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Kantoi

 
This song is the funniest song i’ve ever heard. I was searching for “Bitter Heart” by the very adorable and talented Zee Avi and stumbled upon this cute song named “Kantoi” also by her. The song is about infidelity and it’s in pure manglish. LOL.
 


 

Semalam I call you, you tak answer.
You kata you keluar pergi dinner.
You kata you keluar dengan kawan you.
But when I called Tommy he said it wasn’t true.
 

So I drove my car pergi Damansara.
Tommy kata maybe you tengok bola.
Tapi bila I sampai you, you tak ada.
Lagilah I jadi gila.
 

So I called and called sampai you answer.
You kata sorry sayang tadi tak dengar.
My phone was on silent, I was at the gym.
Tapi latar belakang suara perempuan lain.
 

Sudahlah sayang, I don’t believe you.
I’ve always known your words were never true.
Why am I with you, I pun tak tahu.
No wonderlah my friends pun tak suka you.
 

So I guess that’s the end of our story.
Akhir kata she accepted his apology.
Tapi last last kita dapat tahu she was cheating too.
With her ex boyfriend’s best friend – Tommy.

 
 

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Karma

 
I woke up at six in the morning with a full bladder threatening to rupture. I really should limit my liquid intake before bedtime else have the damn toilet bowl permanently plastered to my rear end. But that is not the sole purpose i jolted up from slumber albeit the excruciating pressure from my abdomen.

Deep, undisturbed sleep comes scarcely these days. I had a dream. An unkind dream. Ok, the word unkind is way too… kind. It’s more like a gruesome and appalling nightmare of dogs bludgeoned to death. Battered dogs trying to escape, screaming in agony with broken bones and bloodied smashed skulls, chase by none other than dogs’ best friend, men. That topped my Most-Fearful-Nightmare-In-My-Life list next to the scary-white-haired-vampire dream i had when i was twelve.

As i get older… yes, every once in a while i have to admit that i am not as young as i use to be. Muscle and bone aches aside, suspicious signs of unwanted spots and lines would not let me forget this fact. Please kill me now. Ok, ok, let’s not talk about aging and wrinkles.

As i was saying, the older i get the more strong am i a believer of karma. Perhaps it is because i see things that make me lose faith in humanity every single day. Men can be so cruel and heartless and unkind. I’m not a deeply religious person, in fact i’m not much into religion at all but believing that cruelty without a fair retribution, that’s the only way to keep my sanity. If everyone believes in karma, the world would be a better place.

I hope karma hits my neighbor hard. You see, they have a black coated dog which the keep inside the house compound. It’s a she and she is a supremely loyal dog. Then one night, the house was robbed with them sleeping soundly in their room. The door lock wasn’t broken into, the robbers sneaked in from the ceiling (you know the kind where you could just lift off the ceiling plaster). The dog was outside so it didn’t bark or make any noise. My neighbor threw the her out the next day.

It’s really sad to see her sitting outside the house gate waiting for the owner to let him enter. Everyday and night she would be there waiting. She got skinnier and skinnier. In the morning the dog will scour the neighborhood for scrap of food and rummage through rubbish bins, sometimes being shooed away, sometimes being chased with a stick. But every time she found food, she would take it back to the gate and eat it there while waiting for the owner. It went on for a few weeks. She got so bony that she couldn’t defend herself from other dogs.

I couldn’t stand the sight of the starving dog, so i would sometimes take left over food to her. But the owner saw me one day and didn’t say a word. The next day, they took the dog back into the house. i don’t know if it’s a good or a bad thing. I suspect my neighbor took her in because he didn’t want us spreading the news to others in the neighborhood. Perhaps he just wanted to maintain a good image. The poor dog is still bony and i still see her wondering around the area in the morning when the neighbor lets her out. But at least she have a shelter at night against the rain.

