shouted at my mum because she forgot to run some bank errands for him.
when my uncle, which is his brother, happens to forget too, he just tells him to go do it the following day, in a calm and cool as a cucumber voice, as if it's no big deal...

...which it's suppose to be.


but in the end, we cant say anything. you know why? because he is in control of the money. if you do him any wrong, dont expect him to continue spending money on you. it's not like he would take any of our advice anyway. he's too high and mighty for any of our shit. i'd rather shut myself up than to be told to shut up.

one good example is when he does his own bank errands. so one day, he goes to the bank. he enters the bank and there is quite a crowd. so he takes his number and waits. when he comes back home, he'll be bursting with post-impatience and complaining to my mother at how degrading it was. at how... hey wait, DEGRADING??? excuse me but you have to wait in line just like everyone single person in that bank. you think you deserve the express lane or something? well, let me tell you something, mister: there is no such special express lane to cater to such stuck-up and presumptuous people like you.

another issue is when it comes to good things such as us children doing well in school etc, things that would make any parent proud. he'll be the one saying: oh! it must be my genes.

when it comes to the bad stuff, it's my mother who gets the blame. if my brothers shout and scream and quarrel, he'll be saying how bad she's bringing us up(and where were you when we were growing up???) if i woke up late, he'll be all angry and crazy, then he'll be scolding my mum at the end of the day when he comes back from work. you should be scolding me, not her! talk about the sacrifices my mum make...

sometimes, when i daydream, i make up situations, situations where someone will come up to me and tell me that a loved one of mine has died. when it comes to my dad, i wonder if i will even cry. grim, isnt it? *touching wood*

i really hope he stumbles upon this blog entry. if he ever does, i really hope this will be a wake up call for him. nobody deserves to be treated this way. one day, he's all happy and gives you a rm100 angpow. the next, he'll be saying how he wont support you financially when you grow up, even if you really needed it. i know there are people worse off than me, but still...

but reading this blog, to him, will probably be the case where the ungrateful and disrespectful son decided to men-derhaka against him. in that case, i'd rather him not stumble upon this blog. i really dont wanna be ripped to shreds... :/






to him, it's all about face.

thanks. Saturday, February 16, 2008 |

i had a really FUN day yesterday.
thanks guys.

maybe i'll blog more about it when i return from camp on sunday.

till then, byeee.

something. |

True love is rare,
so when you find it
don't let it go
just because
of a barrier you can't cross.


-Ray H. Wall





something inspired this.
something where someone had a special person worth falling head over heels for.

home. |

they've gone home...



laura

ryan

jack

---------


no more remnants of lau sai in the toilet.

no more bugging me when i blog.

no more shouting temper tantrums.

but...

it wont be the same.




i'll miss you guys...

but i'll see you all in australia in december.
:)








not forgetting ji ee and uncle steve.

i agree. Friday, February 15, 2008 |


haha.
;p

scandal. Thursday, February 14, 2008 |

i still dont get it how dead from the neck up some people can be.

you probably know about the edison chen look-i'm-nude! sex/ photo/ whatever scandal. they were apparently taken from his computer when he sent it for repairs a few years ago. is it me, or did he do it deliberately? he knew there were photos of him engaging in some naughty naughty acts with some other still unidentifiable women(???)(i will reveal no names, but you know who you are... hey, i bet everyone knows!) and he still sent his computer for repairs. what, your pacman game crashed and you didnt know what to do? now that's a real emergency.

even if it weren't deliberate, common sense could still have saved the day. common sense isnt so common after all. maybe it should be changed to uncommon sense or something. HAHA.

oh my gawd! LOOOOK at what you smeared on my dress!
revlon renewist lipcolour in raspberry rush?! have you no uncommon sense?!
i want them on my lips, not on my dress!
like, OOOOH MY GAWD!!!

my mum told me something funny regarding the scandal in the car this afternoon. she said a friend sent her an email containing the naughty photos(dont ask, i also dont wanna know) and what some bloggers thought about it.

one blogger wrote:
oh my god. it looks like a sea urchin!
i'm assuming you know what it is,
so i really hope this doesnt need any further elaboration

another wrote:
he KNEW this was going to happen, and still he didnt wax.

finally:
(i forgot. sorry, having a bout alzheimer's. really.)





hey, maybe it's probably just another stupid publicity stunt. like, who doesnt like a nude photo of a celebrity popping up once in a while? makes life SO much more exciting, if you know what i mean.

cutest. Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |

KAT

have a kitkat. Monday, February 11, 2008 |



this is (goofball)kit.

this is (supermodel)kat.

this is kitkat.


was at grandma's place when we got a call.

