The Gathering Calls...

Playing MTG at Gopeng kind of rekindled my interest in playing it more often, resulting in me wanting to perfect my deck with cards that I need. So I went online and did some reading up on cards as well as the many editions that I have missed when I stopped. I tell you Magic is evil; just when I stopped, they came up with nice cards which could be so useful in so many ways. The reason why I stopped previously was that I could not afford it while being jobless. However now I do have a job and funding for the cards would not doable. I only hope Bee Lee would once again embark on the journey of card acquiring with me.

go(ne from Go)peng

I appreciate being at home even more now!
The things I did at Gopeng that I am happy about:


- Spent time with my beloved, though I wish we had more time to ourselves.
- Covered 80% of Seiken Densetsu 3 with Shawn. We were hoping to finish the entire game before the trip was over. Oh well, I guess it was my fault that I got sleepy after a while playing too long. I am losing my stamina for gaming as days go by.
- Played MTG with Bee Lee, Khim Sin and Max. I am actually satisfied that my deck could actually win and also put up a good fight before losing. It has given me new motivation to perfect my deck even more.

After experiencing the 'trip'. I would see it more as a camp now. Especially since there were rules that I did not know existed. I was given the impression it was just a getaway where we just went there to relax and do whatever we wanted.

It feels great to be back. Back to my comfort zone. Back to my habitat, and in a few days time back to work. *sigh* I kind of have a mix feeling between enthusiasm and drudgery of going back to work next week. Year 2008 is near!

Are you prepared?

go(ing to Go)peng!

Hopefully I can ninja images from someone's camera and post them here when I return. Apologies not being able to bitch for 4 days.

Cool & Refreshing

Ever used those shampoos that leave your hair a minty cool feeling after you rinse it from your hair? I love using those.

Yesterday while I was showering some of that stuff got into my eye. Now usually when soap or shampoo get into my eyes, I can stand the sting it does to my eyes. However with this particular shampoo, not only did it sting, it left that cool minty sensation in my eye everytime I opened it which was annoying. Kind of like when you eat mints and upon inhaling, you feel some sort of cool sensation in your mouth, only that this was in my eye.

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas,
Merry Xmas,
Happy Hanukkah,
Happy Kwanzaa.

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Woke up this morning to dogs barking and birds chirping. Wish I could have killed all of them. To most it may be a special day today that comes once every year. To me, today is Tuesday.

Oh and by the way. Those of you whom I do not acknowledge your existence, kindly remove my number from your mobile phones. You are wasting your credits sending greetings to me because I do not appreciate them and receiving those just reminds me of you and the kind of person you are.

Ammunition Loaded

Went with Shawn to 1 Utama to stockpile our foodles for the upcoming trip. I am disappointed that they did not have Super Rings at Giant. Oh well, found a substitute though I am hoping somebody else would be able to get it for the trip mwahaha.

The crowd started pouring in towards lunch time and let me tell you, if ever you want to get a glimpse of what the local crowd look and/or dress like, there is not a better time than public holidays. I am always interested in seeing how the many different people dress and look. It amuses me. Some of these people have horrible sense of style. Oh bonuses goes to couples that match each other, in a bad way.

Then there are those clones that travel in packs, dressed alike. You would not be able to tell them apart. So much for being unique individuals. Then again, some of them do try to be 'different' and they look so much worse. Lesser of two evils I guess.

I was thinking of buying some greeting cards today as a last minute whim and perhaps gifts for certain people that I treasure but seeing the crowd and idiots who clog up the shops doing nothing, I decided against it. Seriously. I saw this one lian posing in the corner of the Memory Lane shop trying to look cute and shit as if it was some sort of night club waiting for somebody to buy her a drink. Then there was another generic dude with funky hairstyle (refer to Rzeznik's blog for image samples) going around the shop not knowing what he was looking for. Probably was trying to buy something he thought would be sweet for a girl to impress her. Well if she was to his standards, then I guess it might have worked.

Ah... Christmas Eve. I shall be spending it either having a nice conversation or sleeping. Sleep... good.

Chupacabra

Yesterday, a bunch of us went to Churrascaria for our annual Christmas dinner combined with celebrating people's birthdays for the month. I tell you I can never trust people's overrated reviews anymore. The food was not that cracked up to be. Their beef tasted weird. As if the beef was thrown in a frying pan and cooked until its juices and fat came out and flavored it, giving it a horrible horrible taste. The only thing that I enjoyed there was the lamb which did not make its appearance often. I see that they control customers' intake of the food whereby the waiters will occasionally bring out meat on skewers and goes from table to table asking if anybody would like them. They then proceed to use their machetes to slice and slide the meat onto your plate. Having such a large sharp object so near to my face never made me comfortable. The table was also set in a way that people from end of the table could not communicate with people on the other end. You could say the people in the middle of the long table benefited from both 'worlds'.

