Modern Day Idioms

I was sooo bored yesterday, the day before, and the day before the day before yesterday. Since an idle mind' is the devil's garage, I mean the devil's workshop, I decided to come up with some enriching idioms that are quite related to today's life. After all, people are quite apt to scream when there is thunder and throw away food. Why not illustriate their points?

To scream at thunder
To do something that is absolutely foolish..who can ever deny force majeure? It is something that no one can accomplish....hell, I am the one posting about it because I cannot do it myself. I mean, the thunder just seems to get angrier at every attempt of mine to scream. Just in case anyone every succeeds, do me a favour and let me know.

To throw away bad food
Ok. This is something everyone has encountered with since childhood and parents seem to incessantly say, "Ah boy/girl ah! Please do not waste food ah! There are millions of people in Africa who are dying fo hunger everyday ah." whose sentences are punctuated with "ah"s in the end. I mean...why always Africa?? Now there's Timor Leste and New Orleans I guess. Anyway, my point is this. When food goes bad (when we do not finish the food on our plates even though our parents unceasing babbling continues and we "ta pau" or keep the food as leftovers) after a weeks stay in the refridgerator, we must throw it away. After all who is going to consume leftover food? Moldy and fungal filled food? My neighbour's dog? I think not. Instead of satiating their hunger, they might as well just die. Throwing away bad food is to commit a necesary evil.

Comrade Napoleon by Minimus of Animal Farm

Friend of the fatherless!
Fountain of happiness!
Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on
Fire when I gaze at thy
Calm and commanding eye,
Like the sun in the sky,
Comrade Napoleon!

Thou art the giver of
All that thy creatures love,
Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon;
Every beast great or small
Sleeps at peace in his stall,
Thou watchest over all,
Comrade Napoleon!

Had I a sucking-pig,
Ere he had grown as big
Even as a pint bottle or a rolling pig,
He should have learned to be
Faithful and true to thee,
Yes, his first squeak should be
'Comrade Napoleon!'

What happened on 26 dec i.e. post christmas mania

Finished Animal Farm!!!
Wow, that was such a fantastic read I think that I would reread it again tomorrow.
First of all, Animal Farm is not as childish a novel as it may sound. In fact, it actually is quite heavy to read as in readers have to understand basic principles of communism in order to grasp the concept of the whole story which is actually an analogy of communism written by the author George Orwell. It was actually used to represent the tyrannical and communist ruling during Stalin's time. Pretty impressive stuff I would say. The story actually can be quite amusing on its own but I had actually taken the time to do some research on it. Amazing huh? I take the painstaking trouble to do some research on this but I do not research on school related stuff. Brilliant.

Ate chicken porridge today, non-halal version...
School is in 1 week 1 day's time!! I am seeing forward to it. (I know its looking but i just like to disfigure the language...sue me)

Surprise surprise...hah...

Went for the midnight christmas mass yesterday...so...woke up later today!
Oh yeah, surprise yesterday night..i mean today morning....received George Orwell's Animal Farm!!!! wow!
This is a book which I will read...regrettably...more than The Bible itself...I am going to study it like a freak...thanks Alex!!
A book about communism and tyranny...lovely stuff. Perhaps I have taken a slight inclination towards idealogy and history.
Got a new pendrive...1 GB...as if the old one was not enough...but this is better!
Ok enough raving about my presents from my mom. My sis gave me one too. So basically, I was the only family member within this immediate family to have not gave anyone presents. So I gave the stale Christmas wee hours of the morning joke as a retort to what they might say...

What they might say:
"John, seems like you are the only one who has not given anyone presents.."

I, like the dummy I was, made this joke known to all mankind since the birth of Christ:
"Sad thing I did not make or buy any presents for you guys....but am I not the best present that you guys will ever have???"

Since those sentences never came out of their mouths, I was ridiculed by my mom who retorted...we did have a good laugh after that over sticks of ice cream..imagine..eating ice creams midnight pass, sweet stuff. Did a little smsing with an introvert and a Lek.

All that was for yesterday.

Went for church this morning...attended the later mass..11.30 since I could not wake up earlier after the blissful ice cream eating night.
In essence, the whole of today afternoon was spent at my grandaunts house eating and fattening up like a squealing pig. Not that I am fat...
Tonight is a dinner and boxing time at grams...presents will be distributed.