Last night at the food court, a pregnant cat wondered around the vicinity and happens to pass by a table occupied by a family of 5. The wife and a teenage daughter got up, disgusted. The husband took a plastic chair and bashed the cat. It screamed and scampered away. This happened twice because the cat came by that way again. The husband beat the cat right in front of their small daughter, i think she was just 6 year old sitting on a toddler’s chair, crying. What lesson is that going to teach the kid?

I hope karma is real. I hope karma hits everybody hard. What goes around comes around.

I just hope i won’t become a friggin’ cockroach in the next life. Mr. Bf’s kitchen is full of it and i kill one everyday… come to think of it, i hope i wont be re-born a mosquito too. Wtf.
 
 

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Eliminate Debt

 
Last month i finally cleared my credit card debt. I never feel so peaceful and free before in my life! The feeling of being debt-free is the best in the world.

I remember the day i received my first ever credit card in the mail. I was excited because that means i could spend on the really expensive branded handbag i had set my eyes on. It is money i don’t have but it doesn’t matter because i could always pay back slowly to the credit card company. What a mistake!

I ended up buying more and more items using the card and my debts began to pile up. The monthly interest fee was getting high and i realized that i have to find a way to eliminate debt.

Eliminating debts is not as impossible as it sounds. With the help of debt consolidators and by setting realistic goals, it is indeed possible to do so.

No matter what debt you are into, mortgage, car loans or credit card loans, it is important to recognize the problem, analyze it and get professional help like debt consolidators, should you have problem managing it. Debt consolidation can help you manage your debt by combining all the credit debts into one with a lower monthly payment. With this, it is possible to repay the debt slowly without stretching your financial budget.
 
 

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Top of the World

 
Now i can stop playing Bejeweled… for a while anyways coz i’m on top and i’m feeling smug about it. Muahahahaha! Now who’s the queen of the bimbos??? Me, that’s who!

I haven’t watch Transformers which really suck since everyone already watched it and told me it rox but it kind of suck too. I reserved tickets for tomorrow but i’m having mix feelings about going. The show is so over-rated but i need to watch it because i’m a 80′s baby and Transformers is part of my childhood and i’ll be able to tell my great grand kids about my childhood cartoon being a super blockbuster in the millennium.

Public Enemy was great though. Any movie that stars Johnny Depp is great. He made Johnny Dillinger almost too nice and likable and too good looking if you ask me. The cinematography is brilliantly done with a video feel about it. The female lead look very much like a Bollywood starlet by the name Pretty Zinta. While watching the movie i can’t stop thinking about how familiar she looked.

I had a great 3rd anniversary last week. We went to Hajime yet again and had a fantastic dinner. Next year same place same time, but i shall remember to reserve the table for 2 by the stairs less it’s going to be occupied by the gay Japanese couple again O_o.

I better go to sleep right now coz my eyes is itchy from the haze.

Mantra for the night: No bejeweled, no bejeweled, no bejeweled….
 
 

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3 Years

 
It’s our 3rd anniversary today.

Happy Anniversary to me and to you b.

3 years together is not a long time but not short either. One thing for sure is that it’s not easy maintaining a relationship for that long. It takes alot of patience, loyalty and most important communication. While we haven’t got the mix down to a pat, it’s good to know that we have ridden through rough barriers and survived stronger than before.

Yeah, but you know relationship lasting this long kind of scares me because people tend to take their partner for granted… or at least tend to take the relationship for granted. I strongly believe that it takes much effort and sincerity to keep the sparks alive. It scares me to see couples moving into the comfort zone. It takes the chemistry and excitement away.

Like i say all it takes is a whole lot of effort…

Ah, this is crap.
 
 

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Little Bastard

Little Bastard

 
I was on top of the Bejeweled throne for a few minutes. I had the highest score at 131, 700. Look!
 

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That’s until the stupid system decide to have a glitch and suddenly my score doesn’t count anymore. I was back at 80k ++ score. That’s cheating! No fair! I’m back at 139, 850 now, on the third place. I can’t believe i can’t beat those bimbos. My intelligence is at stake here. Wtf.
 