I was quite stuffed at the dinner. Apparently the rest of them were not. They wanted to have McDonald's ice cream after that. I could imagine my face turning green at that point of time. What the heck, I followed them just to chat and spend time with them seeing that this kind of thing only comes once a year. Overall it was pleasant I guess due to us rarely being able to gather for dinner occasions like this.

Hopefully I can borrow some images taken at the dinner. Hopefully the camera was friendly to me, else you will not be seeing shots of my face. Perhaps that would be a blessing to some of y'all.

Sleep is Awesome

It has been a while since I was able to just hibernate through out an idle day. I can tell you it has never felt better. I used to take sleep for granted saying it is overrated and would have rather used the time to progress more in World of Warcraft. However I have been cursed with a very screwed up connection from my ISP and seems to be here to stay for a long while. Due to the connection being crappy, I have no choice but to find other ways of keeping myself occupied. Sleep is an inexpensive way and I think it has some benefits to the health. It makes me feel good when I get rested sleep. Unlike every other regular nights.

Yes, I am aging, progressing through life. Enjoying the simple things in life which previously I took for granted. It is so weird, that I do not act like my age. People my age should be like going out having fun all the time and not worrying about trivial things like sleep. Oh well.

Highway of Holiness

Came across this interesting article conributed on Digg.com about some evangelical Christians who believe a certain highway in the Midwest of the U.S. to have been prophesied in the bible. The Interstate 35; which is also known as I35, is believed to be the bible verse of Isaiah 35. The entire chapter talks about the desert having this pathway of holiness and that no evil can come near it. I admit that I have not studied this book so I am unable to give any useful opinions.

The original article can be found here.

They even have a video there, which I do suggest you take a look. After watching the video, then come back to my following words.

Watching the video, I can see that they mean well. However I think their approach on some establishments and their opinions of hoping them to close down is a little bit offensive. Although some of those businesses are deemed as unethical or even wrong in the believes, they should never ever have ill will towards others. Yes there are most Christians that mean well when they approach other people, but it is by their untactful methods which drive others away and even give Christianity a bad name.

FREEDOM!

I started today with paranoia expecting the worse; whereby I would be getting a lot of last minute work pouring down on my final day at work before the holidays.

Thank God that did not happen. I manage to wrap some stuff up as well. Most of the work wrapped itself up pretty well. Thank God for that too. I should try to think of what I can do for the coming holidays. Perhaps clear my room of stuff. Perhaps finish the DVD version of last years camp at Genting Permai. That has been a while. Hopefully I still remember how to use the programs for it.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha

Well the original plan was to go stockpiling today. However reality hit us hard. Crowds were gathered at those places. This information was provided by a reliable source so we did not even bother trying. In fact my cousin also said that most places were traffic congested. Usually I would not believe him but this time around it is viable.

Instead, I spent the earlier half of the day playing River City Ransom followed by a long hibernation from afternoon to evening. That felt great. I have not that great of a rest in a long while. Thank God for holidays.

Midway

Thank God it has finally came to the middle of this slow week. Thank God tomorrow is a public holiday. Tomorrow shall be the day to stockpile on foodles for the retreat. Mwahaha...

This quest would probably start off in 1 Utama, where they have a couple of supermarkets. Failing to acquire the stuff we want, we would then proceed to Tesco. I love living in my area.

Brain pain.

Preparations Must Be Made!

I was discussing with Shawn earlier this evening regarding the trip to Gopeng. I suggested to him that one of these days we will have to acquire food supply for the stay at the state of Perak. Given my past experience at that place, we will be needing it.

It was mutually agreed that the food rations would be only exclusive to us, while the rest can go bugger off, or in Shawn's words "See mood how first."

Decisions decisions decisions... I know Super Rings are a must. Probably some instant cup noodles too.

I Sense A Disturbance

Ever had that feeling where everything is going fine and too quiet? I get that feeling as my holidays are nearing. As if some sinister force will just ambush me with crap load of work before the work days are through.

Anyways I never liked December. I never liked the month I was born in. I never liked my birthday. I never liked the seasonal holidays. Bad things tend to happen to me in December.