Though with all the hoohah of the Christmas season going I still find that 2 of the most valueable gifts God has given me is the gift to cry and the ability to love. That is all...sob!...rite..like I am that weak...am i??I cannot decide..why not you be the judge...

signing off
JohnKhoo...

Cinema Cinema Cinema

Went to watch Eragon at TGV today at 2.15...but of course there was work to be done before the outing with my buds. Vacuum the floor of smuck and dust rabbits. And best of all, no work done today! Perfect....-.-
Took some time off at 12 to walk to Wei's ma's car parked outside of school for a lift to KLCC. Thanks Wei!! (just in case i have not done so when you guy sent us home...hehe...-.-")
Had some rich-people-who-live-in-rich-societies food for our lunch i.e. Starbucks lunch...holy cow...(dey have those in India..do not say i am cursing...though I do that a lot...whatever..) and it costed like what? RM111.90...jeepers...the mocha was 11 bucks!!!!!!!! Enough for 2 meals at Sri Garden..(they do not sell cheaply too...get my drift?)
Worst thing of all, Wei's ma took the bill!!! Well , I will be kicked in the ass really hard...she took the 100++ bucks bill!!
Wei, if you happen to chance your eyes upon this blog entry, please, I beg you, remind me to pay her back!!!! I always feel guilty when stuff like this arrises..better stop pussyfooting around and pay up...

Oh yeah, met this new guy, former Sri Garden-er, Jian fei..if that's how you spell his name. Really nice guy, met him once or twice before in Pusat Tuisyen Kasturi..really pleasant guy...he joined us for our expensive 2 course meal at the Star-money-spenders-Bucks restaurant. Not cheap....really expensive stuff...why am I griping about them again..someone shut me up (or rather hit my knuckles...)

Eragon....some quite chock full of CGI show...not bad especially the dragon killing scenes, really gripped me. Not much to say about this film except that if you have read the book (I have not...) do not, I repeat, do not...once again, I repeat do not see the show. So far everone who has seen the show (Isabell and Wei Li are two that i know of) have said that they expected more...well...too bad...I have not read the book so, not much expectations...cannot blame me, I read stuff like Stephen King...vicious stuff that is...hehe...

Bottomline for today:
Achieved nothing to shout about except the fact that I may be able to go out in the near future...the possibilities are endless...as long as there is someone to fetch and drop me off from my house...:)
Oh yeah, no work done...I am pissed at myself...well
maybe except for the washing of the clothes, sooo freaking tedious. The washing machine holds less load compared to my old washer. Shoot. So, if I am washing towels, especially the thick ones, only two can be washed and then the spin must be supressed. Manually take both and squeeze them dry. Put one in to do a spin. Take it out after 15 minutes of spinning and 10 minutes of waiting for the automatic lock system to disengage. Put in the other. Repeat the harrowing process. Shit.

Duck, Dinner, and Song

Continued a little reading of The Iliad...this is the second time I am reading this epic and well, I found out that i appreciate it better this time. Looks like Homer did have some sense of humour.

Bla..bla...!!

Dinner at night...at my 外祖母...meaning my mother's mother.....sigh..it gets confusing with all these stuff.
Oh yeah, my mom ordered some kinda duck from the local Chinese shop..thus making up yhe forst part of my main title...duck!
Well ,we were having dinner there so....dinner!
And.....surprise surprise...some people including my cousin sisters went carroling...literally..they came to my grandmom's doorstep and we had a blast..singing!!!!
Oh yeah, another surprise...my grandmom's dog got shaved...
Picture this pesky looking pup from all fluffy looking....like having a shirt on....to, a really thin and poor looking mouse...naked like anything...he looked soo defenceless.
Quite opposite to the stupid pup who bit me 2 years ago.

Preparing for an outing tomorrow right now. Meaning, last minute issues are being discussed. I am sooo thrilled, ad it will be my 'maiden' outing with friends.

What happened today...

The christmas tree!!
Today, my sis assembled the tree my mom bought from Toys R Us earlier in the afternoon. My sis forgone her lunch to assemble the tree. The Old Faithful.
Well, the reason for her gung ho-ness was because we did not have a christmas tree since we were kids...so...my mom surprised us this afternoon by coming home to lunch which I cooked.

The Day I Went Sailing!!!

The highlight for yesterday, was obviously, from the title above, none other than, one of paramount importance, imperative in moulding my interest in the seas....
Sailing in Port Dickson!!!!
Started the day off by going to church.
After that, my mom, sis and I were rushing through Sungei Wang to purchase some items of importance....contact lenses and a new pair of spectacles for me!! To be collected by next week.

