Slowcatchupkuan

Learn How To Swim

Posted by slowcatchupkuan On October - 17 - 2007 0 Comment

My google search for keywords “Learn How To Swim” returned a wikiHow on “How To Safely Swim With Piranhas“. CLICK HERE.

Who in the right mind would want to swim with a school of flesh eating fishes? Apparently people in Amazon do.

Eventhough there’s no piranhas here in Malaysia (is there?), it doesn’t hurt to broaden the mind on the matter. Here is moi’s summarized version:-

STEPS TO SURVIVE FROM PIRANHAS

1) Know where piranhas live.
Piranhas are freshwater fish, live only in South America and hates cold water.

2) Avoid desperate piranhas.
Piranhas normally are no danger to human but they get desperate during dry season. So don’t play play in the water when water levels drop.

3) Stay away from ponds or anything that resembles a lagoon.
Piranhas are good at high jump and karate kick bite. Peek at your own risk!

4) Wait until night to enter the water.
Piranhas hunt by day and sleep by night like humans. But beware of other strange carnivorous creatures in the water at night. Oh boy…

5) Stay out of the water if you have an open, bleeding cut.
Piranhas are like Jaws.

6) Avoid making a fuss.
Piranhas also are like men. Nag and be killed.

7) Create a diversion.
Bring some meat or carcass to feed them. It will run out in only few minutes. When all else failed, throw your partner in and save yourself.

Hmmm… maybe these fishes can help me get rid of some excess cholesterol… i wonder…

What I’ve Been Up To Lately

Posted by slowcatchupkuan On October - 17 - 2007 0 Comment

Being an all-time typical city girl, i heaven forbids can’t ride a bicycle, climb a tree or swim even if there were bunch of snarling dogs or starving piranhas at my tail.

I also can’t recognize streets and roads…. can’t remember landmarks… so that means that i can’t really drive… Uhm… yeah and that means my being-a-city-girl-excuse is just a crappy baloney excuse for not being able to multitask. Laugh all you want, i don’t care *haha watever.

Stop it already…geez!

Anyway, in my desperate search for a fool-proof sutra to loose all the excess baggage i call F.A.T (Figure Attacking Tyrant) which is in the danger of transforming my used-to-be medium-size waist into a full blown tree trunk, i finally willingly explored the art of swimming. Very exaggerating i know but fighting F.A.T is a really big deal to me to make up for all the orgasm inducing food i’d been consuming. *blame it on EatAllYouCanShung! Basically this F.A.T program is so that i can continue to munch on heavenly food … and coz lately i’d been having all kinda old-people-aches and i need more exercise *wakaka

I forced the culprit to teach me swim. Fortunately the pool at his condo’s vicinity is often occupied mostly by kids so no adults could point at me and laugh… err…only children could point at me and laugh… -_-”

Little did i know the hero who was suppose to teach me to swim like a fish, can’t even paddle like a dog too well! *i’m not laughing at you dear. i think its cute hahahaha. We ended up playing a fool in the pool where BlurryHunniee pretended to be Spiderman, we pretended to synchronize swim and all of us had underwater running competition.

In the end i’ve got to give credit to EatAllYouCanShung coz he got the hang of it without any help after 2 trips to the pool. BlurryHunniee will continue to do theater in the water. As for me, i am still fighting the pool current like a drowning frog. Maybe 2 more trips will earn me a blue ribbon for dog paddling?

I Went To J.Co Donuts & Coffee

Posted by slowcatchupkuan On October - 15 - 2007 2 Comments

not because everyone is going and definitely not because i am that kiasu so that i’ve gotta have what everyone else is having. I went there coz i love donuts. Good reason enough?

So here goes a short one.

I went there *duh! Saw the huge outlet’s J.Co‘s sign. Said to myself ‘Yay! Finally can try new donuts since Big Apple was..err… so-so only’. Walked in.

J.Co

Fuck! Why so many kiasu people again?? Fortunately, the shop was not as warm as the Big Apple so i didn’t perspire like a hot pig baking in the sun. The outlet was exactly the same concept as the Big Apple except that J.Co has better design.

Not-kiasu me behind kiasu people

Excellent service. Friendly staff. Another thing i noticed was that they have paper boxes that fits 1, 2, or whatever number of donuts that you are purchasing. Big Apple only have boxes for 1/2 and 1 dozen pieces so if you buy less, they only provide a transparent plastic case.

Another good point is that they have something like a cafe so customers could buy some drinks and enjoy the donuts they bought indoors.

BerryBlue, MissGreenT, Oreology

Gotten myself Berry Blue, Miss Green T, Oreology which cost RM2.30 each. The donut itself is fluffier than Big Apples‘. At least the toppings did not cover the taste of the donuts so i give them that. Berry Blue was kinda sweet and i didn’t really like it. Miss Green T was just plain weird and it felt like taking medicine coz the green tea flavor was way too strong. Oreology was nice which turned out to be a big surprise coz i thought it’ll be too sweet initially!

There you go. I’m done with my honest comments.

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I’m in great danger of turning my blog into a food blog with all my postings about food! I thought of starting a separate blog to post about sumptuous mouth watering food so i could be on the bright path towards being a well known food critic *yeah right! but i am too lazy to maintain so many so… too bad. Just live with my rojak blog ok *wakaka.