The Final Week Before Holilolz

My head hurts. My belt can be reduced by 2 notches.
I have no idea what has been happening to me these few days. Either my pants and belt have gotten loose, or I really lost some weight. However it does not show in the mirror. Something is rather odd... Oh wow I just realized I can wear my belt to its tightest setting, and it is still kind of loose.

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I hope to be able to finish one job before Hari Raya Aidiladha this week so I can really enjoy my holidays with a clear mind. Working life is such a chore...

What A Busy Weekend

So last night, I went to Bee Lee's place as his mom threw a dinner party thing. I just love it when events are held by neutral people. I saw faces that I did not want to see. Wherever I went they just had to make their presence felt. In simple words, they got in my face wherever I went. That kind of ruined the entire night for me but hey its my problem. The food was alright, nothing great or super to shout about. I wish I could have eaten more. I do not know why I was not that hungry and got full easily.

Bee Lee then decides to make us; the YA members to sing Christmas carols when were unprepared and kind of unwilling. Those two points already kind of upset me. What really finished it off was the fact that Bee Lee did not want to participate. Needless to say I felt embarrassed having to provide the music for it, overall making me look noob. I was just glad that Enoch and Alice decided to leave in good time so I could follow them back.

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I hate going out to public places during weekends and/or public holidays. Going to Mid Valley today taught me a hard lesson as well as a reminder not to ever try a thing like that again. It took two entries to look for a parking space, and it was not even a proper lot.

TGI Friday's at Section 14 still has good quality service and fair portion surprisingly. That would probably the only decent outlet left in Malaysia should anybody be that hard up on dining there.

I went to the education expo thingamajig to look for Enoch (Sedaya) and Bee Lee (Doctor Jobs). They both were at their respective booths far from each other. What was funny was that neither of them knew each other would be there today. It was funny that representatives from each booth tried to pass me brochures and leaflets. They thought I was still a student. Well wearing my college's shirt did not help I guess.

One Step Closer

Another day is done. Another day of some work completed. One of our clients who has not really gotten back to me regarding their work since Deepavali is finally wrapping things up. Hopefully the next time they get back to me would be a final confirmation.

You know it is ironic when you are not looking for images, there seem to be bountiful of them. However when you need to look for images of certain things, they are nowhere to be found. Such is one of the challenges I face at work which greatly slows down productivity and efficiency. Sigh... I wish I had a good camera, the knowledge to masterfully use one and the freedom to take shots of whatever I think would be useful. That way I could sell them and make lots of money. Hehehe.

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Tonight, those of us from the Covenant Caregroup had a house blessing/warming at Jason's new house. Funny thing is that none of us knew about him moving to his new place until like a couple of weeks ago. It was great. We had KFC and Domino's. The main attraction for me was KFC. I have not had that in a while and it was about time I got my fix. Usually I would stuff myself silly and feel sick of KFC and not want to eat it for months, and then I would and the cycle continues. This time however I had to go easy on it as it was just about enough to go around. Was great though. I actually am quite glad I quite while I was ahead. I could feel myself bloating up shortly after.

We took turns in praying for Jason's house. However I felt that it was not enough as we did not do the traditional visiting of room to room and praying for each room. All we did was pray together in the living room which I felt was kind of insufficient.

Tomorrow we will gather at Jason's place again for some event called Matthew and Friends. Where each member of a caregroup is supposed to invite at least one non-believer to the event to have dinner and some movie after that. I am not sure how effective the movie would be, or how interested the guests would be but oh well, at least they get free food and also able to meet more people and enlarge their network.

The day after tomorrow, would be another dinner event held by Bee Lee's mom at their place. There might be a possibility of a lot of leftovers due to some of Bee Lee's invited guess that will likely not be showing up; as if nobody saw that coming. Sometimes I wonder why he bothers inviting those certain people. Hoping for them to show up is kind of far fetched.

Sometime next week, the Covenant CG will be having our annual Christmas dinner only this time it would be combined to celebrate my birthday as well as Jason's. Kill 3 birds with one stone. Since everybody is tired to plan individual events as well as prepare food for them. Ivy suggested that we just eat at Churrascaria; that way we can ensure that everybody gets stuffed stupid and not have to bother about preparing the food and cleaning up afters. Bwahahaha and since it will be to celebrate my birthday, I think I am entitled to a free meal. I am so not going to eat for that entire day.

Sigh... gonna get fatter this month. Gonna need to work out more. *grin*

Well Shit...