We were supposed to be in school for our main appointment of the day at 12 noon but according to Malaysian time, that means 12.20. And that is the exact time we (my sis and I) arrived at school. Wei was late.....-.-
Began the journey at.....12.40....
It was a long and dreary journey to Seremban's Port Dickson but we (Daryl and I got the 2 front seats in the van next to Sam) were constantly entertained by the chatter in the van. Ming took a nap if i am not mistaken...-.-" (just came back from Australia, she and Wei)




















The days sailing was filled with naval terminology, and my was it lovely. This is the LIFE!
As I sit here, typing, I still feel the tranquility of the sea. Calm and tremulous. The feeling of the sea is still there.
Great day.

Anticipation!!!

Today was not all that bad. There was no German classes today sooo....went book shopping! No, not that book shopping but textbook shopping. Sigh...they all cost a BOMB when we totalled our piles of books (my sis and I are in the same form...studying the same thing...do not ask why...).

Got a call this afternoon from none other that Samuel Lloyd Gibbs inviting my sis and I to go sailing!! Tomorrow! Wow, this certainly is a change from the boring days that passed. Daryl and Ming and Wei are also going though they are coming back tomorrow at 5 am from Australia. Wow, its going to be tiring for them both. SAILING on a luxury yacht. I better equip myself to take pix to post..hehe....

Signing off,
Khoo Wei Juan, John

Silence....

Was planning for a ground breaking watch of Naruto...(the tv 1...damn...it is 30 minutes and we have to wait for 1 week) but was rudely interrupted by my mom's plans to take my sis to a fashion show. Which I gladly gave my blessings to and opted to be excluded from the bandwagon. After eating a dinner of some spaghetti-like pasta...(it is called a different name according to my mom but they all look like spaghetti...so I do not really care) they left all the washing, drying, everything to me. Well, training comes early... and I gave silent resentment but it was never evident to them...hah. Still, fillial duties have to be fulfilled I suppose...

Conflict of today.
When I went to throw the rubbish and food leftovers into the communal trashbin i.e. the trash room (I live in a condominium and there is a trash room like any other communal residential areas..) and I happen to spot a garbage bag, untied, left outside te main door leading to the trash room. Go ahead, ask me. Was I pissed? Damn hell I was. Its people like this kind that I would detest living with. They figured that the building maintanence people would have to pick up after themselves like some maid servant. I mean, that stupid mentality "I live here and pay for the service, why do I have to do eveything? Let the maintanence people do it!" often puts people of this kind at the lowest of the hierarchy of WELL-CULTURED people though they may be rich. For which I do not give the slightest camel's ass about. Put these kind of people in a settlement in outer space and they will end up causing arguments. Piss.

Sleepy....

Woke up this morning feeling age get to me...eye bags and panda rimmed eyes!!!!! Guess who manufactured these eye bags and gave them as present....none other than Lek Ken Vin! Woke up by than irritating vibrating sound of my phone. Saw it was Ken Vin. Read...replied...waited for a reply. Guess what, after waiting for 30 minutes, I fell asleep. The next morning he sms-ed me and said he was sorry but he slept the moment his head hit the stupid pillow. Thank you for waking me up!

Basically nothing much happened. Except that I took a nap after lunch. Fat pig.

Do I have a life?

Today was the bloody same as usual....waking up...
Only thing was, today, I woke up with a stomach shattering ache...wonderful...my mom claimed that it was due to the fact that I ate too much Oreos...and cookies (mmmm...love them...pry it from my cold, dead, lifeless, twitching, grasping, sweat slimed fingers...).
So since the phrase "Mom knows best" really hit me everytime I go against her wishes...I resolved to curb my addiction to cookies....after I finished a packet of Oreos later this morning with my sis...beat that.
Spent the rest of the day doing nothing...i.e. reading...trying to revise Chemistry...attempting at teaching my sis Add Maths...Lord...

Watched a movie at 10 pm: The Devil Wears Prada...

That was all...hope all you social bugs are happy that I do not have a social life...haha
(I always end the entry with a happy laugh, life is full of surprises is it not?)

Harrowing Toilet Encounters Part 2

continuation of Harrowing Toilet Encounters earlier in the day....