"the kittens have arrived."
everyone: O... M... G...!
(i love pastel colours)

------------

after a really restless period of
1. getting into the car
2. arriving at the restaurant
3. waiting for the food
4. eating the food
5. waiting for the slowpokes to finish the food
6. getting into the car again
we were finally approaching home.


dennis laura me
omg omg omg. i cant wait to touch the kitties!
they are gonna be SO cute.
ahhhhh... kitties!
wait, are they going to be cats or kittens?
kittens!
oooooh! cute cute cute!
yay! *claps hands*
i cant wait to see them, pet thSHUT UPem...

i says shut up!


kat is the quiet cat.
kit meows non-stop.
kat is darker in colour.
kit is lighter and has a white foot.
kat is kinda inactive.
kit never sits still.
wow. opposites.


this cat aint gonna be happy.

had to make-do with the mosquito netting to trap this one.

nanti the cats become dog's buffet.




good night.






and nope, their names weren't inspired by chun kit or katherine. nyahahaha

ingenius. Saturday, February 09, 2008 |

PRESENTING... THE INGENIUS DENNIS!

sorry, just washed my hair.

arabian nights

datin dennis binti hasmah

mutant

swimsuit illustrated

bound

cornered by paparazzi

powder puff

cheeky

spy

my brother







people! people! laugh and take it with an open mind.

headache. |

i switched on my computer and while waiting for it to start up, i found a dead fly wedged in between the 'J' and the 'K' on my keyboard. disgusting. i cant believe i'm typing on it right now. i should have sprayed it with bleach. if i had my way, you wouldnt see a single 'J' or 'K' in this entry.

good news: won rm200 yesterday.
bad news: won rm10 today.

a thought: blogger seems to be working fine today. its even autosaving.


one thing i still cant get over is the fact that somehow, other people get more angpow money than me. my cousin got rm700. my best friend too. like, what the hell. the most i get, excluding the money 'won', is rm500. sorry, but yes, i'm moneyface.

something humiliating happened yesterday. i was mistakened for a hobo. first day of chinese new year, so visited grandma's new condo in The View. there was a pool, so my brothers went down for a swim at around 3. i followed just to take care of them. anyways, it was so nice and breezy so i decided to lie down on the bench. with their towel as my pillow, i bet you know what happened. i fell asleep lo... i think i was having a nightmare, but whatever it was, i was woken from it by a security guard. i got up then he started questioning me. i think he was thinking that i sneaked into the condo just for a nap by the poolside. smart right? i guess he was right to be suspicious and should have been alarmed as more and more of the homeless people were sneaking into condos for naps by the poolside. then, i got one of the answers mixed up and he became even more suspicious. but soon he was talking about how different CNY is from Hari Raya. then he walked off. then i was: =.=


this is my DREAM car:

image credit: Frode Inge Helland

this beauty over here is the MGB roadster. it's a classic and is no longer in production. i long for it and am setting my eyes on it. i'll probably get it when i'm studying in aussie territory as the import tax here freakin' hurts. i dont think anyone in malaysia has one or would want to sell it so i'd have to buy it from japan or somewhere even further. but like i said, importing it would cost, like... infinity! so i'll be waiting...






still waiting i am...

well, i'd be damned. Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |

i had an entry.

i was posting it.

and then some stupid error popped up.

stupid blogger.

damn you.

the camel is now paralyzed: its back broke. Monday, February 04, 2008 |

my dad is in one of his moods where being in the same room as him would guarantee you a trip to the hospital to put that broken leg in a cast. or to the bomoh, to cast out that malevolent spirit within. OR to the toilet where you can sob quietly. i'd prefer having my leg broken though.

i have no idea how it started. he came home yesterday, fuming. it was around 8pm, and i didnt have my dinner yet. the plan was to have a nice peaceful dinner in some hawker centre with my dad, mum and youngest bro. but it was not to be. my two other brothers went for the buffet in rasa sayang with aunt, uncle and cousins. lucky bastards. i didnt want to join them because i thought i would be spending some quality time with my remaining family members without those two quarreling about stuff ranging from who farted in the car(it was me, ok? lol, joking) to who gets the seat next to the window. you would think that was something worth quarreling about when boarding a plane, but they were getting in a car. A CAR. A CAR, for pete's sake.

it was time to leave the house, so my mum told me to get ready. i needed to turn off the computer so it took a few minutes. but by then, my dad was already mumbling. like hello??? i was just turning off the computer, nothing else. anyways, once everyone was in the car, we set off for what, china street? (one of the hawker centres there has a great char koay teow) it was quite a long journey, like about 25 minutes or so. but when we turned into china street, we saw that the place was closed for the day.

dad said: stupid.

he didnt shout it out, he said it in a kind of quiet way where you could feel the anger, hatred and vehemence seething from the words. petrifying.