Here I was thinking how long the middle of this month is going. Then I thought about the end where I would be able to enjoy myself at Gopeng with my friends. Until I found out something really disturbing. Way to totally fuck shit up for me. It was going to be my wonderful ending to a year which most part of it sucked bad. It was going to usher in a hopeful and possible bright new year. It is going to taint the experience I have set up in expectations.

Now it will be difficult to address some issues regarding certain situations regarding certain entities because of possible hindrance.

I hope you're fucking happy.

Road Blocks & Progression

I am going to attempt to make at least one post per day for the months of December, just like how I did for August. I need to shape up my writing for whatever comes in the future.

So I was late for work today and this time it was really not my fault. People were holding a protest at parliament or something today and the cops made road blocks in a lot of places causing a massive traffic jam on most highways leading to the city. I was stuck at the opposite side of the highway of my office for at least 20 minutes.

I was glad that everybody else was affected in the jam even the people that needed to get to the office. That way I was earlier than everybody else. Today was a state's public holiday so almost the entire building I worked in was vacant. Unfortunately the only holidays I get are national holidays. Oh well. Not really a problem for me. What was a problem though was that the elevators were out of service. So I had to run 4 floors up to my office. Had not done that in a long while. My knees were weakened and on the brink of giving way and my leg muscles hurt like hell. My will power was ever strong that I manage to suppress the pain and continue marching to my office.

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It was a quiet day at work where progress were going at relaxed speed due to insufficient materials for the jobs I needed to complete. It is rather difficult to pull shit out of my ass when I am not even sure which direction I should be heading in terms of content creation.

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Again I am as grateful and fortunate as ever, that I was not alone. I cannot imagine how my life was going before this.

MY love and appreciation.

Technology is Wonderful

Finally, a group of people are researching on how to filter shitty typing for the internet. It is called the StupidFilter. My full support in making this a reality. No longer will we have to suffer idiots running rampant on the internet with atrocious spelling and perhaps even grammar.

Come to think of it, maybe this country's online posting activities might be reduced by a whole lot due to those people having frustrations on how to go against the StupidFilter. That is what it does. It filters stupidity. Sayonara suckas.

The source can be found here.

Symbiosis

I make you happy, you make me happy.

Withdrawal

I find it kind of ironic now that whenever I make a withdrawal from an ATM, I always see a lot of people depositing their cash. The ATMs for withdrawing are always vacant whereas the deposit machines have queues.

Again, upon inquiring my balance I discovered that I had more in reserve than estimated. I wonder if my calculation skills are really that bad. Oh well, ain't complaining. As long as I have more than estimated and not less.

Rainy Season

I cannot remember the last time it rained this significantly around the Christmas season. When I was younger, I used to think the rainy season around Christmas was our localized version of snow since snow is not going to fall here anytime soon.

The weather is nice, especially when it rains at night. Makes you feel like cuddling with somebody you love under the covers in bed, keeping each other warm and comfortable. 16 days left 'till Christmas. Yargh!

The End is Inevitable

Get ready to say goodbye to 2007. I was going to say that I hoped it would be an end to my streak of misfortune, however I realized and know it is not going to happen. Such is life. Do not get me wrong. I am not pessimistic when I state that. I know that bad things need to happen; some of which we need to take as opportunities to further better ourselves as a person, gaining wisdom and experience to handle more difficult challenges that lay ahead. However I was referring to the shit that happens in life where I just do not see the reason for them happening. An example would be getting assaulted by a drug addict or nearly being jumped.

Well although it is the final month, I have a good feeling that it is going to end very very well for me. Perhaps for the few of us who will be taking a retreat and return to Gopeng. That place is just wonderful. This time around it has to be better since we already know what it is like and what to expect. Plans have been made to enhance the experience.

Not to mention a few food feasting events to celebrate birthdays and Christmas. Ah, Christmas. I used to be 'meh' about it like how until recently I was 'meh' about my birthday. Perhaps this year and the coming years will be a whole lot different, for better.

Thanks Guys!

I want to thank Shawn, Afzal, Marcus and Ian for throwing together a birthday dinner for me tonight. I really appreciate it and feel very blessed to have friends like y'all. Except for Marcus. I had to blackmail/threaten him to show up.

I do apologize that I had to leave so soon after the dinner because I had to go back to the office to try to finish up on some work, which I was unsuccessful at doing. Thankfully God gave an angel to watch over me and helped me get through the night. Nyahahar...