Not the Best Way to Greet Your Mom When She Gets Home From An Equally Harrowing Day At The Office:
stupid boy: "Hey mom..."
mom: " Gruss Gut"
sb: "I have something to tell you...wait until you settle down lah...."
m: "Tell me now, is it good news or bad news?"
sb: "Uh, I broke your new shampoo bottle's cap"
m: "See..."
sb: *brandishing the broken cap "Uh, the damage..."
m: *silent.....

My mom then attempts to repair the cap with such vigour and intensity I can see her fingers red with her efforts....she suddenly seems like someone that I should have not pissed...(not that I do that always....but hey) and it really scared me....and she forced the cap wrongly too...

cutting the whole long shitty, sizzling, boiling shit story...I was in shit deeper than I could ever imagine...it was like drowning in mucus...only that it was kinda...hottish...warmish...
fine ..lukewarm shit..happy?

Great ending to a pissing great day...(I lack vocabulary...pardon my French if you are a religious person....)


oh yeah...my mom is not angry anymore!!!!hahaha....updated at 11.25 pm

Harrowing Toilet Encounters

Today started out promisingly enough....walking a bleeding kilometer back and forth from the condominium to school just because the security guard refused to open the gate and claimed that it will open only at 12....or was it 10...beats me. But the purpose of the walk was not to attend any hour long meeting or anything of grave importance....it was just to retrieve a document of paramount importance....the Form 5 book list for the year 2007!
Came home after sweaty and traumatic walk at 10 I think. So, the next thing I knew, I was in the bathroom showering.
Which brings me to the unfortunate climax of today....toilet blues...
Ok...I might as well be honest...I have a very bad history of toilet experiences as far as I can recall. One time I dropped something into the squatting toilet bowl back at my old house..a terrace...and had to fish it out. Best part of all, I had orchestrated a bombing run befor hand and so...out come the plastic bags..in goes the hand...nice smelling of roses...out it comes with the hostage...and some muck it managed to have the fortune to drag along....
Another time, when I was at my grandmother's house..(my dad's family) I managed to break the flush...it happened because I thought I needed more strength to flush it as the initial flush sounded kinda lame..i.e. the remnants of war were still there...so..the second time i attempted the flush...well..it speaks for itself...need I explain more?
This time I was faced with a more complex situation....this mechanically challenged hair shampoo bottle had kinda daft instructions...(or was it me who was daft..I cannot tell the difference). It said to open...twist clockwise. To close, twist anticlockwise. So, since it was a new 120 bucks shampoo bottle which my mother took the liberty of purchasing from our hair saloon yesterday, it was unopened. Being inexperienced in using fancy pants shampoo, I twisted the cap out of proportion and the bloody thing popped. At first glance, it was kind of easy to fix but I soon saw that the plastic spring obeyed Hooke's Law and it was quite thick. It was a task capping it back and I sat down in the toilet for approximately 30 minutes trying to fix it. came out of the toilet, problem in hand, I pleaded my sister to help me. Unsuccessful attempt...futile efforts...kilojoules wasted...damn thing still popped. Wish me luck in telling my ma. I am sure to get a load of shelling before she would let me explain myself...haha.

Hairy and Scary Sunday

Well, I attended church this morning like every practicing catholic does. Sometimes, one does seem to actually start thinking, am I going to church out of obligation or do I love God Himself?

The climax of today was actually going for a haircut at Sungai Wang. Or so I thought. Bought some new school shoes simply because my mom did not want my sister and I to go to school looking like rag-a-muffins. Personally I would like very much to put that little phrase rag-a-muffins in a more Frank term: Poor Buggers/Blighters. But since I am neither Frank or brave enough to stand up to my mother when she cuffs me when I say those words (exaggerating..do not read what he types!) I do not say them. Just doing my part in respecting my mother's wishes.
Oh yeah, went to a CD shop to buy Pirates of the Carribean 2...do not ask me whether the CD is licensed or not. The picture quality was good though. That is what rewards await you if you wait for the movie to be released...say...minimum 1 month. But the drawback is, the movie will be sooo old by then. Still it was enjoyable and scary...(I am a sucker for cheap shots...) plus watching the movie made it to the top of the climatic list for today. Was it not great?!