Ps// Please don’t be offended if i call you bimbo. I’m just jealous that you’re better than me. If there’s any consolation, the fact that i’m playing this stupid game means that i’m no better than you and just like you i don’t have a life.
 
 

Ok, let’s take a break from that pathetic game. I promise it’s going to be very interesting.

Last night we were discussing about Michael Jackson (i still can’t get over MJ’s death and i cried during Brooke Shield’s speech at the memorial) and other legends or icons of the decades like Elvis Presley, Beatles, Bee Gees and John Lennon. Then James Dean came into mind.

You know James Dean right?
 

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No? Ok, i  don’t blame you coz he was from way back in 50′s.  I wasn’t even borned but i recall watching one of his classic movie on tele when i was a kid. My memory is a little fuzzy but i swear it was “Rebel Without a Cause“. For some reason i remember very clearly the red jacket he was wearing in the show.

I knew nothing of James Dean back then except for how hot he was. I have a thing for rebellious guys and he was the ultimate rebel and the essence of cool back then. I had no idea he died at such a young age of 24, it was a real shame and that he died of a car crash. I had no idea he was driving a Porsche 550 Spyder named “Little Bastard”. Little Bastard, what a name!
 

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I did some reading about his death and “Little Bastard”  and i thought i would post some of the interesting facts here. I had goose bumps reading about the mysteriously cursed “Little Bastard” that killed James Dean.
 

  • Dean purchased a Lotus Mk. X, but it couldn’t be delivered in time for an upcoming race in Salinas so he acquired the Porsche 550 Spyder during filming of Rebel Without a Cause instead.
  • Dean hired legendary car customizer George Barris (he designed of the Batmobile for the 60′s era Batman TV show) that later painted racing number 130 on the front, sides and back with red racing stripes and the name Little Bastard on the back.
  • Friends of the actor – including Barris, Eartha Kitt and Dean’s former girlfriend Ursula Andress – said that they felt that the vehicle had a malevolent presence about it. “James, I don’t like this car; it’s going to kill you,” Kitt is reported to have said to Dean while the two were out for a drive the week before Dean’s crash.
  • Actor Alec Guinness (newly acquainted with Dean) upon seeing the car stated that the car was sinister, and said that if Dean got in it, he would be dead within the week.
  • Prior to his death, he gave away a kitten that Liz Taylor gave to him on the set of Giant as if he had sensed he would not be back saying “some day I may go out and not come back.”
  • While filming a commercial for the National Safety Council, Dean changed the words of the script from “Please Drive Safely. The life you save may your own,” to “The life you save may be mine.”
  • Anticipated the road race the next day, Dean and his entourage consisting of his mechanic Rolf Wütherich and stunt driver Bill Hickman hauled Little Bastard behind a station wagon to the race. Dean with Wütherich by his side decided to drive the car instead to familiarize himself with it where he received tickets that day for going 10 miles over the speed limit.
  • Hickman cautioned Dean and said that Dean’s silver Porsche was difficult to see, thanks to its low profile and silver color.
  • College student, Donald Turnupseed driving a 1950 black and white Ford Tudor cut across his path and failed to see Dean causing a collision.
  • Wütherich was thrown from the automobile, and suffered a broken jaw and leg but survived. Turnupseed  survived too but Dean remained trapped in the vehicle, which was crushed like a piece of used tinfoil was pronounced dead.
  • Ironically Wütherich who suffered from mental illness after Dean’s accident died in a car crash in Germany many years later after several suicide attempts.
  • Barris bought for wreckage with the intent of parting it out. As soon as the vehicle was delivered to Barris’ garage, it slipped off its trailer and broke a mechanic’s leg.
  • Barris sold the engine to Troy McHenry and the drive train to William Eschrid. While racing at the Pomona fairgrounds, McHenry was killed when his vehicle spun out of control and crashed into a tree. Eschrid’s race car rolled several times while taking a curve, seriously injuring him. He later said that the vehicle ‘just locked up’ on him.
  • Two tires that Barris sold malfunctioned simultaneously, causing the car they were on to go off the road.
  • A young man who was attempting to steal the steering wheel had his arm gashed open on a piece of jagged metal.
  • Another man was hurt while trying to steal one of the bloodstained seats.
  • The California Highway Patrol persuaded Barris to loan them the car for a traveling exhibition.  The remains of Little Bastard were taken to a garage in Fresno, and stored there. Then, in March 1959, a fire broke out in the garage whch incinerated everything except for the Little Bastard.
  • At a display at Sacramento High School on the anniversary of Dean’s accident, the bolts holding the car in place snapped. The car plowed off its display and broke the hip of a fifteen-year-old boy.
  • En route to Salinas, the truck hauling the vehicle lost control, causing the driver to fall out of the cab. Although the fall from the vehicle didn’t kill him, the Porsche fell off the truck bed and landed on top of him, ending his life.
  • Reportedly, while being displayed in New Orleans, the wreckage spontaneously broke apart in five separate pieces.
  • The car came off of a truck two other times. Once while on a freeway, and a second time in Oregon.
  • After the car tour ended, Barris had the vehicle loaded onto a box car in Florida and sealed shut to be transported via train back to California. When the train arrived in L.A., the seal was still intact, yet the car had vanished, and has not been seen since.