we finally ended up in pulau tikus. there wasnt a parking space in sight, so my mum, brother and i got off first. ronan fell asleep so i had to wake him up. he got out of the car groggily. it was raining, so the expected but kinda unexpected happened. ronan slipped.

old ladies gasped.
the man on the motorbike uttered: *toot*.
my mum cried out.

all in UNISON.

i just kinda stood there. it wasnt funny at the time, but now that i'm blogging about it, i find it hilarious. (hilarious by fergie plays) especially when everyone did what they did in unison.

beverage man: lim ha mi?
me: excuse me?
beverage man: LIM HA MI?!
me: oh, two iced milo, please.
beverage man: HAR???
me: =.=

well, it was quite a fast dinner. which reminds me, you DO know that ang mo ppl makan really slow right? they eat and drink and then gossip on and on about how that bright pink bikini looked on that old wrinkled woman they saw at the pool last weekend(women) or about how a drunk ashley cole, an english footballer, cheated on his wife(men). in the end, they would be eating really cold food. i hate food which turn cold when they are suppose to be hawt. a few months ago, when my aunt came back from australia, we went out for dinner at another hawker centre together. and as the malaysians we are, we ate fast. my aunt was shocked. after years of being accustomed to eating like a sloth in australia, she couldnt comprehend the speed at which we were eating. so she also had to fight and snatch for her share of food. it was only later when she related her experience to us did we laugh.

that was yesterday. today was the day when the final straw broke the camel's back. as good-but-not-that-good catholic children, my brothers and i have to go for sunday school. everything seemed ok at first. but then towards the end of class, i got a phone call. it was my mum. she said that i was to abort my mission to gurney plaza and that i was to get out of class and into her car immediately. something was seriously wrong.

i got into the car and my mum was laughing. so much for something was seriously wrong. she said that dad finally blew his top. why? this is it. this was the final straw:

a little boy named ronan
was playing with his two brothers in the playground near church.
they were having so much fun, until...
RONAN STEPPED ON DOG POOP.
worried, he tried to scrape the disgusting muck off on the grass
but to no avail.
then their parents came.
the impatient father meant he had no more time for another attempt.
they got into the car.
then, something happened.
a nuclear explosion occured within the car
and everyone within a 1500km radius died on the spot.
5% survived
only to turn into mutant zombies later on.

i found it quite funny too. but it meant one thing: no more going to gurney plaza. but turns out it was a blessing in disguise. i got to buy a new pair of nike shoes in the end! we went to fuel up the car, went for a car wash and stopped at island plaza for my shoes, lunch and groceries. love my new shoes!




my mum laughed at my confirmation name.

i've got my new shoes. |

woke up cold one Tuesday
i'm looking tired and feeling quite sick
i felt like there was
something missing
in my day to day life
so i
quickly opened the wardrobe
pulled out some jeans and a t-shirt that seemed clean
topped it off with a pair of old shoes that were ripped around the seams
and i thought
these shoes just don't suit me

hey, i put some new shoes on
and suddenly everything is right
i said
hey, i put some new shoes on and everybody's smiling
it's so inviting
oh, short on money
but long on time
slowly strolling in the sweet sunshine
and i'm running late and i don't need an excuse to wear in my brand new shoes...



paris-inspired.

running... through a cemetery. Sunday, February 03, 2008 |

if you were somehow at the protestant cemetery in town at around 5pm today, you would have seen a teenager running. running from what? you wouldnt know.

eeek... my pontianak-attracting flower!

well, it was me who was running. and nope, i wasnt being chased by ghosts with british accents or anything. i was just searching for my cousin and uncle. at first, it was my cousin who went looking for his dad. but somehow, they both wandered to some place in the cemetery where even my aunt's shrieks and shouts couldnt reach them. so my mum told me to go and find them. i ran and ran. while i was running, i imagined i was in a scene where the victim was about to be gobbled up by some really ugly zombies. occasional childish-ness doesnt hurt right? so you're wondering what the heck we were doing in a protestant cemetery? oh nothing really. we just wanted to go dig up some british bones and burn them with salt. we were just passing by and thought we would have some fun. impulsive, isnt it?

before that cheerful cemetery visit, we went for a tour in cheong fatt tze mansion. you know, the indigo blue building near st. xavier's? yep, we went there... for the tour. it's a bit embarrassing when penangites like my mother, aunt and i dont bother about one of our state's most famous heritage sites. i mean, penangites have no reason not to know about their very own heritage, right? i must admit that the latter half of the tour was quite boring but the architecture was amazing. the traditional chinese elements within the house were so... traditional. it was like being transported back into the late 1800s and early 1900s. lovely. do visit it if you have the chance, especially you penangites. shame on you.