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I kind of feel selfish these few days since the people around me that I care for do all these great stuff for me for my birthday but I kind of feel that I have disappointed them. For that, I am sorry... I make a lousy birthday person. I guess I am not used to it. Also I kind of blame my work. I feel so bad that I do not dare repeat the stuff I did anymore because I do not want to hurt anybody. Gonna turn emo now.

Twenty Three Reprise

Best Birthday Ever!

Twenty Three

Meh.

Beware of Scammers

While I was at work today, my dad got a phone call on his mobile. It was some person trying to scam him. I am not sure what the details were, but apparently it was for some competition and the works. My dad just plainly and repeatedly declined whatever the lady on the phone had to offer. She also asked if my dad could speak in mandarin. It started out as a survey. However the caller then proceeded to ask for my dad's name. Something is not right here. No form of survey would ever need to ask for personal information especially names. My dad at this point of time was already losing his patience so he just told the person once and for all that he was not interested in whatever she had to offer. So she said something rather rude to him in mandarin, something about telling him to go die and my dad cuss the fuck out of that bitch and hung up. That person tried to call back repeatedly but my dad did not pick up the phone.

My dad told me about it when I got out of work. I guess it must have been those scammers and perhaps even from overseas, maybe like Taiwan or China or something. The caller was pretty stupid if you ask me. If the caller wanted potential suc... er customers, she could have at least practice a little restraint and professionalism in order to convince the caller to hang on a little longer to hear her out rather than sound harassing and threatening. Well I am pretty angry about what had happened. I don't know. I tend to get very protective and aggressive when the people I care about are threatened in any way.

Anyways dear readers. Please watch out for dodgy callers like these. If they harass you, do not hesitate to lodge reports to the proper authorities, I guess the police in this case? If they would do anything about it.

Also beware of any kind of forms which require you to enter your personal information such as house address and especially phone numbers. Do not be lured by the promises of having chances to win prizes for merely completing slogans. Be careful with your personal information. Do not give it out unnecessarily.

Wonderful Milestone

I would like to commemorate as well as set a reminder for myself of the transition from a dark and gloomy life to a bright and wonderful one just as November ends and December begins.

These past few days have been a cyclone of events that pushed my being to its very limits. Or something like that. It gave me an euphoric yet divine feeling, it dragged me to the lowest point of my emotions and back again. Having experience that, I am all the more thankful of my life, what God has done for me, how He has blessed me and in recent times, blessed me in a way that nothing else on earth can compare. I am truly happy and eternally grateful. What He has given to me, I treasure, I cherish, I protect, I care for, I love.

To God be the glory!

Let me ninja a couple of verses from a song to dedicate.

There's no more waiting
Holding out for love
You are my Godsend
That I have been forever dreaming of
My angel from above

What is this feeling
I've never known before
That I should touch you
Swearing to surrender ever more
Thats what I came here for

Girls Vs Women

I read a thread in a forum recently and a member posted a rather lengthy post about the difference between girls and women. Unfortunately I could not relocate it and had to resort to google which only gave me a fragment of what I read previously.

Here it goes...

Girls leave their schedule wide-open and wait for a guy to call and make plans.
Matured women make their own plans and nicely tell the guy to get in where he fits.

Girls want to control the man in their life.
Matured women know that if he’s truly hers, he doesn’t need controlling.

Girls check you for not calling them.
Matured women are too busy to realize you hadn’t.

Girls are afraid to be alone.
Matured women revel in it-using it as a time for personal growth.

Girls ignore the good guys.
Matured women ignore the bad guys.

Girls make you come home.
Matured women make you want to come home.

Girls worry about not being pretty and/or good enough for their man.
Matured women know that they are pretty and/or good enough for any man.

Girls try to monopolize all their man’s time ( I.E. don’t want him hanging with his friends).
Matured women realize that a lil’ bit of space makes the ‘together time’ even more special-and goes to kick it with her own friends!

Girls think a guy crying is weak.
Matured women offer their shoulder and a tissue.

Girls want to be spoiled and ‘tell’ their man so.
Matured women ’show’ him and make him comfortable enough to reciprocate without fear of losing his ‘manhood’.

Girls get hurt by one man and make all men pay for it.
Matured women know that, that was just one man.

Girls fall in love and chase aimlessly after the object of their affection, ignoring all ’signs’.
Matured women know that sometimes the one you love, don’t always love you back and move on, without bitterness.

If anybody knows the original author as well as anymore additions to this piece, please let me know so I can properly credit their work.