 

If i counted right, Little Bastard had directly and indirectly killed 4 and injured 6. Creepy or what? Despite so many warning Dean still went ahead and drove the car.

When i asked Mr. Bf and another male friend of mine, they would do the same just because it was a Porsche Spyder. What’s up with men and cars? If it happens that the car appeared again, would you be willing to give it a spin?

Oh well, I bet someone did a switched and the car is stashed in a garage somewhere but if it was up to me i hope the car will never be found.
 
 

Read more about it at:

http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/little-bastard-the-silver-spyder/

http://firefox.org/news/articles/1435/1/James-Dean-and-the-curse-of-the-Little-Bastard/Page1.html

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/03/video-tragic-irony-vintage-james-dean-driving-safety-video
 
 

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Adele

 
I’ve been neglecting to blog because i can’t get my fingers off Bejeweled Blitz. I swear who created this game is the devil! The truth is i just hate this game and it’s really a bore to begin with, arranging and zapping fake jewels isn’t really an exciting past-time.

The only reason i’m totally obsessed with the stupid game is because of the score. I hate to be a loser and i can’t believe those people with like 100k and above scores which is like insane. Do they eat Bejeweled, drink Bejeweled, sleep Bejeweled or what?

Thus the utterly confusing conversation with Mr. Bf every night while he play his King’s Bounty and i vigorously jab my fingers on the keyboard zapping jewels.
 

Me: Grrr! I can’t believe these bimbos have better scores than me!
Mr. Bf: You want to be the ultimate bimbo is it?? Haha… Shit! Wizard kena attack!
Me: Wtf. These people are not human! Where got people get so high score geh!
Mr. Bf: *grunt* Shit stupid dragon!
Me: Ei come help me with the scores!
Mr. Bf: Ok, ok after this round i come help you… Wtf! Why kena attack again! They are coming after me!…
Me: Your round always tak habis-habis geh. Wait for you to help i lose liao…
Mr. Bf: Ei they use the same tactic! So lame, don’t want play liao!
Me: F*ck la. I can’t score! #$%#@!@!

 

Haha Geez i need to get this stupid game out of my system.

By the way, did i tell you i’m a loyal fan of Ugly Betty? Love the show. Now i’m loving it even more becoz it’s from yesterday’s episode that i discovered Adele.
 


 

Ain’t she great? I can’t believe i didn’t know who she was before this. Such a great voice!
 
 

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