Well, other than that..nothing that exciting...made new friends with a fish, a bulb of garlic ( I was never able to tell the difference until I was screamed at at the age of I think 10 for not being to differentiate garlic from onions. Oh yeah, not forgetting to add to my sob story of yells for not being to differentiate a fly from a mosquito...they still confuse me even now..and Kim has a good laugh over that...hope she is happy) and some ginger. My sis and I usually cook our own dinner most of the time. Mom thinks we are independant enough, which we are. Guess what? I can cook too...I do lotsa stuff around the house..but I try not to be boastful but I cannot. We, after all, should be proud about doing things that others cannot even attempt to do until later..haha...

On Self Esteem

Yesterday, I had a handful of hours to my laptop and I decided..what the heck, I will browse some blogs. The blogs of notes are not really that fabulous so I took my chances..(rarely but quite frequently...there I go again..contradiction abound) and read some recently updated blogs.

I came across one that really got me thinking about writing this post. There was a post in this individual's blog that really sounded low on the self esteem side. Her mother has really high expectations of her daughter and came down really hard on her (the way I read it, well..it gave me that impression) and wanted her daughter(this girl posting in the blog) to be as good as herself (talk about arrongance). Until her younger sister came. Constantly praising her younger daughter, she compares her with the elder..this girl until she had a bout and a really bad bout of low esteem.

When looking about us in our everyday lives, I found out that this is indeed not rare. A minority (or majority) of parents expect their son/daughter to be as good or in certain cases..surpass themselves in their lives. We cannot expect everyone to be perfect. While writing all these posts, one might think that I am quite a matured guy (well..actually I like writing..or in this case typing but I am not that kind of person..yet..ask my friends...) but my behaviour can vary. I used to compared to others last time but now, my parent is more tolerable and does not compare my sis and I to others...thus making me more fortunate...unlike some people I know.

All cases of low esteem and suicidal thoughts coming right after that little 'virus' does not always blossom from finicky people who like to compare and say we must change this, we must change that..be better than so-and-so or so on and so forth. Low esteem also comes from, in some of my friends' cases...'failure' in life. Failures can vary....from examination results (which leads to some parents comparing our marks to our better peers...which I am not excluded from) and 'love' lives to severe psychological disorders which I do not know so much about...but I do know if you have the feeling that you are being psychologically affected with low self esteem..i.e. those nervosa kinda stuff..i suggest you consult a phycisian.

All I know here is this:
Do not..I repeat...no...let me say this..never ever feel that you are not good enough for anything or anyone. Everyone has a purpose to be here on Earth...be it repopulate the Earth..haha...or helping someone...lending alms..whatever. Hell, you might even be put here for the sole purpose of just making someone happy...i.e. your parents or me :). God never makes junk, He makes masterpieces...its just that people cannot see that purpose in you until much later or you begin displaying true talent in something. Let me give you and example. I think Picasso's drawings are weird. They do not capture my attention. To me those kind of drawings are just abstract 'art'. But if I tried telling that to the next billionaire who bought a Picasso drawing..(I noticed something...when an artist dies...his work becomes more famous than he/she ever was..haha) he would have scoffed at me or spat..either way. I mean...who can ever appreciate a drawing like this:
Looks scary heh? I googled Picasso in the images link and I got this. It is titled Love and War. Well..i definitely see war. It is disfigured. Severely.











My point is this...everyone is special in their own way. That is why you have to seize every opportunity life hurls at you...cocurricullar activities...relationships...studies. You have to experiment with life because in truth, it is a gamble. Franky speaking that is. Bill Gates must be a very good gambler.

Eventful

Woke up this bleeding morning with my mom banging at the door (actually she was knocking but I am known to spice up my posts by exaggerating) and screaming for me to wake the heck up. Then she thankfully left for work....haha. Spent the morning doing something useful. ( I will leave it to your imagination) Well..I thought the morning could not be spicier but it was certainly whackier during lunch. My sis cooked fish and vegetables (the limpy type) and we settled down and ate. As we were eating..she exclaimed at the dryness and 'biji'ness of the rice. (I have my own reasons to make the rice soo dry because the rice would stick to the bottom of the pot if too much water was added...it would be a waste..) So I suggested adding milk to the rice to soften it...then the jousting of words began. Before long...I had actually agreed to add milk to my rice before she adds it to hers...just to prove her point that it would be inedible....i.e. I would vomit..or puke...or blow chunks....when I ate the milky rice. I mean...the natives and the survivors of the historical world wars have known to survive on it. Other people in Malaysia even choose to eat durians..fermented ones..with their rice and they call it good...I hate durians...wait...dislike...
Anyway..back to the drama...I have eated the rice since one....and my stomach has not curdled since then...its a miracle haha...in your face. Wait...I just felt a jolt of something pulling my stomach...anyway...that was how my morning and afternoon went..:)

As The Days Go By......