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J.Co Donuts & Coffee
LL1.05,
Pavilion KL,
168, Jalan Bukit Bintang,
55100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: +60321417751

Adorable MommyTeddy

Posted by slowcatchupkuan On October - 15 - 2007 0 Comment

Sometimes my mom could be so adorably a joker.

MommyTeddy: Take so many Guardian brochure for what?
KidCheng: Err… donno. Can recycle wat…
MommyTeddy: Eh… that much can only get few cents la. You always do nonsense…
KidCheng: Sikit sikit lama lama jadi bukit ma…
MommyTeddy: Your head. Sikit sikit until when? Not ambitious at all! Should think of bukit jadi bukit…
Me: Err… gunung is it?
MommyTeddy: Ya ya. Bukit bukit jadi gunung.
Me, KidCheng, BlurryHunniee: -_-”

Oh! Btw, Cmate was so kind to award me my first badge! I had put it up on the side bar ya. *Thanks you so muchie!

David Copperfield Master of Illusionist

Posted by slowcatchupkuan On October - 14 - 2007 7 Comments

Master illusionist David Copperfield will be thrilling Malaysian fans with his magic tricks and illusions this coming Oct 30 and 31 as part of his David Copperfield World of Wonders tour… and i’ll be one of the many Malaysians who are going to watch it!

Remember those great illusions where he made the Statue of Liberty disappear and walked through the Great Wall of China? Well i do!

Can’t believe i’ll have the chance to relive those good ol’ magical moments *ermm… even though i don’t think he’ll do the vanishing act on anything huge like the KLCC. He was really popular back then.

Tickets to the show… or is it David?? Hello??

Thank you to my sponsor EatAllYouCanShung for the ticket. Eventhough i feigned disinterest, i was actually really dying to go *it was part of an act to con you… and guess what? You fell for it hahaha

Seating map where i already declared pompously my throne!

We took the free seating tickets for RM103 each. Free seating sux but the next cheapest is ticket cost about RM200++ each ok *cekik darah. So it’s better than nothing.

For those interested, please check out the tickets and seating info at Axcess website. CLICK HERE

Attempts At Lame Racist Jokes

Posted by slowcatchupkuan On October - 14 - 2007 1 Comment

Attempts to tell some lame but hillarious jokes to i-don’t-get-it people makes me want to pull out my hair!

Me: Hey, i can’t sleep… Entertain me. Tell me a joke.
KidCheng: Err… i donno any lar.
Me: EatAllYouCanShung told me a lot of stupid racist jokes he read from the net on the way back just now.
KidCheng: What jokes? Tell.
Me: I donno how to tell jokes wan. Sure become not funny. Everytime also i don’t remember parts of it.
KidCheng: Hahahaha that’s a joke.
Me: Huh?
KidCheng: You asked me to tell you a joke right? Then i ask you to tell me. Then you say you donno how to tell jokes. That’s a joke. So i tell you that it’s a joke. Meaning i just told you a joke just like what you asked me to do initially lor.
Me: -_-”

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Me: He told me few quite funny wan. But racist lar… but it’s just a joke lar.
KidCheng: What?
Me: Ok. Why are Indians not good at football?
BlurryHunniee: Who say Indians are bad at football???
KidCheng: Yalar. They really good wat. If not why so many of them playing football?
Me: Ei it’s just a joke la. For joke purpose la. Answer me la.
BlurryHunniee: Yalar. So not logic wat…
KidCheng: Yalar. They where got bad in football.
Me: Forget it lar. -_-”

(I ended up telling the whole joke but the response was…similarly lame-O, -_-”)

Life Is But A Breath

Posted by slowcatchupkuan On October - 13 - 2007 0 Comment

It’s Hari Raya and it’s to be a festive and happy day but somehow i felt compelled to share this.

Ground moving memoir

EatAllYouCanShung bought this book in Siem Reap. I was done reading it in 2-3 days. My point is that once i started reading it i couldn’t stop. I almost… ok ok i admit i wept on some of the pages. One of the best book i’ve read since ages.

What was actually going on in the minds of those who killed so many? What gave them the right to end another person’s life? Is there no compassion? What were the reasons for the killings that almost wipe out the country? What hope helped those who survived to survive back then? Those were the questions i kept on asking myself after reading the book…

‘Daughter of the Killing Fields‘ is a must read for everyone especially now where most things are of convenience, most things are taken for granted and most of all, where humanity and survival is almost at lost.

Theary C. Seng (the author) takes us to the journey back to Cambodia during the height of Khmer Rouge regime where she was just a 3 year old girl and where she learnt life is just a breath. Her detail description of the suffering and cruelty the people of Cambodia had endured when the country was forcefully stripped back to year zero was soul moving.

She was just a child when her dad was taken to be killed… then her mom also murdered… she was enslaved in a labor camp with no future or hope in mind… eye witnessed a woman being tortured (her skull was compressed between a coconut-cracker while she was tied-up alive) and eventually murdered by members of the regime (eventually her skull burst open)… eye witnessed other massive killings… forced to walked across valley of landmines *sigh… the horror went on and on and on…

Yet she and few family members survived. Now she is a Khmer-American lawyer. If i’m not mistaken she is also one of the jury to be on stand for the recent arrest of a Khmer Rouge leader waiting to be trialed for the genocide.

This is a true memoir of a survivor. Get a hold of the book… Kinokuniya doesn’t have it though…