Woke up this morning feeling refreshed.....at 8.15...face it....I am an early bird freak...I vow never to sleep later than 12!!! Why..you all may (or may not ask) do I wake up sooo early during the school holidays? Well...it nost certainly would give me something of a 'hangover' or 'groggy'ness whenever I wake up late. End of the story.
Finished The Dragon Lord's Daughters today. Well..at hindsight I thought the book was kind of good when I read the begining...when Averil and Maia were finding for bridegrooms...but in Junia's case..well..her life sucked coz Simon de Bohun died in the end when it was he she loved most. Well...looks like I had my dose of romance novels and would like to stop for a while. Now its back to Stephen King's and Vince Flynn's works...
Spent majority of my day using the computer..do not I repeat do not tell my mom. But still I did some work...
Now I am just waitng for some friends to come online in Windows Live Mess to chat with me..

On Relationships

Well, the other day I had a friend who told me that he was liked this girl very much and of course the feeling was mutual for her. So he had actually asked me what he should do about it. Imagine! Someone asked MY opinion on that kind of matters. Anyway I reasoned with him. If you both seem to like each other..why not give it a try? Well, you could try or just be comfortable with the knowledge that you both like each other and just settle for being really good friends. I mean, you both are still young and maybe you should not try something along that line so soon (I am contradicting myself..but I do not mind). But he in return said that it was either they both have a relationship or not be friends. Now this statement brought Michael Bolton's song to my mind as I pondered that statement. How can you both be lovers if not friends first? The main purpose of having a relationship...in my opinion...is because you:
1. really like that person...or adore them in any other way
2. feel that they are perfect for you...though only a minority of people get to find their perfect and superbly decorated other half
3. have been really good friends with that particular person and would like to continue your relationship to a 'higher level'. (sounds like some RPG game...)

Well, there are many other reasons to want to be in a relationship but the point is this:
In my sooo glorious and revered opinion...I do not believe in 'love' at first sight or any of that crap. I believe in really good friends but of course..a healthy start would be if you liked that person for the first sight kind of way...the way the person carries themselves, great personality...stuff like that. But not love at first sight. I prefer to call it admiration at first sight. So, to all who have the same problem with my good friend here, please be reasonable. You do not have to fall in 'love' with anyone you meet or be in a relationship sooo fast. Look before you leap and make commitments you cannot keep.

What happened this morning

Woke up a little late...(do you people call 8.15 late? I do...I usually want to wake up at 8.00 on the dot but hey) because of my chatting last night with Ken Vin(surprising..the dude usually sleeps at 11.30..) and Isabell(she came online...for some reason you have got to ask her about). And so this morning I decided to post an entry proclaiming that I would like to post more diverse articles concerning other than my life. Probably add a few historical articles or some opinionated articles.
Oh yeah...not forgetting to mention that I washed the toilet bowl for 5 minutes before posting this entry while my sister looked on in disgust and impatience at my lack of experience.
"What happened to the parts of the toilet that were not washed then?" you may ask.
Well....she washed the rest.

Just another holiday? Part 2

Today was a little less colourless. Learnt some HTML coding to beautify this blog of mine. Well maybe I could next ask some friends of mine to give me links to their blogs. Was a little proud of my achievement today I guess.
Oh yeah, and I read this new romance novel t0day. Had the usual spicyness of romance novels (no..I do not care to explain what kind of spicyness I mean..find out for yourself). This current novel is by Beatrice Small and it is called The Dragon Lord's Daughters. Well...you would certainly like to know where I got this novel and I can shamelessly say I got my mom's permission to borrow it....the brave boy! Quite interesting plot as it was 'bout 3 girls who belonged to the blood line of Arthur Pendragon and their exploits to find...yes..you have guessed right...the perfect husband.
Oh yeah, and I also ripped Strauss, Mozart and Handel to my laptop! I feel so happy when I hear the performances being belted out by my decent laptop speakers. I mean...Blue Danube never sounded sooo like music to ones ears (especially mine). Beat that metal enthusiasts!
Just my luck...my sis just had to 'accidentally' drop the steel pot of leftover chicken oil onto one of the kitchen carpets...I soooo dislike oily mats so I am going to have to put it to wash later. What luck.
Garbage has to be thrown later and we will just have to see what episode occurs next.
Listening to David Benoit right now.

Just another holiday?

Well, today was just like my average holiday...slightly monotonous. The human mind marvels me sometimes. At certain times, we desire something more or different. Then at other times, we wish for something else. Humans...as I will now draw a conclusion, are never satiated and never will be. It is the incessant arduous pursuit of something better in life that drives our very souls into putting up with every and each boring day hoping for something new. So in my case...this speaks for myself..no further comment about this question.

As of today...the moment I woke up..I turned on my laptop...as usual...just to see what kind of HTML tutorials they have out there to make my blog look a whole lot better....with of course...to no avail as my wireless...pardon me, my neighbour's wireless (someone whom I do not even know...I am leeching from) kicked up a fuss and left me stranded in cyberspace networks with no way of getting out except closing the window...which I eventually did. Hardy har har...
Attempted to do a bit of revision of school work and I discovered that I could not concentrate...something that happens often when I feel relaxed or when I am not sitting for an exam and I am studying at the very last moment. Somehow the stress mechanism just kicks in and I am able to study and burn the hurricane lamp (matter of speech..I live comfortably enough and do not have to see a gasoline lamp at night) for the following day's examination.
Was kind of disappointed of myself...but hey, that's life.
The entire afternoon was spent with me and my sis clicking the laptop mouse furiously while we killed armies of "baddies". How drab.
*****
For a change today...my ma had just called me to do something about my room as she sauntered in to hang her clothes in the so-called clothes 'wardrobe'...which is the unused shower stall in the bathroom. Well...it went like this:
"John, can you please do something about your room? It is in a deplorable state."
reply:
"Uh...ok."

Now where have I heard that statement before? Beats me. The only time I clean out my room is when my ma promises my sis and I a reward if we do...I sound sooo mercenary do I not? My mom never had to ask my sis Kim to clean out her room because...you know...it is always clean...unlike mine. I claim GENDER RIGHTS to keep my room dirty!!!!!!! Now what have you got to say about that?

I would like to cap the day off by chatting with my new-found friend, Isabell but unfortunately the wireless seems discouraging to my intends...so...sigh.

uh....eventful?

Well...today started with me goin to church with my family...my mom, my sis and I. I had the feeling that today was going to be one of those stupid days where you cannot seem to rub that ache or imaginative spot in your eye when you get up. True enough...God intended for me to awake from my slumber and well...I practically dragged myself to my mom's car. Then...the phrase smoke gets in your eyes came to my mind as soon as I saw the 'fresh' morning sun. I told myself "Lord, it is such a bright and juicy day today...I acknowledge it...now can You please make it dimmer....the sun is getting into my eyes and it started to ache".

So, we all finished the service at 9.30 and so....we all trooped to the car wash place outside the church...dadida....jack robinson...peanut butter and jelly....and we are done!..We will all leave the nitty gritty here.

so...went to Mid Valley to make a last minute purchase of groceries...spaghetti...riccotta...i personally dislike bassilico and my ma knows it...but she still insists that its good. well..mothers know best...right? All those times when I did not follow what my ma ordered of me...I ended up paying for it...I mean literally. Oops...i mean she ended up paying...

Had lunch with my granduncles and grandaunts. They are certainly very nice people to talk to...there are only certain people I feel inclined to talk to and interact with. So this means that they are certainly very important people to me...even though they are a different generation.

This 'luch' was more like a high lunch and high tea to me. There was a chocolate fountain there in The Regent. I guess I gained some kilos...mebbe...then went to one of my grandaunt's place to visit...saw some wedding photos of my uncle...married a girl from London I think.

So..basically that is how I spent my Sunday...busy..hectic...packed...sometimes it is kinda arranged..organised...other times its exciting. Hey! That is life for me. But trust me..you do not want to lead the weekdays I lead.

Witty things to say for today: Nothing..sadly...

Wie Geht Es Ihnen?

Aight aight....This is like my what? Millionth blog I tried to create.....hopefully it does not turn into shambles...just like how the others turned out to be. Well...maybe with all the boring days during these holidays I might be able to come up with a blog that I would not bear to let go. Only time will tell and since I have my school holidays....(I hate the term schoolchildren in German..Schuler...it gives me the feeling that we are still kids...) well....let me start with my entry for today.